Chapter 391: Gu Xu's future in-laws
Kumquat was not very smooth in the second room, although he saw the second lady, but as soon as he heard that he was asking about the distinguished guest, the second lady's face fell, and she remembered that her son was still drunk and not awake, originally the distinguished guest came for Gu Xu's marriage, but he encountered such an impressive thing, and I don't know if people will think that Gu Xu is a drunkard in their hearts.
Thinking of this, the second lady, who originally thought that Gu Xu drank some saber wine was a trivial matter, immediately became angry, complained about Gu Yun and his buddies, and scolded the two concubines in their hearts, complaining that they didn't stop those people from pouring wine into Gu Xu, but they didn't want to think about where the two twelve or thirteen-year-old concubines could stop the young master at a table, and they had done their best to carry Gu Xu back to the house.
Jin Ju saw that the second lady's face was wrong, and guessed that she might be scolding in her heart, but when she came to receive this errand, she had to ask an accurate sentence, if the second room did not entertain herself, should the old lady come forward to entertain her, so as not to be neglected and neglected on the first night in the house.
The second lady's complexion changed a few times, Gu Wan and Gu Chan stepped up their persuasion on the side, and then stiffened their faces and asked Jin Quat to reply, there is Lao Taijun.
The eldest lady listened to Jin Kui's reply, and immediately sent someone to tell the big housekeeper to invite the guests to Rong'en Hall, and then sent another girl to the third room to say that the old lady was going to entertain foreign guests tonight, and the daughters-in-law did not have to wait.
The third lady came home yesterday and rested all day today, and specially called someone to tell her gossip to learn about the latest situation in the house, knowing that Bai Ko had injured the three old servants of the second sister-in-law, and also knowing that Gu Xu drank saber wine yesterday and was so drunk that she couldn't look like it, and then the girl on the other side of the long room said that the old lady didn't need the daughters-in-law to wait for the foreign guests tonight, she immediately figured out what was going on, and secretly laughed at Gu Xu This time he was miserable.
In the past, the three-room was seen by others as lively, but now it is just a good time to see the liveliness of the two-room that has always been high.
The marriage of the three children in the second room is in front of them, Gu Xu and Gu Wan must marry one by one next year, the dowry and dowry are not small amounts, if you want to support a little in the public middle school, you have to hurry up and pat the fart of the long house, otherwise why would she travel so much to bring so much seafood back to send Gu Yun, it is not for the sake of Gu Jing's future marriage costs, and she still has five concubines under her knees, and the girls have grown up one after another and entered the marriage age, if the public middle school does not help, how can she have so much money to dowry for the concubines.
Now that there is no separation, there is still some light, but since he wants his daughter and daughter-in-law to enter and exit from the main gate of the Yeguo Mansion and earn face for himself, he naturally has to coax Changfang to be happy and make them happy.
However, with the temperament of this second sister-in-law, she may not be able to swallow this breath when so many things happen, and she doesn't know how she will toss, but there is a good show to watch.
At dinner, in addition to the two dishes designated by the old lady, Bai Ko added a fried squid with sauce, fried steak and a seashell soup, and many dishes were sent from the east kitchen, which was completely enough to entertain the guests.
Gu Yun went to Jichengtang to eat with his mother and brother in the evening, they each had a squid and soup here and the third lady, and the steak was gone, which was originally misappropriated from Gu Yun's ingredients for tomorrow's breakfast, so he had to leave some.
In the warm pavilion of Rong'en Hall, the old lady sat on the main seat, the eldest lord accompanied the seat, gossiped with the guests, and after the name was passed, the eldest lord immediately reacted to what the other party's origin was.
His second brother's place of service is in Pingzhou, Yanhe Prefecture, and his future uncle Gan Yuwen is from the local Gan clan's eldest house, his father is the current patriarch of the clan, and it is his compatriot Ninth Sister who wants to marry Gu Xu, who will be seventeen next year, which is a good age to marry.
This Gan Yuwen is twenty-seven or eighteen years old, the second in his own family, it is the second-class jinshi of the last spring festival, he was born with a high spirit, why did the young jinshi who was proud of the spring breeze not enter the officialdom, it was because his grandfather died after the list, so he left Beijing to go home to keep filial piety, and now he took the opportunity of his sister to get married, so he came to the capital again.
"For a long time, the Pingzhou Gan clan can be described as full of talents in the scholar clan and officialdom, and everyone admires the clan."
"False praise, at this moment, it is a great honor for the younger generation to be fortunate to be able to drink at the same table with Ye Guogong and the old lady."
The two sides exchanged pleasantries for a while, and the eldest man did not forget to apologize for his eldest nephew Gu Xu, and the distinguished guest came from afar, but he, the main master, was so drunk that he couldn't get out of bed.
"Young people love to mess around, they don't know how strong the saber wine is, and they have drunk a few glasses until now, and I'm afraid that they will be able to sober up tomorrow, I'm really sorry."
"It's okay, the younger generation has also studied in the capital for a few years, and I know that the time of the annual vacation of the school is these days, presumably it is a holiday to call friends and companions to relax and relax, and drink too much at once, this kind of thing often happens to young people, and the younger generations have fun when they study than this." Gan Yuwen is very able to understand the problem of scholars.
"Thank you for your understanding, thank you for your understanding."
"Grandpa Guo is too polite, if you do this again, you will be really embarrassed to sit here and eat again."
"Okay, okay, you two are singing together, do you want to eat well, the dishes are going to be cold."
The old lady smiled and made a sound, and then told the two men to stop being polite and pick up chopsticks to eat.
Since Gan Yuwen has been in the capital for a few years, he is naturally familiar with the flavor of the Beijing's dishes, and he is used to eating exquisite food, so he naturally distinguishes that there are several dishes on the table with slightly different tastes, and praises them, especially the seashell soup with a cup per person, which is drunk to a trickle, and praises the delicious taste of this soup.
The guests liked their own food, which naturally made the host's family smile, and the dinner ended happily.
After withdrawing from the banquet, Gan Yuwen confessed and said goodbye to the old lady and the eldest master, saying that before he left, he sent his family to Beijing to clean up the Gan family courtyard where he once lived, so he just rested in the Yeguo Mansion tonight, and he will move back to his house tomorrow.
The old lady and the eldest lord hurriedly retained, but Gan Yuwen's reason was also very sufficient, after all, the two families had not yet married, and he was still an outsider, not to mention that there was another courtyard of his family in the capital, and there was really no reason to live in the Guogong Mansion.
Having said this, the old lady and the eldest master are not good at forcing others to stay, and only tell him to remember to resign from the second lady tomorrow, after all, he is Gu Xu's future brother-in-law, don't let her think that she is not considerate.
Gan Yuwen agreed again and again, got up to say goodbye, and the old lady asked the girl to light the lantern and send him to the guest room in the front yard.
The eldest man sent off the guest, sat with his mother for a while, and talked about the Gan clan in Pingzhou, and both mother and son knew what the second room meant.