swear not to be concubine

Chapter 28

Jian Yan still doesn't know whether she has been judged whether to be a wife or a concubine, she just holds the peach blossom in her hand, thinking about how to deal with it.

Throw it to the side of the road, or throw it into the water?But looking at the very delicate peach blossoms in her hand, she felt that it was a bit too rough to do so.

In the end, she found a relatively humid place near the water, squatted down, dug a hole, and planted the peach blossom in it.

After washing her hands in the pond, she took out a light green handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped her hands with a handkerchief embroidered with orchids on one corner, then stood up and walked towards the Lotus Fragrance Garden.

Bai Wei was a little puzzled, so she asked: "Girl, why don't you take this branch of peach blossom back and put it in a vase?"

Jian Yan thought to herself, because this peach blossom passed through Xu Zhongxuan's hands, she didn't want to have anything to do with him.

It's just that it's not easy to tell Bai Wei directly, so she made an excuse at will.

"After all, we are living in the Xu family. If we meet people from the Xu family on the road later, and look at the peach blossom in my hand, I will only think that I folded it. The peach blossom is small, but it is a big deal." , it may make people think that we have made ourselves the masters here, so it is better to find a place to plant it. Maybe it will take root, sprout, and grow into a peach tree."

Bai Wei nodded, feeling that Jian Yan's words were reasonable.

The two of them went straight back to the Lotus Fragrance Courtyard, just as they were walking along the verandah, they saw Si Yue leaning on the screen door, looking out.

Seeing Jian Yan and Bai Wei, she hurried forward to greet her, with an anxious expression on her face, she said in a low voice: "Girl, Madam sent Pearl over twice, saying that she wanted you to go there."

Bai Wei's heart sank, she couldn't help becoming nervous, and asked, "Do you know why Madam is so anxious to find a girl?"

Siyue shook her head: "I don't know. I also told Pearl, but she didn't know either."

Seeing the two of them looking like they were facing a formidable enemy, Jian Yan smiled and comforted her: "What's the big deal? I guess it's just asking me to go over and talk, and see how nervous you two become. "

At the same time, he called her and the two of them to follow her back to the house first.

Si Yue said anxiously: "Girl, Madam asked Pearl to come over and urged you twice, why don't you rush over, what are you going back to the house for?"

"My mother doesn't like my plain clothes, so I'd better go back to the house and change my clothes before going to see her. If there is anything to do, don't rush it."

When Bai Wei and Si Yue heard this, they had no choice but to follow her back to the house.It's just that when Jian Yan was changing her dress, she touched the sleeves, but she couldn't find the handkerchief she brought out today.She thought about it, and guessed that she had just washed her hands by the pond, took out a handkerchief to wipe her hands, and when she stuffed it back into her sleeve, it was not tightly stuffed, and it fell there.

So she ordered Siyue to look for it there, and she herself brought Bai Wei to Mrs. Jane.

Mrs. Jian was lying on the Luohan bed in the open room, talking to Shen's mother, when suddenly she heard the little maid outside saying, "The girl is here."

Mrs. Jane hurriedly sat up straight.The little maid over there had already stretched out her hand to open the curtain, and Jian Yan and Bai Wei walked in one after the other.

"Mother." Jian Yan stepped forward slowly, stood three steps away from Mrs. Jian, and then kissed her in a soft voice.Bai Wei stood a step behind her, and also bowed to Mrs. Jian's short figure.

"Where did you go just now?" Mrs. Jian asked with a calm face, full of displeasure, "Pearl went to your place twice and you were not there."

The shallow smile on Jian Yan's face remained unchanged, and she replied respectfully: "Just now, my daughter heard the maid said that the peach blossoms outside were in good bloom, so she took Bai Wei to the pond to look at the peach blossoms for a while. When it came to the eldest girl, the fourth girl and the cousin girl, everyone chatted together. The daughter didn't know that mother sent sister Pearl to look for me, otherwise she would have come back long ago."

"Fourth Miss?" Mrs. Jian was taken aback for a moment, recalling the relationship in each room of the Xu family, and then asked, "Is that the eldest son's biological sister?"

