Chapter 436 Lao Jian Ju Slippery Junior Sister (Thanks to the leader of Mi Zhi Ji
reward)
Ouyang Rong walked out of the palace, got on the carriage, and said casually:
"Leave the city and go to the Twin Peaks."
The chariot driver set off immediately.
At the back door of the palace, the carriage started slowly.
He entered the carriage, sat quietly with his sleeves rolled up, his eyes lowered, as if he was still thinking about the red and black talisman materials.
The carriage drove towards the West City Gate and passed through the bustling city of Xingzifang.
Ouyang Rong opened the car curtain, quietly looked at the scene in the market for a while, and then suddenly spoke.
"Wait a minute, let's not go to the peaks of the twin peaks yet. Let's stop for a moment."
The carriage found a side street and alley to stop, and Ouyang Rong got off the carriage immediately.
The streets along the street I just passed by were full of chrysanthemums, of all colors except golden ones.
Recently, Xunyang City has been transformed into a city of chrysanthemums, which also means that autumn is deep and the autumn atmosphere is very rich.
People in Jiangnan love chrysanthemums, and people in Xunyang, Jiangzhou, love chrysanthemums even more.
Tao Yuanming, a famous scholar in the Eastern Jin Dynasty who was a chrysanthemum lover, brought the chrysanthemum-loving custom to Kuanglu for hundreds of years.
The four gentlemen among the flowers are plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum.
The chrysanthemum is solitary and bright, elegant and frosty, and is known as the "hidden gentleman". It is in line with the cultural atmosphere of Xunyang City, a popular place for official demotion, which has been reclusive since ancient times...
High-end restaurants decorate a doorway with chrysanthemums on their facade; the flower market is occupied by potted chrysanthemums shipped from all over; chrysanthemum appreciation banquets are held one after another among the upper class in Xunyang; ordinary people in Xingzifang will also put one or two chrysanthemums in their homes to suit the scene.
There are chrysanthemums everywhere in the city, some special varieties with strong fragrance.
Ouyang Rong just smelled something on the carriage before he decided to get out of the carriage.
He lowered the brim of his felt hat, walked to a street wine shop, took out his wallet, called the shopkeeper with a smile, and drank two bottles of chrysanthemum wine.
"Okay, sir, can you eat spicy food? Sprinkle some dogwood on it?"
"I want one pot, but I don't want one pot."
"Okay, thank you for your patronage, twenty coins..."
The shopkeeper, with his quick movements, quickly prepared two pots of wine, picked off the chrysanthemum petals and sprinkled them on top of the wine.
The wine was mixed with Juying, and Ouyang Rong felt it tasted good when he looked at it, so he refrained from drinking it for the time being.
The shopkeeper first filled a pot of chrysanthemum wine, and then added a handful of dogwood to the other pot according to the customer's instructions and sprinkled it on top of the wine.
After autumn, festivals such as Double Ninth Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival come one after another, and it is very popular to drink chrysanthemum wine.
Chrysanthemum is also known as a person who prolongs life, and dogwood is also known as a person who wards off evil spirits.
Perhaps it is believed that the two-pronged approach of extending life and warding off evil spirits can eliminate the bad luck caused by the traditional evil day "Double Nine". Adding some dogwood to chrysanthemum wine is also a popular drinking method.
However, Ouyang Rong was not interested in prolonging life and warding off evil spirits. He was just greedy. After all, he was "Ouyang Lianghan cannot be brought down by a thousand cups".
Two slender fingers hooked the red rope hanging on the wine bottle. He carried two bottles of wine and returned to the carriage. After sitting firmly, he said warmly:
"Go to Jingyi Court."
"yes."
The carriage turned around and quickly returned to Xiushui Fang in the wealthy area. It turned into a neat street with few pedestrians during the day, and slowly stopped in front of a mansion with a lot of vegetation and even vines climbing over the wall.
This private residence does not have the surname of the owner, only a simple plaque reading "Jingyi Garden".
