Chapter 65: The Flower Banquet (1)

The Cai family's Yihu Pavilion was built in the southwest corner of Cai's mansion. If you want to talk about the atmosphere, you can't catch up with Chen's house; If you want to talk about exquisite and quiet, you can't catch up with Gongfu, but there are two very rare varieties of Chiba camellia.

This thousand leaves camellia is very different from the usual camellia, the tree is one zhang high, as big as the pavilion cover, the flowers have the size of the bowl mouth, from seventy to one hundred and thirty pieces are arranged into nineteen to twenty-three rounds, the layers are distinct, the arrangement is orderly, more and the color is like the morning glow, the fragrance is quiet, the leaves are green and shiny, it seems extraordinarily graceful and luxurious, very rare. Because of its beauty and rarity, there are always so many elegant people who come to Cai's house every year to enjoy flowers and recite poems.

In the past, the Zhang family didn't like to have flower viewing banquets or anything, but the Chen family was extremely keen on doing this kind of thing, for no other reason, just because it was the best way for women to socialize and inquire about gossip.

The pavilion is not large, and only one table can be placed in it, so it is naturally occupied by the ladies. The ladies were seated under an old cherry tree two feet away from the pavilion. At this time, the cherry tree is blooming, the tree is full of snow, the wind blows, the cherry petals fall with the wind, but there is also a bit of artistic conception in it.

Because Mingyu had a bad stomach and couldn't attend, Ming Fei went a few steps late, glanced at it from a distance, and didn't see the legendary grandson of the Chen family. Chen was laughing and laughing with a few familiar ladies, and to her surprise, the second aunt, who had been sick for the past few days, stood behind Chen with the third and fourth aunts and took on the duties of personal maids.

The second aunt had sharp eyes, and when she saw Ming Fei first, she greeted with a smile: "The third lady is here?" Is Miss Six better? ”

Ming Fei hurriedly smiled and stepped forward to salute everyone, and everyone asked with concern: "What's wrong with Miss Six?" ”

Ming Fei replied respectfully: "You are worried about the elders, she had a cold last night, so she took medicine and rested." "It's not good to say that Jade has a bad stomach, I'm afraid that people will say that she is a greedy girl. Everyone expressed their concern, I don't know if it was an illusion, Ming Fei always felt that the smile of the second aunt looking at her was a little abnormal. When she looked again, the second aunt had already lowered her eyes.

"Mother, I'll go over there to entertain your sisters." Ming Fei bowed her knees and retreated, and Chen Shi gave her a few words before letting her go. Second Mrs. Gong looked at Ming Fei's steady figure, and said casually: "It's really good to be so calm at such a young age." How old is the void? Can you talk about kissing? ”

"She's only ten years old, so there's no hurry." Chen vaguely changed the topic and laughed with everyone.

Compared to the liveliness of the adults' table, the atmosphere at the girls' table was a little dull. Mingzi didn't appear, only Mingpei greeted the guests tremblingly. Ming Pei didn't have many opportunities to attend this kind of scene, she didn't know how to entertain the guests, she was in a state of panic, seeing Ming Fei coming over was like seeing a savior, and quickly pulled Ming Fei over to introduce everyone, and Ming Fei nodded and said hello.

There are a total of five young ladies who came today, namely the fourteen-year-old Jingyu of the Gong family, the ten-year-old Jingqi, the twelve-year-old Yanbi, the fifteen-year-old Huiniang and the eleven-year-old Wanniang of the Liu Tong family. Several people have been specially instructed by adults before going out, and they have not alienated Ming Fei because of that rumor, they must answer questions, and occasionally take the initiative to talk, but they have no intention of having a deep friendship with Ming Fei.

Ming Fei naturally understands this attitude, but she wants to make full use of the opportunities created by the Chen family for her to get acquainted with these people as soon as possible - these official ladies will marry someone in the future, which is a potential network, and she will always have to establish her own small family one day. So even if you can't make them like her, you have to make them not hate her.

The topics that girls can talk about are nothing more than female redness, dressing up, or relatively simple poetry. Raising flowers, feeding birds, etc. Liu Tong's family is from the north, not as good as the south, the girls in their family don't study, in order not to embarrass the two Miss Liu, everyone consciously skipped the poems and talked about women's red clothes.

