83_83499Today's Taishou Mansion is very lively, almost all the rich and noble people of Zedong County have come here, and they are full of people wearing silk and satin wearing gold and silver jewelry.

There are not many people who come to worship their birthdays who are higher than the Taishou position, and these people only need to send a small servant to send a congratulatory gift to give face, but today they are more positive than the other, not only do they come very early, but the longevity they bring is also more valuable and rare.

The reason why these people are so enthusiastic is not because of Taishou, an official position with real power and not a low rank, but because the identity of the host of this birthday banquet is a little unusual.

The Taishou of Zedong County is named Wen Zhuxiu, born in a family of eunuchs in Dadu, but the Wen family fell in the generation of Wen Zhuxiu's great-grandfather, and when Wen Zhuxiu was born, the family was no different from ordinary people except for an empty name left by an ancestor. However, with this name, Wen Zhuxiu's sister Wen Zhuying was selected to be a palace maid, because she had no actual identity, Wen Zhuying only did some cleaning work in some side halls at first, but she herself was clever and intelligent, and slowly climbed up, and later by coincidence, she was brought to her side by the ten princesses of Xunyu at that time, and became a personal female official, and she has always been very trusted by Princess Xunyu. Later, Princess Haoyu married the prince of Shuliuguo, and Wen Zhuying was also old, so she was released from the palace and returned home.

Wen Zhuxiu wanted to restore the glory of his family, but his ability was really not good, he only became a seven-rank petty official, and he had no real power, so he was really inconspicuous in a place like Dadu. But after Wen Zhuying went home, everything changed, although Wen Zhuying was released from the palace, but Princess Yunyu did not forget her, there were small rewards at both ends for three days, and there were big rewards during the New Year's holidays, relying on the relationship between Princess Yunyu and the help of Wen Zhuying, Wen Zhuxiu slowly had real power, and after a year or two, the official position was also promoted, until now it has become a party of Guangde County.

The people who are officials in Guangde County have more or less connections in the imperial court, and they are naturally clear about the affairs of the Wen family and Princess Haoyu. Princess Haoyu is the only sister of the saint today, and she is very favored, although she basically stays in Shuliu Kingdom, but she still has a lot of power in the court. Today's saints are only in their thirties, which is when they are young and strong, but the princes are very young, and it is not surprising that the princess of Xunyu will have great power in the next few decades. The Wen family has been holding Princess Yu's thighs, and they will definitely have great achievements in the future, with such an idea, of course these people will not miss today's birthday banquet.

In the big kitchen of Taishou Mansion, there were more than 100 people busy, Du Qiyue was led to a separate stove, Sun Yi pointed out to him the location of various ingredients, and was called out. Du Qiyue and Da Mao stood in front of the stove, no one paid attention to them, Du Qiyue only thought about leaving after making Shou noodles early, and had no intention of talking, so he took the ingredients he needed with Da Mao, and made them silently. After finishing it, I didn't delay, and directly let a small guy who was guarding the door serve the food out.

Although today's noodles are not Du Qiyue's own soup, the taste is not bad, the little guy who served the dishes went out for more than half an hour, and when he came back, he came over with a decently dressed waiter. It turned out that the eldest lady of the Taishou Mansion felt good after eating Du Qiyue's noodles, so she rewarded thirty taels of silver, and the waiter came to give the silver.

Not long after the waiter left, Sun Yi came and gave Du Qiyue a salary of twenty taels of silver, saying that it was given by Taishou.

"Du Langjun, the birthday banquet outside is almost over, and there is still more than half an hour before the kitchen can be opened, and Lang Jun has nothing to do here in this space, or send a small servant to take Lang Jun to the guest room to rest for a while, and come back to eat when the time comes." Sun Yi said after giving the money.

"My friend is still waiting for me at the inn, I won't eat this meal, and ask Steward Sun to send someone to send us out." Du Qiyue said that his right eyelid has been jumping since just now, and he always feels that nothing good will happen, so it is better to get out of this Taishou Mansion as soon as possible.

"Okay then." Sun Yi nodded, and beckoned a small guy who followed behind him, "Xiao Zuo, you take Du Langjun and the two out, remember to come back quickly." ”

"Alas, Steward Sun can only rest assured." The little maid named Xiao Zuo looked smart, and with a smile on his face, he took Du Qiyue and Da Mao to the small door of the outer courtyard.

This Taishou Mansion is very large, and it is a long way to go from the kitchen to the small door around the outer garden, and then go out along the sandwich road behind the west wing. There are a lot of people in the Taishou Mansion today, there are people walking around in the garden, and the people who guard the garden are not very careful, Xiao Zuo in order to go back quickly, he discussed with the little guy who guarded the garden, and took Du Qiyue and Da Mao into the outer garden, wanting to cross the outer garden to the west wing.

The construction of this outer garden is very beautiful, the inner pavilions and rockery corridors are exquisite, and Du Qiyue walked all the way out and did not stop to look around. Xiao Zuo turned around and took the two of them through an artificial rockery, walked to a small lake, and wanted to pass through a small lake, Du Qiyue stood on the bridge and saw that the goldfish swimming in the lake were all colorful, so he pointed to the lake and said: "How can these goldfish have so many colors, this is the first time I have seen it!" ”

Xiao Zuo listened to Du Qiyue's words, and said with some pride: "These goldfish are not from our Dafeng Dynasty, they were transported from Shuliu Kingdom, and it is normal that Lang Jun has never seen them." There are a total of 100 fish shipped here, and I heard that the color of each one is different, which is very unusual! ”

"It turned out to be from a foreign country, but it was really beautiful." Du Qiyue bent down with interest and looked down at the colorful goldfish swimming around in the lake, he had been to the aquarium before and seen all kinds of fish, but he had never seen this kind of fish in the lake, it was obviously the same kind of fish, but the color was different, and he didn't know how it grew.

