Chapter XVII
Li Yunbao rushed to Jinghe with the girl, and when the banquet of the ladies in the inner courtyard was about to start, she walked quickly to the right side of the main hall and prepared to sit down according to the assignment of the steward here. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Ladies, thank you for coming to the Humble House today." Walking to the table, Li Yunbao, who was the host, saluted the nine ladies present.
"The third young lady is polite, today is a good day for the fourth young master in the house, and we are all here to take advantage of some joy." A round-faced woman stood up and replied.
The other ladies around them also stood up and said yes, yes. Everyone sat down, and the dishes over there were served one after another.
Rainbow Dash quickly sorts out the dishes on her small plate, and from time to time motions to Ziqin to help her prepare the dishes quickly. The ladies who watched were dumbfounded, when had they ever met such a woman who ate and drank so much at a banquet, there were no rules at all.
Ziqi, who was on the side, saw everyone's eyes, as if she could think that tomorrow everyone in the capital would be talking about how the third young lady of the Weiguo Mansion was rude, how she had no scruples, and her face was burning with hatred that she couldn't dig into the ground.
Only Li Yunbao continued to eat without paying attention, and when he saw that Ziqi couldn't cooperate, he directly picked up the dishes by himself, and almost didn't use chopsticks when he lost his appetite.
Li Yunbao despises these people in his heart, some of them don't eat enough to scruple this and that, and when you don't have to eat hungry, you will know that it is terrible, anyway, you are willing to eat a full meal now, and there is a tough battle to fight next.
Li Yunbao was almost full of food, so when she was picking up the vegetables, the chopsticks were loosened, and the dishes fell on her clothes, and she got up embarrassed to salute everyone.
"I'm sorry, the concubine's clothes are dirty and you have to go to change your clothes, you will eat for a while, there is still a drama to listen to in the garden, and the concubine will leave first."
"Third young lady, you can do it yourself, I have almost eaten, and besides, there are girls and ladies greeting you, rest assured." It was the same lady who got up and replied.
Li Yunbao turned back to Ziqi when he left the banquet living room and said, "Ziqi, you go to Yuanxiju to bring Brother An back to Huayunju for me now, and you can't delay for a moment." Ziqi responded with a salute and turned around and left.
After hurriedly returning to Huayunju, Li Yunbao arranged for Qiu Fang and Dong Fang, who were left behind, to boil more hot water quickly, saying that they were going to bathe and change clothes, and arranged to follow their Chunfang to find out An Ge'er's thin long jacket and prepare it.
Not long after, Ziqi led the green painting, Xia Fang came back with An'er, "Mother, An'er, I saw a lot of grandmothers at the ancestor today, and they all have gifts for An'er, take a look!" Brother An held five purses in both hands and held them in front of him as if offering treasures.
"Ah, An'er, do you have to give these things to your mother?" Li Yunbao teased him.
Brother An'er lowered her head and thought for a moment and said hesitantly: "An'er is all for her mother, can her mother like An'er like she does in the future?"
Li Yunbao listened to what he said, and his heart softened, and he responded, "Yes, yes, my mother will like my little An'er so much in the future." But An'er has to listen to her mother's words, so that her mother will like An'er more. After receiving her mother's assurance, An Ge'er couldn't help but giggle.
Li Yunbao asked Green Painting to lead Xia Fang to bathe An Ge'er, and asked them to put on the thin long jacket An Ge'er had prepared. I didn't care to check the purse that the child had just brought just now, so I took all of it. Hurrying up, she also let Ziqi wait to take a bath, and then dressed up again.
After everything was done, Li Yunbao asked Ziqi and them to go down to eat, and he took the children to rest and didn't want them to stay and take care of them, leaving only a mother-in-law to watch the door.
After a day of playing, Rainbow Dash didn't strip him, but took a small quilt and covered the child, and took the hairpin ring in the dresser that she had been afraid to accept for the past few days, leaving only the valuable items that were registered. After thinking about it, he also accepted a flat box in the secret compartment of the Qiangong bed, which was his dowry list, the title deed of the Zhuangzi and the deed of the shop, and the deed of ownership of the two caravans.
Out of the house to the small kitchen in his yard, saw that no one in the four also went in to collect a few days ago to receive the rice polished noodles, silver frost charcoal and other items, when leaving to see a small red clay stove and small iron pot she also unceremoniously accepted.
Thinking about what I received, I immediately felt very satisfied and relieved, at least I could live a little more comfortably with my children in the future. When he turned to the pantry, Li Yunbao took away the two boxes of high-end tea leaves and the exquisite snacks he had prepared a few days ago.
Back in the room, Li Yunbao found a royal blue cloak, took out the strap and put it on the soft pedal, then wrapped a bag of pastries with a clean handkerchief and put it on his chest to hide it, then closed his eyes and waited for the moment when the knife hanging over his head fell.
