Chapter 101 Taoyuan (Chinese)

On November 30th, it was the day when everyone made an appointment to set off for Changping Zhuangzi.

Early on, Baoya was the first to arrive, first giving her a gift, a set of five pieces of jewelry with gold, silver and silk hairpins: a flat square, two hairpins, and two side flowers; then, she asked someone to carry in to the gift given by Cao Yan: two boxes of clothes, four pieces of kang screen and jadeware, and other decorations, as well as longevity peaches and longevity noodles, and two inner wallets containing auspicious and good luck croaker.

After a while, Yongsheng and Yongjia brothers and sisters also arrived. Because Yongqing had something to do and failed to come, they only asked their younger brothers and sisters to send gifts. Their gifts were nothing more than paper, pen, calligraphy and paintings, and also included a purse embroidered by Yongjia, a box of rouge and a box of uterine powder.

Because they were all familiar with each other, and they were all young, and there was no taboo for men and women, they all drank tea and chatted in the hall.

Seshtu and Ning Chun are from behind.

When Seshtu came in, he carried a food box in one hand, first met Cao Yong, and then smiled and said to Cao Yi: "My mother insisted that I bring some vegetarian snacks for you to eat on the way. I originally said that your family must have prepared better, but she insisted on it. She said that you liked it and asked me to bring it. Don't think that the old man is too naughty!"

Cao Yi hurriedly asked the maid to take it and thanked him with a smile: "The dim sum made by my aunt is indeed the best, thank you for your worries."

Seshtu took out another small box and put a string of white jade in it, saying that it was a gift chosen by his mother. Cao Yi thanked him and accepted it.

Ning Chun came with Qiu Niang. Qiu Niang did not wear the big red bride outfit today, but a set of lotus-colored dark-patterned brocade clothes and lilac-colored embroidered lambskin candles, which looked very quiet and elegant, no less than a lady from a noble family.

Except for Cao Yong, no one else had seen her, and they all thought she was Ning Chun's beautiful wife and concubine. When introducing her, Ning Chun still did not add the title of concubine. Seshtu and Yongsheng knew that this was an outdoor room.

Qiu Niang generously greeted everyone, and her conversation was very gentle and polite. Everyone was secretly amazed in her heart, and no one underestimated her.

Baoya didn't think about what the title meant. Because he saw Qiu Niang being beautiful and dressed well, he liked the shaking of the beads on her head. When her head moved, the long beads swayed back and forth, which was very interesting, so his big eyes were staring at them.

When Cao Yi saw her, he hurriedly pulled her quietly and mentioned her quietly. It would be rude to look at her like this, and it would be bad if she was too careless.

Baoya was not able to listen to advice. Although she was also restrained, she couldn't help but take a look at her.

Cao Yi had no choice but fortunately, he was all here and didn't stay for long. After drinking a cup of tea, everyone prepared and set off.

Baoyatu was busy asking everyone to have a car. Cao Yi and Yongjia got into her car, and their car followed behind. Qiu Niang also invited Qiu Niang, but Qiu Niang smiled and declined, and took a car by herself. The maids and mothers behind him were either two or three, and one car, and there were about ten carriages, just like a small carriage. The day before yesterday, Zi Jing had already brought a group of servants to clean up, so there were not many people in Cao's house today, but there were many guards in the county prince's house and the entourage of the Earl's house.

The large group of people came to the north of the city, left Andingmen, and headed straight for Xiaotangshan.

*

The Cao family tour group left in the morning, and in the afternoon, Mrs. Tian, ​​the wife of Ma Liandao, came with her two daughters on the spot where Cao Yong had gone to school.

Tian originally had a good idea, so he made an appointment with Cao Yi as he went to the temple to burn incense on the first day of the first day of the year. It would be better to find a way to trap Cao Yong with words and ask him to escort his sister to go with him. The most important time, he had to call the Cao brothers and sisters to come to his house for a meal. There was a document exchange between the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Ma Liandao already knew about Cao Yin's visit to Beijing. At this moment, Tian only thought that the closer the relationship between the two families would be, the better. When Cao Yin came, he would be enough to give him enough face. He was not in Beijing, and his in-laws helped him take care of his children. What a great relationship!

Unexpectedly, Tian was so happy that he didn't even go in the Cao family.

The concierge informed that the master was not here.

The old lady who went to the door to ask questions came back and reported to Tian through the car window, and said, "I think it's really not here. When we turned into the alley just now, the old slave vaguely heard someone talking about someone who was out for a large group of people in the morning, so unrestrained. I think that the Cao family has such decent appearance around here."

When Tian heard this, he shook his head and thought to himself that the Cao family had only three babies, so how could they do a large group of people when they went out? Besides, if they went out for a trip, there was no reason not to call the in-laws. He hurriedly sent the woman to call the servant to come over to ask questions.

Because Tian's family often traveled to Cao's mansion without ten trips, there were eight trips. With such high frequency visits, it was difficult for several servants in the doorman to not know her. In addition, she usually also presents the brochures of her in-laws and is not stingy to give rewards, so the servants are still respectful to her.

