On the way back from Chen's house, Tao Yao looked at the red invitation in his hand, went around and around, turned around and turned a thousand times, and he still had to go after all.

I thought I was going to visit during the New Year, but I didn't want to postpone it for more than a month. But at that time, she was quite hopeful and at a loss for the future in her heart, and she didn't know anything about Chu Ping in the mouth of the crowd.

Now, the man in the mouth of the side, in her memory, has more eyebrows, eyes, and voices, as if there are not so many unknowns, which also makes her a little more happy.

Just returned to the Purple Silk Pavilion, Tao Yao did not go back to his residence, so he went straight to Liu Yunjin's residence to listen to the perfume pavilion to take leave.

Listening to Tao Yao and herself knowing where to go, and then looking at her powdery face with spring, Liu Yunjin only looked as usual, and said: "If you want to go, go there, it's just that such a spring banquet is often held by those big families when they are in the capital."

Most of them invited many young ladies to look at the elders of the family together, and in the name of appreciating spring, they chose wives for their children and grandchildren. You'll be dressed up brightly tomorrow, and you'll be outstanding. ”

As soon as he heard this, the smile on Tao Yao's face froze suddenly, the Chu family is not a noble family, is it possible to make trouble with this concubine selection?

Why do you dress up brightly, let others judge your head and feet, and pick and choose.

"Master Liu said with a smile, the old lady of the Chu family just called to enjoy the flowers." Tao Yao replied stiffly.

Liu Yunjin was unimpressed: "Enjoying the flowers? I see that you girls and ladies are the flowers they want to enjoy. On the first day of the third day of March, the spring banquet of the Chu family, is it possible to invite you alone? ”

Tao Yao didn't say anything, just came out of Liu Yunjin, and felt as if he was blocked in his chest, and he couldn't get out.

She looked at the invitation card in her hand, thinking that the young ladies of the various families in Hangzhou had to come and go that day, and you had to compete for the position of the eldest grandmother of the Chu family with every word, Tao Yao was faintly repulsed, and she didn't even want to go.

Thinking about Chu Ping again, is he like this to himself, and is he like this to others?

I just went to the library to study by chance, but there are so many girls and young ladies in Hangzhou, and there is no shortage of people who go to the library to study. Do you want to go with you, too?

What kind of romantic history does he have? On the third day of the third month of March, what kind of girls and young ladies can you meet at his house, will there be his childhood sweetheart? And those whom he admires and those who admire him?

Tao Yao didn't know what she was.

But it was only a few days of depression, and it was the third day of the third month of March.

On this day, the Shao family did not wait for Tao Yao to go to Liuye Lane to pick her up, but took the Chen family's carriage, took the invitation, and went to the Chu family with Tao Yao with high spirits. It's as if it's to get back the face you lost last time.

The carriage and horses, the peach was still prepared from home, and the father and mother prepared a meeting gift for the Chu family at that time.

Tao Yao didn't add anything, nor did she subtract anything. I didn't even bother to match my clothes, what I wore last time, what I wore this time, just because the weather is warm now, I don't need to wear a thick silver ratskin cloak, only a thin cloak made of cloud brocade material.

The carriage went to Ping'an Lane again, and it was quiet outside, and there was no car and horse carrying the road and the crowd as Tao Yao imagined.

The little man guarding the door took the invitation from the carriage and hurriedly ran to deliver the letter.

The other two servants stepped forward and moved away from the threshold, leading the two carriages into the main entrance.

The carriage waited in the front yard for a while, and Chu Ping personally greeted the second gate.

The two carriages were also led by the Chu family's servants and stopped outside the Hanging Flower Gate.

Chu Ping stood at the hanging flower door of the Chu family and watched Tao Yao open the car curtain, slowly get out of the car, and in a trance seemed to return to the time when he first saw her. She was dressed almost the same as she is today, except that it was the first sunny day after the snow, and now it is a warm spring breeze.

She wore a light purple cloak, with a splendid peony pattern outlined with gold and silver threads, reflecting her delicate and beautiful face more elegant and dignified.

It's just that unlike the last time I saw her, although she was here for the first time at that time, and Shaw was still arguing with Bai Zhaowen, her eyes were as clear as a mirror, not stained with a trace of dust. But for some reason, Tao Yao had just gotten off the carriage today, and Chu Ping noticed Tao Yao's displeasure.

Tao Yao never thought that Chu Ping would be waiting for them at the second gate.

Chu Ping stepped forward to salute the Shaw Family, the Shaw Brothers were flattered, stepped forward to return the salute to Chu Ping, and praised him for his trustworthiness with a smile all the way, and said that he would come to greet them in person last time, and the Shaw Brothers only regarded it as a polite perfunctory remark, who would have thought that he would really come out to greet them.

The Shaw family was in front, pulling Chu Ping to chat enthusiastically, but Tao Yao's face was not much joy, and he only followed silently.

Although Chu Ping walked in front to lead the way, while bearing the praise of the Shaw family's chatter, he still noticed that Tao Yao was in a bad mood, deliberately slowed down his pace, and seemed to care about Tao Yao: "Mrs. and girl go here, grandmother has set up a banquet in the back garden, and is waiting for you to be seated." ”

Tao Yao only smiled and said, "Oh, it's just waiting for us?" The girls and ladies next to me have arrived? ”

Chu Ping asked, but he was so dazed that he paused: "What is the girl next to you?" ”

Tao Yao looked up at him and said, "Today's Shangsi Festival, the Chu family's spring banquet, there must be a lot of girls and young ladies coming to the banquet, right?" It's bothering that Prince Chu is waiting at the second gate one by one. ”

Chu Ping was even more surprised when he heard this: "I know, grandmother only invited the girl and Mrs. Shao to the banquet today, and did not invite anyone else, who did the girl listen to and others?" ”

These words were completely unexpected by Tao Yao, she never thought that Chu Ping and the old lady of the Chu family would only invite herself today.

She looked at Chu Ping with wide eyes and surprise, and she didn't know how to react for a while.

It wasn't until he followed Chu Ping out of the Chu family's third courtyard that he entered the kendo and passed through a moon gate before entering the back garden, Tao Yao's whole person was still fluttering, as if he was in a trance like stepping on the clouds.

The Chu family is really rich and wealthy, the family is big, and the house in this house is also very broad, the house in front is like an ancestral house, similar to Taoyao's house, and the house with three entrances is a little tight because of the large number of people living in it.

But this back garden seems to have been newly built over the years, and it is very spacious.

There are not only flowers and grasses, but also pavilions and pavilions, rockery pond trees, and lead the living water outside the wall into the pool, there are small bridges and flowing water, rockery waterfalls, move to change the scene, it is really considerable.

Tao Yao followed Chu Ping along the rockery grottoes, after the winding path through the secluded, this is suddenly enlightened, the lilacs, cherry blossoms, magnolias, camellia trees, mixed planting garden, through two stages, one is the open-air "Moon Tower", and there is a stage set up in the "Miaoyin Pavilion". Further east, the Chu family's spring feast was placed in a small courtyard, and the plaque on the moon gate of this small courtyard actually said Taoyuan.