Chapter 69 Beauty but a good man

The Duke's wife Huang was extremely busy these days. The eldest princess had a vigorous birthday. More than a dozen warehouses in the house were filled with congratulatory gifts. The gift lists handed over by the guests alone were full of more than 20 boxes. Checking the greetings, inventory and registering books were enough to make people busy. Rotten, not to mention preparing gifts according to those gift lists.

Most of the guests who take the initiative to come to the house and have no contact with the government have different intentions, and the gifts are particularly rich. For this kind of people, of course, they should sort out the gift list and show it to the Lord Wei, the head of the family, or return a considerable or even more generous gift according to the gift list, indicating that they are not ungrateful. Everyone will come less in the future. Past; or the return gift is slightly lighter than the congratulatory gift, indicating that although the Duke of Wei welcomes you, it is limited to the friendship on the scene, if it is something to get promoted and make a fortune... Well, everyone knows; or accept it all according to the list - congratulations, you have become relatives and friends of the Duke of Wei, and everyone will be glorious in the future.

Of course, the probability of the last situation is very small, so the return gift prepared by Huang must be complicated.

Although people who often come and go with the government do not have to prepare gifts, their gift lists have to be written and preserved. When the other party has a happy birthday, or gets married and has children, anyway, when they are guests of a big banquet, they will prepare a considerable amount of congratulatory gifts to send.

What's more, Jia Fu has invited a matchmaker and sent Jia Wenxiang's Geng Tie to formally propose marriage. Seeing that he was about to be busy with Su Lian's "six gifts" program, he divided Huang's thoughts.

Since the birthday banquet, Mrs. Kong and Mrs. Zhen have handed over invitations to invite Huang to be a guest, and it is not easy for her to refuse.

Of course, Huang knew what the two wives were so enthusiastic about, but the marriage of the son of the Duke of Wei, her stepmother, could not be the master, so she had to wake up and play Tai Chi with the two wives, not only to maintain a close friendship, but also not to speak too full.

The next day, Mrs. Zhen invited Mrs. Zhen to go to the house to enjoy flowers - the gardenia in her garden. This kind of flower is common in the south, but it is very rare in Jinyang Beijing. Mrs. Zhen said that she was a gardener who specially invited from western Hunan and wasted a lot of thought about planting, so that she had "suspected to be frost-wrapped leaves, compound snow-sealed branches, sun oblique light and shadow, and wind A picture of a garden.

When Huang was a guest, of course, she had to bring several little women. If it had been in the past, it would have been necessary to have Yichen, but the eldest princess was worried about the winged orchid hairpin, and she didn't know when it would cause a disturbance. She was safe to see, so she left Yichen in the house and only let Yijing and Liu Niang accompany her.

However, when the mother and daughter left, Li hurriedly brought the well-dressed second and fourth mother to Ruiyuan and begged to let Huang take the second and fourth mother to Zhen's mansion. Then he pulled Huang and muttered for a while, thinking that he was "euphemistic" expressed his intention: "The two little men of the Zhen family, one of whom is ten this year. Five, one is thirteen this year. In terms of age, it is just right for Er Niang and Si Niang. After saying that, he stared at Huang with shining eyes. A sister-in-law was a smart man and understood what she meant.

Huang can't laugh or cry. Mrs. Zhen's eyes are too high, and she can't see the second mother and the fourth mother. Besides, the "rare thing" of the direct sisters marrying into a house is also unheard of. Not to mention that Mrs. Zhen also wants Zhen Si Niang to become the daughter-in-law of the Duke of Wei. This noble family is the most taboo to be so "easy to get married".

Seeing that he could not refuse, Huang wanted to go with Li, but Li also knew himself and refused with a smile, but he brazenly left Er Niang and Si Niang in He Ruiyuan.

Yijing expressed infinite sympathy with Si Niang's golden pearls, jade and beautiful red costumes.

Zhenfu's house has three entrances and three exits, but its scale is much smaller than that of Wei Guogongfu. Most of the courtyards are square and connected by the corridor. Although there are also green flowers in the courtyard, most of them are along the corridor. The courtyard still maintains the style of open and bright northern gardens, and only the gardens on the east and west roads can rely on It is elegant and beautiful according to the landscape of the south.

A mast flower tree is planted densely along the lotus pond and sits in the red pavilion by the pond, but she feels that a quiet fragrance is also refreshing, but the scenery does not have much time to appreciate the flowers. She has to cheer up to deal with Zhen Mo's enthusiasm and has to protect other...

At the luncheon, Su Xing, who was originally in the National Prison, suddenly came to Zhen's house. It turned out that it was difficult to invite Zhen Sanlang, a classmate. He heard that his mother and sister were also visiting in Zhen's house, so he followed him.

