Although the post of Weiguo Gongfu Yiyuan inviting the garden was sent very early, because Jinyiwei suddenly came to the door to guard it yesterday, Chen Lan didn't want to do much, and felt that Luo Xu, a smart person, should also cancel the garden visit at this moment. But what she didn't expect was that after she met Zhu early in the morning, Zhu wrote a line of words on the cardboard with charcoal, meaning to let the brothers and sisters in the family go together today. She agreed, but she was still hesitant in her heart, but someone was suddenly sent in at the door to report that all the Jinyi guards had suddenly withdrawn. This accident surprised her greatly, and after consulting the Zhu family, she immediately sent someone out to investigate.

In less than half an hour, the exact information came in, and only this news made Zhu's Zheng mother and Chen Lan in the house stunned. After hearing the shocking news, Yiyuan sent someone again, saying that today's visit to the garden is as usual, and the family has been prepared, so the three people with different minds have to be busy with their own work.

Mrs. Xu now has filial piety, Mrs. Ma is naturally indispensable to take the lead, and Aunt Luo, who was allowed to go out smoothly the first two times, secretly thought that this time she was going to the Weiguo Mansion, and she had to ask Mrs. Xu for help, but was pushed to Zhu's by Mrs. Xu, and finally Zheng's mother glanced at the few numbers on Zhu's cardboard, and called back with a few words of understatement.

"My aunt is now a lady of fate, and it is okay to go out to pay respects, but today after all, the occasion is different, and the people present are all Mrs. Gonghou, in case others are dissatisfied and ridicule one or two sentences, even the fifth lady is also disgraced. It's better to let their brothers and sisters go together, take care of each other, and with the second lady leading, Yiyuan will definitely take good care of it. ”

Hearing this, Aunt Luo thought that her sister-in-law, Mrs. Lin, had never been very unkind to her, and she was just cold-eyed, in case she said something unpleasant in front of a group of female guests, maybe it really affected Chen Xi, so she had to grit her teeth, and after returning to the house, she took out a set of outfits and jewelry that had been prepared long ago, and surrounded Chen Xi with a few girls, and it took more than half an hour to clean up and stop people. She didn't notice at all that when the bejeweled and graceful Chen Xi went out, a pair of eyes like puppets did not have much look on her delicate and moving face.

Not only Chen Xi has carefully dressed up, but Chen Bing and Chen Yun have also worked hard under the makeup. Since the dispute on that day, Chen Lan has never seen Chen Bing again, and at this moment I saw her wearing a red silk and a hundred butterflies wearing a floral cardigan, a silver-red sheepskin and gold-trimmed gown, a flower-red Hunan skirt, plus the pearls on her head and hands, looking more and more colorful embroidery and brilliant gold, but compared to the gorgeous face. On the contrary, Chen Yun's camel-colored shirt and primrose-colored skirt are the only accessories on the top and bottom of the body are the pearl necklace around the neck and the inconspicuous gold lilac on the ear, which looks plain and elegant.

Mrs. Ma and the four sisters had a total of two clear oil and green mantle cars, Chen Qing, Chen Han and Chen Yan rode horses, and as for Chen Ting, who was still young, and the three young concubines in the third room, they naturally stayed at home. Chen Lan and Chen Xi were in the same car, she had long been accustomed to Chen Xi's increasingly obvious taciturnity, and she did not take the initiative to provoke the topic along the way, only when the red snail sitting at the door reminded her softly, saying that it was the time when the West Fourth Archway had arrived, she opened the curtain a little.

If it is said that the brocade guards who appeared at the door of the mansions of various noble and high-ranking officials claimed that there were Tartars that made many people suspicious, then the dozen or so heads hanging on the wooden stake of the West Fourth Archway now made all these doubts suddenly come to naught.

Although this has always been a place of execution and murder, and the tall wooden stakes that have been erected for many years have been blackened by blood, wind, sun and rain, the heads that are very different from the hairstyles of the Central Plains still attract passers-by to look up, and while many people whisper, some people are also terrified. Chen Lan in the car just glanced at it, and an indescribable taste appeared in his stomach, and he hurriedly dropped the curtains, and it took a while to calm down.

"The West Fourth Archway has killed people again?"

Hearing this faint voice, Chen Lan couldn't help but be taken aback, and when he looked up, he found that Chen Xi was looking at him, so he smiled bitterly: "Yesterday, there were Jinyi guards who were ordered to protect at the door of the house, and they were all withdrawn early this morning. Since I'm passing by here, I want to take a look, and the result is ...... This is indeed a terrible situation. ”

Chen Xi's face changed slightly, and he also opened the curtain on his side to take a look, but the result was that he also fell off the curtain with one hand as if he had encountered a poisonous snake, then took a few deep breaths, and then did not speak again. This indescribable silence lasted until the gate of Yiyuan, and when he heard the sound of talking outside, Chen Lan said casually: "I don't know how lively it will be today." ”

She didn't expect Chen Xi to answer, but to her surprise, Chen Xi sneered, and then said coldly: "If it weren't for the fact that the eldest uncle entered the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army as soon as he came back, and the emperor clearly expressed his reliance, it would be good if the people invited this time could come and stop for one out of ten stops; If it weren't for the fact that my cousin was hit by the second class this time, at most half of them would have come; But now that the eldest uncle occupies the head of the five mansions, and the cousin has a good future, whether it is the lords who looked down on the Weiguo Mansion in the past, or those powerful people who think that the Luo family is just a nouveau riche, most of them will come to join in the fun now. ”

Chen Lan didn't think it was an exaggeration for Chen Xi's mean evaluation, in fact, even Luo Xu himself had commented on his own family so self-deprecatingly. It's just that when the carriage slowly stopped at the second gate of Yiyuan, she came up steadily, but before she had time to look at this famous garden in the capital, a figure with a skirt hurriedly ran over.

