Yangning Street is occupied by most of the Yangning Hou Mansion, and there are two official mansions next to it, and the whole street is naturally clean, and there are no shops or other houses. The east end of Yangning Street leads directly to Xuanwumen Street, which is a main road in Beijing, where people and cars come and go endlessly, and the west end intersects with a narrow alley.

As the name suggests, there are several famous spice shops in Beijing, plus the Estee Lauder Pavilion, which is famous for selling high-quality fat powder head oil, Zhang Shengji, who is famous for selling Hangzhou cuisine, Clay Man Zhang, and Duo Yunxuan, who sells calligraphy and painting...... In short, they are all time-honored brands in the Taizu period, and it is most convenient to purchase what to do on weekdays.

On this morning, a mule cart staggered from Fat Powder Hutong to Yangning Street. The mules pulling the cart were still strong, but the color of the coat was not very good, and the carriage was not painted with a natural varnish, but with a chestnut shell color, and a thick layer of blue cloth around the car. The mule cart passed through the Jieyi Fang on the east side and stopped in front of the main gate of the Hou Mansion.

As soon as the car stopped, a few porters who were chatting and talking at the main entrance suddenly noticed, and immediately a cigarette with a blue belt tied around his waist ran down the steps, and scolded the coachman: "Do you understand the rules? If you want to find an acquaintance to go to the back door, you have to report to the door of the west corner, what is this main gate, it is for the nobles to go when they come! ”

The coachman was stunned for a moment, and then a kind voice came from inside: "Uncle Zhang, don't be stunned there, since they have been reminded, let's go to the West Corner Gate." ”

The coachman reacted, but glared at the porter in annoyance, flicked his whip lightly, and soon turned around and headed for the west corner gate. The porter who spoke stood in place and looked at it for a while, and then he pouted angrily and walked back, but muttered in a low voice: "Where did the poor relatives come from, so blind, at this time, who has the time to pay attention to the autumn breeze, our house is also in chaos!" ”

The old rules of the Hou Mansion have always been that ordinary people enter the west corner door and exit the east corner door, so there have always been small servants standing in front of the east and west corner doors ready to wait for the masters to go out or the guests to enter the door. At this time, the mule cart stopped, and a small servant came up to inquire, and as soon as the curtain on the car was rolled, a little girl who was still in the general corner got out of the car, handed over the post and said: "My old lady is the sister of the old marquis, and today I came to visit the old lady of the Hou mansion." ”

As soon as these words came out, the little girl who was looking down at the post suddenly raised his head, looked at the mule cart, and glanced at the little girl who was talking, and saw that she was wearing a new willow green jacket and cleaned up, but she smiled and handed the post back.

"There is something going on in our house in the past two days, the old lady is afraid that she will not have time to see the outsiders, even if I go in for you, the masters must not have the heart to see it."

The little girl was angry when she heard this, and she puffed out her cheeks and was about to fight, but she heard a low call from the mule cart, and hurriedly turned back, and stretched out her hand to help a person get out of the car on the pedal. The girl who got off the car was Su Wan'er, different from the scene of the Great Huguo Temple yesterday, today she was dressed in a new color, with gold and jade jewelry on her head and hands, and she was dressed gorgeously. Seeing the little guy looking at her face, she couldn't help but feel angry, and then said with a pleasant face: "This little brother, you go in and report to the third lady of your family, just say that Su Wan'er asked her grandmother to see, and please forgive the elders for their hard work all the way, and talk to the old lady of your mansion." ”

The little guy was going to push, but the little girl next to him had already stuffed a silver horn up. He weighed his weight, and then he responded with a smile on his face, and ran inside with a reflex. Su Wan'er went back to the car, and after sitting in her skirt, she whispered to the old woman on the side: "Grandmother, the second master of the Hou Mansion just won the title yesterday, why are we here at this time?" ”

"I just won the knighthood, and others are afraid of it, so we can only see the righteous lord when we come here. Besides, at this juncture, they don't dare to be arrogant. Did you see the way you just came, Yangning Street was deserted, and the Hou Mansion was no longer as good as before. Your eldest brother is a lifter, and he may be able to win the Jinshi this year, this family business used to be our high climbing, but now it's not good to say! Besides, we went all the way to Beijing with Wei Guogong, and they also had to calculate the joints. Don't worry, I'm measured, the Chen family can't do it, this family business is beneficial to your eldest brother. ”

Chen is seventy-four this year, his hair is full of silver threads, his face is wrinkled, he is wearing a pine-colored long jacket, and he is wearing a pair of jasper bracelets on his exposed hands, but because his body is too thin and his expression is too rigid, he can't show the wealth and kindness of an old lady from a big family. She married into the Su family at the age of sixteen, took care of housework for decades, and did nothing from the outside to the inside, and had already developed the habit of pointing fingers everywhere. At this moment, she looked at Su Wan'er's makeup with a rigid face, reached out and pulled out the long double-strand golden hairpin, and then said: "People have just suffered something, don't be too gorgeous." ”

Su Wan'er saw that Chen had put the golden phoenix hairpin directly in her sleeve, her eyelids jumped, and then she lowered her head and said, "Grandmother taught you a lesson." ”