Since he came to the door and was supposed to be polite, he naturally came to greet Mrs. Zhen, so he naturally met Zhen Mo.

Yijing was very depressed. She tried her best to arrange it. It was not easy to avoid the "mination" between her eldest brother and Zhen Mo. Unexpectedly, she did not prevent Mrs. Zhen's calculation. After all, Su Xing and Zhen Mo met.

Fortunately, today, in addition to his sister and Zhen Mo, there was also a little woman in the Kong family and a little lady in Mrs. Zhen's house Liao's house. After Su Xun's greetings, it was not convenient to stay for a long time. He went to the front yard for dinner. He and Zhen Mo hurriedly met, but they just politely asked her and didn't pay much attention to dressing up today. , Zhen Mo is much more gentle and elegant than usual.

Yijing believes that Zhen's mother and daughter carefully arranged this flower appreciation banquet, and the purpose should not only make Zhen Mo and her eldest brother hurry for a while, and there are still some tricks.

At a luncheon, the scenery was worried, and there were also Si Niang, who obviously received Li's "admonice" and felt that her rich and graceful dress was very abrupt. She swept away the cheerfulness of the past and was as silent as Liu Niang. Only Er Niang was eager to show her " gentle and virtuous" in front of Mrs. Zhen-- Earlier, I met Zhen Jiasanlang. Although he looked slightly ordinary compared with his eldest brother's demeanor, he was also a polite teenager, and he was also as noble as the crown princess's direct brother. The second mother was very satisfied and particularly admired her mother's vision.

If she can become the wife of the Zhen family's legitimate son in the future, let's see if those noble daughters will despise her biological mother who does not have a famous girl.

Mrs. Zhen is very wary of the attention of the second mother, but because of Zhen Mo's marriage, it is difficult to treat the "guests" of the Duke's office coldly, which is very perfunctory.

And Zhen Mo has also seemed to be absent-minded since she met Su Wei.

In short, the atmosphere between the guests and the guests was slightly depressed at this luncheon.

After the banquet, Mrs. Zhen asked Zhen Mo to take the little ladies to hang out in the garden, and she only tasted tea with Huang.

Yijing naturally woke up 12 points of spirit and prevented the "inadvertent" encounter between Zhen Mo and her eldest brother.

But after visiting for a long time, the encounter never happened.

Mrs. Zhen is proud. Of course, she disdains to use that obvious means to get her daughter's reputation, resulting in unclear facts. She forcibly married her daughter to the Duke of Wei. Even though she is eager to promote this marriage, she is still hoping that it can be successful.

"It's too hot. Let's go to the tea room in the shade for a while." Zhen Mo led the people to visit most of the garden and pointed to a row of red beam carved windows in the shade of the locust and said.

The scenery was far away, but when I saw that the "tea room" was very spacious, but after entering from the door set in the west, it was not as spacious as I witnessed, so I guessed that it might be separated into two rooms.

Her guess is very correct. At this time, Su Xun and the Zhen brothers were playing against each other. Because they did not talk, the little women did not find that there were ears on the wall, but the noble women laughed and talked happily here, but let the men next door hear it clearly.

Su Xing raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhen Sanlang.

Zhen Sanlang smiled gently and apologized in a low voice: "I think it was Si Niang who attracted guests to gossip in the compartment, but it disturbed us." But there was no intention to ask Su Xing to move.

As a guest, Su Wei can only say that she doesn't mind.

When Yijing heard Zhen Mo's proposal to learn the piano, he also guessed that there was an ear on the wall.

It seems that Zhen Mo is still concerned about being talented and wants her eldest brother to see her talent.

It is not easy for guests to refuse the proposal of the master.

After thinking about the scenery, I suddenly thought about it.

Seeing that Zhen Mo asked the maid to put Yaoqin and Qin Zheng, half hugged the pipa, and was ready.

"I heard that Sister Mo plays the pipa well. I wonder if she would like to play with me today?" Yujing said with a smile.

Zhen Mo was slightly stunned.

At the birthday banquet of the eldest princess on that day, she was forced to choose Yang Qin. Unexpectedly, she commenced with Yu Anhui and got a "humiliation". Not only did she impress the "good man", but she also became the laughing stock of others for no reason. She was very unwilling. Then she discussed her mother and took this opportunity to let Sanlang take the Duke of Wei. The son of the world attracted the tea room and listened to her play a song carefully to win back a game.

Originally, she wanted to highlight the solo, but since Yijing proposed the ensemble... It's really not easy for her to refuse.

I had to pretend to be honored to promise.

However, it was said that the chess game between Su Wei and Sanlang was glued. Suddenly, they heard a Yaoqin Pipa, and both of them temporarily forgot the fight between vertical and horizontally.

"This pipa is the happiest of my fourth sister." Zhen Sanlang seemed to say something unintentionally.

