Chapter 86
? Inside the bag is a square wooden box.
After opening, there is still a wooden box inside.
Yan Yan took out the box. This wooden box is much better made than the one outside. It is carved with exquisite patterns and inlaid with gems of various colors. It looks gorgeous.
Yan Yan had seen many rare eyes, and she was a little surprised when she saw them, because she actually didn’t recognize many of the stones embedded on it.
On the side of the box, there is a golden lock on which a small golden lock of strange shape is hung. If Yan Yan were a modern person, she would definitely be able to tell at a glance that the lock was heart-shaped. A small key was hung on it, and a small piece of paper was pinned under the key with a few words written on it. Use this key to open my mind.
Yan Yan thought to himself: This Luo Xiaopang is going to be imaginary!
Holding the small key, aligning it with the keyhole, turning it gently, the box opened. At this time, Yan Yan felt a little nervous because of Luo Huaiyuan’s previous delusion.
She slowly opened the box. There were no earth-shattering objects in the box, a layer of shining brass, and two little people stood on it.
These two little figures are very exquisite in workmanship. They are not like the porcelain dolls seen on the market. I don’t know what materials they are made of. They are realistically like miniature real figures. What’s even more amazing is that the little figures wear their own clothes. Yan Yan can see with her eyes that the clothes are all hand-sewn, very delicate and lovely.
The little man’s posture is very strange, leaning forward slightly, one is a girl, wearing a double-ringed bun, wearing a fuchsia pink skirt, wearing bead flowers on his head, and Jin Yingluo hanging on his neck. It has to be vivid and extremely realistic.
The other was a fat boy, chubby, in an indigo-colored robe, with big eyes on his fat face, and even the eyelashes above the eyes were clearly visible. He also leaned forward slightly with a happy smile on his face.
Yan Yan had never seen a doll like this before, and she could make it so lifelike, even she looked very familiar with the boy. After looking intently for a while, he realized that this was obviously a reduced version of Luo Xiaopang. Look at the girl again, this is clearly her.
She couldn’t put it down a bit, and didn’t dare to touch it with her hands, for fear of touching this little doll that looked like a real person. There is a piece of paper in the box with some words written on it. Yan Yan held the crank on one side as mentioned above and turned it slowly.
It can actually be turned, and even a small sound can be heard inside the box. Yan Yan releases her hand when it can no longer be turned. Suddenly, there was a crisp sound of music in the box, which frightened Yan Yan.
Looking inside the box again, the two little dolls actually turned slowly following the music. She was really surprised to see it, and it surprised her more behind——
I saw the two little dolls, turning around twice, then slowly approached, approached, and then approached… In Yan Yan’s widening eyes, the two little dolls were kissing each other.
Yan Yan’s face flushed, and her head was completely muddy.
This, this, this…
The crisp and sweet music is still ringing…
The tone is very simple, but it can be heard as an unknown melody, which is very nice.
Yan Yan couldn’t come back to her mind until the music stopped and the little man returned to the original position. As if everything was just her illusion before, she blinked and turned the crank again. Compared with the cautiousness before, she moved much faster this time.
Then there was a crisp sound of music, and the two vivid little dolls approached under Yan Yan’s eyelids again…
She wanted this thing to stop, but she didn’t know how to do it, she could only stare blankly at the two little dolls approaching and unscrewing, unscrewing and approaching…
There was a letter written in the lid of the box, and Yan Yan unconsciously pulled it down and opened it to look at it.
Sister Ayan, if I said I like you, how would you react? I have always liked it for a long time, I want to marry you as my princess!
With just such a few short words, Yan Yan was once again blown to pieces.
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The music stopped at some point.
Yan Yan shook her hands and quickly closed the wooden box, knowing that she had locked the golden lock, and then she felt a little overwhelmed when she hugged her in her arms.
After thinking for a while, he went to his bedroom and put it in the two small cupboards on the right side of the corridor in the Babu bed. After that, she fell down on the bed, thinking about how things had become like this.
Luo Xiaopang likes her? Have you liked it for a long time? When did it start?
If Luo Huaiyuan wrote some love poems or something, maybe Yan Yan would not react so much. After all, she never liked the appearance of Wuwen. It’s because it is too straightforward, too straightforward, so straightforward that Yan Yan can’t avoid it!
I want to marry you as my princess!
Luo Huaiyuan was a friend in Yan Yan’s mind, and she met when she was most at a loss.
Because of this, he will no longer be like others afterwards. First of all, Yan Yan admires him very much, thinking that he is a very strategic person. Compared with him, she was so clumsy that she could only beat people with anger. But he didn’t, every step of his calculations could beat people seven inches, and even to this day, the person who was scammed didn’t know what it was for.