There was no topic to talk about, so Ming Fei talked about the way to raise flowers.

Hearing her say the truth, everyone showed a look of surprise, and Gong Jingqi said in surprise: "So you really understand?" I thought you were blowing. Didn't you say you couldn't read a lot of words? How can you speak so elegantly? Without hiding her doubts, Gong Yanbi hurriedly pulled her sleeve and signaled that she was rude.

Gong Jingqi hurriedly said: "I didn't mean that, I mean that people who haven't read a book talk differently." After finishing speaking, Gong Jingyu glared at her fiercely, and she was so frightened that she immediately covered her mouth and looked at everyone in embarrassment.

The speaker has no heart, but the listener has a heart. Liu Jiawanniang's eyes were already red, and she said unconvinced: "Isn't it rude to speak if you can't read?" She also wants to be literate, but her father won't teach her, so what can she do?

Ming Fei hurriedly started the round and asked Meizi to bring Xifu over to show the girls, Xifu was fat, wagging his tail and desperately trying to please everyone, and sure enough, he won a lot of laughter.

In order to make up for her mistake just now, Gong Jingqi talked about the Gong family's cats and dogs very hard: "My eldest brother loves to raise these cats and dogs, this peony dog is small, he has a Zhuangzi on the outskirts of the city, and there are a lot of vicious big dogs in it." I heard that some of them came from Fanbang, and they stood taller than a man in the prime of life, and they stinked. The saliva was dripping, and I was sick to death. ”

Liu Huiniang gently patted her sister's hand under the table to comfort her, and changed the topic cooperatively: "Then isn't he afraid?" I heard my dad say that dogs go berserk. The bigger the dog, the more violent it is, and even adults may not be able to handle it. ”

"That's not necessarily, some dogs just look scary, but they are actually very docile." Gong Jingqi pouted, "Besides, my eldest brother is not afraid." He has a crossbow! Usually there are more than 20 people who specialize in training dogs, once a vicious dog went crazy and almost bit off the neck of a small guy, more than a dozen people did not dare to step forward, it was he who shot the vicious dog with a crossbow and saved the life of the little guy! Oh yes, have you ever seen a crossbow? Seeing that everyone was silent, she said triumphantly, "I know you haven't seen it." ”

Liu Huiniang didn't speak, only lowered her eyes, Liu Wanniang's eyes were red again, and she glared at Gong Jingqi angrily.

Ming Fei couldn't help but smile: "I haven't seen it either, do you want to let us see?" Liu Wanniang heard that Fang Fei hadn't seen it before, so she felt a little better, and her red circles faded a little.

Gong Jingqi said boldly: "What's so difficult about that! My eldest brother is here today, so maybe he will bring it with him, and I will ask him to bring it. Immediately, he called a girl with a beautiful face to find someone.

At this time, there was a commotion on the side of the road, and everyone looked back, only to see more than a dozen brightly dressed mothers-in-law and maids surrounded by two young women in gorgeous clothes and high temples, a little boy in a red robe, and a little girl in a green dress came over in a majestic manner. Chen greeted him affectionately.

After a while, the fourth aunt came over with a smile: "Third Miss, Sixth Miss, Madame asked you to go over and meet the two aunts and grandmothers." ”

It turned out that someone from the Chen Mansion came, Ming Fei hurriedly confessed to everyone, stood up and asked Jiao Tao to tidy up her clothes, but as soon as she turned around, she almost ran into someone, it was the little boy in the red robe and the little girl in green who had just arrived.

The little boy in the red robe was about eleven or twelve years old, raised two drooping eyebrows, raised his chin, and looked at Ming Fei very arrogantly: "You are Cai San?" Where's your peony dog? ”

Ming Fei frowned slightly, this rude dead child. Is it the eldest grandson of the Chen governor's family? Intellectually, she shouldn't have offended this dead child, but she didn't want to show weakness in front of this dead child in front of this group of girls, so she turned her face away and shouted Xifu: "Xifu, come here, someone is looking for you to play." ”

Gong Jingqi laughed: "Xifu is really blessed, there is a partner who has always been remembered." "In other words... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］