、、、、、、、、、、 The young woman under the willow tree was dressed in a light yellow beard, combed in a charming fallen horse bun, and had only two simple ornaments on her head, and her figure was slender and straight, and her eyebrows were picturesque. is smiling and saluting lightly, looking dignified and generous, and there is an indescribable freshness and ease, just looking at it is already very eye-catching. It is indeed a rare beauty, but for King Ning, a beautiful woman is not a rare thing, let alone in this situation. Therefore, King Ning just glanced at it a few more times and then turned his eyes away, and said lightly: "I didn't see where the face was good." ”

Meng Ruren didn't miss the moment when his eyes stayed on his body longer, and said tentatively: "Your Highness, you look at her standing posture, who does she really look like." These words are very heavy, just to lure King Ning to look at them twice.

King Ning really looked at the peony twice, and although he finally turned the horse's head noncommittally, his face did not show a look of boredom.

As long as you are willing to look at it twice, it means that there is a play, and there is really no one who is not lustful for men. Meng Ruren accepted it when he saw it, and while slandering, he pretended to say: "It seems that the concubine is wrong, and it is the first time I have seen it today." But this Sister He is really rare, not only is she beautiful and gentle, but she is also quite generous and polite, much more sensible than the rude girl in General Huang who babbles and has no one in her eyes. ”

Hearing her mention Xue Niang again, King Ning couldn't help frowning and said coldly: "What are you angry with a child!" Chanting and praying for the princess is far better than you coming out to provoke right and wrong! Provoke General Huang today, do you still want to provoke Lu Shangshu tomorrow? "Then the horse will go.

Meng Ruren knew that he was angry, but he was not so frightened that he lost his face, and calmly turned around and whispered to Na Liniang: "Go and ask what this girl is, be sure to ask clearly and carefully." ”

Li Niang nodded, got out of the car and lied that she had something dropped on the village and wanted to go back to get it, so she asked a guard to follow her back, and went to the village to inquire about the identity of the peony without mentioning it. Meng Ruren ordered the coachman to hurry up and chase King Ning, she must enter the mansion with King Ning, otherwise she will not live well in the future.

Meng Ruren leaned on the pillow, looking at the two grandmothers sitting in front of the car who seemed to be respectful, but in fact did not take themselves in their eyes at all, and gradually fell into deep thought.

Qixi Festival, King Ning refused to spend time in the house, only afraid of seeing things and thinking about people, so he came to this village to escape the summer. As for her, she followed him here in every possible way, but she didn't get the effect she wanted, and after following her carefully for a few days, she accidentally touched him, and was sent back early in the morning, and even the grandmothers around her looked down on her. Returning home like this, how can she have a face? The emperor is above, and the girl who just arrived at the Huang family asked her to find a punching bag, and also found a reason to justifiably wait for King Ning to return together. God has eyes, so that she met such a beautiful person.

This woman surnamed He, although she is mixed with the daughter of General Huang, is sleek and skillful in dealing with people, and she is definitely not a delicate girl raised in the boudoir, nor is she an arrogant girl from a famous family, but should often deal with people in foreign affairs. And in the family of people with a big face in Beijing, she has never heard of such an outstanding person. So she deduced that the background of this woman surnamed He must not be high, but it will not be low. is such a background, people are not stupid, they just happened to enter the palace, and they are not worthy of being her opponents, but they can be a big help to her.

I heard that it was a promise, and it made her particularly disappointed, but when she looked at King Ning like that, although she didn't say anything, she looked at it again and again, and it was clearly in his eyes. As long as you can see it, you can say anything. As long as you haven't married, what's more, are there fewer princes who take wives and concubines? As long as he likes...... Even the queen would think she was virtuous.

