Chapter 1129

Xiao Fei turned to look at Qiao Ruolan with a smile on her face.

When watching this play, all she thought about was what the sister-in-law said last time.

At this time, when Qiao Ruolan asked, Xiao Fei said naturally: "This Lu family is really ridiculous! Marriage is the word of the matchmaker's order, and it is unfilial for her to insist on marrying regardless of her parents. I spent ten years in the cold kiln, and spent the most splendid years of a woman, but when she was rich and honored, she married another wife, which is more than that of Chen Shimei and others."

Qiao Ruolan was stunned and speechless for a while.

But Xiao Fei became more cheerful the more he talked, and persuaded righteously: "Cousin, this kind of song is usually written by those poor scholars or very ambitious scholars, just take a look and listen to it and have fun. That's all, but don't really believe it!"

Thinking of the fact that a wealthy businessman's daughter in southern Xinjiang liked to watch dramas in the past two years, and finally eloped with an actor, Xiao Fei felt that her worries were not unreasonable.

Qiao Ruolan's mouth twitched when she heard it, when did she say she believed it!

But she was unwilling to let Xiao Fei gain the upper hand, and retorted: "Sister Fei, what you said is bad. The respectable thing about Lu's family is that she does not dislike the poor and loves the rich, and she married General Li when she was on the decline. After that, she stayed in the cold kiln for ten years, and she was a woman named Zhenyuan, who has been a model for women for hundreds of years!"

The quarrel between the two girls has long attracted the attention of several girls on the side, and the girl sitting on Xiao Fei's left couldn't help but said, "Miss Qiao, I think that Miss Xiao has some truth. Since ancient times, marriage has always paid attention to the fate of the parents, and if the children are all disobedient to their parents, what kind of formality will it be!"

Another girl also said solemnly: "Yes, Lu Shizhenlie is a virtue worthy of praise, but filial piety is the first, and being unfilial is a serious sin! Even though she helped her destitute parents later, she is a martyr, so I can't say that she was in front of her. What she did was right, I can only say that she later changed her mind when she knew she was wrong!"

On weekdays, these girls are simply moved by the ups and downs of the characters in the play when they watch the play, lamenting the joys and sorrows of life, but they have never linked reality to these operas. Now, when I think about it carefully, many girls feel that some of the songs are the same. It's absurd. Those famous "The Story of the West Chamber", "Horse on the Wall" and so on are all stories of boudoir daughters giving and receiving privately, but in fact, no matter how enlightened the folk customs of southern Xinjiang are, they can't tolerate girls' personal belongings. In some well-kept houses, it is not uncommon for a bowl of soup to end the life of the girl's family.

The girls spoke excitedly, and their voices rose unconsciously, and the ladies sitting on the side of the porch also attracted their attention.

Mrs. Qiao looked at Nangong Yue and asked with a smile: "Prince Shizi, I think this Lu family is both virtuous and virtuous. When her parents and husband were on the decline, she would never leave her. What do you think of Shizifei?"

Nangong Yue smiled slightly: "Does my aunt know that there is a Qingmao Academy in Luoyue City?"

Madam Qiao was stunned, not knowing why Nangongyue suddenly mentioned Qingmao Academy, she heard Nangongyue continue: "This Qingmao Academy is the best academy in Luoyue City, there have been many scholars in the past hundred years, and Juren is even more so. I don’t know how many. The head of Qingmao Academy is very kind, and every year, ten outstanding poor students are exempted from the training. I wonder if my aunt would choose a good son-in-law for my cousin?”

You... Madam Qiao almost bulged her eyes forward.

Nangong Yue looked at Madam Qiao with a half-smile but said, "Aunt, don't worry, those students are all outstanding, and the academy's chief and all the gentlemen can vouch for it. My cousin married when the male was on the decline, and in the future. My cousin-in-law's title will also remember my cousin's goodness!"

Madam Qiao's mouth opened and closed, and she was speechless for a while. Who doesn't know that the imperial examination is one in ten thousand, so what if they are selected at a young age, and some people are too old to be a jinshi! Her daughter came from a noble family, so where do you need to find a poor scholar to speculate!

Mrs. Qiao took a deep breath, barely suppressed the anger in her heart, and said lightly, "Thank you for worrying about Sister Lan, Sister Lan's marriage has already been decided."

Nangong Yue gave her a meaningful look, and then looked at the stage again, but did not smile.

The meaning of that glance made the other ladies ponder secretly, and some whispers that were familiar to the neighbors, Madam Qiao's face was blue and white, and she only felt that everyone was pointing at her.

