Chapter 7: Greasy
Thirty days before dawn, the whole Xu Mansion began to get busy, from the inside to the outside of the sprinkling sweeping, the kitchen tinkling and clattering plate after plate of big dishes one pot after another out of the oven, in the middle hall of the old man Xu and the two sons together grinding ink to write couplets, after writing and then room by room pasted, Mrs. Xu counted the gift list of the people who gave gifts in the morning, while thinking about wrapping the red envelopes to be sent in the evening, the whole Xu Mansion is not lively, of course, except for Tan Ran's side, it is quiet as if there is no human habit.
It wasn't until late in the evening that the little maid came over and called Tan Ran to eat in the middle hall that she came out of the house.
There are two tables of banquets in the hall, and the middle is separated by a screen, only teaching people on both sides who can't see the opposite side clearly, of course Tan Ran doesn't know that this is a pomp specially made by Mrs. Xu for her, she is afraid that Tan Ran will see her son tonight as a talent, and the thief's heart will not die, and he will be entangled again, and he has made up his mind that the two of them will not be able to see each other, but it is really well-intentioned.
Master Xu, Mrs. Xu, and the eldest son and his wife, and the second son, the two children of the big house are all on the main table, and Tan Ran's table is all Master Xu's concubine and several concubines.
Xu Niangzi looked at Tan Ran apologetically, as the daughter-in-law of the eldest son of the Tan family, she could only sit on the chairman, she obviously didn't expect the Xu family to invite Tan Ran over, but she ignored people, she was quite embarrassed, but she couldn't say anything.
Tan Ran only didn't know, quietly listened to Master Xu's clichés of looking back at the present, thanking the emperor and the queen of heaven a few times, and only after the banquet opened did he eat the things on the table.
A few small children, who didn't know where they were listening to the mess, cried noisily at the table.
One of the ten-year-olds taunted, "Some people have such faces, and they eat and drink in our house!" ”
Tan Ran stopped and looked at the child: "What did you say?" ”
Seeing that he was also a well-behaved and cute child, the words that came out of his mouth were really vicious: "Isn't it, I haven't married into our family, but I have been living in our family, it's shameless!" ”
"I also went to seduce the second brother's poetry meeting, seduced people, and lost all the faces of our Xu family."
"What's the use of holding a marriage contract, this kind of person is not worthy of our family at all."
Tan Ran is a little funny, the original owner originally begged the Xu family to beg Xu He to help find out the unjust case of Tan's father, it was Xu He who kept her to live, saying that she was an orphan girl with no father and mother, and nowhere to go, and took the marriage contract of the two families, why not live in the Xu family first, and wait for Tan Ran to grow up and the two can marry directly, after the original owner lived down, he kept to himself every day and never did any transgressive behavior, once when he went to the street, he heard that the Xu County Order was all over the street How tolerant and kind a person was, and he was kind enough to shelter an orphan girl, but the orphan girl misbehaved, In the house is mostly stealing, she was stunned at that time, when she went back, she was still stunned, the house was clear and quiet, there was no such gossip at all, she didn't know why the people outside said that, and then once Miss Xu San took her embroidered handkerchief and threw it in the garden, she went to pick up the embroidered handkerchief, but unexpectedly Xu Qi was partying with a few classmates, she was so reckless and broke in, was seen by everyone, and it was a gossip, since then there was another rumor of bad character in the house, the original owner thought that under the fence of the Xu family, it was not good to cause trouble, caused trouble to others, so she swallowed her anger, but she didn't expect that Xu Fu was playing a trick to ruin her reputation, first let the little maid in the house walk outside to spread rumors, and then let Xu Qi take a few classmates to 'see it with their own eyes', so that in the future, the people of Xu Mansion will regret their marriage, and everyone will not say anything about Xu Mansion, but only say that she is a woman who is unchaste and has a bad character.
Tan Ran was a little tired, and said coldly: "Who taught you this?" ”