Chapter 2 Anchovies
When Hongsha heard this, her eyes turned around and said, "I'll continue to stare here tomorrow. As soon as the man comes out, I'll call you. As for the appearance of that man, I saw that the Qianli Miles mirror used by the uncle is gilded, thicker than the one in your hand, and can be put away. It was said that it was used when sailing on the sea, and maybe it could see further than this. Otherwise, I'll send someone to tell the boss in the capital, and ask him to bring you a letter and bring you a Qianli Miles mirror like the one in the uncle's hand?"
Wang Xi couldn't help but be moved when he heard this.
The uncle Hongchou mentioned is Wang Xi’s half-brother Wang Chen.
The eldest brother was seventeen years older than her. Before she was born, the eldest brother had already started to do business with her father. She was smart and capable, and was recognized as the recognized heir in the family. Although her mother was beautiful and beautiful, she was more than teenager than her father. After marrying her father, she was favored and later gave birth to a son. Neither her father nor her mother wanted to shake her elder brother's inheritance rights. Therefore, their brother-sister relationship was very good. Because she was only two years older than her elder brother's eldest son, the eldest brother almost treated her like a daughter, and sometimes she was even more pampered by her father. She did not dare to ask for her father's affairs, but she dared to ask for her elder brother.
Wang Xi ordered Hongchou: "Go and tell Wang Xi and let him meet the shopkeeper."
Wang Xi is her breast brother.
This time when I came to the capital, in addition to my close maid and Wang Xi, her wet nurse, Madam Wang and two servants also followed her into the mansion.
Ginkgo naturally couldn't let Hongshi do this so much. She advised Wang Xi in a gentle tone: "We came to the capital from Shuzhong for almost two months. When the old man received the letter, he would send us the things. It's been half a year. Maybe the eldest lady is going to go home too. Instead of asking the eldest shopkeeper to bring the letter to the old man, it's better to let the eldest shopkeeper pay attention to see if he could buy a Qianli mirror in the capital that was the same as the old man's hand."
Wang Xi felt that what Ginkgo said made sense, so he praised her for her meticulousness and asked her to pass on a message to Wang Xi.
Ginkgo smiled and said "yes", but when he went out, he pulled the red silk out, grabbed her ear and whispered: "Miss, a child, you can also make fun of him! Do you know where this is? If you hear a little bit of the miss in the mansion, I will peel you off!"
When they came, the eldest wife handed over all their maids to the Ginkgo Pipe. If they were disobedient, Ginkgo really had the right to deal with them.
Hong Si shrank her shoulders and did not dare to resist. She only dared to beg for mercy in a low voice: "Sister Ginkgo, am I unhappy when I see the eldest lady unhappy these days and want to make her happy?"
"Even so, you can't instigate the young lady to peek at others' sword dancing! You dare to climb up and pull the old man, I think you're desperate!" said Baiguo.
What's more, the sword-dancer was still a young man.
Although Hongchou is a person who specializes in having fun with the young lady, this is too nonsense. If she doesn't teach her a lesson, she doesn't know what kind of disaster she will cause in the future.
Thinking of this, she twisted her red silk ears heavily: "Next door is Princess Baoqing's mansion! Since the man appeared in Princess Baoqing's inner courtyard, he must be not an idle person. Didn't the tutor in your family tell you before you came to the capital? Princess Baoqing is the only sister of the emperor today, and she married the former army governor of the Five Army Governor's Office. Chen Yu, the Duke of Zhenguo, even if the Marquis of Yongcheng meets him, you must be respectful and courteous. You dare to let the eldest lady peek at their backyard! Are you blinded by lard? I think, if you don't accept your temperament properly, you don't know how high the sky is and how thick the earth is!"
Hong Chu felt pain and knew that if he didn't answer well, he might not be able to pass the test. He covered his ears and argued: "It was the eldest lady who said, let's just come to travel around the mountains and rivers, see what the capital is like and go back. I'm now..."
Ginkgo was shocked.
The Wang family is rich and powerful. The eldest master is the person in charge of the Wang family. The eldest lady is the only daughter of the eldest master. People in Shu think that the eldest lady is the golden man with treasures inlaid with treasures. I wonder how many people want to attack the eldest lady. The eldest lady was dazzled by the endless proposing methods and exhausted. Then she thought that the dragon and tiger were hidden in the capital, and the powerful were as powerful as a cow. The eldest lady’s origin was not obvious here. Maybe she could find a good family, so she simply asked the old lady of the Hou’s Mansion to help and lead a red line to the eldest lady.
The master disagreed and thought that the Wang family could not protect a young lady?
The eldest lady was furious and mentioned her fifth aunt: "If you don't help her get the three thousand taels of gold, she may not be able to divorce her fifth aunt smoothly, right?"
The master also argued: "That's because my second uncle is too stingy and I've given too little dowry to my fifth aunt!"
The eldest lady shivered in anger: "If it weren't for your words, would those people with ulterior motives be staring at our girls?"
The master dared not say anything else, so he had to agree to let the eldest lady come to the capital.
Ginger thought they would stay in the Yongcheng Hou Mansion until the young lady was married. Unexpectedly, the young lady who always helped the eldest lady to criticize the eldest master this time was standing on the side of the eldest master.
She felt that her top priority was to talk about this with the lady and figure out what the lady thought as soon as possible.
Ginkgo absent-mindedly let go of Hongshi: "I believe you for the time being this time. If you commit another crime, I will never let you go!"
