Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Two Hottest Topics of the Qionghua Banquet
You must know that although there are many people who ask for a vote but can't, not every young lady is willing to show her head. Some beauties have been married to the sons of their friends since they were young; Some people are indifferent and don't like this kind of flashiness; There are also some who are shy and don't like to be in the limelight......
These young ladies are not a few in the capital.
Therefore, although the reputation of the capital is the "four beauties of the capital" is the loudest, there are not a few daughters who are recognized as not inferior to them, for example, Ning Cairuo, the daughter of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, is one of them, and the beauty is naturally needless to say, and he studied under the "Qin Fairy", and his piano skills are superb, I am afraid that Miss Mei, who is also good at playing the piano in the "Four Beauties of the Beijing", is also inferior to her.
Another example is Liu Ru of Hanlin Mansion, although her appearance is slightly inferior, she is famous for being a lady with excellent temperament, erudition, and impeccable demeanor and etiquette. Even the first ancient family of the Daxing Dynasty, the grandmother of the Wang family with a thousand-year historical heritage, and the wife of the Xie family, who is as famous as the Wang family, and Mrs. Lin, who is known as the "most perfect clan wife", also praised her. You must know that these two families are rivals, although because of the demeanor of the family, they will not be like the women in the market, doing the kind of tasteless things that one praises and the other has to belittle, and loses the demeanor of the family, but it is rare to elevate the people who appreciate each other like this.
It is said that both families intend to marry Liu Ruis for their great-grandson and son-in-law, but because the Shangguan Lady of Hanlin Mansion and the former princess of Runan Mansion who died were friends when they were not married, before she died, they agreed to her, and when Liu Rushi and Lu, they made up their minds for them and achieved marriage. Therefore, the two families had to give up.
Such a person, the "Four Beauties of Beijing" is slightly better than her in appearance, and who says that she can win steadily? After all, the ladies who are selected are not just looking at their looks. Virtue, talent, manners, manners, and even women workers...... Comprehensive elements are the criteria for their selection. Therefore, the daughter of the silk merchant had no place to be ashamed, because, when she got there, she found that she had nowhere to take it but her appearance. Even walking, compared to others, seems so crude, let alone anything else. Even her most proud appearance looks so vulgar against the backdrop of other women's makeup and clothes. And many of what others say, she can't understand at all, let alone insert it. There is no need for others to say, I haven't stayed in Qionghua Villa for half a day, so I am full of ambition when I come, and I am ashamed of myself when I go, full of pride and ambition, and turn into endless regret.
Ning Cairuo and Liu Ru are considered to be the daughters who have never participated in the Qionghua Banquet, but they are also quite famous and not inferior to the "Four Beauties of the Capital", and there are some unknowns, and they may not be bad. In the land of the hidden dragon and crouching tiger in the capital, there are many outstanding women from various families.
If nothing else, let's just say that the Wang family and the Xie family, which have been inherited for thousands of years, have always been more than the scholars of the Daxing Dynasty. Even if you say that, no one will believe it.
It's just that their daughters have never appeared in front of people, and they are raised in the boudoir, and they will not appear in front of people until they get married. At that time, she will already be a wife, and naturally she will not have such a reputation.
The daughters of the Wang and Xie families have always been so low-key, and the people in the capital don't count on it.
However, whether Ning Cairuo and Liu Ru will participate in this event is worth looking forward to. Otherwise, it's a bit boring to have the same group of people standing in that position every year.
And the second hot topic, is the recent rumor, people who have seen it say that no one can compete with it, and is crowned as the "first beauty in the capital", and some people even say that it is the first beauty of the "Daxing Dynasty" Red Seven, will he participate in this Qionghua banquet?
If she doesn't participate, this Qionghua banquet will definitely be greatly discolored. Even if there is a result in the end, it must not be as convincing as in the past. After all, those who are lucky enough to see Hong Qi at a glance swear that the beauty of Red Qi is definitely far more than the "Four Beauties of Beijing", and even if the legendary peerless beauty Luo Shen is alive, it is nothing more than that. No matter how beautiful other people compare with her, they are just stars, how can they compete with Haoyue?
If there is only one person who says this, it is just tens of thousands of money, with noses and eyes, and gradually, the whole capital is saying this.
In fact, there are not many people who have really seen Red Seven, after all, although there were indeed many people present at that time, but there were crowds, and there were only a few hundred people in front of the Red Mansion at most, plus Red Seven appeared for a while, and they didn't necessarily see it, and in the end, there were more than a hundred.
But can't you stop people's vanity?
As soon as I heard that there was a peerless beauty at that time, although I couldn't marry it, I felt that I had a face. Therefore, once someone asks, as long as they participated in the chaos at the beginning, they all swear and say: "That's absolute beauty, definitely beauty, when I saw it, Mom, do you know what's wrong?" I fainted on the spot. "Don't believe me? I don't believe that Lao Tzu bets with you, what are the four beauties of the capital this time, they are not enough to see in front of her, how about betting on the heirlooms of the family? Do you dare? β
As a result, a person who was originally seen by more than 100 people became recognized in the capital.
