Picking red plums for Mrs. Tai was originally done by Ning Qingfan. These days, Mrs. Tai mentioned it from time to time. When talking about the third girl Ning Qingfan who is famous for her filial piety, she is as happy as her granddaughter. , kept praising, and asked Ning Xueyan to tidy up the Luoyan Courtyard again, replacing all the utensils with new ones, some of which were brought out by Mrs. Tai herself.
And that dazzling glazed screen was actually on the Ming family's dowry list!
It seems that it's not just the Ling family who is greedy for the Ming family's dowry, but Mrs. Tai also has a lot in her hands, otherwise she wouldn't be so generous to send the things to Ning Qingshan's Luoyan Courtyard.
Mrs. Tai repeatedly "raised some points" to Ning Qingshan and Hongmei, but Ning Xueyan still didn't understand, so she came out to pick plums today, also to send to Mrs. Tai.
Qingyu walked away with a vase filled with red plums. Ning Xueyan stood alone under the plum tree, looking at Kazuki's plum blossoms, and pondered. The vulgar face has a kind of refined beauty, and the faint paleness on her face makes people feel that she seems to be leaving in the wind.
"Sister!" There was a gentle and affectionate call from behind. The gentle tone almost made her feel like she was in a dream. Someone once called her so gently.
"Ying'er, I will definitely walk with you for the rest of my life!"
"Ying'er, you are the only wife in my life, and I will never betray you!"
"Ying'er..."
Shaking his head, blinking the thoughts in his mind, turning his head, his crystal clear black jade eyes met the man walking up, and there was a hint of surprise in his cold eyes!
It turned out to be Ning Huaiyuan!
When she was still Ning Ziying, she met Ning Huaiyuan. At that time, Ning Huaiyuan's attitude towards Ning Ziying was always lukewarm. There was a difference between men and women. Huaiyuan only had a few facets, and he said very few words, so he couldn't say anything about it.
In Ning Xueyan's memory, this brother has always been indifferent to her. When he saw her being bullied by Ning Yuling, he would not say a word for her. Instead, he went to see Ning Yuling, who was bullying her, and worried if her hand was hurt when he hit her. In his heart, he had never been her younger sister.
Unexpectedly, during this meeting, he would come forward to call her affectionately, how could Ning Xueyan not be surprised.
She raised her beautiful eyes and looked at him Yingying, without speaking for a moment.
Thinking that Ning Qingshan didn't recognize him for a while, Ning Huaiyuan said gently: "I haven't seen you for many years, didn't my sister recognize my brother?"
"See elder brother!" Although Ning Xueyan didn't know what Ning Huaiyuan meant, she still stepped forward calmly, folded her sleeves and bowed lightly.
"I haven't seen my sister for many years, she is becoming more and more beautiful and polite." Ning Huaiyuan smiled more gently, and stretched out his hand as if to help her up.
Ning Xueyan turned her body to avoid his hand, her long eyelashes flickered, her dark jade-like eyes were slightly cold, but there was more thought in her heart, Ning Huaiyuan's attitude really made people It's strange, when did I have such a good relationship with Ning Huaiyuan, and I actually called him my younger sister.
"Little sister has something else to do, can you walk with me?" Ning Huaiyuan asked with a smile, a glint of darkness flashed in his eyes.
"If I have something to go to my grandmother, I won't accompany my elder brother." Ning Xueyan declined with a light smile. She didn't think she had anything to say to Ning Huaiyuan, and Ning Huaiyuan's attitude was very strange today, unlike any other time in the past. No need, the gentleness almost made her think that he was facing his own sister.
Seeing that Ning Xueyan insisted on leaving, Ning Huaiyuan didn't say anything, and stepped aside politely with a smile: "Then next time, I will go for a walk with Big Brother sometime, like before!"
Ning Huaiyuan said this sentence not very high, gently, and happened to be in the ear of Ning Xueyan who was walking by him. His handsome eyes were full of light, so he could only slightly nod his head and turn around on the road to Xiangfu Garden.
"Girl, why are you here?" Qing Yu came over from a distance, saw Ning Xueyan walking towards Xiangfu Garden, and asked strangely, when she was leaving just now, the girl clearly had no intention of coming.
"What did Mrs. Tai say?" Ning Xueyan stopped and stood at the intersection. When Qingyu came over, the two of them turned around and took another path. Walking from here to Mingshuang Courtyard was also a shortcut.
Seeing Ning Xueyan turn around, Qingyu thought that Ning Xueyan couldn't wait and didn't care, followed behind Ning Xueyan and said: "Mrs. You are so ingenious, just now Mrs. Tai asked the servants to ask the girl, do you want to learn flower arranging?"
Flower arrangement, the third girl Ning Qing fan? There was a cold smile on the corner of Ning Xueyan's lips. She didn't understand the meaning of Mrs. Tai before, but now she understands everything. Mrs. Tai really has good intentions!
Thinking of Mrs. Tai comparing the girl with the third girl again, Qingyu felt a little bit annoyed. Her own girl is the concubine daughter of the Hou family, even though that one is not bad, she is always a righteous daughter. Why does Mrs. Tai always praise the third girl? Tall, on the contrary, it seems that Miss San is her own granddaughter.
"Girl, how can that third girl compare with you? It's just a adopted daughter recognized by Lord Hou. It's not true. Didn't she say that she is virtuous and filial? Before, my wife was ill in Mingshuang When she was in the hospital, she came to greet Madam on the first day of the new year, and then left immediately, so there is no filial piety." Qingyu said unconvinced.
