Chapter 176: Mid-Autumn Festival Family Banquet
"This time, it's fast, it's fast, it's only a few days after the Dragon Boat Festival? It's the Mid-Autumn Festival. It just so happens that there are a lot of things going on in the house these days, and it is rare for everyone to see each other, so I will take advantage of tonight's family banquet to have a good time."
In Shouning Palace, the clothes and temples were staggered, and the old lady sat on the upper seat, watching the grandson and the woman gather together, and couldn't help but be very happy.
"Yes, the ancestor is right, isn't the Mid-Autumn Festival just a beautiful day with a full moon, and it should be a happy family reunion."
Concubine Liao laughed funny, Liao and Aunt Qiu Xin Nian were also busy agreeing, and even Gu Changting told two jokes, with the efforts of everyone, this Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet was finally harmonious and the atmosphere was happy.
Towards the end of the banquet, Xin Nian swallowed a mouthful of Sixi pills into his stomach, thinking: It seems that on the happy day of the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion today, the concubine also knows that she will accept it when she sees it, and she refuses to spoil the scenery. Even the third girl sat here, and I didn't see her yin and yang weird and find faults. It's better to stop for a few days."
While thinking, seeing that the old lady and the concubine put down the chopsticks one after another, everyone also dropped the chopsticks one after another, and immediately there were girls holding tea, bowls and other things, and when everyone rinsed their mouths, Fang put on fragrant tea again, cleaned up the tables and chairs, and let the masters drink tea and gossip.
Gu Changting saw that the old lady was in high spirits, so he smiled and said: "Grandson just went out to take a look, the moon is big and round tonight, Nian Nian said that the Lingbo Pavilion in the garden has been cleaned, let's just go over in a while, while eating moon cakes while admiring the moon, this weather is good, the golden cinnamon is fragrant, wouldn't you be happy."
"Okay, it's up to you."
The old lady nodded again and again, and then heard Concubine Liao smile and said, "It will take a while for the moon to rise, I think it is better to take advantage of today's good day to do a happy event for the occasion, what does the ancestor think?"
The old lady looked at her, and her smile faded a little: "Oh? What are your happy occasions? The three girls and lychees will take two months to get out of the cabinet, right? This happy event is indeed a good occasion, and the talented and beautiful women are matched together, so that they can live up to this good moon."
"Ancestor ......"
Gu Yunxiang was so embarrassed that his face was flushed and he lowered his head, and the old lady laughed a few times. The corners of Concubine Liao's mouth twitched twice, and she smiled without laughing: "The third girl is naturally a happy event......
She glanced over there, and saw the lychee sitting next to Gu Yunxiang, and even her eyelids jumped for a while, and she hurriedly turned her head to calm down her emotions, and Fang said lightly: "It's really unheard of for a lychee to climb a high branch from a slave like this. I thought, a girl is a girl, and I must not be so bewitched by the special and accidental situation of lychee that other people begin to have hollow eyes, and they don't want to do serious work, and the master doesn't want to serve well, just thinking that I also meet a talented man who can fly on the branches......
"Mother, is this a pole that overturned a boatload of people? Which girl doesn't do things well and serves her master, so you can see it? Lychee is not a chance talent, that day Niannian and I took a few children to see Zihuai, and we were all present. It's just that weird guy from Zhao Chu, who ran into the second gate to pick apricots......
"That's misconduct, too."
The more Concubine Liao said this, the more she couldn't hold back her anger, but she saw her son smile slightly, raised her head and said, "What kind of misconduct is this? At his age, it's normal to be naughty. What's more, now that he is a flower tanner appointed by the Holy Lord, even if this behavior is misconducted, it will only become a good talk when it spreads."
After speaking, he stretched his waist and said leisurely, "Okay, didn't you say that you want to do a happy event for the occasion? Let's hear about it."
Concubine Liao calmed down at this time, glanced at Xin Nian and the apricot blossom behind her coldly, played with the grapes, and said slowly: "The Tian Cheng family in my courtyard, you probably know, that is the old man who has to be used by my side, it is difficult for her to serve me hard and faithfully for more than 20 years, I found me yesterday and said that I took a fancy to the girl Xinghua next to Xin's, and wanted to ask me to help me intercede, and ask Xinghua to be his son's daughter-in-law......
"Impossible."
Xin Nian stood up suddenly, she didn't expect Concubine Liao to be waiting for her here, this old pious woman, in the end, refused to let her have a good time.
Before she could continue to speak, she saw Liao's willow eyebrows stand up and reprimand, "What is my sister doing? How can you dare to interrupt before your mother-in-law finishes speaking? Whose daughter-in-law do you see so unruly and uneducated? I didn't even speak, is it your turn?"
Xin Nian tightened
Biting her lip, reason told her that she should avoid the edge for the time being, after all, Concubine Liao is a concubine and a mother-in-law, and it is indeed her turn to speak, even if it is her own girl who wants to harm her.
It's just that...... How can you endure emotionally? Xinghua is a girl who has come over with her, although she is called a master and servant, in fact, she is her sister, because she barely squeezed out a smile, and muttered, "Xinghua...... is old, and she originally said that she would not marry for the rest of her life, she ...... My temperament is also with me, withdrawn, and unsuitable for matching......
Liao's heart is not to mention how happy. The depression that had been held in his heart for nearly two years dissipated cleanly at once, because he looked at Xin Nian and sneered, "It's not up to you whether it's suitable or not. Don't forget, Xinghua is nominally your girl, but she is actually a person from the palace, and even you are a person from the palace, let alone her? 「.
"Jia Ru is right. Niannian, you sit down first and listen to the concubine finish speaking."
Xin Nian saw Gu Changting lazily supporting his head with one arm, sitting crookedly, and he used the word "concubine" in this sentence, not "mother", and suddenly had a trace of understanding in his heart, but he still couldn't believe it: It was Gu Changting's mother-in-law, looking at him like this, it seemed like he was going to be ruthless, but ...... slapped his mother's face in public, can he do this?
But she knows Gu Changting, but Xinghua doesn't know it. Hearing the words of the prince at the moment, it was clear that her end was doomed, and she couldn't help but spin around, if it weren't for the scruples of Xin Nian, it would not be easy at this time, she had to hold on to this breath, she would have fainted on the ground.
Over there, Concubine Liao thought that her son was showing favor and reconciliation to herself, and said in her heart: Sure enough, I was born in the end, and I know that if I offended my mother, I should also find a step down, a hairy girl, what is it? It's just to give her a cripple, not to kill her.
With a smile on her face, Concubine Liao also had a smile on her face, and said leisurely: "I think it's good, although the two of them are slaves and have low status, but the size is a happy event, and it can be regarded as a scene of the Mid-Autumn Festival flowers and a full moon. Apricot blossom and lychee are both people around Xin's side, it is better to wait for the day when the three girls and lychee come out of the pavilion, and also bring apricot blossoms. Xin, how are you going to thank me?"
I hate to slash you.
Xin Nian scolded angrily in his heart. Suddenly, I heard the applause of "Papapa", turned my head to look, and saw Gu Changting straighten up, looked at Concubine Liao, and said with a smile: "The flower is so full of moon, an outstanding girl with an ugly cripple, mother, your proposal is not a good situation, but it is enough to spoil the scenery."