Chapter 42: Birthday Banquet I
On the day of the birthday banquet of the prince of Qi, the young ladies and young masters in the mansion all need to go to the prince early in the morning to greet and congratulate the prince, and then the family sits down to eat longevity noodles. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoFrom the morning, people from all provinces will come to congratulate the birthday, lunch and dinner are birthday banquets, but the dinner will be more formal, and all the family members of the Qi Mansion will participate together. Lige is only going to attend the dinner party.
Therefore, although Lige got up early in the morning, since it was rare to have such a leisurely day, after practicing for two hours, she happily had breakfast with Granny Mu and Old Man Zhang. Since the last time Princess Qi replenished the moon silver and clothes to Lige, she took the opportunity to make a request to cook and eat alone in the grass fragrance garden, Princess Qi may not be impatient to deal with Lige at that time, so she allowed it, and also added the money for her own cooking and eating in Lige's moonsilver. Therefore, Lige asked Granny Mu or Old Man Zhang to go out to buy vegetables every day and came back, and the three of them pondered delicious food by themselves every day.
Maybe it's because life has gotten better, and Lige is now a little taller and has a little more meat on his face. After she finished breakfast, she pondered it herself, and planned to go to King Qi's library to get a few books to read, and after coming back to eat at noon, she stayed in the Caoxiang Courtyard to accompany Granny Mu and Old Man Zhang.
After leaving the song and leaving the Caoxiang Courtyard, Song Heipang came to the Qi Palace, accompanied by his family. Because she is a relative of Concubine Song's mother's family, Princess Qi has always had a light attitude towards the people of the Song family, and after meeting, she directly sent him to Ji Qiongying to play, because Concubine Song had to help treat people and things this day, and she had no time to accompany Song Heifat.
Song Hei couldn't ask for it, so he pulled Ji Qiongying and ran to the back garden, and the people who served by the two of them tightened their hearts, and came again, every time it was like this, it must have been to play with Miss Lige who lived in Caoxiangyuan again.
Ji Qionghua was taken by Princess Qi's side first, and secondly, she always looked down on Song Heipang; Ji Qiming wanted to follow Song Heipang and them to play, but he was glared at by his sister, so he didn't dare to take a step, so he had to stay in the main room and play with the maid aggrieved.
Song Hei was fat when he arrived at the Caoxiang Courtyard and looked at the corners and corners of the entire courtyard, only to believe that Lige was not in the courtyard, and he asked Granny Mu and Old Man Zhang like little adults, "Do you know where Lige went to her?"
After Lige made trouble in the Caoxiang Courtyard in Song Heipang, he was worried that Granny Mu and Old Man Zhang would be punished for refusing to tell where they were, so they had already taught Granny Mu and told Song Heipang, "Miss Lige went out early in the morning, saying that she was going to the back garden to enjoy the flowers, and that she might go out to buy something." ”
Ji Qiongying relied on her cousin by her side, and said coquettishly, "Nonsense, how can you go out of Lige?" My mother said that everyone is not allowed to go out casually. ”
Granny Mu said in a low voice, "Miss Lige, she has the waist card given by the prince, she said so, Xu didn't go out." ”
Song Heipang was worried that he would leave the back garden and go out after leaving the song, so he took everyone to cheer, walked out of the Caoxiang Courtyard, and threw himself into the back garden.
Because it is the wax moon in winter, the only flower in this back garden except for plum blossoms is the greenhouse flower room. Song Heipang visited these two places, but he didn't meet Lige. Ji Qiongying was a little deflated, she followed Song Heipang in the snow for most of the day, feeling cold and tired, so she took Song Heipang's hand and coquettishly said, "Cousin, let's go back, I'm tired." ”
Song Hei was fat, thick-skinned, and didn't feel tired at all, and felt that Ji Qiongying was too cumbersome, so he said in a rough voice, "If you're tired, go back." I'll look for it again. ”
Ji Qiongying was angry and tired, and when she saw that Song Heipang really didn't wait for her, she walked forward, so she cried. The grandmother who served her, worried that she was crying in the snow, inhaled the cold wind. carried her back to the courtyard where Concubine Song lived, and comforted her along the way, saying, "My good miss, good miss, don't cry, crying swells your eyes, when you congratulate the prince on his birthday at night, she will not be the most beautiful lady in the audience." ”
Ji Qiongying, like her mother, looks very good, and cares a lot about her appearance, after listening to what her grandmother said, she finally stopped crying. Just thinking of Song Heipang, she struggled again and said, "Where did my cousin go?"
