Chapter 13 The First Arrival of the Lotus Picking Festival
The Lotus Picking Festival is originally a celebration of the birthday of the lotus fairy, and the lotus pickers spontaneously hold a secular event to thank the lotus flower for its nurturing grace. The lotus flowers bloomed well, and the lotus pickers wanted to celebrate the festival happily, but they didn't expect the county magistrate to intervene and have a good relationship with the nobles of the family.
The process of the Lotus Picking Festival, Yin Baoshan has entrusted someone to convey it to Yixue in advance.
Early in the morning, the lotus pickers will go to pick lotus seeds and lotus leaves to prepare for the meals of the nobles of the family, and when the guests have arrived, the palm ceremony will present flowers to the lotus fairy, and then enjoy the luncheon between lotus appreciation, drinking, and poetry. In the hot afternoon, everyone will take a cool rest, wait for the heat to fade, and in the evening, there will be food and music, singing and dancing again.
Yi Xue had to wait until late afternoon to meet with the eldest lady of the Yin family to discuss the matter of the love note, and before that she could only follow the attendant team.
Yi Xue tidied up her appearance and hurriedly prepared to go out, she was already a little late when she was troubled by Wei Shuo. Rong Tian said that he wanted to send her to Yongchuan Garden, where he admired lotus, but Yi Xue refused, saying that it was easy to attract attention.
As soon as he walked to the door, Wei Shuo ran out of the kitchen in a panic and stuffed a small oil paper bag to Yi Xue, although Yi Xue didn't know what it was, she felt a little troublesome and wanted to shirk it.
Wei Shuo hurriedly said: "This is a tea cake, I made it myself, you don't have time to eat at noon, take the cushion on your stomach, I deliberately made it small, it is easy to eat, it has no taste, and it will not be discovered." ”
Yi Xue didn't expect Wei Shuo to be so careful, from the moment she decided to go to the Lotus Picking Festival, she was thinking about how she couldn't go, her mind was always tense, and she couldn't take care of other things.
Yi Xue wanted to say thank you, but recently the two of them have been in trouble because of the mirror, but Wei Shuo suddenly took care of it like this, thinking that her mother often said "don't spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain" when she was a child, she instantly felt ashamed of herself, and at the same time quite moved, just like when she ran away to Guozi School when she was a child, Aunt Ning, who loved her, would secretly wrap her with a few pieces of snowflake cake, and Yi Xue's eyes couldn't help but be covered with white mist.
Wei Shuo looked at her as if he had thought of something in the past, and quickly patted her on the shoulder and said:
"Why, moved, haha, if you really want to thank me, bring me some lotus cakes eaten by the nobles of the family from the lotus festival." Wei Shuo seemed to have reverted to his original cynical appearance.
Yi Xue was amused by him, laughing with tears. All this is obviously thanks to Wei Shuo, and he must be "honored" well in the future, Yi Xue secretly made up her mind, and hurried out of the bookstore.
Yi Xue finally caught up smoothly, and Rong Tian also stood not far from the gate of Yongchuan Garden, looking at her from a distance.
At this time, there were gradually more people outside Yongchuan Garden, and Rong Tian was about to leave, when he suddenly saw a purple back, which felt so familiar but he couldn't remember where he had seen it, and he felt a little uneasy in his heart.
Yi Xue and the maids stood behind the maids, not knowing whether she was shy or nervous, she consciously lowered her head.
Still, the sound of the ceremonial bell caught her attention, and she looked up curiously and poked her head out. She hadn't seen the instrument, the color looked similar to the bronze bell, the shape looked like an enlarged version of Uncle Liu's hoe, the pattern was not real, Yi Xue wanted to see more clearly, leaned out more, and accidentally touched the person in front, the fat maid in front frowned, turned around and glared at her a little fiercely, Yi Xue immediately nodded apologly, and quickly adjusted her standing posture.
Percussion instruments, crisp, concise sound echoes in the ears, although the sound is not as majestic and far-reaching, but today, the lotus viewing stage is a flourishing face, this sound sounds more appropriate.
Just thinking about it, Yi Xue's eyes swept over the nobles of the family opposite, and suddenly saw a man dressed in purple and purple clothes, Zhuo Zhuo was like a wild crane in the flock of chickens, although he couldn't see his face clearly, but he felt that his temperament was different from a distance.
Yi Xue suddenly felt that the person who came didn't seem to be so simple, the female family here, according to common sense, the Yin family is the master, even if there is a higher status person who comes, it should be accompanied by him, but the eldest lady of the Yin family is sitting at the end, and the clothes and headdresses of those young ladies seen from the back are not simply rich, there are some things, people without identity can't use them. When it comes to the person opposite, with that purple color alone, even the rich Jia in Beijing will never dare to use it to add to his body.
Although they were all young masters and young ladies of the same age as herself, Yi Xue didn't see any familiar faces.
Yi Xue didn't leave the bookstore for a long time, and she didn't ask Wei Shuo about the current situation before going out, although it was a mistake, but she didn't want to understand. Back then, the mother concubine worked hard to send her sisters and brothers out of the palace, just to keep them away from these rights and wrongs. Yi Xue suppressed her curiosity, didn't think about it anymore, and turned her head to admire the lotus flowers.
Unconsciously, it was already lunchtime time, and Yi Xue waited in the kitchen with the flow of people, thinking that she was helping the kitchen in the back, but because the Yin family was the host, and most of the ladies brought personal maids, so the extra maids of the Yin family naturally shared the work of serving the noble sons of the family.
Yi Xue didn't want to go, but just as she wanted to join the dining team on the woman's side, Yin Baoshan's maid Amber didn't know where to get out of nowhere and called her aside.
Amber looked at Xue Xue, smiled ill-willedly, hid her face and whispered to her:
"My young lady asked you to go to the child's seat to pass the meal, didn't you say that you want to be able to see who my young lady's admirer is, the one wearing purple clothes at the child's seat today is, named Sima Cheng, the son of the third prince today. The eldest lady is four years old. ”
Yin Baoshan had a wishful thinking, if she let her personal maid go in front of so many people, she would be laughed at, but a maid with no name and no surname in a uniform dress like Yi Xue was just right.
Yi Xue is also helpless, this eldest lady of the Yin family has to make progress step by step, and last time she knew that she had to give up more money, but now the overlord made a bow and directly ordered her to go.
The disciples of the family are mixed in the world, and the official lady is pampered, which is enough.
But after thinking about it, this Yin family's eldest lady's lover Yixue should also be seen, and if you know your life experience, you can also make plans in the morning. And this Yin Baoshan has an idea for a while, will she still want her to take the opportunity to let her send the love note out? I went to pass the meal at noon, met people, and then went to dinner, which happened to be the carrier pigeon of the two of them.
But the sons of these three princes ...... Sima Cheng? Obviously they have the same surname, but Yi Xue has no impression, and which imperial uncle these three princes are, Yi Xue can't remember it at once.