The ultimate rebirth of the abandoned woman

Chapter 172 The Peach Blossom Blooms ([-])

Xiwu Courtyard is located in the northwest corner of Cui's house, and it is the innermost courtyard of the whole house.Its area is not large, only a little bigger than the "Hepu Courtyard" that was squeezed out.However, the Hepu Courtyard is being expanded now, and it won't be long before the name of the Cui family's smallest courtyard will fall on the head of Qiwu Courtyard.

Although the area of ​​this courtyard is small, it is only compared to the huge Cui family. If it is placed in the place of ordinary people, Qiwu courtyard is still enough for a family of three generations to live under the same roof.

Xiao Nan passed through the Moon Gate and entered the Qiwu Courtyard along the corridor.

In addition to the wing rooms on both sides of the atrium, there are two main buildings in Qiwuyuan. One is the five main halls at the second entrance, the left and right side rooms, and the east and west wing rooms, and the other is a small two-story building behind the main hall.

The Cui family's young ladies who have not left the pavilion all live here, more precisely, they live in the small wooden building.

At first, the two sisters Cui Wei and Cui Heng lived in the main hall. They pulled a flower shelf from the middle of the main hall and divided the whole small courtyard into two halves: Cui Wei was the elder sister and lived on the east side; Cui Heng was the younger sister and lived on the west side. .

As for the maids and mother-in-law who serve them, they live in their respective wing rooms, and the side rooms are used as clean rooms.

Later, Cui Jiang and her husband Heli moved back to her natal home.Originally, when a daughter as reconciled as her returned to her natal family, her natal family would take good care of her.

It's just that Cui Jiang made a lot of trouble at that time. He sold his concubine to Beisanqu, chased her husband with a sword and chased him for several streets, and it was revealed that she confiscated concubine Ji's jewelry and private house ...

In short, there was no other gossip in the capital during that time, and there were rumors about how stingy, jealous, and vicious Cui Jiang was all day long.

You know, the aristocratic family has always flaunted etiquette in poetry and writing, especially showing off its more elegant and perfect etiquette education than the royal family.

While the world and the royal family admire the family, most of them are also fascinated by the elegant speech of the children of the family, the smooth and beautiful etiquette like flowing clouds and flowing water, and the calm (actually cold) expression and tone...

Cui Jiang's feat was like a resounding slap across the entire Cui family's face.

At that time, there was even a daughter of a certain princess who publicly mocked the Cui family, saying, "The daughters of the Cui family are nothing more than that."

For the sake of Cui Jiang, the family almost held a clan meeting and proposed to expel Cui Jiang from the Cui family.

It was Cui Ze's three brothers who cared about their siblings, and Qi Qi knelt in front of the old lady's bed to beg, and it happened that Cui Ze had just been promoted and became the prime minister of one of the five prime ministers. The troubles that have been tossed out subside.

With this antecedent, one can imagine the situation after Cui Jiang returned to Cui's house—no one in the entire Cui family, from the old lady to the Wang family, welcomed her.

But Cui Jiang is indeed her own daughter, no matter how unwelcome she is, she can't be kicked out. In the end, she was just randomly placed in Qiwuyuan.

Originally, everyone thought that Cui Jiang had brought so much trouble to her natal family, and she would restrain herself when she came back. They didn't want to... Cui Jiang didn't have the consciousness of "splashing water", so he still put himself in the ranks of masters without hesitation.

When she came back, she knew that her future residence would be Qiwuyuan, and she had no objection, just kidding, she is not a fool, can't she see the frowns of Aye and Adi that can kill people.

Cui Jiang had already scolded the Zheng family and the Wang family all over the place in his heart, but he didn't show it at all on his face. He just ordered people to move the two little ladies who lived in the main hall to the wooden building in the backyard, and vacated the main hall for her. live.

This, this makes sense in terms of reason. Compared with Cui Wei and Cui Heng, she is an elder after all-how can there be a reason why elders avoid living in side buildings while younger generations live in the main hall?

Therefore, no matter how resentful Cui Wei and Cui Heng felt, they still packed their luggage obediently and took the maidservant to the backyard.

Fortunately, although there are not many floors in the wooden building, there are not many rooms on each floor, as many as four or five rooms.

After deducting the little lady's bedroom, study room and embroidery room, the room can be allocated to house a personal maid.

As for the mother-in-law and rough maids, they all stayed in the corridor leading to the backyard from the main hall.

"I wish the eighth lady hello, you, you are here—"

A 50-[-]-year-old woman was startled when she saw Xiao Nan walking in with a group of people, and hurriedly tied her hands to greet her.

"Is the eldest aunt here?"

Xiao Nan's trip is to 'chat' with Cui Wei and Cui Heng, but Cui Jiang also lives here, so she should say hello to her.

The woman bowed and replied, "So that the eighth lady can know that the eldest lady (Cui Jiang's ranking in her natal family) is out to visit, and she probably won't be back until the afternoon."

Xiao Nan raised his chin at Yuzan.

Yuzan understood, turned her head and whispered a few words to Lichun who was in charge of her training, and then followed Xiao Nan into the backyard.

Lichun didn't move, but carried an indigo-colored coarse cloth bundle, and turned the corner to the main hall alone.

"Third lady, these flower papers are really beautiful. The bright red background, with the faint petals, is really elegant."

Maid Siyue, who was wearing a blue dress and a double bun, carefully peeled off the red flower papers from the wooden board, admiring the lascivious flower papers as she neatly arranged them.

