Zhenguo Gongzhong Mansion is actually not far from Wuqingbo Mansion, separated by a few alleys, which is the most lively and prosperous place.

However, the nobles who were ashamed to show their faces still had to take the car. Because Lin Tangxiao almost bullied Xue Mingcan's life last time on the grounds that the car was not enough to sit, Lin Xian had palpitations, so he specially bought a warm sedan chair for her and raised two sedan chair drivers.

Although Lin Xian is the eldest son of Wuqing Bofu, he is only a concubine, and he has always been a little estranged from his sisters, so it is not good to blame him in person. This is done to prevent Mingcan from being bullied again, and secondly, it is also a deterrent: he, Lin Xian, is already an official of the imperial court, so he can go out and set up another door without looking at their eyes.

After Lin Tangmei, who was in charge of the family, found out, he offered to bear the monthly silver of the two sedan chair men, but of course Lin Xian refused. She was calm at the time, but she actually had a pimple in her heart, and she understood that offending Xue Mingcan was offending her eldest brother.

However, a quarter of an hour later, Xue Mingcan's sedan chair fell to the west corner gate of the Zhong Mansion, and Lin Xian took the sedan chair that Xue Mingyu was sitting on and walked forward-the man entered the mansion through the gate.

Zhong Yingyuan, the prince of Zhenguo, is sixty years old, he is the founding father of the country, and he has the merit of following the dragon, and his eldest daughter is the first princess, so this Zhongfu is a first-class Zhong Ming Ding food home. Today, Zhong Fu, the granddaughter of Zhenguo Gong, is over fifteen years old, and will perform and salute, and the generation of climbing the dragon and the phoenix rushed to hear the news, and the alley was noisy for a while, and Xue Mingcan's sedan chair was blocked at the entrance of the alley for a while before barely squeezing in.

And Lin Tangmei and Lin Tangxiao were sitting in a larger carriage, and at this time, they were blocked by the sedan in front of them at the entrance of the alley, and they couldn't advance or retreat.

Seeing that the hour was about to pass, Lin Tangmei had no choice but to put on a hat with her sister, get out of the car and walk into the house.

Lin Tangxiao saw Xue Mingcan in the crowd at a glance, pointed to the back indignantly, and muttered to her sister: "Why did she go in by herself?" The post under the Zhong Mansion is obviously to invite the female dependents of our Lin Mansion, who is she? ”

Lin Tangmei glanced at her and asked her to stretch her hand back, not to say anything about Xue Mingcan, but only to tell her not to point her index finger at people. "The mother is gone, the more we must know the books and etiquette, so as not to be seen by outsiders, just saying that we are children without mother's upbringing, and also insulting the good reputation of the mother."

Lin Tangxiao stopped talking and obediently followed her sister into the house.

But at the moment when my sister stopped Xue Mingcan, the little jealousy in my heart couldn't help but "pout".

"Cousin Mingcan, we thought you hadn't arrived, but you had already arrived." Lin Tangmei stepped forward to talk to Xue Mingcan.

After Xue Mingcan got sick, he didn't have much contact with the cousins of the Lin family, but he recognized that this was the eldest cousin who gave her monthly money every month, and heard Miaohui say that she cared about herself very much, so she had a good impression of her, so she smiled at this time and replied to her: "Hello cousin Tangmei, I went out with Brother Xian." ”

Lin Tangxiao sneered when she heard this, and said in a very small voice that made sure Xue Mingcan could hear it: "Brother Xian? My eldest brother, why are you so affectionate? ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she was poked by her sister with her elbow, and she had to keep her mouth shut.

Xue Mingcan didn't pay attention to it, but asked, "Hey, why don't you see Cousin Tangluo?" ”

Lin Tangmei was stunned by the question, Lin Tangluo in Xue Mingcan's mouth is her sister-in-law, not outstanding, she only hides in the house and embroiders female red all day long, she doesn't like to socialize, she is a dispensable person, and she will only think of her when she releases monthly money.

"Tang Luo didn't like to go out since he was a child. It's hard for Mingcan's cousin to still think about her. Lin Tangmei replied.

"It's not a concern. It's just strange that I haven't seen her every time I go out. Lin Tangluo is one year younger than her, when she first arrived in Lin Mansion, she came to play with herself, and then I don't know why, I never saw each other again.

"You haven't been to Zhongfu, you are not very familiar with this place, and you don't know a few young ladies in the capital, why don't you come with us?" Lin Tangmei smiled.

"That's nature." Xue Mingcan ignored Lin Tangxiao, and followed the two of them slowly through the Hanging Flower Gate.

There are two maids standing in the Hanging Flower Gate, although they are young, but after all, they are guarding the second gate, Beppu and the young lady in their own house, in and out, whether the country is beautiful or fragrant, or the capital of the Chinese, it can be said that there are countless people, but I have never seen such a standard character as Xue Mingcan.

Regardless of appearance, just say that the bearing of the whole body, stunning and public, revealed between gestures, like a full rose, graceful and aura. She seemed to know what they were thinking, and she smiled, and the two maids suddenly thought that it was the fairy concubine who had descended to earth.

"I'm afraid it's a princess from the palace, right?" A maid whispered.

"I think so." Another maid whispered back to her, "There is no one who can compare with these golden and noble young ladies who came today." You see, especially the young lady in front of her, how vulgar she looks. ”

Walking in front of Xue Mingcan was Lin Tangxiao, who had been carefully served. She tried on clothes for half a day yesterday, and picked out jewelry for another night, so she finally dressed up pretty and bright. Don't want to be in the limelight among the young ladies, just want to make the Zhong family's brother shine.

