As the sun rises slowly, Marquis Linhuai’s residence is getting more and more lively.
Nearby Wei Guo Gongfu, Kai Guo Gongfu, Dingyuan Marquis House, Lingbi Marquis House and related civil and military officials house 6 sequential people to celebrate the birthday of the old lady of Linhuai Marquis House, a steady stream of people, the Linhuai Marquis House is like a marketplace. All the people are with gifts, Linhuai Marquis House steward one by one register, the results of the statistics of a thick pile of paper.
Marquis Linhuai House set up a large table in the hall, laid a red carpet, guests sent to celebrate the birthday of the congratulatory gifts, all by the maids and boys placed on the table, one by one by the old lady, and then put into the treasury.
Ruyi jade longevity star, offering peach amethyst fairy, longevity fan ware ten full, south sea pearl, coral ornaments, incense abduction, Canaan beads all kinds of curiosities, surprises, the old madam looked for a while, very satisfied, face overflowing with smiles, waved her hand to let the maid put into the storehouse.
“Hee hee, old ancestor, other people’s you do not see, we do children and grandchildren’s gift, you can appreciate the eyes.”Marquis sixth young lady’s round little face smiled playfully, showing her little tiger teeth, hugging the old madam’s arm and pampering her.
“You this monkey child also seek old ancestor’s not, well well, all according to you.”The old madam favourably patted the sixth young lady’s arm, nodded with a smile and said.
Then they started from the second miss of the marquis house, one by one, they presented birthday gifts to the old madam of the marquis house.
The second young lady presented a hand embroidered Infinite Life Extension Sutra, the third young lady presented a Ten Thousand Years Ruyi Jade Cup, the fourth young lady presented a Peach Longevity Offering, Li Shu presented a South Sea Coral Goddess of Mercy, and the sixth young lady presented a Ten Thousand Years of Life Ten Thousand Ancestral Hands and Backrest Mattress.
The old madam was all smiling with satisfaction, pleased with her granddaughters’ filial piety.
Then, I don’t know who started it, but they instigated to pick out the birthday gifts of the several young ladies’ future husbands-in-law as well, and placed them in front of the old madam.
The second young lady and their future husbands-in-law sent are all big, valuable, the old madam is very satisfied. The only exception was the birthday gift of the Marquis’ future Fifth Aunt, that is, Zhu Pingan’s birthday gift. Zhu Pingan’s birthday gift was two things, one was Zhu Pingan’s handwritten birthday speech. The other is the jade carving of the birthday wish of Magu that Li Shu let the little maid send over to Zhu Ping’an to make up the number.
However, in the marquis six young lady said with a smile that look at the Ma Gu birthday wish jade carving pendant, seems to have seen in the room of the fifth sister, the marquis old lady’s face turned bad, according to the words of the six young lady. Jade carving is five girls, that is to say, Zhu Pingan only sent a pair of his own written words to beat the caller it!
Thus, the face of the old madam of the marquis house, all of a sudden became bad, waving her hand and letting people move all the gifts to the treasury.
The front yard of the Marquis Mansion is even more lively at the moment. Before coming to the Marquis of Huai set birthday in the people, there are six or seven with Fatty Zhou age similar to the teenagers, one dressed in bright and shiny, covered with the breath of the second generation, these are used to hanging out with Fatty Zhou, the Prince of the House of Lords and Lords of the Prince, send birthday gifts, they pulled Fatty Zhou sat on the table, let Fatty Zhou as a companion, call the six.
Zhu Pingan sat at the corner table, with him at the table are some of the marquis inconspicuous distant relatives, poor relatives.
Fatty Zhou and his table. The distance from Zhu Pingan’s table is not too far, after all, it is in a courtyard, but Zhu Pingan’s table is slightly more remote. Fatty Zhou and his table, Zhu Ping’an felt familiar, if not mistaken, that table is out of the capital, in the city gate brocade hat sable fur rampage group of second generation.
Zhu Pingan their table is relatively quiet, presumably are the marquis poor relatives, the marquis did not assign too much manpower to accompany, in addition to serving food. In addition to serving the food, there were no maids or servants to serve them.
Comparatively speaking, Fatty Zhou their table is much more lively, there are two maids specialised in serving on the side, pouring tea and wine. They took care of them in every way.
From their talk, Zhu Pingan could roughly hear that this group of second generation ancestors all seemed to somewhat despise Fatty Zhou.
“Hey, Fatty Zhou, why don’t you go horse racing with your brothers these days, why are you afraid of losing?”
“That is. Not long to lose a few rouge horses, night you are not also riding quite cool.”
There were two Second Generation Ancestors sitting on the table, crossing their legs, throwing fruits to play with, narrowing their eyes and mocking up Fatty Zhou. These second-generation ancestors were either the sons and daughters of the Duke of Wei’s House, the Duke of Kaikuo’s House, the Marquis of Dingyuan’s House, and other noble families, or they were the sons of the third and fourth-grade officials’ families, and their families were no less than Fatty Zhou’s, so they taunted him without any pressure.
