Blessed

Chapter 17
The town character of Zhen Guo Gongfu is not just for fun. It deserves the title of Zhen Guo. The three generations of Zhen Guo Gong Fu have been the generals guarding the border of the country. Their military achievements are outstanding. With a history of [-] years, it is a real home of meritorious deeds from a wealthy and distinguished family.

The Shen family of the State Duke's Mansion is a prominent family with prosperous descendants. In the previous generations, there were many heirs. Only in this generation of Duke Shen Wei, there is only one eldest son. Because Shen Wei has many brothers and sisters, there are many cousins. These brothers of Wei also have their own abilities and are officials in the court.

Shen Wei went to the frontier to guard the border when he was a teenager, and he got married when he was in his twenties. He took Princess Jiahe as his wife, gave birth to the eldest son, and immediately asked him to make the eldest son.In the next few decades, Shen Wei made countless military exploits at the border and seized the title of Duke's Mansion.

Now that he inherited the title, the Shen family was also divided.

In addition to the eldest son, Duke Shen Wei also has a daughter who is only five years old, and two daughters who are concubine Ji Yunliu's eldest daughter and concubine Ru Niang's third daughter.

After Princess Jiahe gave birth to her first daughter, her health was not very good, and she lived in Pingzhou all year round. Pingzhou is a land of fish and rice all year round, which is very suitable for self-cultivation.

So these years, Ji Yunliu, the noble concubine, has been managing the property of the Duke's Mansion, and she has been respectfully called Mrs. Liu by the wives and wives in the capital.

Mrs. Liu was the one who invited all the prefectures to enjoy the plum blossoms today. This is what the old lady told everyone when they were in the carriage. In fact, it was to tell the Mu family that they only returned to Beijing because of the third house. They must not understand the affairs of these aristocratic families in the capital.

After finishing all this, the old lady instructed, "If you meet Shizi Shen in the mansion, remember to stay away from him, and don't provoke him. Although this young man is only eleven, I heard that he has a cold heart and a tyrannical temperament. He was once killed by others. A maid."

But Yu Zhu'er didn't understand, in such an aristocratic family, it is normal to execute a maid who made a mistake, how could she become violent?
Yuxiang Yulan has been in Beijing all year round, and she knew what was going on. Seeing her aunt's puzzled face, Yuxiang lowered her voice and said, "I heard that Shen Shizi's method of executing the servant girl was very bloody, and the flesh of the servant girl was cut off with a knife. After feeding the eagle, the maid screamed terribly, but she couldn't die, she watched as the flesh on her arms and legs was cut off to reveal her bones, and finally shed all her blood and died."

Yu Zhu'er shuddered, and the Mu family hurriedly hugged her tightly and patted her back, "Jiao Jiaoer, don't be afraid, don't be afraid." She muttered a few Buddhist scriptures.

After that, the female family members of the uncle's mansion didn't speak any more, they went all the way to the gate of the Duke's mansion, got out of the carriage, saw the glory of the mansion, and were led into the mansion by the maid.

The mansion of the Duke of Guo is made of blue bricks and gray tiles, with carved beams and painted buildings in the mansion, with green shadows stacked and magnificent.

The mother smiled and led the people towards the Wintersweet Garden, saying along the way, "Madam has long heard that the fourth girl in the uncle's mansion is a blessed person. The eldest girl entered the palace again and became a concubine. Xie Yuan, it can be said that three joys have come to the door, Madam thought about meeting the people in the mansion, and wondered if it would be offensive to everyone."

The old lady hurriedly said, "How dare you, it's an honor for the uncle's house to be invited by Madam."

Talking and laughing all the way, Yan Yan arrived at the Wintersweet Garden.

Wintersweet in the Duke’s Mansion is one of the four great beauties in Shangjing. The wintersweet garden covers an area of ​​not too large, only five or six acres of land, but the wintersweet in the garden is an extremely rare golden wintersweet. , as beautiful as a fairyland on earth.

It was heard that Princess Jiahe liked this wintersweet garden very much. After marrying into the Duke's mansion, she specially ordered someone to transplant this rare golden wintersweet in the mansion.Golden wintersweet is rare, difficult to survive, and requires a lot of manpower to take care of it. The annual maintenance of such a wintersweet garden costs 3000 taels of silver.

A few years ago, after Princess Jiahe gave birth to her first daughter, she went to Pingzhou to recuperate. The wintersweet garden was also taken care of by Mrs. Liu. Every year, dignitaries from Shangjing were invited to enjoy the plum blossoms.

In order to enjoy the plum blossoms, a large four-cornered green brick pavilion was specially built in front of the garden for people to sit, rest and drink tea.

When the nanny led the female family members of the uncle's house to the pavilion, there were already many wives and girls sitting inside. The eyes of these ladies and ladies could not help but fall on the female family members of the uncle's house, each with their own deep meaning.

Yuzhu'er was carried by Mrs. Mu and walked towards the pavilion. She looked at the female relatives in the pavilion, all surrounded by pearls and emerald green, bright and beautiful, one of them was wearing a pearl blue lime color ruyi satin embroidered multicolored auspicious cloud jacket, with a A set of green and emerald-faced women walked towards them.

The woman was about 20 years old, with crescent eyebrows, fairy appearance and appearance, with a petite and exquisite body, a very charming beauty.

Seeing this beautiful woman approaching with a sweet smile, Yu Zhu'er guessed that she should be Mrs. Liu from the Duke's Mansion.

