Chapter 509

Marchioness Wu, who was standing on the second floor,

pointed at Xu Zaijing and the others entering the garden and said:

"Go! Send someone to welcome them, and sweep the dust off them first."

"How can they be seen like this! After sweeping, let them go for a walk in the flower-filled small path."

"Yes, Marchioness."

Jin Hammer Jin Mama at the side responded and hurriedly walked toward the entrance,

and not far away, Bamboo Mama beside Sun Shi and Chang Mama beside Bai Shi also followed and walked down.

After Marchioness Wu finished speaking, she raised her chin at the two personal first-class servant girls beside her.

The Liang family servant girls who had been with Marchioness Wu for many years understood and walked toward both sides of the platform.

After leaving Marchioness Wu for some distance, one of the servant girls looked at the polo field servant girl standing by and said in a slightly loud voice:

"Sixth Young Master and the young masters from several Xiao Xiao Gongye and Marquis families have returned to the garden, covered in dust, you take this pot of hot water down and prepare it."

"Yes!"

Near the second floor, several personal Mamas and first-class servant girls from various families heard this conversation, and after thinking about it, they walked toward their respective masters and Marchionesses.

The Liang family's first-class servant girl who finished speaking continued to walk forward, and after ten steps, she saw another polo field servant girl and said:

"The young masters from several Xiao Xiao Gongye and Marquis families and Sixth Young Master have returned, and they will walk the flower-filled small path later! While they are tidying their clothes, you hurry down and see if there is anything improper along the way."

"Yes."

This remark also achieved the same effect as the one just now,

and several servant girls who heard the conversation went to one side to tell their own masters and Marchionesses, and then the young ladies who followed stood up and began to tidy their makeup and hairpins.

There were also masters and Marchionesses of certain families who began to walk toward the railing near the flower bushes to stay and watch.

Second-floor platform,

watching the actions of the Marchionesses and young ladies near and far, Sun Shi smiled at Marchioness Wu who walked over:

"Sister, you have so many tricks!"

After Marchioness Wu walked to Bai Shi's side and sat down, she looked at Bai Shi who was nodding with a smile and said helplessly in a low voice:

"Tricks won't work! If you directly send someone to notify each family, it will always have a sense of being high and mighty and arrogant."

"If you run into a Marchioness with an arrogant heart, she might not be happy in her heart, or even have a grudge."

"It's better to let people hear it on purpose like this, everything is self-initiated, and I won't fall into anything bad."

Bai Shi nodded repeatedly at the side and smiled: "Just like the chrysanthemums in the field, if you like them, you want them; if you don't like them, you don't want them, and whether you give money when they are sent to the mansion is also self-initiated."

"So, today I also have to pick more than ten pots to take back, so as not to leave a reputation for stinginess in Wu Lou's heart."

Sun Shi said while laughing with Bai Shi, her tone quite teasing.

Marchioness Wu straightened her face, her eyes full of smiles, and took the conversation: "You want more than ten pots? That might not be enough..."

As she spoke, Marchioness Wu looked to one side, her eyes narrowed, and then her smile gradually dissipated.

Sun Shi and Bai Shi noticed it and looked in the direction of Marchioness Wu's gaze,

and happened to see the Liang family's eldest daughter-in-law by concubinage bringing a beautiful girl, talking to Fan Mama beside Zhang family's Fifth Da Niangzi not far away.

Feeling the doubtful gazes of the two Marquis Marchionesses, Sun Shi and Bai Shi, Marchioness Wu shook her head: "My daughter-in-law's maternal family has a relative relationship with the British Xiao Xiao Gongye's wife's maternal family that is seven or eight turns away."

"My legitimate mother's management is loose or tight, and there is always no lack of people talking! Everyone has their own fate, let her be!"

"By the way, which family's girl did your Third Da Niangzi bring up just now?"

Bai Shi smiled, looked at Sun Shi, and said: "It's the girl from the former Chuzhou Magistrate Yan family. A few years ago when we went to Yang Zhou, we met once in Chuzhou."

Sun Shi hesitated: "Is it the time Pingmei wrote to me?"

