Glory all the way

Chapter 40 Mid-Autumn Festival
After practicing in private for a few days, Bai Yingluo has become more and more proficient, and can play several pieces of music.

When entering the palace again, Bai Yingluo took Tao Xun into the palace. In the carriage, Dou Xiuqiao and Sun Yantong's eyes would fall on the brocade box in Bai Yingluo's hand from time to time, but they had been awkward with each other for a long time. It is absolutely impossible for the two of them to open their mouths to ask.

Seeing the impatience in the eyes of those two people, but pretending to be completely indifferent on the face, Bai Yingluo felt extremely funny in her heart.

But thinking that if they found out, they might say behind their backs that they deliberately flattered the sixth princess, but it would be meaningless, so Bai Yingluo pretended not to know and ignored them.

After the etiquette class, the sixth princess eagerly led Bai Yingluo back to Yunrou Hall.

As soon as they entered the palace gate, the sixth princess waved her hands to signal Taohua, Lihua and others not to enter the inner hall, and she and Bai Yingluo walked in.

When Bai Yingluo took out the Tao Xun from the brocade box, the sixth princess suddenly opened her eyes wide with curiosity.

Obviously, this was the first time she saw Tao Xun.

She handed Bai Yingluo to her hand, and asked her to look back and forth many times, and then she took it back to her hand, and Bai Yingluo blew on her lips. This time, the sixth princess felt even more miraculous.

"Yingluo, you are really amazing, you can actually play such a weird thing."

Looking at Bai Yingluo with admiration on her face, the sixth princess said with emotion, with a little frustration in her eyes, as if she didn't even know what this thing was called.

Bai Yingluo pursed her lips and smiled, took out the veil and wiped the Tao Xun, then handed it to the Sixth Princess and said, "It's very simple, let me teach you, I will guarantee that you will play a song when the incense sticks. Simple tune."

"Really?"

In the eyes of the sixth princess, a light of joy burst out.

Bai Yingluo nodded affirmatively, walked to the sixth princess, and taught her how to place her fingers and how to blow air. After a while, the sixth princess was blowing on the Tao Xun, and she could already make a sobbing sound.

When Tao Xun made the first sound, the sixth princess opened her eyes excitedly. When Bai Yingluo raised her hand to make a movement in the air, the sixth princess also imitated her movements, intermittently, a very simple song "Tap Ge Xing" really came out of Tao Xun.

Interest is the best wife, this saying is not false at all, from the time the two entered the inner hall until the servant in the imperial dining room brought lunch, they did not move for an hour, and when Tao Hua came in to ask the two of them to go out for lunch After dinner, the sixth princess has been able to play "Tage Xing" somewhat proficiently.

"The princess likes it, so I will give it to the princess. When I get back to the Hou Mansion, I will go to my grandfather to ask for another one. At that time, we can practice new songs together, how about it?"

Seeing the sixth princess blushing with excitement, Bai Yingluo came up with an idea.

"Yingluo, thank you."

The sixth princess thanked her happily.

After returning to Jing'an Hou Mansion in the afternoon, Bai Yingluo took a nap and went straight to Qing'an Hall.

Old Hou Ye Bai was talking to Old Madam Bai, when Bai Yingluo entered the room and saluted, she looked at Old Hou Bai with a smile and said, "Grandfather, Luo'er has come to ask you for something."

"But that Tao Xun?"

Old Master Bai laughed.

Bai Yingluo nodded, flatteringly said, "Grandfather is wise."

He got up and went to the inner room, and took a brocade box in person. Old Master Bai handed it to Bai Yingluo and said, "This is what I planned to put on the desk. Since you came to look for it, I will give it to you. It is your hard work." A thank you gift from my grandfather for making knee pads."

Hearing this, Bai Yingluo turned her head to look at Old Madam Bai, both of them had the same warm smiles on their faces.

After a while, footsteps were heard outside, and then the servant girl passed on the news that the second lady and the fifth lady had come.

