Chapter 13: The Banquet

Entering the palace is imminent, Wang Wei's family seems to be divided into two parts, one part is pure relaxation, and the other part is pure nervousness, and the old lady does not say that she doesn't care about her second granddaughter at all, and the complete set of head and fabric is also sent over. She didn't expect to give these things and her granddaughter would be grateful to her.

The old lady called Wang Ronghe, "Tired of staying at home?" Ask your little sister to come to your house and talk to you. ”

"My mother has been busy with her second sister lately. My second sister-in-law and I can pass the time by learning how to make incense. Wang Ronghe was a little moved, but she wanted to invite someone to come over to set up a banquet, so she had to alarm the public middle school and work hard to arrange it for the Cui family.

"But haven't you been with your little sisters for a long time?" The old lady said.

"Let's wait for my sister to enter the palace." Wang Ronghe said.

"She enters her palace, and you play yours." The old lady said, "I know that you have the most unbearable temperament. ”

"You go to write a post, and the money comes from your grandmother, not through the public school." The old lady said, "Don't bother your mother, you have also been a housekeeper for several years, see if you can manage a small banquet yourself." ”

"Grandmother said I was like a monkey." Wang Ronghe leaned on the old lady with a smile, "Anyway, even if I don't handle it well, my grandmother has someone to help me." ”

"Then you get married, and your grandmother can still help you." The old lady said with a smile.

"Isn't it a grandmother's granddaughter when you get married? When I get married, my grandmother doesn't care about me? Wang Rong said coquettishly, the old lady smiled and touched her face, don't blame people's hearts are biased, you personally brought up people, intimate with you, flesh to meat, how can it not hurt a little.

Wang Ronghe does not have many close friends in his boudoir, and there are only three of them who are the closest, Wei Lingzhi, Tang Tang'er, and Ning Don't know. Lingzhi and Tang'er's fathers are both Jinyiwei, Tang'er's father is a bit older and is the commander of Jinyiwei, and Ning Buzhi is the daughter of Hubu Shangshu. Wei Lingzhi and Ning didn't know that they had married a few years ago, and Tang Tang'er, who was one year younger than Wang Rong, also had a marriage contract.

The four of them still went to Tantuo Temple together to get acquainted. Nowadays, women are trapped in Cheng Zhu Lixue, and the door is not out of the door, especially the ladies who are beautiful, and they are just going from this square box to that square box all their lives. However, going to the temple is a must-have itinerary for each wife every year, and she always goes there several times a year.

The four of them occasionally met in the Tantuo Temple, strange to see the right eye, the past few years are correspondence to keep in touch, about time to go to the Tantuo Temple together, and so on to the age of fourteen have begun to learn housekeeping, today you post tomorrow I set up a banquet, can also meet a few more times a year.

Wang Ronghe's post will soon come back with a reply, and it will come at the agreed time. Wang Ronghe put away the post without illness and could go to prepare for the small banquet.

Naturally, there are enough places in the house to feast guests, but Wang Ronghe just drinks tea and chats with his close friends in the boudoir, and he doesn't need that at all. Wang Ronghe's yard was not bigger than the other girls, but fortunately, there was a triangular corner between her yard and the old lady's yard. The old lady asked her to make a small garden there and said that she used it for walking, but the old lady's yard was already large, and this garden was actually built for Wang Ronghe.

Wang Rong and his entertaining friends are in this small garden.

The people below reported that the eldest lady was going to have a banquet in the small garden in three days, and Cui's was thinking about what to wear with the pink jacket skirt that her daughter brought into the palace, and she said with some disgust, "When is this, she still has to set up a banquet, and she has to come to make trouble." It's not coming out of a belly, it's just not intimate. ”

The people at the bottom said that they were allocating money from the old lady's courtyard and did not go from the public school. Cui Shi snorted coldly.

"Okay, then let Youxi help her out. lest I be a mother who treats her slowly. Cui said. Youxi is a horse breeder in the house, and his daughter-in-law can only be a rough mother-in-law, but the little daughter-in-law is very ambitious, and she greets her everywhere and gets to Cui's yard as an errand boy, but there is a daughter-in-law in front of her, and Cui's is limited to knowing that there is such a person in the yard, but she has never used her.

The daughter-in-law of the Xi family knew that she had an errand, and she was happy and frightened, so she stuffed a silver ring in her hand and gave it to the daughter-in-law who came over to pass the message, "Sister-in-law, do you have anything to pay attention to when I am on duty for the first time?" ”

"How do I make my wife like it?" A happy daughter-in-law asked.

"Mrs. is now asking you to go and help the eldest lady set up a banquet, you have to ask how to do it if the eldest lady likes it." The companion is a little disgusted that this ring is small, but don't be in vain if you get something white, take the ring and leave with a few perfunctory words, this is stupid. Since Mrs. instructed you to do things for the eldest girl, she will naturally not use you again if she does it with all her heart. It just depends on whether you can understand this or not.

