Chapter Ninety-Nine: Fall from Grace Crisis!
Rong Sleeping Crane said: "I have to contact Northern Xinjiang and our grandfather to determine the route of Ruru's detour back then, so that scouts can be dispatched to keep an eye on it day and night in case of accidents." ”
"But the western frontier is very far away from the northern frontier and Chang'an, and it will take a few days for even the pigeon letter to come and go this time, right?" Sheng Weiqiao said, "This speed is too slow, what if something happens on the way?"
Rong Sleeping Crane touched her head with a smile, and said softly: "Good girl, the northern Xinjiang is transferred to the western Xinjiang, the road is far away, and the scope is also extensive, if you are not sure of the point that must be passed, we have such a small number of people now, and there are still Meng Jiaqian and others in the city who have not been eliminated, we can't because of this suspicion, all the subordinates under the hands are scattered out to find a needle in a haystack! In this way, will Ruru come and not say, wouldn't Meng Jiaqian and the others be overjoyed?"
Sheng Weiqiao realized that he was a little too anxious, and he calmed down, and then said: "What you said is that no matter whether Ruru will detour to the Western Xinjiang or not, the top priority is to get the Western Xinjiang Army first!"
Since the young couple has set the direction, they will also act separately.
Early the next morning, Sheng Weiqiao got up, carefully dressed up, and went to Xuanyu Feng to help with details: "How does my aunt look at me today?"
Xuan Yu Feng was eating tea, and when he heard the words, he raised his eyes and looked at it, and saw that his niece was wearing a lotus lotus-colored narrow sleeve placket short shirt, and a leafy cherry was embroidered on the plain silk on the placket, and the fruit was red and green, and the moon white crepe skirt was tied at the bottom, and there was no gold and jade belt around the waist, but only a two-inch wide blue background pink Rui Yun pattern brocade, and the brocade was additionally tied with a finger-wide plain crepe long tie with a bow, and the jade inlaid gold treasure exquisite heron silk ring fell on the side of the skirt.
Because at this time, the summer heat is nearing the end, and a lot of ice is used in the hall of the banquet, and I am worried that it will be cold at that time, so I cover the outside with a dark green gauze, and the wide sleeves of the robe are embroidered with pear blossoms, auspicious clouds and bright moons, and the embroidery is exquisite and lifelike.
"This body is refreshing and dignified, and it is not unconventional. Xuan Yu Feng said with a smile, "It's your cross bun that is too upright." ”
Sheng Weiqiao helped the golden phoenix with the silk inlaid treasure beads between his hair, and said suspiciously: "Isn't it good to be upright?" I am the princess of the county, and it is the first time I have met them today, so I should be dignified and grand to be able to show the dignity of the clan woman, right?"
"Are you afraid that you are too young to suppress people?" Xuan Yu Feng put down the tea bowl and said, "There is no need, as the saying goes, there are three fires when a new official takes office, and the identity and background of Mizhen are left there, who will not open their eyes to be disrespectful to you at this time? And you don't know that the impression of you in the market is that you are all pampered and willful, and the people who come to the banquet today may still be worried that you will pick your nose and eyes at them!"
"After all, the reason why you will feast them is not only to meet the world's conditions, but also to settle the victims. ”
"As the saying goes, disaster relief is like fighting fires, we only got the news in Changting, and it has been a delay to settle down in the past two days. ”
"At this time, you should be vigorous and resolute, what's the use of you leaving a dignified impression on those people? It's better to ask them to respect you as soon as they look at you, for fear of being troubled by you!"
Xuan Yu Feng said with a smile, "Sometimes it's like this, what a virtuous lady can't do, it's easy to mess around." ”
Sheng Weiqiao felt that it was very reasonable, and hurriedly went back to the room to ask someone to change a double bun for himself, and chose a hairpin ring that is not easy to use for non-clan wives such as gold silk dotted emerald inlaid ruby dragon and phoenix Chengxiang big golden hairpin, and aggravated the original light makeup, and finally took a self-portrait in the mirror, feeling that he was domineering enough, and then closed the makeup box with satisfaction: "This look, people who have never seen me, when they see eighty percent, they will be difficult for me to get along with and not easy to serve!"
