Beautiful step by step

Chapter 73

The Liangzhou government office occupies a large area. Wei Wei lived in the Youzhou government office before, and the courtyard they temporarily stayed overnight was larger than the courtyard house that Wei's mother bought in the capital.The Liangzhou government office is even more open than the Youzhou government office.

Wei Wei and A Tong walked among the ladies, only to realize that the government office in Liangzhou is a bit scary.The entire government office consists of two houses with five entrances, and the first five entrances are the office area of ​​the Governor's Mansion.The second of the next five entrances is the study of the governor of Chu and the residences of several princes in the mansion. The first entrance is where a stage is set up. When you walk past, it is full of the tangy smell of makeup from the dancers, and the fresh smell of the green pines in the courtyard cannot be blocked at all.Going all the way back to the third entrance is the back house, and there is a garden in the fourth entrance.

Thanks to Yan Heng's resounding slap just now, the sister-in-law and sister-in-law were isolated.On the way to the backyard, no one spoke to her again.

Wei Wei was quite happy about this, and she was completely unaware of everyone's attitude of disgust or contempt.Anyway, they were the ones who were angry, and they were the ones who were hurt internally, and it had nothing to do with her.If she insisted on getting involved, then she could only say that she was very happy to see these people afraid of Yan Heng and dare not speak out.

With a refreshed mind, Wei Wei put on a faint smile on her lips, and calmly walked to Ah Tong's side, admiring the layout of the government office with her.Different from the grandeur of the capital, this government office is located in the northwest, and it is also contaminated with the simple style of the northwest. It is rough but not vulgar. There are a few blue brick houses in the empty courtyard, and the painted roofs and white pagodas of Tibetan Lamaism are fully displayed. exotic.

The long journey ended in Wei Wei's leisurely complacency, and when all the officials' wives saw her smiling eyes crooked and complacent, they became more and more angry and internally injured.As soon as they arrived at the backyard, Mrs. Chu Cishi asked everyone not to be restrained, just walk around and look around, and order the servants if necessary.

In the backyard full of flowers, Wei Wei immediately fell in love with the pavilion among the flowers.The leader announced the disbandment, and she dragged Ah Tong over without saying a word.The pavilion is covered with thick velvet blankets, fresh melons and fruits are placed on the stone table in the middle, and there are exquisitely embroidered sponge cushions on the stone benches.Ignoring the fact that it is an excellent viewing angle from any angle in the pavilion, just from the layout, it is known that this is the site reserved by Mrs. Chu.

Wei Wei took the magpie's nest without hesitation, and seeing Mrs. Chu's expression changed, she asked innocently: "Didn't Mrs. Governor say that you don't have to be restrained, I like this pavilion so much that I sat down. Is there something wrong? "

After choking on one sentence, Mrs. Chu couldn't get up or down, and she took the golden position in the back garden with peace of mind.

Sitting in the garden, Wei Wei admired the beautiful scenery of the garden.The back garden of the governor's mansion is different from the desolate desert outside.All kinds of strange stones stand everywhere, the vegetation is lush, and the flowers are blooming brightly, just like a paradise.

But she felt relieved, but Ah Tong became uneasy.Wei Wei seemed to be admiring the flowers, but in fact, his eyes were all over the place and his ears were listening.This is not her territory, she can be arrogant, but she must not fall into the trap of others.She could see Ah Tong's reaction, she was obviously very disturbed, but she sat there steadily and dignifiedly, and she couldn't see anything wrong from a distance.

"Ah Tong is also tired after walking all the way, eat something and drink some tea."

Hearing her voice, Ah Tong breathed a sigh of relief.Picking up the teacup, she was relieved to have something in her hand.

Seeing this, Wei Wei nodded secretly, it was right to bring Ah Tong here today.Although the Wei family is poor, the upbringing of their children has not been left behind.In the years of growing up, although A Tong did not have the conditions of a rich girl to have a good food and clothing, she had a whole house of books left by Wei Xiang.With a poetic spirit in his belly, Ah Tong's vision and knowledge are no worse than girls from rich families.What she lacks is just a little experience opportunity.

