Blessed

Chapter 87

The entire Yongyi Hou Mansion is a five-entry mansion, which has been refurbished. The three-bedroom Fuyun Courtyard was divided into several small courtyards during the renovation, each with a small courtyard, and the servants and maids performed their duties in an orderly manner. To put it bluntly, over the years, the mansion has grown from a dozen or so servants to nearly 200 now, plus the three-bedroom masters, large and small, with a population of more than 200, which can be regarded as a prosperous family.

In this small courtyard of Yuzhu, there are two rows of wintersweet flowers in front of the gate. The broken branches brought back from the Duke’s mansion were planted alive. One corner of the pendant flower gate is a rockery with many mountains, and some water lilies are raised in large tanks in the other corner. But the leaves have just sprouted.

There is a tall jujube tree on the right side of the yard. This jujube tree has died a few years ago. After Yuzhu moved back when she was a child, it gradually revived and grew new branches and leaves. In the past few years, it has been fruitful and produced jujubes. Also big and sweet.

Returning to the familiar environment, Yuzhu slept soundly and woke up at midnight the next day.

The girl's family should have graduated at the age of 15, and the female husband in the family has left long ago, but two years ago, she hired a female husband for Sister Rong, and she is teaching Sister Rong.

Yuzhu didn't have to go to class and had nothing to do, so she let Baiji Baishao take care of her dressing and washing up, Licorice arranged the breakfast in the outside room, and the bird's nest porridge made of golden silk and jujube was fragrant and sticky, stir-fried Shredded duck silver teeth, lotus root in honey sauce, fried bamboo shoots and vegetables mixed with ham, golden shredded meat muffins, chicken shredded white fungus sweet-scented osmanthus fish, fragrant and milky crucian carp soup, honey balm tea.

Mrs. Mu was worried that Yuzhu had just returned home, eating too greasy food would spoil her stomach, so she specially asked Licorice to make all the light food methods.

Yuzhu was wearing a brocade long gown with a honey color and finely sprinkled witch hazel peach pattern, and a cotton damask skirt embroidered with white plum blossoms on the outside, and her soft silk-like black hair was only gently pulled into a bun. With a little bit of jewelry, the aura is compelling.She sat down in front of the food table and looked at the dishes on the table, "This is too much."

Bai Shao said, "Miss, there are so many here. The masters in the mansion can eat for half a month without heavy dishes, but the breakfast is lighter, with only a few side dishes and bird's nest porridge. Miss, these dishes are my wife's love for you. I asked Sister Licorice to cook more, the girl should eat more and bring back some meat."

In the past few years, the life in the mansion has become more refined, and the maids are used to this kind of life.

Yuzhu also knew that this was a habit developed on the mountain, so she didn't say much, and ate quietly. In the past few years, her appetite has not diminished, and she eats eight or nine percent of each meal. Now she even uses a bowl of bird's nest porridge. Two meat muffins, I ate a lot of various dishes, and the rest was given to the second and third class maids below.

Licorice and the other first-class maids don't need the food left by the masters.

After finishing her meal, Yuzhu was lying on the couch and reading a book with the royal blue satin forged pillow, while Licorice and her maids sat beside them embroidering things, occasionally chatting with Yuzhu, most of them were about the trends of the capital in the past few years, and There are some situations in Fuchu.

In addition to the addition of three boys in the mansion, Yuxiang and Aunt Jiang Fangling are both married. Yuxiang married the eldest son of Shangshu Youcheng Lu's family. Shangshu Youcheng is an official under the fourth grade. Now in the Imperial Academy.

The Lu family is also a scholarly family, Lu father and Lu mother are very gentle people, both families are interested, so they came to propose marriage.

Yuxiang has been married for three years. Not long after she married into the Lu family, she became pregnant and gave birth to a big fat boy. The Lu family is so happy, she treats Yuxiang very well, and her mother-in-law treats her very well. The concubine's family doesn't even have a house, so Yuxiang's life in Lu's house is very comfortable.

As for the little aunt, she was proposed to marry not long after Yuzhu went up the mountain, and she is Huo Feng, the captain of Zhongfu Guoyi who is on the sixth rank.

Huo Feng is a little older than Jiang Fangling by two years, also in his thirties. He once married a relative, but the marriage was late. His wife died of dystocia, and gave birth to a girl. went.Huo Feng was busy in the military camp all day long, so he never got married. Occasionally, he saw Jiang Fangling, fell in love with him, and asked someone to come to propose marriage.

The family background of the Huo family is simple. The Huo family used to be from the countryside. Huo Feng entered the military camp at the age of 14 and climbed up to the position of Captain Guo Yi step by step.The parents in the family are still alive, there are brother-in-law and a married sister-in-law, but the Huo family has separated, and the parents live with Huo Feng, and they are also honest farmers.

When Huo Feng first saw Jiang Fangling, he fell in love with him. It took him a long time to find out that it was Jiang Fangling's girl.The Jiang family is an aristocratic family, and Huo Feng was afraid to come to propose marriage. He hesitated for a long time, and invited the wife of General Shangfeng's family to the Jiang family. Willing to marry Jiang Fangling to the Huo family.

The Jiang family has a high status, and Jiang Fangling's mother-in-law didn't dare to wink at her when she married, which was very kind to her.After three months of marriage, Jiang Fangling became pregnant.

