Different from the last Xuanping Houfu banquet, the scale of this banquet in Luofu was much smaller, and only the five people in charge of Linjiang City, including the Cen family of Xuanping Houfu, the Zhu family of the prefect, the Tongzhi Lin family, the Bai family of Tongju, and the Li family of the pacification envoy.

Those banquets that famous families can't attend, Xia Qi and Xia Jin are naturally not qualified to participate. The reason why they were invited was that seventy percent was Luo Qian's insistence, and thirty percent was for the sake of Xuanping Houfu, after all, Xia Qi had the grace to treat Mrs. Wang Hanlin, and Xia Jin was good friends with Cen Ziman. However, they can't be regarded as serious guests, they can only be regarded as friends invited by Luo Qian to help with things.

Therefore, in order not to be criticized and offend other powerful people in Linjiang City, as soon as Xia Qi and Xia Jin entered the mansion, Mrs. Luo assigned Xia Qi a task and asked him to help Luo Qian greet guests.

Xia Jin, because of Cen Ziman's relationship, followed her in the backyard hall and chatted with several old ladies and ladies for a while before going to the garden, and when they arrived, almost everyone else arrived. Seeing the guests invited today, Xia Jin wanted to laugh a little, because Zhu Xinlan and Li Yuyuan were here.

Last time in a place like Xuanping Houfu, these two people quarreled regardless of the occasion, and in the end, Li Yuyuan pushed Zhu Xinlan into the small lake and almost drowned. Now that they are at the house of their sweetheart Luo Qian, these two people will definitely not be calm, and they don't know what kind of demon will come out today.

"Miss Cen, are you here?" The Shen Yufang sisters are half of today's masters, and they are warmly greeting guests. Seeing Cen Ziman and Xia Jin coming in, Shen Yufang hurriedly greeted him and greeted Cen Ziman.

As for Xia Jin, she was completely ignored, and her attitude was very different from the last time they met on the street. Presumably after going home, she did her homework, knowing that Xia Jin was just the daughter of a little lang, and she looked down on Xia Jin.

Xia Jin didn't care. glanced at Shen Yufang with a smile, then slowed down and gave up the position next to Cen Ziman to the ladies who came up one after another. Then she bypassed the group of ladies with Cen Ziman as the center, walked to the beauty in the cloister and sat down.

Xia Jin came to Luofu several times, and she was taken to the garden by Leshan, so she was more familiar with the garden of Luofu. I don't know if Luo Weitao was shy when he first arrived in Linjiang. I still feel that my tenure here will not be long. The house he bought was not big. In addition to the fact that the courtyard is much smaller than that of Xuanping Houfu, the area of the garden is only one-third of that of Xuanping Houfu. Southerners also like to introduce living water into the courtyard to build lakes and ponds. The small garden of the Luo family, the pond occupies one-third, so there are fewer places for people to move.

This also results in a lack of separation between boys and girls. Xia Jin sat in the corridor, and could faintly hear the boys laughing in the gazebo not far away.

Hearing the laughter over there, there was a faint voice of Luo Qian. Zhu Xinlan couldn't hold back, and after expressing her enthusiasm with Cen Ziman in a few words. She said to Shen Yufang: "I remember that there are also a few peach trees planted in the garden of Luofu, and it is the flowering season at this time, can we go and see the flowers?" ”

Shen Yufang said with a smile: "Naturally, it's no problem, my cousin said it." I invite you to come today, and I want everyone to have fun. Although Luojia Garden is not as big as Xuanping Houfu, it also has some things to see. But everybody just arrived. Why don't you have some snacks and a cup of tea before you go shopping? My cousin and aunt specially asked someone to buy snacks from Zhiwei Zhai. ”

Hearing her say this, Zhu Xinlan was not easy to insist. Follow everyone back to the porch.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Li Yuyuan shouted angrily and looked at Zhu Xinlan, "Where are you stepping on that foot?" Zhu Xinlan, don't go too far! ”

Everyone was stunned and looked at Li Yuyuan's feet.

saw a very clear footprint printed on her lake-blue skirt. And just now, it was Zhu Xinlan who squeezed past her.

"Didn't I just step on you? It doesn't hurt, can you use such a bare face? Zhu Xinlan didn't apologize at all, and there was disdain in her eyes, "I didn't say anything when you pushed me down the lake, what if you stepped on you?" ”

It's good that Zhu Xinlan didn't mention this, but as soon as she mentioned this, Li Yuyuan became angry. The last time something happened, she was slapped twice by her father when she came home, knelt for an hour, and was grounded for ten days. This is nothing, the most terrible thing is that her father forced her to come to the door to compensate Zhu Xinlan, but Zhu Xinlan was unforgiving, and directly slapped her face in front of both parents.

She was about to fight back, but Li Yujuan, the sister who was standing next to her, persuaded her: "Sister, forget it." If Daddy knows that you are here and quarreling with Miss Zhu again, he will have to punish you again when he goes home. ”

Thinking of her father's anger, Li Yuyuan was a little timid, but she was unwilling to admit to Zhu Xinlan and encourage her, and when she was in trouble, Li Yujuan said a few words in her ear, and Li Yuyuan's anger dissipated at once. She raised her head and glanced at Zhu Xinlan, suddenly smiled, and said to Zhu Xinlan: "What happened last time was not good for me, and I will compensate Miss Zhu again in a while." ”

The change in her attitude not only made Zhu Xinlan stunned, but also the other girls were a little incredulous.

