Since that day, most of the mothers and slaves in the garden have been sent away, leaving only a few people such as Mama, Lotus Root, Lu Yao, Xiangzhi, and Ulva, and He Angelica's life is quite peaceful.

Thinking that Mama Leng who was in charge of this matter would at least come over to ask about the situation. Although there are few people in the seven rooms, and the three gardens add up to only more than 30 people, in the past, He Angelica lived in Taoyao Courtyard and pulled 28 people alone, but such a large-scale distribution of slaves and maids, hearing the ears of others, did not think that the subordinates had made something wrong, and how hot the master was, so he came out with such a result.

Don't say that Mama Leng is in charge of importing and exporting slaves, she is an irrelevant person, and she is also a little curious. But they just quietly accepted the people, and they didn't hear that the group of people who lost their jobs for no reason were making a fuss and pleading, so this matter was hidden. So, He Angelica guessed, probably Mama Leng also knew about the situation here in Qifang for a long time, and she had never exposed it before, but this time Qifang directly sent people out, and Mama Leng accepted it.

In the past two days, He Angelica has nothing to do in the garden, and walked out of the garden gate in two more steps, only to know why he has only heard names such as "the garden of the seventh master" or "three gardens" in the past few days, and has not even heard a name such as "Taoyao Courtyard" or "Shui Qianju". She secretly wondered in her heart, but she didn't ask the lotus root seriously, so she didn't understand the reason today.

It turned out that Meng Xuan, a lazy man, owned three gardens, each in a regular fan shape, and another abandoned old garden, the four gardens were added together to form a large circle.

The abandoned old garden seems to be the former residence of Meng Xuan's grandfather, and the site selection and construction of Meng's mansion back then were all around this ancestral house. After it was built, the four gardens were left vacant, and later Mrs. Su took charge of the house, favored the seventh son, and when Meng Xuan was four or five years old, he divided the three central gardens except for the ancestral house. And Meng Ying, as the No. 2 favorite minister and the prince of the Hou Mansion, was divided into three relatively ordinary gardens, and the other sons had two gardens and one concubine, without exception.

Meng Xuan took such a big advantage, but he didn't cherish it at all, not only did he abandon the three gardens all the year round, but he didn't bother to name the garden. The garden of the other house is either "Sparse Shadow House" or "Dark Champs", passing by in front of the garden, it seems that you can smell the fragrance of plum blossoms. And Meng Xuan, he actually-

Three gardens!

This is the general name he gave to the three gardens, and he also wrote a large plaque in the middle of the middle where Meng Xuan occasionally lived for a few days, and the two gardens on the left and right, the left side lived alone, and on the right side lived Aunt Xun and Aunt Bao, and there was no honor to hang a plaque.

He Angelica stood under the gate of the garden, looking up at the four gold-inlaid characters of "Three Gardens", as well as a few small silver hook characters of "The Garden Master Meng Shenshi, Hongwu Twenty Years Book", and admired Meng Xuan's courage in hanging this plaque for eleven years from the bottom of his heart. Seeing that the penmanship of the book is introverted and restrained, and the introverted is sullen, it is hard to imagine that Meng Xuan, who was like a milk doll, could write such good words.

Seeing such an unsightly garden name, the new grandmother He Angelica felt that there was something to do, and she had been thinking about a good name for the past two days, and asked someone to write and engrave it, replacing Meng Xuan's childhood drama.

I didn't expect a suitable name, but Lu Yao came to report outside, Mrs. Su came back from watching a play in another village, wanted to wipe the dominoes, and asked grandma to go over to play a round. He Angelica asked, who else was called besides her, and replied that there were also the eldest grandmother Shang, the second grandmother Lu, and the fourth grandmother Liu.

All of them are the main rooms of each room, except for her and Liu, the other two are old daughters-in-law, and they are not called all by name, obviously this time it is not officially a mother-in-law's tea. He Angelica expected that the other three must be a lot older than her, and it was not obvious to see her alone, and the four daughters-in-law appeared together, and she was not set off as a child.

So he asked the lotus root to take a dark red ruyi pattern skirt with half a shawl, a navy blue cocoon silk jacket, a silver mouse shoulder, and a pair of brown paulownia clogs, and decided to dress old. In fact, her body is sufficient, and she is not much taller than Qing'er, who is six years older than her, as long as she is groomed on the face, she wants to pretend to be an eighteen or nineteen-year-old woman.

