Chapter 21: The First Meeting in the Plum Garden

Bai Yimeng ran out and walked slowly around the garden, and waited for her to walk for a long time before picking some plum blossom branches that bloomed just right.

Fu Yun watched Bai Yimeng make a playful grimace at him, ran out, shook his head and smiled dotingly.

Seeing her back disappear, he walked back to the table, framed the portrait with his hands, and hung it in the room.

Bai Yimeng returned to the dream garden with the freshly picked plum branches, and as soon as he entered the yard, he saw Green Eyebrow, and told Green Eyebrow to find some white porcelain bottles, and then slowly walked into the house after the order.

Fu Yun was originally sitting by the window reading a book in the room, but he saw Bai Yimeng when he first entered the courtyard.

Wearing a light purple dress, with jewelry of the same color, plum blossom makeup of the same color painted on her forehead, holding a purple plum branch in her arms, and smiling at the corners of her mouth, she is another picture of beauty.

Fu Yun couldn't help but smile slightly, put down the book, got up and walked to the desk, picked up the pen and began to draw again.

When Bai Yimeng walked in, he saw that Fu Yun was still standing in front of the desk and writing seriously, so he didn't bother him, walked straight to the side of the table, put the plum blossom branch he was holding on the table, and ordered Qingsi to find scissors.

Green eyebrows and green silk respectively found a white porcelain vase and scissors, Bai Yimeng took it, put the white porcelain vase on the table, held scissors in one hand, picked up a plum branch in the other hand and began to prune it, and put the pruned plum branch in the white porcelain vase.

After a while, the vase was taken care of, looking simple and generous, but also elegant, and at a glance, I knew that Bai Yimeng was a good hand in floral art.

Bai Yimeng looked at the well-cared vase, smiled with satisfaction, gently stroked the flower branches with both hands, smelled the fragrance of plum blossoms, and was very satisfied, and then personally placed the cleaned vase in the room or replaced the previous plum blossom branches.

After Bai Yimeng did this, he looked around the room, clapped his hands gently, and smiled with satisfaction.

When Bai Yimeng was taking care of the plum blossom branches, Fu Yun looked up at Bai Yimeng while painting, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but hook up a smile, and now Bai Yimeng seems to have returned to his former innocent appearance.

It was snowing in the capital that night, and the snowflakes were not very heavy, but it was the perfect place to walk in the snow.

Fu Yun was drinking in the private room facing the street on the second floor of a restaurant, looking at the snow scene outside while drinking, his face was calm, but he couldn't help but show a lonely look in his eyes.

Looking at the sky, looking at the distance for a long time is also a little boring, so I looked down at the streets of the capital, although it was snowing, but there were still many pedestrians on the street, one of the figures was very eye-catching.

It was a woman dressed in red, wearing a red cloak, and holding a plum blossom umbrella, but her face could not be seen under the umbrella, standing at the door of the shop on the street, and from time to time she looked into the shop, as if she was waiting for someone.

Not long after, a group of children chasing and playing in the street ran over, one of them accidentally bumped into the woman in red and fell to the ground and cried, raised his hand to wipe his tears, the other children saw it, seemed to be a little afraid, did not dare to come to pull the fallen child, did not dare to speak loudly, stood not far away and watched blankly.

The woman in red seemed to be frightened by the sudden accident, she didn't react for a while, she was stunned, so she squatted down, held an umbrella in one hand, picked up the child who fell to the ground with the other, gently patted the snow on the child's body, and then took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the child's face, as if she was still comforting the child.

After a while, the child stopped crying, turned and ran to the group of children, and then the group of children ran away again.

The woman in red watched the group of children run away before she stood up.

As soon as he stood up, a person came out of the shop and walked up to the woman in red, and saw that she was dressed as the maidservant of the woman in red.

I saw that when the maidservant girl came out, she moved the umbrella half out, and covered it under the umbrella with the maidservant, and then looked at the things that the maidservant was carrying before turning away, and the maidservant opened her umbrella and carried the box of things behind the woman in red.

The master and servant came towards the restaurant, and after a while they came in, and also went up to the second floor, and when they went upstairs, Fu Yun saw the faces of the master and servant clearly.

I saw that the woman in red looked only fourteen or fifteen years old, with a small round face, big and black eyes, bright and pure eyes, fair and ruddy skin, and the red on her body set off her very beautifully, and the maid was also very delicate.

The two of them were led by Xiao Er to another street facing Accord on the second floor.

Along the way, even in the face of Xiao Er, the master and servant were very polite in dealing with people, and they would not be looked down upon by Xiao Er's status, with a shallow smile on the corner of their mouths, which made people feel very comfortable.

