The guests were not qualified to let Ren Saiyuan and Yuyi's mother and daughter greet them personally, only the mother-in-law led the way to Qingyan Zhai, which was closest to Yusuju, to serve tea, and when the maid came to report that many people had arrived, the three of them cleaned up again.

Yuyi and Gu Ci first went to the side room of Yusuju and waited for the guests to meet in turn, and then the ladies sent them to the main hall to sit down, and the girls were led to Ruicheng Xiaodu to be entertained by Ren Saiyuan.

Gu Ci knew that most of them were looking at themselves, the county lord of Yuanyi, who had met for the first time but had been famous for a long time.

She is small, not as eye-catching as Yuyi, and many people only noticed that there was a small point when they approached the two of them.

As soon as they saw her, many girls unconsciously showed envy or jealousy, especially when they saluted her, and it was even more difficult to hide her emotions when they could easily look at her jewels from head to toe.

Gu Ci silently praised his mother.

Good job! You can see this person's vision at once.

Only a few people are simply amazed and appreciative in their eyes, especially Li Fuxiang, the second daughter of Li Fang, the head of the household book, who looked at the clothes on her body intently, and said that she must study the 'embossed embroidery' for a while.

After the visit, Ren Saiyuan came to take Gu to resign and go to the pavilion.

There is no seat in the round table in the pavilion, and the girls gather to talk in twos and threes according to their preferences and friendships, only a set of golden silk nan tables and chairs with yellow phoenix pattern chair covers facing the main entrance are more special, and the chairs are also a lot higher, which is obviously the position of the little master.

After a while, the sideburns in the pavilion were shining, the peach blossoms were charming, and the sound of warblers and swallows was endless.

This time, there is really a guest younger than Gu Ci, four-year-old Chi Ai, Chi Rui's only concubine, and the youngest child.

Originally, Yuyi didn't invite her, but she couldn't stand Chi Rui who hadn't seen Gu Ci for a long time, and wanted to take advantage of the banquet to pick up her daughter and leave a dinner by the way, so she forced it over. also packed a few concubines to be married, Banniang Chi Fiber, Jiu Niang Chi Velvet, and Shi Niang Chi Yarn.

Chi Ai entered the pavilion and was arranged to sit next to the two sisters Ren Wenhui, the three concubines were in a table in the corner, most of the concubines who came were concubines, and there were only a few concubines in the Gu Mansion who sat close to them, and they chatted with each other very happily.

Ren Saiyuan directly took Gu Ci to the exclusive round table, and the two sat down together, she was about to speak, but Chi Ai shouted dissatisfiedly, "Sister Ren, why don't you let me sit over there?" ”

Ren Saiyuan said very calmly, "This is the position of the county lord, and I am sitting here because the eldest princess Yuyi ordered me to take care of the county lord." ”

Chi Ai looked at Gu Ci unrelentingly and said, "County Lord, I'm younger than you, why don't you take care of me?" ”

Ren Saiyuan wanted to speak, but Gu Ci pinched her, "There are two sisters of the Ren family over there, and I only have one here, why didn't you take care of it?" ”

"What kind of care is this! If you don't let me sit on it, how can you take care of me? ”

"You want to sit with me?"

"I'm so small, how can you leave me alone?!"

Gu Ci looked at the public patient Chi Ai and smiled very sweetly, "How embarrassed am I to let you come here to stand and serve me, although I am the county lord, but you are a guest today, it is better to sit and eat." If you think that Sister Hui and Sister Shu are not as familiar as your own sister, I can ask someone to move your place to be with the sisters of the Chi family, what do you think? ”

A grandmother behind Chi Ai hurriedly came out and knelt beside Chi Ai, interrupting the little master who was about to speak, "County Lord Rongyu, my girl is young and ignorant, please Haihan." ”

Gu Ci saw her pinching Chi Ai's back, and continued to smile coquettishly, "This grandmother is serious, Sister Ai wants to serve me for dinner, it is also a good intention, of course I won't be angry, you go back and remember to thank Mrs. Xiaoxiang on my behalf." ”

Gu Ci thought maliciously, Mrs. Xiao Xiang didn't come today, did she trust her daughter's combat effectiveness too much?

If at someone else's banquet, even if it was the Ren family, who was also the prince of the country, it was estimated that he could only appease Chi Ai with a good voice, and finally obeyed her wishes. So that grandma didn't come out to stop her little master at the first time, she should think that Chi Ai could get face and sit on the head like Ren Saiyuan.

It's a pity that I met Gu Ci, who was not much older than her, but her identity was more valuable.

