The appointed day is approaching, and the Zhao brothers and sisters, who are still far away in Yuyi Town, have already made full preparations and are ready. They only hope that there will be one or two good news from the front, and that Bai Feng and Murong Yan can return in triumph.
During the roughly two months that the heroic couple traveled, the Zhao brothers and sisters did not stop living their original lives.
As the eldest son of Zhao, Zhao Kuo is bound to inherit the family business and become the head of the family. Therefore, now he runs around with his father Zhao Wei all day long, receiving and welcoming distinguished guests from far away. At the end of the day, he only has time to pray to Buddha in the morning.
It's after nightfall that I have some free time.
For Zhao Xiaomei, her original life was destined to get married and go to Woye Town. Since it was a marriage, the corresponding etiquette and customs must be studied seriously. For this reason, the Zhao family's little sister was there almost every day.
Surrounded by slaves and teachers, she learned how to be a wife and how to be a wife. She seemed careless and didn't care about it.
Everyone is afraid that Miss Zhao will bring the unruly and willful temper she developed in the Purdah Garden to Woye Town. If the marriage fails, it will ruin the relationship between the two families. Such a counterproductive result is really sad, and all the efforts have been wasted.
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Therefore, the more Zhao Xiaomei didn't want to learn and couldn't learn in her heart, the more the slaves and teachers around her pressed harder and restricted her personal freedom. In the end, she was forced to sigh secretly and pretend to be a good daughter.
The appearance of a good student is to learn the posture and manners in a decent way.
When taking a break from their busy schedules, the Zhao brothers and sisters would always invite each other to visit the house specially renovated by Bai Feng in the name of official business, urging the workers not to delay due to the approaching winter.
Construction period.
The house was always in a mess before it was completed, and the Miao female supervisor would have various thoughts popping up in her mind from time to time, causing a lot of trouble for the boys under her.
Ajuan sometimes plans to carve two symmetrical black bird patterns on the door panel, and sometimes transplants other plants and flowers into the courtyard. He even plans to carve out half an acre of land here to plant a rhododendron field.
Faced with various unreasonable demands from the supervisor Ajuan, the workers who originally only had to follow Zhao Kuo's instructions to restore the mansion in front of them had to put a lot of effort into finding skilled sculptors from elsewhere and transporting precious stones from elsewhere.
Rhododendron species. All in all, they spent more energy than they imagined. Without the coordination of the Zhao brothers and sisters, they almost renovated the old Taiping Taoist Temple site into a Miao village.
One day, the Zhao brothers and sisters came to this Taoist temple for an excuse as usual, intending to find the Miao girl Ajuan to rekindle their old friendship.
There happened to be a light snowfall yesterday, and the entire Taoist temple seemed to be covered with a layer of white gauze inside and out. People on the street also put on thick clothes. People with considerable financial resources usually choose to stay warmer.
A comfortable coat made of mink or fox fur, with a brocade hat on the back.
This is how the Zhao brothers and sisters dress. They are almost identical, except that Zhao wears dark black clothes and Zhao Xiaomei wears light red. The thick animal fur is sewn on the edge of the clothes and hats, which not only blocks the wind, but also keeps warm.
The brother and sister had visited more than once, and they were already able to come and go with ease. They couldn't help but feel happy to see that this dilapidated Taoist temple was now revitalized. Zhao Kuo even declared that he wanted to reward Ajuan well.
Little did they know that Ajuan had already put on the winter clothes Zhao Kuo had ordered for her and was shivering in the warm room. She was now wearing Han clothes, a Chinese bun, and Chinese makeup, and she looked like a young lady from the Han Dynasty.
The winter coat that Zhao Kuo ordered for him was not of a traditional style. It was not as solemn and elegant as the one on the younger sister's body, with wide sleeves and narrow trains. Instead, it borrowed heavily from the Miao family's clothing and narrowed the sleeves.
The skirt is short and light, the undergarment is made of slim-fitting silk, and the edges of the clothes are also sewn with fur. Overall, Ajuan will not feel uncomfortable when wearing this set of clothes, no matter how active she is.
Half restrained.
