Chapter 16: Old Friends

Before the Zhu family came out of the cabinet, she was known as a talented woman among the nobles in Beijing, although she was married, but the ladies who had a head and face in the circle of the capital gave her some face, and now a few hairpins with gold and silver women came up. Among them, there are many princesses with noble status and easy not to talk to others, and there are also Mrs. Yushi who can't interject but flatters from time to time, which is really full of flowers and is not lively.

Li was not even a chaperone in this crowd, but she always had to squeeze forward and interject two sentences, but no one cared about her, and even her loud laughter failed to arouse their curiosity. Her old face flushed, and she finally stopped being bored with herself, and instead pushed Rong Jin and a few other concubines back, and pulled Rong He forward to stand with Rong Qing.

Rong Jin and her two sisters glanced at each other, and reluctantly took a step back to sit in the second row. There is no way, whoever makes the Li family their aunt, it is always difficult to disobey her in public.

Then surrounded by everyone, a heroic woman walked out of the attic, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a hearty laugh, she was wearing a long placket with gold silk sprinkled all over the bean, covered with dark green flowing clouds and dark patterns, and the purple jade forbidden step on her waist jingled with her steps, showing a rare ease and calmness in a group of women.

"This is Mrs. Cheng," Rong Zheng poked Rong Jin with his elbow and reminded quietly.

Rong Jin glanced at her suspiciously, and said in her heart, whose wife is this, what does it have to do with her? Now she wants to know if there is anything interesting at this birthday banquet, is it just a group of women standing together and slapping each other's ass, pretending to be modest, and then comparing whose girls are better-looking?

If you knew that going to the banquet was to see these, she might as well stay in the house to make grasshoppers and be a female celebrity!

However, she guessed correctly, after a round of greetings, it was the time for the girls to pull out the beauty.

Mrs. Cheng and the rest swept over at a glance, their eyes were fixed on Rong Jin, and for a while, even the noise could not be heard.

Rong Jin is like a pile of beautiful jade faintly shining in the ordinary sand, which cannot be ignored.

Zhu looked displeased, and squinted his eyes at Rong Jin, who was lowering his head and fiddling with his fingers.

Last time, one Rong Zheng was enough to annoy her, but this time there is another Rong Jin, and she is the first to take the lead.

Rong Qingze's lips were pursed, and she raised her head more and more, she has always been like this, the more she can't compare to her, the more arrogant she is, so that people can't ignore it.

"I haven't seen Rong Qing for half a year, this body has grown again, and it looks like a daffodil!" Mrs. Cheng stepped forward to take Rong Qing's hand, and the elder's loving color was overflowing.

Mrs. Cheng squatted to greet her, and the more Mrs. Cheng looked at it, the more she liked it, stroked the top of her hair, and couldn't help but sigh that she was old, and the juniors had caught up.

Rong Qing has followed the Zhu family to participate in this banquet since she was a child, these elders almost watched her grow up, and her stable and noble temperament is also the only one among the nobles in Beijing, Mrs. Cheng has long been in love and wants to marry her back as a daughter-in-law.

The Cheng family has practiced martial arts for generations, except for the only son of this generation, Cheng Zonglun, who is an all-round talent in civil and military affairs, and his ancestors are all martial artists who can only dance with guns and sticks, even Mrs. Cheng is no exception.

In order to take off the hat of the martial artist, the Cheng family very much needs the niece of the current Hanlin University scholar to support the lintel and raise the heirs.

After Rong Qingbai saw it, it was the rest of the sisters, and the Li family couldn't wait to introduce their daughter, "Rong He, why don't you meet Madame soon?" ”

Rong He smiled like a trumpet flower, quite the true biography of the Li family, she stepped forward and said softly, and said pretentiously: "Mrs. Wanfu Jin'an." ”

Mrs. Cheng squinted at Li in confusion, and when she saw that she was very close to Zhu, she immediately realized. She smiled faintly and said, "The girls of the Lin family are all good, they are all good," after saying this scene, she crossed over to Rong He and asked Rong Zheng and the others.