"Ah Lan"

"Sister Huixin?"

Chen Lan really didn't expect Zhang Huixin to come. Not to mention that the Korean government and the Weiguo government have never had any contact, that is, the Korean government is now in a situation that is far more complicated and difficult than his own family, and the county lord of Yixing should not let his daughter go out as a guest at will. Therefore, seeing Zhang Huixin coming forward with a smile, she hurriedly took a few steps forward. While Hongluo was watching by her side, others were still far away, so she asked in a low voice, "Your family has already received a post from the Weiguo Mansion?" ”

"Yes, after the Yiyuan Garden is built, there are not many people who have the opportunity to take a look at the scenery, and I was happy for a while to follow the post, thinking that I could just have a good time, but it happened that today is a beautiful day, such a bright sunny day" Zhang Huixin's eyes narrowed with a smile, looked up and down at Chen Lan, and blinked slyly and said, "Hello, didn't you see the few sets that just entered, one by one, they seemed to have packed up all the gold and jade jewelry at home, and they didn't think it was too heavy to wear on their bodies." By the way, I also brought good things for you."

Zhang Huixin said as he took something long from behind. Chen Lan waited for him to turn his hand, only to find that it was a fan bag with exquisite embroidery. Seeing Zhang Huixin carefully take out a fan from the fan bag and gently open it, she saw that the fan was a picture of a lady with a fine brush, even with her not very clever eyes, she could see that the painting style was delicate and exquisite, and then looked at the Qiu Shizhou, the original wisp of memory that had faded suddenly came to her mind.

First Tang Xianzu, then Qiu Shizhou...... There are some celebrities in another time and space who have never been born, but there are still some people whose trajectories have not changed?

"Liu Yutai's fan bone, Fang's fan surface, Qiu Shizhou's painting, it's easy to get two of these three things together, but it takes a coincidence to get all three. This fan is an old guy twenty or thirty years ago, or the mother brought back from Jiangnan this time in the things that were finally turned over, invited an old courtier to palm, this time to give Luo Shizi as a gift. ”

Seeing Chen Lan's strange expression on his face, Zhang Huixin suddenly smiled, spread his hands and said: "Don't look at me, only my father understands that, just like me and my mother, who have been in Jiangnan for so many years, we don't know anything about what fan bones and fans and everyone and the like, that is, he just says that I remember this." It is expected that Luo Shizi has won the second class, and he is always an elegant person, and he should always understand my father's set, not like that...... Well, the pearl is secretly cast"

At this moment, Chen Lan was finally amused by Zhang Huixin's tone. But when the two of you were smiling happily at my eyes, a voice suddenly came from the side: "This gift has been prepared with great painstaking care, but it's a pity that it has been promised to be married, no matter how good Luo Shizi is, it has nothing to do with you, it's just a broken fan."

"Second Sister"

Seeing that the person who spoke was Chen Bing, who was full of ridicule, Chen Lan was really annoyed, his face sank before he screamed, and Mrs. Ma, who got off the carriage, had already rushed over and grabbed Chen Bing. At this time, Zhang Huixin said indifferently: "It is indeed a broken fan that has been turned out of the pile of old papers, it is okay to like it in front of the treasure, and it is okay to be tattered if you don't know the goods, but it is just the opinion of the benevolent and the wise, and it has nothing to do with other things of other people."

"What broken fan?"

With this voice, Mrs. Lin and the county lord of Yixing appeared in front of everyone. Chen Bing had just been able to pretend to be calm under Chen Lan's sharp gaze, and at this moment, he immediately took a step back. Fortunately, Zhang Huixin had no intention of suing at all, so he only pulled Chen Lan forward to meet the county lord of Yixing and Mrs. Lin.

The county lord of Yixing had only just arrived for a while, so Mrs. Lin had only said a few words when she welcomed her into the second gate, and she found that Zhang Huixin was gone, and only then did she turn around and see that there was already a dispute here. Therefore, at this time, she glanced at Mrs. Ma and Chen Bing, and didn't say anything, until Mrs. Lin led her along the road for a long time, as if inadvertently asking about the Tatar's meticulous work, she sighed and said: "It's probably because the Tartar got the message that our court withdrew this year's mutual market, so I was unwilling." In short, the brocade guards have been withdrawn this morning, and this stubble is over. ”

Chen Lan, who followed closely, heard that the mutual market had been withdrawn, and his heart suddenly moved, and when he was thinking about it, Mother Lan happened to hurriedly come from the side, probably just listening to this, she hesitated and said to Mrs. Lin: "If you want to talk about this Tartar spy, but someone in our house went to the West Fourth Archway this morning to see it, and said that one of them is very similar to a guy from a leather store on Qianmen Street......