Chapter 150

To put it mildly, in fact, the reputation of the eldest princess in the capital is not very good, but no matter how you say it, she is a royal noble, and there is always a little bit of inflammatory and attached elements in people's inferior nature, so even if there is a more stinky Lu Jiujin in her "neon clothes and feather coat" society, the noblewomen of the family who want to squeeze into the society still don't know how many.

On the day of her "visit" to the orphanage, the eldest princess called for no less than twenty noble ladies to go with her.

As a tour guide for the "one-day trip", when Shanniang led the eldest princess and others to the orphanage, the beautiful appearance inside and outside the orphanage shocked Shanniang, who often came and went.

But she didn't know how surprised the people at the fundraising party were after she passed the news that the eldest princess and others were coming to "visit" to Mrs. Hong. It is said that since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there has always been a deep gap between the literati who relied on the imperial examination to ascend to the throne and the nobles who relied on the protection of their ancestors. The ladies on both sides are mostly just maintaining superficial interactions. Unlike Mrs. Hong and others, who were born in commoners, for the sake of a good reputation, the nobles would not mind donating some money to the poor, but if they were asked to participate in it, these nobles would not want to stain their clothes even if they died. Mrs. Na Hong was a stubborn person, at the beginning, she was also full of enthusiasm among the nobles of various families, hoping to persuade those ladies to come out to help, but because she didn't know how to beat around the bush, not only failed to achieve her goal, but also ended up with the nickname of "dog ignorance", and finally for a long time, no family dared to invite her to the door as a guest. Now that she learned that Shan Niang actually said that the eldest princess would bring a group of noble ladies and relatives to come to the orphanage to "visit", Mrs. Hong was afraid of missing this opportunity, so she arranged for the people in the orphanage to clean the house overnight, clean up the inside and outside, so Shan Niang would see that the courtyard in front of her was a little too neat.

All the orphans and poor homes in the world are the same, they are all built attached to the temple and nunnery, and there are men's and women's houses. Shanniang took the eldest princess to the women's courtyard. Then, when she led the eldest princess into the second gate, and saw the girls who were neatly lined up under the porch, pinching the corners of their clothes in a restrained manner, and trying not to look too timid, Shanniang was stunned again......

I don't know whose idea it was, but Mrs. Hong and the others put all those decent-looking and flattering girls in front of people as if they were selling apples, and some of the women and girls who were disabled and even looked a little scary were not here.

In the blink of an eye, Shan Niang guessed the intentions of Madame Hong and the others—it is true that these noble ladies were originally prejudiced against the orphanage and the poor, and if they really saw those people who made them feel bad, maybe there would be no next chance to attract these people to pay attention to them.

She sighed silently in her heart, pointed to a girl hiding in the crowd and smiled at the eldest princess: "Didn't the eldest princess ask, who cut my dress?" That's her. ”

The eldest princess tilted her head to look into the crowd, and saw a thin girl with yellowish hair, her face flushed, and she looked desperately trying to hide herself in the crowd.

This child looks shy, but it can be said that the fifth wife is the most proud student. Seeing her like that, the fifth lady who came with Shanniang and the others stood up to relieve her favorite student, and smiled at Shanniang: "While it's cool here, why don't you take the eldest princess around, I'll take the children in first." As he spoke, he saluted the eldest princess, and beckoned to the girls who had learned embroidery with her, and led them to the side courtyard.

Shen wanted to learn embroidery from Mrs. Five, so he followed Mrs. Five and asked, "Can I follow?" ”

Because the Shen family has some twists and turns with the second lady Lin, the fifth wife also knows the Shen family, so she kindly took her hand and said with a smile: "Come if you want to come." ”

Suddenly, those who were interested in jade embroidery all followed Mrs. Wu away.

After the children were taken away by the fifth wife, the rest all stood there in a daze, but did not dare to move. Shan Niang knew that there were several of these ladies who loved to raise flowers, so she pointed to one of the tanned little girls and said, "This child has a good hand in orchids." Then he smiled at the boy and said, "Would you like to take the ladies to see the flowers you raised?" ”

The child was bold, and with expectant eyes, he asked Shanniang, "Will the ladies buy my flowers?" ”

The eldest princess couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and look at Shanniang.

