The next day, Xu Nankui finished breakfast early and took Tuan Tuan to rest in the house.

After Xia He arranged everything, he reported the situation to Xu Nankui: "Madam, the two masters and Mrs. have been much better this morning, Aunt Lin still hasn't moved, and the big housekeeper had a high fever last night, so he is sick in bed." ”

Xu Nankui touched Tuan Tuan's little arm without a match, and said without raising his head: "The origin of the other two people yesterday can be found out, what is the change?" ”

Xia He continued: "After yesterday, these two people have not been seen in the mansion, and the slave and maid have not inquired much, for fear of startling the snake. ”

Xu Nankui praised: "It's a good job, presumably the big housekeeper has found out yesterday, and I don't want the palace to find out more news, let him go, is the carriage ready?" ”

"It's ready, today the eldest lady and the second lady have all resigned, and the eldest lady's eldest daughter, Miss Xu Qing, is going with her."

After a night of cultivation, Xu Nankui's back wound has scabbed, I have to say that this poison is really poisonous, the wound heals quickly, but it is easier to break.

Xu Nankui secretly swore that I would never find this prescription!

If you find it, Xu Nankui must write it down, study hard, specialize in research, and will definitely be able to make the enemy survive and not die.

Xu Nankui hugged the group and said to Xia He, "Don't worry about her, she can't make big waves, and the eldest lady is sensible and won't make trouble for me." ”

After Xu Nankui took Tuan Tuan into the carriage, he went straight to the venue of today's Qiu Ju banquet.

Today's Qiu Ju Banquet is different from usual, the women's courtyard is organized by Xu Nankui, and next door is the autumn poetry banquet of this year's new imperial examination.

When Xu Nankui arrived, the other guests basically arrived, but fortunately, Xu Nankui had already arranged it before, and Qiu Feng was here early today to preside over the overall situation.

It stands to reason that Xu Nankui's reputation is not very good, and these aristocratic families should not go to the banquet, especially the family members of the officials who impeached Xu Nankui have basically received invitations.

However, in previous years, the eldest princess and the fifth princess took turns to host, which was dispensable, and this year Xu Nankui decided to host it himself, so as a large-scale blind date, he basically had to come to the scene.

As soon as Xu Nankui entered the house, he saw Li Xiang's wife gathering with the wives of several other ministers, and the girls went to the garden to enjoy the flowers.

This is the color of the annual banquet, there will be three banquets a year, lotus appreciation, chrysanthemum, plum are three gardens, but also three banquets that women will come.

The Pinju banquet is the most important banquet, and most of the marriages are made at this banquet every year.

There are three processes for the autumn chrysanthemum banquet, appreciating chrysanthemums.

There are a total of one hundred and eight kinds of chrysanthemums in the garden, but all the girls who come to enjoy them must choose their favorite chrysanthemums, and finally give them to the ladies present to taste.

Normally, the princess will not add much, basically a set of jewelry, a small courtyard, if the relationship with the princess who presided over the princess's mansion at that time is good, she will ask for a nurturing grandmother from the palace as a dowry.

But don't underestimate this grandma, this is the confidence of a woman to marry in the past, no matter what your married life is, with your mama here, your husband's family will never underestimate you.

Xu Nankui took the group to the first seat, Xia He stood next to him, indicating that he didn't want to talk to people, and those ladies also bowed and sat down.

Qiu Feng had already put some refreshments on Xu Nankui's table, all of which were some of Tuan Tuan's favorite food, and the little Tuan Tuan, who had been chaotic since he got up in the morning, finally came back to his senses, drank a small sip of tea, picked up an eight-treasure plum blossom pastry and ate it.

Qiu Feng touched the little girl's nose and asked, "Tuan Tuan, but Sister Xia He didn't prepare breakfast for you in the morning?" ”

Tuan Tuan pressed down the last bite of plum blossom cake, chewed it, wiped the crumbs from the corners of his mouth and said, "No, I just got up early today, I haven't woken up yet, so I haven't eaten much." ”

Xu Nankui couldn't help but blush, pointed at Tuan Tuan and said, "Qiu Feng, don't listen to this girl's nonsense, she ate more than me in the morning, and drank two bowls of river porridge made by Xia He, and she hasn't eaten enough." ”

Xia He also came over and reprimanded: "I don't dare to give her food, now a six-year-old child, now I'm afraid that an eight- or nine-year-old child can't compare to you." ”

Xu Nankui quipped: "No, if Tuan Tuan continues to eat like this, I'm afraid I'm going to become a little piglet." ”

However, when he saw that Tuan Tuan didn't eat that piece after eating, Xu Nankui was still a little reluctant and said: "It's okay, let's Tuan Tuan even if it's a little side, this palace can find you a good family, eat." As he spoke, he handed over a piece of blood-patterned cake.

Tuan Tuan touched his little belly with one hand, waved his hand and said: "Don't eat, when you come, I told Sanniang that I must see this banquet, I heard that the dishes are very delicious when the banquet is held here, and then I will not be able to eat it later." ”

Xu Nankui, Xia He and Qiu Feng looked at Tuan Tuan and hated that they were not big enough, but they didn't know whether to laugh or not.

