It was He Peony's distant cousin, Li Xun, who came. Different from the He family, which has been a businessman for generations, the Li family belongs to the representative who first got rich in business, and then successfully transformed into the circle of officials, while Li Xun is a representative of the children of the official family, who blatantly loves to do business and loves to play and have fun.

After Peony came here, he had never seen Li Xun, but when he was seriously ill, he received many gifts from him, including exquisite and small playthings, as well as exquisite and delicious food.

And in this matter, since she can't pass through the He family, she can't support it alone, so she has to fall on him. She was very anxious when she didn't see him come before, but now that she finally saw this person, she couldn't help but be unhappy.

"Since it's to enjoy peonies, why don't I come?" Li Xun was smiling on his face, but there was no smile in his eyes. didn't ask why Peony was sitting here alone, and pointed to Hu Xuan'er, who was dancing coquettishly and hard, and said, "Look down on merchants? Hehe, if there are no merchants through the department store, what do they eat, what do they wear? Such a Hu Xuan'er is worth only one hundred taels of silver, but what his brother brought today is worth thousands of gold or even ten thousand gold, you just wait and see. ”

Peony smiled: "I'm thinking about this question, I'd rather be that rich and comfortable businessman than a poor and starving official." ”

Li Xun slapped his face: "Well said!" Then he beckoned to the young man in Tsing Yi who followed him, and whispered a few words, and the little guy took the order and left. He lifted his robe and sat down on the side of Peony's case, and asked Peony how she was doing.

But said that the eyes of the county lord of Qinghua did not let go of Peony from beginning to end, and when he saw Peony and Li Xun pointing at Hu Xuan'er, he covered his mouth with a fan and leaned towards Liu Chang, and said softly: "Do you see it?" She likes Hu Xuan'er, so I'll give her Hu Xuan'er and tell her not to pester you anymore, what do you think? ”

Liu Chang's eyebrows suddenly rose, he slammed the chopsticks in his hand, and sneered: "It turns out that in your mind, I am like that lowly Hu Xuan'er?" ”

The county lord of Qinghua was speechless, but he didn't care much, he smiled and took a fan to Liu Chang, and said in his ear: "You think too much, don't I like you too much, so I rushed out?" You know best what your place is in my heart. ”

Liu Chang's face looked better, and when he raised his eyes and saw Peony and Li Xun talking and laughing, he couldn't help but snort heavily. Seeing this, the county lord of Qinghua slapped the fan on several cases with a "snap", and also snorted heavily with a calm face.

At this time, the drums stopped, Hu Xuan'er finished dancing, and proudly saluted all around to ask for a reward, and everyone should have a reward during the banquet, but the host did not give a reward, and the others were not reckless. Liu Chang's face was expressionless and did not show anything.

didn't expect Liu Chang to give himself face like this, the county lord of Qinghua was furious, turned his head and stared at Liu Chang deadly, Liu Chang drank the wine silently, and didn't look at the hesitant standing in the middle, his eyes were red, and he didn't know whether to go up or down.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Pan Rong hurriedly raised her voice and laughed: "Good dance!" Reward a red silk horse, 10,000 yuan. "He has a high status and a good relationship with Liu Chang, but he can act without looking at Liu Chang's eyes.

Liu Chang said lazily at this time: "Reward a white silk." ”

Everyone said that they were rewarded, and Hu Xuan'er hurriedly knelt on the ground to thank him.

After Hu Xuan'er retreated, the voice of Sizhu paused, and Liu Chang asked Li Xun: "Okay, why are you late?" Not only is it late, but he is still hiding there, is this for fear of being punished for drinking? You say, what now? ”

Li Xun got up and said with a smile: "I have something, so I came a step late." I'll give you three drinks first, and then I'll apologize to everyone. After finishing speaking, he poured the wine on the peony banquet into the glass cup served by the maidservant, and drank three cups neatly.

Pan Rong smiled: "I haven't seen you for a while, but it's still the same cool!" You say that you make amends, how to make amends? ”

Li Xun smiled slightly: "I have a treasure, I guarantee that everyone here has never seen it!" Today, I will give you a fun time, and you should make amends. ”

What rare things have you never seen? The county lord of Qinghua said with slight disdain: "What is so rare? She looked disdainful, but in fact she was also intrigued.

Pan Rong stroked her palms and laughed: "Don't sell it, hurry up, I can't wait." ”

Li Xun smiled: "It's almost there." Then he walked up to the musicians and whispered a few words.

Suddenly, there was a sound of horses' hooves, and everyone turned their heads to each other in surprise, but they saw a pair of twins dressed in colorful clothes, about twelve or thirteen years old, Yuxue cute, and looking exactly the same, smiling and leading two horses, one black and one white, of similar height and size. The horse was well-groomed, and dressed up with great delicacy, and his mane on the back of his neck was neatly groomed by gold and jade, and he was clothed in colorful silk, and stood in the green grass, but he did not bury his head in grazing, or act in a frightened and timid manner.

