Gu Xinxin is the most beautiful in appearance, the most gentle and virtuous among the daughters under Gu Shao's knees, she is the most orthodox famous lady, Wei Mengying is not worthy of lifting her shoes, and she is not even worthy of looking up at her face - this is a sentence that Mrs. Pang often recited in front of her after Wei Mengying later married into the Song family.

Therefore, Wei Mengying has a great dislike for Gu Xinxin.

Of course, this is a later thing.

The first time we met, I was in a fat powder shop.

Wei Mengying was brought over by Mrs. Cao that day, but Mrs. Cao met relatives halfway, and the two wanted to talk about things, so they went to the teahouse next door to sit down, leaving only the maid to watch Wei Mengying continue to choose rouge gouache.

At this time, Gu Xinxin and Song Yuan walked in with a smile and asked the shopkeeper to take out the box of rouge that Gu Xinxin had ordered before.

After many years, Wei Mengying can still clearly recall their conversation at that time-

"Shimei came here here on purpose today, is it to buy rouge?" When the shopkeeper went in to get something, Song Yuan was a little curious and a little puzzled and asked, "Could it be that the recipes in this shop are better than those of the Gu family?" ”

When Wei Mengying heard this, she thought that Gu Xinxin also had a rouge shop at home, and even a time-honored signboard.

Later, when she entered the Song family, she was sneered at by Mrs. Pang, and gradually realized that even if a family like Hongzhou Gu was one level worse than the six valves in the sea, the things handed down from her ancestors were beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Including rouge gouache, it also has its own set of secret recipes. From the raw materials for making fat powder, there are special places for them, and there are florists who have served them for generations, planting flowers and plants in special methods, and then making them according to the methods passed down from generation to generation by their ancestors, so as to supply the women of the family.

This kind of recipe for accumulating years of family has its own uniqueness, if you are not relatives and friends, you can't even see it, and it is definitely not comparable to the fat powder that can be bought with money from the outside world.

That's why Song Yuan was curious that Gu Xinxin wanted to buy such a thing outside.

"It's not that the tanuki at home is naughty!" Gu Xinxin smiled and said to him, "It's okay to sneak away to the maid's house, but I knocked over the two boxes of rouge that the little maid finally saved up to buy every month, and the little maid didn't dare to say it, so she wiped her tears alone in a remote corner for a long time, so that the people around me saw it and asked - no, I came out today to buy two boxes to compensate her?" ”

At that time, Wei Mengying had already picked out the fat powder, and just waited for the shopkeeper to come out to settle the account, and her face couldn't help but turn red when she heard the words, and she only felt that the fat powder box in her hand was not hot: although she looked at the dress, she also knew that Gu Xinxin's background must be more than a step higher than herself, but she could be regarded as a young lady from an official eunuch's family, but she used the same rouge gouache as Gu Xinxin's little maid, what is this? !

Especially listening to Gu Xinxin's tone, the rouge she bought for the little maid is not a random choice of goods outside!

You must know that Wei Mengying has been buying fat powder in this shop for several years, but every time she picks and chooses at this counter, she never even knew that there were better things hidden in this shop.

Wei Mengying instinctively felt annoyed!

But when she turned her head to see Gu Xinxin, who was not very beautiful, but was full of delicate clothes, she was silent.

Although I don't know what the origin of this young lady surnamed Gu is, just looking at the clothes, Wei Mengying also knows that she can't afford to mess with her.

Rashly looking for trouble, it is not a shame to say that it is self-inflicted.

Besides, how can she make trouble with others?

Say that people shouldn't buy good rouge for the little girl? Money belongs to others, what does it matter to her how people love to spend it?

Perhaps, Gu Xinxin will reply to her: I think the fat powder used by the little girl is better than the one she uses, so why not go to a better place to buy it?

However, in the range that the Wei family can afford, this fat powder shop is the most inexpensive.

If you don't buy it here, other people's families will either not be as good as their family at the same price, or the price is not affordable for the Wei family at all.

Besides, she and Gu Xinxin don't know each other at all, and when they go out, they are strangers, and they don't talk to the maid, who knows about it?