You must know that since Concubine Qin died, King Ning was first ill, and then he was depressed, but the queen mother was very worried about King Ning, and she had already given people into the palace several times. But those people, whose appearance is not as good as this woman surnamed He, the most important thing is that those people's words and deeds are the same taste, King Ning, who grew up in the palace since he was a child, is afraid that he is tired of it, where can he still be interested? Meng Ruren gently curled the corners of his lips, how can a dead person fight a living person?

Not to mention how the Meng Ruren calculated, after saying goodbye to the short and fat man, Peony and Xue Niang turned over and went to Fangyuan slowly. Xue Niang got the dignity of King Ning to make a special trip to apologize, so she put all the grievances just now behind her, and said excitedly: "Sister He, the rumors outside are really true, King Ning is really reasonable, but this woman in his family is annoying." He really should take care of it. ”

Aunt Feng smiled: "Mother and the nobles of the clan talk about this? The emperor also has a royal lice on his body, and there are more than a thousand people under these princes, and there are dozens of women in the palace? They want to deal with national affairs, where can they have the leisure to take care of these small things? As long as it's not out of line, it's just that we encountered it today, and there are many things we don't know about in other mansions. ”

Xue Niang thought about it sideways and said, "Then that's it." ”

Peony smiled, not even if it is so, but the rules are like this. What kind of house is not swept how to sweep the world, self-cultivation Qi family rule the country and level the world, only when it needs to be used will be put forward, most of the time, the nobles are enjoying the privileges with peace of mind. In other words, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is a very serious matter, but in the eyes of the superiors, it is just a trivial matter that is not worth mentioning.

For example, today's matter, if Meng Ruren really went too far and beat Xue Niang, General Huang was not satisfied, and went to theorize, the best result was that King Ning gave up the woman he didn't love to make General Huang angry, but what can General Huang get? King Ning can get a good reputation. But Meng Ruren didn't beat anyone, just made it difficult, so all conflicts were still within a reasonable range.

Xue Niang didn't think about these things carefully, she put them behind when she said them, and said with a smile: "King Ning is really handsome, no wonder I have heard someone say that the young princes in this capital belong to him as the most handsome and the most sage." ”

Peony nodded casually, in the past, she wanted to know what King Ning, who had a deep relationship with the Li family, looked like, but now she didn't feel much shocked when she saw it. With a high nose and double eyelids, two eyebrows and a mouth, he has what a person should have, and if he wants to say more, it is just the kind of majesty that ordinary people can't pretend to be for a long-term superior. Xiang Ning's appearance, she is more concerned about whether King Ning can succeed in the end, and whether the Li family can soar into the sky.

Xue Niang happily chattered non-stop, looking around: "Sister He, that time you were sick, the Jiang family sent you shoulder as if it was around here, I remember that their family has a village here, right?" ”

Peony was still immersed in his own thoughts, and replied casually: "Yes." ”

Xue Niang smiled so much that her eyes were bent into a little moon: "Where is it?" You point it out to me. I wondered, what kind of place does that kind of person live? When I went back that day, I talked about the sisters I knew on a regular day, and they were all very curious. ”

In ancient times, there were also star chasers, and Peony pointed ahead with a horsewhip: "I haven't been there, but it should be there, see no, there are many big trees around, and there is a large rice field outside." ”

Xue Niang stretched her neck to look over, but saw a large area of golden rice was undulating with the wind, surrounded by a green shade in the distance, faintly revealing a few points of gray and white, and a white light of about a foot meandered out from there, through the undulating rice fields all the way to the big one. The scenery is really good, she was slightly stunned, and said softly: "How far is your village here?" ”

Peony said: "It's not far, I haven't calculated it specifically, if you want to know, you can calculate it yourself now." ”

Xue Niang said "oh", no longer asked, frowning and silently calculating.

Peony led Xue Niang and the others around the river pond rockery that had begun to take shape, went directly into the house, placed the people brought by Xue Niang properly, and arranged Xue Niang in the wing room next to him. Sending water to Xue Niang to freshen up, do food and other trivial matters to Feng Lady and A Tao in charge, she did not wash her own face and hurriedly classified the baskets of peony seeds and soaked them in warm water, and then wore a hat, beckoned a few to work in Fangyuan, and usually looked at the honest and reliable Zhuang women went to the nursery garden to tidy up.

