Zhou Yan repeatedly promised them that she would come back soon, told them not to run around, and then took them to visit the garden later. The two girls nodded obediently and agreed, and the maid took them to the hexagonal pavilion not far away. Because he was temporarily arrested by Zhou Yan, he was still holding the refreshments that his mother wanted in the upper room. After the maid took them to the pavilion, she confessed to them, and left in a hurry, leaving Shaohua and Jinhua waiting in the pavilion.

After looking around like this, it was clear that it was a passage between the two gardens, and a stone path passed through the pavilion. One side winds into two branches, one is that they have just arrived in the backyard, and the other is connected to a hanging flower arch, which is connected to the back wing. On the other side of the pavilion is a rockery, and if you don't identify it carefully, it's hard to find the arch behind the flowers.

"Sure enough, she is a lady who is spoiled by everyone." Shaohua looked at Zhou Yan's distant backs and sighed helplessly.

It's obviously the host's house, but he left the guests like this and ran away to play by himself. If it is in the Li family, Wanhua will definitely arrange the guests properly, take care of everything in an orderly manner, and try to make the guests feel at home. Compared with Zhou Yan, who is still childish, it is no wonder that Mrs. Zhongyi Hou would say the words of exchanging Wanhua and Zhou Yan.

"yes, that face jewelry is worth more than all my jewelry combined." Jinhua also nodded and agreed.

Shaohua was stunned, she didn't mean this. Although she felt fresh about the mountains, rocks, flowers, pavilions and pavilions of the Zhongyi Marquis's Mansion, she longed for the boundless openness in her heart.

Listening to Jinhua's words, she turned her head and saw Jinhua's longing and yearning look, she was a little worried, for fear that she would have some thoughts that she shouldn't have. "Qi Niang, this is in the Hou Mansion, not as good as in Xiyuan." Shaohua kindly reminded him.

"The fifth sister thinks too much, I know it in my heart." Jinhua muttered dissatisfiedly.

Although he said this, his eyes kept looking around, and the pavilions and flowers and trees reflected each other. Although it is late autumn, there is no desolate and defeated scenery at all, pomegranate hanging fruit, osmanthus fragrance, not a rich breath. She got up, touched the pillars of the pavilion carved with dragon paintings, looked at the golden splendor on the lid of the pavilion, and retreated all the way, gradually moving away from the pavilion. Suddenly, she heard the lively laughter behind the rockery, and she was a little moved and wanted to go over and find out.

Shaohua immediately became alert, rushed over to block her way, and said in a solemn voice: "Qi Niang, the pavilion is not here, you are wrong?" ”

"I'll just take a look at it, I won't go far." Jinhua was a little dissatisfied, bypassed Shaohua, and continued to walk towards the rockery.

Shaohua is willing to let her walk around at will, if Zhou Yan and the others come back and can't find anyone, let the Ling family know at that time, and they will definitely be scolded when they go back. Besides, they are all the first to come back to the Hou Mansion, and the invited ones don't know their family, in case they collide with the nobles, it will not be as simple as being scolded.

But Jinhua didn't think so, she still felt that Su's decision was correct, just because she gritted her teeth and insisted on accompanying the Ling family to dinner, she knew that the Zhongyi Marquis Mansion had posted an invitation. In view of her performance in Xiyuan these days, Li Xunzhuo mentioned it, and the Ling family was not easy to refuse. But if she didn't just come up with it, but more importantly, there were several other ladies with status who came to the Zhongyi Marquis Mansion today, if she could make one or two, it would be the best for her.

Just as the sisters were tugging, a coquettish voice sneered: "I really don't know why Mrs. Zhongyi Hou invited them to come, isn't this a joke?" ”

"What joke?" Another asked gossipingly.

"What other jokes, didn't you see Princess An Jing and the four ladies also came? Who doesn't know the relationship between the princess and the county lord, a pair of golden boys and girls are about to succeed, if it weren't for the county lord's mother rushing back to mourn, I'm afraid it would have been decided a long time ago. The girl scoffed visibly.

"Do you mean the county lord's mother's mother's family? Isn't that a pair with Li Sanniang? A voice was honest and confused.

"Who said a pair? The county lord didn't say anything, she just went to Li's house. Didn't you see that Second Lady Li's mother-in-law looks like a mother-in-law, and she sends things to the clan all day long, for fear that others won't know that she is familiar with the county lord's mother. ”

"But if it weren't for the nod of the county lord, Second Lady Li wouldn't have done this."

"People don't climb where they want to go because of where they are good, hmph, they were still holding on to the third brother of my uncle's family, but as soon as the county lord appeared, she immediately changed the direction of the wind!" The girl was so angry that she even grinded her teeth very loudly, "I want to see how they end." ”

"What do you want to do?"

It's still that coquettish voice, "What else can I do, since Li Sanniang is here, let's naturally go and greet him." ”

"So, there's a good show today, huh?" Someone seemed excited.

"It's fun now, so what are we waiting for, let's go and see." Someone can't wait.

Jinhua was frightened by their conversation, and hesitated whether to rush back to report to the Ling family, after all, if Wanhua made a fool of herself, she would not be of any good. But this was Shaohua, who was originally blocking her from passing, and suddenly turned around and strode towards the rockery. Jinhua was taken aback by her actions, and nervously followed, bypassing the rockery arch, and just happened to collide with a few girls who were chatting just now.