In fact, after a while, the guests who came one after another, including Gao Shi, who had seen Sheng Weiqiao and Yan Yuese, and Sheng Weiqiao, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes and makeup and full of arrogance, all looked awe-inspiring, and a few of them quietly handed Gao Shi a complaining look: He also said that this master is different from what he said outside, and he is a very kind and easy talker?
This looks like it will find fault at any time, and what a kind of anger!
Originally, their family was also well-known in the local area, and they enjoyed the freedom and ease that the emperor was far away and ignored by the imperial court in the past few decades in Western Xinjiang, so they would not say that they were so afraid of the nobles from Chang'an.
The key is that Sheng Weiqiao is only seventeen years old this year, and he has not been in the door for half a year, this age is when he doesn't know the height of the sky, and it is not strange that he behaves out of line or something under the pampered nature.
If it were at Qi's age, everyone would still be able to think that they had been wives for so long, even if they were mean by nature, they would be more restrained on the scene, and they would have to weigh the consequences when they spoke and did things.
But Sheng Weiqiao is like this, her mother's family is rich and rivals the country, her husband has an extraordinary background, and he is willful, who can stop him?
These people didn't want to offend her inexplicably, so they naturally behaved extremely respectfully.
Especially Ni Jidao's family members, they knew that Sheng Weiqiao stood up in the Changting Pavilion outside the city to settle the disaster victims on behalf of Rong Sleeping Crane, for today's banquet, it was really regarded as a Hongmen banquet, but the identity gap was put aside, Sheng Weiqiao was rumored to have a very bad temper, and he didn't dare to refuse...... What if after refusing, this person simply went to the door to embarrass them?
Even if Ni Jidao and they took refuge in the Meng family, but even if Meng Jiaqian was present, they could be afraid of sleeping cranes, but there was a difference between men and women, so it was not good to take Sheng Weiqiao, the princess of the county, right?
Therefore, when Ni Jidao's wife Zhang took her daughters and daughters-in-law to Sheng Weiqiao, she was simply groveling, for fear that she would not be able to think of a way to resettle the victims, so she would be angry with them.
In this case, although Sheng Weiqiao was not too enthusiastic about everyone, he did not deliberately provoke trouble, but after three rounds of drinking, he proposed to raise funds to help the victims, and everyone was relieved and expressed their willingness to donate generously.
Because of her husband, the Zhang family suspected that Sheng Weiqiao was turning a corner to take revenge: Didn't Ni Jidao use the power of assassination to make a fuss, and wanted to calculate that Rong Sleeping Crane and his wife would use private money to resettle the victims? Sheng Weiqiao specially held this banquet to ask for money from Ni Jidao's wife and daughter, and get the account back!
She was very worried about the specific amount she should pay, and when no one was paying attention to her, she discussed with her eldest daughter-in-law: "How much do you say we should pay?"
The eldest daughter-in-law had similar thoughts to her, and muttered, "It can't be too little, right? Too little, maybe the princess of this county will be angry with us...... It's too much, but Daddy can't explain it. And our family has to live by ourselves. ”
This is equivalent to not saying this, Zhang sighed, thought about it and asked his daughter: "Yanying, what do you see?"
Ni Yanying said expressionlessly: "I will be the water spilled by the Ni family sooner or later, and it will be my turn to call the shots for this kind of thing?"
"......" Zhang was silent for a moment.
Although Sheng Weiqiao, who was at the top of this episode, noticed it, she didn't take it to heart, although she was pronounced by the Feng family and talked about "loser girl" several times, but after all, the nature of the country is easy to change, and the life of a small life is rich, which leads to her taking money very lightly.
