It was a sunny day, and the wind was warm.

The masters and ladies of Rongguo Mansion gathered in Rongqing Hall early and joked with Jia's mother for a long time.

"Has Mrs. Auntie arrived?"

Jia Mu asked.

Li Kun replied: "My aunt was talking in the wife's room just now, and it is estimated that this time will be almost there." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Mrs. Wang's Aunt Xue and sisters walking in together.

Jia Mu saw that everyone was together, and was about to give the order to go, but she felt that something was wrong, so she glanced again, and she finally found that there was still one person missing.

"Why isn't the eldest lady here?"

Wang Xifeng said with a smile: "The eldest lady is not feeling well, the eldest lady stays in the house to serve, she said earlier, she will not go today, and said that the old lady will have fun." ”

"The eldest master didn't go either?"

Mother Jia naturally wouldn't really believe that something was wrong with Jia Yu's body.

After a pause, Jia Mu didn't want the two of them to lose their interest, so she waved her hand and said, "Forget it, don't care about them, let's eat!" ”

Wang Xifeng and the others all laughed, and then hurriedly hugged Jia's mother.

Jia's mother took the lead, and then a large room of people followed Jia's mother's steps, and walked out of Rongqing Hall and went to Ningguo's mansion.

In the Ning State Mansion, the You family, who was arranging seats, heard that the people from the Rongguo Mansion had arrived, and hurriedly led the Qin family to greet them.

As soon as he got out of the West Second Gate, he saw Lai Sheng's family leading a large group of colorful people over, led by Jia Mu. You Shi immediately stepped forward and said with a smile:

The second uncle was still chattering and said, I don't know if the old lady will appreciate her face today, if the old lady doesn't come, then he won't have the face to brag that he is the old lady's most painful grandson in the future. Now that the old lady really appreciates her face, he should be proud again. ”

Jia Mu looked at You Shi, who was smiling and talking decently and behaved moderately, and a smile also appeared on her face. Speaking of which, since Jia Zhen's incident, Jia's mother has not been welcome to You Shi, and even has a slight complaint about her still being in charge of Ningguo Mansion. It's just because of Jia Qing's insistence that he didn't make any moves.

Facts have proved that Jia Qing's decision is very correct, You Shi is a very smart and very good person, Prime Minister Ning Guofu has always been conscientious and sincere, and there is no problem she is worried about. Even she knew that Jia Qing could be described as a qualified shopkeeper, and she left everything at home to You Shi to worry about, and she didn't care about it at all...... To know this, even Mrs. Wang can't do it, Wang Xifeng has to report to her many times for instructions.

From this point of view, she had a higher view of Jia Qing. With such a big Ning Guo Mansion, he really wants to let him manage it himself, where can he be so idle now?

Just look at Wang Xifeng......

Perhaps, this is also the reason why he insisted in the first place.

Anyway, Jia Mu must like the juniors who can do things well. So she laughed too: "Did he really say that? I don't really believe it, in the past, in front of me, he always said that I was biased, saying that I only hurt Baoyu and not him! ”

You Shi said: "Naturally, it's true, he is joking in front of the old lady, in fact, the second uncle knows that the old lady loves him the most, so he often shows off in front of us, so as to make us jealous."

Now it seems that the second uncle is really right, in the past, we invited the old lady to have a drink and watch a play, and the old lady didn't appreciate the face, but as long as he went to invite, the old lady came as soon as possible, not only came, but also brought a large family to save face for him! ”

Everyone laughed.

So You personally led the way in front, and said: "The small drama in the back building has been prepared, and the meal in the hall has also been served, may I ask the ancestor if he wants to eat first and then go over, or put the meal over there?" ”

Jia Mu said: "Let's eat first and then go over, it's more convenient." ”

"Yes."

You Shi listened, gave Qin Shi a look, and Qin Shi quietly replied first.

When she arrived at the dining room, Jia's mother saw that the whole house was full of decorations and furnishings, and the maids came and went in an orderly manner.

After everyone sat down, Jia Mu said to Mrs. Wang: "You should also go and kowtow to the eldest master." ”

Although Jia Jing did not return to the house, he respected the elder after all, and it was also appropriate for Mrs. Wang and others to go to the main hall to kowtow.

"Yes" So Mrs. Wang took the Sanchun sisters and others, led by the Qin family to the main hall, leaving only Aunt Xue to accompany Jia's mother to talk.

"Where's Brother Qing?"

Jia Mu asked again for a while.

You Shi replied: "I was going to have a good day for all the lords in our clan today, and the mansions also gave birthday gifts early in the morning, but who knew that when the Nan'an Palace, Xining Palace, Zhenguo Mansion, Dingcheng Hou Mansion and other sons of several families came, and the second uncle had to accompany him." If the old ancestor is looking for him, I will have someone call him now......"