But this feeling is only for a while, because Luo Xiaopang is too rude, both jokes and weird. Every time I see a little fat man playing tricks in front of you in a weird manner, whoever admires him will become speechless.
They became more and more familiar with each other, even compared to Yan Mo. After that, he went to Fujian and hadn’t seen each other for more than three years, but the contact has never been broken. It can be said that Yan Yan is probably the only one in the world who knows best what Luo Huaiyuan did outside, including Hui Niang and the guards who were next to her. Because they dispersed afterwards, they also didn’t understand thoroughly…
She knew so many things about him, and so did he.
Too familiar, familiar to understand the deepest secrets in each other’s hearts. Yan Yan even thought that Luo Xiaopang would probably be her best friend in her life.
But how come you like it?
What is it like?
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Seeing the girl hiding in the room for a long while without seeing her, several maids were very curious.
It was Yimeng’s hand, so Meixiang looked at her with their eyes.
Yimeng waved his hands again and again, “I don’t know what’s there, it’s a small box, it’s not heavy.”
There is no result, I can only continue to wait.
There were a few rumblings of thunder, and there was a heavy rain outside. As if the sky had broken a hole, I kept pouring water down.
Evian ran in from the outside, the corners of the skirt and shoes were soaked, “Fortunately, I will rush back when I see something wrong, or I should be drenched now.”
“What? Didn’t get the things back?” Evian had nothing in his hands.
The weather changed some time ago, and the summer shirts gradually became too much to wear. Several big maids in Ningxiang Pavilion discussed bringing back the girls below and their autumn sweaters. Although they don’t wear the special clothes issued by the mansion on weekdays, they can also share them with the little girls below. Who knows that they went there twice and received nothing.
The servants in the mansion sent clothes for the four seasons, according to the rank, like Mei Xiang’s example of a few first-class girls are not too bad. Sometimes the mansion will send out ready-to-wear clothes, and sometimes it will give the fabrics to make by ourselves. No matter what, there will always be something. But what happened when the weather turned cold without clothes?
Evian nodded, “Don’t tell me, we just came back from Zhuangzi. I heard other people talk about it, but the previous season was not posted, and many people complained.”
Several people looked at each other with different expressions.
“What didn’t you send?”
Yan Yan stepped out, with no clue from her expression.
Evian then said the whole thing in general.
“We don’t lack that thing. When the rain stops, I’ll go and talk to my mother. If we don’t send it out in the house, we will do it first. We can’t wait for that thing and just keep dragging it.”
“Girl, in fact, we don’t have that clothes to wear, let alone a few servants, you often admire the materials, and the girls below are also not lacking. Just when they see it, they will get it inertially.” Yimeng also said some recent rumors below.
Nowadays, this mansion is becoming more and more disregarded. If the money is not allocated from the top, it will be very difficult for the steward and the steward. To put it bluntly, the people below are all looking at the silver. Today, if you don’t post here, you will be dragged there. Even if you are all the people, you will inevitably talk about it in private.
Chen’s family is very bad now, especially she has no experience in the past.
When the Xue family was in charge, she had heard everything the old lady said, but in fact she knew what she should do. But the Chen clan was not good enough. What the old lady said, she took it as the imperial decree with all her heart. For example, if the following person issues an example, I will do it myself. There are a few cloth shops that supply Weiyuan Houfu. Because of the large amount, they don’t need to settle the silver, and wait until the checkout.
But when Chen saw that there was nothing left on his account, he went to the old lady. Naturally, the old lady can extend it, or avoid it. In the summer, it was she who made the next season’s routine empty. This situation has not been uncommon before, after all, it is necessary to increase income and reduce expenditure. But for two consecutive seasons, I can’t let the people underneath talk about it.
The rain comes and goes fast. Some little girls who understand farming said that the harvest might not be good this year. It is also the harvest season, the weather is so strange, and it is not the farmers who are scrabbling in the soil.
Seeing the rain stopped outside, Yan Yan went to Jinseyuan.
After going there, Shen Yiyao explained the matter very simply that the people at the cloth house below would send a batch of fabrics on time. After a long time, the masters all understand that they don’t need to say how preferential treatment they should be, at least they should be given, or they are all passive and sabotaged, and who will do the work for you.
When it comes to the weather, there are many fields under the name Zhuangzi, and Shen Yiyao also knows a little bit about the impact of weather on farming. Seeing the autumn weather, I knew it in my heart. Spring and summer are all good, but this happens in the harvest season. It is estimated that many farmers will cry at the ruined grain in the field.