"Yes."

Marchioness Wu listened to the conversation, looked at Yan Sujun who was standing among the noble girls, listening more and speaking less, and nodded secretly.

At this time,

the three Mamas who went downstairs all walked back.

"How is it? Is everything handled?" Marchioness Wu said.

Jin Mama at the side bowed: "Replying to the Marchioness, everything is handled!" As she spoke, she glanced at Sun Shi.

Marchioness Wu looked at Chang Mama and Bamboo Mama, whose expressions were somewhat unnatural, and asked curiously:

"If you have something to say, just say it, why cover it up."

Bai Shi and Sun Shi nodded in approval.

Seeing this scene, Jin Mama said:

"Cough, Marchioness, on the way back from Maotuo Ridge, Brother Jing was the first to ride, and there was no dust on him."

"Mainly Sixth Young Master and the young masters of other families, they..."

Sun Shi tilted her head and looked at Bamboo Mama, who was calm and even a bit proud, her brows furrowed, and said: "Go, take Jing..."

Marchioness Wu waved her hand to interrupt and said: "Fifth Young Master is a child who won't bully people by relying on a good horse! Was it Sixth Young Master who proposed the horse race?"

Jin Mama shook her head, and Chang Mama gave a light tsk.

"Ye-ge proposed it?"

Bai Shi asked.

Chang Mama nodded.

"Really needs to be disciplined!" Bai Shi said hatefully.

When the Marchionesses were talking on the second floor,

Xu Zaijing and the others had already walked into the small path surrounded by chrysanthemum plants with ease.

On the way,

"Brother Jing, look at this pot of Xiangyang red chrysanthemum, it's truly beautiful!"

Qi Heng stood beside a pot of chrysanthemums and said.

Xu Zaijing took a look and nodded with a smile, but Liang Han beside him pointed to the silk ribbon tied to the flower branch and said:

"What a pity, it has already been reserved!"

Qi Heng was stunned and shook his head with some regret.

"Reserved? What is reserved?" Xu Zaijing said while looking at the few people at the side doubtfully.

Gu Tingye: "Brother Jing, the chrysanthemums in this field, as long as someone takes a fancy to them, Marchioness Wu will send someone to the mansion."

"It started from last year, at that time you were still in the northwest."

"So that's how it is."

Xu Zaijing said while continuing to walk along the small path with the crowd,

99% of the chrysanthemums with excellent shapes and colors along the way had already been tied with silk ribbons.

After going up a small bridge,

Liang Han looked at the second-floor platform on the side of the field, walked down the bridge and chanted: "Year after year the flowers are similar, year after year the people are different~"

Hearing the poetry,

Qiao Jiulang put his hands behind his back and nodded in full approval.

Qi Heng asked doubtfully: "Sixth Young Master, Ninth Young Master, why have you started to be sentimental?"

Liang Han thought for a while: "Little Xiao Xiao Gongye, I vaguely remember the first time I walked here..."

After looking back at the wooden bridge, he said: "It was probably this position, I met several cousins! Now we are still among the flowers, but some cousins have already married as wives."

"Rong family's Brother Xian, who walked with us back then, doesn't come anymore! Alas~"

Gu Tingye, who heard these words, looked around at the flowers and plants, and sighed deeply.

At this time,

Xu Zaijing at the side patted Liang Han: "Sixth Young Master, don't worry, when you get married, you won't have to come either!"

Liang Han turned his head, glared at Xu Zaijing: "Brother Jing, what are you doing~? What you said... is also too destructive to the atmosphere."

Gu Tingye flicked his sleeves and said: "Fifth Young Master, I was just brewing emotions! A good poem was about to be made, and it was disturbed by you! Compensate me!"

Xu Zaijing looked at Changbai, Qi Heng, and others who were looking at him with some resentment, and said: "Oh? Then let me think!"

Watching Xu Zaijing, who finished speaking, walk straight forward with his hands behind his back without looking back, Liang Han's eyes widened and he shouted: "Ruined, Brother Jing is trying to run!"

