As the luncheon progressed, singing and dancing gradually rose, and the atmosphere became better and better.

At this time, people from various provinces also began to offer congratulatory gifts to Mrs. Liu.

Dazzling and overwhelming.

Among them, the most precious should be the jade jade Buddha sent by the Seven Princes and Liu Guifei, the jade Buddha carved lifelike and green throughout, is a famous product in the world.

Mrs. Liu felt the filial piety of her daughter and grandson, and she was very happy throughout the scene.

The women at Jiang Shu's table, except for Qi Qin, looked at the various congratulatory gifts intently, afraid that they had missed something,

And everyone else was quietly drinking and eating, after all, they knew in their hearts that this was not the main event of the day.

Well, it has to be after this luncheon.

Jiang Xinman looked at Qi Qin's eyes looking at the congratulatory gift, with contempt in his heart, and looked at her outfit with the dislike in his heart, and watched the gold silk inlaid double pearl on her head sway, and had a plan in his heart.

An hour later, lunch is joyful, and the singing and dancing are gone.

The subordinates of the Liu family removed the lunch cards, replaced them with fashionable melons, fruits and snacks, and attached paper pens and jade plaques to each guest.

Qi Qin only felt fresh when he looked at it, but he didn't know what would happen next.

Is this about to start the competition?

looked at the people at the same table, but saw Jiang Shu, Liu Shuhui, Gu Rumei, Jiang Xinman and others all looking as usual.

In order not to lose face, he can only put away his curiosity and wait quietly.

I saw Liu Shuhui get up dignifiedly, came to Mrs. Liu, and said: "Thank you for coming to congratulate my grandmother on her birthday. ”

A few words were generous and sonorous, and in the eyes of Mrs. Liu, she was very satisfied.

"Now, as you know, the sudden drought in Yongping County has made His Majesty worried. As people, we have to share in the burden of Your Majesty, so that we can do our part. The Liu family is not talented, and took the opportunity of this banquet to raise a sum of money for disaster relief for Yongping County, and I hope that you will support it. ”

Liu Shuhui was sonorous and powerful in the front part, and tactful and affectionate in the second part, although everyone who listened to it already knew the process of the banquet, they were still a little enthusiastic.

This is a custom that Dayong has had since the founding of the country, and the nobles of the family, although noble, are all raised by the people.

Natural and man-made disasters, although the imperial court worked hard to provide disaster relief, there were also times when there was a shortage of money.

Once, in the early years of the founding of the Dayong Dynasty, it experienced an extremely terrible locust plague.

Due to the severity of the disaster, the imperial court at that time was unable to raise enough silver taels despite its best efforts.

Seeing that the people everywhere were about to be in turmoil due to hunger, the Jiang Mansion at that time invited all the magnates of Chang'an to raise disaster money.

When all parties went to the banquet, they found that the people who went to the banquet were not only powerful people, but also businessmen. The merchant was humble and should not have appeared on such an occasion.

When everyone was surprised, Jiang Guogong took out all the valuable treasures in the family, and asked everyone to go to the banquet to bargain with each other, and the highest one got it, and all the silver exchanged was used for disaster relief.

At that time, Dayong was panicked because of the locust plague, and all parties were thinking about how to protect themselves in this year of famine.

And Jiang Guogong's sentence "There is no country and what is the family" is admirable.

So all the people who went to the banquet took out their treasures and exchanged them for disaster silver and handed them over to the imperial court, so that Dayong got through the difficulties.

From then on, whenever there was a disaster year in Dayong, the nobles of the family would hold a meeting to raise disaster money to express the goodwill of the Dayong family to take from the people and return it to the people.

And locust plagues as serious as those at the beginning of Dayong are rare.

Today's Dayong treasury is abundant, so it has gradually evolved into the form of the Liu family today.

The officials and dependents of each family took out their own objects and asked for a price, and everyone bid, raising the jade plate as a sign to increase the price.

If the price is higher, the silver taels will be handed over to the household department, and the silver taels raised by the household department will be used for disaster relief.

When the drought in Yongping County was introduced to Chang'an, the provinces had already received the greetings of Mrs. Liu's birthday, so the Liu family led the financing of the disaster silver, and each family knew it.

I prepared the objects and silver taels early in the morning, just waiting for the start of this good show.

After Liu Shuhui completed her task, she generously bowed to everyone and returned to her place, after all, the follow-up bidding to render the atmosphere is not suitable for her, a lady.

And after Liu Shuhui's words fell, Qi Qin found that the nobles at the same table, it should be said that the nobles at the whole table had picked up the pen and paper on the table and wrote something.

She wanted to take a look, but found that Jiang Shu and the others had stopped writing, and the note had been handed over to their personal maids.

Before she could open her mouth to ask, the bidding meeting in the Liu Mansion had already begun.

A shrewd woman came to everyone, it was the shopkeeper of "Zhucui Garden", Mrs. Zhao.

"Zhucui Garden" is the Liu family's industry, and Mrs. Zhao is also a good hand in the management of treasures, so it is appropriate for her to preside over this bidding.

The little guy on the side stood beside Mrs. Zhao with a brocade box and a note, Mrs. Zhao opened the note, smiled slightly, opened her mouth and said: "Today's first treasure is a pair of white jade gold silk bracelets provided by Miss Wu, the judge of the Wu Yuan of Tai Hospital. ”

After that, he asked the maid on the side to open the brocade box and walk along the aisle spread out by the chrysanthemums, so that the young ladies who went to the banquet on both sides could see it clearly, so that they could bid.

"This white jade bracelet is in good condition and exquisitely carved. Jade is the main yin, this jade bracelet is also equipped with gold wire lines, which is both beautiful and valuable and the harmony of yin and yang, which is very brilliant. Please bid. The reserve price is 500 taels, and the price is increased by 50 taels for each jade plate. Mrs. Zhao said.

Jiang Shu's table is in the best position, and when the maid walks by, she can see the jade bracelet most clearly.

This jade bracelet is really good, the most rare thing is that the gold wire is exquisitely made, and the jade bracelet is not noisy but complements each other, and the color of the gold inlaid jade is excellent.

It is very suitable for the opening object. After all, the more precious the utensils, the later they appear, otherwise they are too precious treasures at the beginning, how can ordinary officials and relatives make a move.

Using this jade bracelet to open the scene, it is not successful, it is extremely suitable, it is worthy of Mrs. Zhao, and in a short period of time, a suitable opening object was selected from the utensils prepared by the officials.

And this jade bracelet is suitable for little girls to wear, whether it is for their own sister or for the person who pleases their hearts, it is excellent, so there are many noble sons who hold jade cards.

"Five hundred and fifty taels, six hundred taels, seven hundred taels, seven hundred and fifty taels, is there a higher price?" Mrs. Zhao is a good controller of the rhythm of bidding.

"Eight hundred taels." I saw that when Mrs. Zhao thought that this white jade gold silk bracelet was about to belong, she held up a jade plaque in the field.