Chapter 89: The Fragrance of a Hundred Flowers

Chapter 89: The Fragrance of a Hundred Flowers

Because autumn is approaching, this morning is not as hot as before, it is already a little cool, and it is very comfortable to stand outside. Especially after a few days of rain, the sunny sky is brilliant, the lush osmanthus blooms just right, not waiting for the wind to blow, the sweet smell will fill the whole courtyard, a little wind, the petals will fall down like broken gold dust.

It was a bright morning.

After breakfast, Xuanji accompanied Sun Qingyang to the big garden, this day because of the special day, there is no need to even ask for good morning, sleep and eat, everyone's spirit is very good.

When I came out of Biyun Pavilion, I saw Zhao Yaoying and Qin Xueyi coming over with a few maids.

Qin Xueyi is a garnet red gold jacket, and it is also combed into a double bun, but there is a red coral inlaid pearl knot in the middle, and she wears a large flower inlaid with rubies on the left, and a red gold inlaid jade pendant on her ears.

Zhao Yaoying is a cherry-red makeup gown, combed a high bun, inserted a golden step, wore a cloisonne Ruyi golden hairpin, and a pair of red gold and purple pendants on her ears, and walked over gracefully, charming and gentle.

In contrast, Sun Qingyang's dress is somewhat childish.

Qin Xueyi pouted, a little unhappy.

"Sister Qin, what's wrong, frowning early in the morning? Wouldn't it be a waste of this good makeup. ”

Seeing Sun Qingyang asking Qin Xueyi, but her eyes were looking at herself, Zhao Yaoying spread her hands with a helpless expression.

Qin Xueyi raised her chin towards Zhao Yaoying, "It's not her yet, what kind of high buns are those big combs from ordinary scholars, originally the two of us were about the same height, but now she is a little taller, and I have become a short man." ”

"Don't worry, there is me at the bottom, you and Sister Zhao are both tall, and I am short if you want to be short. Today, the three of us are wearing red, like three sisters, and the eldest sister should be taller. ”

Looking at Sun Qingyang, who was half a head shorter than herself, Qin Xueyi felt a little more comfortable.

Zhao Yaoying secretly gestured to Sun Qingyang with a thumb.

The three of them talked and laughed and went to the big garden, and the maids followed silently.

On the way, Zhao Yaoying told Sun Qingyang, "In the big garden, there are more than a dozen flower halls, as well as a stage, I originally wanted to raise an inner class, but later the prince said that he was afraid of noise, so forget it, but the stage is very beautiful, and you can walk away with a full set of martial arts on it......"

Qin Xueyi also told her that she knew, "This time I invited the most famous Tongfu opera troupe in Beijing, I heard that it was once appointed by the emperor to enter the palace to perform, and the princes and ministers rushed to invite, and they didn't even care about the theater on weekdays. ”

"But do you understand? I couldn't understand a word, and every time my mother took me to the theater, I was clamoring to leave early, babbling and babbling, and I didn't know what I was singing. ”

After listening to Sun Qingyang's words, Zhao Yaoying and Qin Xueyi smiled tacitly, or Qin Xueyi opened her mouth to explain, "This, it's not a question of whether you understand or not, everyone praises it, just shout it, otherwise, you will be blamed for being uneducated and losing your manners." ”

Sun Qingyang didn't believe it, "We're not even ten years old, who will say if we can't sit still if we can't understand?" There are those who understand, but I don't understand and pretend to understand. ”

Zhao Yaoying listened and twisted her arm, "Okay, you little girl, we are kind enough to tell you, you laugh at us and we don't know how to pretend to understand." Try it today, don't just think about what you don't understand, you listen to music, you look at people, you appreciate their water sleeves, eyes, like flowing paintings, more like women than women. Anyway, you're not allowed to leave this time, you have to follow along. ”

Sun Qingyang's twisted arm hurt, so he had to nod and agree, "Okay, I'm not leaving, I'll listen." ”

Anyway, it's hard to say how things will change at that time, the hero doesn't suffer the immediate loss, and promises to talk about it first.

As soon as they entered the big garden, there was a maid and a maid who led Sun Qingyang and them to the west room of the flower hall, and there was a maid who was more familiar with Zhao Yaoying, so she said to them: "The ladies in the palace, the ladies and ladies of the various mansions have not yet arrived, and this position is all assigned, and the little ladies are all here, and the princess said that she is the same age, so as not to be restrained in front of them." It's only a moment when the ladies are here and will lead you over to say goodbye. ”

The table has already been set up in the flower hall, and the bowls, plates, tea cups, chopsticks, etc. have been arranged, and there are two fruit plates on the table, which are full of sugar lotus seeds, melon seeds, walnuts and various fruits, these dried and fresh fruits are used to eat at will after the meal.

The serving maids and mothers-in-law stood aside solemnly, each performing their own responsibilities.

After eating, no one had an appetite, and after eating a few melon seeds, Qin Xueyi said impatiently: "Okay, knowing our location is here, let's go to the garden to see the flowers first, there will be more people in a while, and I can't look carefully." ”

A maid stepped forward to talk, "The grandmothers also told me just now, if the young ladies can't stay here, go to the garden and go around, just the same, you can't go far, lest people can't find it for a while." ”

Zhao Yaoying responded with a smile, "Sister, don't worry, I will watch the two of them, let's leave the two little maids here, if there is anything, just ask them to call." ”

Out of the flower hall, from the verandah to the back of the garden, Qin Xueyi said: "This peony is the highlight, this time will definitely not let people see, let's go to see the hibiscus, the new color hibiscus flowers in the garden, in the morning bloom is white, in the afternoon reddish, at night it becomes crimson, we haven't seen it yet, just now, come again in the afternoon, look at it again at night, but see all three colors." ”

"That's right, this big garden is not easy for us to come on weekdays, take this opportunity, take a good look, I heard that there is a gentleman of history, flowers are like vines, you need to build a shelf to plant, every time it blooms, it is a cluster, one or twenty, light as a begonia, very beautiful."

