Chapter 369: Calculation
Xiao Muqing covered her mouth and smiled lightly, and instructed the maid to take out the set of Fanbang jewelry she had just bought to make a colorful head.
The daughter who can come to the Xiao family to participate in the banquet will not be short of a thousand taels of silver, but the meaning of winning is different, and it will be more face-saving to wear it.
"For the sake of fairness, let's change this rule. Why don't you take summer as the theme, whether it's poetry and painting, or singing and dancing, what do you think? Xiao Muqing asked with a smile.
"Miss Xiao is reluctant to go to the bar? The people who can sit here are all famous ladies, chanting poetry, painting and other talents, but since they can speak, they have been taught by a special person, so how can they not answer? Someone joked with a laugh.
"Then change another rule, in line with today's theme, you can drink a glass of fruit wine, and the loser will drink three glasses of spirits, everyone is satisfied?" After Wu Shuang finished speaking, he winked playfully and said, "Today, I plan to drink all the fruit wine in Sister Qing'er's yard, everyone has to let me order it." ”
"The Wu family is not short of fruit bars? Miss Wu should give us the fruit wine. The ladies laughed and quipped.
Bai Cao and Bai Ling glanced at each other, and always felt that today's banquet did not seem to be so friendly.
The drumming and passing of flowers was a must-have item for the girls at the party, but they never asked for three glasses of spirits.
Most women drink tea, how many can have a good amount of alcohol?
"If you come to our side in a while, I'll drink if you lose." Bai Ling lowered his voice.
Bai Wei pursed her lower lip, knowing that her talent was not enough to deal with such a scene.
But Bai Ling's words made Bai Wei feel insulted.
"The second sister is not drunk for a thousand cups, it's a big deal that we are drunk and say goodbye, and we can't let you suffer alone." Bai Cao shook her head and refused.
The three sisters haven't reached an agreement yet, and the drumming and passing flowers have already begun.
After several times, it never fell to the side of the Bai sisters, and there was no case of being punished for drinking.
"Second sister can't help but think too much, the Xiao family is a family, there is no reason to make things difficult for our sisters." Bai Wei poured a glass of fruit wine, but she couldn't suppress the dissatisfaction in her heart.
Bai Ling raised his eyebrows and didn't speak, but Bai Cao frowned.
Bai Wei used to have a hot personality, but she was the most short-sighted.
But just because of a Xiao Mu, is he so unkind to see his sisters?
Just as Bai Cao wanted to speak, a new round of drumming and passing flowers was passed to Bai Wei.
Bai Wei looked at the colorful hydrangea in her hand in amazement, not knowing how to react at all.
"What are you going to perform?" Xiao Muqing spoke softly, and when she saw Bai Wei looking at her in a daze, she hurriedly apologized to everyone: "Otherwise, let's stop this round." Weier has only asked her husband to teach for more than a year, I'm afraid it's ...... It was also my negligence that I shouldn't have proposed to play this game. ”
"No, I admit punishment." Bai Wei stood up, picked up the wine glass in the handmaiden's hand, and drank three glasses of spirits in a row.
Even if the Bai family makes wine, Bai Wei is never greedy for a cup, and after three cups of wine, people are a little dizzy.
Bai Ling wanted to stop it, but Bai Wei's speed was too fast, and she only had time to help Bai Wei stand firm.
"Miss Xiao, my second sister is not strong enough to drink, I am afraid that she will be drunk. Please forgive our sisters for leaving the table early and coming back to the door to apologize another day. Bai Cao held Bai Wei's other side and said politely.
"I'm not drunk." Bai Wei shook off the two sisters and refused to leave with them.
Bai Ling's face was slightly gloomy, and silver flashed between his fingers, ready to use extraordinary methods, and he didn't want Bai Wei to make trouble in other people's homes.
"It's my fault that I shouldn't have proposed three glasses of spirits." Xiao Muqing stepped forward apologetically, took Bai Wei's hand, and said, "There is a guest room in the courtyard, I will ask the maid to take you to rest for a while, and then make a bowl of sobering soup, if you still feel uncomfortable, I will send you back, how about it?" ”
"Okay, thank you Miss Xiao." Bai Wei scoffed.
