Red House Farm Stay

Wu Yan arrived at Jia's house early in the morning to pick up Jia Zhuo and Qing'er.Ping'er hugged Brother An with one hand and told them: "You follow the adults well, don't run around."

"Got it." Jia Zhuo assured with a smile, took Qing'er by the hand, and got into Wu Yan's carriage.

Because Brother An is too young, Ping'er tries to stay at home with Brother An unless he has to go to a social event.After all, there is no reliable nanny in Jia's house now, so she doesn't dare to leave brother An alone at home.

Besides, she has to wait for someone today.

Seeing that both Jia Zhuo and Qing'er were wearing the same honey-colored jacket with rose gold trim, Jia Zhuo matched a coral-colored damask cotton skirt, while Qing'er wore a burgundy red crepe skirt, and matched it with an identical skirt. The squirrel cloak carved into silk by Shi Qing looks like sisters from the same family.

He couldn't help laughing and said: "I dare say, the ladies who came to Du's house today must have been struggling with matching clothes all night."

Qing'er didn't understand why, so Jia Zhuo couldn't help laughing, "I really don't know, so you are also a narrow-minded ghost."

Mrs. Du likes plain colors. At this age, she rarely wears red and green, and always dresses very elegantly.But today is Du Yue's birthday again, if she wears too plain, what if she breaks the taboo of the Du family.

Hearing Jia Zhuo's talk about the key point, Qing'er also laughed out loud, "Aren't we going to show off today?"

When they arrived at Du's house, Wu Yan led them to greet Mrs. Du and give her a birthday gift.

"Let Yue'er take you to play, don't hold yourself back, just say what you want to play, just treat it as your own home." Madam Du smiled a little more when she saw the three of them than anyone else.

"Come here quickly, I'll take you to row a boat, by the way, can you ride a horse?" Du Yue was wearing a two-color gold hundred butterfly wearing a red jacket with flowers and a magenta brocade skirt, a red gold wreath around his neck, and a pair of red gold necklaces on his head. There is a crown of butterfly peony made of red gold on top, and a few small pearl hairpins pinned to the side. It is luxurious and elegant, making Du Yue's round and smooth face look like the best silk forging, without a trace of blemish.

"We don't know how to ride horses." Du Yue led Jia Zhuo and Qing'er to the lake. General Du's mansion was really grand, with running water directly brought in from the garden, and two strong servants put up a boat for the ladies to have fun. .The so-called boating is actually sitting on a boat and drinking a cup of tea. Boating has its own servants, so they don't need to do it themselves.

"It's a pity that I can't ride a horse. I thought I could take you to hunt. My brother said that if it snows in a few days, he will take me to the mountains to hunt." Du Yue took them into the boat, The maid slowly propped the boat to the middle of the lake.

Those on the bank who didn't recognize him began to ask, whose family these two girls were from.When they heard that it belonged to the Jia family, they were all relieved.

"Don't worry, the Jia family and Du Yue are engaged, so it's impossible to marry their daughter. Besides, they don't look like they are here for Du Xiao." A mother and daughter on the bank kept away from the others and were talking talking.

"Mother, I..." The girl bit her lower lip, as if she had something to say.

"I know what you're thinking, you'd better stop me. I'm your own mother, and I'll hurt you. They can fight for the position of princess if they like. It's not enough for your big sister to die in this position, but you still want to Let you die too. I will never let you enter the palace. The Du family is a family I have chosen out of thousands of people. Everything is good, you just need to remember..."

"Listen to your mother, my daughter remembers." The girl seemed a little angry, but she still didn't dare to disobey her mother's wishes, and she turned her back a little petulantly.

The woman was a little anxious, but she really couldn't tell her daughter about King Zhongyong's hobbies, and this time the Jin family had dozens of people, seven or eight girls, and only one could marry into the palace.The rest was to marry with a family in Jinling, and while others were seeing blood with bayonets for the position of a princess, she hurriedly found a few suitable ones, and wanted to settle down for her daughter.

