The etiquette was still going on, and Zhang Yousheng didn't take the fragrance to heart.

After that, the ladies had a feast together, and they gathered on a two-story platform next to the water pavilion to wait for the play.

Zhong Fu is naturally like the stars holding the moon, plus Zhang Yousheng is sitting next to her, and a group of noble ladies are almost gathered around the two pineapple rose chairs in the center.

Among them, there was naturally no shortage of people who were curious to listen to the news of the Lingxian County Lord, and Zhang Yousheng smiled and spoke as always.

Xue Mingcan sat in the back and swallowed melon seeds, looking at this group of people coldly, like fish grabbing food, the two young ladies of the Zhong family and the Zhang family were the bait, and the young ladies wearing red and green were the colorful carp in the pool, and they were all coaxed into one place.

"Miss Xue, everyone is chatting there, or you go and ...... too" Miaohui reminded softly on the side, she saw that Xue Mingcan was not liked by these people, and now she is sitting alone in a corner and not talking to people, I am afraid that she will fall into a lonely and weird tongue.

Xue Mingcan shook his head, "It's better to be alone than to be lively with them." Still deftly snorting her melon seeds.

After a while, the play started singing, it was a doll class raised by Zhong Fu, and all the girls in eleven or twelve were singing. She sat in the last row, and couldn't see the stage downstairs clearly, so she had to listen to it with her ears and stuff some pastries in her mouth. However, she soon found that the gossip mentioned by the two young ladies sitting in front seemed to be more interesting than the drama.

The young lady in green said, "I heard that the county lord is very sick, and he has not suffered from the wind and cold, nor has he eaten anything bad, and after sleeping all night, he fell ill in a daze. ”

The young lady in purple clothes nodded again and again, "Yes, yes, I also heard my mother say that when she entered the palace to ask the queen mother for peace, she happened to see the county lord, and she almost didn't recognize it, saying that she was thin and out of shape." ”

"Didn't you collide with some evil?"

The two gasped at the same time, and the purple-clothed one regained her composure first, interrupting her and said: "It's nonsense, the county lord has been raised in the palace since he was a child, and after the death of the first prince, he was raised by the queen mother herself, what is the palace?" The emperor is here, there is dragon pressure everywhere, where there will be any evil! ”

When Xue Mingcan heard this, he couldn't help but pat the shoulder of the green clothes, the young lady was startled, turned her head and wanted to get angry, but when she saw a delicate and watery face, half of her anger disappeared.

"This girl?" It's very raw.

"Oh, I'm the cousin of the Lin Mansion." Xue Mingcan smiled sweetly, "Sisters, who is the county lord you just said?" ”

"Lord Lingxian County."

Sure enough, it was. "Is she sick?"

"yes, very sick."

"How much does it weigh?"

The green girl looked around, and then leaned into her ear and whispered, "We haven't met, and we don't know, but it is said that because of the death of illness, the wedding date scheduled for June this year has been postponed." ”

Xue Mingcan's eyes widened.

"Wedding? Yes and ......"

"Lin Hongxue, the second son of the Lin Mansion. You don't even know that? "Gossip makes women feel friendship. Seeing that she didn't know anything, the Green Girl began to talk to her endlessly. For example, the second master of the Lin family is three years older than the county lord, and this marriage was contracted when the first crown princess was still pregnant with the little county lord. Lin Hongyu has loved the county lord Yunyun since he was a child.

Hearing this, Xue Mingcan's eyes widened a little again. "Love?" She thought of the cold Lin Hongyu on weekdays, and when she was taken out of the box by Brother Xian yesterday, he looked like he was watching a good show.

Will he still love people? What does it look like for him to love people?

Xue Mingcan frowned silently, lowered his head, and ruthlessly stuffed a piece of dim sum into his mouth.

Leng Hui saw that her cheeks were bulging and said, "Girl, you should eat less." ”

"How?"

"This plate of eight pieces of white jade crisp has already made you eat six." Not to mention the plate of melon seeds just eaten, and the dishes served with two bowls of green japonica rice on the feast.

She had already heard a noble girl laughing at her girl's amazing appetite, and besides, it was not good for her body to eat too much.

Xue Mingcan didn't feel too much support, the big hole in her heart faintly twitched again, the emptiness in the hole pounced out with teeth and claws to tear her little heart, she wanted to eat, it seemed that only with food could it be filled, and she could resist.

"I'm going to be complimentary." She had drunk too much tea, and she stood up and bypassed the screen behind her with black lacquer inlaid with a picture of a plum bird, and the two maids followed her down to the attic.

Walking back down the attic, she decided she didn't want to go up. "It's a good spring day outside, so let's choose a place to sit and bask in the sun. After sitting upstairs for a long time, I felt cold. ”

Miaohui nodded in agreement, and the fat powder rubbed by the ladies was fragrant together, and she fell asleep.

The three of them walked and searched, and finally sat down on the Taihu Lake stone in a round pond.

The spring light sprinkled warmly on his body, Xue Mingcan squinted comfortably, and a few golden and red koi fish swam by the side of the stone, spitting bubbles and seemingly enjoying this pool of spring water.

Taihu Lake stones are stacked, and there are a few bushes of low green bamboos on the other side, which are not lush in early spring, but just cover her small figure.

Unexpectedly, she sat on the stone for a long time and felt cold, she sneezed a few frightening times in a row, her little nose was itchy, and she reached out to touch the silk handkerchief, but she didn't touch it.

"I think I got lost on the road when I came back, so Miaohui, you can help me find it."

Miao Hui answered. Leng Hui was afraid that she would catch a cold, so she said that she would borrow a felt to cushion her again. For a while, she was left alone to sit on the stone in a daze.

