Tong Yan's birthday is June 17, and he will be 15 years old this year. June 17 this year, not only her birthday, according to Dacheng's customs, a girl is considered an adult when she is fifteen years old, and she has to perform a ceremony, and after the ceremony, it means that the girl can already enter the social circle, and it can be said that she is married. Tong Yan's marriage is naturally not decided, but the ceremony must be done. Master Tong's abandonment of his wife still has some impact, and many literati or colleagues who used to be very close to Master Tong are now estranged from Master Tong a lot; Mrs. Tong became a nun at home, and the husband who had been friends with Mrs. Tong in the past was also quite disdainful of Mr. Tong; In this way, the person who gave him a gift at the ceremony was gone. When Master Tong was anxious, he thought of Tong Xunfan's wife.

Tong Xunfan is clever and hard-working, and he is very liked by Mr. It is said that Mr. Lin's ancestor once did the emperor of the Emperor of Dacheng, and he was also the military advisor of the Emperor Zu, and later the Emperor built Dacheng, Mr. Lin not only did not accept the reward of the Emperor Zu, but invited himself to return to his hometown to teach, the Emperor of the Ancestor could not resist Mr. Lin, and he was reluctant to return to his hometown to suffer, so he built a private school in the capital, so that Mr. Lin taught and educated people in the capital, and the private school was passed to Mr. Lin. It's already the fifth generation. Although no one in the Lin family has ever been famous, but has always been respected by the Dacheng royal family, every New Year, the emperor will give the Lin family some rewards, so that the people know that the emperor does not forget his teacher. If Master Tong can invite Mrs. Lin to be Tong Yan's recipient, it will also be a very face-saving thing. So Master Tong picked the best inkstone from his own warehouse, and asked the housekeeper to dot some fine ink strips and go to visit Mr. Lin.

Mr. Lin initially refused to agree to Master Tong, and Master Tong's abandonment of his wife and daughter was too insulting to the character of a scholar, but Tong Xunfan was indeed his protégé, and he was also liked by Mrs. Lin. Mrs. Lin felt that Tong Yan was also a pitiful person, and she couldn't bear to be hindered by Tong Yan and etiquette, so she asked Mr. Lin to respond to Master Tong's request and give Tong Yan a gift.

The most difficult thing to solve was solved, and Master Tong breathed a sigh of relief, and began to send posts to each family, prepare the objects of the child's face and the ceremony, and asked the housekeeper to prepare the banquet.

On June 17, the Tong Mansion was lively.

Since Master Tong's matter was poked out, it was the first time that Tong's Mansion was so lively. In order to allow Tong Yan to marry a husband who satisfies him, Master Tong sent a post to a famous businessman in the capital in addition to sending a post to various colleagues in the court. Although everyone was a little dissatisfied with Master Tong's various behaviors, they all felt that it was difficult for a little girl with such a father to have this kind of father, and they still gave a lot of face, and those who didn't come sent gifts to them. For a while, there was a lot of traffic at the gate of Tong's mansion, which made Master Tong smile and couldn't close his mouth.

Su Hao and Shi Tianyu came together. Both of them brought a lot of gifts, greeted the guests who arrived first, entered the hall, took the tea, and sat down to chat.

Shi Tianyu watched the people coming and going, and said to Su Hao with some worry: "After all, Ji Lu is a major event for his daughter's family, isn't it good for us to do this?" ”

Su Hao didn't care about it: "What's the matter, if you want to blame her, you have to blame her for her bad life, such a father." Look at these people who came today, there are officials in the court, there are so many rich businessmen, and they are all figures with heads and faces in the capital, Master Tong wants to sell his daughter as an object, and Tong Yan didn't see her dissatisfaction with her father. Since we are all willing, it is nothing for us to do this, just let Tong Huai see clearly, nothing is so easy. ”

It is really pitiful for a daughter's family to be sold as a commodity by her father, but she also cooperates with her father and treats herself as a commodity, so she deserves to be sold. Su Hao and Shi Tianyu think so, they just hope that this daughter will not be sold into their own family, they are not so blessed to accept such a family like Master Tong. The boy face prepared in his yard was sneezing a few times again at this time.

