Chapter 43: Slipping Out

The third day of the first month is the New Year's wine of the Marquis of Chang'an.

Early in the morning, the second grandmother Cao Shi first went to Cuiweiju.

From the first two times to sending things back to kowtowing all day long at Chinese New Year's Eve in the past few days, the second grandmother Cao Shi felt that this fourth lady was strange, but such a simple and direct temper was still quite good, and when it came to talking, it was really refreshing.

This trip to Cuiweiju was originally difficult to say, but because of Li Ran's temper, it became an extremely simple matter.

The second grandmother Cao's words are straightforward:

In this New Year's wine in the Marquis of Chang'an, it is definitely not good for the four ladies not to show up, but in view of the old lady and the lady's prickly heart for the four ladies, it is best for her to let people see it if they are careful, and they can't see it if they don't pay attention.

That is to arrange a proper place for her to sit and watch the day be lively and drink tea for a day is the best way.

Li Ran's promise was crisp and pleasant, she also felt that this was the best, socializing this matter was too difficult, too tiring and too painful!

As a mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhang treats her daughter-in-law with nothing to say, and if she leaves anything to her daughter-in-law to take care of Zhang Luo, she never intervenes in accusations, and she doesn't even listen to gossip.

Of course, one of the two daughters-in-law of her family simply grew up under her nose, and since she was born, she and Mrs. Chen praised her all the way to the door.

The other, from the Cao family, who she has always looked up, is the old lady of the Cao family whom Mrs. Chen admires the most, and is the one who stands out among the girls of the Cao family.

This year's New Year sake is certainly no exception.

The second grandmother Cao can be the master of the house, and personally watched Li Ran choose a good place to sit, and picked two clever girls, originally wanted to wait for her sister Cao Sanniang and Cao Siniang to arrive, and then let people invite Li Ran, but I didn't expect that Wang Ji and her second sister-in-law and third sister-in-law arrived first.

The second grandmother, Cao, hurriedly sent someone to invite Li Ran, and at the same time asked people to take Wang Ji to the place she had picked for Li Ran.

Everyone in the capital knows that this Wang Liuniang is the only one who can talk to the four ladies in their house and is very friendly.

Li Ran was a few steps ahead of Wang Ji, and when Wang Ji saw her, he laughed first, and while laughing, he said in a low voice: "Your second sister-in-law, please let me take care of you." ”

"Please, that's right." Li Ran responded, thought about it, and laughed.

Wang Ji couldn't stop laughing, "The girl is really real." Yesterday, the second sister didn't bother you, right? ”

"How can it be annoying? The second lady is very cute, and the things she said are also very interesting. Li Ran watched the little girl put the tea and replied with a smile.

"Six ladies, four ladies!"

Wang Ji was about to speak, a brisk voice sounded, Li Ran and Wang Ji hurriedly turned around, Cao Siniang and Cao Sanniang one after the other, bent their knees to salute.

Wang Yu hurriedly stood up to return the salute, and Li Ran also stood up.

"What did the two sisters say? Shall I listen to it too? Cao Siniang's voice was brisk, "The grandmother talked about me again, praised the sixth lady, and the fourth lady, and said that I should study hard with the sixth lady." ”

"What I and the fourth lady are talking about is gossip, what's the matter. The fourth lady learns words, where can I afford it? That's your ancestors praising me, just like our ancestors, after all, I always look at the children of other families, and I am often complained about by my wife at home. ”

Wang Qiyu smiled briskly.

Li Ran listened to it and secretly admired.

Who said that the four ladies of the Cao family are outspoken and almost heartless? How sincere, natural, and heartfelt is this commercial mutual praise.

"The third lady sits here." Li Ran first let Cao Sanniang, who had been smiling and standing next to her.

In this corner arranged by the second grandmother Cao's family, the two circle chairs are slightly together, looking at the place where the two people are sitting and talking, pulling it out slightly, I feel that three or four people are also very suitable, and then go to both sides, five or six people are just right.

Wang Ji followed behind Li Ran and asked Cao Siniang to sit down.

The two girls standing next to them had nothing to say, so they had already sent two cups of tea, and then replaced the two cups of Li Ran and Wang Ji again.

"The sixth sister's wife said that other people's children are good, it must be kind words, and what my wife said is the truth."

Cao Siniang spoke a little faster, and her people and voices were full of laughter.

"The two sisters don't know, my wife often looks at me and worries, saying that such a stupid girl, the longer she grows, the more stupid she becomes, what can I do in the future?"