"Sister-in-law, this tea smells so good. The tea soup is clear and full of sweetness. Judging from the shape of the leaves, it should be Tieguanyin."

Wei Wei doesn't understand tea at all, but she can read and write.There is a wide-mouthed white porcelain bottle on the stone table, which is used for tea.Turn around and look at the label above, it is the three characters of "Tieguanyin".

She turned to look at Ah Tong: "That's right, it's the Tieguanyin you mentioned."

A Tong's smiling eyes curved, smelling the fragrance of flowers around her, the temperature of the teacup made her gradually relax.Sitting there, she sipped tea with peace of mind.

Wei Wei didn't say much, she tipped her sore toes and swept her eyelids down, condescending, and she could clearly see the colorful flowerpots under the fragrant flowers that were more gorgeous than hers.Just now she wondered how skilled a gardener could be to take care of the flowers so well under such natural conditions.It turned out that it was not locally produced, but the horses and horses transporting money and food directly purchased from other places.

With her eyes narrowed slightly, she finally understood why she saw tiny, colorful branches and leaves in the car when loading millet.

"What is cousin looking at?"

After drinking a cup of tea, Ah Tong asked curiously when she saw that she was watching intently.

Wei Wei glanced at the maid outside the pavilion from the corner of her eye, and said in a distant tone, "I'm looking at the trade route from Liangzhou to the capital."

"Business route?"

Ah Tong was a little puzzled: "There is only one official road from Liangzhou to the capital."

Wei Wei stood up and stood beside the stone pillar beside the pavilion, looking at the lofty sky of Liangzhou, his voice was full of emotion: "The official way is also the way of business."

After feeling thoughtlessly, she sat next to Ah Tong: "Ah Tong knows tea?"

Ah Tong shook his head: "I just read one or two books, including Lu Yu's "The Classic of Tea", which describes the shape, color, and taste of tea in detail, and I can match the number. The real good tea is cheap. It is more expensive than gold, even more expensive than gold, how can ordinary people see it."

"We are just the opposite. I have drunk a lot of tea, but they are all chewing peonies. I drink it if I think it tastes good, and I don't drink it if it doesn't taste good. I forget it immediately after drinking it. Next time I see Custodian Tea, I will know me. I don't know tea."

Ah Tong enviously said: "Don't say that, Cousin, tea is meant for people to drink, so it doesn't matter if you recognize it or not. The money is spent, as long as you drink it comfortably."

Wei Wei quickly shook her head: "This is not the same. As the saying goes: people live to eat. But there is a second part of the sentence, people don't live to eat. I wish I knew more. I just have nothing to do today. Well, the environment here is not bad, how about Ah Tong explaining the tea ceremony to me?"

Nothing to do... Ah Tong's mind is so clear, the cousin saw her embarrassment, so she brought up a topic to distract her.

"I don't know much, so I can only talk casually."

Wei Wei sat upright, pretending to be listening attentively.

"Then let's talk about the "Tea Classic". The "Tea Classic" has ten verses, the source of one. The tea maker, the Jiamu in the south, is one foot, two feet, or even tens of feet..."

When Ah Tong talked about "The Classic of Tea", she said a few words in the original text, and then she stopped to explain it in plain language, occasionally corroborating it with other tea works.She spoke neither fast nor slow, and her voice was not very unique, but her tone was calm, which made people feel a sense of tranquility from the bottom of her heart.

After she talked for a while, Wei Wei saw from the corner of her eye that the maid next to the pavilion had disappeared.A sneer appeared on the corner of his lips, and he wanted to plot against her even with this trick.Just when Ah Tong said something interesting, she pricked up her ears and listened attentively.

Originally, I mentioned it casually, but I didn't expect Ah Tong to have so much ink in his stomach.Calculated, Ah Tong is only one year younger than himself, but it depends on his cultural literacy.

