Chapter 64: The Eve of the Flower Festival
Since Wen Tanrong came over, several people couldn't help but mention the matter of the peony 'flower' meeting, Zhuo Zhaojie remembered that the agreement with the Chunyu sisters had not been told to her, so she was busy mentioning it, and sure enough, Wen Tanrong did not 'show' any dissatisfaction with her self-assertion and agreeing to others, and nodded happily: "I was thinking that the two of us would be too lonely, but it was just right that Sister Zhuo Qi made an appointment with the two sisters of Chunyu's family." ”
asked Zhuo 'Yu' Niang again, "Is Sister Zhuo Sixth also with you?" ”
Zhuo 'Yu' Niang shook her head and said, "I have other companions, so I won't leave with you." ”
Zhuo Zhaojie said: "When are we leaving?" ”
"This year's 'flowers' will start the day after tomorrow." Wen Tanrong said, "Sister Zhuo Qi will stay here until the day after tomorrow and go directly to the city, or will she go back to the Hou Mansion?" ”
Zhuo Fanghua said: "She has been living here for the past few days. ”
"Then I'll send someone to Chunyu's house to make an appointment with the two sisters, right?" Wen Tanrong nodded and said, "Sister Zhuo Qi wants to go early or late?" ”
Zhuo Zhaojie said: "This is the first time I've seen the peony 'flower' meeting, I don't understand anything, you call the shots, just tell me what to do." ”
Zhuo Fanghua 'interjected' and said: "It's good for you to go early, as soon as the 'door' opens, there are many people who go to the two cities to occupy a position, after all, this 'flower' will be the first day as usual, not only the leader of last year's 'flower' will come out, but also many 'flower' farmers will be famous for Bo, and they will take the lead, and they can see many treasures and precious flowers, and if they go a little later, I am afraid that there are too many people in the city, and Jin Wuwei will have to be not released at that time." ”
"How many people are there?" Zhuo Zhaojie couldn't help but be speechless.
Zhuo 'Yu' Niang said: "What is this? One year I remember, too many people almost knocked down the archway in front of the city, the things on it fell down, smashed a plant worth hundreds of gold 'Erqiao', the 'flower' was bought and put on the carriage, as a result of even the carriage was crushed together, the owner, a royal history was distressed, and later a special book to impeach the Ministry of Works, the repair is not effective! ”
Wen Tanrong nodded and said: "What my cousin and sixth sister said is that although I said that you can go early or later, it can't be too late, otherwise even if we have already booked a private room, we can't even enter the city's 'door', so we can only watch." ”
Zhuo Fanghua reminded again: "On that day, you must not wear clogs, wear boots, and don't bring too many jewelry and accessories, otherwise there are too many people, even if there are people around the 'women', there are times when you can't take care of them, and it is easy to lose things, and that kind of place is 'mixed', and there are inevitably some people with unclean hands and feet. ”
Zhuo 'Yu' said: "I think the best dishes are also brought at home." ”
"Last year, my brother ordered a private room in the West City Drinking Immortal Building, and a few dishes in the Drinking Immortal Building were originally very good, but I didn't want to come up after there were too many people, either it was cold, or I was in a hurry." Wen Tanrong said, "It seems that my brother and I don't care very much, but a few sisters can't eat it, so they can only eat casually. ”
Zhuo Zhaojie wrote down their words one by one.
Wen Tanrong stayed at the Ruan family until noon, and was left by Zhuo Fanghua to have lunch together, Zhuo Zhaojie invited her to sit in the courtyard where she lived, but Wen Tanrong said that the old lady of the Wen family liked to ask the juniors to beat the 'legs' in the afternoon, and said goodbye and went back.
Zhuo Zhaojie went back to the courtyard with Zhuo 'Yu' Niang, and Zhuo 'Yu' said: "I have always heard that this Wen Niangzi is surprisingly virtuous, and now it seems that this is indeed the case." ”
"Didn't you know her before?" Zhuo Zhaojie asked curiously.
Zhuo 'Yu' said: "I can't say I don't know, I've seen a few banquets before, but I haven't had a deep 'friendship', I'm not like you, my aunt is here, I have been growing up, and I can count the number of times I have come with one hand, I heard that the niece and nephew that my aunt has seen the most are the eldest sister and the fifth sister, and it is probably you who come down." ”
Zhuo Zhaojie heard that this meant that Zhuo Fanghua was a concubine, pursed his lips, and changed the topic: "You got that jasper 'jade' flute, I remembered that I had a small box of water 'essence' beads before, and I strung a few of them when playing the palace silk, and it looked good to hang on that flute." ”
"Really?" Zhuo 'Yu' asked, "I also want to match it with a palace silk, how big are the beads?" ”
"There are big and small." Zhuo Zhaojie said, "You can choose as much as you want, after you go back, go directly to Jinghong Building to find Ming 'Yin' or Ming Ye, this thing is what they collected." ”
Zhuo 'Yu' said: "Don't you take any tokens?" ”
"What kind of treasure are you?" Zhuo Zhaojie smiled and pushed her, "Don't just care about playing the palace silk with the flute, you have to think about what you owe me!" ”
Zhuo 'Yu' said: "You can't help it, it must be the peony 'flower' that will pass, and I can only have kung fu." ”
This is like yesterday, the next day after Ruan Zhi went out of the 'door', Zhuo 'Yu' Niang resigned to Zhuo Fanghua, the reason is, of course, that Ju's came to 'handover' the generation of "Mother misses the eldest sister so I can't rest assured", Zhuo Fanghua because she is not good at calling Zhuo Zhaojie alone to speak, and the peony 'flower' will be about to start, since Zhuo 'Yu' Niang is not with Zhuo Zhaojie, she must go back early to prepare, and it is all to blame Shen for being troublesome, causing Zhuo 'Yu' Niang to run back and forth so unembarrassed.
