Nong Zhaohua

Chapter 21

After Yan Zhaohua finished speaking, Mrs. Liu told her a few more words. The guests outside had already started eating noodles, so Mrs. Liu took Yan Zhaohua out of the Qingcang Courtyard and went to the banquet hall in the front yard. .

The Liu family has guests to entertain, although there are still many things to tell Yan Zhaohua, but today's birthday banquet must be finished first.

Ranxiang and Qingzhu were guarding outside the courtyard. When Yan Zhaohua came out, the two maids followed. Seeing Yan Zhaohua's calm expression, she knew that her young lady must have suffered nothing, so she let go of her worries.

The Liu family specially sent Nanny Ping to take Yan Zhaohua to the courtyard where the ladies had dinner. This is a courtyard specially opened by the Dingguo Mansion to entertain the delicate guests, and the name is also very nice, called Yuyaoyuan.

There are many girls in the Xie family's grandchildren, and Yan Zhaohua may not be able to name all of them. The Duke was also a flirtatious man when he was young. There were a basket of concubines in the mansion, and the sons he gave birth to followed him. The number of women in the house would add up. Fortunately, the Xie family has a big business and can support such a large family. Among them, the eldest daughter, Xie Xinrou, and the second daughter, Xie Xinyuan, are the first daughters of the eldest family, and their status in the Duke's Mansion is fairly stable. Xie Xinyuan and Yan Zhaoning were pretty good-looking, and they were quite famous when they were young. In Yan Zhaohua's last life, he didn't know them very well, so he didn't know each other very well. I only know that Xie Xinyuan and Yan Zhaoning are the same age, and they got close when they were young. , but later Xie Xinyuan suffered a great loss at the hands of Yan Zhaoning, so that half of her face was ruined before she left the court, and she missed a good marriage. Ruining those days, Yan Zhaoning hid in his room every day and never came out. After that, even Xie's family rarely went.

The girls used very little, and no matter how delicate things were, they could only be eaten in two or three bites at most, so when Yan Zhaohua arrived at Yuyao Courtyard, she saw that the girls had used up all of them, and they were talking together in two or three, she looked around. After walking around, I found that there were indeed many familiar faces. Yan Zhaoning and Xie Xinyuan were talking in front of the flower window. Yan Zhaoning probably didn't know that Mrs. Hua definitely couldn't laugh.

Yan Zhaoning smiled and waved to Yan Zhaohua, the other girls standing by the flower window saw Yan Zhaohua, and before Yan Zhaohua could walk over, they moved to Yan Zhaoning's side to talk, From time to time, he looked back at Yan Zhaohua, as if he was talking about her.

Yan Zhaohua didn't mind, Xie Xinrou was greeting the guests, and when she saw Yan Zhaohua's order, she came over. Xie Xinrou was the host, with a dignified manner, a humorous conversation, and seemed very popular, she walked up to Yan Zhaohua, Holding Yan Zhaohua's arm, he said affectionately, "Grandmother has kept my cousin talking for so long, but what's the matter?"

Looking at this lively girl, Yan Zhaohua remembered a lot of bad things Yan Zhaoning said about her in the mansion in her previous life, such as selfishness and condescension, so much so that she treated her cousin Xie Xinrou in her previous life. She has always had a bad impression of Yan Zhaoning because she was confused, listened and believed, and only regarded Yan Zhaoning as her sister. He also took the initiative to talk to her, but she was arrogantly turned away by her. After three or two times, Xie Xinrou naturally stopped provoking her.

Yan Zhaohua was filled with remorse, bowed his head and smiled shyly, but held Xie Xinrou's hand. Xie Xinrou's father and Yan Zhaohua's mother were siblings of the same mother. How could there be many such close relationships in this world? Cousins ​​must be united as one.

Xie Xinrou looked at Yan Zhaohua holding her hand, she also understood, smiled brightly at Yan Zhaohua, led her to a seat where the sun was just right, sat down and talked to her in person, just listened Xie Xinrou said affectionately:
"Usually I want to get close to my cousin, but my cousin is always reluctant. Let's get closer in the future."

Yan Zhaohua nodded readily: "In the past, I made my cousin laugh at me because I didn't see the world. In the future, I need to ask my cousin to remind me more."

How could Xie Xinrou refuse Yan Zhaohua's overtures? She responded immediately: "We are all sisters from the same family. If there is anything I don't want to mention, as long as my cousin stops being like she used to be and refuses people thousands of miles away, she only talks to you." It's fine for Sister Ning to play alone."

Yan Zhaohua expressed remorse for his previous ignorance, bowed his head and pursed his lips and smiled, Xie Xinrou turned left and right, leaned over and said to Yan Zhaohua: "There is something that should not be said that I always want to say to my cousin, just like Yuanzi It looks like the camellia in the picture, one side looks white, but the other side looks like bloodstains, people... There are also two sides, often what you see may not be all, about Sister Ning... I don't have much convenience for other words Said, but I believe that as long as my cousin pays more attention, she will be able to find out."

Xie Xinrou's words were sincere and sincere, which made Yan Zhaohua look at her with admiration. She said these should be a warning to Yan Zhaohua, and she used the camellia with two colors to imply that Yan Zhaoning is not what it seems on the surface Chunliang, Yan Zhaohua never expected that Xie Xinrou would be so confiding in her.

"I wrote down what my cousin said. I used to be so confused that I couldn't tell the truth from the fake, and hurt others and myself. I will definitely not be like this in the future."

