Yumin? Shuning was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that it was the future Sifujin. She hasn't seen this girl come to the door since she returned to Beijing, and she thought that Wanning had become estranged from her, so did she still have contacts?

If it was in the past, Wanning sent someone to invite, and Shuning would have responded immediately, but today's mother said that she should not be too close to Wanning, so she hesitated and glanced at her mother.

Tong just smiled faintly and didn't say anything. Shuning said to Yuehe: "I know, you go back and tell the second sister first, and I'll come over." Yuehe Yingying gave a salute, and gave a salute to the Tong family, and then withdrew.

Tong watched her back disappear before turning his head and saying to his daughter, "You didn't choose her that day, but you did the right thing." I've never seen such a maid ring who looks like a young lady more than a young lady, and people who don't know think she's also a young lady. ”

Shuning smiled and asked, "Second sister invited me to go, what did E-niang say?" Tong said: "You can go, I have heard of that Yumin girl, and she is also a steady and polite lady, I really don't know how your second sister has such a temperament and how she became a close friend with her." It doesn't matter if you make friends with her, we used to be always outside, and the ladies in Beijing didn't even recognize any of them. ”

Shuning responded, went back to the room to tidy up her hair and clothes, and then went to the bamboo courtyard.

When I walked into Wanning's small courtyard, I heard the voice of a strange girl: "There are many people who have died, and we have been selected for several days, but fortunately we are the first day to participate in the selection, as soon as I entered the house, I saw those ladies sitting on it with a straight face, and the whole room was looking at us, and I was so scared that I trembled......"

At this time, Qiaoyun found that Shuning was coming, and hurriedly reported: "The third girl is here." Then the curtain was raised to let her in.

As soon as she entered the house. Wan Ning greeted her: "You're here, I've been waiting for a while." She smiled faintly and looked ahead. I saw two girls smiling at her.

The one at the head is Yumin, and she still recognizes the other party's appearance. It's just that Yumin has grown up a lot more than back then. With a warm smile on his round face, his temperament is more dignified. At first glance, I thought she was taller than Wan Ning, but after a closer look, I found that she was wearing the bottom of a flower pot and lined with a stone blue cheongsam. It seems more and more graceful and dignified.

The other girl must be Yumindi's cousin, who is thinner and smaller, and her appearance is only middle and upper-middle, but her complexion is white, and there is a small black mole on the side of her mouth, which adds a bit of pretty.

Shu Ning blessed her and said, "I haven't seen Sister Yumin for a long time, my sister has always been good?" Yumin also returned the salute: "I'm fine." Sister Shu has also grown so much taller that I almost don't recognize it. Then he pulled his cousin and introduced: "This is my two aunts and cousins, called Lu Chan." He was a year younger than me. Shuning saluted Lu Chan again: "Sister Lu Chan is good." ”

Na Luchan smiled and said, "We're all fine, we don't have to bow so seriously." Just now your sister said that good friends don't need to be polite too much. ”

Wan Ning pulled them back to their seats. While instructing Yuehe to pour tea, he said to Shuning with a smile: "You can tell us to wait." I heard that you just got into a fight with your brother? Is it true? I thought you were a serious person. I didn't expect to get into a fight. ”

Shuning glanced at Yuehe, Xiao'er, what do you mean? The moon lotus looked unconscious, looked at the nose, the nose looked at the heart, poured a cup of tea in his hand steadily, brought it to her, and whispered: "Girl, please drink tea." Then quietly retreated. Shuning smiled and said to Wanning: "How old do you think I am, and I am considered old-fashioned?" It's just a joke when my family is fine. ”

Wan Ning said: "If you say so, I will be relieved." In the future, people will joke with me, so that I don't always get bored and panicked. ”

Yumin said: "In fact, in your own home, you don't have to be bound by the rules all the time, and occasionally joking can make your family closer to each other." When I was a child, I was originally a dull person, but since I met Sister Wan, I have become much more cheerful, and sometimes I will talk and laugh with my parents and elders, and they all say that I am more likable than when I was a child. As long as the number of courtesies is good, it's fine. ”

Shuning nodded: "I think so too, I have always been obedient." It's just my brother scribbling on my face, and I just ran after him for a few steps, which one is spreading rumors, saying that we are fighting? ”

