The weather on this day is not good, it is already the beginning, when the carriage rolled and stopped, Wei Zhao finally looked forward to the car like a stone Buddha, and constantly stared at the nurse who was not allowed to open a corner window to look out with warning eyes to get off the car and hand over the invitation to check the opportunity, and hurriedly "broke the ring", and saw at a glance that there was still mist on the straight bluestone avenue, and in the fog, the tall plane trees standing on the side of the road were pale and yellow.

Looking straight ahead, where the sycamore is disconnected, a slightly open Zhu door, it can be vaguely seen that the stone screen inside the door is intricately carved, there should be the Weiguo Mansion, Wei Zhao's eyes are dark, and the corners of his lips can't help but roll slightly, but at this time, the carriage drove again, turned to the corner gate of the Chu Wangfu, and entered the long road.

In front of me, there is only a stone wall, which is slightly boring.

Wei Zhao closed the window, pulled the brocade curtain to block it, and resumed his posture of sitting upright.

I always thought that the road to the back house was still long, but I don't know how long, the wheels rolled and stopped, and the clear voice outside the carriage seemed to be the cold noise between the palace servant and the nurse, after a few words, the curtain was opened, and the nurse leaned out slightly, asking Wei Zhao to get out of the car.

Is it so fast? Wei Zhao was surprised, she knew that there were only two mansions in Zhengzhengfang, and she expected that the Chu Wangfu should occupy a very wide area, and she didn't want the carriage to slow down for half a moment, and she arrived at the second gate, which seemed to be shorter than the Yonglu of the ancestral house in Qingzhou, could it be that the structure of the mansion in Beijing was very different from other places?

Get off the car with questions, but what you see is a screen door, sitting on seven or eight steps of jade steps, standing face to face with the nursing mother, wearing a blue and broken flower narrow sleeves, with a gilded hairpin in her hair, the corners of her eyes are slightly raised, with a smile on her face, looking like a housekeeper in the palace, there are a few mothers-in-law in green clothes and skirts standing behind her, surrounded by a soft sedan chair, at this time they all looked at it with a smile, and there seemed to be some different colors in their eyes, but they calmed down very quickly.

Seeing that the housekeeper took the lead in curtling and saying ten thousand blessings, Wei Zhao took half a step forward, helped him up, and asked with a smile what to call it.

"The old slave's surname is Yang, waiting in front of the princess, and he was ordered to come to greet the second lady, and asked the second lady to move to the soft sedan chair."

The person who came was Mama Yang, she personally helped Wei Zhao into the sedan chair, and then accompanied Wei Zhao's nurse to go inside.

Wei Zhao listened to Mama Yang and the nurse following on the right side, so he lifted the corner of the sedan curtain on the left, peeked in, and saw a piece of planting trees and sparse, it seemed that there was a magnolia, at this time it had passed the flowering period, and the strange thing was that the fragrance should have withered and the jade had fallen, and it was the leaf color that was withered and yellow, and it seemed that the cold wind between the branches was still rolling up and down.

This time, he walked for a moment, and when the sedan chair turned, a photo wall appeared in front of Wei Zhao's eyes, carved with pine and bamboo, pine and bamboo, and Ke Zhi was strong.

Further ahead, but it is a screen door, but it is divided into two sides, blue lacquer and red painting, a black plaque with a gold background hanging on the door, the word "Guan Sui" is written on it, the pen is like a dragon, the charm is beautiful, almost at the same time, Wei Zhao heard the nurse ask with some surprise: "This place doesn't look like an inner house?" I heard Mama Yang say with a smile: "The princess and the princess live in Guan Sui Garden. ”

While speaking, the sedan chair has gone straight in, and the oncoming is a landscape wall, echoing with the one outside, and so on, but see a wave of clear pool, there are three stone bridges across it, the arch in the middle is like a crescent moon, but the two sides are flat bridge decks, which can be used for the sedan chair and traffic, Wei Zhao paid careful attention, saw that the stone arch in the middle was engraved with the word "pity moon", and his eyes involuntarily fell to the water, and saw the clear wave of the shadow, the reflection of a bridge, and the stone arch just formed the shape of the full moon.

On the opposite side of the bridge, is a piece of plum forest that is almost suspicious and can not be seen, the height is uneven, at this time the flowers and leaves are all gone, only the branches are vigorous, it seems to be chaotic at a glance, and it is wonderful to take a closer look at the staggered but wonderful, even the slightest sense of this dry branch is dry, and it is very desirable to look forward to the beginning of the snow, the green calyx Zhu Rui shows its face, what kind of wonderful color and beautiful scenery should be constituted, the soft sedan car passes along the path between the plum forest, there is a strange stone red pavilion in the eye, the tea reed flower pavilion, gradually see clearly a corner of the rising cornice, the soft sedan car finally landed, stopped under the corridor steps.

