Concubine Mengfei

Chapter 36
Although Tan Garden is planted with many plants, it still has the structure of a courtyard as a whole, with three main rooms, two side rooms, and several low houses for maids and women.

Jin'er sneaked out of Yu Moying's room only after she was sure that Qingmei, who was in the same room as her, had fallen asleep.

There was still a faint candlelight in the room, and there were occasional small discussions, which were the voices of Yu Moying and Hongxing.

"Miss, it's not good for you to stay up all day and night because you want to give the young master a birthday present."

"I can't help it. I only have such a big brother. I think about whether I want to learn how to play the pipa from a craftsman in Luoyifang outside."

"lute?"

"That's right. Brother likes to listen to music, why don't I play and sing a song too?"

All of these conversations fell into Jin'er's ears, and after knowing what Yu Moying was going to give, she quietly backed away.

As soon as Jin'er left, the door of Yu Moying's room was suddenly opened.

"It seems that this Jin'er is not very good. He was deceived so easily." Hong Xing sneered in Yu Moying's ear.

Looking past the mottled tree shadows in the corner, Yu Moying also smiled softly: "It's really not very good. In such a short period of time, how can I learn the pipa that I didn't understand well? For convenience, but also to reflect Xinyi, of course I will invite Miss Jiang from Luoyifang to play a song."

Jin'er, who was covered by the shadow of the tree, was still glad that she hadn't been deceived by Yu Moying just now. She listened to the following words and planned to tell the eldest lady in the morning.

In the early morning of the second day, Yu Moying went to the Zhilan Courtyard in person, and applied to the eldest lady to leave the mansion, saying that she had an appointment with Gong Ruyue.

The eldest lady had several big bumps on her face, the redness and swelling still persisted, but she still pretended to be a loving mother, and agreed painfully, and also said that she didn't have to worry about moving Liu Yiniang out of the mansion, and advised Yu Moying on the way careful.

Yu Moying thanked the eldest lady calmly, went back and changed into a lotus-colored gauze skirt, combed her hair into a simple bun, and left the house with a golden min peach hairpin.

Lenghu bead curtains, Luoqi fragrance, located in Luoyifang on Yueshi Street, is a first-class music workshop, there are many talents, there are women who are proficient in everything, such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.This is not only an ideal place to add fragrance to the red sleeves, but also a good place to learn from teachers in private.In addition to many young men from famous families who will come to find their confidante, ladies from famous families will also often come to everyone inside for advice to improve their skills to a higher level. However, the status of geisha is despised by the nobles. On the one hand, they look down on geishas, ​​but on the other hand, they have to admit that geishas are outstanding.

When Yu Moying arrived, Gong Ruyue was already waiting in a private room on the second floor, still dressed in men's clothing, looking heroic.

"The last time I came here was with brother Zhenyuan a few years ago."

As soon as she sat down, Gong Ruyue couldn't wait to recall those memories with Yu Zhenyuan.

Yu Moying ate some refreshments on the table, smiled and said: "I've never been here, but that girl's dance moves are really good."

She refers to a woman who is in the fence, swinging her sleeves and dancing.

Gong Ruyue looked in the direction Yu Moying was pointing at, but she couldn't see clearly. Therefore, although she is also a woman, she is 15 years old this year, and she doesn't know much about the things that girls in the boudoir must learn. Riding and archery is her forte. Therefore, she mainly judges the level of a geisha by the size of her name.

"In Luoyifang, isn't there someone who sings very well? You mentioned it yesterday, what is it called Jiang, let me think about it."

"Jiang Yinxue."

Yu Moying had already answered, and shifted her gaze to another exquisite and translucent woman who came out slowly behind the dancing woman.

"The dark world of mortals is suddenly bright, and the hot spring is icy cold. I take one step after another and never stop. This wall is like a river and a lake."

A woman named Jiang Yinxue walked into the center of the fence with lotus steps, adjusted a few notes on a 23-string lacquer harp, and sang a ballad in a low voice to the music of the harp.

All of a sudden, all the spectators present felt that there was a little more coolness in the scorching summer.The sound of harpies and singing, like a stream of clear springs, is flowing in the workshop.

And the girl Jiang Yinxue who played came from the misty and misty south of the Yangtze River. Her body was full of Xiaojiabiyu's appearance, her face was like a peach blossom, her slender waist was just enough to be grasped, and her singing voice was ethereal. Feelings.

Even Gong Ruyue was fascinated by watching and listening, and expressed admiration for Jiang Yinxue's skills.

In the private room next door, it seemed that another lady from a noble family went in and sat down.

There was a bamboo curtain between the private room and the private room. Yu Moying could only see the figure of a young girl through the bamboo curtain. She didn't care about the people next door, but smiled at Gong Ruyue: "If Yue, Miss Jiang's singing voice is so beautiful, how about I invite her to the Yu Mansion to sing a song, as a birthday present for Eldest Brother?"

Gong Ruyue's eyes still stayed on Jiang Yinxue, and she replied without thinking: "Very good, brother Zhenyuan will definitely like it very much. Maybe your relationship with the eldest lady and the others will be fine too."

Realizing that she might say something wrong, Gong Ruyue hurriedly took back what she was going to say later.

Yu Moying didn't take it seriously, she was still smiling.

