The family banquet was set up in the Zhilan Hall as usual, Jiang Lingxi simply put on makeup, called Brother Jie, and went to Qingyaju to pick up Mrs. Jiang together.

The hall has already been carefully arranged according to He's instructions, and there is a faint fragrance of flowers when you enter the door, and the flowers in the vase are carefully matched according to the variety, color and shape, just like Jiang Linran's outfit. It's a pity that her face is not as stretched as half of Hua'er's, she just suffered a loss in Jiang Lingxi's mouth in the afternoon, and at this time, she didn't ask for peace when she saw Ling's family, and she frequently flew out of the eyes of Jiang Lingxi's sisters and brothers.

He Shi, who arrived here in advance, greeted Mrs. Jiang with a smile, "Does my sister feel better?" Jagel is growing taller again. ”

Without waiting for Ling's response, his eyes fell on Jiang Lingxi, trying to make himself smile as if he was just now, and said casually: "Is Miss Xi so good?" ”

Jiang Lingxi caught the quick-pressed, flashing embarrassment on her face, and suddenly had some mischievous hearts, and deliberately made a cynical gesture, spreading her hands, "Okay, it can't be more neat." ”

Jiang Lingxi looked deeply into her eyes, "Now that I'm standing here safe and sound, I haven't disappointed my aunt, right?" ”

Through the harmless mask of smiling humans and animals, He really felt the aggressive aura, she was a little weak-hearted, and she was a little unsure of the meaning of the pun in Jiang Linxi's words, whether she had already mastered tangible evidence, or was it simply a temptation?

She reminded herself not to show clues, but she always felt that her smile was not natural enough, and she stubbornly said: "Of course, aunt hopes that you will be as good as possible." ”

Fortunately, the embarrassment didn't last long, and Jiang Lu's arrival saved her.

Jiang Lingxi, Jiang Linran, and Brother Jie stepped forward to say goodbye together, and Jiang Lu was considered to be down. In a flash, he was colliding with Jiang Lingxi, Jiang Lu himself felt funny, his body stiffened for a short time, and then subconsciously coughed, his voice still sounded a little stiff, "It's so neat, right?" ”

Jiang Lingxi is not as free as he is in the face of the He family, after all, the sweetheart of the deity is cut off by him, at this time, it is of course unreasonable to be too close, but if she is too cold, I am afraid that it will cause some estrangement that is difficult to eliminate, not to mention anything else, she can eat under the hands of the head of this family.

Thinking about it, I had to salute decently, and my voice tried not to carry too much affection, "It's all right, thank you for your father's concern." ”

She lowered her head, couldn't see Jiang Lu's expression, let alone his feelings, as if she was staring at her motionless and pondering for a moment, and finally changed the topic, "Are you all here?" Take a seat. ”

He hurriedly replied: "Sister Liu is still missing." ”

In response to her words, a female voice outside the house said with a smile: "It's all together." ”

It was the Erfang Liu family who came in, she had always been idle, she had a daughter who was an adult, and when the first emperor was alive, she gave a concubine to a clan, and she seemed to be quite favored. In the end, the clan is not as big as the orthodox royal rules, and within a few years, she caught up with someone's wife and died of illness, so she let her daughter jump three levels in a row to help the right, and the Liu family has no thoughts, and the small days are not good.

Liu Shi greeted Jiang Lu and Mrs. Jiang, and said a little playfully: "It took a lot of effort to decorate, forgive me." ”

After she said this, even Jiang Lingxi couldn't help but hold her forehead, looking at her plain face, it was obvious that she had accidentally overslept in beauty sleep, and she didn't want to bother with making up nonsense.

Of course, Jiang Lu would not expose her, and sat directly on the main seat, Ling followed and sat on his right, followed by Liu's and He's to sit in turn, Brother Tao followed the nurse, and the rest of Brother Jie, Jiang Lingxi, and Jiang Linran sat on the left-hand side in order.

The dishes were served one after another, Aunt He was quite attentive, and asked everyone to try this and that for a while, even Liu's was a little impatient, no matter how wide her heart was, after all, she also had self-esteem. Mrs. has always been unfavorable, and the He family usually doesn't say anything, just this time for the New Year's banquet, it is clear that the lord means to ask her two to share some of the burden for the lady, but it was operated by the He family, and even the report on the lady's side was saved, how could she put her aunt in her eyes.

At this time, seeing that the He family frequently asked the master for merit and curry favor with the Ling family through herself, the Liu family was of course uncomfortable, although she was also a concubine, in her heart, she actually looked down on the He family for such a wild way, and the He family has become more and more active since she had Brother Tao, so positive that the Liu family had to reevaluate her order in the Jiang Mansion.

Liu was unhappy, so he didn't pick up He's stubble, and only talked with Ling, and He felt bored when he was talking, so he stopped.