So Zhuo Fanghua symbolized the "sex" of the two sentences, seeing Zhuo 'jade' mother excuse herself, she praised her filial piety, asked the kitchen to prepare a large bag of peach 'flower' cake, and sent someone to send her back - the thing was Zhuo 'jade' mother asked Lianxin to pack up last night.
The front foot sent away Zhuo 'jade' Niang, and the back foot Zhuo Fanghua called Zhuo Zhaojie into the inner room and sent people away.
Sure enough, Zhuo Fanghua straightened his face and spoke: "I heard that you love the Hou Shizi of Yongcheng?" ”
"Yes." Although Zhuo Zhaojie is a little afraid of this aunt for no reason, she has grown up pampered and is very arrogant.
Zhuo Fanghua said lightly: "Then why hasn't the Ning family moved?" ”
Zhuo Zhaojie was stunned for a moment, and Zhuo Fanghua continued: "Before, when you were in Jiangnan, you could still say that you would wait for you to come back, and when you came back, you could also say that you were afraid that you would be too surprised, but now, ...... It's been a few days, right? The Ning family has no intention of proposing marriage at all, how confused are you? ”
......Seeing that Zhuo Zhaojie was silent, Zhuo Fanghua thought of You's advice, thinking that this was the first showdown, and there was really no need to 'force' her to be anxious, so he said: "You go down and think about it." ”
Zhuo Zhaojie returned to the courtyard where only he was left, although Ah Xing and Ah Li didn't know what Zhuo Fanghua had told her, but looking at her face, they also knew that they would be careful to serve, and they would never talk too much.
The 'women' served tea and poured water lightly, Zhuo Zhaojie drank a few sips of tea, and the 'gloom' on his face was difficult to get rid of, but Zhuo Fanghua didn't know that what she was thinking about was not whether Ning Shaobi was deliberately 'teasing' herself, but: "Sure enough, my father and mother didn't like Ning Jiu at all, it was just a delaying tactic before, stabilize me first!" Mother kept saying that she would only decide if she had met Ning Jiu, but in fact she didn't mention when she would see her...... I was also coaxed in a daze, and now I was sent to my aunt, the so-called grandmother, I don't know if it's true or not, what my aunt means today is nothing more than instigating me to be suspicious of Ning Jiu!
"It's just that the eldest aunt also underestimated me a little, if I said that I hadn't seen these famous 'door' ladies in Chang'an in Jiangnan before, I might still suspect that Ning Jiu had taken a fancy to my beauty, but in the Nu 'Chun' Garden, I have seen Su Ba Niangzi's Wei Feng Jin Gu, the two little ladies of Chun Yu's family are lively and bright, Sister Wen's virtuous and beautiful show, the little county lord of King Jin I see pity, and the big lady Shi is cold and 'glamorous'...... Even my little aunt is also a beautiful and long-sleeved dancer, and the future eighth sister-in-law is not dignified and generous? Ning Jiu grew up in Chang'an, and he saw these 'sexual' ladies before me, but he had never heard of him having an affair with anyone...... In terms of talent and appearance, maybe I look better than them in terms of beauty alone, but with the grace and talent, a Su Ba Niang is enough to overwhelm me, and I will definitely not be able to enter the Akabane Poetry Society of Her Royal Highness the Princess...... Ning Jiu, he lied to me, what did he want? ”
Zhuo Zhaojie thoughtfully stroked the silver cup in his hand, and thought: "Regarding background, Princess Yikang said before that Ning Jiu is above me, not to mention that the two families are political enemies, if he doesn't really like me, why bother doing this?" Besides, people like him are not sincere...... Why are you willing to obey me like that, and bother to prepare the song "Lovesickness"? ”
Thinking of the sentence "Morning and dusk are not forgotten, tears often fall like beads", Zhuo Zhaojie's heart was slightly 'swinging', and the anger that had been questioned and persuaded by You's and Zhuo Fanghua suddenly 'swinged', she sighed and thought, "I can't blame my mother and aunt, they are for my good, but I'm afraid that Ning Jiu is not sincere to me, I have to think of a way to persuade them...... When my aunt 'wanted' to marry Uncle Ruan, didn't my grandfather and grandmother refuse at first? But then the eldest aunt persuaded the elders in the end, the eldest aunt can do it, and I can naturally do it, the elders love me a lot, as long as I know that Ning Jiu is really good to me, of course I won't stop it, I think my mother and aunt are willing to be happy with me, the reason why I repeatedly mention Cousin Ruan is that I will have a good life if I marry Cousin Ruan, if I marry Ning Jiu, I can also live well, and they will not have to break up us. ”
She thought about it for a long time, beckoned to Ah Xing, and said, "Have you written down all the things that the eldest aunt, the sixth sister, and the sixth sister and sister Wen said about the 'flower' meeting yesterday?" ”
Ah Xing hurriedly said: "The maid has memorized everything, and there are already some preparations." ”
"Good life preparation." Zhuo Zhaojie said, "Then ask the kitchen to prepare dishes, so as not to have too many people at that time, and it is not good to eat." ”
Ah Xing pursed her lips and smiled: "Don't worry, the Ruan family's chef sent someone to ask the maid what dishes the maid and lady like." ”
That is Zhuo Fanghua's advice, Zhuo Zhaojie nodded, thinking that the eldest aunt really loves herself...... More and more determined to convince her of the idea.