However, in the eyes of knowledgeable people in Xunyang City, this private residence named "Jingyi Court" is one of the top three most expensive private residences in Xiushuifang, except for Prince Xunyang's Mansion. It is even compared with several others.
Different from the low-end luxury of this private house to show off wealth, this "Quiet Garden" has the highest elegance. It contains nine exquisitely arranged Jiangnan gardens, as well as the landscape layout of strange rocks and meandering water, all of which were created by famous Yangzhou garden architects.
You can tell at a glance that the owner of a private residence has outstanding taste. He is not comparable to some wealthy businessman and is definitely a distinguished person.
However, this "Quiet Garden" has been idle for a long time, and the owner's house has disappeared and no one has even been seen living there for a long time. As a result, it has also been cast a layer of mystery in the eyes of neighbors such as the dignitaries of Xiushuifang.
Ouyang Rong didn't know that the little junior sister's temporary residence outside the palace was so particular.
The attendant beside him knocked on the door, and as soon as he gave his name, the door of the mysterious house in the eyes of outsiders immediately opened, and the housekeeper came in person, with a group of maids, and respectfully welcomed the future uncle in.
"Are Seventeenth Mother and Miss Qin both here?"
"Yes, uncle, Miss Qin and Miss Qin haven't gone out yet today."
"Okay, go ahead and get busy." Ouyang Rong said with a gentle smile, paused, and then asked again: "Wait a minute, Mrs. Xie hasn't come back?"
"My aunt, no, I will let you know when you come back from Yangzhou. Don't worry, aunt."
"Ahem, okay."
Waving his hand to the steward, Ouyang Rong politely declined the maid who helped carry things. He carried two jars of wine and went to the back house alone.
He is somewhat familiar with the road.
I've been here twice.
This Jingyi Court is the private property of the Xie family. The last time Xie Xue'e came to Xunyang, she helped Ouyang Rong make an appointment with Qin Jingqin's grandfather and granddaughter. After the family banquet and before leaving, she casually handed over the key to this house to her junior sister.
The junior sister has an elegant personality, is quiet and far-sighted, and doesn't care much about the Xie family's properties all over the south of the Yangtze River. She doesn't pay much attention to travel and just lives where she can. She keeps a low profile when entering and leaving Jingyi Court on weekdays.
Later, in order to bring about a marriage between the Xunyang Prince's Palace and the Qin family, the junior sister and Li Guo'er invited Qin Ying to stay.
The Qin and Xie families were family friends, so Qin Ying was invited to live in this private house, and the junior sister would often come over to accompany her best friend.
When he went to the palace in the morning and learned that the junior sister was not there, Ouyang Rong roughly guessed that the junior sister had come to stay.
Lu Ya's arrival can be regarded as helping the junior sister to share some of the pressure of guarding.
In the past, for the safety of Li Xian's family, she had to stay in Xunyang Prince's Mansion most of the time. Now that Lu Ya is here, she can occasionally leave the Prince's Mansion to accompany Miss Qin to visit Xunyang, and by the way, she and Li Dalang can be brought together.
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But there is another reason why Xie Lingjiang wanted to live out there.
After all, Prince Xunyang's house is someone else's house, and there are many people and mixed views, but the senior brother runs to her boudoir from time to time, and sometimes he is affectionate and affectionate in a secluded place in the corridor... Xie Lingjiang is a daughter's family after all, so she is thin-skinned.
, my heart is both sweet and angry.
It would be better to live out and have her own home with a large private space, so she has been running between Jingyi Court and Xunyang Prince's Mansion recently, and has a tacit understanding with Ouyang Rong.
After a while, Ouyang Rong came to a boudoir and knocked on the door.
The voice of the maid came from the door: "Who is it? Miss Qin, I'm sorry, the lady is taking a bath in the backyard and incense, she hasn't come out yet..."
"Ahem, it's me. It's okay, you can wait."
Ouyang Rong's voice sounded, and the door suddenly became quiet.
In this way, there was silence for half a cup of tea inside and outside the door.
Someone seemed to be whispering an order in the boudoir. The door of the boudoir suddenly opened, and a dozen personal maids ran out and slipped away from the slender Ouyang Rong with their heads lowered and red faces.
