Chapter 109: Visiting the New Year's Market
When Ye Tanghua walked out of the palace gate, she saw Mrs. Mu's sedan chair stopped at the palace gate, so she stopped and waited. [Ran^Text^Library] []. []. Mrs. Mu walked down from the sedan chair and happened to take a look at Ye Tanghua.
Ye Tanghua greeted her with a smile, and Yingying was blessed: "Tang'er asks for her grandmother." β
Mrs. Mu smiled kindly, and went over to help: "I haven't seen Tang'er for some days after the New Year, and my grandmother also misses it tightly, come over and let my grandmother have a good look." β
Ye Tanghua walked over as she said, took Mrs. Mu out of the sedan chair pole, and said with a smile: "Why did grandmother enter the palace today?" β
"It's not, haven't I seen the Queen Mother for a few days, I miss it very much, I handed a sign into the palace yesterday, and I was summoned by the Queen Mother today." Old Madam Mu still has a kind face, but no one knows how much is true or false in this kindness.
"Since it is summoned by the Queen Mother, my grandmother should go quickly, please help Tang'er with a word by the way, just say that it is not early, Tang'er has already left the palace, please rest assured that the Queen Mother and her old man are at ease." Ye Tanghua is still smiling, making people unable to distinguish between true feelings and false feelings.
"Well, I wrote it down, you should go back quickly, don't worry your mother." Old Lady Mu nodded, waved at Ye Tanghua, and signaled that she could go.
Ye Tanghua bowed again, and then turned to leave, while thinking about the Queen Mother's intentions in her heart.
She and Mrs. Mu were summoned by the Queen Mother on the same day...... Could it be a coincidence? What did the Queen Mother want to convey to the Mu family through Mrs. Mu? And today's Queen Mother's attitude towards her and Qi Yu is also very strange, she thought that meeting Qi Yu in Cining Palace was an accident, but now it seems that she may not be. Judging from the queen's attitude towards Han Yirou, the relationship between the two is already quite good, no matter how much Han Yirou can curry favor, it is impossible for the queen to be so close to her in one day, it can be seen that this is not the first time that the queen has summoned Han Yirou into the palace.
The queen frequently summoned Han Yirou into the palace, on the contrary, the queen mother passed her into the palace, and arranged for Qi Yu to accompany her, and even intended to let the two of them be alone......
Ye Tanghua thought of this, and couldn't help frowning. The Queen Mother did this, could it be ...... Do you want to point her out to Qi Yu?
It's not that Ye Tanghua likes to be amorous, it's just that the Queen Mother's actions today are really abnormal, so she has to be cautious, and the matter involving Qi Yu is too serious for her.
However, it is useless for her to be anxious at this moment, the rest of the things are no longer within her control, the only thing she can do is to take precautions, after all, the Ye family has already made her too busy to take care of herself.
Ye Tanghua found her own carriage and sat on it, she wanted to tell the coachman to hurry home, but she quickly changed her mind, she was finally able to come out of Ye's house once, why was she in such a hurry to go back? It's better to take this opportunity to wander outside, there are too few opportunities for her to go out alone.
She thought for a moment, and instructed through the curtain: "Before you go back, go around to the market on Long Street, Miss Ben has some things to do." β
The coachman's response came from outside the car curtain, Ye Tanghua breathed a sigh of relief, gently leaned on the cushion in the carriage, closed her eyes and recuperated.
Let's put aside the troublesome things first, and all the conspiracies can't continue until she goes home. She is just a little girl who wants to relax now, that's all.
Now that the New Year has just passed, Shangyuan is approaching, many vendors have taken advantage of this time to come out to set up stalls, most of the shops on the street are open, and many hawkers who walk the streets and alleys have also taken advantage of the excitement between the New Year and Shangyuan to set up fixed stalls on the long street, which is called the New Year's market.
In the previous life, Ye Tanghua had only heard of the name of this year's market, and had never been here in person, but in this life, she happened to have such an opportunity, she naturally did not want to miss it, so she asked the coachman to pass the carriage through the year's market, and she could take a good look at the scene of the year's market in the carriage and relax.
However, when Ye Tanghua was really in the New Year's market, she realized how naΓ―ve she was. The liveliness of the market can be described as shoulder to shoulder, it is not easy to have a personal past, and where is the room for the carriage to pass?
"Miss, the car really can't go, why don't you go back?" The coachman was also so anxious that he was sweating, and he was afraid of stepping on pedestrians while holding his horse.
Ye Tanghua was helpless, and she didn't want to go back to Ye's house like this, she thought about it in the car, lifted the curtain slightly, and pointed to a well-known makeup pavilion selling women's utensils on the street: "Park there for me." β
The coachman had a direction, and he was relieved, and walked diagonally across the street, stopping in front of the makeup pavilion, Ye Tanghua got out of the car and entered the door of the makeup pavilion.
This makeup pavilion is also a little famous in Nanyan, it is rumored that from the shopkeeper to the men of all the women, the sale is also for women's use, up to gold and jade jewelry, down to rouge gouache, with a hat and veil and other things, is to be whether it is a high-ranking lady or a civilian woman, all love to come here to shop.
Ye Tang Huafu stepped into the makeup pavilion, and immediately a woman wearing a peach-colored butterfly-sleeved top and an azure fairy skirt greeted her with a smile: "What does the girl want?" β
Ye Tanghua thought for a while: "Do you have a hat?" Veil too. β
"The girl has everything she wants, but it just so happens that we got some fresh tricks yesterday, and all kinds of hats and veils are fashionable, the girl wants it, just give you a cheaper." The woman who served saw Ye Tanghua wearing gold and silver, and the clothes were all good, and saw that there were carriages and horses waiting outside, so she knew that it must be a young lady from a big family who came out to visit the New Year's market, and the carriage was blocked outside, and she didn't want to go back like this, so she came to buy a hat and veil to wear, so that the young lady of the family was the most extraordinary, so the woman also served very attentively.
