As mentioned earlier, Shen You's business is getting bigger and bigger, and he originally lived next to the Yao family, but later because he couldn't meet his business development, he moved the entire family to Zhenfengli Town. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhenfengli is full of rivers and lakes, and it is the most ideal water town in Zeguo.

The local people are accustomed to call Zhenfengli Town Zhouzhuang, because the Northern Song Dynasty Yuanyou Zhou Di Gonglang believed in Buddhism, and donated 200 acres of Zhuangtian to Quanfu Temple as a temple property, and the people felt their kindness, so they privately named this field "Zhouzhuang". However, with the expansion of the Shen family's business in Zhenfengli Town, I don't know what kind of agreement Shen You reached with the temple monks, and these fields gradually fell under the name of the Shen family.

Today, Master Shen will hold a feast in Zhenfengli Town, and all the squires and rich people within a radius of fifty miles have been invited by him, because today is the big day for his son Shen Fu and Miss Lu to get married.

Considering that the daughters of the Lu family were going to attend, Master Shen specially invited the squires and wealthy people to bring their daughters, originally he did not plan to have any more dealings with the Guo family, but his son said that the Guo family had the grace to save his life after all, so the Guo family finally appeared on his invitation list.

So the Guo family dressed up to attend, especially Da Zhang's, Guo Daya, and Guo Xiaoya, who were dressed up like peacocks opening the screen. Xiao Zhang is a concubine and is not eligible to participate in the banquet. Zhou Huniu is eligible to attend, but she happens to be pregnant and should not go out in March.

Ma Xiuying didn't want to join in the excitement at all, if she was like a group of peers in her previous life, she could still accept it, but when she heard Shen Wansan say that the banquet was divided into two courtyards, male guests and female guests, she retreated, and she didn't know any people in the female courtyard, so what was the point of going. Besides, it is a headache to think of the scene where the noblewomen and rich women in Suzhou get together to talk about long and short things or compare with each other, and a small family like Guo Fu does not know how to be ridiculed.

Shen Wansan said dissatisfiedly: "We are friends, how can you not participate in my engagement banquet? Who wants you to deal with those women, so that people look down on you yellow-haired girl, I want you to help me see how my fiancée is." Soon he will form a new family with a woman he doesn't know, this strange feeling makes Shen Wansan feel uncertain, and he urgently needs the support of his friends.

Yao Tianxi also persuaded: "You have not seen the scenery of Suzhou for so long, this time you should go out to relax, the landscape of Zhouzhuang is good, and Uncle Shen has also built a unique Fu'an Bridge." ”

Ma Xiuying pondered for a moment and agreed, she wanted to meet Shen Wansan's fiancée, Shen Wansan's overseas trade plan was very light, I hope this Miss Lu would not affect their plans, if that Miss Lu is not suitable to participate in such a crazy adventure, she will persuade Shen Wansan to hide Miss Lu, or she will withdraw from the Central Plains Partner Organization herself.

Shen Wansan personally came to the door to invite him, and specially thanked Zhang Tianyou and Ma Xiuying by name. Ma Xiuying was naturally able to follow Zhang Tianyou to participate in the banquet, but unfortunately Yuan Xing couldn't go along, and as for the unhappy Guo family's mother and daughter, they didn't see it.

The ox cart was driving one after the other, Ma Xiuying would rather squeeze into Zhang Tianyou's ox cart or get down and walk, rather than face the Guo family's mother and daughter, but this is Suzhou, which has a very literary style, if she stays in the women's cart in an irregular manner, it is estimated that there will be people's spit on her face immediately.

The scenery of Suzhou is indeed beautiful, no matter spring, summer, autumn and winter, Suzhou is always green water lingering green mountains, flowers falling on the green bricks, insects and swallows murmuring and Wu Nong's soft whispers are endless, walking through this ancient town of water-dyed ink painting, people's hearts will become quiet.

It's a pity that good things are always destroyed by people, and Ma Xiuying's happy mood was crushed by the sound of horses' hooves. It takes two hours to take an ox cart from Suzhou to Zhenfengli Town, and it only takes half an hour to ride a horse, but horses can only be owned by a hairpin family like Yao Tianxi, and ordinary people can't ride them, so when Ma Xiuying saw Yao Tianxi and several family members roaring past, her eyes were red with envy, and she couldn't wait to drag Yao Tianxi down and go up to the prancing horse and whip herself. In her previous life, she had also ridden a horse, and the feeling of galloping in the wind was by no means a substitute for an ox cart.

"A bunch of gentlemen!" The Guo family brothers, who couldn't eat the grapes and said that the grapes were sour, spat stupidly.

The Guo sisters looked at the distant figures with confused eyes, these handsome men are their ideal husbands, but why is no one willing to stay for them?

The sisters' wish was soon granted, and they rode back on horseback, resting firmly beside them.

Yao Tianxi elegantly rode on a horse, his flying sideburns slowly fell on his forehead, his head was raised to reveal his white neck and well-defined collarbones, and his slender legs stepped on the stirrups, high above him as if he was dominating the world, but the moment he saw Ma Xiuying, he turned into tenderness like water, and said: "Miss Ma." ”

Guo Daya and Guo Xiaoya's eyes widened, anger almost distorted their facial features, they couldn't imagine that Yao Tianxi's return was not for them, they couldn't accept the fact that Yao Tianxi only greeted Ma Xiuying, they were a hundred times more beautiful than Ma Xiuying, could it be that Yao Tianxi's eyes were blind?

