Chapter 204: There Are Acquaintances
Sanniang wore a magenta light ink arabesque wide-brimmed jacket today, embroidered with shallow arabesques on a white background, a pressed skirt with a black jade ring, and a pair of beaded flowers with broken ink jade on the comb's double bun. Weigh more translucent complexion and picturesque eyebrows.
Xue looked at Sanniang, nodded, and exclaimed, "It looks good to wear it like this." â
When he caught a glimpse of only a pair of beads on Sanniang's head, he got up and picked out a pair of golden hairpins inlaid with pearls from his jewelry box and put them on Sanniang's head himself.
"It looks better. This pair of hairpins was made by me a while ago in the Duobaolou in the capital, and I just gave it to you to wear. Xue stood a little farther away, looked at it, and said with a smile.
Sanniang just saw that the pearls on the pair of hairpins were full and round, and now the weight on the head also shows that this pair of hairpins is full of red gold, and she knows that this is a good thing.
Sanniang didn't shirk either, and bowed generously to the Xue family, and said with just the right smile of joy: "Thank you mother." â
Xue was very happy when he saw that Sanniang was willing to accept it.
"By the way, go and invite Miss Fifth as well. Today is to go to her uncle's mansion to greet the elders, and she can't be rude. Xue finally had an idea and thought of how to release Wu Niang.
When the eldest girl Peilan heard this, she hesitated and said, "Madam, Mama Xue said that she wanted the fifth lady to think about it behind closed doors." â
Agarwood glanced at Xue's family, and said to Pei Lan with a busy smile: "Sister Pei Lan, if Madam tells you to go, you can go." Otherwise, when the old man of Wenjiayuan saw that Miss Fifth didn't go, he thought that we didn't know how to be polite. â
Pei Lan knew that the old man was an old and important minister, and he was an official who was bigger than his own master, so he had to stop talking when he heard this.
Agarwood told a little girl to invite Miss Five over.
Sanniang accompanied Xue's tea for a while, and Wuniang came up under the leadership of the maid.
Wu Niang was a little wilted, and bowed to the Xue family, and then stood aside and didn't speak.
Wu Niang is still wearing the smoky color embroidered dark pattern skirt this morning, with a pair of butterfly golden hairpins on her head, and she is also a dress that can go out. Xue didn't let her go back to change her clothes.
Thinking that he couldn't favor one over the other, Xue picked out a team of red gold eight-treasure bracelets from his jewelry box and planned to give them to Wu Niang.
The workmanship of this pair of bracelets is also very exquisite, but it is not as heavy as the pair of gold hairpins that were just given to Sanniang, and it is not inlaid with pearls and gemstones. The Xue family thought that there was a difference between the concubines, so the gift to Wu Niang should be relatively light.
No, when Xue handed the bracelet to Wu Niang, Wu Niang put her hands behind her back.
Xue Shi was a little embarrassed to stand there with the bracelet, and when she saw Wu Niang lowering her head and not looking at her, she could only say, "This is given to you by your mother, you can accept it." â
Wu Niang was silent for a while before she spoke: "I don't want a gift, you just don't punish my aunt." "The head is still down.
Aunt Cui is still kneeling under the porch behind her who entered the house.
Xue Shi was even more embarrassed when she heard this, it was not her intention to punish Aunt Cui, but Mama Xue was punished in her name, and no one would listen to her explanation.
So there was an eerie silence in the room.
Seeing this, Sanniang stepped forward and took the bracelet from Xue's hand, and said with a smile: "I'll put away this pair of bracelets for my fifth sister, and I'll give it to her when I come back, otherwise I'm afraid I will lose it according to her temperament." â
Seeing this, Xue Shi breathed a sigh of relief: "Then let Sanniang take it first." It's getting late, it's time for us to go out. â
Wu Niang bit her lip and glanced up at Sanniang, who shook her head at her, asking her not to be stubborn at this time.
Seeing that Xue Shi stepped aside to ask about the arrangements of the personnel who traveled, Sanniang walked to Wuniang's side and whispered, "You don't want your aunt to kneel for one more day, do you?" â
Wu Niang raised her head sharply when she heard this, and San Niang continued as if she didn't see her aggrieved look: "If you don't want to, hurry up and take the bracelet." Otherwise, Madame will be angry with your aunt. â
Wu Niang bit her lip, but Zhong took the gold bracelet from San Niang's hand and put it on her wrist.
Although Xue was talking on the side, he was actually paying attention to the situation on this side. ~ Although I couldn't hear what Sanniang was saying to Wuniang, I was happy to see that Wuniang took the bracelet that Sanniang handed over, and immediately put it on her wrist.
Xue Shi thought, this third lady is really polite and kind-hearted, this time thanks to herself to help herself out of the siege, so as not to lose face too much.
So Xue came over again and smiled at Sanniang and Wuniang and said softly, "Let's go out." â
This time, even Wu Niang said obediently, "Yes, mother." â
Xue's heart was even happier.
The three of them took the maids and women to the second gate and got into the car, and the Wang and the others were already waiting in the outer courtyard. It's just that a few young masters didn't ride in a carriage today, but rode a horse individually.
During the reign of the first emperor, the men in Beijing were ashamed to sit in carriages like women, so the children of the nobles in Beijing rode horses.