There is a happy daughter-in-law to go to Wang Rong and the courtyard, to see Ying's mother, Ying's mother doesn't care who the wife sends to do things, Wang Rong and the banquet guests are not the first time, the process is familiar, Ying's mother took out the paper, "These are what you need to do." ”

A happy daughter-in-law took a look at it, but it was embarrassing, she was illiterate. Ying's mother soon noticed that the wife was becoming more and more perfunctory, and she didn't even send a literate daughter-in-law. She also found a pen and paper, "Come, you see, I will first find the housekeeper to ask for this pair of cards, arrange for a good person to go to the side door to pick up a few young ladies that day, prepare a soft sedan chair, and the ladies will leave in the afternoon, so we must also arrange for someone to send it." ”

"Take this piece of paper to the butler again, that's the ingredients that the lady will use for the banquet that day, the menu will be given to the kitchen tomorrow, you have to deal with the housekeeper, these ingredients must be available at that time." When the time comes, the kitchen will report that there are no ingredients, and you can't cook the dishes that the lady wants, and you will only be punished for it. Ying's mother said.

Youxi's daughter-in-law nodded like pounding garlic, "Mother Ying, tell me what ingredients are on this paper, and when the time comes, I can ask the second housekeeper if all the dishes have been purchased?" ”

Ying's mother said the same to her, and the happy daughter-in-law nodded like pounding garlic in response, and repeated it one by one to make sure, Ying's mother thought that if people were careful, it would be successful, "Then Ying's mother, the eldest lady's banquet, don't arrange the decorations, arrange the troupe?" "Some of the valuable ornaments are not placed outside, but are stored in the storeroom, and will not be put out until the feast is ready.

"The furnishings should all be out of the small courtyard. The ladies get together to talk, and there is no need to arrange a troupe. Ying's mother said.

Youxi's daughter-in-law came out of Wang Rong and the courtyard, and she still had to go back to Cui's courtyard to reply, Cui's only asked a few words and went with him, she remembered Wang Zhixi in her heart, and she had to put it down.

Youxi's daughter-in-law sees that she is not busy with many things, and she often runs to Wang Rong and the yard in her spare time, and tells Ying's mother that these days are all for the eldest lady's busy work, and Ying's mother can just explain to her if she has something. Ying's mother actually has someone in her hands to do things, but there is a sincere daughter-in-law, so she beckons her to do things together.

The Wang family is now the head of the Cui family, but the old lady is still there, there are always a few caring people, although the Zhang family is dead, there are always a few people left to protect Wang Rong and thoughtful. So Wang Ronghe has to do something, even if the Cui family is not happy, it will not hinder her. Wang Rong and the people in the courtyard were naturally oriented towards her, and the Cui family once sent someone to serve, but in the end they didn't stay.

Youxi's daughter-in-law knows that her wife definitely doesn't like the big girl, how can a stepmother like the children born by the previous wife. But the first time she was on duty, she really wouldn't deliberately do anything bad, she acted instinctively, but she accidentally voted for the people in the big girl's yard.

The flowers of early spring have bloomed one after another, the small garden has been carefully trimmed, and the flower pots moved from outside are properly placed, and the daughter-in-law has come to this small garden for the first time, and she can't help but look around, she can't see any precious flowers, but she only feels that all the flowers in this garden are open spirits, and the king is neat.

She asked her man to talk to the groom who sent the flowers, and knew that the flowers came from Wynn Flower Village, which was a big flower village that sent flowers to the palace. Her man asked if these flowers were cheap, and the groom who sent the flowers smiled and whipped him, "I bought the flowers from us, who still asks the price." ”

At night, the two of them hid in the quilt and talked about this stubble, and the daughter-in-law broke her fingers, "Then Ying's mother didn't let me go to the account room to spend the money?" ”

"It's not that the old lady allocated the money for the eldest lady to hold a banquet." Youxi muttered that it would be best for him to say that his daughter-in-law could mix with a kitchen errand, but who knew that she had sharpened her head and was going to come to Miss Wife.

There is a happy daughter-in-law Bai Husband, he doesn't understand, you see the daughters-in-law who serve in the yard of Miss Mrs. are clean and decent all the time, and they are round and thick in the kitchen before they reach thirty. I want to look good for myself? It's not for you to save face. I will let you change positions when I have face, and you will want to serve the horses for the rest of your life.

"I often hear people in the wife's yard say that the old lady is eccentric, and it's really a bit eccentric to look at it this way." Youxi's daughter-in-law said, "Even the flowers in the public are not from Wynn Flower Village, and now the big girl has a private banquet, and the old lady will buy flowers from Wynn Flower Village, so much money." ”

"It's not spending your money, what the hell do you care." Youxi turned over. What's wrong with serving horses, he likes to serve horses.

The plates used for the banquet should be sent to the kitchen a day in advance, and Ying's mother opened the warehouse, ordered the notes to be used, and asked Youxi's daughter-in-law to send them to the kitchen.

When Youxi's daughter-in-law saw these high-end porcelain for the first time, the panic on her face almost condensed into substance.

"It's okay. Porcelain is a consumable item. Carefree said to her, "As long as you don't mean to break it, if there is any damage, the big girl will not blame." ”

"They look expensive." Youxi's daughter-in-law said honestly.

"It's okay, it's all burned at home." Worry-free said. In the past, when the second young master was studying in Jiangxi, he stayed in Jingdezhen for a period of time, and the girl let him buy a kiln there, and let him burn it there every year.

"There is still a kiln for firing porcelain at home?" Youxi's daughter-in-law exclaimed.

Wuwu glanced at her, "It's just that the young master's friend's family does this, and every year he opens a kiln for the girl to burn some small things, don't talk about it." ”

Don't worry about turning around and hitting yourself in the mouth, making your mouth fast.