Maid of a wealthy family

Chapter 7 I Want to Marry You (1)
Lan Hongen and Ning Shi came to Chaomen and climbed up the watchtower, the old lady was also there.The three of them raised their eyes to look at the Lanjia River, and saw that the river was full of lanterns, drifting along the water.Some of these river lanterns use melon rinds and gourds as lamp bases, and some use lotus pods and lotus leaves as shirts. , with candles and incense burning inside, swaying and full of stars, it is too beautiful to behold.The three of them were enjoying watching, when suddenly behind the river lantern, a colorful boat came.The lights on the boat were bright, and the gongs and drums were beating together.The colorful boat sailed to the ferry and stopped.Among a string of torches and lanterns, a dozen or so men wrapped in red scarves and yellow jackets got off the boat holding a colorful dragon and headed straight for Lan Mansion.Lan Hongen knew that this was Qilin from two classmates who had brought their son, so he hurried downstairs with the old lady and Mrs. Ning, and stood outside the chao door to welcome him.

After a while, the lights approached, and sure enough, I saw Cao Yuru and Chu Jiamao dressed in convenient clothes, walking in the colorful dragon head.The colorful dragon was also tied very delicately, not long, and shaped like a unicorn. On the back of the dragon was tied a very well-behaved boy with colorful satin. "Life Tatta", with both hands stretched forward, as if to jump off the back of the dragon and throw herself into the arms of mother.When the team came to the gate, Lan Hongen gratefully saluted Cao Yuru and Chu Jiamao.Seeing that Ning Shi was also at the door, Cao Yuru turned around and whispered something to the man dancing the dragon head.The man who dances the dragon head takes the lead in dancing the dragon head with his legs crossed, the body of the dragon behind him swings, and then the gongs and drums beat hard.I saw that the dragon's body gradually shortened and surrounded Ning's family.When Lan Hongen and the old lady saw each other, they hurriedly stepped aside.The colorful dragon surrounded Ning Shi, continued to shrink the dragon body, and slowly wrapped Ning Shi like a snake wrapped around a pillar.Ning's face was smiling, her face was glowing red, her eyes were shining with a strange light, happily accepting the blessing of this "unicorn".After a while, the dragon dancer slowly stretched out the dragon body and restored it to its original shape.This unicorn has bestowed auspiciousness and happiness on the Ning family.Ning hurriedly took out a handful of money and handed it to the man who danced the dragon head, thanking Qilin for his kindness, and specially added Feng Yi.The man took the money, and then, the colorful dragon withdrew from Chaomen, danced around the huge house in Lan Mansion, then returned to Chaomen, entered the yard, and danced all the way to Ouhe Garden.

When they arrived at the Banxia Hall, the colorful dragon danced in front of the hall for a while, and then stopped.At this time, the old lady hurried forward, and the man who danced the dragon put down the dragon body. The old lady excitedly took off the doll from the dragon's back, hugged it like a treasure, and ran into Ningxia happily. Shi and Lan Hongen's bedroom, put the doll on the daughter-in-law's bed, covered it with a quilt, and then walked out happily.

At this time, the main ceremony of "Kirin" sending off the child was basically completed, and Lan Hongen first invited everyone to the middle living room to drink tea for the first time.It turns out that drinking tea is also a ceremony for Kirin to give birth to a child.When everyone came to the middle living room, they saw a row of small teacups with handles on the table, which contained half a cup of honey water.When everyone saw it, they were not polite, they each took a cup and drank it. After drinking, they put all the teacups upside down on the table.Why turn the teacup upside down?It turns out that each of these teacups has a small handle, and the teacup is turned upside down, which means turning the handle upside down, and wishing the host family a boy with the handle upside down.After drinking this tea, the whole ceremony of Qilin giving off a child is over.Lan Hongen took out the silver coins again, sealed the crowd, ordered the kitchen to put out supper quickly, and invited everyone to have dinner in the middle living room. He took Cao Yuru and Chu Jiamao's hands and walked to the back garden.

When they arrived at Tongming Pavilion, Wang Ma had removed the melons, fruits and colorful strands that "Xizi" had made into the net just now, and was about to remove the colored silk around the pavilion.When Lan Hongen saw it, he hurriedly said, "No need to pick it! Hurry up and ask the kitchen to bring a table of wine and food here. I want to thank the two masters!"

After hearing this, Wang Ma ran away immediately.After a while, the little girl in the kitchen and Wang Ma brought food and wine.Lan Hongen displayed the food and wine on the low table where his wife had previously placed melons and fruits. Cao Yuru and Chu Jiamao were also polite, and sat cross-legged on the floor.Lan Hongen poured the wine, raised his glass and said: "You two brothers have worked so hard for Lan. Lan is very grateful. I have a glass of thin wine. I'm sorry!"