Even if your father is the prince of the country, if the county lord does not agree, you really don't have to sit, let alone the same as the princess's resignation. Isn't it normal for the princess to let the courtier's family come to be a companion The girls are like maids and arrange the cloth and vegetables, and if you don't do this, it's just that Corporal Lixian gives the courtiers face, and the imperial history has nothing to say.

Now the title of the county lord is not so easy to get, Gaozong is too capable of giving birth, there were a lot of princes and princesses back then, and there were few who had a good relationship with the emperor, many of them were also mixed into the drama of seizing the heirs, and there are only a few who have to be crowned the county king and the eldest princess, and the other uncles and uncles who are still alive are only given the fictitious title of General Feng'en, and the sisters who did not get the title of the eldest princess will be given the title of 'emperor' and the mansion, and the eldest princess is just the same as the eldest princess, the emperor does not mind the property, only the title is stuck.

The scene was silent for a while because of this accident, and only Yuan Jinleng snorted.

Everyone's eyes looked at Gu Ci more solemnly.

If this is also a non-conventional player, I don't know what kind of bear will become.

Fortunately, Gu Ci thoughtfully and directly let people pass the meal, the dishes are beautiful and fragrant, which makes people dizzy, and it seems that they have forgotten the episode just now for a while.

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Gu Yi began to be secretly frightened from the moment he entered Qingyan Zhai, and it was indeed worthy of the specifications of the princess's mansion in the past dynasties, every grass and tree, every painting and every fan, all of which had a history.

She had only been to the inner courtyard before, and Jin Sinan, who was in the house, even had a small box containing her broken hair, which had made her speechless for a while, and she felt that the eldest princess was too luxurious and rich, and she was too pampered to her daughter.

But today, when I saw that the plaque couplets of Yu Suju and Ruicheng Xiaodu were made by Xie You, one of the celebrities of the Xie family's ancestors, I knew that Gu Ci's death not only relied on the honor of the eldest princess, but also the heritage of Xie Xiao's two families. When there is a plaque carved by a great writer in the idler's house, it has long been hidden as an heirloom, and it is hung up in the wind and rain in the long room so inappropriately.

Gu Yi knew the importance of today's occasion, some people had seen it at previous gatherings, but they were not in the same circle with her, they were not very familiar, it was more the first time they met, so she spent a lot of effort to dress herself.

There was a silk on his head, and he also wore a small and luxurious golden hibiscus, and the silk petals on it were decorated with silver beads, as if they were blooming with dew. Pink flat silk skirts, embroidered with delicate rose-red flowers, the waist silk is slender, under a very beautiful twelve Yuehua skirt, the pleats are fine, each pleat is a color from light to deep, no extra embroidery, the color is very elegant, the breeze blows, bright as the moon. She also deliberately made the hem of the skirt into an arc, moving like the wind swinging willows, like waves scattering, which is not only plain and chic, but also reflects the elegance and beauty of her age.

This skirt will inevitably win Li Fuxiang's favor, they have seen each other at the Qiao family's banquet before, but each other's age and status are different, Li Fuxiang and Qiao Chan are closer. Now they talk to each other through their skirts, and they have narrowed the distance, and they will be considered acquaintances in the future.

The second aunt, the third aunt and the mother did not come today, their identities are really a little far apart, Yuyi, as the main family, may not want to see the concubine to flatter the guests, so she simply did not invite, only let a Jin Mama accompany the six girls in their third and fourth rooms to introduce the ladies.

Mama Jin said that she was taking care of the six of them, but in fact, she was introducing the two sisters Gu Yue, and after a while, Yuan Minhe and Gu Yue of the Wang family of Hejian County talked very happily with each other, and it seemed that Yuan Minhe's mother and Aunt Liu had a lot of connections.

Gu Yi thought about it before in Qiao's house, Li Fuxiang, Wu Shenqiu and other girls from the official eunuch family basically only exchanged a few words with her when Qiao Chan or Qiao Juan were present, but today she took the initiative to talk to her, she couldn't help but be very emotional, her eyes darkened, and she decided to deepen her contact with Changfang from now on, even if Changfang didn't look down on her father anymore, after all, she was a brother, and she was a niece with a thin reputation, there was no reason to be so far away.

Before, she felt that Nagafang was too close to the prince who would eventually fail, so she had been watching and watching. But now, looking at Qiao Juan, who was sitting with Li Fuxiang, Wu Shenqiu and other girls from the Shangshu family, she felt that she couldn't wait any longer, and the long house would be developed in the future, but it would be even more unreliable.

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After three rounds of wine and food, everyone really ate happily, and even Chi Ai, who had a small face before, was amazed again and again, pestering her mother to eat a whole bowl of jade green fruit soup.

