Because the four of them were not very familiar with each other, this was the second time that the four of them had officially met. Yan Suxin and the other two did not make any jokes. Chen Danxia picked a trench-shaped lotus, but the three of them had a smirk on their faces. Chen Danxia pretended not to see it, and held the trench-shaped lotus and smiled so much that it was more beautiful than the flower.

At this time, the maid next to Cao came to invite four people to have lunch. Chen Danxia quietly gave the flower to Mo Si and whispered: "Send it to him."

"Yes." Mo Shi smiled and took the flower, slowed down, landed behind, turned around, and rushed along the path of the pond.

When we arrived at the dining hall, several mothers asked their daughter the same question. What did you just go to do? Have fun?

"I'm going to pick lotus and fish, I'm happy." The daughters' answers were similar.

During the meal, Zhang Mu'er said regretfully: "It's a pity that I didn't find the lotus pod."

"If you want to eat lotus seeds, just go buy them." Li Yunqian said while chewing a piece of goose jerky meat.

"I want to eat lotus seeds peeled by myself, which will be sweeter, crisper and more delicious." Zhang Mu'er pouted.

Chen Danxia laughed and said, "That's a psychological effect."

"What's the purpose?" Zhang Wu'er didn't understand.

"Nothing." Chen Danxia shook his head, "I have a small pond in my house that also plant lotus flowers. If you don't dislike it, I will ask you to pick lotus pods another day."

Zhang Mu'er's eyes lit up, "Are you serious?"

"Take it seriously." Chen Danxia said with a smile.

"I want to go too." Li Yunqian reached out to pull Chen Danxia's sleeve, "I want to pick lotus pods too."

Yan Suxin shook the round fan and said, "Sister Chen, would you please invite me?"

"Please, please, please." Chen Dan laughed.

Everyone was very happy.

After lunch in the restaurant beside Hulutang, I sat down for a while, and they left and went home. Two days later, I received the news of the marriage between the Prince's Mansion of Jiangxia County and the Marquis of Xiangqing. The Princess of Jiangxia County made a move to make the prince climb to the great backer of Xiangqing Hou Mansion and firmly occupy the royal title in his home.

When Chen Danxia learned the news, he was sitting by the desk and writing a post himself, inviting Li Yunqian, Yan Suxin, Zhang Muer, Jiang Shuiling, Li Xian, Huang Xinran and Jiang Zhen to come to his home to pick lotus pods. The post was delivered to each house, and except for Li Xian, the other six people replied that they were OK.

In the past, when three houses lived together in the old house, Lin was the one who was the leader of the house. Chen Danxia imagined that she was always outside and never invited her friends to her home. Then she split up her family. Chen Danxia did not have the idea of ​​treating her. She, the legitimate daughter, did not treat her, and the concubines did not dare to act rashly.

Chen Danxia was inviting guests, Chen Danxun and Shen Danxun were fine, but Chen Danzi was thinking, "Three sisters, can I invite Qian Lulu and Yang Lan?" Qian Lulu was the concubine's daughter of the Minister of Personnel's family. Yang Lan was the concubine's daughter of the Left Minister of Rites, and she had a good relationship with Chen Danzi. The guests were crowded with people, but the problem was that the Qian family and the Yang family had legitimate daughters, and Chen Danxia was just as good as they were. It was not suitable to invite only the concubine's daughter but not the legitimate daughter. Chen Danxia was not happy.

"Sister Six, please post by yourself another day." Chen Danxia said directly.

Chen Dannian frowned and glared at Chen Dannian, and Chen Dannian pouted unhappily. Tao looked at Chen Dannian with disgust and made the words clear, "Your third sister is invited to be the legitimate daughters in the mansion."

No matter how much dissatisfaction Chen Danbi had, he would not dare to reveal it. There was a huge difference between legitimate and illegitimate. He could only go to Dong Qixiu and cried aggrievedly: "I just want to invite two people to visit. My wife and the third sister ridiculed me like that. I was born to my aunt, but like the third sister, he is the father's daughter. Why should they treat me like this?"

"Bi, stop crying. Mom goes to tell your father that you will invite them to visit in your name." Dong Qixiu hugged her and coaxed her.

Chen Dan burst into tears and laughed, but Chen Dannian looked down and said, "Auntie, I advise you not to do this. It is true that my father is the head of the family, but in the inner house, the wife is respected. If you anger your wife, will you expect my father to take my sister out to meet guests in the future?"

Although Chen Dannian was not smart, she had the instinct to seek good fortune and avoid bad luck. As she grew older, she became more and more interested. However, Chen's mother had always been unclear about her marriage. Her biological mother Dong Qixiu was a concubine and had to follow the rules of the concubine. She could not leave either family. She realized that the people she could count on for her marriage were not Chen Muke and Shen's mother but Tao, and there were pearls and jade in front of her. Chen Dan was honest and obedient. Tao gave her a good marriage, and she also hoped to marry into a high school, so she did not want to anger Tao again.

