Sir, can you marry me?

Chapter 81

The people in the room heard the sound from outside, and soon a servant girl lifted the heavy curtain hanging from the door and came out, bowed towards Ling Yuxuan and Xiao Wenqing and said, "Master Fourth Uncle, Miss Xiao, Madam is also here, Please go in."

Xiao Wenqing and Ling Yuxuan looked at each other and smiled, and entered the warm hall one after the other.

The main room is a bit dark, but because of the two charcoal basins burning, the room is very warm.Xiao Wenqing and Xia Lingyun took off their cloaks and handed them to Crystal Agate who followed them.After the crystal agate took it, she temporarily retreated with a maid in this room.

"Sixth Sister." "Madam Liu." Ling Yuxuan and Xiao Wenqing saluted Madam Liu who was sitting in the front seat of the house.The two little girls who were sitting next to her immediately moved away a little bit, and when they finished walking, they immediately stepped forward to give Ling Yuxuan and Xiao Wenqing blessings respectively.

"Why do you two think of coming here?" Mrs. Liu smiled, pointing to the two carved pearwood chairs with brocade cushions next to her.

"Sixth Sister, I'll stop by to see the two nieces and see if they've really gained weight." Ling Yuxuan cupped his hands with a smile, sat on the first seat on the left, looked at the two nieces, and said, "Ziyuan Zi Ling, you are still the same, it seems that the fourth uncle and I have not brought enough pastries. Next time, I will bring more and try to raise the two of you into fat little piggies."

"Fourth Uncle." Liu Ziyuan, who already knew what beauty is, immediately stomped her feet and said shyly, "Mother, look at Fourth Uncle, he actually wants my sister and me to be fat like pigs." The ten-year-old looks quite similar to Mrs. Liu , Danfeng eyes, round oval face.

The five-year-old girl standing in front of Mrs. Liu immediately said: "Uncle Si is so kind. Mom, can I ask Uncle Four to bring more egg meringue patties?" She wore two buns, her round face was chubby and tender She is tender, with picturesque eyebrows and eyes, bright red lips, wearing red silk clothes, and a golden wreath around her neck, just like a lucky doll in a New Year painting.

Before Mrs. Liu could say anything, Ling Yuxuan immediately said: "Egg meringue cakes? Do you want to bring some sugary rice cakes, red bean cakes..." He announced seven or eight delicious pastries in one go, and Zi Ling, who was only six years old, was immediately greedy. The little mouth moved and began to drool.

Xiao Wenqing smiled and said, "Lord Ling, are you teasing your niece like this? Ma'am, Master Ling and I picked red plums. Seeing that Xuelan Courtyard is close, we came to visit Ziyuan and Ziling." She asked Mrs. Liu, "Aren't these red plums beautiful? Or, just put them in the vase over here.

"Ziyuan." Mrs. Liu immediately turned her questioning gaze to her eldest daughter Ziyuan.She always cultivates the independent management ability of her daughters, and she tries not to interfere with the affairs of the daughters' yard as much as possible.

Liu Ziyuan immediately said: "Aunt Xiao, these red plums are picked from the east side of the garden. They are so beautiful. I didn't expect Ziling and I to go there for four or five days. The red plums have already bloomed." She turned to a person in the room. The eleven or twelve-year-old maid said: "Du Juan, go and get a beautiful vase."

The eleven or twelve-year-old round-faced little girl immediately said: "Yes, the second girl." Liu Ziyuan also has an older girl born to Aunt Liu, so even though Liu Ziyuan is the eldest daughter, her sisters are ranked second.

Mrs. Liu said: "Ziyuan, I haven't seen you draw for a long time, why don't you and Wen Qing each draw a picture of red plums?"

Liu Ziyuan said, "Mother, didn't you make me look ugly?"

Her younger sister Liu Ziling immediately said: "Second sister's paintings are beautiful, not ugly."

Liu Ziyuan immediately said: "Sister, Aunt Xiao's paintings look better. Isn't it a shame for me to compete in painting with her?" Aunt Xiao is already an adult.

Xiao Wenqing smiled slightly, and said, "Ziyuan, you are too modest." Because when she was serving by the old lady of the prefect of Huanglin, the old lady asked her to learn to draw embroidery patterns, so her painting is not bad, but it is only good, talk about it. If you don't have artistic conception or artistic conception, you can be regarded as a painter at best in the eyes of masters.

"It's just for you to paint, to be elegant, but not for you to compete?" Mrs. Liu said humorously, "Even if there is a win or loss, I don't have any prizes."

Liu Ziyuan listened, and began to order the maids and women in her courtyard to go to the study and bring the pen, ink, paper and inkstone together.The weather is cold, if they go to the study, there will be a charcoal burning basin in the study, and the study will not be warm for a while.

Du Juan, Liu Ziyuan's maid, brought a pot-bellied vase and scissors.Xiao Wenqing walked to the table where the vase and scissors were placed, and began to trim the red plum branches, and then placed the vase according to the feeling, adjusting the height of the plum blossom branches.Ling Yuxuan, Mrs. Liu and the two young ladies of the Liu family watched quietly, waiting to appreciate the red plum blossoms.

The maids and women brought two desks lightly, placed them in the brightest place in the room, put pens, ink, paper and inkstone on the desks, and then quietly stepped aside.

Insert the selected red plums into the vase according to a certain aesthetic feeling, and adjust the position. Xiao Wenqing took two steps back to appreciate it, and then carefully held it on the two books that are close together. Please appreciate it.

Mrs. Liu nodded and said: "It's remarkable, your flower arrangement skills can be ranked among the top among the ladies and ladies I've seen." Although she is not the best, she is still relatively good.

Ling Yuxuan said very leisurely: "Sixth sister, this is enough for her. In the future, she will have plenty of time to practice this." Apart from communicating with other officials' wives, the official wife usually stays in the back house.His back house will be very quiet because there is only one woman. Wen Qing has a lot of time to read, practice calligraphy, paint and embroider.

Mrs. Liu didn't know her fourth brother's promise to Xiao Wenqing, she nodded and said: "The most important thing in a woman's family is to take care of her husband and children, and to be good at housekeeping. For the rest, a little dabble is enough." Xiao Wenqing only needs to experience a few more times. No matter how elegant and confident the noble ladies are in socializing, they will be able to become teachers.

(End of this chapter)