On the day when Shao Yuemei officially arrived at the Xihe Prince's Mansion, Qiu Yilan thought that she was mentally prepared to entertain distinguished guests. In the end, it turned out that the influence of this female gentleman had been greatly underestimated - Princess Chunfu Jiang Qizheng and He Shuijin, whom they had met before.
In addition to these two, there are also the fifteenth daughter of the Jiang family, Jiang Qiyun, the seventeenth daughter, Jiang Qisheng, and the fourth daughter of the Tao family, Tao Peibin. Not only are these three rich ladies, but there are also two eldest daughters!
Qiu Yilan has seen the naughty nature of Princess Chu Weitong of Yongfu whom she has met before... Well, she might be here to join in the fun.
But, Lord Duanrou County... why did this person come over too
Qiu Yilan racked her brains, but except for the time when she was in Ganli Palace and lived in the county lord's courtyard, she couldn't remember anything she had to do with her
Generally speaking, formally titled eldest daughters enter the palace and study together with the princesses, and the palace has its own dedicated female officers to teach them.
Moreover, when He Shuijin came to recommend Shao Yuemei before, in order to attract Qiu Yilan's attention, he specifically mentioned that Jiang Qizheng was also Shao Yuemei's student, but did not mention County Lord Duanrou. If Shao Yuemei taught County Lord Duanrou, this would be It's a bright spot on her resume, and there's no reason why she shouldn't talk to Shui Jin.
"Could it be that Mr. Shao's history of struggle has inspired so many noble ladies? When they heard that she was moving, they all came to cheer her up?" Qiu Yilan suppressed the surprise in her heart and greeted everyone as calmly as possible - In fact, there were so many more guests than expected at the ceremony. With her current social skills, it would be impossible to greet everyone attentively...
"Forget it, people are divided into groups. Maybe they are all just like Princess Yongfu, coming to join in the fun." After realizing that it was impossible for him to cover everything, Qiu Yilan simply broke the rules and counted as many as he could.
Therefore, if she could not greet the guests, she could go to the side and whisper while admiring the courtyard decoration.
For example, Princess Yongfu is now pulling the Duanrou County Lord to bite her ears: "Did you see it? That is my future nineteenth cousin! Your nineteenth aunt!"
Because of his background, Chu Chunxiao, the head of Duanrou County, has always been prudent and cautious even though he is the same age as Princess Yongfu. At this moment, he asked suspiciously: "Didn't you say that you were engaged to Deng Yi two years ago?"
"Who is Deng Yi?" Princess Yongfu waved her hand domineeringly, "My nineteenth cousin likes her. Even if she is a quasi-prince, can't she cancel the engagement?"
"That's true." Chu Chunxiao knew the Jiang family's style very well and nodded with understanding, "She is beautiful."
Princess Yongfu was very proud: "I am still holding this thread!" Over the past few days, everyone in the Jiang family has noticed Jiang Yashuang's special attention and protection for Princess Ningyi Qiu Yilan. Today, they organized a group by watching the ceremony. Came to visit.
However, even Mrs. Tao believed that Jiang Yashuang was attracted by Qiu Yilan's unparalleled beauty outside Liuchun Pavilion, and she became a beauty in anger, so she started to protect the flowers.
Only Princess Yongfu understood that, thanks to her, Jiang Yashuang had met Qiu Yilan long before that.
"You??" Chu Chunxiao, who didn't know what was going on, was naturally surprised when he heard this. It seems that Princess Yongfu is seeing Qiu Yilan for the first time today, right
"...Forget it, I'll tell you after she passes the door." Princess Yongfu wanted to say it very much, but after thinking for a while, she regretfully decided to hold it back, "Cousin Nineteen is too naive for this kind of thing. Very, if I tell you now, God knows how embarrassed I will be... In order not to add any details, let's wait until the matter is settled - I didn't hide this from you on purpose."
Chu Chunxiao was not very curious, so he just smiled and said, "Okay."
The two eldest daughters have a good relationship with Jiang Yashuang. They will not despise or be hostile to Qiu Yilan, who has the title of princess and has never offended them. She thinks that it was her mischief that led to this marriage. Princess Yongfu is even happy to see it happen.
But some people don't think so.
Under the pear tree in the corner of the yard, Tao Peibin pretended to admire the blooming pear blossoms and bit her red lips, looking unhappy.
Jiang Qisheng, who had always been friends with this cousin, persuaded her: "She said she was the princess, her father died and her mother died, and she also had a grudge against her uncle's family. We have all asked about it, and the heir of the Ruan family is the only one who treats her well. But The heir was just adopted last year. Maybe he took care of her just to earn a good reputation? Even the Lian family treated her in a polite way. I asked the people in front of my mother to talk to her in private to ensure that the Lian family would talk to her in the future. Be alienated! The same goes for the Ruan family - after all, what else can she do besides the title of princess? "
"She is very good-looking." Tao Peibin was very sad when she said this. As the niece of Mrs. Tao and the cousin of Mrs. Tao, the eighth young lady of the Jiang family, she and Jiang Yashuang can be regarded as childhood sweethearts. .
Girls develop love at home early. Jiang Yashuang's mother has been with her husband in the frontier for many years. He was brought up by Mrs. Tao and little Mrs. Tao. Tao Peibin was born first, and she had many opportunities to meet him when she was a child. Over and over again, she fell in love with her cousin.
To be honest, the possibility of Tao Peibin marrying Jiang Yashuang is not small. After all, Jiang Yashuang has always been respectful and obedient to his step-grandmother, Mrs. Tao, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Tao, who raised him; in terms of family background, the Tao family In the early years, it was more prominent than the Jiang family; not to mention that the Jiang family no longer needs the marriage of their children to consolidate their power.
