378, the third day of September
Years in the mountains, moods at the sea.
Although I have been traveling around in the mountains and rivers these days, because I have a heavy responsibility, Xiaoxiao dared not relax at all, and played and thought along the way. She also collected all the leaves, wild flowers and interesting stones on each mountain. Even those iconic trees and attractions were numbered by Xiaoxiao.
In order to maintain the original appearance of Jiushan, Xiaoxiao and others visited only half of the Jiushan Mountains: each mountain chose a place that is easier to climb for sightseeing. The other part was reserved, either from the hillside to the top of the mountain, or the other side of the entire mountain. In the future, it will find ways to isolate and protect the environment from the tourist area in the future. Ensuring tourism safety is another important reason.
When these mountains truly become tourist attractions, we naturally have to set up posts and posts to do a good job of security. Therefore, those areas where the mountains are particularly steep or where wild animals appear will be isolated.
After a few people visited the nine mountains without stopping, it was already the third day of September.
It was not until the evening that Xiaoxiao and her grandfather returned to the Tang Mansion.
Xiaoxiao had no time to eat clothes for dinner and didn't have time to change the floor, and hurriedly took the carriage out of the corner gate. Xiao Dier accompanied the girl and asked unconsciously: "Where are we going?"
"Go to Wenjia Xiangpu." Xiaoxiao sat in the carriage and opened the curtain outside the carriage. The third day of the ninth month was the day when Wen Xixiu left Beijing. He said that he would pass by Xiangpu during the Xu hour.
I agreed to come and send him a gift.
Xiao Dier took out the hot buns from the food box and said, "Girl, let's eat something first."
"You eat first, I'm not hungry yet." Xiaoxiao lowered her head and looked at her clothes today in Jiushan. In order to make it easier to walk, she almost always wore Hu clothes. Today, this one is deep diamond purple, and the sandalwood silk satin lapel is shining with dark flowers with yellow leaves.
Xiaoxiao straightened the purple-gauze hat on the top of her head with both hands, and the familiar xylophone alley arrived.
Perhaps because of the late autumn, Wenjiaxiangpu seems to have experienced much vicissitudes all of a sudden. No matter how long the rose blooms, it will always bloom and fail for a day. Now the rose vines in front of the door are only left with old green leaves. The flowers bloom, leaving behind orange-red fallen fruits.
After late autumn, the time for shopping in the street shops was also advanced. At this time, only the hall of the incense shop was still on.
The smell of the rouge dew in the hall will last for a long time.
A girl who looked like a maid stood at the door. Seeing Xiaoxiao getting off the carriage, she hurriedly greeted her: "Thank you for your hard work in Miss Tang."
Xiaoxiao still remembers this girl. When she stayed in Xia Shizhai that night in Rose Banquet, this girl from the Wen family served her. If she remembers correctly, her name should be Fu Zhu.
Because her name is probably from Wang Wei's "Xi Shi Yong" invites someone Fu Zhufen, and she doesn't like Luoyi (the same work: Fu Xiangfen), Xiaoxiao decided that she should be the girl in Xizifang. Now seeing that she seems to be waiting for her here, she guessed that this person should have been transferred from Xizifang to Wenxixiu's yard.
Fu Zhu helped Xiaoxiao into the hall and sat: "I am the girl next to the Fourth Master. Now I am taking the order of the Fourth Master to wait for Miss Tang here just to hand this letter to the girl."
Xiaoxiao took the letter and did not open it. Instead, he looked at the night outside the window: "He is leaving Beijing early?"
Fu Zhu didn't feel impressed by Miss Tang's intelligence: "Please let Miss Tang forgive me."
“When did you leave?”
"Early this morning," Fu Zhu didn't want Miss Tang to have a misunderstanding. "The Fourth Master stood in front of the incense shop for an hour, but it was not yet dawn..."
Fu Zhu didn't understand why the master was like this. Since she had agreed to see him off, why should she leave early?
Since you are not ready to accept the farewell, why should you stand stupidly at the door of the incense shop for so long?
This is a mess. Fu Zhu wants to make a lie for her master, but now she can only look at Miss Tang innocently: "No one in the whole mansion knows that the Fourth Master has left today. Since the Fourth Master told Miss Tang, he just treats the girl different from others."
"Who did he take?" Xiaoxiao sat by the window wearing a Hu suit, her hat pressed down low, like a handsome boy.