Hearing this,

Xu Zaijing walked faster.

Before long,

Xu Zaijing was still walking with his hands behind his back, his chest heaving slightly.

Gu Tingye behind him was okay, but Changbai, Liang Han, and the others could only pant while supporting their knees.

"Ying~"

Not knowing which breath wasn't caught properly, Qiao Jiulang knelt on the ground holding his stomach.

"Ninth Young Master, what's wrong with you!?" Liang Han asked urgently.

Xu Zaijing saw this scene and hurriedly walked back to the crowd, looked at Qiao Jiulang who was being helped, and said: "What's wrong?"

"Plap."

Gu Tingye hugged Xu Zaijing and said: "Hehe, you fell into the trap!"

Watching Qi Heng and Liang Han coming up to help, Xu Zaijing, who couldn't hurt people, could only let them "capture" him.

"Alright, alright, I'll compensate, I'll compensate, is that okay? Let go first!"

"A gentleman's word is as good as a bond!" Gu Tingye said.

"Good, as good as a bond!"

Listening to Xu Zaijing's words, the three slowly loosened their hands.

"Speak, let me hear what poem Fifth Young Master uses to compensate."

On the second floor,

watching Xu Zaijing and the others chasing and playing in the flower bushes,

Sun Shi, Bai Shi, Marchioness Wu, and others shook their heads helplessly.

"How old are they, still playing so foolishly!"

Bai Shi said somewhat reproachfully.

At this time,

Chai Zhengzheng, Gu Tingyi, and others walked over with servant girls near the railing.

After the group bowed to the three Marchionesses, Gu Tingyi said somewhat embarrassedly to Marchioness Wu:

"Marchioness, I heard there are precious things sent by the Wensi Academy in the tent on the first floor not far away, I wonder if we can take a look first?"

Marchioness Wu smiled: "That is something I prepared as prizes for the polo match in a few days, if you take them all, what will I do?"

The girls looked at each other, and Chai Zhengzheng said: "Marchioness, then we will each pick one, okay?"

Marchioness Wu nodded: "Okay, then go! One each!"

After the girls followed Jin Mama downstairs and walked toward the tent on the first floor where Lu Zezong was waiting,

Bai Shi said: "Wu Lou, these things from the Wensi Academy have always been tight, how could you get them today."

"You have to ask my Sun family sister." Sun Danniang looked at Sun Shi.

Sun Shi said to Bai Shi: "Sister, last year when the old land was recovered, along with the surrenderers returning to the capital, there were not only the gold, silver, and treasures accumulated by Bai Gao for a hundred years, but also many skilled craftsmen. Now most of them have entered the Wensi Academy."

Bai Shi nodded and understood: "So, the manpower of the Wensi Academy has increased, and the things made in the past year are naturally more?"

"Correct! Many things are placed in the Li family's shop for sale, I heard they are selling a bit slowly, so I asked Wu Lou to invite the Li family to send some finished products, and invite the Marchionesses in the field to see them in the afternoon."

Bianjing is quite large,

the Li family's jewelry shop is not a chain store now, it is impossible for everyone to go there to buy.

Bai Shi asked doubtfully: "Then, why tell the girls they are prizes and only let them buy one?"

"It is true that these things are prizes for the ball match! If I don't limit the quantity, what if your Third Da Niangzi and the Chai family girl buy them all?"

"The admission fee and grade of my polo field still need these treasures from the Wensi Academy to improve!"

Marchioness Wu smiled.

First floor,

Lu Zezong sat on the folding chair outside the tent,

looking toward the flower bushes from time to time,

and when he saw the looming figures of Xu Zaijing and his group,

Lu Zezong would always smile.

Behind Lu Zezong,

managers, Mamas, and capable servants from the Xiao Xiao Gongye of Lian Lu mansion and the Li family stood around the tent.

"Young master, Fifth Young Master will be back in a while, why don't you wait at the end?" a Mama at the side said.

Lu Zezong turned his head to look at the tent and said: "No need! Brother said he would come find me as soon as he came out. These things in the tent are of great importance, if I leave, I won't feel at ease."

