[Red House] The Twins of Purple Pearls

By the time of Qixi Festival, the heat is gradually dissipating, and the autumn breeze is coming.

I heard that Mrs. Zhongjinghou came to visit the mansion, and Xiangyun, the eldest daughter of the historian, also came with her.

Sanchun took the Lin family sisters to see each other. In Shi Taijun's room, he saw a round and kind young woman sitting at the bottom talking to Shi Taijun. The girl in the red dress should be Xiangyun, who was following the woman. The servant woman was holding a young child who was only three or four years old.

Yanyu already guessed that the young woman is Zhongjinghou Shi Ding's stepwife, and the child is Zhongjinghou's youngest son Shi Heng.

"This is Mrs. Zhongjinghou." Shi Taijun told the girls with a smile, and introduced several girls one by one with Mrs. Zhongjinghou.

The Shi family and the Jia family were related by marriage, and Mrs. Zhong Jinghou seldom came out to see relatives, and she didn't even recognize the three girls of the Jia family.

Shi Taijun asked the nanny to show Shi Heng to her. The child was wriggling in the nanny's arms, as if he was a little afraid of strangers.

Mrs. Zhong Jinghou laughed awkwardly: "Brother Heng is spoiled by me, so my master asked me to take Brother Heng out for a walk."

"There is always a nanny to take care of her, so what are you worried about!" Shi Taijun always liked children, looking at Brother Heng, he said with a light smile.

Seeing Xiangyun sitting at the bottom looking at Sanchun with joy on his face, Shi Taijun asked the girls to play separately.

After leaving the main room, Tanchun asked Xiangyun familiarly: "Sister Yun, why is Mrs. Zhongjinghou here?" Obviously Mrs. Zhongjinghou did not go around with the Rongguo Mansion in the past.

"I don't know too well." Xiangyun shook his head, and then talked to sister Yanyu and Daiyu with a smile, "This is the first time I've seen sister Lin."

"I heard the third sister talk about Sister Yun before, but it's a pity I can't see her until now." Yanyu said.

Xiangyun was beaming, turned his head and smiled sweetly and asked Tanchun, "Third sister, don't you just speak ill of me with Lin's sister?"

Tanchun turned his head angrily: "How could I do this!"

Just as they were talking, Cuihui, Xiangyun's servant girl, hurried over: "Girl, Uncle Jin is here, talking to Mr. Zheng in the front hall."

"Brother Jin must be worried about you." Tanchun said with a smile.

Uncle Jin must be Shi Jin, the eldest son of Zhongjing Hou. It seems that Shi Jin and Xiangyun's brother and sister have a very good relationship.

Xiangyun smiled, turned around and said to Cuilu, "Let big brother wait for me at the flower gate for a while, and I will go there."

Cui Ling helped Xiangyun and said with a smile: "Miss, I don't know that Uncle Jin sent people to send a lot of fresh summer melons and fruits, which are filial to the old lady. The old lady praised Uncle Jin for being sensible and filial, and kept Jin Master come in and talk."

Yanyu listened attentively to their words, and her heart became more vigilant, thinking that maybe this was a chance to meet Shi Jin; when the time came to use her spiritual power to quietly stuff Mu Ran's letter into Shi Jin's sleeve, it would be regarded as the completion of Mu Ran's mission. Entrust.

Thinking of it this way, Yan Yu fainted.

Xichun pulled Xiangyun and asked her in a low voice: "Does your third wife know?"

Xiangyun's expression changed slightly, and he said softly: "Big Brother said he wants to take part in the literary examination, and recently moved to live in the school."

Thinking about it, Xiangyun never thought that there was something wrong with it, so he didn't hesitate to say it.

Since Shi Jin is the eldest son of Zhongjinghou, but now he has moved out to live in the school.No matter what the reason is, others will think that Zhongjinghou's house is restless; Zhongjinghou's stepwife has given birth to a child, and the eldest son is the child left by his first wife, so it is inevitable that people will suspect the dispute between the son and the concubine.

Both Sanchun and Xiangyun are still inexperienced in the world, thinking that Shi Jingang won the Juren, which is the first among the younger generation of Gongqing's family, and he can understand that he wants to prepare for Chunwei with peace of mind.

Only they can believe this kind of rhetoric.

Yanyu raised her head just in time to see Daiyu frowning slightly, but it straightened out instantly.

"Sister Yun, the third lady's mother's family is Wen's family?" Yanyu remembered belatedly. She had heard someone mention it before. Hou is already a member of King Zhao.

I saw Xiangyun nodded: "Sister Yan also knows?"

Yanyu nonsense: "I seem to have heard my mother mention it."

Sanchun didn't care about this matter anymore, and after entering the Nuan Pavilion and sitting down, they talked about Qixi Festival.

At noon, the sky was still clear and the sun was shining brightly, but when I came out of the Nuan Pavilion, I could already see black clouds overwhelming the city.

Yanyu turned her head and said to Daiyu, "Yu'er, you should go back to the house first."

"Then sister will come back earlier." Seeing that Yanyu didn't say anything, and she didn't ask, Daiyu only smiled lightly.

Yu Bai opened an umbrella and followed Yan Yu out of the yard: "Where is the girl going?"

Yanyu stopped slowly: "I've been a little bored recently, so I just came out for a walk."

Seeing the stratus clouds blowing in wind, it may be that heavy rain is coming.

Hearing the sound of footsteps coming towards this side, heavy and slow, there should be a man walking towards this side from far to near.

"Sister Yubai, just now my handkerchief seems to have fallen on the way I came here, can you help me take a look?" Yanyu turned her head and said to Yuebai.

"The girl, don't just leave, I won't find her." Yue Bai hurried away after hearing the words, and disappeared under the shadow of the corridor.

