concubine leisurely

Chapter 35

The next day, brothers Meng Zhengxuan and Meng Zhengxian went directly to Fucheng Gate. Fang took Meng Yun's family of four to the mansion. At the entrance of Xuanrui Hall, the old lady stood up excitedly, Meng Yun rushed forward a few steps and threw herself at the old lady's feet, the mother and son hugged each other and wept bitterly.

Meng Yun's wives, Gu Shi, Meng Zhengkuan, and Meng Weiran, also knelt down in front of the old lady and wept after they entered.

Mrs. Zhong and Mrs. Hu persuaded in the morning, "Don't be like this, old lady. It is a happy event for mother and child to meet, and you should be happy." After a long time, the old lady stopped her tears, raised her head and smiled and said, "Isn't it a happy event? It's happiness, it's tears of joy." Meng Yun also held back his tears and stood up, the girl took the futon, and the four members of Meng Yun's family saluted the old lady, who accepted the gift with tears in her eyes, and ordered to get up quickly, Greeting Meng Zhengkuan and Meng Weiran to come forward, holding hands and inquiring about the situation afterward, seeing that the grandson has grown tall and strong, and the granddaughter is as light and slender as a wicker that has just been pulled out.

Mrs. Meng came to live in the capital after the death of Mrs. Meng. Before that, she had been living in Tai'an. At that time, Meng Yun was still teaching in Ling County. Mrs. Gu took her children to serve her in-laws at home. Meng Zhengkuan and Meng Weiran were old Mrs. Meng. Looking at the grown-up, the love is extraordinary.

Here, Mrs. Zhong and Mrs. Hu have seen their elder brothers and sisters-in-law. Meng Zhengkuan and Meng Weiran have met Mrs. Zhong and Mrs. Hu. Mrs. Gu, the brothers and sisters met each other again, and it took a long time to get back together. Mrs. Meng looked at the grandsons and granddaughters in the room, and she was so happy that she could not close her mouth from ear to ear.

Youran has never liked this kind of excitement. She sat in the corner when she saw the ceremony that she had to meet, and slowly drank tea by herself, when a clear and melodious young girl's voice came to her ears, "Sister Youran is so excited, she is drinking tea alone Looking up, I saw Meng Weiran, who was full of smiles, standing in front of her. There was a green bamboo embroidered on the long silk of the bright yellow brocade. He got up and said, "Sister Weiran is good." Meng Weiran pulled her and praised, "My sister is so kind. I heard that my sister is very knowledgeable. I will definitely ask for advice someday."

Youran humbly said something like "I dare not be that", Meng Weiran waved to Meng Zhengkuan, ordered him to come over, took Youran's hand and said affectionately, "Mr. Sun is very knowledgeable, how many people want to be a teacher but can't. Sister Youran But as for Mr. Sun's proud student, the elder brother should learn from sister Youran." Meng Zhengkuan is just like Meng Yun, both of them have regular features, tall and straight, and honest appearance. He is very humble and polite, and politely said to Youran "Hello, little cousin. Brother Yu looks at her well. My sister has Mr. Sun's favor. She must have achieved success in her studies. I will ask for more advice from now on."

Youran Khan is about to come down, where does this start?When did she become Mr. Sun's favorite student?I had no choice but to be polite with Meng Zhengkuan and Meng Weiran, picking beautiful and meaningless nonsense to perfunctory, but Meng Weiran pulled her to talk about embroidery, and asked her without any difference, "I heard that your aunt is very good at embroidery, Let her take the time to give me advice, okay?"

An Ran had asked similar questions tactfully in private before, but Youran also tactfully refused.Everyone in the house knows that Huang Xin's embroidery is exquisite, and both Yi Ran and An Ran want to follow suit. As long as Huang Xin starts to teach one girl, she has to teach other girls. As long as she starts teaching girls embroidery, the Zhong family will have Maybe assign her other tasks, and the situation may be beyond your control at all.Youran would rather get a reputation of domineering, but also pick Huang Xin out, let her stay in Hanfangxuan pure and clean, how could she break the hard-earned tranquility for a new Meng Weiran?
"My father has assigned urgent work to my aunt, and she is not allowed to take care of the others. It is inconvenient to ask my aunt to teach embroidery. There is a sun embroiderer in the mansion, who was invited from Tianjincheng, the largest embroidery workshop in the capital. , In the past, I only taught my eldest sister, but after my eldest sister left the cabinet, Sun Xiuniang would be free, if sister Weiran wants to learn embroidery, how about asking Sun Xiuniang?" If you want to learn embroidery, you should learn from a professional embroiderer.

Meng Weiran is the only daughter of Meng Yun and Gu's family. She was very pampered since she was a child. She was very annoyed when she ran into a wall here at Youran, but she just came to Beijing and had no idea about the customs of the capital. In addition, it was the first time she met Youran. It's not easy to say anything at the moment, I just smiled and said, "So, it's really a very unfortunate coincidence."

Meng Zhengkuan and Meng Weiran chatted a few more gossips, and then went to the old lady Meng, leisurely pulled over by An Ran to talk, while talking to An Ran that the weather was going to be hot and the house was going to be lively, while wondering who was so big Mouth, just saw Meng Zhengkuan and Meng Weiran and told them about Mr. Sun and Huang Xin?Leisurely couldn't help but glanced around, and found that Yanran was looking at her meaningfully.

