Chapter 5 Visitors
Qingning arrived home on the second day, the family began to have a steady stream of visitors, the elderly woman called the name of the visit to Mrs. Zhao, congratulations to the old lady of the heart of the person back, the beautiful ladies visited Mrs. Zhao, said to see many years not necessarily Xiao Qingning, those officials also came one after another to visit General Zhao, back and forth, back and forth, General Zhao received fifty or sixty dignitaries, in fact, the tone will not be called out to explore it, when to Qingping to see the family, the probability of success of their own kid is not big, like this kind of people must see a few more households, Qingping this kind of character and learning and good appearance and good family is naturally to take into account。
Qingning was accompanying her grandmother, naturally she saw a lot of flattering old ladies, and she didn't feel it, but she reluctantly agreed to accompany her grandmother, as for Qing'an, she went to the academy as usual, and her sister was recalled from the academy to prepare Qingning's banquet arrangements at home.
Qingning, but the behavior is standardized, which makes my grandmother very pleased, and between words, the conversation is always so appropriate. But Mrs. Zhao was even more depressed, thinking of the dozens of wives coming and going, and when she asked what Xiao Qingning would do, she had reached a basic level, not proficient, and she couldn't say what she would do. Mrs. Zhao is even more hanging, you said that these individuals are here to see the girl, but you forgot to inform Qingning in advance, let her say one of the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting that everyone loves, anyway, now talk about it first and learn it slowly later, you can't let these wives go back and say that their granddaughter is a straw bag.
The old lady pondered, these old sisters, it is estimated that they have long been reluctant to use their brains to play those chess games, so it should not be exposed, after all, the performance of the ladies at the banquet did not play chess, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that I was more and more shrewd. So the old lady opened her mouth and said, "My granddaughter is quite proficient in chess, after all, her master is also a master in the world, and this chess skill cannot be caught up with his father." ”
After finishing speaking, the old lady was still afraid of Xiao Qingning, so she was too honest to tell the truth, and quickly grabbed Qingning's hand. Qingning only thought that her grandmother hadn't seen her for many years, and she was very rare for a while.
Originally, these old ladies were going to Qingping, and when they saw Qingning's beauty, they naturally had to ask, such a lovely little girl, marry her grandson, at least promise not to accept one concubine after another like her own son. Seeing that Qingning was well-behaved, it was even more gratifying to talk to him.
When Levi's mother, Mrs. Li, arrived, there happened to be four or five old sisters in this room, and they happened to happen to see that they were staring at their prospective granddaughters-in-law one by one with "bad intentions". When he entered the door, he said: "Old sister, let me see my grandson who has traveled far away, but I miss my old body, do you remember your grandma Li?" If she didn't care about Qingning's reputation and didn't get engaged, Mrs. Zhao had no doubt that this old lady would call her granddaughter-in-law when she entered the door.
"Qing Ning has seen her grandmother, how could she forget, Qing Ning always thought about the osmanthus cake made by her grandmother when she was there with her master. Qing Ning replied coincidentally, stepped forward to salute, and easily supported Mrs. Li.
"It's good to come back, it's good to come back, your grandmother's body is fine when you come back, your father and mother don't have to worry about it, even I'm happy." Mrs. Li patted Qingning's little hand and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief.
"What about me, when I entered the door, I heard Mrs. Wang who had just left praise you for your good chess skills, I thought of my little Qingning, when I was a child, I loved to take the chess pieces on my chessboard, didn't you follow the master to grab the flag to play, and learned this much-talked-about chess skills? You just let your grandmothers chat here," after speaking, he pulled Qingning and walked inside.
Mrs. Zhao is not afraid of what she is doing, even if Qingning doesn't, she won't go out and talk nonsense, after all, she doesn't need to tarnish her quasi-granddaughter-in-law's reputation, it is estimated that she will have to rely on her to teach Qingning chess skills in the future, after all, when this old lady was in the academy, even the current big chess player, but if she can't go a hundred times, she will lose.
"Xiao Qingning, grandmother let you have three sons?" said Mrs. Li staring at Xiao Qingning.
"Okay, thank you, grandmother. Qing Ning said sweetly.
"You little girl, you're still so unkind, where are you!" Mrs. Li said.
"Watching chess is silent, true gentleman, grandmother, you can't think that you are a person in the game and reason with my little girl's chess, of course, my play is where you can win. Qing Ning replied confidently and slowly.
The two of them competed in the inner room, and slowly lost their voices, and fell into a chess game, Qing Ning sighed that there are still many capable people in the world, not at all like what the master said, I took out my chess skills, and he didn't want to see chess again. This is not already a hundred and fifty-two sons with Mrs. Li, but it is a small advantage, and Mrs. Li has not seen a child after waiting for half a cup of tea.
