Chapter Seven: Playing the Strings (Part II)
Looking at the relatives of the eldest lady in the long room, the old ladies and grandmothers in the big mansion of Hexi Chafu, and the slaves and daughters-in-law in the courtyard, whether they are sincere or not, they are all full of joy.
Cha Fu invited the familiar Song gang leader to be a big matchmaker, and then Beihe Governor, who held a post for Li Fuli, asked for his relatives. Mr. Cha held a banquet to entertain the two big media, and on that day, the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves.
On the second day, Cha Fu replied to the post, and sent Miss Geng to post over, so busy coming and going, it was time to make a tea and hairpin.
After a busy day, it was already late when the guests returned home. In the courtyard on the left side of the Cao Song Mansion, the red candlelight was reflected from the panes, and the snow on the flower beds reflected the firelight, adding a touch of light to the dark and dreary courtyard.
Daosheng took off the red skin of Fengmao Freshwater, put on a peony green leather armor, and said with a shocked smile: "Master, although the concubine used to go to check the house with the master from time to time, I have never seen this eldest lady. When I came out to offer tea and hairpins today, I was shocked by the concubine, and she was a little similar to Mrs. Dutai. I saw that Lord Dutai and Mrs. Dutai were also taken aback. Mrs. Cha is a lock, and she didn't reveal the news at first. ”
Song Qing felt that the jade belt on his waist was looser than in the past, so he just cared about fastening it tightly and did not answer. Dao Sheng said to himself: "The young ladies in Li and Cha are a little alike, and the concubines look at it, although it is not impossible to distinguish it, there are always four or five children." Strange people have heard that there are always three or four people in this world who look very similar...... It must also be that the Li family and the Cha family have some fate. ”
Song Qing walked towards the outhouse, "Dutaifu just worships Mrs. Li as her godmother, she is not a young lady in the Li Mansion, her maiden name is Qi-"
"It's because Mrs. Sample and Miss Cha look so similar that it's a rare fate. It was originally 108,000 miles away, and one surnamed Li, one surnamed Qi, and one surnamed Cha actually got together. Daosheng followed, took three sticks of incense, burned them in front of the Buddha shrine, and put his hands together, "I don't know what cause and effect these three families have......
In the Cha Mansion, the confusion at the bottom of what Qi Su Niang, Mrs. Cha, and Miss Cha said was also resolved. She followed Chen Yan out of the Chafu, and Chen Yanfang smiled as soon as she got on the horse: "I have been wondering just now, could it be that there is any relationship between Chafu and you, or distant relatives or something, and knocked on the side of Master Cha for a while, their family has no relatives and friends surnamed Wen." ”
Qi Su Niang also smiled and nodded, "I'll inquire about the same." But the appearance is somewhat similar, and it has nothing to do with their family. Moreover, Miss Cha is everyone's best girl, although her temperament is straightforward, her demeanor and appearance are not ordinary, but she is somewhat similar, and no one will misidentify her in Tianjin Wei. ”
Chen Yan nodded. "I'm thinking too much. It's just a quadrangle, and you can't recognize it? Again. I just heard from Master Cha. After they got married, they were going to Beijing. Master Cha has been busy going back and forth between the capital and Tianjin Wei. Now there is finally a credible person to take over. Chen Yan stared at Qi Su Niang, "Su Niang." At present, the area around the Yongding River is also under the jurisdiction of my land. I'll send someone to find your real parents. ”
Qi Su Niang looked at Chen Yan and shook her head. "What if you don't remember it or not?"
Chen Yan stretched out his hand and hugged Qi Su Niang. "It's fine.
Uncle Qi Hu and Aunt Qi treat you like your own daughter. You just have to remember them. ”
Qi Su Niang laughed. "Brother Chen. My brother is now running an errand in Shandong. When he came back to Tianjin. I'm going to go to the Qi Mansion with him. Watching Caiyun produce. ”
"Naturally."
During the sealing season of the New Year, Chen Yan did not stay idle, and was sent by Kangxi to patrol the Yellow River Bingling. Although Qi Qiang came back from Shandong, it was inconvenient to take Qi Su Niang into Beijing because of the recent years of Japan, so he hurried home. Qi Su Niang is at home alone, in addition to seeing the embroidery to be completed, the string qin can barely make a song.
Qi Su Niang finally finished playing the song "Zhuyunfei", and seeing Bi'er's barely satisfied face, she secretly wiped the sweat on her palms on the waist of her skirt. Zhi'er peeked at it, and laughed out loud, afraid that Qi Su Niang would stare at her, and asked indiscriminately: "Sister Bi'er, I have been listening to you play all the time these days, but I feel that I play as well as Dong Guan'er in the Lian Mansion, but I have never heard your sister sing." Why is there no word in this song? Or did my sister not teach grandma? ”
Bi'er was slightly stunned, shook her head and said, "With such an identity as grandma, there is no need to learn these color arts." ”
Zhi'er thought for a while, but didn't understand what Bi'er meant, and only asked Bi'er to sing.
Bi'er saw that Qi Su Niang also let her sing, and said with a wry smile: "The slave and maid learned some of these piano skills in the salt merchant's house, and they also learned some in the uncle's mansion. It was all for the sake of pleasing the lords and getting a place to stay...... When I got to my grandmother's side, I almost forgot about it......" As he spoke, he looked at the snow and red plums outside the window, and slowly sang: "Behave calmly, and have the upper hand when you press the hook." The action is fragrant and fragrant, and it is frequently admired. In the jade pendant sludge, how can it be ordinary? A song of palace merchants, the whole house was shocked. It is better than King Xiang in a dream, and it is better than King Xiang
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Zhi'er was dizzy and speechless. It was only when Qi Su Niang woke up, under the pretext of practicing as usual, and went out of the room with Bi'er's strings, Zhi'er Fang asked quietly: "Grandma, Sister Bi'er sings so well, why haven't you sung at home all these years?" I haven't heard her sing in a while......"