After talking for a while, seeing that the second wife, Zhang's parents, and Li's family were all talking funny things, and they didn't have much point, Bai Yingluo thought that the purpose of this trip had been achieved, so she got up and left for Master Bai and Old Madam Bai. Li, exit the main room.

After walking a few steps, Bai Yingyun followed.

The two walked towards the direction of the first entrance together. Bai Yingyun quietly sized up the brocade box in Bai Yingluo's hand, rolled her eyes, but she didn't believe that it could be Tao Xun inside, so she said a little angrily: "Sixth sister is really so lucky now. It's different from the past, you are flattered, even the gift from your grandfather is more than that of other brothers and sisters, the sixth sister's skills, you can teach me how to do it, if not, I will be the worst in this house It's welcome."

The words were sour and jealous, but she thought Bai Yingluo was too clever, so Bai Yingluo didn't bother to say anything, she just opened the lid of the brocade box, revealing the Tao Xun.

"It's just that I asked my grandfather for a Tao Xun. If Fifth Sister likes it, she might as well take it."

Bai Yingluo covered the brocade box and held it in front of Bai Yingyun.

Bai Yingyun backed away involuntarily, and immediately glanced at the brocade box with disgust and said, "It's just something for children in the country, and the sixth sister treats it like a treasure. It really doesn't matter whether it's good or bad."

After finishing speaking, Bai Yingyun quickened her pace, but unexpectedly, Bai Yingluo behind her laughed, "Fifth sister, if this is the case, we sisters can just talk about it, don't say it in front of others."

"I just said, so what?"

Pausing in her steps, Bai Yingyun turned around and stared at Bai Yingluo.

Bai Yingluo smiled, "Grandpa brought us a stone from all the way, and we should be grateful to Dade for accepting it. What's more, it's not a stone. Fifth sister just spread the word, if uncle The eldest aunt heard it, or it was directly passed to the grandfather's ears, and the fifth sister thinks it doesn't matter?"

At that time, not to mention Bai Yingyun, even the second master and second wife, I am afraid that they will also be labeled as unfilial and unfilial.

For a moment, Bai Yingyun's face tensed up in panic.

Looking back around, seeing no one passing by, thinking that her words would not fall into the ears of others, Bai Yingyun glared at Bai Yingluo angrily, and hurried back to Yunshui Pavilion.

Back at Yi'an Pavilion, Bai Yingluo tried Tao Xun's timbre, and felt it was better than the one given to the sixth princess, so she played a tune and put it away.

After resting for a while, he went to Qing'an Hall. Once he entered the main room, he felt that the atmosphere in the room was a bit heavy.

Old Master Bai's complexion was ashen, and old lady Bai was also slightly sullen.

In the first place, the Eldest Master's face showed nothing, while the Second Master and the Fourth Master looked at Old Bai Hou with some apprehension, as if they were worried that they would offend the old father and mother if they said something wrong.

After the meal was set, Mother Zhao came over and respectfully invited Mr. Bai and Mrs. Bai to the table, and the whole family followed the two old people and had dinner together.

After returning to Yi'an Pavilion, after waiting for a long time, Chen Xiang hurried back.

"Miss, this servant has heard about it. I heard that the second master and the fourth master have gone to the old man to move into Cheng Huan Residence, but the old man didn't answer."

On the day of the Ghost Festival, after the haunting of Cheng Huanju happened, the old lady Bai said that the matter was up to the old master Bai to decide. Now, when the old master Bai came back, the second master and the fourth master would naturally go to the old father to talk about it, so as not to lose the opportunity .

Thinking of seeing the angry face of Old Master Bai upon entering the room, Bai Yingluo actually had some faint anticipation in her heart.

Grandfather, you also don't want the second and fourth bedrooms to move into Chenghuanju, right?
Thinking secretly, Bai Yingluo rolled her eyes and began to calculate.

