Red makeup against the world

Chapter 179 The Merchant's Daughter
The interior space is huge, it is said to be an Accord, but in fact it is not much different from a hall.The furnishings are elegant and generous, and luxury is everywhere.Four huanghuali round tables inlaid with mica stones are placed among them, and the legs of the tables are wrapped with gold leaf.There are a row of tables and a row of mahogany carved mahogany chairs under the Xuan window.Hanging on the wall are the original works of calligraphy and painting masters of the former dynasty, and tea and turnip incense flows out quietly from the purple sand Avalokitesvara incense burner, and the room is fragrant.

Several women were sitting around a round table, chatting lively, and one of the girls in red stood up. It was Tang Yuanyao who was talking to her sister.And there were three women sitting at the other table, two of them were facing each other with black and white chess pieces, and the other was watching the chess.

Among the three, Tu Manfen was the elder, she took Tu Manzhen and Xu Wanzhen to sit at another free table, and said with a smile, "Sister Yuanyao, I still have a younger sister to take care of here, so I won't be with you. "

Tang Yuanyao was embarrassed, and was about to sit down, but she saw Xu Wanzhen in a blink of an eye, remembered something in her heart, and said with a malicious smile: "This younger sister's eyes are strange. This fairy-like person, sister Manfen, don't you?" Introduce me?" But he didn't dare to use any more words.

Seeing her smile, Tu Manfen knew something was wrong.Although she is jealous of Xu Wanzhen, but here, the three of them are one body, whoever loses face will also lose face with the other two.

But Tang Yuanyao's request was extremely reasonable and reasonable, it was a conspiracy.But if she followed her words and agreed, then she would probably use Xu Wanzhen's status as a merchant's daughter to make an issue.You must know that these noble ladies have always looked down on merchants and the like.

Tu Manfen hesitated for a while, but didn't think about how to start a conversation.

Seeing her hesitation, Tang Yuanyao showed a smug expression, and was about to speak, but saw Xu Wanzhen get up, thanking her slightly, and said with a smile: "Xu Wanzhen has met Sister Tang." Stop what she wants to say in one fell swoop.

As the saying goes, "Don't reach out and hit the smiling face", let alone with these people watching, no matter how difficult it is, it will only appear that you are disrespectful.Tang Yuanyao couldn't get angry again, so she could only laugh and said: "So it's the younger sister of the Xu family, so we need to keep in touch with each other more in the future."

After saying a few words on the occasion, he turned around and sat down, but after thinking about it, he was really unwilling, and said to the other girls with a smile: "Sisters, have you ever smelled a bad smell?"

Those girls were very familiar with Tang Yuanyao, so they knew that she wanted to play tricks again.A girl in a water-red shirt replied: "Sister Yuanyao has a really sharp nose. When you say that, I also feel that there is a stench. I don't know where it is coming from?"

Tang Yuanyao laughed loudly and said, "I'm just going to explain my sister's doubts. This smell is called the smell of copper. Everyone here is from a clean daughter's house. Because of the vulgar things, they can smell the smell of copper. Stinky." After speaking, he laughed "giggling" a few times, which was especially harsh in this room.

The girl in the water-red shirt laughed out loud, and then those girls woke up, looked at Xu Wanzhen, and started talking softly. "So that lady is the daughter of a merchant?" "Yuan Yao didn't tell me, but I couldn't tell, and the etiquette is pretty good." room."

Tu Manfen looked slightly angry, Tang Yuanyao is such a troublemaker!Her temperament is very similar to Old Master Tu's, and she is extremely defensive.Even though she dislikes Xu Wanzhen in every possible way, she cannot allow these outsiders to laugh at her.

Just about to speak at the moment, Xu Wanzhen squeezed her hand quietly, she looked over suspiciously, only to see Xu Wanzhen shook her head quietly, although she didn't know why, she closed her mouth.

Xu Wanzhen was sure, how powerful Princess Zhaoyang was, how could Tang Yuanyao be allowed to be presumptuous and bully others at will?There must be arrangements.The three women at the other table had a youthful temperament, and they naturally exuded elegance and nobility in their gestures. I don't know why.And my family is indeed a merchant, if I retort rashly, it will be inferior and make people laugh.

As she expected, the girl watching chess at the other table stood tall, with a solemn expression, and said, "According to Miss Tang, it's because the princess has a problem with her eyesight that she invites vulgar things to the flower festival?"

These words can be described as embarrassing, how could Tang Yuanyao dare to blame the princess, she hurriedly apologized and said with a smile: "Yuan Yao never meant that, the princess's vision is beyond my reach." Seeing this, the other girls also stopped talking.

The girl didn't pursue it, she nodded and was about to sit down.

Although Tang Yuanyao was caught in the wrong place by the other party, she was not angry, so she wanted to ask for clarification before she could return the favor, and said, "I don't know who Miss is?" I don't know the identity of the other party.According to the hidden rule that the earlier the arrival, the lower the status, their status should be lower than Tang Yuanyao.

One of the women who was playing chess turned around, glanced at Tang Yuanyao faintly, and said, "Duke Dingguo, Cao Qinghui." She raised her finger slightly, pointing to the girl standing there: "Cao Qingyi." Famous woman: "Cao Qingmin."

Tang Yuanyao's expression at this moment was extremely exciting.Dingguo's mansion is the mother's family of the current empress and Princess Zhaoyang's uncle's family, and her status is quite different from hers.It's not because of her clumsy eyesight, how could she know Miss Cao who has never met before?
It was also the first time for her to participate in a grand event of this scale, and she still carried out communication and accidents according to her past experience, and only thought of excluding Tu Manfen in her mind.But she was mistaken, the three young ladies of the Cao family, as their natal family, should have arrived first, to help greet the young ladies, but she was not qualified enough to let the young ladies of the Cao family come forward to greet them.

In front of the young lady of Dingguo's mansion, he made a serious embarrassment.Tang Yuanyao felt extremely ashamed when she thought that she still wanted to ask her name, so as to make things difficult for him in the future, and sat down resentfully.The women around her were secretly glad that it wasn't her.

Xu Wanzhen gave a slight blessing to Cao Qingyi to show her gratitude for her words of help.Cao Qingyi nodded and smiled slightly.

Seeing this, Tu Manfen secretly let out a sigh of relief.It was also the first time for her to meet the young lady of Duke Ding's family, and she had no one to introduce her, so it was hard for her to take the initiative to go forward.Miss Cao's family didn't intend to take the initiative to talk to everyone, so she took Tu Manzhen and Xu Wanzhen to a free round table and sat down.

The maid of the princess mansion served tea, and asked Shi Li: "Miss Tu, can I have some playthings to relieve my boredom?"

Tu Manfen thought to herself, as expected of the Princess Mansion, the preparations are so thorough.Then he asked, "Do you have any playthings?"

The maid said: "There are Shuanglu, Go, and Doucao."

Tu Manfen pondered slightly, there were only three of them, so they chose Shuanglu to pass the time.

The three set up Shuanglu, Tu Manfen and Tu Manzhen fought, Xu Wanzhen watched from the side.After playing for a quarter of an hour, I heard the maid at the door report: "The lady of Anping has arrived, and the lady of Changping has arrived."

(End of this chapter)