Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 283 Jingjing’s Poetry and Calligraphy Become Famous (1)
The three girls were all wearing beautiful dresses, chatting and laughing in the carriage, and after half an hour, they left Chang'an City and came to the location of the Poetry Fair—the royal family's lotus garden by the Bahe River.

Li Jingjing got out of the carriage, and a young servant who was specially waiting here came over and said respectfully: "Master Jing, my princess has already gone in, waiting for you inside."

Li Jingjing smiled and said: "I recognize you. You are the one who looks forward to the princess."

The big servant nodded.

At this time, another young maidservant stepped forward quickly and said: "Master Jing, my lady just waited here for a while, and she went in before you arrived."

Li Jingjing was very surprised, a little grateful, and said to the big servant: "I didn't expect that the elder sister of the Qin family would come here for me. Thank you so much."

Tian Susu said: "Ms. Jing, you are very popular. You have only been in Chang'an for a few days, and you have made friends with Princess Pan and Jingniang."

"Yes. I also made two friends, you and Yunniang." Li Jingjing spoke Chang'an dialect very naturally.

The Chang'an dialect at this time is just like the Mandarin in the previous life. In order to promote Chang'an dialect, the imperial court has been proud of speaking Chang'an dialect since the royal family.

Li Jingjing stayed in Xi'an for ten years when she was in the army in her previous life, and she speaks Xi'an dialect better than some of her local comrades.

She heard from Qin Wanjing that in previous poetry meetings, as long as the ladies who did not speak Chang'an dialect were laughed at, so when they arrived in Heyuan, they switched to Chang'an dialect.

Tian Susu and Deng Yun saw that the standard Chang'an dialect spoken by Li Jingjing did not have any Tanzhou accent, so they guessed in their hearts that she had asked someone to teach her in Tanzhou.It seems that the Li family also wants to enter the Chang'an aristocratic circle early.

The weather is sunny and breezy in early summer.

The lotus garden built along the upper reaches of the Bahe River covers an area of ​​up to 56 hectares. It was once a birthday gift from the last emperor of the Kai Dynasty to the noble concubine.

The lotus garden looks ordinary from the outside, surrounded by white walls more than ten feet high, a plaque with an inscription by a famous calligrapher and painter hangs on the gate, with "Lotus Garden" written in gold powder on it, and there is heaven and earth inside.

The entire lotus garden has a large lake and two small ponds, three attics, four courtyards with three entrances.

There are more than [-] kinds of lotus planted in one big lake and two small ponds. In midsummer, the green leaves are rippling, and thousands of pink, white and red lotus flowers bloom, with various postures and picturesque scenery.

Standing on the three attics, apart from looking at the lotus in the lake, you can also see Bahe, Chang'an, and the imperial palace.

The four courtyards with three entrances are all red sandalwood furniture and precious antiques. Even the maids here are beauties.

Deng Yun led Tian Susu and Li Jingjing into the lotus garden one by one in each hand, and what he saw was a small pond of more than ten acres covered with green lotus leaves. There were two gazebos and several stone tables and more than twenty stone benches beside the pond.

On the stone tables of the gazebo and the open-air stone tables by the pool, there are blue and white porcelain plates full of seasonal fruits, candied fruit, and dried fruits, as well as green tea.

Deng Yun said with a smile: "The Royal School has spent a lot of money today. If we invite us to the Lotus Garden to hold a poetry meeting, it will cost a thousand taels of silver just for half a day's expenses."

Tian Susu said: "Now is not the peak season, the lotus is not in full bloom, and the expenses for the lotus garden are not so much. But seeing that the fruit, candied fruit, and dried fruit are all exquisite, seven or eight hundred taels is also required."

Li Jingjing asked: "Can the lotus garden be used for money?"

Tian Susu explained: "It's only limited to people in the royal family using silver purses, no matter how much money we have, we can't afford it."

Li Jingjing has seen the imperial palace, and now she sees the lotus garden, all of which show the nobility of the royal family, no wonder every man wants to be an emperor, and every woman wants to be a queen.

A beautiful girl in a goose-yellow dress walked out from the nearest hexagonal gazebo with a carved red roof, waved to the three girls, walked to the back and said with a smile: "Ms. Jing, you are so beautiful today!"

The three women bowed to the visitor and said, "I have seen Princess Pan."

He Pan helped Li Jingjing up with both hands, and then helped up the two daughters of the Duke's Mansion.

Li Jingjing joked: "You are also very beautiful today, but it's a pity that a certain doctor is not present."

Deng Yun said in a loud voice: "Jingniang is talking about Dr. Tanhua Langdi from the Upper Realm Scientific Research. He is a first-class man, talented and handsome. Princess Hope is really lucky."

Tian Susu then asked: "Princess Pan, my parents still ask, when will you have your wedding wine?"

"Look at your mouths, they have been smeared with several layers of oil, so greasy." He Pan was happy in his heart, his cheeks flushed with shame, and he reached out and slapped Li Jingjing on the shoulder, because he was with Deng and Tian. The relationship is okay, just give the two girls a blank look.

Li Jingjing asked: "Who are those sitting in the pavilion?"

"My two princess aunts and the two princess aunts." He Pan said in a low voice, "It's your first time attending a poetry meeting, so you need to say hello to them."

Just as Li Jingjing had this intention, He Pan led her to the gazebo.

He Pan held Li Jingjing's right hand, and introduced to the four girls: "This is Li Jingjing, the county magistrate conferred by the emperor's grandfather."

The round-faced woman in a beige long dress sitting on a stone bench and eating fruit was the first to speak, and said with a smile: "I saw a fairy-like lady from a distance, but I didn't recognize her when I looked closely. Everyone said it was a lady from some mansion, but it turned out to be from Taishi Li's family."

He Pan said: "Jingniang, this is my aunt, Princess Mei."

"Jingniang has seen the princess." Li Jingjing saw that He Jingmei was about seventeen or eight years old, with a hanging bun, pink skin, and exquisite facial features. She was a beauty, thinking that her mother, Concubine Wang Shu, must be beautiful.

He Jingmei said softly: "I prepared a gift for you a long time ago, but I didn't know that you would come today so I didn't bring it."

The most beautiful girl in a long white dress stood up and walked over to her. She held Li Jingjing's left hand, looked at her fixedly, and said with a smile, "You were in a hurry to the palace a few days ago. We didn't see you. You. I finally met you today. Your skin is as fine as snow, your eyes are like stars, and you are born beautiful. You are really beautiful."

Li Jingjing was amazed by the appearance of the girl in the white skirt, but she was praised by the girl in the white skirt, and said humbly: "With your stunning beauty here, I can't say that I am a natural beauty."

The girl in the white dress had beautiful eyes and a deep smile. She touched Li Jingjing's cheek flirtatiously, and said, "Look at this little mouth that can really talk. My name is He Jinglian. Next time you enter the palace, you must look for it." I."

The Liu, Ouyang, Wang, and Hu clans of the four major families in Chang'an opened the dynasty.When He Dong came to the throne, in order to stabilize the throne, he could only marry with the four major families, and chose a daughter from each of the four major families as his concubine.

Liu Meiren, who was reduced from a noble concubine to a beauty, came from the Liu family.Concubine Wang Shu came from the royal family.Concubine Ouyang De came from the Ouyang family.

This He Jinglian's biological mother is Concubine Hu Xian, who is from the Hu family.

Concubine Hu Xian is a concubine, and her biological mother was once an extremely beautiful brothel oiran in Chang'an.When she was born, her biological father handed her over to her aunt to raise her, and she was treated the same as a aunt.

(End of this chapter)