"If Miss Ruyu can give birth to a boy after entering the door, then she is the minister of the third room." Mama Xue glanced at Feng's mother and daughter, and hinted: "The third master of the Wang family has had a flat wife before. ”

Feng's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Is Mama's words serious?" Xue Ruyu also looked at it.

Mama Xue said: "Naturally, it's true, at the beginning, this flat wife followed the third master to Datong, and everyone regarded it as a lady, but unfortunately she got seriously ill and passed away, otherwise it may be our second lady's turn to do it." ”

Feng's mother and daughter glanced at each other, and their faces were happy.

Mama Xue secretly sneered: The side branch is the side branch, and she doesn't even understand the rules of the family. still thinking about climbing on the head of their Xue family's branches, it's really a good dream.

Sanniang and Xue took the maids and daughters-in-law out of the house in a carriage, and the two discussed clothes and jewelry along the way, and the atmosphere was harmonious.

Wang Dong's house is not far from the largest commercial street in Beijing. So while the two were still excitedly speculating about whether the brocade with the Eight Treasures flowing cloud pattern would be popular or the cloth with the moon rabbit pattern would be more popular this winter, the carriage stopped.

"Madam, Miss, Yun Xianglou has arrived." Outside, he told the car woman.

Xue rarely met someone to talk about these things with her, and she just found out that Sanniang seems to have a lot of experience in dressing up, and when it comes to the matching of clothes and jewelry, it is more straightforward.

Therefore, when it was time to get off the car, Xue Shi was still a little unsatisfied: "Wait a while, we will continue to talk after we finish picking out things, and you can help me see what kind of jewelry is good with the new clothes sent the day before yesterday." ”

Sanniang responded with a smile, and when the mother-in-law got out of the carriage in Xue's clothes, she also let people help her down.

Yunxianglou is known as the first in the capital, and it is indeed a bit magnificent. The three frontage shops have been opened up, and they look very spacious. The decoration in the shop is also very elegant.

Although it is a tailor's shop for a garment shop, there is not even a thread or a piece of cloth on the floor. Only on the right side of the wall there is a wall of cloth neatly stacked on the counter, and the sample cloth alone looks like hundreds or thousands.

On the left wall, there are some ready-to-wear styles that are also dazzling.

As soon as Xue and Sanniang stepped into the store, a person who looked like a female shopkeeper greeted them with a smile: "Mrs. Wang, are you here in person?" This is a rare guest! Yo - who is this fairy girl-like girl next to her? The small one has eyes but no beads, and I haven't seen it before? ”

The female shopkeeper had already looked at Sanniang without a trace before she spoke.

Because Sanniang was going out today, she changed into a set of light apricot yellow satin peony folded branch embroidered sweetheart collar placket newly made when she was in Shandong, and the lower body was a pleated skirt embroidered with vermilion peony flowers. The combination of light and bright is very elegant.

Sanniang inquired about the popular colors in Beijing in recent years, and she knew that if she wore the popular colors in Beijing this year, but it was not a popular style in Beijing, it would inevitably make people feel nondescript, so she simply picked a color that had not been popular in the past few years.

The peony flower and the broken branch embroidery are classic patterns, and her color matching is appropriate, but it gives people a sense of not being vulgar.

The eyes of the female shopkeeper are refined by the fire eye crystal, seeing that the clothes on Sanniang's body are not from her own house, but the materials are good, and the workmanship is exquisite, plus she saw that she came with Mrs. Lang on the right side of the Criminal Department, thinking about some rumors I heard in the past few days, I guessed that this may be the lady from Shandong's family, and I thought that it was really a young lady from a famous family for hundreds of years, and her temperament was different. Although she guessed it, it was a compliment.

"This is our third girl." Xue said with some joy.

Sanniang naturally knew that this was a compliment from the store, so she smiled and nodded at her.

"Yo, it turned out to be the lady of the squire's family, a distinguished guest, a distinguished guest. It's noisy here, so please go in and sit in with the little one. ”

It turned out that the outside was a shop, and there was a hole inside.

Sanniang secretly looked at the spacious inner room arranged in the shape of a flower hall and saw that the layout here was also very elegant, and there were already several women dressed as official wives sitting inside.

When the ladies saw someone coming in, they looked this way, and when they saw Xue, they glanced at each other, only smiled in this direction, and then turned their heads to discuss the style of clothes with the female shopkeeper who was serving them.

Xue's smile just now was a little stiff, and he paused when he wanted to walk over.

Sanniang saw it in her eyes, and she didn't make a sound, but she and the Xue family were led by the female shopkeeper to sit on the other side.

"Madame and Mademoiselle will wait, and the little one will order tea, and then let the tailor in charge of the clothes in the house bring the clothes." The shopkeeper retired.