"No matter how powerful the wife is, she has to listen to the master. She dare not ignore what the master said." Dong Qixiu said with fearlessness, stammering her neck. Chen Dan was standing aside and nodded in agreement.

Chen Dannian vaguely felt that Tao did not obey Chen Muke's meaning very much, but she knew that Dong Qixiu and Shen Danbi would not listen to her. Her biological mother was still a little capable. Chen Muke had long stopped going to Chen Danhui and Shen Danxun's concubine, but he would come to Yazhiyuan for seven or eight days in a month. However, her aunt's belly was not good and she had not gotten pregnant for so many years. She said, "I advise you not to listen. If something happens, don't implicate me." After that, she left.

Chen Danzi curled his lips, "I don't know what happened to the fifth sister? Now I'm helping my wife and third sister everywhere."

Dong Qixiu sighed, "She has been raised by the old lady since she was a child, and she is not the same as us mother and I am such a stupid child. I am her biological mother. Will I even harm her?"

"Mom, don't be sad, I will listen to you." Chen Danbi snuggled in Dong Qixiu's arms, his eyes flashing.

After a short while, someone reported to Tao's conversation between Dong Qixiu and his daughter; Tao sneered and did not comment.

On June 16th, the sun was shining, and the lotus flowers on the pond were budding on the green lotus leaves, or they were struggling to bloom. Chen Danhui and Shen Danxun did not go to the second gate to pick up guests with Chen Danxia. Chen Dannian never appeared. Chen Danzi, dressed in a dress, went to the second gate to the second gate together with Chen Danxia. The sisters of the Shen family were all wearing new clothes today. Chen Danxia was used to wearing cool-toned clothes in summer, wearing a light blue dress embroidered with lotus patterns, holding the lightest lingyun bun, with a short red gold dotted hairpin on the bun, and a phoenix-carrying pearl tassel hairpin inserted diagonally. The third-rank official's daughter can already wear phoenix style decorations.

Chen Dan has been engaged and dressed in a dignified and quiet manner. He is wearing a rose-red double-breasted gown and an ivory horse-faced skirt; Chen Dan Xun is bean green straight and white long skirt; both of them are dressed in a normal manner, neither rude nor do they lose the main character.

Chen Danbi was the opposite of the two. She was dressed in a bright dress, wearing a three-ring bun, a full set of gilded red-breasted head, a red round-necked gauze top, and a pink cotton-colored skirt. Chen Danbi was still young, and her outfit was too mature and gorgeous, and it was not suitable for her. Seeing that she felt good, Chen Danxia and others didn't talk much to remind her.

Yan Suxin and others were all punctual people and came as promised. The one who sent Yan Suxin was her elder brother Yan Jintian, the one who sent Li Yunqian was her cousin Song Xuan, the prince of Dingguo, Zhang Mu'er was her second brother Zhang Fang, Huang Xinran was her elder brother Huang Qingfeng, and Jiang Shuiling was her elder brother Jiang Chenghe...

"The weather in June is so hot!" Chen Danzi said in a tactful manner.

When she said this in front of Song Xuan, Chen Danxia cared about it, but when she said it again in front of Zhang Fang and even squirmed her head and twisted her waist, Chen Danxia instantly understood why she was dressed so beautifully today and why she came to the second door to welcome guests. It turned out that she wanted to hook up with someone!

Chen Danxia's mouth twitched slightly, first it was Xu Lang, then Cheng Jue, now she is...

Fishing frequently and casting nets?

Chen Danxia was shameless by Chen Danbi, and was so angry that he was dizzy. Fortunately, the young men left after sending their sister, and had no contact with Shen Danbi. There was no need to worry about her doing anything inappropriate. It was embarrassing. The Shou Woo saw it and remembered it in her heart. Later, she went to Ruoshuiyuan to report Chen Danbi's ugly behavior to Tao, "Madam, now the girls are all older, and the sixth girl's reputation is not good, which will affect the third girl."

Tao frowned. Although she didn't care much about these concubines, she did not relax her upbringing and asked her husband to teach them how to read, read and rules. Chen Danhui and Shen Danxun learned well, and Chen Dannian was also well controlled. Chen Dan was frivolous, just like her biological mother. Tao wrote a text message and asked someone to send it to Renyi Bo's Mansion, asking Jin to find three nannies who came out of the palace for her.

Chen Danxia didn't know about the Shou Woman going to Ruoshuiyuan. She accompanied several girls to sit in the water pavilion by the pond. There was a water wheel next to the water pavilion, which slowly turned, splashing with water splashing, and breeze blew, drifting into the water pavilion with water mist, reducing the heat and adding coolness.

"It feels so comfortable!" Li Yunqian leaned on the bamboo recliner with half-squinted eyes. "The frontier will be snowing in August. It's not as hot as Jindu. I almost got peeled off these days."

"Put more ice in the room." Jiang Shuiling smiled.

"My cousin refused to let him go, saying that the girl's house cannot get cold." Li Yunqian pouted.

