"Congratulatory gift, what congratulatory gift?"

Gu Jiang suddenly looked confused. Didn't you say that you wouldn't take any money?

The businessman looked at Gu Jiang like a monster and explained: "How can you not prepare a congratulatory gift when you come to the Hou Mansion for a banquet, this is a rule, it is not good to say, if there is no congratulatory gift, it will not even look good when you enter the door." ”

Gu Jiang looked at the other party and asked, "What about you, didn't you also come empty-handed?"

The merchant pointed behind him and said, "I'm ready!"

Behind him, a subordinate was pushing a small cart with more than a dozen brocade boxes of various sizes.

Gu Jiang looked at it for a while, not to mention the gifts inside, just looking at the brocade boxes that were obviously exquisite, he didn't expect that this person didn't even have an invitation, and a lot of congratulatory gifts were prepared.

"I said, give me your extra box. ”

After all, the merchant had a request for others, so he naturally didn't dare to shirk it, so he thought about it and took a brocade box, and said, "Come on, there is also a pair of fine lion heads here for you." ”

Opened the box, and saw that the pair of lion heads were indeed good, Gu Jiang had seen such a good condition for the first time, and it was inevitable that he would feel a little distressed when he gave it as a congratulatory gift, so he put the lion head into his arms.

"Do you know what Marquis Jingyuan likes, and what hobbies do you usually have?"

Gu Jiang then asked again, and the merchant frowned and thought for a long time and said, "I haven't been in contact with Hou Ye, but I've heard people mention that Hou Ye is said to be good at wine." ”

Gu Jiang glanced at the merchant's pile of gifts again and asked, "Since the wine is good, didn't you send some wine?"

The merchant smiled and said: "I want to send wine, but with the identity of the Hou Ye, I have never seen what kind of good wine, I can get a hundred years of wine, and it is not a joke to get it to the Hou Mansion." ”

Gu Jiang didn't pay attention to it so much, and ordered Sun Xiaoyi to continue to maintain order, and walked towards the side of the street.

Not long after leaving, he found a wine shop, Gu Jiang spent twenty taels of silver to buy an extremely exquisite wine jar, and asked for a jar of wine casually, the wine was very cheap, because of the wine jar, the boss was not embarrassed to ask for money.

Walking to the door, he saw a vegetable stall again, Gu Jiang casually bought some more things and put them in the brocade box, and then walked towards the gate of the Hou Mansion with satisfaction.

There was a commotion in the crowd, and many people rushed to both sides of the road, and the originally wide street immediately gave way to a road, and everyone's eyes were full of horror, and they involuntarily hid behind.

Gu Jiang looked towards the crowd, and saw that in the middle of the street, a huge leopard with black spots and snow-white fur swaggered towards him, others were afraid, but Gu Jiang didn't have any worries, and immediately greeted him, this is an old acquaintance.

Touching the leopard's head, the leopard glanced at Gu Jiang in displeasure, and then sniffed it into the brocade box in his hand.

I didn't expect that the leopard, which was already huge, hadn't seen it for a few days, and it was bigger again, so it seemed that the food in Kong Miao's place should be good.

After seeing the leopard, Gu Jiang couldn't help but look around, and sure enough, he saw Kong Miao changing his normal state, wearing a bright and luxurious long skirt and looking at an antique calligraphy and painting stall, holding a jade carving in his hand, looking carefully, looking at it from a distance, like a girl.

The jade carving was originally exquisite, but it lost its luster in front of Kong Miao.

"Teacher Kong Miao, why are you here too?"

Gu Jiang patted Kong Miao behind him, and the other party was also a little surprised when he turned around and saw Gu Jiang.

"I heard yesterday that you also received an invitation, and it turned out to be true. ”

Gu Jiang nodded, and then asked, "Teacher, do you also have an invitation?"

Kong Miao raised his hand, and he already had an extra invitation and said: "Speaking of which, the son and young lady of the Hou Ye Mansion are both students of our academy, so they have sent me invitations to the banquet in the past few years. ”

After speaking, Kong Miao picked up the jade carving in his hand and asked the boss, "How much is this?"

"Two hundred taels of silver are not counter-offered. ”

Only then did Gu Jiang understand that Kong Miao was also here to buy congratulatory gifts.

"This thing is so expensive!"

Gu Jiang didn't expect that a piece of jade carving was worth a lot of silver.

Kong Miao shook her head helplessly and said, "Who said it wasn't, who would usually spend two hundred taels of silver to buy this thing, but the two hundred taels in front of me are a little too cheap." ”

As she spoke, Kong Miao had already put down the jade carving and continued to look for more valuable gifts.

Gu Jiang asked puzzledly, "This jade carving is already good." ”

Kong Miao sighed and said: "You and I are willing to come, but this invitation is here, if you don't come, you can't do it, and the congratulatory gift can't be too shabby when you enter the door, after all, it's about the face of Chongyun Academy." ”

Gu Jiang's heart moved when he heard this, and he pulled Kong Miao and walked towards the gate of the Hou Mansion.

"You threw this invitation away, let's go in together, won't this save a congratulatory gift?"

Kong Miao was still a little confused, Gu Jiang had already brought her gold post in front of her.

Kong Miao glanced at it, and her face immediately showed surprise, with this golden post, she can indeed enter the banquet with Gu Jiang in the name of a person, and she will be a subordinate if she is a big deal, with Kong Miao's character, she doesn't care about these at all, she can save a lot of silver, which is far more important than these false names.

"Are you ready to congratulate?"

Gu Jiang raised the brocade box in his hand and said, "No, it's all done." ”

The two came to the door of the Hou Mansion with a smile and a smile, but when she saw Gu Jiang's real lineup, she immediately regretted it.

"Didn't you say it's just the two of us?"

"I mean, let's go in together, when did you say two people?"

"So many people, an invitation, what do you think?"

"Didn't you say that you could bring people in? ”

The two of them were muttering, and the gate of the Hou Mansion quickly gave way to a road, and all the people in the mansion showed strange expressions on their faces at the same time.

With the leopard to open the way, Gu Jiang didn't need to worry about the traffic problem at all, Sun Xiaoyi stood at the front, waving the red flag in his hand, and the two teams, there were more than 200 people, and they followed Gu Jiang's golden post into the Hou Mansion majestically.

Jin Tie was indeed able to bring people in without restrictions, but Gu Jiang's shameless behavior was unprecedented in the banquet of the Hou Mansion.

Kong Miao's pretty face was already flushed, and she hung her head and didn't dare to speak in the crowd.

Finally it was Gu Jiang's turn to step into the door, the steward on the side glanced at Gu Jiang with disdain, and after receiving the golden post, he confirmed that it was correct, and took the congratulatory gift in Gu Jiang's hand.

What Gu Jiang didn't expect was that after the other party received the congratulatory gift, he immediately opened it to check.

After the steward opened the brocade box, his face turned pale, and it took a long time to recover a little blood, and he reluctantly took Gu Jiang's jar of wine to his mouth, smelled it for a while, and his nose couldn't help twitching.

I only heard a subordinate on the side singing at the top of his voice: "Chongyun Academy, Gu Jiang, congratulations...... Half a pound of leeks, cucumbers...... Two cucumbers, a jar of inferior liquor. ”

Gu Jiang glared at the man angrily, took the wine jar and threw the eldest uncle into it, and then took the wine jar over again and said, "You can see clearly, who said that this is inferior liquor, this is medicinal wine!"