Chapter Twenty-Three: And Then to the White Mansion
Chapter 23 and then to the White Mansion
White House.
Today's Bai family is really not as lively as one or two, and it is approaching noon at this moment, and the dignitaries and dignitaries who should come are almost all here.
A high platform was built in the middle of the courtyard, on which there were prostitutes singing and dancing, and the sound of gongs and drums sounded from time to time, but the already lively atmosphere of Baifu was pushed to a higher position.
The play "The Pipa Story" was staged from the morning to this moment, and finally played the character Zhao Wuniang in the play to enter Beijing to find a husband.
The leather drum was struck hard, and the people on the stage took a unified curtain call, drawing a successful end.
Next is today's highlight "The Legend of Yue Fei", and the thirteen prostitutes on the stage began to rearrange the stage with the help of the little maid.
After a while, a graceful woman came out of the high platform, although this woman was dressed in a costume and couldn't see her original skin color clearly, but the curvy and slender figure was also the softness that only people in the painting could have.
I saw the woman standing on the high platform, her lips opened slightly, and before the play started, the crowd crowded in the courtyard of the Bai family had already boiled.
"The golden bottle, the golden bottle... It turned out to be a golden bottle..."
"Sure enough, it's Baifu, and only Baifu can invite a fairy like Jin Zhu'er to come in person..."
"I have long heard that this golden bottle has the color of the country and the city, the poems and songs, the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are all fine, and today's wall is a true face, and it really deserves to be the head of the group of people in my Fuzhou Mansion..."
"Tsk... But sixteen years old, you look at her typhoon, a smile, even the slightest loss to everyone, given time, our Fuzhou Mansion, this ford, I am afraid that sooner or later we will not be able to trap this phoenix..."
……
The golden bottle appeared in Baifu, which gave the Bai family a big face.
"Dipping the light of Brother Bai, today I finally saw the real person of the Golden Bottle, Brother Bai has fulfilled my dream, in the future, Brother Bai will be sent wherever I have my appearance..."
"Yes, in the future, if anyone in our Fish Dragon Academy dares not to give face to Brother Bai, I, Li Sheng, will never agree..."
……
Enjoying everyone's praise, Bai Luxiu's chin rose slightly, and the smug look on his fat face was needless to say.
"Brother Bai, Heming is brave, after a while to pay tribute to the old lady's birthday, can you invite Jin Zhu'er to have a drink?"
Next to Bai Luxiu, a handsome-looking man in white dressed in white was right.
“… It's just a trifle..."
Bai Luxiu raised his head and looked at the man obliquely, and said with a smile: "Where do you still use Brother Heming to invite, no matter how beautiful the golden bottle is, it's just a play, Brother Heming is the first talent in my Fuzhou Mansion, and if you want the golden bottle to come over to accompany the wine, you can afford her, and when the play is over, I will send someone to call her over to serve..."
At this point, everyone stopped talking, and all looked at the high platform intently, and for a while, no one in the entire White Mansion spoke except for the voice of the golden bottle, which was like a hollow valley orchid.
This is normal, after all, it is not so easy to invite the golden bottle, and it is not easy to see it last time, of course, it is necessary to see a good book.
However, the crowd was quiet for not long, and the scene had just been played to the mother-in-law's tattoo, and when the old lady Bai's wrinkled face showed a satisfied smile, the courtyard suddenly resounded with thunderous applause.
However, just when this burst of applause had just stopped, a woman's unbearable voice suddenly sounded in the huge courtyard: "Sister Shuyin, don't be so bullying, right?" If you want to say that I, Qin Ruojiao, are not qualified to sit next to my grandmother, my mother is my grandmother's biological daughter, why can even an outsider sit next to my grandmother, but my mother can't?
Could it be that my father's official position is not as big as my uncle's? ”
Oh?
What's the situation?
Why did you get into trouble?
Hearing this, where was everyone still in the mood to watch "The Biography of Yue Fei", all their eyes followed the direction of Qin Ruojiao's finger.
Sure enough, no one made trouble before, and everyone didn't pay attention to it, but now the trouble opened, and I saw a woman with a rough complexion and a wrinkled woman who was very cleanly washed, sitting next to the old lady Bai.
