The evening reception wine is actually a family banquet, although the Hua family is everyone, and the people in the clan also live together, but generally the old lady is the east of the family banquet only the family can participate.

Speaking of her family, the old lady has two sons, the eldest Hua Chengkang, married the daughter of the Prime Minister of Canaan, and later had two sons, Hua Aotian and Hua Aolong, and gave birth to Hua Mu's daughter in his later years, which was most loved by his father. The second Hua Chengjian, married the daughter of Jinzhou weaving, gave birth to a boy and a girl, the daughter Hua Hui has been married, married to his own uncle and cousin, went to Jinzhou, son Ao Jie, twenty-one this year, nothing to achieve, but relying on the savings of the ancestors in this country has a few shops, mixed with some food.

Today, the brothers Chengkang and Chengjian are not at home, only the old lady and some juniors have set up a few small square tables in the Yishui Pavilion Pavilion, with men on the left and women on the right, and the guests sit on the main and secondary sides one by one.

On the stage on the other side of the lake, the troupe of Washington was singing, Qi Shangyi couldn't understand it, just looked at the makeup of the drama a few times, and couldn't help but think of the master who was injured and stayed in Nanyang.

"Miss Xiaoqi, but this meal is not to your liking?" The old lady noticed the sadness on Qi Shangyi's face, so she leaned over and asked.

Qi Shangyi was startled, quickly shook his head, and got up, "The food is very good, but watching the old lady and your children and grandchildren beneng Huan, I can't help but feel a little homesick." ”

"Then you are a filial child." The old lady smiled and waved her hand to sit down, "But don't miss home here, if you are good friends with Mu'er, you will treat this place as your home, and you don't need to remember your home." ”

"Grandmother is right, Miss Qi lives at home with peace of mind, if you are homesick, you can write some letters, my family often has a cargo team to Dongli, and it won't take many days to bring it over." Hua Mu on the side heard the old lady say that she wanted Qi Shangyi to take this place as her home, so she hurriedly grabbed Qi Shangyi's hand and comforted her.

Qi Shangyi nodded, everyone continued to laugh and drink and talk, Guan Jiyun and Hua Aotian chatted very speculatively, and the two of them also danced a sword outside the pavilion in the depths, and Hua Mu was a little itchy, but he was pressed on the seat by Qi Shangyi.

Qi Shangyi smiled and leaned into her ear and said, "Jiang Tong is also here, you should bear with it." ”

Hua Mu glanced at Jiang Tong, who was sitting opposite, nodded stupidly, and then turned to look at the dancing sword.

The old lady didn't like to make trouble, so she thought about her little Jiujiu in her heart, looked at Hua Aojie, who was holding a wine glass and watching the sword dance, frowned and called him, Ao Jie came back to his senses, put down the wine glass, got up and asked, "What's the matter with grandmother?" ”

"Your eldest brother is invited by Prince Xi to go outside the city, and your second brother has a lot of affairs, so you can take more time to take Miss Qi to play in the city, and it doesn't hurt if you don't care about those shops for a few days." The old lady said with a straight face.

Hua Aojie glanced at Qi Shangyi, turned to the old lady and bowed, "The child knows." ”

The old lady immediately smiled and looked at Qi Shangyi, "Ao Jie is the third boy of my family, a few years older than you, you can play together when you are young, so let him take you to play." ”

Qi Shangyi glanced up at Ao Jie and smiled faintly, "Then it's bothering the third son." ”

Seeing this, the old lady thought that she had an eyebrow, and she was even more happy, so she asked people to come out with a play book and order a few songs.

Hua Mu tugged on Qi Shangyi's sleeve on the side, bit her ear and smiled with her: "My grandmother is going to pull the red thread for you!" ”

Qi Shangyi was thinking about things in his heart, and he didn't want to look up at Ao Jie opposite, even the one in the Dongli Palace I couldn't look at, and the one opposite naturally didn't want to look at it, Hua Mu saw her expression and knew that he was unwilling, so he didn't continue to joke with her.

Coming out of the dinner, Hua Mu shook Qi Shangyi's arm, "Okay, don't be upset, don't worry about him if you don't like you, grandmother just thinks, if you don't want to, how can you really force you to stay in the mansion?" ”

Qi Shangyi sighed and turned her head to look at Hua Mu, where did she know that she hadn't thought about this problem at all, she was now thinking about how to enter the West Prince's Mansion, no, she had already thought of a way to enter the West Prince's Mansion, but she didn't know how to speak.

"What's wrong?" Hua Mu looked at Qi Shangyi and sighed and looked at himself in a daze, and hurriedly asked.

Qi Shangyi sighed again and opened his mouth, "Hua Mu, can you do me a favor?" ”

"Want my help?" Hua Mu was stunned for a moment, thinking it was about Ao Jie, "I said that I didn't care about my third brother." ”

"It's not that," Qi Shangyi shook his head, "It's something else?" ”

"Oh, then you say." Hua Mu said and smiled, "We are good sisters, I will definitely help if I can, even if I can't help, I will find a way to help." ”

"Don't be too busy agreeing, listen to me before agreeing." Qi Shangyi said and pulled Hua Mu aside, avoided the maids who followed behind him, and said in a low voice, "I want to go to the West Palace, can you help me?" ”

"Xiwangfu?" Hua Mu was obviously a little surprised, and then saw Qi Shangyi nodded, only to confirm that he had heard correctly, "It's not difficult to enter the West Palace, and I often go, but why are you going there?" ”

"I can't tell you this for the time being, but I promise that it won't affect you," Qi Shangyi said, "And I'm not going to the prince's mansion, but the prince of the west is in the Zhuangzi outside the city, and the old lady said that your eldest brother was invited by the prince of the west to go to the Zhuangzi, can you go and ask your eldest brother to take me with you?" ”

Hua Mu hesitated, after all, everyone knew that Prince Xi was actually a smiling tiger, smiling all day long, but he was very cruel to the enemy, not that he didn't dare to take risks, but he was afraid that what Qi Shangyi was going to do would annoy Prince Xi, and he would not be able to protect her at that time.

"Do you have to go?" Hua Mu looked at Qi Shangyi, and in fact, he could see the reason from her face.

"Hmm." Qi Shangyi nodded earnestly, "This is the purpose of my coming to Canaan, and I must go." ”

Hua Mu struggled again in his heart, and nodded, "Okay, you must go, then I will help you." ”

"Thank you so much." Qi Shangyi held Hua Mu's hand, and somehow felt a little indebted in his heart.

In the second room, the second lady glanced at Ao Jie, who was sitting below drinking tea, "The old lady means today that I am afraid that I want to tell you about the Qi girl, what do you think?" ”

"The old lady actually picked some bad ones for me," Ao Jie said and put down the tea bowl in his hand angrily, "I don't look outstanding, I heard that the family is just a businessman, where is it worthy of me!" ”

"It's up to the old lady to take a fancy to you," said the second lady, "and the old lady has done the master of your marriage, and you and I can't be the master." ”

"It doesn't matter who calls the shots, anyway, I won't take a look at this girl." Ao Jie said and got up angrily. (To be continued.) )