The meals were removed and replaced with Pu'er tea and snacks for consumption, and the girls also let go, appreciating the words and discussing the scenery, shooting and throwing pots, and those who wanted to go rowing to catch ducks, and for a while the pavilion was full of laughter.

Most of the people who had fun were young girls, and the older ones were almost always playing chess or watching the scenery.

Gu Ci suddenly gathered a lot of flattering people around him, such as Liu Chuchu's sisters.

Their mother Qingyi is Yuyi's third sister, who has been widowed for many years, only has two daughters, and the concubine is not a wealthy family, so life is not smooth. Therefore, although the sisters are golden branches and jade leaves, they are also very good at observing words and feelings, and they are very close to her and a little eager. Liu Mengmeng was especially envious of her ornaments, and even almost begged for it, but was fortunately stopped by Liu Chuchu.

The girl from the Yin family in Jingzhao Mansion was more direct, and she came up with a sentence, "It's really gratifying to see Sister A Luan today, my surname is Cheng, and my single name is a Wen character, Sister A Luan just calls me Sister Wen." BEFORE THE STUNNED GU RESIGNED TO HIS SENSES, PEOPLE HAD ALREADY BEGUN TO TALK TO THEMSELVES, "YO, SISTER LUAN'S SILK YARN IS THE MOON SILK IN THE TRIBUTE, RIGHT?" In the end, it is different from the market, I heard that it is thin and does not reveal the moonlight......"

As soon as he opened his mouth, he talked endlessly, from clothes to accessories, and he didn't want to move when he sat down. Fortunately, Ren Wenhui received her sister's signal to save the scene and pulled her to play dice.

The grateful local tyrant county lord said, "Sister Hui's loss today is mine, and you can take it all if you win." ”

Fortunately, on the left side of Gu Ci was Ren Saiyuan, and on the right was Li Fuxiang, who was holding her cuffs and studying them carefully, and Sui Zhangzhu couldn't get close when he thought about it, and was later pulled away by Yuan Chuan, Yuan Yuchai and Niu Tan.

Of course, there are also people who disdain Gu Ci, Yuan Jin and Chunyi's daughter Ke Fangsi went to play with whips outside the pavilion by herself, and she didn't plan to deal with her at all, Chi Ai saw them go out, and she also took her grandmother out, and she didn't allow the three sisters to follow.

The seventh princess was eating very happily today, and was grabbing a maid to ask for the name of the dish.

The eighth princess leaned on the fence to watch the lake do Daiyu's funeral tricks, and glanced at Gu Ci from time to time, Ye Zhenzhen's three sisters were talking to her, and they dispersed without saying a word, and went to get together with the seventh princess.

Yuan Yu, who was less than ten years old, was next to her thirteen-year-old cousin, Qin Xiuyong, the only niece of the princess Qin, chatting with Wu Shenqiu, the second girl of the Shangshu family in the Criminal Department.

Gu Ci listened to it and was very interested in their topic.

Because Qin Xiuyong's father once served as a general judge in the local government, he has judged many major cases, is proficient in criminal names and prison codes, and after marrying the palace, he is idle, sorting out the case files of previous years at home, and Qin Xiuyong often helps.

But she has a lot of work to do today!

In her heart, she worked hard to record the words and deeds of the girls, and at the same time socialized, showing that she was a white and tender bun that was so beautiful that she could dazzle people's eyes, but she was missing half of her front teeth, and she was acting like an adult, answering everyone's questions seriously and diligently, which was very pleasing to the eye.

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The girls played for a while, and the middle-aged women were about to make a move.

Yuyi took out three things as a color head, a gold-inlaid jade Toad Palace Gui Hibiscus hairpin, on which there is a table mark is the seal of the former dynasty jewelry master Kong Wuyi, a Manjushri, Guanyin, Fuxian, Tibetan 'Four Buddhas on the Dao' Shu embroidered screen, is the palace of the royal gift, and there is a horse whip inlaid with purple gold and red jade and other gems to flash the blind, named 'Ming Dian'. You can choose archery, poetry and painting to compete, and the winner will choose one for the prize.

The three prizes made the girls' eyes widen, all of them were unattainable boutiques, and even Yuan Jin, who did not hide the indifference on his face, had his eyes lit up.

First, archery, and the girls gathered outside the pavilion to watch.

The old god Ren Saiyuan was sitting still on the ground, and Gu Ci asked her, "Sister Yuan won't try it?" ”

“…… I don't need it. Ren Saiyuan glanced at her and said slowly.

Gu Ci thought to himself, you don't feel embarrassed at all, do you know that you are already my third sister-in-law's reserve?