Cao Siniang spread her hands, frowned, and learned from her wife's worried appearance.

"The wife also said that if you don't know what to do when you go out, just look at your sister of the Wang family, and you can't suffer a loss!"

In the end, she couldn't bear the four words, Cao Siniang pinched her voice and learned her wife's tone.

Li Ran laughed when she heard this, Wang Ji also couldn't stop laughing, Cao Sanniang raised her hand to cover her mouth, and she couldn't stop laughing, she, the fourth sister, was a pistachio everywhere she went.

"He also said that if your sister of the Wang family is not there, I will find your fourth sister of the Li family. Don't laugh, that's what my wife said, right, third sister?

In the past, as soon as my wife said that I and the third sister, I had to take out the sixth sister, but now, the fourth sister has been added. Twenty-nine years old, that is, on that day, I secretly counted my wife once, and on that day, she praised the sixth sister five times, praised the fourth sister nine times, and disciplined me thirteen times. ”

Li Ran burst out laughing. Wang Ji raised his hand and pressed it on his forehead, unable to stop laughing. Cao Sanniang smiled while meeting Cao Siniang's gaze, and kept nodding to show that she was right.

"Don't laugh, it's all true. My wife often told me and the third sister, let me and the third sister learn more with the sixth sister, and be attentive, saying that I can learn one and a half points from the sixth sister, which is the great blessing of me and the third sister, I said that the sixth sister is so good at learning, and she is sensible and can talk about anything, how can I learn? I'd better learn from the fourth sister of the Li family.

Do you know what my wife said?

My wife said, your sister of the Wang family, you are working hard, you may be able to learn a minute and a half, but the fourth sister of your Li family, you can't learn it.

Fourth sister, you don't know how much my mother-in-law likes you, when it comes to you, it's like this, her eyes are crooked. ”

"Take a sip of tea, and see, it's all your words." Cao Sanniang picked up the cup in front of Cao Siniang, leaned over and handed it to Cao Siniang.

"Alas, I know I have too many words, I don't say it, I drink tea." Cao Siniang took the cup and spit out the tip of her tongue.

"The fourth lady is so cute, if only I could learn a little bit." Li Ran said with a smile.

This is her true words, she is most envious of a cute little girl like Cao Siniang, who grew up in a blessed nest.

"The fourth sister is so good-looking!"

Cao Siniang exclaimed endlessly, and the end turned direction.

"If you want to say it's good-looking, did you see General Xie yesterday? General Xie is really too good-looking! This is the fourth time I've seen General Xie, and I mean I can almost see it clearly, the fourth time!

Among the four times, yesterday was the closest one, and General Xie was so good-looking! ”

Li Ran raised her eyebrows, glared at Cao Siniang, and laughed.

"Talking nonsense again!" Cao Sanniang patted Cao Siniang, and before she finished speaking, she laughed first, "Me too, I was stunned." I always heard Mrs. Huo say, how General Xie doesn't look like a real person, I just can't think of what it looks like to be not like a real person, I finally knew it yesterday. ”

"After General Xie walked over yesterday, the twelve mothers of the Zhong family said that General Xie is good-looking, and she is not afraid of him."

Cao Siniang laughed as she spoke.

"Me too. Sixth sister, can't General Xie really laugh? They said that General Xie was a prison god who descended to earth, and that the prison god was a killing god, and they couldn't laugh, is it true? ”

"Of course not." Wang Ji couldn't laugh or cry, "What kind of prison god monarch, where is this nonsense." ”

"Then have you ever seen General Xie smile?" Cao Siniang's eyes widened, and Cao Sanniang also bowed slightly, looking at Wang Ji with bated breath.

Li Ran was surprised and wanted to laugh at the same time.

Alas, this for beauties is really an eternal existence that has traveled through time!

"Like you, I rarely see General Xie.

In our family, General Xie rarely goes, and occasionally goes, he goes straight to the second brother.

Laughter is sure to have been laughed, everyone will laugh, right? Let's not talk about that, okay? Wang Ji looked helpless.

"Okay!" Cao Siniang happily responded.

Cao Siniang Ding Ding Dong, talking like beads, gossiping for a while, and then with Cao Sanniang, she went to the side to play with a few little girls.

Li Ran raised his eyebrows slightly, looking at Wang Ji who slowly exhaled.

Wang Ji met Li Ran's gaze and said with a smile: "I'm not a very easy-going person. Usually, the two little ladies of the Cao family rarely talk to me so much, and I was a little nervous just now. ”

"I thought they were talking about General Xie." Li Ran smiled.

