"Thank you, father-in-law!" Mu Qing nodded and thanked with a smile, and took Lu Xiaoshu and Lu Yihui out of the car.
The maids and eunuchs who were waiting here came up to the two of them, greeted them with a smile, and then led the group of them to go forward.
The Chunhui Palace is a resting hill-style palace, built by the lake, and has a stage in front of it. With this vast water surface, the sound of the opera must be clearer, and the vision will be wider.
Across a flat garden and grassland, facing Chunhui Hall far away is a mountain about 100 meters high, called Wenju Mountain. Looking up, you can see that there are cornice pavilions on the mountain, and there are neat and wide bluestone passages that zigzag up. Planting chrysanthemums of various colors and forming various scenes with other flowers is a good place to appreciate chrysanthemums.
On the other side of the mountain, there is another palace pavilion. After paying respects to the Queen Mother, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, all the princes, and noble youngsters will listen to operas, enjoy the scenery, drink and have fun in the pavilion over there, so neither side will interfere.
When Lu Xiaoshu's family came, the Empress Dowager, Empress, Concubine Sun Gui, and Concubine Crown Prince had not yet arrived, and Concubine Sun Guifei's direct daughter-in-law, Princess Shangguan, was in charge of greeting everyone.
It is said to be a greeting, but it is just sitting in charge. Naturally, the eunuchs and aunts in charge will give orders when dealing with affairs, and most of the servants below are court ladies and eunuchs.
Instead, Mu Qing, Lu Xiaoshu, and Lu Yihui wanted to go to see Princess Shangguan first.
Lu Xiaoshu inevitably has multiple minds, he is afraid that Princess Shangguan will embarrass his mother, daughter and sister. After all, my father cured the queen, and Princess Shangguan is the daughter-in-law of Concubine Sun Gui!
Given that a friend of an enemy is an enemy, it is understandable for Lu Xiaoshu to think so.
I don't think this Princess Shangguan is really friendly and amiable. Instead of making things difficult for them, she is more polite and friendly than others.
The gentle words and the smile on her face, coupled with her appearance and expression that make people wary of restraint at first glance, make it difficult for people not to want to be close to her.
"The empress dowager, empress, concubine, and concubine may not be here for a while. Mrs. Lu and the two young ladies may as well rest for a while, and I will send someone to call later." Princess Shangguan said with a smile.
Mu Qing thought that there would be newcomers coming to visit the princess later, so she didn't say anything more, she smiled and said thank you, and took sister Lu Xiaoshu to go.
"Aunt Lu! Xiao Shu! Miss Si!" Who knew that Liao Yuanyuan had already arrived, and when she saw the Lu family, she came over to greet her with a smile.
Seeing that it was her, Lu Xiaoshu couldn't help being overjoyed, and hurriedly called out with a smile, "Sister Liao!"
Liao Yuanyuan smiled at Mu Qing: "My mother and some wives are enjoying the scenery by the lake, how about I lead Aunt Lu there?"
After Mu Qing returned to Beijing, the Lu family was entangled in a lot of messy affairs, and she was overwhelmed with dealing with them, and she didn't have the opportunity to make friends with the ladies and ladies of various prefectures in Beijing. The only one who has only been to Rongjun Wangfu to meet the old princess.
At this time, Liao Yuanyuan took the initiative to take her to visit Mrs. Liao, and Mu Qing naturally wished for it. He smiled and nodded his thanks, so they went together.
Although Mrs. Liao didn't wait to see Mrs. Qin, when she saw Mu Qing's gentle temperament and elegant demeanor, she didn't realize she had a good impression of her, and she had a daughter to pick her up, so she greeted her politely with a smile, and introduced several other wives to her, and soon they warmed up They chatted lively.
Seeing this, Liao Yuanyuan smiled and said: "Mother, aunts and aunts, we will not be here to cause trouble for you, let's go as we please!"
Mrs. Liao smiled and said: "Go, you young sisters should play and talk more together, and you will be bored by keeping you old bastards with us!" The ladies all laughed.
Liao Yuanyuan smiled and motioned for Lu Xiaoshu and Lu Yihui to leave together.
Lu Yihui was about to raise her heels, when she suddenly heard the maid who accompanied her cough lightly, and winked at her.
Lu Yihui hesitated, and finally whispered to Lu Xiaoshu with a smile: "Second sister, you go, I, I want to stay here with my aunt..."
Afraid that Lu Yihui's children's family would not be able to resist the temptation of Lu Xiaoshu's words, she quickly apologized and said with a smile: "Yes, Second Miss, you and Miss Liao can go! Fourth Miss should stay with Mrs. Hou!"
Liao Yuanyuan was slightly surprised, but Lu Xiaoshu knew what Madam Gong was up to, and knew that it must be Mao's advice. Although he didn't think so, and didn't want to be troublesome, he smiled and said, "Then you stay!" Then he went with Liao Yuanyuan.
Lu Yihui forced a smile and nodded. Seeing them chatting and laughing and leaving, she sighed slightly and stood there in a daze, momentarily at a loss.
"Miss Si, hurry up!" Gong Nao gently tugged at her sleeve and winked.
Lu Yihui had no choice but to bite the bullet and rub herself next to Mu Qing.
Mu Qing was taken aback, and unconsciously said: "You child, why don't you play with your second sister? Is it—your second sister won't take you?"
"No!" Lu Yihui hurriedly shook her head and said with a smile, "I, I don't want to go, I want to stay with my aunt..."