But suddenly heard that the rhythm of the piano sound changed, and it became more and more exciting, and the sonorous meaning came through the wall.

The pipa could still keep up at first, but gradually, it was a little reluctant.

Later, it was even a little messy.

Zhen Sanlang's look became a little embarrassed... What's wrong with the fourth sister? Why did she play with others? However, it can't keep up with the pace of that person, isn't it exposing his shortness?

Over there, Liu Niang also seemed to feel that beautiful scenery was embarrass Zhen Mo, and looked at her fifth sister in surprise.

Zhen Mo's expression was naturally a little stiff. Her pipa was originally good, but the scenery deliberately accelerated the rhythm. Zhen Mo was completely unprepared and could only barely keep up. The two of them cooperated in this ensemble without any tacit understanding.

Yi Jing immediately apologized: "It's all my fault. I accelerated the rhythm on a whim. Sister Mo, don't be annoyed."

Reaching out not to hit the smiling face, not to mention that this person still has to please. Zhen Mo is depressed, but she has to pretend to be smiling, saying that she is not good at it and can't keep up with the rhythm of the beautiful scenery.

Except for Er Niang - when she heard that she was going to compare with the piano, she immediately said that she seemed to have had a stroke and closed her eyes to refresh herself. The other little women all stroked a song to cheer up, and Zhen Mo was slightly depressed for a while and regained her enthusiastic style. She kept laughing and did not hesitate to praise Liu Niang's piano skills.

But suddenly a maid shouted: "Madam, why is your shrimp bracelet missing?"

This sentence suffocated the laughter in the tea room, and everyone's eyes looked at the maid - the maid of the maid of the Confucius family. At this time, she was full of panic and pointed to the case next to her: "Just now, the lady wanted to stroke the piano. She thought the bracelet was in the way and took it off and put it here. Why did she fly away by mistake?"

This Confucius lady is the direct niece of the current queen, with a single name of Lan.

At this time, she also stared at the empty case with an inexplicable face.

Ying frowned and glanced at Zhen Mo. Seeing her expression, she was cold and solemn in an instant. She opened her mouth and asked, "Alan, is that bracelet really missing?"

Kong Lan immediately panicked: "I obviously took it off when I was cleaning my hand and put it here casually. After a while... Although this bracelet is not worth anything, it is given by my grandmother. How can this be good?"

Because the noble women wanted to stroke the piano, the maids of Zhen's mansion just held it into Qingling, so that they could teach you to clean their hands first and go in and out many times. What's more, the little women were separated from sitting, or gossiping with others, or going to stroke the piano and playing with the kites. The scene was once a little messy, and no one paid attention to the wheres of the bracelet.

Zhen Mo glanced coldly at the maid: "Who, who paid attention to that bracelet?"

Naturally, no one spoke, and the maids of Zhenfu panicked.

They treated their guests, and they were all noble daughters, but they made such a disturbance. It was rumored that there was a bad family. Zhen Mo was very annoyed and snorted coldly: "There are only a few people in the tea room, but I didn't expect that there were thieves. If no one admits it, I will inevitably search your bodies so that I can give you an excuse!"

The maids of Zhenfu knelt down in a row, claiming that they were willing to be searched to prove their innocence.

But the maid in this room is not only Zhen's.

Of course, nothing was found on the maids of Zhenfu.

Bing was full of doubts. She intuitively felt that the bracelet was strange. Maybe it was Zhen Mo's arrangement, but she couldn't figure out her intention.

After the innocence of the maids of Zhenfu was confirmed, the feelings of the noble goddesses present became complicated.

Kong Lan is still in a hurry——

"How can this be born? That shrimp bracelet is my grandmother's dowry."

Zhen Mo looked at the noble women with embarrassment: "I don't want this to happen. In fact, you are all distinguished guests invited by our house. You shouldn't have been neglected, but if the bracelet can't be found, this matter will be publicized, and others may not know how to talk about it."

Er Niang's "summer" has long since disappeared. She was single-minded to flatter Zhen Mo, and immediately said, "Why does Amo need to be embarrassed? Just start with me and let you search your body.

Yi Jing frowned again and looked at Er Niang, which was quite funny.

Of course, Zhen Mo will not be so abrupt and quickly waved his hand: "How dare I doubt you? We are all famous maids, and we will never do such ugly things. I'm afraid of those maids..."

"Siniang wants to search for our maids?" Liu Niang, who didn't make a sound at half a sound, asked coldly.

"My bracelet doesn't have long feet. How could it suddenly disappear? Which maid's eyelids must be shallow..." Kong Lan came forward in time to relieve the siege: "I'm not afraid of the shadow slanting. Amo's proposal is also for everyone's innocence."

Si Niang and the scenery both had a tight little face and did not make a sound.

