Yu Tang Golden Boudoir

Chapter 59 The Jiang Family Club (2)

Princess Jiang stretched out her hand to pull her over, looked at her carefully and said with a smile: "It looks a little bit like Sister Tian, ​​and she seems to have a gentle temperament."

While Concubine Jiangjun was speaking, out of the corner of her eye, she saw that the maid serving behind Mrs. Yuan had already taken the meeting gift, and she took off a red gold inlaid bracelet from her wrist and put it on Li Yunshang's hand with a smile: "I didn't expect you to come today. You don't have any gifts ready, so you can play with this bracelet." Li Yunshang hurriedly thanked Princess Jiang, and Madam Yuan also took a white jade handed over by the girl and said with a smile: "They all have this white jade. You can play with one too."

"This is Mrs. Gao, this is my second aunt." Xu Jie went on to introduce, Mrs. Gao didn't talk to Li Yunshang, and ordered the girl to take a purse for Li Yunshang.

"This is Mrs. Cui, sister Shan's aunt." Seeing Li Yunshang thanking her for the reward, Xu Jie dragged her to Mrs. Cui and introduced her. The bead flower was worn on Li Yunshang's head, Xu Jie pulled Li Yunshang and turned to Mrs. Huang, let go of Li Yunshang, leaned against her mother, Mrs. Huang and said with a smile: "This is my mother." Then she turned to look at Mrs. Huang and said with a smile : "Aniang, Sister Yunshang is also good at the piano, and she learned her piano from Mr. Shui."

"Really?" Mrs. Huang asked in surprise, Princess Jiang glanced at Li Yunshang knowingly, how could Duke Yong's mansion afford water to worship, it must be thanks to Sister Tian.Li Yunshang said embarrassingly: "It's not like I learned from Mr. Shui. It was because my fifth sister moved back a few years ago that I was lucky enough to have Mr. Shui give me some advice." Honestly, not as annoying as her mother.

Mrs. Huang asked Li Yunshang a few more gossips, took off a bracelet to reward her, and then sent Xu Jie and her to play.

On the other side of the lake, Xu Xueshi had just finished his lecture. Leng Mingsong stood in a remote corner, savoring the subtleties of Xu Xueshi's lecture. Xu Sihai hurried over, grabbed him and dragged him away: " Hurry up, uncle wants to see you, he has to leave in a while." Leng Mingsong was dragged by Xu Sihai and ran all the way, his face turned pale with nervousness, success or failure is only seen here.

Jiang Hong was always taken by his uncle Jiang Shangshu's side until the Sutra feast was over and Xu Xueshi was sent away. Everyone began to gossip, converse, write poems and listen to music in twos and threes. Xu Sihai and Leng Mingsong looked at them and asked anxiously, "How is it? Did you agree?"

Leng Mingsong was about to speak, but Xu Sihai grabbed him, raised his eyebrows and smiled at Jiang Hong: "Don't say it yet, let him guess!" Jiang Hong looked Leng Mingsong up and down, stretched out his hand and patted him heavily, and said with a smile: " Judging by Da Lang's joy, it must be done!"

"Sir asked me to go and study for a few days tomorrow, but it can't be regarded as a success." Leng Mingsong smiled brightly, Xu Sihai knocked on Leng Mingsong with a folding fan and said with a smile: "You just don't have a chance, just like you, Are you afraid that you won't be in the eyes of the master? In a few days, the master will regard you as a favorite student! Jiulang and I have to back away."

Jiang Hongchang breathed a sigh of relief, pointed to a water pavilion that protruded into the lake and said with a smile: "Let's go there to talk and enjoy the scenery. There are five kinds of lotus in this lake, and there is a first-grade water lily planted in front of the water pavilion, which is elegant and elegant. Very much."

The two agreed with a smile, and followed Jiang Hong into the water pavilion. Xu Sihai stood in the front porch of the water pavilion waving a folding fan, squinted his eyes slightly, looked across the lake carefully and asked: "I heard that both men and women of the Jiang family in Huaiyang studied since childhood. I remember that Jiulang has a younger sister, did you compose a poem today? I didn’t pay attention.”

"Little sister has read a lot of books, but." Jiang Honghun spread his hands and smiled indifferently: "She reads all useless idle books, let alone poetry, and even finds it embarrassing for the couple."

"Oh?" Xu Sihai was very surprised, and Leng Mingsong smiled and said: "My little sister is also like this. She said that poetry can be done if there is no rhyme limit. , Listen, it’s all made up.”

