Chapter 43: The Family Feast
Night falls.
Fu Jiao was just about to hold the lamp, when there was a knock on the door outside.
Gentle, very regular.
She didn't need to say who was coming.
Only Fu Rudi would be so restrained and polite when he knocked on the door.
"Brother, are you going to dinner?"
Fu Jiao opened the door and smiled.
After she came back, she washed well, her hair was delicately coiled with a double ring, and the hairpin was a popular beaded butterfly hairpin for women in Beijing. The eyebrows and eyes are like autumn water, with a new autumn fragrant green crepe skirt, which is delicate and moving.
Fu Rudi's eyes lit up.
After going out for so long, I didn't notice that Fu Jiao had grown taller again, and he was almost reaching his chin.
He hesitated, "How do you know you're going to eat?" ”
Mo Fei Sibei revealed to her about the banquet held by the Fu family tonight.
Fu Jiao pointed to the sky, "It's dark, if you don't eat or sleep, you'll be hungry!" Are we going to eat at the government office, or are we going out to eat? ”
Only then did Fu Rudi know that he had misunderstood.
He lowered his head and smiled, and said bluntly: "My father has been here." When he learned that we were back in Beijing, he set up a banquet at home and asked us to go back and get together. ”
"Oh." Fu Jiao also wanted to meet them, "Okay, can we go over now?" ”
She replied so naturally, she couldn't fix Fu Rudi. Fu Rudi asked, "Don't you like home?" ”
"I don't like it."
Fu Jiao smiled softly, and her bright eyes looked at him, "But my brother and family have no suspicions, how can they be estranged because of me." ”
The Fu family can't fight with her.
After the merit is completed, there is no need to see it again.
But Fu Rudi is different. He is the son of the Fu family, and the smoke from the ancestral tomb is such a promising person as him, and the Fu family relies on him. No matter how bad the Fu family is, he will protect it under his wings.
It just so happened that she also wanted to go back to Fu's house to have a look.
Zhao Yuyi described the Fu family as a tiger's den in Longtan, and she didn't mind breaking in.
How could Fu Rudi not be moved by these words.
He stretched out his hand and wanted to rub the top of Fu Jiao's hair, but looking at the beautiful hairpin rings and neat buns, he took it back.
Fu Rudi didn't know what was wrong.
He didn't have a habit of touching others, but every time Fu Jiao said something understanding, he wanted to rub her cute head.
"Grab a light meal and come back." Fu Rudi reassured her, "I won't leave you there alone." ”
"Thank you, brother."
Fu Jiao had no worries when she heard this.
Could it be that the Fu family still dared to poison her at the banquet? Joke.
The brother and sister agreed to get into the carriage and go to Fu's house together.
In the carriage, Fu Jiao lifted the curtain, leaned on the small window, and looked at the shops on both sides of the street. There are those who sell bad pigs' heads, silk flowers, and dough cakes, and the noise is noisy and bustling. At sunset, it is still bustling and bustling.
This is at the foot of the Son of Heaven.
Speaking of which, she didn't even take a good look around the capital.
"What are you looking at?"
"There is a family that sells tea soup, I don't know if it tastes good or not." Fu Jiao turned her head and stretched out her hand to point.
Fu Rudi looked in the direction of her finger, and did not see the tea and soup sellers, but saw a few ascetics at the side of the stall.
When he thought of something, he couldn't help but speak: "Which master did you learn from in this Dao Law Metaphysics?" ”
"The master who taught me did not reveal his name."
Fu Jiao doesn't have to make drafts anymore when she lies, she can make up as much as she wants, "I only know a little bit about the skin, and I'm not as good as that master." ”
Her master died many years ago.
Even though she is blue in her own world, she will always respect and miss Master.
"Brother, I will be able to do these mysterious things, will you dislike me?"
Fu Jiao blinked, expecting Fu Rudi's answer.
Fu Rudi: "It's always a good thing to have a skill." ”
"yes."
Fu Jiao giggled and didn't take it seriously, "I can't get married in the future, and I can still show people feng shui fortune telling, and I can't starve myself." ”
Fu Rudi smiled slightly, but did not refute.
He's figured it out these days. Although it is too unruly for girls to learn these things, Fu Jiao has the foundation to settle down, and he doesn't have to worry about her in the future.
and Zhao Hao, I thought that the two of them had something, so when they learned the truth, Zhao Hao was afraid of the water ghost and followed Fu Jiao to death, which was understandable. Looking at Zhao Hao now, Fu Rudi feels much more pleasing to the eye, and he is not so stingy.
The two chatted and laughed and soon arrived at Fu's house.
Fu Zhenqing is just an eight-grade prisoner, and the place where he lives is also at the end of East Fourth Street.
The lintel is low, the house is not big, three in and three out, almost at a glance. If the wall is too large, it will definitely block most of the sunlight in the east during the day, and the yang energy will not enter, and it is easy for yin to win over yang.
The banquet is set in the garden, because the house is small, and the garden is built in a cramped and stingy manner, and it is impossible to pick out a few precious flowers.
The servant led Fu Rudi and Fu Jiao to the table.
Fu Jiao stood behind Fu Rudi. She first glanced at the noodles she was going to eat today, and found that the clear soup was watery, and none of them were her favorite food.
I don't know that this time she was wrong.
The concubine Fu Jiao can't eat a little meat, and she usually eats lightly. Xie Shi knew that she was coming back, so he specially instructed the kitchen to make it lighter, with only two spicy dishes.
"Father, mother, aunts."
Fu Rudi greeted the people at the table one by one.
Fu Zhenqing and Xie sat at the top, from left to right, Fu Changjian with hanging eyes, Fu Yan with vicious thoughts, Aunt Chen with heavy makeup, and Aunt Lu who was silent.
"Sit down, the food is cold."
Fu Zhenqing motioned for them to sit down, but didn't say anything about Fu Jiao.
According to the order, Fu Changjian gave up his position, and Fu Rudi was next to Fu Zhenqing. And Fu Jiao, the youngest in the ranking, sat with Aunt Lu and Aunt Chen.
It was the first time that Fu Jiao had seen the Fu family neatly.
It's not the same as the original owner's memory, but it looks more real.
Fu Zhenqing raised his chopsticks, "Rudi has handled a beautiful case this time, and the sage is very satisfied. He said to Fu Changjian, "You have to learn more from your brother." ”
"The child knows."
Fu Changjian couldn't even get a show of talent, and his answer to these four words was very weak.
He got up and gave Fu Rudi a glass of wine, "Brother, I'll toast you." ”
Fu Rudi was as good as a stream, and politely reminded him a few words.
The family is amiable and angry.
It's just that everyone thinks that Fu Jiao doesn't exist, except for occasionally receiving a few glances from Fu Yan on the other side, Fu Jiao lowered her head and just showed off her meal, but she was secretly analyzing these people in her heart, what kind of ghost they were hiding.
At this moment, Aunt Chen, who was beside her, suddenly approached her, lowered her voice and said, "Jiaojiao, I remember that you don't like to eat these spicy things, why do you eat so much tonight?" Could it be that you live in the government with your brother, and he treats you harshly? After Aunt Chen finished speaking, she covered her mouth and smiled, "You are a girl's family, what do you say about staying in the government all day long, how can your brother take care of you when he is busy with official business, let's go home and live." ”
Fu Jiao swallowed the spicy chicken in her mouth, picked up the handkerchief on the table and dipped the corner of her mouth.
She sat upright and sneered in her heart: yes, I finally talked about her.
(End of chapter)