Chapter 5: Spring Festival Family Banquet

Since the lord and his wife returned to the house, the work in the house has become more, every day in Aning is the moon falls, the sky is still numb and dawn to get up and start busy, until the moon is high in the sky at night before returning to the room to rest, finally stay up to the Lichun Mansion to open a spring family banquet.

On this day, the whole house was dressed up and down, even A-Ning wore the new clothes that he had just come to the house that day, the peach-pink clothes, Sister Chunlan also skillfully pulled a new style of hair bun for A-Ning, revealing a smooth forehead, on this day, the maid can also dress herself well, you can insert some jewelry on the head, A-Ning has no jewelry, only two plum blossom hairpins, which look great in the bun, Ping'er is even more unhappy when she sees this, and she is clamoring for Sister Chunlan to comb her hairstyle too. Ping'er works as an errand at Miss Five's place on weekdays, although Miss Five is a master who is not easy to get along with, but thanks to Ping'er is a clever mouth, Miss Five is next to Miss Five no matter what she does, Ping'er is next to Miss Five's ideas, and she coaxes Miss Five very happily every day, so Ping'er has a lot of rewards, and there are a lot of jewelry in the jewelry box, and the styles are very exquisite, so naturally it is not these used by ordinary maids like A-Ning.

Ping'er tried the hairpin, and finally chose a few of the latest tricks and pinned them on her head, showing off the flowers and branches she had packed up. Sister Chunlan hasn't changed much, she has inserted two more hairpins than in the past, which is very clean and refreshing, and she really deserves to be the one who waits in front of the third young master. As the sky gets brighter and brighter, the gate of the Shen Mansion is like a city, and the carriages are coming one after another, and the eldest son of the Shen family welcomes Shen Xiang in front of the door.

"Lord Yushi has arrived, Yangzhou Taishou has arrived, and the squire of the military department has arrived" The housekeeper is reporting the guests here one by one, and they are all dignitaries and dignitaries that A-Ning will never see in his life. The eldest prince wore a purple robe today, very extravagant, with a smile on his face, and kept greeting the guests who entered the mansion, and those officials also praised vigorously, "The eldest young master is really worthy of being the concubine of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the etiquette is thorough, and the future of the appearance is unlimited." "I almost wrote on my face that I was my son-in-law, and the ladies entered through the side door of the Shen Mansion.

After a whole morning, it was finally time for people to come, although the current location of the Shen Mansion was only a day's journey from the capital, but these officials were willing to come from the capital to celebrate the lord, which showed the lord's power in the court. A-Ning is responsible for taking these female dependents to the backyard to sit at the banquet, the backyard is divided into two halves by the stream on the mountain, the left side is mainly occupied by male guests, and the right side is mainly seated by female dependents, and a pavilion is built on the stream, in which there is a guzheng, and there should be a young lady from each family performing their own talents to entertain the family banquet. Behind the seat is the peach blossom tree and a large bamboo forest and rockery, the mountain water continues to flow down with a clear atmosphere, and the shade of the bamboo forest is sprinkled on the seat, even at noon, it will not be hot.

A-Ning led those ladies to the backyard, A-Ning took these ladies and ladies in front, these ladies were all dressed in silk and satin, dignified and atmospheric, although the ladies were not young, but each of them was very well maintained, looking much younger than the actual age, those ladies were dressed up one by one, and some of them were dressed up elegantly and cleanly, many of them came for the third young master, although the third young master was not Shen Xiang's son-in-law, but he was also valued by Shen Xiang, and the most important thing was that the third young master was handsome, It is the first beautiful man in the dynasty, the third young master rarely goes out of the house on weekdays, if he sees the true face of the third young master today, wouldn't it be a good fortune for three lives, and the third son is not married now, if he is his wife, wouldn't he be envied by other women in the capital to go crazy, although the fourth young master is also very handsome, but it is not a good match to love the land of fireworks.

These ladies are naturally shy of the moon, but among them, the daughter of Lord Yushi, Liu Hanyan is even more picturesque, bright eyes and bright teeth, light posture can be called stunning, a smile can make the men in the world crazy, just standing there makes other women lose their color, and now it is also the year of the time, but it is said that Liu Hanyan has now been favored by the Queen Mother, and after the spring and summer, she will be promised to be married to the current emperor. In the future, it may be the queen of the Southern Dynasty, and those ladies are also trying to greet Liu Hanyan and Liu Hanyan's mother, Liu Lu's family, as for Lord Yushi, who came to see the family banquet because, Yushi and Shen Xiang are old friends who have been friends for many years, and the two families have always been in contact.

Walking through the corridors along the road along the pavilions, A-Ning, a little transparent, had been listening to the greetings of the officials and ladies with his head down, and finally arrived at the place where the banquet was held, and after the ladies were seated, A-Ning retreated, and then went to the backyard to prepare tea, melons and fruits and other things. Three women in a play, although these ladies are the wives of officials, but after all, they are women, endure all the way, and after sitting down, they began to talk non-stop, all of them are those gossips in the capital, what Lord Shangshu's concubine actually eloped with a guard, which is too guarded and the girl in the flower building is good, she doesn't marry, and so on and so on, and after finishing speaking, they laughed at each other. The officials on the left are not as noisy as here, but they are also flattering you and coming and going, and they are also very lively.

A Ning and a few other maids brought the tea from the pantry to the ladies at the banquet, and some dim sum and pastries that were rare in the capital were placed in front of the lady and the young lady one by one, but when A Ning was pouring water for some young ladies, a few young ladies showed a look of disgust after seeing A Ning's face, accusing A Ning of not having good water. A-Ning had to bow his head and apologize to those young ladies, and had to admit that he didn't pour the water well, but after all, this was the Shen Mansion, and those young ladies didn't dare to be too presumptuous, and then accused A-Ning a few words and let A-Ning leave.

After the tea was served, the family banquet officially began, the lord and the lady sat on the upper seat, the eldest son, the third son, and the fourth son sat on the left side, and the second lady, the fifth lady, and the sixth lady concubines all sat on the right seat. Ah Ning saw the third young master, the third young master was still so peerless, the peach blossoms behind him reflected the three young masters in the nine heavens like immortals, the third young master's eyes looked at Liu Hanyan on the banquet here, only at that moment there was a trace of fireworks in the eyes of the third young master, and A Ning saw not only a faint sadness in his heart. The fourth prince sat next to the third young master, still wearing a red dress, the light cicada silk fabric gently floated with the breeze, with the pair of peach blossom eyes, like a weak peach blossom tree to cultivate an adult, like a fairy among the flowers. The fourth young master blinked when he saw Ah Ning looking at him, which scared Ah Ning too much, and the fourth prince immediately laughed again, and the young ladies around Ah Ning blushed like apples one by one.