Immediately afterwards, Ren Saiyuan added in a small voice, "If you don't want Yuan Jin to win, I'll make a move." ”

"Huh? I didn't. ”

“…… You can't be angry at her dead look?! ”

"How can I take care of her, my time is very precious, isn't it a waste of life to spend on such a person!"

“……”

Sure enough, Yuan Jin won Ren Wenhui, who was one year older than her, and laughed proudly with Ke Fangsi. It seems that she has her sights set on that whip.

There are more sisters than poems to participate, except for Ren Saiyuan, Gu Ci and Chi Ai, basically everyone has a few cases and ponders.

Question 1 is Yongmei, question 2 is based on Gu Ao's Liu poem and a poem, and question 3 is a couplet.

The former is undoubtedly Gu Yi, and she directly used the famous sentence, 'Mei Xue is not willing to descend in the spring, and the sao people put aside the pen to comment on the chapter.' The plum and snow are three points white, but the snow loses the fragrance of the plum'.

Question 2 and 3 are Niu Tan won the championship, her poem does not have a "willow" word, it is very special, "the warbler cries for its song, the drizzle should be broken, the leaves wear through the flowers, only love the light wind cut", the upper link is 'bridge across the Tiger Creek, three teachings and three sources, three people and three laughs', her right lower link "lotus open monk's house, a flower and a world, a leaf as come" is the most neat, worthy of a champion father.

However, Gu Ao's original poem is 'Spring is rippling, a few branches are oblique and horizontal, hanging down the sky, and the reflection of green clouds', Gu Ci feels that Niu Tan's style is not compatible with it, and he has to take it all to Gu Ao to see himself.

It's longer than painting, and it's not like poetry that can be used to pretend to discuss, so the bored Gu Ci and Ren Saiyuan had to chat with Chi Ai.

"Have you eaten today?" Excuse yourself and choose a safety topic.

"It's good to eat at your house, give me the cook."

Gu Ci silently recited 'The bear child should be humanely destroyed' ten times before he spoke, "Why did you send it?" ”

"I think it's good, why don't you send it?"

"I don't think so."

"Why not?"

"Why?"

"That's good!"

"I just don't think it's good."

"You !!!!"

Gu Ci, who was in a happy mood and was in a happy mood, smiled very gently, and pushed over a plate of Xue Mei Niang's dim sum, a translucent snow-white ice skin kneaded with glutinous rice flour, corn flour, chestnut flour, milk and sugar, and a red bean cream filling inside, delicate and cute, with a rich milky aroma.

Chi Ai pouted and wanted to go crazy, but when she saw the dim sum, she couldn't help but swallow her saliva, picked one up and ate it. As soon as he entered the mouth, his face softened, but he still glared at Gu Ci viciously, "If you refuse to send me, I will tell my mother!" ”

"Who are you? I haven't seen it. This is the big truth, Mrs. Xiao Xiang never appeared in front of her during the New Year's greetings.

"I'm asking my dad to trouble you!"

"Go."

Chi Ai's little pot friend, who wanted to cry and continue to eat, was very entangled and angry and threatened Gu Ci, "I tell you, my mother won't let you go!" ”

"Why don't you let it go?"

"She'll make you kneel for a day, slap you, sell you ......"

"Alright, Sister Ai! You're a guest at the county lord's house. Ren Saiyuan interrupted Chi Ai unceremoniously, and then looked coldly at the Chi family's grandmother who was so shocked that her tongue fell off and she sat on the ground softly, "You still don't serve your girl to change her clothes." ”

As soon as Chi Ai wanted to shout angrily, Mama seemed to suddenly have strength, covered her mouth and picked her up, knelt up straight and was about to kowtow.

Unexpectedly, Gu Ci, who had gotten rid of it, looked at Mama innocently and said, "Please also explain Mama and Sister Ai well, don't let Mrs. Xiaoxiang annoy me." ”

The grandmother burst into tears when she heard this, she couldn't get up on her stomach, Chi Ai couldn't break free at all, and looked at Gu Ci in horror, not understanding why it became like this.

Ganlu and Gantang helped the two of them down neatly.

Everyone in the hall has been paying attention to this scene, and when they saw the two of them leaving the pavilion, many people snickered, and even the three concubines of the Chi family showed a smile on their faces and immediately lowered their heads.

Gu Yue was close to the three of them, and after thinking about it, he still felt that he should help make up for it, so he lowered his voice and said, "The county lord is innocent, it's really unintentional, and I ask my sisters not to take it to heart." ”

The eldest Chi Xian hurriedly said, "No, no, my sister doesn't have to be polite." ”

Gu Ci looked up at Ren Saiyuan, he didn't know what to say, he needed to apologize? But she really didn't feel that she had done anything wrong, but felt quite refreshed.