Yanyu hid behind the bushes, and half a quarter of an hour later, she saw a young boy coming in from the flower gate; the young man was about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a loose dark white robe, just like the clothes of a scholar in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, with an expression His demeanor is a steady state that does not match his age.

Yanyu has never met Shi Jin, but seeing his face similar to Xiangyun's, she can confirm his identity.

After Shi Jin passed by, Yanyu took out the letter of credit and flew into his sleeve with spiritual power without a sound, and then hid behind the bushes.

However, Shi Jin was more vigilant than she imagined; despite the blessing of spiritual power, Shi Jin still noticed something strange, and found the letter that had fallen into his loose sleeve.

Shi Jin's expression changed drastically after just one glance, and she turned her head quickly, but she didn't see any trace of the figure, so she put away the letter and left in a hurry.

Now that the letter has arrived in Shi Jin's hands, Yanyu is a little relieved.

After confirming that Shi Jin had left, Yan Yu walked around from the other side of the garden and returned to the porch, only to see Yue Bai come back.

"It's probably going to rain this day, let's go back too!" Yan Yu glanced at the gloomy sky, thinking that this Qixi Festival might not be a safe one.

As soon as I got back to the house, I saw it was pouring rain all over the courtyard, half of her skirt was splashed wet by the rain; Yanyu came out after changing her pomegranate skirt, and saw Daiyu sitting by the window reading a book, with clear tea being boiled on the tea table, overflowing with bursts of water. Fragrance.

Daiyu just put down the book: "Sister. Just now, the painting by the side of the fourth sister came, it seems that the fourth sister just got a painting, let the elder sister go to enjoy the painting together."

Ever since Xichun knew that Yanyu could also paint, she approached Yanyu every now and then to discuss painting.

Usually, Xichun is always reticent, and she will only say a few more words when she is interested.

"Fourth younger sister has to take a nap in the afternoon, I will go there later." Yanyu just sat down beside her, and saw that what Daiyu was reading was the historical scroll of "Spring and Autumn", but the scroll was brand new, as if it was the first time she read it , "Why did you suddenly watch "Spring and Autumn"?"

Daiyu smiled: "My sister said she wanted to read Shi Mingzhi, so I just read a few pages."

Seeing her close the book, Yanyu pretended to be casual and said: "It's been a while since we came to Beijing, and my mother sent us to my grandmother's house for a short stay, saying that it was to play with my cousins. Let us gain some insight; the Rong and Ning mansions are the homes of officials, and they are different from ordinary court officials." After a pause, he continued, "It is the first time we have seen the Shijia sister and Mrs. Zhongjinghou. I Looking at Brother Heng in Zhongjinghou's Mansion, he is about the same age as Yan'er from our family."

What she said was out of order, but Daiyu understood what she meant.

"Mr. once told us that under the feet of the emperor in the capital city, we should be careful in everything so as not to make mistakes. When I was in school, I saw that sister Zhen's family and sister Xue's family never communicated, and sister Zhen's family's aunt was from the palace. Imperial concubine, the eldest sister of the sister of the Xue family is the concubine of the king of Zhao, so I guessed that it must be related to the battle for the throne in the court. I read in the book that the Son of Heaven is the father of all people, and since ancient times, the battle for the throne has been the center of attention. It is a bet on the whole family's wealth and life; now that we are in the capital, we can no longer be like before." Yanyu thought that Daiyu was just a simple daughter in the boudoir, but now she heard her eloquence. It turns out that my own girl actually knows everything.

Yanyu looked at her younger sister with the same soft and loving eyes as before, mixed with a bit of gratification for no reason.

Facing her elder sister's dark pupils, Daiyu continued to speak earnestly: "I just heard my elder sister ask younger sister Yun whether Madam Zhongjinghou is a daughter of the Wen family. Concubine Wen. Since the uncle of the Shi family married a daughter of the Wen family, the two families have become good friends by marriage. If King Zhao succeeds in the emperor's business in the future, the tide will rise."

If the King of Zhao is to inherit the great cause, the Wen family will be the first to rise, and then the son-in-law of the Wen family, Zhong Jinghou Shi Ding, will be able to share another piece of the pie.At that time, Shi Jin's status in Zhongjinghou's mansion will only become more and more embarrassing; Brother Heng from the Wen family will gradually grow up, and that is the grandson of the Wen family, and that Mrs. Zhongjinghou looks very special. Pure and good people.

I am afraid that Zhongjinghou's mansion will not live in peace in the future.

It's just that this battle of emperors, who knows if it will be the result of the snipe and the clam fighting for the fisherman's benefit in the end.

"Sister, but there is still one thing that I don't understand." Daiyu was silent for a moment before she continued, "Mother once said that my grandfather's family and the Zhen family in Jinling are family friends, but they are also related to the Shi family; Fighting, what should we do?" Now that they are staying at their grandmother's house, they can't help but think about the future of Rongguo Mansion.

It turned out that my sister was worried about this, so Yanyu couldn't help but chuckled: "Gongqing's family members are already extremely human officials, and several uncles and cousins ​​are just enjoying their salaries and have no rights, in fact, there is no need to go into this mess." water."

Daiyu thought about it thoughtfully, and she was even more puzzled: "Then why did Marquis Zhongjing jump into this muddy water?"

Yanyu narrowed her eyes slightly, and the words turned around in her heart a few times before she said: "Maybe there are unavoidable difficulties. I heard that the Shi family's ex-wife, Princess Qingdu, was the adopted daughter of the former Empress Mu. Mu's relatives are all in Pingfeng. Whether they were killed or relegated during the rebellion, the historians turned to the Wen family in order to protect themselves, this is also unknown."

Thinking of what her sister said, Daiyu also felt that it was reasonable, so she didn't question it anymore.