Then Rong Jin's sisters also saluted Mrs. Cheng, Liuhou and Mrs. Wu'anhou one by one.

And the Li family and Ronghe could only watch these concubines they looked down on, Mrs. Decheng and all the wives greeted them warmly, asking about the words, asking about the birthday, and hated to marry someone back now.

The Marquis's House likes Rong Qing the most, and the slightly lower ones like Rong Zheng and Rong Jin, especially Rong Jin, who is born like a porcelain doll and attracts pain.

Mrs. Wu Anhou couldn't help but reach out and pinch her face twice, and seeing that she was well-behaved and didn't like words, she wanted to talk to her, and almost put a red jade bracelet on her wrist on her hand, but Rong Jin refused her again and again.

Only Rong and no one cares about it, in fact, the official wives are shrewd, their own identity is not enough for the concubine, and the concubine is also good, after all, the concubine of a small family has more benefits than the concubine of Zuo Yushi.

But Rong Jin only felt uncomfortable, she went to the banquet to make friends, and to do some interesting things that can't be done in the house, even if it's a bow! Why is it like a monkey playing tricks to be surrounded by a group of people, and from time to time to be pinched.

She can't leave if she wants to, and she has to always pay attention to whether the rules are wrong, seeing the other sisters smiling slightly, she can only smile and pretend to like being pinched.

I want to go home!

Until the attic was introduced into the chrysanthemum garden, the stage had been erected, and the hall facing the stage was the seat of the male guests, and the female guests were led into the wing room by the maids to watch the play.

Rong Jin wiped her ravaged little red face with a handkerchief, and sat down on the seat with the four sisters.

Originally, I paid attention to the official seats, and there were too many people in the middle of the aisle, so I had to put ten rows of chairs, a small table of huanghuali for every two rose chairs, a pot of tea and two stacks of tea fruits, and maids shuttling in each row and adding tea.

The county lord's wife ordered a blessing from the heavenly official. The singer who painted red and green appeared on the stage, and his lively and bright singing voice attracted a burst of applause from the audience.

Rong Jin is also an old drama fan, when she was young, she often went to the Spring Garden with her neighbor to watch the play, it was not a serious drama garden, but a few people who retired from the troupe rented a small courtyard in Xujia Lane, three copper plates can listen to it, and take care of tea.

There is no doubt that this old lady Cheng invited a famous troupe in the capital for her birthday, and Rong Jin stretched her neck and hated to be two feet taller.

But she is in the center of the fifth row, petite, when she sits down, she can only see the back of the head of the person in front of her, and she wants to stand up and look at it, but she is afraid of blocking the behind, what a little widow looks at the sedan chair - in a hurry!

It's boring, it's very boring, and she won't come to any banquet in the future!

Bored, she could only go to the blue and white porcelain high-foot plate to get tea and fruits to eat. Rong Zhengyan, who was sitting on the other side, quickly snatched a piece of fruit from under her.

Rong Jin raised her eyes and saw that Rong Zheng was staring intently at the stage, so she went to get another piece of cheese, but it was snatched away again with unmistakable accuracy.

She couldn't help but swallow her saliva heavily as she watched the cheese turn from Rong Zheng's left hand to her right hand and put it on the mahogany table on the other side, not understanding where she was messing with this big sister again.

In fact, Rong Zheng is just not convinced, why are there more ladies standing next to Rong Jin than standing next to her? She begged her father to let the fourth sister come over to steal Rong Qing's limelight, but not to steal her limelight!

However, Rong Zheng doesn't like himself, Rong Jin knows in his heart that since the tea fruit on the small table on the right side can't be eaten, then take the left one! However, as soon as I turned my eyes, I saw that at the end of the row on the left, a little girl in a water-red Luo skirt was discussing with the little maid behind her, and she kept deliberately lowering her head, sneaky.

