"Girl, just watch."
While helping Shen Yanrou back to the courtyard, Nanny Jin whispered softly, "The third girl must be the most neatly dressed."
Fortunately, their girls are legitimate daughters. With their girls here, the step-wife of the British Duke's family will definitely not choose those three girls.
Although it's okay, at this juncture, it is a bit embarrassing to have a concubine steal the show.
When Shen Yanjiao returned to her yard, she walked very slowly. As she walked, she carefully looked at the summer scenery of Shen Mansion in front of her. She couldn't help but close her eyes and take a breath of fresh air. Even the chirping of cicadas made her feel refreshed and happy.
"The third girl is here,"
Just after turning around a winding corridor here, I met a girl hurriedly walking towards her. When she saw Shen Yanjiao, she quickly smiled and said, "Mama Li is spinning around in a hurry. Girl, please go back to the room. Mammy and Sister Qiuyue are here to help." The girl has prepared her clothes—"
Shen Yanjiao looked at this round-faced girl and remembered that this was Qiu Yu, one of the personal girls in her childhood room.
The rules of the Shen family are very pedantic, so the names of the girls should be easy to remember. From the eldest girl to the fourth girl, they lined up in order, and the girls around them were assigned names according to the four characters of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Shen Yanjiao was on a threesome trip to the Shen family, and her personal maids were Qiu Yue and Qiu Yu.
This Qiu Yu was smart and eloquent, and he was very suitable for her temperament. However, in order to frame the British prince, she did not hesitate to let Qiu Yu take the blame once, and finally betrayed him. I heard that Qiu Yu took advantage of the unpreparedness of the person who came to take the person and pretended to be dead by the city wall.
Seeing the vivid Qiu Yu at this moment, Shen Yanjiao couldn't help but stretched out her hand to gently gather the two loose strands of hair for Qiu Yu to her ears.
"Third girl..."
Qiu Yu was flattered. She was most familiar with the temperament of her own girl. Never had she ever seen girls like them before, let alone being so intimate with them.
For a moment, Qiu Yu forgot to ask the girl why she changed into the older girl's clothes.
"Let's go."
Shen Yanjiao smiled slightly and said, "I accidentally soiled my clothes just now, so I changed them to my elder sister's - don't say anything, and hurry up."
Qiu Yu quickly followed, but couldn't help but glance at the girl quietly: she always felt that the third girl at this time seemed different from usual.
Where is it? She couldn't say it, but she couldn't help but recall the moment when the girl tied up her hair... The girl's jade-like fingertips seemed to have touched her heart, and her heart trembled several times.
Returning to her own Mozhu Courtyard, Shen Yanjiao looked at the familiar plaque on the door of the courtyard, and she was a little lost for a moment: She actually didn't have a preference for bamboo, but she knew that all her father's literati loved bamboo, so she tried every means to do so. She asked her father to change the name of her courtyard to this and planted a lot more bamboos.
As expected, her father praised her and rewarded her with many things.
As for herself, she had never admired these bamboos carefully before leaving the pavilion, and she still disliked the bamboo forest surrounding the house as too bland and tasteless.
"The girl has arrived,"
At this time, Qiuyue also came over, "Why are you wearing a big girl's clothes? This is -"
"fine,"
Shen Yanjiao said, "I'm going to take a bath. You can help me find some new clothes made by the house this summer. I'll change them later."
"girl?"
Qiuyue was stunned, "I just brought back the Western-style palindrome yarn coat, won't the girl wear it this time?"
The girl had been talking about this every day in the past two days. She was afraid that the banquet had not yet come and she would accidentally damage the expensive clothes. She solemnly told her several times to keep them as a treasure and just wait to wear them on today's official day...
What's going on?
"Those Western gauze clothes, you can ask someone to take them out quietly and pawn them later -"
Shen Yan smiled tenderly and said, "That thing is too expensive. If you wear it, your life span will be shortened."
Qiuyue: "..."
In order to find a top-quality Western gauze dress that all the noble ladies in the capital were flocking to, the girl had to have her legs broken to find this material.
This material is indescribably beautiful. In the eyes of girls like them, this material is just like the fine powder of pearl shells melted into colorful colors. When draped casually on the body, it is lighter than the most beautiful butterfly wings. Yili, just like Su'e in the painting descending to earth.
Nowadays, the girl won’t wear it if she doesn’t want to wear it?
"Girl, those new clothes made in the house,"
With this in mind, while Qiuyue served Shen Yanjiao to take a simple bath, she said tentatively, "I'm afraid it's similar to what the eldest, second, and fourth girls think -"
Although the girls in her family love to pick their hair, and when the house made clothes, they always picked the most outstanding materials, but they were still not as good as the Western gauze.
"Just the ones from the mansion,"
Shen Yan smiled tenderly and said, "Go and bring over the old jewelry box."
The jewelry she is using now is all made by ruthlessly giving up a lot of personal money, and most of the belongings left behind by her biological mother after her death were also consumed.
In the past, if she wanted to pinch the tip well, she would have to spend money. Scheming, employing people to do things, sending small gifts to each other on birthdays and other occasions, giving eye-catching information to each other, etc., which one is free of money?