When serving and grooming, Lu Yao, who was the best at combing her hair, didn't know how to hear Mrs. Su waiting, she was flustered and trembling, first she couldn't find the ebony comb, and then gave He Angelica a hair, a waist-length black hair, and two pillars of incense to go smoothly, rubbed for a while to coil a reverse bun, took a pair of jade butterfly flowers and inserted them in the bun, He Angelica said that it was not good, to change a step with gold spikes and gold beads, and it took a lot of work.

The lotus root looked anxious from the side, who heard the lady in the house, not like flying to run over, the seventh grandmother was late for the first time when she was summoned, maybe it would disturb the lady's card nature, and leave a bad impression from then on! Grandma Seven also chooses those old-fashioned colors to wear, her face is so young, how can she suppress the dark red?

He Angelica is not in a hurry at all, how much Lu Yao is grinding, she will accompany the other party to grind. At first, she thought that Lu Yao was nervous and had never served a "big occasion", so her fingers were not bright, and later she also felt that Lu Yao was grinding time. He Angelica couldn't help but wonder, what kind of trick is this playing, could it be that if you go half an hour late, what can go wrong?

After combing his hair and changing his clothes, after looking at it, the lotus root shook his head secretly, such a dress with a palm-sized snow-white melon seed face is really indecent. The lotus root is not clear, after all, it is the clothes that the seventh grandmother chooses herself, and she can't rely on her, so she only smiles: "Grandma is beautiful, everything she wears is beautiful, it's not too early, let's hurry over, right?" From here to Mrs. Xiangyun Garden, you have to walk for half a day. ”

He Angelica smiled, sat down in front of the dressing table, took a look at the person in the raking mirror, and opened the agarwood carved inlaid Luo Tian makeup box, and used the water mirror on the inside of the lid to take a look, and it was also seen that her face did not match the clothes, so she took out four kinds of gouache with a hairpin stick, light red, carmine, peony red, and Taichong red, and put some points in the palm of her hand, and took care of her face in a hurry.

After finishing it, he turned back to the lotus root and asked with a smile, "How is it now?" ”

"......" lotus root was so shocked that she couldn't speak, how could the girl in front of her look a few years older in an instant, the good complexion that was originally pinched out by the water, I don't know how to pinch the rouge on the water, adding two points of charm, giving people a different feeling. And lotus root has been muttering to herself, He Angelica Yuxue's flawless skin, must have been on some precious gouache, so that the slightest flaw will not be seen, today I watched He Angelica apply rouge gouache, and compared the dressed face with the previous plain makeup, only to know that the seventh grandmother has good skin, and jealousy cannot come.

The new makeup has been completed, and the two lotus lotus maidens led the way to Mrs. Su's Xiangyun Garden.

Because of the vastness of Mengfu, it often takes a lot of time to walk from one garden to another, and the little feet of the master and grandmother can't help walking, so each garden is equipped with a single light soft sedan chair, and two powerful mothers-in-law can lift it. Meng Xuan's "three gardens" also have two soft sedan chairs, but He Angelica has just sent away all the people in the garden, including the rough envoy who is responsible for carrying the sedan chair.

A sneer appeared on Lu Yao's face, and he didn't tell He Angelica that there were still seven or eight serving maids and grandmothers in Aunt Xun and Aunt Bao's room, and it was not difficult to get together two people who carried the sedan chair. The lotus root wanted to say, but she was afraid that He Angelica would assign her to call someone - that Aunt Bao had a bad temper, and was angry that the rough envoy in the garden was sent away, who knew if she would eat the head if she borrowed someone to use it! So the lotus root also remained silent.

However, they don't know that Angelica is a woman who "flies on the grass and has no trace in the water", and it is not a problem to go over the mountains and wade through the water, how can she not take this little bit of piecemeal? The question of taking a sedan chair is just a casual inquiry.

I didn't say anything all the way, and when I arrived at the Qixuan Teahouse, the maid standing at the door saw her from a distance, and recognized it as the belated Seventh Grandmother according to the hairpin ring of her clothes, and hurriedly put up the curtains, bent her knees and smiled: "Seventh Grandma is auspicious, Seventh Grandma is careful at her feet, and Mrs. is waiting in the back room." The voice was loud, and the people in the house heard the message.

He Angelica went in, and saw that on the rosewood case, the copper Ding furnace was carved into a sitting sitting, with his head raised to the sky, and his mouth was spitting wisps of white smoke, which were scattered into various shapes. The incense that can burn this kind of white smoke is none other than red water and white sandalwood, which is expensive, every inch of wood is gold, and it cannot be bought on the market. Mrs. Su lights this kind of incense every day, which can be described as luxurious, and He Angelica has never seen anyone in the Luo family order this.

