Wishful Things

"As soon as I entered the eldest princess's mansion, Xu Mingyi--"

When Xu Mingshi said this, his mother raised an eyebrow at him threateningly: "Huh?"

The corner of the boy's mouth twitched slightly, but he changed his words honestly: "...I mean, as soon as I entered the eldest princess's mansion, my sister went to the eldest princess's courtyard, and took Aoi to see a doctor. The princess has a rash."

"You didn't follow?" Cui Shi asked.

"Why are you following me, son?" Xu Mingshi asked incredulously.

"Then what did you go to the eldest princess's mansion?" Cui looked at her son incredulously.

"Appreciate the autumn chrysanthemums."

"..." Cui was completely speechless.

Did he go to a lonely co-author?

"Go back and read." Cui waved her hand to her son in disappointment, and threw the melon seeds back into the plate in a dull manner.

It should have been expected that the son with a sloppy face and a bad temper would not be able to do normal things.

"yes."

Xu Mingshi raised his hand in salute, and walked out without hesitation.

Not long after, a servant girl came in and said, "Madam, Mrs. Wen and Mrs. Zhou have arrived."

As soon as the poker player came, Cui's spirit lifted, she put down her tea cup and got up to greet her.

Two women came in.

"Why is there one missing?" Cui asked with a smile.

"Madam Xiangning can't come today." Mrs. Wen, the wife of the Minister of Rites, who is about forty years old, said to Cui, "But I have made an appointment with my younger siblings from my natal family, and I think they should be here soon."

The horse cranes of the younger siblings were taught by her alone. In order to prevent the phenomenon of three missing one, who can't keep a few impromptu ones?

Mrs. Kong, the wife of Zhou Shilang's family, sighed and said, "I haven't seen her for several times, so it makes people panic."

After all, Mrs. Xiangningbo has the reputation of giving money to Guanyin in this Jingzhong horse hanging ring.

"Can't it be that you lost too much a few days ago?" Cui said jokingly.

In fact, they didn't fight too much, but Mrs. Xiangning Fang's luck was really bad, and she often lost nine times out of ten.

But Fang's natal family came from a business background, and the family was wealthy. It is said that the Xiangning uncle's mansion settled this marriage and chose Fang's as his successor, but it caused a lot of discussion, and they all said behind their backs that the uncle's mansion took a fancy to her. Fang's dowry.

After all, at that time, Xiangningbo Mansion was caused by the matter of respecting the eldest princess, and the situation in the mansion was indeed very bad——

But this was more than ten years ago, and few people would discuss it now.

"She is getting more and more courageous. How can she stop fighting because she has lost a few times?" As they went to the warm pavilion, Mrs. Wen said, "I heard it's her mother-in-law, Mrs. Xiangning She has fallen ill these few days, and she is attending to the sick at home."

"Ill?" Cui asked casually, "Is it serious?"

"Being mad..."

Mrs. Wen lowered her voice, and said: "It is said that the old lady's son-in-law who was expelled from the clan came back... owed a lot of gambling debts, and had a finger chopped off... He came to the uncle's house to ask for money to save his life." .”

"The one who offended the eldest princess?" Kong said in surprise, "How dare he return to Beijing?"

Who in Beijing doesn't know that Jia Junzhi, the eldest son of the Uncle Xiangning's mansion, was selected as a son-in-law, and was caught in bed by the eldest princess because of an affair with the same woman.

Offended the eldest princess, the Xiangning uncle's mansion did not dare to keep this son anymore, even if he was removed from the clan——

This move is also understandable. After all, I wanted to rely on this son to climb into the royal family who had just ascended the throne for a few years and didn't pay much attention to choosing a son-in-law. But after just two years of tasting the sweetness, this unbelievable son committed suicide. The road of life, and even the whole uncle's mansion will suffer, this has been condemned and demoted to the common people's disaster, is it still waiting for the new year if they are not driven out?

Cui also became interested when she heard it.

It is said that after Jia Junzhi was expelled from the family, he took the woman and left Beijing. I have never heard of this person in these years——

Seeing that her friends were all waiting for her to continue, Mrs. Wen said in a good mood: "Now the uncle's residence is suppressing the news, for fear that this matter will reach the ears of the eldest princess and cause any trouble."

As we all know, the meaning and essence of playing horse hanging is not only in playing cards, it is also one of the fun to gather around and talk about gossip.

However, this is also layered. For example, their circle cannot be squeezed in by just any wives from petty official families.

Therefore, there are not many scruples about some words.

But Cui always remembered her husband's advice, most of them just listened but didn't say it, even if she said it, it was really irrelevant.

"Tsk, from this point of view, Mrs. Xiangning's illness is even frightening." Kong shook his head and sighed: "The uncle's mansion has finally recovered from it in the past few years... ..."

"Not really."

While the few people were talking, they heard that Mrs. Wen's younger siblings had arrived, so they stopped talking with a smile and started asking the servant girl to set up the card table.

...

Three days later, Princess Yufeng came to Zhen Guogong's mansion.

She handed over the post a day earlier, so Xu Mingyi was already prepared. She asked the servant girl to set up a bed under the ginkgo tree in the courtyard, and Azhu moved a beauty couch. The promised peach blossom wine was also made early in the morning They dug it out.

Princess Yufeng was led into Xi Garden by Ah Kui, and saw everything that was arranged in the courtyard. She couldn't help but smiled and said to Xu Mingyi who came up to her, "Xu Zhaozhao, you know what I'm thinking. It's a refreshing autumn. Eating wine in your courtyard is the most comfortable thing."

While talking, I took my friend's arm, and the two of them didn't go to the hall, so they sat down on the low couch under the ginkgo tree.

Soon some maids put out fresh fruit snacks, and Ah Kui led a few little maids to prepare to start the barbecue.

The fresh meat marinated half an hour in advance was skewered, and slowly grilled over an iron net on the charcoal-burning stove. After a while, the fat and thin meat skewers began to ooze oil , sprinkled with ground spices, with a faint aroma of burnt barbecue spread in the yard, making people mouth watering.

Tianmu sat by the stove with his wings folded, his round eyes stared straight at the meat skewers.

The grilled kebabs were peeled off and put on a plate, before being delivered to the two girls.

Princess Yufeng hurriedly picked up the chopsticks.

Eating meat and drinking with friends is really a joy in life.

When the two of them were halfway through eating, Ah Zhu came in from outside the courtyard, stepped forward and said, "There is a letter from the girl."

While speaking, he handed over the letter in his hand.

Xu Mingyi put down the wine glass, took it, and opened it casually to have a look.

What caught my eye was the pleasant and familiar handwriting. The girl read two lines, and a smile appeared on her cheek.

Princess Yufeng glanced at her, poked her head over, pretending to read what was written in the letter: "Hey, whose letter is this?"

Subconsciously, Xu Mingyi hurriedly held the letter paper in front of him.