Otherwise, when the matter of the princess is settled, and the remaining girls turn around, it will be even more difficult to choose the good ones.

"At this time, you are not allowed to make trouble." Outside, the woman couldn't elaborate, she could only keep telling her daughter to be obedient.

"If he's really that good, how come my sister is engaged, but he hasn't done so yet." The girl finally plucked up the courage to speak.

"Fool, what should I do? You don't know. There is a reason for this."

The woman dragged her daughter's hand and found a clean place to sit down.

Du Xiao entered the palace at the age of 16 and became the emperor's personal guard. He was very fond of the emperor and wanted to betroth the princess to him.It's a pity that this matter has just been mentioned, and when the Du family was happily preparing, there was a wind and cold, and the princess went.

This time, Du Xiao suffered a lot.Although the two families haven't reached the point where they have issued an order to reveal their identities, but someone else's family has a daughter, and your family is eager to pick a daughter-in-law, so you can bear it.What's more, it was the emperor who died of his daughter.

The Du family did not dare to propose a marriage at all, and it had been three years in a flash, until the queen mentioned in front of the emperor how the son of the Du family had not been married until the nineteenth, the emperor naturally acted as if he had suddenly realized, and asked General Du to come to him and ask When does he drink his daughter-in-law tea.

The emperor opened the golden mouth, and the Du family dared to discuss marriage. The daughter's age is almost up, so they simply look at each other, and whoever meets the right one first will decide.Anyway, in Du Xiao's situation, he was afraid of the early if not late. Speaking of it later, he stayed with an unnamed fiancée for three years and got engaged after his younger sister.

The girl lowered her head shyly, "It's all up to the mother."

Even the emperor thought it was good, and planned to ration it to the princess. It is conceivable that everything must be excellent.

"That's right, you are also destined to be destined. He waited and waited, and he just waited for you to enter Jinling City." The woman clapped her hands and laughed, as if Du Xiao was in her pocket as long as she wanted to. things.

After getting off the boat, Qing'er had already talked to Du Yue, and Du Yue sent them to sit in the warm pavilion on the shore, "I'll accompany them for a few more boat trips, you guys are here to play, if you get impatient, just go Look at Jinger."

He also greeted his close friend in the boudoir, "Help me to greet the guests."

"Got it, hurry up, and make sure your guests don't lose a single hair, as if I'm not the host."

"In my house, you are half the master, pretending to be a guest, go and go..." Du Yue pushed her, and ran back to the shore happily, and wanted to accompany the others on the boat.

"Look at this crazy girl, she is just careless." Du Yue's best friend is the second lady of the Ding family, and she took them to sit by the window of the Nuan Pavilion. "From here, you can see the camellia outside. General Du dug it from a high mountain back then, and specially sent someone to escort it back to Beijing as a gift for Mrs. Du. It was a good story back then, and I don’t know how many women in Jinling City died of jealousy.”

This can no longer be called a camellia, but can be called the king of camellias directly. It is at least five to six meters high, and the trunk is so thick that several people need to embrace it.Bright red flowers hung on the entire canopy, like a sea of ​​flowers, obviously better than the flower wall in Li Wan's house.

Qing'er was so shocked that she couldn't speak, and the stunned look provoked Miss Ding Er to laugh, "The first time I saw it, I was just like you, I was so scared that I couldn't speak. .”

Jia Zhuo also nodded, "It's not too much to look at just this camellia."

"That's right, this warm pavilion was specially built for this camellia. The people in Jinling City urged Mrs. Du to hold a flower banquet as soon as it was in bloom. I couldn't get enough of it."

It's no wonder that Miss Ding Er can get along well with Du Yue, and she has a familiar temperament.

But Jia Zhuo saw someone stretching his neck behind his back to look at Miss Ding Er, and hurriedly said: "Someone is looking for you, don't worry about us, you can do it yourself."

