Chapter 33 Overboard
Mrs. Zhuang's birthday is coming in a blink of an eye.
On this day, the Zou Mansion was lit up and down, and the masters and servants were all dressed up.
Even Xi Fuwei, who had no intention of decorating, was carefully groomed under the repeated requests of Fu Suixian and Yao Zhuosu.
It's just that she did this, although she fulfilled Fu Suixian's wish, but Fu Suixian's face was not happy: "I heard that there will be two unexpected guests coming over today." ”
Xi Fuwei didn't speak, and Yao Zhuosu asked curiously, "Who?" ”
"It's the young lady of the Dingguo Mansion, and the pearl of the Ministry of Works." Fu Suixian's face was full of bad luck, "I said that I happened to be passing by, and I heard that there was a banquet in the house, so I was interested, and I wanted to come over and ask for a glass of water and wine to eat." ”
"Why are these two nobles here?" Yao Shi next to him was helping to clean up the open makeup box, and asked casually when he heard this, "Isn't this kind of lady show supposed to be in the backyard of Yingtianfu's mansion?" ”
Fu Suixian said: "Who knows? But they all took the initiative to say so, where could Zou Fu refuse? Not only can they not refuse, but the old lady and the lady have to confess to the others, and now they have to greet these two attentively, and they have to snub the guests next to them. ”
pursed his lips, but he couldn't help but say, "It's really strange!" A noble girl with such an identity, is it difficult to miss the opportunity to see the scene? Especially when I was not accompanied by my father and brother at this time, I inexplicably came to Zou Mansion as a guest...... How to think about it and how to feel weird. ”
"You can talk about it in front of us." Yao Shi has always been silent, but at this moment, he also glanced at her, and Wen Yan warned, "You can't say it in front of other people, otherwise those two noble girls will know, and there may be a storm." ”
"This is natural." Fu Qiuxian tried to hide the loss in his heart, and reluctantly smiled, "I just think it's strange, and I don't mean anything else." ”
Xi Fuwei didn't speak, and when she heard this, she seemed to be smiling, and said in her heart, it's strange that you don't mean anything else, what is the talent of Miss Xu and Miss Song, not to mention, just by identity, they appeared at the birthday banquet of Zou Mansion, from the host to other guests, how could everyone not revolve around them?
In this way, how many people still have the heart to pay attention to Fu Xuanxian!
In the past two days, I have carefully dressed up, and I have relied on my piano skills to show off my plan, and almost all of them are going to die!
Just think about it, you can know how frightened Fu Suixian is at this moment!
"It's almost time, you guys go over." These Yao clans also knew, but naturally they wouldn't say it at the moment, so they just nodded, looked at the fat powder sorted out in front of them, and said, "I won't go to a surviving person like me, so as not to bring bad luck to the birthday banquet." ”
Although Fu Qiuxian and Yao Zhuosu were a little nervous, they both got up calmly.
Only Xi Fuwei took a deep breath and tried to calm down before standing up: "What Aunt Yao said is, let's go to Madame's side!" Later, Madame will go to the old lady's place. ”
They were all recruited by Mrs. Shang after personal assessment, and on such an occasion today, they should naturally follow Mrs. Shang.
"Today is not only your grandmother's birthday, but also the nobles from Tianfu who came to visit." When the three girls went to the back hall together, Mrs. Shang was telling Zou Yiang, "It's okay if you are usually naughty, on such an occasion today, if you do something bad, it is not a question of whether your mother can beat you or not, but whether the Zou family can protect you or not!" ”
Zou Yiang flashed his long eyelashes, and nodded obediently: "Mother, don't worry!" Are children the kind of people who don't know what is important? I will definitely behave well today and earn enough face for you, your father and grandmother! ”
Mrs. Shang had no hope at all that this son would earn face for herself, and said with a cold face: "If you don't let us be embarrassed, we will thank God!" ”
As he was talking, when he saw Xi Fuwei and the three of them coming in, he eased his expression and stretched out his hand to help, "Don't see outside, sit down and talk!" ”
It didn't take long to sit down, but after a little greeting, Mrs. Shang said that it was time to go and say goodbye to the old lady.
