Chapter 13: Birthday
The days are unreasonable, but they pass quickly, and the birthday of the ancestor has arrived in the blink of an eye.
Gu Jing has not yet come to look for his third sister, but Cheng Yu's reputation for being young and promising has spread all over the capital.
In late spring, many petals have fallen, and the courtyard of the open plum courtyard blows a field of catkins, a piece of white flowers.
The vernal equinox swept away the courtyard, and as soon as the wind blew, it came again in a blink of an eye.
The spring equinox looked at the catkins blowing in the sky again, threw the broom, and almost got up to breathe.
"I don't know how many times I have to sweep it every day these days, when will this catkins be the end."
This catkins were blown upwind from the Changmei Courtyard, an uninhabited remote courtyard, blown by the wind.
The spring breeze is blowing, and the catkins are also bursting in bursts, like snow in spring, falling from the air.
"Those willow trees in the Yanghua courtyard have to be cut down. and didn't have a master to live in, so he added a burden to other courtyards in vain. ”
The nurse looked at the spring equinox muttered by that person, "The girl punished you for sweeping the yard, you sweeped, why is there so much nonsense?" ”
"Besides, the Yanghua Courtyard has been cleaned up today, and the young master came from Luoyang, and the young master didn't say that he was going to cut down the willow tree, but he gave you face."
Gu Wanniang looked at the bulging vernal equinox, these maids in her courtyard were idle. That's why I got free time and spread all the things in this courtyard.
The wind blew down a gust of catkins again, and the spring equinox picked up the broom again with great impatience.
In fact, Gu Wanniang likes this catkins very much, and there is also a willow tree in the yard of West Street where she used to live, and the catkins fall every day in March.
At first, Gu Wanniang was also annoyed by this, but later the child died, Cheng Yu left, and this willow tree became her only comfort.
There is a new young master in Yang Huayuan, this matter has attracted Gu Wanniang's attention, and there is such a young master in her previous life.
The young master never left the courtyard, but he changed a lot from top to bottom in this house. For example, when the child is in charge of the lamp, the habit of the morning is in the morning.
Speaking of which, the sister who became the queen also discussed marriage with this young master. I don't know whose cousin it is.
Gu Wanniang couldn't remember clearly, the time when the young master entered the mansion was so early.
Seeing that Gu Wanniang was still sitting on the bed in a daze, she was stunned, "My third girl, what time has it been, and you haven't dressed up yet." ”
"The guests in the front yard have already arrived, and they are shocked to see that the masters in the other courtyards have already gone to Meilan Courtyard to accompany the ancestors."
Gu Wanniang is not in a hurry, there are many guests today, and the woman in the boudoir can't see the guests, why did she go early?
Hide behind the screen and see who is handsome?
At most, I met a few clan wives to see if I could see a family affair with me.
In the past, Gu Wanniang didn't go because she only had Cheng Yu in her heart, but now she doesn't go because she knows that there is nothing good about going.
Nowadays, Confucianism is advocated, and women also have to win fame, what can a few clan wives see? It's just the appearance and figure, and then ask the female school skills.
Gu Wanniang doesn't want to have a long face.
Similarly, Gu Wanniang has been poor in learning since she was a child, although she was taught some lessons by the old ancestor and the old marquis.
But in the end, I can't memorize a few female scholars, poems and songs.
After many years of being a prostitute, this female student has almost forgotten it.
When asked about those women's books like this, Gu Wanniang's heart was even more empty. What's more, Gu Wanniang's father and biological mother are still famous.
Looking at Gu Wanniang's wrinkled little face, she naturally understood what her girl was afraid of.
"Even if the girl doesn't go to see the guests, it is the birthday of the ancestors, and it is impossible for the girl not to show up. At most, they will go in a hurry, and when the ladies will disperse, the girl will not be embarrassed. ”
Gu Wanniang raised her eyebrows and looked at the time, she was exactly what she was planning.
Although Gu Wanniang likes to wear more plain clothes after she wakes up, today is a festive day in total, and she can't wear plain clothes.
From the cabinet, he took out a pale pink and white silver embroidered hundred butterfly flower skirt, a light yellow cloud goose fine brocade robe, and a pink gold threaded shoulder, and then found a red hairband with pipa pattern.
Dressed up Gu Wanniang like this, because she was not yet drawn, she was as cute as a porcelain doll.
Gu Wanniang looked at her appearance in the glass mirror, she lived twice, and she dressed up like this for the first time, which felt really peculiar.
Gu Mansion's hundred-year-old meritorious home, and the elders of the court, a few men in the family, except for a few who are not in the climate, most of them are important ministers in the court.
People who come to congratulate like this, royal merits, and upstarts in the DPRK and China, all of them are indispensable.
The Gu Mansion has never been separated, because the old ancestor and the old marquis are in love, except for a concubine, there is only one heir of Gu Wanniang's grandfather. And the son went to Jinling in his early years, and he never returned home.
In the past, the Gu family lived in two gardens, east and west, and the three-bedroom lived in the middle of nowhere, and the courtyard of the ancestors who had to walk through the garden to get there.
Now the East Garden must be full of outsiders, and Gu Wanniang felt troubled, so she took a detour from the West Garden.
The main scene of the West Garden is a large pond, and there are a lot of koi fish that have been raised. But later, because an aunt drowned in the West Garden, it was abandoned.
Later, there were often maids and women who said that there was the sound of bustling and screaming at night in this place. In this way, it is even more deserted, no one dares to take care of it, and no one dares to come here.
Gu Wanniang is a person who has died once, how can she still be afraid of this ghostly and charming, windless and shadowless thing?
However, these flowers and plants, although no one takes care of them, but there is also no one to pick them, and the raw ones are better than those in the East Garden.
There is only one way through the West Garden, which is around the pool.
Gu Wanniang walked by the pool, a few tea peanuts were gorgeous, and there was a vermilion hairpin under the camellia, shining.
Gu Wanniang took a closer look, and it turned out to be a cloud-footed pearl tendril.
This hairpin was given to him by Cheng Yu on his birthday, because of the loss of this hairpin, Gu Wanniang was sad for a long time.
In the end, Cheng Yu dragged the merchant and bought an identical hairpin from Jinling, so Gu Wanniang gave up.
This hairpin was actually lost in the West Garden, could it be that he slipped and fell here that day?
Gu Wanniang picked up the hairpin and wrapped it in an embroidered handkerchief, and when the wind blew, it alarmed a lot of weeds, and it made a bustling sound.
The sound of the wind seems to be mixed with the laughter of a woman's bell.
Gu Wanniang's breath was shocked, isn't it a rumor? Swallowed his saliva suddenly, and regretted a little that he didn't scream and follow him.
Gu Wanniang thought calmly, at this time it was almost noon, and there were no powerful ghosts who dared to make trouble at such a time.
Gu Wanniang carried the hem of her skirt and walked towards the weeds.