Xie Xinrou nodded after hearing Yan Zhaohua's words, and said, "Cousin, don't blame me for being talkative, it's just that sometimes I hear what she says about you outside, and see how trusting my cousin is to her, so I feel unwilling and talk too much." Having said that, my cousin Zhai has a kind heart and wholeheartedly regards her as a good sister, it is possible for her to be ignorant for a while, but she must not be confused anymore in the future."

Yan Zhaohua nodded, regretting in his heart, regretting his ignorance back then, regretting why he didn't associate with such a decent person, Yan Zhaoning slandered her reputation outside, how to say her, although Yan Zhaohua didn't personally I've heard it before, but I also understand that it's nothing more than what she said about Xie Xinrou. It's just a different protagonist. Anyway, the other girls in the family are all indifferent, selfish, arrogant and rude. She is the only one who is kind. It was the kind sister who was bullied by the older sister at home, and the people around her knew it without knowing it. In addition, Yan Zhaohua didn't often appear in the social circle of noble girls in her previous life, so no one told her about these things.

The two were talking, when Yan Zhaohua saw a little girl rushing in from the door, it was Yuxia who was serving beside Yan Zhaoning, she saw that Yuxia found Yan Zhaoning and walked over, standing next to Yan Zhaoning's ear After saying a few words, Yan Zhaoning's expression changed, he hurriedly stood up from his seat, greeted Xie Xinyuan, and then hurried out with Yuxia.

Yan Zhaohua looked at the back of her leaving, and even guessed that Yuxia must have told Yan Zhaoning about Xie's hand-banging, so Yan Zhaoning hurried over to visit, Xie Xinyuan walked over from the flower window, she Wearing a brocade long gown embroidered with moonlight in Suzhou, with a winter jasmine pinned to the front of the slanted front, a lingyun bun on her head, and a silver tassel bu yao the size of half a palm on each side, Xie Xinrou's appearance is dignified Elegant, then Xie Xinyuan's appearance is delicate and cute. The blood of Xie's family is very good, and the children are all beautiful and beautiful. Thinking that this little girl will be hurt badly by Yan Zhaoning in the future, Yan Zhaohua feels It's a pity for her.

"Where did Sister Ning go?" Xie Xinrou made room for Xie Xinyuan to sit beside her, thinking that Xie Xinyuan knew what happened to Yan Zhaoning, but Xie Xinyuan shook her head, picked up the orange on the table, Said: "I don't know what's going on, it looks very urgent."

He put the oranges in his hands to play with, but he didn't eat them. He glanced at Yan Zhaohua from time to time. She has a pure character, although she must have heard a lot of bad things about Yan Zhaohua from Yan Zhaoning, but Xie Xinyuan did not show too much malice towards Yan Zhaohua.

Yan Zhaohua sat quietly with them and drank tea for a while. Xie Xinrou introduced several girls of the same age from other mansions to Yan Zhaohua. Young girls are always happy to chat and laugh together, although the topics of conversation are somewhat Childish and boring, but in general, Yan Zhaohua is still very satisfied. She just thinks that this kind of feeling of communicating and talking with people is like a good time in the previous life. Do everything possible to prevent her from getting in touch with the outside world. Every time before going out, something happened to prevent Yan Zhaohua from going out. After one or two times, Yan Zhaohua himself did not like to go out. .

After lunch, a few girls met to see flowers in the garden of the guest garden, and Yan Zhaohua went with them. Unexpectedly, halfway there, those girls were called by others to go to the Guanyu Pavilion to enjoy the fish. Zhaohua was afraid of water, she had fallen into the water several times, so she didn't dare to go to the water, so she declined their invitation and stayed in the garden.

After looking at it for a while, I found it boring, so I took Ranxiang and green bamboo and planned to go back to Qingcangyuan for a rest, so Yan Zhaohua was confused in his previous life, and his grandmother had always been very kind to her, and Qingcangyuan specially gave her and Yan Zhaoning arranged her own room, allowing them to rest when they come to play sometimes.From Lihuayuan to Qingcangyuan, you have to pass through a rockery and stone forest. The location is a bit remote. Yan Zhaohua is walking on a small road, not on the cobblestone road that everyone is on. But halfway, Yan Zhaohua was suddenly stopped by someone. Rubbing off his sleeves, he stopped, and looked back, only to see Ranxiang and Qingzhu pressing their fingers to their lips at the same time, pointing to Yan Zhaohua at the rockery at the end of the flower path, but without saying why, Yan Zhaohua Hua glanced away, and at a glance, he saw the young man who was hiding behind the rockery and kept poking his head.

Who else is it not Yan Ruiqian?

What is he doing here?Yan Zhaohua was puzzled, and without thinking too much, she asked Ranxiang and Qingzhu to watch out for her outside the flower path, while she walked over quietly until she got behind Yan Ruiqian, and patted the spot lightly. Boy, he just came to his senses. Seeing that it was her, Yan Ruiqian hurriedly made a silent gesture to Yan Zhaohua, and then shook his head, which meant to tell Yan Zhaohua to keep silent. Yan Zhaohua was very curious, so he Glancing at the entrance of the rockery cave he peeked at earlier, he saw two people standing on the corridor at the other end of the rockery, one was a young woman in red silk clothes, she seemed to be a servant girl of Xie's mansion, and the other was a half-hundred The old man looks gentle, but his demeanor is a bit unsatisfactory.

The gentle old man blocked the maidservant's way, said teasing words in his mouth, made the servant girl flushed with shame, wanted to leave but was entangled by others.

Yan Zhaohua knew that old man, he was exactly the contemporary Confucian Mr. Sun Chongsun whom Mrs. Xie said had traveled thousands of miles to personally ask for Yan Ruiqian. No wonder Yan Ruiqian didn't dare to speak out after standing behind the rockery.

(End of this chapter)