from widow to dame

Chapter 67

Su Huiniang used to be a marquis in her previous life, and at that time the Tan family had a queen empress, so it was considered a top wealthy family in the capital, but obviously, the current Mighty House is far from that. However, for Mu Xiang who set foot on the threshold of Bo Mansion for the first time, she was so shocked that she almost couldn't walk.

"Be careful." Su Huiniang gently pulled down her skirt, and said with a slight warning: "Just follow me, don't look around."

Mu Xiang immediately regained her composure when she heard the words, knowing that she had embarrassed the young lady, so she calmed down a bit, and replied in a low voice: "Yes!"

The mother in charge of the Earl's Mansion came to meet her. Su Huiniang and Su Huiniang walked all the way to the backyard. Along the way, they saw happy red silk hanging under the eaves, and the servants who came and went had smiles on their faces. After a while, they entered In the hall with four mahogany doors fully open, there are already more than a dozen female family members seated inside. At the moment, it is Mrs. Chen who is sitting under the engraved Shou character.

"Huiniang pays her respects to Mrs. Chen. I wish you a long life and eternal youth." Su Huiniang calmed down and saluted with a smile.Mu Xiang beside him, who knew the scenery, offered a congratulatory gift.

"I've been looking forward to your coming for a long time!" Mrs. Chen smiled brightly, and waved her hand, letting Su Huiniang go to her side: "Good boy, we haven't seen each other for a long time, how is your mother?"

Su Huiniang glanced at the smiling Mrs. Chen, and doubts flashed in her heart. In her impression, Mrs. Chen was not such a kind and kind woman: "Mrs. Lao is thinking about it. My mother is fine. It's just that the former It has been a bit cold for a few days, otherwise I will personally come to celebrate your birthday today."

"Nothing, nothing, I'm very happy if you can come."

Seeing Mrs. Chen getting close to Su Huiniang, and seeing that the young woman was a stranger, the people below couldn't help being curious. Some people specifically asked about Su Huiniang's roots. After knowing that the other party was just a commoner woman, their interest quickly Disappeared completely.Su Huiniang didn't care about this at all. After seeing the ceremony, she sat in a corner of the hall.The little girl in pink came over and served tea to Su Huiniang. While drinking tea, Su Huiniang raised her eyes and scanned her surroundings carefully. Mrs. Chen is today's birthday star, so everyone naturally revolved around her, and Around those women, there were also four or five young girls sitting.

Seeing this scene, Su Huiniang felt a bit of a spectrum in her heart. This kind of behavior is actually very common. It is nothing more than everyone taking advantage of the opportunity to get together and look at each other. If there is a girl in the family, they can take the opportunity to take Going out to show their faces, those with sons stared wide-eyed at their future daughter-in-law, and it was very obvious that Mrs. Chen should belong to the latter.

Because of Chen Yu's subtle feelings for her, Su Huiniang couldn't help but glanced at those girls. Among the four, two girls were more outstanding, one was wearing a dark blue dress, and she was not tall. She is so pretty, but she has a demure air all over her body. The other one is wearing a pink dress. She looks pretty and looks lively, chatting around Mrs. Chen, and Mrs. Chen seems to like her quite a bit.During the conversation, Su Huiniang also knew that most of these wives were sword generals, or the wives of fourth- and fifth-rank officials, and their titles were relatively low in the capital. From this point, it is not difficult to see that Uncle Mighty The current situation of the mansion should be regarded as a marginal family in the aristocratic social circle in the capital.

The birthday banquet was held in a grand and lively manner. After a while, someone outside reported that the stage had been set up. Ladies and gentlemen, please move on. Everyone came to the yard with a smile on their faces. Su Huiniang I also sat on the chair about three rows back. I have said before that Su Huiniang is a drama idiot, not an obsessed one, but an idiot's idiot, and what is being staged today is the kind of "literary drama" that bores her the most. However, surrounded by people who are full of interest and applaud from time to time, no matter how bored she is, she still has to act interested, which is really a bit tiring.

The scene of "Magu Blessing Birthday" lasted for two full hours, Su Huiniang sat down until her neck was stiff, and the actors on the stage did not show any intention of stopping, probably because they drank a little too much tea, and at this time the stomach Feeling a little swollen, she pulled Mu Xiang beside her, and the two master and servant turned out from the crowd, asked the direction, and then searched all the way there, and after releasing her hands, Su Huiniang really didn't want to go back to "suffer".Thinking about procrastinating the time, I will go back after it is almost over.

"The maidservant saw it just now, there seems to be a garden over there, do you want to go and have a look, Miss?"

Su Huiniang nodded and said, "Okay!"