Sanniang looked at the ladies over there without a trace, they were all over thirty years old, well-dressed, well-behaved, and spoke softly, so it could be seen that they were all from good backgrounds. The mother raised her eyebrows and glanced at Bai Ying behind her. Bai Ying has been by Sanniang's side for many years, and her ability to observe words and emotions has also improved a lot, so she quietly retreated when she saw this.

Sanniang pretended to have nothing to do and discussed with the Xue family the book of fabric clips that had been fashionable in Beijing just now.

After that, the tailor and refreshments came, and Xue Shi checked the workmanship of the two clothes, and saw that they were all delicate and flawless, so he handed them to Sanqi and Baiguo beside Sanniang: "You wait for Miss to go and try on the clothes to see if there is anything that needs to be changed." ”

This time, Xue made a gold-trimmed flesh-pink satin satin round-neck jacket for Sanniang, with a gold flowered pleated skirt, a goose-yellow cross-collared orchid embroidered long jacket, embroidered orchid grass edges, and a snow-blue printed shawl.

Sanniang took the two maids and followed the little maids in the store to the back of the flower hall, there is a patio behind the flower hall, and there is a row of side rooms opposite. Sanniang followed the maid into one of the rooms, and let Sanqi and Baiguo wait to change their clothes.

Just put on the pink one, and there was a knock on the door outside.

"Miss, slave Bai Ying." Bai Ying's calm voice sounded outside.

Sanniang motioned for Bai Guo to open the door, and she sat on a couch in the wing room in her pink clothes.

"What just happened?" There were no outsiders in the house, and Sanniang didn't go around in circles, so she asked directly.

Bai Ying leaned into Sanniang's ear and said: "Miss, this is not a matter of the last day or two, it turns out that Mrs. She has not been accepted by the original wives of other officials in Beijing, and Mrs. usually walks around with the second old lady of Wenjiayuan, basically without leaving home, let alone having friends to talk to." ”

After hearing this, Sanniang pondered for a moment and understood, presumably those ladies believed that they were from a good background and were their original wives, so they couldn't look down on Xue's step-room of unknown origin. Explicitly and covertly isolated her from her social circle.

This kind of ganging and deception has been happening everywhere since ancient times, and there is nothing strange about it.

Xue's temperament is soft, and his courage is also small, when he first came to the capital, he was also summoned by the queen mother of the princess to meet once, and heard Wang Zheng say that the queen mother also said that she would hand more signs into the palace to talk to her in the future, in order to show her favor. But since the Xue clan entered the palace for the first time, they have never entered it except for the unavoidable New Year's pilgrimage. The Xue family still has a fear of the superior in their bones, and it is still the same for Wang Dong of the Sun family, let alone the queen mother who is high above?

So even if the Queen Mother began to think about lifting her, but the parties themselves did not move forward, and the Queen Mother did not have the energy to always think about the Xue family. So over time, the Xue family was forgotten by the Queen Mother.

Sanniang shook her head, no wonder those ladies wanted to isolate the Xue family.

She was a little strange at first, why the Xue family, as the wife of the Sanpin Minister, actually got the clothes for this chrysanthemum banquet the day before, and saw that the shopkeeper in this building was quite enthusiastic about them and did not mean to slack off. Now that I think about it, it must be that Xue himself doesn't want to please that boring, so he comes over to rob the tailor with someone when there are many people, so as not to make people even more disliked.

"Alright, help me change my clothes, it's time for us to go out." After listening to the news from Bai Ying, Sanniang wanted to understand the joints, so she got up and said.

"Miss, I haven't tried this body yet." Bai Guo took the goose-yellow jacket and said.

Sanniang shook her head: "Don't try it, it was made by a tailor, and this fit must be the same." We've been out for a long time, and if we don't go back, Madame will have to worry. Let's talk about it all in a minute. ”

The new clothes Sanniang wore were very complexion, and the maids looked happy, so they wanted her to try another one, but when Sanniang said no, her face was a little disappointed.

Sanniang looked at Bai Guo, who was depressed and changed her clothes, shook her head and smiled: "I'll try it for you when I go back." ”

Bai Guo was happy again when he heard this.

When Sanniang and the others went back, Xue really sat alone and drank tea, Sanniang could see that she actually wanted to go over and talk to a few ladies over there, but she was the air, so Xue was not in a hurry to get up.

Seeing Sanniang come out, Xue Shi breathed a sigh of relief: "How is it?" Does it still fit? ”

Sanniang nodded: "It fits perfectly." ”

Xue Shi was also happy when he heard this, and turned to the tailor who was still waiting and said: "Then according to what I just said, we will make three sets of pink, pink blue and light purple according to this size, we are not in a hurry to ask for these three sets, you can make them more meticulously, and send them to our house when the time comes." ”

The tailor was very happy when he saw that there was another business, and he hurriedly responded: "Madam, please rest assured, our clothes in Yunxianglou can't be wrong." ”

Xue smiled and said to Sanniang: "Just now I looked at a few new fabrics and patterns, and thought that there were a few styles that were very worthy of you, so I made three more for you." "Min