Wan Ning leaned closer to her face: "What did you draw?" I'll see. Shuning pursed her lips and smiled: "It's been washed early." Wan Ning smiled: "It turns out that Brother Duanning will also make this kind of joke, I have always regarded him as a Taoist gentleman, and when he sees me, he wants me to study my homework seriously." ”

Lu Chan suddenly said at this time: "Duanning? Is he your brother? Shuning and Wanning nodded, and she said happily: "I have heard of his name a long time ago, others say that he is both civil and military, good-looking, and kind, and many daughters are discussing him." Yumin was a little embarrassed: "Where did you hear that?" I didn't mention any of these things. ”

That Lu Chan said: "Many people have mentioned it, in the past, those young ladies in our family, as well as the maids of each family, I also heard that the daughter of a Mongolian prince wrote a letter to him, I don't know what it was written?" Her eyes widened and she looked at Shuning and Wanning with great interest, as if asking them about the contents of the letter.

Wan Ning looked at Shu Ning, and Shu Ning said suspiciously: "I have never heard my brother say it, when did it happen?" Lu Chan said: "I don't know about this, I also heard from others, but that's a foreign lord of the county, maybe your brother will become a concubine." Haven't you really heard of it? ”

What is not a forehead, her brother has never mentioned it, it can be seen that there is no such thing, if you don't like it in your heart, let alone the county lord, even if it is a princess, it is rare. Besides, the family's recognized ideal daughter-in-law is Zhenzhen, although the two families are quite far apart, it can be seen from the letters exchanged between the two sides from time to time that their mother has no intention of changing her mind at all.

However, Shuning also knew that if this matter didn't work out for a day, it would be difficult to tell outsiders for a day, but Lu Chan and Wanning looked at her with great interest, and even Yumin waited for her to answer with a hint of curiosity.

Pregnant. When she entered the door, she seemed to hear them talking about the draft, so she said, "I don't know where this came from." I'm afraid it's also a rumor, what should I do with it? Speaking of which. What were you talking about before I came in? Seems interesting. ”

As soon as he said this, he reminded Wan Ning: "By the way, just now we are talking about their participation in the draft this year, as soon as you enter the door." And it was gone. She turned her head to Lu Chan and said, "Go on, what questions did the ladies ask after you entered the house?" ”

Lu Chan laughed again: "It's very simple, just ask about your family history." We thought we'd be asking some difficult questions. There was a show girl who was in the same hospital as us, and when she heard that she would take the academic examination, she memorized poems until midnight the night before, and both eyes were swollen. When the girls saw it, they were ugly and died, and they immediately put off the sign. She was still crying when she went out. ”

Wan Ning muttered: "Don't you take the academic test...... Yu Min said softly: "In fact, more than half of the girls who are participating in the election are illiterate, and they are selected in the palace." It is also based on morality, as long as you speak in an orderly manner. The grooming and family background are passable. You can pass the primary election. When it comes to the girls, it's up to them to be artificial. Among them, there are also people who like to learn well, and there are also people who like to have a good temperament, and it is difficult to say for sure. ”

Lu Chan continued: "At that time, we chose with the show girl with the yellow flag a day, and there were five or six people in a group. I see, there is no one better than my cousin. As soon as she stood up, her bearing suppressed everyone else, and several ladies nodded straight. ”

Yumin was a little embarrassed: "What nonsense, there are several local girls who are better than me, you say this, it is nothing for Sister Wan and Sister Shu to hear it, it has been spread, and others still think how frivolous I am." ”

Lu Chan said: "What's this, I'm just telling the truth, many people say so." I also heard a father-in-law say to someone, cousin, you are all good, now you have your name first, and then you will be re-elected in the next term, and nine times out of ten you will be worthy of the prince. According to my opinion, the only one who can be worthy of my cousin is the prince. ”

Yumin's face was already red and almost dripping blood: "You don't want to talk nonsense, the emperor has long been optimistic about the candidate for the crown princess, and this is also a mixed talk?" ”

Lu Chan waved her hand indifferently: "It's the young lady of the Shi family, I think although she looks good, her appearance is not as good as your cousin, you are blessed, you have a better chance of winning than her." ”

Wan Ning opened her mouth: "Tai ......" suddenly stopped, cleared her throat, and said: "Although the crown princess is very beautiful, as the future queen, she must be cautious in everything, and she is too depressed." If it were me, I would rather live a relaxed and leisurely life in the Otherworldly Survival Notes 5200 than be this hard-working princess. ”