Fortunately, a gong sounded outside, and the time was up.

Xia He got up and opened the purple cloud light gauze curtain around him, only to see that the girls were all holding a pot of chrysanthemums, all of which were by their families.

When the curtain opened, everyone saluted Xu Nankui solemnly.

"Princess Chitose!"

Xu Nankui smiled and waved his hand: "All ladies and misses, please take a seat, the palace is late today, so I just caught up with this time to enjoy the flowers, and I didn't have to delay too much effort, and the palace will punish itself." ”

After Xu Nankui finished speaking, Xia He took out a wooden box from the back, put it in front of Xu Nankui's table, and opened the box, which was a set of sapphire jewelry.

A pair of studs, two steps, a golden hairpin, a necklace, and a pair of bracelets.

Both studs are gold-edged and glazed, and in the center is a sapphire the size of a small thumb, enclosed in a gold wire ball.

Bu Shao is a pair of phoenixes, the tail feathers are three blue gems connected to nine tassels, and the phoenix's eyes are made of rubies.

The necklace is the largest of them, made into a butterfly shape, the whole body is made of sapphires, and the wings are butterfly wings woven with gold and silver threads.

As for the last Seven Treasures Bracelet, it is the Seven Treasures of Buddhism.

This set of jewelry opened, it attracted the attention of many people, Xu Nankui was very satisfied after seeing it, and said slowly: "This set is a set customized by the palace before, let's add makeup to the girls who won the championship today, and there will be two more Zhuangzi, I don't know if you are satisfied." ”

The people below were naturally appreciative, and Xu Nankui didn't say much, but officially started the chrysanthemum feast.

"Compared to the young lady who has already given their respective flowers to others, then please come forward with their respective chrysanthemums now."

There are three processes for tasting chrysanthemums, the first is to select flowers.

Ladies need to go to the garden to choose their own flowers, so some girls have already come, if they are late, it may be someone else who chooses the rest, but the standard is not necessarily the same every year, and it is not necessarily.

The second step is voting.

Of course, in order to prevent acquaintances from voting for each other, it is generally the girls who take other people's flowers with each other after choosing flowers, and replace each other according to the number plate.

Finally, the top three will be selected.

The third link is to determine the leader.

Unlike the imperial examination, a term must be arranged, because the daughters of each family are the treasures of the heart, even if they are not at home, they must be outside.

Therefore, only the leader is determined, and the ranking is not determined, and all rankings are only known to Xu Nankui.

After the start, the ladies will go forward to vote for each of their favorite flowers, or look like the flowers chosen by their families, which will take more than an hour.

Xu Nankui looked a little funny on it, saying that it was a flower appreciation, but it was an opportunity to enjoy the flowers, and every woman had to hold the flowers and provide them to a lady to watch, so she could naturally inquire about some things by the way.

Xu Nankui symbolically went down and turned around at the beginning of the flower appreciation, and then returned to the first seat, and the curtain was closed by Xia He.

Qiu Feng went out from behind, and Xu Nankui also asked Xia He to take him to the garden for a walk.

About an hour later, Qiu Feng came back first, Qiu Feng lowered his head and leaned into Xu Nankui's ear and said, "Madam, as you expected, Lin Wanwan and Li Xiuren did come to the banquet. ”

Xu Nankui pursed her lips, fiddled with the teacup on the table and asked, "Lin Wanwan invited a master, otherwise Li Xiuren would not have dared to come out in two days, I'm afraid I don't want those two legs." ”

However, this was according to Xu Nankui's wishes, and she originally wanted to hook her out, but Li Xiuren also came, which was unexpected.

"Yes, everything went according to plan."

Qiu Feng quietly retreated again, and the corners of Xu Nankui's mouth outlined a strange smile, and even the boy who had not appeared came out.

"You're smiling so scarily right now!"

Leng Buding's voice startled Xu Nankui, and scolded: "You are going to die, suddenly come out and scare me." ”

Tsai said aggrievedly, "I just came back and upgraded the function, don't you miss you?" ”

Xu Nankui accurately grasped the key point: "Yo, it's upgraded, you can see the scenery outside, can you still see my expression?" ”

Tsai said excitedly: "Yes, now Tsai can see things, I'm really happy, now it's much more powerful than before." ”

Xu Nankui said nonchalantly: "But this belongs to snooping on the host's privacy, right?" Are you sure you won't complain to me? ”

Tsai Tsai, who had been happy for less than two minutes, suddenly seemed to be stuck in the neck, and said after a while: "This is the host can choose, but you are so good, you shouldn't let Tsai see this wonderful world, right?" ”

Xu Nankui sneered and said, "Look at my mood, don't you know what system you are?" ”

After thinking about his own ingredients, Zai Zai was about to be autistic again, but Xu Nankui continued to say that Zai Zai came back to life again: "But I want you to watch a big show today, so there is no need to turn it off." ”