Ren Saiyuan pursed his lips and said in a low voice: "County Lord, next time, maybe you can not ask so many questions." ”

"Alas, it's hard to do a good deed every day......"

Although the volume of the conversation of several people was lowered, who made the pavilion silent, everyone heard it clearly throughout the whole process.

As soon as Gu Ci's voice fell, the hall was full of laughter.

"Gu Qi is right, it's really a good habit for you to use words without distinguishing between right and wrong!" Ren Saiyuan couldn't help laughing.

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The painting was also finished, and Chi Ai also came back quietly in a daze, but the leader commented that it was not Niu Tan but Ke Fangsi, her skills were indeed the best among everyone, and she should be the oldest, she was already seventeen.

However, as a secondary creation to complete the painting, Gu Ci feels that Wu Shenqiu's is more suitable. She is not good in other aspects, and her feeling for painting is recognized by even the contemporary 'painting saint' Xiao Lu.

There was a small episode when dividing the prizes, everyone thought that Yuan Jin would definitely have a horsewhip, and the other two Niu Tan and Ke Fangsi would be selected, but Yuan Jin was the youngest, she picked first, did not take the usual path, took the embroidery screen, and said that she had recently started to learn needlework, and she could motivate herself when she went back.

Niu Tan bit her lip and was silent, very unconvinced, she was coming for the embroidery screen. Embroidery skills are secondary, she herself is not good at embroidery, but "Four Buddhas" seems to be based on the Xiao family ancestors in the Danqing master Xiao Ji Xiao Mandao once restored Zhang Seng Xuan concave and convex painting and embroidered, she really wants, I don't know why I can't pull down my face and Yuan Jin to change, can only hatefully watch the triumphant Yuan Jin go away.

However, Ke Fangsi persuaded Niu Tan for a long time, and Xu agreed to something, so that Niu Tan smiled gratefully.

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Seeing that it was about to arrive in Shen, everyone retreated, and some were ready to rush to Quzhuan Pond to watch the dragon boat race in the evening.

The girls each have a box of Dragon Boat Festival souvenirs prepared by Gu Ci to return home - a square sour branch wooden basket, embedded with two screens of "The Legend of the White Snake" blue and white porcelain paintings before and after, the front is 'Broken Bridge Meeting', and the back is 'Water Manjin Mountain', open it to be six salted egg yolk fresh meat stuffing and six taro paste lotus paste filled dumplings, five pieces of sesame white skin cake printed with the image of five poisons, a delicate sachet embroidered with five poisons, containing five poison-shaped wormwood incense, a five-color longevity wisp, a small bottle of realgar wine with a square wishful bottle.

The three sisters of the Ren family also left together, but Chi Ai was the last to leave, because Chi Rui came with Chi Qiyu.

It's a pity that Gu Ci still couldn't see the famous Chi Azhan, he greeted Gu Xi, and sent the sisters home, beat the horses and left, and Chi Rui stayed for dinner.

Therefore, if you want to receive distinguished guests, you can't go to see the dragon boat race.

It is said that this time it was just a team of several princes' families, and the bonus was 200 taels of gold, and according to a certain woman who guarded the yard, there was also a certain building engaged in the special service industry to provide overnight tour services.

It's not a contest of professionals, and you don't have to watch a friendly match.

After dinner, Gu Ci and Chi Rui finished selling cute, went back to the house and filled in all the forms, and also referred to the opinions of Hu's mother and others who observed on the side, especially marked out seven or eight girls who were suitable for age and family background, and sent the forms to Yuyi. As for the girls' poems today, Gu Ci recopied them, painted them, pasted their names, and let Ah Yue hold them and walk to the east courtyard.

Gu Ao doted on the excited and serious little sister, helplessly flipped through the poems, and selected Wu Shenqiu's poem "Willow Before Zhai": self-evaluation of the scriptures behind closed doors, light flowers into the inkstone pond, green shade and quiet window shadows, and warblers know the sound of books.

The painting is really the same as Gu Ci thought, and Wu Shenqiu was also selected.

Gu Ci happily killed the upper room, told Yuyi and Gu Yao about the results like pouring beans into all the bamboo tubes, and then looked at his father and mother expectantly.

Gu Yao is worthy of being the best father in Dayu, and he hugged his daughter and praised him. Thinking that they would have to go to Beiguan in the near future, I don't know how long it will take, so the father and daughter have a good relationship.

Gu Ci was coaxed to sleep by his father like this, and completely forgot to ask who the second brother's fiancée was.