Chapter Eighty-Eight: Going to the Banquet
On the day of the birthday banquet, the door of the Gu Mansion opened early, and the servants were busy holding out the belongings for travel and preparing the carriage. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Surrounded by servants, Gu Yao, who was dressed in a lake-blue placket with large sleeves and a skirt, came dressed up, with a newly opened white orchid on her elegant snake bun, and the pearl earrings in her ears swayed slightly with her steps, and her gestures were all noble and dignified by the sister-in-law of the family.
With a smile on her lips, she walked towards the carriage, and the servants around her carefully supported her, and surrounded her like the stars and the moon to get into the carriage.
Not far behind her, Gu Yun, who was dressed in an autumn-colored skirt, took Alan and a few maids and servants to follow the carriage behind, unlike Gu Yao's grandeur, she was just dressed normally, and even the carriage was not very eye-catching, but Gu Yun was not as noisy and unwilling as before, she had been in a trance, as if she had something on her mind, and she didn't even care about it.
Outside the house is the West Market Market, and the pedestrians who come and go are attracted by this row of places, and they have stopped and watched, guessing which sister-in-law this is, and leaving the house is so powerful.
"That sister-in-law is really beautiful, looking at that dress, it seems that she is from a family."
"Don't look at the plaque on the door, this is the Gu family's mansion in Wu County, and the one who comes out is the second sister-in-law of the Gu family."
"Second sister-in-law Gu?! Could it be the sister-in-law who gave porridge to the homeless?! ”
"It's not her, she can also do Fu, and her writing is outstanding!"
"What a beauty, and a famous talent, virtuous and virtuous! I don't know which family Lang Jun can marry such a sister-in-law! ”
The sound of praise and exclamation reached the ears of Gu Yao, who was sitting in the carriage, and a slight smile appeared on her face, and she ordered the maid: "Let's go." ”
The carriage walked slowly, Wuyi Lane was already in sight, the carriage and the crowd were already crowded at the mouth of the alley, everyone knew that the old lady of Xie Mansion had a big birthday, and invited all the concubines of the Southern Jin Dynasty to come, and they all crowded outside Wuyi Lane early to watch this grand event.
When Gu Yao's carriage entered Wuyi Lane, it attracted a lot of discussion from everyone, and just like before, they all praised her talent and virtuous name, which made Gu Yao very satisfied, it seems that her aunt is right, the so-called reputation is just a false rumor, and people talk about it after dinner, but after such a while, the things that were originally humiliated by Wang Shiyi Lang have been gradually forgotten by people, and she is the second sister-in-law Gu who is praised and admired by everyone.
When she arrived at the door of the Xie Mansion, Gu Yao helped the maid get out of the carriage, and the servant woman of the Xie Mansion greeted her and bowed slightly: "Gu family's sister-in-law, please come with the maid." ”
Gu Yao's smile was like a spring breeze: "I don't know if the sister-in-law of the Lu family and the sister-in-law of the Li family are here?" ”
The servant woman smiled and said: "The third sister-in-law of the Lu family is unwell, I am afraid that she will not be able to come, so someone sent a birthday gift, and the sister-in-law of the Li family has already arrived, and she is in the house." ”
Lu Xianniang is not coming? Gu Yao raised her eyebrows slightly, and the smile on the corner of her mouth deepened: "Then there will be labor." ”
She helped the maid to follow the maid to the Xie Mansion, but when she entered the door, she glanced at a maid who followed her, and the maid understood and bowed down, but she came to Gu Yun behind her, followed Gu Yun closely, and did not walk away.
"Hui Niang ......" Li Huiniang, who was sitting on the couch with her head down and bored, was pouting, very worried about Lu Xianniang's illness, and heard someone behind her calling her, and when she looked back, she saw Gu Yao, who was smiling kindly, walking towards her.
"It's A-Yao." Li Huiniang couldn't keep her spirits up, she was usually only close to Lu Xianniang, and Lu Xianniang was assertive in everything, but now Lu Xianniang said that she couldn't come when she was sick, and she was inevitably a little uncomfortable at such a banquet alone.
Gu Yao kindly pointed to the vacant seat beside Li Huiniang: "You don't mind if I sit down, right?" There are too many people at this banquet, I don't know much, just be close to Huiniang, it's better for us to sit and talk together, than to sit with people we don't know, it's uncomfortable. ”
Li Huiniang thought so, nodded and smiled: "I think so too, you sit down, I'm afraid that no one will be embarrassed." Her face flushed, because Ejiao and Xie Wulang had made a family relationship since childhood, and she was very sensitive and shy about the affairs of the Xie family, not to mention that she came to the Xie Mansion for a banquet so openly.
Gu Yao looked at the shyness on her face, gloomy flashes in her eyes, but she still sat on the seat with a smile on her face, and leaned close to Li Huiniang and said softly: "Who are these people, I don't know them, Huiniang knows?" She was referring to the place where the Xie family was on the opposite side of the Lang Jun seat.
Li Huiniang has never had any scheming, and said to her with a smile: "Over there are all the sons of the Xie family, the eldest one is the eldest of the Xie family, and now he is also the head of the Xie family, next to him is the Xie family's Erlang, who is in the second room of the Xie family, and the one who wears the Huqing robe is the Xie family's Shilang, the eldest son in the third room??" Speaking of this, a flush suddenly flew on her face, "And then there's Xie Wulang, A-Yao, you know it too??" The sound is like a mosquito, the face is like a peach blossom, and the face is red.
Gu Yao hid the sneer on her lips and said to Li Huiniang: "I heard that Huiniang and Xie Jiawulang are engaged, but why haven't I heard you mention it?" ”
Li Huiniang was even more embarrassed when she heard her mention this family matter, and lowered her head and said: "It's just a matter agreed between the two families when I was a child, where is my turn to say something." ”
Gu Yao smiled slightly, stopped mentioning this, and talked about other things with Li Huiniang, her thoughtfulness made Li Huiniang quickly get close to her, and the two talked very affectionately.
Gu Yun entered the Xie Mansion and did not sit with Gu Yao, but was half-persuaded and half-sent by the servants to sit down on another less conspicuous seat.
Gu Yun frowned and asked Alan Dao: "Didn't you say that you invited all the sisters-in-law of the family, why didn't you see Zhu Jing and them?" ”
Alan guarded her and didn't dare to leave: "I heard that the sister-in-law of the Zhu family has been engaged, so she never came to the banquet." ”
Gu Yun was surprised: "She's engaged?" Zhu Jing admired Jin Lang as much as himself, and the two of them quarreled from time to time for this, but they didn't expect her to be engaged.
"Which family is she engaged to, what about the two sisters-in-law of the Zhang family?" Gu Yun was surprised and didn't forget to ask what she wanted to know.
Alan thought for a while: "It's like a family affair with the Huainan Lin family, and the two sisters-in-law of the Zhang family are also discussing marriage, and they haven't come over." But the seven lang of the Zhang family seems to have come. ”
She replied casually, but she didn't notice that Gu Yun's face was terrifyingly pale.
He really came, right here at the Xie family banquet! (To be continued.) )