"Well......" Before Wang Ji's words could be spoken, he saw a little girl coming over at the two of them, and hurriedly signaled to Li Ran.

The little girl took two or three steps away from Li Ran, and bent her knees timidly: "Fourth lady, it's the third master, there, I said please come over." ”

Li Ran was a little surprised, confessed to Wang Ji, followed the little girl out, turned two corners, and saw Li Qingning standing behind a rockery, waving at her with a smile.

"What's the matter?" Li Ran took a few steps and asked with a smile.

"I've asked my second sister-in-law, you're an idler today, so am I, and Huo San, let's sneak out to watch the music in the workshop."

I'll tell you, I'll have time today. From tomorrow, I, as well as Huo San, will have to follow the prince out of the city to Gyeonggi Daying, and then go to see the river to see the seedlings in the field or something, Huo San has calculated, if you don't go today, I won't have time to take you to watch the music of the teaching workshop this year.

Let's go? Li Qingning waved his hand happily.

"Wait," Li Ran hesitated.

It's definitely not okay to leave, no matter how you have to explain to Wang Ji, and besides, she went to watch the show with them and left Wang Ji here? Wang Ji just said that she is not easy-going.

So, don't go to see the show?

Li Ran looked at Li Qingning, who raised his eyebrows and looked puzzled.

If I don't go today, not only will they have no time, but I'm afraid she won't have time either, this year's wine, but it has been arranged until after the tenth day of the new year, and after the tenth day of the new year, the performance of the workshop has long ended.

It's really free today.

Or......

"I'm talking with the sixth lady of the Wang family, can you take her with you?" Li Ran looked at Li Qingning and asked.

Whether it is intuition or rational cognition, she feels that Wang Ji is a person who can sneak out to watch music together.

"Yes, yes, yes, she is the best with you, you ask her, if she goes, it will be best." Li Qingning nodded again and again.

It's a great pleasure for this sister to have a companion.

"Then you're waiting for me here? Why don't we go straight to Ermen? Li Ran asked with a smile.

"The second gate is the best, there are people coming and going here, it is inconvenient, Huo San and I are waiting for you outside the second gate."

Li Qingning responded happily and waved his hand at Li Ran, Li Ran turned to go inside, and Li Qingning turned to go out.

Sure enough, as Li Ran expected, Wang Ji simply agreed happily, beckoned to the little girl who had been standing next to the two of them, and said in a low voice: "I bother you to say hello to your second grandmother, just say that I went out to play with you four ladies, and then go back directly, no longer come to bother her, and then bother her to talk to my second sister-in-law." ”

The little girl hurriedly bent her knees and agreed.

The two came out, and Wang Ji smiled with Li Ran as he walked: "I won't tell you, I've watched the music in the workshop a few times, but it was all when they were on an errand, and it was all the kind of music that was stable and stable. ”

"Is there a difference?"

"It's definitely different, the support should be the messenger, what kind of music to play, how to act, are all under the etiquette, the rules are extremely strict, and you can't make any mistakes. Performing music in the elephant shed, but there are no rules and etiquette, just showing off skills.

According to my second brother's words, an amazing skill, and he can show off in public in the New Year, think about it, how lively it is? ”

Wang Ji said that he was a little excited. and Li Ran, quicken their pace and go out to the second gate.

Outside the second gate, Li Qingning's little servant Moxiang was standing outside the threshold, stretching his neck to look in, and when he saw the two of them, he hurriedly bowed down to signal.

The two went out, Huo San was already riding on the horse, and was spinning the whip boringly, Li Qingning stood next to the big car, stretched his neck to look into the door, and when he saw the two coming out, he hurriedly bowed and motioned for the two to get on the car, and turned around and got on the horse.

Li Ran and Wang Ji got into the car and went to the Iva elephant shed.

The car stopped in front of a small corner gate behind the side of the elephant shed, and the long and small servants surrounded the idlers in two layers outside and inside, Li Ran and Wang Ji got out of the car, Huo Wencan was in the front, and Li Qingning followed at the end and entered the small corner gate.

"The private room of the sky." Walking to the door of the private room, Huo Wencan lifted the curtain to let Li Ran and Wang Ji in, and said with a smug smile: "It's all about the golden face of the fourth lady." ”

"Hey, that's interesting." Wang Ji smiled and answered, entered the private room, and first took the cloak for Li Ran.

"It's really the golden face of the fourth sister." Li Qingning came in last, stopped, took the tea from the little girl's hand, and handed it to everyone.