Regarding Jiang Tao getting married again, Tao Peibin's only worry was that her appearance was not enough to attract her handsome cousin—her cousin Xiao Tao. Because of her mediocre appearance, even though the virtuous and virtuous Jiang family had no People can find fault in a few words, but Jiang Yadan has never seen Jiang Yadan in the eyes since he walked in the door.
Compared to her elder sister, Tao Peibin is considered the most beautiful girl of this generation of the Tao family, but she looks a little inferior in front of the other ladies of the Jiang family. Not to mention, the princess not far away who is dressed in plain clothes and has no makeup, but is as beautiful as the flower essence coming down from the pear tree...
"So what if it looks good?" Jiang Qiyun, who had broken off a branch of pear flowers and sniffed them and walked over, came closer, inserted the flower branches into Tao Pei's bun, and said disdainfully, "Which of the courtesans in the hook bar is not as beautiful as a flower? But when it comes to dignity, What the hell are they! This one, hey! Look at her reception, she doesn’t look like one at all!
Jiang Qiyun's relationship with Tao Peibin is average. The reason why she speaks so harshly is not to bring injustice to Tao Peibin, but because she has always relied on her beauty and does not want others to be prettier than herself - in the early years, she even tried to criticize her cousin Jiang Qi. Zheng's facial behavior was restrained only after Empress Jiang called her into the palace and scolded her bloody.
This is true for direct cousins, let alone outsiders.
In fact, the Jiang family didn't want her to come over today, but she heard that Jiang Yashuang was fascinated by Princess Ningyi's appearance and was willing to work for her, even if it was life or death - after all, it was her own flesh and blood. The elders advised her Unable to hold on, he persuaded Jiang Qizheng and others to take her with them.
When I came over and saw Qiu Yilan, who was like a flower spirit, she couldn't compare to her. One can imagine Jiang Qiyun's mood!
"Fifteenth sister, don't be confused. After all, that is the person that Nineteenth Brother is currently interested in. If you hurt her, Nineteenth Brother may not obey her." Jiang Qisheng also didn't like Qiu because of Tao Peibin. Yilan, but when she saw Jiang Qiyun coming over, she still pulled her aside and warned her - that time Jiang Qiyun almost ruined Jiang Qizheng's appearance, Jiang Qizheng's younger brother Jiang Yashuang was only twelve years old. After hearing the news, she was furious and wanted to find the court. Sister settles the score—if Jiang Qiyun’s mother, Mrs. Dou, hadn’t seen the situation bad and asked her to flee to her grandfather Dou Ji’s restaurant, Jiang Qiyun would have suffered a lot that time!
Although the elders did their best to calm the matter afterwards, and Jiang Qizheng's appearance was not affected, there was inevitably some grudge between the Jiang family's eldest room and the fourth room. Last time it was Jiang Yashuang's sister, this time it was his sweetheart. If Jiang Qiyun attacked again, with Jiang Yashuang's temper, it would be in vain for her to hide at Dou Jijiu's place.
Jiang Qijun knew this herself. After what happened last time, she was still a little wary of her little cousin. Although his face looked very ugly at this moment, he still said: "If she doesn't offend me, I don't bother to care about her!" Then he hummed, "I have already said about the eighteenth sister that it was an accident! Besides, she is not okay. ? Why do you all think it was me? Maybe she was deliberately trying to make things difficult for me!"
"...You look at the flowers here, and I'll go with my cousin." Jiang Qisheng was too lazy to argue with her. Seeing that she had listened to her words, she shook her head and went to comfort Tao Peibin again.
... Qiu Yilan didn't know anything about the thoughts of these uninvited guests.
After she realized that she couldn't entertain her well enough, she decisively chose to focus on Jiang Qizheng, whom she thought would be her cousin-in-law - and Jiang Qizheng was also very concerned about her future sister-in-law.
The two people, who also had the noble purpose of contributing to their brother's lifelong happiness, barely spoke three sentences before they entered the mode of falling in love at first sight and started talking to each other -
"Sister Qiu, this set of four treasures in the study is very good. I wonder whose handwriting my sister usually learns?" Jiang Qizheng looked at Qiu Yilan's study and asked with a smile.
"The hairpin script I learned from my late mother was not well written, which made Sister Jiang laugh." Qiu Yilan took out a copybook and showed it to her. She felt that at her age, the handwriting could still be read. As a human being, I naturally have to behave well in front of my future cousin-in-law, "What do you usually practice, sister?"
Jiang Qizheng took the copybook and looked at it carefully, and said, "Me, I'm not sure. I will learn this today and that tomorrow. If my grandmother hadn't been kind, I would have been scolded by my family."
He Shuijin said with a smile: "Sister Qizheng's handwriting is excellent."
Does this mean that she can write well in various fonts
Sure enough, Jiang Qizheng looked at the calligraphy calmly and smiled lightly: "Sister Qiu's handwriting is very beautiful, and the words are really like the person she writes."
Qiu Yilan realized that her words were purely polite, and couldn't help but secretly lamented - wrong move! Unexpectedly, she didn’t know that Princess Chunfu was an expert in calligraphy. Qiu Yilan thinks her calligraphy is good, but it is compared with ordinary people. Isn't it just a trick in front of Fang Xingjia
"No, I just learned how to hold a pen." Qiu Yilan regained her composure and regrouped, "My cousin Ruan, on the other hand, his handwriting is excellent..."
Qiu Yilan, who turned on the assist mode again, was concentrating on brushing up impression points for Ruan Qingyan. She didn't notice at all. After Jiang Qizheng put down the copybook, she sighed slightly and exchanged a helpless look with He Shuijin...