Ning Jingfan is recorded under the name of the Ming family, isn't it the Ming family who should be the most filial!
It's just that this Ning Qingfan is also a wonderful person. On the new year's day, he will always go to Mingshuangyuan to greet the Ming family and offer a cup of tea. In my memory, although the third sister smiled at her, the smile didn't reach her eyes, and she was a little arrogant and domineering, but these were all suppressed behind her smile.
The reason why she showed such signs in front of Ning Xueyan was also because she never looked down on Ning Xueyan, and never regarded Ning Xueyan as an opponent.
Stretching out her tender white hand, she picked up a yellowish leaf that fell from the tree. Ning Xueyan said lightly, "You will go back to Mrs. Tai in a while, and I will burn my hand with water."
No matter how good Ning Qingfan is, she will never become the second her! Flower arranging, I heard that the third girl was the most proficient in flower arranging when she was in the Marquis, and she was appreciated by the concubine Ya before, and it was also because of her flower arranging skills that there was a wave of flower arranging among the ladies of the aristocratic family.
Some nobles in the palace are also proud of being able to arrange flowers, and Mrs. Tai's final goal is to make her the second Ning Qingfan!
"Yes, I will go back to Mrs. Tai in a while." Qingyu nodded and said after thinking for a while, "Miss, just now I heard the maids in Xiangfu Garden say that the eldest son is back, what should I do? ?”
"It's nothing to do, take one step, count one step." Ning Xueyan stood still and looked at the empty courtyard in front of her. This path leads to Mingshuang Courtyard, but it has to pass through the Cloud Theater. The formerly bustling Cloud Theater was deserted. , the bottom of the black eyes was tinged with ice-cold color.
Every time she came here, her heart was filled with hatred, and that hatred went deep into her bones. When she dreamed back in the middle of the night, every time she woke up, it was a bloody lake...
"Girl, what's the matter?" Qing Yu also sensed Ning Xueyan's abnormality, and asked cautiously.
"Qingyu, look, is there someone over there?" Ning Xueyan squinted her eyes, the leaves rustled by the winter wind, and in the distance, it seemed that someone flickered, which was not real.
Qingyu followed Ning Xueyan's gaze and found nothing unusual: "Girl, I didn't see anything different, it was the branches shaking in the wind."
Looking again, there was nothing there, the figure just now seemed to really not exist, Ning Xueyan turned and walked towards Mingshuang Courtyard.
I have a feeling that what I saw just now is true, there seems to be too many secrets buried in the cloud theater, and I can't find a clue for a while, Xia Yuhang, Ning Ziyan, Ling Shi, Ning Zuan, Mrs. Tai, As well as the brocade that Wang Momo mentioned, these peace and objects seemed to be all in disorder.
But Ning Xueyan knew that there must be a connection!
"Qingyu, did Madam Wang mention anything about Ning Ziying?" She thought all the way, and asked Qingyu who was following behind. Qing Yu, Lan Ning, and Xin Mei are in charge of all matters.
Xinmei was given to Ning Xueyan by Ao Chenyi, and she had to deal with many matters of Ning Xueyan, so most of the time it was Qingyu and Lanning.
"Nurse Wang didn't say anything, she just said..." Qingyu hesitated for a moment, but then smiled, "Nurse Wang said that girls look like their girls, but slaves and Lan Ning don't think so, and Lan Ning still looks like her." After all, the girl and Miss Ning Ziying are sisters of the same clan, and it is normal to have a slight resemblance, but if you look closely, the eyes are the most alike, but I don’t know how Wang Momo said that the girl is similar to their girls.”
Ning Xueyan's back suddenly paused, her eyes blinked, showing a few traces of abnormality, and her appearance in memory suddenly appeared in her mind, Ning Ziying and Ning Xueyan? How could she never feel it.
Ning Ziying's face is slightly rounder, and her complexion is also good, rosy and shiny. Ning Xueyan is very thin. When she was first reborn, a fourteen-year-old girl looked like she was only eleven or two years old. After using Ao Chenyi's medicine and trying to adjust herself, she regained her image of an ordinary fourteen-year-old girl.
But she still lost some weight in the end, with a pointed chin and a pale face, she didn't seem to have the slightest resemblance to Ning Ziying, but Wang Momo said she was similar, which really confuses her.
"Qingyu, Wang Momo really said that I look like Ning Ziying?" Ning Xueyan bit her lip, her eyes became a little more thoughtful. Is Wang Momo doubting that she is Ning Ziying, or does she really feel that she is Ning Ziying? Like Ning Ziying
"Yes, Wang Momo mentioned it more than once to the servant girl and Lan Ning, that's why the servant girl and Lan Ning discussed it in private." Qingyu said affirmatively.
"Did Wang Momo say that other people are like Ning Ziying?" Ning Xueyan walked up again and asked in an unhurried manner.
"No, Wang Momo only said that you and Miss Ziying are similar, and no one else said anything. Most of the time, Wang Momo didn't talk about their girls. Every time she talked about them, she would wipe her tears. It's really pitiful, good one Why is the girl so overwhelmed, she threw herself into the lake!" Qingyu sighed, thinking that it was really not easy for Wang Momo, the girl who was so dedicated to supporting her disappeared like this, why didn't she feel distressed.
"Girl,..." A maid suddenly ran up the path, approached and saw that it belonged to Mingshuang Courtyard, saw Ning Xueyan and said anxiously: "Girl, Mrs. Tai has brought you many gifts."