Chapter 3: The Feast of Catching the Wind and Washing the Dust (Part II)

"Madam, just now there was a word from the outer courtyard, saying that Young Master Xiao was angry with others, drank a lot of wine, and was drunk in Zizhuxuan, what do you think can be done? Do you notify Mrs. Xiao, or send it directly to the guest room? The mother-in-law said with a flattering face.

I knew something was going to happen! Just a stinky man who reads dead books, you still have to ask me about this!

Mrs. Cheng pursed her mouth, and the gold ornaments on her head shone with a dazzling brilliance, "It's okay for people to look at it, there are so many people in the house today, and I only have one pair of hands, where do you have to ask me - is it what the young master means?" ”

Listening to the words, the mother-in-law's laughter faded little by little, and knowing that this aunt was unhappy, she groveled even more: "The words passed on by Steward Liu in the outer courtyard did not mention the young master."

"Okay, I'll go to the old lady in person and say go, you go and deliver a message to the young master, if the people of the Xiao family want to leave, don't stop them, and if something happens in the province, the grandfather will come forward." Then he turned around and went out.

Her grandfather is referring to the protagonist of this banquet, Master Cheng Bu. He was originally the prime minister, and now even if Zhishi is at home, his reputation and face are much brighter than ordinary people, not to mention that there are three prime ministers in Cheng's family and the prime minister who took over, plus Cheng Bu returned to his hometown or His Majesty the Emperor personally sent to the city gate, which is more glorious than anything else, but something can't happen at this time, and make people see jokes.

Mrs. Cheng thought in her heart, and she became more and more bored, for the sake of face, she was the most tired.

Sure enough, when Mrs. Xiao heard about the incident, her face became anxious, and she hurriedly asked the young master to send her home, and she went to Cheng Lao's place to confess her guilt, and she was going to leave with her grandson before the banquet began.

"It's really ruined the boss's interest, his child is not sensible, and I hope the boss won't bother with him, and the old man will punish him severely when he goes back." Outside the gate of Cheng's mansion, Mrs. Xiao said goodbye to the Cheng family. She felt very embarrassed, she was napping at someone else's house, and her grandson was secretly drinking, so she was a little weak when she spoke.

Mrs. Cheng wished she could go quickly, but at this moment, she didn't have the right to speak, so she had to hold back her red face.

Cheng Jinke, the eldest grandson of the Cheng family, that is, the husband of Mrs. Cheng, after saying some words of self-reproach and apology to Mrs. Xiao, stopped holding back, and watched the Xiao family's carriage go away.

In the carriage, Mrs. Xiao looked at her grandson's red cheeks, and was very distressed, so she asked the maid to urge the groom to leave quickly.

The groom listened to the command, and struck the horse's ass with a whip, and the horse was in pain, and raised his hooves and rushed forward, but in the twinkling of an eye he ran a mile.

Xu is carriage is too bumpy, young master Xiao, who has been asleep, wow, vomited the old lady Xiao's body, the yellow, orange and orange vomit accompanied by the smell of smoky wine, ticking from the legs to the corners of the skirt and dripping onto the car board, the old lady Xiao screamed, and was about to take a handkerchief to wipe the filth on her grandson's clothes, bang, the carriage stopped suddenly, and the old lady Xiao rushed forward by inertia, but the whole person fell to the side.

On a sunny day, the Enrong archway representing the holy family of Cheng Fu Longen, was split by lightning, and the scorched black boulder fell in response, so that the horse who was only a foot away from the falling stone was frightened, and overturned the carriage, and the steward of Cheng Fu who saw this scene was so frightened that he pulled his legs and ran to the hall of the banquet in the outer courtyard, only to turn the corner of the verandah, and hit a person with his head.

"What are you doing in a panic?" The man who was hit was Cheng Lao's eldest grandson Cheng Jinke, Mrs. Cheng's husband - because he was a self-sustained scholar, he had always only seen elegance, and when he saw that the steward was so flustered, he inevitably opened his mouth to reprimand.