At this moment, the sound of gongs, drums, sanxian, and flutes on the other side of the stage stopped, and after the show was sung, the actors on the stage came down one by one.

Nangong Yue glanced at the leaky pot. Although it was just a four-fold play, more than half an hour had passed before she knew it.

Nangong Yue looked around. The ladies present were in charge of the central feeder at home on weekdays, and it was rare to go out to a banquet and watch a play to relax, but those young girls might not be able to sit still anymore.

Nangong Yue pondered for a while, then smiled and suggested: "Sister Fei, why don't you accompany a few girls to take a look in the garden, Mingxiang Pavilion on the other side of the lake is also a quiet and elegant place, you young girls can also go there. Chat there and relax."

Madam Tian was secretly amused. In fact, Concubine Shizi was not very old, and she was not even close to her hair, but she was a little old-fashioned when she spoke at this moment.

Xiao Fei stood up and said with a blessing: "Sister-in-law is right." With Xiao Fei's temperament, she naturally sits and lives, but today she is the master, and she always shows the demeanor of the master and helps her-in-law to entertain guests. It is.

Hearing that, several little girls next to them couldn't hold back their excitement. In fact, they couldn't sit still for a long time, but they were afraid that this was the Zhennan Palace, so they didn't dare to be presumptuous.

The girls stood up in twos and threes, all of them like birds that were about to be released from their cages, which made the ladies feel amused.

A charming voice suddenly sounded: "Cousin Fei, it's rare for all the ladies to be present today, why don't we have some fun with Douhua?"

Everyone followed the sound and saw a little girl in a brocade green rose tight skirt looking at Xiao Fei innocently, it was Du Xinmin, the daughter of Du Liancheng.

Du Xinmin seemed innocent, but there was a bit of provocation in his eyes. She has always been on good terms with Qiao Ruolan, but she doesn't have much affection for this cold-hearted cousin, especially when she sees Xiao Fei following Nangong Yue's life, she feels a little bit of contempt. Thinking of that day in Huanxi Pavilion, Xiao Fei refused to fight with Qiao Ruolan, and felt that Xiao Fei was afraid of Qiao Ruolan's talent.

This time, Xiao Fei had to make a fool of himself!

Xiao Fei's heart didn't have those twists and turns, Du Xinmin said it was a fighting painting, she also regarded it as an ordinary fighting painting, nodded and said, "Cousin Min's proposal is not bad, then we will go to Mingxiang Pavilion to play in the fighting painting. Okay." After speaking, she looked around at the girls and said, "You girls are just casual."

Nangong Yue glanced at Du Xinmin lightly, and said with a chuckle, "Since you want to fight paintings, then judge the leader, and I will make a good one."

No matter if this thing is valuable or not, it will always be glorious in the future. The little girls all brightened their eyes, whispered to each other, and were in high spirits. Those who didn't plan to participate were also a little interested, and a few more girls stood up and went downstairs with Xiao Fei.

After the young girls stepped back, the second floor was quite empty for a while, but soon, the actors on the stage came on stage again and sang "Drunken Beating the Golden Branch" again, this time singing the most lively in the play A play. Seeing that "wine and cowardly" concubine raised his fist and beat up the princess... The ladies were amused, and bursts of refreshing laughter broke out from time to time on the second floor.

The play was folded and folded again... About half an hour later, one after another, a maid sent paintings one after another.

The maids neatly spread the paintings on the large cases, and several ladies couldn't help but look in the direction of the paintings frequently, whispering from time to time...

When the one-fold play was finished, Nangong Yue simply instructed Madam Lu to stop the troupe from singing for the time being, then stood up and invited the ladies beside her to come over and enjoy the paintings.

There are more than ten paintings on the large case at the moment. The paintings drawn in the past half an hour are naturally not meticulous paintings, but mostly landscape freehand paintings, mixed with a few flower and bird freehand paintings. , are all vertical brush strokes, ink color flying.

These paintings are anonymous, with no inscriptions, and no poems are mentioned. Therefore, after seeing them for the first time, most of the wives really can't tell which one was painted by their daughter or granddaughter.

At this time, Thrush came up with a mahogany tray on which dozens of colorful silk flowers were placed. These silk flowers suddenly attracted the attention of the ladies.

Nangong Yue nodded to Thrush, and Thrush and a few little maids distributed the silk flowers to the ladies. The ladies watched the silk flowers secretly, and saw that these dozens of flowers were all of different colors. The flowers were bright and delicate, and the materials were exquisite. At first glance, they were made by the concubine's own maid or sewing room.