Shanniang explained to her with a smile: "It is said that a few days ago, a child sent their embroidered purse to the embroidery village at the foot of the mountain to sell it on consignment, and it was really sold. This is the first time these children have earned their own money, so she guesses that she is envious......"

As soon as she finished speaking, the child nodded vigorously, and one could not help but worry for her thin neck. Then a woman laughed and said, "Don't order it, you big head and small body, look at yourself and plant yourself upside down!" ”

The boy grinned innocently, and immediately showed his teeth that were missing a door panel. She smiled, and suddenly remembered her missing teeth, and immediately reached out to cover her mouth. That childish action immediately made the eldest princess and the others laugh.

Women are easy to be soft-hearted with their children, and although this child is born darker, it is better to be innocent. The eldest princess beckoned to the child, asking the child's age, and followed the child to see the flowers she had raised.

And the other noblewomen, before entering the orphanage and poor home, one by one, according to the rumors in the market, had long imagined these children as a fierce demon, and now they saw these children with their own eyes, but they were just like ordinary village children, and looked more polite, one by one they gradually let down their guard, and while talking and laughing, they followed behind the eldest princess and went to the backyard.

When they arrived at the flower room, Shanniang found that Lin Ruzhi, who had said that she couldn't come today, was also there. The eldest princess saw Lin Ruzhi for the first time, so she smiled and said, "It's the sister of Zhuang Yuanlang, I'm glad to meet it." Lin Ruzhi blushed for a while. The eldest princess smiled and said: "Mr. Lin is very talented, he actually taught a champion and a tanhua, but my fifth brother is stupid, and he has not made an inch of progress after studying with Mr. for so many years." ”

Shanniang said with a smile: "The Fifth Highness will not go to the imperial examination, if he really wants to force him to go down, he will probably study seriously." ”

"Yes!" The eldest princess immediately echoed, and then turned back to the Lu family and said: "Speaking of which, including the one in your family, life is too smooth, and they inherited the knighthood at a young age, which makes them lose their enterprising spirit." It's better for these children, who have nothing, to know how to work hard. ”

When they were talking about the Five Princes here, there were inevitably people who had heard of the "scandal" between Shanniang and the Five Princes before, and quietly looked at Shanniang. However, most people observed for a while, and saw that Shanniang was so down-to-earth and generous, so they believed that they were really slandered, and only a few had ulterior motives, and their thoughts in their hearts could not be understood by outsiders.

I heard Lu suddenly ask: "By the way, the Fifth Highness should also have eighteen this year, right?" It's time to get married. Is there a saying in the palace? ”

The eldest princess immediately sneered and said, "That one has taken a fancy to one, but it's a pity that the old five don't like it." As he spoke, he suddenly glanced at Shanniang and said with a smile: "Do you know who it is?" ”

Shanniang shook her head and said with a smile: "I've only been in the capital for half a year, and I know a few people. ”

"You really know this man." Princess Celestia sneered, "It's your sister." ”

Shanniang was stunned, and was thinking about which sister in the family could reach the fifth prince, when she heard the eldest princess say again: "The sisters of the Yuan family, in my opinion, none of them are good, and they all call the old lady to raise them......

Shanniang suddenly realized that the eldest princess was talking about Yuan Changqing's sister, well, cousin, Yuan Yongmei.

However, she secretly agreed with the words of the eldest princess in her heart. Among Yuan Changqing's brothers and sisters of the same generation, Yuan Changxing and Yuan Yongmei are not good. It's his two cousins, who are actually a little crooked.

The second cousin, Yuan Yonglan, looked very affectionate in front of people, and later Shanniang found out that this person was not so much grateful to the fourth master for taking care of their mother and daughter over the years, but rather that there was a kind of bullying in her nature. For those who are stronger than her and have a higher status than her, she will instinctively attach to them, and even feel that it is natural to obey those in high positions. And in the face of a status inferior to her, she immediately put on a high-minded face. Before Yuan Changqing was in the flowers, she put on a shelf in front of the couple, and it was not until after Yuan Changqing high school that she eased up a little to Yuan Changqing, but she still pretended to be a sister, and in front of Shanniang, she was even more majestic as her sister-in-law. Shanniang has always been a character who refuses to suffer, and she openly and secretly put this "sister-in-law-several ways" before she dared not provoke her again.

