boudoir

Chapter 72
In previous years, the lanterns for the Lantern Festival in the mansion were hung in the Begonia Courtyard. Today, because of Guo Xia, the old lady specially ordered that the lantern venue be set up near the Floating Champs in the back garden.After the luncheon, Mrs. Yu personally led Guo Xia to the Indus Courtyard to rest, and pointed out two experienced maids to wait on her.Worrying about Yuhua's fate, she hurried to the long room again.

On the way, Ziyan came to meet her: "The third girl has already gone back to her room and lay down."

Yu Shi was still anxious: "Have you ever cried?"

Zi Yan looked gloomy: "To tell you the truth, Ma'am, I didn't rest until I was tired from crying. The girl has never been wronged at this age, and the servant just looked at this and felt..."

Seeing this, Yu's heart ached like it was clenched.That's all for Ting Yu and Ting Fang. There are two sons in the long room, and they are all descendants. No one dares to protect them.Yuhua is different. As the saying goes, a daughter is a mother's caring little padded jacket. She went through untold hardships to give birth to such a precious daughter. What is rare is that she is so intelligent that she loves her as much as her eyes. It's like a child, now that Yan Hua is being bullied by that unprogressive person, how can he swallow this tone?

Immediately, his face sank and he said: "Go to the fourth room!" The group of people turned around and went to the west side.

Coincidentally, when Mrs. Nie came back to her room, she also found out about this incident from her maid. Hearing that she had offended Yuhua, she was so frightened that she pointed at Yanhua and scolded her for a long time, then hurriedly went out to the long room again. apologize.Not long after he left the courtyard, he bumped into Mrs. Yu and his party under the eaves of the corridor.

"Sister-in-law, where are you going?"

Seeing Yu's unkind expression, Nie's heart was even more flustered, and the smile on his face seemed to be squeezed out between his teeth.

Mrs. Yu snapped her head and said, "You have such a good daughter!" She was about to walk into the courtyard again.Seeing her posture, Mrs. Nie wanted to accuse Yanhua of crimes. She was afraid that her daughter would suffer. Her knees were weak and she wanted to kneel down. Fortunately, she put her hands on the courtyard wall and said, "Sister-in-law, forgive me! Yan'er doesn't know the severity of the collision It's her fault that I missed the third girl, so I'll make it up for her! She's a child, and all her mistakes are caused by my mother's failure to discipline her well..."

After talking about it for a long time, Mrs. Yu didn't expect her to pay any attention at all, and wanted to enter the house after pushing her away.

Yan Hua also looked through the window when she heard the movement, and when Yu saw it, she reprimanded: "What are you looking at! Come out!"

Yan Hua couldn't avoid it, so he had to dawdle out of the house.Tongfang Mincui, who lives in the backyard, wanted to come out to watch the excitement, so he stepped to the door of the backyard, but when he saw the battle, he hastily withdrew his foot back.

Yan Hua came to him, lowered his head to look at Nie Shi, bit his lower lip and saluted Yu Shi.Seeing her, Mrs. Yu thought of Yuhua's aggrieved appearance, so angry that she raised her hand and slapped her across the face: "Who did you hear that we are going to send Yu'er to the palace?!" Yanhua covered her face and held back A stream of tears came out, but he didn't have the guts to talk back, so he stood there like a stake.

Mrs. Nie hurriedly dragged her down to her knees, and also reprimanded: "Aunt asked you something, which blind person told you, hurry up and tell me!" She kept winking at her, intending to divert the trouble away. go.The fact that Yuhua Shuhua is going to enter the palace secretly everyone is like a mirror in their hearts, but it is a crime to say it, after all, it becomes a joke when it spreads, it seems that Yu is going to make a fuss about it this time.

Yanhua mumbled for a long time, and said: "I, I just heard it unintentionally. There are many people coming and going in the mansion, and I didn't see who it is..."

Nie hurriedly said: "You child, how can you talk nonsense if you don't see clearly? Hurry up and apologize to your aunt!" Yanhua then kowtowed to Yu to apologize.Seeing that Yu's face was still cold, Mrs. Nie smiled apologetically and said, "Sister-in-law, please calm down. Yan'er is disobedient. I will teach you when I turn around. Just now, my natal brother sent someone to deliver a letter. I have something to do right now." I'm looking for my sister-in-law."

She also looked worried at the slap that Yu Shi slapped Yanhua, they are all mothers, no one is weaker than anyone else, not to mention the matter of conscripting army rations, at this time, the eldest and fourth house can be regarded as A grasshopper on the same line, she, Mrs. Yu, wants to stand up for her daughter, so she can't deny them the fourth wife.

Yu originally wanted to take Yanhua to relieve his anger, but when Nie mentioned this, he knew that she was trying to wake her up, so he sneered and said, "Your grain collection is your business, I have no part in it! Don't forget our Elder Master Now it’s still a food requisition envoy, if you want to threaten me with this, tomorrow you’re going to give that brother of yours food in prison!”

But in the end, he was no longer angry, and passed her directly into the house, which can be regarded as a step down from the stage.

Zi Yan went back to the long room, and after telling what happened just now, Yu Hua sat up from the bed and said angrily: "Just a slap counts? It's too cheap for her!"

"Isn't it? This servant also feels that the eldest lady is giving too much face to the fourth lady." Ziyan grabbed the handkerchief, looked at Yuhua's face for a long time, and tried to say: "If the girl feels upset and wants to do something, Zi Yan is willing to listen to the girl's orders!"