Nangong Yue explained with a smile on the side: "Girls fighting the paintings, ladies and gentlemen, why don't you judge together, and if you think the painting is good, put down a silk flower, and which one has more silk flowers, whoever is the leader, What do the ladies think?"

Nangong Yue's suggestion made the ladies' eyes lit up when they heard it, and they all agreed:

"Concubine Shizi is a good idea!"

"Let's join in the fun together!"

"Oh, I saw that these girls are all well-painted, and I didn't know which one to choose..."

"..."

In fact, Nangongyue is the concubine, the highest status among the people, and she comes from a family of Shilin. Even if she is the leader of Douhua today, others will take it for granted. Nangongyue let everyone participate together, which is lively. Now, let's all have a good time. However, she was so attentive at a young age, which made many ladies pondered and sighed again in her heart: worthy of being the princess of the imperial seal!

The ladies held various colored silk flowers and commented on the paintings.

Nangong Yue sat on the side and drank tea. After looking around just now, she already knew in her mind which pictures were likely to be the best.

After the ladies looked at the painting again, they saw that Mrs. Qiao was the first to move, and decisively threw the yellow silk flower in her hand to a freehand painting of landscape, followed by two or three other ladies who also threw the silk flower. gave that picture.

Que'er immediately lowered her voice and said something in Nangong Yue's ear...

Nangong Yue pursed her lips slightly, and there was no rule that her mother could not give silk flowers to her daughter. Besides, Qiao Ruolan was indeed talented.

After the ladies looked around for two more times, they all threw silk flowers one after another... After that, Queer, Thrush and the maids went to count the silk flowers.

In the end, it was really a coincidence that there were actually ten silk flowers in two paintings.

The maids neatly removed all other paintings, leaving only a freehand landscape painting and a brightly colored freehand peony painting.

"Prince Prince," Madam Tian suggested with a smile, "Why don't you choose the final leader?"

This proposal could not be more appropriate, and immediately attracted the response of all the female guests, and Mrs. Qiao's face stiffened for a moment, and she did not object.

"Then I'll be disrespectful." Nangong Yue stood up calmly and walked to the two paintings.

I saw that the landscape freehand painting on the left painted the surging river with clear brush and ink, the peaks and peaks were emerald green, and the clouds were lingering. Moreover, the layout of the painting was dense and dense, and the ink color was appropriate. It seemed that the charm was super elegant.

As for the freehand peony picture on the right, both ink and color are used.

These two paintings are indeed quite good, and it is no wonder that they can stand out among the masterpieces.

Thrush took a tray and presented a purple silk flower to Nangong Yue, who picked up the silk flower and placed it on the freehand peony picture...

Madam Qiao's pupils shrank, and the questioning words were about to blurt out, but she was finally sensible and barely restrained.

Finally, there was another lady who chose the landscape painting, and she asked in a puzzled way: "Prince Prince, I don't know where this peony painting is so good? In my opinion, this landscape painting is more elegant than this peony painting. Lots of atmosphere."

During the conversation, Xiao Fei, Qiao Ruolan and other girls also followed the stairs to the second floor. They just heard the lady's words, and they all looked at Nangong Yue, wanting to see how she would answer. .

Nangong Yue smiled lightly and said, "I chose this peony painting because the painting skills are really extraordinary, and secondly, the painting of this peony is so vivid, it must be the artist who saw it with his own eyes. out!"

Nangong Yue did not comment on the landscape painting again, but the underlying meaning was already obvious, meaning that this landscape painting was not seen by the artist with his own eyes, but was imagined, or copied?

The ladies looked at each other, and soon someone thought of something, and they whispered to the person beside them, and occasionally heard the words of Fuchun Mountain floating out...

Nangong Yue's gaze swept across Qiao Ruolan's face like the bottom of the pot. Although Qiao Ruolan's painting skills were extraordinary, her painting was just a patchwork of landscapes from "Fuchun Mountain Residence". What spirituality.

Nangong Yue said loudly, "I wonder which girl drew this peony picture?"

As soon as the voice fell, a crisp voice said: "It's Miss Hua!"

For a time, everyone's attention was focused on a girl with a purple and purple satin jacket, and Nangong Yue also remembered this girl, so she smiled at her. This little girl is really interesting, and the city gate she painted in Huanxi Pavilion was also very interesting.

Miss Hua was a little shy, but she still nodded slightly to the crowd.