Therefore, when the Ma family's wife asked someone to ask questions, several servants were reluctant to go over and report. Who knew that the wife asked the master who had gone, where he went, and we would come back more often. The servant who finally robbed the job could not help but be troubled. This was also a question from the guest? Even if the servant knew about these things, he could not be said to be an outsider.

The servant was very clever and replied vaguely: "Return to Mrs. Ma's words, our uncle, second, third, and third, will live in the village. If you have any questions, please leave a message, and the younger ones will send it to you. We will not know how much we come back."

Tian snorted in the car and asked where the Zhuangzi was. When she remembered the large group of people mentioned by the old lady, she was unhappy and asked again whether her family members had gone there or invited others, and who had they invited.

I didn't feel happy when I asked this, and the question became more and more unreliable. I just said it without knowing it now.

Tian was annoyed and shouted, "It's clear that a large group of people are on a trip. I'm afraid that it's not just your family! You are a concierge, how could you not know?!"

The servant knew how to read people's eyebrows and listen to people's words. When he saw that she was annoyed, he immediately smiled and said, "Madam, I am a humble person. How can I know all about the master? There were a few other cars and horses in the morning, and who knows where they were going?"

After hearing the servant's words, Tian knew that Cao Yong had invited others to play and didn't invite her house. It was like being drenched in cold water. In the winter, her face turned purple and blue, and her anger condensed in her throat, which was both angry and blocked. Without saying a word, she turned her head back home.

When he got home, he closed the door. Tian jumped and scolded for a long time, then grabbed Ma Liandao and asked, "You said you wrote to Cao Yin, are you coaxing me? Why did the juniors of the Cao family dare to treat us like this? They went out to play in the village and hired many young ladies, but they didn't invite us! What does this mean? How did you write the letter?"

Ma Liandao hurriedly stroked his wife's chest and back and was calm. He sweared again and again that he really wrote a letter to Cao Yin to talk about the marriage between the two families, and said, "Didn't you tell you that there is a document saying that Cao Yin is going to Beijing? Maybe we sent him a letter. Don't worry, don't worry, he is going to Beijing, and getting engaged is a matter of time. In the future, our daughter's housekeeper and the wife want to live there, and she can go there anytime. It's not a hundred times better than joining in the fun with a group of people now?"

Tian scolded again before gradually fading away.

*

Changping, Xiaotangshan

At noon, the convoy turned into Xiaotangshan. Baoya woke up after sleeping in the car, ate a snack, and woke up. When she woke up, she felt that the car was very stable and there was no bumps like before. Asked Yongjia and Cao Yi, Yongjia smiled and said to Cao Yi, "I just felt it. I looked out the window. I think this section of the road was repaired by your house and it was very flat."

Cao Yi smiled and said that he didn't know. He would have to ask his brother later if he learned it.

Baoya was intrigued and picked up the curtains to look down. When she saw a flat road, she looked very unpredictable. It was much narrower than the ordinary road. However, the road was paved with fine sand and gravel, and there was little dust when driving and running, so she couldn't help but praise her.

Yongsheng kept following their car. Seeing Baoya picking the curtain and poking her head out, he hurriedly urging the horse to come over and ask, "What are Bao Ge Ge's going to do?"

Baoya smiled and said, "Just just take a look." As she said that, she looked around. It was already plain and light in winter, with few colors. The large areas of trees far and near were all bare branches. Looking very desolate, she couldn't help but frown and shouted to Cao Yong, who was riding a horse in front of her, "Cao Yong! Where did you bring us?"

When this voice came out, Cao Yong, Cao Song and Seshtu, who were riding a horse in front, turned around together.

When Yongsheng saw Cao Song coming over to speak, he hurriedly stopped him in his head and said to Baoya: "Prince is bored, I guess he will be here later."

Baoya pouted: "What is this place? It's from the wilderness. Look at these trees. The branches are so scarce that I want to go up to speak. A soldier stretched out his arms and pushed him to the ground. Ping'er, Amethyst and others were tied up, dressed in a bunch and taken to the sale. They were all ragged and sad, and they looked really pitiful.

"No, no, I don't want to die, I want to live!" Cao Yong murmured while closing his eyes, stretching out his hand and gestured, as if he was about to push away something. "I want to live, I want to live..." The voice became lower and lower, and finally it was no longer heard.

At this moment, I heard the sound of footsteps coming from my ears, followed by the woman's sweet voice: "I just heard it, it's really a master of the Cao family!"

Cao Yong squinted his eyes, feeling two women standing in front of him, one tall and the other short. The short one was the one who had just spoken, Ning Chun's beloved concubine Qiu Niang; the tall one was holding a lantern, silent, and only looked at himself with big eyes open. He couldn't blame Yongjia for being so. Cao Yong always looked in a regular manner and acted squarely in people. How could he have such a silly attitude? It really makes people feel strange.

