Chapter 32: Into the Plum Garden
Tong Qingyan, who walked around in her previous life, never knew what social phobia was, but Tong Qingyan in this life felt that she was definitely a social phobia.
Looking at the piles of people in front of him, he silently sighed at the reproductive ability of the ancients in the upper class.
"Third sister......" Tong Manjiao walked up to Tong Qingyan with elegant steps and stretched out her white hand, "Scared, right?" Follow me, relax, it's fine. ”
Tong Qingyan looked at Tong Manjiao, who looked worried, and her eyes fell on her white and red palms again, and when she raised her head again, her face was extremely innocent.
"Thank you, big sister, you have to take care of me, I'm so scared."
It's not that I don't know the lofty ideals of my aunt and daughter, but I never expected that I would enter the palace, but when I gathered in this empty Yuxiu Palace, this elegant and generous big sister was about to step on herself to become famous.
She glanced around like an ignorant girl, and sure enough, a group of strange girls looked at her side, and in addition to scrutiny, there was some ridicule.
Laughing at herself, of course, is to herself, the little girl who was "frightened" by the big scene, as for the scrutiny, it is the eldest lady of Tongfu who is leading herself in front, looking at this impeccable smile, the amplitude of the swing of the skirt is also accurate and consistent, it can be seen that it is ruthless.
"Which girl are you, look at the eyes."
A woman wearing a bright red embroidered gold silk mandarin duck rattan pattern dress blocked Tong Qingyan's three people walking to the corner, Tong Manjiao frowned lightly, looking at the arrogant girl in front of her.
"Uncle Jia is the magistrate of Changchun Prefecture."
Tong Manjiao let go of Tong Qingyan's hand, made a standard greeting gift, spoke a little slowly, and answered the woman's question clearly, with a gentle smile on her face, compared with the frown just now, it seemed that she was more and more warm as jade.
"Oh, it's just a five-grade state. Just came to the capital, right? I haven't seen any of your ladies come out and walk around. ”
Tong Qingyan lowered her eyes and saw Tong Manjiao's hand hanging on one side and clenched her fist, even the green tendons on her wrists were a little protruding, and she shook her head secretly, the little girl's concentration is still not good, people just tell a few words of truth, and they can't help it?
"Big sister......" Tong Qingyan stretched out her hand and pulled Tong Manjiao's sleeve, breaking the embarrassment, "Didn't my mother say that you should be kind to others when you go out, and you can't be vulgar and reckless, why don't you answer other people's questions?" ”
Tong Manjiao was a little unable to get off the stage, but when Tong Qingyan was so disturbed, she suddenly felt that she had found a huge step, held Tong Qingyan's hot hand sideways, patted it gently, and turned her head to smile softly at the woman.
"When the three of us sisters first came to the capital, they were not very accustomed to the climate here, and they did not have the ability to go out to play in the cold.
A few words softly and softly, every sentence pierced the heart, seeing that the woman in red was about to be threatened with her eyes, Tong Qingyan screamed neither high nor low, and grabbed Tong Manjiao's sleeve tightly.
"Big sister, it's scary."
"Who do you say is scary! Do you know who I am?! Dare you talk to me like that! ”
The woman in red originally wanted to entangle Tong Manjiao for a few words, but when Tong Qingyan called her like this, the eyes of everyone in the hall swept over, and she said that she was scary, and she couldn't help but be angry.
Tong Qingyan pursed her lips secretly, it's really boring, if you can't argue, you can use your identity to suppress people, and it really works if you prefer it, it's strange that people in this world love to fight so much.
However, looking at the girl in front of her, who was a junior high school student in her last life, Tong Qingyan was still not happy to get used to her, blinked her clear and transparent eyes, and opened her mouth with an innocent face.
"You didn't say who you were? Of course I don't know. And I didn't say you're scary, what's your name? Tong Qingyan rolled her eyes, as if thinking, "Oh yes! That word is called the right seat. ”
"You ......"
