Zhongyibo's mansion is not as grand as the British government, but it is also magnificent, with carved beams and painted buildings. The two stone lions in front of the door are majestic, and the vermilion lacquer door is opened. When the porter heard that it was the young lady and master from the British government, he hurriedly welcomed him in with a smile on his face.
Wei Changxian jumped out of the carriage holding his Shandong slider, and walked ahead confidently. He has been training this dog for a long time, and he is confident that he will win against Song Hui this time.
In addition to the carriage of the British government, there is another Chinese carriage parked at the gate of the Zhongyi uncle's mansion. Wei Luo looked at it curiously. , Pingyuan Hou Shizi and Miss are also here, and they are currently in the backyard garden."
Wei Luo's eyes lit up.
Liang Song, the Marquis of Pingyuan, was a middle-aged man with a handsome appearance. He kept himself clean and never participated in any party disputes. He was deeply loved by Emperor Chongzhen. However, what Wei Luo was happy about was not this, but hearing that the eldest son and young lady of the Pingyuan Hou Mansion had also come. Mrs. Pingyuanhou and Jiang Miaolan married Jinlan. After Jiang Miaolan left, Mrs. Pingyuanhou took good care of Wei Luo and Chang Hong. Marquis Pingyuan has only one son and one daughter, so the concierge is naturally talking about the eldest son Liang Yu and the eldest lady Liang Yurong. Liang Yurong was about the same age as Wei Luo, and the two had been friends since childhood, and their personalities also matched, making them good handkerchief friends.
Wei Luo hadn't seen Liang Yurong for a long time, and almost forgot what she was like when she was a child. She asked people about her in her previous life, but unfortunately she didn't live well afterwards, which was a pity.
Wei Changxian didn't notice anything strange about her, and when he learned that Song Hui was also in the backyard, he couldn't wait to take his slide to find someone.
Wei Jian and Wei Zheng followed closely, while Wei Luo and Chang Hong walked behind. During this period, Ah Luo was distracted, and it was not until Chang Hong called her name that Ah Luo suddenly came back to her senses.
"What are you thinking?"
Ah Luo blinked, and when she lied, her expression didn't change and her heart skipped a beat, "I'm wondering whose dog will win, Brother San or Brother Song Hui."
Chang Hong didn't like Song Hui, so he said without thinking, "I guess the third brother won."
Ah Luo was noncommittal, took his hand and followed, and soon came to the lotus pond in the backyard. At the beginning of late spring, there are green lotus leaves lying on the lotus pond. The lotus has not yet formed flower buds, but the begonias on the bank are blooming gorgeously and beautifully, with pink and white petals competing to bloom, which is too beautiful to behold. Some branches couldn't bear the weight of the flowers, and one or two petals fluttered down. Ah Luo walked under the crabapple tree, and a petal happened to land on her eyelashes. She blinked slightly, and the petals fell against her fair and smooth face. When she raised her eyes, she happened to see a delicate and elegant boy standing under the octagonal pavilion not far away.
He is not very old, he has just turned twelve this year, and he is tall. He is wearing a purple robe embroidered with golden bamboo leaf patterns, and a suet jade pendant hangs around his waist. He has clear eyebrows and a face like a crown jade.
This person is Song Hui.
Song Hui was indeed good-looking. Ah Luo had seen so many men, but he was the only one who had no flaws at all, like a piece of finely crafted jade, without a single flaw. Not only that, but his demeanor is also extraordinary. For example, now, if he casually stops there, he will attract the eyes of Wei Jian and Wei Zheng.
In her previous life, Ah Luo liked his skin. Although she didn't understand the relationship between men and women at such a young age, there was already a distinction between beauty and ugliness.
I have to say that the marriage that Jiang Miaolan ordered for her is still very good. It's just that when she thought of Song Hui's engagement to Wei Zheng in her previous life, Ah Luo felt an unspeakable shock in her heart, and she lost even the slightest interest in Song Hui.
Besides Song Hui, there were also Song Hui's younger sister Song Ruwei, Liang Yu and Liang Yurong in the octagonal pavilion.