After Meng Lai came down from the Yamen, meeting with Meng Yun and his brothers was a feeling of embarrassment. At the reception dinner, the two drank one cup after another until they were very drunk. That night, the two brothers slept in the study and cried again. He laughed and said a lot.

Meng Zhengkuan sat with four brothers, Meng Zhengxuan, Meng Zhengxian, and Meng Zhengyu. Except for Meng Zhengxian, who was good at drinking, the other three were not. The remaining three people looked at the little brother who stumbled and was coaxed and hugged away, and they all found it funny, so they left.On the side of the female relatives, because Mrs. Meng took pity on Meng Weiran, it was a hard journey and they left early.
Youran has already cleaned up the house, took away everything that should be taken away, and moved to live with Huang Xin. She has nothing to do with Huang Xinxi, hugs Youran and calls her "darling", and spends a long time coquettishly in Huang Xin's arms. When she went to bed at night, she was determined not to sleep with Huang Xin, so she struggled to break free from Huang Xin's arms, and went to sleep on the small bed.

Huang Xin couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, she quietly got up to Youran's bed again and again, looking at her sleeping daughter in a daze, she really wanted to hold her in her arms, but the child grew up, and she no longer wanted to sleep with her mother like when she was a child.

Youran didn't have a nanny. Huang Xin gave birth to You and loved her like a treasure. She begged Meng Lai to breastfeed Youran herself. It happened that Aunt Du had just given birth to An Ran, and Aunt Zhong and Aunt Ding were both pregnant. She really let her breastfeed the baby by herself, so this happy little girl, You Ran, grew up on breast milk. Huang Xin fed her for a full year, and took care of the baby by herself at night, never pretending to be someone else, probably by herself. Children raised by mother's milk must have enough maternal love. Youran has been smarter, more beautiful, cute and innocent than other children since she was a child, and Meng Lai naturally dotes on her more.

It may be that Youran was too carefree and envied by others, that's why she almost drowned in winter sunset, but it was also a blessing in disguise. Huang Xin and Youran were able to be released with Meng Lai for three years. During these three years, mother and daughter The life of the two is really comfortable. When they return to the mansion, everything will be different. Huang Xin and Youran live separately, and they cannot see their daughter day and night, nor can they see Meng Lai every day. These days are very sad.Being able to live with You Ran again today, Huang Xin was so excited that she couldn't sleep all night.

Miss Meng Weiran was also the one who had no sleep that night.When Meng Weiran arrived in the capital for the first time, he looked out from the car and saw that the place was bustling with shops and people coming and going. It was different from other places, and he felt envious; I feel that the second uncle's house is very grand, rich and elegant; when I stay in Haoyuan at night, I feel that everything is peaceful and beautiful, and everything is exquisite and precious. She naturally knows that Youran gave her her yard to live in. Living so comfortably, Meng Weiran, who has lived in a remote town for a long time, felt a little jealous.I am the first daughter of the Meng family, the jewel in the palm of my parents, and I have been doted on since I was a child, but I don't have such a complete set of Suanzhi jujube and wood household items, I don't have such beautiful ornaments, and I don't drink tea with Ru kiln porcelain casually.

Thinking that she just wanted an aunt to teach embroidery, You Ran didn't say anything, and Meng Weiran was even more unhappy. The next day, she met Yan Ran, because the two hit it off yesterday, and Yan Ran even told her a lot of inside stories about the family. , Meng Weiran trusted Yanran so much that she complained to Yanran without hesitation in the garden, "It's not allowed, let me find Xu Xiuniang, her aunt is so precious."

Yan Ran smiled and said, "My fifth younger sister is the most favored by my father. I am the only one who respects me. No wonder she is like this. It's just that my father always protects her, and we can't do anything about her."

Wei Ran became very dissatisfied, "It's just a maidservant, but she's so arrogant!" Yan Ran hurriedly pressed Wei Ran, looked around, and saw that there was no one around, so she felt relieved, "My dear sister, treat me like a fool." Serious person, I will tell you everything, and I will tell you everything, let’s know it in our hearts, don’t say it out loud, there are many people in the house, if it spreads to my father, it will be very angry."

Wei Ran murmured in a low voice, "Second uncle is also, and the girl raised is so noble, like the [-]th and [-]th uncles in the clan, there are concubines born to girls, but they are also like girls. She is better than them, but Second Uncle pampers her so much." Because Wei Ran's voice was so small that it probably wouldn't be able to reach the ears of others, Yan Ran whispered to her at ease, "No way, how can you praise a maidservant like that? The flattery is nothing but flattery, there is no future in the future, who would want a maidservant? It's too embarrassing." Yanran and Weiran muttered like this, belittling Youran, and after talking for a long time, both of them became happy.

Wei Ran thinks that she is a concubine after all, and has a bright future, Yan Ran thinks that although she is also a concubine, her birth mother is a good concubine, but she is not as embarrassing as the identities of You Ran and An Ran. The two seem to see their own brilliant future, grinning.

(End of this chapter)