Chapter 213: Neighbors
"It's fine. Female Feng's full text No ads" Xia Jin smiled and shook his head, "I took the car all the way from Linjiang to the capital. ”
Xiao nodded, said no more, and pulled Cen Ziman into the carriage.
Xia Jin got on the one in the back.
When the carriage stopped in front of Xuanping Houfu and Cen Ziman got off Xiao's car, a lively smile appeared on his face again, and he pulled Xia Jin and asked her, "Are you tired?" If you are tired, we will ask the mother-in-law to carry the sedan chair and take the sedan chair in. After speaking, he apologized, "I'm sorry, when the county lord of Jianing fell into the water, I shouldn't have misunderstood you, thinking that you remembered her grudge and didn't let me save her." ”
Xia Jin really didn't take this matter to heart. Although the two have tempered each other, they have not been together for a long time, and they have not shared hardships. It's normal to not understand each other and suspect each other whenever something happens.
"I didn't tell you clearly." She smiled, and pulled Cen Ziman inside, "Let's go, I'm not tired." ”
"But how did my cousin become like this? When he was in Linjiang, it wasn't like this. Speaking of this, Cen Ziman was still stunned.
Xia Jin didn't make an evaluation, but only stated the facts: "If he wants to be soft-hearted today, he has to marry the county lord of Jianing." ”
"That's it." Cen Ziman nodded, sighed and said, "So, it's better to become like this, at least it won't be so easy to be calculated." ”
"Speaking of which, the county lord of Jianing is not bad, his status is high, he is also beautiful, and he has a deep affection for your cousin, why is your cousin unwilling to marry her?" Xia Jin was full of doubts. She didn't take her entanglement with Su Muxian seriously, so she didn't think that Su Muxian refused this family business for her sake.
Speaking of this, the expression on Cen Ziman's face was a little cold: "There are ten children from Yan Wangfu's concubines together, and she is only one daughter, and she is a princess, and she is very favored." So he developed a pampered temperament. Some time ago, someone crashed into her carriage, and she called someone to kill her on the spot. My cousin ......"
At this, she paused. continued: "You know my cousin's previous temperament, quite a kind person. Naturally, I can't get used to her doing this, where will I marry her? The county lord of Jianing forced Princess Yan to ask someone to propose marriage, but her cousin refused directly under the pretext that the filial piety period had not expired. The cousin is the imperial guard, and the queen mother is willing to take care of him. There was the queen mother above, and the county lord of Jianing didn't dare to make too much trouble, thinking that there was no way, so he used this trick today. ”
Xia Jin didn't speak again.
The two returned to the courtyard to rest. Didn't go anywhere in the afternoon.
Xia Jin is a person who can be both active and quiet. If she is asked to run around for months to do things, she does not feel tired; Staying in one place and not going anywhere, just squatting at home as a mushroom, she didn't feel irritated at all.
Cen Ziman was a happy person, she couldn't sit still after an afternoon at home, and ran over to Xia Jin and said, "Let's go to the outer courtyard to watch my brothers box." ”
Xia Jin raised his head from the book, glanced at her, and said lazily: "You go, I'm lazy." Don't want to move. ”
"Go, go, go." Cen Ziman took her arm and shook it violently, coquettishly and stupidly, "I'm bored at home." Just when you accompany me. ”
Xia Jin was about to speak, when he saw Dong Fang come in with the curtain lifted, and said, "Miss Cen, there is a mother-in-law outside, saying that the second son wants to invite you to go to the front yard with my girl to practice boxing." ”
Cen Ziman jumped up happily: "Ha, look, my brother has urged us to go out." ”
Xia Jin also practiced a few moves with Cen Yunzhou on a whim yesterday, but he didn't want to spar anymore today. Shu used to talk all day long that a girl's reputation is the most important. The longer Xia Jin stayed in ancient times, the more he understood this. Look at the morning. Even if you are the lord of the county, if you are saved by a manservant. The reputation is about to be ruined, and it may not be a good family affair in the future. So she should be cautious in her actions in the Cen Mansion.
If there is bad news, or Mrs. Xiao misunderstands that she is seducing Cen Yunzhou, her life in Cen Mansion will not be easy.
She hadn't had time to see the house given by the Empress Dowager, and she was in too much hurry when she left home, so she only brought three hundred taels of silver tickets and some broken silver with her. I don't know if the house needs to be repaired, and whether it will be enough to repair it with this money.
"Why don't you accompany me to see the house." She said. I decided that if the house was in good condition, I would move there as soon as possible.
Although Cen's family is very good, living in someone else's house is not as comfortable as his own home.
Cen Ziman has a lively temperament, but he is not stupid. Hearing Xia Jin's sudden thoughtless sentence, her hand paused, looked at Xia Jin suspiciously, and asked carefully: "It's not that I'm annoying you, you want to move out, right?" ”
"What do you think?" Xia Jin tapped her head lightly, "If the Queen Mother gives you a big mansion, and it is where you will live in the future, don't you want to take a look?" ”
Cen Ziman laughed: "It's true." Then he said, "That brother is ...... over there."
