Chapter 25: The Clouds Rise

The carriage swayed along the way, and finally, the sound of the coachman pulling his horse was heard outside the carriage, and the carriage slowed down.

There was a loud noise outside, mostly from the girl's house, and occasionally the sound of a groom rushing to the car.

Ah Zhu and Red Sleeves face to face, sitting at the very edge of the carriage, Ah Zhu didn't bother to look at Red Sleeves all the way, just lowered his head and counted the beads on his wrists.

Sensing that the speed of the car was slowing down, Ah Zhu raised his hand and lifted the curtain, and looked out curiously, there was a long convoy in front of him, like a long winding dragon, with no end in sight

"So many carriages!" Ah Zhu shouted in surprise, my God, this battle is almost in time for Prince Hezhe to come to pay tribute.

Not only Ah Zhu, but the other people in the car were also surprised, although they had been living in the capital, they were all coming to this Yunshui Villa for the first time, and when Chunjiao Pavilion did not change its name, they had never participated in the Oiran competition.

In the past, they only knew that there were many clear streams in the capital, and they also knew that most of the Qinglou would come to participate in the competition, but they were still a little shocked to see so many large and small floats with their own eyes.

Before the carriage enters the Yunshui Villa, it must be inspected by the guards of the villa one by one, and only those who receive the invitation to the Oiran competition can enter, so the carriage naturally walks very slowly.

Jiang Rou didn't react, just raised her hand and opened the screen tent on the side of the window, looked outside, and watched the green shadows on both sides of the road gradually retreat.

Finally, the carriage stopped.

"Which one?" The voice of the guard came from outside the carriage.

Honggu heard the sound outside, and quickly took out the invitation card in her sleeve, lifted the curtain, and handed it out.

The black-on-gold invitation shone golden in the sun, and the guard glanced at it, glanced at the girls in the car, and put the carriage inside.

One after another, the carriages drove into the villa, like a long winding dragon in the huge villa.

At the edge of the highest cloud pavilion in the villa, King Heng stood by the window, the hair on his temples was gently lifted by the wind by the window, he looked at the long dragon below, a pair of dark eyes tightened slightly, and his brows gradually condensed.

"Lord Wang, it's all ready!" A black-clothed Xiao Si walked into the room and bowed his head to report.

King Heng didn't look back, raised his hand to let Xiao Si retreat, and turned his head to look at Yunshui Lake not far away.

After preparing for so long, it's time to close the net.

The primary selection time for the Oiran competition was in the evening, and now it was noon, and the girls who came one after another were all placed in the empty courtyard of Yunshui Villa in order.

The room of Chunjiao Pavilion is in the Yunqi Garden of Yunshui Villa.

Yunqi Garden is very large, there are many identical suites in the courtyard, and Jiang Rou's room is in the middle of Yunqi Garden.

The room is very elegantly decorated, the incense table is lit with peach blossoms, and the drunken smoke is spread in the room.

A group of six people sat in the car all morning, and they were already tired, Honggu and Jiang Rou sat on the low floor of the middle pavilion, holding a cup in their hands to drink water, Azhu sat next to Jiang Rou, looking at the furnishings of the room, and the other three girls sat together at the round table, also holding a cup.

"It's really worthy of Yunshui Villa, any room is so chic." The pothos fiddled with the fan in her hand and looked around.

"Dirt buns!" Redsleeves muttered softly.

"What did you say?" I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional, but the voice of the red sleeves was not loud or small, and it just happened to reach the ears of the green pothos.

"What's wrong again?"

Honggu was recuperating with her eyes closed, and when she heard the harsh voice of the pothos, her brows furrowed, and then she opened her eyes, looking at the pothos, a little impatient.

"Honggu, it's red sleeves..."

"That's it! Stop it! ”

Luluo wanted to explain, but was directly interrupted by Honggu, with irrefutable toughness in her voice, Luluo was stunned for a moment, pouted, and didn't speak again, but she was angry and aggrieved in her heart.

Flutter! Red Sleeves couldn't help laughing, and his eyes squinted at the pothos, with a smug face.

"Well deserved!" Red Sleeves made a defiant lip gesture at the pothos, and turned his head to look away disdainfully.

Green pothos subconsciously wanted to open her mouth to scold, and stood up, but her arms were tight, and she was gently pulled by Ziyan on the side, and she turned her head to look at Ziyan.

She knew what Ziyan meant, and today Honggu seemed to be a little nervous or something, she didn't look like she was easy to mess with, she shouldn't speak, so she glared at Hongsleeve fiercely, and gave up.

All this, Honggu saw it in her eyes, and she probably knew that it must be the red sleeves that provoked the pothos first, but today is such an important day, the red sleeves are reckless and ferocious, so don't mess with her, so as not to cause any more trouble.

At this moment, a well-dressed maid walked towards the house, Honggu hurriedly stood up to welcome her, and the other girls found that someone was coming, and they also quickly stood up.

"Girls, clean up, luncheon is about to begin." The maid entered the house and said softly.

Honggu returned the salute to the maid, and the maid bowed her head slightly, "The girls will go to the gate of the courtyard and wait after they have packed up," After speaking, go out and walk to the left.

I should have called the girls in the other rooms.

"Zhu Yan, are you ready?" Honggu turned to Zhu Yan and asked, feeling a little nervous in her heart, so she had to clench the handkerchief in her hand to calm herself down.

"Yes, Miss, so many people participate in the competition, Miss can't lose!"

Ah Zhu followed and said to Jiang Rou, obviously it was Miss who participated in the competition, but she didn't know why she was so nervous that she was going to die, she was really afraid that Miss didn't get the Oiran, and she couldn't accept that someone had won Miss .

She tried to tell herself not to panic, but the tense expression on her face betrayed her nervousness.

"That's it! Feel relieved. Jiang Rou looked at Honggu, then at Ah Zhu, smiled slightly, raised her fingers, her fingertips flashed slightly, and Ah Zhu instantly felt that her whole body was relaxed.

"Let's go."

Jiang Rou and his party walked to the door, and there were already many girls waiting at the door, all of whom lived in Yunqi Garden with them.

As soon as Jiang Rou appeared, the attention of everyone present was completely attracted to her.

Although she wore a veil, the red Hezhehua dress and the red gems embellished on it were eye-catching enough.

"Hey! This girl doesn't look at the clothes of Da Zhou! ”

"Yes! It looks like it should be the clothes of the Western Regions. ”

"It's so beautiful, it's adorned with gems!"

"Humph! Who knows if it's true or not, a Hu person, is he also worthy of competing with our Da Zhou women for the Oiran. ”

The girls couldn't help but whisper to each other, either directly or secretly looking at Jiang Rou's eyes with their own thoughts.

Jiang Rou didn't seem to know anything, and didn't react.

But Ah Zhu was different, although she couldn't hear what they were saying, but when she looked at her young lady's white glowing skin in the sun, she instantly seemed to understand something, and her face was proud.

Sure enough, even if the young lady is wearing a veil, she is the most beautiful and eye-catching.

Some people came out of the courtyard one after another, and everyone followed the leader's maid and walked to the banquet hall together.