Chen nodded with satisfaction, and the grandfather and grandson waited in the car. I don't know how long it took, Su Wan'er was already told by a warning from her grandmother from time to time, and finally waited for the little guy who came out of it in a hurry. When the little guy got to the carriage and sang a big promise, he said, "My old lady invites you two to come to the Tatexiang Temple to speak." ”

Through the hall of the Tatexiang Courtyard, Chen Lan stood there with the red snail, but he thought in his heart that early this morning, Chen Yun said that he was unwell, and Chen Xi said that he was going to serve the sick Mrs. Xu, and they all did not come to the Water Mirror Hall. She just received the post, and after thinking about it, she asked the red snail to go to the Tatexiang Temple to report the news. thought that the Zhu family would definitely find a reason to push back, but who knew that in the end, it was said that someone would be invited in. At this time, seeing Su Wan'er helping an old woman come in at the door, she went out of the hall and went down the steps.

"Grandmother, this is the third lady of the Hou Mansion."

Hearing Su Wan'er say to the old woman next to her, Chen Lan knew that it was the old lady of the Su family, Chen, so she had to take a second look. Seeing that Chen was holding a long nanmu cane, his thin face was a pair of sharp eyes, and his lips were extremely thin, probably because of the perennial sagging, he revealed a little meanness. Just this initial impression, she felt that the old lady in front of her was not a person to deal with.

Sure enough, after coming forward to see her, she just politely greeted her, and Chen looked at her unscrupulously for a while, and then squeezed out a smile: "After all, the third lady is everyone's best girl, and her demeanor is really much more generous than my family's Wan'er." ”

What is this?

Not only the red snail behind Chen Lan, but also several other girls couldn't help frowning. It was just that the old lady ordered to receive it, and everyone didn't say much, a girl stepped forward and supported Chen's left arm, and the group hugged and went to the main room.

Su Wan'er came to a deep mansion like Houfu for the first time, since she unloaded the mule cart and used the small cart to enter the West Corner Gate, she was extremely cautious all the way, lest she take a wrong step and be ridiculed. However, no matter what she said, Chen Lan was just faint, and it was rare to answer one sentence out of ten sentences.

Chen Lan was extremely uninterested in this grandfather and grandson, so she entered the main house, she explained to Su Wan'er, and when she was in the first place, she whispered to the Zhu family who was sitting on the warm couch in the middle, and then she was pulled to sit next to the warm couch. After a while, the girls at the back came in with their grandparents and grandchildren.

It was the first time that the Zhu family on the warm couch saw this Chen family, who claimed to be the sister of their deceased husband, only how sharp her eyes were, and she knew what the situation of the Su family was when she looked at it. Thinking that this was with Aunt Luo of the third room and Wei Guogong into Beijing together, she felt a little more greasy in her heart, but after seeing each other, she said with a pleasant face: "I am old now, and the relatives in the family do not recognize it. After all, after so many years, my sister has never been to the house, so it's no wonder that she doesn't know each other at the door. ”

Chen's age is almost one round older than Zhu's, where can she not hear the wit in this words, but she was able to climb Yangning Hou Chen Yong back then, and she didn't care about the little knives in and out of her words for a long time, so she smiled and said: "Sister-in-law Mingjian, it's not that we don't want to come to see, it's really because there are many things in the family, if it weren't for my grandson to enter Beijing to take the exam this time, I'm afraid I wouldn't have to come here to take a look." Although the Su family is unlucky, his grandfather and father died early, but he is competitive, twelve years old in the show, sixteen years old, no one in the four towns and eight neighbors who do not say a prodigy. The last time I tried because he wanted to serve my illness, he was delayed, but this subject was studied hard for another three years, as long as he could earn a jinshi back, the Su family would be a different situation in a blink of an eye. ”

If he hadn't seen Su Yi yesterday, Chen Lan really thought that he was such a talented person, but at this time, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart. Seeing that Zhu smiled and praised a few words, but Chen's eyes always looked at herself, she couldn't help but be vigilant - yesterday's chance encounter was very likely to be famous, not to mention today's visit. So, she thought about it for a while, and then said in Zhu's ear: "Old lady, since there are guests, the sister of the Su family is about the same age as the sisters, why don't you invite everyone over?" Look at them, they seem to know that there is something going on in the Hou Mansion, don't let outsiders see the joke. ”

Zhu had originally guessed Chen's intention from Zheng's mother, and he was annoyed and jealous, but when he heard Chen Lan say this, he immediately nodded in agreement, and immediately ordered the green calyx next to him: "Go to Ziningju and Cuiliuju, and let the second miss, the fourth lady, and the fifth lady come together." There are guests in the house, and they should always come to meet them. ”

PS: It will be updated from time to time in the near future, so stay tuned...... Anyway, I don't know when it will be on the shelves next month, so I'm bothered to leave a pink ticket or two for me, don't let me shave my head and thank you......

In other words, I said before that the great gods have recently gathered to open new books, and there is another one here. Yunni Sect Master has opened a new book, called "Difficult to Obey Fate", and he has also discussed a bunch of issues such as customs and official systems with me. Let's ^_^ poke the link at the bottom

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