That night, Zhuang Runqing and Wang Minzhi held a banquet together to entertain the students of Tianqiaotang. Ye Qing took Yao Lan to attend.

"There are only eight women in our Tianqiao Hall students this time," Zhuang Runqing sighed, "I didn't expect that it was you two women who could persevere to the end and even participate in the assessment of Chuzhentang." ”

He brought a full glass of water and wine, "Come, I'll toast the two talented women!" ”

Everyone toasted. Yao Lan said with a smile, "It's a good thing to be talented, but don't waste your youth because of this." Women still have to put their families first. The work and errands in the outside world are left to the men to work hard, and we women, husbands and children are the first priority. ”

Meng Shu and Li Jingshan held the wine glass at the same time.

"Lan'er." Ye Qing frowned slightly.

"Although what Sister Yao said is right," Wang Minzhi said with a smile, "After I got married to Xiaozhuang, I still continued to work as an errand in Suizhou Jingbao Pavilion. Not for anything else, just for those fat powder jewelry that you fancy and buy if you want to. And come in, when Xiaozhuang designs jewelry, I can discuss with him, and raise the case with eyebrows, which is also very fast. ”

Yao Lan smiled reluctantly, "That's what my sister said." ”

Zhuang Runqing smiled and came up to interrupt, "Come, drink, drink." We're going to get drunk today. ”

was stopped by Wang Minzhi and said angrily, "You will inevitably have many uncles and brothers pouring wine for you at the wedding banquet the day after tomorrow, so you can take it easy." I'll drink with them! ”

Zhuang Runqing was robbed of his wine glass, but he was not annoyed at all, and said with a smile, "Okay, I will listen to you." ”

Wang Minzhi put a piece of braised pork into his bowl and said with a smile, "Good, reward you." ”

Li Jingshan saw the love between the two of them for the first time, and almost squirted out a mouthful of soup in her mouth. Ye Qing was not so polite, and knocked on the edge of the cup with chopsticks, "Hey, pay attention, we don't want to have needle eyes." ”

The corners of Wang Minzhi's eyes were flying, he squinted at Ye Qing, and deliberately smiled and said, "Senior Brother Ye is looking good." Ah Shan and Shu Shu are not strange to the two single women, what are you panicking about. Presumably, Sister Yao and Senior Brother Ye are in love on weekdays, so they won't blame them, right? ”

Li Jingshan and Meng Shu were used to seeing Wang Minzhi's playful and angry temperament, but they didn't know if Yao Lan could accept it, so they hurriedly looked over, and sure enough, they saw Yao Lan smiling reluctantly, but her face was very ugly.

Several people were busy toasting and disrupting the dishes, diverting the topic.

Sure enough, only halfway through the wine and food, Yao Lan excused herself from the stage early under the pretext of being unwell. Ye Qing had no choice but to go out with him.

After returning to the courtyard after the banquet, Meng Shu and Li Jingshan were about to enter the house, but they heard low sobs from Yao Lan's house next door and Ye Qing's low voice of comfort. Thinking that it was the unpleasantness at the banquet that spread to this, Ye Qing had to come back to comfort his wife.

Meng Shu and Li Jingshan entered the house before they whispered, "Sister Yao and Senior Brother Ye have been here for a few days, and they have to make a little trouble almost every day. Every time, Senior Brother Ye bowed his head and coaxed people. Min Zhi knew that Ye Qing had even postponed the assessment in order to return to Taizhou at that time, and he was already upset for him. I'm afraid it's just a matter of playing on the topic tonight. ”

Li Jingshan knew that Wang Minzhi was a fiery and pungent character, and now that the happy event of the couple was approaching, it was naturally difficult to save their face. She turned her head to look next door, and had to let out a long sigh. Suddenly it occurred to me that I was not married yet, but I watched the different performances of the two couples, if I saw a few more pairs, would it produce a psychological shadow, and regard marriage as a daunting path?

