Chapter Eighty-Four: Horseback Riding
The morning air is warm and fresh, with the scent of early summer flowers.
Ling Xiao followed behind Yan Qingge with his head down, full of frustration, and hugged Tieqin to go to class with her.
A few days ago, Ling Lie set out to fight and left the capital. She had been waving her flag and shouting before, lobbying her family's great plan to marry Ling Lie, but her mother and grandmother repeatedly rejected it, and Ling Lie was also tired of her, and personally wrote to her to tell her to stop making trouble.
Ling Xiao pouted and said, "Brother Lie is really, I'm obviously doing it for his good!" Shui Ying and I just had to help him screen all the girls in the capital, but he was still not satisfied, and when he came back, how could there be a suitable one. ”
Yan Qingge said with a smile: "You are a cow who doesn't eat grass and is forced to press your head!" Marriage is not so simple. ”
Ling Xiao looked at the sky and said, "This matter, I still compare it with Shui Ying." I don't know what happened to Shui Ying's mother these days. ”
Yan Qingge is also very worried about the Yun family, although Shui Ying's mother Yun family's diet problem has been solved, but in the end, it is difficult to get up, her heart disease lies in the disappearance of her husband and son, I heard that the book is only a symptom but not a cure, every time she looks better, her condition will always deteriorate suddenly, Shui Ying has asked for leave to go home to see five or six times because of Yun's repeated illness. If it weren't for Yun's insistence on not allowing her to drop out of school, Shui Ying would definitely not be studying at Bailu Academy a long time ago.
The Yun family's thoughts, Yan Qingge can understand very well, studying in Bailu Academy is a very important capital for girls, and when they find their in-laws' family in the future, they will be more valued. If the father and son of the Shui family can't come back, the Shui family will fall, and Ling Xiao's marriage will naturally be worried. She can stay in Bailu Academy for a few more years, which will be beneficial for her to find her in-laws in the future, and the Yun family can not plan much for Shui Ying at the moment, but the advantages she has at hand will never be lost in vain.
In the piano lesson, Ling Xiao kept wandering, fiddling with the iron piano under his hand, and adjusted the bullets well.
She is not as good as Yan Qingge, and the two of them are sitting together, and they are even more useless to be compared. From time to time, Meng Fuzi, who taught the piano lessons, cast a condemning glance at her.
Ling Xiao continued to play the piano as if he didn't know, Meng Fuzi treated her students with all her heart and soul because she was willing to learn, and she didn't want to learn to let her go, Ling Xiao was so incorrigible, Meng Fuzi didn't bother to pay attention to her.
After class, Yan Qingge pulled Ling Xiao and said, "What's wrong with you today?" "There is also a calligraphy class in the afternoon, and the master who teaches calligraphy has always been strict, and he beats people at every turn.
Ling Xiao said listlessly: "I want to ask for leave to go home." ”
"Why?"
"I'm worried about my mother and my grandmother. As soon as my brother left, they must have felt uncomfortable. ”
Ling Xiao inquired before, Ling Lie went this time to join the army as a counselor under the general's account, and what he usually does is a military staff officer, so he doesn't have to go out to fight, not like the father and son of the Shui family who need to go to the battlefield in person, Ling Xiao's worry is actually a bit redundant.
Yes, Yan Qingge persuaded: "Don't worry, your brother doesn't have to charge into battle in the army, he only stays in the camp, and there are soldiers and generals by his side at any time, what can happen." Don't go back, aren't you worrying your family for nothing? ”
Ling Xiao thought about it and made sense, so he cheered up and continued the class.
After a few days, Ling Xiao was able to eat and sleep, which was fine, but Shui Ying didn't come back for a long time, which made Yan Qingge feel a little worried.
Yan Qingge was afraid that something had happened to the Yun family, and Shui Yingcai was tripped up.
It happened that the second day was the day of rest, Yan Qingge and Ling Xiao discussed: "Let's go to Zhongwang's Mansion tomorrow to have a look, I'm always worried about Shui Ying." Count the days, Sister Minzhi is about to give birth, if Shuiying is fine, let's go to Ning's house again. Don't you remember your mother and grandmother these days? After reading Sister Ning, it just so happens that you can still go home. ”
Ling Xiao nodded and said, "Well, then let's go back to Beijing tomorrow." ”
Early the next morning, Yan Qingge got up as soon as he was in the morning. While washing, she said to Ruyi: "Go and tell Chunni and Guiyan to tell them to get up, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back before the academy is locked." ”
Ruyi went out to explain the spring mud and returned to Yan. After a while, I came back to Yan Qingge's room and helped her comb her hair.
After Yan Qingge had all cleaned up, he even counted the gifts for Ning Minzhi again, sat down and drank tea again, and then said, "You go and urge Chun Ni and Gui Yan again, and tell them to clean up for Ling Xiao quickly." ”
Ruyi came back and said, "Miss, Miss Lingxiao hasn't gotten up yet." Chunni and Guiyan called several times, but she shouted that she was tired, and told her to take a nap for a while......"
Yan Qingge is angry and funny. Ling Xiao was still thinking about her mother and grandmother a few days ago, and now she can really go back, but she can't get out of bed because she is sleepy.
She went to Ling Xiao's house and saw Ling Xiao curled up in a ball, hugging the quilt and sleeping sweetly. Yan Qingge lifted the quilt, pinched her cheeks, and shouted: "The sun is drying your buttocks, we won't go back to the capital today." ”
Ling Xiao rubbed his eyes and said in a daze: "You lie to me, where is the sun rising, let me sleep for a while, my dream is only half done." Saying that, pulling the quilt and Yan Qingge tug-of-war, he insisted on lying down for a while.
