Chapter 25: The Raid
This time, because I wanted to thank me, I was able to enter the house justifiably.
This banquet, the Xiao family prepared very richly, the flower hall prepared a table inside and outside, and in the middle was a screen showing off the rich peony, with the south guest outside, and the female dependents inside.
I was directly invited into the inner room, Xiao Ce's mother, wife, and the eldest lady of the Xiao family, who I helped yesterday, were all there. There were also two women with him, one was a little older, the other was a little immature, and they were not slaves and servants.
"Miss Mo is here" followed my footsteps in, and the mother-in-law who followed me also reported to the inside in a timely manner.
As soon as the eldest lady of the Xiao family saw me enter the door, she wanted to get up and come to greet me, but her body was bulky, and she was not as dexterous as the lady who sat on the main seat, and I had not yet reacted, and my hands had been pulled.
"This is Miss Mo, thanks to you yesterday, otherwise Qi'er ...... Hey, I don't know how to thank the girl."
The lady is very well maintained, and she looks like she is only in her thirties, and she looks like a portrait of the eldest lady of the Xiao family, and she doesn't look like a mother and daughter, but more like a sister.
After all, I have been in the world for so long, I still know some rules and etiquette of human beings, whether I want to or not, after all, I still have to ask others, so naturally I can't be too arrogant and rude, so I also learned the appearance of a human daughter's family, bowed to the woman, and called "Mrs. Xiao"
"Yo, this little girl is really handsome, her heart and eyes are fine, not bad, hurry up and come in and take a seat" The old woman sitting at the head of the main seat, that is, Xiao Ce's mother, also spoke at this time, her voice was full of anger, not as weak as an ordinary old woman.
Mrs. Xiao pulled me inside, I followed her a few steps forward, made a blessing to the old woman of the Xiao family, and called "Old lady Xiao Wanfu!"
Old Madam Xiao suddenly smiled, and the whole person became even more kind, "Miss Mo doesn't need to be polite, you are our Qi'er's great benefactor, and it should be our Qi'er who salutes you." ”
After Mrs. Xiao finished speaking, the eldest lady of the Xiao family had already walked in front of me, leaned down and bowed, "Qi'er, thank you for the girl's rescue, if it weren't for Miss Mo, I was afraid that my child would have ...... yesterday."
Xiao Qi'er's identity is different, I can't be worshiped by her like this, besides, she is close to giving birth, her body is inconvenient, I won't let her come to worship me, and hurriedly stepped forward to support her, and said, "Miss Qi'er doesn't need to be polite, it's just a gesture, I'm just a guard of the son, such an identity is not worthy of your worship"
"Deserve it, if it weren't for you, I haven't met the child in my womb yet, and I'm afraid that I will lose it yesterday.
Xiao Qi'er insisted on worshipping, but I insisted on refusing, but she was inconvenient and couldn't insist on me, so I had to give up in the end.
After Xiao Qi'er's greetings were finished, the other two women stepped forward one after another to salute, it turned out that the older one was Xiao Ce's second wife, and the girl was her daughter, Xiao Qi'er's half-sister Xiao Qi.
Before I sat down, Xiao Ce outside talked to me through the screen, and I had no choice but to deal with him through the screen before I gave up.
Xiao Ce outside beckoned Mo Junxian to the table, now I am his daughter's benefactor, and Mo Junxian is my "master", although he is only a white ding, but the treatment is very different from yesterday, as if he has become a guest of honor in General Zuo's mansion.
On my side, the mother and daughter of the Xiao family have always given me the main seat, I insisted, and finally sat under Mrs. Xiao and Mrs. Xiao, Xiao Qi'er, and the second lady and daughter at the last seat.
I looked strangely at the vacant position in the middle, in the Southern Dynasty, although the concubines and concubines had a low status, they were not so low that they didn't dare to sit next to the main room, right?
Of course, this is also due to my loneliness and ignorance of the official eunuchs of the Southern Dynasty, in fact, in the official eunuchs' houses, concubines are not allowed to attend the banquet, and even if they attend, there is no seat to do, so they can only serve on the side.
This woman can be called a second lady, and she can also attend the banquet, which is really stained with the light of her stomach.
Of course, these are all things that Mo Junxian told me later, I didn't know at the time, I just wondered about the behavior of the two mothers and daughters, but it was not easy to ask, not to mention that I didn't really care about other people's family affairs.
As soon as I took my seat, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and a series of low voices from people came from outside the back hall that I had just walked into. In a blink of an eye, the man was at the window in the back hall, and as soon as the beaded curtain moved, the person had already broken in.
The Xiao family is polite and temperamental, looking at the decoration and various etiquette in this family, the family style is also more elegant, unlike the roughness of ordinary generals.
So I couldn't think of any kind of person who would behave so rudely, so I was even more curious, so I looked towards the door.
The one who broke in was a little boy, not very old, no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, not tall, wearing a big red shirt covered with a snow-white fox fur cloak, with a round face, big eyes, black and smart eyes, between actions, the golden crown on his head trembled, and he looked very cute.
The little boy jumped in, took off his snow-white cloak, and said, "Grandmother, mother, sister, I'm back, what day is today, why are you eating here?"
The boy spoke quickly, but his voice was soft and pleasant, not noisy, but more vivid. Mrs. Xiao had a smile in her eyes, a motherly look, but she reprimanded in her mouth, "Why are you so unruly, there are distinguished guests today, what kind of system is it to break in so rashly?"
"Ah, is there a distinguished guest?, is it an adult?" said the child, looking at it at a glance, and said strangely, "You are the sister of an adult's house, why haven't I remembered it?"
I was speechless when I was asked, didn't the Southern Dynasty pay attention to the difference between men and women, and the unmarried daughter did not see the man? Even if you look younger, how can you be more than ten years old, is it strange that you don't know other people's female dependents?
"Don't talk nonsense, this is the Mo evil girl who saved your sister yesterday, since you are here, hurry up and go out to sit with your father when you see a courtesy" Mrs. Xiao also knew that he was rude, so she quickly interrupted his questioning and urged urgently.
"Why, I've always eaten with my grandmother, and if it weren't for me, my grandmother wouldn't have eaten well, right?" said the boy, as he walked toward me, as if he had listened to his mother's words, and wanted to come and greet me.
I had no choice but to get up again and prepare to return the salute.
As the little boy got closer and closer, his right hand suddenly stretched out, turned into a claw, and grabbed my left arm. It was so fast that almost in the blink of an eye, he was about to squeeze my arm.