Chapter 3 The Birthday Ceremony Begins
Early in the morning, Mingtang looked at the birthday gift that the old lady gave him yesterday, a good guy with a picture of the pine and snow scenery of the Yellow Mountain, I heard that it was still made by a famous family in the previous dynasty, although Mingtang had not heard of who it was, and it was estimated to be a national treasure in modern times.
"Is the young master up? It's time to wash up and go to the main hall for the birthday ceremony. Outside the door, his big maid knocked on the door and asked.
"Get up, come in." Mingtang packed up and hurriedly went to open the door.
"Sisters, dress up the eldest young master." The big maid waved her hand, and a dozen or so maids came in, and some brought towels, water basins, and some clothes, obviously to serve him.
"No need, sisters, I'll do it myself." Mingtang hurriedly stopped them, he had been used to being alone since he was a child, and he was really not used to being a little constrained.
"Young master, what's wrong with you, why haven't you been injured all these days? In the past, you let me say that there must be no less than ten sisters to serve. The big girl said fifteen-ten.
"Uh, this." Mingtang was a little confused, he couldn't play like this if he had money, and he needed ten beasts.
"Listen, Young Master Ben can't remember anything clearly because of the injury on his head, and he didn't count what he said before, so I don't need so many people, I'll do it myself." Mingtang's head is big, and the body of ten people can't stand it.
"Isn't it good to serve the boat? The young master doesn't want us anymore. One of the good-looking maids cried and chirped.
"Yes, the young master used to love Xiao Yun." Another little maid with an extremely exaggerated figure said.
"That's it, that's it." For a while, Mingtang's room was messy and noisy.
"I'll go, at this age, in shape, it's not as good as a beast." Mingtang has a big head for a while, and Mingtang is really nonsense, it is really not as good as a beast, this Xiao Yun looks about the same age as her sister, and her development is too good.
"Ahem, I'm the young master, I'm in charge." Mingtang stood on the chair and shouted loudly, and it was easy to stop the messy maids.
"I don't!" I don't know who said it down there, but the crowd was in a mess.
"Young master, you better let them serve, if you continue like this, it will delay the old lady's birthday." The big girl at the head persuaded.
"Okay." Mingtang finally relented, and everyone came to dress up Mingtang with joy and sorrow.
"Sister, what's your name?" Mingtang looked at the big girl and asked.
"Alas, young master, you really forgot a lot of things, so it's good, my name is Qing Ke." The big girl bent down to salute Mingtang.
"Qing Ke has a good name, such a name must be a family that reads, but there is no sister, you are here to be my eldest girl." Mingtang couldn't figure it out, ordinary women don't know how to read, and their names are very simple.
"Young master, don't ask, these things are also old things, young master, let's hurry up and dress up, it's not good to delay the old lady's birthday." Qing Ke also grabbed a rib comb made of ivory and combed Mingtang's hair.
"Okay." Mingtang also enjoyed the service of many warblers and Yanyan, and felt that it was good to be rich.
It's just that the people who are served are a little uneasy, and in the inevitable process of dressing and washing their hair, there are some gentle touches, which really make Mingtang think about it.
"Calm, I'm a person who has received nine years of compulsory education, a person who has received the main theme education of the new century since I was a child, calm down, calm down the second brother!" Mingtang was really tired of fighting with his younger brother in his heart.
"Prosperous, strong and democratic, civilized and harmonious, patriotic and dedicated, honest and friendly." Mingtang has been reciting the 24-character policy of the new century in his mouth, not to mention that the party's things are working, and the second brother has been subdued.
"Brother! Are you alright? Mingjing outside the door shouted loudly, and she came over and told Mingtang to go to the main hall.
"Alright." Mingtang cleaned up after a while, and hurriedly went out to go to the main hall with his sister.
There were still ten maids in the house, and some of them were whispering, and Qing Ke was just like her name, standing at the door and looking at Mingtang in the distance, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Sister, are all the people here? Am I late, nothing, right? Mingtang asked in a panic, this is the old lady's 60th birthday, it is not easy for people to live for a lifetime, and the old lady climbed out of the pile of dead people with Grandpa Mingtang, and it is not easy to experience the war years.
"I didn't come, and besides, there is no reason to make guests wait for the birthday of the main family, so we have to prepare first." Mingjing glanced at Mingtang.
"Good sister, I see." Not to mention, people are good-looking and pleasing to the eye, Mingjing is very cute, and Mingtang is also a little white face.
There were already a lot of people in the main hall, and Mingtang's father was already busy in the main hall, and there were three men by his side.
"Who's with my sister's father?" Mingtang asked.
"I know that you have forgotten everything, you follow me today, and I will tell you." Mingjing looked at his brother and said helplessly.
"Thank you, sister."
"My father's side is the uncle, the third uncle, and the fourth uncle"
"Oh, by the way, aren't we a long house, why do we still have an uncle." Mingtang was a little puzzled, but he didn't complain about him, a person with a score of 300 in the college entrance examination, how good history can be.
"We are descendants, and our uncles and uncles are partial houses, so we are long-term houses, but the uncle's age is older than my father, although my brother is the eldest young master of the Ming family, but there is an elder brother in the uncle's family who is older than you, but it is estimated that he will not be able to come back in the military camp." My sister patiently explained to my brother Mingtang.
"I see." Mingtang understands in his heart.
"But brother, you have to be careful of them, they are inseparable from us, I heard that your head is what they do in the third room." Mingjing grabbed Mingtang's ear, pulled his head down and whispered, there was no way that height was a hard injury.
