The scene was very awkward at one point.

Qin Jinhua squeaked and wanted to apologize, but when the words came to his lips, he felt that it was not appropriate to say anything. Yao didn't actually say anything inappropriate, but his expression was wrong, and he snorted coldly. If it weren't for the fact that the three of them happened to be present, and they happened to be in the direction where they could see her face, they would never have noticed that there was a problem. Qin Jinhua hesitated, did he really want to apologize for his mother's expression? Although everyone present knew what was going on, if he really wanted to say something, it seemed that it would become even more embarrassing, as if what was originally just speculation and brain making up had become a reality.

Her face flushed with embarrassment.

Qin Hanzhen saw that she was embarrassed, so he coughed lightly and wanted to help make a round. Unexpectedly, Lu Yueniang smiled softly and opened her mouth: "We have been delayed in the bamboo forest for half a day, hurry up to the boat hall, I don't know if the fourth cousin, Miss Cai, and Miss Yu are already in a hurry." ”

It was as if nothing had happened, and his tone was calm and his expression was gentle.

Qin Jinhua immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and echoed with a somewhat flattering smile: "Okay, let's go over immediately." He carefully pulled Lu Yueniang's hand and whispered, "I'm sorry." Lu Yueniang smiled, didn't say anything, grabbed her with her backhand and walked forward. Qin Jinhua's face was relieved and happy, but also a little guilty. Qin Hanzhen fell behind, and his mood relaxed.

She used to think that Lu Yueniang had a good temper, and it was not surprising. But...... Yao's made such a play, no matter how good Lu Yueniang's temper is, she will not watch her biological mother being tricked. When today's Spring Banquet is over, she will probably tell her mother about it, right? I don't know how Qin Youzhen would choose best, but with her habit all along, she will probably pretend to be casual and continue to live in harmony with the Yao family. Anyway, Qin Youzhen and Lu Pu will not live in the capital for a long time, but when Lu Zeng's new official position comes down, the family will leave Beijing to take up a foreign post.

However, Lu Yueniang and Lu Chuming have reached the time to get married, whether they will go with their parents to the office, or stay in the capital to rely on a foreign family or a family outside the hall, it is still unknown.

Qin Hanzhen arrived at the boat hall with two sisters and cousins, Qin Jinchun and Qin Jinrong were already waiting there, and Cai Yuanzhen, Yu Xinlan, Pei Yin, Tang Su, Zhang Shu, Qin Hanzhen's new friends in the boudoir arrived. It didn't take long for the Xu sisters to come. The daughters of the Min family and the Ma family finally came together. Compared with the birthday banquet of the Ma family in the General Mansion of the Zhuguo State last time, there are still two girls from the Su family. But everyone knows what is going on, and no one will mention them without eyes.

The families of these girls have a lot of dealings with the Qin family of the Chengenhou Mansion on weekdays, and they don't know how many times they have visited this garden since they were young, even Cai Yuanzhen and others, who came the least, have already visited twice accompanied by Qin Jinhua, so everyone doesn't plan to hang out anymore, but they can seize the time to let the girls get to know each other, talk about their recent situation, and talk about everyone's preferences. Qin Jinhua himself is not very good at poetry, so he didn't plan to start a poetry club. However, Yu Xinlan looked at the scenery in the garden, and suddenly had the inspiration to compose a poem, and asked Qin Jinhua to borrow pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

Qin Hanzhen is already good at painting, this garden is still owned by others, the scenery is seen since childhood, and it can be painted with his eyes closed, just like Cai Yuanzhen is also very familiar with the scenery of Qi Garden. Pei Yin is not stupid, so naturally she will not give others a chance to be in the limelight, and she will steal her own limelight.

However, Pei Yin was still robbed of the limelight today. Yu Xinlan's poems are very good, in contrast, Pei Yin's poems can only be said to be Zhongping. Her poem was originally written in a hurry, and her own level was indeed inferior to Yu Xinlan, so she was naturally compared.

Pei Yin pursed her lips tightly, the corners of her mouth curled slightly, as if with a smile, but the little girl's disguise effort was not at home at all, and she forgot to hide the resentment in her eyes. Cai Yuanzhen, Qin Hanzhen, Qin Jinhua and Lu Yueniang all saw it, and no one said it, but in the next activities, they all kept a little distance from Pei Yin. The girl's temperament, a little bit more calculating, it's not a big deal, it's all a petty character. But if you want to compare yourself with others, take the initiative to entangle yourself, and be dissatisfied when you are compared to others, this kind of temper is not very pleasing. Others don't compare with you, what are you struggling with here alone? It can be seen that it is not a good character to get along with, and it is better to be far away, or to be farther away. Otherwise, she can be jealous of Yu Xinlan today, and who knows who she will hate tomorrow?

Except for Lu Yueniang, the other three all remembered the sketch competition last time, Qin Hanzhen won the competition, and Pei Yin was unhappy. It can be seen that they have not wronged Pei Yin.

Pei Yin didn't know that she had exposed her stuffing again, and secretly tore up the poem she had written, and after she put it in a porcelain urn and burned it, she distanced herself from Yu Xinlan under the pretext of enjoying the garden view, but she got closer to Cai Yuanzhen intentionally or unintentionally.

Cai Yuanzhen had no intention of entertaining her, she originally wanted to call Qin Hanzhen, and planned to use the latter as an excuse to get rid of Pei Yin, but she didn't expect Pei Yin to take the initiative to talk to her about family life first: "Sister Cai, today's Spring Banquet of the Qin family, I heard that it was held for the birthday of their second aunt and grandmother, but it was really lively." I heard that there are people in your family who are going to have birthdays in the next few days, I wonder if there will be a banquet?"

