Fang Ning was reluctant to go, and her maid Huan Chunyan persuaded her for a long time, but she still couldn't change her mind. After Shuning heard about it, she said to her: "That family is knowledgeable and peaceful, my sister can rest assured that she will be a guest, so she should be distracted." What should I do if I stay in the house all day and get stuffy? Fang Ning said: "I don't know her family well, she just gave me a post for the sake of the two younger sisters, I went, and I just sat down, it was better to stay at home and read the scriptures." If it's boring, just walk around the yard. ”

Shuning persuaded a few words, and seeing that she had made up her mind, she sighed secretly, and was no longer reluctant.

After replying to the Fucha family, saying that only the second and third girls would go, the housekeepers began to prepare for their sisters' trip. According to the usual practice, each of them has a big girl ring to wait. Shuning thought of the Fucha family's style, so she planned to take Holly with her. But Su Xin really wanted to play with her, and kept begging Shuning, saying that she would rather pretend to be a rough little girl. Shuning was entangled tightly by her, thinking that Yanyun would also follow as a little girl, so she agreed, but she still had something to say first: "Since you said it yourself, then do it like the little girl, don't be afraid of being wronged." Frangipani was too busy to respond, so she happily went to find Changfu.

On the morning of the day they went out, Shuning and Wanning both put on the newly made egg-blue cotton satin cheongsam made a year ago, one was wearing a green vest, and the other was wearing a royal blue, both wearing a stone blue velvet cloak, which looked so refreshing. The two sisters sat in a car, the two big girls sat in another car, and the little girl, mother-in-law and four family members followed, and the battle was not small.

Su Xin changed into half-worn clothes early, mixed in with the other maids, and saw her uncle who was going out with the girls staring at her, so she went up with a smile and asked for a few words. Finally got tacit consent. Seeing Wanning Shuning get into the car, she glanced at the vacant seat next to the coachman, and thought to herself: "Even if you want to be a little girl for a day." You don't have to walk so hard. So she moved happily to the other side, but someone sat down before her. When I looked at it, it turned out to be a cloud of smoke. Looking at her skillful movements, I'm afraid it's not the first time. Yanyun moved his body, brushed the hem of his clothes again, and looked back to see Su Xin looking at him in a daze. Then he asked, "Sister, what's wrong?" Su Xin blinked, said "nothing", and obediently ran to the car behind, glanced at the woman who was about to climb up, and sat next to the coachman in front of her. The woman stared dryly.

Holly in the car heard the sound, and came out to see that she wanted to pull Frangipani into the carriage, and when Frangipani went in, she found that it was warmer inside than outside, so she sat still. The mother-in-law outside sat on the wheel. He muttered a few words.

Holly asked Frangipani, "I thought my sister would get on the car with the girl, why did she come to the back?" Su Xin glanced at Qiaoyun and didn't speak. Qiaoyun is a clever person. I didn't understand, so I smiled and said, "It was Yanyun's girl who took the lead, right?" Don't be surprised. She went out with us girls all day long. I've always been in front of the car, and I'm probably used to it. Actually, that seat is not good at all. It's better for us to sit in the car and be warm, and we can talk together. ”

Frangipani was actually not so stingy, and she felt that she was being treated better now, so she smiled and talked to Holly Qiaoyun. She also explained to Holly the rules of going out again, so that Holly would pay attention to it. Qiaoyun didn't hide her secrets, she told some things about the Fucha family, and passed on her experience of going out with her master to them. Frangipani and Holly were young after all, and they soon had a good impression of Qiaoyun, and they both felt that this sister was kind and kind.

Fucha's family members are inlaid with yellow flags, live in the northeast of the capital, set off from the Earl's Palace, and pass through Shichahai in the middle, and take the carriage for most of the hour. Shuning was still very energetic to open a corner of the curtain and look out, after a long time, I felt a little sleepy, not to mention that there was nothing to see about the houses and people along the way, so she closed her eyes in the car and recuperated.

I don't know how long it took, she suddenly woke up by a gust of cold wind, sat up straight, but it was Wanning who lifted half of the curtain and looked out, so she asked, "What is the second sister looking at?" Wan Ning turned around and smiled: "It's nothing, it's going to be there in a while." Then the curtain was lowered.

After a pillar of incense, they really arrived at Fucha's house.

The Fucha family's mansion looks like a slightly larger mansion, and it is not as grand as the Earl's Palace, but the family members waiting at the door behave differently from other families, and Shuning has admired it very much since she came. Following the people through several houses, when the courtyard arrived, she stood in front of the door, waiting for them with a smile, and next to her stood a girl in pink clothes, with a pair of big eyes shining, that is the girl of the treasure key of Wuya's family.