But if Zhang gave more, she wouldn't refuse.
At this moment, he swept his eyes quietly, but Xuan Yu Feng whispered: "There seems to be some discord between this Zhang's mother and daughter. ”
"It's normal for mothers and daughters to have occasional awkward fights. Sheng Weiqiao said, "But this Zhang family first asked the eldest daughter-in-law, and then asked the daughter, it seems that this daughter usually seems to have a lot of ideas? I don't know why she fell out with the Zhang family." ”
Xuan Yu Feng was about to answer, when Gao made a topic, which happened to be on her, and a group of female relatives flattered one after another, and she was busy with a smile and praised it back.
After the business was settled, the overall atmosphere of the banquet was still good.
The dishes and utensils, as well as the songs and dances, which are different from those of Western Xinjiang, make the local ladies and ladies feel curious and fresh.
After a few words on topics such as clothing and jewelry, the relationship will naturally become harmonious.
So unconsciously, everyone played with the wine order, because the wine order in the western Xinjiang was different from that in Chang'an, Sheng Weiqiao followed the customs of the Feng family with Xuanyu Feng, and temporarily learned the rules of this place.
Everyone estimated them according to the general amount of alcohol in Western Xinjiang, thinking that it was nothing, so they planned to continue playing. Who knew that Xuan Yu Feng would also pay it back, she had met someone unladylike before, and when her husband didn't die, she borrowed wine to drown her sorrows, and the amount of wine was okay.
But Sheng Weiqiao's amount of alcohol is very ordinary, this is usually the standard of Nanfeng County and Chang'an, but it is not enough to see Xijiang, he was a little dizzy when he landed, and he sat for a while, and he couldn't bear to forgive, please Xuan Yu Feng to entertain everyone on his behalf.
So he called Ju Liang and Tong Yue to help him lie down in the back, this lie was half an hour, and when he woke up, he thought the banquet was over, but Ju Liang said that he hadn't yet: "Mrs. Feng felt that Miss Ni was very suitable for her eyes, so she recognized her righteous daughter, so she asked someone to replace the banquet, re-serve the wine and food, and change the song and dance to a new one, saying that she wanted to celebrate her beloved daughter today...... So it's still lively. ”
Sheng Weiqiao: ".................."
Woke up with an extra cousin?
The princess of the county, who has been the only girl in a foreign family for more than ten years, felt a serious crisis of falling out of favor, and quickly got up to freshen up, and asked, "Miss Ni family, is it called Ni Yanying......? What kind of person is he?"
In fact, she noticed Ni Yanying at the banquet just now, but she just glanced at it in a hurry, and she didn't pay attention to it, she couldn't figure it out at this time, she just rested a little, how could this girl be favored by the Feng family?
You must know that Xuan Yu Feng has repeatedly found fault with Rong Sleeping Crane, what kind of ability does this Ni Yanying have, and she actually let Xuan Yu Feng accept her as a righteous daughter with a single face?
Ju Li said cautiously: "The slave maid can't say it, but I feel very quiet, not as delicate as the other young ladies." ”
If it was an eight-sided exquisite, Sheng Weiqiao could still think that this was the other party's initiative to cling to Xuanyu Feng's, and his aunt's recognition of a righteous daughter who pushed the boat down the river was also a different plan, but Ju Li said that it was quiet, and this situation was not said to be the initiative to entangle Xuanyu Feng, so Xuanyu Feng still recognized it...... Sheng Weiqiao suddenly became even more worried: Could it be that her aunt really took a fancy to this girl's temperament and wanted to love her as her own daughter?
Don't!
She hasn't been tired of her aunt's heart and soul Qiao'er!
Sheng Weiqiao thought of what Xuan Yu Feng said in person, "At the beginning, your grandmother also called me heart, but as soon as you landed, she immediately changed her heart", she suddenly couldn't sit still, dressed up hastily, got up and walked out: she wanted to see what was going on!