Houmen Yixiang

Chapter 62
Gong Yu couldn't understand Gong Rou's flattering appearance, because she had completely fallen out with Gong Rou over the Qingyan Temple incident, and she didn't want to stay with her at all, "Fourth Sister, let's go over there and have a look."

Gong Mei was naturally happy, "Okay, Second Sister. Sister-in-law and Third Sister, I'll accompany Second Sister to have a look over there first."

After Gong Yu Gongmei left, Gong Rou pointed to a place, "Sister-in-law, that is the garden of the Hou Mansion. I heard that there are many rare chrysanthemum varieties that are not available in the Hou Mansion, such as Mo Peony, Yaotai Yufeng, Xuehai, Shame girl, wait a minute, some of them have already bloomed, shall we go and have a look?"

Lu Xinyan nodded indifferently, "Then go to the garden."

After passing through a secluded corridor, the two came to the Garden of the Hou Mansion.

Wuyang Hou's Mansion is half the size of Guangping Hou's Mansion, and the garden is also much larger.

There are many exotic flowers and plants inside.

Just in autumn, maple leaves begin to turn red, red and green are intertwined, like red flowers and green leaves, and like small fireballs burning in the forest, gorgeous and dazzling.

There are also golden osmanthus and silver osmanthus that have just bloomed, fluttering with the wind, covering the bluestone path.

Walking among them, the aroma is tangy, like a dream.

Chrysanthemums in a dedicated corner in the southwest of the garden.

The red ink peony is gorgeous and majestic, like a peony, and the flowers are slender and long. The jade feathers are like a delicate and slender beauty, and the pure white petals of the Yaotai jade phoenix surround the yellow flower heart layer by layer. As elegant as a Yaotai fairy...

"The chrysanthemums of the Marquis of Wuyang really deserve their reputation!" A proud female voice came.

The girl was about fifteen years old, wearing an autumn-colored wide-sleeved undergarment with a skirt of scattered flowers and clouds and smoke, and a chrysanthemum-patterned enamel casserole on the flying fairy bun. Reveal faint pride.

She is Shen Yuyan, the eldest granddaughter of the Shen family, a scholar in charge of the second-rank Hanlin Academy. She is a talented woman who has been well-known in Beijing for the past two years. The second prince Wu Zhe, who was born with the third princess and one mother, favored him.

Some people privately rumored that if the second prince was not six years older than Shen Yuyan, and the lover was already at the age of marriage before the beauty grew up, maybe the second prince and concubine would have fallen on Shen Yuyan.

It was also said that if the second prince who was born in the direct line could inherit the great line, Shen Yuyan would at least be named a noble concubine under one person and above ten thousand people.

But the current emperor will only be forty next year, and it is the time when he is in full bloom. If there is no accident, the country will change positions, and it may be ten or twenty years later.

With Shen Yuyan's fame and status, she can't be a prince's side concubine, so many people feel sorry for Shen Yuyan, thinking that she was born at an untimely time.

"Sister Shen is talking about it, and it's the first time I've seen it. Look at that shy girl, with a light yellow flower heart and light purple petals, and the tail is slightly curled inward, like a shy girl, shy when she wants to speak, It really lives up to its name."

The girl in green who spoke was Du Yueqing, a fifteen-year-old girl studying for a bachelor's degree at the Fourth Rank Imperial Academy, Shen Yuyan's attendant.

Another young girl in purple clothes, with a delicate and pleasant appearance, is the 14-year-old Chang Xiaorou, the youngest daughter of the Jiang family who took the lead in mocking Lu Xinyan just now.

The style she wore was the style Lu Xinyan wore at Feng's birthday banquet.

Chang Xiaorou then flattered and said: "If there is a pen and ink, sister Shen will definitely be able to include this variety of chrysanthemums in the painting."

The rest of the surrounding girls of various colors all echoed and held Shen Yuyan up to the sky.

The corner of Shen Yuyan's mouth was smiling, with a look of enjoyment on his face.

"Sister-in-law, I heard that the poem you wrote on the night of the Qixi Festival has spread throughout the capital and is highly sought after by poets. It is said that this poem is one of the best poems in Tianwu Kingdom. Why don't you write a poem with chrysanthemums now?" Can you let me learn the relevant words?"

Gong Rou's voice, as light and crisp as a silver bell, rang out suddenly amidst the sound of flattery.

Lu Xinyan told Wu Sheng and the others that someone else had composed the Qingyu poem on the Qixi Festival, but she just happened to hear about it, so when they passed it on to the outside world, they did not say who composed it.

Lu Xinyan and her party from Qingyan Temple were busy preparing clothes for Mrs. Cai, and later she was busy doing a secret matter with Shu Yunlueyue. She heard a little about the rumors in Beijing, but she didn't take it to heart.

But she didn't find it surprising that the Qingyu case could amaze literati and guests, it would be strange if it wasn't!
Lu Xinyan glanced at Gong Rou meaningfully, and explained lightly: "Sister San, you made a mistake. I said that poem the other day. I didn't compose it. I heard it from someone else."

Gong Rou bit her lip, and said quite aggrieved: "But this poem has been spread for more than [-] days, and no one has ever heard of it. If it wasn't you who wrote it, who is it? I heard that even the third prince, Gongsun Gongzi and others did this in private thought."

"It turned out to be the Third Miss Gong from the Guangping Marquis's Mansion, who has not been married for two months...cough cough, I really can't say it, the Young Madam Gong who was neglected by the prince!"

Du Yueqing's slightly mocking voice came, he intentionally bit the word concubine hard, but not behind it, originally he wanted to say that he had never consummated the house, presumably because he felt that a girl in a boudoir would lose her reputation if she said the word consummated It was changed to being neglected by the prince.

(End of this chapter)