Yu Tang Golden Boudoir

Chapter 33 Birthday Blessing (2)

The next day, the Qingtong Courtyard was quiet, Li Tian was leaning on the kang and carefully thinking about the April [-] wine competition, Yin Hua shouted outside: "The third lady is here! Fifth lady, the third lady is here to see you. "Li Tian hastily asked someone to collect his things, put on his shoes and came down to welcome him out.

The third lady, Li Yunshang, was wearing a lake-blue half-worn silk dress. She shuffled in and walked in with a worried expression on her face. Seeing Li Tian coming out, she hurriedly greeted her with a smile, but her smile was very uncomfortable.Li Tian looked at her strangely. Although she came and went every day, most of the time she only went to Mr. Shui's courtyard to learn piano, but she also came to her main courtyard to drink tea and talk. What's wrong?
Li Tian let Li Yunshang in, and took a seat on the kang. Li Yunshang took the tea absent-mindedly with downcast eyes, held it in his hand, and subconsciously picked the rim of the cup with his fingers, embarrassment and shyness revealing deep troubles, Li Tian looked at it She smiled and asked, "Why is the third sister looking for me?"

"Yeah." Li Yunshang heard that Li Tian didn't say anything polite, so he just asked straightforwardly. Instead, he breathed a sigh of relief, raised his head and quickly glanced at Li Tian, ​​just about to speak, he opened his mouth, and his face turned red before the words came out. , with her head hanging on her chest, she really wanted to put down her cup, turn around and leave. If she didn’t want to say anything, it’s hard to explain her going back and forth, and secondly, this is a major event in her own life... Li Yunshang lowered her head and picked her fingers vigorously The glaze painting on the rim of the cup chirped and said, "You go tomorrow... to celebrate your birthday..."

"Oh." Li Tian understood as soon as he heard it, no wonder it was so difficult, Li Tian wanted to laugh but felt sad, looked at Li Yunshang and said with a smile: "Yes, tomorrow is the birthday of Princess Dongyang County. I have to go to the Prince's Mansion of Nanning County first, and go there with my aunt and Ake, does the third sister want to go and see the excitement?" Li Yunshang was pointed out by Li Tian, ​​and she let out a long sigh of relief and bowed her head.

Li Tian took the teacup from her hand and handed it to Qing Zhi, watching her patiently explained: "Birthday parties like this in Dongyang County Prince's Mansion are considered a big event among the rich and powerful in the capital, and their mansion posts invitations every year. Man, the reason why I didn't invite my sister to go with them is because I don't know their family well. It's because my grandmother and his old lady had some childhood friendship, but later their family became richer and nobler, and this friendship gradually faded away. Faint, but because of such a big event, I couldn't push it, so my grandma took me for a trip, and I rarely see each other. Secondly, my sister also knows that the Dongyang County Prince's Mansion is a well-known family of prominent dignitaries. I'm used to it, and it's inevitable that people will feel superior, just because everything in their family is good, and from top to bottom, the horizons are also elevated, even the cousin and the second wife of the Lin family, although they are still in-laws with his family, it is easy. I don't really want to go to their house, this place is really not suitable for my sister to play, so I didn't talk to my sister, if it is suitable for Zhili, I don't have to wait for my sister to tell me, I have already asked my sister to go with me .”

Li Tian's explanation was euphemistic but clear. Li Yunshang glanced up at her, blushed and said, "I'm not... I didn't mean to say it. Alas, it's all my fault. I told Auntie last night that you were going Regarding the celebration of the birthday of the Prince of Dongyang County... Auntie forced me to look for you, but actually I... I don't mean that, I know you are good to me, and you are sincerely good to me."

Li Tian sighed secretly, and it really meant what my aunt meant again. The third sister could hear her words, but she would definitely not listen to her big aunt's paranoid temperament, and offended her again, and I don't know if she would give birth What's up.

Li Tian was troubled in his heart, but his face didn't show a trace. He took Li Yunshang's hand and smiled, "Look at what you said, what's so strange about it? What can't our sisters say? Even the auntie, I can't blame her." , she is thinking for you, I know what my aunt means, it is useless to go to that family, my sister will explain to my aunt, if there is a suitable family in the future, I don't need my sister to tell me, I will definitely ask my sister to accompany me Let's go together." Li Yunshang understood Li Tian's words, her face flushed with an embarrassed smile, but she felt much more at ease.