Hong Siu escaped from death and squeezed the ginkgo shoulders with a pleasing look.
Gingguo was so amused that she reminded her: "Since you have received this errand, you have to do it well. Haosheng helped the lady watch the movement next door, so don't make her unhappy."
The red silk responded to the promise.
Ginkgo let her accompany Wang Xi to the backyard to play, and went to Wang Xi to pass the message.
But as soon as she left the hanging flower gate in the garden, she met the most capable Madam Pan next to Madam Wang and Madam Hou.
Both of them were smiling, and behind them was a little maid holding a copper basin.
The Madam Pan greeted her from a distance: "Isn't this the ginkgo girl beside Miss Cousin? I haven't seen each other for a few days and I'm getting more beautiful!"
Ginkgo is confused.
This Madam Pan was not so enthusiastic about them before.
But she didn't show her face. She smiled and greeted Madam Pan. While greeting her, "Why are you free to come here today?", she quickly gave Madam Wang a quick look.
Madam Wang smiled and blinked at her, signaling her not to worry.
Madam Pan had already held the hand of ginkgo and said, "Isn't it time to eat shads? Someone gave me two shads. Our wife thought that Miss Cousin came from Shu, so she must not be used to the food here. She specially asked me to take it over and add dishes to Miss Cousin. Seeing how Miss Cousin wanted to eat, she asked me to stare at the kitchen and deliver it to me."
Is this here to compensate their young lady, right?
The mothers at the Hou Mansion stove were still arrogant when they received the reward, but they still didn't care about the food they brought to their young lady. They simply asked the shopkeeper of the Beijing branch to help buy two mothers who were good at making Sichuan cuisine and went to the mansion to serve.
Mrs. Hou felt embarrassed when she heard the wind?
Ginkgo thought in his heart, but said politely: "Madam Hou has troubled me. When you see Madam Hou later, you will thank us for our eldest lady. Madam Hou has taken many care of our young lady, and our young lady cares about it. But we have to accompany Madam Hou these two days, and we have no time to come to thank Madam Hou. Please don't blame Madam Hou!"
Several wives in the Marquis' Mansion were quite good to their eldest daughter, especially the grandmother and the eldest aunt far away in Jinling. One of them cared for and took them to the temple to pray to the gods and Buddhas, so that the young lady could be safe and smooth. The other one traveled thousands of miles away and sent a lot of things to come here. However, there were always people who were in the Marquis' Mansion who were stomping down and had no eyes.
However, there are all kinds of birds when the forest is big. This is also a common problem in Zhongding House and it is not a big deal.
Ginkgo and Madam Pan had a few more social conversations before they parted.
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The backyard of Qingxue Garden is full of pear blossoms, like the branches of first snow, and is covered with white space.
Wang Xi wore a narrow-sleeved jacket with green beans and woven in ten dark patterns, and played shuttlecocks under the pear tree with red silk.
The golden morning light leaked from the shadows of the trees and reflected on her red face, which was a little brighter than that spring day.
Madam Pan, who followed Madam Wang to brush the flowers and penetrate the branches, was stunned for a while before she came to her senses.
She remembered that when she first met Wang Xi, Wang Xi was wearing a gorgeous Shu embroidered skirt and a black sable shawl, surrounded by a group of maids and women walking past her.
A ruby fell in the middle of the golden necklace, the size of a goose egg, heavy but brightly shiny, making people unable to move their eyes away.
Madam Pan couldn't even see her face clearly.
I didn't expect that Wang Xi, who had taken off his gorgeous clothes, was so beautiful, like a delicate flower.
After looking at it carefully, it is really four or five points similar to the eldest aunt in their house!
Madam Pan smiled and hurriedly stepped forward to salute her.
Wang Xi turned around and kicked the shuttlecock against Hongshi, but he stood still under the pear tree, stretched out his hand to the little maid holding hot water and a veil next to him, and nodded at Madam Pan with a smile.
The little maid next to her lowered her eyebrows and held a hot handkerchief for Wang Xi in her hands.
Wang Xi took the veil, wiped his hand, and then asked Madam Pan: "Why are you here? What's the important thing to look for me?"
This style is not like a young lady but like a young master.
Madam Pan's heart was inexplicably tense, and her expression was unconsciously a little solemn, and she smiled and said again the future intention.
Wang Xi didn't think much about it.
When she was very young, her father told her that she would be able to defeat ten times with one force.
You only need to use your brain when the level is the same.
Different levels only depend on who has more strength.
And Madam Pan and her are obviously not on the same level.
She will listen to whatever Madam Pan said literally.
She threw the veil to the little maid beside her and called the little maid who was holding a copper basin.
The two anchovies raised in a copper basin are only half a foot long, with bright and shiny scales and very energetic.
Wang Xi stretched out his tender white fingers and stirred them in the water.
The two fish shook their heads and tails and almost jumped out of the copper basin.
Wang Xi pursed her lips and smiled, took the little maid's hot handkerchief and wiped her hands again, and then smiled and asked Madam Pan to thank her for her, and said, "It's not necessary to watch it and send it over. The woman in the stove in my room is OK to cook, so let them work hard."
Do you dislike the skills of the craftsman in the stove in their house? Or do you feel that you have been neglected?
Madam Pan's face was hot and explained for a long time: "It was all my negligence. Mrs. Hou just realized that she had already discussed with the wife what to do."
Chapter completed!