The next day, it was the day when Anyang commanded the banquet of Xu Xiu's wife, Cui's family.

After Qiu Chen sent Lin Xu out of class after breakfast, he went back to the house to wash and comb, changed into a light bamboo cyan embroidered hosta pattern of waist pinching silk jacket, and wore a sapphire blue pleated skirt embroidered with silver threads like four seasons folded branches and flowers, wrapped in the purple smoke Luo cloak outside, saved two green jade hairpins with smooth water on the bun, wore a red gold cordyceps hairpin, thin fat powder, took Chen and Yufeng, escorted by Qin Li and Zeng Daniu, and rode to the mansion on Fuhou Street.

Soon after the car drove into Fuhou Street, it stopped slightly, and Zeng Daniu, who temporarily acted as a handlebar, replied outside: "Madam, it's the Tang family's carriage." ”

Qiu Chen lifted the curtain of the car and looked out, and saw a carriage with a green curtain linoleum shed parked on the side, and a mother-in-law standing under the car, it was the henchman Pan of Wu's side, so he knew that there was no doubt that it must be Wu's on the car, so he smiled and said: "Mrs. Wu asked me to go with me, and she must be waiting here." ”

Seeing Pan walking over here, Qiu Chen hurriedly opened the car door and poked his head out: "Mama Pan, but Mrs. Wu is in the car?" Is the big girl here? ”

Pan bowed his knees under the car with a smile on his face, and then replied with a smile: "Hui Shuren, it is our wife." The eldest girl blew the wind yesterday, and she didn't come today when she didn't loosen up......"

Qiu Chen looked surprised, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, is it in the way?" Can you ask Lang Zhong for treatment? What drugs were used? ”

Pan Shixiao nodded slightly, and replied very fluently: "Let the lady worry, the eldest girl just blew the wind, and it is no big deal, she has already asked Lang Zhong from the Rejuvenation Hall to diagnose her, and she also left a prescription, so that it will be good to recuperate for two or three days." ”

"Oh, that's good!" Qiu Chen sighed, then smiled again, "Tell my wife, my car will follow, let's talk when I get to the mansion!" ”

Pan Shi responded with a smile, bent his knees again, and turned back to the Tang family's carriage. After a while, the Tang family's carriage moved, and Zeng Da Niu also drove the carriage to follow all the way to the Servant's Mansion.

I didn't see many vehicles on the road just now, Qiu Chen didn't pay much attention to it, and the car entered the gate of the Servant's Mansion all the way. Until I stopped outside the second gate, I still didn't see the expected scene of people coming and going, and in the wide sedan hall of the Minister's Mansion, there were only two carriages and two sedan chairs...... Such a situation can be a little incompatible with the banquet guests. Or, Cui's invited a very small number of guests, only a few?

However, if it is a small gathering, then acquaintances should be invited, Qiu Chen has never seen this Mrs. Cui...... What is the reason for this?

Thinking about it, the carriage had already put the poles, Zeng Da Niu quickly took out the footstool from under the wheel and put it under the car, and then replied: "Madam, it's time to go to the mansion!" ”

Qiu Chen straightened his expression, put aside his full speculation for the time being, folded his spirits, wrapped the cloak on his body, and bent out of the carriage by the curtain of the car raised by Yufeng.

got out of the carriage, and Pan and a girl from the carriage of the Tang Mansion on the other side also got out of the carriage, and then turned around to help the Tang family on the carriage. Qiu Chen straightened his cloak and skirt, and walked over briskly with a smile on his face.

"Sister Wu!" Qiu Chen bowed his knees to Wu, who got out of the carriage.

Wu returned the salute with a smile, came over to hold Qiu Chen's hand, and walked side by side towards the second gate.

