Chapter 51: The Banquet
"Miss, for the summer banquet at Ming'er's house, you should wear this goose yellow. In Tongcheng, you always say that you don't want to do anything, too lazy to dress up, tomorrow is a serious day, your clothes and jewelry, you have to dress up well! ”
Liuyun took out Cheng Yuguan's clothes from the ebony lacquered cabinet and ironed them, while talking to Cheng Yuguan casually.
Cheng Yuguan's courtyard hung a plaque of "Banpo Hall", and Cheng Yuguan liked it too, so he didn't move.
Enter the gate of Banpo Hall, a flat gravel road inside, behind the plane tree, is Cheng Yuguan's boudoir room.
The front looks unremarkable, but in the rear right, there is a small slope, nearly three miles long, and it is a horse race track shaded by tall trees. Finally, there is also a small school field for Cheng Yuguan to fight boxing and archery.
The Cheng family has no daughters, Cheng Yuguan is the only daughter, so the place is very spacious, and most of the other brothers are in the front yard, which is far away from Cheng Yuguan's yard.
Cheng Lang's yard was arranged behind the study on the west side of the front yard, and it was said that Cheng Liuchuan would personally discipline it.
Cheng Lang's two elder brothers, who became relatives, are behind Cheng Lang, next to the backyard garden, with rockeries and flowing water, beautiful scenery, which is very popular with the two daughters-in-law.
Moreover, the two daughters-in-law live close to the garden, which is more convenient for hospitality on weekdays.
The courtyard of General Cheng and his wife Chang is naturally in the middle, and it is magnificent.
In short, Cheng Yuguan is not only in the house, but also close to the northeast corner, with a small door for independent entry and exit, which is very in line with Cheng Yuguan's heart.
Cheng Yuguan grew up with Mama Grandma since she was a child, although she was loved and resented by Mama Grandma, if she was separated, but Mama Grandma was her relative.
In previous years, when he was still young, Chang's stayed at Cheng Yuguan, who practiced boxing at Cheng's house, to eat, and Cheng Yuguan had to excuse himself and go back to accompany his grandmother.
Now that he is older, although he is a mother and daughter, Chang is also very considerate to give Cheng Yuguan, who has been independent since childhood, a separate portal.
This kind of proportion and scale, Cheng Yuguan is very satisfied, and other people in the house can understand it, only Cheng Lang, of course, is also Cheng Yuguan's two sisters-in-law who don't know why, so they can't help but have some complaints.
However, they are newly married, and it is not their turn to call the shots in the Cheng family, so after coming back, Cheng Yuguan just listened to the two sisters-in-law secretly poke and poke a few times about their mother's partiality, and did not say anything, just smiled.
It is said that women are weak, but in fact, women have a strong sense of territory.
Every daughter-in-law looks forward to getting rid of the control of her mother-in-law as soon as possible and becoming the master of the house. Even if it can't, it would be good for someone like Cheng Yuguan to have a certain degree of "freedom".
It's just that in General Cheng's Mansion, Cheng Liuchuan and his wife Chang didn't allow others to put their beaks, and after the two daughters-in-law tried their words, they didn't do it.
Even Cheng Yuguan returned to Beijing, a stepdaughter, the main mother Chang had to wait for Cheng Yuguan to return to Beijing, and then hold a summer banquet, officially invited relatives and friends, signaled them Cheng family, and officially opened a household in the capital, and the two daughters-in-law only listened to their mother-in-law's Zhang Luo, and did not dare to show a trace of dissatisfaction.
This kind of specialness, in just a few days, the whole house has enlightenment, and Liuyun feels it even more. In addition to being happy in her heart, she was very attentive to Ming'er's summer banquet, and she worked hard to dress up the young lady well, so that Ming'er would make her young lady appear in front of everyone in the capital in all directions.
Cheng Yuguan flipped through the account books sent by his father Cheng Liuchuan, and the thick stack was the total account of the store in the capital and the store in his hometown for two years.
Cheng Yuguan took it unceremoniously.
Other discussions and muttering about Cheng Yuguan can be regarded as inaudible, but the shop is forbidden in Cheng Yuguan's hands, although she doesn't care about others interfering, she doesn't allow others to put their beaks.
"It's good to be casual, in your own home, it's too grand to make people laugh."
Cheng Yuguan looked at the account book and returned to Liuyun's words.
Liuyun didn't care about the laziness of the young lady's dress, and made up her mind to clean up on her own.
In Liuyun's heart, Miss is omnipotent, but she is lazy in dressing.
obviously looks as beautiful as a fairy, but he always ties up his hair at will, wears plain clothes, and keeps an account book in his hand.
The two of them spoke without a word in the room, revealing tacit understanding and familiarity between the plain.
Outside, Ginkgo biloba and Begonia, who were wiping the furniture, listened to the light and shallow inside, and there was a homely thing without a word, and they glanced at each other.
They were specially selected by their wives to serve the eldest lady, and they were newly trained people in the mansion in the past two years, so they didn't know much about the past in the mansion.
They had only inquired about the eldest lady in the past, and everyone said that the eldest lady was gentle and silent, and she was a good host.