While according to the instructions of the peony, the farmer's manure that had been prepared long ago, rotted and mixed with lime was applied to the ground, and the deep leveling was made to make a small high furrow, while joking with the peony: "He Niang, here is stinky, be careful that you are not beautiful to smoke and tan, this fertilization and furrow matter is left to us to do, you just go to rest, and come back to see later, the same will make you satisfied." ”

Peony just smiled, stood in the shade of the hat and watched them busy, and by the way, she had a homely friendship with them: "This day passed so fast, I came up, and it seemed that the rice was about to ripen?" ”

A young daughter-in-law named Zhengniang smiled: "You only care about the scenery, but you don't see people busy in the fields, you are obviously already harvesting." If it weren't for your family's high wages, we would have to harvest them all. ”

Peony said: "I will always hire people to help in the future, as long as the work is done well, the salary can be higher." When you are done, you have to sign a long contract. She had already thought that the domestic servants she bought could not do farm work, and many times she still had to find local farmers, and having them to work with her was equivalent to adding an extra layer of human relations in the local area.

Everyone looked at each other and grinned: "As long as you pay a high salary, let us pile up flowers for you in the field." ”

Peony also smiled: "I don't want you to pile flowers for me, just help me plant flowers." ”

While speaking, Xue Niang changed into a refreshing light blue gauze skirt and came out with a blue and blue Luo skirt, hugged Peony's shoulders with a smile, and looked at the women: "I heard that you will sing under the moon at night, is it true?" ”

It was the righteous lady who smiled again: "Of course it's true, like this good weather, after cutting the rice, I ate dinner in the field, and I always have to sing under the moon until the middle of the moon." People in the village around here will come out to see the excitement, doesn't the little lady also want to play? ”

Xue Niang said happily: "Where I used to live, I just sang in the spring." ”

Zhengniang said: "In the past few years, it has become good, as long as you want to sing, where does it matter what winter, spring, summer, and autumn?" If you really want to go, we'll call you after dinner. ”

Xue Niang pulled Peony's sleeve and said with great anticipation: "Sister He, let's go too, okay?" I'm about to be suffocated by my mother. ”

Peony remembered the grand singing scene that Zhen said, and was also very interested, so he smiled and said: "If there is nothing to do, let's go and have a look." ”

When Xue Niang heard this, she happily hugged her a few times, and just rubbed her head on her a few times: "Good sister, you are so good." ”

When the ground is tidy and the relevant preparations are done, Peony inspected it in the garden again, and lay down to rest after cleaning, but just after feeling that she had just closed her eyes, Xue Niang ran over to wake her up: "Eat, eat, leave after eating!" ”

Yuhe has rushed back from the city, seeing that the peony's eyes were still red when he opened his eyes, it was clear that he had not rested, and he couldn't help but look at the snow lady who ran in and out with a little resentment, and he didn't know what the excitement was to the snow lady, and slowly fetched water to freshen up the peony, and sent a cup of cold white according to the peony's habit, and when the peony drank it slowly, he asked someone to set the meal, and the snow lady was so anxious to die.

Peony knows that the bottom of this body is not good, and he has never been picky when eating, and he pays attention to chewing and swallowing slowly. Xue Niang had a bowl of rice, she was still holding half a bowl of rice and eating it slowly, so anxious that Xue Niang sighed again and again, Peony smiled: "What are you anxious about, didn't you say that you want to jump to the moon in the sky?" People are there, and they won't run away. Besides, people are still working at this time, and they haven't eaten yet. ”

Xue Niang had to tap her fingers on the table and fidgeted and waited. It was easy to see that Peony put the dishes and washed her hands, so she couldn't wait to pull her up and go out to the kitchen to find her mother. When I arrived outside the kitchen, I saw a large group of women holding a large clay porcelain bowl full of food, squatting under the shade outside the kitchen while eating and laughing, among them seemed to be Zhou Banniang.

