Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Death of the Peach Its leaves are full of flowers
I saw Ah Chang but said helplessly:
"But there are still a few young ladies who didn't buy it, so they forced me to leave my name to be numbered, saying that the next batch of goods must be given to them first, and I paid the silver money first."
Looking at Ah Chang with a look of annoyance, he thought that he was forced to have no choice by the more rude ladies, he is only in his teens now, and he is usually well-behaved, and the average girl only treats him as a little doll.
Li Tang smiled and said:
"Don't worry, there are still some at home, I'll go and get them tomorrow, just to fill the gap, I'll catch up with the gardenia season in the next few days."
Ah Chang relieved himself at this time, for fear that those young ladies would come and entangle him again. After Li Tang finished explaining, he went to the backyard to set up the table, just after the unitary time, Li Yu came to the shop first after school, and Li Tang pulled Li Yu to help set the table.
When everything was ready, she rushed home, bathed and changed clothes again, and hurried out after dinner, and the street was more lively than before.
Because she was going to hold a banquet in the courtyard today, Mrs. Li asked her to settle the account book by herself, and she would not come to settle the account today, and asked her to let the man go back earlier.
The begging banquet usually does not disperse until midnight, the Bai family is prepared with a carriage, and the next person will wait at the door to pick up people back, and the Li family is not far away, so he asked Li Yu to come to the shop later to wait for Li Tang, and take her home with him after the banquet.
Li Tang calculated the accounts and asked the guy to go back, everything was packed up, eagerly waiting for it, the time was coming, the carriage of the Bai family arrived at the door of the drunken red makeup first, Li Tang got up in the shop and went out to greet her.
Xia'er opened the curtain and stepped out first, the coachman cushioned the stool, Xia'er got out of the car and reached out to support Bai Meixue who came out behind, wearing a thin red and plum-colored long skirt, reflecting the girl's delicate face, the sky was not yet dark, and it was difficult to hide her posture in the dark.
Bai Meixue just got out of the car, and held hands with Li Tang at the door to say a few words, and there was the sound of carriages and horses behind her.
Lu Yezhen was the first to get out of the carriage in front, the one who came out first was a little girl, then Yu Chengqi, and the last one to come down was a young lady who had never seen before, wearing a vine-purple full-breasted skirt, and she was happy when she got out of the car.
Today is the orchid banquet of her daughter's family, Li Tang and the others never thought that Lu Yezhen would also come over, the three of them got out of the car and came over, and several people greeted each other, and Lu Yezhen said that he was just sending someone over.
It turned out that Yu Chengqi returned home, and it happened that the daughter of Mrs. Zhou, a close friend of her mother's family, came to greet her mother and invited her to come with her.
Miss Zhou Tao of the Zhou family, and Yu Chengqi only knew each other because of the relationship between their mothers, and they were both daughters in the boudoir, and they didn't move around much, and their feelings were still passable.
As for the Lu family, it is also a coincidence, the same Zhou family is cousins, that is, Ning Yunjie and Zhou Tao, both of whom are Lu Yezhen's cousins, and the Zhou family came from the next town these days and stayed in the Lu family.
Today, I heard that Zhou Tao was going to come to the begging banquet, so Mrs. Lu asked him to send someone over and come to pick up someone later.
Li Tang and the others felt that he looked at Miss Zhou's gaze, and they were a little afraid to look at it, but they were not like the Miss Ning they had seen earlier, and they were a little avoidant.
This begging banquet is a lively picture of the daughter's house, and there are more people and more meaning, Lu Yezhen sent it, and the road came to pick up people later and left, and a few people happily carried them into the shop to the backyard, and the three girls put the gifts brought by their young lady in the shop.
The drunken red makeup backyard was cleaned up by Li Tang today, and the bottles, jars, baskets, and shelves were all put aside, and a long plan was placed in the center of the courtyard, with incense burners, flowers and tributes on the face for prayer.
Two round tables were set up in front of the eaves, one for her to sit on, and one for Xia'er and the other two girls.
The two round tables were full of melons, fruits and wines, because thinking that it was a rare presumptuous day for his daughter's family, in order to sit more comfortably today, Li Tang prepared a few armchairs and soft cushions.
A few people bowed in front of the case, and then carried each other into the table, the three girls never thought that they could also have a table, but they were very happy, they were all little girls, and after a while, they became warm.
It's a few ladies at this table, originally with Yu Chengqi who had just met, but now with the addition of Zhou Tao, who has never been seen before, the atmosphere is not good, and it is suddenly warm.
As the host, Li Tang had to speak first, so he poured a glass of self-brewed fruit wine for a few people and said:
"Since it is a rare coincidence, it is better for everyone to drink this cup together first, and then give this begging feast a start."
Now that there is no one else, it is rare for the daughters' families to have such a time to let go of their nature, so they raised their glasses and drank the wine, and as soon as the wine entered the stomach, they giggled one by one.
In order to make this begging banquet lively and look at the other three people at the table, the host Li Tang had to speak:
"Why don't you take a word order first, since it is a double seven nights, how about choosing this Tanabata poem? What do you want to say?"
Zhou Taoyuan is also a warm temperament, but when I first saw him today, he didn't say a few words, and when he came in, although he didn't talk much when he saw a few people, he was also a good person to get along with, so he took Li Tang's words and said:
"Then why don't you pick the word for the moon?"
Bai Meixue and Yu Chengqi had no objections, so they echoed one by one, and Li Tang saw that the three of them were sitting down separately, so she could only pick her head:
"Then I'll pick up a bargain and grab this first order." After a little thought, he said aloud:
"The smoke and the moon are in the sky, and the autumn period of the silver and Han Dynasty is the same for eternity."
Zhou Tao on the side leaned on the table with his cheeks propped up, and looked at the incense case on the side:
"Eh, there is, every family is begging to look at the autumn moon, wearing tens of thousands of red silks."
Bai Meixue saw that Yu Chengqi didn't look like she was about to speak, so she said softly:
"But let the one-year-old meet, and cross the river on the seventh day of July."
Yu Chengqi just wiped the corners of his lips with a handkerchief, put down his hand and looked at everyone with a smile, and still spoke softly:
"When will the twin stars meet tonight, I will be hooked in the month before the court."
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At the time of the feast, from the word order to the riddle, and from the end to the children's private talk, the more noisy the more people became, the happier they became.
The little girls on the side don't have such a poetic feeling, so they only care about chatting and eating, but the wine can't be touched, and their own ladies are on the side, if they are drunk and lost, they will make a mistake.
At the table of the ladies on the side, Li Tang had already taken out the nine-hole needles and multicolored threads that had been prepared, and the girls were about to start the comparison, and the girls also coaxed to the table over there to stand and watch.
Li Tang's nine-hole needle is more difficult than five holes and seven holes, but if it is a skillful daughter's family, I don't care much about two more needles, such as Bai Meixue and Yu Chengqi, they will be worn after a while, effortlessly.
As for Zhou Tao, although it was slower than the two, it was put on before Li Tang, but Li Tang somehow got stuck in the eighth hole, the silk thread was twisted into a strand, and when he wore it, he ran away separately.