"Something is wrong, my young master, our archway has been struck down by thunder!" The steward's face turned white.

Young Master Cheng stared at him when he heard this, and at this time, many of the little maids and servants who came to hear the sound came out one after another, bustling, and when they saw that the steward was talking back to Young Master Cheng, they stopped and pricked up their ears to eavesdrop.

"Young master, the Xiao family's carriage was almost smashed by the falling stones! Check it out! The steward wiped a handful of sweat from his head, and after only a long time, his clothes were soaked with sweat.

Young Master Cheng came back to his senses, and immediately ordered: "You go and inform the young lady, no, you personally take someone to visit Old Madam Xiao and Young Master Xiao to see what they need—just find someone to hand over to the young lady, and by the way, let her prepare something to make amends—I'll go to Grandpa."

Cheng Lao's clothes returned to his hometown, his father and several uncles and uncles who were officials in the court did not come back, and most of the elders who could attend the family were women, and young children and grandchildren, only Cheng Lao, his grandfather, could call the shots.

When the matter reached Cheng Lao's ears, the banquet had just begun, everyone was there, and after Young Master Cheng finished speaking, he said in a low voice: "Sun Er has sent additional people to escort Old Madam Xiao back to the house, and let Jiao Niang send some gifts to Old Madam Xiao and Young Master Xiao tomorrow to make amends, Grandfather thinks it is feasible?"

Jiao Niang is the small character of Mrs. Cheng.

Enrong archway was struck by lightning, this matter can be big or small, related to the rise and fall of the Cheng family, and the ancestors of the Xiao family who had an accident on the boundary of Chengfu, no matter what, they all want to express it. Cheng Lao glanced at his grandson approvingly, and also said in a low voice: "Remember to write a letter to your father about this matter, let him not worry, I will explain it to the emperor when I turn around."

Cheng Jinke responded to the call to do it, and when he left the house, he passed by a person in Tsing Yi who walked quickly, most of the people who came to Cheng's house today were children of the scholar family, and it was normal for the little guy to pass on the news inside and outside the house, so he didn't care, but rushed to see how the steward was doing.

Before he arrived at the archway, he saw a large group of people talking about the collapsed charred black stone, Young Master Cheng's fair face couldn't help but darken, but he didn't make a sound to stop it, and then he saw the back of the steward in the distance who was escorting the Xiao family's carriage away, and then he went back.

When I returned to the banquet, I saw that my grandfather was drinking, so I took a piece of goose meat with chopsticks and ate it as if it was nothing, and a gorgeous woman next to me obediently poured a glass of wine for him and handed it over, serving him thoughtfully.

Young Master Cheng sat down with a middle-aged man, his face was red and his neck was thick, and when he saw that the woman beside Young Master Cheng was gorgeous and refined, he actually pushed the woman next to him by a ghost, and said drunkly: "Who is the beauty next to Young Master?"

Although the woman was pushed, she was not annoyed, but wrapped more and more around the man's arm, and did not look at the gorgeous woman, and said sourly: "That's the young lady's sister, the young master said that she has a shadow of the young lady who was red and thin during the empress period, and the young master loves it very much, and often takes it with him."

It is a long-standing custom for wealthy families to keep prostitutes, and Cheng Mansion is naturally no exception, as long as the men here do not refuse, there will be such women serving and pouring wine and cloth dishes, and it is normal to drink wine and drink to the head, and pull women to the side room.

Usually, such a feast is an opportunity for the prostitutes to turn over, so they do everything they can to make people happy, just for the sparrow to fly on the branches.

But no one noticed that a slightly chubby middle-aged man sitting at the end of the feast, after listening to the words of the little man in Tsing Yi, frowned, and looked at the happy old man Cheng who was eating at the first seat from time to time, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

After muttering for a long time, the slightly chubby man finally stood up and confessed to the left and right: "There is suddenly business in the yamen that I have to go back, and I invite you Haihan!"

When the people present saw that it was him, they swallowed the cold words - if there is an urgent matter in the prefect's yamen, it is really urgent, and the local parents and officials can't do it for a long time without a practice.