After the excitement of the Xingguo Mansion, Du Mingxin lived a few quiet days. The new aunt Yuan Ying came to see her after returning to the door, one of them joked, the other was shy, and they didn't know who was the elder and who was the niece.

"Yuan Rong can be regarded as honest now, right?" Du Mingxin was eating the oranges that Yuan Ying peeled for her, and at the same time put the orange peel on the edge of the charcoal basin and baked it.

"Your stomach is up, why do you have to bend over?" Yuan Ying grabbed the orange peel on the kang table, carefully placed it on the edge of the charcoal basin, and immediately the fragrance of oranges wafted in the room with the warmth of the charcoal fire.

"She and her wife are very dissatisfied, and they said a lot of unpleasant things when they returned to the door yesterday." Yuan Ying said with a smile, "Fortunately, my grandmother handed over all the affairs of the family to my sister-in-law, otherwise I was afraid that I would have neglected Grandpa Guo yesterday." ”

"The Marquis of Wuding Mansion has a wedding date?" Du Mingxin asked, "If Yuan Rong gets married, Mrs. Yuan will probably be able to stop." Now that she is older, I am afraid that my son has no hope, and she will have to rely on your brother and sister-in-law in the future? Why be so stingy and can't see it. ”

"I don't know what she thinks!" Yuan Ying asked the maid to come over and wipe her hands with a wet handkerchief, "If she is a loving stepmother, a kind person like my brother and sister-in-law, how can she be like this!" Maybe she was born with a temper like this, otherwise when her grandmother decided to marry her brother, she wouldn't have been single-minded about picking on her temper and strong personality. ”

"Sister Ding was still with Mr. Jiang at that time, right?" Du Mingxin smiled, but forgot that Ding Juan was a generation older than him now.

"That's right," Yuan Ying said with a smile, not noticing the flaws in Du Mingxin's title, "Mr. Jiang went to Beijing that year and brought his sister-in-law with him." My grandmother invited her husband to dinner at home, and she fell in love with her sister-in-law at a glance. ”

"The Duchess of Wei and Mr. Jiang are of different generations, why do they seem to be old acquaintances?" Du Mingxin asked curiously.

Yuan Ying thought for a while and said, "I remember that my grandmother said that she and Mr. Jiang's mother were close friends, and both of them were from Jiangdong Wu County, and they were in the same capital, so they had a very close relationship. But I saw that Mr. Jiang was not only in contact with my family and you, but also seemed to be unrecognizable in the capital, and I also felt very puzzled. ”

The two were whispering in the house, but Mr. Jiang was pruning plum branches in the garden.

"The plum blossom tree in the palace was carefully planted at first, one left and one right, one in front and one behind, and there are rules for which branches grow on which side." Mr. Jiang was trimming the plum branches with the florist's scissors, and smiled at the little girl holding the vase. "It's a pity that no one has taken care of it for all these years after it was built, and it's a pity to look at this side-by-side slanting out."

The little maid smiled and said, "Do you see all this from the book?" My family is from Wanping County, and I have never heard of Rongwangfu, ah no, there is such a story in Jinwangfu. ”

"Isn't it?" Mr. Jiang consciously lost his words, but still smiled quietly, "People are obedient from books, and that's what they say." She smiled and inserted a cut plum blossom into the bottle, "Although these branches look strange on the tree, if you can match them carefully and insert them into the bottle, they will still look good." ”

She moved to the next plum tree, and the little maid followed behind and smiled, "Then can you teach me?" ”

"Do you want to learn to read and write, or do you want to learn flower arrangement?" Mr. Jiang quipped her.

The little maid tilted her head and thought about it, and said with a smile: "I want to learn." If you can read a book by yourself, but it will take a long time...... Now that I have learned flower arrangement with you, I can learn and use it now. I see that the flowers in the princess's house are changed every day, and they are all cleaned up by Sister Chuncao and Sister Xia Ye, and they are not the same every day...... But I was so envious. ”

"As long as you want to learn, what's not to do?" Mr. Jiang said with a smile, "I'll use these plum blossoms to practice when I go back today." ”

"Thank you, sir!" The little maid was so excited that she put down the plum bottle and bowed her head.

Mr. Jiang smiled and pulled her up, and was about to speak, when a young man came out of Merlin.

Mr. Jiang frowned slightly, how could there be men in and out of the palace casually?

The little maid also saw it, and whispered: "This Li Gongzi is a good friend of the prince, and he said that he was going to participate in the spring festival in February, and he is now borrowing it at our house." He's so good-looking! ”

Mr. Jiang looked at the little maid's infatuated face, smiled lightly, and then put away the scissors and prepared to leave.

"Wonderful, wonderful, really wonderful!" Li Mobai's exclamation came from behind him, "The Gen position is piled up in the mountains, the ridge is diverted to lead the water, and the trees are planted in the place where the earthquake is gone, and it is a red plum!" ”

When Mr. Jiang heard him say this, he couldn't help but slow down. This little boy actually knows how to count plum blossoms?

"Xiaosheng is reckless, he has no intention of offending Madame, and I ask for forgiveness." Li Mobai looked up and saw Mr. Jiang's back, thinking that he had disturbed her, and hurriedly bowed down to make amends.

The other party is so polite, Mr. Jiang is not good to leave like this. She turned around and smiled: "Childe doesn't have to be polite, I didn't know that there were distinguished guests in the palace, but I was reckless." ”

Li Mobai saw that she was not angry, so he straightened up, looked at the red plum in the little maid's hand, and said with a smile: "Madame, so Yaxing!" I saw that this plum blossom was too arrogant and wanton, and I wanted to prune it for my sister-in-law. However, looking at the two trees sorted out by Madame's subordinates, it was a fluke that they didn't do it easily, otherwise it wouldn't be a class with an axe, and it would be a joke! ”

Mr. Jiang didn't answer his words, but just looked at Li Mobai's face with a complicated expression.

Li Mobai was a little uncomfortable stared at by her, coughed dryly twice, and asked the little maid with a smile: "Isn't it that I just looked down at Feng Shui all the way, and I actually rubbed something on my face?" ”

"No, no," the little maid stammered twice, and then hurriedly said, "Childe, your face is white and pure, and nothing ......"

White and pure...... Li Mobai is helpless, is this word used to describe a man, is it a little too feminine?

Finally, Mr. Jiang came back to his senses and asked thoughtlessly, "Dare to ask where Li Gongzi's hometown is?" What are your parents' names? How old are you? ”

Li Mobai raised her eyebrows, this is about the female gentleman that her sister-in-law said, but what does she want to do when she asks so much? Could it be that her family has a woman of the right age and wants to be a matchmaker for herself?

He touched the tip of his nose and smiled a little unnaturally: "My father's surname is Li, Shangwei Xiayu, and my mother Min, both of whom are from the capital. However, in his early years, his father moved to Shaanxi to live and had no contact with the capital. I'm seventeen years old. ”

"Is your father still alive?" When Mr. Jiang heard his age, his tense face relaxed, and he carried a deep sense of disappointment.

What is this called!

Li Mobai felt even more embarrassed.