“My mother has already ordered to go down, and depending on the situation, let the tenants get some rent free.”
After speaking, Shen Yiyao said again: “You haven’t seen your Aunt Fang for a few years. Last time I went to Yiyong Hou Shuyi, I was still asking you. A few days later, there will be a chrysanthemum appreciation feast in their house. Mother go with me, and bring the eldest girl and the fourth girl with me by the way.”
Yan Yan nodded.
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After learning that they were going to participate in the chrysanthemum appreciation banquet, Yan Ru and Yan Ling immediately became excited.
I am more strict with myself than ever, and often pulls Madam Chang to show her where it doesn’t work. He pulled Yan Yan to ask about the situation of Yiyong Hou’s Mansion, for fear that something went wrong.
Everyone knows the meaning of going to the chrysanthemum banquet. This is considered to be a formal outing. There will be many noble ladies at the banquet. There will be inevitably in the family. From this.
When Xue learned about it, he cruelly took out the silver to buy jewelry for his daughter, even Yan Ling had a set, this movement naturally inevitably fell into the eyes of the caring people.
In a blink of an eye, it was the day before going out. When she went to Rong’antang to ask for peace, Yan Yan smiled when she saw Yan Ru and Yan Ling. Both of them have a faint black green now, it can be seen that they did not sleep well last night.
As usual, the old lady will let everyone go after an invitation. In the past, people would be reserved for breakfast or something, but now this one has long since stopped. Today, it is surprising, please do not give up after the peace.
“Second daughter-in-law, is this going to go out?” The old lady had a weird accent.
Shen Yiyao nodded and answered yes.
“It’s not as simple as going out in this way. Since the big girl and the fourth girl are all taken, take the second girl, the sixth girl, and the seventh girl too.”
The old lady spoke lightly, but the eyes of those present couldn’t help but focus on Shen Yiyao.
Yan Yan said displeased: “Grandma, my mother took me to Aunt Fang’s mansion. It was a long time since I saw her and went to be a guest. I took the eldest sister and the fourth sister to be my companions, and you asked my mother to take them. Which one came out?”
“Since you are a companion, wouldn’t it be better to have more?”
“Then do you think you can go to someone else’s house and take so many people?!”
Yan Yan’s tone was rather rude, the old lady’s face sank, Yan Ru Yanling looked at each other, Xue’s brows frowned. Chen’s head was half hanging down, while Yan Qian stared at this place closely.
“Second daughter-in-law, I won’t tell A Yan, you can talk about it. Now Qian girl is not young anymore. Even though she is a concubine, why should she call you mother? You don’t care about her marriage? There are six girls. Seventh girl, you who are the second aunt, take your nieces out and walk around, and help tell you a good marriage. It’s not an exaggeration.”
This is entirely a moral kidnapping and catching the ducks on the shelves. As long as Shen Yiyao dares to say no, the old lady has countless big ideas.
The truth is true, but the key depends on the situation. Let’s not mention what Aunt Pei did before. Yan Qian has never regarded Shen Yiyao as a mother, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is an enemy. They are rushing to tell their enemies a good relationship, only those with problems in their brains will do this.
Then there are six girls and seven girls. Except for the face, the three rooms usually hang up high, and they see Shen Yiyao, and they don’t even have an extra smile. Thinking of relying on someone to help you kiss me now? Where is such a good thing in the world!
What Yan Yan wanted to say was gently held by Shen Yiyao’s hand.
“Mother, you value your daughter-in-law too much. I don’t have the ability to help people talk to each other. When it comes to talking about relatives, there are official media and private media in Beijing. These are what they should do. As for the eldest girl and the fourth girl , That was because I had fun with A Yan. A Yan and the eldest daughter of Yiyong Hou Shizi’s wife, Selina, were playmates when they were young.”
Shen Yiyao’s tone was still unhurried, but her voice was rarely tough.
It can be regarded as confusing and misinterpreted what the old lady said. First of all, I’m not a matchmaker. She said that being a matchmaker is the job of a matchmaker. She didn’t plan to take everyone’s marriage on her own. In addition, she blamed the girls for making friends.
As soon as this statement came out, most of the faces on the court were unsightly. The old lady’s face was gloomy, Chen’s expression was very stiff, and there was a flash of resentment in her eyes, and Aunt Wu and Yan Qian were not to mention it.
There is nothing to choose from Shen Yiyao’s words. It is true. Which family wife will act as a matchmaker is not self-derogatory. Most of them are tacit, verbal temptation one or two, if they have such a meaning to each other, it will be a matter of course, and everything will be silent.
