Chapter 2356 travel

Mrs. Liu smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "I originally thought that you were the only one in the family, and we didn't have a good relationship with the family, so Dalang and Erlang could watch over and help you, but I didn't expect Man Bao to be there too. The officialdom has something to do, which is good now, with her here, your response in the officialdom will only be more in the future."

"The officialdom is not at all calmer than the battlefield, you have to be careful in the future..." Mrs. Liu warned a lot, and it was not until late at night that Bai Shan was allowed to leave and go back to the house.

There is a light on in the main courtyard, Man Bao is writing under the lamp, May Jiulan and Xibing Xihua are standing aside, pouring water and grinding ink for Manbao's tea, it can be said that the red sleeves add fragrance, but full Bao is a little unbearable.

She looked at them with a pen on her face and asked, "Aren't you tired? Would you like to take a break?"

The four shook their heads together, indicating that they were not tired at all.

Man Bao had no choice but to let them go.

The house was quiet again, but there was a lot of liveliness around Man Bao, and the four little maids followed her every day, wishing she could even walk away for her.

Bai Shan and the others looked overjoyed. Even people outside knew that Zhou Man had added two women from the Western Regions as girls, which made the girls around before jealous, and they were fighting for favor recently.

The reason why people outside knew was because when it was Manbao's turn at Huangzhuang, the four of them went together to deliver her things, changing clothes, various daily necessities, and food and drink. .

At that time, Imperial Physician Liu and others came to check on the cow's condition. Before they left, they saw the scene of four little girls fighting for another little girl and being jealous.

This is... so rare.

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, all five cows had acne, but the fourteenth and fifteenth lunar month were off. These two days were just the turn of Imperial Doctor Zheng and Imperial Doctor Lu. Man Bao was lucky to go home, and as soon as he got home, he said to Bai Shan, "Yuanxiao" We take the cakes and they go out for a walk."

Bai Shan was puzzled: "Why?"

Man Bao casually found a reason, "This is the first time they come to Beijing, let's take them to enjoy the scenery of Chang'an."

Bai Shan: "You can just give them a holiday. Every year during the holidays, my grandmother will also give the servants a holiday and let them go out to play. There are so many people in the house, where can you bring them?"

"Okay," Man Bao could only tell the truth, "I don't know who it is. They spread bad words about me outside. These days, as long as I enter the Tai Hospital and Chongwen Museum, everyone is staring at me curiously. There are a few people. He also asked me face to face, I am not stalwart and handsome, why are there still girls who are jealous for me? Well, I think they are just jealous, so this time I want to take them out for a walk, I will go to places like Qingfeng Building, Zhuangyuan Building."

Officials in the DPRK and China like to go to these two restaurants during Chinese New Year and festivals, except for these two are the horse farms in the east and west suburbs.

Man Bao decided, "I will take them to the horse farm during the day and take them to the restaurant in the evening."

Man Bao did what he said, but the four people who were making ointments in the shop also called back and brought ten girls from the Western Regions, plus May and Jiulan, a total of twelve people were about to go out.

Zheng Shi was refreshed when he saw it, and grabbed Man Bao and said, "What's the point of going out like this? You have to dress up properly."

Man Bao was confused, "Is it too late to make new clothes now?"

"There are ready-made ones at home," Zheng said with a smile: "After they come, I will ask someone to make them new clothes, and this year's little girl's clothes for the seasons have also been made a lot, and I can get them now. Come out and give it to them in advance."

So Man Bao returned with twelve people, and asked them to go to the sewing room to pick up new clothes and put them on.

The clothes of the servants of the Bai family are all the same, they are all waist-length skirts, the tops are tender green, and the lowers are rose-red skirts, which are particularly eye-catching.

The fabrics of the clothes were chosen by Mrs. Zheng, and she likes to look at bright girls, so the fabrics that the girls in the family change every year are selected by her and handed over to the stewards to buy and sew.

Twelve girls in their teens and twenties put on these new clothes, and they suddenly became a beautiful landscape.

Seeing that she liked it, Mrs Zheng said to the big girl beside her: "I have some silk flowers in my house, you can bring them to wear them."

She and Man Bao happily said, "I'll save face if I take it out this way."

Bai Shan looked at the smile on his mother's face, and when his heart moved, he approached with a smile and said, "Mother, why don't you come with us."

Zheng Shi was stunned and smiled: "What am I going to do?"

"Let's play," Man Bao also kept her arm and said happily, "Let's go to the racecourse first and take them for a walk. I heard that the Western Suburb Racecourse and the Eastern Suburb Racecourse are grabbing customers, and horse races have been set up on both sides for the past two days. , Among them, there are women's horse racing, and the winners will have the lottery. We will take them to a few races, get the lottery and leave, and then go back to the restaurant for a walk..."

Zheng Shi was a little moved, but still shook his head, "Forget it, you guys are playing, I'll go there and stab you or you won't feel comfortable."

"It won't be uncomfortable," Man Bao said, "We don't play with unfamiliar people, we are all acquaintances, just the three of us and Yin or Liu Huan, by the way, Liu Huan doesn't know if we can come out. If not, then the few of us will play."

Zheng Shi became more and more excited, but he still refused to answer.

Bai Shan ran to find his grandmother, and Mrs. Liu smiled and said, "Just accompany the children. During the Lantern Festival, you will also be lively with them."

Only then did Mrs Zheng agree. She looked at the clothes on her body and couldn't help touching her hair, "I'm going to change into clothes for going out..."

Comb your hair or something.

Zheng turned around and quickly went back to the house, and her girls immediately followed.

Man Bao also went to join in the fun.

Although the Zheng family is a widow, the clothes for home and going out are light, but there are still bright clothes.

There are some that she really likes to do, and some that Mrs. Liu specially chose to do for her.

Mrs. Liu did not insist that her daughter-in-law must wear plain clothes. In her opinion, people have been dead for so long, and it is fine to be plain on the day of his death, and he can do whatever he wants on weekdays.

She wears plain clothes herself, because she is old, and she likes it, but Zheng's is different. She has a simple temperament and people like bright things.

You can tell from the fact that she makes clothes for Manbao every three or five times. They are all brightly colored clothes, and even the shoes have a large number of paintings. If it wasn't too extravagant, she would like to put pearls on Manbao's shoes.

Standing in front of the cabinet, Mrs Zheng had a headache and didn't know which clothes to wear, so Man Bao squeezed up to choose for her, and she and the two girls immediately decided, "Aunt Zheng, you will look good in this set."

Zheng Shi hesitated, "Will it be too bright?"

"No," Man Bao said, "It's spring when everything is recovering, and the peonies are about to bloom outside. It's the time to look good. You wear this set as if spring is coming, you will definitely look good."

Zheng Shi whispered: "But I'm a widow, so it's not easy to wear such bright clothes."

"Be happy for yourself," Man Bao said. "We don't wear clothes just for others to see. Isn't the most important thing to please ourselves? You like it, your happiness is more important than anything else."

Zheng thought for a while, and felt that it made sense, so he took the clothes and changed them under the servants' service.

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