By the time the emperor ascended the throne today, there have been no major wars for more than ten years, and many places have forgotten those fierce years. It's just that the capital is the capital after all, and the trend of men riding horses has not withdrawn from the popular circle, and it is still the fashionable style of the children of the aristocracy.
Wang has practiced martial arts for several years, and his talent in martial arts is really not comparable to his talent in reading. Plus his own love for this actin, and he is willing to work weekdays. So in the past few years, there have been some achievements, at least Mr. Deng, who called him, always praised him as "teachable".
When Wang Dong was studying, he only heard the comment that "rotten wood cannot be carved", how could he ever hear praise? Therefore, I am more interested in martial arts.
Sanniang knew that Wang was no longer the powerless young man, so he was relieved that he was riding a horse.
Xue took Sanniang and Wuniang in a carriage, and only let Agarwood and a maid wait.
The rest of the maids-in-law, Sanniang, and Wuniang's maids and daughters-in-law all sat in the back of several carriages.
The prosperity of the capital is really not comparable to other places, although Sanniang can't lift the curtain to look out, but it can be seen from the noise that comes in through the car surround.
After entering the imperial city, the noise subsided. Ordinary people are not allowed to enter the imperial city, and the Xue family sent Mama to hand Wang Dong's sign to the defenders of the city before they were released. The western part of the imperial city was inhabited by the emperor's relatives and dignitaries, but in addition to the mansions of princes and princes with hereditary titles that could be passed on to the succession, officials like Wang Xian only had the right to use the mansions rewarded by the emperor and could not pass them on to the next generation.
This is also the reason why the owner of the Wen family has been changing, and the name of the garden has not been changed.
After entering the city from the west gate and walking for about a stick of incense, the carriage slowed down, and when he heard the movement outside, he should have entered the Wen family, and the carriage stopped when he slowed down for half a cup of tea.
"Madam, third miss, fifth miss, it's time for the second gate." A mother-in-law who followed the car outside.
Xue first stepped off the carriage with the help of agarwood, and then Sanniang and Wuniang were also helped out of the carriage by their mother-in-law.
The king's brothers had already dismounted, and handed over the reins and whips in their hands to the servants who came forward.
Because the Xue family had been to Wenjiayuan a few times, he was more familiar with this place, so he followed the mother-in-law who came to greet him and led Sanniang and Wuniang and a few young masters straight to the main room.
Sanniang casually glanced at it, and saw that the inner courtyard after entering the second gate was still exquisite pavilions, the pool pavilion water pavilion was quiet and beautiful, the green pines were lush, and the ancient cypress towering rockery and strange stones were dotted in the meantime. It is worthy of the royal courtyard, simple and atmospheric.
It's just that Sanniang thinks that the masters of her uncle's grandfather's house only have her uncle and grandfather, uncle and grandmother and Aunt Jiu, and she is very tired every time she goes out.
Sanniang walked with the Xue family, and it took about another cup of tea to finally see the main courtyard "Lingyunju" in the mouth of the mother-in-law who led the way.
When I walked to the main room, a mother-in-law had already gone in to report. Soon a little girl came and invited the ladies and ladies in.
Xue straightened his skirt and led a group of stepchildren and nephews into the main house of Lingyunju.
In the middle of a rosewood three-perimeter relief flower and bird pattern arhat bed sits an old lady in her fifties, wearing a blue satin tuanyun gown, with a kind face, and next to her stands a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl with a goose egg face and big eyes, wearing a goose yellow flower-sprinkled diagonal skirt with a smile on her face.
Sanniang thought that this should be Wang Xian's wife Li and her concubine's daughter Wang Zheng.
Sanniang followed the Xue family and stepped forward to salute the Li family. Then the Xue family saluted Wang Zheng again, and Sanniang and others saluted Wang Zheng, which was not lively for a while.
"Good boy, come and sit." Li beckoned to Sanniang and Wuniang, and before Sanniang and Wuniang could react, they let Wang Zheng lead one hand to Li's couch and pressed the two to Li's couch.
Li touched the heads of Sanniang and Wuniang, and looked at the Wang brothers standing in front of him and smiled from ear to ear.
Wang Zheng covered her mouth and smiled: "When my mother saw her nephews and grandnieces coming, she was so happy." I'm going to be pushed aside and cry. â
Li Shi was happy when he heard this, and scolded Wang Zheng with a smile: "You are an elder, why are you so naughty." â
Wang Zheng blinked and smiled, looking proud.
Sanniang could see that although these two were mothers and concubines, they really got along well. She knew that the uncle and grandmother had no children of her own, and she really liked them, the children she saw, and she didn't pretend to be.
"These are all the children of the family of the King of the Criminal Department?" A woman's voice said.
Sanniang looked towards the place where the voice came from, and when she entered the door, she found that there were still three ladies sitting in this hall.
One of the ladies, Sanniang, still recognizes the wife of the military department who she had seen at the cruise banquet in Yanzhou Mansion, Su Minzhi and Su Chengzhi's mother Gao.
To the left of Gao is a slightly older, somewhat tall, slightly chubby, and amiable lady. The one on the right is about thirty years old, with high cheekbones, and looks a little domineering, although he has a smile on his face, but he can't hide his superiority posture in his bones, and she is the one who spoke just now.
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