Chapter 140: The General's Mansion Family Banquet
Ruan Mianmian was a little surprised, and suddenly pulled Jiang Xinyue to rush out, but he paused ten steps away, sniffed, and took two steps back: "Okay... It stinks..."
Jiang Xinyue covered her stomach and smiled, she knew that although these livestock looked cute and delicious, they were indeed dirty and had a strange taste, especially this kind of sheep raised in the border land, and they were not pets, they just needed to live well and keep growing meat, so how could they bother to clean them up?
"Okay, it's a little smelly now, but when I eat it later, it smells good." Jiang Xinyue took Ruan Mianmian's hand and walked to Mu Ruqing's side, "What, are you planning to treat the soldiers?" ”
Mu Ruqing turned his head to look at the soldiers who were cleaning up the camp with their tents, and the smile gradually deepened into his eyes: "Yue'er knows me." ”
"Naturally, buying so many sheep is not a reward for soldiers, but still a herdsman?" Jiang Xinyue raised her chin proudly, and her gorgeous facial features greeted the sunset, which was really chivalrous and tender.
"Come on, there are so many people in our team, let's start slaughtering now, just enough to eat at night, call the kitchen people, and the rest of the soldiers who can kill sheep will also come to help, otherwise these fifty sheep will be really troublesome." Mu Ruqing's methodical arrangement.
Princess Zhuen was very happy to see such a large field of sheep, she broke a branch as a whip, skillfully drove the first sheep to the back of the field, and the rest of the sheep followed, the original chaos in her hands but orderly, had to be admired.
"Sister Zhuen is a princess, it turns out that there will be so many, it's really a surprise." Ruan Mianmian looked fixedly, but did not dare to follow.
"Mobei people will learn the skills of beast control from top to bottom, and surviving in this harsh environment is a necessary thing to save their lives at all times." Lu Gui looked at Zhu En, his eyes were full of appreciation, and he seemed to feel that this was full of life.
"Let's go to the General's Mansion for a banquet, and we can't let the soldiers below feel neglected, there is no shortage of money, but the army's heart must be stable." Mu Ruqing took Jiang Xinyue's hand, and saw that the soldiers had begun to cheer and thank this side, and he didn't feel in a good mood.
"Okay, let's tell Sister Shangzhuen to hurry up, if you are late on the first day, it will make people think that it is a fight." Ruan Mianmian also chuckled and waved his hand at the soldiers, and several soldiers on the other side had already brought a luxurious carriage.
This car was not brought by themselves, although the carriage they sat in all the way was not badly regulated, but the decoration inside was mainly comfortable, and more attention was spent on the road, so it looked light and simple. But the carriage in front of him, with strings of beads hanging at the four corners, decorated with silver ornaments, and the curtain opened, inside were splendid cushions on three sides, and there were delicate paintings and patterns, and everyone sat in it and it was still spacious, but they always felt that something was missing.
"Look, this place is just such a thin cushion, and my diaphragm hurts." Ruan Mianmian rubbed his waist, and with some unhappiness, he pulled another cushion and put it behind his back, finally feeling comfortable for a while.
"Yes, we can't stand to sit in this kind of car, flashy, I see that her car is a whole carpet covered with fluff, and goose feather cushions, but also let people make a fluffy quilt to put in, stay in it like a cloud, it is more comfortable than the bedroom." Liu Xin'er accompanied her in Ruan Mianmian's room to relieve her boredom, and at the moment she exaggerated to everyone, making everyone laugh.
"Since you want to ride the clouds, no wonder the white dress you wear today, even the head flower is decorated with crystals, it really looks like a fairy who is not stained with ordinary dust." Jiang Xinyue admired Ruan Mianmian's dress from top to bottom, she always inadvertently made people feel comfortable and transparent, wearing a white skirt only decorated with lilac patterns, and then with a pale yellow shawl, her head was covered with a white hosta and crystal step, and she had a good jade arm on her arm, which was elegant and dusty.
"Don't talk about me, let's talk about this banquet, what kind of person do you think this general is?" Ruan Mianmian knocked on the table and asked the question she had been thinking about.
Hearing her words, everyone recalled the situation of meeting the general when they entered the city, this general is a neat person, with no expression but somewhat similar to Jin Jiaoyang's temperament, but because he has been on the battlefield all the year round, he has a little more momentum of slaughter, but he has always stood next to his wife, and he did not forget to introduce his wife when he saluted, he has always been a good husband who will hurt people with a lot of courtesy.
"I don't think there's anything wrong with him, he's quite upright, and although he looks sullen, I can see his character at a glance." Zhu Eun ate a piece of milk cake on the table and didn't take it to heart.
"However, he is too perfect, if he is foolish and loyal to the imperial court, he will not have the talent to defend Shacheng for so many years, but if he is capable, this treatment of people is too regular, there are no shortcomings, but it makes people feel suspicious." Lu Gui never looks at the surface of people, and he will not mix many personal emotions.