So they hugged Mrs. Shang's mother and son together to the Fengci Hall where the old lady lived, and Zou Qiongruo and several girls were already here first, chattering around the old lady.
Seeing Mrs. Shang and others coming, they hurriedly dispersed to greet them.
After the ceremony, the old lady asked everyone to sit, asked Mrs. Shang a few words about the preparations for the birthday banquet, and kindly exchanged a few words with Xi Fuwei and the others, and watched the grandchildren frolicking.
Xi Fuwei noticed that Old Madam Zhuang's interest didn't seem to be very high.
Mrs. Shang is similar, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have no sense of celebration, and even there is a worry between the eyebrows.
But this is not surprising, the Zou family has no friendship with the Dingguo Mansion and the Ministry of Industry, and now that Mrs. Zhuang has a birthday, the young ladies of these two families are actually coming to the door as guests, how can it not make people think more?
"Sister Shen, Sister Yao." The atmosphere didn't last long, and with the arrival of the guests, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law quickly changed to a warm greeting.
Seeing this situation, Fu Suixian's eyes flashed, so he proposed, "There are a lot of people here, and we don't know each other, why don't we go out for a walk and breathe?" ”
Yao Zhuosu's previous family background should not be as good as the Fu family and the Xi family, the first time I saw this battle, I was a little stage frightened, almost following Fu Suixian and Xi Fuwei step by step, watching them pick up the tea bowl and put it down, watching them put it down, they were trying to imitate, and nodded unexpectedly: "Okay!" ”
Xi Fuwei knew that Fu Suixian said this, but it was because most of the guests who came here were talking to Mrs. Zhuang and Mrs. Shang, and the younger ones would rather be funny with Zou Qiongruo and them, knowing that the three of them were just female gentlemen, at most they greeted lightly, and they had no intention of talking at all. It's useless to stay consciously, it's better to go out and try your luck.
After all, the rules of Zou Mansion are usually separated from the front yard and the back yard, and they are not allowed to pass at all.
But today, for the sake of excitement, although the men in the front yard are still not allowed to come to the backyard casually, the garden can be entered regardless of the front yard or the backyard.
"It's fine." Although she saw Fu Qiuxian's plan, Xi Fuwei also pushed the boat along the way: Now the two nobles have not arrived, but it is estimated that it is about the same, although Shen Weilan hinted that she was not allowed to avoid it, but she didn't say that she had to wait here all the time!
As long as she has met with these two, it will not be considered her disobedience...... Regardless of whether Shen Weilan thinks so or not, Xi Fuwei sees it this way anyway.
So the three of them walked out together, and sure enough, after going out, Fu Qiuxian proposed to go to the garden: "At this time, the guests are all coming to the old lady, let's not bump into the distinguished guests." Why don't you go to a quiet corner of the garden and sit and talk? ”
Yao Zhuosu and Xi Fuwei didn't object, so it was decided.
However, after arriving at the garden, Fu Qiuxian was a little embarrassed, because the garden was very depressed in this season, and although charcoal pots were also placed in the garden every other section of the road to keep warm, under the howling north wind, there was no indoor warmth.
So at this time, except for the people who served the charcoal, there was no trace of anyone else.
Not to mention the Ruyi Langjun candidate that Fu Xuanxian had in mind.
"It's weird cold outside, let's find a place to hide from the wind, shall we?" Seeing this, Yao Zhuosu proposed, "Otherwise, it's stupid to walk around here." ”
Fu Qiuxian's face flushed slightly, and said, "Okay." ”
Although the three of them have been in Zou Mansion for some days, they have not visited this garden, they have walked a small half circle, and asked the servants to find a small Xuan built on a rockery.
Perhaps because of today's birthday banquet, this Xiaoxuan doesn't look like people come often on weekdays, but at the moment he also sprinkled it clean, lit a charcoal basin, and put incense burners and spices on the small table, as well as candied fruit on the fruit plate.