The front hall of the Tong Mansion was very lively, and most of the people in the house went to the front to work, but the backyard was very deserted. I saw an inconspicuous figure jumping from the backyard wall, and after a closer look, he was still wearing the clothes of the Tongfu family. As soon as this man walked into the garden, he saw a maid beckoning him from a distance, and hurriedly trotted over, and was lectured by the maid for a few words, and asked him to hurry to the front hall to help.

Soon, someone shouted "auspicious time", and the host and guests took their seats, waiting for the ceremony to begin.

Tong Yan was dressed in a newly made skirt made by Yunshang Xuan, and was helped out by Xinghua Chunlan, and everyone present was dazzled. Unexpectedly, Master Tong, the daughter who was raised in the countryside, not only did not have the vulgarity of a country girl, but was very delicate. The three-color skirt on her body is paired with a simple pink big bow on her chest, revealing the girl's playfulness and lack of stability. Su Hao and Shi Tianyu also glanced at each other, Tong Yan looked a little more delicate today than on the day he went up the mountain, which really made people like it. Tong Yan saluted Master Tong and the guests, and knelt down in front of Mrs. Lin uprightly. A maid walked to Mrs. Lin with a tray covered with a red cloth, and Mrs. Lin instructed Tong Yan a few words as usual, combed Tong Yan's hair bun, and reached out to remove the red cloth on the tray. As soon as the red cloth was uncovered, Mrs. Lin was stunned, and the white hosta on the tray had been touched by someone, and now it was broken into two.

When Mr. Tong saw that Mrs. Lin had not inserted a hairpin for Tong Yan for a long time, his face was a little unbearable, and when he wanted to remind Mrs. Lin, he also saw the hosta that was broken in two, that distressed, for today's face, he spent nearly two hundred taels of silver to buy this hosta from the gold-inlaid building, and now it is broken! It's broken!

Someone in the crowd had already seen the broken hosta, and everyone began to talk to each other, Tong Yan didn't know what was going on, and raised his head and asked Mrs. Lin with puzzled eyes. Mrs. Lin is also a witty person, and she immediately plucked a golden hairpin from her head and inserted the nursery rhyme in her bun, which can be regarded as passing this level.

Tong Yan was helped back to the back hall, only to see the white hosta that had been broken in two, she was shocked, she remembered that the white hosta was still good when she first came out of the yard, and she didn't understand why the white hosta had become like this in less than half a pillar of incense. Now that they are busy preparing to eat and drink outside, they can't investigate the reason in detail, so they can only wait for their father to come tomorrow to ask about it.

In the front hall, although everyone congratulated Master Tong in front of him, he could hear these people discussing the broken hosta when he turned his back, and Master Tong smiled a little reluctantly. Today's incident can be regarded as a loss of face, if it weren't for Mrs. Lin using her own hairpin to relieve the siege, this matter would have become a joke. But the people who come here today are either rich or expensive, who would do such a boring thing? Master Tong can't manage so much at this time, so he can only deal with today's banquet first.

After Su Hao and Shi Tianyu finished reading the joke and entertained a few glasses of wine, they went first. Su Hao was very happy to let Master Tong and Tong Yan lose such a big face. Shi Tianyu's face was not very good, he still felt that this was too much for Tong Yan's daughter's family, but fortunately, Mrs. Lin relieved this siege and did not embarrass Tong Yan too much.

"You, just put away your heart of pity and cherishing jade. For the Tong family, these two fathers and daughters are not worth it. Su Hao shook the peach blossom fan and walked comfortably in the moonlight. Tonight, the moon stars are scarce, and the weather is as good as Su Hao's mood.

Shi Tianyu was silent, he just felt that Master Tong's character was not good, but Tong Yan was still innocent after all. Su Hao said that Tong Yan knew Master Tong's purpose and still cooperated, and it was not worth worrying about her. But Shi Tianyu still felt that this was not the case. But these words and Su Hao said just to make Su Hao laugh at himself a few more words, and what Su Hao said was not impossible, thinking of this, Shi Tianyu didn't think about it anymore, caught up with Su Hao's steps, and walked together.