Chapter 014: Departure
On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival in May, Qinghuan, who had been excited for two days, got up early in the morning.
In the entire Moyun Hall, there was a jubilant scene, and the Hua family prepared a small gift for these servants for the Dragon Boat Festival, which was some festive food and a little money.
Qingtian and Wanzhao are going to go to see the dragon boat race with Hua Qinghuan, the two of them have a rare chance to go out with Qinghuan, and today they can follow Miss to see the most lively dragon boat race, and the two of them walk much briskly.
The clear sky and the evening light got up before dawn to pack the things that Qinghuan needed to bring for the trip, in fact, she had already put it away last night, filled a full box, and this morning the two of them were right and right over there, for fear of forgetting something.
Qing Huan wore a dress specially selected for the Dragon Boat Festival, a narrow-sleeved light pink placket, a palace silk short shirt, a splendidly half-arm covered with the same color, a chest-length pomegranate red skirt, and a butterfly ending on the chest with a goose-yellow skirt. There is also a slender red shawl around the body, and a red rope is hung on the right side of the palace silk woven with a jade pendant.
After getting dressed, Qing Huan was taken to sit in front of the mirror again, and Nian Lu combed Qing Huan's sideburns. From the drawer, he took two stacks of burnt blue and gold-inlaid plum blossoms and inserted them in the buns on both sides.
The maids took out one by one from the drawer next to the mirror table, lip grease, rouge, gouache, and snail dai bits and pieces.
Nianlu was going to apply all those things to Qing Huan's face, and she also wanted to shave all her eyebrows so that she could draw her favorite eyebrow shape, but of course all of these were stopped by the impatient Qing Huan, and in the end she had to give up.
Nian Lu gave Qing Huan a little blush, applied lip grease, drew a willow leaf eyebrow, and cut a plum blossom with red colored paper and pasted it on her forehead.
After dressing up, Qing Huan looked at himself in the mirror, and also felt that this dress was very pleasing, both well-behaved and bright.
After being busy like this for a while, Qinghuan, who had been excited for two days, calmed down.
When it was almost time to clean up, it was time for breakfast, Qing Huan hastily ate something, and before she had time to eat the maid sent by the Liang family to urge Qing Huan to go out, she had already arrived at the door, saying that it was the master and the lady, the second young master, the fourth young master, and the third young lady had all been cleaned up, and they were waiting for the fifth miss.
Qing Huan didn't expect that he had already gotten up early in the morning, but he still became the last one in the house to prepare, clear sky and evening light, and hurriedly accompanied Qing Huan to the side door of the outer courtyard, and before going out, he grabbed two masks and held them in his hands in the disapproving eyes of the two big girls.
This was the first time Qing Huan had left the inner courtyard after arriving at the Hua family, but Master Hua and the Liang family were waiting for her in the side door, and she didn't care about looking at it more, and when she trotted all the way to the side door, she saw that Master Hua's family was already waiting.
Seeing Qing Huan running over from a distance, Hua Sangyu snorted heavily in his nose.
Liang saw that Qing Huan was dressed up beautifully, delicate and cute today, and his face was a little ugly for a moment, so he turned his head and stopped looking at her.
Qing Huan's two elder brothers didn't see any expression on their faces, they just stood behind Master Hua with a wooden face, without saying a word.
It was Master Hua, who looked at Qing Huan with a smile, and only said when she got closer.
"Everyone is together, get in the car, it's still early, start early, half of the people in Hangzhou City are going to see the dragon boat race today, let's start early to stagger the team."
Master Hua's words fell, and Hua Sangyu endured the words of the morning and spit them out.
"Hmph, she's the biggest, last night I said that I would set off at three o'clock in the morning, and it's almost five o'clock in the morning, so it's too late."
Qing Huan only knew after listening to it that she had made an appointment last night, but no one informed her, and Qing Huan guessed that only Hua Sangyu would do such a boring thing, so she only smiled and didn't explain much.
After getting Master Hua's words, this family turned around and went to find their own car.
Hua Sangyu and Qing Huan were in the same carriage, she took two steps closely, pressed in front of Qing Huan, and was the first to enter the carriage.
The carriage was covered with felt, and a small table was set up in the carriage with iron sheets, and there were fixed cup holders and kettle holders, kettles and teacups, and a plate of pastries.
The whole carriage has just been smoked with agarwood, and there is a faint aroma of agarwood in the car.
Qing Huan followed behind Hua Sangyu, chose the chair next to Hua Sangyu and sat down, Hua Sangyu didn't want to pay attention to her, and turned her head to the side, Qing Huan saw that she didn't care about herself, and she was so happy that she didn't have to find words, so she only opened the curtain and looked outside.
Nahua Sangyu was going to do the same thing, but seeing that Qing Huan had already picked her head, she didn't want to follow anymore, so she snorted lightly in her nose again, and said "shameless" in her mouth.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the mask that Qing Huan was holding in his hand, and added the sentence "pretending to be a ghost".
In Qing Huan's eyes, this Hua Sangyu is an ignorant little hairy child, her provocative words, Qing Huan didn't care at all, she didn't even give Hua Sangyu a look, and she didn't hear it.
Hua Sangyu saw Qinghuan, and suddenly changed from a little doll who was not teased to a stuffy gourd that couldn't make a sound with three punches, and she also felt bored.
But now she can't pick up the curtain anymore, so she has to sit seriously, and out of the corner of her eye, she quietly looks through Qing Huan's open curtain to see what the situation is outside.
Master Hua said that it was good to stagger the peak of the crowd as soon as possible, but I don't know if everyone thinks so, the Hua family and his party are still blocked with those vehicles on the halfway.
At first, Qing Huan was still holding the curtain to look at pedestrians, and all he saw were shops and pedestrians, and there were vendors shouting back and forth with some food.
Seeing this scene like watching a movie, it was extremely fresh at first, but it looked like the scenery was almost the same, coupled with the noisy voices of people around, and from time to time passers-by looked at the carriage curiously, she also faded the idea of continuing to watch.
Sitting in the carriage and staring at Nahua Sangyu, it was really boring, Qing Huan simply crossed his hands in front of his chest and closed his eyes to recuperate.
Just stop and go, staggering, and the five-mile road took an hour to arrive.
Qing Huan just closed his eyes and pretended at first, but he didn't expect to really fall asleep later.
When he woke up again, he had already arrived at the place, and Qing Huan was surrounded by a group of maids and women, and the other five people of the Hua family walked towards their own color building.
It was a small two-story building standing by the river, and some ribbons and red silk were hung outside the building.
The first floor is large and divided into several small rooms for the owner's belongings and rest, with stairs leading to the second floor.
The room on the second floor is designed to be more like a pavilion, the room is only half the size of the first floor, and the extra space is floored, and the fence is enclosed on all sides, allowing the owner to walk out to the balustrade to watch.
The view from the second floor is excellent, and the breeze blows from time to time, which is much better than the stuffy crowd and noise in the shed.
When Hua Weifeng took the whole family to the second floor, the second master of the Hua family, Hua Weifeng's younger brother Hua Weilei, had already arrived first with his family, and there were more than ten people standing at the door of the house on the second floor.
It was the second master's family who got the news and went out to greet them.