They had already planned to show their faces more in front of the eldest lady and let the eldest lady rely on her.
Unexpectedly, after the eldest lady returned home, it was completely different from what they imagined.
It's really gentle and silent, but it's not as easy-going as they imagined, but it's very thoughtful. Even Mrs. Ma was relegated by the eldest lady's words, and handed over Banpo Hall to the little girl in Liuyun.
Ma Pozi secretly poked and poked in the Rejuvenation Hall to find Mrs. once two days ago, and a few of them also knew, but the result was that after Ma Pozi came back from the Rejuvenation Hall, she seemed to have rested on regaining control of Banpo Hall, and honestly gave Liuyun's little girl a hand.
Begonia saw it in their eyes and didn't dare to make trouble, so they had to be more and more diligent, trying to behave in front of the eldest lady.
But the eldest lady seems to be invisible, and only talks to Liuyun on weekdays.
Just like at this time, the eldest lady was quiet, and only let Liuyun wait in the inner room, and if they wanted to behave, they could only wipe the tables and chairs outside.
For a while, Ginkgo was a little deflated, holding a handkerchief in her hand, but she didn't move for a long time.
Haitang wiped the incense burner in his hand, and when he turned around, he saw Ginkgo biloba being lazy.
Today, it was the turn of the two of them to wipe the house, and Ming'er was a family banquet again, so she couldn't be lazy, and Begonia couldn't see it, so she walked over lightly, ready to remind Ginkgo.
"Oops! You're scaring me to death! How can you walk like a cat without a sound! ”
Ginkgo, who was in a fugue, was frightened by the begonias and subconsciously complained.
Begonia hurriedly reached out to cover Ginkgo's mouth.
The eyes looked inside, and seeing that Miss and Liuyun didn't seem to notice, Haitang breathed a sigh of relief and glared at the unknown Ginkgo, "You are dead, Miss Xijing, what are you talking about?!" ”
Although Begonia reprimanded people, he used his angry voice.
Ginkgo had already reacted at this time, and hurriedly grabbed Haitang's hand, "Good sister, I just had a god, and I almost affected my sister." ”
When Haitang heard this, he didn't say anything more, and took a handkerchief to help Ginkgo wipe the table, and after a while, the two cleaned up and went out with a basin. It wasn't until he got out of the house and turned around the corner room that Begonia glared at Ginkgo again.
"You, you're used to being lazy, you have a family banquet tomorrow, you still have to be lazy, if you let Granny Ma know, she will definitely punish you!"
Strange to say, before the eldest lady and Liuyun returned home, Begonia Ginkgo was still faintly fighting, and when the eldest lady returned to the house and only reused Liuyun, their relationship was a lot closer.
Ginkgo knew that Begonia said this for her good, and she was not angry, and smiled next to Begonia, "I'm not afraid of Granny Ma, she is now in the eyes of the eldest lady, just like us, she is just a miscellaneous worker." ”
These words vaguely carry a complaint against the eldest lady.
Begonia stretched out a finger and pointed at the ginkgo, "Don't be foolish." You just have to do your part, then no one can help you. If you have the wrong mind and deal with it passively, let Granny Ma and Liuyun see it, report it to Miss, Miss wants to deal with you, and we can't intercede for you! ”
When Ginkgo heard this, she was busy admitting her mistakes, but she didn't think so.
In the past, she also expected to perform and let the eldest lady reuse, but now that she sees that the eldest lady has Liuyun around her, and she doesn't look at the maids in the house, then she doesn't need to behave, just make do. She is a big girl, does she have to work more to express herself like those little girls?
Begonia didn't know anything about Ginkgo's "rotten" thoughts, and when she saw Ginkgo agree, she was relieved.
The eldest lady doesn't talk much, but her eyes are bright. Occasionally meeting the eyes of the eldest lady, Begonia has to play the drum in her heart to reflect on whether she has done her duty.
After all, it is his own master, although he looks good-tempered, but he has a trace of unfathomable, so that Begonia does not dare to treat it casually.
The two little girls are floating and complicated, not to mention the Cheng General's Mansion, one hundred and ten people.
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In the blink of an eye, it is dawn.
Cheng Yuguan got up early in the morning after morning exercise, he was pressed in front of the dressing mirror by Liuyun, combed a simple and delicate concentric bun, jewelry is a ruby flower dian purchased in Yizhou, with a pair of hairpins and earrings of the same material and color, a goose yellow embroidered jacket skirt, and the Liuyun "tsk" non-stop.
Cheng Yuguan loves Chinese clothes and jewelry, but he only likes to buy them, not them.
Liuyun has long been looking at the clothes and jewelry, and now he finally has the opportunity to dress up the young lady.
Now looking at the beautiful and luxurious dress of Miss Jiang, and the color is even more colorful, Liuyun is proud.
"The saliva is going to fall!"
Cheng Yuguan glanced at the mirror, nodded and got up, "Let's go, go and say hello to my mother." ”
At today's family banquet, Chang specially asked Cheng Yuguan to go to ask for peace later, and when the time comes, they will entertain guests together and save the back and forth.
