This was not the first time Lu Anran saw Su Xiangxiang, but he had never been so close.
This woman has a good-looking face, a bookish air between her eyebrows, bright eyes, and confidence exuding from her bones. She has a smile on her lips, and there is a sense of alienation invisibly.
Su Xiangxiang is not the most beautiful person, but her temperament is irreplaceable, like a stream of pure water, she doesn't disdain to be polluted with others.
Lu Anran was blocked. He turned back and looked rude. After waiting for a long time, Su Xiangxiang didn't speak. He nodded slightly at the other party: "Miss Su."
Su Xiangxiang showed just the right amount of confusion. The maid behind her, Zhu Xin, said something in her ear, and then she returned the greeting: "Miss Lu, I have long admired your name."
According to her family status, Lu Anran was the legitimate daughter of the governor of a county, and Su Xiangxiang's father was a fourth-rank imperial official. She was asked to come to see Lu Anran no matter what. However, let alone today's gathering as peers, and let alone other things, she has a noble nature, looks down on people who show off their family reputation, and has always felt that she is not inferior to others.
Lu Anran thought that the unfamiliar two people would just nod and say hello and leave. Unexpectedly, Su Xiangxiang suddenly said, "Miss Lu, do you want to talk about it?"
"I'm not good at chess." Lu Anran replied in surprise.
Su Xiangxiang smiled and said, "I was the one who was rude." After that, he nodded to Lu Anran and left with the maid.
Chunmiao looked at the two people's backs and wondered: "Miss, does this Miss Su like playing chess so much?"
After walking for a while, Lu Anran slowly came back from Su Xiangxiang's initial "long admired name" and finally understood where the invitation came from.
Su Xiangxiang has just arrived in Beijing. No matter what others think of her, Lu Anran can see from her expression that she thinks she is aloof. As the saying goes, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain, this is Lu Anran, an exotic tiger.
After the case in Wangdu City was solved, no matter what the people said, the emperor summoned Lu Anran to the palace to commend her. All the major families in Wangdu should have heard about it, and then 'recognized' this Mengdu's legitimate daughter.
When Su Xiangxiang met Lu Anran, she wanted to compare notes and verify who was the real talent.
On the other side, Su Xiangxiang walked through the corridor and walked towards the back garden with maid Zhu Xin.
"The daughter of Mengdu Lu's family is really as rumored, mediocre and without talent, I don't know if she has good looks..." Zhu Xin said: "A good young lady from a well-known family, she chooses to be a widow."
Su Xiangxiang lowered her long eyelashes, covering half of her eyes, and sighed: "I am a bit smart, but it's a pity that I will end up alone..." It's hard to be elegant.
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Next to the artificially arranged flowing stream, the windmill slowly rolled, pushing the water forward. Several wine glasses floated on it, swinging leisurely along the way.
Young men and women drink and order, accompanied by poetry and lyrics, and the atmosphere is strong.
Meng Shizhao stood far away, watching her concubine and one of the young men flirting with each other, acting more and more irregularly, and sneered.
"Third Miss is like this..." The maid Jinse lowered her head and whispered: "I'm afraid it will damage the reputation of the Miss."
Meng Shizhao snorted disdain from his nose, "Let her go, I'll see what high branches she can climb to."
This concubine was low-minded but high-spirited, and wanted to get ahead. Meng Shizhao beat her many times, but she said that she promised well, but she didn't mean it at all. The more times she did, the more Meng Shizhao became more and more irritable.
"If it weren't for the Meng family, I wouldn't bother to care about her."
Jinse thought about the situation in Meng's house and sighed in her heart. The master spoiled his concubine and destroyed his wife, and the wife was weak. If the wife hadn't had the backing of her mother's family, and the eldest lady herself was tough, she wouldn't have been in a good situation.
The two of them left here. Jinse frowned and said, "This young master looks familiar to me."
Meng Shizhao said with a cold face: "The prince of Pingyang Hou Mansion."
"Ah?" Jinse called softly: "Miss."
Meng Shizhao raised one corner of his lips and said without a smile: "First she hooked up with the head of Rongan County, and now she doesn't even let go of her former fiancée. She really lived up to her aunt's careful teachings."
Unlike Meng Zhi, who is weak and weak, Liu Fufeng, Meng Shizhaomei is a bit aggressive, and her face often carries the cold, arrogant and noble look of a daughter of a noble family. With her raised eyebrows and raised lips, she has a look of disdain that no one can appreciate.
This is why Meng Zhi often thinks that Meng Shizhao looks down on her.
"Want to enter the Marquis' Mansion?" Meng Shizhao said with a slightly cold tone, "It also depends on whether she has the ability."
Jinse's head hung lower, with a tangled expression, and she complained in her heart that Meng Zhi didn't know how high the sky was, and if it caused a big mess, it would be up to her young lady to clean it up.
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Meng Shizhao avoided the group of people, but Lu Anran accidentally walked in and got Meng Zhi entangled.
"It shows that we are destined. The capital city is so big, we always meet each other." Without saying anything, Meng Zhi took the wine glass and handed it to Lu Anran. In an intimate manner, he smiled and said: "New entrants, please have a drink first. , write another poem about spring and flowers, and then you’ve passed, how about that?”
Lu Anran scanned the people present. Among them, she saw a few whose names she couldn't name, but most of them she didn't recognize. She pondered for a moment and said, "I can't compose poetry, so just have a drink or two."