Lifting the curtain and stepping onto the corridor, before I could see what the scenery was on the side of the leaky window on the wall, I saw three women walking in the moon gate at the end of the corridor not far away, among them the one wearing a cloak of vermilion brocade with raw edges, and the peach-colored skirt was like a slight ripple of water when walking, and the shark beads with the size of rice grains were like jumping water droplets, half hidden and half appeared in the crepe of the long skirt.

The sideburns are pressed with a peony flower made of light gold yarn, the gorgeous seems to be there or not, the golden phoenix spreads its wings between the clouds and temples, and the face of the thin fat powder is not at all robbed of the wind by the golden hairpin, and it is far away, but it is clear that the clear smile in the eyes, the corners of the lips are only slightly raised, which seems to attract people can't help but smile in return.

It is the princess who once had a relationship.

The two people met head-on, Wei Zhao was about to salute, his knees were slightly bent, he was supported by Yijing, and said with a smile: "Sister Zhao doesn't need to be polite." He also introduced two women on the left and right: "This is Ah Ran, the sister-in-law of the prince, and this is Ah Jin, the youngest daughter of the second aunt." Wei Zhao looked at the two, one was as tall as the princess, with chastity between her eyebrows, with some caution in her eyes, and the other was underweight, combing her double snails, pursing her mouth and smiling, her soft long eyelashes flickering.

Each saluted each saluted, and Yi Jing saw that it was not a maid who followed Wei Zhao, but a half-old grandmother, at this time, her eyes were lowered and she stood behind, her expression looked very stern, and she hurriedly asked, "What is the name of Mama", Wei Zhao replied with a smile: "It's my nurse Wei." ”

Yi Jing expected that he was a slave of the Wei Mansion, and he was very trustworthy, so he was given a surname by his master, politely said goodbye to Mama, took Wei Zhao's hand and said: "Come with me into the atrium, a few sisters from my mother's family are here, sitting in the studio, and they are looking forward to Sister Zhao." Just about to turn around, I was "stopped" by Mama Wei: "According to the rules, you should go to the old princess to say hello first." ”

Although this is good, it is somewhat rude to put it forward so bluntly, Wei Zhao is very angry - in the Wei family, the status of the nurse is no better than that of an ordinary servant, and she can completely blame the little master, and the little master can't talk back, teach the mother to know, and avoid a punishment, but this is a guest at a relative's house, and the nurse talks like this, as if blaming people for not understanding etiquette.

And Wei Zhao heard his mother's advice to the nurse last night - "I really don't want to have much contact with them in a door like the palace, Zhao'er has a reckless temperament, and I don't worry about her going alone...... I heard that these nobles in the capital are ...... Even those families are not as particular as before, and there are many omissions in the prevention of men and women...... Although the prince went to Jizhou, there is still Erlang Sanlang, Yu Erlang is married, but there is no need to worry, only Sanlang must pay attention, no matter how informal, be careful not to let Ah Zhao and Saburo talk too much. ”

Really, if you look at people like that, how can you be reckless, don't you know if you are honest and shameful?

Wei Zhao's good mood suddenly shrouded in dark clouds.

Yijing didn't mind, only replied with a smile: "I should have greeted the old princess first, but today my grandmother also came to the palace, and she was talking with the old princess. ”

Mama Wei was speechless at this time, and followed to the atrium without saying a word.

While talking and laughing, while passing the moon door, the partition wall is still a long corridor, looking out of the corridor only to see the green bamboo Xiao Xiao upright cage cui, it seems to be at a glance can not see the end, this place is more quiet than the vestibule scenery, soon out of the corridor, along the long path meandering, when listening to the murmuring of the stream, but how can not find the water traces, after two artificial stone piles of arches, through a few natural reed houses, only then set foot on a slightly open road, and go forward a hundred steps, only to see a row of houses.

It should be the usual living place of the princess.

The main hall is extremely spacious, but there is no human figure, look to the right, only to see a maid standing outside the green bamboo brocade curtain in front of the next door, smiling and opening the curtain.

The princess walked in with Wei Zhao, and several girls who were sitting or leaning on all stood up to greet each other, and the girl wearing a red begonia skirt and holding a bud stepped forward, two black grape-like eyes stared at Wei Zhao, her eyebrows were curved like a moon, and the corners of her lips were deeply sunken, and she clapped her hands with a smile and said: "This must be Sister Zhao, and she is seven or eight points similar to the fifth brother-in-law." ”

Yi Jing smiled: "The first time I saw Ah Zhao, I thought the same way. He also introduced: "She is my seventh sister." ”

"Sister Zhao." The other is also wearing a red skirt, but it is a girl embroidered with white plums curtsy on her knees, Wei Zhao saw that she and the princess almost had the same clear eyes, but her temperament looked cold, her demeanor was biased and generous, and her two eyebrows were black and straight, which made her face full of heroism, but it didn't make people feel arrogant.