During this period, no one spoke except for a few glances at him, and no one knew what he meant.
Ouyang Rong glanced at the maids who had left in a hurry and seemed to have forgotten to close the lacquer door of the boudoir.
Bath incense?
As soon as his eyes moved, he immediately picked up two wine bottles and quietly entered the door, not forgetting to close the door behind him.
It was midday and the sun was just right, so it was indeed a good day for taking a bath.
Ouyang Rong nodded secretly and went to the backyard lightly.
What if you accidentally bump into something?
Then bump into something.
Ouyang Rong approached the backyard and immediately smelled the familiar fragrance of orchids, but it was also mixed with the pleasant fragrance of dipterocarps.
In addition, you can clearly feel the mist in the air, which is the humidity of hot water after a normal bath.
"Little junior sister?"
Ouyang Rong pretended to enter by mistake, and after approaching, he made a tentative sound with a doubtful tone:
"Hey, where's the strange guy? I'm coming in..."
The footsteps have arrived, and there is no time for the beauty in the courtyard to react.
The next moment, he "stride into the backyard by mistake" and met a clear-eyed look, half-smiling but not smiling.
"Eldest brother, what are your eyes looking for?"
"Um, why are you, junior sister... putting flowers in a vase? Eat, have you eaten?"
"The sun is so beautiful. If I don't put flowers in the vase, what should I do? What do you think I should do?"
She stood in the sun, neatly dressed and not "cool", and looked up and down at someone's face:
"What were you looking forward to just now, Senior Brother? Well, it looked like he was a little disappointed."
"What's the matter?"
Ouyang Rong kept a straight face and denied:
"How can little junior sister say something that is difficult for senior brother to understand? The weather is nice, and I saw a chrysanthemum wine seller on the roadside. I came over to have a few drinks with you... By the way, little junior sister just finished taking a bath?"
"Um."
"The relationship is great. You don't have to wait. It's better to come early than to come by chance. I came at the right time."
"Really? Why do you think the senior brother wants to come earlier?"
"Who am I?"
"uh-huh."
After being cross-examined by Xie Lingjiang, he was finally fooled by coaxing and boasting.
Ouyang Rong coughed twice, and then he had time to look at the junior sister's makeup and the objects in the yard.
She must have just finished taking a bath and incense, and she was looking up to the sky, with a palm-sized oval face, like hibiscus emerging from clear water, naturally carved.
Three thousand black hair, black and smooth, shawl casually.
Wearing white socks, a pair of red rope clogs, and only a floor-length long skirt that is as bright as the ice and snow on the mountaintop, half of a cute shoulder slips out of the neck of the long skirt, and the collarbone is exquisite, making people want to take a bite...
She stood in the bright sunshine, shining brightly, and her whiteness was dazzling.
In addition, because she didn’t have time to bind her breasts, the beauty’s snow-capped mountains became even more majestic.
There was a wooden table in the yard with three or two vases on it. She was standing in front of the lacquered wooden table and was inserting a dipterocarpus into the vase.
Facing Ouyang Rong's unblinking gaze, Xie Lingjiang turned his eyes away, subconsciously raised his bare hands, and pulled the smooth black hair that was scattered around his shoulders to his right shoulder.
She crossed her bare hands, took off a red rope from the bowl of her right arm, simply tied her long hair into a single ponytail, and placed it on her right shoulder, shyly covering some of her collarbone and shoulders.
But when Ouyang Rong's eyes fell into this little attempt to hide something, he felt even more charming and cute.
"Why are you standing there so stupidly? Why don't you come and help me?"
Xie Lingjiang suddenly turned his head and glared at him with round eyes.
Ouyang Rong immediately stepped forward, walked to the table, put down the wine bottle, and accompanied his junior sister to place a vase of flowers...
PS: Thank you to the leader of my son Mi Zhi Ji for the reward. My father's love is not in vain. In addition, I recommend my son's book "How to Fall in Love When You Already Have a Cat", a single female protagonist dog food article, for those who are interested.