A young man slapped the table and shouted, "Miss Lu is so bold and bold, as expected of someone from the North."
There was a burst of laughter. The speaker was unintentional, but there was a lot of contempt in it. Lu Anran didn't care at all. She didn't come here to make friends.
On the contrary, Meng Zhi showed more enthusiasm than ever before, taking her with him no matter what he said, which made Lu Anran a little tired of dealing with it.
At this moment, one of the women said: "Sitting together in the same room, Miss Lu is still covering her face. Doesn't it seem a bit rude?"
Meng Zhi's heart couldn't help but thump. She was trying to please Lu Anran, but she didn't want to embarrass her, so she helped and said, "It's inconvenient for Anran, but I didn't mean to offend."
Lu Anran glanced at Meng Zhi and was a little confused by her sudden intimate address. He frowned slightly and did not look at the woman who asked the question. He stood up and said to everyone: "I've made you uncomfortable, so I'll leave the table first. Farewell."
No one expected that she would just leave without giving any face to the people present, and everyone was stunned.
When Meng Zhi came back to her senses and wanted to speak, Lu Anran had already turned the corner neatly and turned onto another road.
"Ha, who is that?" The young lady was dissatisfied and said angrily, "Meng Zhi, the person you found!"
Meng Zhi smiled awkwardly, "It's my fault, let me have a drink to apologize, okay?" As he raised his glass and lowered his eyes to drink, a hint of complaint flashed in his eyes.
Lu Anran stroked his forehead, the wine entered from his throat, and the breath came out of his nose, making him feel a little dizzy.
Chunmiao was dissatisfied for a long time. There was no one here, so she couldn't help but said: "What do those people think they are?" They dared to insult her young lady in front of her.
"It's either a concubine or a concubine, or a member of a small family. How can the young lady give them face?" Chunmiao said angrily, "And that concubine of the Meng family, what does it mean to be offensive? What they did is an offense." Miss."
Lu Anran saw Chun Miao angrily speaking like a concubine, and couldn't help laughing: "I don't usually see you so mean."
"Who asked them to offend the young lady? If it hadn't been for the Lu family's banquet today, I would have acted like this."
"There's no need to argue with them." Lu Anran smelled the fresh air in the green forest of flowers for a while and exhaled the turbid air in his heart.
In fact, Lu Anran really didn't take it seriously, but because of Meng Zhi's invitation, she had no choice but to stay for a while. The young lady was looking for trouble, which just gave her an excuse to go away.
It was a pleasure to sit down and chat with Meng Zhi. They are both from similar backgrounds. Although I am not here to talk about family background, who would be willing to condescend to me?
Speaking of which, Su Xiangxiang was the only exception. Her father was only a fourth-rank official and was not considered highly enough among all the princes. However, she managed to earn some respect on her own, and noble ladies from all families were proud to befriend her.
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This time, Lu Anran didn't dare to walk towards the place where the human voice was coming from. As a result, he went further and further away, and accidentally arrived at a small pond.
It is said to be a small courtyard, but in fact it is more like a waterside pavilion.
It is two stories high and is set up on columns on the water. On the water side, there is a railing and a backrest.
There is a lotus in the pond, and dragonflies are skimming the water, revealing the sharp corners of the small lotus.
Lu Anran was tired from walking and wanted to sit up there for a while. Unexpectedly, as soon as he climbed a few steps, he heard the man's low laughter and the woman's slight gasp, and he was stunned in place.
Through the fan-shaped window, I saw the profile of the man, it was Liu Changhe, the concubine of the Liu family.
The other woman was wearing a maid's dress, but it was different from any other mansion. Lu Anran had the impression that she had seen slaves in Zhuangzi dressed like this before.
Lu Anran secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the bastard of the Liu family behaved shamelessly, but he also had his own tricks. It would be really embarrassing if she bumped into Liu Changhe and any young lady.
It seems that Liu Changhe seduced the maid in Zhuangzi while no one was paying attention.
Looking at the maid's face full of youth and her charming eyes flying sideways, Lu Anran understood that they were not only in love with each other, but also in love with each other.
The master and servant faced each other, both of them a little helpless. No matter how they hid in a clean place, they could encounter such a thing.
The two of them quietly retreated from the original path while no one was paying attention.
When they were far away, Chunmiao turned crimson, patted her face and shouted: "My mother, you scared me to death."
Lu Anran was thinking about it. He had heard that this bastard of the Liu family was always inseparable from Feng Yuechang, and he never disappoints anyone.
The first time on New Year's Eve, when Chun Miao came back, Liu Changhe was jealous and had a fight with others in the brothel. Finally, he was caught in Jingzhao Mansion and was taken back by his family and they made peace in private.
There was also the time when Mr. Gu was burned in a brothel. Lu Anran saw him come out of the burning building with his clothes in messy clothes and his face full of desire and dissatisfaction. He then went to another place to have fun.
Prior to this, on the day of the outing to the park, Liu Changhe ignored the public opinion and high-profile invited a group of women to accompany him, attracting various looks from countless tourists.
It can be seen that Liu Changhe is a person who misses flowers and never tires of it.
Lu Anran saw that his stay was about the same, and he was about to go back and talk to Lu Jianyu to save both of their faces and find another excuse to leave early. However, after crossing a bush, not only did his eyes suddenly open up, but there were also two glowing lights. characters.