Cao Yuru heard this, and said, "Brother Lan is too modest! Who are we to whom? Mr. Cao is not talented, and he wanted to ask my dear friend to come out of the mountain and help me. I didn't expect that my dear friend was originally a noble person, not like me and other vulgar people. But Mr. Cao Since I have served as an official, I also want to benefit one side. My dear brother is not willing to go out of the mountain, but he still hopes to do more things to donate money and benefit the people as in the past. With the righteous deeds of my dear brother, Cao will not worry about not having political achievements."

After hearing this, Lan Hongen hurriedly said: "Dear brother, don't worry! What happened tonight will always be remembered by Lan. If you want to stand up and achieve people, you can be regarded as a man of lofty ideals. Although Lan has no ambitions, I still remember the sage said : As a human being, there is a good man in a village, a good man in a country, and a good man in the world. Naturally, Lan does not dare to expect to be a good man in a country and the world, but to be a good land in a town is still his life’s wish!"

When Cao Yuru heard this, he became happy and said, "Okay! With Brother Lan's words, Brother Jiamao and I will sacrifice our lives to accompany the gentleman tonight." After finishing speaking, he drank the wine in one gulp, and then exchanged polite words with each other. While you came and went, each drank a few glasses.At this time, it was the middle of the night, the breeze was refreshing, and the lotus fragrance was bursting.Night dew-beads roll on the lotus leaves, shining crystal light.The three of them were already half drunk, but their interest remained undiminished.Chu Jiamao raised his head and glanced at Ban Xiatang on the opposite side, and suddenly said, "Hey, brother Lan, why doesn't sister-in-law come to have a glass of wine on such a beautiful night?"

Lan Hongen said: "Forgive me, my dear friends, I have never drunk alcohol."

After hearing this, Chu Jiamao said, "It doesn't matter if you don't know how to drink, as long as you can toast!"

Lan Hongen heard the implication of his words, thinking that it would be unreasonable not to let Mrs. Ning come to toast if someone specially came to give you Qilin a son, so he said: "Okay, Mr. Lan obeys." Xiatang called out Ning.

Ning's family was "Xizi" tonight

With the auspicious light shining, I was very happy to have a boy sent by "Kirin" again, and the usual melancholy and sadness in my face and eyes were swept away.She came to the pavilion blissfully, under the background of the light of the lantern and the colorful silk around her, her pink face was like a lotus just out of the water, she stunned Cao Yuru and Chu Jiamao.She poured two glasses of wine and shyly respected Cao Yuru and Chu Jiamao respectively.Cao Yuru and Chu Jiamao were distracted for a while, and they were about to say something, but Lan Hongen interrupted: "My dear friends, how about we drink in a different way?"

After hearing this, Cao Yuru came back to his senses and asked, "How do you drink it?"

Lan Hongen immediately reached out to the lotus pond, picked a few lotus leaves and flowers, and handed them to Ning, then turned to Cao Yuru and Chu Jiamao, pointed to the song beside the pavilion with clear water flowing slowly, and said: "I will let the little Jing Go to the top of this curved pond, put the lotus leaves and flowers into the water, and we will sit on the edge of the ground, and see whoever the lotus leaves and flowers float in front of them will drink! What do you two think?"

When Cao Yuru and Chu Jiamao heard this, they turned their attention away from Ning Shi, and they all shouted: "Okay! This is the best!"

So, Lan Hongen asked Ning to take the lotus and lotus leaves and leave.Here, Lan Hongen, Cao Yuru, and Chu Jiamao lined up beside the pavilion, looking at the slowly flowing pool water.

After a while, a lotus leaf supported a pink lotus and floated down the water.When drifting to the canal in the pavilion, the speed gradually slowed down.It only moved in circles, slowly, and moved in front of Cao Yuru, and finally stopped moving.

Lan Hongen and Chu Jiamao shouted: "Okay, brother Wang Ru."

Cao Yuru picked up flowers from the pool, put them beside him, raised his wine glass with a smile, and said, "Okay, drink." After that, he drank.

The second flower stopped in front of Lan Hongen.Lan Horn also drank.

third flower.It stopped in front of Cao Yuru again.Cao Yuru drank happily again, but jokingly said to Chu Jiamao, "Why doesn't Brother Jiamao have such a good fortune?"

Chu Jiamao smiled and said, "Don't worry, good things are coming later."

Sure enough, the fourth flower stopped in front of Chu Jiamao.

Eating and playing like this, the eastern sky gradually turns pale.After a while, a huge red sun rose from the horizon, and the purple morning glow projected here from above the Lanjia River, illuminating the garden in colorful colors, truly as beautiful as heaven.That night, Miss Chrysanthemum, the daughter of Luo Cheng, a tenant in the Lan Mansion, also hugged a clay doll from the Bodhisattva of the Niangniang Temple.