"Okay, my brother will pay attention."
"Brother, I think you've gotten better." Mingjing said mysteriously.
"Ahh What do you mean? ”
"Nothing."
Mingtang was about to ask another question, when he felt his feet off the ground, and someone grabbed the clothes on the back of his neck and lifted him up.
"Boy, when you see your third uncle, why don't you say hello." It turned out that the person who caught him was his third uncle Mingguang, Mingguang himself is a military general, tall and big, usually throwing hundreds of pounds of stone grinders at home to play, mentioning a Mingtang is like mentioning a little chicken.
"Third uncle, it's really inconsiderate, or you let me go first." Mingtang said, glanced at his cheap daddy Ming Qi, and found that Ming Qi looked at them with a smile, and his father was unreliable.
"Okay." After saying that, he put down Mingtang, and Mingtang felt that it was really good to be down-to-earth.
"Mingtang has seen the uncle, the third uncle, and the fourth uncle." Mingtang went to salute one by one.
"Second child, your son is stupid after waking up, although he was not smart before, and now he is even more stupid." Uncle Mingtang said brightly.
"Big brother, he's just a kid, and it's normal that he doesn't understand something." Ming Qi is still more protective of his children.
"Kid? Oh, children know how to visit Qinglou, children know how to bully men and women, I don't think it's small. "Mingtang's fourth uncle Ming Fangdao.
"This kid just doesn't know how to do these ridiculous things, if an adult does it, wouldn't it be angry and resentful." Ming Qi's face was nothing, and he looked directly at his three compatriots.
Mingtang couldn't hold it on his face, but when he looked at his father, he found that his father could only rely on it at a critical time, and his face was also calm, and he silently recited the twenty-four characters in his heart.
"Hmph." Mingguang and the others snorted fiercely, and then looked at their own business, while Mingqi gently stroked his own pair of children.
"Daddy." Mingtang called softly.
"Tang'er, take your sister to sit over there, I know your injuries are not yet healed, and there are many things that you have forgotten, so you ask your sister to follow you, so that you can point out people, so as not to be embarrassed in the future." Ming Qi knew his son's question, and naturally gave the answer, Mingtang had amnesia, and he didn't remember many things, of course, he needed someone to take him to recognize it again.
"Okay." Mingjing jumped up and down with his brother to get closer to the gate.
"Lu Guogong has arrived!" The little guy outside the gate of the Ming Mansion shouted, and the voice reached the main hall, and everyone in the main hall stood up to greet him.
This Duke of Lu is not a hereditary title like Ming Qi, but a real founding duke, a seventy duke, it stands to reason that the old lady's birthday ceremony does not need to be attended by Lu Guogong himself.
I saw that Lu Guogong and his grandson came directly to the main hall with a total of two people, and they didn't need others to come to pick them up, and they were familiar with the road as if they were their own home.
Everyone hurriedly went out to greet them, for fear of losing their manners, the Ming Mansion is also the Guogong Mansion Except for Dingguo Gong Ming Qi, everyone else is going out, and Ming Qi is also standing at the gate waiting for the arrival of Lu Guogong.
As soon as the white-haired Lu Guogong entered the door, he shouted: "My eldest sister, where is the person?" ”
"Haha, who should I be, it turned out to be a scoundrel!" The old lady also walked out on crutches.
"Haha, I can't think of it, I'm not dead yet, haha." Lu Guogong is also unscrupulous, if others say this, they will attack the door directly, and if they don't kill him, it will be for the sake of the old lady's birthday.
"Grandson, come and see your aunt and grandmother." Lu Guogong directly pressed his accompanying grandson to the ground with a big hand and knelt on it.
"Grandson Zhu Jun visited the grandmother of the Ming family." Lu Guogong's grandson Zhu Jun is still knowledgeable about etiquette, not as rude as his grandfather Lu Guogong Zhu Zhang.
"Don't kneel and get up, let me see you, you've grown so big."
"Yes." The little grandfather of the Zhu family went to the old lady's side.
"That's good, you can just sit with Tang'er and them." The old lady pointed in the direction of Mingtang, and then Zhu Jun went to Mingtang and sat there, the position was extremely backward, but he also understood that today's birthday sitting in front of them were all bigwig-level figures, and even the old lady's own grandson was at the gate, and he had no opinion.
Lu Guogong Zhu Zhang and the old lady sat in the first place and chatted very well, and the two had not seen each other for several years.
"Is my sister okay?" The old lady asked.
"She's very good, better than me, day by day is strict, she doesn't even let me drink, if it weren't for your birthday this time, I'm afraid she wouldn't let me come out."
"She's for your good, you still don't appreciate it."
"Ahh
"Look at your cowhide." The old lady hadn't been so happy for a long time.
"Ming Qi, why are you still like this." Zhu Zhang took a sip of wine and said.
"Uncle Zhu, what else can I do, I'm a civil official, and I can't change much."
"Ahh Zhu Zhang hated iron a little.
Bright they snickered below, Ming Qi is nothing, he has been used to it for so many years, and besides, Lu Guogong is the old lady's few friends in the world.
When Mingtang and Mingjing saw Zhu Jun coming, they also got up to toast.
"Mingjing has seen the Zhu family's brother."
"Mingtang has seen the eldest brother of the Zhu family."
"Okay." Zhu Jun also drank it happily.
"The little grandfather of the Fu Guogong Mansion has arrived." Outside the door, another big VIP arrived.
"Hehe, he's here too." Zhu Jun shook his head.