As far as Zhou's down-and-out dress is concerned, not to mention compared with these guests who came to celebrate her birthday, even the subordinates of Baifu are richer than what she wears.
At this moment, everyone's faces became weird.
"Who is that woman? Is you qualified to sit with the old lady of the Bai family? ”
"Shame, look at her disgraced face, don't be a beggar who blends in and eats for nothing and doesn't know how to be polite and sits in the wrong position?"
"Can't you? When I came, I saw that there were people guarding the outside of the Bai Mansion, if there was no invitation, or the permission of the Bai family, how could I get in? ”
"Could it be a relative of the Bai family?"
"Don't make a fuss, what is the status of Baifu? How could there be such poor relatives? ”
"Besides, even if it's a relative, the position next to the old lady is not something that anyone can sit on, right? Will the Bai family have such relatives who don't know how to be polite? ”
"That's it, no wonder the daughter of the Qin Officials is going to be mad, if this matter is changed to me, I can't bear it, the Qin Officials are also Beijing officials, and they took a family to Fuzhou to celebrate the old lady's birthday, but they were humiliated like this, and everyone would have to be angry..."
"Isn't it, there is a dignified official in the household department, even if the power and official position are not as good as Bai Tiju, but the wife of the family is still the biological daughter of Mrs. Bai, this is not qualified to arrange one table for others, and even if you get another table, this is obviously a slap in the face of the Qin Officials..."
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All kinds of weird eyes looked at the Zhou family, and the whole courtyard was hotly discussed, and everyone muttered one by one, but most of them were holding grievances for Qin Yisi, the son-in-law of the Bai family, and looking at the eyes of the poor ghost of the Zhou family, all of them were full of disgust and disgust.
Bearing this pair of vicious gazes, Zhou Shi could still sit still, and suddenly got up from his seat, lowered his head, and kept rubbing the corners of his clothes.
In fact, when the people of the Bai family specially arranged a place for her before, she felt that something was wrong, and later when Mrs. Bai appeared beside her, she wanted to leave no less than ten times in her heart.
However, because today is Mrs. Bai's birthday, Bai Qian has been pulling herself by the side, so she has persevered until now.
"I'm sorry, I was in the wrong place..."
Zhou whispered, her shoulders shrunk, her body trembling, like the humble, helpless, and frightened of a slave who had made a big mistake in front of his master.
Yes, Zhou is helpless, humble, and frightened!
Now, how could she not know that this was a bloodless sword specially arranged by the Bai family to humiliate her, which had stabbed her to pieces.
Weak, she is a complete weakling, she knows that she is a poor person who does not even have a place to live, and there will be no one to help her.
Therefore, she greeted the storm of all this with the most humble gesture.
Unfortunately, her faint voice was drowned out by the noise around her!
No one heard her confess, of course, maybe a few of the women next to her did.
All the emotions of the people seemed to be compressed to the extreme, and they exploded in an instant at this moment.
Sitting in the wrong place?
Is it something that you can do if you sit in the wrong position?
Suddenly, a woman at the same table stood up, pointed at Zhou's nose, and howled viciously: "Today is my mother's sixtieth birthday, and those who can sit at the table are all from our Bai family, may I ask what you are, and dare to sit here in a grand manner?" ”
Another woman said in a weird way: "Shameless and skinless thing, I have put up with you for a long time, if Jiaojiao'er didn't say it, I really thought you were a great character, even my second sister was driven to another table, but you are sitting here..."
Another woman opposite said: "Sister-in-law will definitely not make such a low-level mistake, it must be you, a woman, who is sitting around, and the good family banquet has been disturbed by you, you say, what should I do?" You see, my mother is in a bad mood now, how do you pay for it? ”
……
Zhu Lian couldn't give Zhou a chance to speak and explain, and a table of people pointed at Zhou and cursed endlessly, making her seem to have committed some kind of angry crime.
Zhou lowered his head, and tears silently dripped onto the table in front of him, leaving a puddle of poignant scratches.
"Mother..."
However, at this moment, a man's voice sounded in the courtyard.
The voice was not loud, and it was a little trembling, as if it was choked, and it seemed to be angry, but it could clearly penetrate all the noise and accurately fall into the ears of everyone present.