"Hey, I lost, I'm ashamed of Xiao Qingning's chess skills. Mrs. Li said, but she was thinking in her heart, she originally wanted to give Xiao Qingning a little bit of dismount, let her know that she should not be frivolous when she is young, how can she say everywhere that she is good at chess and loses when the time comes, but she didn't expect that she really can't play Xiao Qingning's chess skills after exhausting her chess skills, if you let Qian Falcon Lao'er know, think about it and be happy, from then on he has one more person who can't play, and what kind of national chess player academician. Thinking like this, Mrs. Li casually picked up the tea in her hand with a smile.
"Grandmother, it's coming to Qingning's banquet soon, is grandmother coming?" Qingning smelled casually.
"Come, come to the backyard to find your grandmother to chat, I'll take Jianyuan with me. Mrs. Li pondered that if I didn't come, Jianyuan's kid might not know where to go, and every time he asked him to go to a banquet, he would dislike it was boring people and things, so it was better to be comfortable at home with a sword.
"Is Brother Jianyuan still in the academy, my grandmother asked me to go to the academy after the banquet, grandmother, tell me about the fun things in the academy, my own grandmother has been dry in the past two days, grandmother, you can tell me about it." Qing Ning said curiously.
"Academy, the first thing to say is the beautiful and lovely son, the chic son, but you can't touch, you can only touch your brother Jianyuan, the academy is a place that allows you to study normally to sharpen yourself, improve yourself, by the way, compare the competition, see who learns well, back then your grandmother was the best in calligraphy and painting, I was the best in chess, and your sister is also a talented girl in the academy, you don't only play chess, you will be embarrassed if you go like this, because the people in the academy are all-round, you can not be proficient, but you must not say that you don't know, you will be laughed at. However, you are more miserable, there are just five or six days before the academy is going to have a big competition, since you have gone, it is definitely going to be compared, and each item must be compared, if you don't pass, brush it down, fortunately, your chess skills are superb and it is no problem to go to the end, it is estimated that this year's good story is the two talented girls of the Zhao family, but you can't be too bad in other aspects, otherwise people will spread that the Zhao family has a girl who can only play chess....... "Mrs. Li taught tirelessly.
Because the two of them were in the inner room, they stayed until it was dark, until the light was turned on in the room, and Mrs. Zhao also sent the visiting guests back to the room.
"Old sister, let's go to the back pavilion to eat, they will wait for us, I haven't said so much about my granddaughter, you can grab my granddaughter with me when you come." Mrs. Zhao said jealously.
"Hahaha, who let this granddaughter be my family sooner or later, let's go, the little guy will go to the back pavilion to enjoy the moon, I specially brought you the newly made osmanthus cake." Mrs. Li gave Mrs. Zhao a look, but Mrs. Zhao obviously didn't want to deal with it.
When the three of them arrived, the two men were competing with the sword, the two middle-aged men were admiring the moon, Qingping and his mother didn't know who they were whispering to, Qingning has always been astute, and he knew it when he saw this battle, it was Uncle Li who admired the moon, and it was Brother Jianyuan and Qing'an who practiced swords, and it must be Aunt Li who whispered words.
"Grandmother, come and take a seat. Qingping hurriedly got up and went to ask the old lady.
The two daughters-in-law also got up one after another and shouted, "Come here, grandmother and Qingning are here, it's time to eat, come and try the new dishes brought back by Qingning." ”
"My sister still has a new dish, I won't fight with you, let's take a walk, let me tell you that my sister's dish is always delicious, and I don't want to marry my sister off." Qing'an said in Jianyuan's ear, and the two of them took their seats separately.
"Jianyuan, you want to come to the Qingning banquet tomorrow night, bring your friends, you juniors are lively and lively. General Zhao spoke.
Jianyuan had long noticed this plain Qingning, but without powder, it was enough to overwhelm all the women he had ever seen. His heart was pounding, and his intuition told him that this was Qingning's sister, and she was still so likable.
"Uncle, rest assured, Jianyuan will arrive. "It's such straightforward and simple words, there is no superfluous nonsense, which makes Qingning feel big, is Brother Jianning so "humorous"?
In this way, the two of them did not have any extra words at the dinner table, until when they saw Uncle Li's family leave, Qing'an pretended to be dissatisfied and said, "My sister just came back, didn't Brother Jianyuan prepare a gift?"
All eyes suddenly looked at Jianyuan, Qing Ning felt inexplicable, why did you prepare a gift for me, didn t you prepare it? He glanced at Qing An with dissatisfaction, and the meaning in his eyes was obvious, If you want to receive a gift, the first person who should prepare it for me should be you.
"This is the jade pendant I got in the academy competition a few days ago, it is elegant and fresh, and it looks very good with Qingning's clothes today, so I reluctantly borrowed flowers to offer Buddha as a gift to welcome my sister's return. "Jianyuan Road.
"Can you win such a good jade pendant in the competition? Then thank you Brother Jianyuan first, I have to compete more in the academy. Qing Ning happily accepted it, and it was very good.
How could anyone give up such a good jade pendant in the competition, it was the pure heart Pu Zhuoyu that was worn on Jianyuan since he was a child, only Qingning didn't know, fortunately, no one tried to expose this lie.