Chapter 20: The Feast of Broken Melons
Time flies, a month has passed in a blink of an eye, and this day is just in time for the big day of Guoguo Lou - the melon breaking banquet of the ten girls!
The melon break feast is the sixteenth birthday party of the fireworks women, and for them, it is the most radiant day of their lives.
On this day, all the houses will dress the girl in the most beautiful clothes, put on the most expensive jewelry, dress up in fancy clothes, and show off to all the guests, in order to sell it for a high price.
After the ten girls became famous when they were thirteen years old, there were guests who waited for this day to pick this delicate begonia flower by hand.
Mother Guo invited guests widely, and was determined to make a sky-high price at the melon breaking banquet.
On this day, the Guoguo Building is full of lights, and the inside and outside are full of joy!
Although the melon breaking feast began at the unitary time, guests came one after another from the beginning of the year.
When there was still a pillar of incense, there were about thirty people here, and the hall was almost full, only three or five empty seats in the front row, which were specially designed for distinguished guests.
Qing'er had never seen a broken melon banquet, and she was very curious about who the ten girls would end up with, so the cat was in an inconspicuous corner early, waiting for this show to start.
Since the beginning of the day, all kinds of small programs have been staged on the stage, and everyone is not bored. What's more, Mother Guo is also a scene shuttling through the crowd like a flower butterfly, and Qing'er feels that her eight-sided exquisite entertainment drama is much more interesting than on stage!
I saw that Mother Guo's eyes flashed suddenly, picked up the three-inch golden lotus, and rushed to the gate in a few steps like a lotus leaf, and warmly welcomed the group in. Qing'er saw Jiuwen at a glance!
It's not easy not to recognize him, he is dressed in white today, which is very eye-catching. He wears a silver crown with tied hair, white python arrow sleeves, and a silver belt around the beads. Qing'er pouted, it's not his birthday, what kind of limelight is dressed like this?!
Next to Jiuwen is Sun Yuanwai, and with them is an old man, with gray hair, extremely tall, if he stands up straight, he is half a head taller than Jiuwen, but unfortunately his entire back is bent into the shape of a prawn, and it seems that he can't stand up straight.
Qing'er saw that the key figures had arrived, and knew that the big drama was about to begin.
Sure enough, after the end of a group of four-person dances, the master of ceremonies took the stage to announce that tonight's protagonists, the ten girls, would perform.
Before the words fell, I saw the ten girls coming from the backstage with their backs to everyone. She wore a double flat mustache tonight, with a coral in each side of her hair. Wearing a flame red woven cotton skirt, more than three feet long, the skirt is full of embroidered purple begonias, draped in a semi-transparent light yarn, and a wide purple ribbon outlines the small waist, highlighting her delicate figure.
The ten girls slowly walked to the center of the stage, turned around violently, and the skirt swayed, dragging the tassels, like fairies in a dream. When I looked closely, I saw that her mask was as thin as a cicada's wings, and her face was faint, and it was not real to see it when it was faintly visible. Only the pair of coral steps swayed and swayed, leading people to reverie.
There was a commotion in the audience, accompanied by a faint sigh, and when I was young, I only heard someone shouting: "Quickly remove the veil, let's see what it is!" ”。
Although this was a little rude, it expressed the hearts of the people below, and immediately there was a great uproar: some sneered, some disdainful, some coaxed, and even three or four guests shouted along with him, strongly demanding that the veil be removed.
Seeing that everyone's fire had been hooked, Guo's mother stood up with a smile, walked onto the stage with both hands, suppressed the commotion in the audience, and said with a smile:
"Look at you monkeys! Tonight is the big day of our ten girls, and I am still waiting to receive your money, how can I not let you see it clearly? Hehe, but I can't just let you see it for nothing! ”
When everyone saw her straightforwardness, they couldn't help but laugh again.
Mother Guo took off the Yaoqin in the hands of the tenth girl, carried her and walked a few steps to the front of the stage, lifted the veil in an instant and covered it immediately, praised it in her mouth, and said with a smile: "My son is so beautiful!" ”
The guests in the first few rows flashed a glance, and faintly felt like a fairy, and they couldn't help but talk about it. When I saw the one in front of me in the back row, I didn't see it, and I couldn't help but be annoyed, and I became more and more anxious.
I couldn't help but scream: "I said Mom, explain it as soon as possible, we all depend on you!" ”
Guo's mother laughed when she heard this, and proudly raised her finger and said: "My daughter has raised a lot of money, and she has worked hard to learn art since she was a child, writing, painting, and playing the piano, I don't know how much it took ......."
"This mother is too verbose, how much money does she want to tell her directly, we don't like her and won't come here!"
"That's it, mom, don't take Tang, be careful that we all turn around and go, see how you end!"
Mother Guo glared at the person who spoke, clapped her hands in a pretentious manner, shook her handkerchief, and said with a smile: "Okay, be refreshed!" ”
As he spoke, four turtle slaves each holding a bamboo basket walked over from the four corners of the east, west, north and south.
"Uncles are free to reward, this is just an auspicious picture! Haha, anyway, as long as these four baskets are enough for fifty taels of silver, I will lift the veil for everyone to enjoy. Pity the five of us, when she was a child, she got up and dressed her, dressed like a fairy, if you don't make up enough, you can only give the owner a look, it's a pity that we have worked ......so hard."
Before he finished speaking, he saw a son stand up violently and shouted: "You mother-in-law is so childish, come on, come on, the uncle will reward you with a hundred taels now, hurry up and show us your true face to see if it's worth it!" ”
As he spoke, he pulled out a silver ticket and formed a ball of paper, and without waiting for the turtle slave to approach, he threw it into the basket. The crowd laughed for a while, and five or six others followed his example and threw silver tickets into the basket.
In the chaos, a turtle slave gestured to Mother Guo, Mother Guo nodded and smiled, stepped forward and reached out to lift the veil neatly, but it turned out to be a live button at all!
The veil was lifted, only a sigh was heard, and everyone was stunned and fascinated. There was even a guest who stared at the ten girls blankly, and forgot for a moment, and actually put the whole cup of hot tea on the person next to him, causing a commotion.
I saw that the ten girls' skin was like condensed fat, and there was a thin layer of red on their fair little face, revealing a little shyness. A pair of apricot eyes under the two curved willow eyebrows are as clear as water, and the red of the flame all over her body makes her more and more lined like a begonia after the rain, delicate and beautiful, clear and lovely.
The ten girls smiled, and two shallow dimples floated on the baby's fat little face. She opened her lips slightly, and said softly:
"Today's banquet of breaking melons, thanks to the love of all the distinguished guests, the little woman is polite."
Say goodbye to Yingying, the indescribable grace and coquettishness, and the inexhaustible charm and abundance.
Mother Guo was full of smugness on the side, raised her eyebrows, put her hands on her waist, and shouted to the guest who took the lead in throwing the silver ticket: "I said that son, you have seen it now, let me ask you how much the one hundred taels are spent?" ”
"Value!"
In the midst of laughter, the ten girls were so ashamed that their faces were flushed, and their faces were coquettish, she half-lowered her eyes, grabbed the shawl and twisted it in her hand.
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Note: Broken melon, the old word "melon" is 28 years old, which is 16 years old. It was later used to refer to a woman "broken".