Chapter Forty-Eight: A Hot Potato
"Shopkeeper, is the little second holding a snow fox skin?"
"Princess, you are really good eyesight, what he is holding is a snow fox skin, which General Su Yan came back from this autumn hunt."
"General Su Yan?"
"Yes, General Su was sitting in the private room next to you, and as soon as he left with his front foot, you came with his back foot. Your ink fox skin and General Su's snow fox skin are the two best furs we have received this year, and you said that it is not a coincidence, General Su's snow fox skin is also to be made into a big coat, but it is to be made into a lady's style. ”
Mu Yunyi suddenly remembered that day Su Yan said to herself: "That's it, I'll hunt another one today and give it to you......"
Seeing that she was silent thoughtfully for a long time, Uncle Zheng called her: "Princess? ”
"Huh? What the? Mu Yunyi came back to her senses, and she was a little weak-hearted, "Thinking that it is about to be winter, it is not a waste to make this good whole fur into a big square." ”
"Princess, what you said is that these two skins are very intact, and it would be a pity if they were cut into hats or sleeve warmers." The shopkeeper nodded repeatedly.
Before dinner on the second day, Su Wu came to her brother's room.
"My mother told me at noon, don't dress too casually for dinner, but she won't say much about the others, isn't it an ordinary family banquet, isn't there someone else?" Su Yan frowned and fiddled with the Xuanqing cloud pattern brocade robe on his body, it was really uncomfortable to dress so formally at home.
"I'm not here to help you." A fleeting hesitation crossed Su Yu's eyes, and she naturally helped her brother tie the jade pendant and tassel on her waist.
Su Yan looked down at his sister and continued to ask, "You haven't answered me yet." ”
"I don't know, I'll know when I go, let's go to the main hall quickly!" Su Yan seemed to deliberately avoid Su Yan's gaze, and quickened her pace and walked ahead of him.
When passing through the side hall, Su Yan saw that the dining table was already full of sumptuous and exquisite dishes and poured wine, he noticed an extra pair of dishes and chopsticks on the table, and he determined that there were still guests, who it was, it was so mysterious.
Before he reached the hall, he heard his mother's decent and elegant voice. Su Yan and Su Yan's mother Jiang Zhihan was born in the famous Jiang family in the East, and when she was young, she was famous for her appearance in the country, even now, this woman who is not confused can still be described as beautiful, everyone says that the years are in a hurry, but she is extra merciful in this woman, without the slightest old age but more charming. However, it is too one-sided to define this woman only by beauty, because under her seemingly delicate appearance, there is a tenacious and abnormal heart. After Su Yan's father Su Jin died on the battlefield, although he was posthumously named the Duke of Zhenguo, but after all, Su Mansion was missing a pillar, Su Yan's mother withstood the pressure and managed all the affairs of Su Mansion alone, and took care of the family affairs in an orderly manner, so that his uncles who were eyeing Su Jin's family property had no chance to take advantage of, and all kinds of entertainment were also very appropriate, so that the family's status in Dongzhao not only did not decay at all, but became more stable, and at the same time cultivated her two children very well. Continuing the pride and glory of the family in this generation. In addition, Jiang Zhihan and the current queen are even more intimate handkerchiefs, and it is common to enter and leave the palace, and she has a decisive weight in the circle of the Dongzhao aristocracy.
Stepping into the main hall, Jiang Zhihan was sitting on the Taishi chair calmly holding the tea bowl, taking a sip and slowly placing it on the table, with just the right smile in her eyes. Today, she is wearing a meticulous bun, a concubine-colored ruyi pattern cardigan, and an autumn-colored pinched tooth inlaid gold-edged horse-faced skirt to make her extremely graceful and noble.
Su Yan was not surprised that his mother had always been perfectly dressed, he walked forward to greet his mother, and then noticed the woman sitting under his mother's head, and the woman stood up when she saw Su Yan and Su Yan coming in.
He glanced at it and realized that the person in front of him was not the county lord of the Chu clan that he saw above the main hall? Su Yan looked around and didn't find her brother's son, so she was the only one who was invited to the banquet today?
"Yan'er, you're here." Jiang Zhihan got up and pulled the woman over with a smile, and said to Su Yan with a meaningful smile on her face: "Yan'er, you and the county lord should have met before. ”
"Sister-in-law Chu has seen General Su."
"What are you doing in a daze, seeing that the county lord has even forgotten the etiquette of Su Ri?" Jiang Zhihan blamed Su Yan.
"Well, yes, I saw you in the main hall yesterday, hello, county lord."
Chu Yan chuckled: "Actually, yesterday was not the first time I saw General Su, my brother and I were also there during the autumn, but General Su Yan didn't pay attention." With a gentle and sweet smile but not overly warm, she bowed to Su Yan
Su Yan thought about it for a while, on the first day of the Autumn Festival, because he was late, he didn't know when he wanted to come to the emperor to introduce them, not to mention that his attention was on Mu Yunyi at that time, how could he pay attention to other comers.
As if he had guessed his mother's intention in arranging this dinner, he was very resistant, and did not say much after the blunt greeting.
Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, Su Wu said on the side: "Let's go to the side hall to eat first, it is getting late autumn, and the dishes are easy to get cold." ”
Chu Wu was wearing a water-green openwork rattan pattern cardigan skirt, her white and tender skin was almost transparent, making people feel that her body was faintly shining, her chestnut hair was holding a lily bun, her small and delicate facial features were like a fairy in mythology, and her slender figure and proper demeanor made her even more beautiful, but she didn't look like a person from the northwest at all.
I don't know if it was deliberate or unintentional, Su Yan walked straight to his seat, pretended not to see his mother's color, and introduced the seat for Chu Yan.
Chu Wu didn't pay attention to Su Yan, she walked to the seat gently, and the servant on the side pulled the seat for her, and she still sat down slowly with a smile, without any hypocrisy.
However, Su Yan didn't care about the woman brought by his mother in front of him, and after the dinner began, he chewed the food without knowing the taste.
During this period, Jiang Zhihan made many eyes and wanted Su Yan to communicate more with Chu Yan, but found that Su Yan didn't match at all, and finally Jiang Zhihan had to smile helplessly and embarrassedly: "Don't be surprised, Yan'er has always talked little." ”
And Chu Wu didn't mind much, but said: "The ancients said that 'food is silent and sleeping', which makes sense. ”,
Finally finished dinner, Su Yan fled away from the main hall and returned to his Tingzhuxuan.
He suddenly understood that Sikong Shaoyang's desire to speak the day before stopped again, could it be that Shaoyang had already guessed it early in the morning? Su Yan couldn't help but be a little annoyed, thinking that he had teased Dongling Yi unknowingly the day before, but he didn't want this hot potato of the Chu clan to be thrown to him carelessly.