"It has nothing to do with us, we are just passers-by, and we are not here to compete with him for military power, at most, he will let us rest here for a few days, and when we enter Mobei, we will have nothing to do with him." Liu Xin'er held her chin with one hand, and opened the curtain a little bored to look at the bustling street market outside.
"That's right, don't speculate on anything else, if you find something, don't puncture it on the spot, maintain the surface harmony, otherwise, in his territory, we won't be able to get out of this city." Mu Ruqing's words are quite meaningful to everyone.
"Huh? Isn't it coming, I saw the lantern in front of the General's Palace. Liu Xin'er stretched out her hand and pulled Ruan Mianmian, and the two of them looked through the curtain together.
"It's coming, and a lot of people are waiting." Ruan Mianmian rested her head on Liu Xin'er's shoulder, but her eyes followed a passing little brother selling sugar gourds.
As he was talking, the carriage stopped steadily, and the soldiers who were driving the carriage outside replied respectfully: "Ladies and gentlemen, the General's Mansion has arrived, please prepare to get off." ”
Glancing at each other, everyone was so familiar that they didn't need to speak, they all put on the same gentle expressions, took up the posture that their identity should have, and got off the carriage gracefully under the waiting gaze of everyone.
"The last general and the whole family, thank you to the prince, princess, county lord and concubine for coming, the general's mansion is shining!" The general's stiff face softened a little under the light of the red lantern.
"General, please get up, you don't have to salute." At this time, Lu Gui is the most suitable person to come forward to speak. Although Zhu En is a princess, she is not from the Central Plains, and the two county lords, Ruan Mianmian and Jiang Xinyue, are a little lower than him in terms of name, so they only smiled at this time, and asked Lu Gui to greet them.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please come in, don't laugh, the house is really shabby." The general's wife took over the conversation at the right time, turned sideways and invited them into the dining room to take a seat.
Ruan Mianmian kept a smile and walked forward with his companions, but from time to time he observed everything here. She noticed that the General's Mansion was a little smaller, and the specifications were worse than the Jingshu County Lord's Mansion in the capital, but although it looked simple and simple, the details revealed exquisite beauty, and it seemed that everything was placed appropriately, and I thought that the general's wife was also a person who could take care of it.
The general's wife is a little fat, her arms are as plump and white as lotus roots, her eyes are big and very bright, and she has been smiling heartily, although she is not a slender and fluttering beauty popular in the capital, but it still makes people feel beautiful, and it really has nothing to do with whether a person is beautiful or fat.
When everyone entered the dining room, they saw a long table in the center, in fact, it was a dining room, but it was a semi-open wide corridor, facing the garden of the General's Mansion on one side, no walls were built, only a few wooden pillars supported the eaves overhead, which made Ruan Mianmian recall that Jin Jiaoyang's house also had such a flower hall, but his family imitated the elegance of Jiangnan, and here it was a rough and bold style.
"I remember that Jin Jiaoyang's house also has such a small hall, but outside the hall is a circle of fish ponds, which is very different from here." Ruan Mian sat and admired the grass and trees in the evening light, and when he looked up, he saw a bright moon like a disc in the clear and cloudless sky.
"We haven't been there, and when we return to the capital, we must also go to see it, so that we can sleep and remember, it should be good." Mu Ruqing has always been supportive and intends to enliven the atmosphere, so he immediately picked up the conversation.
"The scenery in the capital must be much better than our border pass, we don't have such good fortunes as the county lord, and we don't have the opportunity to enter Beijing to take a look." The general's wife was a little familiar, and she poured wine for everyone with a smile, and she didn't sit down before she was busy, but she kept talking, and she could say anything everyone talked about.
"By the way, look at me so busy, I forgot about it, you guys go and invite the two young ladies out, and say that the distinguished guests have arrived." After the general's wife finished pouring the wine, she ordered the maid to invite someone, turned her head and smiled at everyone: "My two daughters, who are arrogant by nature, will only follow their father to run horses, and they are very perverse, you must not be surprised." ”
"You don't have to worry about this, our princesses are not ordinary ladies, like our Jingshu county lord, or a woman who travels the rivers and lakes." Mu Ruqing picked up Jiang Xinyue's favorite praise, and praised Jiang Xinyue flutteringly.
"Travelling? I didn't expect that the county lord could have such a free and easy temperament, which was really very different from those women who could only embroider with needles in the boudoir. Hearing this, the general was interested, raised his head and became much more affectionate, and looked at Jiang Xinyue's eyes without concealing his appreciation, "If I have a son, I will definitely introduce him to you." ”
"The general is one step late, the one in front of him is our future Jingshu horse, hahahaha!" Lu Gui was rarely funny, and looked at Mu Ruqing's direction and raised his chin.