A woman in her thirties, wearing a wide red gown and a stone blue pleated skirt, stood outside the second gate and waited, looking at the woman with an ordinary appearance and a dark complexion, but her attitude was down-to-earth and generous. Seeing Qiu Chen and the Wu family coming together, he took two steps forward to greet him, and greeted Qiu Chen and the Wu family with a smile: "The two are Yang Shuren and Mrs. Tang Governor's Mansion, right?" ”

Wu and Qiu Chen bent their knees and saluted together, and Cui's also bowed their knees and saluted each other, greeting each other, and Cui led the two into the second gate and walked inside.

"It's been more than half a year since I came to work with my father, but I haven't been able to get acquainted with a few people...... The two of you are not strange, they are all my bones, and when I am at home, I feel like I am beaten with iron, but I can follow my master to work, and I don't have to worry about anything, but I am uncomfortable every day......"

Qiu Chen and Wu glanced at each other, and Wu smiled and said, "Looking at Mrs. Cui's complexion now, she must be very good, right?" ”

Cui Shi smiled and nodded: "Okay, it's all right." It's strange to say, or our lord heard a home remedy from the outside, saying that he went back to the pot stove in the old house, dug a handful of stove soil back, grinded the ground carefully, put it in the water tank, and the disease will naturally be cured. ”

"Hey, this recipe is really interesting, the soil in the heart of the stove can also cure diseases?" Wu was surprised.

Cui Shi smiled: "Who said it wasn't, I didn't believe it when I first heard it, but our lord still sent someone back to the old house, took a piece of hearth soil back, and secretly put it in the water tank...... In this way, within two or three days, my illness was cured without medicine. Now that I think about the toss of those months, it's really like a dream, look at me now, I can eat and sleep again, it's really not a little relaxed. ”

Qiu Chen silently listened to Cui's words quickly and straightforwardly, his eyebrows gradually raised, and finally overflowed with a smile on his face...... I just don't know if Lu Dao's heartiness is not in line with Wu's taste......

Wu listened with a look of surprise, and then said with a smile: "There is such a thing, and I can be regarded as having a long time to understand today." ”

Cui Shi smiled, looked back at Qiu Chen, and said, "When it comes to diagnosing and dispensing medicines, we have to count Yang Shuren...... I also listened to what our grandfather said, Yang Shuren bravely entered the epidemic area alone last year and saved countless lives...... Speaking of which, even our lord admires it tightly! ”

Qiu Chen didn't expect that he could be involved in talking well, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Cui praised it, I just happened to read such a recipe from an ancient book...... It's nothing. ”

Without waiting for Cui Shi to speak again, Qiu Chen smiled and said, "However, I have heard of this disease that Mrs. Cui has...... It is said that it is difficult to leave the homeland, take the hearth soil in the old house and put it in the water tank, drink the water in the tank every day, and the disease will heal itself. He also said that if there is no hearth soil in the old house, it is okay to take a handful of soil from his hometown! ”

"Oh, that's right...... It's hard to leave the homeland, isn't it the homeland that is hard to leave, my mother-in-law's family is in the same village, and I haven't left our Zhuangzi since I was a child...... I left home and came to Anyang all of a sudden, and I got sick, what happened! Mrs. Cui said with a look of surprise and sighed.

Qiu Chen secretly breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and echoed a few sentences, and naturally turned the topic to the upcoming October 1st Festival.

A few people laughed and walked all the way to a warm pavilion in the back garden. The pavilion is covered with vegetation on three sides, and on the other side is a small lake about an acre. At this time, although the lake has not yet frozen, it has also lost the sparkling and green lotus of summer, and only a piece of blue water remains, which is still there, like a piece of green frozen jade.

The flowers and plants around the pavilion have withered, and most of the trees have lost their leaves, except for a thin bamboo next to the pavilion, which is still green.

Qiu Chen and Wu followed Cui's until they came to the outside of the pavilion, and they saw several coarse women and girls standing outside the door, wearing various colored clothes, shivering from the cold. Judging from the clothing, it should be the entourage brought by the guests who arrived in front.