Cai Yuanzhen was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "It's my eldest brother who is celebrating his birthday." There are so many elders in the family, and I specially gave him a junior for a birthday, and my eldest brother was so frightened that he refused again and again, saying that he was afraid of losing his fortune, so when it came to the right day, he just set up a family banquet, how could it compare to the spring banquet of Chengenhou Mansion?"

A trace of disappointment quickly flashed on Pei Yin's face, but there was still a smile on her face: "It turned out that Brother Cai was going to celebrate his birthday, and I didn't know it before." Please ask Sister Cai to convey a greeting to me, and say that I congratulate him on his birthday, and hope that he will be smooth and healthy. ”

Cai Yuanzhen smiled and nodded: "Then I will thank Sister Pei for her kindness for my brother." ”

Pei Yin wanted to speak and stopped, Cai Yuanzhen decisively called Qin Hanzhen: "Third sister Qin." Then he turned back to Pei Yin and said, "I'll go to find the third sister of Qin to say something, and I'll be out of company first." Then he quickly got out of it.

Pei Yin wanted to stop someone, but she didn't, not to mention how disappointed she was. But what she was even more disappointed about was another thing: Cai Yuanzhen's brother had a birthday, but he only held a family banquet, how could she come to the door?

With the power and prestige of the Marquis of Yunyang in the court now, and the eldest son of the eldest son is on his birthday, even if he doesn't put on a three-day flowing water banquet, he must have a few tables of decent banquets, invite a few relatives and friends, and call a small drama, which can be regarded as a proper pomp, right? It turned out to be just a family banquet...... Don't the wives and grandmothers of the Cai family who presided over the middle feed not know what a considerable amount of income this banquet of the powerful family and the birthday and congratulatory gifts sent to the door are? Even if the Yunyang Hou Mansion has a great business, how can they know that there will be no time to spend all the money in the future? Leaving some wealth and inheritance to future generations is not for the benefit of future generations? Mrs. Yunyang Hou did not even expect this layer!

Pei Yin still slandered the unwisdom of the Cai family's housewife, and Tang Su had already pulled Zhang Shu over there. Tang Su is a person who has never had a heart, so he will say something inappropriate from time to time, which makes people laugh or cause embarrassment. Today was no exception, and she opened her mouth and said, "Sister Pei, don't you know that someone in Sister Cai's family is going to celebrate her birthday?" She didn't lower her voice, so several ladies standing nearby heard it, and even the girls who were closer heard it.

Pei Yin's face turned red all of a sudden, and she squeaked to defend herself: "I just heard that someone in the Cai family is going to celebrate his birthday, and it seems that in previous years, a banquet was held at this time, so I asked casually, and it was Brother Cai who didn't remember that he was going to celebrate his birthday." ”

Tang Su smiled and said, "Ah, Sister Pei, your name is Sister Cai's brother, Brother Cai, when did you become so familiar with people? Why haven't we heard of it?" she also frowned, as if she was hinting at something.

Pei Yin couldn't wait to stop her mouth! She didn't dare to look at Cai Yuanzhen's face at this time, and she didn't dare to see what other people's reactions were.

Cai Yuanzhen smiled calmly and said, "Since you call me sister, why can't you call me big brother to my brother? If you don't call me big brother, can't you call him the prince of Yunyang Hou? That's too outward." She looked into the distance, "The plum blossoms over there in the Xiangxue Sea are blooming well, I look better than the plum forest in our family's Qi Garden, why don't you go over and have a look?"

Pei Yin was eager to get out of the embarrassing situation at the moment, she was the first to respond, and quickly took the lead, and even Cai Yuanzhen was left far behind by her. Tang Su called her a few times, but she ignored it.

Seeing this, Cai Yuanzhen smiled helplessly, took a step behind, and walked side by side with Qin Hanzhen. Yu Xinlan also slowly paced over from the side and joined them. Qin Jinhua and Lu Yueniang were one step behind, followed by Tang Su and Zhang Shu. They unexpectedly fell in love with the daughters of the Min and Ma families, and soon chatted about the day. The Xu sisters fell last, whispering to each other and not talking much to others.

In fact, except for Yu Xinlan, the Xu family sisters were a little indifferent to everyone else. The people present were either the daughters of the generals or their relatives, although Lu Yueniang was also a scholar, her biological mother was the concubine of the second room of the Qin family. As the Xu sisters get older, the more they are influenced by their grandmother's upbringing, and they gradually stop having too much contact with girls outside the circle of scholars, but they just try to get along with each other as much as possible when they are in contact. Even Qin Jinhua, who was good friends when he was a child, and Qin Hanzhen, who had always wanted to be close to his elders, all refused Xu Zheng's marriage more than once, which caused a little estrangement in their hearts.

But Qin Hanzhen won't care. Qin Jinhua used to feel uncomfortable, but thinking of Mrs. Xu's contempt for herself, coupled with Lu Yueniang, the new cousin, she gradually stopped taking the Xu sisters to heart.

Everyone walked slowly, and they were about to arrive at Xiangxue Hall, the banquet place for the female guests. At this time, a sharp exclamation suddenly came from the front, but it was Pei Yin, and she didn't know what was going on. I could only hear a mess of voices in front of me, and there seemed to be a man's voice.

Could it be that a foreign man trespassed into the women's seat?

Qin Hanzhen turned around and glanced at Qin Jinhua, his expression became solemn. The latter hurriedly left Lu Yueniang's side and walked forward quickly.