Cao Yong thought of Ning Chun's romantic life, but now he loves Qiu Niang alone. The two of them are so loving and loving, they are really happy for others. Even if their friends look at them, they are happy for them. Thinking of this, Cao Yong couldn't help but joked drunk: "Sister-in-law, come on, and add a fat boy as soon as possible. I'll be my godfather!" Because he was so drunk that he said these words, his tongue was knotted, stuttering, and vague.

But Qiu Niang heard it clearly and immediately felt embarrassed. She said softly: "Uncle Cao is drunk!" Then she turned around and ran away.

Yongjia was looking at Cao Yong, but he didn't hear what he was muttering. Qiu Niang ran away like this, leaving only her. She suddenly felt embarrassed and wanted to lift her legs and leave, but the person in front of her was so drunk that she couldn't feel at ease.

After joking Qiu Niang, Cao Yong felt sleepy and gradually closed his eyes, curled up, gradually tilted to the side, and to fall to the ground if he wanted to see it.

Yongjia quickly put down the lantern in his hand, half squatted down, hesitated for a moment, and gently held Cao Yong's shoulder: "Cao Yong, wake up! It's cold outside, I'll call someone to take you to the house to rest!"

After Cao Yong drank, he saw the wind again. He felt chill all over and his mouth was vague, not knowing what he was talking about.

Seeing Cao Yong closing his eyes and frowning, his trembling look, Yongjia couldn't bear it, so he took off the crane cloak in the snow-green satin squirrel he was wearing, helped Cao Yong cover it, and tucked the corners of his clothes.

Cao Yong seemed to have noticed it, slowly opened his eyes, and was seeing Yongjia's side face close to him. Perhaps because of the red lantern beside her, her face was dyed with morning glow, big eyes, thick and long eyelashes, straight nose, and slightly pursed her lips. Her black and soft hair, two braids were loosely braided, hanging to her ears, which set off her oval face just right.

By the way, Cao Yong gently raised his hand carefully, slowly stroked her cheek, and then squeezed it twice.

Yongjia trembled all over and hurriedly stepped back and avoided.

Cao Yong held his hand and said in a daze: "He is a real beauty, why do he look so much like Wanyan Yongjia?" It turned out that he was drunk and was called by Yongjia a few times, but he was still half-dream and half-awake. There was a beauty in front of him. He thought it was his own hallucination, so he couldn't help but pinch it twice.

Yongjia touched the place where Cao Yong had just pinched it with his hand, and his face became redder. He couldn't tell whether it was shame or annoyance. He just felt weak all over, and his heart was "pulled" and about to jump out of his chest.

"Sister!" A slightly guilty voice was Qiu Niang who had returned. She apologized in a low voice, "I really don't want to throw my sister here... I'm sorry, sister..."

They had sent the maid to deliver things to the hot spring. They used to lanterns and wandered slowly along the corridor. They just walked to the door. When they heard someone talking in the yard here, like Cao Yong's voice, they came over to take a look. It was Cao Yong, but he ran away with Qiu Niang in a drunken manner. Qiu Niang ran out quite far away, and then she remembered to leave Yongjia and rushed back in a hurry.

Yongjia gently stroked his chest, calmed his mind, and smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's just that the wind and cold nights are heavy. It's really inappropriate for him to get drunk here. Let's call someone to take him back to the front yard."

While speaking, Yongjia glanced at Cao Yong and saw that he was snoring slightly and he didn't know what he was doing. He wanted to help him, but because Qiu Niang was by the side, the girl's house was really inconvenient, so he quickly walked back to Canmeiyuan and called Meijing.

*

On the west side of the villa, Canmeiyuan.

This is one of the winter yards. The yard is surrounded by plum trees planted in the hot spring pool, so it is called Canmei. There are two indoor and outdoor hot springs in the courtyard. Needless to say, there are also rocks carved on the outside of the outdoor pool to block the wind and shade, which is suitable for women. Baoya Cao Yi and the others chose to settle here. Because it is cold, they are only indoors.

Amethyst was forced to take a hot spring bath by Baoya and Cao Yi. Because Yongjia and Qiuniang had not arrived yet, Amethyst refused to go down first, so Cao Yi sat with her and chatted. Only Baoya was impatient and got off the pond early. Although the room was full of her daughter's house, she was embarrassed to be as naked as she usually took a bath. Therefore, Baoya went to the clothes and sat in the water in her bellyband and underwear. She patted the water for a while, and then fiddled with the carved water injection, and had a lot of fun.

I heard that Yongjia and Qiuniang came over and said that Cao Yong was drunk in the yard next door, and Amethyst and Cao Yi were busy walking out. Baoya was also about to come out of the pool, but was persuaded by Lingque: "My good princess, it's very cold outside. Your hair is soaked, so you dare not go out. It's not fun to be frozen!"

Baoya thought about it, but she couldn't see Cao Yong's drunken look, and was a little unwilling to accept it. She told Lingque: "Since I can't go, you can chase the third sister and the others. Take a closer look at Cao Yong's drunkenness and tell me back to see how I'll shame him tomorrow!"

Lingque responded with a smile, and ordered the two maids by the pond to serve carefully, lifting the curtain and going out.
Chapter completed!