Li Yuyuan's father was a military general, and his temper was rough and urgent, and his way of handling things was very rough. Li Yuyuan's temperament is exactly the same as her father's, otherwise she would not have made the move of pushing people down the river. So at this time, she suddenly changed her temperament, and she died down when the tension was tense, which seemed very abnormal to everyone.

Everyone looked at Li Yujuan with admiration, thinking that it was because of her persuasion that Li Yuyuan had changed.

"Come, Miss Cen, sit here." Shen Yufang saw that Cen Ziman seemed to be going to Xia Jin's side, so she quickly pulled her to the honor seat of the table inside. Cen Ziman had to glance at Xia Jin apologetically, and sat down according to Shen Yufang's arrangement.

Today's Luofu banquet is different from the last Xuanping Houfu banquet, as long as the children in the family are of the right age, regardless of their grandchildren, they are all invited. Like Zhu Xinlan's sister-in-law Zhu Xinhui, Lin Yun's sister-in-law Lin Wan and Lin Yu, and Li Yuyuan's sister-in-law Li Yujuan, they all came to Luofu for the banquet together. And this banquet is for dinner, so even if you only sit down to drink tea and eat snacks now, you can't sit at will, you have to come according to your status.

So, Cen Ziman, Zhu Xinlan, Li Yuyuan, Bai Lu, Bai Shuang, and the two daughters of the Bai Tong family, as well as the Shen family sisters, sat at a table, and a few girls from the concubine sat at a table with Xia Jin.

The Lin family's tutor is very good, and Lin Yun's youngest sister Lin Yu happened to be sitting next to Xia Jin, she was worried that Xia Jin would be left out, and she turned her head from time to time to say a few words to Xia Jin.

When Xia Jin was talking, she accidentally found Li Yujuan, who was sitting diagonally opposite her, smiling, as if she was listening attentively to Lin Wan next to her, but the knuckles of her holding the teacup were white, and her back was straight.

From a psychological point of view, Lin Yujuan's seemingly inconspicuous small movements can best reveal her hidden true emotions. The back is straight, and the knuckles are white due to holding things too hard, which is a sign of excessive nervousness.

But what was she nervous about?

Xia Jin followed Li Yujuan's gaze and looked at the table next door, and saw that several people over there were also the same as here, talking and laughing with each other, and the atmosphere was very harmonious, even Zhu Xinlan and Li Yuyuan, who were arguing endlessly, were sitting next to each other, talking and laughing. Li Yuyuan also took the initiative to bring down a cup of tea from the tray of Luofu maids and put it on the table in front of Zhu Xinlan.

Xia Jin's pupils constricted suddenly.

She saw Li Yuyuan's little finger pausing lightly on the edge of Zhu Xinlan's teacup.

Xia Jin's gaze turned to Li Yujuan. Li Yujuan was looking at Li Yuyuan nervously at this time, and she didn't even hear Lin Wan's question beside her. When Li Yuyuan finished that action and put the teacup away, she relaxed and turned her head to perfunctory Lin Wan.

Xia Jin was speechless.

This Li Yuyuan, who pushed Zhu Xinlan into the lake last time, simply drugged it directly this time. Could it be that there are only two women left in this world, and she can marry Luo Qian after killing Zhu Xinlan?

It is expected that Li Yuyuan will not be so brain-dead, and she poisoned Zhu Xinlan in public, her medicine is nothing more than to make Zhu Xinlan stand out. In any case, Xia Jin was not ready to meddle in this matter. Last time she saved Zhu Xinlan, Mrs. Zhu's natural and commanding appearance really made Xia Jin tired. This time, she decided to sit back and watch the excitement.

"Yikes!" A scream came from the side, followed by a "bang", and a teapot fell to the ground, splashing hot tea inside.

It turned out to be a maid in Luofu who accidentally dropped the teapot in the tray.

At this time, Xia Jin saw that the moment everyone turned their heads to look over there, a hand suddenly stretched out from between Cen Ziman and Zhu Xinlan, and quickly swapped the teacup with ingredients in front of Zhu Xinlan and the teacup in front of Cen Ziman.

Seeing clearly that it was the maid from Luofu who brought tea to everyone who changed the teacup, Xia Jin's eyes narrowed suddenly.

Damn, what's going on?

The maid is also a talent, and she does this quickly and calmly. When she was done, she quietly took two steps back and stood in the corner. Everyone's attention was focused on the pot of tea and the person who was spilled by the tea, and no one saw her move at all.

The closest to the floor-to-ceiling teapot are Cen Ziman and Zhu Xinlan. Everyone was worried that they would be burned, and they asked out loud: "Miss Cen and Miss Zhu, are you okay?" ”

Shen Yufang also ran to Cen Ziman's side and helped her lift her skirt.

"It's okay, it's okay." Cen Ziman shook the tea on her skirt.

The maid was still some distance away from her and Zhu Xinlan, the teapot fell, and only some tea was splashed on the skirts of the two of them, and no one was burned.

Zhu Xinlan opened her mouth to drink and scold the girl, but when she thought that this was Luofu, it was too spicy and easy to leave a bad impression on Luo Qian, so she had to shut up, follow Cen Ziman's appearance, and said lightly: "It's okay, I just splashed some tea." (To be continued)

ps: Thank you for the tips of Xiaomi Fenxi, Chubby 945, and Lonely Wind ~