She opened the curtain of the private room, walked to the side of the Goulan, and stuffed a silver ticket worth 100 taels into the hand of Jiang Yinxue's maid, and said, "Two days later, it will be the birthday of the young master of the Yu family. The girl came to play a song?"

"In an instant, all the seven emotions were completely ignorant, and the tears soaked through the bitterness and tears wet the clothes. I only know that iron, wealth and honor will be cast in a lifetime, but who knows the number of lives will be clear in an instant. I think I used to be coquettish back then, even if I don't believe it now. Past."

The sound of the strings took a sharp turn, and after experiencing a low trough, Jiang Yinxue's singing became sad and desolate, and the tone was full of helplessness towards the impermanence of the world.To match the song, there seemed to be tears in her eyes.

The maid seemed to hesitate and replied: "Our young lady never accepts invitations from any dignitaries, but only plays in Luoyifang. I'm afraid she won't agree."

"Not even once?" Yu Moying stuffed another 100 tael bank note over.

The maidservant's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly took the bank note and put it in her bag, "Let me try, try my best to persuade Miss."

At the moment when Yu Moying and the maid reached an agreement, a domineering woman's voice was sent to their ears through the music.

"My elder brother's birthday present, no matter what, let me choose it for him first. And when did he admit that he has a sister like you?"

Yu Moying glanced at the pretty woman who was coming, and deliberately raised her voice and said, "So it's the third lady of the Yu Mansion!"

Her voice was knocked down enough for everyone present to hear clearly.

The spectators present were commotion, pointing at Yu Moyao.

"This is the third lady of the Yu Mansion? Why do you come here shamelessly?"

"He's quite handsome, how could he do such an outrageous thing?"

"A person can't be judged by his appearance. The more beautiful a woman is, the more slutty she is in her bones."

"Tell me, is this the retribution of the Yu family?"

"Hey, you can take medicine indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately."

Last time, the matter of Yu Moyao and those fortune-tellers had already spread throughout Chengdu, and it seemed to have become a joke for people after dinner.

Zuo Xiangyu framed Zhongliang and took away the people's fat and anointing. The people had already hated him very much. Although some aristocratic families were afraid of his power and respected him on the surface, they hated him to death secretly.His daughter had an accident, and most people were happy to see it happen, not to mention Yu Moyao is also the kind of person who looks down on others.

Immediately, Yu Moyao's face was covered with red clouds. After Jin'er told the eldest lady about Yu Moying's plan, the eldest lady asked her to come to Luoyifang to win over Jiang Yinxue and not let Yu Moying Ying wins the limelight at Yu Zhenyuan's birthday party.She watched Yu Moying enter Luoyifang, and sat down in the private room next to Yu Moying.

Now Yu Moyao was so ashamed and annoyed that she couldn't help but overturned a table and yelled at everyone, "If you dare to say one more word, I'll go back and tell my father that you will all die."

After being yelled at by her, no one dared to speak anymore, Jiang Yinxue stopped playing the harp, and the singing stopped, and Luoyifang, where the music was fluttering, was extraordinarily quiet at this moment.

When Gong Ruyue, who had been in the private room, heard the familiar sound of quarreling, she also came over to check on the situation.When she saw that it was Yu Moying and Yu Moyao who were arguing, her astonishment could not fade for a long time. It turned out that she sympathized with Yu Moyao, the future sister-in-law, but her current behavior was completely unsympathetic. .

Although Yu Moying was smiling, her gaze towards Yu Moyao became cold, as if countless sharp knives were released.

Knowing that her reputation is ruined, and she still doesn't know how to keep a low profile, if Yu Moyao goes on like this, she doesn't know how she will die in the future.

After a long time, Yu Moying's light laughter broke the silence.

"Third sister, don't you feel ashamed? Are you going to throw this person out of the Yu mansion and make the Yu family lose face outside before you give up?"

Facing Yu Moying's ridicule, Yu Moyao was even more arrogant, "Aying, you say I've disgraced the Yu Mansion, so what are you? How confident are you, a concubine, that you can invite the capital to move?" The most famous Jiang Yinxue performing for my elder brother?"

Yu Moying raised her eyebrows and said in doubt: "I can't please, so can you please?"

"Of course!"

The embarrassment just now was gone, and Yu Moyao still had the same arrogance as usual.

She ignored the maidservant who was blocking her, walked to the center of the Goulan, and proudly supported Jiang Yinxue, who was Konghou, and said: "You stay in Chengdu, and you will know what will happen if you offend the Yu family? I will give you a post from the Yu family." , no matter whether you have accepted other people’s invitations before, you have to go if you don’t go this time!”

Yu Moyao thought that Jiang Yinxue would be like everyone else, because she was afraid of the power of the Yu family, she would be obedient.

However, after Jiang Yinxue sat quietly for a while, she ignored her, stood up, and retreated behind the fence.When she was walking, her black hair reached the ground, and the corners of her skirt were clear, leaving behind a back view that caused endless reverie.

"Okay, you're just a prostitute, let's see how courageous you can be!"

Furious, Yu Moyao resolutely followed. Although the guards of Luoyifang kept blocking her, she still tore down the curtain behind the fence.

"If Miss Yu San still doesn't leave, then I'll be rude!"

At this time, a deep male voice came from the beam, resounding throughout Luoyifang.

(End of this chapter)