Zhou Xu looked at Madam and stretched out his hand: "Madam, let's go too."
Xiao Luolan put her hand on it and immediately felt the warmth. She smelled it and found that the wine smell was quite strong. She didn't know how much she drank.
Xiao Luolan thought for a while and then said: "Don't drink so much next time, it's not at home."
Zhou Xu was silly and happy. When no one was around, he held his wife's face and kissed her heavily. He kissed her for a while before letting go of her.
Xiao Luolan touched her lips and gave him an angry look, her cheeks were slightly red, and her starry eyes were like water.
By the time they got downstairs, Shen Zhi and the others had disappeared. Due to the curfew, the street was deserted at night. It was cold and lonely, with only the bright moon hanging in the sky.
Xiao Luolan let out a gentle breath, and there was a faint white mist in the air. She held up the two corners of her cloak to prevent the loose cloak from falling to the ground.
"Madam, come up, I will carry you." Zhou Xu squatted down and said.
Xiao Luolan looked at Clan Master Zhou's broad back, leaned on it, and gathered both sides of the cloak in front of Clan Master Zhou to block the chill of the night.
Zhou Xu felt his wife's caring movements, weighed her, and laughed loudly: "Go home!"
The moonlight stretched the two people's figures very long, walking through the streets and alleys, Zhou Xu heard his wife's shallow breathing ringing in his ears, he stopped and looked up at the moon.
The moon shines on the world for thousands of years.
He and his wife only had a moment.
Zhou Xu felt both satisfied and regretful.
Chapter 148
Xiao Luolan saw the woman in black robe walking in from the door downstairs. When she got to the second floor, she stood at the door and said hello: "Wan Niang, good afternoon."
Jin Hewan followed Jiedushi's wife into the house.
"Why are you here alone today?" Xiao Luolan found that General Jin who was following Wan Niang seemed to be missing, and she was the only one. She took off the light gray curtain, opened the window and heard the storyteller downstairs. The sound of people opening the ceremony, the vague voices coming from other private rooms, the people coming and going in the teahouse, cannot be purified.
"He was busy with something." Jin Hewan sat down and took off his hood: "There was a boy following me. I asked him to wait for me outside the building."
It turned out that this was the case. Xiao Luolan smiled and pushed the tea over, and the two of them used some together. Jin Hewan sat on the chair and relaxed a little when he saw that the wife of the Jiedushi opposite had been busy embroidering things.
Madam Jiedushi brought a lot of small things with her today. A small basket was placed on the table. In the basket were several kinds of fine fabrics in red, light pink and goose yellow. They were all bright colors suitable for a young lady. There are also many small accessories.
Just as the sound of banging was heard downstairs, Jin Hewan took a sip of tea and told the story about the absence of the wife of Jiedushi yesterday. Her tone did not fluctuate, but she seemed to be reading the words according to the words, with a sense of coldness. After saying a short paragraph, Jin Hewan felt bored with herself for no reason.
Xiao Luolan finished embroidering a word and raised her head: "Will Li Niang go to the appointment tonight?"
"Of course I won't go." Jin Hewan lowered her eyes and said in a cold voice: "It's hard to find a three-legged man. There are two-legged men all over the street. Her relationship with General Long Wei is very good. , Li Niang will let go after being sad for a while and meet another scholar."
Xiao Luolan was stunned for a moment. She originally thought that Li Niang and General Long Wei were the male and female protagonists in the storybook. She didn't expect that General Long Wei in the early stage was the second male lead. This twist was strange.
"Will Li Niang be with this scholar?" Xiao Luolan asked curiously.
Jin Hewan said after a while: "No, she will meet several people in the future."
Xiao Luolan nodded and said, "That's good. Li Niang is still young, so she can have more sex. Don't rush to pick." She waited for a while and didn't hear Wan Niang's voice, so she looked up at her again. , noticing that Wan Niang was looking at him blankly, Xiao Luolan put down the things in his hands and asked with a smile: "What's wrong?"
"Do you think it's okay for Li Niang to do this?" Jin Hewan has always been filled with self-loathing and pride in the stories she wrote that she can't explain. She doesn't like the cliche life of one person, and she wants to let the protagonist see one person after another. A man of all kinds should be thrown away when he is not good. She once submitted her story book to a book club, but the old masters in the book club threw it out like a thunder. At that time, she felt a happy feeling of resolving her hatred.
But what followed was endless emptiness and pain, and she found the teahouse team and asked them to read stories to her.
"Very good." Xiao Luolan thought about it and thought that Li Niang was a good little girl.