"You damn girl, scare me to death." The leading girl was startled, took a few steps back, and patted her chest. looked at Shaohua, who was expressionless, and saw that her half-squinted eyes didn't seem to put her in her eyes, and she couldn't help but feel angry, "Where did you come from, don't let me go down." ”

Shaohua still didn't speak, her eyes looked at the girl in front of her, a brocade dress that was not inferior to Zhou Yan, and the girls of different ages behind her embraced her, Shaohua had some idea of her identity.

The girl who was standing next to the girl and was slightly taller stood up and said, "Didn't you hear what Yun Niangzi said!" Where are you on an errand, I'll go back and tell Madame to go!" ”

"We're here!" Jinhua looked at the other party's dress, and looked at his own dress, although it was inferior to them, but it was not the material of the maid.

"Which little girl, don't you know the lady of the Anqing Hou family!" The girl said angrily.

"I don't know." Shaohua opened his mouth, making the other party almost bite his tongue.

When Yun Niang heard Shaohua's words, she was very dissatisfied. She knew in her heart that in this courtyard, except for the fourth lady of Princess Anjing's family and Zhou Yan, the master, there was no other lady whose status was higher than her, so she didn't take Shaohua and them in her eyes from the beginning.

However, Shaohua's indifferent and even contemptuous eyes always made her feel uncomfortable, obviously she was just a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, how could she think her eyes were so sharp.

"Then let's know each other now!" The girl took a deep breath and saw that Jinhua's face changed slightly, and she regained some confidence.

"I don't want to know." Shaohua turned around and left.

Yun Niang was in a hurry, when had she ever been so despised, and she was so angry that she jumped to her feet. "Who are you, stop me!" I was about to go up and grab Shaohua to teach him a lesson, but somehow, I suddenly felt weak in my ankle, and I fell to the ground. The girls around him were frightened and gathered around.

"Yun Niangzi, are you okay?"

"Yun Niangzi, what's wrong with you."

"Yun Niangzi ......"

The girls asked in a gossipy manner, making Yun Niang's head dizzy, and yelling angrily: "Don't help me up yet." Only then did everyone wake up, helped her up, and when she stood still, where could they still see Shaohua's figure, "What about people?" What about the two dead girls! The girls looked at each other and shook their heads, everyone was enough to care about Yun Niang who fell, where did they still have the heart to pay attention to Shaohua's whereabouts. When I find them, I'll have to skin them. ”

"Yun Niangzi, what about now?" The tall girl asked cautiously.

"Don't help me find a doctor!" Yun Niang was already crying in pain.

As early as when everyone was panicked to help Yun Niang, Shaohua grabbed Jinhua and ran back, grabbed someone and asked the direction of the Ling family, pointed to the direction of the rockery, said a few words to her, and then rushed to the flower hall.

Jinhua saw Yun Niang fall, her heart jumped, and she couldn't help but be stunned in place, if it wasn't for Shaohua pulling her away, maybe she would have been caught by them by now.

"Fifth sister, what should I do now?" Jinhua was so anxious that his heart was beating wildly.

Approaching the door of the flower hall, Shaohua stopped, slowed his breathing, and glanced back at Shaohua, "What to do?" ”

"That lady of the Anqing Hou family, what if, what if she finds it?" Although Jinhua didn't know how Yun Niang fell, he thought that he had fallen inexplicably, and suddenly had an inexplicable fear of Shaohua. "What if the third sister and sister Yan can't find us?"

Shaohua raised his eyebrows and spit out leisurely: "Which is Anqinghou's wife, I don't know." I just found that someone fell on the rockery and ran back to call someone, but I got lost, and I didn't know where the third sister went, so I had to come back to find A-Niang. In fact, hearing Yun Niang's words, Shaohua could somewhat guess her relationship with Wei Saburo, and originally thought that she was just fighting for Wei Saburo. But the more she said the content in the back, the more she didn't like it, how could she let Yun Niang go to find trouble with Wanhua and the Ling family, but in the end, it was in the way of her identity, so she thought about teaching her a little lesson in the past.

Unexpectedly, when she walked up the rockery, she happened to see someone in the flower gallery opposite the rockery looking towards her. Although it was not clear whether the other party could see them, Shaohua was still cautious, and took advantage of the accident to collide with Yun Niang, and secretly kicked her.

The rest of the story was deliberately provoked, so that when she stepped forward herself, her feet would naturally fall as soon as she felt pain. Even if others see it, they won't think it's her hands and feet, at most they think that she sprained from the rockery and fell to injury. With the strength she had just now, it was enough for her to recuperate at home for a month, thinking about it like this, she was quite polite to Jinhua at the beginning.

"Fifth sister, you ......" Jin Hua didn't think that Shaohua had already thought of all the excuses.

"What's the matter?" Shaohua turned around and smiled sweetly at her.

"No, it's okay, let's go back." For the first time, Jin Hua felt that the Ling family was not easy to mess with, otherwise how could she give birth to such a terrible person as Shaohua, and even this sweet and bright smile made her feel furious.

Jinhua secretly warned himself: In the future, he must not clash with Shaohua head-on! Not on the side either!