Yuhua turned to look at her, pondered for a moment, then sneered.

Seeing Shuhua sitting in front of the dressing table lost in thought, Mrs. Liang couldn't help but come in and ask, "Still worried about that matter during the day?"

Shuhua shook her head and sighed leisurely.

It was rare for the Liang family to see a daughter like this.So he said, "Why is that?"

Shuhua looked at her own reflection in the mirror and said, "Is it really that good to enter the palace?"

Mrs. Liang was stunned, "Of course it's good to enter the palace! As a concubine, you are one person under one person and above ten thousand people. Don't say that if you give birth to a prince, you will be in the country for the rest of your life. Just talk about food and clothing. That’s beyond our reach.”

Shuhua snorted and said with a smile: "Sit firmly in the country? There are so many little princes in the palace, are their mothers all stable in the country? Since they can sit firmly in the country, they should all fight for the future for their sons." Yes, why is the prince becoming a prince and still fighting to the death with King Qing? And why is there always only one woman at the top of Feng Palace?"

Liang was speechless.She really can't catch up with her daughter's thinking, but she knows one thing deeply: "In short, if Yuhua wants to enter the palace, you have to enter the palace, and you can't be compared! After the death of the old man and the old lady, not to mention all of He Mansion’s family property, at least half of it will fall into the hands of the long house! Then what will mother give you as a dowry?!—Shu’er!” She got up and sat down. Opposite her, looking at the increasingly glamorous face that she had created by herself, "You have to think about your brother."

Shuhua felt a little stuck in her heart.Turning her head away, "Okay mother, I understand."

Liuli had a stuffy nose when she took a nap, Rui'er was worried that she had a cold, so she persuaded her: "Why don't you go at night, anyway, I don't care if you go or not, so I just call it sick and rest in the house."

But Liuli sighed, and said: "If I can not go, I don't want to go. The third girl has suffered such a big wrong, how can she not make up for it? I am happy to avoid this disaster. But at this time, I don't even want to be absent. would be a sin."

Ruier is silent.Then he said: "This is strange again. How do you know that the third girl has to make up for it tonight? Besides, didn't the eldest lady break into the fourth room and beat the fifth girl in the afternoon? This is quite a big deal. The third girl should relieved."

Liuli shook her head, covered her nose with a silk cloth and blew lightly.

Liuli took time to arrive at the main courtyard with Rui'er.Because it was a dinner party, the masters and young masters all returned home, so they still set up upstairs and downstairs in the Begonia Courtyard.The female relatives upstairs still sat in their original positions, Yuhua and Shuhua both looked calm, as if they had never encountered any unpleasantness during the day.Yan Hua kept her mouth tightly shut in a rare way, and didn't dare to look up when she saw Yu Hua.

Min Hua and the others were even more silent, and Liuli slapped the back of his hand when Huanhua wanted to say something.

After a table of people finished eating in silence, Min Hua got up first and went to Aunt Su's place.Then Shuhua Zhenhua also got up and went to the flower hall next door to have tea.Liuli had nowhere to go, so she leaned on the railing and looked at the layers of eaves in the distance.After a while, there was movement in the room. It turned out that the old lady and others had also left the banquet and were about to go to the garden to enjoy the lanterns in a soft chariot.

Huanhua ran over, pulled up Liuli and went downstairs.

When we arrived at the Floating Champs Pavilion, the plum grove in front of the water pavilion was dotted with stars, all kinds of lanterns were hung up, and another thirty or forty large lanterns were added to illuminate most of the circle.The lanterns made by the girls were placed in front of all the lanterns, and of course the works of the four girls who had already worshiped as masters hung in the front.

Eight lanterns passed by in a row, and they were really beautiful.Yuhua's is a pair of dragon and phoenix lanterns. The dragon scales are strung together with thin pieces of jade, while the brocade feathers on the phoenix's head are glued with real brocade feathers.Shuhua's is a pair of crane lanterns. The crane's eyes are adorned with amethyst stones. They are both independent on one foot, and can stand up alone when placed on the ground.Yanhua's is a pair of eight-treasure lotus lanterns. Because the material is Qian Yusha, they are more beautiful than the pair made of laurel and begonia. But this person is always unexpected. There is also a real magpie tied in each of them, so the whole sea of ​​lights is filled with the whining sound of magpies from time to time.

Huanhua is a pair of butterfly lamps, made of colored silk and tassels, very delicate.

Looking at the four pairs of lanterns made by the concubine girls a little later, they are obviously much weaker. Min Hua's is a pair of pagoda lanterns. Although the materials are also very particular, they lose points because of their ancient and clumsy shape.Zhenhua's is a pair of plum blossom palace lanterns, the materials are average, thanks to the grand shape of the palace lanterns.Suhua can't do without eating, it's the pair of longevity peach lanterns, two round ones.The last one is the glazed carp lamp, the kind that you can buy two for three copper coins on the street.

There were lantern riddles written on each of the eight pairs of lanterns. The girls and young men watched and guessed all the way, very excited.

A fumigation cage was installed in the waterside pavilion, and the old lady was sitting in the house. Mrs. Yu and others accompanied Guo Xia for a walk. When they reached the lantern place, Mrs. Yu stopped deliberately, "These are lamps made by girls, look, sir. Is it okay to go?"

Guo Xia grabbed the lamp foot, looked at the writing on it with a smile, and said: "Very good." He didn't point out anything in particular.Yu Shi suppressed her disappointment, but still walked back with a smile.

(End of this chapter)