Miss Ding Er was happy when she turned her head, "It's my grandparent's younger sister who is here, I'll go and call me if you need anything."

"You just go and get busy, it's just what you want for us to sit here and look at the flowers." Jia Zhuo said some polite words to her, and watched her take her cousin out of the warm pavilion, presumably to meet the elders of her grandfather's family.

"I didn't expect that there would be a lake in the garden of a rich family. It's unbelievable." Seeing that there were only the two of them left, Qing'er said without concealing it.

Jia Zhuo smiled lightly and said, "That's right, it's the first time I've seen it too." The visits in another time and space certainly don't count.

Such a large camellia can be transported to Jinling, one can imagine how difficult the journey is. For some reason, Jia Zhuo thought of sending lychees to Chang'an.Outside, there was a lot of war, and the rebels still saw the two mansions. Many disasters caused famines, but in Jinling City, there were still fireworks, singing and dancing.

"This year's camellias are blooming exceptionally well. Everyone says that this camellia has been cultivated to perfection, and it is specially in full bloom, implying that the Du family will surely have double happiness this year." Silently, someone sat next to them, with a piece of cloth on their upper body. A moon-white jacket, and a cotton skirt with blue sky and water covering her head.At first glance, it looks too plain, but upon closer inspection, the jacket is covered with cherry red borders, and a circle of camellias is embroidered on the cuffs and neckline.

"This pattern is really suitable for the occasion." Qing'er likes embroidery, and the first thing she pays attention to is embroidery.Seeing the embroidery on her clothes, she said it naturally.

This made the girl blush, and Jia Zhuo hurriedly pulled Qing'er, "It's just a coincidence, there are only a few kinds of flowers that bloom in winter, and it's easy to bump into them when you embroider them. Wait a minute." You will know it when you appreciate the plum blossoms in the snow, and this collision is a big one."

Qing'er still doesn't understand the rules of dealing with people in this circle, some things can be done but not said.He just nodded ignorantly, knowing in his heart that he must have said something wrong, and Jia Zhuo was trying to help her.

The girl glanced at Jia Zhuo gratefully, "I really have several skirts embroidered with plum blossoms, I'm afraid it will be a coincidence next time."

Jia Zhuo laughed, this matter was over, and he didn't bring it up again.

"Are you Miss Du's guests? I've been here a few times before, but I don't think I've seen you before." The girl was obviously not well-informed and didn't know Jia Zhuo's identity.

"I came with the young lady of the Li family. My surname is Jia." Jia Zhuo found that when she spoke, many people in the warm pavilion listened with pricked ears.

"Ah, yes, yes..." The girl knew who she was when she thought about it. She wanted to say the Duke's Mansion, but the Duke's Mansion had long since disappeared. Jia Lian has no official position now, so it's really hard to call her.

"Yes, it's the Jia family." It was Jia Zhuo who helped her out.

The girl in front of her smiled gratefully, and was about to speak when she heard Du Yue's laughter, "Let me introduce someone to you, the ninth girl from the Jin family in Xining, she is the first time to visit our house, you are not allowed to bully her. "

She started talking from the door of the Nuan Pavilion, led Miss Jin Jiu all the way to the place where Jia Zhuo and the others were sitting, called Jin Jiu to sit down, and said in a very casual tone: "Xie Xin, why are you accompanying Miss Qiao, Ding Shuting?" .”

"Shu Ting's cousin from her ancestral family came to look for her, probably to see her elders." Xie Xin stood up with a smile, moved her position quietly, and sat down next to Du Yue again.

"Oh, by the way, Miss Ninth, this is a girl from Jia's family, and Qing'er next to her is her cousin." Du Yue introduced them for them.

The skin of this nine girls is not as fair as the ladies in Jinling City, but the outline of the facial features is very deep, and she looks a bit like an exotic beauty.Compared with a room full of round, fair-skinned girls, she looked very special, and one couldn't help but want to take a closer look.

