After the bears left, Zhu Pingan tidied up the table that had been messed up by the bears, caught the innocent toad in his hand, walked out the door, placed the toad inside the flower garden outside, and then covered it loosely with soil.
Well, on with the hibernation.
After that, once again returned to the room, laid out the ink and paper, and proceeded to practice writing.This time, no bear children to disturb the chaos, until a small maid ran to say that the Marquis House to set up a dinner reception, so Zhu Pingan collected the ink and paper, followed the small maid to the front hall of the banquet.
Turning left and right, through the mountain corridor, through several doors before arriving at the place where the banquet was held.
This is a living room, the door is a rosewood carving pine and crane embedded jade screen, both sides of the head several cases, placed on the porcelain vase, marble plaque, there are five or six of them.Living room furnishings decorated with gorgeous, carved, inlaid marble, gemstones, enamels, etc., looking at the beautiful, but there is a strong suspicion of Qi Doufu.
In the living room is hanging in the middle of the centre of the hall and couplets, couplets written “coarse clothes and light meals, some tea, this blessed old man enjoyed!The family, the country and the world are all under Cao’s control.”
“I’m still in a state of luxury,” he said.
This couplet should be their Li family following Zhu Yuanzhang’s founding ancestor left it.However, looking at the furnishings of the living room, it was clear that the Li family’s old ancestor had left this couplet in vain.
When he entered the living room, Zhu Pingan realised that everyone else had already taken their seats, most of them were girls, and sitting right in the middle was a silver-haired old woman who looked to be in her sixties, and the crowd surrounded her like a star.
The second, third, fourth, and sixth misses of the Marquis House were all seated around the old woman, and Li Shu was seated slightly more remotely.
The old lady of the Marquis Mansion was holding a little loli in her arms, the little loli was biting her chubby fingers and looking at Zhu Pingan, there was also a bear child leaning on the old lady’s knee, looking at Zhu Pingan at the door with a provocative face.
Zhu Pingan had just entered the living room, everyone turned their heads to look at Zhu Pingan.
“Hehe, who is this big brother, is he the one we’re waiting for, why did he just come.Niu Niu’s belly is hungry from waiting.”The little loli held in the arms of the Marquis’ old lady, biting her chubby little fingers and covering her little belly paper, looked at Zhu Pingan with a cute face and asked.
“It is.Making us wait for so long, not as polite as my sister and I.”The bear child who was leaning against the Marquis Old Lady, looked at Zhu Pingan with a provocative face and said.
Then, the Marquis Old Lady’s already bad face turned even worse.
The Sixth Miss of the Marquis Mansion covered her small mouth.Hearing this, she let out a soft laugh, looking at Zhu Pingan with a gaze full of gloating.
Understood.
Just now, that little maid should have been instructed by one of them to purposely be late for a long time before calling herself.Truly, interesting, there seems to be a lot of people in this marquis who look at themselves with displeasure.
“It is a shame for the late student to be late.”
Zhu Pingan bowed and apologised to the crowd, readily admitting that he had come late, and didn’t pull out the little maid who had just called himself to confront him or anything else, they had come prepared.And how could they let themselves catch a handle on it, it would be better to just admit their mistake with alacrity.
“That’s just it, take your seats.”
The old madam of the Marquis House, who was sitting in the middle of the room, waved her hand to indicate that Zhu Pingan should be seated, and then a little maid answered and walked to Zhu Pingan, leading him to another table.
Ancient etiquette: seven years, men and women sit on different seats and eat from different utensils.That is, when a child reaches the age of seven, men and women cannot sit together and eat at the same table.In the Marquis House.It is even more preoccupied.
The old lady they sit at a table, Zhu Pingan himself at a table, and there is no one to accompany them.It seems that the Marquis Mansion really did not put themselves in their eyes.Zhu Pingan was even more certain of this when he took his seat.
Meals were served in turn, the rows were extravagant and extravagant, that is, Zhu Pingan was alone, and more than ten dishes were served on the table, not to mention the table of the Marquis House’s old madam and theirs.
“Old Ancestor, I can catch up with the meal.”
A voice unique to boys’ voice-changing stage came from outside the door.Then a familiar fat man was seen trotting all the way in.
This fat man is very familiar, is when in the city gate horse rushed into the city of the group of noble children in the last, also is when the examination queue waiting for the examination to carry all the things kissed a whole, figure symbolises kissed (steady) which oddball fat man.
At first in the city gate to hear people shouting him Zhou fat, Zhou young master, thought he was surnamed Zhou, did not expect to be surnamed Li, that should be the name of the last word is a “Zhou” word.
This fat man, and fat Xue Chi is not a type, this fat man is pure second generation.From the inside to the outside, also exudes a strong air of second-hand goods.
This fat man is the grandchildren of the Marquis House, the old lady of the Marquis House is the most favoured heart, that there is still half a bit of not worried about the look ah, the face is smiling out of the flowers, eyes are smiling and squinting.
“You monkey grandson, just your nose is good, smelling the aroma of rice came.”Marquis old madam smiled, beckoned this fat man to come over, and asked with concern, “How do you sleep this a while to come, why don’t you sleep more, in the examination centre for nine days and seven nights, can be grandmother worried bad.As soon as you enter the home to sleep, grandmother did not ask you, how is the test ah?”
This fat man heard the words of the old lady of the marquis house, said with a bullish face, “Old ancestor, you can rest assured, grandson this time, but a stable pass.”
On the other table, Zhu Pingan heard the fat man’s words and was somewhat speechless.
Li Shu, who was sitting at the table, sniffed and rolled her eyes, she had long heard that this cousin of the eldest uncle’s family was the most unreliable, when he was a child, he was like a pig, lazy, stupid and greedy, but also self-righteous.I don’t know how much effort the eldest uncle spent to let him have the qualification for the examination, and now he still dares to say that he is stable, ridiculous.If Zhu Pingan said this it would still be acceptable, I can’t figure out where you got the confidence.
“Good, good, good, I know my monkey child is a promising one.”Marquis old madam smiles even more cheerfully at the words, “It’s not in vain that your mother and the girls went to the temple to pray for you.”
“Huh, who are you?”
This fat man walked into the living room and was about to head towards the Marquis Old Lady’s table, but he suddenly spotted Zhu Pingan and stopped in his tracks, crossing his fat face to ask.
Before Zhu Pingan could say anything, the bear child who was leaning on the old lady of the Marquis House wailed at the sound and ran out, hugging the fat man’s thigh and pointing at Zhu Pingan.
“He’s the bumpkin who came to take advantage.”
The bear child pointed at Zhu Pingan and squinted his little eyes to that fat man and said, looking at Zhu Pingan with a small flame in his little eyes.
Upon hearing this, Fatty Zhou’s gaze towards Zhu Pingan became filled with disdain.Dirtbag, so it’s a pariah!He dares to take advantage of our Marquis Linhuai’s residence!
“Rui’er, how can you talk, that’s your future fifth brother-in-law.”The Marquis’ sixth young lady covered her small mouth and laughed.
Apart from Li Shu and the little bun maid behind her, everyone else did not make an attempt to educate the bear child about Zhu Pingan’s name, but instead had a feeling of gloating.
“I don’t want a bumpkin to be my fifth brother-in-law, I want that cousin from my grandmother’s family to be my fifth brother-in-law, I don’t want this bumpkin.”
The bear child looked at Zhu Pingan with a displeased face and wailed.
“Ahem, childish words, childish words.Alright, come here Rui’er, come to sister.”The Marquis’ second young lady’s slender jade hand clasped a handkerchief to her lips and coughed, half rounding off the conversation, calling out to the bear child.