After speaking, Lu Zezong tilted his head to look at the old manager of the family and said: "Uncle Ban, how much do you think these things can sell for today?"

The old manager hesitated for a while and said: "Young master, rest assured, they will definitely sell for a lot!"

Lu Zezong nodded and continued to look at the group of people walking in the flower bushes.

The old manager at the side whispered to Lu Zezong's personal Mama: "How old is the young master, and the Old Xiao Xiao Gongye and Old Madam are at ease letting the young master be responsible for today's affairs."

The Mama nodded, looking at Lu Zezong and said: "The young master also heard about his sworn brother Xu family's Fifth Young Master, who could ride a horse and draw a bow more than twenty times in front of His Majesty at this age, so he wanted to compete for this errand."

"Looking at it like this is better than being stifled at home! Although there is that branch of the son-in-law to help in the future, the burden of the Xiao Xiao Gongye's mansion will eventually have to be carried by the young master himself."

"Going through more things is always good."

As they were talking,

a sound of footsteps came from not far away,

watching a group of noble girls coming, Lu Zezong stood up doubtfully: "Didn't they say it wouldn't start until the afternoon?"

Jin Mama bowed: "Young master, my Marchioness said, since the young ladies like them, let them pick one each first."

Lu Zezong nodded at the personal Mama at the side.

The Mama hurriedly reached out: "Several, please come in."

The servant girls stayed outside, Fifth Da Niangzi, Tingyi, and others hurriedly brought Yan Sujun and the three into the tent, and the first thing they saw was the cousin of Lu Zezong standing inside.

Several people had met many times at elegant gatherings, and they gathered together and walked toward the inside of the tent.

Chai Zhengzheng stopped at the door, looked at Lu Zezong with a smile and said: "Zong-ge, why are you always guarding here?"

Glancing at Rong Feiyan, who was smiling at him behind Chai Zhengzheng, Lu Zezong said: "Today I am responsible for watching these things, I can't just play around."

Hearing this,

Chai Zhengzheng's smile became brighter, and she nodded: "Then will someone come to find you later?"

Lu Zezong thought for a while and said: "Yes, Brother will come over with several brothers to play with me later, they said so when they passed by me just now."

"Good! I'll go in and see first!"

Lu Zezong bowed: "Two sisters, please look slowly."

Inside the tent,

there were rows of treasure cabinets,

jewelry and gold and silver wares produced by the Wensi Academy were placed in precious wooden boxes and placed in the grids.

The gold and silver wares and jewelry made by the top gold and silver craftsmen of Great Zhou and Bai Gao after mutual exchange and learning were even more delicate and exquisite than before.

And because Bai Gao attached great importance to craftsmen and had bellows and top-grade Wujin coal, the forging techniques of gold and silver were slightly higher than Great Zhou in some aspects.

Fifth Da Niangzi and Tingyi were accustomed to such occasions, and if they had something they liked, they would ask the Lu family Mama to take it for them, and then they would look at it carefully.

Gold head crowns in the shape of deer antlers, filigree inlaid gemstone bracelets, dressing cases and jewelry boxes made of various precious woods,

various lifelike gold flower hairpins and pins,

and ropes woven with mixed gold threads,

the three girls like Yan Sujun, who rarely saw such occasions, had their eyes straight.

When the girls were watching happily,

outside the tent,

Gu Tingye's voice came: "Zong-ge, listen to the two good poems I just got."

"Pei Erge Gu, what good poem?"

Hearing this,

the girls in the tent stopped their movements.

"Ah! The most difficult thing to keep in the world is the red face leaving the mirror and the flowers leaving the tree!"

The voice came from outside,

and the girls in the tent looked at Gu Tingyi one after another,

"Sister Tingyi, Pei Erge Gu's literary talent is outstanding! These two lines of poetry are really good!"

Zhang family's Fifth Da Niangzi said.

Chai Zhengzheng, who was standing in front of an exquisite dressing case mirror box, listened to the poetry outside, looked at herself in the clear and bright bronze mirror in front of her, and was stunned.

(End of chapter)