"Flutter-"
Tong Qingyan and the others heard the sound and saw that a woman wearing a lake blue dress and a sapphire head was leaning on the red pillar in the hall closest to them, and the uncontrollable laughter came from her.
"Liu Qin'er! What are you laughing at?! ”
"Laugh at you, am I laughing so indistinctly?"
This woman named Liu Qin'er is not afraid of the woman in red at all, Tong Qingyan probably understands that this Liu Qin'er's family background may not lose to this woman in red.
"Liu Qin'er, aren't you just relying on your grandfather to be the head of the cabinet, you ......?"
"Jingrou, your dress today is so good-looking, but it's a new style from Tianxiu Fang?"
Liu Qin'er was pulled by the person beside her, and pursed her lips in displeasure, but she no longer argued with Jiang Jingrou.
Jiang Jingrou knew that if she continued to fight, it was another opportunity to give others a good show, and as soon as Lin Yuning opened her mouth, she praised her newly made dress, and she was immediately in a good mood.
"Yes, the new satin offered by the Inner Court Division, the concubine said that this color lined me, so she let the Tianxiu Workshop rush to make it, just to enjoy the plum banquet today, and wear it into the palace to thank you."
Jiang Jingrou said a few words lightly and skillfully, but it made many girls full of envy, and few people present in the Inner Court Division were eligible to get one or two, but Jiang Jingrou was used to it.
After the concubine lost her daughter, Jiang Jingrou, her niece, somewhat made up for her inner shortcomings, because she was extremely favored in the harem, and the emperor was also very tolerant of Jiang Jingrou in the face of the concubine.
Tong Manji cautiously bit her ear and whispered to Tong Qingyan, and Tong Qingyan smiled when she heard it.
"So fierce and embarrassed to call Jingrou? When her father and mother chose the name, they probably didn't expect such a big contrast in the future. ”
Words are as good as their names are also a probability event, and the importance of tutoring is still very revealing.
More than half of the girls immediately chattered and complimented Jiang Jingrou, and a small number of girls with detached family backgrounds watched coldly, and they disdained to associate with the Qingguo Mansion, a family that was all fortunate to start with the favor of the saint and had no foundation.
"Slaves and maids, see the ladies."
With a clear and lofty salute, everyone looked towards the gate of the palace, and a woman in a dark purple female official robe stood at the door at some point.
"Aunt Qiuxin, why are you here in person?"
Jiang Jingrou raised a big smile, rushed to Qiu Xin's side in a few steps, grabbed Qiu Xin's arm, and Qiu Xin hurriedly pulled out her hand and bent down to salute.
"The slave has seen Miss Jiang."
"Aunt Qiuxin, please get up."
Qiu Xin glanced around, and respectfully opened her mouth to welcome all the official ladies into the plum garden at the back of Yuxiu Palace.
A large part of the young ladies are the same as the three sisters of Tong Qingyan, they are all entering the palace for the first time, and they are nervous and excited to follow the army all the way.
Song Zhan and the others had already stood in the four corners of the Plum Garden before the official ladies appeared, but their eyes were all paying attention to the movements of the official ladies, intentionally or unintentionally.
The three sisters of the Tong family, who fell at the end of the crowd, discussed it from the moment they stepped out of Yuxiu Palace, and jointly followed the principle of saying less and making fewer mistakes and not saying good, and mixed up with this plum banquet.
Song Zhan, as the leader of the first-class guards, must have stood at the entrance of the Plum Garden, and after most of the people entered the Plum Garden, Tong Qingyan and the three at the end saw him.
"His Royal Highness ...... the Prince"
"Ladies and ladies, please come into the park."
Tong Manjiao took two steps forward and wanted to salute, but she didn't expect Song Zhan to take a step back and salute with her fists, and she had no intention of talking at all.