"I only brought two disciples who made incense, and this time I didn't even bring my entourage." In Fu Zhu's opinion, it would be better not to bring the entourage of the Fourth Master. If they knew their true whereabouts, they would definitely report it to the master and his wife secretly.
Xiaoxiao nodded and took off a purple jade hat from the side of the purple gaunt hat on his head: "It's hard for you to make it clear, I've been waiting for me here for so long."
Fu Zhu wanted to give in, but looking at Miss Tang's unquestionable expression, she thanked the girl for accepting the reward. The cool purple jade beads were in the palm of her hand, and the hat was a bunch of small silver-leaf purple grapes.
Fu Zhu thought that when she saw her master a year later, she showed him the purple grapes. Then she told him that there were many scenes today and that Miss Tang had the bunch of grapes on her hat.
Xiaoxiao stood up and looked at the night outside the window. On the dark and dark sky, a thin white crescent moon hung in the sky like a legend.
Fu Zhu understood Xizi when she followed Xizi, and also understood the Fourth Master when she followed the Fourth Master. But the girl Tang in front of her was really hard to see and touch.
Fu Zhu said: "The Fourth Master said he would write letters back regularly."
Xiaoxiao's eyes were still looking at the crescent moon: "He just doesn't want to part in a hurry."
After being explained by Miss Tang, everything seemed to make sense.
Seeing that Miss Tang seemed to be saying goodbye, Fu Zhu suddenly remembered that there was another important thing that had not been done: "I should die, I forgot the serious matter!" As she said that, she took out a handkerchief from her arms and said that it would be only used whenever she had no choice."
Xiaoxiao opened the layers of hand towels and saw a string of copper keys inside. It turned out to be a mother key and nine son keys: "What door is this confidential key used to open?"
"I don't know either, so I was only ordered to bring this thing." Fu Zhu bit her lip, "I will keep this matter secret."
Although Xiaoxiao was puzzled, she still kept the key carefully and asked Xiao Dier to choose a layer of hot snacks from the food box to give to Fu Zhu, and then left in a carriage.
Along the way, I looked at Yin Yue in the sky through the car window, and felt that the journey was long. I walked for a long time before I returned to the Tang family from Xiangpu.
At the door of Dongjiaomen, I actually saw the long-lost golden sedan chair. Xiaoxiao asked the carriage to give way to the sedan chair, but the sedan chair stopped.
At this time, she was actually allowed to leave the house? In Xiaoxiao's heart, this woman should be "lifelong prison".
The two maids approached the carriage: "Madam Shunhua invites the fifth girl to come and talk."
Xiaoxiao was stunned. She actually knew her carriage, so she had to make up her clothes. She got out of the carriage and went to pay tribute to her. She lowered her head slightly, and the fragrance of the sedan chair was filled with the sedan chair: "My niece has seen her third aunt."
Mrs. Shunhua seemed to be in a good mood today and said coquettishly: "I have agreed to call me Shunhua, but my aunt and I have called everyone old."
Xiaoxiao then raised her head to look at her, and was shocked by the person in front of her again, with a dark wide-sleeved robe embroidered with deep and shallow silk chrysanthemums, as lively and gorgeous as fireworks in the dark night, but the left collar was dark and unbelievable.
"I like your hat," Shunhua happily pulled Xiaoxiao and sat next to him, looking left and right at Xiaoxiao's Hu like a child, "I just got a box of chrysanthemums and a box of ginkgo leaves. I'll give it to you for a hat!"
"My niece also got a box of beautiful stones. If the lady doesn't dislike it, she will take it to enjoy it. It's also good to keep it in the flower pot in the fish tank." Xiaoxiao said, and ordered Xiao Dier who was waiting outside the sedan chair, "Go and take the red box containing the stones."
"Don't call me madam, that's all the exclusive names of old ladies!" Shunhua personally opened the box of chrysanthemums, selected a purple-gold-inlaid dali chrysanthemum, and helped Xiaoxiao stop on the hat, "Oh, don't be so pretty!"
Xiaoxiao was speechless for a moment, and felt her head heavy. I thought this purple chrysanthemum was worth a lot of money.
