... After sending Jiang Yashuang away, Qiu Yilan breathed a sigh of relief: "Kang Qingwu has Jiujiu watching over him, I bet he can't cause any trouble!" After all, Kuang Qingwu is new to Beijing, and Kuang Shihan will never come back again. How can you pamper him as much as the Jiang family, who are so numerous and powerful
Someone has taken the threat here, and the concerns about Deng Yi are not very urgent.
Only then did Qiu Yilan think about the preparations for the outing.
After asking this question, I realized that Mother Li and Mother Zhou were indeed old people, but they were very considerate. Qiu Yilan had asked them to pack things for the picnic because she planned to have a good meal during the outing, but these two did it several times. The carriage was piled up.
The reason is: "You were invited over, how can you eat alone then?"
What he said made sense, but Qiu Yilan assured that the basis of this reason was definitely not based on "we are all good friends", but "we must be embarrassed together"!
Anyway, she didn't need to worry about it. She was very wealthy now and didn't care about such a small expense, so she just laughed it off.
On the day of the outing, she was called up early to put on her makeup—the makeup was agreed upon two days in advance. For this reason, Chun Ran also went to the Ruan family to consult Ruan Ciyi, who had rich social experience as a young lady. After Ruan Ciyi thought about it, Said: "Cousin Qiu is already pretty enough in terms of appearance, especially her peach-blossom eyes, which are naturally charming... But she is only fifteen, and she is traveling with a group of noble ladies. Dressing up too brightly and too brightly can easily make her companions dislike her, so why not She looks lively and cute just like a little girl.”
Qiu Yilan summarized these words: "It's just the sweet and cute route!"
So that day, she wore the standard cute old-style girl's double-snail bun, wore the latest hairpin ring bought from He Shuijin's jewelry store, and wore a primrose grass dark embroidered narrow-sleeved jacket with folded branches and begonia flowers and leaves, tied with lotus root. Colorful chest-length underskirt. The underskirt is cut according to the Twelve Shafts. It is very wide and flutters in the wind, making the person look extra petite. Coupled with the pomegranate red crepe shawl held between the arms, Zhou’s mother and Chun Ran Others unanimously agreed that it was qualified.
"This is because I look good!" Qiu Yilan took a selfie in the mirror and said proudly, "I said I look good no matter what I wear!"
"Of course the princess is the most beautiful." Mother Zhou looked at the energetic little master and suddenly felt her eyes were a little sore. She quietly pressed the corners of her eyes and said softly, "It's a pity that the princess can't see it!"
Qiu Yilan didn't hear her words clearly, so she held up a green jade hairpin and asked, "Use this one?"
"This one, this one!" Su He and Shen Shui handed a hairpin to her at the same time, shouting one after another.
"You guys have such good eyesight!" Zhou's mother took a look, and ignored Princess Ruan's memory, and hurriedly walked up to give instructions, "It's hard for green to be popular in this season. The princess is young, and using too many gold hairpins will look old! Of course, the first choice is colored glaze and coral!"
Chirping was dressed up, and after dinner, Zhou's mother and others were left to look after the house, leading four maids, Chun Ran, Xia Ran, Su He and Shen Shui, as well as a group of rough envoys, wives and servants to guard the house. After leaving the hospital, they reunited with Qiu Jinzhu, who had already prepared them, and boarded the cars to leave the house.
At this time, a row of carriages had parked in the Jiang Family Courtyard next door, and a woman who had been ordered to pay special attention to the Xihe Palace was looking forward to it.
Seeing the carriage coming out of the palace, surrounded by maids and women, he hurriedly greeted it: "Is this Princess Ning Yi? Several of my ladies will be fine soon. Please wait a moment!"
"It's okay." Qiu Yilan didn't know this woman, but she was probably sent here by Jiang Qizheng to wait. She raised the curtain and said, "My sixth sister also wanted to join in the fun, so I took her with me without telling Her Highness the Princess... I wonder if that's okay?"
The mother-in-law knew that she was Jiang Yashuang's sweetheart, and Jiang Qizheng would never mind giving her this face. However, the Jiang family had its own rules for doing things, and she did not dare to be a servant in her own way, so she still said: "My maid, go Please inform Her Royal Highness the Princess and please be patient."
After a while, He Shuijin, who was wearing a curtain hat, brought two maids over and said with a smile: "Aren't you just bringing someone with you? You are too polite... Why did you bring only one? We thought you would bring a few maids with you." Bring them all?"
"This is what my eldest aunt requested." Seeing that the convoy in front of Jiang's house showed no intention of leaving for a while, Qiu Yilan invited Shuijin to get on the car to talk, "After all, this is the first time I go to such an occasion. I’m afraid of being rude and I won’t be able to take care of him if I bring someone with me.”
He Shuijin took off her curtain and hat as soon as she got in the car. She was wearing a pony bun today, with a gemstone hairpin that looked like a peacock in full bloom. It was very beautiful and made her energetic. Hearing this, he smiled and said: "That's true... But don't be nervous. The place is big today, and sister Qizheng doesn't want to keep gathering people together, so she just enclosed a large area over there. If we get along, we can walk together." If we don’t get along, stay away so that we can both be at ease—it’s just the New Year, and we’re not going out of town just to spoil the fun.”
"That's what you said." After hearing this, Qiu Yilan was similar to what Su He and the others had persuaded her, and said with a smile, "Speaking of which, I have never been on an outing like this. The name of Jinxiu Slope sounds like a good place, but I don't know. What is it like?"
"Jinxiu Slope... there are so many flowers and forests there, especially in spring." He Shuijin has been to Jinxiu Slope not once or twice, and he is very familiar with it. "It's a pity that it's not the peak of the flowering season yet. It has to be in March." —That peach blossom and the burning apricot forest are all written specifically for it!"