Qiu Chen didn't bring the rough girl, so he brought Chen and Yufeng, and he didn't leave anyone outside, and entered the warm pavilion together, and a warm temperature came to his face, mixed with wisps of charcoal...... Qiu Chen frowned slightly, waiting for her eyes to adjust to the light, and she could see clearly that there were big charcoal pots in every corner of the door, and the carbon piles inside were high and burning vigorously. In such a confined space, so many charcoal pots are placed, even if carbon monoxide is not discharged, it will consume a lot of oxygen in the house, which will cause oxygen thinning and make people feel uncomfortable.

Quietly took off the cloak on his body and handed it to Yufeng behind him, Wu also took off his cloak at this time, followed Cui all the way inside, and went straight up the stairs to the second floor.

At the entrance of the second floor is a very wide floor-to-ceiling character pattern screen, the pattern on the screen is similar to the 'Qingming Riverside Map', which depicts the various states of the market, the characters, cars and horses, and even the river cruise, as well as all kinds of shops and stalls...... and so on, revealing a strong market atmosphere, as well as a lively charm of life.

Bypassing the screen, there are also more than ten charcoal basins in the corner of the hall on the pavilion, and a large copper stove is also placed in the middle, and seven or eight independent tables and chairs are set up around this copper furnace.

Qiu Chen followed the two around the screen, and immediately a girl came forward to greet her, and Cui smiled and waved his hand, leading Qiu Chen and Wu to go inside. The four or five people who arrived first in the house also came up, Qiu Chen looked over and found that they all knew each other, including Anyang Tongzhi Wu Yunqiao's wife Zhang, Guo Da's wife Ning, with two daughters-in-law Xu and Jin, and one Qiu Chen had the impression that it was Hu Shi, the wife of Zhang Tongju, a government official, she had seen it in Yunfu, but she had never spoken.

Everyone greeted each other in a gossiping manner, greeting each other. Cui Shi smiled and said to Wu and Qiu Chen: "They have seen it just now, I will take you over to see, you don't know how to go, there is actually a rare thing in my garden......"

Hearing her say this, Wu and Qiu Chen naturally listened to her, but Cui Shi held his mouth and stopped his voice, only smiled and led the two to the window: "Don't let me be verbose, you can see for yourself!" ”

Qiu Chen smiled and turned his gaze back, and Wu also smiled, but he was a little unhappy in his heart.

The two followed Cui Shi to the window, and looked out through the wide open window, the frozen jade-like lake was empty, and there was nothing 'rare', Qiu Chen was surprised, and with a flash of his eyes, he caught a glimpse of a cluster of thick green sticking out of the cracks in the few lake stones by the lake in the corner downstairs.

"Hey, this is ......" Wu also exclaimed in surprise next to him.

Cui Shi said with some smugness: "Hehe, I don't understand these either, or our master said that this is called Hanlan, and it will only be opened when it is cold." In order to match the cold orchid, our father also planned to let people plant some chrysanthemums on the edge of the stone, but the chrysanthemums raised at home could not withstand the cold, so we had to go to the mountains to dig some wild chrysanthemums. ”

Wu and the others smiled and didn't speak, but Wu Yunqiao's wife Zhang next to him answered with a smile: "When you say this, I think of it, the small chrysanthemums that grow in the cracks of the stones on the mountain are fluffy and fluffy, and sometimes the first snow has not been defeated, and they are also planted in the cracks of the stones, which is beautiful!" ”

The people in this house, except for Cui's, Zhang's, and Qiu Chen, the other few were born in the courtyard of the deep house, grew up in the courtyard of the deep house, even after getting married, they are still raised in the courtyard of the deep house, living so big, it is estimated that the opportunity to see the wild scenery is to go to the temple outside the city to burn incense and worship a Buddha, what wild chrysanthemums and what stone cracks Cui and Zhang said, they have never seen them at all, naturally they can't talk at all, but Qiu Chen has seen the wild chrysanthemums and cold orchids that grow vigorously on the cliffs. What kind of dendrobium and the like, in modern times, she once followed a wild medicine resource expedition team, these things are not uncommon, here, although living in a small mountain village like Liujiaao, but I have never seen this kind of scenery.

