All day long, Zhang Yanling avoided meeting Xu Wanjing. During lunch, Zhang Yanling went to drink and eat in the vestibule with Ma Quan, Huang Si and a group of guards.
What happened last night was too embarrassing, and I really couldn't face Xu Wanyi. Maybe Xu Wanyi was full of anger now and hated herself so much that he gritted his teeth, so it was better for him not to get into trouble for the time being.
However, what was supposed to come still came. In the afternoon, Zhang Yanling was catching up on his sleep in the West Courtyard. Just after he woke up, Shiqing, the accompanying maid, came to the West Courtyard to deliver a letter, saying that the princess asked the Marquis to go to the back garden to enjoy the snow. By the way, they discussed that they would return to Dingguogong Mansion tomorrow to pay New Year's greetings and visit relatives.
things.
Zhang Yanling had a big head. Of course he knew that the discussion about New Year's greetings and relatives was a lie, and the instigation of troops to investigate the crime was true. However, he had to face it, and hiding was not an option. The worst he could do was to get stabbed by Xu Wanyi again.
Zhang Yanling was neatly dressed, put on her fur cloak and fur hat, and left the west courtyard, walking slowly towards the back garden. All the snow on the path had been cleared away, and the floor tiles were wet. The cleared snow on the roadside was piled up like a hill.
, some naughty maids piled them into various shapes. Some were like a pagoda, some were like a snowman, and some were like a budding flower.
However, Zhang Yanling had no intention of admiring these snow sculptures. He walked slowly to the archway of the back garden and saw two maids standing at the door talking in low voices. They were Xu Wanyi's dowry maids, poetic and painterly.
When the two saw Zhang Yanling, they hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "I have met my uncle."
Zhang Yanling said: "What are you doing standing here? Where is your princess?"
Shiqing said: "The princess is waiting for the marquis in the garden. Huayi and I are guarding the door here. The princess has given instructions not to allow outsiders to enter the garden and disturb me. Please hurry up and invite me. The princess has been waiting for a long time."
Zhang Yanling smiled bitterly and thought to herself: This posture is exactly the posture of raising an army to accuse someone. By sending two maids to block the door, doesn't this mean that he wants to settle accounts with himself?
At this point, there was no other way. I had to bite the bullet and walk into the back garden.
It has been said that Zhang Yanling has not been to her backyard for a long time. In the past six months or so, there have been a lot of big and small things. Zhang Yanling is really busy and has never even set foot in her backyard. After coming in now, she almost doesn’t recognize this person.
It's my own garden.
The garden has obviously been decorated and renovated. After entering through the arch of the garden, there is a winding path shaded by lush flowers and trees. The snow on the path has not been cleared, but this is obviously intentional. The snow is reserved for viewing.
Very few people come to the back garden, unlike the roads in the back house where people come and go and the snow must be cleared.
The flowers and trees on both sides were covered with thick snow. Under the white snow cover were green pine and cypress branches and dense evergreen trees, as well as trees with green leaves that Zhang Yanling could not recognize.
Stepping on this snowy path, the snow crunched under my feet, and golden sunlight penetrated through the gaps between the trees on both sides and fell on the snow. The scenery was quite beautiful.
Not long after walking forward, after bypassing the trees, the scenery suddenly opened up. A large open ground was covered with thick white snow, and a line of footprints passed through the snow, leading to a snow-covered rockery ahead. Zhang Yanling followed the footprints
Walking around and around the side of the rockery, Zhang Yanling was stunned by the scenery in front of her.
The entire east side of the back garden is a sea of pink and light yellow plum blossoms. A tree of red plum blossoms blooms on the branches in the white snow, and the middle is dotted with the flowers of the light yellow wintersweet tree. This scene is simply beautiful.
Gorgeous.
Zhang Yanling suddenly realized that no wonder there was always a fragrance lingering in the cold air. It turned out to be the fragrance of plum blossoms. Looking at this patch of plum trees, there must be dozens of them, and they are all adult plum trees with huge branches and criss-crossing branches.
, Needless to say, I am afraid that the plum tree in the West Garden of Duke Dingguo's Mansion suffered a disaster and was really transplanted by Xu Wanyi.