Zhou Banniang saw Peony coming, she didn't feel comfortable at all, stood up and said to Peony straightforwardly: "He Niang, I heard that you are going to hire someone to do long-term work, and I also told them that in the future, it is better to leave your kitchen to me to take care of." ”

Peony didn't think of asking Lizheng's wife to be a cook for herself, but she didn't want to refuse her on the spot, so she only smiled: "I'm afraid you won't be busy." ”

Zhou Banniang glanced at her and said, "Since I opened my mouth, I didn't think about anything else, if you want, I will do my job well, if you don't do it, you just let me go." ”

Being chased by someone to do work for yourself is not a good feeling, nor is it bad. But in her heart, Zhou Banniang is indeed good, and she has already said this, Peony said: "That's okay." ”

When Zhengniang saw Peony and Xue Niang coming to the kitchen, she knew that she was here to wait for her to take them to see the song, and she divided the meal by two, and said with a smile: "It's still early at this time, otherwise I will lead the two little ladies to go away first to eliminate food?" ”

Before Peony could speak, Xue Niang had already smiled and said, "Okay, where to go?" ”

Zhengniang said: "The song is on the embankment by the Yellow Canal, and we walk along the ridge. ”

The group went out of Fangyuan, walked along the ridge of about two teas, and saw that the sky was gradually darkening and the moon was gradually rising, and they heard a crisp female voice in the distance singing: "Make a thousand wishes in front of the pillow, to rest and wait for the green mountains to rot." The scale floats on the water surface, waiting for the Yellow River to dry up completely. The sun is shining, Beidou is back to the south, and the rest is not resting, and waiting to see the sun. ”

The singing was melodious and tactful, and before Peony felt anything, Xue Niang had already blushed, and Fu's mother beside her frowned, her face full of unhappiness. Fu's mother was about to make a remark about how these songs are suitable for little girls to listen to, and someone over there sang: "There are plums, but in fact, there are seven Xi." Ask me to be a gentleman, and I will be lucky! There are plums, in fact. Please, my gentleman, I am in the future! There are plums, and they are baskets. Ask me to be a gentleman, and I will say it! ”

The man sang very well, his voice was cheerful and melodious, and Peony was about to praise it, so Xue Niang stomped her foot and said infinitely shyly: "Oh, why do you always sing this?" "It's not lovesick to swear or let people pursue themselves.

Zhengniang smiled nonchalantly: "I usually sing this." She glanced at Fu's mother, who was full of anger, and Aunt Feng, who was expressionless, and said, "Don't feel ashamed of the two little ladies, you see, there are also several ladies and ladies who have come to spend the summer to watch the excitement." They come every day, and they don't say anything after listening to it, and when they are happy, they will reward them with money and things for the best singing and dancing. Occasionally, someone would sing along and a few words. ”

Peony looked in the direction she pointed, and sure enough, on the embankment not far away, under the lush willow trees, stood several young women wearing brightly colored skirts and towering buns. It is indeed a very good pastime for young women to listen to love songs and sing love songs on a night when the moon and stars are scarce.

Not far away, there were groups of fifty young men in bright clothes, laughing loudly, and glancing at the women around them from time to time, all of them were very excited, as if they were a grand festival.

Peony couldn't help but smile. She didn't care whether Xue Niang was shy or not, whether Fu's mother was angry or not, she firmly followed Zhengniang over, no matter what, she had to appreciate tonight's song. Seeing her walking in front of her, Xue Niang rightly shook off Fu's mother's hand and went straight to the front.