Du Qiyue's waist was bent low, and his entire upper body was about to lie on the thigh-high fence, Da Mao saw him like this, and felt a little dangerous, so he pulled Du Qiyue's clothes and said: "Xiao Yue, be careful, don't fall." ”

"It's okay, I'm holding on to the railing!" Du Qiyue smiled and stood up, and as he spoke, he stuffed the bird pendant that was transferred from his clothes into his clothes.

"Stop! Anlu, go and get my brother's pendant back from that thief! ”

At this time, there was a scolding sound from not far away, and before Du Qiyue could look at the person who spoke, he saw a small guy running over from the side, reaching out to grab the pendant around his neck. Du Qiyue hurriedly avoided and asked inexplicably, "What are you doing?" ”

The little guy was dodged for a while, and stretched out his hand to grab Du Qiyue's pendant, and said: "You thief with no long eyes, dare to come to Taishou Mansion to steal things, if you don't return the pendant quickly, maybe I can spare your life." ”

"An Lu, what nonsense are you talking about with him, why don't you get the pendant back quickly, and then beat someone out for me, you dare to head me in front of the master, and don't look at what kind of place this is!"

The person who was born before shouted again, Du Qiyue looked over, and saw a young man dressed as a master standing on the bridge, staring at this side with an angry face. Du Qiyue felt even more strange, for no reason, how could someone snatch his pendant, and listening to the meaning of this, it seemed that his pendant was already someone else's.

If the little master fell in love with Du Qiyue's pendant and asked him for it in a good voice, Du Qiyue might give it if he didn't want to cause trouble, but he would rob it, such arrogance, Du Qiyue was also provoked, where was he willing to give it, he protected the pendant with one hand, and slapped the little guy called An Lu away with the other.

An Lu was only twelve or thirteen years old, and was pushed by Du Qiyue, and fell out of the fence with a backward lean before he could stand firmly. There was an accident, Du Qiyue saw him fall, didn't react to save people, and watched An Lu fall into the lake, waving his arms and shouting for help.

When the little master saw that his little man had pushed people into the lake, he immediately yelled and pointed at Du Qiyue's subordinates who were about to rush over to catch him.

Du Qiyue is not a subordinate of this Taishou Mansion, he still has the identity of a scholar, not who wants to catch it, so he immediately resisted, Da Mao saw that the little guys in the Taishou Mansion wanted to arrest Du Qiyue, and hurriedly blocked Du Qiyue's body to help resist. There was a commotion in the garden outside, and all the people in the garden gathered around to see the excitement, and the noise was terrible.

After Wen Zhuying finished watching the play, she was really tired of those people pestering her, so she said that she was tired and wanted to go back to her yard to rest. The stage was set up on the edge of the outer garden, she needed to pass by the outer garden when she returned to the courtyard, and when she passed by the garden gate, she heard that the bamboo warbler was very noisy inside, so she asked the girl next to her to pull a small girl who ran out of it and asked: "What's going on inside, why is it so noisy!" ”

"Miss, something is wrong!" The little guy saw Wen Zhuying, and hurriedly replied: "The little young master lost the jade pendant of the eldest young master in the morning, and just now I came to the yard to look for it, and found that the jade pendant was stolen. The little master shouted a few more to arrest him, but the man said that he was a scholar, and said that the pendant was brought up by him since he was a child, and we couldn't arrest him without evidence. At this time, the little one was ordered by the little master to return to the master! ”

"The pendant of the eldest young master, which pendant is it?" Wen Zhuying immediately asked when she heard this.

"It's the pendant you gave, Miss!"

Wen Zhuying's eyes narrowed when she heard this, and she said to a few girls and waiters around her: "Let's go, let's go in and take a look, Ye'er is really getting more and more nonsense!" ”

At this time, Du Qiyue and Da Mao were surrounded by more than a dozen small people, and they were about to be caught, but a stern female voice came from outside the crowd, reprimanding everyone: "What kind of system is this, don't you disperse for me quickly." Ye'er, what's the matter with you, and are there any rules? ”

The dozen or so little guys around immediately retreated, Du Qiyue gasped and saw that the little young master who was originally domineering and commanding people to arrest him withered, shrunk his shoulders and looked at a woman in her thirties who was dressed as a girl, and pointed at him with a face full of grievances and said, "Auntie, that person stole the jade pendant you gave my brother." ”

"Shut up!" Wen Zhuying scolded at her little nephew, turned her head and let the others disperse, and then took Du Qiyue and them to sit in a pavilion on the side, looked at Du Qiyue with a pleasant face and said, "This son, what do you call it?" ”

Du Qiyue took a breath, tidied up the clothes on his body, and then walked in front of Wen Zhuying, made a gesture and said, "Under Du Qiyue." ”

Wen Zhuying looked at Du Qiyue carefully, and then said, "Du Gongzi, can you please tell me what is going on?" ”

"Nature." Du Qiyue told what had happened, and then spread out the pendant that was pulled off the thread on the palm of his hand, looked at Wen Zhuying and said: "This is Miss, this pendant is obviously mine, this little young master is going to grab it silently, and he has to say that my pendant is his, how can I give it to him." ”

"My eldest nephew also has a similar blue bird jade pendant, I just lost it this morning, my little nephew just saw this jade pendant and didn't pay attention to it for a while and admitted it wrong, this was a misunderstanding, and I ask Du Gongzi to forgive me. But I don't know where Du Gongzi can tell me where this jade pendant came from? ”

"This is what I have worn since I was a child." Du Qiyue said