Cui clapped his hands with a smile on his face, naturally walked up to Zhang, and said with a smile: "Oh, that's it, that's what it means...... Alas, you don't know the way, it turns out that the wild things all over the mountains are very difficult to raise, our lord sent people to move a few times, but a few trees have not survived, wilting in the cracks of the stones, and they can't see at all...... However, I heard that as long as one of those things survives, it will be able to divide a lot next year, and if you come to see it next year, it will be much better than this time. ”

Cui's said to Zhang's Balabala for a long time, and only turned to everyone after the last sentence, and everyone naturally didn't refute her face, and they all smiled and agreed.

After seeing this rare thing of Hanlan, everyone should also be seated, Cui Shi followed everyone to the hall, Qiu Chen took a few steps behind, and supported Ning Shi to follow.

Speaking of which, Qiu Chen is most familiar with the Guo family, not to mention the business cooperation between the two families, Lin Xu is still the introductory disciple of Master Guo.

Qiu Chen helped Ning Shi and said as he walked: "Aunt looks so good today......

Ning smiled, patted Qiu Chen's hand, and said in a low voice: "Okay, how can it be bad, and there is nothing to worry about, eat well and sleep well, how can it be bad...... By the way, the greens you sent a few days ago are really good, so cuishengsheng, people have an appetite when they look at it, it's really difficult for you to grow greens in the winter, I really don't know how your heart grows, I wonder if it's the kind of seven-trick exquisite heart that the play said......

Qiu Chen covered his mouth and smiled, and said, "Auntie, if you let people listen to what you say, people will say that your princess is selling melons and boasting!" ”

Ning also smiled: "Who said let him say it, I also said the same to whom, my own children already look better than others, not to mention, you are so good, don't let me say it!" ”

Qiu Chen smiled a little unsupportively, and was about to say something more when she was about to say something, when Wu called her with a smile: "Sister Yang, I said why I couldn't see you in a blink of an eye, it turned out that I went to make out with Mrs. Ning, are you afraid that people will not know that your mother and son are close?" ”

As soon as she said this, Hu Shi and the other two were puzzled, and Hu Shi asked directly: "How did the two of them become mothers?" ”

Qiu Chen took Ning Shi and took two steps forward, and said with a smile: "My second brother worshiped under Master Guo, studied and studied, and I took advantage of the situation to worship the second elder as an aunt and aunt, hehe, there are two more who love me!" ”

Qiu Chen's words were extremely low, and it was completely the tone of a junior. Ning originally heard that Qiu Chen had married the Marquis of Jingbei, and he was still a little unclear and uncomfortable in his heart, and when he saw Qiu Chen a few times, he was still respectful, but at this time, he was still so intimate and low-key in front of people, and the little awkwardness in his heart was gone.

Hu Shi suddenly said: "So that's the case...... Alas, no, there are old people, no matter how old they are, they can rely on ......"

Qiu Chen's eyes swept over the big red jacket on Hu's body, and he responded with a smile, "That's exactly what you said!" ”

Everyone laughed and pushed each other to take their seats. The highest grade of everyone present is Qiu Chen, a lady of the third grade, the Hu family originally planned to let her sit with the Wu family as the chief, but Qiu Chen called the Ning family an aunt, so he naturally refused to sit until she got started.

Soon, the girls and mothers-in-law came up from outside with all kinds of dishes and delicacies. Qiu Chen turned from those beautiful and watery girls to all kinds of dishes, and found that this dish was extremely exquisite, just like the eggplant in the dream of Red Mansions, and it was almost impossible to see what the raw materials were, and it was not like her family's practice of keeping the original taste as much as possible. Moreover, most of the dishes that come up are chicken, duck, fish, etc., and the vegetables are mostly soaked in dried products, such as magnolia slices, fungus, mushrooms, etc.

With a sweep of his gaze, Qiu Chen turned his eyes to look at the Ning and Wu clans on both sides, and the three of them smiled knowingly.

