Breakfast was served with Lin Xian in the main room, and the small bowl of tangled lotus flowers in front of Mingcan was never empty, and my brother sandwiched Lin Xian's clip, and the biggest and whitest pastries must have been piled up in her bowl.

She was overwhelmed with a meal, and Lin Xian asked her not to eat too much, and at the same time gave her a lamp crisp with rose cream.

Lin Xian has never liked sweetness, and when he thought of eating with her this morning, he specially asked the kitchen to make rose cream.

"I went to the stable yesterday to pick out the horses you rode, they are all docile ponies, don't worry, I will always be with you after I go."

Today he wants to have breakfast together, just to talk about it in advance, so as not to lose the bottom of their hearts.

Mingcan's mouth was full of snacks, and he nodded in response to him with a busy "mmmmmmmmmm Lin Xian saw that there was a little cream on the corner of her mouth, reached out and gently brushed it off for her, and said, "Cancan, don't eat too much." After a while, you will probably be upside down. ”

Lin Xian didn't finish speaking, but Xue Mingcan understood what he meant. If you eat too much, you may vomit when you toss upside down.

"In fact, when it comes to horseback riding, skill comes second, the important thing is to learn to communicate with the horse, feel what it feels, and tell it what you want it to do naturally." Lin Xian explained carefully.

Men usually travel on horseback or sedan chairs, while women travel in horse-drawn carriages or soft sedan chairs. Xue Mingyu had been on the horse several times, and the servants walked in front and carefully led him, but Mingcan had not stepped on the saddle yet.

Therefore, Xue Mingyu and Lin Xian were more worried about Mingcan, but she herself didn't care too much, and just asked for the delicious snacks to eat for a while not to be turned upside down by the horse.

After breakfast, she went into the house to embroider a few clusters of jewel jasmine that had not been finished for a while, and at the end of the hour, there was a word from the courtyard that the old lady and the young ladies had gone out of the weeping flower gate, and Lin Xian took the Xue family brothers and sisters to set off from the corner gate of his yard.

The day of the trip was well chosen, the canopy and green curtain carriage traveled all the way, the spring breeze was blowing, the wind was smooth, the warm sun was tepidly on the body, Mingcan wanted to lazily collapse on the car and sleep in the corner, but the car traveled for half an hour, and was still called off by Lin Xian.

"Brother Xian, I seem to have a cold, can I just sit in the car and watch you ride a horse." Xue Mingcan nested in the corner of the incense car and didn't want to go out.

After a moment, she felt Lin Xian's big warm hand covering her forehead. "Where did you catch a cold, but your appetite is still so good this morning. Don't be lazy, just come down and learn to ride a horse. Lin Xian saw through her tricks, and simply hit her sideways and picked her up from the carriage.

The spring was bright outside, Mingcan suddenly went from the faint carriage to the bright hall, the open grass, his eyes were empty, "oops", and he hurriedly covered his eyes with the back of his hand.

"What? Scared before you see a horse? Lin Xian hugged her and rubbed it slightly, and said, "This snack is not eaten in vain, it has grown a lot, Cancan, I can't hold you anymore." ”

"Hmph." Mingchan didn't want to pay attention to him, "Let me go quickly." ”

Lin Xian put her where she was, and went to find Wu Qingbo's horse first, before she had time to say hello to her father this morning.

As soon as the others left, Lin Hongjin was not far away, and he jumped towards Mingcan like a monkey. "Mingcan!"

This sound attracted Lin Tangxiao, she looked in the direction of the second brother's run, and saw a small and delicate girl, wearing a jujube red riding suit, neat and straight, and her skin was as white as snow, fair and tender.

"Why is it that our brother is all around her?" Lin Tangxiao pursed her lips, she came out today and wanted to pester her second brother to practice equestrianism, Lin Hong couldn't be cautious, but she was good at horseback riding.

Lin Tangmei suddenly turned up a burst of irritability under the warm sun, and she saw Lin Xian hugging Xue Mingcan and getting out of the car just now. Although Xue Mingcan is only twelve years old, he doesn't need to pay too much attention to male and female defense, but the eldest brother is now twenty-five years old, and he is reluctant to marry a wife, does he want to wait for the Xue family's cousin to grow up......

Hearing the old lady calling her over there, Lin Tangmei's thoughts had to be interrupted, and she felt that this idea was a little ridiculous. Not to mention that the two are more than ten years apart, the eldest brother probably doesn't want to wait a few years to get married, all she knows, there are already several sisters in the boudoir who are interested in the eldest brother, and in the rumors, the female general surnamed Bian also admires the eldest brother very much. Last year, when she was fifteen years old, General Bian not only gave a gift, but also came to congratulate her birthday in person, all in front of her eldest brother. You must know that this female general has always disdained to deal with the nobles in Beijing.

"Grandmother." When she walked up to the old lady, she didn't think about it at all.

Wu Qingbo's mother, Wang, is the sister of the Empress Dowager, when the Empress Dowager married the first emperor, her family had only one sibling sister, and she has been following her. The former Wu Qingbo was a soldier under the first emperor, and the two were mediated by the queen mother, and the marriage was facilitated.

Although the old lady was born in a common people's family like her sister, she followed her remarried sister into the palace at the age of eight or nine, and drank no longer light rice milk, nor did she have to boil coarse tea and light rice.