Qi Su Niang was silent for a long time, "If it weren't for your father going out, she wouldn't have sung openly......"
A few days later is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the street of the drum tower in Tianjin Weizheng is full of colorful lanterns. From the river yamen in the east to the Tianjin Hejian Bingbei Road Yamen in the south, there are colorful lanterns picked out. And because of the custom of walking all kinds of diseases, regardless of whether the poor family is rich or poor, most of the women and daughters go out, under the light of the lights along the street, strolling and walking, for the family to exorcise all kinds of diseases, and pray for the coming year.
Qi Su Niang came back from the house to socialize, she already felt a little tired, so she sent Bi'er, Zhi'er, and Li'er to Tianjin Street to see the lanterns, and went to the house to stay in the house to present the bamboo products to the queen mother as a birthday gift, and found a specially prepared longevity pattern jasper box and put it away.
The smoke and embroidery in Tianjin City rang out again and again, and it was transmitted into the back house.
On the second watch, a few girls came back satisfied, and each of them carried a lantern in their hands. Bi'er played with the Caohe rich lamp in her hand, her face was more cheerful, and she said with a smile: "Grandma, grandma must be happy to hear a good thing." Grandma guessed, who did the slave see when she was sick today? ”
Qi Su Niang smiled: "The women of the Qing Dynasty, every year, the only time to go to the street to play is the Lantern Festival, how do I know who you see?" Isn't it Aunt Daosheng of the Cao Song family? Or is it Miss Cha, who is engaged to her uncle? When I first started in Nafu, she also said that she was going to go out and get sick. ”
When Zhi'er and Li'er heard about Miss Cha, they all laughed, and Bi'er also smiled: "The slave maid is not a woman to talk to grandma. But she did look at Miss Cha, if the slave didn't recognize the people in the Cha Mansion, she wouldn't have recognized Miss Cha yet. She didn't wear makeup when she inserted the hairpin last time, and she was a little similar to her grandmother. Today's festive day, Miss Cha put on makeup and dressed up so beautifully, but the slave didn't recognize it for a while. "After a pause," the slave saw Delong in front of the Yamen of Bingbei Road on Gulou South Street today. ”
Qi Su Niang was taken aback, "It's him?" Should he be in the capital at this time? ”
"Although the Cao River is frozen, grandma was afraid that the uncle would go back for the New Year by mistake, so he went back to the capital directly from the Cao Gang in Shandong without seeing each other. But the slave and maid watched, and the uncle probably listened to ***'s persuasion, and when he returned to the capital, he drove Delong's family away. Otherwise, there is no reason why Delong will come to Tianjin from the two lakes in Changsha, even if he goes home for the New Year, and there is no reason to come here. ”
Qi Su Niang nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "It should be so, it should be so." It's good to get it, it's good to get it. I originally heard my brother say that Delong had some friendship with the Zhili Yamen, and I thought that he moved to Tianjin because he couldn't live in the capital. Can you see Delong's daughter-in-law? ”
Bi'er shook his head, "There are a lot of people on the street, crowded around, and in a blink of an eye, there is no one to see." Grandma rest assured, since Delong is gone, where will he keep his daughter-in-law alone? ”
Qi Su Niang was happy in her heart, "When your grandfather comes back from his tour of the Yellow River, let's go to the capital." Look at my brother and sister-in-law, say hello to the fourteenth master, and go to Tongzhou to visit my godmother-" frowned slightly, "Caiyun's fetus is pregnant and makes me uneasy, and I see that I am almost satisfied, and I haven't seen any movement yet." If it drags on for a few more days, I'm afraid that it won't sound good outside, but that's fine, I'm just afraid that I'll hurt Caiyun's body, and the child will also-"
Bier comforted: "It's been a while, although it is October pregnancy, it is common to have a few days at night. Maybe as soon as she arrives in the capital, her grandmother will be able to hug her parents and grandchildren. ”
Qi Su Niang smiled from ear to ear, "As long as you are born safely, you will be a good child." When you are stronger, let your brother and sister-in-law take it and go back to their hometown to worship their father and mother. When the sister-in-law and Yuegouer are also pregnant, the Gaoyou Qi family will become more and more prosperous. Sons, daughters, grandchildren, granddaughters, and in the future, great-grandchildren, great-grandchildren, gray grandchildren...... All of them have the surname Qi...... There is one that must be named...... Call Qi Hu ......"
Bi'er and Zhi'er laughed and comforted, and while they were talking, there was a knock on the cloud board outside, and Zhi'er hurriedly walked out. After a while, he came back with the gift box, with a smile on his face, and said to Qi Su Niang: "Grandma, it was Weng Gongzi from the Cao Song Mansion who gave me a gift." As he spoke, he secretly glanced at Bier.
Qi Su Niang asked Zhi'er to open the gift box, and one box was the current food. The other box turned out to be a new string piano.
Qi Su Niang was secretly speechless, I don't know how Weng Bai heard the news, and knew that Bi'er could play the string piano, so Baba Er sent one over.
She thought about it and was about to open her mouth to talk to Bier, but she saw her standing aside, silent. Qi Su Niang's words came to her mouth and she also took them back, just thinking about it by herself. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in, more chapters, support!) )