The third day of Hu Ling's return to Beijing was the birthday of Mrs. Hu.

Mrs. Hu is sixty and five this year, and her early military achievements were scorching, and now she is serving in the Privy Council of the court, and she is leading the Haozhou regiment to train and wait to be used. Therefore, although he is a military general, his status in the court is not lower than that of civil officials of the same level.

The Xu family and the Hu family didn't have much friendship, but because of the close relationship between the two little ladies of Hu Ling, the two families began to move around in the past half a year.

On this day, Xu Gucheng was busy with business in the official hall and couldn't attend the banquet, so only the Lu family brought Xu Pingqi and Xu Qian to attend the birthday banquet of Mrs. Hu.

The birthday ceremony is a hunting picture made by Xu Gucheng early on, which is carved into a six-leaf wood carved screen.

Hu Ling was waiting for a promise by the door early in the morning, and when he saw the familiar carriage, he immediately rushed out.

"Liuniang, Liuniang. ”

After saying goodbye to the promise the day before yesterday, she went back to Hufu, and when she came home, her mother pulled her ear and talked about it for a while, and she was busy with other things, so she didn't have time to look for the promise again.

When she rushed to the carriage, she didn't want to see a slender hand with scarlet nails sticking out from behind the curtain.

promised never to dye his nails, Hu Ling still knew this.

So, she held back her joy and didn't pull the person out directly.

The curtain of the car was lifted, and a beautiful face appeared in front of Hu Ling, followed by a soft and glutinous greeting: "Hu Sanniang." ”

Hu Ling took a clever step back.

She met with Xu Yu the day before yesterday, and Xu Yu didn't tell her that Xu Qian had also come to Bianjing, so she was shocked.

Xu Qian was helped out of the carriage by the maidservant, and smiled with a fan covering her mouth: "Hu Sanniang." What's the matter, it's like seeing me like I've seen a ghost. ”

Hu Ling sneered, and said with a little disgust on his face: "Isn't it a ghost." ”

Then he staggered to the back and saluted Lu. When he saw the ceremony, he took the promised hand and took her in, and said with a smile as he walked: "Mr. Beijiang also came to celebrate my grandfather's birthday, and my grandfather couldn't close his mouth happily when he learned about it, if I tell him in the future that Mr. Beijiang entered Beijing with me, do you think my grandfather will be even happier?"

Mrs. Hu is happy for a reason.

Zhu Shang has been in business for many years, no matter where he is, whoever asks anyone to call. All kinds of feasts are faceless.

Now as soon as he enters Beijing, he appears on Mrs. Hu's birthday, which shows Mrs. Hu's status in his eyes.

Xu Yu smiled and only said that Zhu Shang was famous. Old lady Hu should be happy, but she didn't answer Hu Ling's later questions.

Old lady Hu can be happy that Zhu Shang gave face to the banquet, but he may not be happy because his precious granddaughter is close to an unruly and arrogant person.

These are all afterwords, promising not to sweep Hu Ling's happiness. I'm going to talk to her later.

Xu followed Hu Ling into the flower hall. After giving Mrs. Hu a salute, she sat down, and couldn't help frowning, there were so many more people here than she expected.

"Why are there so many people?"

Hu Ling nodded and said: "My mother also said that there are too many people, and the invitations sent out, without exception, everyone came, and they came with their families, if they were not well prepared." Today's dishes are not enough for these people. ”

After sitting for a while, he promised to hear someone mention Zhu Shang's name a few times. I knew why in an instant.

I think that many people today are coming to Hufu to see the prodigy many years ago, and now Mr. Beijiang.

"Why did Xu Siniang come to the capital?" Hu Ling leaned on the table with one hand, played with the tea cup with the other, and his eyes fell on Xu Qian not far away.

Beautiful as Xu Qian, the reputation spread after half a day after the tea man competition, although the tea art is not fine, but with this appearance, it is also worth saying.

But the Hu family has been busy preparing for Mrs. Hu's birthday in the past two days, and Hu Ling has picked up the busiest time to go back to the house, so naturally no one has time to tell her about these interesting things that happened in the capital.

Xu Yu smiled and said: "She entered Beijing alone to participate in the tea competition, and I ran to the Eldest Princess's Mansion even after a while. ”

Hu Ling raised his voice after hearing this, and said, "Xu Liuniang, are you sure this is a burden?"

You have won an excellent test in the tea man competition, and from now on you will become a tea man who can visit various famous houses with famous posts?

As soon as Hu Ling's voice was mentioned, naturally some people looked over here, including Xu Qian.