The old lady is obviously not that easy to deal with. In fact, everyone knows where to meet old friends this time, but it is to take a few girls out to socialize and prepare for future talks.
But the old lady didn’t understand. When did Shen Yiyao become so difficult, shouldn’t it be what she said? What’s the hindrance to bringing a few more girls out! In the mind of the old lady, she was never willing to consider whether you would like it or whether it was troublesome or not. As for any accidents or other things that happen to the girl after she goes out, she will naturally look for Shen Yiyao, who is taking you out.
After all, it’s going to someone else’s house. There are too many people and their own mothers can’t go with them. The maid can only take one or two at most, and she can’t go to someone else’s house and still have a large group. When something happened, accidents, contradictions, or, for example, the girl misbehaving, making jokes, that was the situation that Shen Yiyao considered, and no one wanted to take on these things!
“Since Ah Yan can take big girl and four girls, why can’t six girls and seven girls take it? Since children like to play together, it’s not more fun to have more people! Okay, it’s just going out to play One trip, how can there be so many things, let you take it with you!” The old lady gave a final word.
What else could Shen Yiyao say, she could only respond.
After leaving Rong’antang, Yan Yan looked ugly, and there were a few people in Dafang. Especially Yan Ru Yanling, it was a happy thing, how did she become disgusting in the end.
I’ve seen a duck on the shelf, but I haven’t seen one like this.
Xue’s face was not good, “Second siblings, all my sister-in-law caused trouble for you.” If it weren’t for Yan Ru Yanling, other people would not climb up the pole, making Shen Yiyao so embarrassed.
The old lady only said clearly, can you take care of the marriage of the two girls in Dafang, but others can’t take care of it?
“Auntie, since people have moved their minds, whether there are older sisters or others, this matter will come to my mother.” This incident did not go too far from Yan Yan’s expectations, but she did not expect when people were shameless. It would be so shameless.
Xue also gritted her teeth with hatred, “I can’t figure out how she Chen came out. Since you know that you are good for your daughter, you can’t say it in person? You will encourage the old lady to come out and force people to do things for her. So disgusting!”
She didn’t know, there was no role of Aunt Wu and Yan Qian here. Now that all the girls in the house are brought, it is naturally impossible to pull down the five girls.
“Fortunately, my mother pushed the others. If they want to follow along, let’s follow them. Anyway, it’s just a normal trip out this time!”
The Chens only thought that Shen Yiyao was going to take a few girls out, and they didn’t know the specific content. Since I don’t know the specific content, it’s easy to operate. Yan Yan was never a good-natured person, let alone a person who didn’t pay back after a loss.
Shen Yiyao also didn’t know what to say, and after speaking with a few people in Dafang, they went back to their rooms and prepared to wait for the going out.
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When it reappears, everyone wears a new look.
Especially Yan Yan, Yan Ru and Yan Ling, both dressed very beautifully, each with its own characteristics. Yan Qian and Yan Chan also came, all of them were carefully dressed up. If they weren’t prepared in advance, no one would believe them.
Knowing that you can’t take too many people when you go out, Miss Six and Miss Seven brought a woman and a maid. Yan Qian brought only one maid, and so did Yan Chan.
After being divided into four carriages, a group of people left the house mightily.
Shen Yiyao and Yan Yan took the first car, with Cuiqiao and Meixiang. Each of the other two girls took a car and took their own personal servant girls.
I took a carriage all the way to the side door of Yi Yonghou, got out of the carriage and changed to a small sedan. A small sedan can sit on two people, which happened to be four sedan chairs, and the maids followed the small sedan chair.
Yan Yan frowned along the way, and Shen Yiyao calmed down: “Okay, don’t be angry. You will have a smiling face when I see your Aunt Fang later.”
“She did it deliberately. I think she is worried that Yan Qian and their marriage is fake, and we are disgusting.”
Shen Yiyao adjusted the red gold ring around her daughter’s neck, “Okay, you don’t need to worry about this. What she wants to think is her business, let’s just take care of ourselves. With a maid following, there shouldn’t be anything going on. The big problem, not to mention this is where your Aunt Fang is, so let the subordinates take care of it more.”
The small sedan stopped at the second gate and got off the sedan, and there was a bright lady standing at the Chuihuamen and a crowd of people getting off. She wears a wishful phoenix hairpin, a golden peony flower gown, and a rose and purple pleated skirt. She is as beautiful as a peach and plum.
This person is the wife of Yiyong Hou Shizi, Ma Quanfang.
Seeing Shen Yiyao, she laughed, “Well, Madam Yan, you have to let me meet you personally.”
