Mei Zhengli glanced at it, and a lady in a fancy dress walked across from her, looking at her appearance and figure, he had a familiar feeling!

Behind her were four beautiful maids, one holding a small bag of aqua blue floral flowers, and the other carrying a six-in-four food box.

Mei Zhengli didn't dare to look at it anymore, and followed Chunliu to the side and stood with her head bowed.

Tao walked in front of Chunliu and saw her curtsittling to him, so he looked her up and down, and asked uncertainly, "Are you the maid in the eldest lady's house?" What is your name? ”

"Yes, the slave's name is Chunliu." Harunyu replied.

Tao Shi glanced at Mei Zhengli who was standing next to her with her head bowed, this is the next person who came in from outside, and she was about to send it out after returning to Ruoxue, she glanced at it again, and then asked Chunliu again: "What are you eldest ladies doing in the courtyard at this time?" ”

Chunliu turned her head to look at the road when she came, and said, "When the slave came out just now, the eldest lady was still embroidering the brocade screen in the embroidery room. ”

"Okay, then I'll go see her." As he spoke, Tao raised his feet and walked two steps, turned around to look at Mei Zhengli, and said, "Hurry up and send people out, don't run around, see if you hit someone." ”

"Yes, the slave knows that she is wrong."

Chunliu hurriedly tugged at Mei Zhengli's sleeve, turned around and walked forward in small steps.

Mei Zhengli didn't look too much, lowered his head and followed Chunliu towards the corner gate to the east, and walked out for a distance, he turned back to look at the group that had already walked away, turned around and asked in a low voice, "Who was that person just now?" ”

Chunliu didn't look back and said, "Third wife, don't you recognize it?" She raised her hand and stroked her bangs that were blown away by the wind, and said with a smile: "She is the third wife in the house, she should be your grandmother, right?" ”

Mei Zhengli said softly "oh", and he said how could he be so familiar, he had seen it once or twice at the funeral of the eldest master, but he didn't speak, "It's her!" It's a little familiar, but I don't remember who it is for a while. Then should I call Grandma Nine or Grandma Eight? I'm going to go home and ask my dad to find out. ”

"Oh."

Mei Zhengli went out of Liujing Lane Mei Mansion, so she went to inquire about the school that Chunliu said, and asked several passers-by to find Mr. Wu's school, he turned around the front and back streets of the school, and then walked briskly outside the city.

Mei Zhengli heard Chunliu say that Mei Zhiyuan and Mei Zhigao are both studying with Mr. Wu, so that they can grow up with the two uncles in the future, and they can often go to the house in the future, so maybe the benefits will fall on themselves!

Mei Zhengli thought about things in her heart, walked on the way home with the wind under her feet, looked at the small vendors on both sides of the street, and felt so pleasing to the eye.

Mei Zhengli walked to a stall making shortbread, took out six cents and gave it to the stall owner, the stall owner took the money, took a piece of straw paper and wrapped two shortbread cakes and handed them to him, "Try our craftsmanship, crispy and delicious, you are satisfied!" He said.

Mei Zhengli smiled and took the paper bag, opened the mouth and took one in her mouth, and put the rest of the bread in her arms and brought it to the little niece at home to eat.

Mei Zhengli ate shortbread and walked to the south gate, and saw a luxurious-looking carriage coming in, followed by two carriages, and more than 20 guards in front and behind.

Mei Zhengli and all the passers-by retreated to both sides of the road, waiting for them to pass before they could go out of the city and go home.

But the carriage stopped at this time. A maid in a green dress got out of the carriage, she stood there and looked left and right, not knowing what she was looking for, and finally she locked her eyes on Mei Zhengli.

She walked towards Mei Zhengli with lotus steps.

Mei Zhengli saw her apricot eyes looking this way, so she turned her head to look left, right and behind, not knowing who this girl was looking for.

The people around also looked at each other to see if they were the people around them.

"Don't look at it, it's you, that scholar." As she spoke, she came to Mei Zhengli.

The person next to her pushed Mei Zhengli and said with a smile: "People are looking for you to go back to be your son-in-law!" ”

Mei Zhengli looked at the girl in front of her, pointed at herself puzzled, and said, "Are you looking for me?" But I don't know you. ”

"I'm not looking for you, I just want to ask where is the other courtyard of King Jin Zhang?" The girl bowed her knees to him slightly, which was considered a salute.

"I don't know!"

The girl was stunned and said, "Aren't you a student in Jinling City?" How can you not know where the prince of Jin Zhang lives? She thought that it would be better than ordinary people to ask a scholar, but she didn't think that she was actually an uninformed person, and it was in vain to delay her efforts.

Mei Zhengli doesn't live in the city, and she can't tell the roads in the city clearly, how can she know where a prince of the palace lives!

He shook his head and said, "Although I am a student, I am not studying in the city, and I don't know much about the residents in the city. ”

The girl snorted coldly and said, "Waste ......," she said, and turned to ask someone else.

