Mother Hua called a turtle slave and took Gu Chengyu to the private room in the backyard, but she herself went in the opposite direction.

Walk through the Hanging Flower Gate and go inside, there is a separate courtyard.

The small courtyard is not big, but it looks very exquisite. It is now early spring, and the spring flowers in the small courtyard are in full bloom.

When Mother Hua came to the main house, she didn't knock on the door, and pushed the door directly into the house.

In front of the dressing mirror leaning against the window, there was a graceful girl.

At this time, she was grooming in the mirror, and she heard the sound of the door opening and didn't look back. At this hour, there are no more casual people in her house except for Mother Hua.

Mother Hua stood behind the girl and looked at the girl's dress, wearing a splendid double butterfly flower shirt, and a red pleated light gauze moon skirt, lining her skin as white as snow, and it was very bright.

Mother Hua nodded, smiling. It is not in vain that she waits for her white fungus bird's nest every day, and the paste that wipes her body after taking a bath costs ten taels of silver every day.

The girl gathered her freshly combed hanging cloud bun, looked at the half-box jewelry in the jewelry box, picked out a coral flat square hairpin from it, and inserted it on her head.

"Ouch hey! My good girl! This is too plain, how can you be worthy of our Xiyan girl? As he spoke, he took out two hairpins from the jewelry box and inserted them into the girl's head.

"Why did my mother come to me early this morning? But another distinguished guest wants to ask me to accompany you? ”

As soon as Mother Hua came to look for her, it would be fine. Xiyan felt irritable for a while, and he was only under the eaves and had to bow his head.

Those vassal and elegant sons are just that! To maintain the dignity of a scholar, there will never be excessive behavior towards her. Only those powerful people look like dogs outside, and the way they covet her in private is really disgusting to her.

She is the Oiran of Tianxiang Pavilion, she does not entertain guests easily, and she only sells her art and does not sell herself. She studied the piano hard, read books and practiced calligraphy, and even had some attainments in Danqing, so that she became a famous person in the capital. Don't you want to be an Oiran and not have to pick up customers?

But the face is easy to age, how long can a woman's flower-like appearance be maintained? She was elected at the beginning of last year, and she is fifteen this year, and when she is eighteen years old, Tianxiang Pavilion will choose another Oiran.

Needless to say, if someone is found to redeem her during this period, it will be the best outcome.

If not, then like the lives of other girls in the building, she will become a poor woman with a pair of jade arms and a thousand pillows and a little red lips.

Since ancient times, "prostitutes" are the lowest and lowliest inferior people, and those children of official eunuchs want to take concubines, and they will also find women from good families, or children from families in the house, and they can only be an outer room.

sighed and turned her mind back, Mother Hua rarely asked her to come forward, usually once every ten days and half a month.

It's only been two or three days since the last banquet I went to, so why did I come to her again today? Could it be that this time there is a distinguished guest?

Speaking of this, Mother Hua's eyes couldn't help but laugh out of the folds, "It's not like a distinguished guest, it's a group of sons and brothers who have just participated in the exam." There are a few of them who come from a lot of backgrounds, and they are all well-known. Today I said that I was going to hold a literary meeting in our Tianxiang Pavilion, this time it's not a gentleman, don't you also like calligraphy? It's good to check it out. ”

When Xiyan heard this, she understood Mother Hua's intentions. This is to take advantage of the reputation of these students to build momentum for their Tianxiang Pavilion! Among these lifters, there are always those who can be admitted to the Jinshi as officials.

If you can leave the ink treasure today, Tianxiang Pavilion will also have some confidence in the future. Although Tianxiang Pavilion is the largest green building in the capital, other can't be compared.

But two years ago, another drunken red mansion was opened in the capital, and the girls in the building were probably good at singing and dancing, and the business of Tianxiang Pavilion was robbed a lot.

It seems that Mother Hua is also in a hurry, right? If Tianxiang Pavilion has no business, then she will not be spared.

"Which son-in-law do you have?" Xiyan knew that she couldn't shirk it, and before she went, she had to find out where those sons and brothers came from.

Mother Hua introduced a few words to the big ones in it, and specifically mentioned Gu Chengyu.

"This time, there is even Xie Yuan of the township test! Hurry up, don't keep them waiting. ”

Xiyan was very surprised, it turned out to be Gu Chengyu? She has participated in several poetry meetings, and of course she has heard of Gu Chengyu's name. I also heard that these students were disdainful of Gu Chengyu at the banquet, saying that he was a turtle with a shrunken head, hiding in the mansion and refusing to come forward.

However, every month, there will be news that Gu Chengyu won the first place in the monthly examination of Guozi to slap his face, and these people's criticism is still happy. Therefore, she had a trace of curiosity about Gu Chengyu.

I heard that he is as famous as Gu Xie Yuan's literary talents, as well as his appearance......

Xiyan glanced at his body and found that there was nothing wrong, so he got up and went to the inner room, ready to take the piano.

Gu Chengyu and the others followed the turtle slave into a courtyard, saying that it was a private room, but in fact there was more than one room.

A group of people entered the courtyard, and the turtle slave led a few people to the flower hall near the water. Leaning on the edge of the pond with some peonies and begonias, Gu Chengyu and the others walked across the small bridge on the pond and came to the main house.

There were low tables in this flower room, but there were no chairs, only cushions, and a wooden floor underneath, which seemed to sit on the floor.

When I entered the room, I found that there was a gauze curtain opposite, and the furnishings in it were not real, only faintly visible.

The cushions are arranged in two rows, Huang Junheng is the initiator, so he naturally does it at the front, Gu Chengyu randomly found a seat at the back and sat down, and Zhu Pang and Zheng Lun also sat next to Gu Chengyu.

Zhu Pang opened his eyes, his eyes were fixed, and Gu Chengyu felt that he must have drunk a lot.

"What the hell is going on? Why are you here? Didn't you just get out of the Tribute House yesterday? Are you well rested? Gu Chengyu pulled Zheng Lun over and whispered.

"Alas! And not because of him? Early in the morning, he came to the house to look for me, and said that he wanted to come out to drink, I said to drink in the house, he refused, I could only sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman. But who would have thought that when he came to the street, he wanted to drink flower wine again, I couldn't resist him, and here we were. ”

Zheng Lun was released in the second batch, and when he came back, he slept until the morning of the second day, if it wasn't for Zhu Pang coming to him, he would still be going to sleep!

"Then how are these people here?" Gu Chengyu glanced at the dozen or so people around him, these had a few familiar faces, all of whom were candidates for this exam.

However, Yu Ting is not, he didn't participate in this year's exam, and he is not even a lifter!

"Let's talk about this later!" Zheng Lun found that someone was already looking at them, so he had to take a look.

Not long after sitting down, several maids came in one after another with trays.

Gu Chengyu glanced at it and found that it was full of wine and food, and it seemed that this poetry meeting would last for several hours.

Mother Hua staggered into the flower hall, twisted her waist pole, which was no longer slender, and said to everyone with a smile: "The girls are all up, do you want the girls to pour tea and wine?" ”

The faces of the girls present were a little ugly, they were just vulgar fans in the pavilion.

I didn't think about the favor of these sons, I just hoped to get some rewards, and Mother Hua's words were to drive them out.