An Sheng had just left the door of the Xia Mansion when he was stopped by the Xue family.

"Ansheng, don't go to the medicine store for the time being."

"Why?"

An Sheng was stunned, a little surprised.

"Yesterday, Miss Jinyue, a thousand daughters from the Prime Minister's Mansion in Zhongshu Province, sent someone to send an invitation, saying that she would invite the three of you sisters to their house to participate in the Hundred Flowers Banquet. Mother has already answered. You don't want to go to the medicine store today, I'll ask the old Wang Tou to go over and talk to Doctor Leng. After you freshen up, go directly with the two of you. ”

"Hundred Flowers Banquet?" An Sheng was a little surprised: "It's the middle of winter now, and the flowers are bleak, where can I enjoy the flowers?" ”

Xia Ziwu has already dressed up, and she is dressed in jewelry, and she walks over with a dingding, and the fragrance is very bright.

She listened to An Sheng's words in her ears, and she sneered lightly, and said sourly: "Let's just say that this girl should go out and walk around more and have a long experience, otherwise she will be laughed at when she goes out." This large rich family has its own flower cellar, even in the cold winter wax moon, there is no shortage of flowers in the house. What's more, this Hundred Flowers Banquet is just a name, a metaphor for people, alluding to the fact that the people who participated in the banquet were all beautiful flowers in this city. ”

An Sheng didn't want to have any verbal arguments with her, so he didn't care about the contempt in her words: "We don't know that Miss Yue in our lives, why did she invite us to go together?" ”

"Walk around and don't you know each other? Do you know that Miss Yue has invited a lot of ladies to a banquet this time, almost including the ownership of Jingzhong. As long as you have the opportunity to meet and get to know them, you can join the circle of nobles in this capital. Xia Ziwu said proudly.

"Oh, then I wish the third sister and the fourth sister a good time, and I won't go."

An Sheng turned around and wanted to leave, but was stopped by the Xue family: "People came to invite you, if you don't go, wouldn't it be rude?" ”

An Sheng smiled slightly: "My daughter is lonely and unheard, and it is too shabby to go, and she has lost the face of our Xia Mansion, so why don't you let the third sister and the fourth sister go together, and apologize to Miss Yue on my behalf." ”

Xue also wanted to persuade An Sheng to bypass her and go straight away without looking back.

Xue Shi was so angry that he gasped: "It's just the opposite." Look at her now, how arrogant she is! Even my words were taken to heart. ”

Xia Ziwu snorted coldly: "If she doesn't want to go, she won't go, she has been flamboyant enough recently, if she goes, where will there be a place for me and Zixian at the banquet?" I'm afraid that the limelight has been taken away. ”

Xue Shi snorted fiercely: "I don't know what to do, it's okay if I don't go, you and Zixian remember to make more friends when you go, it will be beneficial to the two of you." ”

After saying that, he looked at Xia Ziwu, was picky, and told him again and again.

After breakfast, Xia Zixian and Xia Ziwu took the girl and got into the carriage, and couldn't wait to go straight to Prime Minister Zuo's mansion.

When he arrived at Prime Minister Zuo's mansion, he handed over the invitation, and the porter glanced at the two of them, and his face was a little strange: "You two are Miss Xia?" ”

Xia Ziwu and Xia Zixian glanced at each other: "Yes." ”

The porter said, "Oh, wait a minute, I'll call someone to take you two to see my young lady." ”

After that, he turned his face and shouted inside: "Miss Xia has arrived." ”

As soon as the words fell, a girl immediately heard the voice and said a blessing to the two: "My young lady has invited the two flower halls to have tea." ”

Xia Ziwu and Xia Zixian followed the little girl into the Prime Minister's Mansion, and when they looked left and right, they felt that the carved beams and paintings were dazzling, and they were worthy of being a first-class master's mansion, and they were many times more luxurious than Xia Mansion.

The group walked all the way along the veranda and went straight into the backyard.

Xia Ziwu couldn't help but sigh at Xia Zixian: "I'm afraid this one front yard is worth my family's entire mansion, and I don't know how spacious the room is." ”

Xia Zixian secretly tugged at the corner of her clothes: "Don't look around, you are seen by other people's houses, just think that you and I are short-sighted, and we have no knowledge." ”

Xia Ziwu didn't care at all: "It's rare to have such an opportunity, if you don't have a good look, that's the real short-sightedness." When I turned around and talked to others, I only saw the bluestone slab under my feet, and I didn't even raise my face to look at the eaves, and I was laughed at by others for being timid. ”

Xia Zixian sighed lowly: "What is there to show off, Xia Ansheng often goes in and out of the Dingguo Marquis's Mansion, let's talk about it, it's still a head shorter." You see, we are here with great joy, and no one is disdainful. ”

Xia Ziwu snorted coldly: "If Miss Yue asks about her for a while, you and I won't show her mercy, and say that people are high and disdain this kind of banquet." ”

Xia Zixian hesitated: "This is not good, right?" After all, we are also a family. ”

Xia Ziwu sneered lightly: "Now the people in Beijing only know that the Xia family has a female name An Sheng, who knows about you and me?" If you don't suppress her limelight, I'm afraid you and I will be trampled under her feet all the time. ”

The little girl who walked in front turned around and smiled at the two: "Two young ladies, my young lady's flower hall has arrived, you two are invited to eat tea first, my young lady is still dressing up, and she will come over in a while." ”

Let the two of them into the house, the warmth in front of them is attacking, the dark fragrance is vibrant, and the eyes are full of purple and red, and the flowers are full of flowers.