These words, naturally, were passed on from one to the next, and they also reached the ears of the old lady and the old county lord. Regarding the appearance of their own children and granddaughters, the two elders are at the front, and they naturally see it more truly than anyone else. However, the old lady is quite unrestrained in other aspects, but in this regard, he is very old-fashioned, and he is very unhappy when he hears it. The young lady who has not been out of the cabinet is always not very nice to be talked about by others. If you are going to get married in the future, your in-laws may not like it. At her daughter's house, the old lady felt that it was better to keep a low profile. Especially if it is a beautiful Cheng dΓΉ, the old lady has also seen it, the child is really born without seeing it, such a fame, I am afraid that it may not be a blessing. The old lady didn't really want Hong Qiyu to do this.
It's just that the old county lord came back angrily and said something that made the old lady angry.
It turned out that although the common people bought it regardless of whether it was true or not, the daughters who were going to participate in the Qionghua banquet didn't buy it much. Basically, since I participated in this matter, I just pretended to be indifferent on the surface, but I was afraid that he was extremely famous and competitive in his bones. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been mixed up, and it would have been over waiting at home to get married.
So, after hearing this, can you calm down?
Behind the scenes, many people said that Red Seven was extremely ugly, saying that "Red Seven is definitely a slag scum", "Jumping Beam Clown", "Horse doesn't know how long the face is", "I don't know the height of the sky" or something, and also said that Red Qi will definitely be a turtle with a shrunken head, and he doesn't dare to appear in the Qionghua Banquet to lose face or anything.
When the old lady heard this, she was immediately angry!
Only he scolds others, when will it be the turn of others to scold his family?
But this kind of thing, he, an old man, can't rush to scold those yellow-haired girls, right? No matter how tough the old lady is, she can't do this kind of thing, and the old county lord is helpless.
Finally, the old lady slapped her leg.
"You said she didn't dare to go, but the old man let her go. Go and let you little girls with broken mouths know what it means to not know the height of the sky? β
In this way, Fang had that post sent by the Taishi Mansion.
The reason why it was also sent over in the middle of the night was because the old lady and the old county lord did such a ridiculous thing in front of Hong Qi last time, and they really didn't have the courage to recognize this granddaughter for the time being, so they could only act secretly.
For the sake of this twist and turn, no matter how smart Red Qi is, he can't imagine it.
After all, she doesn't even know that she has such a family now!
Around these two hot topics and the Qionghua Banquet, various gambling houses in the capital have also begun to be lively. Especially at the beginning of the Qionghua feast, it was the time when the spring was approaching, in order not to delay the trip, and to have enough time to prepare for the exam, many scholars came months in advance, and at this time, most of them had already arrived.
Talented and beautiful matches, this is naturally what they are most concerned about in addition to Dabi. If you win this time, marry a beautiful woman like a flower in the Qionghua banquet, double happiness is coming, and life is proud, nothing more than this.
Now that this story is clear, let's go back to the business of Red Seven!
Although the time is pressing, however, the people of the king of Runan are indeed neat, and the things will be handed over, and the next day, the palace of Runan has an echo and sends someone to send a box.
There was a stack of silver tickets inside, and Red Seven let the spring breeze count a few. After counting, a few people were stunned. A total of 2,600,000 taels. Even the accumulation of several generations of the Red family left by the old lady is far from this number.
This, this, a few girls trembled, shocked, and trembled and reported this number to Hong Qi.
As a result, they saw that Hongqi took out 1.3 million taels without blinking his eyelids, and still packed it in a box, and asked someone to take it back and hand it over to the prince of Runan.
A few girls opened their mouths wide, Miss, this is not a few taels, not dozens of taels, not hundreds of taels, not even tens of thousands of taels, hundreds of thousands of taels, but one million and three hundred thousand taels, you just give it out so casually?
Loser!
Loser!
What a loser!
Although Red Seven did a lot of things that shocked them, I have to say that this time, Red Seven shocked them again.
A few girls have an urge to faint, but now that the nerves are a little rough for Hong Qi, it is not so easy to faint.
I can only look at Red Seven one by one, as if I am looking at a monster.
Hong Qi said: "Don't worry, you will earn it back in the future." β
Money is dead, people are alive. As long as there are people, are you afraid that you won't be able to make money? If it weren't for the prince of Runan and Hongda this time, these posts would be just a dozen pieces of waste paper in the hands of Hong Qi. However, now, in the blink of an eye, it has become this unprecedented huge amount.
This is a great opportunity from the sky, and Red Seven sees the business opportunity in it, but if there is no one, can Red Seven turn it into such a huge amount of money?
No!
She didn't know who the wealthy merchants were in the capital, and the status of the merchants was not high, so among the noteworthy characters listed in the red list, they were not written at all.
She didn't have anyone under her command who could do it quietly. If there are traces missing, not to mention damaging the reputation of the Hong family, even the dozen or so people who sent posts have offended her severely.
Because of the king of Runan, this can be done.
So, don't say it's half, even more, Red Seven will also give.
King Runan didn't know that he was about to have a huge amount of money coming in quickly.
At this time, in the study, King Runan was writing a letter, and Hongda took the girl and brought him medicine.