Chapter 19: The First Meeting with the Five Princes (2)
After Li Yuanbo walked away from Bai Shuangshuang's eyes, Bai Shuangshuang suddenly realized that his vest was a little wet, and he didn't know when he broke out in a cold sweat, and stabilized in the process of talking to Li Yuanbo.
Bai Shuangshuang's eyes followed the back of Li Yuanbo leaving, and then he saw Chun Tao and Cai Sang stopped by a young man with a cold face under the corridor not far away, Chun Tao seemed to be saying something red, but the young man always looked unmoved. After seeing Li Yuanbo walk into the front yard, the young man followed and left, letting Chun Tao and Cai Mulberry free, and the two maids ran over with a worried face.
"Miss, was that one just now the prince of Jue?" Cai Sang's tone was a little excited, if she hadn't just heard someone in the front yard asking about the whereabouts of the prince, she wouldn't have known the identity of this noble son.
Chun Tao carefully checked the face of the white frost, and sure enough, she saw that the lips of the white frost were a little pale, and quickly took the hand in her arms and put it in the hand that was a little cold.
"Miss, let's go into the front yard, don't freeze."
Bai Shuangshuang nodded, and after hiding the jade pendant, he walked to the front yard with the support of Cai Sang and Chun Tao, but he didn't want to see a beautiful woman with red eyes and crying waiting there just after bypassing the marble screen behind the corridor.
Seeing the white frost, the woman ignored the obstruction of the maid next to her, and trotted over with her skirt in tears and hugged the white frost.
"Frost! Why are you here? ”
Bai Shuangshuang's eyes couldn't help but be a little moist, she hugged the person in her arms tightly, and replied in a nasal voice: "I'm still looking for you later, Li Ran." ”
Bai Shuangshuang had only one close friend in her previous life, that is, Li Ran, the daughter of Lord Li, the commander of the Nine Gates, she and Li Ran have known each other since childhood, and their feelings are like sisters. After Feng's death, in the backyard of the Bai Mansion under the Zheng family's control, Bai Shuangshuang was not allowed to come and go freely, let alone see Li Ran.
So in the previous life, Bai Shuangshuang and Li Ran hadn't seen each other for many years, and they didn't reconnect until Bai Shuangshuang married into Cheng Mansion.
Li Ran let go of the white frost, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, and kept asking while sobbing and asking, "How are you?" Are you okay? How's it going? I heard that you rushed to the fire to save the tablet, but it scared me a lot, why are you so impulsive? It's just wood, you're a big living person! How does Zheng treat you? Why did you suddenly agree to go out? ”
White Frost couldn't help but laugh out loud with tears in her eyes. This friend of hers, whether it is in the past life or in this life, has the same temperament.
In the eyes of outsiders, Li Ran looks like a standard lady, and her words and deeds are models for all young ladies, but only Bai Shuangshuang knows that Li Ran is actually the most annoying red tape, and he is cautious in his words and deeds in front of people, and he can't stop saying words to Bai Shuangshuang.
"Ahem." The maid beside Li Ran, Bicao, cleared her throat a little embarrassedly and reminded: "Miss, this is a private matter in Miss Bai's family, and it's not easy for you to inquire." ”
Li Ran let out an unsightly "sigh": "Shuangshuang is my good sister, and her business is my business." ”
"......" Bicao was speechless, so she had to salute Bai Shuangshuang: "I've seen Miss Bai." Miss Bai, everyone in the front yard is seated, you and Miss should hurry over. ”
Bai Shuangshuang also knew that on this occasion, it was indeed not suitable to delay for too long, so he told Li Ran that he would talk in detail when he was free, so he pulled Li Ran into the front yard.
Because today is Mrs. Cheng's birthday, and the people who come are all dignitaries, and there are many contacts on weekdays, Mrs. Cheng also ordered to just have a light meal, so although men and women sit separately, they do not separate the men's and women's seats with screens.
When Bai Shuangshuang and Li Ran went, everyone had already sat down, and there was a sound of high-minded talk between the male guests, and the female guests were talking in their own voices, and they were all disturbing the excitement.
"Frost? How did you just come in? Mrs. Cheng had obviously been looking for the white frost for a long time, and as soon as she saw the white frost, she shouted: "Come, come to me." ”
Seeing everyone look over, Bai Shuangshuang deliberately looked ashamed, and walked to the seat next to Mrs. Cheng and sat down without refusing, and Li Ran also returned to Mrs. Li's side.
As soon as the white frost sat down, Mrs. Cheng held the white frost's left hand again, as if she was afraid that the white frost would disappear in the blink of an eye.
"That one just now, is it the daughter of Admiral Li's family?" Old Lady Cheng squinted at the seat where Li Ran was in the distance.
"Yes."
Mrs. Cheng smiled and bit her ear at the white frost and said, "Do you like Miss Li?" I called her over. ”
Bai Shuangshuang looked at Mrs. Cheng in surprise, although she didn't speak, she gratefully shook Mrs. Cheng's hand.
When Mrs. Cheng saw it, she instructed her mother-in-law to go over and spread the word in her ear, and Mrs. Li was naturally overjoyed when she heard it, and immediately asked Li Ran to follow her mother-in-law to Mrs. Cheng's table.
You must know that the status of Mrs. Cheng's female dependents at this table is not ordinary, Li Ran's family affairs are undecided, and this kind of opportunity is hard to find.
Li Ran came over to see Mrs. Cheng, and the lady sitting on the right side of the white frost also took the initiative to move a seat to the right, and as soon as the two girls sat down, they looked at each other and smiled, and quietly held their hands under the table.
Zheng and Bai Mingzhu sat farther away, although Bai Zhengzhong was an official, but when it was spread out, he was only a fifth-grade official, and compared with the people who came to celebrate his birthday today, he was really not much of an official.
Bai Mingzhu's hand secretly tightened the tablecloth, thinking that she was also Bai Shuangshuang's own sister, and the old lady Cheng would rather call Li Ran over to accompany her than call her, and she didn't know if she was dying and her eyes were dizzy. And the hoarfrost, didn't you say that you want to help yourself? How could such a thing be done?
"Hmph, look, I don't know, I thought that Miss Li and Miss Bai were the two sisters, why didn't the sisters go to sit together." This slightly mocking voice was not big or small, but it could just be heard by Bai Mingzhu.
Bai Mingzhu knew that it was Xue Fang who had always been a little incompatible with her. Xue Fang's father also worked in the Hanlin Academy, but he was just a servant of the Nine Grades, and Bai Mingzhu had always looked down on Xue Fang.
Bai Mingzhu let her nails dig into the flesh, but there was a smile of relief on her face: "My sister hasn't come out to see anyone for many years, unlike me, there is always time to accompany the old lady, the old lady has been missing for a long time, so she is naturally a little reluctant, then Miss Li's father is the Admiral of Jiumen, and it is normal to accompany her in the past." As he spoke, he glanced at Xue Fang again: "It's not like some people who can only sit in the corner forever." ”
"You-" Xue Fang was so angry that she almost vomited blood.
She has never won a fight with Bai Mingzhu, and she has lost in her father's position every time, but obviously, Bai Mingzhu's eldest sister Bai Shuangshuang is her dead end, and she finally grasped this opportunity, she has to toss it anyway.
Xue Fang snorted: "Of course Miss Bai Er is different, when Miss Bai marries into the Cheng family in the future, Miss Bai Er will rise to the top, maybe she can sit in front." ”