Sure enough, the woman came over and said with a smile, "I think it's the old lady from Uncle Yongyi's mansion and some wives and girls, please come inside quickly."

"Don't dare to do it." The old lady hurriedly said, "Please welcome Madam, how can this happen."

Mrs. Liu said with a smile, "You are an elder, so of course you are forced to do so. Don't be modest, old lady, hurry up and invite me to drink tea and fruit."

After Mrs. Liu entered the pavilion and sat down, Mrs. Liu introduced everyone present to everyone in the Bo’s residence. Seeing such a crowd of people, Yuzhu’er heard that they were all various dignitaries from the various counties and dukes’ houses. There are more than 30 to [-] people from the Zanying family, how can I remember, I feel drowsy after listening.

Mrs. Mu hugged Yuzhu'er and sat down on a stone bench covered with a brocade futon, and chatted with the lady next to her.The Mu family also entertained many wives and wives of Jiang Ansu's colleagues in Shao'an City, their communication skills are still good, and they chatted and laughed with the wives next to them after a while.

Yuzhu'er thought for a while, and remembered that the person talking to Mrs. Mu should be Zhongshu Shilang's wife.

Zhongshu Shilang is a fourth-rank official, Yuzhu'er is not very clear about the situation in Zhongshu Shilang's family, but seeing the gentle eyes of this Zhongshu Shilang's wife, she looks easy to get along with.

Mrs. Meng, the servant of Zhongshu, looked at Yu Zhuer in Mrs. Mu's arms with a smile, was startled for a moment, and praised, "What a beautiful girl, this doll is really beautiful."

Upon hearing this, Yuzhu'er smiled at Mrs. Meng, revealing a row of neat and beautiful small teeth.

The Meng family brought their only daughter here today. The little girl is three years older than Yu Zhu'er, and she follows the Meng family's temper, gentle and gentle. Seeing Yu Zhu'er, she also said softly, "Your sister is so pretty." After all It was a girl over six years old, and she kept looking at the begonia flower bead chain on Yuzhu'er's head.

It was the first time for even Meng Shi to see such a delicate bead chain, which folded beautifully under the sunlight, making everyone's eyes fall on it.

Mrs. Meng couldn't help but praised, "What a delicate bead chain." Looking at it, the three girls of Jiang's family all wore such elegant headdresses.

Mrs. Liu also noticed, she praised it and couldn't help asking, "I don't know which famous artist made the jewelry, it's really beautiful."

The old lady laughed, "It came from the shop of the third daughter-in-law at home."

Mrs. Liu smiled and said, "Ah, you have to tell us where this shop is, so that such beautiful and elegant jewelry can't be snatched up."

Mrs. Mu said, "Madam was joking, the shop is still under preparation, and Madam will be informed when it opens."

Mrs. Liu just said that she married the Duke of the State, and she has never seen any kind of treasures before. She just praised this crabapple flower bead necklace for its exquisiteness. It would be a bit strange for her to wear such jewelry Disdainful, Wen Yan just smiled and changed the subject.

How could the Jiang family fail to see Mrs. Liu's politeness? The green emerald headdress on Mrs. Liu's body was enough to buy a shop. How could they really wear such jewelry? No one would take these words seriously and quickly tore them apart do not mention.

After everyone arrived, Mrs. Liu said a few words, nothing more than to let everyone have a good time, and specially invited dancers to cheer up when they were waiting for the plum blossom appreciation.

The ladies sitting here are also chatting, laughing, drinking tea and eating fruit to connect with each other.

Yuzhu'er was young, and no one talked to her, she leaned against Mu's arms, drinking sweet nectar water, eating fragrant fruits, not to mention how comfortable she was.While eating happily, she saw a five or six-year-old girl walking towards her.

The girl has pink carvings of jade, a pair of red phoenix eyes, bulging cheeks, fleshy, like white jade, wearing a coral-colored gold silk brocade jacket, and a snow-white fox fur. Ruby walked up to Yuzhu proudly.

Behind the girl was an old nanny, who kept shouting, "Princess, ouch, my little ancestor, please slow down, don't fall, don't scare the old slave, ouch, ouch, slow down!" .”

The one who can be so arrogant in the Duke's Mansion, and is still called the Princess, should be the daughter of the Duke's Mansion born by Princess Jiahe, just like Shen Shizi, this little princess was invited to be a county by Princess Jiahe in front of the Holy Lord as soon as she was born host.

The little princess came to Yuzhu'er, raised her chin and asked her, "Are you the little fool who got the lucky lottery and master Guangji's Buddhist beads?"

You are such a fool, Yu Zhuer slandered in her heart, she did not dare to show any disrespect in front of her, she said in a sticky voice, "The princess misunderstood, Jiao Jiao is not a fool, they misrepresented it."

He speaks clearly and clearly, he is obviously not a fool, it seems that he is really just enlightened late.

The little princess became impatient, "I don't care about you, let me ask you, have you got your prayer beads? Give it to me."

"Princess, you can't do this." Mrs. Liu hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the young princess, then turned her head and scolded the old woman who followed, "How can you take care of the princess? It's windy outside, so why let the little princess directly Come out? The wind and cold in the first two days of the little princess are just right, but there is no wind."

The old mother said bitterly, "Ma'am, it's the old slave's fault. As soon as the little princess heard that the girl who had drawn a lucky lottery from Uncle Yongyi's mansion came to enjoy the flowers in the mansion, she insisted on coming out. The old slave couldn't stop her, please ask me to come out." Madame punished."

(End of this chapter)