The autumn nights are deep and extraordinarily long.

Approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, the lights in all squares of Chang'an City are bright, and they are stepping up preparations for the day of the festival.

Because this year's Mid-Autumn Festival is extraordinarily grand, the curfew will be lifted from tonight and will last until three days later.

Although it was close to the second watch, the streets were still full of traffic, and there was no sign of silence.

In fact, since the "Anshi Rebellion", the order of the whole city has changed somewhat, and the bustle at night is often greater than that of the market during the day.

Jin Wuwei of the Southern Ya was also trying his best to stop this phenomenon at first, but many recalcitrant household owners in the night market were supported by the power of the Beisi Yamen, and Jin Wuwei often clashed with the Shence Army of the Northern Ya in the process of enforcing the law, and the final result was naturally not satisfactory.

Without the shackles of the curfew law, the dignitaries in the city also took advantage of the rare few short holidays to start visiting relatives and friends, enjoying the leisure and freedom after getting away from the chaos of the court.

In the inner courtyard of the Jingzhao Mansion Office, not far from the West City, it was full of friends at this time, and it was very lively.

Li Wanwan rode all the way from the northwest corner of Guangdefang, and as soon as she returned to the courtyard, she heard the servants in the house say that Li Guogong had come to visit the old lady with his family, and then hurried into the guest hall, and greeted her father, Li Guogong and the brothers in the hall, and did not care about her father's reproach, so she went straight to the inner hall.

Outside the inner hall, her personal maid waited for a day, and finally looked forward to the little ancestor at this moment, so that when she saw her figure, she hurriedly greeted her, and said bitterly with joy: "Wan Niang, you can be regarded as coming back, the slave maid went to the lady's room in the morning, and you disappeared when you came back, Ah Lang and Mrs. looked for you for a long time and couldn't find a trace, but the slave and maid were frightened." ”

Li Wanwan looked at her happy and anxious look, and couldn't help but feel distressed: "My good Ah Qi, I have wronged you, tell me quickly, is the matchmaker inside?" ”

Who knew that before Ah Qi could answer, there was a burst of reproach from a delicate woman inside: "Wan'er, what are you rubbing outside, why don't you come in and say hello to your Aunt Du and your sisters." ”

Li Wanwan blushed and walked in with a smile.

When she entered the door, she was stunned by the situation in the hall, and there were several faces that she had never seen in so many years.

Before she could completely recover her senses, the woman sitting at the head of the hall couldn't help but say sharply: "You stinky girl is getting more and more unruly, and she is so big or small in front of your aunt." ”

Li Wanwan listened to her mother's reprimand, knowing that she was blaming herself for not calling Du Hongniang like this, her little face turned even more flushed with shame, but she still had to force a calm rebuttal: "A-Niang has wronged her daughter, her aunt is the best among women, and it is too late for her daughter to pay respect, how dare she be disrespectful." ”

"You clever mouth."

"Cui Niangzi doesn't have to be so harsh on Wan'er", Du Hongniang looked at each other with warm eyes, put a few pages of paper in her hand on the table on the side, and said with a slight smile: "I just like to get along with these children like this." ”

After speaking, she beckoned to Li Wanwan again: "Come, Wan'er, come and let your aunt see, I haven't seen her for a few years, Wan'er has grown into a beautiful jasper girl." ”

Li Wanwan watched everyone in the hall walk up to her without thinking, and said cordially: "Wan'er hasn't seen her aunt for many years, but I didn't expect that her aunt's demeanor is still the same as it was back then. ”

As soon as she said this, the hall couldn't feel the laughter frequently, and several cousins were even more happy, and praised again and again:

"Haha, the thirteenth sister's mouth is like smeared with honey."

The old lady sitting in the hall also glanced at Li Wanwan with a smile at this moment, and said with a kind face: "Since I heard that Erlang and the matchmaker have returned to Beijing, the thirteen girls in my family have been talking about the matchmaker every day, and I finally saw it today." ”

Du Hongniang listened to the old lady's words, her heart became warmer, she squeezed Li Wanwan's palm, placed her next to her and sat down, and said softly: "Now I am often in Beijing with your uncle, and your cousins have not yet left the cabinet, if Wan'er likes it, she will go to her aunt's house more, and she happens to be familiar with your cousins and cousins." ”

"Really?"

Li Wanwan looked around excitedly at the sisters in the hall.