Although Qiu Yilan was rushing to have a picnic, she couldn't help but be fascinated by her description: "I will definitely go there again in March!"
"When will you invite us?" He Shuijin said with a smile, "Outing is not once a year. We all take turns hosting guests from the beginning of February. This year, sister Qizheng came out on top. How about you come to March?" Invite us once?”
"No problem." Qiu Yilan knew that she was not saying this to take advantage of him, but to give herself a reason to associate with these noble ladies, so she agreed wholeheartedly.
The two of them had a conversation, but when the carriage showed no intention of leaving, Qiu Yilan was curious: "Which lady are you waiting for?"
"Everyone was here when I came here, but the lion cat raised by Jiang Qiyun disappeared." He Shuijin glanced outside and then whispered, "I'm looking for it! I don't know when I will find it?" "
"Lion cat?" Qiu Yilan asked in surprise, "You want to bring a cat with you on the outing?"
"Why didn't you bring it?" He Shuijin was stunned for a moment and said, "We have all brought it. In the past two years, lion cats have been popular in Beijing. There is no point in keeping them at home. Let's take them out and let them relax. Songkuai, secondly... Sister Qizheng plans to have a painting competition during the outing, and one of the questions is about drawing lion cats! "
Qiu Yilan had a headache when she heard that there was a competition on poetry and painting, so she said without hesitation: "I am not very talented, so I will not participate."
"Then take your lion cat with you too!" He Shuijin said, "If nothing else, everyone will be holding one in their hands, and you will be the only one with nothing. It's pointless, right?"
"...Su He, go and bring Dabai over." Qiu Yilan thought that what she said was right, so she ordered, "Go back quickly, before Miss Jiang's lion cat is found and about to leave, we are left behind. "The back part."
He Shuijin smiled and said: "Don't worry, in this case I will accompany you. My coachman knows the way. It doesn't matter whether he can follow the large group or not."
He smiled again, "Your Dabai is really cute. That's the name... it's a little more unique."
"I named it casually at first." Qiu Yilan knew that she was speaking euphemistically—the names given to lion cats by these noble ladies were almost all elegant ones, and occasionally the names that were different were "lychee" and "glutinous rice". Cute and playful, the name Dabai can be said to be unique among them.
He Shuijin is obviously also a supporter of the mainstream route, so he complained about the cat's name. After a while, Su He hugged Dabai, and then word came from the Jiang family's motorcade that Jiang Qiyun's cat had been found, and he would soon Can go.
"Then I'll go back." He Shuijin left after hearing this.
Qiu Yilan smiled and thanked her for the trip. She had to take her out of the car and walk a few steps.
As a result, when I turned around, I saw Qiu Jinzhu's maid Tinglan running out of the house panting and hugging a lion cat with a "whipped hydrangea" appearance. She looked at her with a look of unnaturalness on her face.
Qiu Yilan was thoughtful, and when she got back on the carriage, she asked, "What's happening behind you all the time?"
"My maid was pulled over and asked when I was going down just now. I was afraid of delaying the time, so I told them." Su He was also running when he came and went just now. He was still a little out of breath and pouted when he heard this.
"If she wants to learn, just learn!" Qiu Yilan stroked her lips, thought for a while, and said calmly.
... On the way out of the city in the Jiang family's motorcade, I saw other similar teams from time to time. The streets that usually seemed wide at this time were suddenly overcrowded.
"So many people choose to go on an outing today?" Qiu Yilan was surprised.
"My maid thought that today is not a holiday, and there won't be many people." Su He lay on the window lattice, looking at the cars and BMWs rubbing shoulders outside, and said, "It's really a holiday, how many people will there be?" ah?"
The master and the servant were discussing the large number of people, but unexpectedly there was a quarrel in front of them. Because they were far away and the people in the middle were noisy, they couldn't hear the reason for the quarrel - anyway, their carriage, including those around them, was completely blocked. It took a while to move on.
The reason for this was not found out until after we left the city by the woman who was accompanying the car. As she walked beside the car, she told Qiu Yilan: "At that street corner just now, our team and Princess Shou'an of the Guangyang Palace were... Another outing team he led bumped into each other, and the two teams fought over each other, so they were blocked for a while. "
When Qiu Yilan heard that Princess Shou'an was preceded by the words Guangyang Prince's Palace, she knew that this princess was most likely similar to Princess Chunfu Jiang Qizheng. She was not of royal blood, but was given the title because of favor.
She asked: "Then who won?" After all, she was familiar with Jiang Qizheng and He Shuijin in the Jiang family's team, so she followed the carriage in front of her in a daze, not knowing who was going first and who was last.
The mother-in-law smiled and said: "Of course it's Princess Chunfu's side - Princess Chunfu's coachman is more powerful than Princess Shou'an's coachman. He stopped Princess Shou'an's carriage while trying to get out of the way, forcing them to look at us. The team went first—the people behind didn’t know if they were Princess Shouan or the others.”
"Oh?" Qiu Yilan heard this and asked Chunran for a small target scope. She took it out of the car and took a look behind her. Sure enough, a distance behind her was a team of cars and horses. She frowned slightly, "Look. When we arrived at Jinxiu Slope, there was still a storm! "
It sounds like Princess Shou'an and Princess Chunfu were fighting back and forth in their respective families. Just now, Princess Chunfu won the game by relying on the driver's skills. How could Princess Shou'an swallow this sigh of relief
This person is watching closely behind, maybe he plans to follow him to Jinxiu Slope and then try to find this place!
Qiu Yilan couldn't help but rub her forehead and sighed: "I can't even have a peaceful picnic, it's really..."