Chapter 35: Flower Viewing Feast
Aunt Du was originally the daughter of Xiucai, but her poor hometown was hit by a flood, and her family was destroyed by a flood. When she was young, she fled to the capital with her younger brother, and was met by an old lady who went out to make incense, and took her in with pity.
Aunt Du is also a duty, she is diligent and has read, the old lady saw that she was good at embroidery and stayed by her side, and later gave Wei Zheng as a concubine, and gave birth to the eldest lady and the second lady successively, and later the eldest son.
It's a pity that the eldest lady was born prematurely and didn't save her life, and the eldest son also fell into the lake and drowned when he was three years old, and finally there was a second miss born later.
The old lady took pity on Aunt Du, so she asked the second lady to follow her to copy the Buddhist scriptures or something, and give some guidance in her spare time.
Aunt Du smiled when she heard this, she was not modest, nodded and said: "The old lady can like the blessing of the concubine, no, the new gown made for the old lady a few days ago won the old lady's reward, and the fifth lady knew about it, and she also pestered me to make one for her, which is the one in front of you, sir." ”
Aunt Du didn't seem to see Wei Zheng's face change, and continued: "Speaking of which, the fifth lady is also a filial person, as soon as the late aunt left, the old lady's health was not very good, and the people in the house were inevitably a little lazy, and in the end, the fifth lady brought pastries to the concubine. ”
Speaking of this, she said a little embarrassed: "Master, you know, the concubine doesn't like pastries very much, but Xue'er likes it tightly." ”
"Xue'er has never liked to talk much, but now she can talk to Miss Five, and she is also a match when it comes to it."
Wei Rongxue was taught by the old lady, and her vision and knowledge are naturally extraordinary, not that Wei Rongxue doesn't like to talk, but she disdains to chat with these girls in the backyard, either to show off, or to be envious and jealous, it is better to read a few more books.
But Wei Nansheng returned to her eyes.
Wei Zheng's heart shook, thinking of Wei Nansheng's stubborn starry eyes, he lowered his eyelids, and his daughter's eyes were very similar to his wife when she was young......
Aunt Du looked at Wei Zheng's expression in her eyes, did not speak, and just sat quietly aside.
At this time, Wei Zheng sighed: "Since it is good for the children to talk together, it is just right to ask Xue'er to take her fifth sister, and the provincial Xiaowu will cause trouble all day long." ”
No matter how he sounded this, it sounded like he was talking to his wife, and he was treating Aunt Du as a lotus princess.
Aunt Du didn't care, nodded in agreement: "Yes, Madam said the same thing, the concubine also looks at the fifth lady to be so cute and cute, the child has to be like a child, who will make a fuss if the child doesn't make trouble!" ”
Wei Zheng came back to his senses and realized what he had just said, seeing that Aunt Du didn't care, he didn't pay attention to it, and the two got up and left after a few more words.
Wei Zheng came out of Aunt Du's place, walked a few steps, and stopped again.
"Master Hou?" The housekeeper doesn't know what's going on.
"Madame...... What's going on? Wei Zheng opened his mouth abruptly.
The housekeeper sighed in his heart, "It's just that it's not good, but Doctor Qin has already given the recipe, and it's good to eat for a while." ”
After all, it's still a heart disease!
"So, you see what medicinal herbs you need over there, pick up the best ones and send them over." Wei Zheng instructed.
"Yes, the minion understands."
Lord Hou and his wife are clearly affectionate, but they have to torture each other like this, when will such a day be the end! Madame is uncomfortable, and Master Hou is also irritable, but unfortunately he is just a slave, and he must not talk too much about such things.
After Wei Zheng left, Wei Rongxue came out of it and asked, "Auntie, I don't understand." ”
What fifth sister helped her aunt, and she can talk to the fifth sister? And brought her pastries? It's pure nothing!
"You don't understand why your aunt is saying good things for your fifth sister and wife in front of your father?"
"Yes." Wei Rongxue nodded, "You just said this, aren't you afraid that your father will be angry and blame you?" ”
Aunt Du asked rhetorically: "Then did your father blame me?" ”
"But what if?"
"Sure enough, it's a stupid boy!" Aunt Du sighed with a smile, took Wei Rongxue's hand and sat down and said slowly, "You are now fourteen years old, and you are about to start saying kiss, you should have understood these things a long time ago." ”
"Although my aunt is just a concubine, I know what kind of temperament the person next to her pillow is. Let me ask you, for as long as you can remember, you have known that your father and his wife quarreled from time to time, but have you ever seen your father really blame your wife? ”
After Aunt Du's reminder, Wei Rongxue woke up, yes, no one in the house knows that the most hated thing by his father is Mrs., the two quarreled as soon as they met, but everyone ignored one point, this is exactly what Aunt said, no matter when, no matter how angry his father was, his father never punished Mrs.
Yes, although Mrs. has been staying in the Water Lily Pavilion without leaving the house, but the food and clothing are in a hurry, and I have never seen anyone deduct half a point, it seems that ......
