green bamboo dream

On March [-]th, the Palace Examination of Wenhua Palace. 【】

After sending Lin Zongyan out, the old lady recruited Mrs. Cui and chatted with Yu Zhu and Yu Landao.

"The third daughter-in-law, don't worry, I think Brother Yan will definitely win the first class. He is much better than his father. I still remember today, 20 years ago, when the old master was still there, I sent the third child out. , In the end, I will be busy with my own affairs, and when I am done, the person who announces the good news will come."

Although Cui was also worried, it was not very serious, because neither the previous dynasty nor the current palace examinations were dismissed, only the top ten test papers were selected by the examiner, so that they could be presented to the emperor to determine the first, second and third, like People like them, who have no ability at all, can win an official, not to mention that their son has already passed the No. 4 Gongshi exam.

It's just that the old lady was worried in her heart, and she found someone to relieve it. Cui was also happy to see the old lady's appearance, no longer sharp and indifferent, like an ordinary grandmother who is worried about her grandson's future, gentle and loving .

With one hand, Yu Zhu was propped on the nanmu cloud-patterned desk, and with the other hand, he was knocking on the carved pineapple chair sitting under him, with a half-made purse beside him.

Zaoyuan smiled and persuaded: "Miss, if you feel bored, it would be nice if I could accompany you to the garden. Many flowers are blooming in the garden, especially the peach and apricot blossoms."

"Oh, the peach blossoms are blooming." Yu Zhu looked at the bright light outside, and felt a little excited in her heart: "Take it away, people are going to grow mushrooms in the room all day."

"Grow, grow mushrooms." Poor Zaoyuan stood there dumbstruck, not understanding why his young lady always made some weird words, which often made people puzzled.After a little composure, he lifted his heels up.

Sitting in the water pavilion in the garden, there are vibrant flowers and plants everywhere. The air is mixed with the sweet fragrance of many kinds of flowers, which spreads under the sunlight, forming an extremely intoxicating fragrance.There are many peach trees in Ningyuan Hou's Mansion, and the ones that are in full bloom are brilliant. The pink flowers are matched with the weird and rough twigs, which is really beautiful.

Yu Zhu smiled wryly, in his previous life, he would never have thought that he would have such a day when he had so much time that he could only enjoy the flowers, which was really a luxury.She has never realized soberly like now: women are raised.The second elder brother took the imperial examination, and the fourth elder brother went to the barracks. Where do they have their dreams, such as being promoted to a noble, defending the family, defending the country, being named a marquis and worshiping a general? Although life is hard, there is always something to do.But she can only stay in the back house, admiring flowers, embroidering, waiting to marry a man to give her children and take care of her concubine.

"Miss, are you tired? Would you like to help you go back and rest for a while?" Seeing her helpless expression, Zaoyuan panicked.

Yu Zhu waved her hand and said, "It's nothing." She looked around again, and looked at a second-class maid standing beside her holding a teacup: "What's your name?"

The green-clothed servant girl was a little silly at first, but when she realized it she was ecstatic: "Yes, yes, the maidservant's name is Qingteng."

"Then, Qingteng, go and pick flowers for me."

"Miss, do you want to put it in a bottle?" Qingteng's eyes were slightly excited, and her voice was still trembling even though she forcibly suppressed it.The third lady is the wife's darling, with four first-class maids, eight second-class maids, and eight third-class maids. In addition, the young lady doesn't like to order others, and the only ones who are usually used are Huaruo and Zaoyuan. Elder sister, and the silver chain and qin silk of the big maid have to be grabbed to get a job, not to mention that she is only a second-class maid.

Yu Zhu shook her head, smiling a little wickedly: "No, I want that apricot blossom, promise, it's the one that came out of the wall."

Zaoyuan took a breath, oh my lady, don't be scary anymore.

