In the water pavilion by the lake.

Huo Wenlin watched the girl arrange two rows of more than ten or twenty cups, personally took a glass jar, and used silver tweezers to hold the stained plum blossoms, and put two flowers in one cup.

After putting down the plum blossoms, he stood up straight and saw that there were no Wang Jing and Xie Pei among the people around the long desk. He hurriedly raised his hand and greeted: "Sixth sister, Apei, the fourth sister of the Li family, come here quickly, this tea is the best when boiling water is washed down!"

Wang Yin, who was sitting in front of the water window, looked at Li Ran. Li Ran stood up and walked to the long desk with Wang Yin and Xie Pei.

"Okay, you can fill the water!" Huo Wenlin suppressed her excitement and signaled to the old woman standing next to the tea stove outside the pavilion.

The woman carried the silver pot that had rolled away and poured water into the snow-white white porcelain tea bowl in turn.

There were more than ten or twenty tea bowls in a row, 30% of them remained unchanged, 30% were only half of them, and 30% were blooming, but they were far less beautiful than Huo Wenlin's time watching Mrs. Shao make tea.

"How could this happen? I tried it at home, it's OK, how could it happen?"

Huo Wenlin almost burst into tears. It was not because she was embarrassed or something. She was just sad because she failed and failed.

Li Ran looked at the plum blossoms half-opened in the cups in front of her, hesitated for a moment, and asked Wang Jing quietly, "What are you going to do?"

Wang Shi pulled Li Ran, stepped back a little, and said with a low smile: "This is a flower tea pickled with honey. Sister Lin didn't make it well. Even if it was done well, it was also good-looking but not delicious, and it was meaningless."

"Well," Xie Pei smiled and continued: "This is our old method. Use roses or wood fragrance. At dawn, pick out the flower buds that seem to bloom but not bloom, wash them clean, use honey stains, and when making tea, put one or two flowers in, and take a tea scent."

"She learned this from Mrs. Shao." Wang Shi glanced at Xie Pei and explained to Li Ran in a low voice.

"We use roses and wood fragrance at home to regulate qi and relieve depression and can nourish the heart and blood. What is the meaning of plum blossoms? Really..." Before Xie Pei finished speaking, Wang Jing looked back at him.

"Are Mrs. Shao coming? Where is it?" Next to him, Huo Wenlin tried to cry with a veil and asked at Yang Xing and Grandma Yang.

"Here you come, you are talking to Mrs. Zhong and Mrs. Gao Shangshu."

Madam Yang knew that Huo Wenlin and Mrs. Shao were very familiar with each other, so she hurriedly smiled and signaled, and called a little girl again and asked her to take Huo Wenlin over.

"What's the point?" Li Qingrou looked at Huo Wenlin and followed the little girl out, stretched her head, looked at the tea bowl on the long table, and wondered.

"Look, this is meaningless. It's interesting to learn this." Gao Guiying pinched the handkerchief with two fingers, slanted Huo Wenlin's back and curled her lips.

"It's interesting to learn this, what does it mean?" Li Qingrou didn't understand.

"Oh, this is not obvious. Who is Mrs. Shao?" Gao Guiying looked down at Li Qingrou with a few points.

"Mrs. Shao is Mrs. Shao." Sun Miaoniang blocked Gao Guiying.

"Mrs. Shao is General Xie's mother." Gao Guiying even squinted at Sun Miaoniang, and this sentence raised his voice.

Hearing the words General Xie, Li Ran, who had already sat back, turned to look at the group next to the long desk.

"How beautiful General Xie is, he is also a general." Seeing that no one answered, Gao Guiying raised her voice and said again.

"If you don't say it, I didn't even think that General Xie looked good, but I just felt that General Xie was majestic and a little scary."

Yang Xi, the second wife of the Duke of Lu's Mansion, was only eleven. He couldn't hear what Gao Guiying meant. He heard her say how beautiful General Xie looked, and said with a laugh.

"General Xie is pretty, but whoever dares... General Xie won't laugh."

Cao Qian, the fourth wife of the Cao family, laughed.

"Sister Gao is really brave enough to think about it. If you don't say it, I have never thought about it. That's General Xie!"

"You dare not think, but they may not dare not think. They are the young lady of the Prince's Mansion, but they may not dare not think." Gao Guiying shook off the veil and curled her lips.

"Alin must not think so. I have never heard her talk about General Xie. General Xie, that's General Xie. You really dare to talk nonsense!" Li Qingrou said without hesitation.

"Sister Rou is really, how can you say this? You can't tell you no, you think... they don't look like us."

Gao Guiying was smiling in her voice, her voice fell down, and she looked at Sun Miaoniang.

"Miao Niang, if you, General Xie comes to your mansion to propose marriage, are you willing to?"

"How is that possible!" Sun Miaoniang was startled.

"Where are you, Sister Four?" Gao Guiying turned around and asked the fourth wife Cao Qian.

Cao Qian said with a long oh, "You are dreaming in the daytime! General Xie doesn't laugh, it's so scary... General Xie looks so beautiful, majestic and beautiful. If it were you, would you agree?"

Cao Qian didn't answer Gao Guiying's words and asked back.

"Of course I agree, are you not willing?" Gao Guiying raised her head, looking unafraid.

"Anyway, General Xie doesn't know... General Xie is so majestic and beautiful. General Xie doesn't have to laugh, I'm willing, hey, if... I have to be crazy!"

Cao Qian said while laughing non-stop.