Baihui came over with a box made of red sandalwood. The box was exquisitely made with intricate and intricate patterns carved on it, which made people wonder what was inside.

Nangong Yue motioned Baihui to open the box, and saw a set of jeweled Nanzhu heads in the box, but with just a glance, many sharp-eyed ladies present saw that it was authentic Nanhaizhu, and it was of high quality. They can almost imagine that under the light, the pearls on these pearl flowers, hairpins, earrings and other accessories will exude a moving luster like the moon!

This pair of Nanzhu's head and face is not only valuable, but also given by the prince, even if it is used as a dowry in the future, it will also have a long face.

Madam Hua couldn't help but look happy and gave her daughter a loving look.

Miss Hua stepped forward gracefully, Fushen thanked Nangong Yue, and respectfully took the box with both hands.

Many girls surrounded her and cheered.

At the back of the crowd, Du Xinmin looked at Miss Hua for a while and Xiao Fei for a while, her face was not very good-looking. She proposed Douhua today because she hoped that Qiao Ruolan would win and take Xiao Fei's face. Who would have thought that Xiao Fei would not accept the move at all!

When she was fighting painting at Mingxiang Pavilion just now, she tried to provoke Xiao Fei to also participate in the painting, but Xiao Fei looked at her strangely and said, "Cousin, I am the master, how can I compete with the guests for my sister-in-law? What about Caitou?" Xiao Fei's "you're too naive" look made Du Xinmin's face pale with anger, but she was speechless and speechless.

Du Xinmin had to admit that her cousin Fei had really changed! Not so fooled...

At this moment, a little maid came upstairs, walked quickly to Nangong Yue, Fushen reported: "Concubine Yi Shi, eldest girl, Mrs. Fang San is here, I want to see you..." "Whoever comes is not good, and whoever is good does not come".

Although the second half of the little girl's sentence was not spoken, Nangong Yue already understood it.

Everyone present heard it. Most of the banquet was over. Seeing that it was about to end, it was extremely abrupt that Mrs. Fang San appeared at this time.

If she receives the post and arrives late, then she will be late for this post, so she might as well not come, and choose another day to come to the door to apologize; but if she does not receive the post at all, or she received the post but can't make excuses, then Now running in a hurry, naturally, he has other plans.

Those ladies all looked at each other in dismay, and neither did they leave, nor did they stay.

Xiao Fei frowned, but Nangong Yue raised her brows slightly, and said with a half-smile, "Go and invite the third aunt here." Mrs. Fang San probably came prepared, even if she didn't invite her over, she would I'll try my best to make a fuss about this.

After a while, I heard the sound of footsteps going upstairs.

Mrs. Fang San, dressed in apricot-yellow plain makeup, took a 14- or 15-year-old girl with a beautiful face to the second floor. She looked around arrogantly, and then her eyes fell on Nangong Yue, her head held high. came over.

As soon as she came up, she said angrily: "Concubine Shi, I always thought you were virtuous and virtuous, but I didn't expect you to be so unfilial! Your mother-in-law is now seriously ill and bedridden, so it's fine if you don't take care of the illness by the couch, Concubine Shi. What's the point of having a banquet here!"

"My sister-in-law." Madam Qiao said with a puzzled face, "What happened to my sister-in-law?"

Mrs. Fang San sighed and said: "Hey, my sister-in-law, you don't know anything. I just went to see my fourth aunt, and she was so sick that she couldn't get up. It's really pitiful. But her daughter-in-law actually You are still holding a big banquet here, chatting and laughing." As she said that, she said even more indignantly, "Prince Concubine, if you are doing this, you still have the word 'filial piety' in your heart?"

Madam Qiao became angry all of a sudden, and asked Nangong Yue: "Prince Shizi, how can you do this?!... When Sister Lan asked about your mother-in-law, you were still making excuses, which is really disgusting. Cold! Even if you are the princess and the princess, you should do your duty as a daughter-in-law!"

Nangong Yue looked at them calmly.

The two of them sing and sing together are also tacit understanding, it is a pity not to be on the stage!

After that incident, Nangong Yue still felt that Mrs. Qiao would not come to the banquet, but Qiao's residence replied the day before yesterday. Nangong Yue wouldn't naively think that someone like Mrs. Qiao, who has a strong desire to control, will pull down her face to repair herself.

It was originally to sing this one.

Heh, it's all tossed and miscarried, and that person is still reluctant to settle down.

This book was first published by Xiaoxiang Academy, please do not reprint!