Gladly smiled and said, "It's a great honor for the good guest to come to the door." Today, she only combed two simple handfuls of hair on her head, inserted two hairpins inlaid with white jade at random, and wore a homely lilac-colored robe, with a branch of magnolia lightly embroidered under the hem, and the whole person looked more and more elegant and generous.

Shuning and Wanning returned the salute, thanked her for the invitation, and before they could stand up straight, the key couldn't wait to take Wanning's hand and said: "You are less sour here, we haven't known each other for a day or two, and there are no elders here, so why bother to go to the land." ”

With a smile, he let them into the room, asked someone to serve tea, and after a few pleasantries, he invited them to the garden to admire the apricots.

Shuning came out of the warm room with the fire lit, and when she walked into the garden, she suddenly felt a sense of coolness, and there was a burst of light fragrance, which was refreshing. The two white apricots were planted next to the pavilion not far from the entrance of the garden, and although there were only a few branches, the flowers were half-open and half-closed, but they were very beautiful, reflecting the morning sun, and there was some dew on the branches, and they flashed and flashed. A gust of wind blew, and the white apricots on the branches trembled, which was particularly pitiful.

Although Wan Ning was invited to enjoy the flowers, she actually came for a gathering of friends, and she only took a look at the clothes, and didn't think it was interesting, so she joined hands with the treasure key, who was also not very interested, to sit down and chat with the pavilion next to her.

Shuning stayed to look at the flower, and felt that from this angle, the apricot blossom was really beautiful, and looked at it, and couldn't help but sigh. When he heard this, he turned around and asked her, "Why are you sighing?" ”

"Nothing. I just think that when I look at it like this, the flowers are so beautiful. ”

"Oh?" Xinran smiled, "Actually, you are in a good mood at the moment." So it's beautiful to look at the flowers, so if you look at it later. The mood is different, but I'm afraid that I will feel that this flower is not so beautiful. ”

Shuning smiled: "There is nothing static in the world. The flowers I look at now will be different from what I look at in a while, and it's not a big deal if my mood changes. As long as I'm in this moment. It is enough to appreciate the beauty of this flower. Ranwen, the Warcraft summoner of the other world, said that the world is a place of movement, and things are developing and changing, and she is a good "young man" who grew up learning dialectical materialist philosophy, so how can she accept the idealistic viewpoint?

Xinran was stunned and smiled: "You have a point. ”

The two slowly paced around the two white apricots, and only talked a few words. Shuning turned around and saw that Wan Ning and Bao Key were still gossiping, and was about to walk to them, but was happily pulled by her sleeve: "You come with me." ”

After walking a few dozen steps, I heard the sound of water. There was another faint aroma in the wind, and the further you went, the stronger the aroma became. It wasn't until they turned a rockery that Shuning saw a pool of water in front of them. A shed of about ten meters was erected on the shore. It's planted with a lot of vines, but it's still mostly green. Mixed with a dozen or so newly blooming purple flower strings.

Happily said: "It's too early, in another half a month, I'm afraid that this flower will be full, and then I will post you to enjoy the flowers, okay?" ”

Shuning smiled: "I don't dare to ask for it." ”

The two looked at it a few more times before walking back, and when they went around the rockery, Shuning found that there were a few herbs on the mountain, with small red fruits, which were very cute, so they took a few more looks. When I looked back, I saw Xinran smiling at herself, and she was a little embarrassed, but Xinran seemed to be in a good mood and motioned for her to continue walking.

When they returned to the pavilion, the two of them were still talking, and sighed happily: "You two are really tyrannical, you don't appreciate such good flowers, but you go to say something about the east and the west." ”

The key smiled, "We've already seen it, but it's just not like you want to see and watch." I was talking to Sister Wanning about the results of the draft of a few familiar sisters, and several of them have already decided on people, and they are all preparing to leave the cabinet, but unfortunately Sister Wan can't go to the ceremony. ”

Xinran couldn't cry or laugh a little: "How can there be a girl's family like you, who talks about other people's marriages all day long?" Don't let people hear the jokes. The key pouted: "It's just a small talk between sisters, what's this?" Isn't my sister about to leave the pavilion, she blushed happily and said, "It's cold outside, let's go back to the house." ”

When he walked back to the gate of the courtyard where Xinran lived, Yahuan Yinping suddenly walked in from outside and asked Xinran to take a step to speak, and the other three waited beside him. I saw that Xinran frowned slightly after listening to Yinping's whisper, and gave a few low orders, and then came back with a smile and walked back with them.

returned to the house and sat down, happily ordered someone to serve snacks, and then said to Wanning Shuning with a smile: "Last time in your house, I tasted several novel snacks, I can't make them here, but there are still a few pastries in this season, how about you taste them?" ”

When I opened the dim sum box, it was the same elm money cake and the same vine radish cake, both of which were very finely made. Shuning picked up a vine radish cake and tasted it, it was fluffy and soft, sweet and delicious, and it was really extraordinary.