"Hehe, what's the matter, it's just that I saw that the Shu paper that Sixth Brother brought back looks good a few days ago, so I changed the formula a little and added some petals."

Cui Wei was very proud, and thought to herself: Hey, Ms. Xue Tao, I’m so sorry, your invention was advanced by me, and there will be no Xue Tao’s notes in the history books, only Cui Wei’s notes.Oh no, my sister-in-law said that although women nowadays are talented, they are from aristocratic families and cannot spend much time on these 'little skills'. , not a real genius.

Besides, who is Xue Tao and who is Cui Wei, how can they be compared?
Thinking of this, Cui Wei said with a touch of regret in her tone, "Since it is the Shu Jian that Sixth Brother brought back to transform, how about calling it Cui Jian?"

I have to say that Xiaoliu's family is quite reliable. After the 'common sense training' these days, Cui Wei has finally made Cui Wei not as 'ignorant' as when she first came here, and has such a sense of superiority.At least before Cui Wei speaks or does something, she knows to understand the matter first, instead of relying on the so-called "prophet" to talk nonsense.

In addition, Cui Wei finally understood her identity and the meaning of the surname 'Cui'.

"Cui Jian? Third younger sister also makes flower paper by herself?"

Xiao Nan just heard this sentence, and asked with a smile.

"Ah, it's Sister-in-law Ba, why are you here when you're free?"

Cui Wei turned her head to see Xiao Nan, she was really a little startled, after a moment of stupefaction, she hurriedly stood up with a smile to meet him.

Xiao Nan stopped in his tracks, pretending to be angry and said angrily: "Listen to what you said, why, third sister blames me for not coming to see you for a long time?"

Cui Wei's smile froze, and then she realized that she had said the wrong thing again in a daze, and quickly added: "Why, I was so happy to see the eighth sister-in-law, that's why I said the wrong thing, okay, I didn't Well, eighth sister-in-law has always been kind and friendly to us, so she won't blame me for my slip of the tongue."

What do you mean not coming for a long time?It was clear that he hadn't come all the time.

Cui Wei repeatedly ordered the servant girl to make tea and serve fruit, while asking Xiao Nan to sit down, but she couldn't stop complaining in her heart.

Xiao Nan did not follow Cui Wei's guidance to sit down at the main seat, but walked to the place where Cui Wei was sitting just now, bent over and picked up a piece of pink flower paper, carefully sized it up, and finally praised : "It's such a delicate flower paper, hehe, it's even better than the ten-color paper that was presented as a tribute from Sichuan. Well, Cui Jian, okay, did the third sister make it herself?"

Kneeling down on the main seat with the flower paper, Xiao Nan asked Cui Wei with a smile.

Cui Wei just smiled lightly and didn't answer.She gracefully stretched out her sleeves, then walked lightly to Xiao Nan's head, knelt down and sat down with her hands folded on her knees, the wide and wide sleeves naturally fell on her knees and sides.The sitting posture is also very standard, so standard that it can be recorded in etiquette code books.

Xiao Nan's brows were slightly raised, and he sighed inwardly, hey, it's been just a month since I've seen him, this fellow from the same village feels like he's been completely reborn, Xiao Liu must have put in a lot of effort.

A beautiful-looking maid offered Xiao Nan a cup of tea, and took the opportunity to interject, "The eighth lady really has good eyesight, this Cui Jian was made by our own hands, from paper cutting, toning, coloring to color fixing. , and the petals on the paper are all made by our San Niang."

Xiao Nan took the teacup and glanced at the servant girl, "What a clever servant girl, what's your name? Why haven't I seen you before?"

According to the regulations, every little lady who has not left the cabinet has two big maids, four third-class maids, and four coarse servants.

Xiao Nan met Cui Wei a few times, but she remembered very clearly that the maid beside Cui Wei did not have this person in front of her.

But the third-class maids are all young maids. Obviously, if the girl in front of me is a young maid, she must be over age.

The servant girl glanced at Cui Wei, saw Cui Wei nodding, then bowed her head in salute, and replied: "My servant Xiren, I was just transferred from Daoxiangyuan to serve in Qiwuyuan last month."

Puff~~~
Xiao Nan was extremely thankful that he didn't drink tea at the moment, otherwise he would definitely break his merits on the spot.

She just praised Cui Wei for her progress, thinking that she finally understood that there is nothing special about time-traveling women, and finally she was willing to let go of the airs of time-traveling women and fully integrate into the current life.As a result, she ended up doing this again.

Tsk tsk, Xiren, is Cui Wei's other maid named Qingwen? !
Resisting the laughter and cursing in his heart, Xiao Nan nodded calmly, "Well, good name, I will serve you ladies well in the future."

Xiren agreed and retreated.

Cui Wei kept staring at Xiao Nan, wanting to see if there was anything unusual about her when she heard the name, but she didn't expect that she didn't respond, and she couldn't help but feel a little disappointed—could Xiao Nan really not be from her hometown?
Just as I was thinking, Xiao Nan's voice came from my ear, "...that day the newly promoted Jinshi will go to the apricot orchard to visit the flowers, we have a custom here, we will go to the apricot orchard together to join in the fun, and enjoy the spring by the way ..."

Exploring the flowers in the apricot orchard?

Cui Wei thought of another thing, and she couldn't help thinking a little guilty: Could it be that the fact that Li Jing invited her to the apricot garden was leaked, and Xiao Nan was deliberately testing herself? !

(End of this chapter)