Seeing that Qin Xueyi and Sun Qingyang were both interested, Zhao Yaoying had no choice but to rely on it, but she still reminded in her mouth, "It's okay to look at the flowers, but don't stay for a long time, the guests will come in a while, but we still want to greet it, after today, how to reward it, don't rush at this time." ”

"Okay, okay, you have to hold it all the time, like an old pedant, not tired." After Qin Xueyi finished speaking, she pulled Sun Qingyang and ran.

was so anxious that Zhao Yaoying shouted from behind, "Hey, you two slow down, you only looked at it last evening, and this place hasn't dried up yet." ”

The large garden is full of greenery, mixed with purple and red. Wisteria bustling vertically and horizontally, a canopy of roses like a forest, dense leaves and hidden songs, camellia has passed the flowering period, the rhododendron blooms grandly and fluffy, this side of the dogwood flowers climbed up to the top of the forest, that side of the Xinyi powder into a place of fragrant flowers, along the fine stone evenly clean road forward, sometimes hesitated, I don't know whether to look at the fragrant and elegant jasmine on the left first, or the bright chrysanthemum on the right, there is a word of needle pine under the pink wall and green tile, the acacia by the courtyard pool, slender like a feather, dense layers, the incense blooms in clusters, gardenia green leaves and white flowers, fragrant and fragrant......

I watched the hibiscus, looked at the Shi Junzi, appreciated the lotus and the orchids, and said a while of gossip such as the soil in western Yunnan is the most acidic, the camellia is the fattest, and the half lotus must be sunny.

Qin Xueyi was about to say that Zhao Yaoying and Sun Qingyang went to see the stage, when she saw Fu Dou who stayed in the flower hall running towards them.

Fu Dou came over and saluted and said, "Three young ladies, Sister Yingluo of Zhaoyang Hall said that all the ladies in the palace are about to arrive, and the ladies and ladies of various prefectures have already come, so let the young ladies come over quickly." ”

When the three of them heard this, they took the maids back to the flower hall.

When they arrived at the west room, there were already two little girls sitting there, and when they saw them coming, they stood up and saluted each other one by one.

Qin Xueyi asked them, "Were you two born at the same time?" Looks so similar, let me guess who is the sister and who is the sister. ”

These two little girls are twin sisters Yuan Yuanwei and Yuan Yuanzhi.

The two sisters wore the same apricot yellow butterfly wearing a golden gown all over the place, combing a playful single screw bun, inserting a hollow flower carved bird golden hairpin in the middle, and wearing a round jade bead inlaid with green leaf treasure flowers on the right, the difference is only that Yuan Yuanwei wore tourmaline stone earrings, and Yuan Yuanzhi wore a pair of obsidian.

After a while, Zhang Wanyu of the British Mansion, Mu Lingke of the Xiping Hou Mansion, Li Ruishan of Li Shilang's family, and Sun Rouyue of Sun Shangshu's family...... It's all coming.

There are several people, the eldest Zhang Wanyu is only twelve years old, and the youngest Mu Lingke is just seven years old, so they are the same age, and they sit together and talk about flowers and plants, and talk about needlework women, which is also quite lively.

Zhang Wanyu sat there and watched her nose and nose, just listening to them, and she didn't insert a word in ten sentences.

Mu Lingke and Sun Qingyang are the closest in age, so sitting next to her, they will ask her what Princess Xianning's temperament is, and then say that she is better with Song Jingxian of Xining Houfu and herself, but unfortunately she didn't come when she was sick today, how heroic and handsome Song Jingxian's second brother Song Ying is, and Princess Xianning is really talented and beautiful...... Chirp, like a thrush.

These are the ones they have seen Zhao Yaoying and Qin Xueyi before, but they feel that these two are relatives and friends, not serious relatives of the prince's mansion, and they don't care much.

Although Qin Xueyi has a temper tantrum, she also knows that she is the master of today's occasion, so no matter how Li Ruishan and Sun Rouyue sneered, they just didn't hear it.

As he was talking, the county lord of Qinghui and the county lord of Minghui came in front and back, and the county lord of Minghui accompanied He Jiayu by his side.

All of them have been carefully dressed up, looking like flowers and jade, and they are charming.

The first few people all stood up, saluted in turn, talked and laughed, and Wen Zhaoxun, who was in charge of all the things in the western room, warmly and thoughtfully arranged the ranking for everyone.

According to their age, Sun Qingyang, Mu Lingke, Lord Qinghui and Sun Rouyue were at the same table. He Jiayu, Lord Minghui and the Yuan sisters are at a table. Zhang Wanyu, Li Ruishan, Zhao Yaoying, and Qin Xueyi were at the same table. Originally, Qin Xueyi was supposed to sit at the table of Lord Minghui, but she refused to let He Jiayu go away, so the two changed seats.

Twelve girls looked at each other in the west room of the flower hall, examined each other, divided camps, and judged friend and foe.

Seeing that at this feast of flowers, a rouge battle will be ignited vigorously, which is both charming and sharp.