"How difficult it is to book a private room in the elephant shed at this time, the fourth lady doesn't know, you don't know yet?"

Huo Wencan yelled at Wang Qi.

It seems that Huo Wencan and Li Qingning are very familiar with Wang Ji.

"A few years ago, I asked people to come and book a private room, but the shopkeeper didn't say a word, and lined up a bunch of people to show me.

No way, I had to invite the golden signboard of the four ladies out, the shopkeeper didn't say a word, and left this day number private room, these days, every day is to send someone to ask, said not to come, and then give this private room to others.

Alas, the golden face of the fourth lady is really good. ”

Huo Wencan sighed.

"According to that, today has to be regarded as a treat for the four ladies, and I only remember the favor of the four ladies." Wang Ji laughed when he heard this.

Li Ran smiled and sipped her tea, listening to them talk while looking around.

"Their brother and sister are in for a treat, anyway, today is their family's New Year's wine. The two of us are guests. Third, no matter where you say it today, you are the proprietor, but you have to do your duty as the proprietor.

Order me a fried sausage first, that's it...... Moxiang knows. I was in a hurry in the morning and didn't eat enough, do you want to try it? It was delicious. What about the six ladies? ”

Huo Wencan unceremoniously pointed at Li Qingning and commanded.

Li Ran and Wang Ji nodded together.

Wang Ji nodded and said with a smile: "There are also peach blossom bream, lotus seed meat, slippery glutinous cake, and coconut wine." ”

"Yes, yes, just go to Fanlou again and bring over the few snacks that you are good at, your sister loves to eat!" Huo Wencan happily patted Li Qingning.

"Okay, okay, it's not worth anything, go quickly." Li Qingning smiled and motioned to the little maid Moxiang.

Li Qingning picked and picked a few plates of dried and fresh fruits on the long table behind the private room, and sat down, and the first drum beat had already sounded on the stage below.

Li Ran hurriedly moved and sat down, concentrating on the stands.

Wang Ji also moved forward, side by side with Li Ran, looking at the stage.

The stage of the elephant shed is very spacious, and the bright red dancers swirl into a red patch and occupy the stage.

"This is the Great Kogibu! Look at that ......."

Huo Wencan leaned next to Li Ran, pointed to the stage, and just opened his mouth to introduce, he was interrupted by Li Ran's wave of his hand, "Don't speak!" ”

"You definitely don't understand, I'll tell you ......"

"What do you have to understand? Just look good. Li Ran once again unceremoniously interrupted Huo Wencan's words.

Huo Wencan almost choked, Wang Ji pressed his hand on his forehead and laughed.

"That's it, just look good, don't talk nonsense." Li Qingning sat next to Huo Wencan, laughing and slapping him hard.

Huo Wencan was about to dismiss it, but when he saw Li Ran's two eyes staring at the stage, one hand kept waving at him, signaling him not to speak, so he had to snort stupidly: I'll settle accounts with Li San in a while!

At the end of the song, Li Ran let out a long breath.

As Wang Ji said, this teaching workshop is really a show-off conference, this show-off skills, she was dizzy, in addition to being amazed, she was still amazed.

"Just good-looking? Don't understand? Huo Wencan looked at Li Ran and let out a long breath, sighed again, stretched out his head to look at her and asked.

"What do you know?" Li Ran took a glass of coconut wine from Wang Ji's hand, looked at Huo Wencan, and asked strangely.

"You know what that song is, right? What is the origin? What are they doing well? Where's the dance? What kind of dance is that? That pipa is the most proficient, do you hear it? Which paragraph is the most proficient? The erhu in the middle, did you hear the doorway? ”

Huo Wencan's breath is a string.

Li Ran leaned at him for a moment, looked away, and said with a smile to Wang Ji: "This coconut wine is delicious." ”

Wang Yi pouted, laughing and nodding, "Yes, yes, coconut wine is delicious." ”

"Look, she doesn't understand anything!" Huo Wencan turned to Li Qingning with an angry expression.

"Didn't the fourth sister say it, just look good, it's right. Well acted, good-looking! Li Qingning took a plate and fried white sausages, got up and put it in front of Li Ran and Wang Ji, "Eat it while it's hot." ”

"You two brothers and sisters, it's really a burning piano and a boiled crane!" Huo Wencan picked up the chopsticks, grabbed a piece of fried white intestine and threw it into his mouth, turning his anger into chewing hard.

The next performance was more exciting than the other, and Li Ran was satisfied with it.

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