Jian Yan thought in her heart, Mrs. Jian's memory is really amazing.But on the face, he still answered respectfully: "Yes."

Mrs. Jian didn't speak, she just looked up at Jian Yan.Seeing that she was wearing a lotus-colored blouse embroidered with irises, a scarlet pleated skirt with flowers, half-removed phoenix hairpins on her head, exquisite jasper hairpins, and delicate pale pink silk flowers, she couldn't help but nodded.

The dress and jewelry that Jian Yan was wearing was the ones she and Shen's mother went to the capital to pick out for her a few days ago.

Mrs. Jian asked Jian Yan to sit, and a little maid beside her brought a cup of tea from a small tea tray filled with gold-filled carved lacquer in the style of begonias, and placed it on the rosewood table beside her hand.

Jian Yan was sitting on the first rose chair on the right, and she didn't drink tea, but asked: "Mother went to the capital a few days ago, but did she visit my brother? I don't know how my brother is doing now?"

After Mrs. Jian's family arrived at Xu's house, she immediately took money out to donate a prison student to Jian Qing, and sent him to the Imperial College to go to school.It's just that the Guozijian is in the capital. Although Tongzhou is not far from the capital, it takes half an hour to ride a horse, so it is very inconvenient to learn in the morning and evening.No way, I can only follow Xu Zhongxuan's example. I bought a small courtyard in the capital for Jian Qing to live in, and sent a book boy to wait there. When I have time, I will come to Xu's house in Tongzhou to see Mrs. Jian and Mrs. Jian. Jane Yan.A few days ago, when Mrs. Jian and Mother Shen went to the capital to buy jewelry and dresses for Jian Yan, they naturally visited Jian Qing by the way, so Jian Yan asked this question.

Mrs. Jian quickly said: "It seems that I have lost some weight. I also asked, and said that the schoolwork here is heavier than the school at our house."

Jian Yan comforted her, saying that it is a good thing to study harder, so that her brother will be more motivated, and when he is promoted in the autumn this year, the current hard work will not be in vain.

What she said only made Mrs. Jane nod her head again and again, and her face looked better for a while, but from the face alone, it really seemed that it was just a mother and daughter gossip.

Jian Yan naturally knew that Mrs. Jian specially called her here, it was definitely not to cultivate the relationship between mother and daughter, there must be something else to talk about.

Sure enough, when she almost drank the cup of Biluochun tea, Mrs. Jian slowly opened her mouth to change the topic to what she wanted to say today.

"It's been a while since I've been in the Xu family. How do you get along with these brothers and sisters of the Xu family?"

Jian Yan thought to herself, Mrs. Jian really treated her well today.This is of course the reason why she said something she likes to hear just now with the excuse of Jian Qing, but there must be other things in it.

And now she is talking about the older brothers and sisters of the Xu family. She is afraid that she doesn't care about the elder sisters of the Xu family. The only one who cares is the elder brothers of the Xu family, and that one.Otherwise, he wouldn't have just asked Xu Miaojin if she was Xu Zhongxuan's only sister.

Jian Yan's heart sank, but she didn't show it at all on her face, she just said respectfully: "The girls and daughters of the Xu family have all met, and they get along well in daily life. As for Xu The young masters of the family, they all live in the outer courtyard, but the daughter lives in the inner courtyard, so they rarely see each other on a daily basis."

It's impossible to see each other less, Mrs. Jian thought in her heart, no matter how beautiful Jian Yan is, if she has less contact with Xu Zhongxuan, she probably won't take photos.

It's just that it's not easy for Jian Yan to run directly to the front yard every day.Who is a fool in this Xu family?When people see her intentions, especially the Qin family, I'm afraid they will not be able to live in the Xu family by then.And men, to put it bluntly, don't they like a tune that you want to refuse and welcome?If the rush is too obvious, I'm afraid it will still cause boredom.

Mrs. Jian thought for a while, and then said: "If that's the case, that's all. I think the fourth girl from the Xu family is a nice person, and she lives close to where you live. You can do it on weekdays." When you have nothing to do, go to the place where the fourth girl lives."