Zhang Yanling felt a little pity for Ding Guogong Xu Guangzuo. Marrying a daughter was like being robbed at home. The dowry cost more than 100,000 taels of silver. Her daughter also wiped out all the furniture, tables, chairs, calligraphy and painting decorations in her residence, and even vases, incense burners and candlesticks.
.Not to mention, even the plum trees planted in the garden were not spared and were dug up from the roots.
Dingguo Gong's annual plum appreciation poetry party in the West Garden is probably in vain. Looking at the number of plum trees, more than half of them must have been dug up. If the land in his back garden hadn't been a little small, I guess there wouldn't have been one at all.
will be left.
Zhang Yanling was marveling to herself when she heard the sound of footsteps stepping on the snow. Zhang Yanling followed the sound and saw Xu Wanyi wearing a white brocade jacket and a red cloak under a blooming red plum tree.
Take a plum blossom and look at yourself smiling.
The sun shines on the snow, and under the snow light, Xu Wanyi's skin is better than snow, her teeth are bright, and she is as beautiful as a fairy in a painting.
"Master Hou, how is my plum blossom forest?" Xu Wanyi asked with a sweet smile.
Zhang Yanling calmed down and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that you would transform the back garden into this. There is actually this plum forest. It's so beautiful."
Xu Wanyi smiled and said: "Master Hou, how do you think this plum tree compares with the plum tree in my west garden?"
Zhang Yanling smiled and said: "If I guess correctly, there should be no difference between the two."
Xu Wanyi covered her mouth and giggled, nodded and said: "Master Hou is really smart. These are the plum trees in my west garden. I picked out all the strong and beautiful ones and dug them up. My father blew his beard and glared angrily, but
There is nothing I can do. I planted the plum tree at home."
Zhang Yanling said with a smile: "I'm afraid that the Plum Blossom Appreciation Poetry Club in the West Garden of Duke Dingguo's Mansion will come to nothing. Your plum blossom viewing pavilion will also have to be renamed."
Xu Wanyi burst out laughing. Zhang Yanling murmured in her heart: The princess talked about him, which made people feel more and more panicked. She thought that the meeting would be a storm, but she didn't expect that she didn't mention it, which was something wrong.
"Snowy days are the best time to enjoy the snow. Look, how beautiful it is. The plum blossoms and snow refuse to fall in the spring, Sao Renge wrote and commented. The plum blossoms are less white than the snow, but the snow loses the fragrance of the plum blossoms. The ancients are honest and I will not deceive them.
"Master Hou, let's enjoy the plum blossoms." Xu Wanyi said softly.
Zhang Yanling nodded Nonuo. Xu Wanyi turned around and walked into the plum forest, and Zhang Yanling followed slowly. Stepping on the snow between the plum trees, there was a sea of fragrant snow all around, and there was a faint fragrance on the nose. I don't know if it was the fragrance of plum blossoms.
It’s still the fragrance of Xu Wanyi’s body.
Zhang Yanling walked behind, looking at Xu Wanyi's graceful figure, and suddenly remembered the charming scene last night, and the unbearable situation of being wanton and frivolous Xu Wanyi. Unconsciously, his heart was throbbing and his brain was hot. He even felt that there was blood on his palms.
It still retains the soft and warm fragrance from last night.
Zhang Yanling suddenly had a flash in her mind and thought of one thing: "I seemed to be really drunk last night. I should have discovered earlier that it was not Tan Ruqing's. Ruqing's place is plump, full and elastic, and Princess's place is very plump and elastic."
Once you hold it, it's soft and warm. It's a big difference. You should be able to tell it when you first start. I kneaded it for a long time without realizing it. I was really dizzy."
"Master Hou..." Xu Wanyi stopped and turned around to speak.
Zhang Yanling was thinking about random things in her mind, and she didn't notice that Xu Wanyi suddenly stopped walking, and she couldn't dodge and bumped into him.
Xu Wanyi screamed and fell backwards. Zhang Yanling was caught off guard and reached out to hug him, but Xu Wanyi took him and fell to the snow.