"Mrs. Lu is for your own good." Yan Suxin smiled.

"I know, so I listened to her, but it was really hot." Li Yunqian slapped the fan twice.

"Chen Jiu is smart and puts the banquet in the water pavilion. We can enjoy the flowers and be refreshing and cool." Jiang Zhen said with a smile.

Jiang Shuiling smiled and said, "Chen Jiu is the one who enjoys the most."

"When the boat comes, if you want to pick the lotus pods with your own hands, get on the boat. If you don't want to go, you can go to the small hall next to play cards, or ask the female teacher who is talking about books to talk about books, and you can also go to the back to listen to the opera." Chen Danxia smiled.

For the first time that Tao was treating her baby daughter at home, she was worried. Not only did she invite two storytellers to come back to relieve the girls' boredom, but she also invited Jin Youwei's famous opera troupe to sing opera for them.

Jiang Zhen said enviously: "Chen Jiu, Aunt Tao loves you."

"You said this, the one who is a mother doesn't love her daughter." Jiang Shuiling was moved. Since she was given a marriage, his father locked her up at home. Today, it was her mother who begged her to leave.

Although Li Yunqian and Yan Suxin are talented, they are not showing off their temperament. Moreover, today they are not making friends through poetry. As for Li Yunqian, Zhang Mu'er, Jiang Shuiling and Shen Danxun, Chen Danbing got on the boat and went to the pond to pick lotus pods. Chen Danxia frowned slightly and whispered to Chen Danxun: "You have taken care of the sixth sister, don't let her cause trouble. If she doesn't listen to you, slap her twice, and I will bear everything."

Chen Danxun said righteously: "Don't worry, third sister, I will look at her and will not let her defeat everyone's interest."

Chen Danxun and Shen Danbian were both concubines. Chen Danxia was worried that Chen Danxun would not accept Chen Danxun's control, so she asked Jinshu to join the boat and told her not to care about anything, but to be responsible for staring at Chen Fanbian. Chen Danxun, Huang Xinran, Jiang Zhen and Shen Dannian gathered together to play cards; Chen Danxun and Yan Suxin stayed in Shuixieli and called the female gentleman in to hear the story.

Perhaps Chen Danxun and Jinshu were properly prepared, and Chen Danzi was at peace when they arrived on the boat, but they always liked to come to Zhang Mu'er to talk to her. Jinshu reported to Chen Danxia with his back and guessed: "Miss, the sixth girl is probably attracted by the second son of Changning Bo Mansion."

Chen Danxia stroked his forehead. Chen Dan had a very high vision. He looked down on the outstanding sons of each family. "Let the fourth girl stop her and don't let her get close to Miss Zhang anymore."

The brocade took the order and left.

The person who picked lotus pods came back, the book was finished, the person who played cards also settled the bill, and everyone was waiting for the seat. Yuan Qingyin came over to say hello to everyone, but she was not pretending to be an air, just because she was a married woman and was not easy to participate in the girls' gatherings. She was pregnant for more than one or two months and needed to rest and take good rest and take care of the baby.

Yuan Qingyin greeted the girls and left, and the maids brought wine and food, lotus fragrant eight-treasure chicken, rouge red lotus rolls, steamed pork ribs from lotus leaves, fried lotus stems, honey lotus roots... more than ten dishes related to lotus.

"Sister Chen is clever and it is hard for you to think of so many ways to eat it." Yan Suxin praised with a smile.

"I just moved my mouth. It was made by the chefs. You can try it, how does it taste?" Chen Danxia smiled.

Everyone started to eat chopsticks, Zhang Mu'er ate a slice of fried lotus, "This fried lotus is so delicious. The surface is crispy and has the fragrance of eggs. It's so sweet and crispy, so delicious."

"I like this lotus-scented eight-treasure chicken..."

"This honey lotus root is sweet."

The girls were judging with praise, sweeping over a dozen dishes, making Zhang Muer lie on the bamboo chair and said, "I'm afraid I can't eat the lotus seed soup for a while."

"You walk two circles along the path by the pond, and you can eat after you eat." Jiang Shuiling said with experience.

Rushi took umbrellas and walked by the pond to digest food under the sun. After walking for three rounds, the fragrance was full of sweat. He returned to the water pavilion to rest and calmed down. Before the beginning, the maids sent the cooked lotus seed soup to the water pavilion, and also Bingmo was also delivered with the lotus seed soup.

"If you want to eat cold food, just mix it with ice foam yourself, so everyone can do it." Chen Danxia greeted.

"Okay, we won't be polite to you." The girls smiled.

After using the lotus seed soup, I rested for a while, and went to the back to listen to three short plays, and the girls all parted happily. Not long after Chen Danxia returned to Zhiyuan, Shen Baimi came back from outside with a deep face. Shen Baimi went to Ruoshuiyuan to ask Tao, and then went to Chuyuan to chat with Yuan Qingyin, before going to Zhiyuan to find Chen Danxia.
Chapter completed!