Yan Qingge grinded her temperlessly, and coaxed her in a good voice: "Let's go, little ancestor." The carriage can't go fast, who knows what happened to the capital, and it was too dark to leave at night. ”
Yan Qingge, Chunni, and Guiyan screamed and tossed for almost an hour, Ling Xiao finally woke up, she quickly got out of bed, and said loudly: "Oh, why am I sleeping late." At this time, when I return to Beijing, it should be past noon at the city gate, what can I do? It's all my fault, it's all my fault! ”
Yan Qingge said helplessly: "Last time, we rushed to burn incense in the middle of the night, couldn't you get up, what's wrong today?" ”
Ling Xiao blushed and said, "I usually don't sleep enough, just like that, last time I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to get up, so I stayed up all night without sleeping." ”
Yan Qingge had such an expression on his face.
Ling Xiao hurriedly dressed and washed, and suddenly said: "It's better like this, we won't take the carriage, the carriage is too slow, let's ride back to Beijing." ”
"That's not right!" Yan Qingge was shocked by her bold proposal.
There was a lot of dust on the road, and the two rode back to Beijing, and the clothes on their bodies should be dirty. And their maids don't know how to ride horses, only they walk, and the two girls go on the road alone, which is unsafe on the one hand, and it's too eye-catching.
It was inappropriate to try her best to dissuade this, but Yan Qingge was eager to try it in her heart, and she hesitated on her face: "Is it really okay?" ”
Ling Xiao smiled: "What's not to do." I remember bringing with me a couple of long gauze hats, made especially for horseback riding. Let's wear that, it is dust-proof and covers our faces. ”
Chunni and Guiyan knew that Ling Xiao was crazy, and they had always thought of what to do. Riding back to Beijing on horseback is not too out of place, otherwise the Ling family would not have prepared a specially made long gauze hat for her. Without waiting for the command, they went and took out the long gauze and hat from the box.
The hat was large, with a long veil sewn on all sides, and when it was worn, it was long on both sides, front and back, and it was just right to block the whole body when riding a horse.
Yan Qingge saw this novelty for the first time and tried it on his head. Her hair was combed in a bun, and when she took off her hat, her hair was crushed. Ling Xiao greeted Guiyan and said, "Quickly comb Qingge's hair into braids, so you can't wear a hat." ”
Guiyan dismantled Yan Qingge's hair, combed it thinly, braided two delicate whips, coiled them on the top of his head, and fixed them with a hair rope with velvet flowers and silver beads, which was no more ugly than combing his hair and wearing a hairpin ring.
After such a delay, the sun had risen, and time could not be delayed, Yan Qingge and Ling Xiao went to the stable to lead the horses, stuffed their luggage into the pockets on both sides of the saddle, put on light gauze hats, and each rode a horse, and headed towards the capital.
Yan Qingge has learned to bow horses for more than half a year, and although his riding skills are still not as good as Ling Xiao, he is considered to be of an average level among women of the same age. The black horse under her crotch is used to riding in riding lessons, and she has a docile personality, she listens to her very much, and she is no slower than Ling Xiao when she catches up.
The weather was excellent, the wind was warm but not scorching, blowing the long veil on the hat, the horses were about to fly, Yan Qingge watched the green fields and thick shades along the way gallop by, and his eyes were happy.
Riding a horse and galloping wildly was an impossible thing for her before she was reborn, except for the huge weight limit, her strict and old-fashioned personality at that time could not do such a thing.
But in this life, she is happy to take revenge, and the whole person is too free and easy, and all kinds of things that she couldn't think of before being reborn were made by her one by one.
Maybe she did a good job as the wife of the Duke of Xinguo, and she also did a good job as Ming'er's mother, and even as Zhu Mao's wife, she was 10,000 qualified. However, it was all after she got married, and she sadly had neither experience nor talent in being a girl.
Fortunately, she made these friends, and she realized that there are so many colors in life.
She no longer lives humblely, no longer has her wings choked off, and the part of her life that has been cut off alive has grown up vividly.
The two of them hurried all the way, and when they arrived in the capital, it was time for lunch. The city can't let the horses run wildly, Yan Qing's song is still unfinished, and he controls the horses and Ling Xiao to go straight to the Zhongwang Mansion together.
The porter of Zhongwang's Mansion is very discerning, although Yan Qingge and Ling Xiao have only been here once, their identity as distinguished guests has been firmly remembered by the porter. Although they didn't send the name card in advance, they were still respectfully welcomed in.
When Yan Qingge entered the door, he felt that the atmosphere of Zhongwang's Mansion was wrong, because the gatehouse looked very relaxed, as if he had encountered some happy event.
Along the way, Yan Qingge saw that the maids and wives were also beaming, and the whole house was happy, and he had a plan in his heart.
Soon, Mama Xu greeted her in person, and the last time I met Yan Qingge, I could see that Mama Xu is a person with a deep mind like the sea, she is not easy to show her anger, and she is always not angry and arrogant, but today she is also frowning, and the corners of her mouth are slightly upturned.
Seeing Yan Qingge and Ling Xiao, Mama Xu made a big gift and said happily: "The two girls are here." But unfortunately, our girl went to the palace, and you will run for nothing, but the princess is free today, so it is better to meet the princess. ”