Seeing this, Fu Suixian lit the incense burner, and gave the candied fruit to Yao Zhuosu and Xi Fuwei, and also called Hongzhi Lusha and Huangsu to eat.
Huang Su is the maid assigned by the Zou family to Yao Zhuosu.
After spending a while like this, I heard a voice from outside.
Fu Qiuxian's eyes lit up and said, "But there is a distinguished guest coming?" Then let's not occupy a place, so that the distinguished guests have no place to stay. ”
So he went to the door, and opened the open door to see.
As a result, his face changed suddenly, and he closed the door without saying a word!
Seeing this, Xi Fuwei and Yao Zhuosu both asked, "Sister Fu, what's wrong?" Who's out there? ”
Fu Suixian smiled reluctantly before saying, "Well, it's Zou Gongzi!" ”
When Xi Fuwei heard this, she said in her heart No wonder Fu Suixian is like seeing a ghost, this banquet today, Fu Suixian has high hopes, if Zou Yiang scolds her in public again, making her lose face, this kind of celebrity gathering in Yanzhou, as well as the occasion where gentlemen from other places come to congratulate, may be to break her idea of marrying into wealth in the future.
"What are you doing here?" It's just that Fu Suixian wanted to avoid Zou Yiang, but Zou Yiang just wanted to come to the door.
He took a few steps up the rockery, pushed open the door, and looked at the people inside with a smile, "It was Mr. Fu just now, right?" I saw you open the door beamingly, and thought you wanted to beckon me over to warm up! Who knew you would close the door immediately! I don't know where I offended you, and you want you to dislike me like this? ”
Fu Xuanxian's face was very bad, and he said: "Zou Gongzi misunderstood, I just thought that we are all girls here, and men and women don't kiss each other, so I didn't dare to call you." ”
"Oh, is that telling me to avoid it now?" Zou Yiang stared at her with a playful gaze, "You still think I'm an eyesore and don't want to see me, huh?" ”
Fu Xuanxian pursed his lips and tried to squeeze out a smile: "Childe thinks too much, how is this possible?" ”
"Ben Gongzi also thinks that Ben Gongzi is so likable, how can it be annoying?" Zou Yiang said with a smile, his eyes turned to Xi Fuwei and Yao Zhuosu again, and waved his hand casually, "Forget it, don't disturb your girls' gathering...... Ben Gongzi went fishing on the side. ”
Fu Suixian couldn't ask for it, and immediately said: "Son, go slowly!" ”
When Yao Zhuosu heard this, he wanted to speak and stopped.
Xi Fuwei was still not afraid of him, and said: "If it is cold today, there are few people in the garden, and the son wants to go to the lake, it is better to be careful." ”
Strange again, "Today's old lady's birthday, doesn't the son have to serve the old lady?" ”
"And then those ladies and old ladies recommended their girls in a different way?" Zou Yiang rolled his eyes, "I finally managed to get out...... When you go back, don't say you'll see me here!" Do you hear that? ”
"Don't worry, Childe, we will never say it!" Fu Suixian said in her heart that this scourge is willing to hide here and not go around the banquet, but she really did a good thing, otherwise she was really afraid that when she was talking to a certain Ruyi Lang Jun, Zou Yiang ran out to dismantle the stage, making her embarrassed.
Zou Yiang let out a "hmm", turned around and went down.
Seeing this, Fu Xuanxian was obviously relieved, and felt that this was manifested in Xi Fuwei and Yao Zhuosu, who were very faceless, pursed his lips, and said: "Zou Gongzi is also this age, and he himself said just now that he was impatient for people to show him his future wife. I'm really afraid that he will stay, although he doesn't have any ideas, and when it spreads, it becomes ours. ”
Xi Fuwei echoed a few words with Yao Zhuosu, and the topic was shifting to the guests who came to the old lady of Hezhuang today, when she suddenly heard a sharp voice not far away, "It's not good!" Childe has fallen overboard! Come on, someone!! ”
The people in Xuanzhong were all shocked!