"When the little girl came to the capital, the happiest thing was that she made a few like-minded friends. In the old house in Huaiyang, several cousins ​​in the family were good at poetry, but she couldn't even match her match. When she came here, she and Nanning The second wife of the county prince's mansion, as well as the ladies of the Li family and the Yu family, are friends. Except for the wife of the Yu family, those two can't even match each other. What's the point of saying that a real celebrity is romantic, so there is no need to use those poems? They are full of talent, listen to this, today I heard that they received a copying job, it seems that my younger sister and Lingmei can also speak." Jiang Hong laughed.

"Can't write poems? That's right. Women's reading is just for self-cultivation. It's enough for them to recite and appreciate these poems, and they don't need to take the imperial examination for Jinshi." Xu Sihai didn't know what he was thinking. He seemed to be talking to himself while facing the lake. , Such a beautiful and refined beauty, not good at poetry... She is a real celebrity, she must be what she said, she walked all the way from the forest under the sunset, without a trace of vulgarity, she naturally followed the freshman in the forest She was born like this, what kind of poems and words do she need for such a beautiful woman?

Jiang Hong and Xu Sihai stood side by side, looking at the other side in a daze, while Leng Mingsong stood alone two or three steps behind, looking at the other side of the lake with the same sense of loss, wanting to go forward, but he lifted his foot halfway but retracted it, he and her, It's farther than this lake.

Not far from the water pavilion, in a warm pavilion built on a high place, the fourth prince sat outside the gate of the pavilion facing the lake, slowly shaking his folding fan, watching the lake surface and listening to the music.The fifth prince crossed his legs and leaned comfortably on a large armchair. He was talking nonsense with Jiang Dalang, the eldest son of Jiang Shangshu, Ye Shusheng, the heir of Dongyang County, Lin Yangfeng, the heir of Nanning County, and Jiang Zhengyuan, the heir of Linchuan Marquis.

Ye Shusheng listened to everyone's words absent-mindedly, but kept looking at the fourth prince who was fascinated by the lake. The fifth prince Qin Ju stood up, swayed to the fourth prince, followed his gaze to look at the lake and said with a smile: "Jiang Shangshu's mansion The lotus in this lake is really well grown."

"Well, it's better than the lotus in the back lake of Qingfeng Tower." The fourth prince Qin Kun motioned the fifth prince Qin Ju to sit down and talk. The fifth prince moved his chair and sat down, leaning back lazily and laughing: Similarly, the lotus in this lake is grown for viewing, and the lotus in the lake behind Qingfenglou is grown for food, and the lotus seeds in his lake are not as good as the ones in the lake behind Qingfenglou."

"The purpose of raising lotus is to eat!" The fourth prince withdrew his gaze, turned his head to look at the fifth prince, and shook his head a little dumbfounded. The donkey broth made by the family is really delicious, and the roasted cattail vegetables are also good, these two are the best."

"To be praised by you, it seems that Jiang's mansion will be famous in the capital for eating these two things." The fourth prince laughed and said, and the fifth prince patted his folding fan proudly and said with a smile: "I dare not say that, the word "eating" is on the top. I still have a lot of experience. Let me tell you, most of these delicious things are in the back alleys. They are really big hotels like Fanlou and Huixianlou. It’s not good, but there is no aura, if you want to be a real eater, you have to be able to find those little-known top-quality eaters, which is not easy.”

"It's not easy, it's really hard for you." The fourth prince looked at the fifth prince and praised speechlessly. The fifth prince laughed and leaned back on the back of the chair proudly: "That is that." The folding fan nodded and smiled at the lake: "There is someone who knows how to eat on the other side of the lake, did I tell you? The best noodle soup in the capital is in Muji. I came out of the palace to eat in Muji early that morning. Soup noodle, I just ran into the young lady of the Li family, who grew up in the Ningyuan Hou Mansion, who also ate noodles in Muji. Muji only had six kinds of noodle soup. Just try it, pick the one you like the most, this one is not good, you can’t eat a good noodle soup like Muji’s.”

"Little lady of the Li family? Fifth lady? Li Tian?" The fourth prince straightened up all of a sudden, interrupted the fifth prince and asked, "How do you know her?" The fifth prince's eyes flashed an imperceptible surprise. The prince's eagerness showed a trace of sharpness, he stared at himself with a sullen face, and hurriedly said haha: "It's also a coincidence." The fifth prince lowered his eyes slightly, and saw the fourth prince clenched a hand on the armrest of the chair Shang and Jing's fingernails were slightly white, and the fifth prince's heart was trembling slightly, his face remained unchanged, but he secretly got 12 energetic and smiled: "That's the time, is it in early March or mid-March? This kind of thing I can never remember that the literary meeting in Ye’s other courtyard was that of Qushui Liushang. Speaking of which, this Qushui Liushang is the most boring. Didn’t I lose the fan pendant that Xiao Taohong gave me and search all the way back? I walked up to the hill next to me, I didn't expect to bump into the little lady of the Li family, not only her, but also several young ladies, all of them fled flamboyantly, I saw it from a distance from behind, you know what I mean People have a good memory, but anyone who has seen it once can remember it, so we know each other?"