Aunt Du saw that her daughter understood, and said, "You guessed right, your father is really affectionate to his wife!" ”
"If my father cares about my wife, why do I quarrel with my wife? And all the time, the most favored is the late aunt? ”
"That's what I'm going to say, if you want to survive in the back house, it's not enough to just look at the superficial phenomena." Aunt Du said earnestly.
Late aunt? Aunt Du scoffed, but she was just acting for the people watching the play, what was the most favored? To put it bluntly, isn't it just a pretense and a chess piece?
As deep as the love is, there is as much resentment as it gets! It's a pity that the old man is smart, but he turned his head on the word love, and he will only make the lady feel more and more cold, so that even the last bit of hope in his heart will disappear.
But these are some old things, and they also involve the lord and the wife, she can never tell her daughter, the only thing she can say is to tell her to do a good job of herself.
"Aunt Fang Cai is not wrong about one thing, Miss Fifth is really cute, although she acts impulsively, she has no heart, such a person is the most rare, so as long as you treat her sincerely, she will definitely treat you twice!"
After speaking, Aunt Du said meaningfully: "The purpose of Aunt asking you to do this is to let you win her over!" You know, you don't have any brothers and sisters, and you're going to get married in a year or two, in case you don't have a good life in your husband's family, your mother's family doesn't even have anyone to support you. ”
"Miss Fifth will also marry out in the future, but with her identity, her future husband's family will be no different, if you can make friends with her and gain her trust, she will help you in the future, so that my aunt can rest assured."
Wei Rongxue knew that her aunt was really doing this for the sake of her future, so she wrote down these words.
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The king of Nanyang likes to play with flowers and plants, and has planted many rare treasures, and even the saints are full of praise.
On this day, the county lord of Nanyang Wangfu sent invitations to the ladies of various prefectures in Beijing, inviting everyone to go to enjoy the flowers.
Among them, the Hou Mansion also received invitations.
"I heard that this flower-viewing banquet is actually the meaning of the princess of Nanyang, I heard that the princess wants to choose a concubine for the prince, so she borrowed the name of the county lord to invite everyone over, so the invitation was sent to the hands of the lady, so that all the young ladies in the house can go!" Shen Yu said the news he had inquired about.
"The slave maid also heard that the Hou Ye also received an invitation, but the invitation was an invitation to the sons of our house."
Luo Yan and Mama Xiao were dressing Wei Nansheng on the side, while Shen Yu took out the newly beaten jewelry and gestured on Wei Nansheng's head, thinking about what kind of bun should be combed.
"In this way, presumably this flower-viewing banquet is really the meaning of Princess Nanyang." Mama Xiao opened her mouth and said, "But it's okay, speaking of which, the second and third sons in our house should also get married." ”
The second son is where Aunt Hong is, and the third son is a righteous son adopted by his father, who is recorded in his mother's name, and is very good to Wei Nansheng and Lianji.
Thinking of her third brother, Wei Nansheng felt depressed for a while, in her previous life, she always thought that her brother would be prosperous, but when she was dying, she learned from Wei Ronghua's mouth that she died in vain on the way back.
Why did he come back? My brother's martial arts are so good, how can he die? Wei Nansheng concluded that he was afraid that it was the handiwork of Xiao Jue and Wei Ronghua again.
This time, she will definitely not ask her brother to go back to the old way.
Thinking like this in their hearts, several people had already cleaned up Wei Nansheng.
The face is like snow, the cherry lips are vermilion, and the dazzling starry eyes are pure and pure, but the inadvertent glance at the corner of the eye is charming and fatal, and the waves are like seeing the overlapping camellia flowers, which are bewitching and gorgeous, and they are endless.
Mama Xiao's eyes were full of amazement, and she was stunned for a while before she came back to her senses, and couldn't stop sighing: "Miss is so good-looking!" ”
I remember that the lady was like this back then, and now the young lady is even more beautiful than the lady, and I don't know which son's son will have such a blessing in the future and marry the young lady.
"Miss still looks good in red, if Miss is willing, why don't you just take away those plain clothes?"
Since a year ago, Miss suddenly came back and said that she wanted to wear plain clothes, but they couldn't help but replace all the festive red with all the white, Miss is just weak, but her appearance is too bright, and she doesn't match how she looks at plain clothes.
"It's fine." Wei Nansheng nodded in agreement.
In her previous life, she saw that Wei Ronghua looked good in white, and she wanted to wear it, but she didn't know that she was not suitable for white, coupled with her identity as a descendant, she lost her identity every day when she was white, so it's no wonder that others didn't like it.
Wei Nansheng cleaned up and walked to the gate, and the other ladies in the house had already arrived.
Wei Ronghua wore a blue-white water ripple bamboo silk skirt, with a beige gold thread beaded butterfly cloak on the outside, soft and smooth silk hair pulled up with jasper hairpins, and a few pink flowers between the buns.
If you look closely, every one of her makeup looks is extremely carefully retouched, and this dress alone is worth a thousand gold.