When Xu Qian heard the word tea man, she immediately looked away.

Participating in the tea contest made her heartbroken, originally to make the promise embarrassing, but she didn't want the promise to pick up a bargain, and it was a big bargain!

It's all to blame that the eldest princess didn't follow the habit of only giving the nobles a good grade in the tea man competition in previous years, but gave a promise of a merit.

Xu Qian felt that the county lord of Jiaren was looking for her and just treated her as a chess piece, and if something happened, he wouldn't take care of her at all.

Just talking about the tea man competition, what the county lord of Jiaren wants to do is to discredit the Xu family sisters and not care about her at all.

However, she Xu Qian will not easily become a pawn of others.

She and the county lord of Jiaren, who is who is the chess piece, it is not certain.

Xu Yu ignored Xu Qian's resentful gaze and continued to talk to Hu Ling, his eyes sweeping over the faces of the people in the flower hall one by one during the conversation.

She has more or less seen these ladies and ladies, but only by sight.

Suddenly, I saw a familiar figure.

Wu Niangzi!

Mrs. Wu actually came?

Although Wu Niangzi is good at embroidery, with her identity, Hu Jiaque has no reason to invite her to the banquet.

Xu Yu poked Hu Ling's shoulder, raised his chin in the direction of Wu Niangzi, and asked her what was going on.

When Hu Ling saw Wu Niangzi, he immediately turned his head, and the muscles in his body showed a sense of tension.

"What's going on?" Xu Yu didn't expect Hu Ling to react like this, and hurriedly asked in a low voice.

Hu Ling coughed lightly, sat up straight, lowered his eyes and replied: "This is Mrs. Wu, she taught me embroidery when I was a child, she is known for her strictness, I was most afraid of her when I was a child, and I still can't learn female workers, she must have taught her." ”

When Hu Ling said the end, there was a sense of righteous indignation in his tone.

After listening to the promise, he couldn't help but turn his head and look at Wu Niangzi again.

This slender but round-faced and big-eyed Wu Niangzi is actually a stern person in Hu Ling's eyes?

When Mrs. Wu taught the promise of female workers, she could be described as gentle and tolerant, and when she saw her embroidery that could not be looked at directly, she never said a word of seriousness, let alone blamed her.

This is such a person, who can make Hu Ling, who has a heart as big as a well, be afraid from childhood to adulthood!

She didn't believe it.

But she has seen Wu Niangzi's personality, and she also knows what kind of person Hu Ling is.

These are what she sees with her eyes.

In this way, it is not that Hu Ling was timid when she was a child, and she changed her temperament when she grew up, or that Wu Niangzi has always pretended to be gentle in front of her.

Thinking of this, Xu Yu remembered that on the day he took Hu Ling back to Beijing, someone had touched her things.

The things on her couch are never touched by Chuntang and July.

No matter what she put it herself, but after sending Hu Ling back from Zhu Shang's mansion for dinner that day, she obviously felt that something was different on the couch.

The box she usually used to hold the broken handkerchief moved slightly.

She was too tired to open it for inspection, thinking that it was accidentally touched by other maidservants when they entered the house to pack their things.

Nowadays, it seems that it is not so simple.

"But I have heard that this lady Wu is very popular with all the ladies, and often goes to the official eunuch family to teach the ladies and daughters who have not left the cabinet, if it is really as you said, how can anyone rush to find her?"

With doubts in his heart, Promise asked.

Hu Ling pouted and said: "It is precisely because of her strictness that she can teach good apprentices, my sisters are taught by her, and my mother naturally invited her to teach me, but I didn't learn her embroidery skills." ”

Hearing this, Xu Xu understood why Wu Niangzi appeared here.

She thought about it for a moment and told Hu Ling what she had guessed in her heart.

When Hu Ling heard this, he stretched out his arm and went to a few beats.

Xu promised to stop Hu Ling quickly, so as not to provoke others to look here.

Hu Niangzi, a strict person, became patient and tolerant when she was taught by the Xu family, and no matter who thought about it, she could guess that Hu Niangzi had bad intentions.

Hu Ling said indignantly: "What is Mrs. Hu going to do? Who have you provoked during my absence?"

"You're not in Bianjing, I'm a lady like An'an, can you still mess with others?" Xu Yu probably had a guess in his heart, so he took Hu Ling for fun.

Hu Ling smiled and twisted the promise, and whispered in the promise ear: "Xu Liuniang, do you mean I'm restless?

Guangzhou recently Canton Fair, the author kept working overtime, today finally rested on a chapter, everyone read first. (To be continued......)