In the main courtyard, Chu Ning knew for the first time that it was such a troublesome thing for the young lady of the family to go out to the banquet. Wear a lightly scented intimate coat first, then clean your face, draw your eyebrows, apply makeup, then wear a formal top and bottom, and finally comb your hair, no wonder it's too late. If I attend a banquet in the palace, I am afraid that I will have to prepare all night without sleeping.

The Meng family has always been famous and Confucian, and he is very prestigious in Lin, even if it is a young lady who is not special, the birthday banquet is very grand.

Princess Ankang sent a grandmother who was familiar with ushering to follow them to help them make some gifts and entertainment, and as for the three of them, they were directly brought into the back house of the Meng family.

The garden of the Meng family is not very big, with a few bushes of green bamboos and a shallow pond, but it has a unique charm. In the small pavilion in the four corners, although Meng Jiying, the host of the banquet, was present, she was just standing, seven or eight cardamom girls, who were surrounded by a goose-egg-faced girl, laughing and talking, it seemed that they were all here to attend the birthday banquet.

The egg-faced girl caught a glimpse of them coming, and her face changed suddenly, and she rolled her eyes fiercely.

Su Qingyue leaned into Chu Ning's ear and said, "That's the second lady of the Xue family, Xue Niannian." ”

Another person who has never met and has an opinion about himself. But Chu Ning thought about it and understood that the Xue family only had two daughters, and the eldest daughter Xue Yiyi married the prince Jiang Chengqi as his wife, and the Xue family and the prince were in great disgrace, and those who offended the prince naturally offended the entire Xue family.

Over there, Xue Niannian hadn't spoken yet, and a tall girl next to her had already figured out her face, and opened her mouth first: "On this day this year, it's really cold, and all cats and dogs are wearing them." ”

She glanced at Chu Ning and continued to say to her companions: "A female dog raised by my brother also sewed a few new clothes and dressed like a human being. ”

Several girls laughed eatingly, and some even covered their mouths and noses with handkerchiefs, showing disgusted expressions, as if they really smelled something.

A girl's mind is sometimes so strange.

For example, in their impression, a certain person should be unkempt and low, but when this person really appears in front of them, he is indescribably calm and beautiful, and the small flame called jealousy in his heart is burning more and more.

Chu Ning looked straight over with a smile as if he didn't hear the sarcasm in those words: "Yes, the cats and dogs raised by someone are quite good, but the most pitiful thing is the mad dogs in the wild, they can only get together seven or eight of them, find a pavilion or something, and huddle together to keep warm." If someone offered them some meat to eat, they couldn't wait to wag their tails and drool. ”

Su Qingyue reminded on the side that Chu Ning already knew that the tall girl was named Gu Caiwei, and her brother was the deputy general next to Xue Niannian's eldest brother, so she naturally wanted to desperately tie up the Xue family, the most favored young lady.

Gu Caiwei's face changed, and she hurriedly walked out of the small pavilion in a few steps, and her finger almost pointed to Chu Ning's face: "Who do you say is a mad dog......

"Huh? Didn't you keep talking about cats and dogs just now," Chu Ning intercepted her, "How did this lady get involved with people?" ”

Chu Ning picked up Gu Caiwei's handkerchief from the ground, put it back in her hand, and said word by word: "If your own things are dropped, you should pick them up, as for others, you can't pick up everything on yourself." ”

This kind of non-explicit meanness, Su Jinyao has been taught, but she has never been very compatible with Xue Niannian, and at this time she snorted without being salty, and neither side is biased.

Meng Jiying, the protagonist of the banquet, couldn't help it, laughed out loud, and saw that Xue Niannian's face was not very good, so she hurriedly reined in.

Chu Ning walked a few steps into the small pavilion, looked at the spell sticks scattered on the table, and asked casually, "What were you playing with just now?" ”

Several girls standing behind Xue Niannian squeezed their eyes at each other, revealing an expression of calculating people, and after pushing and shoving, a young lady with a little oblique upward corner of her eyes walked out and said to Chu Ning: "We are playing with fighting lots, do you want to try it too?" "That's one of Meng Jiying's sisters, Meng Zhongxuan.

The people present were all noble ladies with some status, and whether they could practice the spirit control method was innate, but it was not difficult to find a few servants who were proficient in spirit control magic. The atmosphere of the Eastern Qi Dynasty is like this, and the boudoir games of the nobles are naturally different from other places.

For example, what they call a bucket lottery is that each of the two people makes a spell stick, and buckles it in a jade box separated by a partition in the middle. When the partition is opened, both spell sticks are activated at the same time, and if one spell sticks just enough to restrain the other, it wins. If the two spell sticks are not related to each other, it is a tie.

"The banquet will take an hour to start, and it's boring to be idle," Meng Zhongxuan came up and took Chu Ning's hand and pulled her to sit down on the stone bench, "It's a little thing just now, let it pass, everyone will play a few games, they will be friends, and they will have more contacts in the future." ”

When Zhong Xuan smiled, her eyes became more and more raised, and she was very charming.

Chu Ning suddenly remembered a story he had read in a book before, the more others want to give you great benefits, the more careful you must be, they may have to take more.

She smiled noncommittally: "I've never played a bucket lot, why don't you play a few first, let me see." ”

Zhong Xuan pulled Ji Ying, and the two dipped their fingers in gold dust, and wrote their own spell names on the blank sticks prepared in advance. The little maid stepped forward, signed the spell, and put it in the jade box. Seeing that Zhong Xuan and Ji Ying both nodded in permission, she removed the partition.

A puff of light smoke first lit up in the jade box, and then went out.

The little maid flipped open the used spell stick, Zhong Xuan's one said "burn", and Ji Ying's one said "solution", Ji Ying won.

Zhong Xuan raised her hand to pinch Ji Ying's face: "It's a dissipation spell every time, and if you do it again, I won't take you to play next time." ”

Ji Ying dodged with a smile: "It's my sister, you are too competitive, if you only write the word 'solution', we will be tied." ”

Then, Zhong Xuan played with Su Qingyue and Gu Caiwei again. In the first game, Zhong Xuan wrote "net", Su Qingyue wrote "flying sand", Zhong Xuan smiled: "I won!" ”

In the second game, Zhong Xuan wrote "wind", and Gu Caiwei wrote "trace". As soon as Gu Caiwei said "draw", Zhong Xuan raised her hand to clasp the spell stick, and said with a smile: "It's all windy, what else are you looking for, is it looking for your little lover?" I should count me ...... win."

Because it's a game, the sign is just made of pampas mixed with coarse linen, but it is dyed and painted with exquisite outlines, and when making the spell stick, you don't have to be full of strength, but it's just a meaning.

After laughing for a while, Zhong Xuan turned his head to look at Chu Ning: "That's it, it's very simple, after one more game, it's almost time to take a seat, do you want to try it?" ”

Chu Ning smiled and nodded: "Then give it a try, you should add some excitement to the birthday star, but I don't know who will play this game with me?" ”

Xue Niannian, who had not spoken since Chu Ning sat down, suddenly said coldly: "I'm coming!" ”

Chu Ning knew that after laying the groundwork for so long, the main master was going to do it.