Miss Jin Jiu was very reserved, she only nodded slightly with Jia Zhuo, and she didn't intend to chat.Du Yue never imagined that they were chatting and laughing on the boat just now, but now they changed their colors and became so indifferent.

She couldn't help regretting that she should not have brought Miss Jin Jiu to Jia Zhuo if she knew earlier.

Fortunately, there is Xie Xin, she knew that the scene was cold at first glance, and quickly picked up the pastries on the table and said with a smile: "Your family even made the pastry molds to look like camellias, it seems that the things I gave you are not afraid of not being suitable. your heart."

"Even my mother praised the pictures you drew. Why is it not to my liking? I'll ask the servant girl to hang them up for me in a while."

The topic turned to painting, and Miss Jin Jiu became a little interested, and looked up at Xie Xin, "I like to draw a few strokes when I have nothing to do."

"Then what are you waiting for? The paintbrushes are ready-made." Du Yue hurriedly asked the servant girl to put out the table and brushes, so that everyone who loves to paint can paint a few strokes.

After setting them up, Du Yue turned around and apologized to Jia Zhuo: "Miss Jin Jiu is new here, so she doesn't like to talk much."

"It's okay, I don't know her well."

Jia Zhuo smiled understandingly, knowing that the Jin family lived in Xiping Mansion for a long time, and they were the most distinguished county kings in the area.Although the queen's surname is Jia, the Jia family has no official position up to now. To put it bluntly, Jia Zhuo is a commoner girl, and among so many people present, her status is higher than that of a maid.

Of course, most people don't see it that way. As long as there is an empress, the Jia family will be more confident, and it will only be a matter of time before they return to the circle of wealthy families.

A girl like Jin Jiu is nothing in Xiping Mansion, but in Jinling City, she seems very ignorant.

Du Yue went out for a while while they were drawing, and came back after a while.Seeing that Jia Zhuo had left the Nuan Pavilion, he took Qing'er to the camellia tree, and raised his head to smell the nearest camellia.

"Which one do you like, I'll help you pick it off." Du Yue came over with a smile on her face, asked the servant girl to pick two flowers, and put them into the bun for them.

Jia Zhuo thanked with a smile: "With this flower on the hairpin, you don't have to think about the other flowers in Jinling City."

"Qing'er and I are going to the front to find the young mistress of the Li family, so hurry up and greet the guests." Jia Zhuo took Qing'er to the front to talk to Wu Yan.

"Okay, I'll ask the servant girl to take you there."

"Then trouble you."

All the painters in the Nuan Pavilion saw that Du Yue personally helped Jia Zhuo hairpin flowers, and Miss Jin Jiu's pen trembled, feeling a little uncomfortable.But when he saw Xie Xin next to him, he became determined to win again.Isn't she just trying to please Mrs. Du in the name of a talented woman?Let you also see, don't think that people who are not in Jinling are much worse than you.

In fact, Miss Jin Jiu really wronged Xie Xin. Xie Xin really wanted to please Mrs. Du, but she didn't mean to be different from Miss Jin Jiu.Inexplicably, she was hated by Miss Jin Jiu, and she didn't even know why.

"The Du family's garden is so beautiful." When there was no one around, Qing'er finally regained her original vivacity.

"Then let's walk slowly and let you take a good look around." Jia Zhuo squeezed Qing'er's hand.

Qing'er stuck out her tongue, "I know I said something wrong, and when there are others in the future, I'll just eat and not talk."

"Just say what you want, isn't there me?" Jia Zhuo is not afraid of Qing'er saying the wrong thing, she is a little girl, even if she says the wrong thing, what big things can happen.

"Miss Xiaozhuo is the best. It's fun here, but talking is too tiring." Qing'er still likes the excitement and the big garden here, but she needs to use her brain to speak, which makes her not used to it.

