[Red House] The Twins of Purple Pearls

It was sunny after the snow, and the sun shone brightly on the thin snow.

Li Wen ordered the servant girl to fold red plums and put them in glass vases, and organized a banquet in the courtyard to invite the girls to come and play.Mrs. Jiang didn't care about their usual playfulness, she just told them not to play too late and go back to rest earlier.

The stove in the room was burning warmly, and Du Heng incense slices were placed on the stove, and the room was full of fragrance.

Li Qi and Zhuang Mu were still young and could not drink fruit wine, so Li Wen prepared sweet soup for them.

The sweet and greasy hibiscus soup is served on a porcelain white plate, and the crystal clear fruit wine is served in a white jade wine glass with plum blossoms carved on it.

Zhen Yan picked up the small wine glass and took a sip, her cheeks flushed slightly, and said with a smile: "This fruit wine is delicious. Is it made from peaches?"

"If sister Zhen likes it, I'll give her another can." Li Wen said with a smile.

"Then thank you, Sister Wen." Zhen Yan smiled sweetly, and glanced at Xue Luo opposite from the corner of her eye, showing a smug expression.

Xue Luo didn't talk to her, but only talked to Liu Ning'an next to her.

Li Wen suggested that everyone play flower sticks and couplet poems together; she ordered the maids to fetch flower sticks, and took turns to draw flower sticks, using the flowers drawn on the flower sticks as the title couplets.

"My poems and books are most for lecturers, if the questions are not good, don't laugh at them." Liu Ning'an gently wiped the wine from the corner of his lips, and said with a gentle smile.

"Sister Liu is too self-effacing." Li Shu said with a smile on his face, "What's more, we are all classmates."

Li Wen picked up the snowflake soup in front of him and handed it to Liu Ning'an, then suggested, "Why don't we just embed the poems of the predecessors to connect the poems, it would be quite interesting to think about it."

The flower sticks are placed in a bamboo tube, and one of them is pulled out after shaking gently, with flowers painted on it.

The flower lottery was passed from Zhen Yan, and the flower lottery she drew was a peach blossom. After a little thought, she inscribed Zhou Pu's poem: "Peach blossoms bloom first when they are warm in spring, and whoever doesn't see the beauty."

This poem is bright and warm, but it is very similar to Zhen Yan's temperament.

Zhen Yanyue was also very satisfied, took a sip of the fruit wine, and the glow on her cheeks became more intense.

When it was Yu Ming's turn, she took the lottery and closed her eyes reverently, shaking it gently, the slower and slower she shook, but she still hesitated to draw out the lottery.

"Sister Ming wants to draw a lucky peach blossom lottery like Sister Zhen?" Daiyu teased Yu Ming with a light smile.

"What are you talking about, little girl!" Zhen Yan said coquettishly, her face flushed with embarrassment.

Yu Ming also lowered his eyes and bowed his head: "Kids, don't talk nonsense!"

Liu Ning'an pretended to be serious but still couldn't hide the smile on his lips: "Bright Taohua waits for Yiren, sister Zhen and sister Ming will meet Mr. Ruyi."

Yu Mingcai glanced at her resentfully: "Ning An, even you are here to make fun of me!"

Twirling a flower stick casually, Jiang Yao looked over curiously, a peony was painted on it.

Yu Ming seemed a little dazed, biting his lower lip lightly for a long time before hesitatingly said: "It must be when the peonies are in full bloom, and the city will be full of joy." She has always been cautious, and even the couplet poems only use plain Italian lines .

Peony is a real national beauty, but it has nothing to do with her; the Xu family has fallen, and Zhen Yan and Xue Luo are fighting secretly, so she doesn't want to be cannon fodder in it.Now the Xu family only has the second master who is released as an official and a few sons-in-law who are dignitaries in the court, so it seems that they are not completely down.

This peony flower is no longer suitable for her.

Seeing Yu Ming's preoccupied appearance suddenly, Yanyu was a little confused.