Lu Chan listened but asked suspiciously, "Can Sister Wan be the crown princess?" You didn't run this year, will it be too late to run again in three years? ”

Wan Ning was stunned: "I didn't mean that......" "Isn't it?" But didn't you just say that you don't want to be this hard-working crown princess? You haven't participated in the draft yet, so you wouldn't have been a princess. ”

Wan Ning opened her mouth wide, and Yu Min hurriedly said: "Sister Wan means that it is very beautiful to be able to choose the crown princess, even if you can't choose it, it is not necessarily a bad thing." You didn't understand what she meant. ”

Lu Chan flattened her mouth: "So that's what it means, then you just say it, what kind of turn?" ”

Wan Ning pursed her lips tightly and did not speak. Yumin looked embarrassed. Shuning can see it, and dare to love this green chan girl's mind is a little white.

"Did Sister Yumin encounter anything interesting during the draft?" She changed the subject, "Show girls come from all over the world, so they must have different temperaments, right?" ”

Yumin understood what she meant, and hurriedly continued: "In fact, there are more than 100 show girls participating in the election this year, and there are also seventy or eighty people in the second election, who live in several courtyards. Among the thirty or forty people I have seen alone, the northern ladies are beautiful and dignified, and the southern beauties are delicate and delicate, but they have their own benefits. ”

Wan Ning softened her face and asked curiously, "I heard that the ladies in the palace don't like girls who are too delicate, is it true?" Yumin smiled and said, "I don't know this." ”

Lu Chan interjected again: "Won't it? The Yumei who lives in the yard next door to us is from Jiangnan, so thin that it seems to fall in the wind, and he talks loudly, not much louder than mosquitoes. She was made a noble on the same day, which shows that the emperor likes a girl like her. ”

Yumin opened her mouth. embarrassed and said: "Sister Chan, don't say such things again, Yu Guicai is outstanding in learning." He knows everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and his language is also literary. Where is it like yours so big. Forget it, let's stop talking about the draft, let's talk about something else. Lu Chan flattened her mouth again: "It's not that I want to talk about it, is it that Sister Wan wants to hear it." Wan Ning turned a deaf ear and secretly decided. Ask Yumin to come over another day, and then ask about the draft that day.

A few girls talked about some needle finger gossip, Yu Min heard that Wan Ning had made great progress in needlework recently, so she took a handkerchief she embroidered and said: "I look very good, in fact, you are a person with a clear mind, you can always think of unique tricks that others can't think of, but you are too lazy to do it yourself." As long as you work hard, you can learn it quickly. Then he talked about how the embroidered colors on the handkerchief looked good.

Shuning chimed in. She didn't speak against her conscience, this picture of a mandarin duck playing in the water. It's already Wanning's best work ever.

Lu Chan took the handkerchief and looked at it twice, and asked, "Why do you want to embroider water ducks?" Usually people want to embroider, they are embroidered with mandarin ducks, right? ”

Shuning knew it was not good when she heard it. Miss Luchan. Although you look at those two birds like water ducks, they are actually very much like mandarin ducks.

Sure enough, Wan Ning's face sank when she heard it: "This is originally a mandarin duck!" ”

Lu Chan listened. He looked at the veil twice. Said strangely: "But I look like a water duck ......" "Luchan! Yumin interrupted her, "How did you forget all the words I told you before I went out?" You've always been open-mouthed. I don't dare take you out again! ”

When Lu Chan heard this, she had to obediently shut her mouth, but Wanning's face was already very dark. In the following time, only Yumin and Shuning talked peacefully, and the other two never interjected.

When Yumin took her cousin to say goodbye, she pulled Wan Ning with an apologetic face and whispered, "Cousin speaks too much, please don't care." Wan Ning said with a calm face: "I won't be angry with you, but what's the matter with her?" It seems to be deliberately blocking people. Yumin smiled embarrassedly: "It's really not intentional, she has been like this since she was a child, open-mouthed, innocent and straightforward." After she entered Beijing, she lived in our house, and my mother originally said that she would invite a grandmother to teach her, but my aunt said that her temperament could not be changed, maybe she voted for the temper of the nobles in the palace, and I couldn't say anything. Bear with me. Wan Ning nodded reluctantly, and then said, "You come back in two days, come alone, let's have a good talk." Yumin smiled and nodded, then took his leave and left.