"Who are you, this is the inner courtyard of the Guogong Mansion, and the people in it are our third young lady and female dependent, why are you soldiers so hard." The mother-in-law guarding the door outside was scolding there, and Li Yunbao opened his eyes and thought, here.
Suddenly, the door was kicked open, and an officer about twenty-five or sixteen years old led a dozen soldiers into the house one after another, and when he saw Li Yunbao, the other party sneered unceremoniously: "This official is ordered to raid the Weiguo Mansion, and a cadre will not stay until he arrives in the main hall to listen to the order."
"This adult, the concubine still has a child sleeping, see if you can be lenient for a while, and let the concubine take the child and go."
"Then you move quickly, don't delay the official's time, otherwise don't blame me for being unkind." The man said unceremoniously to Li Yunbao.
Li Yunbao didn't care about his bad attitude, and hurriedly put An Ge'er on his chest with a strap, wrapped him with a small quilt that he had just covered, and then put on the cloak he had just prepared and signaled to the man that he could go.
The officer raised his eyebrows in surprise, but without saying anything more, he let the two minions lead him to the main hall in the front yard.
When Li Yunbao approached, he saw that the banquet in the main hall had been dispersed, the hall was messy, and the guests were almost gone, and a eunuch with Erlang's legs was sitting on the main seat of the head of the house, drinking tea leisurely.
On the side of the eunuch's head, the grandfather of the country was supported by the old wife to sit on a chair panting, surrounded by several male masters in the house, and the female dependents were only themselves and their second sister-in-law Sun Yuniang with their children at this time. Some of the male guests were also guarded by the officers and soldiers and were not allowed to move, and the maids and ladies around them gathered in a heap and cried bitterly.
"Mother, mother, An'er is afraid." An Ge'er's soft and timid voice came from his arms. Li Yunbao didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly lowered his head to coax the child, and the eunuch's cold words came from the side of the child just after coaxing,
"Yo, the people have finally arrived, delaying the efforts of the miscellaneous family. Everyone in the Weiguo Mansion received the order------- "After the other masters in the mansion were also sent to the hall one after another, the eunuch closed the lid of the tea bowl and placed the teacup casually on the table next to it.
In the eunuch's shrill voice, Li Yunbao listened to a rough idea, which meant that the whole government was taken into custody by the Criminal Department pending trial because of the suspicion of participating in the prince's rebellion case because of the Weiguo Mansion suspected of participating in the prince's rebellion case.
"Oh, and you, the miscellaneous family almost forgot. The Liu family and the Jia family are also suspected of rebelling together, so you and Master Jia don't have to go back to the house, and go directly to the prison of the Criminal Department. After the eunuch finished speaking, he stopped caring about the people and waited, and sat down and drank tea in a beautiful place.
At this time, some officers and soldiers came forward and asked everyone to line up in several lines, and as soon as they finished counting the number of people, someone began to confiscate everyone's belongings.
"You let go of me, my father is Liao Zhongze, a doctor from Yipin Guanglu, my father didn't rebel, how dare you search my body, I'm not afraid that my father will pursue you. The concubine of the Liao family is what you can offend---- "The sister-in-law Liao Min in front of her made a fuss, unwilling to hand over the hairpin ring jewelry on her body, and the officers and soldiers wanted to come forward to search her in person, so they heard her shout.
At the same time, a tall officer and soldier with a centipede-shaped bus on his left side and a person about thirty years old walked in front of him.
Without saying a word, Li Yunbao neatly took off the precious jewelry and ring pendants that he had specially worn everywhere on his body and handed them to the officers and soldiers in front of him, and said while picking them up, "It's not easy to be a soldier, they all obey orders, so why bother others." ”
"It's rare for Madame to know the pain of our waiting, how can you, a deep lady, know these ways?" The officer and soldier said angrily.
"My father was Li Jingde, the general of the auxiliary country, I followed his old man in the northwest for more than ten years, and I know some of these ways."
"You are the eldest girl of General Li's family? Me, me. Dahan was a little excited and wanted to say something to Li Yunbao, but I didn't say it for a long time, but obviously she could feel that this man was treating herself respectfully.
When Li Yunbao was about to take off the gold bracelet on his hand, Dahan stepped forward and winked at him. Rainbow Dash tugs the bracelet around her elbow in understanding, and the big man tucks his head in satisfaction.
"This military master, the concubine's child is young and has just gotten up from sleep, and it's cold at night, you can see if this little quilt can be left for the concubine." Li Yunbao took the opportunity to ask again.
"It's not gold or silver, you can keep it." After speaking, Dahan walked towards the people behind him without looking back, continuing his seizure operation.