"From here, there are two roads, one is relatively close, but there is no scenery on the road, and the other is a little farther, passing through the orchid garden, along the way, many orchids are planted, and a few pots are blooming at the moment." The maid who led the way in front Turning around, he said to Jia Zhuo.

"Then let's go to Orchid Garden." Jia Zhuo chose the way to see orchids.

In the orchid garden, two young people were worrying about a pot of orchids, and one said with a sad face: "Didn't it mean that they are kept in a greenhouse, so they can bloom at this time?"

"Who knows why it didn't bloom? You can't beat the gardener to death because of such a trivial matter. Isn't it still blooming? It has to be this one?" A tall young man raised his chin lightly to let the people in front of him see see others.

"The varieties are different. Do you think it's just a flower? It must be special, very special, otherwise the old man will definitely look down on it."

"It's not your ancestor, why do you have to flatter him." The tall young man was puzzled.

"Tch, you really don't eat fireworks..."

"Eldest Young Master, Young Master Jiang." The maid did not expect that she would meet her Eldest Young Master and his friends here.

"What is this for? Hey, that didn't happen yesterday..." Before Jiang Jing could finish speaking, Du Xiao elbowed him on the waist and swallowed the words immediately.

Jia Zhuo and Qing'er were standing sideways on the side of the road, ready to wait for them to evade, and hurried over, but he didn't expect this person to suddenly say such a sentence.

What is met yesterday, and what happened to this maid who heard it in her ears?

Jia Zhuo looked at them with a smile that was not a smile, and said with a blessing: "Young master, what you said just now, you'd better make it clear. When did my sister and I meet you yesterday? Why can't I remember it at all?" .”

Du Xiao hurriedly cupped his hands, "Yesterday we went to the theater to listen to an opera, and we accidentally saw two girls, but you didn't see us. I didn't expect to meet today. My friend thought it was a coincidence. For a slip of the tongue, I ask the two girls to forgive me."

It turned out to be the case, Jia Zhuo nodded, "That makes sense, and I ask this young master to be careful in the future, don't say things that are misunderstood, and you can retreat completely after you finish speaking, how much criticism others will suffer ,did you know?"

Knocked him lightly, and then pulled Qing'er over.

"How about it, I said that your mouth will cause trouble sooner or later, it's all right now, I will be taught a lesson face to face." Du Xiao gloated.

"Go, go, I didn't expect this girl to be a guest at your house. Help me find out whose girl is so hot." Jiang Jing rubbed his nose with an excited expression on his face.

This guy must have been scolded for being stupid. How could Du Xiao help him with such a thing? He snorted and dragged him away.

"If I had known about this, I wouldn't have taken the two girls this way. That is the young master of the Jiang family. He liked to talk nonsense since he was a child. Everyone in our family knows it all." The servant girl apologized.

"It's none of your business, and besides, I'm not used to this kind of people." Jia Zhuo couldn't help asking when he thought of them sighing at a pot of orchids that didn't bloom.

Unexpectedly, this girl was served by Du Yue's side, and she knew a lot of things. She thought it was not a secret, so she said to Jia Zhuo, "It's Mr. Zhou's birthday. Liu Shangshu and many others are his students."

And Mr. Zhou doesn't like gold and silver, he doesn't like collecting, he only likes flowers and plants.Every year on his birthday, his students and those who come here will try their best to send him precious flowers and plants.Jiang Jing came up with the idea of ​​a precious orchid in the Du family, and agreed to grow it until it blooms at this time, so that he can give it to others.

"I didn't expect that the seasons changed a few days ago, the temperature was unstable, and there was no flowering. The gardener was dying of anxiety. Fortunately, the young master has a good temper and never harshly criticizes his servants. It is not so easy to pass it in someone else's house." The servant girl walked all the way. , explained to Jia Zhuo all the way, and even took the time to point to the blooming flowers to explain the name to Qing'er, he is really a capable person.