In fact, this is Cheng Zonglun's sister - Cheng Zhimin, she happened to hear her mother talk to Cheng Zonglun about the Lin family's daughter-in-law a few days ago, so she wanted to come and see her future sister-in-law. Now she followed the maid's point, lowered her head, and pretended to carry a teapot and came over to add tea.

Rong Jin looked at the girl fixedly, not for the side, just because this girl's figure was very similar to her friend when she was in Xujia Lane.

She watched Zhimin uncover the lid of the green lotus pattern cup and add tea, the more she looked at it, the more she looked like that friend.

Suddenly, with a "bang", the celadon cup was taken by Zhimin's wide sleeves and fell to the ground, in a panic, she reached out to fish, but one was unexpected, but she fell straight down......

said that it was too late, Rong Jin instinctively got up and ran over to support Zhimin, but as soon as she stretched out her hand, she was pressed by Zhimin's body......

Knock –

Both of them fell to the ground, Rong Jin was below, half of their faces were buried in the dust, but their bodies were pressed firmly by Zhimin.

It's going to be a pro-life, it's not good for the passing year, it's really bad for the passing year!

Rong Jin just wanted to pound the ground.

Then everyone was in a hurry, helping the two young ladies up to the side of the corridor, a few maids came up to dust the two, the babbling on the stage did not stop, mixed with a few words of reprimand, and even Rong Jin heard Li's yin and yang strange voice: "You shouldn't bring her over, shame!" ”

Rong Jin lowered her head in embarrassment, and suddenly felt that her sleeve was pinched, and she turned her face sideways to see a familiar face.

This face looks like Mrs. Cheng, it is simply carved out of a mold, and I can't help but feel that Mrs. Cheng's face is familiar!

Rong Jin winked at her, as if to ask why she was here, but Zhimin replied with a booing gesture.

Rong Jin met Zhimin in the Li Ji Noodle Restaurant at the end of Xujia Alley. At that time, she was dressed quite elegantly and ate noodles in a small noodle restaurant, and a few bare-chested people at the side table quietly stared at her money bag, and it was Rong Jin who kindly reminded her.

Zhimin loves this family's noodles very much, and comes to eat them once a month, and after coming and going, he becomes friends with Rong Jin.

On the way to change clothes, Rong Jin looked hurt, "I said that I was the daughter of a rich businessman, but how did I become the daughter of General Cheng?" ”

Zhimin pouted and replied to her: "I didn't hide my name, it's good for you to say that your surname is Xu, but in fact it is Miss Lin!" I said I haven't seen you go to that noodle shop for half a year, and it turns out that you went back to your own home. ”

After that, the two looked at each other, and then they burst out laughing!

Then Zhimin asked a lot of questions about her sister Rongqing, do you like to talk, will you do kung fu?

Rong Jin teased her: "Do you think everyone is like you, one fights three?" Besides, my second sister and your brother haven't even met each other, so you ask her what she does. ”

The two maids who followed Zhimin also advised their young lady not to talk nonsense in front of outsiders.

Zhimin covered his mouth consciously and smiled at Rong Jin.

Then, Rong Jin was led out of the chrysanthemum garden by a few Chengfu maids, walked for a long time, and arrived at a deep bamboo forest, where the babbling of singing and the boiling voices were left behind.

This garden has only been completed for a short time, and now it is only used for banquet guests, and they have to go straight from the southeast corner gate of the garden to the Cheng family's inner house if they want to change their clothes, and there is still a long way to go.

"This garden is so big, I'm going to faint."

"Actually, it's not big, but it looks big, it's just a garden in imitation of the south of the Yangtze River, what to pay attention to changing the scene, the artistic conception is far away, a short stone road turns around and takes the old nose to go, it's boring!"

Zhimin picked a bamboo leaf and put it in his mouth to blow a series of musical sounds. Rong Jin also picked a piece, but he couldn't make a sound.

Unconsciously, the two walked out of the bamboo forest, in front of them was a flower garden, and then there was a lake, and at a glance, they suddenly saw a small black spot in the lake, like whose head!