And the third cousin Yuan Yongzhu ...... In fact, Shanniang is a little unsure of what to do with her. This third cousin seemed to be the only one in the family who stood on Yuan Changqing's side, but after contacting Shanniang, she found that this person was just silently sympathetic to Yuan Changqing in her heart, and in front of others, she refused to help with anything practical...... Speaking of which, there is nothing wrong with her Mingzhe self-preservation, Shanniang will never scold her for not coming forward to help Yuan Changqing, but what makes Shanniang feel uncomfortable the most is that this Yuan San girl is obviously cowardly, and she does not dare to face Yuan Changqing in a bright and bright way, and when she turns her back on people, she shows in front of Yuan Changqing that she is the only one who is dedicated to him......

As for Yuan Changxing. I don't know what Yuan Changqing has done, he still can't get out of the house. Shanniang asked once, but Yuan Changqing only said lightly that he was cold to the bones, injured his foundation, and had to stay in bed for a long time to recuperate.

In the autumn, Yuan Changxing's typhoid fever was finally cured, and when he was finally allowed to get out of bed by the imperial doctor, he almost couldn't even walk. But when he was finally able to stand up straight on his own without relying on people, he found that his severed and reconnected leg was a full inch shorter than the other leg.

In the Yuan family's flurry of chickens and dogs, the new year has arrived.

What made Shanniang a little crying and laughing was that she led the eldest princess to the orphanage home, originally wanting to attract more people to care about these orphans, poor and weak, but she didn't expect that later, the eldest princess and others ran to the orphanage more times than her. And for example, several rich, idle and enthusiastic ladies such as Uncle Huaiyuan's wife Lu Jiujin were directly pulled into the fundraising meeting by Lin Ruzhi to help.

Now Shanniang found that she was still the same as her in the fundraiser, belonging to the kind of person who fished for three days and dried nets for two days, and only went to help when she was free, and several others, such as the eldest princess and Mrs. Huaiyuanbo, had almost become frequent visitors to the fundraiser. Especially Lu Jiujin. Mrs. Hong is over fifty years old, and her energy is obviously not as good as when she was young, but Mrs. Lu is in the prime of life, and she doesn't need to worry about the situation at home, but she just tells her to focus all her energy on the affairs of the fundraiser. Now Mrs. Hong is negotiating with Mrs. Lu to ask her to take on the position of the next chairman of the fundraising association.

Shanniang is good at accounting, so, just like in Meishan Town, when it comes to the annual winter fundraiser, she is assigned to take care of the accounts.

Now that she has done these things, she is very handy, and in a short time she has cleared the list of items that she has collected in recent days. She was sitting there drinking tea with the Lu family and talking about some gossip in the capital when there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves outside.

Lu Shi looked out through the window lattice, and immediately saw Yuan Changqing wrapped in a black coat, turned around and smiled at Shanniang: "The person in your house is here to pick you up again." ”

Shanniang followed the probe and glanced out the window, hurriedly put down the teacup, and smiled at Lu while straightening her skirt: "Then I'll go first." ”

"Go," Lu waved his hand, and said with jealousy: "Look at this hot one, it's really the newlywed Yan'er." ”

"It's going to be a whole year next month, and I'm still newlywed!" Shanniang leaned on the door frame and turned back to Lu's words, and then lifted the curtain and went out.