Of course, they don't want the maid to be searched. This is not a matter of not being guilty. It involves the dignity of the house.

Zhen Mo is obviously very difficult.

"Report to the official." Liu Niang suddenly said, "After such a theft, the suspect is not only the maid. Even if it is found, I'm afraid that the master can't get rid of the suspicion of instructions. It's better to let the official cut off justice."

This statement is so resolute that it is difficult to turn around for a while.

Binjing still measures Zhen Mo's expression... What is the purpose of playing this game?

But Zhen Mo suddenly said, "That bracelet has been found!"

This is even more confusing.

Zhen Mo suddenly got up and took a few steps to the Baibaoge against the wall. In the surprised eyes of the crowd, he reached out, turned around, spread out his palms, and faced the crowd, but asked Kong Lan alone, "Alan, look, is this your bracelet?"

Kong Lan was surprised. He took the bracelet and looked at it over and over again. He was very surprised: "How can this bracelet..."

And when I saw this, I suddenly realized.

Zhen Mo originally prepared not only a pipa song, but also wanted to use such a farce to show her wisdom.

The beautiful scenery was dark, and he unconsciously looked at the partition with landscape murals hanging on the side, guessing whether the eldest brother behind the wall was interested in the storm here.

In the room, Su Xing and Zhen Sanlang's chess game has been completely deadlocked. Both of them meditated and listened to Zhen Mo's judgment of the case.

In this side, Zhen Mo coldly looked at the maidservant in blue standing behind Liao's Aqing: "Just now, when I observed, I only saw this maid approaching Baibaoge, took out something from her sleeve and quietly put it on."

Liao's Aqing looked back in shock and stared at the maidservant in blue: "Xiao Hong, is it really you?"

The maidservant in green trembled like sieve, and her knees were soft and she collapsed to the ground: "The maidservant... The maidservant really can't force it. Madam, please..."

"What a cheap maidservant, how dare you steal." Liao's Aqing was so angry that she was so angry that she wanted to slap her over, but she still remembered that she couldn't lose her appearance in front of outsiders. For a moment, her eyes turned red, and she only apologized to Zhen Mo: "I really didn't expect that there would be such a cheap maidservant with such unclean around me, so that... This maidservant will be handed over to her sister and let her disposal."

Zhen Mo sat down at this time, and his cold and solemn expression swept away, only comforting A Qing: "Sister, don't be annoyed, no one wants to do such an ugly thing. Mo Ru listen to the maid's explanation clearly and see if it is understandable."

Yingjing lowered her eyes silently, and she really called "good" for Zhen Mo. She was not only decisive and wise, but also generous and kind, which was really a model for everyone's boudoir.

It is the Mrs. Kong who lost things, and the maid of Liao Prefecture who stole things. It's true. It's a coincidence.

Although Mrs. Zhen's Bai family came from a noble family, her biological mother Liao was not from a noble family. Mrs. Zhen's father was just a member of Gaozu's family. He married a wife, but only a business woman.

After the founding of Dalong, with the help of the Bai family, the Liao family had children to become officials and gradually got rid of the identity of merchants. However, compared with those hope families, it was naturally a humble family.

Therefore, the Liao family is willing to have a "thief" maid to complete Zhen Mo's "intelligent" and "gancedness".

Xiaohong naturally has a miserable background. Her mother is sick and lingering on the bed, so she was sold to people's teeth. Some days ago, she heard that her father was also coughing blood, and her parents' life became more and more difficult. However, when she entered Liao's mansion, she had no savings, and she was very anxious. Today, when she saw the bracelet, her brain was hot. I just became greedy.

In a word, everyone was worried.

Of course, Zhen Mo would plead for her. She not only gave the maid 30 taels of silver and asked her to treat her parents, but also persuaded Liao Aqing to forgive the miserable maid and pleaded with everyone, but this did not happen today.

Er Niang and Kong Lan praised Zhen Mo's heart, while Si Niang had been absent-minded. Seeing that the storm subsided, Liu Niang ignored it.

"Amo, you said at first that you wanted to search for the maids of others, but it turned out to be a blindfold?"

"At first, I thought it was the maids in the family who were greedy, but when I saw that they asked themselves to search for their innocence, I realized that I had wrongly blamed them, but the bracelet was indeed missing. It was not my maid, but it must be the maid beside you. So I proposed to search, and I saw that the little red face was flustered and changed color. When Liu Niang reported to the newspaper, she trembled all over and quietly approached the Baibaoge when people were unprepared. I expected that she must be a guilty thief and afraid of being stolen goods, so she put the bracelet there.

"Thanks to Amo's sharpness, so many of us have so many eyes, but none of us has noticed the strangeness of the little red."

In the end, this farce ended perfectly with Kong's Alan's admiration for Zhen Mo.