The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 440 Banquet Straw [Part [-]]

Zhuijin Building is located on the peninsula [Zi Lingzhou]. Standing on the upper floor and looking around, you can see the mighty blue waves everywhere.

As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, the lotus flowers in the lake are past their peak, but the autumn wind slowly blows the residual lotus everywhere, but countless lotus pods take advantage of the momentum and show off their plentiful fruits wantonly.

Although Jiao Shun deliberately spent a lot of money, Xiuju, who is used to careful planning, still took the time to lead the little maids to pick a basket of lotus seeds for the small kitchen to cook lotus seed soup - the mistake was not a chess block Then, she even went into the water to dig some lotus roots for cooking.

Instructing the little maids to send the lotus seeds to the stove, Siqi pulled the embroidered oranges to the porch, handed over the handkerchief and said distressedly: "Look at the life you've been living, it's really hard for you recently."

"Actually, it's not that hard..."

Xiuju was hesitant to speak while wiping her sweat, and she would secretly receive a subsidy from Jiao Shun. Although she didn't dare to use it recklessly because she couldn't tell the source, it was still a good idea to secretly improve the daily expenses of the master and servant. Not a problem.

Siqi was about to say something, when he suddenly saw Baochai and Baoqin sisters leading their maidservants coming this way from a distance, hurriedly pulled a handful of embroidered oranges, and greeted them with smiles on their faces.

"Miss Bao is here. Miss Shi asked you several times just now."

"I said."

Xue Baochai also covered her mouth and smiled when she heard the words: "If someone else urged me to ask, you can't rush to meet me."

This is playing chess to please the future mistress.

Siqi couldn't tell the difference, so he just smiled coquettishly, and together with Xiuju, welcomed the two sisters into the Jin Building.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw a huge round table in the middle of the hall. There were more than a dozen plates of dried fruit, candied fruit and cold pastries. However, the sisters were all chatting in the green gauze cabinet on the east side, surrounded by Jia Huan and Jia Cong. Table chasing frolic.

Seeing that Baoqin had found Baochai, all the girls hurriedly got up to meet them.

Baochai first seeks Xing Xiuyan to make amends for being late, and then dismisses Shi Xiangyun's request for fine wine.

The sisters were chatting and laughing happily, but Tanchun suddenly caught sight of Jia Huan sneaking up to the table, twisting the rock candy walnuts with his fingers and stuffing them into his mouth. , when Jia Huan reached out to a plate of cold fruit again, he slapped him on the back of the hand.

"Ouch~"

Jia Huan let out a cry from the pain, covered the back of his hands and bared his teeth, "What are you doing?!"

"what are you doing?"

Tanchun put his hips on his hips and said angrily: "There are cakes on the table, you don't take them, you choose these things to start with, how can you let the big guys eat them later?"

She was not mainly angry at Jia Huan for cheating, but at him for doing these embarrassing things in public regardless of the occasion.

Although Jia Huan was caught, he pouted and muttered dissatisfiedly: "Second Brother Bao, why didn't you mention him when he was stealing food?"

"Take the thief and take the stolen goods, I only saw you, but I didn't see my brother like this!"

"Hmph, you're just being biased and pretending not to see it!"

"Okay, you're right..."

The two brothers and sisters talked more and more stiffly, Baochai, Xiangyun and others over there rushed to say goodbye.

I didn't want Jia Huan to be crazy by himself. Seeing that his sisters were all gathered around, and their words were all biased towards Tanchun, he simply threw up: "Second Brother Bao didn't come, so you can ask ten times and eight in a while. Come on, brother Cong and I came early, but no one cares about them. We can’t even eat a piece of walnut kernel when we’re so hungry! If we had known that you look down on people so much, I wouldn’t even take eight big sedan chairs to invite me. Come!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the trouble was embarrassed, and even Jia Tanchun regretted that he shouldn't provoke this younger brother.

It was even more difficult for Xing Xiuyan to do it. Although she was hosting a banquet at Zhuijin Tower today, she was the serious host after all. Now that Jia Huan picked her up, she was naturally the first to treat guests.

She couldn't help but secretly complained about Jia Baoyu's unreliability - during the discussion yesterday, it was originally decided that these brothers would be taken care of by Jia Baoyu, but Jia Baoyu hadn't been seen until now.

"Haha, Brother Huan is right if he doesn't sit in a sedan chair."

This is when someone outside the door said with a hearty smile: "Nowadays, people with status go out by car or horse. Only women who get married take eight-carriage sedan chairs—whoever wants to invite you with eight-carrier sedan chairs, you should spit first." He looks right!"

Everyone looked around in astonishment, only to see Jiao Shun and Jia Baoyu walking in side by side.

Subconsciously, Xing Xiuyan took two steps forward, and said in surprise and joy: "Master, what, why..."

Jiao Shun said with a smile: "Hearing the excitement you said, I couldn't help but want to join in the fun, and borrow flowers and present Buddha to respect a few great talents."