Cui, who was sitting at the bottom of his hand, greeted with a smile: "Please come over today, the focus is to recognize the door, I am not afraid of what is ugly, I am from a Zhuang family, I don't know what cooking skills are, today's dishes are made by the chef in the restaurant, the big guy tastes good and eats more, it's not good...... No, I'll have to settle the bill with him later, and I can't give him all the money! ”

These words were straightforward and refreshing, but they made everyone relax.

Wu smiled and said, "Mrs. Cui said this well, we are not satisfied with the food, so naturally we can't pay him silver...... It's just that these dishes can be seen without eating, it must be a lot of effort, I'll say a favor here, Mrs. Cui still don't deduct other people's silver, for a few of us, presumably people are also tired, and then deduct the silver can not be said! ”

Others chimed in: "Just look at Mrs. Wu's face!" ”

At this time, the second daughter-in-law of the Guo family, Jin, interjected with a smile: "In this case, it is better to wait for us to taste the dishes, let the cook come over, let's taste which dish is good, and reward him according to his own meaning, and let him not suffer in vain!" ”

The corners of Qiu Chen's mouth slightly lowered his eyes. This Kim ...... Still so in love with the present!

The others didn't respond, but Cui Shi clapped his hands with a smile and said, "Okay, that's good, you have rewarded a lot, so I don't have to give the silver at all!" ”

Everyone laughed, picked up chopsticks and began to eat, and a girl poured wine for everyone. Qiu Chen looked at the girl holding the two wine jugs, and asked in a low voice, and the girl replied smartly: "One pot is warm Jinhua wine, and the other pot is cherry wine, which is made by our wife herself." ”

Qiu Chen's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile: "Your wife brewed it herself, then I'll try the cherry bar!" ”

She had heard before that all juicy fruits could be made into wine, and she had drunk wine, cider, lychee, bayberry, and plum wine, but she had never drunk cherry wine.

The girl replied, and took the celadon curved neck wine jug to pour wine for Qiu Chen, and the wine poured out from the small spout, showing a gorgeous dark purple red, and the wine was mellow and revealed a unique aroma of cherries.

Ning Shi said beside him: "This fruit wine can only be drunk cold, the weather is cold, you can taste it, or warm Jinhua wine!" ”

Qiu Chen came back to his senses and replied with a smile: "Yes, I have only heard of it before and have never tasted it, and it was brewed by Mrs. Cui herself, so I have to taste it, so my aunt allowed me to drink this cup, and I will change it to Jinhua wine when it is finished." ”

Wu was smiling beside him, shaking his head, Qiu Chen didn't talk, she knew what Wu was laughing at, but she was just laughing at what she had just said that there was care for the elderly, and she was restrained at this moment. She didn't particularly like the cherry wine, but she was just curious to taste it.

Cui Shi smiled on the other side: "It turned out that there was a cherry orchard next to the house, and I couldn't finish eating the cherries when the cherries came down in the spring, so I learned to make this wine...... If Yang Shuren likes it, she will bring two jars and go home when she leaves later...... Drink slowly. ”

Qiu Chen hurriedly smiled and thanked him. The others also begged for it, saying that it was a good thing that could not be biased towards Yang Shuren, and the Cui family naturally accepted it.

Although the topic of a meal was casual, there was Cui's host, who dared to say anything and didn't care about anything, but the atmosphere was relaxed and cheerful, and unconsciously, everyone laughed and drank a few glasses, and the wine was a little up, and no one cared about the dishes anymore, so Cui Shi smiled and proposed, guess the wine.

“…… I don't know a few big words, so I won't mention any poetry, let's talk about drinking today, I have a few grass stalks in my hands, some long and some short, and the big guys will smoke by themselves later, and draw the shortest one to drink a full cup, and the longest one to accompany half a cup......"

Although this method is simple, it is also fair, and everyone is full of interest and uproar.