Song Ruwei is eight years old this year. She is not as good-looking as her brother, but she is still a pretty girl. She is Wei Zheng's cousin, so naturally she has a closer relationship with Wei Zheng. When she saw Wei Zheng approaching, she greeted her from a distance: "Sister Azheng!"
This sound just attracted the attention of everyone in the pavilion, Wei Zheng called "cousin" and ran over cheerfully.
Wei Zheng will feel more at ease only when she returns to Uncle Zhongyi's mansion, probably because the people here treat her kindly, she is actually happier here than at home.
Wei Luo didn't care about Song Ruwei's neglect, lowered her head and brushed off the begonia petals on her sleeves, and walked slowly to the octagonal gazebo.
Song Hui stood on the stone steps of the pavilion, greeted Wei Zheng, and then turned his attention to Wei Luo. When Wei Luo came up to him, he reached out and picked off a petal from the top of her head, and said with a smile, "No one else has a single petal on her body, but Sister Ah Luo has lost all her body. Does this have something to do with the crabapple flower in my family?"
Since he was six years old, he knew that he had a baby relative. At that time, he didn't quite understand what it meant to marry a daughter-in-law. He only knew that there would be a baby in his life. At that time, Ah Luo was in her infancy, and he had hugged her several times. She was so small, with a round and tender face, and liked to nibble on his own fingers, calling him "brother" inarticulately. Later, when he grew up, he began to understand what betrothal meant, and knew that this little girl belonged to him and would be the one to spend his whole life with him, so he also became special to Ah Luo, treating her more than other little girls. All care.
Wei Luo looked at him with dark eyes, took the crabapple petals in his hand, and solemnly placed them in his hands, saying in a sweet voice, "Give it to Brother Song Hui."
With a smile on his face, Song Hui carefully wrapped it up in a sweat towel and put it in his sleeve.
Liang Yu, who was sitting behind the stone table over there, let out a hey, stood up and asked, "Stop talking nonsense, is it better than a competition? I asked my husband for a day off today, and you guys plan to spend it like this ? Song Hui, where is your dog? Take it out and let us have a look."
Liang Yu is eleven this year, wearing a sapphire blue robe, with star eyes and sword eyebrows, and a handsome face, which is seven or eight points similar to Ping Yuanhou. He practiced martial arts since he was a child. Although he was one year younger than Song Hui, he was as tall as Song Hui, and even looked a little stronger than Song Hui. On his left was Liang Yurong, who was wearing a pink and blue white butterfly and a flower skirt. Liang Yurong beckoned to Wei Luo, motioning for her to sit over.
Wei Luo sat down next to her.
The last time the two met was at the Shangyuan Palace banquet, and it has been more than a month since now. Liang Yurong whispered into her ear: "My brother's dog was cooked and eaten by his father, he is not happy right now..."
Ah Luo couldn't hold back any of them, and burst out laughing.
Fortunately, Liang Yu didn't hear these words, otherwise he would have become angry from embarrassment.
Song Hui ordered his servants to bring over his Shaanxi fine dog. The dog probably followed its master, it looked proud and extravagant, and it walked more majestic than ordinary dogs. Dog fighting is actually not a glorious thing, but for those with a bit of background in the family, the elders in the family generally do not agree with their children and grandchildren to keep dogs. So Ping Yuan Hou boiled Liang Yu's dog, which is really justifiable.
As for Wei Changxian and Song Hui, the former is the little overlord of the family, while the latter is too good to be restrained by the family... As long as it does not delay their studies, they can be considered at their own discretion.
For little girls like Wei Luo and Liang Yurong, a fight between two dogs was really nothing to watch. But for Liang Yu, it was much more interesting. He couldn't participate in it, so he urged Chang Hong, Ah Luo and other people to place a bet, and he was the first to bet one hundred taels of silver.
Ah Luo didn't carry any money on her body, and the money bags were kept by Gold Hazel and Mother Fu. She casually untied the longevity lock with silver dots and blue butterfly patterns on her neck and handed it to Liang Yu, "This is my longevity lock, here it is for you." Bar."