Seeing her come out, Yuan Changqing hurriedly walked a few steps to meet her, and said with a frown: "Don't wait in the house, what are you going to do when you come out?!" Look at the freezing! As he spoke, he snatched the cloak from Lu'an's hand and put it on Shanniang personally, and said, "It looks like it's going to snow, will you come over tomorrow?" ”

Shanniang knew that he didn't want her to go out in the snow - to put it mildly, Yuan Changqing had a special satisfaction with Shanniang, that is, if he had any ideas in his heart, he would always ask Shanniang's opinion as soon as possible, instead of directly making decisions for her...... Although, if Shanniang's intentions are a little contrary to his intentions, he will secretly make some arrangements and hook Shanniang around the corner to change his mind...... Of course, sometimes he can succeed, and sometimes like now, Shanniang can see through it at a glance.

When Shanniang squinted at him, Lu Jiujin also followed out of the house, and just heard Yuan Changqing's words, so he smiled at Shanniang: "I cleaned up a batch today, and the new one probably didn't come over so quickly, you can not use it tomorrow." ”

Yuan Changqing gratefully arched his hand at the Lu clan.

Shan Niang deliberately went against him, knowing that she would not be able to come tomorrow, she smiled at Lu Shi and said, "Let's come and take a look, what if there is something that needs my help?" ”

Yuan Changqing's eyes suddenly narrowed.

Lu Shi looked at Yuan Changqing, then at Shanniang, shook his head, reached out and twisted Shanniang's arm, and whispered, "Cherish the blessings!" ”

Shanniang quietly stuck out her tongue and sent Lu Shi in, and when she turned around, she saw that Yuan Changqing's face was obviously unhappy, so she pursed her lips and went over to quietly shake his hand.

Yuan Changqing wanted to continue to keep a straight face, but seeing her shrinking her neck in fear, her heart softened, so she sighed, helped her pull her cloak with her other hand, and pulled her into the carriage.

Before the carriage started, Yuan Changqing suddenly closed the curtain of the carriage, pressed Shanniang against the wall of the carriage, and kissed her viciously.

After entangling for a long time, he let go of her and said with an angry face: "Where did I provoke you again?" You're deliberately angry with me! ”

Shanniang tugged at his sleeve and said, "I just want you to know, just say what you want me to do, let's discuss it slowly, but don't play tricks on me every time." ”

"How did I calculate you?" Yuan Changqing refused to admit it.

"And say no!" Shanniang leaned over and bit him on the lips, "Last time the eldest princess invited me to Xixiao, you didn't allow me to go, but I didn't know if I was allowed to say no, and I turned around and said that it was far away, partial, and unsafe." In fact, as long as you tell me clearly, you don't want me to go with others, you want to take me yourself, and I will definitely listen to you. ”

Yuan Changqing looked at her and sighed, "But you still went." ”

"So," Shan Niang nodded the tip of his nose, "don't play with me anything, it's good to have something to say." ”

"But if I say it bluntly, you agree?"

"It depends." Shanniang smiled.

"Look!" Yuan Changqing complained for a while, simply pulled her to his lap and sat down, and said, "You don't listen to what I said, you don't listen if you don't say it, I can only try to see if there is any way that works......"

Now it can be said that Shanniang is much busier than Yuan Changqing, and there are a bunch of socializing outside, but Yuan Changqing, who was "hidden" by the old emperor, is so idle that his bones are about to be crispy. The first thing he did every day from the Hanlin Academy was to ask his little servant, "Where is the lady", and then he had to pick her up in person, so that almost no one in the capital now knows that the "flower of Kaolin" Yuan Tanhua is only open for his daughter-in-law.

When the two of them were leaning together and gossiping, Shanniang suddenly felt that something seemed to be underneath, and reached out to touch it, but she happened to touch a good thing. She couldn't help but glance at Yuan Changqing, Yuan Changqing immediately blushed, leaned over to Shanniang's ear and whispered something.

Shanniang also blushed, beat him and said, "You dare! ”

"Today, I invite you to Dongcheng to eat pot." Yuan Changqing said, suddenly opened the front window, gave a command to the hot wind who was driving, and then suddenly closed the window.

Because he knew that Shanniang was afraid of the cold, Yuan Changqing deliberately modified their carriage. It can be said that there is no carriage in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty that is warmer than their family's carriage, so it is impossible for something like the previous thing of "freezing Shanniang in Mrs. Yuan's East Pavilion" to happen again......