Qingteng's face was also flushed. Even though she is young, she also knows that there is a word called Hong Xing out of the wall, but seeing the young lady's ignorant expression, she doesn't seem to know it. She gritted her teeth and bowed back: " yes."

After a while, he came over with a short apricot blossom.Zaoyuan still smiled and asked: "I still remember that there is a blue and white color baby play double bottle in the room, how about just sticking it in there?"

Yuzhu took it from Qingteng's hand, but didn't answer, she put the apricot flower on her temple with a sly smile, ignored the embarrassment of the maids, and played in the garden leisurely, ignoring other people's eyes.

Yu Lan just sneered when she learned about it from the maid, "My third sister is weird, so many jewelry that mother gave her are all made of paper, put them aside and don't wear them, but go to village girls to wear them." Xinghua, it's really..." She let out a long breath, but concealed the rest of the words. After a few days of Xu Mama's advice, she realized how stupid she was in the past, and she couldn't act like this again. It is serious to please the aunt.

Thinking of the fact that Mother Xu, who is a slave, is so serious about herself, but my aunt always pushes me to go to please my father. I didn't think it before, but after Mother Xu instructed me, I realized that this was letting me risk being rejected by my father. Going to help her invite pets is not thinking of herself at all as she said.

Her mother was to watch over her marriage, so naturally she had to be close to her aunt first, Yulan quickly picked up the clothes she wanted to give to Cui Shi, and began to sew them carefully.

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In the evening, in the barracks outside the city.

"Really, that's great, that's really great." Lin Zongji smiled very happily, and turned to the boy at home who came to report the letter: "You go to congratulate the eldest brother on my behalf, and tell him that there is nothing in the army, wait for me Go back and prepare the congratulatory gift."

"Okay, I will bring the words to you." The handsome young man looked very clever with his eyes wide open, and pulled out an ebony carrying case with gold silk vine pattern from the horse's bundle, which may be very heavy. , the boy's fair face was flushed, Lin Zongyan hurriedly took it with one arm, wondering: "What is this?"

The boy wiped off his sweat, looked at the dark carrying case, took a breath with lingering fear, and replied: "This is prepared by Miss San, and it's all the food that Si Ye usually likes." He took another huge one Skin bag: "Miss San knows that drinking is not allowed in the army, so she asked the villain to bring spring water from Wanqiu Mountain." He didn't dare to complain, why does this fourth master like to eat so many things? It's easy to start having fun.He silently gave his precious mount a look, brother treats you to eat beans tonight, and rewards you.

"Hey, the food delivery is here." Someone teased not far away, Lin Zongyan dismissed the boy hurriedly, turned around and said with a smile: "Yes, Brother Zhang, do you want some together?"

The man surnamed Zhang was not polite either, he raised his head and yelled: "Boy Lin is treating you, you have heard everything, come here quickly."

Opening the food box, a burst of fragrant and glutinous air came out. The first floor of the entrance was full of various snacks, such as baked cakes, square cakes, generous cakes, rice cakes, Dengzhan cakes, fried cakes, chicken cakes, Lion Cake, Thousand-layer Cake, Nine-Layer Cake, Thousand-page Cake, Baking Cake, Dingsheng Cake... The people around were stunned and amazed.

"Brother Cheng is here!" Suddenly a young soldier's eyes lit up and he shouted.

Immediately, all kinds of cries sounded out one after another.

"Brother Cheng, come and have some snacks."

"This way, this way—"

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At the corner of the barracks in the distance, a muscular figure slowly approached. The tight-fitting black leather armor outlined the muscles that seemed to be carved from rocks. It was not very exaggerated but full of powerful beauty.The afterglow of the setting sun shone on him, casting a layer of illusory light and shadow on him. His facial features were so beautiful that people couldn't take his eyes off them, but the black-stained eyebrows and sharp-edged face were all lost there. In the breath of iron and blood rushing towards his face, he was as fierce and bloody as if he had just come off the battlefield, which was breathtaking.

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