After talking for a while, Ah Tong's mouth felt a little dry, so he took a sip of the tea cup, and saw Wei Wei's face was a little strange.

After closing the teacup, she didn't continue talking, but asked suspiciously: "What's wrong with my cousin? But what I said is too boring?"

dull?

Ah Tong is definitely a good teacher. First of all, she has a slender figure and outstanding appearance, and she is a proper goddess-level personal trainer.And she knew a lot. The "Tea Classic" was a bit boring, but she rambled about it and divided it into short stories about the ancients looking for tea.If it's boring, she really can't find anything interesting.

She had a bitter look on her face, mainly because she blamed herself for her cultural level.

Thinking of this, a wry smile appeared in Wei Wei's eyes: "I just feel that Ah Tong knows a lot. You are one year younger than me, and you have to help the family on weekdays, yet you still know so much."

"This one……"

Ah Tong bit her lip, with a slightly embarrassing look on her face: "I have a better memory than ordinary people. Dad said that our Wei family is like this. This is passed down from the generation of great-grandfather."

Is this the rhythm of the prodigy family?

Wei Wei thought about A Yun who had never forgotten in the capital. When A Tong said this, she remembered many details that she didn't usually pay attention to.Ah Heng basically does not use account books in his business, he writes down all the numbers casually; Uncle Wei sorted out the bookshelves when he moved, and the books that have been scattered over the years, without page numbers and sentences, look like a mess, but he can always read them very quickly. It's easy to put together; now there's another Ah Tong, who casually glances at the book during the slack season, and opens his mouth when he's in use.

What kind of miraculous family inheritance is this, which makes people envious and jealous!

"A Tong has a photographic memory?"

"It's not that exaggerated. I just like tea, and I think "The Classic of Tea" is interesting, so I read more books about it."

This consolation...well she accepted it!
After calming down, Wei Wei raised her head when she heard the sound. Among the flowers, Mrs. Chu was surrounded by a group of official wives in colorful clothes, walking towards this side imposingly.

Time went back to before a cup of tea, listening to Mrs. Yan discussing the "Tea Classic" with her cousin, the maid on duty yawned, and left quietly while the two were unprepared.

In the main room in the fourth entrance behind the back garden, Mrs. Chu spent a lot of money to carefully arrange the gazebo just so that she could enjoy the flowers surrounded by everyone. After the site was taken by Wei Wei, she never stayed in the back garden again. Feeling.

Almost so angry that she hurt her internally, Mrs. Chu retreated to the inner room.As soon as she left, the wives of the officials who usually followed her lead followed into the inner room.The maid took a towel and covered Madam Tongjuan's face, and there was burning pain on her face. Sensing the displeasure on Madam Chu's expression, Madam Tongjuan felt that her chance had come, and then she took the lead in talking about Wei Wei's bad behavior.

While talking, some insiders in Jiuquan talked about Wei Wei's business.

Mrs. Chu snorted coldly: "As expected, it's the habit of merchants to show their faces for a little stuff."

Another family member of the Jiuquan scribe who had already taken refuge in the governor's mansion exposed a bigger inside story: "Yan Zhenfu made troubles in Jiuquan, and found an excuse to say that Zhou Qianhu bent the law for personal gain and made him so miserable. Look at Being unselfish, isn’t it actually using power for personal gain?”

Using power for personal gain?Everyone pricked up their ears.

Outside the main room, the maid looked for an opportunity to find the mother who was in charge in front of Mrs. Chu, and explained Wei Wei's words and deeds clearly.Mother raised the curtain and went in, and whispered in front of Mrs. Chu:
"Mrs. Yan may have discovered something. She stared at the flower pot for a long time and said that the official way is also the way of business."

The rest of the governor's mansion didn't know what was going on, but Mrs. Chu and her confidant mother in charge knew exactly how the garden outside that was envied by the officials' wives in Liangzhou City came about.

With the words of the scribe's wife as the lead, a bunch of official wives who are not used to Wei Wei are talking about how Yan Zhenfu used his power for personal gain.The appetite was almost wheezing, seeing that the scribe's wife was about to reveal the answer, but Mrs. Chu thought of something else.