Around a round table covered with agate stone and wax, sat four women. On the main throne facing the door, a woman with a long bun was dressed in a pine-colored eight-piece brocade skirt, a peach-colored embroidered blouse, and a mango-sized bun with ruby-encrusted eight-treasure hairpins. The woman's eyebrows are picturesque, with a faint smile on her face, looking at her eyes are forty years old, but she actually feels younger, and the color of peach and pine green is matched with her, not only is there no suspicion of pretending to be tender, but also gives people a sense of freshness and beauty.

He Angelica saw that the woman's eyebrows were a little similar to Meng Xuan, and when he saw her solemn appearance without anger and self-authority, he knew that she must be Mrs. Su, so he stepped forward and saluted: "Qingning to meet her mother-in-law, delay her greeting, and hope to beg her mother-in-law to forgive." ”

Mrs. Su did not immediately call her up, but asked her to raise her head to look at herself. So He Angelica raised his head, regarded himself as a pearl porcelain on the Bogu shelf, generous, and looked at his mother-in-law.

While Mrs. Su looked at her, she lowered her gaze slightly, and caught the huge bun on Mrs. Su's head with her afterglow, and couldn't help but be amazed.

Cheng Tianding is such a six- or seven-pound thing, and you have to insert one or two catties of hairpin flat square to match, otherwise what's the fun of just a big black ball, in the long run, just thinking about it, I feel that my neck is tired and panicked, and it is difficult for Mrs. Su to stand up. He Angelica suddenly thanked Bai Yangbai, fortunately he wielded his sword to cut the green silk, so that she now only has a small bun of less than two catties, otherwise, when she was asked to cut her hair, she would be reluctant.

In such thoughts, Mrs. Su looked at her favorite Xiaoqi's daughter-in-law, held her hand with a smile, dragged her up from the ground, and said: "The ground here is all bluestone slabs, your little girl is the most afraid of the cold, how can you resist kneeling like this?" The rules of our family are loose, and we don't kneel down to the elders, so we will be exempted from this in the future. ”

He Angelica smiled and agreed, but there was a hint of surprise in his eyes. This Mrs. Sue ...... That's a lot of strength! You must know that under normal circumstances, after the junior kneels down the elder, after the elder calls up, most of them just help her, even if you really want to help someone, you will just hold your elbow, and it is rare to see someone as sincere as Mrs. Su - directly and vigorously pulled her up from the ground!

He Angelica smiled, met Mrs. Su's eyes without a trace, and then half-lowered his face slightly shyly, staggering his gaze. Mrs. Su had a pair of Danfeng eyes that looked forward to the brilliance, which was a bit similar to Meng Ying's peach blossom eyes, her pupils were crystal clear, and she looked smiling inside and out, so He Angelica couldn't help but guess, is this Mrs. Su a woman who understands martial arts?

There were only four armrest hoop chairs around the agate round table, and He Angelica came later, without a seat, and consciously stood behind Mrs. Su, making his eyebrows and eyes well-behaved.

Playing dominoes is the most popular entertainment activity among the ladies of the capital, with three people playing, four people sitting in the village and six people playing against each other. Mrs. Su and the four of them have already dealt cards, not to mention that He Angelica is not enough to play the "six-person match", and Mrs. Su's two grandmothers are not good at card skills, so it is destined that He Angelica will not be able to add in for the time being.

At one time, they began to fight cards, they used a pair of two inches long, one inch wide ivory cards, a total of sixty at the beginning, divided into three suits, such as money, Suozi, Wanguan, the three colors are one to nine each two, and the head of the three colors each two two. Each of the four people takes ten cards first, and then takes cards and plays cards in turn. Three cards connected together are called a deck, and those who have three decks plus a pair of cards wins, and the title of winning cards is called "and". One plays the card, two or even three at the same time to inform, to win the card first.

He Angelica stood behind Mrs. Su, looking at such a relatively childish play, after only two rounds of watching, he wanted to play haha, silently held back for a moment, and forced himself to press down two haha, so he didn't dare to continue to look at the dominoes that reached the level of schoolchildren, and only focused on the three women opposite Mrs. Su.

They were concentrating, holding their breath one by one, staring at the dominoes in front of them, completely ignoring the people and things around them, so He Angelica's eyes could study their appearance and clothing unscrupulously, and secretly judge them.