Although he likes Xiao Mu, he doesn't want to embarrass him.
But Xiao Muqing's approach, Bai Wei scoffed.
It's just that I didn't see Xiao Mu, and it was his birthday again, Bai Wei didn't want to leave like this, she was unwilling.
Bai Wei had already come down, and the Bai Ling sisters glanced at each other, so they had to leave with Bai Wei.
As for those mocking eyes, they just didn't see it, Bai Wei's safety was the most important thing.
Xiao Muqing had already shown a bad side, and they couldn't rest assured that Bai Wei would go to the guest house alone.
Xiao Muqing naturally wouldn't stop it, but just apologized, as the host, she was not suitable to leave the banquet, so she couldn't go to accompany her.
"Second sister, I'm panicked, I always feel like something is going to happen." After helping Bai Wei to rest, Bai Cao took Bai Ling's hand and said in a low voice.
The girls brought were all sent outside to guard, and Bai Cao dared to say such a thing.
"Eldest sister, don't be afraid, even if Xiao Muqing steps on you and my sister, but today is the banquet of the Xiao family, if she harms us, the face of the Xiao family will not be good-looking." Bai Ling was reassured, but he also had the same intuition in his heart.
Today's banquet, Xiao Muqing's various performances are no longer what an old acquaintance should do.
Bai Cao nodded, at this time, I only hoped that Bai Wei could sober up early, so that they could leave here.
Not long after, a girl sent a decanting soup and prepared a change of clothes for Bai Wei.
"I'll do it." Bai Ling didn't dare to let Bai Wei drink what Xiao Muqing had prepared alone, so he had to take the medicine bowl.
"The slave and maid are ordered to serve a few distinguished guests, how can they let the distinguished guests do it? This kind of service to people should be done by slaves and maids, otherwise the upper authorities will blame them, and the slaves and maids will eat the board. The girl refused uneasily.
Bai Ling's sharp gaze shot at the girl, and seeing her flustered face, she was even more sure that there was something wrong with the decanting soup.
"As an older sister, it is normal to feed my sister medicine. Your master is a reasonable lady, so naturally he will not punish you for doing things badly because of this little thing. Bai Ling reached for the medicine bowl.
But the maid quickly snatched it, and a bowl of soup and medicine was sprinkled on Bai Ling's dress.
"The slave and maid deserve to die, and please punish the county lord." The maid knelt on the ground with a thud, frightened and discolored.
"Get up." Bai Ling narrowed his eyes, but his voice was soft.
"Thank you for the county lord's grace of not punishing, the slave maid will go to prepare a change of clothes for the county lord, and ask the county lord to go to the next room and wait for a while." After the maid kowtowed, she finished speaking quickly, and left with the empty bowl.
"There's a change of clothes in the carriage, let the girl fetch it." Bai Cao frowned and suggested softly.
"Since Xiao Muqing is so thoughtful and has prepared a change of clothes for the guests who came, we can't not appreciate it, right?" Bai Ling mentioned the dress that the Xiao family had prepared for Bai Wei, and after checking it, he said to Bai Cao: "Eldest sister help the third sister change her clothes, I'll go next door and wait for a while." ”
Bai Cao wanted to say something, but Bai Ling had already raised his feet and left.
Looking down at the dress in his arms, and then at Bai Wei with crimson cheeks on the bed, Bai Cao sighed, or walked over to take care of Bai Wei first.
Bai Wei is indeed invincible, and after drinking a little wine just now, she was not drunk.
When I came to the guest house, I vomited some wine, and the hem of my skirt was dirty.
Let's say that after Bai Ling left the guest room, he said a few words to the begonia guarding the door, and went to the next room.
The layout of the rooms is the same, but the furnishings are slightly different, but they are also similar.
As soon as he entered the door, Bai Ling noticed that the incense in the house was somewhat unusual.
The faint fragrance smells very good, and people can't help but want to take a deep breath, but Bai Ling, as a healer, knows the catty in it when he smells the smell.