60. Return protection (1st shift)
Feng Zhenzhen ran to the middle of the color shed.
"Mother!"
She rushed into the arms of a middle-aged lady and complained excitedly: "That girl from the Bai family hates it to death." ”
Mrs. Feng was eating cherries and was almost swallowed, so she hurriedly helped her and said, "Which one?" ”
"It's the Bai family who is in business, and he says it's a relative of his family."
After thinking about it for a while, Mrs. Feng remembered Meng Qingyun, and it was difficult to forget that kind of appearance.
"It's the girl of the Meng family, what's wrong with her?"
Feng Zhenzhen said: "I bet on Qilang to win, because I didn't have any money on me, I bet on the golden hairpin on my head, but I lost." It doesn't matter, but she actually gave my golden hairpin to a cheap maid, isn't this obviously stepping on my face! ”
Mrs. Feng frowned: "That girl, actually do this?" It seems that he is not a good-natured person. ”
Feng Zhenzhen shook her arm: "Mother, you have to make the decision for me, my hairpin is put on the head of a subordinate, maybe someone will laugh at it in the future!" ”
Mrs. Feng said: "How can you casually bet your own personal belongings as a bet." This is also your own negligence. So then, I will have the money taken and redeemed for you. ”
She called a mother-in-law casually, gave an order, and the mother-in-law took the money and went out.
At this time, Li Xiaoqi and Jiang Erlang came back in a hurry.
"Mother!"
Mrs. Li smiled and said, "You won a small sum of money for me, take a look." She pointed to the plate in her hand, on which was the bet she had just won, twenty-six taels and seven dollars.
Li Xiaoqi scratched his head: "No wonder I lost, even my mother is not optimistic." ”
Mrs. Li laughed: "Reasoning, your polo is good." It's a pity that I know that Jiro plays better polo, and he is a famous master in Bianjing! ”
Jiang Erlang just took the teacup from the handmaiden, took a big sip, wiped a little water stain on the corner of his mouth with his thumb, and said with a smile: "I haven't played for a long time, and I'm a little rusty." ”
Li Xiaoqi said: "Don't be modest, you are unfamiliar and beat us a falling flower, are you sincere to me?" ”
The ladies present all laughed and said that Shichiro spoke so playfully.
Jiang Erlang sat next to Shu'er, he had been obediently staying at the table eating fruit snacks, and gave his brother a thumbs up: "Brother, it's amazing." ”
Jiang Erlang touched his head and raised the heavy purse in his hand: "I won some money, enough to buy you a lot of rice paper." ”
Shu'er laughed.
Li Xiaoqi also sat down next to their brother and said, "What is Shu'er painting now?" ”
Jiang Erlang said: "It's still a gongbi, Zhang Beizhao told him to practice flowers and birds for the past two years." What about you, I heard that you want to draw a long scroll? ”
Li Xiaoqi sighed: "Next year, the official family will be the year of the sixtieth birthday." Master asked me to draw a long scroll so that I could present it to the officials when the time came. Originally, the title was thought of, it was called "Huangshan Spring Journey", who knew that this spring there was a lot of rain, the mountain road was difficult to walk, failed to shoot, and it was not possible to start writing until now, so it was better to wait for autumn to go again, and change it to "Huangshan Autumn Journey". ”
Jiang Erlang smiled: "You have a really elegant life, but you don't have to be autumn to paint autumn scenes." I see that the weather has always been good, and I have intended to take Shu'er out to travel and see the famous mountains and rivers. It's better to find a day, let's go hiking together, we have all the fun, and you also take the scene, the best of both worlds. ”
Li Xiaoqi looked back at Mrs. Li, and Mrs. Li said, "If you want to go, follow you, just order your subordinates to prepare." If you want to enter the mountain, I am afraid that it will take three or two days, and the most important thing is to bring more people. ”
Li Xiaoqi said to Jiang Erlang: "Okay, let's get ready when we go back, while the weather is not yet at its hottest." ”
At this time, the Feng family's mother-in-law came back, and the errand was not completed.
The girl said that she was willing to lose the bet, and since the girl gave up the golden hairpin when she bet, then she received it justifiably. If our family wants to redeem it, it can no longer be used as the price at that time, and it will take ten taels of silver to make it. ”
"What?!"
Mrs. Feng and Feng Zhenzhen both screamed, and even the ladies next to them were amazed.
"Yo, that's a lion's mouth."
"As a businessman, this business is really shrewd."
"Didn't you say that the Meng family was also an official eunuch? How to be virtuous with the Bai family? ”
"Her mother is not from the Bai family, just a family relative."
Mrs. Li was curious: "The girl of the Meng family you are talking about?" ”
The ladies told Feng Zhenzhen that she had lost the golden hairpin and Mrs. Feng took the silver to redeem her, but Meng Qingyun took the opportunity to ask for a high price. It's just that the ladies are familiar with Mrs. Feng, so it is natural to belittle and ridicule her behavior.
Jiang Erlang laughed out loud and said to Mrs. Li: "This Miss Meng is a wonderful person, she and her wife are the only ones who won money in this game." ”
Mrs. Li raised her eyebrows and said, "Oh? I said that besides me, who else also has a unique vision, and he bought Shichiro and lost. I just won the little head, and the big head told her to take it. It turned out to be this Meng girl. ”
Li Xiaoqi said: "The one who gave the two thousand taels of silver to Erlang was also this girl." ”
Mrs. Li was even more surprised: "Her little child's family is so bold in her shot!" I said that when I saw her, I felt that her bearing was different from ordinary people, and she was really not an ordinary person. ”
When the others listened to their discussions, they had more good feelings for Meng Qingyun than bad feelings, and they suddenly couldn't say anything more. Mrs. Feng and Feng Zhenzhen also saw that Li Xiaoqi and Jiang Erlang were quite protective of Meng Qingyun.
Jiang Erlang didn't care, Li Xiaoqi's attitude made Feng Zhenzhen a little hurt.
How could Shichiro say good things for Miss Meng?
Is it because the girl is beautiful?
She thought about Meng Qingyun's appearance, but she still didn't want to admit that she was more beautiful than herself.
It was almost noon, and a mother-in-law came to Mrs. Li's ear to report that the banquet had been prepared.
Mrs. Li said to everyone: "I see that the hour is almost up, and the banquet has been prepared, please move into the table." ”
The crowd stood up.
Before the masters left, the maidservants, mothers-in-law, servants, and attendants were busy first, taking clothes, holding fans, and holding boxes, and then all the way to the people and horses, pouring out of the nests in the various color sheds, making piles in twos and threes, and moving on a large scale.
So, a small guy who didn't know which family came running in the opposite direction, and it was particularly conspicuous.
This little guy looked left and right, and finally found Xu's, Meng Qingyun and others, rushed over to salute casually, and shouted: "Big lady, the second official is back, saying that there is a very important matter, tell everyone to go back quickly!" ”
Bai Rongxin, the second official, went to Jinghu to inspect the store, and there was no letter in advance saying that he would come back in the next few days. This came back suddenly, and everyone was caught off guard, and their first reaction was to think that something bad was wrong.
Xu asked, "What's wrong?" ”
The little guy said: "The second official didn't say anything, only said that the eldest lady must take the girls back immediately!" ”