I remembered that when I was in Jiushan, I talked to my grandfather about this mysterious third aunt. My grandfather's tone was relatively plain: "It's your dear aunt, but she is not very smart, but she is very rich. If you reward you with any treasure, just collect it. If you want to sell it, sell it, wear it, and give it to others if you want to give it to others."
The grandfather could follow the second half of the sentence, but Xiaoxiao didn't believe it, and he didn't speak of his daughter at the time, as if he was talking about a helpless burden.
The Tang family attaches great importance to family affection, and it is impossible for grandparents to have such indifferent attitude towards their biological daughters.
"Look at my hairstyle today!" Shunhua's happy voice pulled Xiaoxiao back to reality. At this time, she was proudly showing Xiaoxiao her new hairstyle. The black feathers made of large chrysanthemums were worn on her head. From a distance, she looked like a black bun. The silver tassels as thin as spider silk drooped from below the chrysanthemums, and the top was lined with luminous beads, and the fluorescent green light added to the charm.
"Shunhua is unique today." Xiaoxiao told the truth.
Shunhua pulled the silver tassel hanging on the left and left it to his right ear, and it turned into a silver veil woven by thin silk.
A maid brought over the red box that Xiaoxiao said, and Shunhua opened it himself and saw it: "Ho, it's so heavy! Is this colorful, agate?"
"It's just the stones on the mountain. I saw that they were beautiful, so I picked up some of them back." Xiaoxiao picked up a honey-colored stone casually, "If you look at the sun, the patterns inside will be like a bee!"
Shunhua illuminated the glass lamp for a long time: "I saw it and saw it! It really looks like a thin-waisted bee! I want to hang this stone on the skirt strap!"
When Xiaoxiao saw Shunhua dancing, she suddenly felt that she was a bit cute too.
Shunhua picked up the pieces of stones and looked at them carefully: "Xiaoxiao, look, what does the white pattern on this black stone look like?"
Xiaoxiao looked like a bow at first, but was afraid that the other party wouldn't understand, so he simply said, "It's a bit like a round-winged white butterfly."
"Where is such a round winged butterfly?" Shunhua smiled wickedly and quietly said to Xiaoxiao, "I look like a butt~"
Xiaoxiao:...
Shunhua laughed all the way, and the sedan chair slowly stopped.
Shunhua looked at the familiar residence outside and yawned: "I'm tired today, otherwise I must ask you to play upstairs for a while!"
Xiaoxiao didn't want to go upstairs to play: "It's late, Shunhua will go back and rest."
"By the way, I invited the musician from Dongfeng Pavilion to play the piano for me. The time has not been decided yet. You must come to Shunhua Tower to support me!" Shunhua put the stones one by one into the box one by one.
"But are you intoxicated with Dongfeng Music Hall?" Xiaoxiao never expected that she could move Gong Basheng's musicians from Qiyuan to her Shunhua Building.
"If I want to listen, I will listen to the best." Shunhua pursed his purple lips, looking indifferent.
What is the point of being rich like this?
Xiaoxiao said goodbye to Shunhua, and returned to her carriage and opened the two boxes she admired. The chrysanthemum box was filled with all kinds of chrysanthemums, including gold, jade, gems, crystal, silk, silk, velvet, yarn, and even woodcuts. In the other box, there were dozens of ginkgo leaves made of various gold. Judging from the shape and texture, it was no different from the real ginkgo leaves. What is amazing is that there were dozens of large black pearls rolling among these leaves.
Xiaoxiao tsk, and he couldn't bear to sell it even though he was willing to sell it, so he planned to choose some as treasures for his grandmother and mother.
"I'm home, is the girl entering the yard?" Xiao Di'er was also shocked by the two boxes of babies. The girl also chose a juanya aster and gave it to her. At first, she thought it was appropriate, but later she found that the flower center of the chrysanthemum was a large emerald, which scared Xiao Di'er even dared to wear it.
Xiaoxiao and Xiao Dier stood in front of the Zhuli Pavilion, and they didn't want to enter the yard for a while, they just felt that their mood was different from usual.
When you walk to Yangbi Lake, you will see the crescent moon in the sky again, which is a very fine cool feeling in late autumn.
The horned lamp was tied to the weeping willows on the shore. Xiaoxiao took out Wen Xixiu's letter, which was just a thin piece of paper. When you opened it, there was only a few poems:
Poor night on the third day of the September lunar month, the dew is like a pearl moon and a bow.
Chapter completed!