Perhaps it was Mrs. Jiedushi's too natural answer. Jin Hewan gradually loosened her tightly clenched hands and told her about writing a book and submitting it to a publishing house.
Xiao Luolan put down the needle and thread in her hand.
"Nowadays, the little books are all about romantic talents meeting vixens in wild temples, or they are about down-and-out scholars asking to marry rich girls and they have a strong smell. At first glance, they look like daydreams written by those scholars. Their book publishers want to accept them, but I still want them. I don’t want to spoil my script.” Jin Hewan raised her chin slightly, not wanting Mrs. Jiedu to know her past failure, and said with disdain.
After Xiao Luolan heard this, she pretended that she had not heard the aggression in Wan Niang's words. Although they had not been together for a short time, she felt that Wan Niang was a very strong woman.
She nodded and said, "It's because the book club has eyes for gold and jade, and it missed your script."
Jin Hewan lowered her tight lips. She looked at the light green cloth in Jieduzhi's wife's hand, and finally asked: "Lan..."
Xiao Luolan raised her eyes and looked at Wan Niang with a smile.
"Lanniang, what are you embroidering?" Jin Hewan asked calmly.
"The twenty-eighth of the twelfth lunar month is my daughter's birthday. I want to make a palace ribbon for her and embroider some words on the back. What do you think of these two sentences?" Xiao Luolan smiled and put the elegant fabric in her hand Pass it over.
Jin Hewan took it, looked at it, and recognized that the fabric was made from cicada silk from the south. It was famous for its softness, so Lan Niang made one layer for the outside and one for the inside. The inside layer had already been embroidered. Two sentences.
Whenever a good time comes, praise the time.
Zhenping Jiqi, everything will be successful.
The four lines of small characters are also embroidered with light green silk thread, not obtrusive, and decorated with just the right color.
"I originally thought that it would be good to live with joy and live forever, but after thinking about it, it was not suitable for my daughter, so I used this one." Xiao Luolan said. She was also planning to make a forbidden step for her daughter. Gong Shou can do it after the new year. It is used at the beginning of spring, and forbidden steps can be used during the Chinese New Year.
Jin Hewan thought about it seriously and said: "These two sentences are good." Let's be happy, let's be eternal. The whole poem is too sad and not suitable for that delicate little lady. She returned the cloth and waited for the embroidery. Okay, Lan Niang will probably cut and weave it again and choose the tassels so that the palace ribbon can be made.
It takes a lot of thought to do a good job as a palace official. Jin Hewan made a mental note of the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month and planned to have her son come to deliver a gift to Lan Niang's daughter on that day.
Xiao Luolan listened to the story for a while and found that Wan Niang was lost in thought again. She didn't know what she was thinking.
Maybe there are too many things in the past that I can’t recall, and there are memories everywhere.
"This pattern will look better if I add a few more strokes." Jin Hewan glanced at several patterns in the small basket and said.
"Is it this hibiscus flower pattern?" Xiao Luolan picked up a hibiscus flower pattern. Several patterns in it were given to her by the embroidery lady in the mansion. She was originally going to embroider the pattern on the sachet.
"Well, you can also use two-color double-sided stitching to make the embroidery look better." Jin Hewan said.
"I wonder what the two-color acupuncture method is like?" Xiao Luolan felt that Wan Niang knew a lot.
"I don't know how to do that acupuncture. I learned about it from a friend." Jin Hewan thought of Lan Niang's identity, hesitated, and said, "You should know Lan Niang."
"Is it Granny Cui?" Xiao Luolan immediately thought of Granny Cui. In fact, she didn't know how to embroider, and it was Granny Cui who taught her.
Jin Hewan shook her head: "She is Mr. Qingshan's wife, her name is Yueniang." She asked hesitantly: "Have you never seen her, Lan Niang?"
I heard from my son that Mr. Qingshan has always been highly valued by Jiedushi, so Lan Niang should know his wife.
"It turns out to be Mrs. Qingshan. Mr. Qingshan told me that his wife is very skillful with her hands, but his wife is weak and does not come out often, so I have never had the opportunity to see her." Xiao Luolan remembered that Mr. Qingshan once went to Butiezhou What was said to her over there was explained.
"So Wan Niang, you and Mr. Qingshan's wife are good friends." Xiao Luolan said with emotion, the world is both big and small.
"It used to be." Jin Hewan said firmly: "Forget it if she doesn't go out. Anyway, when I look for her, she rarely goes out and stays at home to take care of herself."
"Is Yueniang not in good health?" Xiao Luolan put down the needle and thread in her hand and frowned slightly. Last time she wanted Li Fan from the mansion to go and have a look, but Mr. Qingshan refused.