"It's not just my house, it's also where my brother wants to live, so naturally I asked him to go with me. If your brother is free and wants to go together, then you can't ask for it, so we don't have to bring so many nursing homes. ”
Hearing this, Cen Ziman became excited, turned his head to the outside and said, "Xue'er, come in." ”
When Xue'er came in, she gave a few instructions, and asked her mother-in-law to go out and give instructions to let her subordinates prepare the carriage.
After a cup of tea, when Xia Jin and Cen Ziman arrived at the gate of Cen Mansion, they saw that Xia Qi and Cen Yunzhou were already waiting there. But apart from the two of them, there was an uninvited guest standing next to him. With that handsome face and Yushu's wind-facing posture, who else could it be if it wasn't Su Muxian?
Cen Ziman was a little awkward in the face of Su Mu because of the incident in the morning, but he still stepped forward to say hello: "Cousin, why do you have time to come?" ”
"I'm resting today." Su Mu said idly, but his eyes swept across Xia Jin's face.
He was a royal guard, and he was on duty for a different time than those courtiers. As soon as I am on duty, I will continue for several days, and the rest time will naturally be several consecutive days.
Cen Ziman glanced at Xia Jin, didn't ask anything more, and said directly: "Get in the car." "Get into the carriage first.
After Xia Jin also got into the car, Xia Qi, Cen Yunzhou and Su Muxian turned over and got on the horse and escorted the carriage to Mao'er Hutong - the house given by the Queen Mother was located in Mao'er Hutong. Although the geographical location is not as good as the streets where the wealthy nobles such as the Weiguo Mansion and Xuanping Hou are located, it is also the place where the official eunuchs in Beijing live, which can be regarded as a good location.
The carriage walked on the street for about a meal, and then stopped in front of a house, and Cen Yunzhou's voice sounded outside: "Sister, it's here." ”
Xia Jin got out of the car behind Cen Ziman, and when he looked up, he saw a vermilion lacquer door that was extremely wide and neat, and the paint on it seemed to be freshly brushed, shining brightly in the sun. The two stone lions in front of the door were also clean and complete, not as mottled and ruined as she had imagined.
"This house ......," she wondered.
Generally speaking, the house held by the empress dowager and the emperor is even the old house of officials who have been raided or dismissed, and these people are either killed or exiled, and the property of the house will be confiscated, and then the empress dowager and the emperor will reward the meritorious officials and subordinates.
I don't know how long these houses will be held in the hands of the queen mother and the emperor, and they will never send people to maintain and repair them. When it is given, the owner of the house must spend a lot of effort and money to repair it before he can live in it.
"Oh." Cen Yunzhou smiled beside him, "My grandfather sent someone to repair this house." The gate and the outer two courtyards are almost repaired, and the inner three entrances are still being repaired. Miss Xia wants to go in to see it today, but she can only look at the first two entrances. ”
Xia Jin was very surprised: "How embarrassing is this?" Quietly, the Cen family helped her repair the house. And according to this style of acting, even if the Xia family wants to give the money spent on repairing the house, the Cen family will definitely not want it.
She turned her head and glanced at Xia Qi, wondering if he knew about it. saw Xia Qi frowning slightly, and also looked at her.
It seems that the elder brother was also kept in the dark.
"It didn't take much effort to remove the weeds, tidy up the ground, repair the doors and windows, tidy up the tiles on the roof, send some people, and hire two craftsmen to do it in a few days." Cen Yunzhou said with a smile, "Let's go first and take a look, the two of you will see if there is anything you are not satisfied with, and tell them to go back to work." ”
Xia Jin sighed secretly, and had to say, "Let's go, go in and have a look." As he spoke, he tried to take a step, but he heard the sound of a carriage behind him driving in this direction, and then stopped beside them.
Xia Jin turned around and looked over there.
Then I saw someone from the opposite house coming out, and a mother-in-law put a stool in front of the carriage, obviously the carriage was from the neighbor opposite, and the woman of the family was riding in the carriage.
Xia Jin glanced at Cen Ziman. Seeing her standing there still, she seemed to be waiting for the people in the carriage to get off, and Xia Jin had to wait.
First, a maid got out of the car, then a delicate embroidered shoe stepped on the stool, and a fair-skinned and slender jade finger also stretched out from the car.
The maid who came down first hurriedly stepped forward and held the hand.
When the man poked his head out of the car, as soon as his beautiful and emaciated face appeared, Xia Jin was stunned.
She never expected that the person who lived opposite her house would be Miss Zheng, who was engaged to Luo Qian.
Miss Zheng probably didn't expect that there were many people standing at the door opposite, and her body shook and she almost fell off the stool.
"Girl, be careful." Her maid hurriedly stepped forward to hold on.
Cen Ziman also thought that it was the old lady or lady of the Zheng family sitting in the car. If she met here, she turned around and entered the door without saying hello, which would be extremely rude, so she waited here.
At this time, it was Miss Zheng who came down, she couldn't help but be a little unhappy, smiled at Miss Zheng, and said hello: "Miss Zheng." Then he turned and went in. (To be continued)