Mu Qing was a little surprised, so she smiled and said: "If you want, then stay!"
"Hey, what a pretty girl with a gentle temperament! Is this Mrs. Lu's niece?" Mrs. Liao asked with a smile.
All the wives looked at Lu Yihui. Lu Yihui smiled, slightly bowed her head shyly, her hands were loosely folded in front of her body, and she squeezed the handkerchief nervously. Mu Qing smiled and said: "Exactly, this is the daughter of our third uncle's family..."
Lu Xiaoshu, who was walking not far or near, also heard the conversation over there, and the corners of his lips curled up unconsciously, Third Aunt really knows how to plan...
Is this to conquer the mother-in-law first, and then find a good son-in-law
Liao Yuanyuan also saw some clues at this time, smiled slightly, and said nothing.
The two walked hand in hand, Liao Yuanyuan smiled and said to Lu Xiaoshu: "I have a lot of things at home these days, and I haven't gone out, but I miss you in my heart! You too, why don't you sit with me?" Sit? Let's talk too!"
These days, Lu Xiaoshu has seen the past for so long, and there is no news about that so-called Lu Xiang's son, and he doesn't know whether this is the truth of the matter or whether it is an illusion deliberately made by Emperor Xiangqing.
If this person doesn't stand up with evidence, Zhou Shizhi's whole family of injustices will not be cleared up.
Lu Xiaoshu was thinking about this matter, and Mu Qing insisted on taking her with her after being the real housekeeper, asking her to learn how to run a house, how could she have time to go out
Then he said with a smile: "Since my sister has a lot of things to do at home, even if I go, how can my sister have time to talk to me! Besides, didn't I bother my sister?"
Liao Yuanyuan was startled, and the two looked at each other and laughed.
Liao Yuanyuan couldn't help but tapped her forehead lightly, and said with a smile: "You are really eloquent, I can't beat you! Although I am busy, I haven't reached that point yet."
After talking, he invited her to visit her home, but Lu Xiaoshu couldn't refuse, so he agreed with a smile.
While the two were talking, three or four girls came over and greeted Liao Yuanyuan with a smile.
Liao Yuanyuan responded one by one, and introduced Lu Xiaoshu to them with a smile, all of them were first- and second-rank officials in Beijing or girls from noble relatives' families.
Everyone talked and laughed, and soon played together.
"Hey, look at that, isn't that Liu Yan, the lady of the Liu family, the left servant of the Ministry of Officials? Why is she here too?" Someone pointed to the woman next to a few clusters of orange and red chrysanthemums not far away and whispered, sounding a little surprised be surprised.
Everyone looked over, and another person said: "No! Isn't she already engaged? I heard that the engagement is the eldest son of the Qing family of Dali Temple!"
The other person gave a "chi" smile again, and said, "What's the engagement? She's about to leave the court soon! I didn't expect that Ms. Liu is so funny! At this time, she's not talking about staying at home and embroidering the dowry, but also coming here Join in the fun!"
Seeing the girls here, Liu Yan and her younger sister Liu Xian originally wanted to come over, but not too far away, they saw that they were talking about something while looking towards them inadvertently, their eyes flickering. Without thinking, she could guess what they were talking about.
She couldn't help blushing all of a sudden, bit her lip and stood still.
This is an unmarried woman, to be precise, it is a feast for women who have never had a marriage contract, why doesn't she know it
She also came here every year when she hadn't settled on someone else.
However, this year, I don't know what happened. The Crown Princess sent someone to the Liu family to hand over the invitation, Tete told her to attend, how dare the Liu family refuse to obey? It is not a wise move to annoy the princess.
The mother and daughter guessed for a long time but couldn't figure out why the princess wanted to do this, but they came here after thinking about it, and it was just a matter of staying casually for a day.
How could I ever have thought that shortly after I entered the garden, I encountered such a disturbing thing.
"Those people are really too much! Sister, let's ignore them!" Liu Xian said angrily, holding Liu Yan's arm.
Liu Yan hadn't answered yet, only to hear a woman's clear and charming voice in a languid way: "Who is chewing the tongue here? I don't know who it is to speak ill of! Oh, so it's from the Liu family. girl!"
Sisters Liu Yan glared at the past. The visitors were Wang Yihui, the younger sister of the Crown Princess, and Zhao Shuyuan, a lady of Ping'an Hou's family. It was Wang Yihui who spoke.
Seeing that it was her, Liu Yan and Liu Xian couldn't say anything, so they could only swallow their breath.
"Let's go!" Liu Yan glanced at Wang Yihui lightly.
In the past, she accidentally offended the Crown Princess with her words, but three or four years later, the Crown Princess still holds the grudge in her heart, and the two sides have always been at odds. When she met someone from the Wang family, she did not want to contact them.
"Sister Liu is so arrogant!" Before she could move her footsteps, Zhao Shuyuan laughed over there: "Don't you even want to say hello to us?"
She doesn't provoke others, but they want to provoke her!
Liu Yan was already in a bad mood today, but Zhao Shuyuan had to bump into her and talk in an incoherent manner. Could it be that she didn't even dare to mess with her
Liu Yan was about to speak, but she heard Wang Yihui chuckle and said quickly: "Shuyuan, don't say that! Maybe she is in a bad mood, it's understandable! Sigh, before you enter the door, then Mr. Li's family will With someone by my side, and being so loved by the old lady of the Li family, how can I feel better!"