Although her father Li Jian and the newly canonized Li Guogong are not siblings, after all, they are both from the Li family, stained with clan relatives, and because when she was in Longxi, her eldest mother took care of Li Guogong, so the relationship between the two families has always been close, even if they are separated by two places over the years, there are often correspondence exchanges.

The old lady in the hall looked at the true appearance of the girl grandchild, and was really distressed, and hurriedly said on the side: "Naturally it's true, you girl don't know where to go for a day, you don't know a lot of things, your uncle was worshiped by the saint in the court today, and he will stay in Beijing to serve in the future." ”

"Wow, my uncle has become a captain", Li Wanwan looked at Du Hongniang with joy: "From then on, my aunt will be Mrs. Taiwei, and Wan'er won't dare to do it again." ”

"You're self-aware now," her mother, Cui, said with some displeasure.

The old lady flicked her sleeves, but persuaded disappreciatively: "Okay, big lady, you don't have to be angry with Wan'er anymore, it's not that you and your Langjun are used to being pampered all day long." ”

Cui's mouth was indignant: "Mother still said, it's not for you to protect, the concubine can't be beaten and beaten, and scolded and scolded." ”

Du Hongniang and the daughters in the hall listened to the pair of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law bickering and shirking responsibility, which was really funny, and they couldn't help but cover their mouths and laugh lightly, but Li Zhu's children were stunned there without smiling.

Li Wanwan was uncomfortable, her eyes wandered, she casually looked at a few pages of paper placed on the side, took them and looked at them, and asked curiously: "These ......"

"These are all poems written by your three sisters, your eldest mother asked me to evaluate them for you", Du Hongniang pursed her thin lips and smiled: "Although Wan'er is the youngest daughter in the house, she will not lose to a few sisters in poetry and songs, can you make some poems for your aunt to see?" ”

"Oh, poetry, this, this......"

Li Wanwan squeezed her eyebrows, still hesitating, but saw that the three sisters laughed at the same time, full of sarcasm.

The old lady and Cui Shi were very embarrassed.

That Li Twelve Niang is only a few days older than her, but her biological mother was not born in a famous family, but relying on her biological mother to be pampered, she was unwilling, and she didn't forget to ridicule each other at this time: "Aunt Du, don't embarrass the thirteenth sister, if you want her to write an article, it is better to ask her to die directly!" ”

"Li Sese, who do you look down on", Li Wanwan angrily took out the three poems made by Suninger from her sleeve and handed them to Du Hongniang, and said seriously: "Isn't it just a matter of dancing and inking, who can't, I'll show you today." ”

Du Hongniang spread out the paper, through the yellowed candlelight, carefully examined, and couldn't help but read it in her mouth, when she read "Acquaintance is unprovoked and empty, miss and miss", she couldn't help but nodded shallowly: "It's the best poem I saw after I returned to Chang'an City, easy to understand, some of Mr. Drunken style." ”

When Cui Shi heard this, he also hurriedly came over with a happy face.

After reading the three poems, Du Hongniang suddenly stared at Li Wanwan with heavy eyes, and couldn't help but shake her head and sigh: "Wan'er has been very sad recently." ”

For a while, it was "I miss it if I don't miss it anymore", and for a while, "the spring is still in the old people", and finally came out with a sentence of "no lovesickness and no fate", Cui's also immediately noticed some bad clues, glared angrily, and began to question Li Wanwan: "Wan'er, is that child from Shiro bullying you?" ”

"Ah, Ah Niang, what are you thinking", Li Wanwan's willow eyebrows trembled slightly, and a rin followed her forehead: "How could Wen Xuan bully me." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and finally their eyes focused on Li Wanwan.

"Oh, shame on people, shame on people", Li Wanwan blushed, buried her head and explained bitterly: "I confess, I confess, this poem was not written by me, if it weren't for Fang Cai Twelve Niang to provoke me, I wouldn't have the idea of greedy merit." ”

Cui Shi looked at the paper in Du Hongniang's hand again, and his face, which was still full of anticipation, instantly fell silent like ashes, and then shook his head firmly: "Such a beautiful and elegant font is indeed not something that Wan'er can write." ”

Li Wanwan knew that she would not be able to find this face for a while, so she had to answer truthfully: "Actually, these poems were made by a mother." ”

"Yiniang?" , Cui Shi pouted, and his face was already a little gloomy: "That girl in the Su family's big house." ”

Li Twelve Niang also guessed that she must have gone to find the evil star of the Su family on the day she disappeared, so she took advantage of the situation to instigate:

"When is it, the thirteenth sister is still mixed with the abandoned girl, such a woman with lost virtue, the thirteenth sister is not afraid of tarnishing her father's reputation."