Daiyu, Xiangyun, Tanchun, and Xue Baochai all knew what he meant, but they didn't expect him to make a special trip to thank him face to face.

As for Yingchun and Xichun who didn't know, they weren't of the nature to ask questions.

So after saying this, only Jia Baoyu was curious about the allusion in these words.

But he didn't care about these things for a while, and put on a stern face, putting on the posture of an elder brother like a father, and scolded Jia Huan: "What's the trouble with being good? If you really can't get rid of you here, go somewhere else..."

"Children can't bear the hunger and steal food, which is also a common thing."

Seeing that Baoyu wanted to drive Jia Huan away, Jiao Shun quickly smoothed things over. After all, he was still thinking about his cheap son, so he sent a message to his cheap brother-in-law: "If Brother Huan is really hungry, you might as well get a small plate to pick him up." Wouldn't it be cheaper to dial some if you like?"

Jia Huan was already wilted, but when he saw Jiao Shun backing him up, he turned his nose up to the sky and said triumphantly, "I've almost eaten enough, I still need to save some stomach for the food—Brother Jiao, you Did you bring anything fun today?"

Hearing him mention something funny, the submissive Jia Cong also rushed forward, staring at Jiao Shun.

Even after Baoqin asked Lin Daiyu in a low voice, she also looked eager to try.

Jiao Shun didn't plan to amuse the children this time, but after a little thought, he came up with an idea, and said with a smile: "I didn't bring any ready-made toys, but I learned a special trick recently, so I wanted to amuse them in the future. You little nieces are happy, since I caught up with you today, I will tell you to open your eyes first."

As he said that, he asked someone to find a stack of light and tough cardboard and half a can of isinglass.

Then I took a sheet and cut it to the size of A4 paper, and pressed it firmly with a paperweight while folding it.

Not only the two little ones, but the rest of the people were also curious about what he was going to do, so they gathered together to watch.

Not long after, Shi Xiangyun was the first to see the clue, and asked uncertainly, "Brother Jiao, are you going to make an origami swallow?"

Jiao Shun raised his head and smiled at her, "It's about the same, but it's not the usual kind."

Jia Huan heard that it was Zhiyan, but immediately lost his temper and muttered: "It's boring, boring, what's so interesting about Zhiyan?!"

Jiao Shun was not annoyed at all, and even turned his head to comfort him: "Brother Huan, be safe and don't be impatient, you will find out later."

Others just think that he doesn't want to argue with children.

But Tanchun vaguely sensed something, secretly thinking that he really has a little love for Brother Huan.

only……

Does this house refer to myself or...

hum~
Auntie's temperament, the master was willing to dote on her back then!

Just as he was dreaming, Jiao Shun had already folded the paper airplane, carefully glued the key parts with isingas, and said to Jia Huan and Jia Cong, "Come, follow me upstairs to put the paper swallows!"

Although Jia Huan showed lack of interest just now, he still hurriedly pulled Jia Cong to follow.

Behind Shi Xiangyun and Baoqin led the way, and all the girls, together with Jia Baoyu, followed upstairs.

Jiao Shun checked the direction of the wind, made gestures towards the lake, and then threw the paper plane out.

Jia Huan and Jia Cong didn't think much of it at first, but when they saw the paper airplane flying 40 meters away in a blink of an eye, and they still didn't look exhausted, they immediately shouted excitedly.

Xiangyun and Baoqin, who are used to playing around, also leaned on the railing and stared at each other.

I saw that the paper plane flew 80 meters away with the help of the wind, and then fell down quickly. When it approached the lake, it suddenly went up, and then struggled up and down for more than ten meters before falling into the water.

When everyone looked from a distance, they could only vaguely see a wave of light mixed with a white dot.

Jia Baoyu couldn't help being speechless: "Brother Jiao, how did you stack the swallows so that they can fly so far!"

Jia Huan tugged at Jiao Shun's sleeve and said repeatedly: "Brother, teach me, brother, teach me!"

So Jiao set up a table to give lectures on the spot, and by the way, popularized knowledge about initial velocity, power, lift, and resistance to everyone.

Shi Xiangyun and Bao Qin were most interested in this, and kept asking questions around Jiao Shun, while Jia Huan and Jia Cong only wanted to learn how to fold paper airplanes so that they could show off to others in the future.

Tanchun watched silently for a long time, then suddenly sighed to Lin Daiyu: "I was worried that Big Brother Jiao could not do well in this engineering ceremony, but now I know that worrying is unfounded."

Lin Daiyu nodded and did not speak, but Xue Baochai continued: "What's more rare is that the world has been turned upside down because of Sui Ge's resignation, and many people want to get rid of him quickly. But he still has time to learn these things for his daughter."

While the two praised Jiao Shun, Bao Qin and Shi Xiangyun also folded their own paper airplanes and let them fly into the lake following Jiao Shun's example.