Wei Mengying couldn't help comforting herself, and her heart was also sour and astringent: The Wei family did not hesitate to cultivate and use their daughter as an object, isn't it wealth?

And Gu Xinxin was born with a wealth that is difficult for the Wei family to achieve, and even the little maid who serves her may be better than Wei Mengying, the so-called Miss Wei family, - this world is really unfair!

She put the fat powder box back a little depressed, not that she didn't plan to buy it, but she didn't want to buy it in front of Gu Xinxin, so that even if Gu Xinxin didn't laugh at her, she would feel embarrassed.

"Let's go and see how my mother is talking, right?" Wei Mengying said to the maid in a calm whisper, "I'm a little undecided, I'll wait for my mother to come over and give me a palm." ”

Later, Gu Xinxin should not be in this shop.

Before the maid could answer, she suddenly heard Song Yuan also a little surprised: "Although the fat powder in this shop may not be able to make it with you and my home, but when I passed by before, I often saw the carriage stopped outside the door, and there were many young ladies and ladies who wanted to come and visit." You bought it for the little maid, and the other maids are afraid not to be jealous? ”

"Brother Shi doesn't know, I don't usually like to apply grease and powder, but the fat powder allocated to me is probably rewarded to the people around me." Gu Xinxin explained, "The one that the big girls used for me, and buying some good ones for the little girls won't cause any turmoil." Moreover, the fat powder we make at home only wants good things, and we don't care about the cost. If you don't buy a better one, the little maid will be embarrassed to use it in front of the few people she called her sister. ”

Speaking of this, he laughed at Song Yuan again, "Brother Shi actually noticed this shop?" Didn't you come here to buy something? But I don't know if I bought it for Aunt Pang, or gave it to someone else? ”

Song Yuan answered something next, but Wei Mengying couldn't hear it because she had already walked out of the shop.

That day, she was a little groggy and went to the teahouse next door to find Mrs. Cao, who saw that her daughter's face was not very good, but she heard her say: "I suddenly feel uncomfortable." ”

After asking the maid, she also said that Wei Mengying just picked up fat powder in the shop, and suddenly proposed to come to Mrs. Cao, there was nothing else wrong - Mrs. Cao didn't care about buying things, so she was busy saying goodbye to her relatives and taking her home.

Wei Mengying was not moved at all by her mother's concern for her body, she knew that Mrs. Cao was just afraid that she would have three longs and two shorts, and she would not be able to sell them.

After she returned to Wei's house that day, she thought about Gu Xinxin over and over again, thinking about the box of rouge that the shopkeeper personally went into the room to take, and she only felt that her heart was full of mixed tastes, and she couldn't tell the jealousy and sorrow - she didn't notice Song Yuan at all at that time, and Song Yuan didn't notice her - a few months later, when she turned around, she was fifteen years old, and she could perform the etiquette back then, and she grew a little taller, and her appearance became more and more fresh and pretty.

Mrs. Cao was not only proud, but also put her marriage on the agenda.

Wei Mengying was disgusted and frightened by this situation, and more unwilling.

But at that time, she had no choice, occasionally launched a ruthless attack, would hide a pair of scissors on her body, thinking that if the family found her husband was not satisfied, then she would go out of the sedan chair. After his death, when the time comes, turn the wedding into a funeral, and see how the Wei family explains to his in-laws!

However, this kind of revenge thought of ending up with the same end came out, and it was often suffocated by her: why? Why didn't she want to be at the mercy of her family, so she had to die?

If the rest of the Wei family died, and she survived...... How nice would that be?

This mood tumbled for many days, until one day she came out of the clothes village after cutting the size, and suddenly saw that the street outside was crowded with people, and there were gongs and drums, as lively as the New Year - she curiously asked the people nearby, only to know that it was the day of the gold list, and the new science and technology jinshi rode the street on horseback according to the custom, and everyone rushed to watch, so the road was not open for a while.

Originally, this kind of thing should not be known to the people in the imperial capital, but the children of the Wei family are not angry, let alone being admitted to the Jinshi, and there is not even a lifter. They can't read, and they don't like to talk about these kinds of things.