Look at the girl standing next to the plum vase, she has already reached the hair, combing her hairstyle, only a white jade comb is inserted in her hair, hairpins are beaded flowers, Tsing Yi Yue white skirt, eyebrows are like spring willows, the corners of her eyes are long, although she is smiling, she doesn't look very friendly.

"This is my third sister."

After Yijing finished introducing them one by one, she took Wei Zhao to sit down, but when she turned around, she saw that Mama Wei was still standing by the door, and she was busy asking Chun Du to take her to the side room for tea, Mama Wei was reluctant at first: "The second lady didn't bring other maids, and the slave didn't dare to be lazy." Seeing Wei Zhao's frustration that he couldn't hide, Yijing smiled heartily, and then persuaded: "Don't worry, Mama, we will take care of it, we won't snub Azhao, Mama is also a guest, how can I work for you, it's cloudy today, I've not been spared the cold all the way, Mama still has a cup of hot tea to warm up." Glancing at the spring twilight again, the maid understood, and went out with Mama Wei's hand half-pulled and half-persuaded.

Mama Wei saw that she didn't see a foreign man all the way in, but she was also a little relieved, thinking that being too stubborn was not the etiquette of a subordinate, so she didn't insist on leaving an inch.

Wei Zhao was completely let go, while chatting and laughing with a few girls of the same age, while looking at this room, it was indeed a studio, particularly elegantly arranged, a row of windows in the south, pasted with translucent white mulberry paper, in front of the window is a long side of the painting case, the style is simple and unpretentious, the pen and ink inkstone on the case is dazzling, there is a bamboo on the corner flower stand, and there are more than ten scrolls inserted in the blue and white porcelain altar with a big belly at the bottom.

The east and west walls are full of calligraphy and paintings, landscapes and flowers are complete, some are freehand, some are meticulous, the width is a masterpiece, I listened to the introduction of Su Qi Niang, who has the most out-of-the-box temperament, only to know that it is all the works of the son, Wei Zhao was quite surprised - she was in Qingzhou, and she had also heard of the name of Sha Tingke, and read "Cangsheng Fu", although she admired it, she only thought that her cousin was good at writing articles, and she couldn't imagine that a calligraphy and painting would have such a level.

I really should let my mother see if she would be so contemptuous when she mentioned the word "Xungui".

Suddenly, I saw a painting of a plum scene in the snow, but the brushwork and style seemed to be different, and I asked curiously: "This is also made by my cousin?" ”

But I heard the somewhat silent Su Liuniang and the proud tone: "This is made by my fifth sister, she was only fourteen at the time, and I saw her paint it with my own eyes." ”

The name of Kyoto's Shuanghua has not yet spread far outside Kyoto, and Wei Zhao couldn't help but be surprised when he heard it.

A few little ladies chattered about the "great achievements" of the princess at the Fanglin banquet, and after saying a few words, they turned around and went to the kitchen and pantry to "inspect the work" and sneezed several times.

They are all girls of the same age, and it didn't take long for them to get acquainted, and there was laughter and laughter in the studio.

Soon Siniang also arrived, and she said goodbye to the sisters who had not seen her for a long time, and she was even more joyful.

This joyful atmosphere until Er Niang arrived - she looked a little unhappy, untied the cold red cloak and fell into the arms of the maid, forced to say hello to the sisters, soon after sitting, and Sanniang coldly started a war, Siniang persuaded a few words, almost provoked a fire, and ended up laughing and watching, Liuniang is always most afraid of being involved in a dispute, sitting far away alone, Qi Niang, the little yellow warbler, also stopped, sat next to Wei Zhao, and explained in a low voice: "Sister Zhao, don't be surprised, the second sister and the third sister are straight, and I haven't seen you for a long time." , inevitably 'intimate'. ”

Wei Zhao looked at it but was funny, she only felt that it was a quarrel between sisters, which was never allowed in the Wei family, that is, the Bi family, no matter how dissatisfied she was, the brothers and sisters had to maintain harmony on the surface, she had never witnessed the scene of the two sisters arguing.

I don't know that Erniang's mood is really bad today, when I heard Sanniang stab: "The second sister is also a little more lenient, don't say that you have left the pavilion and become the wife of the Zhou family, I don't care if I should come or not, even in the past, it is not your turn to care, this is the Chu Wangfu, I took the invitation of the fifth sister, what is the matter with the second sister Guan?" Showing off his might should also be in the Zhou family, go to the palace to show his majesty, and he is not afraid of people's jokes. ”

Erniang took the case, and a sudden "loud noise" scared Wei Zhao's heart.