Yan Zhenfu held the emperor's secret decree in his hand, so he obviously had the right to submit the memorial directly.If she makes this matter a big deal, what if Yan Zhenfu will die?
She couldn't include the governor's mansion in order to bring down a small town.

Her feet were still sore, Mrs. Chu was old after all, and she had to walk so far from the main gate of the government office in the back house, tossing back and forth twice and even kneeling in the middle, it was really exhausting for her.Yan Zhenfu's secret decree turned the governor's mansion on their backs, and Mrs. Yan occupied her gazebo again, leaving her with no place to rest.

It was entirely at her behest that Mrs. Jiuquan's scribe would say that.She has suffered such a big loss from the Yan family and his wife, so she has to make up for it elsewhere.It was not easy for her to catch the handle of abusing deposit vehicles, Madam Chu even planned one, two, three, four, five steps.She not only wanted to use this to humiliate Mrs. Yan, but also cooperated with the governor of Chu to make this matter a black history that could not be erased in Yan Heng's official career.

Such a useful handle is about to be given up now.

Mrs. Chu's heart was roasted on the fire, not to mention how uncomfortable it was.

But no matter how uncomfortable it was, the original plan had to go to waste.

Sitting in the darkness above, Mrs. Chu tightly clutched the teacup in her hand, with a gloomy expression.

The clerk's wife didn't realize it, and said slowly under the expectant eyes of everyone: "You don't know, Madam Yan's natal family is in business, and she also takes the little things from the countryside of Jiuquan..."

"It's your mouth!"

The chattering sound in the room made Mrs. Chu angry. In the past, she loved the excitement surrounded by people the most.However, this noisy sound was like sharp arrows shot from all directions, piercing her head every time.

A burst of anger rushed to her forehead, obliterating her sanity, and the teacup in her hand was thrown out uncontrollably.

"Don't talk about Jiuquan, there is only one road from Liangzhou to the capital. If you don't go there, why not take the mountain road to feed the wolves?"

The whole room was silent, the mother in charge hurriedly stepped forward to cover Mrs. Chu's face, reached out her hand to her temple, and muttered: "Ma'am, the doctor said that you have been exposed to the wind for the past two days, so you should not be hurt."

It turned out that Mrs. Chu was ill, and it was reasonable to have a bad temper when she heard the noise.The whole room fell silent, and the scene was a little awkward.Commander Wu, who is the most capable and respectable, made his wife smile.

"Sister Chu is not feeling well, she should take a good rest. I see that the flowers in the garden outside are blooming just right. Go outside and look at the bright flowers. Maybe the illness will be cured by a third."

Mrs. Chu also endured the internal injury, thinking that the culprit was still occupying her well-arranged gazebo, she was so angry that she didn't want to bear it anymore.

Seeing Mrs. Chu approaching from afar, Wei Wei happened to sit until his legs felt a little numb, so he simply pulled Ah Tong to stand up and stretch his muscles.

When all the wives of the officials walked in, she raised a smile and looked at Mrs. Chu: "The Tieguanyin tea prepared by Madam today is clear and sweet. It is really the best tea."

She stretched out her hand without slapping the smiling face, but he greeted her from afar and praised her for her preparation.The menacing Madam Chu had thousands of words stuck in her throat, which made her feel even more uncomfortable.

Seeing that all the visitors had constipated faces, the smile on Wei Wei's face became more sincere.

"The melons, fruits and refreshments prepared by Mrs. Chu are also top-notch. The governor's mansion is really hospitable to guests. And in this back garden, the pots of flowers are indeed expensive. They were shipped all the way from the capital. They bloom so beautifully that it's amazing." I feel at ease. My cousin and I will go elsewhere first without disturbing the wives to enjoy the flowers."

With a shallow smile, before Madam Chu made an attack, Wei Wei ate and drank enough and directly smeared oil on the soles of her feet.

(End of this chapter)