Tong Qingyan didn't give a look from beginning to end, and took the lead in entering the plum garden, Tong Manjiao followed, only Tong Manjiao wanted to talk to Song Zhan but didn't make it, so she turned around and walked into the plum garden in embarrassment.
Song Zhan straightened up and looked at Tong Qingyan's figure who disappeared among the plum blossoms, and frowned in confusion, she seemed to be angry, why?
The plum garden is very big and the plum blossoms are also very good-looking, the plum blossoms reflect the remnant snow and the women of the ring Pei Linlang, the faint and dark fragrance floats, laughs and talks in a low voice, today's plum garden is particularly lively, even if the weather is not good, but the mood of the fortunate seeers is happy.
The ladies walked to the square pavilion in the center of the plum garden when they walked together for a pillar of incense, one because the weather was really cold, and the other was that the seats in the square pavilion were limited, so they could only sit on the couch arranged outside the square pavilion at night.
The seats arranged in the square pavilion and outside the pavilion are exactly the same, but the pavilion is warm like spring, although there is a screen outside the pavilion to block the cold wind, in the end the heaven and earth are connected, and the cold still penetrates into the silk.
Jiang Jingrou took the lead in sitting on the left seat closest to the main seats in the pavilion, and no matter who entered the pavilion first, the noblewomen in Beijing consciously chose the seats according to the official position in the family.
The only woman in the Marquis Mansion who entered the palace today is the Qingguo Mansion, and the others are more or less royal blood, and they are not suitable to participate in the draft, so they are not invited, and Jiang Jingrou is justified in sitting in the first place.
Liu Qin'er sat opposite Jiang Jingrou, and sitting next to her was her friend Lin Yuning, Lin Yuning's father was one of the four auxiliary officials of the cabinet and an absolute supporter of Liu Shoufu.
Tong Qingyan and the three of them were the last to enter the plum garden, after admiring the plum blossoms and following the flow to the Sifang Pavilion, the pavilion was full, and the three of them wanted to find a seat outside the pavilion close to the pavilion to sit down, but they were squeezed out to the outermost by other official ladies.
"Uncle is also a fifth-grade official, why ......?"
Tong Manjiao hugged her cool arms, muttered dissatisfiedly, Tong Manjiao hid the displeasure in her eyes, pulled Tong Manjiao to sit down, and reprimanded in a low voice.
"Why can't you control your mouth?! Although my uncle is a five-grade governor, but the nine-grade Beijing official can also suppress half of his head, we have just arrived, and my uncle's official position has not yet been explained, what do you use to fight with others, and I will sit down honestly. ”
"Second sister, do you want to eat rose cake?"
Tong Qingyan, who was sitting alone at the next table, took out a delicate box from her sleeve pocket, opened it and stacked it with neat rose cakes, lined with Tong Qingyan's cold and white fingers, and the pale pink pastries looked even more attractive.
The first time I entered the palace, I was afraid of the inconvenience of going out of the palace, Tong Manjiao and the sisters didn't use much breakfast at all, and they didn't dare to eat tea and snacks along the way, and no one served tea during the time they stayed in Yuxiu Palace.
Glancing at the cold hard dim sum on the table, the rose cake in Tong Qingyan's hand was extremely delicious, Tong Manjiao was still a little entangled, but Tong Manjiao unceremoniously pinched two pieces and put them in the koi cui dish in front of her.
Tong Qingyan carefully took out four pieces and put the box directly in front of Tong Manjiao, and there were still three pieces left in the box.
"Big sister, don't blame, the fragrance of the rose crisp kept drilling into my nose on the way here, so I couldn't help but eat a piece."
"Thank you for the pastries, third sister."
Tong Qingyan and the three of them happily ate the delicious rose cake, which was quite bitter and happy in this cold wind.
In the depths of Merlin, Jiang Ronghua, who was paying attention to Tong Qingyan's every move, burst into tears.
My Anyang, my mother is finally going to see you......