Shuning said to Wanning: "This Miss Luchan has a special temperament. "What's special? Heartless, annoying, no wonder they will be defeated. Wan Ning picked up the handkerchief and said fiercely, "I obviously embroidered a beautiful mandarin duck, and she actually laughed at me?!! Then he glanced at a box on the table, called Yanyun and said, "This is the snack brought by the two girls just now, I can't get used to it, you can take it and divide it." Yanyun thanked him with a smile and took the box and went away.

Shuning saw that she was unhappy, so she didn't stay for a long time and said goodbye and went back to the hospital.

returned to Huaiyuan and practiced for a while, but heard that the little girl came to invite, saying that Zhang Bao and Tong asked her to come over and have something to discuss. She asked Holly to wash the pen and collect the stickers, and then went to the main room.

As soon as she entered the house, she saw that Zhang Bao, Tong, Duanning and Xiao Liu were all there, she saluted, sat down on the stool next to her, and asked, "Everyone is here today, I don't know what Ama Eniang has to say?" ”

Tong and Zhang Bao glanced at each other and said, "Actually, your Aunt Liu has a thought, she plans to live in the mountain with Xiaobao in the future and not return to the house." ”

Everyone looked at Xiao Liu, only to see her lower her head and said slowly: "I've thought about it, it's not a way to live in the mansion all the time." The people below may gossip, and ......" She paused, took a deep breath, and said, "Aunt Guo's side, there are other relatives...... I heard that I live in the house with my son now, and I came to the door......"

Tong frowned: "They just want to blackmail money, just ignore them." I have already told the stewards and servants on the second gate that no one is allowed to come in, and you live in the courtyard of the deep house, what can they do? ”

Xiao Liu shook his head and said, "Although they can't see me, people outside will always hear about some spiders." I don't care about it for a long time, but I don't want to bother you to be gossiped about. Again...... There are many people in the house, if the truth is discovered...... Isn't it a trouble for you? ”

Tong Shi was stunned: "This ...... No way? Now that the eldest sister-in-law is in charge, she won't say anything. Zhang Bao said: "What you say makes sense, but if you live in Fangshan, it is difficult to guarantee that those people will not come to the door." ”

Xiao Liu hurriedly said: "Even if you find the door, the servants there are all your own people, even if they make trouble in front of the door, they are not afraid that other people in the house will know." ”

Tong lowered his head and pondered, Zhang Bao thought about it, and immediately made a decision: "Then so be it." It is better for you to live in the past, there are mountains, rivers and fields, and you use them all by your own people, which is more comfortable than in the house. When Wang Er comes back in two days, I will ask him to tidy up the yard where you live. ”

Xiao Liu stood up happily and thanked him, Tong seemed to want to say something, but he still didn't open his mouth after all.

But this matter must be, but there are other problems. Duan Ning said: "Originally, our family just planned to live in Fangshan and the capital in turn, and the housekeeper just ran along, but now my aunt wants to live there for a long time, so I have to appoint a separate steward." Now that Wang Er is in charge of the size of the renovation of the house, will he continue to manage it in the future? There are a total of three stewards in our hospital, and they originally had their own functions, but now it's a bit messy, so we have to rearrange it. ”

Tong Shi hurriedly said: "Duan'er's words are very true, but I didn't think about it well. She turned to Zhang Bao and asked, "What do you have in mind?" Wang Ersu Ri is going out with you, but do you want to find someone to take his place? ”

Zhang Bao pondered for a moment, and then said: "Let him temporarily take charge of the affairs of Fangshan Mansion, Changfu will continue to be in charge of the overall situation, and Zhou Lin will be in charge of the treasury and monthly money. Let's go back and think about the charter, you know, in the future, we have two residences, and many things have to be rearranged. ”

Tong smiled and nodded yes. I was the dividing line for the next day

Duan Ning went to Guozijian early in the morning, and Shuning stayed at home to accompany her mother. Tong took out the roster of male and female servants in the courtyard, rearranged their seats, and from time to time, asked his daughter about the temperament of a certain servant and what position he was suitable for.

Near noon, Shuning heard Yahuan report that Duanning was back, so she picked up a new belt made for her brother and went to the courtyard gate to greet her. ”

Without waiting for Duan Ning to answer, he heard a shrill female voice in front of him: "Duan Ning! Don't run! ”