In recent months, the Great General's Mansion has been extremely busy, and everyone is preparing for Huo Yan's family affairs.

Ye Ying leaned against the window and looked at the busy crowd, as if everything had nothing to do with her.

Yilan said a few words to her, she was also a little irritable, and she didn't bother to look at the clothes sent by Grandma Sun.

Jing Zhaoyin, that is the parent official who governs the entire capital, ranks in the third grade, and the prosperity of this capital is prosperous and chaotic, thanks to his good jurisdiction.

If you want to come to such a court, the ladies are by no means comparable to idle women.

It's not something that this little Taoist aunt can compare.

Just thinking of this, Ye Ying immediately took a deep breath and silently warned herself in her heart:

Nonsense, what a little Taoist aunt, she is also the lady of the General's Mansion.

"Hey! What do you think! It's all out of the way! ”

The familiar voice woke her up.

Ye Ying looked up and saw that Huo Yan was coming, so she asked a little angrily, "What are you doing here?" They are all people who are going to get married, and they still have spare time to come to me? ”

"You really don't know what to do, I'm busy with official business and I want to come to see you, but you said this! It would have been better not to come to see you! ”

Huo Yan sat unceremoniously on the chair next to her, and couldn't help but worry when he saw her in a trance.

"What's wrong? Didn't you often play with the of the Prime Minister's Mansion before? I heard Yilan say that you are useless for lunch today, and I see that you have not moved a mouthful of the snacks I sent to you in the afternoon, I see that you are not very good, it can't be the recurrence of the old injury before! ”

"No, no, I'm just bored."

"That's amazing, you don't have anything to worry about on weekdays!"

As soon as she heard this, Ye Ying prevaricated with some annoyance: "Oh, I can't tell you!" You care so much about your daughter's family, just like those idle mothers-in-law in the market who love to inquire about other people's affairs! ”

"You're no one else, you're my little sister, so who else can you care about if I don't care?"

"You don't care about me, you go and take care of my future sister-in-law!"

Huo Yan looked suddenly enlightened, as if he understood the meaning of Ye Ying's words.

"I see, you're bothered by me. Don't worry, even if I get married, I will be your brother, whoever bullies you, I, who is a brother, will not let him go! Besides, as soon as your sister-in-law passes through the door, it will be one more person who loves you and spoils you. Isn't that good? ”

"Come on! It is said that after marrying a daughter-in-law and forgetting her mother, she can't even take care of her mother when she gets married, and she can still take care of her sister? If I am bullied one day, I am afraid that I will not be able to find you anywhere. ”

"The more you talk about it, let's not talk about the side, our lady of Huo Mansion, who eats the bear's heart leopard dares to bully you? And I, Huo Yan, have always done what I said, if there is really that short-sighted bully of you, I will definitely not be able to spare him! ”

Although Huo Yan swore that he had repeatedly promised, Ye Ying was not thinking about this matter.

She smiled wryly twice and pretended to acquiesce.

But what about acquiescence? The future is uncertain, and even life and death are unpredictable, how dare you say that men love women and children love each other?

Distraught, I saw that even the swallows under the eaves flew to the south, what should I do in the future?

The apprehension and uneasiness were even more turbulent than the one she had before Yun Qingguan's departure.

Playing the piano, painting, playing chess, and reading books with Xu Guanju also became boring because of Huo Yan's marriage, and Ye Ying, who had never dared to slack off, became idle at this moment.

The liveliest place in Beijing was the Dongshi Street, and she strolled through it in a state of mind that was not at all as curious as it had been when she had come a few months earlier.

Thinking that day, she sat in the carriage and slowly lifted the curtains.

In the bustling hustle and bustle around him, Huo Yan was dressed in white, riding a green horse, full of spirit, and heroic.

It's all going to be someone else's.

Yilan was a little worried when she saw that she had been absent-minded recently: "What's wrong with the lady these days?" I can't eat, I got up three or four times last night and didn't sleep well, what are you doing when you go out during the day? You should rest at home. ”

"Where are so many words! You're going to go back, go back yourself! At home, you have to listen to Grandma Sun's nagging, and you are still annoyed when you come out. ”

"Okay, okay, then the lady said, where are we going today? Yesterday, I heard from Mrs. that Mei Fangzhuang had arrived with a new material and invited a new tailor from Jiangnan, so it was better to make a few new clothes! It happened to be worn on the day of the child's marriage. ”

As soon as Yilan mentioned this, Ye Ying gave her a sharp look, and she quickly diverted the topic, "The theater over there in Qinghefang also happened to have a new class of female singers, why don't you go to listen to the music and drink tea, yesterday Lord Wu and Lord Wang's lady invited the lady to go with her!" ”

"You! I know how to have fun on weekdays, one will be new clothes and one will listen to music, follow me, where are so many words! ”

Ye Ying took Yilan to stop at the door of a shop, this shop is a little cold, but there is a soft sedan chair and three or two high-headed horses at the door, only to see the plaque engraved with three big characters "Xiang Bao Zhai".

