In Qingxi Hall, on the black lacquered round table made of Xiangnan wood, there are four dishes of seasonal fresh food, a plate of water chestnut, a plate of red ling, a plate of crispy lotus root, and a plate of loquat.

Sun washed his hands and carefully peeled the water chestnut skin with a knife.

Seeing Wanqing raising her fingertips around the front of her temples, listless, unlike what she was used to, she asked a little strangely: "I have no heart and lungs on weekdays, what does this do with sighs?" ”

Wanqing pursed her lips, her face full of unhappiness: "My mother is kind to one over the other, and it is best to treat Jianyun, but she left out her own child." ”

"Where do you start?" Sun handed the water chestnut exposed to her mouth, and sighed with a smile: "I serve you like this, but I am not satisfied. ”

Wanqing took a bite of the water chestnut with her hand, which was crisp and sweet, moist and sweet, and tasted very good.

Then he complained while chewing: "Jian Yun and Lu, my daughter is also close to Ji, the Fu family brother is knowledgeable and good-looking, but you pointed it out to Jian Yun, why don't you ask me if I like it?" It's really eccentric. ”

"How do you know that Brother Fu is good-looking?" Sun asked in surprise.

"You don't care, my daughter just knows." Wanqing replied vaguely, and ate the peeled loquat casually, the sour taste was slightly heavier, so she simply spit it into the bowl and took the tea handed by Biling to rinse her mouth.

Sun couldn't cry or laugh, and glared at her: "If it's really a big woman, it's sad to stay and stay." If there is a good one, will I not give it to you, and give it back to outsiders? Will your mother not understand the truth of distant relatives? ”

When Wanqing heard this, she suddenly had a sense of energy, approached Sun's side, took her arm, and played tricks with all her might: "I like Brother Fu, I want to marry him." ”

"The young lady who has not left the cabinet, how can she say such unashamed words. When your father hears it, you have to blame me for having no way to teach my daughter. ”

Sun frowned, took pity on her daughter's temperament, picked the yellow loquat and peeled it, and whispered: "That Fu family is just a five-grade official, not as high as your father's position, Brother Fu heard that he is a prisoner, who knows if he can win the Jinshi in the spring next year, if not, he can only do some teachings, county officials and other eight- and nine-grade petty officials, so you are willing to marry him?" If you want me, I don't want to! ”

Seeing that Wanqing really showed hesitation, she didn't say a word with loquats, so she lifted a strand of hair hanging down from her forehead behind her ear, and said gently: "Look at yourself, smart, well-born, ingenious, where can Jianyun compare to you, I naturally want to pick a noble family for you, I will go to the palace to see your eldest sister in a few days, she is now a female history, the emperor's relatives and relatives always know some, choose any one is a hundred times stronger than this Fu brother, what are you anxious about." ”

Wanqing also made her own little abacus in her heart, although she has to see Brother Fu today, she looks bright and handsome, and she is quite right for her eyes, but if she is only a petty official wife, she will only feel embarrassed when she wants to come, and how can she be rich and glorious as the son and wife of the emperor's relatives and relatives.

The idea was made up in an instant, and he also picked out the water chestnut meat and sent it close to Sun's mouth, with a smile on his eyebrows: "It turns out that my mother loves me the most, and I embroidered a plumbing picture of the Spring River a few days ago, and my mother remembers to bring it to the eldest sister." ”

Just said this, the girl outside came to say: "Mama Li wants to see the eldest lady, saying that there is something important to say." ”

Wanqing snorted contemptuously: "What can the old lady do, either she is greedy and wants to eat and drink, or she wants to return to her capital after losing a gamble, so she must be cheeky to beg for money." Just get out and don't see you. ”

The voice fell, the curtain was lifted twice, and Mama Li came uninvited, had stepped into the threshold, walked to Sun's front and bowed, turned her hand and saluted Wanqing, and said with a smile: "Sister Qing hasn't seen her for a year, and she is becoming more and more smart." ”

Seeing that she ignored her, she didn't raise her eyes, but just buried her head in peeling water chestnuts and eating them.

I was unhappy, and I still smiled on my face: "This water red lings are ripe early, although the meat is tender, but there is a slight sour taste, not the most refreshing, I asked the relatives in the countryside to wait for August and September to send some more, when there is a big head of the wild goose to red, and the cyan warbler brother green, although the small taste but the most beautiful wild ling, all have a good taste." ”

When Sun heard this, he couldn't turn his face away, so he blamed Wanqing: "The water chestnuts and red lingxue lotus you eat are all brought by Mama Li from the countryside. ”

He looked at Mama Li and smiled and said, "The child is not sensible, you don't have the same knowledge as her." ”

Let her sit at the table together, but she didn't dare in every way, so she found a round stool by the window five steps away and sat carefully. Sun pointed to the girl to pour tea again.

She hurriedly waved her hand and said, "I'll leave after I say a few urgent words, and if you don't bother, you won't eat the tea." ”

Sun smiled, and then asked what was the matter, Mama Li brushed her hand back and forth on her thigh twice, and then made up her mind, and said without hesitation: "The eldest lady can see that the brother named Shun Yu who lives in the Xuanji Courtyard with the third master, does you feel strange?" ”

Sun also said what she said, it was for this, and she responded disapprovingly: "How can I not see it, what can be strange?" He is the brother of the second master's brother-in-law, who came to Beijing from Suzhou at the end of the year, and is now studying in the Guozi Prison, who is handsome and well-educated, and will be a great future in the future. ”

When Mama Li heard this, she hesitated a little, but she didn't give up, and muttered, "Don't you think the eldest lady thinks he is like a special person?" The Tianfu that was beheaded by the whole house, among them there is a girl named Jiu'er, I have accompanied the second lady to walk there a few times in previous years, and now I saw him at the beginning of the year, and I was frightened, there are people in the world who look exactly the same. I thought about it for a long time, it was when I copied the Tian Mansion, and the second master was also there, maybe he used my grandson to come out for the girl to ........! ”

"Phew! You old mouth can't spit out ivory. Sun's face sank, how harsh his words were, and scolded: "You want your grandson to enter the demon barrier!" How can this kind of thing be chewed casually, if it is spread, it is a big crime to harbor the daughter of a criminal minister, our Qin Mansion is defeated, and what good is it for you Mama Li. You'd better be peaceful, if I hear a word and a half again, I don't care if you are the son of the house, and then don't blame me for not giving face. ”

Mama Li was also full of suspicion, frightened by Sun's family, and she was also worried in her heart, thinking about the sadness, she picked up a handkerchief to wipe her tears, sobbed and cried: "My hard-working grandson, recently, I dreamed of him last night, I asked him where he was, but he couldn't tell ......... with his mouth open!"

"Alright! I know you're suffering. Sun interrupted impatiently, she didn't have the leisure to listen to these sad words.

His eyes flickered, and he smacked his lips at Mama Li and said, "If you say how your grandson lost it, the coachman surnamed Qin should know that if he is really sold by the second master, he must know where to sell it, and you should interrogate him carefully." Instead of thinking nonsense here, there is no margin. ”