Yu Tang Golden Boudoir

Chapter 19
In the twinkling of an eye, it was the middle of the twelfth lunar month, and families inside and outside the capital were busy preparing for the new year. Li Tian was dressed as an ordinary scholar, a cloak with a dark pattern folded in silk and cotton, and a cross-legged headdress of the same color, standing at the gate not far from Zhengmen. On the second floor of Li Qijia's main store, he looked at the heavy snow and the bustling West Street downstairs.

It’s only ten days before Xiaonian, and such a heavy snowfall can’t stop the enthusiasm of the people in the capital to celebrate the New Year. West Street is still full of small and large sundry stalls, selling door gods, Zhong Kui, peach boards, peach charms , there are other necessary mascots for the New Year, such as turning back deer horses, Caimen blunt donkeys, Tianxing posts, etc., and there is thick snow on the coir raincoats of suburban farmers carrying fresh leeks, lettuce, and mint leaves. In the crowded crowd, they are still walking fast, delivering goods to familiar restaurants. The shops on both sides of the street have already hung fifteen lanterns on the corridors, and the long colorful tassels under the lanterns are flying with the wind, stirring up the snow , adding countless joys, a huge snow lion squatted in front of the shop from time to time, blocking the road, forcing the dense flow of people to flow through the middle like water meeting stones, and then flow back.

"Here we come!" Yinhua came in briskly lifting the curtain, and Li Tian hurriedly looked in the direction of Zhengmen.

A motorcade came in slowly from under the tall city gate. The traffic was too dense, and the fleet of vehicles stopped and went very slowly.

In front of the convoy, a slender, slightly thin young man of seventeen or eighteen years old was walking beside the front car. The young man's brows were clean and bright, his eyes were lacquered, he was wearing a sky blue and gray silk cloak, his head He didn't wear a hat, and tied up his hair with a green jade hairpin. The snowflakes spun and fell on his head, and then got into his neck, but he didn't seem to shrink back. The heavy snow and the noisy crowd couldn't hold him back The peace and tranquility exuding from his body, he is like a piece of warm jade placed on a pile of gravel, so pleasing to the eye.

This is the husband Mrs. Lin ordered for Li Tian, ​​Leng Mingsong, Leng Mingsong.

Li Tian breathed a sigh of relief, and Yue Niang flicked the window lattice with her finger and exclaimed: "What a handsome young man!" Then she turned her head to look at Li Tian and said, "Don't worry, this young man from the Leng family At first glance, he is a modest gentleman, he can't hold you down, you can definitely eat him to death."

Li Tian didn't bother to pay attention to her, Ying Luo pursed her lips and smiled, raised her hand and nodded downstairs to signal: "The old lady of the Cao family is here."

Beside Leng Mingsong, Cao Si's old mother and the old lady of Cao's family were covered in thick soot, holding a basket of ashes in her arms, shouting and staggering forward, passing by Leng Mingsong, she suddenly tilted her body , even the person and the charcoal basket in his arms smashed on Leng Mingsong.

Li Tian and the others held their breath and watched Leng Mingsong's reaction intently. Leng Mingsong hugged the old lady of the Cao family who was about to fall, helped her to stand firm, and said something with concern on her face, the old lady of the Cao family Roaring anxiously and angrily, he scattered the charcoal on the ground and danced his hands. Leng Mingsong nodded repeatedly, let go of her, picked up the charcoal basket, and a young man rushed over to pick up the charcoal back into the basket together with Leng Mingsong. In the middle of the day, the old lady of the Cao family didn’t pick up the charcoal basket, she just pulled Leng Mingsong and didn’t know what to say. While talking, she kept rubbing the cigarette ash all over Leng Mingsong’s body. There was no trace of disgust or impatience on Leng Mingsong’s face. , listening to the old lady of the Cao family with a gentle and clear smile and a focused expression.

The old lady of the Cao family tangled up and down for a long time before she took the charcoal basket and walked a few steps into the alley next to her.

Yinhua couldn't help laughing and said, "The old lady of the Cao family is really good at playing tricks. Seeing her rubbing his clothes to death, Mr. Leng is really good-tempered."

Li Tian pursed his lips and smiled without saying a word, turned around and went downstairs, got in the car and went back.

Yue Niang lifted the curtain and got into the car, looked at Li Tian and said seriously: "This little gentleman's tutor has nothing to say about his temper, but he lacks a little bit of vigor. In the future, he will be a first-rank official, command a hundred officials, and so on. .”

"I didn't mean that he commanded any officials at all. If he really looked extraordinary, I don't want to marry." Li Tian smiled easily: "Haven't you heard of that sentence, regret it." Teach your husband and son-in-law to look for a Marquis, it’s all glamorous on the outside, but I don’t know how hard it is on the inside. I don’t want this. The best thing is to be a foreigner when I’m young. It’s even better if I can find a place with beautiful scenery Yes, I will take office with him, anyway, we have plenty of money, if you don't want to make progress and don't lack money, he will be easy to do as an official, and he and I will eat, drink, play, travel, and be happy, how comfortable we are, After the five-year term is over, I will change places and continue to have fun. I will be four or five years old. When I am 40 years old, I will beg for bones and come back. I will build a garden in the suburbs of Beijing. He will drink some wine and sing a few sour poems. Flowers and grasses, it would be great to see Nanshan leisurely! If you raise another outstanding son, a newcomer who can rule all the officials, it will be even more perfect."