The master and the servant walked over slowly, and sure enough, they saw a few peach trees around the corner. It was already the season of peach blossoms, so the only thing they saw was a piece of dry tree branch, but Su Huiniang didn't care too much. , as long as it allows her to sit quietly for a while. However, God seems to be against her. Before she can take a breath, some intermittent voices automatically and spontaneously drilled into her ears.

"Brother Yu, this is a purse I embroidered with my own hands, please accept it." A shy voice sounded, and I knew it was a daughter's house.

"Miss Lin's kindness is appreciated. However, if a man and a woman can't kiss each other, how can I ask for your things? Please take them back."

Su Huiniang was taken aback, she didn't expect that she would run into such a thing when she was hiding away, she couldn't help but feel embarrassed, she got up and hid after thinking about it, but that little girl, Mu Xiang, seemed to be on a stimulant It seemed that Lao Gao's ears were stunned, no matter how Su Huiniang winked, he stood there without moving.

At this moment, the two people in the forest didn't know what to say again, they only heard the female voice suddenly raised a pitch, and shouted very excitedly: "Brother Yu, my feelings for you, you also You should be able to see why Pearl is still so indifferent to me."

"Miss Lin probably misunderstood, I don't have any feelings for you, please respect yourself..."

Su Huiniang's words just flashed into Su Huiniang's head, when she saw a person flashing in front of her, if it wasn't Chen Yu, who else?Behind him is chasing a woman with pear blossoms and rain, it is the pretty girl in pink that I saw just now.The girl didn't seem to expect to bump into someone here, and when she saw Su Huiniang who was stuck here, her face turned pale, and she didn't care to show her affection to her sweetheart anymore, and ran away in a panic, holding her skirt.

It was Chen Yu who stopped in his tracks and looked at Su Huiniang from afar.

Su Huiniang's face naturally showed surprise, and she called out in doubt: "What a coincidence, it turns out that Mr. Chen also came to enjoy the flowers."

It looks like I just came here and didn't hear anything.

Chen Yu took a deep look at her, and the habitual smile on the corner of his mouth disappeared unknowingly. After a while, he said, "Yes, it turns out Miss Su is also a flower lover."

So, the man and the woman looked at each other under the bare tree poles in the courtyard.

The scene was really absurd.

Looking at Chen Yu's dark eyes, for some reason Su Huiniang felt a little guilty. She pretended to cough a few times, nodded to Chen Yu, then turned and left.

"You don't have to take what the girl said just now." Chen Yu's slightly low voice came from behind: "I already have someone I like..."

Su Huiniang stopped, and then walked even faster.

Quite a feeling of running away.

Mrs. Chen's birthday banquet was not finished until Youshi, and Su Wen wanted to go back to the academy directly, so Su Huiniang and Mu Xiang went back to Su's mansion directly, and when they entered the house to inform Mrs. Lin, it was because she was already tired , went back to the room early to rest.

After removing the hairpin from her hair, Su Huiniang sat in front of the mirror, combing her hair lightly.

Mu Xiang beside him was arranging his clothes, chatting endlessly about what he had seen and heard in Uncle Weiwu's mansion today, and emphatically talking about the incident that he ran into in the backyard.

"Miss, what you say about Miss Lin is really bold... But it's a pity, Mr. Chen doesn't like her... It's so pitiful, I'm crying all over the face!..." At this time, Darui Chujian, The feudal ethics between men and women are far from being as strict as those of later generations. As long as such secret meetings and secretly expressing one's intentions are done quietly and everyone knows about them, it is not a big problem.

"Have you finished?" Su Huiniang asked lightly, putting down the comb made of cenxiang wood in her hand.

After all, Mu Xiang was not stupid, she couldn't see the face of the master, she closed her mouth suddenly, and called twice tremblingly: "Master..."

Opening an exquisite five-corner box, took out some flower oil, and applied it in the palm of her hand, Su Huiniang said, "Go out and kneel at the door."

"Miss..." Mu Xiang was only a girl in her teens, she got up and knelt on the ground with a thud: "It's all wrong with the servant, the servant said the wrong thing, miss, please forgive me. "

"Didn't you hear what I said?" After rubbing flower oil on her hair, Su Huiniang's face turned cold: "I'm kneeling at the door, not here."

Mu Xiang's face turned pale, she stood up tremblingly, walked outside the door, and knelt down with tears in her eyes.

Su Huiniang changed into new obscene clothes, turned off the lights, lifted the embroidered quilt, and burrowed in. That night, she slept very well and didn't even have any dreams. When she opened her eyes again, she only felt Refreshed.

(End of this chapter)