"Well, how do you curse?"

Mei Zhengli took two steps, he felt that he was insulted by a maid who didn't know who it was, and wanted to catch up with him for a theory, but he didn't want to stretch out a hand in the stab and push him, so he staggered back four or five steps and fell to the ground.

The girl just glanced back, and disdained to bother Mei Zhengli, because someone had already stopped him for her.

In front of Mei Zhengli stood a man with a big waist and a round waist, with a rough and fierce appearance, a pair of bull's eyes shining with fine light, looking at his clothes, he knew that he was a guard who came with the girl.

"You scold people, and you still want to beat people?"

Mei Zhengli's back hurt from falling, and she raised her hand to point at the guard, wanting to reason with him, and when she saw his physique and appearance, she withdrew her outstretched hand.

His reason returned to his mind, these people in front of him were not something that he could provoke as a poor scholar, Mei Zhengli got up with a bone, did not look back at the carriage and the girl over there, and squeezed into the crowd on the side of the road and went out of the city.

After a while, the girl got back into the carriage, lifted the purple carved silk silk brocade curtain and entered the carriage, "County lord, the slave maid didn't ask where the prince lived. ”

In the carriage sat a brightly dressed young lady, whose grade was fifteen or sixteen years old, with a pretty face and fair skin, willow eyebrows and phoenix eyes, and a beautiful nose and red lips.

She is the second daughter of King Deyang, the authentic royal prince, and Murong Baotong, the lord of Xiyang.

Murong Baotong has been familiar with Li Tao since he was a child, and he often played together when he was a child, and when he grew up, he often appeared at night banquets held by wealthy families, and at various flower viewing and garden gatherings.

Murong Baotong has already promised a heart to Li Tao, thinking that he can marry Li Tao and marry into the Jinzhang Palace, but King Jin Zhang has no intention of marrying the royal family, and Li Tao has never thought of marrying Murong Baotong home, since he was a child, he has always treated Baotong as his own sister, and some are just brother and sister, not half of the love between men and women.

Li Tao left the capital for a few months, and Murong Baotong missed him very much, and wrote two letters without replying, so he begged Princess Deyang to let her come to Jinling to play.

Princess Deyang refused to let her out at first, but she was annoyed by her daughter, so she asked two close mothers to follow, and selected thirty elite guards to escort her, so she could rest assured that she would come out and go around.

When Murong Baotong heard the maid say that he didn't ask about Li Tao's residence, Liu Yemei raised his eyebrows, and was about to open his mouth to reprimand the maidservant, when he heard her say again: "There is a person who says that he knows where it is, but he can't tell what the road is, so the slave and maid asked him to show us the way." ”

"Then you won't leave?"

"Yes, slave maid, let people go."

The carriage moved forward slowly, slowly moving faster.

Half an hour later, the carriage stopped at the mouth of the North Street Hibiscus Alley, where there were two families, the residence of the political envoy Wang, and the other was the courtyard where the prince of Jinzhang lived.

The person who led the way was not sure which household was where Li Tao lived, so he didn't dare to go up and ask, so he asked Murong Baotong's people to ask, and he took five hundred rewards and slipped away.

Murong Baotong's people knocked on the door of Lord Wang's house first, and the janitor in the door, when he came out to see that it was a neatly dressed group of people, he didn't dare to speak out, and carefully asked for the intention, so he straightened his waist, raised his hand and pointed to the courtyard in the north of the road, and asked the person who came to knock on the door to find someone there, and that was the person they were looking for.

It has been many days since Li Tao left here, and the old lady has also gone to Fahua Nunnery, and there is no master in the house except for an old housekeeper to watch the yard.

The old housekeeper's surname is Wang, his ancestral home is in Cangzhou, Hebei, he was originally to take care of the two farms in Cangzhou for the palace, and the housekeeper of the Jinling Courtyard died of illness two years ago, so he transferred his family here to do things, and the farm he originally managed was handed over to his eldest son.

Steward Wang was called up by the family, he had to squint for a while every afternoon, he asked who was coming, listened to the description of the family, and guessed which young master came to find the prince to play.

He followed his family all the way to the gate, and looked at the three finely made carriages, and the guards who were standing or riding horses around them, and knew that they were not ordinary people.

"Which house are you from? I don't know if I'm looking for my family or our old lady? Steward Wang smiled and talked to the eight-foot man in front of him.

Dahan arched his hand at Steward Wang and said, "We are from the Deyang Palace, the capital, please come out and see it." ”

Steward Wang was shocked, what did the people from the palace do when they came to Jinling to find the prince? He hurriedly bent his body a little, peeked at the well-made and richly decorated carriages, and didn't know who was sitting inside, "The prince is not in the mansion, he has been out for a few days, and he doesn't know when he will come back!" He said.

Dahan frowned, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

A maid got out of the carriage and said, "My county lord is borrowing money from the mansion for a while, you can go back to the old princess to know." ”

Five or six maids and three or four women came down from the car one after another.