Yue Niang burst out laughing "puh ha ha", and after laughing for a long time, she patted Li Tian on the shoulder heavily and said: "I have great ambitions, and I also yearn for the day you mentioned, well, I will accompany you." You, in this life, you will only listen to sour poems, enjoy flowers and plants and so on."

The Leng family's convoy finally squeezed through the crowded street, and arrived in front of the house that Leng Ding's brother had helped to build. The Ding family's wife and the Leng family's servants were waiting at the gate to move this and resettle that.Leng Ding didn't care about these things, and hurried over to see his mother, Mrs. Zhou, without even getting out of the car.

The old lady Zhou hadn't seen her daughter for more than ten years, she hugged her head and cried endlessly, Leng Ding said anxiously: "Don't cry, Madam, I'm fine, your son-in-law is transferred back to the capital, we will be together in the future, this is Great joy, I have more important things to do."

"That's right, that's right." The old lady Zhou wiped away her tears and said, "It's not something important. The princess Jiangjun just sent someone over to ask if you're back. I'll wait for you to come back and draft a post to make a decision. Let me tell you." , the fifth sister of the Li family gave birth to one in a million, her temper and personality was one in a thousand, and..."

"Auntie!" Leng Ding pressed his fingers on his temples, and interrupted Mrs. Zhou's words with great irritability: "I asked you to pay attention to several marriages for Brother Song. I didn't tell you clearly. You must choose one." The natal family has help, so what strength does the fifth lady of the Li family have? Look at what you can do!" Leng Ding held back his breath for a while, and his tone was bad when he opened his mouth. Mrs. Zhou's face was scolded by her daughter I couldn't hold back anymore, and said angrily: "But I just said that, don't talk about the grass post, I don't even have a relationship yet, if you don't agree, then don't, treat me as a waste of worry!"

"You have already agreed, and Nanning County Prince's Mansion is still closed during this matter!" When Leng Ding heard her mother's rather irresponsible words, she was really angry: "Didn't I tell you in the letter to let you go first?" Pay attention, when I come back to see each other again, why did you just agree to him? Isn’t it a yes when you say yes? No one wants to poke your back!”

"If you want to poke, you will poke me, and I won't hinder you!" Mrs. Zhou was also annoyed. Although Leng Ding was so angry that he had a headache, seeing his mother was annoyed, he could only bear his temper and explained to his mother: "Mother, think about it." , the seventh master of the Jiang family in Linchuan Houfu, and Song Ge'er's father are in the same list of Jinshi, Song Ge'er's father is the first place, and Jiang Qiye is the last, but now you see, Jiang Qiye has already done it From the second rank, Song'er's father has worked so hard to get to the fifth rank. Isn't it because Jiang Qiye has someone to support him! In terms of knowledge and ability, how far is he from Song'er's father?
Brother Song is sensible and willing to study. He won the Juren last fall. How old is he?It is said that his essays are only learned to win the first prize, A Niang, when I think that Brother Song will be like his father in the future, suffering a lifetime of hard work, I feel like a cat catches me in my heart. Brother Song is so good! "

"That's true!" Mrs. Zhou nodded again and again, as if she felt the pain of her daughter. Leng Ding wiped away her tears and sighed: "I think about it, that is, the way of climbing doors and kissing, which makes you in the capital. If you have a foundation to help you find a home, you..."

"It's nothing. Tomorrow, I'll go to Nanning County Prince's Mansion and tell you that you don't know about it. I ordered it. Now you don't think it's suitable..." Mrs. Zhou hurriedly comforted her daughter, Leng Ding thought Liao thought: "Let me go, it's not appropriate for me not to go, so I have to lower my face and give a good gift."

"That's fine!" Mrs. Zhou hurriedly agreed, it's not a good thing to be with her old face, it would be great if she didn't go: "It's fine if you quit, let me tell you, originally I was looking at the child, okay?" Said, the most rare thing is her dowry! When her mother got married, you didn’t see it when you were not in the capital. The dowry was not a box, but a box. The four of them were sweating when they lifted it! Her grandmother picked her up. When I came back, I got all the dowry back. With so much dowry, I couldn’t find a second one in the whole capital. I just agreed. Who knows, her grandma said no, she would be gone, and her and her grandma’s place went away again Shui, I heard that she went back to the Duke of Yongguo's mansion empty-handed, and the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion seized the title and sent her back to the countryside... If she retreats, she will retreat, I think about it these days, and I feel depressed."

"I don't want other people's dowry. Mrs. Lin has such a temper that she has to protect her weaknesses. How will this sister grow up with her?"

"Don't tell me, this sister Tian is really sensible, she is chaste, gentle and generous, she doesn't look like her grandma, she doesn't look like her father, wherever she goes, she looks like the one who was wet with dew early in the morning. Half of the lotus is the same, and she has a good temper. The little girl in Nanning County Prince's Mansion is so pampered. She can get along well. If you say that this girl's family is all over the capital, I think she is the best!"

Leng Ding was worrying about how to push this family again without offending Nanning County Prince's Mansion, so she didn't listen to Mrs. Zhou's words. Her mother's temper is the best when it comes to everyone.

(End of this chapter)