When it was Daiyu's turn, she shook the lottery holder as devoutly as Yu Ming and took out a flower stick.Flower painted hibiscus.

Yanyu remembered that her younger sister also liked Furong, so she couldn't help but pay more attention.

"Ye Lai slanted to cover the deep furnace, and the fragrance of hibiscus was half asleep." Daiyu turned over the flower stick and chanted.

"Sister Yu must have read a lot of poems and books." Liu Ning'an covered her lips and smiled lightly.

"The bookshelves in Sister Yu's room are full of ancient books, and Sister Ning'an is both a book lover." Li Wen took Daiyu's hand and said to Liu Ning'an; Liu Ning'an whispered to Daiyu, "Sister Ning'an What books are there? Can you lend me a look. I have "The Secret History of Tang Books", sister Yu should like it."

Li Wen sneered: "Don't spoil Sister Yu, otherwise Sister Yan will definitely not spare you."

Yan Yucai heard the sound and looked back: "Sister Wen, don't ruin my name, who doesn't know that I am the most talkative, and I never blush with others."

Yu Ming's face was full of contempt: "Listen, what does she say! How can she say that about herself? Shameless!"

"Sister Ming still said that she loves our sister as if she were your own sister, but no sister would say that about her sister." Yanyu giggled and said.

Yu Ming picked up the wine cup and drank lightly, deliberately pretending that he didn't hear her words.

The cold bamboo tube was handed to Yanyu, and Li Wen laughed and teased: "Sister Yan has such a clever mouth! Sister Zhen's peach blossom lottery, sister Ming's peony lottery and sister Yu's lotus lotus lottery are all very good. Alright, sister Yan should draw a rose lotus to match you."

"Look at what Third Sister said, it seems that Sister Zhen is about to commit suicide if she draws a lottery." Li Shu accepted Li Wen's words with a chuckle.

"You are not ashamed, your mouth is full of peach blossoms and your husband's, you can't tell who is thinking about it!" Zhen Yan laughed.

Yanyu didn't think so much, and it was no different to her.

But seeing the begonia on the flower stick, Yanyu suddenly remembered the poem that Daiyu once inscribed on the painting.

A branch of red sleeves presses the crabapple, and half of the city is misty and cloudy.

"The scenery of spring teaching is in Xianxia, ​​and the body of the fish on the water surface is always covered with flowers. The world does not think of flowers and flowers, but it dyes red valerian into light gauze." Yan Yusi and Xue Taojian chose this poem in "Begonia Stream".

"Begonia Creek" is known as the first song of Haitang Ode, and Xue Tao's poems are excellent, which makes her admire.

Xue Luo handed Yanyu a glass of flower wine, and said with a half-smile: "Begonia is a festive flower, and has a similar temperament to Sister Yan. Sister Yan should try this wine."

Yanyu thought it was an ordinary fruit wine, and only after smelling a strange fragrance, she raised her head and looked at Xue Luo: "Sister Luo, what kind of wine is this?"

"Begonia honey." Xue Luo said with a smile, "I brewed it and buried it under the crabapple tree. It is sweet and dense, and it is the most pleasant."

Lu Ru, who was waiting on the side, brought up a small pot of crabapple honey and poured it into the exquisite wine cup. The clear wine was full of floral fragrance, which made people intoxicated by smelling it.

The two younger ones came over curiously, and Li Qi said anxiously, "Sister Luo, can I have a taste?"

Before Xue Luo could speak, her own elder sister Li Wen slammed her hard and said fiercely, "No way! Mother specifically told you not to let you drink with Mu'er."

"Sister Wen, I don't want to drink." Zhuang Mu smacked his lips aggrievedly.

"Mu'er is still very obedient." Li Wen caressed Zhuang Mu comfortingly, and then said to Li Qi, "If the fourth sister has Mu'er to worry about, I, as an older sister, will be very relieved."

Li Qi moved the embroidery group to the other side of Zhuang Mu, pulled Zhuang Mu and whispered in a voice just enough for Li Wen to hear: "My third sister loves me more than my mother."