Ma Xiuying wanted to cover her face and say that she didn't know her, but in front of everyone, she had to bite the bullet and gritted her teeth and reminded: "Young Master Yao, you haven't visited my wife yet." She couldn't understand how Yao Tianxi, who had always paid attention to etiquette, could make such a low-level mistake, was this planning to kill her, without looking back, she knew that her body was about to be pierced by the eyes of the Guo family's mother and daughter.

Yao Tianxi was ashamed, whether it was because he only had Ma Xiuying in his eyes at the time, or because he hated the vicious mother and daughter of the Guo family, he should not lose his courtesy, and hurriedly greeted the Da Zhang family, and did not dare to say a word to beat the horse and flee the scene.

Ma Xiuying naturally became the target of the Guo sisters' attacks again, they complained that Ma Xiuying was rude and scared Yao Tianxi away, and Yao Tianxi's rude behavior has been automatically ignored by them.

Ma Xiuying was too lazy to worry about the two, so she simply closed her eyes and rested.

However, Guo Tianxu rushed over and scolded the two younger sisters, asking them to learn from Ma Xiuying and not to deal with those self-righteous fools.

Feeling that the resentment on the Guo family sisters was getting heavier and heavier, Ma Xiuying sighed hopefully, she really shouldn't have promised Shen Wansan to go out today.

finally got to Zhenfengli Town, Ma Xiuying did not see Shen Wansan and Yao Tianxi, and it is estimated that they will socialize in the courtyard of the men's guests. As soon as the Guo family's ox cart stopped at the door of Shen's house, a small servant and a maid came forward to greet and serve, and led people into the men's and women's courtyards respectively.

As soon as she entered the women's courtyard, Ma Xiuying was dizzy with choking incense powder. Fat and thin women, colorful dresses, and jeweled jewelry are dazzling. However, most of the people who came were businesswomen, and Mrs. Yao Zhenzhi would not attend such a meeting. There is an insurmountable gap between Shilin and Shangjia, and if it weren't for Yao Zhenzhi and Shen You, who have been friends for many years, they wouldn't have come today.

The boldness of the merchant women broke Ma Xiuying's fantasy of Jiangnan women's gentleness, and they walked in the courtyard with ease, or wooing, or squeezing out, talking and laughing to promote a business for their own family, and degrading their opponents to worthlessness in a joke, no wonder the real noblewomen did not appear here.

There were women at the table who came to talk one after another, but as soon as they heard Da Zhang's introduction that he was the Guo family who had just arrived in Suzhou, the smiles on the faces of these women immediately turned cold, and they turned their heads and stopped talking to Da Zhang's after a few perfunctory words.

The last time Shen You and Yao Zhenzhi visited Guo's mansion, the matter was spread by some big-mouthed servants, and the two masters of the family said "small doors and small households are not on the stage" to reduce the Guo family to the bottom of the mud, who is willing to deal with such a family, even some of the women that Da Zhang's family knows when they go out are not very dealing.

"A mediocre woman who looks down on people with dog eyes!" Da Zhang couldn't help but snort secretly, and glanced at Ma Xiuying fiercely. She is usually high-minded, but now she also feels the taste of being despised by others, and her carefully retouched face is flushed with anger, and at first glance she thinks that rouge is applied to the root of her ears.

Ma Xiuying worked hard to be an invisible person, she didn't understand Da Zhang's mentality that she would rather risk being humiliated than attend the banquet, but she knew that it was better to provoke Da Zhang's at this time, and who knew if Da Zhang, who was annoyed and angry, would use her as a punching bag to scold regardless of the occasion. Anyway, Da Zhang's can afford to lose people, but she can't afford to lose it.

The heartless Guo sisters did not notice the embarrassment of the Da Zhang family at all, and exchanged their heads with each other, discussing with great interest which woman's clothes were beautiful and which woman's jewelry was exquisite.

Ma Xiuying, who was bored, listened to their discussion, and her eyes couldn't help but fall on the woman they were talking about. She noticed a teenage girl in the crowd, everyone smiling at her, and some people were giving gifts to her. She guessed that this girl should be today's protagonist - Shen Wansan's future wife Lu Xiaoqian.

Lu Xiaoqian is about fifteen or sixteen years old, with a hundred flowers on her head, her tail naturally hanging down on her shoulders, and two white pearl earrings looming in her black hair. She wore a goose-yellow skirt, and the decoration on her body was not complicated, except for a green shawl tied on her chest, and only a jade ring ornament was added to the ribbon worn in the middle of her waist. Such a simple dress stands out among a bunch of women who rub grease and powder, and wear red and green.

If someone talks to Lu Xiaoqian, she purses the corners of her mouth, her cheeks are shallow, her appearance is delicate, coquettish and submissive, and the rumored "daughter of a vulgar businessman" has nothing to do with it, but it is in line with Ma Xiuying's imagination of Jiangnan women, as written in the book, "Yingying smiles with Wu Nong's soft words, and her gestures are poetic and picturesque."

Ma Xiuying couldn't help but praise, Shen Wansan is not shallow, Miss Lu is more than enough with him, and the bastard is still picky, I don't know what to do.

On the other hand, Guo Daya and Guo Xiaoya next to him were dressed like nouveau riche at a young age, and two golden hairpins had to be inserted into their buns, just like two horns branching out. The face is pink, the lips are scarlet, and the three-petal mouth with a little bit on the top and bottom looks like a Japanese geisha.

Ma Xiuying quietly moved the stool to the side, indicating that she was not familiar with them.