"Your good memory is only willing to be used on beautiful women." The fifth prince let go of his fingers, and his upper body slackened and leaned back. Looking at the fifth prince, he smiled and blamed him. The fifth prince laughed and said: "How can you say that? , but the young lady of the Li family is outstanding at Tsinghua University, and she is indeed the kind that can be remembered at a glance."

"Which noodle soup shop is so good?" The fourth prince asked casually, and the fifth prince glanced at the fourth prince who was waiting for his answer, with the same casual expression: "Muji, there seem to be six or seven of them. If I want to eat noodle soup early in the morning, I will go to the one outside Donghua Gate. It’s the closest I’ve come out from the palace. My fourth brother must try it. gone."

The fourth prince gave a specious 'hmm', and the fifth prince carefully aimed at him, calmly dragging further and further away from the wooden note.The two chatted for a while, the fourth prince stood up, shook his long gown and said, "This lotus with green leaves is really refreshing. I want to take a boat to enjoy the lotus in the lake. Would you like to go?" The fifth prince hurriedly waved his hands and said, "It's just lotus leaves and lotus flowers. What's there to reward? It's best for me to sit here." The fourth prince didn't force him, and got up with a smile. Jiang Dalang and Ye Shusheng hurriedly followed, turned down the warm pavilion, After ordering the boat, the fourth prince stood at the bow of the boat, admiring the lotus flowers seemingly leisurely, but his gaze went beyond the lotus flowers to the delicate flowers and weak willows on the other side of the lake.

The boat slowly turned half of the lake, and in a quiet pavilion under the shade of willows, Li Tian and Yu Yaofang were talking in low voices with their backs to the lake.The folding fan in the fourth prince's hand froze for a moment, then slowly lowered it, staring blankly at the graceful and charming scene among the green willows, he became dazed in a daze.

The fifth prince came out of Jiang Shangshu's mansion, rode his horse towards the palace gate for less than a quarter of an hour, suddenly reined in the horse and said: "Go to Qingfeng Tower." Then, he turned the horse's head and urged the horse to go to Qingfeng Tower.The fifth prince entered the pavilion reserved for him from the back corner door of Qingfeng Tower, and beckoned to Huang Jingjie's confidant Chang Sui Changgui to order: "There is Jianmuji Soup Noodle Shop outside Donghua Gate, you go and see it yourself, if Fourth master has gone, come back and tell me."

"Yes." Chang Gui didn't ask a word, and simply agreed. After the fifth prince gave his orders, he turned around and left. When Huang Jingjie arrived, the fifth prince walked away in the morning.

The next morning, the fifth prince, Qin Yu, had just entered the Qingfeng Building to sit down, and before finishing his cup of tea, Chang Gui came back to report: "Fifth Master, Fourth Master went to the Muji Soup Noodle Shop outside Donghua Gate early in the morning and ordered a bowl of vegetarian noodle soup. After eating, he sat down and drank a cup of tea before leaving." The fifth prince choked a mouthful of tea into his throat and jumped up coughing.

Huang Jingjie hastily poured a glass of warm water for him, the fifth prince waved his hands, laughed, coughed and jumped, his face was red, Huang Jingjie waved his hand to push back Changgui, seeing that his cough had recovered, he handed him another glass of warm water to rinse his mouth, Then someone poured water in to wait for him to clean his hands and face, and made tea for him again. The fifth prince breathed a sigh of relief, took a sip of the tea, and told the fourth prince about meeting the Li family by chance at Jiang Shangshu's mansion yesterday. Regarding Wu Niangzi's matter, looking at Huang Jingjie, he couldn't tell what expression he had on his face: "I didn't expect that he actually went to the noodle restaurant outside Donghuamen. Look at this, how can such a person, Fourth Brother, have such a thing happen?" Come? Seeing like this, it must be that I haven't got a hand in it yet, and I don't know if the lady of the Li family knows the intention of the fourth brother. Oh, this happened to the fourth brother! It is really unexpected! The fourth brother is like that people!"

(End of this chapter)