"What song did Third Sister learn from Mr. Shui today? Did Mr. Shui make things difficult for you? Mr. Shui loves to pick on my fingering. He always thinks that I played this part wrong and that part wrong again. Is she right?" Picking you like that?" Li Tian changed the subject, and talked about Li Yunshang's favorite topic in a relaxed tone. Sure enough, when Qin was mentioned, Li Yunshang's eyes brightened, and he smiled happily: "How can you be so embarrassing, sir? I have never picked this on me. I want to learn the high mountains and flowing waters. I have told my husband two or three times, but he just won’t teach me, saying that I don’t have that kind of state of mind and spirit, and I can’t play the artistic conception..."

Qingzhi served tea again, and Li Yunshang and Li Tian chatted and laughed for a long time before leaving and going straight to the main courtyard where Mrs. Yang lived.

Mrs. Yang was watching people rummaging through boxes and cabinets looking for clothes and jewelry. When she saw Li Yunshang coming in, she waved and shouted, "You came just in time. It's all agreed? It's just that you have some face in front of her, and you don't have many decent clothes." You can't wear simple clothes for people like the Prince's Mansion in Dongyang County. You have added homely clothes in the past two years, how can you have a piece of clothing that you can go out to meet guests..."

"Mother!" Li Yunshang called out a little anxiously, and was about to speak when Mrs. Yang frowned, threw the clothes in her hand and shouted angrily, "I didn't wear these clothes before, why are you doing this?" Is the color so old? Forget it, send the Buddha to the west, ask someone to find out, you are about the same height as Fifth Sister, she must have a lot of clothes, you..."

"Aniang!" Li Yunshang raised her voice and called again: "You don't need to look for it, I won't go tomorrow."

"Don't go? She won't take you?" Madam Yang straightened up all of a sudden, her voice raised sharply all the way up. Li Yunshang said anxiously: "The fifth younger sister said that Dongyang County's palace is a prominent and used to family. It's very tall, and I'm afraid that I will be wronged if I go, even the Lin family would not want to go to their house easily!"

"Nonsense! Just listen to her nonsense! Hearing what you say, is she being kind? If you are wronged, she won't be wronged? Anyway, you are also an upright daughter of the Duke's Mansion! You are better than her! She can go to Dongyang County King's Mansion, so you can't go! Why is she nobler than you? I think you are careless, you are a fool, a useless fool! You can't say this? You can't be Block her back face to face? What are you afraid of her? This is the Duke's Mansion! Duke Yong is your own father! What is she? Why do you look down on you? You are the dignified daughter of the Duke's Mansion!" Madam Yang's voice was high There is a bitterness in it.

Li Yunshang was scolded by her with tears rolling in her eyes, how could she hear the wrongness in her voice, biting her lip and choked up: "Dongyang County Prince's Mansion is related to the Lin family, when did they come and go with our family?" It's not for the sake of the Duke's Mansion that the fifth younger sister will go. The fifth younger sister has already said that first her grandmother had a good relationship with the old lady of the Dongyang County Prince's Mansion, and then the Lin family and the Dongyang County Prince's Mansion were in-laws. That's why they invited her. She Tomorrow, I have to go to Nanning County Prince's Mansion first, and go there with her cousin and aunt, what's the use of telling me this?"

"You?" Madam Yang's face turned pale, she pointed at Li Yunshang and screamed, but the evil fire that had been burning in her heart all year round was submerged by the surging sorrow: "I am all... for you."

"If Auntie is really doing it for me, she should be more polite to Fifth Sister." Li Yunshang looked at Mrs. Yang with tears in her eyes: "I know Auntie is doing it for my own good, but this is a matter of begging for help. Lier, what is wrong with my fifth sister? But my mother treats my fifth sister...A mother doesn't understand? I learned the piano from Mr. Shui. My mother also said that I am lucky. Isn't this the place where Fifth Younger Sister treats me sincerely? Why bother, Aunt..."

"Shut up! You eat everything! What do you know? That's what she deserves, she should pay you back! She deserves it! Back then...if it wasn't for that...those things, how could this family be like this? When your eldest sister was young, the same A dozen or twenty maids and maids are waiting for you. What was the situation in the mansion then, and what is the situation now? Who is to blame? She deserves it!" Mrs. Yang clutched an old dress tightly in both hands, trembling all over: "Go away !Get out of here!"

"Auntie!" Li Yunshang was terrified by Mrs. Yang who suddenly became violent and angry. She looked at Mrs. Yang in fear and timidity. chest, eyes closed, took a few deep breaths, managed to calm down the frenzy and pain and said: "Auntie is fine, Mrs. Zhou called back yesterday, there is no commission for that kiss, you are already seventeen." In Madam Yang's voice Only sour.