Chrysanthemum girl is 19 years old this year.There is a beautiful woman in a hut with a bamboo fence, and her beauty is indescribably special.Just like the lotus in the lotus pond in the back garden of Lanfu, its lovely posture and color make people feel trembling at a glance.Her beauty is natural and well-proportioned.A duck-egg-shaped face is extraordinarily fresh because of youthful vigor, and a few black and shiny bangs drape down from the forehead, which just makes up for the regret that the forehead is slightly higher.The two pairs of red phoenix eyes are as bright as a mirror, revealing wit and wisdom.A thick and long braid dragged behind her back.With two slender and strong thighs, the whole figure is both slender and shows the strength of a peasant girl.That night, the chrysanthemum girl only wore a suit of homemade cloth clothes and trousers.Rough clothes, however, could not hide her natural beauty.The healthy, plump breasts and mature, well-developed buttocks convey a charming atmosphere through the cloth clothes and trousers.There is no modification on her face, but her beauty is still natural, overshadowing all the women who came to hold the clay doll.

She was the last one to drag clay dolls into the temple.It wasn't that she was late, but that the girl's shyness made her stop when she was about to step into the temple several times.It wasn't until she heard from the woman who came out of the temple that there were not many clay dolls left that she mustered up the courage to step into the temple with a blushing face.She knew that there was a young man waiting anxiously for her in the bamboo forest in front of the temple.

She went into the temple, not daring to look aside, for fear of hearing someone comment.He went straight to the futon and knelt down, kowtowed to the statue of the empress in a panic, and even forgot to say the prayer in his heart to the empress, so he stood up hastily.After walking in front of the empress, she dared to take a look at the empress, and saw that there was only the last clay doll left on the empress, she had no choice, so she hurriedly untied the clay doll, held it and went out.

However, before Miss Chrysanthemum took two steps, the old lady at the side suddenly called out: "Girl, come here."

When Chrysanthemum heard this, she was startled.She thought it was someone else.But looking back, apart from the bodhisattva who couldn't speak, there were only her, the old lady, and the wife in this temple.

Chrysanthemum's heart jumped immediately, and after a while, she finally came to the old lady and Ning uneasily.

She didn't dare to look up at the two queen-like queens in front of her. She just felt like a rabbit was about to jump out of her chest. She felt hot all over her body, as if being roasted by charcoal fire, nervously expecting the old lady and the wife to speak.

But at this time, the old lady and the wife stopped talking, and the two pairs of eyes looked at her up and down as if they wanted to dig out the internal organs of the chrysanthemum.An explosion of candles rang in the silent hall, Chrysanthemum shivered, feeling beads of sweat dripping from her body.

After a while, the old lady finally spoke, her tone was kind and kind: "Girl, don't be afraid! Lift up your head and let me take a good look."

Chrysanthemum raised her head a little higher.At this time, under the light of the big candle, her duck-egg-shaped face was as charming and bright as a ripe fairy peach in June.

The old lady looked at it for a while, and suddenly her heart trembled—she seemed to have seen this girl somewhere, she was so familiar, but she couldn't remember it for a while, so she hurriedly asked: "Miss, what's your name?"

Chrysanthemum gradually calmed down a bit, but she still didn't dare to look at the old lady, she just looked down at the tip of her shoe and replied: "If you go back to the old lady, my name is Luo Juhua."

The old lady paused for a moment, but she still couldn't remember where she met her, so she didn't bother to think much, and looked back at her daughter-in-law, only to see that Ning was also smiling slightly, with a look of approval.So, the old lady turned around and praised as if gossiping: "Well, you have a clever tongue! Where do you live?"

Chrysanthemum replied again: "It's in the courtyard of Luo's family in Luobao Mountain."

The old lady: "Oh, is it my family's field?"

Chrysanthemum replied: "Going back to the old lady, it is the land rented by the old lady and his wife's house."

Both the old lady's and Ning's eyebrows trembled involuntarily.After a while, the old lady's eyes fell on the clay doll in Chrysanthemum's arms again, and she asked calmly, "Have you found your husband's family?"

Chrysanthemum blushed and nodded.

The old lady asked again: "When will the wedding be held?"

Chrysanthemum hesitated for a moment before replying: "Thanks to the old lady, my parents will do it after the autumn harvest."

The old lady said "Oh" again, and stopped asking.After a while, he said cordially: "Okay, girl, you can go back."

Only then did Chrysanthemum feel relieved, hurriedly bowed to the old lady and Mrs. Ning, and walked out of the temple with her heart beating.

(End of this chapter)