It's time for the evening lotus feast to begin.

Since the morning, the ladies and ladies of each family have stopped walking around and stayed in the house with peace of mind. Because there are many men who are attending the evening banquet in Zhuangzi today, they can only wrap their feet at the door of their homes, so as not to spread any rumors.

Ling Lie didn't know where to hide in Zhuangzi these days, and as soon as he showed up at the door in the morning, he was beaten by He Shi with his head in the head. If he hadn't helped Ling Xiao out, Yan Shuyu wouldn't have hit him with his calculations and provoked a commotion in vain.

As he was playing, a triumphant little boy's voice sounded outside the door: "Brother Lie, I heard your call seven miles away, if it weren't for your pig-like voice, I wouldn't be able to find the right door." ”

Someone looked for Ling Lie, and He let him go and stopped pretending to beat him.

Ling Lie arrived at the door and gave Yan Xiuyu a punch in his chest: "Who is like you freak." ”

Yan Xiuyu looked left and right and asked, "What about the Yan family's sister?" Didn't she say that she lived with the Ling family's sister? ”

"She lives in the East Wing with my sister, you can go over there and find them."

Yan Xiuyu swaggered and went to the east wing. In the room, three girls were sitting in one place talking.

Yan Xiuyu shouted when he entered the door: "Sister Yan family, I'm here, Master asked me to come and see if you're doing?" ”

Yan Qingge stood up and moved a stool for him to sit on: "Thank you Little Lord Yan, you have a heart." When I went back, I told my uncle that I had a great time here, and I thanked him for his concern. ”

Yan Xiuyu smiled and said, "Hmm." Just have fun. ”

Ling Xiao let out a "huh" and said, "Little Lord Yan, why do you still say hello to people?" ”

It's just that he hasn't seen him for more than a month, Yan Xiuyu seems to have grown up a lot, and his personality as the eldest and my second child has converged, standing and sitting, it's really rare.

Yan Xiuyu said: "Why can't I say hello." He said proudly, "This is all taught to me by my master." ”

Before the lotus banquet in the evening, Yan Qingge changed into the brand-new magnolia loose flower gauze and put a lotus hairpin on his head.

Ling Xiao was also pulled by the He family to dress up carefully, put on a pink brocade silk skirt, and ordered a red lotus dot in the center of her eyebrows, Ling Xiao saw that Yan Qingge had a plain face, so he took the same flower and pasted it on her.

Ning Minzhi is about to get married, dressed much plainly, wearing a lotus silk pipa top, a dark flower filament pleated satin skirt tied below, her hair is meticulously tied at the back, and a peacock crystal hairpin is inserted.

When the three of them walked out of the house hand in hand, He and Jiang nodded their heads one after another.

The three of them walked together, Ning Minzhi was steady, Ling Xiao was lively and pretty, and Yan Qingge was clear and clear, each with its own beauty, like a beautiful landscape.

Yan Xiuyu also packed up at this time and came out with Ling Lie. Yan Xiuyu is usually beautiful, but today he is wearing a fluttering loose royal blue robe, a peacock tail feather cloak, a gold Yingluo collar inlaid with colorful gems around his neck, and a gold crown on his head.

He Shi clapped his hands and said: "Oh, Yan Xiao Wang Ye is terrible, he is still young, he was born so beautiful, and when he is old in the future, I am afraid that the girls in the capital will break their heads for you." If you don't marry for a day, you're afraid that countless girls will die of old age in the boudoir, and you won't be willing to marry someone else. ”

Yan Xiuyu raised his head and said with a stinky smile: "Who I want to marry in the future, I have a certain number in my heart." ”

A little baby also said like this, which made several people laugh.

A group of people were led by the subordinates of the manor to the banquet place that had been arranged before, only to see that the place was at the water's edge.

A large light gauze tent was set up with bamboo poles at the water's edge, which was brightly lit and full of tables and chairs, and after entering, there were no mosquito bites and you could enjoy the scenery.

On the water surface of the lotus pond in front of the tent, many small boats were placed, and on each small boat there was a woman in palace costumes, taking care of a boat of lights. Lights shine out from the lotus leaves, converging on each other, and illuminating the water surface as if it were daytime.

Coupled with the starry sky dotted with stars, the night breeze on the ground, and the lotus fragrance on the water surface, people can't help but be intoxicated and sigh at the subtlety of the people who operate it.

After entering the tent, the female guest sat on one side, and the male guest sat on the other, and Yan Xiuyu and Yan Qingge separated.

As soon as Yan Xiuyu and Ling Lie sat down, someone in the male guest over there started to coax: "Brother Lie, I heard that you have abruptly attacked the beauty, where is the beauty, you can show us." ”

Ling Lie had already learned from his mother that Yan Shuyu was going to design his marriage to the daughter of the Ning family, and when he heard this, his face sank, and he said with a gloomy face: "What a beauty, I am such a good young man, only others are abrupt of me, how can I be abrupt of others." ”

They were juvenile and playful in a heap, and laughter could be heard from time to time.

The female guest is much quieter here, many girls who know each other bow their heads and chat with each other, and occasionally there are a few girls who have been told by adults that the purpose of today's lotus appreciation will peek at the children on the other side, and secretly promise a heart, and the deer in the chest is bumping.