This auspicious treasure is a famous antique shop in Beijing and even in the world, whether it is porcelain and jade or famous calligraphy and painting, this shopkeeper boasts of Haikou, as long as there is no treasure in the world that he can't take.

Ye Ying walked in with Yilan, and the little guy in the store immediately greeted her with a smile when she came, and called the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper walked over from the inner hall quickly, and the smile on Ye Ying's face became even brighter.

"Huo Niangzi, why are you still working over? Whatever you want, send someone to the ward. ”

The shopkeeper instructed his subordinates with a smiling face, "Go and serve tea to Mrs. Huo!" ”

"Are you ready for the gift I told you to prepare?"

"Alright, alright! I'll have someone show it to you! ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the other servant, who took out a brocade box from the inner hall.

When I opened it, I saw that there was a pair of amber cups, and a wild goose was carved on each of the cups, and the craftsmanship was so exquisite that the wild goose seemed to be really ready to fly, lifelike.

The shopkeeper carefully took out one of the amber cups and introduced,

"Look at it, the color of this amber, and this carving, not to mention the entire Jingshi, even if it is difficult to find these two pieces of material carved so well."

Just as Ye Ying was scrutinizing the two amber cups, a young guest with a servant walked in outside the door.

He wears a green jade unicorn crown, wears a dark brocade robe, and wears a dragon jade pendant around his waist without a trace of flaws.

As soon as he entered the door, his eyes also converged on the amber cup in Ye Ying's hand.

His voice was elegant and low, but his words were not so polite, but he said coldly: "This amber is of excellent color, and it is made into a wine cup, and it is finely carved, and even better, it can be made into a pair, which is really rare." How much money this lady pays, I pay double, this amber cup I want. ”

"What a big breath! Childe, I see that you are extraordinary and should always be from a family, why is it the talk of such a market person as soon as you open your mouth? ”

Ye Ying also returned unceremoniously, and when he heard Ye Ying say this, he looked at her contemptuously.

"Lady, this business is voluntary, and the shopkeeper naturally likes high prices, what kind of market are I talking about?"

"There must always be a first come, first come, and this amber cup is prepared by the shopkeeper I asked a few months ago, and it is not a gentleman's work for a son to take advantage of people."

Ye Ying's face was slightly annoyed, she turned her head and said to the shopkeeper: "In this way, on top of the original price, I will add another two hundred taels, for a total of four hundred and fifty taels." ”

The shopkeeper couldn't hide his joy when he heard this price, and just nodded in agreement, the man next to him also increased the price, "I just said, I will pay double as much as you want, nine hundred taels." ”

"I'll give you a thousand taels!"

Ye Ying ignored Yilan's obstruction, but still called out.

But the man said indifferently as if nothing had happened, "Two thousand six hundred taels." What do you think? Still called? ”

Yilan grabbed Ye Ying tightly, Ye Ying looked at her and had no choice but to shake her head, and said angrily: "That's it, let it be given to you, it's just a pair of wine cups!" ”

The man asked the servant beside him to take out the silver ticket from the placket of his clothes, and the shopkeeper took it in his hand and examined it carefully, and then his eyes could no longer look at it.

The man was satisfied and jokingly said, "A girl's house, let's fiddle with more hairpins and shake rouge and gouache!" ”

With that, he swaggered away with his servants. Ye Ying saw that he had already gone away, so she immediately turned around and said to the shopkeeper, "Take it!" ”

"Huo Niangzi's method is really good, you can rest assured, we are the most honest businessmen, this thousand two hundred taels is what was said before, to you, I will add another fifty taels to you, and you should be invited to tea." If there is such a good thing in the future, I would like to ask you to take care of it more. ”

"Don't worry, the benefits will be indispensable to you in the future."

"But the one just now is the Seventh Prince, King Guangling, if he makes trouble with our small shop in the future......"

"What's wrong with King Guangling? This was originally Zhou Yu's fight against Huang Gai, he raised the price himself, and he had bills. Is it possible to come over to find the account at this time? ”

This scene surprised Yilan, which was completely different from the Huo lady she had just met a few months ago.

When she said those words, her eyes were as cold as the snow on the top of the mountain, and her smile was so gloomy in this corner of light.

What made her tremble even more was her sudden glance back.

Ye Ying's gaze at Yilan returned to the gentle appearance of the spring breeze blowing willows.

Intuition told her that the depth and city of this Huo Niangzi were by no means what she usually saw.