"Is it really okay for us to come in so hastily?"

"Afraid of what? I remember the road, just go straight to the courtyard of Qisheng. Don't worry, I've inquired, the ladies are all listening to the play in the attic next to the water pavilion, and they won't bump into each other. ”

It's the voices of a few men!

Xue Mingcan was strange, but there was a voice that sounded familiar.

She gently brushed aside a few bamboo leaves, looked out through the sparse bamboo poles, and saw three brocade-robed men passing by the gravel path behind the bamboo. The three of them are all fifteen or sixteen teenagers, and they haven't tied their crowns yet, but it's still a little inappropriate to enter the inner house. Xue Mingcan took a closer look and found that the left side of one of them was red, swollen and swollen, and it turned out to be Lin Hongjin, who was rewarded by Lin Xian yesterday!

She also thought he had a swollen face and didn't want to go out.

"Wait!"

Through a few bushes of bamboo, the man walking in front suddenly stopped his steps, Xue Mingcan thought that she had been discovered, and he was so frightened that he held his breath.

"Is this the way?"

The three of them hesitated.

It turned out that he didn't know the way, and Xue Mingcan breathed a sigh of relief. I heard Lin Hong complaining again: "Think about it quickly, why don't we go back the way we come and find a maid to come in and deliver a message to Qisheng." ”

"It's useful to deliver the message, I didn't come in just now. Agreed to throw a pot today, whoever wins will get a hundred taels of silver, he is good, and he said that he drank wine yesterday and will not come! ”

"I'm afraid that I'll bump into my cousin Lin Tangmei for a while, if I let her know that a foreign man has entered someone's house, she will tell my mother that I don't need this right hand." Lin Hongjin touched his left hand, which was bandaged into a zongzi, and was beaten yesterday.

"You're not afraid of me telling my aunt."

Xue Mingcan came out of the bamboo bushes with a smile, originally just wanted to scare and scare Lin Hongjin, but he didn't expect the three of them to take a step back at the same time. Relieved, I found that it was a little girl.

"Mingcan! You can just scare me to death! Lin Hongjin shouted, "Why are you here?" ”

"I'm listening to a play over there, I don't want to listen to it, so I'll come here to play."

"Who is this?"

The other two saw that the little girl was still young and had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, so they dispelled the idea of vigilance.

"This is my cousin, Xue Mingcan." Lin Hong showed off his big white teeth like a treasure and introduced Mingcan out.

When Gu Zhuoying heard this name, she remembered what her sister had mentioned to him some time ago.

His sister Gu Zhuohua went to have a small gathering with her sisters one day, and when she came back, she said that someone had taken a fancy to him. Gu Zhuoying didn't care at first, because he thought he was suave and graceful, Wenhua crowned, and there was no shortage of women in the capital who admired him, but he didn't expect his sister to keep joking about this and making fun of this girl.

She said that this girl was only twelve years old, and she was a cousin girl who had just been picked up by the Lin Mansion, and her surname was Xue. I don't know when I met him by chance, and since then, I have secretly promised that after her cousin Lin Tangxiao found out, she took it out and publicized it everywhere.

Gu Zhuoying was noncommittal after hearing this, and only chuckled: "At the age of twelve, my heart sprouts, I'm afraid it's early." On the one hand, he admits that his charm is irresistible, and the people who are fascinated by him have a tendency to be younger.

Thinking that this Xue Mingcan in front of him was the person mentioned by his sister before, he couldn't help but put up a shelf, he was a Zhilan Yushu who was as cold as frost and should not be approached by anyone.

After Lin Hong's introduction, the purple-robed boy behind him nodded to her, Xue Mingcan blessed him slightly, but when Gu Zhuoying arrived, he turned his face to the side, revealing only an arrogant side.

What is he dragging on? Xue Mingcan only felt inexplicable, so he simply ignored him and talked to Lin Hong.

Miaohui was still looking for a handkerchief along the same road, and just a few steps away, Zhang Yousheng and a few young ladies walked over.

She was about to rush back to the palace, and Zhong Fu and the Lin family sisters, as well as several noble girls, went downstairs to see her off.

"What's that?"

Gu Zhuohua's eyes were sharp, and he caught a glimpse of the silk handkerchief under the tree. The maid hurriedly picked it up, and Zhang Yousheng's nose moved slightly.

It's that sweet smell again!

"Show me it." As soon as Zhang Yousheng said this, the maid hurriedly handed over the silk handkerchief, which was just an ordinary silk handkerchief from workmanship to fabric. She stared at the lotus koi embroidered on the handkerchief and frowned, sniffing deeply, and the sweet fragrance became stronger.

"This veil is so fragrant, I don't know what spices are used, it smells so good." Gu Zhuohua felt light and comfortable when she smelled it, she used the best Hangzhou powder, and she didn't have this aroma.

Zhang Yousheng's two moth eyebrows became tighter and tighter. Can't be wrong! This is the incense used by Puyue, and it is also the spice that Puyue enjoys, but how can it get out of the palace!

"Whose handkerchief is this?"

The ladies were accustomed to seeing her pleasant appearance, and such a serious look frightened them, and they also knew that something seemed to be wrong.

But they looked at each other, and they didn't know who the owner of the handkerchief was.

Miaohui looked all the way, and happened to see Zhang Yousheng holding her girl's handkerchief in her hand, her eyes lit up, and she hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and said with a smile: "Miss Zhang, this is our girl left, it turned out to be here, so the slave maid is easy to find." ”

"Where are you?"

Lin Tangmei recognized that it was her own maidservant, and hurriedly said: "Sister Yousheng, this maid belongs to our Lin Mansion and is now serving my cousin." ”