Zhou Fatty looks fat, horseback riding ah, archery ah, c*ckfighting and dog walking, often are not the rival of these two ancestor, literary talent, are half a bottle of water do not bring wobbly, naturally there is no advantage; in addition to this, Zhou Fatty also has some disadvantages on the character, the temperament of the second goods strong, the character of a little bit of a goat, is not the kind of bloody people.
Therefore, it was often the object of being taunted among the second-rate, and this time was no exception.
“Who’s afraid, who’s afraid of the next time we compare.”Fatty Zhou crossed his fat face, showing no weakness.
“Then it’s a deal.”The Second Generation Grandfathers looked at each other and smiled, they were quite pleased, this is good, the money for drinking flowery wine in the future will be saved again.
“Oh, right, I heard that your Marquis House’s third house is in-laws with a what, country bumpkin? Is there such a thing?”
“Heh heh heh, I just can’t figure it out, when did your Marquis of Linhuai fall so low, isn’t this a disgrace to our nobles?”
A few second-generation ancestors did not know where they heard the Marquis House’s secrets from, and questioned Fatty Zhou on the table, and their tone was also full of ridicule.
After Zhu Pingan in the corner heard their chat, he smiled somewhat helplessly, how come the matter of his engagement to Li Shu had spread so far that even these Second Generation Ancestors had heard about it. Seemingly, he was ridiculed again, huh, what’s wrong with being from the countryside, who says that the humble family can’t rise up.
Fatty Zhou listened to the ridicule of the surrounding buddies, but there are some speechless, because these buddies said the truth, although the grandmother and father discussed many times to withdraw from the marriage, but after all, it has not yet returned. Unable to help, in his heart, he vaguely blamed Zhu Pingan, causing himself to be dragged down by the ridicule.
“How, or really not, heh heh heh, even the countryside bumpkin is not spared, your family’s fifth young lady must be how ugly”
Looking at the fat man’s complexion, a second generation ancestor couldn’t help but laugh.
“Hehe, it wouldn’t be like you, it’s so burly too”
The other Second Generation Ancestors couldn’t help but laugh as well.
“How could it be, my fifth sister is pretty, prettier than County Lord Anyang.”Fatty Zhou came to his feet at this time, wringing his neck and choking.
“You’re just blowing it off, if she was half as pretty as County Lord Anyang, she wouldn’t have to find a country bumpkin.”
Fatty’s words not only did not play a positive role, but instead made the second generation of ancestors laugh even harder. An Yang County Lord is a famous beauty in the capital, and there are not many in the entire capital that can compare to her. Fatty Zhou said that her fifth sister who was engaged to a bumpkin was prettier than County Lord Anyang, that was not bragging.
“Oh yeah, I heard that you even went to take the examination the other day, hehe, how was it?”After laughing, someone else remembered Fatty Zhou’s participation in the examination and couldn’t help but ask.
“Steady.”Fatty Zhou replied with a confident face.
“Heh heh heh, if you ask me, the heavens are really fair.”Hearing Fatty Zhou’s words, a second generation ancestor held back a laugh and said.
“Oh, how?”Fatty Zhou asked with some curiosity.
“Heh heh, although you are ugly, but you think beautifully, heh heh heh,” that person had long ago held back his laughter.
The others also laughed uproariously.
“That’s right, you are what kind of, we brothers do not know ah, a piece of wear crotch trousers grew up. You honestly let our uncle to you in the capital camp, guard camp or something to fill a vacancy, what will test, don’t joke, toss what strength, waste of effort.”
For Fatty Zhou test things, these two ancestors do not have a good look.
“You’re not stimulated by Xu Laosan right, people Xu Laosan from childhood is good to learn, people’s children’s test, countryside test can be real test, not at all rely on Wei Guo Gong’s force. People Xu Laosan that is really stable it, why people just showed a face on the home, that is not heard today may release the list, only to go home and wait to go.”
This person said Xu Laosan, is next door to the Duke of Wei’s family’s third son, Duke of Wei is inherited from Xu Da. This Xu Laosan in the capital city is more famous, quick-witted, never forget, although sometimes with Fatty Zhou they hang out together, but people’s literary level is real.
Some time ago, Xu Laosan passed the countryside examination, they went to drink flower wine to celebrate, a flower girl let Fatty Zhou coveted for a long time, the money also spent a lot, the results of the person that flower girl heard Xu Laosan is just passed the countryside examination of the old man, after, will be subsidised, and do not take a penny. At that time, Fatty Zhou was stimulated, throwing his fat face threatened to pass Xu Laosan exams can not.
Just now the Duke of Wei’s family Xu Laosan is also together, but people send birthday gifts and went home, of course, before going home also ruthlessly taunted Fatty Zhou.
“Hmph, wait and see.”
For the taunts of the Second Generation Ancestors, Fatty Zhou flung his fat face, gritted his teeth and said, causing the Second Generation Ancestors, again, to laugh.