She hurriedly looked at Meng Shu. Meng Shu seemed to know what she was thinking, and said with a faint smile, "Don't look at me." I have made up my mind not to marry in this life, unlike you. ”

"Huh? Are you going to learn from Mr. Li Mingfang? ”

"She's her, I'm me." Meng Shu frowned, "It's just that I don't get married." ”

Li Jingshan looked at Meng Shu, her quiet and indifferent face was clear, and her deep eyes were calm and resolute, not on a whim.

She opened her mouth, but she still took all the words of consolation in her stomach. After all, marriage or singleness, who knows what kind of state is better for them?

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The next day, Li Jingshan and Meng Shu accompanied Wang Minzhi to make the final preparations for the wedding, wedding dress, jewelry, dowry, guest list...... Count them one by one. So naturally, it is inevitable to meet those aunts and aunts, and sure enough, chatting between words, within five sentences, it will be related to their marriage.

Li Jingshan and Meng Shu were so ashamed that they had nowhere to hide, and an aunt said a word: "You two girls must be talented, good-looking, innocent, and good-looking." Such a good girl hasn't even been married to her mother-in-law's family, it's just that God doesn't have long eyes! ”

She enthusiastically hugged Meng Shu's shoulders and said, "It's okay, my aunt knows a lot of brothers with good family backgrounds, and I'll show you each other!" Meng Shu was so scared that she didn't dare to go out of the room for a long time, so she took a detour when she saw someone.

On the day of the wedding, it was lively again.

After Wang Minzhi came to Suizhou from Qingzhou, he stayed in the west courtyard room of the Zhuang family, and today's wedding was just to worship the ancestors in the ancestral hall, and then officially welcome people into the main house of the east courtyard where Zhuang Runqing lived.

Naturally, those activities such as "blocking marriage" and "haunting the cave room" are still indispensable. After all the ceremonies were settled, the feast began, and coincidentally, Meng Shu and Li Jingshan sat at the table of the sisters-in-law of the Zhuang family.

Needless to say, taking advantage of the festive atmosphere of the wedding, these ladies and wives immediately aimed at the next wedding to these two "high-quality daughters to be married".

Rao is Li Jingshan is used to socializing outside like this, and she can't stand such a scene, so she can only run away with Meng Shu.

The table full of wine, only half full, the two walked on the street, and saw the roadside tavern to buy freshly fried small river shrimp, fresh and fragrant, bright color. The two of them were aroused, so they simply went in and sat down, bought two plates, and sold a pot of turbid wine, and drank it slowly.

Half a dish of small shrimp bottomed out, Li Jingshan was also drunk and hazy, and sighed, "We have a house and money, we have the ability to make errands, we don't steal, we don't gamble, we don't steal, we don't steal, we don't steal." It's just that we don't marry, who are we recruiting to provoke whom, why do we seem to be enemies of the whole world? ”

Meng Shu reached out to take the wine jug again, and said with a faint smile: "Just because we are good at everything, we have a good time, if there is no man to press it, it is simply intolerable." ”

"Yes!" Li Jingshan nodded, reached out and grabbed the wine jug with her, "Why did you finish drinking all my wine?" ”

Meng Shu was also drunk, and she had to let go if she couldn't grab her, and said angrily: "Stingy! But two taels of broken wine, I invite you to drink! ”

Li Jingshan beckoned to the shopkeeper to serve wine, and waved her hand again, "I don't want you to please." To buy drunk to drown your sorrows, you have to spend your own money to buy wine to drown your sorrows. ”

After speaking, I felt that this was familiar, and after thinking about it for a long time, I suddenly remembered that it was Ruan Mingyu's words that coaxed people to play before. She smiled bitterly again, and the wine jug that Xiao Er had just put on was drunk into the spout.

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At this time, in the capital, there is a small pavilion at the foot of Luofeng Mountain in the western suburbs. Ruan Minh Yu was walking through the path in front of the court and into the flower pavilion near the water. The red maple behind him is like fire.