"Yue Niang is a little weak, but she's not sick. She just feels depressed all day long and thinks about things all day long. Even if she's not sick, she makes her sick." Jin Hewan felt quite resentful. steel.
Xiao Luolan thought about Mr. Qingshan's personality, he was gentle and elegant, and he smiled every time he talked about his wife.
Jin Hewan sighed: "Actually, it doesn't matter to me. It's just that the heirs are in trouble, but Yueniang is as depressed as if she was possessed."
It turned out that this was the case, Xiao Luolan said with relief: "You ask Yueniang to relax, this matter cannot be rushed."
"There is a time in your life that you must have, but there is no time in your life. Don't force it." Jin Hewan twitched the corner of her mouth: "I will not persuade her anymore, let her get into trouble by herself."
In the evening, Xiao Luolan said goodbye to Wanniang. She sat in the carriage, waiting for her daughter. About half an hour later, Xiao Qingxue jumped onto the carriage with Xueqiu in her arms.
"Grandma." Xiao Qingxue sat next to Grandma. Jiang Da outside the window was holding the young master's horse and following behind the carriage.
"Why did you become a little cat?" Xiao Luolan took out a handkerchief and wiped the ashes on her daughter's forehead: "Are you still making fireworks with Xiaoyaozi and the others?"
"I have been setting off fireworks all afternoon." Xiao Qingxue said proudly: "I will show them to you during the Chinese New Year."
"Be careful not to blow it up." Xiao Luolan said.
"I know, A'niang." Xiao Qingxue leaned against A'niang happily. When approaching a corner, Xiao Luolan accidentally saw a familiar figure, it was Wan Niang. She saw Wan Niang at the intersection. After standing for a while, he took the boy to the workshop.
Xiao Luolan looked up and looked at the names. Gaoxinfang, the house of Mr. Qingshan and Lian Shiqing was here, and Wanniang's house was in another neighborhood. Therefore, Wanniang came to Yueniang specifically.
He also said that he would no longer try to persuade him, but he obviously just couldn’t let it go and still spoke softly but had a soft heart...
Xiao Luolan pursed her lips and smiled.
The next afternoon.
Xiao Luolan also went to the teahouse to wait for Wan Niang as usual. Here she could listen to books, make palace ribbons, and chat with new friends.
After embroidering for a while, I heard a knock on the door.
Xiao Luolan was a little confused. Wan Niang came a little early today and opened the door.
Chun Hua gathered her sleeves and said, "Madam, Mr. Siyuan from the mansion saw you here and wanted to say hello to you."
In fact, Chunhua didn't need to tell her, Xiao Luolan also saw it. Lu Siyuan bowed to her and said, "My nephew meets my aunt." The woman beside him, wearing a curtain hat, also gave her a blessing.
"Yu Liu Niang pays homage to the general's wife."
Xiao Luolan probably knew who the woman was: "Siyuan, Madam of the Yu family, you come in first."
After sitting down, Xiao Luolan was thinking about how to speak when she heard Lu Siyuan say with a smile: "Aunt, the Chinese New Year is coming soon. My father-in-law has urged me to go home several times. I have already planned to take a boat back to Xunjiang County today. Previously, I have already told my cousin and uncle that when I heard you were here, I came here to say goodbye to you."
Xiao Luolan didn't expect that Lu Siyuan came to her for this matter. She asked with concern: "There are strong winds and waves on the river. Have you prepared all your warm clothes?"
"Thank you for your concern, aunt. I'm ready." Lu Siyuan smiled and said, "After the New Year, my eldest brother and I will give you New Year greetings to my aunt."
"Liu Niang is my mother's aunt's niece. She came to Langge with me this time. Now she also needs to go home. I asked her to say goodbye to you as well." Lu Siyuan said.
"Good boy, please be safe on the road." Xiao Luolan didn't know how to get along with the little girl from the Yu family, so she could only say some caring words.
Yu Yu looked at the Jiedushi's wife through the white gauze hat, and felt that her jade face was faint, the fragrance was fragrant, and her figure was as moving as a flower.
After leaving the teahouse, Yu Yu was still in a daze: "Is she Mrs. Huarong?"
Lu Siyuan frowned and reminded softly: "This title is not yours to say. Don't mention it again in the future."
He had a premonition that this title would trigger a violent bloody storm.
Chapter 149
Jin Hewan forced a petite woman in a curtain hat into a familiar private room in a teahouse. This teahouse was not big, with only two floors. Most of the people who came were ordinary people. The private rooms on the second floor were always full of dissatisfaction.
Compared with downstairs, upstairs is cleaner.