Ajuan has never seen snow, let alone experienced white snow. After her skin touched this cold thing for the first time, she could never forget the cold air that penetrated her heart, like a conditioned reflex.
She naturally huddled next to the burning charcoal stove and no longer wanted to move.
But when Zhao Kuo and her younger sister arrived, she was no longer as enthusiastic as before. She called on her servants to clean the floor and the wooden table, and then made tea herself. When the Zhao brothers and sisters saw each other, they curled up like little snakes hibernating.
Sitting on the soft cushion, staring at the splashing flames in the charcoal stove with dull eyes, he thought about it and couldn't help but ask questions one after another.
"Ajuan, what are you doing?" Before Zhao Kuo finished speaking, the younger sister came to Ajuan's side with great interest, sat with him, and said: "Sister Ajuan, I miss you so much these days.
Yeah, it’s so boring at home!”
Ajuan glanced at Zhao Kuo listlessly, then gently hugged the little sister for a while, and said with emotion: "What am I doing, and what do you want me to do? Anyway, people here don't listen to me... Only the little sister can do it."
Say a few words to me."
Seeing this, Zhao Kuo pretended to be bold and sat down cross-legged, and replied: "How could it be possible? Who dares not to listen to you?"
"Them!" Ajuan pointed at the workers who were repairing the roof, and then pointed at Zhao Kuo and said, "And you!"
"Me?" Zhao Kuo said, "Didn't I prepare your winter clothes for you? What's wrong with Miss Ajuan?"
"How can something like this fall from the sky here! The slave family is freezing to death..." Before finishing his sentence, Ajuan stretched out his red and swollen hand in front of Zhao Kuo and said, "Look, the slave family is freezing to death..."
I said I couldn’t live alone, and yet you left me here! And these people, how have they done anything about the slave family’s instructions and slave family’s requirements!”
Zhao Kuo looked in the direction of the other person's finger. It was a group of shocked workers and boys. When they heard the Miao female supervisor reprimanding him, they all stopped working and walked behind Ajuan.
"They didn't do anything wrong, right?" Zhao Kuo saw the expressions of these workers all confused. He thought that Ajuan must have made things difficult for others, so he wanted to defend them and said: "In my opinion, this house is now
The work has been completed, but is there anything left that makes Miss Ajuan dissatisfied?"
"The slaves asked them to carve blackbirds and plant cuckoos, but they didn't do it well!"
Hearing Ajuan's cry, a young and mature worker with considerable say stood up and explained: "Back to Miss Ajuan, this is because no one has seen a black bird. Otherwise, how could we not follow your instructions?"
As for planting rhododendrons...how can we sow seeds now that there is heavy snow?"
"But..." Azalea was speechless for a long time, suddenly her eyes turned red, and she sobbed and replied: "In my home, azaleas can be seen everywhere, and there is a beautiful black bird pattern in front of my house... There,
There won’t be such infiltrating ‘snow’!”
After saying that, Zhao Kuo realized that the girl in front of him was eager to miss her family and had no one to rely on, so she would inevitably behave in such an embarrassing manner. Then, he quickly dispersed the workers who were still unaware of the situation and told them not to delay the construction period because of this kind of thing.
, he and his sister immediately chatted with the Miao girl until the dead of night.
Usually late at night, a servant from the Zhao family would come to urge the Zhao brothers and sisters to return home, but this night it was A-Bian who came.
As a member of the back kitchen, A-Bian cannot do the job of running errands and delivering messages every day. Master Zhao Wei sent him here tonight because the entire Zhao family was turned upside down by a piece of news.
It turned out that the Tong family father and son heard that Tong Yao had trumpeted in Woye Town that he had married a widow as his official wife, and then ignored his father's opinions and secretly issued a new decree, withdrawing all foreign troops assisting the Wuchuan Heba clan, and dispersed.
A large sum of money was spent to comfort the disabled veterans and the families of the dead and wounded soldiers.
In order to understand the details, and to stop such stupid behavior, the Tong family's father and son, who were temporarily living in Yuyi Town, had no choice but to leave overnight and return to Woye Town, putting the extremely important marriage on hold for the time being.