A quaint pear blossom wood tea table is placed in the flower pavilion, and the kettle on the stove is bubbling.

When the boy in front of the tea table heard someone coming, he raised his head and smiled. It was the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the boy in brocade who drank tea with Ruan Mingyu.

Ruan Mingyu stopped outside the Flower Pavilion, waved his hand respectfully at the man and said, "The grass people have seen the Fourth Highness. ”

"No courtesy." The fourth prince raised his hand and smiled, "Brother Ruan seems to have known the identity of Lone for a long time, and he doesn't even bother to pretend to be surprised." ”

Ruan Mingyu sat down in front of the tea table following his guidance, and said with a smile, "If His Royal Highness summons the grass people to see him as a prince today, the grass people will be sincerely afraid and put on a full posture. However, His Royal Highness is a fellow tea ceremony enthusiast and a friend with tea, so he might as well put aside the etiquette of the monarch and the minister. ”

He naturally picked up the boiling kettle and poured the water on the teacup of the saucer, and the water vapor rose between the two of them.

"One of the ways of tea, pay attention to the state of mind, beyond the extraordinary. If you are still afraid of your status, the tea brewed will be inferior. I'm afraid of this, it makes you dislike it even more than not being respectful to Your Highness. Ruan Mingyu looked up in the mist, and in the hazy mist, he saw his smiling eyes as bright as stars.

"I heard that the young shopkeeper of the Jingbao Pavilion was born with a sharp mouth." The fourth prince laughed, "I haven't tasted the tea you brewed today, but I have learned your sharp teeth first." ”

"The grass people thank Your Highness for your magnanimity." Ruan Mingyu curled the corners of his mouth and began to scoop the water to boil the tea again.

The fourth prince saw that he was busy and said, "Last time, you said that no matter the two in the palace, you can rank in the top five." The people in the palace, one is me, and the other is who? ”

"Whoever the tea ceremony master of the Four Highnesses inherits, it is whoever it is."

"My craft is self-taught, self-taugh......t," the fourth prince argued, and after saying that, he remembered that he had eaten tea with his father when he was a child.

He suddenly said, "Ah, you mean my father! Then he smiled and waved his hand, "My father is very good at tasting tea, but he is not very good at brewing." You've moved up the rankings one place. ”

"I see!" Ruan Mingyu naturally knew about it for a long time, but he pretended to be surprised, and he was eager to try: "Then I don't know how I compare with His Highness?" ”

The fourth prince laughed and said, "There is no first place in humanity and no second in martial arts." On the way to the tea ceremony, you have to compete for the best, otherwise your heart will be itchy and unbearable. That's why this king has made an appointment with you today. ”

took the tea grate in Ruan Mingyu's hand and boiled the tea calmly. Ruan Mingyu simply sat in a corner, a smile on the corner of his mouth, and crossed his arms to watch the four royal highnesses make tea for him.

The movements of the four princes are stretched and elegant, so that every hand and wrist are raised elegantly, done by men, but slightly feminine. If Ah Shan does this set of actions, it must be elegant and elegant, so good-looking.

When Ruan Mingyu was waiting for the royal tea, he even took the time to take a look. Thinking about it, I took a good look at it, and stole the teacher back, so that I could teach Li Jingshan. remembered the scene of him teaching Li Jingshan to make tea during the Spring Festival that year, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was even bigger.

At that time, I wanted snow at night, the red clay stove, the bright eyes and bright wrists, leading to a corner of the Zen room tea fragrance. It's freezing and snowy outside, and the house is fragrant. It seems like yesterday, and before I know it, nearly a year has passed.

Ruan Mingyu suddenly had infinite thoughts. This Nizi has been on family leave for more than a month, and she said that she was going to attend the wedding of her classmates...... Hmph, is this a lot of fun? When she comes back, she will not be spared!