Not long after Ling Xiao sat down, he dragged Ning Minzhi beside him, and said with a look of disbelief: "Sister Ning, tell me who Wei Qiao is." I want to see if that Wei Qiao is really better than my brother Lie. ”

Ning Minzhi laughed at her childish nature, looked at the opposite side carefully, and said, "The fourth one on the left hand side of the little prince Yan, the one who is peeling oranges, is Wei Qiao." ”

Yan Qingge and Ling Xiao looked at each other, first found Yan Xiuyu, who was covered in colorful light, like a big peacock with his head and tail, and then went to count Weiqiao.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Yan Qingge raised his head, he saw Yan Xiuyu looking at him with a smile, and when he saw that she was also looking at him, he waved his arm at her. Yan Qingge grinned at him, and turned his gaze to look at Wei Qiao.

I saw that Wei Qiao didn't look very old, his face was very tender, that is, twelve or thirteen years old, wearing an ink-colored robe, playing with an orange in one hand, clenching his fist with the other, supporting his cheeks obliquely, and looking at the fruit bowl on the table lightly.

His hair is jet black, as if carved from the finest ink jade, his face is jade and white, his eyes are also black and jade, and his whole person is clean and crystal like a handful of snow, so that people can look at it at a glance, as if their body and mind have been washed by a clear spring.

After Ling Xiao saw it, he was also stunned for a moment, and then he turned his head and snorted angrily: "That's it." My father said that the man is too white to be reliable, and it is better for my brother Lie. My mother also said that the eighteenth change of the male college is getting more and more ugly, this Wei Qiao is about the same age as us now, and when he grows up, he will definitely not be as handsome as Brother Lie. ”

Ning Minzhi couldn't help laughing: "Wei Qiao just has a long and tender face, and now he is seventeen, about the same age as your brother." ”

Ling Xiao couldn't help but sigh, and stared at Wei Qiao again.

Yan Xiuyu over there followed Yan Qingge's gaze and found that she was looking at Wei Qiao, and her brows couldn't help frowning.

What's so good about Wei Qiao, why doesn't the Yan family's sister look at him and only look at Wei Qiao? Wei Qiao's face is a little whiter, can he be more beautiful than his Yan Xiuyu?

Yan Xiuyu came up with a small temperament, and saw Wei Qiao staring at the fruit plate in front of the table in a daze, grabbed a handful of dates, and gave Wei Qiao a rainstorm pear blossom in the face.

Wei Qiao didn't watch out for throwing jujubes full of people, and when he looked up, he saw that it was Yan Xiuyu, and he was not angry, and said lightly: "What?" Would you like me to eat dates? Then he picked one up, put it in his mouth, and clicked and bit it.

This jujube is a tribute, and the capital is still summer, but the weather in the far north has cooled down, and the jujubes are ripe, and they are sent to the capital in an expedited manner. This is a valuable thing, only a guy like Yan Xiuyu doesn't know how to cherish it and throws it around.

Yan Xiuyu asked him menacingly, "What's so nice about that fruit plate in front of you." ”

"It's nothing to look at, I'm just thinking about waiting for a show. What kind of art is Yan Xiaowang going to show? Although Wei Qiao looked at his face tenderly, he was actually seventeen years old, and he was considered an adult, of course he would not worry about Yan Xiuyu, a ten-year-old child, and a few words of understatement would dissolve Yan Xiuyu's anger.

Yan Xiuyu's face was full of beams: "I brought the piano, and my master taught me to play "Guangling San". ”

Wei Qiao was dumbfounded.

Yan Xiuyu is a straw bag who doesn't learn and doesn't know anything, he knows everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting - he doesn't know anything, he can't read big characters at the age of ten, and everyone in the capital knows it. It wasn't until a few months ago that the situation began to improve.

Wei Qiao was fortunate to have heard Le Yi play "Guangling San", and knew that this song was not easy to learn, so with Yan Xiuyu's three-legged cat's kung fu, what can he do when he plays "Guangling San"? He felt that he needed to find a piece of cotton first and plug his ears, so as not to be poisoned by Yan Xiuyu later.

Yan Xiuyu asked Wei Qiao in turn: "What kind of art are you going to show?" ”

Wei Qiao smiled: "I don't show off." ”

He is famous, where can he use his showmanship. This time, there are a few families who have taken a fancy to him as a son-in-law, and his mother asked him to pick a girl himself, and if he likes which, he will come to the door to ask for a wife, and if he can't see it, he will wait, he will not worry about marrying a wife.

He had already seen the appearance of those girls, some were slightly better, some were slightly worse, Wei Qiao had never judged people by their appearance, and only waited for their performance to choose when they watched the show.

Here, Ling Xiao saw Yan Xiuyu smashing people with dates, and couldn't help but exhale: "What is the little prince Yan crazy again." ”

Yan Qingge also brought up his heart, for fear that Wei Qiao and Yan Xiuyu would not be able to get along. Before she was reborn, I was afraid that Yan Xiuyu was also crazy like this, which provoked a lot of people, causing her reputation to become more and more stinky.

Fortunately, Wei Qiao didn't get angry, but the two talked in a good voice, so that Yan Qingge put his heart back in his stomach.

After a while, Princess Rouhui walked in, and Quan Fu, the eunuch beside her, announced the official start of the banquet.

Dishes like flowing water are served, and musicians play music on the side.

Princess Rouhui gently clapped her jade palm, the musicians stopped, and the noise below was quiet.

Princess Rouhui said with a smile: "This lotus appreciation banquet is not only about appreciating lotus, but also about showmanship. The show alone is a little boring, so I prepared some lottery heads to give the leader of the show as a prize. ”