Lin Tangxiao caught a glimpse of the two maids looking at herself, and thought that they were amazed by her beauty and ingenious dress, touched a few newly made palace flowers on the hairpin, and rolled her eyes proudly, and the fragrance hit them in front of them.

Then the aroma wafted to the flower hall of the inner courtyard. There have been a lot of ladies and ladies in the flower hall, and for a while the warm fragrance is melting, and the warblers and swallows are more lively than the garden outside.

Lin Tangxiao has a lot of friends, and all the acquaintances at this time came up to say hello and chat, and there was no shortage of compliments on her beauty today. She enjoyed it and preferred to see Xue Mingcan being left out.

Xue Mingcan had just come before, she was submissive, hunched and inferior, and no one paid attention to her at all, she felt refreshed when she saw it: how beautiful she looks like her, she has no family background and no knowledge, and she is just as annoying.

But this time things seem to be different.

She just stood there quietly, and people talked to her one after another, like a flower that had bloomed, and from time to time it attracted bees and butterflies.

Lin Tangxiao caught a glimpse in the afterglow, shocked and angry. You must know that she has made it clear that she doesn't like Xue Mingcan, and the noble girl who knows how to look at her should also disdain to be with her.

This time, she was forced to take a straight look. It's just a simple cherry red embroidered folded branch pile flower skirt, and there is nothing else on the two flower buds, only two pearls the size of lotus seeds and rice are decorated with red silk satin. But Xue Mingcan seems to be really different from before, but she can't say what is different.

Down-to-earth and generous, talking and laughing freely, and not being surprised in the world, when did she have such a temperament?

Lin Tangxiao was still wondering, someone over there said that the ceremony had begun, and everyone went to the courtyard.

Zhong Fu's mother, Mrs. Zhenguo Gongzi, was making hostas for her, and the lady surrounded several layers, openly and secretly envious of Zhong Fu. Because Zhong Fu's aunt, Zhong Jing, the eldest daughter of Zhenguo Gong, is the emperor's elder brother, that is, the wife of the former prince, although she died in childbirth after giving birth to the lord of Lingxian County, the royal favor for the Zhong family has never disappeared.

Just an hour before the ceremony, a great eunuch came to issue an edict, Emperor Jingren conferred the title of Zhongfu Xiangjun, and the empress dowager and the lord of Lingxian County rewarded many valuable things.

Lin Tangxiao looked at Zhong Fu, who was wearing a hibiscus-colored gold silk knee-length narrow sleeve gown in the middle of the courtyard, and sighed secretly in her heart. Although her grandmother is the sister of the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother does not take care of her mother's family, although her father has the title of Earl Wuqing, but she does some idle jobs that cannot make oil and water.

was a little frustrated, and accidentally found that it was Zhang Yousheng standing in front of him. Lin Tangxiao whispered, "Sister Yousheng, you're here too." ”

Zhang Yousheng turned around and saw that it was the two young ladies of the Lin family, and smiled and bowed.

"Recently, how is the county lord's health?" Lin Tangmei asked. To put it mildly, the girls of their Lin family and the Lingxian County Lord are distant cousins, but they are not as close as Zhang Yousheng, who is not related by blood.

A trace of unhappiness flashed on Zhang Yousheng's white jade-like face, but it quickly disappeared and no one noticed. "Yue'er is still the same, I was supposed to accompany her in the palace, but today is the Zhong family's sister's ceremony, she must ask me to come and see."

Lin Tangxiao stood behind, looking back at Zhang Yousheng like a white swan, with a slender and white neck, and the water droplets falling from his ears were shiny and shiny. I was secretly envious in my heart. Such a good number of qi can only be raised by growing up in the palace. If it weren't for the fact that she was good with the Lingxian County Lord, where would she have the opportunity to live in the palace?

After Zhang Yousheng finished speaking, he turned his head and quietly listened to Mrs. Shizi's recitation of "Female Virtue", but he smelled a trace of sweetness.

This fragrance is very sweet, more than acacia nectar, and she is very familiar with this sweetness.

It is the scent of smoke that Puyue uses to smoke clothes.

She thought that the palace maid had gone wrong, so she took her clothes to smoke them, and although the incense used by Puyue was good, she preferred to use fruits to smoke and dye her clothes.

But when you look down and sniff it, it's not the smell of your body.

Zhang Yousheng couldn't help but be curious, and when he looked around, he saw a slender little girl standing next to Lin Tangmei. Looking at the age of only twelve or thirteen, the eyebrows and eyes have grown, and they are very neat, dignified and elegant.

The girl noticed that she was looking at herself, and smiled at her, with bright eyes and teeth, and a very cute appearance.

Lin Tangmei noticed it and hurriedly introduced: "This is my cousin, Xue Mingcan." ”

Zhang Yousheng nodded, she seemed to have heard her sister Zhang Youxiao say that the Lin family came to a cowering Miss Xue, a small businessman, who didn't know a single big word, lost Lin Tangxiao's face in the circle of noble girls, and was bullied by Lin Tangxiao to death.

But now it doesn't seem to be as unbearable as it is rumored. Zhang Yousheng nodded at her, still looking back. I don't think about the origin of the incense anymore, because the incense used by Puyue is all made in the palace, and even the most noble people can't afford it, let alone this poor woman.