She praised Xinran twice, Xinran just smiled, and opened another eight-treasure box and said: "This is a four-nine preserved fruit, although it is made from last year's fruit, the taste is good." ”

"Forty-nine?" Shuning hadn't heard of this shop.

"It is the most famous store in Beijing to make preserved fruits." Wan Ning said, "It was just a small shop, but now it has become very big. I know the young proprietor of their family, who is a very shrewd and capable man, and I have given them some advice, and he has done them one by one, and now they have four or five branches in Beijing alone, and there are several in other places, and there are sixty or seventy kinds of preserved fruits, and some of them are very beautiful. ”

The key opened his eyes wide and asked, "Is there a kind of pink dried peach, I like to eat that one the most, and I don't know what it is dyed with, the color is beautiful." ”

Xinran smiled faintly: "You are talking about the new forty-nine, right?" I've also heard that they're very famous now, but I'm used to eating the old four or nine flavors, so I still only buy those old eight things at his old store, and I haven't tasted the new flavors yet. ”

Wan Ning smiled: "It's delicious, you can also buy it and try it?" ”

Xinran still smiled faintly: "You say this, it's really worth trying." ”

The treasure key pulled Wan Ning to talk about the brightly colored preserved fruits, and happily and silently picked a few preserved fruits to eat, and then smiled at Shu Ning. Shu Ning also tasted a few pieces, the taste was very similar to what Earl's Court usually eats, but the taste was better, glanced at Wan Ning, and thought: "Could it be because of your suggestion that people sacrifice quality to increase the output of "variety"?" Fortunately, the old and new stores were separated, otherwise I was afraid that people's good reputations would be ruined. ”

She chatted with Xinran and Xinran for a while, and also discussed the tangyuan filling eaten during this year's Lantern Festival, and happily used pen and paper to write down a few things she said about the tangyuan filling she had tried in Guangzhou, and then said: "Go back and let people try to do it, and when the Lantern Festival next year, there will be new tricks to eat." ”

didn't wait for Shuning to reply, but I heard the key of the room shouting: "I said that our family is only of the same clan as her, and there is no close relationship anymore, why does my sister keep asking?" ”

Shuning looked over in surprise, only to see Wanning's face flushed, and argued: "It's just a casual question, why are you so angry?" The key opened his eyes wide and puffed up his handkerchief, and said, "I have said it many times, and I thought you believed it, but who knew that you asked me again after a while, and when you were in the garden, you kept asking me, what is going on?" What happened to Concubine De? You're going to keep asking her about it? ”

Wanning blushed and couldn't speak. Seeing this, Xinran hurriedly grabbed the treasure key and said, "You are half a master today, how can you speak to the guests in such a tone?" Just say something, don't be angry. Then he confessed to Wanning. Wan Ning hurriedly waved her hand, and then sat down and bowed her head to eat tea.

The key angrily walked over to the other side and sat down, ignoring her. Shuning and Xinran glanced at each other, then sat down beside the treasure key, took preserved fruit snacks to coax her, and slowly asked her about the new forty-nine. Bao Jian heard that she had only lived in the capital for about a year, and she had been living in a foreign place since she was born, so she was very sympathetic, so she introduced various famous shops in Beijing to her, and her mood gradually improved.

But she still had some resentment towards Wanning, and when Shuning saw this, she had to pull Wanning to say goodbye early. Xinran didn't stay long, and sent them out of the hospital.

Wanning didn't speak all the way, and suddenly lifted the curtain to look out halfway. This time, Shuning could see clearly, Wanning was looking at the red palace wall in the distance. She didn't speak, just closed her eyes and thought, "Whatever you're going to do, just don't drag me into the water." ”

After returning home, Wanning hurriedly left. Shuning walked into the Huai Courtyard, but heard the second sister-in-law greet her and say to her with a smile: "Girl, Mr. Cai has found it, and now he is in the flower hall outside." ”