Daughter Raiders

Chapter 149 Making Tea
Today, no outsiders came to Duke Qi's mansion. After everyone from the Su family arrived at the main courtyard where Mrs. Qi Guogong lived, Mrs. Miao also welcomed them out of the courtyard. .

Seeing this, Xiran turned back to look at the younger sisters, and they all had plans for each other—wait a while to go in and say hello to the uncle and grandma, and they had better avoid them, otherwise they would make the elders cry as well If you are not happy, you will not be happy when you laugh, so why bother.

However, I was able to enter the main room and greet Mrs. Qi Guogong. Although the old lady cried with red eyes, she was in good spirits. It seemed that she also knew that Qi Guogong's return was a great joy, and her tears were also tears of joy; Mrs. Su felt relieved, and greeted the three Miao girls with a smile: "You girls go find a place to play, and tell us to talk privately."

Mrs. Miao's eldest daughter, Miao Tianya, stood up gracefully and invited her cousins ​​and her two younger sisters to her yard with a smile: "I have asked the maids to prepare the water from Yuquan Mountain."

A group of girls gave their farewell ceremony like a butterfly piercing flowers and retreated, followed behind Miao Tianya to her small courtyard.

Miao Tianya and Xiran are of the same age, both 12 years old. It is said that this winter will also make a marriage agreement. The man's family name is Le, a hereditary Qianhu. He is 15 years old this year and works in the three major battalions of the Beijing Army; Tao Ran I have always wondered if my uncle and grandmother and Mrs. Miao were fed up with the general and her husband, so they found such a marriage for cousin Ya so considerately, and saved sister Ya from going on that worrying and lonely road. old road.

And although the Le family is only a hereditary family of thousands, it seems to be several ranks lower than the Miao family, the family status of the prince. Not to mention the fact that Sister Ya entered the house as a clan wife, her daily life is much less troublesome, and it is much more comfortable than marrying into those high-ranking and wealthy families.

As Tao Ran thought about it silently, a trace of envy and longing gradually appeared in his eyes.Since she was born into a girl's family, she was born to be unable to assist the king in martial arts, nor to travel around the world in style for a lifetime. Isn't she looking forward to marrying into a good family in the future, and all the chips are on this step?

"Sixth Sister, be careful about the threshold." Tao Ran was just thinking about it, when a small hand helped him up, and at the same time, there was a crisp reminder from Yue Ran.

Tao Ran tilted her head slightly, and met Yue Ran's eyes full of smiles. Before she could speak, Yue Ran lowered her voice and thanked her: "If Sixth Sister gave me the carriage before leaving the house, I would ..."

"Seventh Sister is too polite." Tao Ran took Yue Ran's hand and replied with a light smile, "It's just a trivial matter, Seventh Sister doesn't need to take it to heart."

Having said that, Tao Ran couldn't help being deeply moved.Sister Yue was so scheming at such an age, if she hadn't been really unlucky back then, and her fiancé died after she got engaged, she might have a better future than any sister who was born on the same day.

So what did she envy sister Ya for?If you want to live a good life, although you can't do without your own planning and the love of your elders, you also have to hope that your future destiny will not be biased by God...

After a while, all the people entered Miao Tianya's main room, and Miao Tianya smiled apologetically, "The west room is too small, so I can only invite my sisters to serve tea in the east room. "

There is an unwritten rule for women in the capital to treat guests. Only those who are close to each other can drink tea and talk on the kang in the owner's Xici room. The relationship is mediocre, so I can only sit upright on the Taishi chair in Dongcijian, and my speech and behavior are not vague at all.

But now there are only six girls from the Su family, plus sisters Qi and Hui from the Miao family, and sister Ya herself, there are nine girls, not to mention that there is only one shop in Xici. The big kang by the window, even if you come to another bunk, you still can't sit down.

So Shang Xiran and An Ran didn't care about it, they smiled and said that Dong Ci was fine; Yue Ran's hand held by Tao Ran suddenly trembled, and Tao Ran was about to ask her what's wrong, but she pretended to be fine Generally relaxed.

Tao Ran sighed mockingly.Not to mention that she was born of a concubine, Sister Yue, wasn't she the same back then?Although she seldom went out as a guest for many years, if she went out once in a while, but was invited to the second room, she felt very disturbed, thinking that she was too boring and therefore unpleasant.

Fortunately, she has come back to life now, her temper has become much more lively and cheerful, and her thoughts are not so heavy.Otherwise, there are many more opportunities to go out and about in this life than in the previous life, so she can come here in a hurry.

Miao Tianya's Dongci room is very spacious, and there is only a three-foot-wide Baibao Pavilion separated from Dongshu's room.The girls sat down one after another, and Miao Tianya softly asked the maids to boil water, wash cups and make tea, and said to everyone with a smile: "I have always been clumsy and not good at tea art, so I have to ask the servants to make tea for you gone."

Yan Ran was eager to try it: "If my sisters and sisters don't dislike me, I'll make the tea."

The girls from the Su family are attending classes at the Tixiang Pavilion. Mr. Xue not only teaches some piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and songs, but also tea ceremony and incense. Yan Ran is always praised by Mr. Xue as the one who learns the best. Well, she couldn't bear it if she wasn't asked to show her hand.

Miao Tianya was full of embarrassment.Although the tea ceremony is elegant, it is still a job of serving people. Cousin Yan is a guest, and she asks the guests to make tea for them, but the maids don’t use it for nothing. What is the way of hospitality?
"Eldest sister, let third cousin go. I also drank the tea made by third cousin at my aunt's house, and it was much better than the tea made by the maids. Especially the movements of third cousin when making tea are really flowing. It’s more enjoyable than the sweetness of drinking tea.” Sister Hui helped Yanran speak with a smile.

Yan Ran has always been someone who likes to show off, she is willing to make tea for everyone to drink, why bother to stop her.Not to mention that Yanran used to be a guy with eyes above the top, but now she suddenly wants to show her hospitality on a whim, and Sister Hui also wants to see what kind of medicine she sells in this gourd.

Tao Ran sat silently and smiled.

The day before yesterday at the Tixiang House was the tea ceremony class. Mr. Xue thought she was clumsy. When he picked up the small tea bowl that had been soaked in hot water with bamboo tweezers, he dripped the residual water all over the table, and poured the brewed tea into the tea bowl. And the allocation was too full, and you had to be careful of burning your hands when serving a bowl of tea, so she was kept in the hall at noon that day...

And although Yanran was more restrained than the previous two years, she still couldn't hide her gloating smile at her after class that day.Now that Yanran is showing off her tea art in public again, I'm afraid most of them want to take the opportunity to laugh at her.

Just as she was thinking like this, she heard Yan Ran greet her with a smile: "Why don't the sixth sister come and help me iron the tea bowl, so that I can review what Mr. Xue taught in class again, so that she won't keep you in class every day." !"

(End of this chapter)