Wang Muyu's little aunt is the seventh in the family and is known as Qiniang. Although she is the daughter of a concubine, she is loved very much because she is the youngest child in the family. She looks like her aunt, without the square face unique to the Wang family. She is very delicate, soft-tempered, and not talkative.
Xu Nuo didn't expect that she would be so lucky to be engaged to Song Jiao.
Song Jiao was one of the few people in the imperial examination who passed three consecutive exams. He was an official and became prime minister. He was a famous writer in the Northern Song Dynasty. Historical records record that his brother Song Qi won the Jinshi in the same year as him and won the number one scholar. Liu E, the queen mother of Zhang Xian, believed that her younger brother was not an elder brother, so she made Song Jiao, who was originally third, the number one scholar, and ranked Song Qi tenth.
Xu Nuo was shocked that she could meet Song Jiao here. At the same time, she thought about the historical disagreement between Song Jiao and Lu Yijian, her current uncle. She couldn't help but think too much, so she didn't notice the abnormality when Wang Muyu introduced Song Jiao.
After Wang Muyu finished the introduction, Xu Nuo came to her senses and suddenly asked: "Does the person who is engaged to your sister-in-law have any brothers in her family?" She has now become a witness to history. For the people she knew in her previous life, It is inevitable that you will pay more attention and want to know whether they are the same as what is recorded in the history books.
"I'm not sure. There seems to be a brother who is a few years younger than him. Let's not mention that person." Wang Muyu didn't want to mention Song Jiao the last thing, but Xu Nuo singled him out among the group of people and couldn't help but add a little more to his words. Perfunctory.
Only then did Xu Nuo notice the change in Wang Muyu's attitude, and smiled in her heart. Wang Muyu seemed to not care about Song Qi in his words, and even looked down upon him, but in fact Song Qi was more talented and learned.
In the pavilion on the other side, Ding Mo sat upright, gentle and elegant, and talked to Song Jiao with a smile: "Brother Bochi, if you are free, can you come to Ding's house in a few days? Grandpa would like to see you." Song Jiao won the title of Jieyuan of Jiangling Prefecture last year. In the eyes of his grandfather, he was a promising young man and someone worth dating. When he learned that Song Jiao would come to the Wang family for a banquet, his grandfather specially asked him to come back to attend the flower viewing banquet.
Song Jiao, nineteen years old, with the courtesy name Bochi.
Song Qi, fourteen years old, named Zijing.
Song Jiao has bright eyebrows and a handsome face. He is wearing a lotus green brocade robe, a black silver-trimmed belt around his waist, black boots, and a sandalwood hairpin in his hair. He is truly a young talent.
He put down the teacup, cupped his hands, and said with a humble expression: "I originally wanted to meet the old man. If Tongde doesn't mind, I will go back to Ding's house with you to pay homage to him today." Ding Wei became a counselor in political affairs, how many people Even if he couldn't get through the door of Ding's house, it was an honor for him to be invited. What's more, he is going to study at Yingtian Academy after getting married, and he and Ding Mo are also classmates, so it would be best if they could deepen their relationship first.
"That's very good. It's just that you just came to Suzhou yesterday. Is it appropriate to leave in such a hurry?" Ding Mo looked polite in every gesture. He knew about the marriage between Song Jiao and Wang Qiniang. If he made the Wang family think that Song Jiao was not interested, It would be better to wait a few days before inviting him.
"It doesn't matter, Mrs. Wang is a sensible person and won't blame me for this." Song Jiao covered her mouth with her teacup and whispered, while looking towards the pavilion, she met a pair of peach blossom eyes that were in a daze, " Who is this person?"
At this moment, Xu Nuo was recalling the disagreement between Song Jiao and his uncle Lu Yijian. After thinking for a long time, he only remembered that he had fallen into Lu Yijian's trap, but he couldn't remember the process or cause at all, so he was in a daze.
Hearing this, Ding Mo turned his head and followed Song Jiao's gaze, and saw Xu Nuo looking this way. Her gaze remained motionless and she did not avoid suspicion. She was very different from the women he usually saw. He instantly remembered that she was in Ding Mansion. Stand on a swing. A smile overflowed from the corner of her mouth, which was completely different from the smile she usually wore when socializing: "It's Liu Niang of the Xu family."
"Xu Zhizhou's legitimate daughter? It seems a little different from the rumors." Song Jiao looked away and said casually.
Xu Nuo was lost in Bianjing when he was three years old, and the Xu family searched for him in the capital for three months. Many people knew about it. Because Song Jiao was engaged to the Wang family, she learned that Xu Nuo had found her back more than a year ago and later poisoned her mother.
"It's indeed different." Someone across from Song Jiao suddenly said, it was Zhu Shang. He smiled with squinted eyes, and his smile was too big, which was not consistent with the aura of the people at the table. He originally couldn't stand these officials' children. Hearing them talk about some things, his head was getting big, but now he heard Xu Nuo's name, and he woke up.
When Song Jiao found out that Zhu Shang was talking to him, he was delighted and said respectfully: "Mr. Beijiang, do you know this Mrs. Xu Liu?"
"It's a one-on-one relationship. Her tea show during this year's tea fight was very exquisite." Zhu Shangfeng squinted his eyes, looking a little cunning, and glanced at Ding Mo vaguely, thinking that this guy has good luck, and the Xu family The two mothers and four mothers were devoted to him, so why didn’t Xu Liu Niang follow her two sisters and become obsessed with him?
Everyone knew that Zhu Shang and Yan Shu had a good personal relationship. Song Jiao was going to Yingtian Academy in the future. If he could get Yan Shu's care, everything would be much easier. He cautiously said a few words to Zhu Shang, but stopped when he saw that Zhu Shang was not willing to talk. Mouthed.
After lunch, some women left the pavilion and went deeper to enjoy the flowers. Some women ordered people to get pens and ink for painting, and some even played the piano. It's just that last year Xu Qian's piano music amazed everyone, but this year it will be difficult to surpass it.
Some men were attracted by the women's activities and looked here frequently, while others were enjoying themselves by reciting poems.
Xu Qian asked someone to find a chessboard and place it under a pear tree. She knelt down on the mat in front of the chessboard in a pink jacket and white dress and carefully played a chessboard. She is quite popular among her peers, and her beautiful face and charming posture attract many people. After playing the chess game, she went to look for Xu Nuo who was still sitting in the pavilion eating snacks without any pause: "Second Mother said she wanted to see you for something and asked you to go to the pavilion at the deepest part of the pear garden."
Xunuo frowned, shook his head and said, "I won't go."
"She said that if you don't go, she might do something." Xu Qian smiled reluctantly, looking very helpless, and left in a hurry with her maid without saying anything more.
Xu Nuo knew that Xu Qian had set a trap for him again, but the more he sat, the more he wanted to see what was there. It was exactly the same feeling as when he upgraded to fight monsters and couldn't wait to enter the next level.
Seeing Xu Nuo fidgeting, Chuntang couldn't help but worry, and poured her a glass of water: "Madam, what's wrong with you? You feel uncomfortable. Let's go to the room and rest for a while."
Xu Nuo drank it all in one gulp and stood up: "Wait for me here. If I don't come back in two quarters of an hour, go find Nanny Li and ask her to find someone to look for me near the pavilion in the deepest part of the pear garden." She Although Xu Qian was confident that she did not have the strength to hurt herself, she still used double layers of protection habitually.
Chuntang was not sure what he promised to do, but thinking about his wife's recent performance, he still chose to believe her, so he nodded seriously.
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ps: The collection reached 300 on the day I took the train, and I will add more tomorrow.
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