The little ladies around were excited by this topic and talked about how majestic and beautiful General Xie was. Will General Xie laugh? He really asked to kiss him... Oh my!

Wang Jing couldn't help laughing, and while laughing, he said in a voice: "I'm talking very happily now.

Once, in the palace, it was like this now. When it comes to General Xie, General Xie happened to pass by. He was far away. He could hardly see people clearly from far away. They scared them one by one and didn't dare to show off. A few people had their faces turned pale."

Xie Pei's face was not very good. He lowered his eyes and said softly: "When the grandmother heard that she said to General Xie, she burst into tears and said... bitter." In the last sentence, Xie Pei's voice was extremely low, and Li Ran almost couldn't hear it.

Wang Shi stopped talking, and after a while, he sighed softly.

General Xie was miserable and pitiful. She also happened to hear one or two times from the gossip between her grandmother and her grandmother.

Li Ran lowered her eyes and sipped the tea, and her thoughts flew away.

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In the evening, when everyone was sent off, Mrs. Liu slowly breathed a sigh of relief and smiled with her eldest daughter-in-law Xie Wen and said, "After all, nothing big is wrong."

"Thank you for your hard work, my mother." Xie Wen stepped forward and helped Mrs. Liu.

"That Fourth Lady, have you looked carefully?" Mrs. Liu asked in a low voice.

"Well, it's extremely rare. He is firm in his mind, smart and agile, and he is also generous and tolerant. But he is too quiet. What did my father think?" Xie Wen also lowered his voice.

"He didn't say it." After a pause, Mrs. Liu looked around, "It was after Jin Mingchi's incident, and then there was a good news. Two or three days later, your father came back and said that he had taken good care of Brother Chen'er's wife, and that fourth lady.

I was shocked at that time. The fourth lady was still alive. Your father said she was fine, and she was fine. In another half a month, she would be able to return to the capital. He said that when she came back, I would ask me to find an opportunity to take a closer look, and if it was time to handle it, it would be done."

"That must be after Jin Mingchi's incident. If something happens, let my father see the goodness of the fourth lady." Xie Wen said softly.

"Well, I think so too. You know your father, with a accurate vision and careful mind. Over the years, what he has been worried about the most is Brother Chen'er's wife.

Alas, Brother Chen is not as good as his elder brother. You can see his temperament, he is weak, and he is very stubborn. Smart is smart, but his father said that he often can't see through whenever he is big. Alas, he is too delicate, and his wife is really worried."

"Ah," Xie Wen was silent for a moment, and looked at Mrs. Liu and said, "The fourth lady is a firm person. This one can be seen clearly. She is also a silent person. She can stay silent for a few days. Such a person will be fine. If he can't get along, he will really be able to get along.

Brother Chen is not a person who likes to talk, and he is also a person who has made up his mind to keep his mind and is extremely difficult to change.

The Fourth Lady and Brother Chen can get along well, but if they don’t get along..."

Mrs. Liu frowned when she heard this.

"I won't say whether I can get along or not. I'm really going to be together. I think these two people will take the lead? Who will speak first?" Xie Wen continued.

"I'm worried about this when you say this. I have to discuss this with your father tonight. This fourth lady cannot be the only one who likes it. We like it. Brother Chen must like it. The fourth lady must be willing to do so, otherwise..."

Mrs. Liu frowned and thought for a moment, and made up her mind.

"Yes." Xie Wen said softly, "That's what I think."

There is another thing she didn't say.

She felt that the fourth lady's firmness gave her an extreme sense of fearlessness and determination. If she didn't want to marry, no one would be able to marry her.

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In the Hejian County Prince's Mansion, Princess Du got out of the car at the second door, sent her daughter Huo Wenlin back, called her eldest daughter-in-law Mrs. Cao, and said, "Does the third brother take a fancy to the fourth wife of the Li family?"

Mrs. Cao was stunned, "Why did my mother say that?"

When Mrs. Chen, the old lady of Chang'an Hou Mansion, said those words, she was not in the flower hall.

Princess Du said the words of Mrs. Chen in a few words, "...Do you really like me? Mrs. Chen never talks nonsense. Tell me, what's this? Is that fourth lady easy to marry? What's the crazy thing about this third brother?"

"My mom, don't worry, Mrs. Chen is determined to let the third brother decide their third wife. She looks at the third brother... Maybe she is thinking too much.

The third brother is about to come back, so I called him over and asked, wouldn’t I know?

If you don’t ask about this, the third brother must not say it. If you ask, the third brother must not say it.”

"Yes, come here, see if the third master is back, let him come to see me." Princess Du said hurriedly.

Huo Wencan came quickly. Princess Du changed her clothes and her face was not cleaned yet. Huo Wencan arrived.

Princess Du waved her hand quickly, and took away the old lady, leaving only her eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Cao. She looked at her son and asked anxiously: "Mrs. Chen said, do you like their fourth wife?"

"Um?"

Huo Wencan didn't expect his mother to ask this question, stared at his sister-in-law Mrs. Cao subconsciously.

Mrs. Cao was looking at him anxiously and curiously, holding her breath to wait for his reply.

"Um!"

Huo Wencan looked away, raised his head slightly, looked at the kang screen behind her mother, and nodded with great certainty.

"Ah? What's your name? What's this? That fourth lady, that..."

Princess Du never expected her son to admit it so neatly, and she was a little confused for a moment.

Mrs. Cao stared at Huo Wencan with tall eyebrows. She looked Huo Wencan up and down. For the first time, she found that her brother-in-law was extremely handsome.
To be continued...