Chapter 15 Clever Tricks to Retain Guests
Seeing that although there were twists and turns in the happy event, it was a good success, the old lady turned around and glared coldly at the Xue family behind her, and snorted dissatisfiedly: "Today, our Xia family's face is almost lost by you, if it weren't for the obedient girl An Ran, it would depend on how you end?" ”
Although the voice was not loud, it still attracted many guests around to look here, and Xia Yuanwai hurriedly rounded the field: "Mother, you are tired of being old, and you are sitting on the seat." ”
After all, the old lady was partial to her son, although she was also annoyed that he couldn't be the head of the house, but she gave him face in front of everyone and did not reprimand: "That's it, that's it, I have a headache today, so I'll go back first, this happy wine, you can keep it for yourself!" ”
When An Sheng heard the old lady say this, he immediately stepped forward without thinking and grabbed the old lady's sleeve affectionately: "Grandmother, there are so many guests today, but they are all waiting to toast your old wine." When you leave, the wine will be tasteless. ”
The old lady's eyes wandered around, and she stretched out her finger and poked An Sheng on the forehead: "You little sycophant." ”
At her age, she looks at the world in her heart, and she is just angry and complaining.
Today, the emperor rules the world with benevolence and filial piety, and among the guests who come and go today, there are also colleagues and daughters outside Xia Yuan, but they all stretch their necks and stare at the jokes. If he really patted his ass and left, it would be tantamount to giving people a handle, and he would have a little more information to impeach Xia Yuan.
The old lady pushed the boat down the river, and An Sheng smiled innocently and dragged the old lady inside.
Cousin Xia Anzheng stepped forward, quietly blocked An Sheng's hand, and said with a smile: "Don't be reckless, people are crowded, and there is no root under your feet." ”
An Sheng immediately understood that his grandmother was kind to him, and the third cousin, who had always been favored in front of him, was tasted.
She playfully stuck out her tongue: "Sister Anzheng is still steady, unlike me, I forget when I am happy." ”
Her self-deprecating tone, coupled with her coquettish face, everyone only said that she was innocent, and An Zheng was praised by her and had a sense of pride.
"You're still young, it's normal to get out of the way, and it's likable. It's in front of my grandmother, it's better to be quiet, you can't be careless, you know, grandmother's legs and feet are not good. ”
An Sheng deliberately slowed down and fell behind, thinking about it, this cousin seems to be much smarter than Xia Ziwu, and she has a set of means to compete for favor, and everywhere is a play, no wonder her grandmother loves her.
The guests entered the table and sat down for men and women. Xue Shi beat his spirit, grinned, and commanded his subordinates to serve wine and food. He smiled reluctantly at the guests' greetings.
An Sheng suddenly remembered the citrus wine he and his sister had buried under the wall in the courtyard.
She galloped back to the courtyard, found a hammer and pulled out the wine jar in three or two clicks, poured it into the teapot, and carried it straight to the wine banquet.
This time, she paid attention to it, and no longer went to the old lady to offer courtesy, but waved at Xia Anzheng from afar.
Xia Anzheng didn't understand what it meant, walked over suspiciously, frowned slightly, and was cold: "What to do?" ”
An Sheng smiled flatteringly: "The wine on the banquet is spicy, and everyone toasts with great enthusiasm, worried that grandmother and sister will be uncomfortable after drinking too much, so I dug up a jar of citrus wine and specially sent it to my sister to taste." This fruit wine is sweet and sour, soft in the mouth, not so strong, and the color is golden, like amber, which can be mixed with fish eyes and beads, pretending to be banquet wine. ”
An Sheng opened the lid of the pot, and a sweet fragrance of citrus filled his nose. An Zheng smiled slowly: "Sister Ansheng has a heart, I thank you for my grandmother." ”
An Sheng hurriedly waved his hand and stuck out his tongue: "It's better not to tell my grandmother, sister, otherwise I'll think I'm greedy and hiding my secrets." Grandmother's rules are so strict that she will be reprimanded. ”
It was in the middle of An Zheng's arms, and An Zheng nodded with satisfaction: "In this way, my sister is greedy." ”
"Where, where?" An Sheng grinned: "Sister, this is blocking for An Sheng." ”
The two said politely, and An Zheng returned to his seat with the citrus wine, and exchanged the old lady with the liquor in front of him.
This citrus liquor Ansheng and Anran are also made of extremely pure soju, but a lot of rock sugar is added to the wine, and over time, the fragrance of rock sugar and citrus compromises the spicy taste of the wine, and becomes sweet and sour, like fruit juice.
