Chapter 60: The Banquet (Part I)
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Mama took the two of them to walk for a while, and a big lake appeared in front of them, and lotus flowers were planted on the lake, because the flowering period had not yet arrived, and now only lotus leaves as big as a water tank were spread all over the lake.
There are two big houses built next to each other in the center of the lake, and a wooden plank road is built from the lake to the front of the house, and it is surrounded by a guardrail.
Mama led the two of them to the room on the right, pointed to the big room on the left, and explained, "The room over there is a meeting place for the eldest young master's friends. ”
On the surface, the banquet said that it was a boudoir poetry meeting, but in fact, it was hosted by Yang Shencun and Yang Miaofang, brothers and sisters, and many scholars and sons were also invited. Due to the large scale of the banquet, it was divided into two rooms.
Zhou Qin and the others walked to the front of the house, Yang Miaofang greeted her, she looked at He Suyu's dress, a trace of displeasure flashed in her eyes, but she quickly covered it up, and greeted with a smile: "I knew that the two of you had a good relationship, but who knew that even the tacit understanding was good, and they came together." ”
He Suyu didn't even want to give her face, and said with a grin: "I'm afraid that there are too many things on your side to be busy, so I went to find Aunt Xian to come over with me, so I don't have to work hard for you to come out and pick it up twice." ”
Yang Miaofang frowned slightly, but said with a smile: "Where is it." She looked towards the opposite plank road, as if she was looking for something, and immediately asked Zhou Qin, "Is the Zhou family's brother behind?" ”
Seeing her ask, Zhou Qin simply took out the letter from his sleeve, handed it over, and said, "I'm really sorry, my grandmother suddenly sent an important errand to my brother, and he was busy early in the morning, so he really didn't have time to come, so I had to write a reply to ask me to forward it to Yang Gongzi, and ask you to transfer it on my behalf." ”
Yang Miaofang was stunned for a moment, and after a while she took the letter, muttering, "It's so important...... she carefully tucked the letter into her sleeve and led the two into the house.
He Suyu secretly pulled Zhou Qin's hand, snorted at Yang Miaofang, made a lip shape, and asked silently: "When did you know Brother Zhou, and you were so affectionate?" ”
Zhou Qin replied to her, "I only saw it not long ago." ”
He Suyu pursed her mouth and complained in a low voice: "Why does she have to mix a kick anywhere!" ”
There were already more than ten girls sitting in the room, and they were in one place to discuss what poems to make later, and when they saw Yang Miaofang bringing Zhou Qin and the others in, they got up to salute.
He Suyu's dress was very eye-catching, and more than half of the people gathered around, asking about the color, the embroiderer, the origin, and the matching.
When He Suyu saw it, she was proud, she blew the clothes on her body, and began to deliberately chat with other people about her clothes.
This time the poetry meeting was originally different from Yang Miaofang's usual organization, in the past, it was just a small gathering of her and like-minded friends, but this time the scale was more than three times larger, not to mention, in order to find something to share the table with the lord of Jiacheng, she had to invite some clan women and princes who usually did not come and go.
These nobles were already different from the children of the scholar clan after that, and it was naturally better to talk to them about poetry and eat and drink with them.
So, people are still the same group of people, but they no longer talk about poetry and songs, but enthusiastically discuss cloth and jewelry, and incense powder.
Yang Miaofang saw that the poetry meeting she had carefully prepared was about to be disturbed, so she hurriedly coughed lightly twice, raised her voice and said, "Everyone is almost there, let's take the screen." ”
When a few little girls heard this, they went to remove a few large screens in the corner, and as soon as the screens were removed, a few large windows were revealed, and the windows had already been opened, facing the opposite room.
Zhou Qin looked towards the opposite room, where a large table was set up, and the scholars sat around the table very close to the window.
When the soldiers saw that the window was open, they all looked over. The girls sat down busily, finding a beautiful angle for themselves to pose, and each of them looked for the people around them to whisper.
Zhou Qin used to dislike this kind of inexplicable occasion, she saw that He Suyu was waiting for the fun with high morale, so she simply got up secretly, pulled Yang Miaofang, and said, "I'm not very convenient today, I want to find a place to rest." ”
Yang Miaofang hurriedly nodded a girl and said, "Xiaoying, take Miss Zhou to Qingyin Pavilion." ”
Zhou Qin followed Xiaoying out of the house, and Begonia hurriedly followed.
Qingyin Pavilion is not far from here, and it will be there in a short time, but the door of the attic is wide open, and you can see several scholars standing and talking in it from a distance.
Xiao Ying looked embarrassed, and hurriedly explained: "I think it's a friend of our young master, I'll take the girl to other places, right?" ”
Zhou Qin didn't care much, today's poetry meeting, it is said that there are nearly twenty scholars alone, and they are looking for a place to rest, so they are naturally looking for the nearest one.
The three of them turned around and walked another way, and were passing through a corridor, but they were confronted by several servants, one or two of whom thought that they had some identity, and shouted from afar: "Xiaoying, Madame is looking for you everywhere!" ”
When they walked up, they saw Zhou and Qin behind Xiao Ying, so they hurriedly saluted and apologized, saying, "You might as well bump into this girl." ”
Xiao Ying hurriedly said: "I'll take Miss Zhou from the Protector's Mansion to find a place to rest." ”
A mother-in-law hurriedly turned around and shouted, "Lotus! ”
So a little maid about ten years old came out from behind them, and saluted Zhou Qin: "I'll take the girl there, I'm most familiar with the house." ”
Her eyes were wide and she looked very clever.
Xiaoying still had to be entangled, but she was urged several times by her mother-in-law, so she had to be annoyed by Zhou Qin. Zhou Qin waved his hand, signaled that it didn't matter, and followed them.
Before leaving, Xiaoying also carefully instructed the lotus: "Take Miss Zhou to the Jade Building." ”
She didn't stop talking all the way, chattering with Zhou Qin about some trivial things at home, Ziyun herself signed the deed with her mother, it has been three or four years, she is used to working in the garden, and she is very familiar with this place.
Zhou Qin likes her lively personality, so Haitang rewarded her with a small purse with dozens of copper plates in it, and she immediately blushed, took the purse shyly, looked at it carefully for a while, and said: "I have been embroidering since I was a child, if I can catch up with half of this purse, I will not be scolded by my mother all the time." ”
She took a few steps forward, suddenly stopped, and said, "Sister Xiaoying is really confused, the Jade Building has been given to the county lord of Jiacheng today, where is there still time." She smiled and turned her head and said, "It's good that I remember clearly, otherwise we'd have had to run for nothing." I'll take you to the Qingjing Pavilion in the garden, there is no one there, the scenery is good, the housekeeper just yesterday specially instructed that if there are female guests who are afraid of making trouble outside, you can take them over to rest. ”