Jia Mu smiled when she heard this: "Where, he is a master, naturally it is important to have something outside." Since people appreciate their faces, they have not received a post to congratulate your lord on his birthday, which means that people are looking at Brother Qing, don't say that I am fine here, even if there is something, I dare not alarm him, after all, the person who comes is a guest, and I can't slack off. ”

The more Jia Mu said, the more she smiled, these mansions, which one of them is not something that others can't dream of, and only a family like our Jia Mansion can let their children and grandchildren take the initiative to make friends. You Shi's words made her feel very face-saving. Especially after seeing the unconcealable envy on Aunt Xue's face in a blink of an eye, my heart became more and more happy.

It is worth mentioning here that Ning Guofu only arranged a family banquet this time, and did not send out invitations to the banquet guests, so the nobles of the family who are good friends only need to send congratulatory gifts according to the custom, but it is not easy for people to come. Because, it is very rude for the main family to come to the door without preparation.

However, there are a few scruples among the younger generations.

"Well, you don't have to be here all the time. Today's house is busy, and I can't leave you anywhere, so you can go by yourself, and I will talk to your aunt here. ”

"Yes, then I'll go first." You Shi bent down and replied, then stepped aside, and whispered to Xiaohong, who was serving there: "When Mrs. Hui and grandmothers arrive, I will order the kitchen to pass the dishes." ”

Xiaohong naturally responded.

You Shi looked at this young but very clever girl and nodded with satisfaction. This maid was sent to her by the second uncle, and she is very easy to use these days, and she likes this girl more and more. In my heart, I am even more grateful to Jia Qing for choosing such a maid for her.

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In the outer courtyard, the feast was in full swing.

The Jia family has a large population, and there are hundreds of children in these twelve rooms in Beijing alone, and it is not easy to greet these people.

The sudden visit of Xie Guowei and others to Jia Qing was also unexpected, but most of the sons of these families who came, except for Xie Guowei and Hou Hu, had some friendship with him, and he was not easy to drive people away...... In a hurry, he had to set up two more tables of banquets in the inner hall, and Jia Qing personally accompanied him.

The admission of these noble sons naturally made many children in Jia's mansion happy, and they kept coming to toast and make friends. Even Jia Zheng raised a glass in his seat and invited the sons and brothers to have a drink......

Note that it is "please" instead of "respect", putting aside the identity of the national abbot, Jia Zheng is also an elder. All the sons and brothers also stood up and took his glass of wine.

After three rounds of drinking, the sons and brothers shouted again and asked Jia Qing to take out the dancing girl who was "robbed" from Jiangnan to take a look. This is also in Jia Qing's expectation, who called him This matter has long been spread in Beijing and has become a household name, and everyone who comes to his house wants to see the demeanor of famous prostitutes in Jiangnan.

The masters of the Jia family were even more ecstatic. As soon as the brightly dressed dancing girl appears, those who are qualified to sit in the inner hall will naturally be able to have a sneak peek, and those guys who can only sit in the courtyard are mostly juniors, and they are looking forward to it the most, and they all leave their seats and squeeze into the middle of the hall, although they still can't see the dance in the hall clearly, so they can also see the general situation.

"Good, good! The people are good-looking, and the dancing is also good-looking. It's just that I don't think it's the same as the last time I saw it in Fuchu......"

Hou Hu has been strict in his family since he was a child, and he has not set foot in the wind and snow. But since Xie Guowei took his brothers into the Yanyu Building a few years ago, this product is like opening the door to the world. In addition, he was originally a stunned young man, but now, he is getting more and more ...... Sullen ......!

Jia Qing heard him talking to himself on the side, smiled lightly, and didn't care. Of course, Hou Hu had seen twelve jade beauties, and the reason why he felt different was that among the seven dancing girls dancing in the center of the hall in front of him, only three were brought back by her from Jiangnan, and the remaining four were women of color and art that he found from the major Chu pavilions in Beijing.

Originally, Ning Guofu originally did not have a special dancing girl and singing girl. I don't know if Jia Jing doesn't like this tone, or if he cherishes his name, or if he is reluctant to spend money......

However, since Jia Qing was able to recruit one of the best dancing girls in Jiangnan by chance, and he found more and more that appreciating this kind of flamboyant singing and dancing was such a pleasurable behavior, he naturally would not pretend to be high. For Ning Guofu, raising a dancing girl is definitely not a problem.

The problem is that people are aesthetically fatigued, and he knows that there will be more and more banquets in Jiafu in the future, and he always lets the twelve jade beauties perform, which inevitably lacks some novelty. In addition, the jade beauties are all from the south, so the flavor is naturally a little different from the north......

Besides, recruiting a dancing girl with northern scenery can also make them dare not slack off and promote each other, right?

Anyway, Tianxianglou is big enough, and it is not a big problem to raise a dozen singers and dancers. So now there are seventeen or eighteen concubines living in Tianxianglou, and the visual inspection will increase a little bit one after another, which once made Qin Keqing, who was in charge of taking care of it, extremely dissatisfied!

But it didn't take long for her to figure it out, didn't Jia Qing do this, didn't it just prove that he really just wanted to raise a real singer in the mansion? Therefore, he let down a lot of vigilance against the twelve Jiangnan little cuties. No matter how big Jia Qing's heart is, he won't be satisfied with even the twelve little wives, and he will add one by one, right?