Especially in order to please her mother, brother, and even the people around her father, she secretly spent a lot of money and money.
Now, forget it.
In the past, all kinds of calculations were just for the sake of convenience, and they often forgot their true intentions. He was like a puppet being pulled by some evil spirit, fighting back and forth every day... and when he arrived, he was fighting for something again, and in the end, he became a pile of rotting stinky meat.
Even tears, no one sincerely shed a drop for me.
Qiuyue Qiuyu noticed that Shen Yanjiao seemed to be acting strangely today, and they did not dare to say anything for fear of offending their girl.
When Shen Yanjiao washed up and prepared their clothes and the old jewelry box, they saw the girl sitting in front of the bronze mirror with red eyes.
"girl?"
Qiuyue called out cautiously, "But you feel a little uncomfortable? Are you catching a cold?"
Shen Yanjiao didn't respond for a while, her eyes were still fixed on herself in the bronze mirror: a young girl could be so breathtakingly beautiful without any makeup at all.
She tentatively touched her cheek and pinched it. Her hands were smooth and smooth, even smoother than the Beijing White porcelain she had collected back then.
In her last life, she used this appearance as a weapon. Her mother had taught her since she was a child that with her appearance and scheming, she would be able to earn herself the ultimate in glory and wealth.
She had earned it, but it was nothing.
In this life, she was tired.
"I'm fine,"
Shen Yanjiao came back to her senses, came over and changed her clothes, then took a hairpin with gold threads and beads and handed it to Qiuyue behind her, "That's good."
This dress was made by the government, the material is not bad, and the embroidery work is also excellent. Even if he wears it for a banquet, he will not lose the dignity of the Shen family.
"Girl, what flower do you want for your hairpin?"
It is also customary to prepare hairpins, flowers, silk flowers, damask flowers, etc. for summer banquets.
The girl in her family usually likes the rare pearl satin flower with overlapping branches and double petals. The flower center inside is made of twisted gold wire, clad in pearls, and embellished with rubies... It is larger than the set of ruby heads. They seem more noble.
"Go and cut some lotus flowers and wear them to cool off the heat and welcome the weather,"
Shen Yanjiao pointed to a few pink lotuses in the beauty vase by the window, and then ordered, "Put away these boxes. You divide the points and put the valuable ones together, and the worthless ones are put away for daily use." in the box."
In her previous life, she had dressed up carefully on this day. She only wore two of the expensive bead-forged flowers from Xiling Pearl Satin, not to mention the clothes on her body. Not for anything else, besides meeting people from the British government, it was also for Gu Nazhang.
Because of this summer banquet, the host of the banquet will cleverly design it so that the young men and women who should avoid it due to politeness have a chance to see each other from a distance across the flower garden and from the verandah on both sides.
All governments understand this point.
At that time, she just wanted to give Gu Nazhang a glimpse of her beauty, so she spent all her time dressing up.
Forget it in this life, think about how you never captured that man's heart in your last life, and dressing up for him is a waste of time and humiliation to this tender lotus.
"Girl, it's time for the cultural gathering. Let's go there early -"
After approximating the time, Qiu Yu smiled and reminded her lazy-looking girl, "I'm afraid it will be disrespectful to go late."
Shen Yanjiao smiled and said, "Why are you in a hurry? You left early and you have to stand for a while longer. Aren't you tired?"
Qiuyue: "..."
When was it too tiring for her girls to participate in such an occasion? What is the girl thinking about today?
Shen Yanjiao knew that the summer party was usually divided into two sessions, the flower party in the afternoon, where male and female guests were held separately, and the literary party in the afternoon, which was just a nice name, but in fact the focus was on each family looking after each other.
There are so-called auspicious times both times, which actually means that the host and the guests can correspond to the time and the steps can be arranged accordingly.
At the beginning of the cultural gathering, the male and female descendants of each family were divided into two sides to enter the flower hall to see the ceremony. At this step, the young men and women can take the opportunity to look at each other from a distance through the flower garden in the middle when passing through the hand-chaosou veranda.
Therefore, at this time, caring men and women will naturally not be late: after all, when the other side has finished walking, what else can you see if you go there?
But she no longer cares.
A little annoying, even.
Especially tired of seeing that person again.
Having made up her mind, Shen Yanjiao kept stalling for time. I thought it was almost time to go in, and then I walked towards Yunhe Pavilion at the other end of the garden, where the summer banquet was held.
After walking into the mobile phone gallery from here, Qiu Yue and Qiu Yu both consciously stayed outside. Not only Qiuyue Qiuyu, but also all the girls who come here stay here and wait.
Seeing Shen Yanjiao who had arrived so late, not to mention the girls who were guests from outside, but also the girls who were around the other girls in the Shen family, all had doubts on their faces.
Shen Yanjiao walked into the courtyard unhurriedly. Before she could turn to the corridor, she met someone striding over from the corridor.
This man walked very quickly, as if he wanted to leave a place of right and wrong immediately.
If Shen Yanjiao hadn't taken a step back in time, the two of them would have almost collided.