She heard that her eldest son was going to the suburbs of Beijing to see the skills of her grandchildren, and she also wanted to go out for a walk, so she followed, and if she was tired for a while, she would go to the nearby Lin family's Zhuangzi to rest.

"Who's that?" The old lady asked her eldest granddaughter.

Lin Tangmei followed her grandmother's finger and saw a girl dressed in red who was particularly delicate, so she replied with a smile: "That's the cousin of the Xue family, grandmother." ”

"Lin Yi's child?" When the old lady heard this, her brow furrowed. Since the young daughter married a merchant and lost the face of his Lin family, when she mentioned her daughter again, she only wanted to call her by her first name and surname, and never call her "Yi'er" or "Nannan".

"Yes, that's Cousin Mingcan, the one over there, who is talking to the eldest brother, is Cousin Mingyu." Lin Tangmei pointed.

The old lady frowned and looked at it for a long time, and finally only said, "It looks very similar."

"Twins, can't they be like that?" Lin Tangxiao said beside him, "Grandmother, that cousin is okay, but Xue Mingcan is really a little hateful. ”

The old lady didn't answer her words, although she didn't care much about the backyard, but it didn't prevent her from listening to the ears of the people around her. She knows how her granddaughter bullied her granddaughter, and how her granddaughter is weak and bullied, but it's all small waves, and she is too lazy to intervene.

"Mei'er, let's go over there and sit under the shed and eat tea for a while, and watch your brothers race horses in a while." The maid turned around with the old lady in her arms, without mentioning the Xue brothers and sisters.

Lin Tangmei was thinking about asking the maid to call the two of them, so she had to give up.

The pergola was set up overnight by the people below, the tables and chairs were complete, and the mahogany Eight Immortals table had tea and fruit snacks, which were neatly and orderly.

At this time, the groom was still leading the horse, the scene was a little chaotic, and Lin Xian chattered and talked to Xue Mingcan.

"When the horse knows that you can't ride, it will want to bully you, and it will be against you, and you want it to go, but it will not be, and it will bow its head and eat to fool you." Lin Hong said cautiously, hoping that Xue Mingcan would ask him for help at a loss.

I didn't expect to wait for her to ask, "What should I do", but I heard her say indifferently, "If you don't go, you won't go, it eats grass, I just sit on it and watch the scenery, and I don't have to be upside down, how good." ”

Lin Hongjin: "......"

"Xue Mingcan, can you have a snack!"

"Dim sum, what kind of dim sum?"

Looking at her round eyes, blinking, I couldn't bear to talk about her anymore. Lin Hongjin sighed and said, "Forget it, it's a big deal I'll take you." I know there's a hill over there, and azaleas will bloom on the slope, but it's March, and I don't know ......if it's blooming."

While he was talking about his plan to enjoy the flowers, a maid came and said that his mother had called him over.

Lin Hongjin's mother, Mei, is a woman in her thirties, and her mother's family is only selling chicken cakes in front of the temple. But Wu Qingbo's younger brother is a concubine, and the old lady doesn't want to bother too much thought on him, when he was clamoring to marry a market woman, the old lady obeyed his wishes before people turned over on their backs.

Because of this, I don't like to see this daughter-in-law, and after the eldest daughter-in-law dies, I would rather leave the affairs of the inner courtyard to my granddaughter than let my daughter-in-law who has little knowledge take care of it.

Mei married into the Lin family, and was really depressed for a period of time when he was not accepted in the first few years, but then he figured it out, so he let go and didn't care, and gave birth to Lin Hongjin with the second master, and lived a small life by himself.

"Be careful when you ride a horse later, be careful not to fall!" Mei was only from the market, and he had seen horses and mules transporting goods, but unlike noble ladies who were required to be familiar with riding and shooting, they were only afraid when they saw the tall horses.

"I know, mother." Lin Hong replied respectfully.

"The little girl you talked about just now is the old lady's granddaughter?" Mei asked.

"Hmm."

"You don't want to stay with her, she dragged you out last time! What's more, the old lady doesn't like her, and you shouldn't be nice to her, just don't go with the old lady. "Mei really doesn't have much vision, he is narrow-minded, and he can only think on the surface.

In her opinion, the old lady is the highest status elder in the family, and a child who is not liked by the old lady really has no need to bother to socialize. And before Xue Mingcan came, although her baby didn't have much to do, she kept to herself and never caused trouble.

"Mother, what do you say? Mingcan is nothing but delicious. It's rare for me to have friends who can talk. Moreover, it was her grandmother who asked her to bring her in the first place, so how could her grandmother not like her? ”

The old lady was sick and confused at the time, and heard the Taoist priest say that these two grandsons could bring good luck to the Lin family. You see, when you came back, your grandmother asked the two of them if they had a word? ”

"I told you to learn more from your cousins, but you don't listen......" Before Mei finished speaking, Lin Hongjin made an excuse to go to his horse, and slipped away like oil on the soles of his feet.

The horse was led by a groom, but he didn't bother looking for it, he just wanted to turn back to find Xue Mingcan, but he didn't expect to turn around and see no one, and finally saw her in the pergola where the female dependents were resting.

Xue Mingcan and his brother were taken by Lin Xian to greet the old lady.