As everyone knows, this kind of guessing is the easiest to drink, the most enjoyable, and the drinking is fast, but as soon as the incense is burned, the girls added a few times of Jinhua wine, and almost everyone drank three or four glasses of wine into it, Qiu Chen originally drank okay, but after arriving here, there has been no wine in this real sense, and a few drinks are all tasted and stopped, and I haven't tried the amount of alcohol, and I drank more than ten glasses of Jinhua wine in a row, Rao is she is calm and calm, and this time she is also wine-colored on her face, her cheeks are red, and her head feels dizzy, Zhilu said that he couldn't drink anymore, and when he saw Cui Shi and the others drinking, he still kept guessing, and simply put his hands on the table, propping his head and dozing off.

"Yang Shuren, it's time for you to draw a coin!" The girl came to Qiu Chen again with the grass stalk, and called a few times but got no response.

Wu Shi smiled beside him: "People who are still full of interest when they saw cherry wine just now, I didn't expect the amount of wine to be so shallow...... I'm drunk! ”

Cui's laughed a few times, and Cui's smiled and greeted Chen and Yufeng, who were waiting behind Qiu Chen: "There is a couch in the room next to it, you and help your lady to rest for a while, I will let someone send a bowl of sobering soup to her, it's just a few glasses of Jinhua wine, and there will be nothing to do after resting for a while......"

Chen and Yufeng hurriedly bent their knees to thank them, stepped forward, one of them helped Qiu Chen up with one arm, followed the girl from the Servant's Mansion all the way into a compartment next to him, brought water to Qiu Chen's mouth, and took the sobering soup sent by the maid of the Servant's Mansion and gave Qiu Chen half a drink, took off Qiu Chen's shoes, and helped Qiu Chen to lie on the couch, Yufeng hurriedly retreated and went to the carriage to get the spare clothes brought by Qiu Chen. Lie down for a while and rest, and when you get up again, your clothes are wrinkled, and you can't wear them.

Waiting for the maiden mother-in-law of the Servant Mansion to retreat, Qiu Chen slowly opened his eyes, and said in a low voice to the concerned Chen: "I'm fine, sister-in-law Chen don't worry." ”

Chen patted his chest, breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice: "I thought my wife really drank too much......

Qiu Chen smiled and blinked: "It's a lot of drinking, although it's not too much at this time, it's really hard to say if you drink it again." If you vomit and get drunk, do something and say something, you will be ashamed. ”

Chen smiled and handed over the handkerchief, waited for Qiu Chen to wipe his hands, cleaned his face, and whispered: "Mrs. is also cautious, where do you need to be so careful...... If you're drunk, you're drunk, but you're drunk, what can happen! ”

Qiu Chen smiled, handed the handkerchief back to Chen, lowered his eyes and said, "I'm so dizzy, close my eyes and rest for a while." When Yufeng comes back later, you will also rest in this house for a while, and when they disperse, we will leave. ”

Chen responded in a low voice, stepped forward to pull the quilt for her, and retreated to the side to guard.

Qiu Chen lowered his eyes, dizzy and dizzy, but his brain was still very clear.

She naturally understands what the Chen family means, it is nothing more than that she now has an identity, and if she marries into the Jingbei Hou Mansion, her status will naturally be raised. But Qiu Chen was not complacent about marrying into the Jingbei Hou Mansion and becoming Qin Zheng's wife, and she felt noble, she always remembered clearly that she was a mountain woman who came out of the small mountain village of Liujiaao, and there was no powerful family to rely on, and there were Afu Aman, the Lin family, and the Yang family who relied on her to live. Prudence and caution may be tiring, and it may make people judge that it is boring and too cautious, but it will not do anything bad.

Turning his mind, he sighed secretly, and unconsciously, Qiu Chen actually fell asleep.

When he woke up, Qiu Chen was confused for a moment, and he didn't know where he was...... In the blink of an eye, she suddenly came to her senses when she saw the rich fuchsia curtain hanging next to her. She's still in the warm pavilion of the Servant's Mansion!

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Yesterday I added a temporary chapter to urge the update, and it's too late today...... That's all, otherwise tomorrow's and won't be released on time.