Li Wen snorted angrily: "Little heartless, I'm doing it for your own good."

Zhen Yan over there also took a sip of crabapple honey from the wine cup, and said to Xue Luo in a gentle and soft tone: "Sister Luo, this crabapple honey is really unique. I heard that this crabapple honey was created by Princess Heqing in the past. Princess Heqing passed the recipe of Haitangmi to Sister Luo."

Xue Luo's face changed again and again, and his eyes were already tinged with coldness: "Sister Zhen grew up in Jinling, so she knows everything about the capital so well?"

"My aunt is the noble concubine in the palace, and my cousin is the King of Jin. I also went to Beijing with my father and mother to meet nobles." Zhen Yan looked proud, as if it was something she was extremely proud of.

"Yes, then I wish you all your wishes come true." A sneer appeared on Xue Luo's lips, and he picked up the wine cup in front of him and drank it down in one gulp.

Zhen Yan claims that she is not inferior in appearance, talent, and intelligence, and is a daughter of a great family. She is full of ambitions and wants to become the queen of the world; but King Jin and King Zhao already have concubines, no matter how proud Zhen Yan is There is no way to match the Phoenix position.

Xue Luo didn't want to argue with her at first, but Zhen Yan wanted to use her elder sister-in-law, Princess Heqing, to make Xue Luo angry.

Seeing Zhen Yan and Xue Luo's swords and swords, the girls were so frightened that they didn't dare to speak easily; it was Li Wen who came out to smooth things over, and they walked down the steps because of Miss Jiang's face.

When such a farce happened, everyone lost their interest in playing, and the banquet ended early.

At the end, Zhuang Muluo was about to get up and leave, but his sleeves got caught on bamboo sticks and scattered all over the floor.

She knelt down and picked up a flower stick, but it was a flower stick.

A flash in the pan, fleeting.

"Mu'er, go back and rest first." Li Wenzheng came in and saw the mess on the ground, so he came over and said gently.

"Sister Wen." Zhuang Mu quietly hid the flower stick in his sleeve, then stood up and smiled, "Then I'll go back first."

Li Wenjing looked at Zhuang Muyuan's back, slowly frowned, feeling vaguely uneasy.

Soon after the banquet, it was approaching the end of the new year, and Jia Min sent Qian Yi's wife to pick up Yanyu and Daiyu. Hearing that Mrs. Zhuang was going to Liangguang Temple to worship Buddha, Jia Min also brought Zhuang Mu to the house.Zhuang Mu was resting on the carriage with his jade pillow in his arms, and Daiyu was also sitting next to Zhuang Mu, closing his eyes and dozing off; Yanyu was in high spirits, leaning against the gauze curtain and raising the corner of the embroidered curtain to peek out.

Seeing the person riding a horse standing on the low slope, Yanyu couldn't help covering her lips and chuckling, and then put down the embroidered curtain.

The carriage stopped suddenly, and Zhuang Mu and Daiyu woke up suddenly, but they didn't know what happened; Qian Yi's daughter-in-law reported in a low voice outside the carriage: "Miss, don't worry, the officers and soldiers in front are doing routine inspections, and they have disturbed you."

Yanyu looked out from the gap in the embroidered curtain, and there were officers and soldiers patrolling not far away, checking the documents of the carriages coming and going under the city gate.

"Sister Yan, what's the matter?" Zhuang Mu asked a little uneasy.

"It'll be fine." Yanyu smiled lightly at her.

Zhuang Mu was still uneasy, listening nervously to the sound of the wheels turning slowly, and asked Yanyu in a low voice after passing the checkpoint: "Sister Yan, I heard that there were thieves making trouble outside Yangzhou City, do you know How is it now?"

Yanyu was still looking at the green hills that were constantly receding outside, and it took a long time to look back and shake her head: "Yangzhou is a prosperous and prosperous place, and the rest is unknown."

Zhuang Mu lowered his head sadly, as if he was unsure.