As night fell, there were more and more people on the embankment, men and women, old and young, and most of them young women. I don't know how it started, it seems that it started with the sound of a Qingyue flute, and several bold girls first formed a circle, holding hands, stepping on the ground for knots, twisting their waists and tilting their hips, and singing while dancing: "Don't climb me, climb my heart." I am Qujiang Linchi Liu, this person folded that person climbed, and I loved it for a while. In the repeated chanting, more and more people joined, and in the back, even the young men who watched the excitement also joined in, regardless of men and women, paused to sing, clapped their hands, and those who liked each other, but also through the singing and dancing eyebrows, the atmosphere was cheerful and relaxed.

As the night deepened and the atmosphere reached a climax, Peony and Snow Lady stood under the willow tree, smiling at the cheerful crowd, humming in a low voice, but they didn't dare to sing the lyrics. Zhengniang jumped sweaty, happily squeezed out of the crowd, and boldly reached out to pull the two of them: "Let's jump together." What's the point of just standing? ”

Xue Niang was eager to try, but Peony was a person who never knew how to dance, although she also wanted to go, but she was a little ashamed, and couldn't help laughing: "I'm stupid, I'm afraid I won't." ”

Mother Fu saw that Xue Niang wanted to go, for fear that she would be taken advantage of by the apprentices, and she would not be able to get rid of Mrs. Dou's teeth and claws when she went back in the future, so she hurriedly stopped her, Xue Niang pouted and said, "How many people are still standing still like us?" Just now, the ladies and ladies also went to jump, and I jumped on the periphery, and I didn't come. ”

Peony looked at it, and saw that the young women really followed to sing, and the people who stood to watch the excitement were just a few people, and inadvertently, her eyes collided with the gaze of a person standing with his back not far away, both of them were stunned, and Peony reflexively smiled at the man. The man's expression was a little flustered, and then a big smile bloomed, revealing two rows of snow-white and neat teeth, and then raised his feet and walked towards the peony, it was Jiang Changyang, who he hadn't seen for a long time.

He walked very fast, and Peony felt that it was almost a blink of an eye, and he had already walked in front of her, and smiled a little shyly: "He Niang, you also come to see the song?" Do you live on the farm? ”

Peony smiled: "Well, I came to the village to plant flowers, I heard that there is a lively scene." She glanced behind him, "Are you alone?" Why didn't you see Mr. Wu? ”

Jiang Changyang said: "He's here, run to follow the song." After speaking, he looked at the crowd of indulgent joy, found Wu who was like a crab with teeth and claws, and pointed to Peony: "Look, he is there, he can dance as ugly as he wants, and he will be a dead man." That's a lot of courage. ”

Wu's dance moves were so funny that Peony couldn't help laughing and said unkindly: "He's really bold." She thought that Wu was dancing so ugly, Jiang Changyang didn't dare to jump, was it because he danced even more ugly? I don't know what it's like to dance with such a good body? He smiled maliciously and said, "Why don't you go and jump?" ”

Jiang Changyang saw that she was smiling strangely, and asked with a smile, "Why don't you go and dance?" ”

Probably because of the previous pleasant interactions, Peony subconsciously thought that he was a trustworthy and good person, and because it was in such a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere, she was even more relaxed, so she said generously: "Because I can't jump, I'm afraid of losing my ugliness." Why don't you jump? ”

Jiang Changyang smiled: "I can jump, but I don't want to jump." It's actually quite simple. He looked at Peony and hesitated several times whether to invite Peony to try it.

Xue Niang looked at Jiang Changyang blankly from the side, grabbed the cuffs tightly, and didn't even notice that her nails were pierced into her palms. Looking at her from this corner, Jiang Changyang's nose bridge is straight and beautiful, his jaw line is strong, his posture is tall and graceful, and his expression is gentle and tranquil, which makes her feel a little closer than she has seen him a few times. and the protruding Adam's apple on his neck...... It's all like that...... Xue Niang's heart beat faster, and she shouted without thinking: "Jiang Gong." ”