novelraw Chapter 14
Chapter 14
Let's say that Yan Li and others entered the city, and they came to their house without stopping and got off their horses.A gatekeeper's servant had already led the horse, and Yan Li took Song'er and Qing'er across the courtyard to the front of the main room in the backyard where Mrs. Wei lived.
On the porch stood two servant girls and two nuns.One of them, surnamed Song, was Mrs. Wei's more respectable nanny, and also Yan Li's nanny when she was a child.At this time, seeing Yan Li coming in, he hurriedly ran over, took Yan Li's hand and said with a smile: "My good brother, you are back, Madam misses you so much!"
Yan Li greeted Nanny Song with a smile, and Fang asked, "Is Madam in the room?"
Nanny Song said: "Yes, there are guests in the room right now, and I am talking with them!"
"Oh——" Yan Li thought for a while, "Since my wife is not free, I'll go back first, and I'll come back after the guests leave."
Nanny Song hurriedly smiled and said, "Brother, why are you panicking! My wife has already told you that as long as you come back, no matter what time, no matter what time you have, just let you in, she is in a hurry to find you!"
"But there are guests in the room, so I'm afraid it's inconvenient for me to go in?" Yan Li wondered.
Nanny Song smiled and said: "It's just a few women, it's nothing important, you go in!" Then, she took his hand and pulled him to the front of the house, and smiled back inside: "Madam, the young master is back !"
The original talking and laughing in the room stopped abruptly, and after a while, Mrs. Wei's melodious and dignified voice came from inside: "Let him in!" Nanny Song agreed, and hurriedly pushed Yan Li into the room.Yan Li had no choice but to bite the bullet and bow his head in.
Inside the room, Mrs. Wei sat on the main seat in a grand dress. On the chairs at the bottom and left, there were a few gorgeously dressed women with jewels and emerald heads. Everyone had curious faces and stretched their necks to stare. Staring at Yan Li who came in with big eyes, he looked back and forth on his body and face.
Yan Li felt embarrassed, and after greeting Mrs. Wei, he was about to leave.Mrs. Wei hurriedly stopped him and said, "Li'er, you came back just in time, come and meet some distinguished guests!"
Yan Li is not an idiot, when he saw the makeup of those people, he already guessed their identities quite well.But no matter how disgusted he was, Madam Yan had given orders, so she had to bite the bullet and followed Madam Wei's introduction to meet those women one by one, and said a few polite words respectfully.
Those women saw that his face was like a powder, his lips were painted red, his plump and handsome, he looked like a handsome young man, they couldn't hide their joy immediately, they scrambled to come over, and praised in a hurry: "Oh, this is Mr. Yan, he is really handsome, and he is a thousand times more handsome than the rumors!"
"Who says it's not, look at this stature, neither tall nor short, this figure, neither fat nor thin, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, red lips and white teeth, he is a handsome man who everyone loves!"
"Oh, don't you just look at his appearance, don't you see the sword hanging from his waist? It can be seen that besides being good at calligraphy and painting, he must also be a person with high martial arts skills. Tsk tsk, if this young lady marries him, she will definitely protect her Have a safe life!"
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Surrounded by these women, Yan Li made a fuss of boasting and talking, his head was buzzing, and he took a moment to wink at his mother.Mrs. Wei saw that the fire was almost ready, and hurriedly ordered: "Okay, Li'er, see you, you should go back to the house and change your clothes, and come to see me after the guests leave."
Yan Li couldn't wait for the sound, so he hurriedly answered "Yes", bowed deeply to everyone, and then slowly backed out.
As soon as Yan Li came out, Song'er rushed to meet her, and said in surprise, "My lord, look at your sweaty brow, but your wife is really not in good health?"
Yan Li waved his sleeves impatiently and said, "Madam is in good health!"
"Then why are you so anxious?" Song'er was even more surprised.
Yan Li sneered and said unhappily: "Isn't it because of your crow's mouth that it's full of women who came out of nowhere, pulling me to look left and right, talking from head to toe, making a lot of noise My brain hurts."
After hearing this, Qing'er was stunned for a while, and said worriedly: "Should this be the person arranged by the wife to visit the young master? Didn't you say which house he came from?"
Yan Li sneered and said: "Who knows, anyway, I don't want to." Then he led the two of them to his own yard.
Qing'er hurriedly chased after him and asked, "Young master, can you tell your wife that I'm back?"
Yan Li said: "Where is the time to talk about this now, you can go back with me, stay in your original house, and make arrangements when you return to your wife later." Now, helplessly, Yan Li was upset at the moment, she didn't dare to speak any more, so she had to follow him into the courtyard first, and went directly to the room where the servants of the inverted house lived.
In the room, there were four little girls who were eating lunch around the table, they raised their heads suddenly and saw Qing'er coming in with a livid face, they were all taken aback for a moment.Qing'er saw that there were three unfamiliar faces among these little girls, and knew that they were newcomers, and only one girl who was a little older was a girl who worked together before, named Zhao'er, who was the most famous among the group of girls at that time. Be honest and easy to bully.
Seeing that it was Qing'er who came, he hurriedly winked at the others, stood up first, greeted the door with low eyebrows, and said with a smile: "It turns out that Sister Qing'er is back. I didn’t get the letter, I didn’t go out to greet you, sister Qing’er, please don’t be offended!” After speaking, he hurriedly greeted the other little girls and said, “Come and see sister Qing’er soon.” The little girls have heard about Qing’er for a long time. They all looked respectful and came over to say hello one by one in a polite manner.Zhao'er also took the opportunity to report the names of these little girls to Qing'er, only then did Qing'er know that the names of these three little girls were Shun'er, Liang'er, and Lan'er.Among them, Lan'er is quite handsome, Qing'er can't help but take a few extra glances, his eyes are full of vigilance.
It's all for a few people to recognize one by one, Qing'er squeezed out a smile for free: "They are all my sisters, you don't have to be polite, you eat yours, don't worry about me."
Even though she said that, those little girls didn't dare to move, they just looked at Zhao'er's face.Zhao'er had no choice but to ask Qing'er: "Sister Qing'er has eaten? If you don't mind, why don't you share some with us?"
Qing'er looked at the bowls of green soup and vegetables with little water on the table, shook his head and said, "I ate with you on the way when I came here, but now I really can't eat it, you can eat it." Hearing what she said, Zhao'er said, Knowing that she didn't bother to eat these, he stopped letting her, and greeted everyone to sit down again and continue eating.