Li Yunshang was stunned for a while, lowered his head, and looked at his toes blankly. The family Mrs. Zhou mentioned was just a sixth-rank official, but his son was more promising, and he was promoted in the middle of the year before. The government married this family.

Princess Jiang of Nanning County has been busy for two days, and she didn't return to the mansion until she held the lamp, but she was very busy. Jiang Yuanshen, the younger brother of Jiang's direct relative, was transferred to the capital, and took his wife Cui and a son from the post. A girl, rushed to the capital early yesterday morning.

Although the Jiang family in Huaiyang is a century-old family with many talents, the Jiangjun princess has no success for several generations. The great-grandfather of the Jiangjun princess served as a prime minister. After returning home, he never became an official again. Jiang’s father stopped when he passed the exam. Jiangjun Princess has two brothers and one brother, and the two elder brothers also failed in many tests. It's difficult, only my younger brother Jiang Yuanshen was smart since he was young, and he was born in the imperial examination. Now he has achieved the fourth rank, and he was transferred to the capital again.

Jiang Yuanshen's eldest son, Jiang Hong, is 19 years old this year. He is a leader of the Jiang family in Huaiyang. He is talented, thoughtful, and mature. Character, Jiangjun Princess thinks of her nephew, and smiles from the corners of her eyes. Brother Hong has such a character and talent, he will have a great future in the future, maybe he will be another prime minister!

"Has Dalang come back? If he comes back, invite him to come over." Princess Jiang ordered in a happy mood, and the little girl promised that it won't be too long. Liao Li smiled and said: "Auntie is back, uncle and the others have settled down? Is Auntie ready for dinner?"

"It's all good, do you still need to remember it?" Princess Jiang Jun looked at the eldest son with satisfaction, motioned him to sit on the kang, turned away all the maids and women, looked at him and said with a smile: "Tomorrow, the birthday banquet of Princess Liu Jun , I heard that there are still people who can speak outside?"

"No, this proficiency is really crazy. If three or five people gather together, they must know a few sentences and write two poems." Lin Yangfeng said with a distressed expression.

"That's good. Tomorrow, the concubine Liu Jun is celebrating her birthday. Fourth Master will definitely go to pay her birthday greetings. If she doesn't know how to write, I'm afraid he will have to leave after celebrating her birthday. You won't be able to see him. If you know how to write, Fourth Master I love learning, so I have to stay for a while to read a few articles, so you can find a chance to talk to him, A Niang has two things to tell you, listen carefully."

"My son listens to Auntie's orders." Lin Yangwen replied uncomfortably, why did the Fourth Prince talk to him alone?The so-called talking to him means that the fourth prince is talking to the crowd... Is he also one of the crowd, but he is unwilling to say this to A Niang no matter what.

"This is the first thing. Tomorrow, you take Brother Hong with you, and you have to take good care of him. Although Brother Hong is good at poetry and prose, he is new here. He doesn't know anyone, and he doesn't understand the rules of our capital. You and Erlang I need to mention more, don't admit the wrong person, say the wrong thing, and make a joke. Tomorrow is his first reciprocal relationship. Don't ask him to get a lot of money. First recognize people, learn the rules, and then talk. My brother's talent will be more in his early years." Princess Jiang explained carefully, and Lin Yangfeng nodded in agreement very readily. "The second thing, when you pay attention to it tomorrow, thank you in person for Sister Tian and the fourth prince."

"Thank you for what? What kind of thanks does the cousin of the Li family say to the fourth prince?" Lin Yangfeng was amazed, and Princess Jiang hummed sullenly: "What thanks did you say? You forget quickly. Last winter, your sister Did you forget that you met robbers with sisters Li and Yu? Didn’t the Fourth Prince save that?”

"It turned out to be this!" Lin Yangfeng laughed out loud, and subconsciously looked for reasons to deduce things: "Auntie is too polite, it's been half a year, and I've forgotten it, besides, you didn't meet Mrs. Xu face to face Have you kowtowed to thank you? Why are you thanking me again? I should be annoyed if I thank you again."

"You child! This heart is really closed!" Princess Jiang glared at her son angrily. Forgot? Mrs. Xu and I kowtowed to thank her for saving your sister and Yu’s sister. Who thanked Li’s sister for saving her life? Just one sentence."

(End of this chapter)