Therefore, although Wei Mengying can barely be included in the category of daughters of official families, she has forgotten such an important matter.

Since she collided, of course, she could only stand in place with the maid and wait for the team to pass.

Then, at a glance, he saw a white horse without any variegation, a man in a scarlet robe with a black face like jade, tall as a green pine, and bright as the moon.

In fact, at that time, when almost everyone looked towards the road, they only saw Song Yuan.

After all, Bangyan and Tanhua that year were at least twice the age of Song Yuan, and they were even dumped eight streets by Jiang Nantang's sister-in-law - at that time, almost all the young girls who were unmarried at that time, while admiring the new champion, fantasized that they could marry him...... How nice would that be?

"If I can marry him, my family will definitely not dare to manipulate me anymore!" At that time, Wei Mengying and everyone admired and watched Song Yuan go away, with longing and despair in his heart, "But how can he look at me?" ”

Her half-sister and half-mother, the family that was a concubine, was just an elderly five-rank official, and she was not an important yamen.

And Song Yuan, who was born in the world's top famous family, his father Song Ying is a powerful minister who is deeply trusted by the prince, and the power of Shibo Gu Shao is even higher than that of Song Ying.

Not to mention that even if he doesn't have such a background, he can be a high school champion at this age, and he is destined to have a bright future.

Wei Mengying speculated on her future with her sister, the best result she could think of, and there was also a huge gap between her and Song Yuan - obviously he had just walked in front of her on a horse, and he could throw a flower to his sideburns, but it was as far away as two worlds.

That day, Wei Mengying stood on the street for a long time before returning home.

What she didn't expect was that when she entered the door, she was called to by Mrs. Cao to discuss marriage with her.

It's a discussion, but it's no different from a notice.

Mrs. Cao said: "The son of your second brother's boss is only thirty years old this year, and he is on a cross-horse parade street today-I heard the maid say, you stood on the side of the road and watched it?" Maybe I'll see him. Such a young and promising husband is hard to find with a lantern! After all, you're much more blessed than your sister! ”

Although Wei Mengying did not leave until all the new science and technology scholars were gone, after looking at Song Yuan who was the first to go, who had the heart to pay attention to those people behind?

It's not that she doesn't want Song Yuan to marry at this time, it's just that because of what happened to Wei Mengyue, she instinctively doubted: "Such a good person, hasn't he always married a wife?" How could it be my turn? ”

"Of course I'm married!" Mrs. Cao said disapprovingly, "But his wife doesn't have a very good relationship with him, although he gave birth to two sons, but none of them stand, my son is so young and beautiful, and he has always been smart, it's hard to be afraid that a woman with an old pearl yellow will not succeed?!" ”

Wei Mengying's heart was cold, she actually knew that her family was for the sake of her brothers' future, and she didn't care if she could be the main room.

But when this day really came, Wei Mengying knew what it meant to be frightened - this was her life's event!

Even if Mrs. Cao said it lightly, as if as long as she entered the door, even if she was a concubine, she could turn her hand and trample on the original partner of the other person, but if things were really so simple, wouldn't those ladies who were young and beautiful and not old? !

"Mother, I don't agree with this matter." At this moment, Wei Mengying had a lot of thoughts in her heart, she thought a lot, and finally thought of her sister Wei Mengyue's helpless look when she left the house, panicked and had to obey her fate - her sister didn't know that her mother's family was pushing her into the fire pit, but Wei Mengyue, who had a soft temperament, complied with her parents' arrangement.

then used her young and innocent life to exchange her mother for the promotion of her eldest brother and a thousand taels of silver.

Do you want to follow the path of your sister?

Why?

Why, why!!!

Self. The thoughts rolled back and forth in her heart, and Wei Mengying only felt that her heart had never beaten so hard.

She raised her head, and unexpectedly saw that Mrs. Cao's face was instantly gloomy, but she didn't hurry to follow, "If you can be a concubine for the new champion, why bother with an ordinary jinshi who knows whether the second or the third class?" ”

Sure enough, Old Madam Cao's original rebuke to her lips was swallowed instantly, revealing a look of surprise: "New champion? ”