"It's just a good fit, and the price doesn't hurt." Ye Tanghua didn't care much about the money, after all, Qi Jingzhi rewarded her with five thousand taels of silver and five hundred taels of gold that had not been used, and there were ten thousand taels of silver, although she was not very rich now, but she was quite calm in dealing with the expenses of her daughter in the boudoir.
"Girl, please go this way, there is a hat hanging on the left side of this wall, and a veil hanging on the right side, both of which were newly placed yesterday, and the girl likes it, and I will bring you a new one." The woman who served led Ye Tanghua inside, and arrived at the place where the hat and veil were placed.
Ye Tanghua looked closely at the hats on the wall, and finally pointed to a hat with a tassel embroidered hibiscus flower with a broken jade pendant and tassel after the rain: "That's it." β
The woman smiled and answered, while reaching out to take off the hat, straightening out the tassel and handing it to Ye Tanghua to try it on, after thinking about it, she said: "Looking at the girl's outfit, it must be a young lady from a big family, there is no doubt that there is a seam between the veils of this hat." When the wind blows, it is easy to set off, if it is not good to teach people to see the girl's appearance, it is better for the girl to choose another veil, which can be regarded as prepared? β
Ye Tanghua looked at the hat, and after thinking about it, she nodded and said, "Then let's put on another veil." β
Seeing that Ye Tanghua agreed so happily, the woman was overjoyed, and the service became more diligent, she looked at the hat in Ye Tanghua's hand, and said with a smile: "Since the girl chose a blue hat after the rain, why not match a peach-colored veil?" is the so-called red-pink Qing'e reflecting Chuyun, which is good to listen to and look good. β
Ye Tang Hua bowed his head: "It's good to be peach blossom-colored, you can try it." β
At this moment, two young ladies walked in from outside, one was dressed in red and a feather satin cloak, full of gold and silver jewelry, and the other was dressed in pink, which was also an ordinary feather satin cloak and gold and silver jewelry.
The girl in red smiled and said, "Why doesn't anyone come to greet the huge store?" My two sisters wanted to see the hoods and veils, and they didn't come soon to get them. β
At this time, only the maid in the store was looking at the store alone, and the maid looked at the Ye Tanghua in front of her, and then looked at the door, and suddenly became embarrassed.
Ye Tanghua blinked, and smiled at the maid: "It's okay, since they are all looking at the hat and veil, you went and brought them over, and I will almost finish picking them out." β
The woman in pink took this opportunity to look at the store, her eyes fell on Ye Tanghua, she was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Hey, isn't this Tang'er?" β
Ye Tanghua was stunned for a moment, turned around and looked at the two sisters, and couldn't help laughing: "Who am I, it turns out to be the two sisters of the Wei family?" Sisters are also coming to visit the New Year's market today? β
These two girls are the two daughters of Guangshun Hou Wei Fengxian, one is the sister in red, the name is Wei Ruyu, the one in pink is the younger sister, the name is Wei Rushuang, Ye Tanghua used to live in the Weiyuan Hou Mansion, and the two of them had the best relationship among the nobles in Beijing, and now they meet by chance on the street, and they are naturally very happy.
Wei Ruyu also looked over at this time, and when he saw Ye Tanghua, he was also happy: "I said Rushuang how happy she was, it turned out that I met Tang girl, Tang girl, you are really not kind, you have not come to us once since you returned home!" β
Ye Tanghua greeted a few steps with a smile: "I haven't seen it for a while, it seems that the rain is becoming more and more unreasonable, the Ye family has no one for many years, and I can't rectify it when I go home?" When everything is ready, it is the wax moon, and seeing that it is the end of the year, it is getting more and more busy, where is the time to go out? If you really feel that you have time to go out, why don't you come to see me? β
Wei Ruyu walked over with a smile and gently twisted Ye Tanghua's face: "Okay, you Tang girl, you're getting poorer, I'm just saying a word about you, you have a lot of waiting for me here." β
Wei Rushuang also pursed her lips and walked over with a smile: "Sister, don't say it, where is the clever teeth of the Tang girl that our clumsy tongue can withstand?" Tang girl also accepts it when she sees it, I'm really anxious, my sister said that you can't get your teeth. β
Ye Tanghua sneered and nodded: "Thank you Rushuang for your instructions, I won't say it, lest it be like rain and a bite of meat on my body will be gone." β
Wei Ruyu bit her lower lip and smiled: "You two have become a gang, making fun of me?" Tang girl is down, like frost, you don't even help me? Don't blame me for being unjust, I won't ask you for the money of this veil! β
Wei Rushuang covered her lips and smiled: "My sister is so stingy, I feel sorry for money when I say a few words." Okay, if you don't invite it, don't invite it, the New Year's money in the hand of Sister Hengzhi hasn't been used yet. β
Ye Tanghua said with a smile: "After the New Year, it seems that the rain is becoming more and more stingy, Rushuang doesn't have to worry, I can still do this little host, Rushuang just picks it and counts it in my account." β
Wei Ruyu pursed her lips and smiled: "Okay, I know that the Tang girl is now developed, and she has a lot of money in her hands." In this case, to send the Buddha to the West, simply invite me to do so. β
Ye Tanghua glanced at her, and smiled brightly: "Didn't you send me as soon as you met, and now you want me to invite you?" If you want to be beautiful, I just ask for frost, not your share! β
Wei Rushuang smiled and waved his hand: "Okay, don't be poor, pick it quickly, you won't be able to go shopping when it's late in a while." β