Although it is already the winter season, the flowers outside the house are bleak, the cold is pressing, the flower hall is still in the spring mood, many precious, unnamed flowers compete for beauty, and the bloom is enchanting.

Changjing and Zhishu were left outside, the two of them sat down, someone served fragrant tea, and quietly retreated.

There was silence in the flower hall.

Xia Ziwu reached out and touched the shiny root carving chair under her, glanced at the rattan hanging flower hammock next to her, picked up the white jade tea cup at hand, and took a sip of tea, only to feel that the tea fragrance was lingering between her lips and teeth, and it was permeated with an extremely light sweet fragrance of flowers.

"This powerful family is just not ordinary. When I went to the uncle's mansion before, I already felt envious when I saw that Xia Anzheng's food and clothing were higher than ours. Now in comparison, I feel that it is a big deal. Even a flower hall for recreation is so ingenious, although I can't see how expensive it is, but the cost is certainly not expensive. ”

Xia Zixian also likes these elegant things very much, looking left and right, yearning: "The orchids here are all precious varieties that are hard to find, I pride myself on loving flowers, but I have never heard of them." If there is such a good place to play the piano and read, it is really a good place. ”

Xia Ziwu simply stood up, looked around, and exclaimed one after another: "What is in this flower pot is not pebbles, but red agate, which is too extravagant." There is also this flower pot, which is not ordinary porcelain, but carved from white jade. ”

Xia Zixian frowned slightly: "Don't make a fuss, sit down peacefully, if Miss Yue comes over and sees you so rude, I'm afraid I will be unhappy." ”

Xia Ziwu said nonchalantly: "This flower hall was originally for people to enjoy, and she Aunt Yue arranged us here, isn't it just to show off her arrogance?" ”

Xia Zixian herself also felt as if her eyes were suddenly insufficient, looking at this, looking at that, dizzying.

Xia Ziwu exclaimed again and raised her voice: "It's the first time I've seen such a tall coral." ”

Xia Zixian also followed the prestige, and saw a pot of coral trees more than one person high in the corner of the flower hall, and suddenly looked at it, and the first feeling was amazing.

This coral is a rare peach pink, inlaid with many night pearls of different sizes, the clear halo reflects the color of the coral more and more pink, you can't see the jewels of the vulgarity, only feel warm and moist, like a restrained and subtle and full of poetry and books of the girl.

At this glance, she suddenly couldn't put it down, and there was a feeling of sympathy.

Xia Ziwu, who had already stood in front of the coral, did not have such thoughts in her heart.

The night pearl on the coral tree burned her eyes directly!

The Xia family is just an ordinary small family, she grew up in the market since she was a child, how could she have ever seen such a luxurious life?

The presence of everything here made her blush, and it also boiled her yearning and desire for power.

If you can find such a powerful husband and wife, what kind of love and affection, what is the right person, to hell with it! Even if she made herself a concubine, she was willing.

Surrounded by slaves, dressed in fine clothes and food, with the dazzling halo of power on his body, it makes people look up, and they feel their blood boiling when they think about it.

She couldn't help but be greedy in her heart.

Such a big coral tree, with so many night pearls on it, is countless, even if there are a few less, I am afraid that no one will notice!

Together, this thought was unstoppable and gradually swelled in her heart.

And her hand, too, reached into the hidden corner behind the coral tree.

There is a pearl of the night bigger than a pigeon's egg, and one can be worth a thousand gold.

Reach out and touch it, the tentacles are warm and warm. With the force of his fingertips, the bead easily fell into Xia Ziwu's palm, and then quietly slipped into the cuffs.

She stared at another pale green bead again and reached for it.

"Ahh Be careful! ”

Xia Zixian exclaimed, with horror, startled her, and retracted her hand in panic.

At this time, she felt her ankles tighten suddenly, as if she was imprisoned by something, and then a huge drag dragged her back staggeringly.

She lowered her head, and then she understood why Xia Zixian was so frightened.

Because, instead of a rope, it was a vine that bound her ankles, and the green vine, like a swimming snake, dragged her feet backwards.

She was shocked and hurriedly bent down and dragged around. As soon as her hand touched the vine, another one reached out of nowhere, and it twisted and rolled up her wrist.

This made her even more frightened, how could the vines move, and have eyes, and could bind people's hands and feet?

Hell yes!

She was so frightened that she couldn't make a sound in her throat, and she was soon dragged down by the powerful vines, and fell to the ground and dragged to one side.

For a while, the hairpin rings were scattered, and the temples were crooked.