"What is this?" The county lord of Qinghua covered his mouth with a fan, and said with a smile: "Okay, are you planning to sell horses or people?" I see that although your two horses are good-looking, the most important thing in my house is horses. You might as well sell them to me, and I'll get a good price!" ”

Li Xun smiled faintly, snapped his fingers at the musicians in a chic manner, and the sound of bells and drums together, the two horses suddenly became energetic, and with the melody of the music, they raised their heads, or swung their tails, or stood up, or walked sideways, or swirled and slowed down, or kicked and stomped in place, with many postures, and the most rare thing was that the movements were uniform and not chaotic at all.

It was different from when Hu Xuan'er was dancing, and everyone in the banquet held their breath, staring at the two horses intently, their faces full of surprise. Mother Lin, Yu'er, Yuhe and others were even more fascinated.

Although Peony also thinks it is good-looking, because he has seen too many circuses in his previous life, he is not as surprised as them, but he also pretends to be surprised. Suddenly, someone whispered in her ear, "I didn't expect horses to be able to dance with music." ”

Peony turned around, only to see Pan Rong's wife, Madame Bai, standing beside her, and said with a faint smile: "You have a good scenery here, can I sit with you?" ”

This is the first lady in today's banquet to take the initiative to show favor to herself, Peony was stunned for a moment, and smiled neither humbly nor arrogantly and let half of the seat come: "Thank you for not disliking, please sit down." ”

Madame Bai sat down gracefully beside Peony and motioned for the maid to fetch her cups, plates, bowls, and other things. Then he didn't speak, but quietly watched the horses perform.

At the end of the song, the horse immediately stopped.

In an instant, the applause came like a tide, and Pan Rong's cry was the loudest: "Okay, good, reward!" Enjoy both ends of the color satin, 100,000 dollars! ”

The two boys grinned and led the horses forward to receive their rewards, and whenever someone offered them their possessions, they gently beat the horses with their whips, and the horses bent their hind legs down as a gesture of thanks. It was even more surprising to everyone.

Although the county lord of Qinghua and Liu Chang were also rewarded, their faces were not good-looking. The county lord of Qinghua was because he had no vision just now, he said stupid things, and he felt that he had no face. Liu Chang didn't know what he was thinking of, looking at Li Xun on the left and peony on the right. But seeing that Peony's expression was faint, he was not as excited as he saw Hu Xuan'er just now, so he lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, pointed to the male guest seat and said, "Okay, your seat is there." ”

Li Xun sat down indifferently, looked at Liu Chang and said with a smile: "I'm really sorry, I ruined your good turf." ”

Liu Chang only smiled silently.

Pan Rong said: "Okay, where did you get this baby?" ”

Li Xun said: "I went to Qinghai this time, and I saw a strange thing on the way, and it took 10,000 gold to buy it from a Hu merchant. It's called a dancing horse, it feels good, right? ”

Pan Rong's eyes rolled: "I'll give you three times the price, can you give them to me?" "Wouldn't it be a great achievement if such a rare thing was offered to the palace?

As soon as he spoke, Liu Chang and the lord of Qinghua County both guessed what his idea was, and almost at the same time, Liu Chang said: "Give it to me, I'll give you five times the price!" ”

The lord of Qinghua said: "Give it to me!" I'll give you six times the price! ”

During the banquet, everyone listened to it, but the three people at the banquet were all wishful thinking, bought at a high price, and dedicated to the palace, and the income was far more than what they paid.

Li Xun laughed: "Everyone thinks this dancing horse is still watchable?" ”

Everyone nodded, and Li Xun said, "Then I'll rest assured." Everyone's hearts sank, and they heard him say slowly: "How dare I monopolize such a rare thing or sell it for enjoyment?" I don't want to hide it from you, I want to dedicate it to the palace. ”

The expressions of Pan Rong and the others were suddenly wonderful, and the county lord of Qinghua was even more angry. When Peony saw it on the other side, he couldn't help but laugh secretly, this was obviously a joke. Li Xun didn't know that the three of them were unhappy at all, and raised the empty wine glass in front of him and said, "Why don't you drink with me?" ”

Mrs. Bai said lightly: "The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, you see that in this world, everyone is almost the same." But it's just a matter of whether you can pretend or not. ”

If she took the initiative to sit down next to her before as a gesture of goodwill, then saying this to herself now is obviously comforting herself. A warm current flowed in Peony's heart, and she looked at Madame Bai sincerely and smiled.

saw Pan Rong suddenly get up and go out. Shaoqing, welcomed a tall, wheat-skinned, and dark-skinned man in a green robe in, and personally led the man to sit down on the first place in the men's seat, Fang smiled and said to Liu Chang and the county lord of Qinghua: "This is the friend I told you, Jiang Changyang, Jiang Chengfeng." Later, the flying knife carp will be left to the two of us! ”

The crowd was not surprised, and immediately a handmaid brought a few cutting boards, knives, porcelain plates, and other things, as well as fresh crucian carp that had been packed.

Hou Ye Shizi cut sashimi by himself? Sure enough, there are many rare things, and Peony smiled and squinted again.

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