After a few days, at the invitation of Lin Xueyi, Qiao Mei held a very grand attitude, and was not very satisfied with changing a few dresses in a row, and in the end, she squatted down and pulled the cabinet by herself, and was bumped into by Zhou, who came to give her chilled plums.

Zhou raised Qiao's eyebrows, looking at her anxious appearance was amused and distressed, and said straightly: "What is this for?" Look at this weather, it's still so moving, and I'm not afraid of the heat! She took the handkerchief and wiped it on Qiao's face.

"Back to Mrs., the girl is preparing to go to Miss Lin's house!" Bai Yue grinned and said to Zhou quickly.

"Which Miss Lin is it?" Zhou's eyes widened, very surprised.

Her Qingqing didn't like to be close to people when she was a child, and she didn't have a girlfriend, but she could only stare at this thing in the past.

Qiao Mei sighed: "From General Dingyuan's mansion, you see, I look at any of the things I wear that are out of place." ”

Zhou covered her mouth and smiled, asked Qingzhu to go back and fetch the things, she pinched up a candied plum on the table covered with crushed ice, and stuffed it into Qiao Mei's mouth.

"Rest quickly, wait for Qingzhu to come back."

Qiao Mei squinted, feeling the crushed ice wrapped in sweet and sour slowly melting in her mouth, she smiled like a lazy cat: "It's not summer yet, why is there ice in the house?" ”

You must know that in the summer, the ice in the palace is not enough for all the concubines, and this practice of marinating plums with crushed ice can be seen to be very luxurious.

The two were talking, Qingzhu came back with a big red brocade box, since the night of Qingye Temple, Qiao Mei told Zhou about thick bamboo, Zhou didn't take her with him anywhere.

Zhou smiled gently, his eyebrows and eyes soft, and motioned for her to open the box.

Under her gaze, Qiao Mei opened the box half puzzled, it was a dress. As soon as she touched it, the soft and slippery touch touched the palm of her hand, and she almost exclaimed, "This...... Is this a neon dress? ”

Ni Shang is a kind of fabric, delicate feel, gentle color, a few years ago particularly sought after by women in Beijing. It's just that later, the recipe for highlighting and dyeing to make neon clothes was lost, and the neon clothes are not easy to keep, and they are easy to dye yellow after a long time, so there are only a handful of such fabrics that have been handed down.

It can be said that neon clothes are hard to find now.

Zhou smiled and answered for her: "You may have forgotten that your aunt bought it for you in the past, and said that it should be kept as a gift for you." Zhou said, his eyebrows darkened, "She loves you the most......"

Qiao Mei was also silent for a moment, dragging the memory fragment from the corner.

When she was five years old, she was playing with her cousin and fell into the pool, and she was very frightened. My aunt was very sick in the palace at that time, and she was very worried when she heard the news, and although she was not in good health, she still found a lot of things to please her.

It's just that later, when her aunt died of illness, she also left these things behind.

"Put it on," Zhou touched her head, "if your aunt sees it, she will be pleased." ”

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It was only the middle of May, and when the sun rose at noon, it was extremely hot, and the carriage in front of the house was ready.

Qiao Mei wore a white glutinous powder skirt, the skirt of ten pieces swayed, and the embroidered white butterflies on the skirt moved with the wind, looking very smart and cool. She did not fall in a regular manner, only tied a jade pendant around her waist, and the ring on her neck was the jade Yingluo that she had worn from childhood to adulthood, and a colorful butterfly jade hairpin was pinned to the cloud bun.

It is not too deliberately grand, but also a little glamorous.

According to the appointed time, it is afternoon.

When she arrived at General Dingyuan's mansion, there were already maidservants waiting in front of the door, and when the carriage stopped, and Qiao Mei bowed out of the car, she stepped forward and saluted, and asked with a smile: "But Miss Qiao Si?" ”

"Exactly." He also bowed to her and replied.

"Slave call Ling'er," Ling'er said with a smile, stepping forward half a step forward to lead the way for Qiao Mei, "Miss, please, my girl has been looking forward to your coming." ”

Qiao Mei nodded.

The General's Mansion is very large, the style is not exquisite, only the atmosphere, and every flower and tree is minimalistly arranged. The mother-in-law who occasionally passes by is also round and thick-waisted, and she is powerful. Looking at Ling Er's pace, he also seemed to be a martial artist.

Passing through the hand-copying corridor, there is a delicate golden cage hanging under the corridor, and the finches inside are jumping around.

Ling Er knocked on the door and said, "Girl, Miss Qiao Si is here." ”

He replied, as if he was very happy: "Please come in!" ”

As soon as I entered, I found that Lin Xueyi was not the only one inside, the one who was born was soft and weak, the skirt on her body was the latest ready-to-wear from Sishufang, and the step on her head was also very expensive, but the trace of triviality that she quickly skipped on her face was captured by Qiao Mei's sharp eyes.

And Lin Xueyi, who was sitting on the side, only wore a common light green plum blossom baishui skirt, with a sad expression, but when she saw Qiao Mei, her eyebrows and eyes stretched out.

The weak girl got up gracefully, and she smiled softly: "Since my cousin has a guest, I won't disturb my sister for now." ”

Lin Xueyi obviously didn't want to deal with her, she didn't even want to do it, she directly pulled Qiao Mei to sit down, and called Ling Er outside to bring tea and pastries in.

The cousin over there hadn't left yet, and Lin Xueyi, who saw her, ignored her, and was so eager for others, her face was already half black.

Looking at her cousin's angry figure, Qiao Mei only felt interesting, and she asked, "Who is she?" What's upsetting you? ”

"Ah," Lin Xueyi pinched a candied dried fruit, and when she heard her words, she was a little uninterested, and said, "She is my mother's cousin and niece, because the family is in the middle of the road, and the family wants to marry her to a bad old man as a concubine, so she ran out and ran to my house." ”

Before Qiao Mei could ask anything, she poured out all her brains, "I thought she was a pitiful, but I didn't expect that she was a restless one, and she actually wanted to seduce my brother!" At the mention of this, Lin Xueyi became more and more angry, Ling Er made a hard look next to her, and she didn't stop talking, "My brother is also something she can climb?" Phew—I only think Ah Yi is my sister-in-law! ”

The Ah Yi in Lin Xueyi's mouth, Qiao Mei knows, she is the youngest daughter of her current brother Sheng Wang, and she has been named the lord of Minghui since she was a child. Lin Nanfeng, the son of General Tongdingyuan, is a childhood sweetheart, and the two of them are baby relatives who play Xiaoding.

Qiao Mei only remembered that in the previous life, the two of them finally got married, and the red makeup caused a sensation in the capital, and when Lin Nanfeng made a vow never to accept a concubine, it made countless girls cry and sigh.