Compared with her, Shen Yiyao is quite plain today. However, she has always disliked too dazzling dressing, noble and graceful, and her own elegant temperament.
It seemed that seeing the handkerchief handing over made Shen Yiyao a lot more comfortable, and said with a smile: “I didn’t let you welcome it, it was you who wanted to come.”
“Well, it’s all mine, it’s me who want to come.”
The two smiled at each other, and Ma Quanfang’s eyes were placed on Yan Yan, “This is Xiao Ayan. I haven’t seen you in a few years. They have grown up so much and are better than your mother!”
Yan Yan pursed her lips and smiled, and called out, “Aunt Fang.”
Ma Quanfang hugged her in her arms and said affectionately: “The skin monkey used to be shy now, and we A Yan has become a big girl. Aunt Fang likes beautiful girls. Sue Yi is waiting for you in it, staying. You will play together later.”
After that, the three of them walked in the door first, followed by Yan Ru Yan Ling and Yan Qian, accompanied by the girls and the servants of Yiyong Hou’s mansion.
Along the way, carved beams and painted buildings, extraordinary style, extremely luxurious things.
Yiyong Hou Mansion is naturally not comparable to Weiyuan Hou Mansion. Yiyong Hou is also a mainstay of the court, and he is quite proud in front of the holy.
The regulations in this mansion are the same as those in Weiyuanhou Mansion, but there are fine craftsmanship everywhere, and where is the sight Yan Qian and others have seen. Involuntarily, he was born from his heart with cowardice, and he walked slowly, holding his breath and bowing his head, even dare not to come out of the atmosphere.
Compared with Yan Qian, Yan Ru and Yan Ling are more decent. After all, they have been specially taught. First of all, they walk with dignity and demeanor, even if they are more worried, at least they can’t show timidity on their faces.
At the very beginning, Ma Quanfang took Yan Yan’s hand and spoke to Shen Yiyao in a low voice: “Didn’t you just bring A Yan and two nieces here today? Who are the little girls behind?”
This is because the two have been in a close relationship since they were young. After changing someone else, Ma Quanfang would naturally not ask such rude words.
Seeing that Shen Yiyao’s look was not good, she raised her eyebrows: “It wasn’t your mother-in-law who forced it to you, right?”
Ma Quanfang is also aware of Shen Yiyao’s experience over the past few years, and it is not difficult to guess why. Especially when Shen Yiyao came back from Zhuangzi this time, and also came to Yiyonghou’s Mansion many times, Ma Quanfang was filled with indignation.
She is also behind the gate, and her temper is much more explosive than Shen Yiyao. When Shen Yiyao wanted to marry Yan Ting, she disagreed. Who knew that Shen Yiyao wanted to marry. Afterwards, I saw that although Shen Yiyao’s husband was not prominent, but he had a good time, Ma Quanfang was also at ease.
Unexpectedly, it’s just donkey dung and eggs outside, knowing people, knowing their faces and not knowing their hearts.
“This old godly woman thinks well. She usually doesn’t burn incense, but she would hold Buddha’s feet temporarily. What did you do? All the smelly smells are stuffed with you. You can control your girl, and control your niece to see fate. Others Does Chengdu want to rely on you?”
This is true. When Chen sees the two girls from Dafang running to the second room every day, and seeing Xue’s holding Shen Yiyao not losing, he naturally understands the reason. She also has two daughters herself, so naturally she wants people to go higher. But the key problem is that the Chen family usually has nothing to do with personal affairs, and the relationship with Shen Yiyao is not as good as that of outsiders. At the moment, I want to borrow it. Feeling shameless to say to Shen Yiyao, he urged the old lady to speak.
Although the matter is not big, it makes people feel uncomfortable how to think.
When Shen Yiyao thought of this, she frowned involuntarily.
Ma Quanfang hates that iron is not made into steel, “You are a good-natured person, so it goes without saying that those two aunts have also come. Their aunts hurt you so much, so you can care about them! I’ll go as far as I can. Just ask your family to get married at any time.”
“After all, it has nothing to do with the children.” Seeing the handkerchief handing over and trying to say something, Shen Yiyao quickly said: “Okay, my good sister, it’s not my good sex, but this concubine’s marriage is really under the control of my aunt. The two girls in the room were the old lady who had spoken, and they couldn’t manage one room, regardless of the other.”
Of course Ma Quanfang understood the reasoning, but that breath was not easy to swallow. What made her even more unbearable was how could some people raise that face!
“What’s more, I didn’t say that I want to take care of this stall. This time it’s about to happen. I really can’t turn it off. I’ll be more careful next time I come out.”
Ma Quanfang snorted and stopped talking.