Chapter 42: The Autumn Banquet (2)
After everyone arrived, they gathered in the Shuifang Pavilion to listen to the play. The stage is set up in the open space opposite the Shui Fang Pavilion, and the Shui Fang Pavilion is separated by a small river that is not wide or narrow, which does not affect the viewing and will not let those servants disturb the nobles, which is a very good place to listen to the play.
The young lady and daughter-in-law were invited by Xie Rong to Linbo Building. This Linbo building has two floors, the first floor is a very open space, and the second floor is a small private room. At this time, Wisteria was sitting in the cubicle on the first floor, listening to the outside shouting for a while which lady was coming and which grandmother was coming, even if she warned herself not to be nervous, she felt her palms sweaty at the moment. is a second lady, in order to save face, she made such a big battle, she originally thought that there were only a few people, but now it looks more like the speech contest she participated in.
Wisteria looked in the mirror again, because of today's special circumstances, she didn't wear the outfit of a third-class girl, and Zirui specially asked the needlework room to make a new dress for her. He combed a double snail bun and wore two fingernail-sized pomegranate red silk flowers, and a pair of red silver pearl pendants fell from his ears.
Outside, the ladies of the family arrived one after another, and Xie Fang was proudly inviting everyone to sit down. At this time, I heard a voice, "Sister Ping, isn't it the one you said last time that you are going to tell us today...... Giggles, "I laughed before I finished speaking."
Xie Fang looked back and saw that it was Jian Yingwan, the second lady of Yunjun Wang. As soon as Xie Fang wanted to speak, Xie Ping continued, "Yes, hey, I didn't say you, Sister Fang, she was so ugly last time, how dare you let her come out, what if, what if...... What can I do? ”
When Xie Ping said this, naturally some of the ladies who were good friends with her on weekdays echoed her, and some of them were busy asking the people around them what was going on if they really didn't know the situation.
Xie Ping pretended to be extremely embarrassed and briefly talked about the situation last time, all the people sitting there were Jin Gui's young ladies, where did she encounter such a situation, she covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief as if she smelled the smell.
Xie Fang raised her hand angrily and was about to point at Xie Ping to ask for an explanation, but was pulled by Sun Qiao beside her, and said in a low voice, "Mo Li, you are the master today, you can't let people pick on it, and when your girl comes out and says something wonderful, she will naturally shut up." After speaking, he winked at Xie Rong, who was looking at her, looking playful and cute.
After hearing this, Xie Fang turned his head and ignored Xie Ping's provocation, and Xie Rong, who was sitting on the side, looked at Sun Qiao and thought to himself, his sister-in-law is not as chaste as she seems on the surface.
The discussion outside did not affect Wisteria at all, she relived the three stories from her mind, and drank a large glass of cold white water. At this time, Jiao Hong pushed the door in, looked Wisteria up and down and nodded, came over to help her pull her clothes, and said in a low voice, "Don't panic, what you said yesterday was very good, just say it like that." You didn't eat anything, did you? ”
Wisteria listened to the music and nodded. She looked up all the methods she saw in the novel that were secretly bad on herself, and even turned over the placket to see if there were any itching pills or anything like that.
When Wisteria came out, she was almost not dazzled by these ladies and ladies with gold, silver, and precious stones on their heads. She closed and opened it, with a proper smile on the corner of her mouth, walked to a small square platform in the middle, and stood behind a square table covered with large red brocade forging, crossed her hands in front of her, and bowed deeply to everyone.
The hall that was still noisy just now suddenly quieted down, everyone stretched their necks to look at the wisteria, a clean little girl, with a plain face, only a little lipstick, showing that her lips were particularly red.
Wisteria coughed lightly and said, "A long, long time ago, in an unknown country, there was a beautiful queen ......" Wisteria's voice is very good, and she has participated in various speech competitions in her previous life and won awards, so she has a very good grasp of the tone and frustration, and even several ladies who don't like to listen to the play, but are not good at being alone, are attracted to her. Jian Yingrong was like this, when she heard that the princess was led out by her stepmother to kill, she couldn't help but cry.
Wisteria spoke vividly and interestingly, and everyone kept making "ah~um~cut~haha" as her story progressed. Xie Fang sat at the front, looking back at everyone's expressions, with a triumphant face.
After finishing speaking, Wisteria put down his hands, bowed again, and stood back. Jian Yingrong stood up first, beckoned Wisteria to pass, and casually took off a green bracelet from his wrist to put it on Wisteria's wrist, but Wisteria struggled back but couldn't break it away. Xie Rong walked up quickly, "Sister-in-law, this is absolutely unacceptable" She also shouted with Xu's sister-in-law. "How can a girl afford such a valuable gift."
was stopped by Xie Rong, Jian Yingrong seemed to come back to her senses, so she turned around and ordered the maid who followed behind her to grab a handful of gold leaves and put them in Wisteria's hand. Wisteria saw Xie Rong nodding at her and accepted it, and there were also nobles next to her who rewarded some small silver nudes and the like, and after a while, Wisteria's hands couldn't hold it.
Xie Fang was the most proud person at this time, she looked at Xie Ping and the others who were still talking cool just now, and asked the few young ladies around her who were close to her, "Do you want to listen to another one." Everyone chimed in and said yes. Wisteria walked briskly back to the front, and Jiao Hong walked up and took the reward from her hand.
At this time, I saw Jian Yingwan suddenly stand up and said loudly: "It's just a trick that can't be put on the stage, and it's worth being so grand." After speaking, he walked out, and looked back at Jian Yinghan halfway through, "Aren't you leaving?" Don't you understand? Jian Yinghan only felt that his face was burning red, and he hurriedly stood behind him. The two walked up to Jian Yingrong, "Why is the eldest sister still so easily excited, I can't even understand these tricks made up by the subordinates to please the master." After speaking, he turned around and walked out without waiting for Jian Yingrong to speak, Jian Yinghan gave Jian Yingrong a deep salute and hurriedly followed.
Wisteria looked at the qiē in front of him, only felt weird, but he didn't know why? Xie Fang didn't care so much, beckoning everyone to continue to sit down and listen. Wisteria thought about it and didn't tell the story of Yugong moving mountains, and directly told the third one.
After the two stories were told, no one asked her to continue, and she let out a long sigh of relief. Back in the cubicle, Delicate Red followed, smiling and handing her the rewards she had received. Wisteria hurriedly pushed out, "Take it, it's all rewarded by the masters, and you deserve it, if you're really embarrassed, just invite us to have a good meal in a few days." ”
"That's a must. It's just Sister Jiaohong, what happened just now, how did the young lady leave, it seems that she was angry, I think it was extremely rude for her to want to give me the lady of the bracelet at first? ”
Jiao Hong glanced out and said, "The one who wants to give you the bracelet is our sister-in-law, and the one who talks to her is her two younger sisters." ”
"Ah~" Wisteria looked surprised.
"It's just that Grandma Xu was born by the former princess of Yunjun, and the second lady just now was from the current princess, understand?"
"Oh, isn't my story misleading?" Wisteria suddenly reflected why the second lady left.
"It doesn't matter, the second lady of your story has heard it, and Mother Liu has also heard it, since you are allowed to tell it, it must be okay, let's just do it." Okay, I won't tell you, I'll go out first. Jiao Hong walked out after speaking.
Wisteria sat on the embroidery stool, with only one thought in his mind, what did these ancient people want to do.