In a blink of an eye, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival.

At noon, she went to the palace as usual to accompany the sixth princess to learn etiquette. After class, Bai Yingluo did not follow the sixth princess to stay in Yunrou Hall for a while, and went straight out of the palace and returned to the Hou's Mansion.

Lunch is the same as usual, but there is a lively Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the evening.

After taking a nap and getting up, Bai Yingluo called Liu Su and Liu Ying, and asked them to go to the kitchen to beg for a plate of mooncakes and a few plates of fruit, and the three master and servant went to Chenghuanju with them.

As before, even though the table was clean and there were a lot of offerings, Bai Yingluo still took a handkerchief and wiped the high table from head to toe, and replaced it with mooncakes and fruits that she had prepared.

Kneeling on the futon and staring blankly for a while, Bai Yingluo was about to leave, and as soon as she left the door of the main room, she met the old master Bai and the old lady Bai who came together.

"Grandfather grandmother……"

After bowing down and saluting, Bai Yingluo turned around and followed them into the house.

On such a good day, the faces of the two old people were full of sadness. Presumably, they were thinking of their son and daughter-in-law who died young.

Turning around again, she saw Bai Yingluo standing aside with her head bowed, her eyes were red and she was indescribably pitiful. The eyes of the two old men met with pity.

After leaving Cheng Huan Residence, Bai Yingluo sent Old Master Bai and Old Madam Bai back to Qing'an Hall, talked with them for a while, and then went straight back to Yi'an Pavilion to change clothes to prepare for the evening banquet.

The Jing'an Hou's family has a big business. Every year when the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, the stewards of several villages outside will come back to kowtow to the masters. Therefore, as soon as the sun goes down, the house is brightly lit, and there is laughter everywhere.

The banquet was held in the big flower hall in the second entrance west wing, adjacent to a lotus pond. When the sun sets, the afterglow of the setting sun pours on the water, and there is a faint fragrance of lotus blowing into the flower hall with the breeze, which is indescribably cool and pleasant.

Eating, drinking, talking and laughing, the laughter fluttered along the surface of the water, and drifted far away with the breeze.

I don't know how long it took, only to hear Brother Ru in the fourth lady's arms pointing out the window and shouting "Grandpa Moon is out", everyone in the flower hall looked out in unison.

The door on the side opened, and there was actually a grandstand on the side facing the water. Everyone got up and followed in the footsteps of Mr. Bai and Mrs. Bai, and left the flower hall.

In great spirits, Old Master Bai asked a few grandchildren who were studying in the school to recite a poem by name, and they all recited it very well. smile.

The moon is bright and the wind is clear, and the flowers are full and the moon is full.

Back at the Dahua Hall, it was already past Xu time, whether it was the elder children or the younger children, they all got up and went back to the house in a proper manner. For a while, there were only the old Mr. and Mrs. Bai Hou Ye and three pairs of sons and daughters-in-law left in the hall.

"Now, our family is reunited, and Shi Ming and he are wandering somewhere. In this situation, among the three of you, does any one think of him?"

With an inaudible sigh, Old Master Bai looked up at his three sons and asked.

Seeing that the three of Bai Shizhong all showed nostalgic expressions, Old Master Bai shook his head with a wry smile and said: "You can ignore the brotherhood of brothers, but I can't ignore the relationship between father and son. The palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh. Maybe it won't cool that heart, as time goes by, there will be a grudge in my heart, doesn't this kind of thing happen every day in this capital?"

As he said that, Old Master Bai said in a deep voice: "So, Cheng Huanju, don't argue with you, just give it to the sixth girl. After all, it is the house where her parents lived, even if the third child and the third wife are not here Yes, but Sanfang is not empty."

The second master and the fourth master raised their heads unwillingly to look at them, but they met the annoyed eyes of the old master Shangbai, who looked at them angrily. Suddenly, the four of them lowered their heads with some guilt.

(End of this chapter)