Licorice embroidered a handkerchief and said to Yuzhu, "Miss doesn't know. That time when my aunt found out she was pregnant, she went back to Jiang's house and cried with the old lady in her arms. It can be seen that she was heartbroken at the time. The Chen family is really not human. Fortunately, my aunt met Mr. Huo Gu, and it was a blessing in disguise."

Yuzhu listened quietly, happy for her little aunt from the bottom of her heart.

Licorice continued, "In a few months, my aunt gave birth to a baby girl. She is beautiful. The whole Huo family likes it very much. Last autumn, my aunt was pregnant again. The date of delivery is just a few days. Maybe my aunt got the news I won’t come to see the girl either, I have to wait until the confinement period.”

Of course Yuzhu understood, "I'll go and see my little aunt when my aunt is born."

The news of Yuzhu's return to Beijing hasn't spread yet, after lunch, I was about to send a message to the Duke's Mansion, when a message came from the Palace that the people from the Mansion of Yongyihou should go to the palace for a banquet tomorrow.

It should be that the emperor invited the Jiang family to the palace for a banquet after watching Yuzhu accompany the concubine for five years.

Because of this matter, Yuzhu didn't send a message to the Duke's Mansion, and planned to wait until the palace returned.

In the early morning of the next day, Yuzhu changed into an agarwood-colored gown with ten brocade makeups and flowers all over the floor, and a beige double-breasted skirt with a white indigo plum blossom and bamboo leaf embroidered collar. This is the only bright color on the whole body.

Yuzhu is also aware of the beauty of her appearance, she dresses in a more dignified and plain way, even the rouge is lighter in color, today she is using a pinker lip gloss with a faint fruity fragrance, This is also something produced by the Duke's Mansion. Shen Mei likes fruity spices, rouge gouache, and sends a lot to the Hou Mansion every month.

Bai Shao stared at Yuzhu's lips for a while, swallowed subconsciously, and murmured, "Our girl is so pretty."

Today is the emperor's banquet for everyone in Jiang's mansion, the old lady and grandpa Yulan are all going, of course, it is impossible for Aunt Hong, a concubine is not qualified to enter the palace as a servant girl.

The groom drove several carriages to the main gate of Jiang's mansion, and the masters were still waiting under the veranda.

Xie Che changed into a black sapphire blue satin with a black border, a jade belt, and a jade pendant of suet white jade, making her look even more elegant and handsome.He turned his head slightly and saw Yuzhu standing under the veranda and whispering something to Mrs. Mu. She was dressed more dignifiedly today, but she still couldn't hide her jade color.

She seemed to be talking about something very happy, she raised her lips and smiled, and the corners of her eyes were curved.

Xie Che's eyes had a soft light, and thoughts in his heart drifted away. He suppressed those thoughts, walked up to Mrs. Mu and Yuzhu, called his wife, and then moved his gaze to Yuzhu, and called out warmly, "Jiaojiao. "

"Brother Che." Yuzhu smiled heartily, "I was just talking to my mother about the pastry shop in the east of the city, and I thought I'd come back from the palace and buy some when I passed by."

There are a lot of delicious food in the capital, and she is still thinking about it.

Xie Che chuckled, as expected, she was talking about food, and only when she talked about this, could she smile so happily.

Yuzhu continued, "Brother Che, I'm afraid I'll forget it later, so you can help me remember something and remind me when I pass by."

"it is good."

Going all the way to the gate of the palace in a carriage, carriages are not allowed in, and a group of people are led by the eunuch to the main hall.Apart from the Jiang family, all the concubines were present in the harem, and the two princesses, Zhao Chan and Zhao Yi, had already found their son-in-law and moved to live in the son-in-law's mansion.In the past few years, a little princess has been added to the palace, who is only over one year old. The emperor's heirs are very difficult. In the past 20 years, there have been three thousand beauties in the harem. Except for the second prince who died young, there is only one prince. princess.

The fourth prince is about the same age as Yu Zhu, and the two played together back then, but they haven't seen each other for a few years, so they are still born after all.

This is a family banquet, only the emperor, the harem and the Jiang family.When the Jiang family was seated, the emperor said, "I would like to thank Lord Fuchang County for being with the concubine these past few years and helping me fulfill my filial piety. Today Lord Fuchang County came home, and I specially invited you to come to the palace for a feast. It's too restrictive, just treat it as a family banquet."

Emperor Ruiwu looked at Yuzhu a few times while talking, and he was a little stunned, probably because he was amazed, he really didn't expect that cute little girl back then to grow into such an appearance.

At the beginning, Emperor Ruiwu treated Yuzhu as his own girl, but now even if he thinks that the little girl grows up to be more beautiful, it doesn't cause any embarrassment. Instead, he feels like a young girl.

Humans are visual animals, and the first thing they see is the surface. When a man sees a beautiful girl, he has [-]% liking in his heart. This is not liking, love, but just liking.

Probably the third prince is no exception. Before Yuzhu did not return to Beijing, Concubine Mu Gui told him that she wanted to accept Yuzhu as a side concubine. He had a casual attitude. Now seeing Yuzhu's bright eyes and teeth, and her skin like creamy skin, the goodwill in his heart has taken over. For the most part, his expression was even a little astonished. He probably didn't expect that the county monarch who was not in his eyes back then would become such a gentle, fragrant and beautiful woman.

It's easy to turn a good impression into a liking, so Zhao Minyi had some thoughts in his mind.

(End of this chapter)