Liang Yurong gave a piece of jade pendant, Song Ruwei gave ten taels of silver, Wei Jian and Wei Zheng didn't bring any cash, but each gave a jadeite bracelet and a sachet embroidered with gold and silver silk. Chang Hong naturally didn't participate in these, he didn't play anything.
Only one of the five people won by betting on Wei Changxian's dog, and that person was Wei Luo.
If it was before, Wei Luo would definitely bet on Song Hui, but this time she changed her mind. After Song Hui learned about it, he turned his head and looked at her suspiciously, his eyes were somewhat lost.
Ah Luo pretended not to notice, and cheered Wei Changxian up: "Third brother must win!"
Wei Changxian was very happy in his heart, but he said: "It's not your third brother who wins, but your third brother's dog wins. Ah Luo, look, third brother will help you win back the longevity lock!"
Ah Luo hummed and nodded heavily.
The two big dogs fought together, biting each other with scars all over their bodies, and the barking of the dogs could be heard throughout the Zhongyi residence. Because of their ferocious appearance, the little girls Liang Yurong and Song Ruwei gradually got a little scared and ran away from them, and Ah Luo followed them to the crabapple tree by the lotus pond.
Song Ruwei suggested playing hide-and-seek, blindfolded with a sweat towel embroidered with peonies, and whoever caught would lose. Ah Luo didn't want to play at first, but she is a six-year-old girl now, and she would be suspicious if she behaved too out of place. Under Liang Yurong's instigation, she nodded and agreed.
At the beginning, it was necessary to draw lots to choose a person to be responsible for arresting people. Ah Luo drew the longest one, and she was the one to arrest people in the first round.
With the sweat towel covering his eyes, his vision suddenly dimmed, and he couldn't see anything, only the chaotic footsteps and barking of dogs around him could be heard. She stretched out her hands and groped forward. After walking a few steps, she found nothing but a crabapple tree.
Liang Yurong joked from behind: "Wrong, wrong, not that one!"
She had no choice but to turn around and continue groping. The sound of dog fighting not far away was too loud, overshadowing the sound from this side, so that she was a little confused and didn't know where to go. A man in front broke a branch of crabapple and tapped her shoulder lightly, luring her to move forward.
Ah Luo took two steps forward and stopped for a while. She remembered that crabapple flowers were planted by the lotus pond, and if they walked forward, they would fall into the pond. Liang Yurong's voice just now came from behind. If the back is not a pond, then the direction she is walking now is. She bent her lips and smiled, probably knowing who was trying to lure her over, but she didn't say anything, and deliberately took two steps forward.
Wei Zheng stood in front of her, threw away the flowering crabapple, and said provocatively, "Wei Luo, come and catch me!"
Ah Luo said, "Wei Zheng?"
As she spoke, she walked forward, and she and Wei Zheng were standing by the edge of the pool, and if they took another step forward, they would fall into the pool. The water in early spring was still very cold, and if you fell into it, you would catch a cold for a while. Wei Zheng was young, but he had a lot of eyes, so he deliberately lured Wei Luo to the edge of the pond, just to see how she would fall into the pond.
It's a pity that Wei Luo wasn't fooled, she reached out and grabbed Wei Zheng's sleeve with precision, and secretly pushed Wei Zheng back, "I got you!"
Wei Zheng didn't stand firm, staggered and fell backwards. Frightened, he grabbed Wei Luo's hand subconsciously, wanting to take her into the lotus pond together.
The result of the dogfight on the other side came out, Wei Changxian lost to Song Hui without any surprise, and the two were walking this way. Song Hui saw two little girls standing by the pool from a distance, and just wanted to tell them to be careful, when he saw Wei Zheng fell into the pool without standing still. Wei Luo was blindfolded and couldn't see the situation clearly. She stretched her hand forward helplessly, but Wei Zheng just grabbed her. Seeing that the two of them were about to fall into the pool, he quickly rushed forward, put his arms around Wei Luo's waist, and picked her up!
Song Hui only had time to save one person, he saved Wei Luo, Wei Zheng fell into the lotus pond with a "plop", and the water quickly covered her head.