Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Reception Banquet in the Le Qun Hall (Part II)

Although there is an old folk saying, "Good men don't eat family meals, and good women don't wear wedding clothes", who can be a parent is willing to find a poor son-in-law and let her daughter suffer from poverty.

Not to mention Anlu Prefecture, even in the Ming Dynasty, the county lord of the Prince's Mansion wanted to "marry high", but he couldn't. The rest is to pick the big one in the basket and find a wealthy and worry-free family.

Wang Qi and Shen Hexuan, speaking of which, what the two have in common is "having a car and a house, and both parents are dead". Needless to say, although Shen Hexuan is the grandson of the Shen family, his parents died early, and now he is his second uncle.

Thinking like this, the Taoist idiot showed a little strangeness. In this way, isn't he also a good son-in-law? There are no parents, my grandmother is old, and I have an older sister who is about to get married.

The only difference is that Wang Qi and Shen Hexuan are both brothers of the family, and when they become adults, they will share the family property equally with their uncles as the head of a house. Even if they have nothing to do for a lifetime, the wealth they get is enough for them to chew for a lifetime. Are you a fool? There is no need to wait for adulthood, he already has his own property under his name, the thirty acres of dowry field of his biological mother, and the six acres of land obtained after being evenly divided between the outer nine houses and Shun Niang.

Regarding the land rent and the like, the Taoist idiot has already done some understanding, because Huguang is located in the south of the Yangtze River, and the crops can be harvested twice a year, so the land rent in Zhongtian is one stone of rice; Ueda is one and a half stones. Regardless of the 30 acres of dowry fields, it is only said that the rent of the 12 acres of ancestral land in the outer nine rooms can be collected in a year when there is no natural disaster.

Rice is ground into rice, and the yield is only seventy percent, so thirteen stone rice is nine stone rice, the price of rice is seven yuan per stone, and the rent for a year is six taels and three dollars of silver. Since most of the rice needed to be left for rations, there was only a limited amount of grain that could be exchanged for silver money, and there was basically no silver money in hand.

In the outer nine-room kitchen, there is only a small jar of rice, and the rest is changed millet. Just because one stone of rice can be exchanged for one and a half stones of millet, let the family eat a few more dry meals.

Thinking of these, the Taoist idiot actually had a little bit of longing in his heart, thinking of his grandmother and sister at home, and thinking of the old monk and tiger head on the West Mountain.

At this time, I heard an "oops". It was Xiao Lu Bing, holding his stomach, his little face shrunk into a ball.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that his little face was pale, Dao Idiot didn't dare to ignore it, and asked with a little nervousness.

Lu Bing said a little embarrassedly: "I ate a few more fried cakes at breakfast, and I was in a panic in my stomach, I was afraid that I would have to go to the clean room to squat for a while!" ”

The Taoist idiot was speechless for a moment, opened the door, and pointed out the location of the clean room to him.

Lu Bing held his stomach and flew away.

Dao idiot looked back at the upper room, and there were faint bursts of laughter. He didn't want to go back to join in the fun, so he paced outside.

As soon as I walked into Dacheng Courtyard, I happened to be greeted by an old woman, followed by many pretty maids with food boxes, striding towards Lequn Courtyard.

Seeing the idiot, the old lady took a moment at her feet and said: "The old slave is ordered by the princess to come over to deliver wine and food, and the little prince must not go far, the banquet will be held later." ”

The idiot hurriedly said: "Thank you Mama for mentioning it, I just turned around in the front yard and will go back immediately." ”

The old lady smiled and took the maids to continue to the Lequn Courtyard.

Dao Idiot touched his chin, this grandmother is most likely the so-called "Zhou Mama" in Fan's mouth, the strange thing is that she seems to have confirmed her identity, but she has been in for a long time, and she doesn't remember seeing her.

The Taoist idiot thought as he looked around at Dachengyuan.

Starting tomorrow, everyone will be studying here.

Although he was still a little curious about the two library pavilions that entered the first courtyard, he could calculate the time, and the table should be placed, and if it was not good to delay any longer, the idiot wanted to turn around and go back.

At this time, a "snap" sound was heard.

The idiot paused, followed the sound, and there was a little girl in Tsing Yi lying at the door of the corner, and there was a red lacquer fruit basket next to it, which contained half-blue plums, and many were scattered on the ground.

There are also three or five purple-red plums, rolling to the side of the idiot.

The idiot bent down to pick up the plum and walked over.

The little girl seemed to have bruised her hand, turned over and sat up, holding her wrist, tears rolling in her eyes.

She was only eight or nine years old, with a double beard, white and tender, and she looked very pitiful and cute. I saw her hurrying with Guo Lan and coming from the kitchen. But it's not like the kitchen should send such a little maid to deliver things.

The idiot approached, squared the crooked food box, put the plums in his hand, and went to pick up the other fallen plums.

The little maid only then realized that there were other people there, and hurriedly got up from the ground with her hands and feet, blinking her wet eyes and looking at the idiot, her eyes full of curiosity.

The eyes of the idiot slid over the faint mutton fat jade bracelet at the cuffs of the little maid, and he was speechless for a while. Speechless is speechless, and it is not good to deal with children, so he picked up the other fallen plums and put them in the fruit basket.

After a while, the Taoist idiot packed all the scattered fruits.

The little girl was a little uncomfortable, and said in a low voice: "Thank you...... Thank you ......."

The idiot knew that he was not good at delaying, so he had to go back to Lequntang immediately. However, this fruit basket of plums weighs four or five pounds, which is indeed a bit heavy for a seven or eight-year-old child.