Since it was Xu Zhongxuan's idea, Mrs. Jian has already found out all the information that can be found out.

She knew that Xu Zhongxuan had only one biological sister, Xu Miaojin, and she treated her very well.But every time Xiu Mu came back, he would go to Xu Miaojin's place to have a look and sit down.As long as Jian Yan has a good relationship with Xu Miaojin, if she has nothing to do, go to her place, are you afraid that you won't meet Xu Zhongxuan?
Mrs. Jane had a good plan in mind.It's just that in Jian Yan's ears, she feels that Mrs. Jian really treats her as a fool.It's just that it's not easy to show anything on the surface, and still just answer yes respectfully.

Then Mrs. Jian explained some things to her, it was nothing more than to make her not dress too clean in the future, she was in the house of a young girl, and your father's one-year filial piety was about to be over, and he was living in someone else's house, What do you think of people who are too plainly dressed?So it's better to dress up nicely.

Jian Yan pretended not to understand, but still answered yes respectfully.

Mrs. Jane told her some more things, and then waved her back.And after Jian Yan walked out of the room, she sat upright and turned to the side, with her arms resting on the pillow of the autumn-colored money python, her brows were also slightly frowned.

Zhenzhu brought a cup of tea from a small tea tray, Shen's mother who had been standing on one side took it with both hands, and gently placed it on the kang table.

"Mother Shen," suddenly Mrs. Jane sighed and asked, "What do you think we should do?"

Shen's mother just pretended not to know, and asked with a half leaning body: "Madam, what's the matter?"

Mother Shen is Mrs. Jian's confidant, Mrs. Jian naturally told her everything about Jian Yan, so Mrs. Jian directly expressed her troubles.

"Mr. Xu doesn't spend much time at home on weekdays. After all, this sister Yan is a girl again, with a thin skin. When you saw the brothers of the Xu family just now, she wished she could hang her head down." Go to the ground. I am afraid that they have never met each other these days except when they had a meal together a month ago. But how can these two people not meet each other? How about it, that must be known by the Eldest Young Master. So this is actually a way to let the two of them see each other more often. It’s just the same, you can’t make people think that I did it deliberately. The other side is not Said, as for the one in the big room, do you still remember what she said a month ago? In front of so many people, isn’t it obvious that she shamed me? If I teach her to know what I’m thinking, I’m afraid it won’t be true. They will really yell, and we won't be able to stay in the Xu family anymore."

"Madam," Shen's mother thought for a while, and then said, "I remember that there is a peach garden not far from Tongzhou? Madam, we all visited when you were a girl."

Mrs. Jian thought for a while, and then said: "I remember that there is indeed such a place. There are thousands of peach blossoms in it. When they are in full bloom, they are as bright as clouds, which is very spectacular. Just enter this place Taoyuan has to collect money, and the collection is quite a lot. At that time, my parents were so cruel that they took our siblings there..."

When she said this, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she sat up straight immediately.

Yes, at that time their family was short of money, but now the most important thing she has is money.

As soon as Shen's mother saw her like this, she knew that she understood what she meant, and continued, "Now is the time when the peach blossoms are in full bloom. Don't we still have several big jars of brewing that we brought from Longxing Mansion?" Baihuaniang? The maidservant was thinking, why not post a post, just saying that it has been a month since I came to Xu's house, so I am bothering you. Madam, you feel the love of the old lady and the others, so you take advantage of the warmth of spring I invited the old lady's family to visit Taoyuan. At that time, the old lady was very happy, and everyone in the Xu family would only say that you are generous, madam, you have a bright face, and you can let sister Yan and the eldest son without any trace Why not do it when we meet and kill four birds with one stone?"

"Yes," Mrs. Jane nodded, with a smile on her face, "Mother Shen, since that's the case, you can send someone to the Taoyuan to book a spacious place with a better view, no matter how much money you spend. It doesn't matter. As for the date, let's set it on the day when the Eldest Prince takes a bath next time. I'll go and post a message to the old lady and the other ladies, inviting them to enjoy the peach blossoms in five days' time."

(End of this chapter)