The grandmother was worried that she would run around with the boy from the Song family again, so she coaxed her and said, "I asked Jin Ying to follow Young Master Song, wait for her to come back later, and let her tell you where Young Master Song went." When it was time for lunch, Young Master Song would naturally come back. ”
Ji Qiongying listened to it and thought about it, and she was indeed tired and thirsty, so she obediently lay on her grandmother and was carried back to the room to rest.
Prince Qi's library is in the inner courtyard, next to the back garden, where the location is relatively remote, and there is only a wall between it and the outer courtyard, and few people will take the initiative to hang out here on weekdays.
Holding the waist card given by King Qi among the singers, he entered the library very smoothly. The library pavilion is a courtyard, and the main house is a three-storey building. The east side of the first floor is arranged to look like a study, and from the right side there are neat rows of books, from the past to the present.
Lige likes to read history books, and also likes to read some strange novels, travelogue essays, every time she comes to the library recently, she takes two or three copies of everything, and after taking it, she sits on the ground, and it is most of the day to look at it. If she hadn't agreed that Granny Mu would go back to Caoxiangyuan for lunch today, she would have carried a steamed bun in her arms a long time ago, and then rubbed some tea in the library to drink, and the day was passed like this.
When the sun rose overhead, Lige stretched out, packed up the books at hand, wrapped them in the cloth he had with him, and went home.
Song Heipang took a big turn in the back garden, suspecting that Lige had gone out, so he sent someone to each door to ask if he had seen Lige go out. At the end of the question, he was sure that Lige didn't go out, so he began to meditate on where Lige went.
The servant beside him cautiously reminded, "Young master, it's the middle of the day, so it's better to go to lunch first, and then enter the garden in the afternoon." ”
When Song Heipang heard this, he had an idea, stood up, and walked towards the Caoxiang Courtyard, he has always been arrogant, and the people serving around him dare to say more, so he had to continue to follow.
Song Heipang thought happily as he walked, Lige would definitely go back to Caoxiangyuan to eat at noon, so he would just stay in Caoxiangyuan and wait for the rabbit, I heard that she was going to attend a dinner party in the evening, even if she didn't go back at noon, she would definitely go back to change clothes in the afternoon.
This time Song Hei was fat to the truth, and Lige had just set off from the Library Pavilion to return to the Caoxiang Courtyard at this time, and he didn't know that this pampered Young Master Song actually had the idea of waiting for work in the Caoxiang Courtyard.
Granny Mu had already prepared the meal, and she also made a pot of soup on purpose, waiting for Lige to come back. How do you know that you didn't wait for the song, but waited for the young master of the Song family.
Granny Mu frowned and said, "Young Master Song should go back to eat, I'm hungry, wouldn't it be a burden to the people serving around you?"
When the maids and women around Song Heipang heard this, they couldn't help but think that it was true, they followed Song Heipang in the back garden for a long time, and they didn't eat tea and snacks, and now this young master refuses to go back for lunch, they can imagine that their lunch will also fly because they didn't go back in time, it's really a situation where they want to cry without tears.
Song Heipang tilted his head to look at the large group of people behind him when he heard this, and he was also bored, so he waved his hand, "You go back to lunch, Young Master Ben will have lunch here at noon today." ”
The grandmother who served beside Song Heipang heard this, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as this little ancestor was willing to stop and rest, it was already good. She hurriedly arranged for the people below to take turns to go back for lunch, and then asked someone to send Young Master Song's lunch to the Caoxiang Courtyard.
Granny Mu was secretly anxious in her heart, looking forward to coming back soon after leaving the song, and thinking that it would be best to eat and come back. Song Heipang was not polite at all, went to the main house of Caoxiangyuan, picked the best position to sit down, and asked people to make tea and take snacks. Granny Mu had no choice but to take food to serve this little ancestor, after all, if something happened to him here, he was afraid that both himself and Miss Lige would be punished.
Ji Qiongying was waiting in the house for Song Heipang to go back to have lunch together, and when she waited and waited, she didn't see anyone, so she sent someone to look for it, but the maid who went to find someone came back and said, "Young Master Song is asking people to send lunch to the garden to eat." ”
Ji Qiongying jumped off the hot kang and wanted to go out, startling the grandmother beside her, and quickly pulled her back, "My young lady, be careful of cold feet, since Young Master Song doesn't come back for lunch, Miss will eat lunch first, and when the side concubine Niangniang comes back and knows that Miss hasn't eaten yet, she will blame the slaves and maids for not serving Miss well." ”
Concubine Song may be because Princess Qi is the princess of Wei Xingguo, so she is very strict with the etiquette of herself and her daughter. Ji Qiongying remembered her mother's usual strict requirements, and couldn't help but retreat a little, but she was unwilling.