Therefore, he said, "The courtyard is about to open, can I help you bring this fruit?" ”

The little girl's face was full of confusion, pinched her fingers, and said in a milky voice: "But I...... The kitchen lady sent me ......"

This little girl is so cute.

The idiot couldn't help but reach out and pinch the little girl's face.

The little girl's eyes widened and rounded, and when the idiot withdrew her hand, she realized what was going on, and her little face immediately turned red, glaring at the idiot angrily.

Dao Idiot smiled and said, "I'll pick up something, if you want to go in, just follow me." ”

When the little girl heard this, her eyes lit up, and she immediately nodded as if she was pounding rice.

The two of them entered the Lequn Courtyard one after the other.

When I passed by the clean room, I heard a voice coming from inside: "Is it Second Brother Wang?" ”

The Taoist idiot replied and asked, "Why haven't you come out yet, are you okay?" ”

Inside, Lu Bing's voice was already crying: "Second brother Wang, there is no toilet paper in the clean room, second brother is looking for a few pieces of rice paper to use with me, don't let people know, it's a shame to ...... dead."

Before he finished speaking, the little girl who followed behind the idiot couldn't help but laugh out loud.

When Lu Bing heard it inside, he just thought that he was laughing, and said, "Second Brother Wang, you laugh at me, it's really unkind......

The idiot glanced back at the little girl, the little girl's eyebrows and eyes were crooked, she covered her mouth with her little hands, and her shoulders trembled.

Dao Idiot stretched out his finger and tapped her forehead, Fang Chong said to the clean room: "I'll go get the paper for you, don't worry." ”

After that, he went back to the house and took out a few pieces of rice paper, and stuffed it into Lu Bing through the door.

In this process, the little girl was behind him, with a curious look on her face.

It's just that when Lu Bing pushed the door out, she retreated behind the Taoist idiot and covered herself tightly.

Lu Bing came out with a wrinkled face, lowered his head and sniffed his body, his face was full of disgust, and said, "It really stinks...... The second brother helped me say to His Royal Highness, the big guy will open the table first, there is no need to wait for me, my family will go to change clothes and come over. ”

After speaking, he didn't wait for the idiot to reply, and ran out of the Lequn Courtyard.

The little girl breathed a sigh of relief and came out from behind the idiot.

Dao Idiot looked at the little girl with a smile and said, "Your Highness and Jiang Erlang are here, aren't you afraid?" ”

The little girl straightened her chest and said in a milky voice: "What are you afraid of?" I was ordered to deliver fruit to Mama Zhou. ”

Seeing that the little girl was like this, the idiot didn't say much, and carried the fruit basket into the music group.

As soon as he appeared, he heard Wang Qi pulling the male duck's throat and saying, "Where did you go naughty with Lu Boy?" The table has been set up, just waiting for the two of you. ”

It turned out that the people were no longer in the hall, but turned to the dining room and took their seats.

Wang Qi's position was facing the door, so as soon as the Taoist idiot came in, he saw it.

At the door of the dining room, Mama Zhou stood with the maids.

The idiot said: "I'm really sorry for the delay outside." ”

As he spoke, he entered the dining room. Everyone else was sitting and couldn't see behind him, but Mama Zhou couldn't help but widen her eyes when she saw that something was wrong.

The idiot only couldn't do it, greeted Mama Zhou, and then entered the dining room.

Seeing that the idiot came back alone, the prince wondered: "What about Lu Bing?" ”

The idiot replied: "He just got his clothes dirty outside, and he went to change his clothes at home, let me tell His Highness that the banquet will be held first, and there is no need to wait for him." ”

Shizi smiled: "Just let him out for a while, he can naughtily dirty his clothes, he really can't see it, and he won't stop." He said this, but did not mention the opening of the feast.

There are two vacant seats on the table, one is between Liu Congyun and Wang Qi, and the other is between Liu Congyun and Lu Wenzhao.

The Taoist idiot saw that the position in this banquet was according to the position in the Fang Cai Hall, so he sat down on Wang Qi's right hand.

At this time, a maid came over with a wet towel and said in a low voice: "The maid serves the son to clean his hands." ”

When the idiot heard this, he stretched out his arm and let her serve.

Everyone's eyes fell on the idiot, watching him accept the service of the beautiful maid without changing his face, with different expressions.

The Taoist idiot who saw it was a little confused, he thought that this was a service that everyone enjoyed, and he didn't want to be a maverick, so he followed it, why did he feel that something was wrong?

It is true that everyone has a beautiful maid to serve and clean their hands, but everyone has different reactions. After all, he is a teenager, and he is somewhat "shy" in the face of a beautiful maid. But except for Chen Chizhong, everyone else also grew up in Fugui Township, and there is nothing out of shape.

But thinking that it was a maid in the palace, her attitude was extremely polite, either "tired sister", or "thank you sister", like a Taoist idiot who didn't raise his eyelids, and he shouldn't say a word, there was really no one.

Because the Taoist idiot put the fruit on the ground, and there was a lot of dust on the palms of her hands, the beautiful maid wiped it very carefully, bowed down, and wiped it one finger at a time.

Wang Qi watched from the side, only to feel that his body was a little unbearable, so he tightened his hips tightly, and looked at the eyes of the Taoist idiot, already envious, jealous and hateful.

The idiot really didn't pay attention to the beautiful maid at hand, and seemed to be looking at the seat, but in fact, the corner of his eye kept looking at the door.

Mama Zhou took the little girl, walked through the middle hall, and avoided the tea room......

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