Frequently juniors came to toast, the old lady drank smoothly, and those who came did not refuse, and they drank high after coming and going.
At this time, Meng Jinglun was lying in the bed tent "in pain", and the wedding clothes were neatly stacked next to the pillow, and the room was filled with the strong smell of ointment.
The lord and wife of the Meng family were dealing with the endless stream of guests in the courtyard, and they were also smiling a little far-fetched and absent-minded.
Meng Jinglun was carried back to Shilang's Mansion from the carriage yesterday, and he had already put a splint on his leg and wrapped it into a zongzi. When others touched their hands, they grinned and screamed miserably.
When Meng Shilang heard him tell how he was injured, he was furious and reprimanded him for a good life, blaming him for making friends carelessly, and even going to the fireworks willow alley to embarrass people.
Mrs. Meng felt sorry for her son, so she persuaded her, and then asked about the injury, Meng Jinglun said with a nose and eyes: "The doctor who has been looking for bruises has seen it, and the doctor said that if he falls hard, if he can't raise it well, it may be scrapped." ”
Mrs. Meng wanted to check the injury, but Meng Jinglun said that she would not let her touch anything, and when she touched it, she closed her eyes and cried out in pain, and her lips trembled.
The entire Meng Mansion knew that his young master was afraid that he would be abolished.
Before the happy event was done, such a thing happened, Mrs. Meng and Meng Shilang were a bolt from the blue, and they didn't sleep all night.
According to Meng Shilang's meaning, you must be upright, and if this kind of thing happens, you can't hide it from the Xia family. And Mrs. Meng was more worried and resolutely unwilling, so she sent the sedan chair out early to greet her relatives, because she was afraid that her lord's upright temper would come up and cause extraneous branches.
Although I don't like this marriage too much, but now that my son has this incident, relatives and friends have also gathered together, and I have successfully completed this matter, there is nothing to be picky about.
Meng Jinglun entrusted the errand of responding to the situation to Guan Xiaoye, Guan Xiaoye slapped his chest "popping", and said angrily that he would also snatch the real bride back, which made him feel a little unscored, it was like sitting on pins and needles.
When the little girl rushed all the way home, and told him that the eldest lady of the Xia family had gotten on the sedan chair, Meng Jinglun immediately jumped off the bed excitedly, removed the splint on his leg three times and divided it by two, and put on the bedside dress. In the surprised eyes of everyone, he limped out of the door.
Meng Shilang and Mrs. Meng, who were smiling and ushering in the send-off, were dumbfounded.
Meng Jinglun didn't hide it, pulled the second elder to a secluded and uninhabited room, and poured beans into the bamboo tube of the Xue family's stealing of the dragon and the phoenix, and explained it clearly.
At the end, Yizheng said: "People are valuable and trustworthy, the child and the eldest lady of the Xia family have not had a private relationship, and they have not seen her for several years. But it is Xia Anran who has a marriage contract with the child, and if he marries the third lady today, he will be unwilling, violating the ancestral teachings of my Meng family, and insulting the style.
What's more, the third lady and the Xue family seized their sister's marriage contract and occupied the dowry, and the family education behavior can be seen like a leopard in the tube. The child does not want to marry, and cannot marry. Today's child is cut first and then played, and with a little trick, the third lady really shirks and does not marry, and she is definitely not a good person.
The child begged the father and mother to forgive the child for the sin of concealment, and the child made the second elder worry that the sin should be dead. ”
The words were full of emotion, righteous words, and it was in Meng Shilang's heart. What's more, the wood has already been completed, so it will simply be wrong, and it will be a good marriage.
immediately happily urged him to pick up the bride and feast the guests, and he was very busy.
The sedan chair was halfway there, and Qin Huaiyuan was not idle for a moment, and he was close to the people who were close to the Meng family. As soon as he said the identity of himself and Xue Zhao in a few words, he told a few people: "Today, my uncle made a special trip to pick up the children, and I will take care of them for a while, and I can't be lazy." ”
Guan Xiaoye was just waiting to welcome his relatives at the Xia family, and when he saw Xue Zhao arrogant, he was not pleasing to the eye. Now that Qin Huaiyuan is so little bit, bad water will come up in his stomach.
One did not raise his eyebrows coldly, and the other did not sneer coldly, but took the initiative to talk to Xue Zhao, back and forth, and touched Xue Zhao's bottom carefully.