Different from ordinary famous women, there is no kind of arrogant, high-minded, commanding style, let alone pretending, what is a person's character, many times as long as she treats people, gets along with others or speaks, it can be seen, this is not disguised, unless it is the kind of disguise master.

They waited in the Accord for a while, and Xiao Er made the things they needed, took the food box and delivered it to the Accord where they were.

Soon, the master and servant came out, and saw the woman in red walking quickly downstairs with a food box.

Soon after going downstairs, he disappeared into the snow of the street.

Fu Yun looked at the woman in red while drinking wine, a smile flashed on the corner of his mouth, and when the figure disappeared, he took another sip of wine, and leaned against the window boredly.

The snow fell for several days, the ground was covered with a thick layer of snow, and it coincided with the plum blossoms, the children of those families and scholars in the capital held a poetry meeting, which will be held every year, but the venue is different, this year is made by the five princes to do the east, held in the plum garden on the outskirts of the city.

This plum garden is a private garden of the five princes, the five princes love plum blossoms very much, so they specially planted a garden of plum blossoms on the outskirts of the city, all varieties and colors are available, and some varieties are not even in the palace.

Participating in this poetry meeting, there are no particularly strict rules, basically all young people, regardless of high and low, as long as they are readers, they can participate, this is also the way many readers make friends in the capital, but it is hosted by the prince, the specifications are naturally higher, and there are naturally more people who participate.

Fu Yun naturally came, along with his friends.

Fu Yun looked at the scenery in the garden, and couldn't help but sigh at the beauty of the scenery of this plum garden, the variety of plum trees, and after talking to his friends, he went to visit the plum garden.

I don't know how long I walked aimlessly, and I don't know where I went, when I suddenly heard a pleasant sound coming, Fu Yun followed the direction from which the voice came, and saw the owner of the voice behind a moon cave door.

It was a woman in a red dress, a red cloak, and a red hat building a snowman, and from time to time pinching a snowball and throwing it at the two women.

As soon as Fu Yun saw someone, he couldn't help but smile, this was actually the pair of master and servant he had seen on the street before.

The three of them had a great time building snowmen and throwing snowballs, and the woman in red actually beat the two maids faintly defeated, and the two maids dodged and threw at the same time, but the woman in red didn't pay attention, and threw the snowball at Fu Yun, who dodged it lightly sideways.

At this time, the three of the red-clothed woman's master and servant found Fu Yun wearing a white robe and a cloak of the same color, and they couldn't help but be shocked, almost accidentally injured others, and they were also a little embarrassed.

After a pause, the woman in red slowly walked towards Fuyun, and the two maidservants also walked over behind the woman in red, also to protect the woman in red.

"I didn't know that Childe was here, and I almost injured Childe by mistake, so please forgive Childe." The woman in red stepped forward, saluted, and said slowly.

The voice is light and pleasant, not stained with dust, even if the owner of the voice really did something wrong, as long as he speaks, it can make people's anger disappear, and he can't blame it, not to mention that this is not wrong, and he blames himself for going the wrong way and breaking in, disturbing the three masters and servants.

"It's down, it's not it, it's disturbing the girl." Fu Yun also bowed.

"Childe is here for the first time?"

"Yes, I heard that the five princes held a poetry meeting in the plum garden today, one heard that the scenery of the plum garden is rare in the world, and the other also wanted to come to participate in the poetry meeting and make more friends, so I followed my friends to come, attracted by the scenery in the garden, and wanted to enjoy the plum scene, so I walked here unconsciously, disturbed the girl, and asked the girl to forgive me." Fu Yun explained.

"I see, the poetry will be held in the front yard, go out from this garden, through a small garden, and then you can see a lake, the poetry will be held by the lake, the scenery in the plum garden is good, although there are no rules in the garden, most of them can be casually strolled, but this is the backyard, it is a place for women to rest, men and women are different, the son please." After saying that, the woman in red saluted, and then turned around and left with the maidservant.

After watching the woman in red leave, Fu Yun turned around and left.

Fu Yun followed the path pointed by the woman in red to the lake, and saw many people coming to the lake, men and women, all young people.

Several pavilions were built around the lake, and most of the people either walked in the plum grove to admire the plum blossoms or chanted poems in the pavilions.

After a while, someone announced: The Five Princes are here.

Immediately, everyone saw several people walking on the side of the corridor:

Walking in front was a young man with a gentle appearance and extraordinary bearing, the Five Princes, followed by several young men, those were several princes and princes, all of whom were blood relatives of the Five Princes.

After that, there are female dependents, and the first one is the five princesses, who are bright and moving; There were several young ladies and ladies around him, and I think they were also the wives or family members of those young men just now.

Fu Yun saw the woman in red at a glance, but she didn't wear that red hat now.