At this time, the Liu family didn't know what psychology it was, and his eyes suddenly locked on Jiang Linran on the opposite side, and said with emotion: "This year is really fast, I didn't care about it at a glance, and Sister Ran has also become a slim girl." ”

Jiang Linran wasn't sure what she wanted to say, so she had to smile at her politely. Liu Shi then turned to He Shi and thought: "Even if you count your age, you should plan for the future, my sister must have a plan in her heart." ”

Of course, Jiang Linran understood what "in the future" meant, and his cheeks couldn't help but heat up. He Shi said vaguely: "We just look more stable than girls of the same age, but it's not too big." ”

Liu Shi disagreed, "It's too late to wait until it's too big to plan." ”

As if he remembered it temporarily, he frowned and said: "Some time ago, the regular staff of Dongsidao Lane asked someone to come over, there is a young master and Sister Ran are of the same age, and they have a good heart, I don't know what our house means." At that time, my wife was recuperating, and I was inconvenient to disturb it, so I forgot about it. ”

Liu's words are secretly sharp, firstly, to imply that Mrs. Jiang is still in charge of the affairs of the backyard, and secondly, to show the He family that even if your daughter's lifelong event is a trivial matter that I will forget about here.

He Shi had a bad attack in front of Jiang Lu, and only repeated as if he didn't hear clearly, "Outside the regular staff? ”

followed a fierce snort, but I didn't know if it was for the Liu family or the Chang family, "It's really unreasonable for this high branch to climb, and I don't look at the kind of inferior people who are covered in copper smell, which point can match us!" ”

Liu Shi sneered obliquely: "Sister's words are unreasonable, they are all earning food, who is more noble than whom?" Not to mention that the current luck is not good, catch up with the filial piety for the first emperor today, take 10,000 steps back and say, even if you stay up to filial piety and take the post of the draft girl and assign it to the clan as a concubine, it will not necessarily fly on the branches. ”

He didn't want to lose his temper in front of the master, and he really couldn't swallow Liu's breath, so he laughed angrily, and sighed with emotion: "You have boiled it out by yourself now, so you have the confidence to say this, after all, not everyone has the hard life of Sister Yan'er, and you can wait for the main house to be killed with peace of mind." ”

"You ......"

Seeing that he couldn't talk about her, Liu immediately turned to Jiang Lu, "Master, look at it, I am also thinking about her, but she uses these words to block me." ”

Jiang Lu saw that she looked aggrieved and wanted to cry, and couldn't help but have a big head, so he had to say with a straight face: "Say less." ”

Seeing that Ling's face was a little pale, he turned over and asked, "Can you still hold on?" ”

Ling really didn't want to be a spectator of their farce, so he rubbed his temples and got up to confess: "It's a little uncomfortable. ”

Jiang Lu waved his hand, "Go back and rest." ”

Turning his face to look at Jiang Lingxi, he ordered, "You go too, take care of your mother." ”

Jiang Lingxi couldn't wait to get out to breathe, so he retreated. Brother Jie could only watch them with pity, and after a while, his father was determined to stay alone to test him.

He Shi's face didn't look good, in the original plan, after the party was dismissed, she would add a warm little theater to herself and Jiang Lu, seeing that this posture was shattered.

The mother and daughter walked out of the Zhilan Hall and walked silently for a while, when Ling suddenly spoke, "The He family was careless, forgetting that Sister Yan is also the daughter of the master." ”

Jiang Lingxi paused, unable to hear whether this was a simple evaluation of staying out of the matter, or if there was something else, and he didn't know how to answer it for a while. Fortunately, the Ling clan didn't mean to ask her for her opinion, and asked her along the way: "I saw your attitude towards the He clan just now, and it seems that there is some mustard. ”

Jiang Lingxi was stunned for a moment, according to the current situation, she did have suspicions about the He family, but if she wanted to figure out the ins and outs of the whole thing, I was afraid that it would involve some grievances from the previous generation, plus the Ling family had always been sick and weak, and after all, she was not Jiang Lingxi's real mother, so some ideas were not mentioned to her for the time being.

After being asked by the Ling family first, he smiled and said, "Mother is really keen, but so far, it is just her daughter's own guess." ”

Ling turned his head slightly to the side and glanced at her. It's just that others, her own child, it is impossible not to notice the subtle changes in Jiang Lingxi's body, not so much that she has no time to comb carefully recently, it is better to say that she herself is unwilling to think about it in her heart.

After a moment of silence, Ling grabbed Jiang Lingxi's hand and shook it vigorously. "Be careful yourself."

When he arrived at the Qing Yaju, he settled down and took the medicine and fell asleep, Jiang Lingxi stood in the courtyard shrouded in night, wrapped in a big coat that was blown by the wind, and looked up at the night sky covered with some mist, a kind of loneliness that had nothing to rely on spread in the blood, and it was impossible to avoid it.

Fortunately, as soon as she entered Qingfang Pavilion, the floating aroma of wine and food drove away the loneliness that was trying to engulf her, Jiang Lingxi looked at the table full of delicacies, and was a little dumbfounded for a while, "You, this is?" ”

said Yang smiled and greeted, "I said that we will put such a big battle out of ironclad to scare the girl, although we also opened a small stove during the New Year's festival in the past, but it is not as grand as this time." ”

Cheng Liu followed with a smile: "Isn't this to pick up the wind for Brother Jie?" Besides, with so many things happening this year, it's not easy to survive, so we all have to treat ourselves. ”

Jiang Ling was stunned, no wonder the Ling clan said just now that she didn't need to be allowed to serve here, and she already knew that there was a show here.

Nestled in the charcoal basin to warm her body, watching the girls busy in front of her, Jiang Lingxi's heart slowly settled down. Thinking of Jiang Linjie, he symmetrically said to Liu: "My brother is probably suffering in the study at this time, you go over and take a look, what excuse can you think of to get him out." ”