Li Wanwan stared at Li Twelve Niang, she didn't have a good face, and said in a cold voice: "How can you lose your virtue, Sister Twelve is really sour, let alone being divorced by Prince Qing, I am afraid that it is impossible for you to even enter the eyes of Prince Qing in this life." ”

"You ......"

"Shut up," Cui scolded.

The old lady in the hall probably knew that the two sisters were a little incompatible on weekdays, but she never wanted to be so presumptuous in front of the guests, and hurriedly persuaded: "You two girls, there are elders, how can you be so noisy." ”

Du Hongniang looked at this situation, but smiled calmly: "It's common for sisters to have occasional disputes", and then she glanced at Li Wanwan again: "It's just that Wan'er brought the poems made by the little lady of the Su family, but what is it?" ”

Li Wanwan hesitated for a moment and did not answer immediately.

Du Hongniang is a well-known girls' school book in the world, although she is married to a wife, but her love for poetry and music must not be diminished, so she also has some thoughts of deliberately satisfying her appetite, and said mysteriously:

"Wan'er went to visit Yiniang today, and listened to her compose a new song, which was very chic, and she knew that her aunt was proficient in music and poetry, so she took it back together and wanted to invite her aunt to taste it."

Who knew that without waiting for Li Wanwan to make a deep foreshadowing, Du Hongniang said with great interest: "I want to see her talent in music and rhythm for a talented woman who can make such poems." ”

Li Wanwan was overjoyed when she heard this, and hurriedly called Ah Qi to fetch Qin Zheng, and played and sang "Qingping Tune" according to the rhythm in her memory.

Du Hongniang was still reminiscing, but the two cousins in the hall couldn't help but start praising it:

"It's a really new tune."

"Yes, it's the thirteenth sister's piano skills, hehe......hee"

"Ha", Du Hongniang smiled: "It's really chic", and at the same time she took the page of paper in her hand and gestured: "What about this tune?" ”

"Let the two sisters laugh", Li Wanwan stood up, rubbed her sideburns, and replied to Du Hongniang: "Wan'er actually wants to hear it, but Yiniang has been very upset recently, and Wan'er can't move her." ”

"I have heard about the little lady of the Su family in the past few days, and she has made a lot of noise, she is a chaste woman",

Du Hongniang held the poem and said thoughtfully:

"These three poems must be outstanding in the women's poetry club, but if they are compared to the Manchu Dynasty and those talented scholars, I am afraid they are too graceful and lack some seductive momentum, but it is not difficult to let Liu Yuanjun, Du Zhijun, and Mr. Drunken Yin take a few looks, what is missing is just an opportunity to enter their eyes, I think this is also Wan'er's mind today, right?"

Seeing through the scheming, Li Wanwan was shy, and replied with a wry smile: "This also makes my aunt see it." ”

"Huh."

Everyone laughed unconsciously, and the old lady also joked above: "This thirteen mothers of my family have always been warm-hearted without taboos, and since the girl from the Su family came to Beijing, she has been connected with her." ”

"Wan'er's temperament is not bad, what she is planning is not for her own selfishness, I will help Wan'er become this matchmaker this time", Du Hongniang smiled gently, but the words suddenly changed in her gentle smile: "However, Wan'er has to promise her aunt one thing, if the little lady Su composes the tune another day, you have to send the tune to the house for your aunt to appreciate." ”

"Definitely, definitely."

Du Hongniang nodded with satisfaction: "Does this poem have a name?" ”

Li Wanwan was stunned, but she forgot about it, so she had to shake her head blankly.

Du Hongniang thought for a while: "Let's call it "Dream Like a Hook". ”

"Wow, that's a great name."

"Auntie's export is really extraordinary."

......

In Tanghua Courtyard, as the night deepened, it was completely silent.

Suning'er slept for less than an hour, and suddenly woke up from her sleep, as if she had inadvertently bit her lip, and felt a slight pain.

She turned over, felt that her ears were hot and hot, and couldn't help but speculate: I'm afraid that I got cold from sitting in the autumn in the morning, and I was going to catch a cold.

was simply suspicious, and the thick sleepiness tugged at her nerves, so that she didn't have the heart to care about these, and then fell asleep deeply.