Now that it was too late, seeing that the guests were about to come to the door, Cheng Yuguan took Liuyun to the main hall.
"Yo, little sister's dress today, it's just dazzling our eyes, it's so beautiful!"
Sister-in-law Zhao is a shrewd and outgoing person, and when she saw Cheng Yuguan coming in with Liuyun, she immediately got up and came over to greet her.
As he spoke, he took Cheng Yuguan's hand and brought her to the front of the usual family.
"Mother, look at it, no wonder you loved the eldest lady in the past, just the beautiful and unparalleled appearance of the eldest lady, when the time comes, you will casually recruit a golden beetle son-in-law to our family, and we will benefit!"
Zhao's mouth is sharp, and he said it with a joke.
Chang's originally satisfied look, when he heard the words of his eldest daughter-in-law Zhao, he paused for a moment, glanced at Zhao, and saw that she was no longer interested in talking before turning his head and looking at Cheng Yuguan, "Come, come to me." ”
Cheng Yuguan took off Zhao's hand and stood in front of Chang, "Mother." ”
"Good! You should also dress up on weekdays, otherwise, it will be a waste of those clothes and jewelry to be left in vain. ”
Cheng Yuguan likes to collect clothes and jewelry since he was a child, and he has to buy a batch of dividends every year, and Chang naturally knows it. And she also knows that Cheng Yuguan has a lot of good things in her collection, but she likes to buy them and doesn't like to wear them, so she says that she is wasteful.
Zhao and his second daughter-in-law, Qian, obviously didn't know what their mother-in-law meant, and they separated after hearing the words, and they separated after only one glance, and their hearts were different.
When the elders in the family are proud, the younger ones want to get more help from the elders, which is human nature.
General Cheng's mansion was not obvious before, but now it has an official career and a developed business, and the two daughters-in-law are now serving their mother-in-law, trying to get some good impressions and good things from their mother-in-law.
They don't know that most of the Cheng family's business is in the hands of Cheng Yuguan, and they just think that their mother-in-law loves this eldest lady and buys a lot of things for the eldest lady privately.
People have their own values for possessions, so the two have different hearts.
Cheng Yuguan didn't care about the lawsuit between the two people.
If she has to think about every word, how difficult will her life be in Chengfu? It's rare to be confused, and it's serious.
Soon, the crowd was full.
Just like the two daughters-in-law are complacent, although General Cheng's Mansion is in the capital, the title is not obvious, and it is not as good as many super-grade princes and marquis, and the official position is not high, and the third-grade is not as good as those first- and second-grade officials, but there is money!
Taken together, there are titles, careers, and money, so although it is a new gateway in the capital, it is very eye-catching.
Not only did Cheng Liuchuan's friends in the army come to congratulate and visit, but there were even old relatives when the Cheng family was not separated.
The spacious main hall was bustling after a while, everyone was busy greeting and saying hello, and the two daughters-in-law were also busy and socializing.
At this time, the outer door suddenly rang out.
"Chenghou Mansion has arrived!"
Everyone instantly fell silent and looked at Chang.
Chang Shi also looked at the door with some surprise, got up from above, and took two steps forward.
No matter what the relationship between the two governments is, if you can't write two words in one stroke, Chang still has to have the number of etiquette.
At this moment, Chang didn't forget to pat Cheng Yuguan's hand, she heard the old man say that the Hou Mansion was contemptuous of Yuguan.
Cheng Yuguan smiled back.
In this prosperous capital, there is nothing important except life and death. Strangers should be polite and thoughtful, otherwise they will be criticized and said that you are arrogant, and this is your own family, and you should pay more attention to the number of etiquette.
Cheng Yuguan followed behind Chang and looked at the door.
Yang took his daughter Cheng Yulou and appeared at the gate.
With the light on their backs, they can't see clearly, but the two of them are dressed in noble clothes, and they are still in sight.
After a while, the two stepped forward, and at that moment, there were people talking behind them.
With their net worth, the marquis family who can't reach the first echelon of the capital on weekdays, and now that the Yang family has brought their daughter, it can be regarded as giving them a goal and a talking point.
"Sister-in-law!"
Yang stepped forward first, holding Chang's hand and calling affectionately.
"My younger brother and sister are Mrs. Hou, where can I afford it."
Chang is polite.
"Hey, let's be a concubine, no matter what, just relatives. We can't write two journeys in one stroke, and we haven't gotten out yet! My sister-in-law came to the capital from my ancestral land, and I have just arrived, how can I, as a younger sister, not come and support my sister-in-law! ”
The greetings between women are polite and peaceful, exaggerated and hypocritical.
Cheng Yuguan listened with a smile for a moment, and his eyes unconsciously saw Cheng Yulou behind Yang.
A snow-white silver thread embroidery, extravagant dust, a pair of apricot eyes, a lot warmer than two years ago, I can't see the pampering and arrogance of the past, full of peace and dignity, in addition to the emaciation of the cheeks, it seems to be a lot more mature than two years ago, and what is even more rare is that a body of gentle talent, just like the rumors in the capital, the first talented woman.