Seeing Duan Qingyan go away, Wen Mei pulled Wen Zhu and said, "Good sister, what you said just now must not be humane to outsiders, my sister is very satisfied with the current situation." ”

Seeing that Wen Zhu was puzzled, Wen Mei sighed and said, "You don't know that the Duan Yan family must not fight evil, and the sister of the Duan family can't help herself." ”

After finishing speaking, he took Wen Lan with one hand, left Wen Zhu, Wen Ju, and Wen Xiaomei behind, and sent the curious twins away, so that the eldest girl sent a few little ladies back to the room without mentioning them.

Wen Mei looked at her younger sisters who were confused, and smiled at Wen Lan: "Have you forgotten the second sister?" It's Tanabata today, and the Tanabata banquet at Xizi Lake is tonight. ”

Except for Wen Zhu, who was still confused, the other girls all showed expressions of sudden realization, Wen Ju excitedly took Wen Xiaomei's hand and said, "The fifth sister is also fifteen this year, let's go together." ”

Xu is thinking of Wen Zhu's "lost soul disease", Wen Mei took the initiative to solve her confusion, "The Qixi banquet is held once a year, only those who are over the age of fifteen can participate, the poetry and piano competitions and calligraphy and painting, the women's three championships will be 'gorgeous', and the men are 'amazing', which has a history of more than 100 years." ”

Seeing that it was not early, Wen Mei pulled Wen Lan, took a group of maids and daughters-in-law, and was busy with the three younger sisters, and when the sun was waning, Wen Mei took the light yarn held by the maid, put it on for the three sisters one by one, and took the sachet embroidered with the word "Wen" in Wen Lan's hand, hung it for the three sisters, and high-fived each other with Wen Lan, and it was done.

Wen Zhu carefully looked at Wen Ju and Xiaomei beside him, the three of them were dressed exactly the same, all wearing aqua blue long skirts, dragging to the ground, a silver chain around the waist half hanging down to the knees, and the head was tied in a double bun, if it weren't for Wen Xiaomei's upper head, it really looked like triplets.

Wen Mei and Wen Lan looked at the three flower-like sisters, and couldn't hide their pride, Wen Lan said with a little regret: "The third sister lost to the Lord Min in poetry last year, and missed the 'beautiful' laurels, at the beginning of this year, the Lord of Min County married Cangzhou Xu, I thought that the third sister could win the first 'beautiful' name for my Wen family......"

Seeing the gloomy expressions of the younger sisters, Wen Mei clapped her hands and said with a smile: "You just have to go to play, and after you leave the pavilion, I'm afraid there will be no chance." ”

Wen Mei waved her hand, and the servant woman carried the small sedan chair over, and helped the three younger sisters onto the sedan chair one by one, Wen Mei said to Wen Zhu: "Third sister, take care of the fourth sister and fifth sister, I and your second sister still have things to discuss with my father, so I will not be far away." ”

Wen Zhu nodded, taking care of his sister is a matter of course.

When the sedan chair arrived at the door, it changed to a carriage, and the carriage did not look very eye-catching, with two horses, and a small servant sitting in the driver's seat, fifteen or sixteen years old, very clever.

After the servant woman put the footstool, Wen Zhu learned from Wen Xiaomei to take off her shoes, got into the car, and the maid put down the curtain, and saw that the carriage was very spacious, with a jasper bamboo cushion under her feet, a small round table in the middle, and an eight-treasure exquisite lamp. There are bamboo curtains hanging on the four walls, and there are four ladies painted on them, or rolling up their sleeves, or pulling up their clothes, and so on, all of which are wonderful.

Wen Ju stretched herself and said, "I'm very tired, I'll sleep for a while." After that, he didn't look at Wen Zhu, took Wen Xiaomei's jade legs as a pillow, and lay down facing the car wall.

Seeing Wen Xiaomei's apologetic smile, the corners of Wen Zhu's mouth raised slightly, and he looked curiously at the furnishings in the car, and saw that the small table was firmly nailed to the car with four legs, and there was a circular recess in the round tabletop, where the four treasures of pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and the study room were placed, and Wen Zhu was thoughtful.

whispered to Wen Xiaomei: "Is my sister also tired?" You might as well take a breath for a while, and my sister will call you up. ”

Xiaomei couldn't help yawning and said with a smile: "I'm really a little tired, I'll be sleepy first, my sister will call Xiaomei later, and take turns to rest." With that, he leaned back in the carriage and closed his eyes.

Wen Zhu sat quietly for a while, saw that the two daughters had fallen asleep, took off the veil on his face, picked up the brush, dipped it in ink, and carefully shook it on the face under his eyes a few times.

I turned my head and saw that the two younger sisters were really like begonias sleeping in spring, their skin was like clotted fat, and the fragrance was striking people, and the ladies on the car wall were shining brightly, and the beauty was incomprehensible. No wonder everyone likes young and beautiful girls, just looking at it like this is already a pleasure.

Wen Zhu looked at the two younger sisters in a daze, until the voice of the servant woman came from outside: "Miss, you have arrived at the West Lake," Fang Rumeng woke up.

Wen Ju and Wen Xiaomei both opened their eyes and woke up.

The three of them got out of the car together, Wen Zhu looked up, the green mountains in the distance were full of shadows, the crescent moon and stars, reflecting the sparkling water of the lake, and the sound of cicadas and frogs chirping in his ears, he couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Look at the top of the West Lake, a hundred zhang apart, there are two high platforms, connected with a suspension bridge in the middle, each with a white sand bank leading to the shore, and the three Wen sisters are at the entrance of the sand bank of one of the high platforms.

Two young girls on the embankment, both wearing green shirts, one girl in a green shirt only glanced at it, and then smiled: "It's the young lady of the Wen family, please show the invitation." ”

Wen Ju took out a red post from the sachet on her waist, shook it gently, Wen Zhu, Wen Xiaomei did the same, and the girl in Tsing Yi raised her hand and made a gesture of invitation, bowed and retreated to the side.

Wen Ju took Wen Xiaomei's hand and walked first, Wen Zhu didn't think it was wrong, and followed closely, all the maids and servants retreated to the side and waited.

Wen Xiaomei and Wen Ju walked up the stairs and asked as they went, "Why do you need an invitation?" ”

Wen Ju said as a matter of course: "This banquet needs to be organized, is it possible to ask those daughters to do it themselves?" Every year, the building boat on the West Lake fights for the name of the host of this banquet, and I don't know how many times it fights openly and secretly. This year, I heard that it was taken by the owner of the Linjiang Pavilion, and my sister will have to look at it carefully, this Linjiang Pavilion is known as the first art building in the West Lake, and there must be a lot of wonderful programs. ”

Wen Zhu was secretly surprised, Art Building? Isn't it a green building? Then he smiled and shook his head, since all the daughters who came came were from various provinces, how could they allow a Qinglou to operate? Shaking the spirit, the steps have come to an end.

Stay on the high platform, find that a pavilion near the lake is built on it, carve beams and paint buildings, occupy a very wide area, there are no hundred zhang to see the square, hang a light yarn all around, dance with the wind, like a dream.

There is an open space in the middle, there are a few low tables around, there are already a lot of ladies who have sat down, all of them are curling Tingting, their faces are covered with light yarns, a number of girls in Tsing Yi shuttle among them, sending wine and fruits, but no one has a hand to eat, occasionally talking to each other, and whispering, never into the ears of a third party.

A young girl in Tsing Yi came and lured the three Wen sisters to her seat. As soon as he sat down, he heard a girl's soft whisper next to him:

"Isn't Mo the sister of the Wen family?"