Although the distance of Baoqin's paper plane is much worse than that of Jiao Shun's, it still flies 50 meters away.

Shi Xiangyun didn't know if his center of gravity was off or what was going on, he circled around the Zhuijin Building backwards, and finally plunged into the flowers downstairs.

Shi Xiangyun happily went downstairs to pick it up, and let it fly out again, this time it finally fell into the water.

With the successful cases of the two of them, the girls also showed their talents one after another. In the end, it was Jia Huan and Jia Cong who did the worst, and they had to turn to Jiao Shun again. But he was reluctant to fly into the lake again.

Just like that, after nearly half an hour, everyone went down to eat wine.

During the dinner, Jiao Shun specially went to the ladies' table to respect Lin Daiyu, Shi Xiangyun, and Jia Tanchun each with a cup, which provoked Jia Baoyu to ask why.

Although Xue Baochai had expected that Jiao Shun's thank you this time would probably not be his own, but at this time, he still couldn't help secretly regretting it, looking forward to the next time he can also show his strength, but at the same time he was entangled in this As a body to be married, should I get involved too deeply?

Wait until you are full of wine and food.

Jiao Shun was the first to get up again and made a bow: "Everyone, I only took half a day off and I have to work in the yamen in the afternoon. I'm afraid I have to go first."

After finishing speaking, he specifically explained that Xing Xiuyan didn't need to hurry home, or recite poems and compose Fu, or play cards for fun, but to have fun with his sisters.

During the banquet, I don't know how many people were bewitched by his gesture, and they were secretly envious, and I don't know who hit the head first, and got Shi Xiangyun drunk.

Don't mention what's going on in the Jin Building.

But Jiao Shun went home and changed into his official robes, took a carriage out of the back door of Rongguo Mansion, and specifically told the driver that he had eaten too much just now, so he must walk slowly and avoid bumps.

The driver slowed down the speed of the car and drove slowly to the intersection of the back street. Suddenly, he saw a nun with hair and practiced flashing in front of the car!
"Shut up!"

The driver hastily reined in the reins, and was about to scold the nun for death, but Jiao Shun had already raised the curtain of the car and asked, "What happened?"

When he saw the nun, he frowned pretending to be surprised: "Are you... the maid next to Miaoyu?"

"It's the servant girl!"

When Jingyi saw Jiao Shun, she knelt down in front of the carriage and cried out, "I beg your lord to save my girl!"

"Where did this come from?"

Jiao Shun jumped down from the back of the car, turned to the front to help her up and said, "Didn't I give you the string of Buddhist beads at Xiuyan's request yesterday? Could it be that the thing can't be pawned?"

As soon as Jiao Shun mentioned the Buddha beads, Jingyi's tears became more and more unstoppable, but she said bitterly: "Miss Xing is kind-hearted, but who knows that there are wolf-hearted people hiding around us?! I was thinking about it early this morning. Put the Buddha beads in the pawnshop first, and redeem them later—who would have thought that those two daring and lowly maidservants would have stolen the Buddha beads and escaped!"

As soon as Jiao Shun heard this, he knew that the two maids did not reveal the news they heard from the Civil Information Bureau before they stole the things, so he couldn't help but feel relieved, thinking that this way, there is no need to be wary of Miaoyu rushing south to confirm It's family business.

At the same time, he said: "There is such a thing? But even so, your girl should not be in any danger, right?"

Jingyi hurriedly explained: "My lord doesn't know something. Our girl learned that the two lowly maidservants stole the Buddhist beads, and she fainted in a moment of panic! I called for a long time and the girl didn't wake up. I wanted to go to the doctor for treatment, but I don’t have any money! So I had no choice but to lock the gate of the temple. I wanted to beg Miss Xing to show kindness again, but I was turned away by the people of Rongguo Mansion, saying..."

Speaking of this, she gritted her teeth and stomped her feet: "It's a good thing our girl still considers Jia Baoyu a confidant, how could he be so ruthless and ungrateful!"

Hearing her scolding Baoyu, Jiao Shun laughed secretly, pretending to ponder for a moment, then sighed: "Come on, if I just sit back and watch her die, how can I explain to Xiuyan? But this time she will pay her back." The dare-death duck has a hard mouth, but I can't blame it!"

"No, no!"

Jingyi saw the dawn, and immediately took care of everything: "Our girl must have fully realized this time, and she will never be the same as before!"

"I hope so."

Jiao Shun nodded slightly, then greeted Jingyi to get on the carriage, and kindly brought her some snacks to fill her stomach.

Although Jingyi was worried, she was really hungry. She swallowed first, then gobbled it up. The fault was that Jiao Shun brought the fruit wine in time, and she almost choked to death on the way.

After she was full, she couldn't help but knelt down and kowtowed, crying and expressing that in the next life she would be an ox and a horse, and she would also repay Jiao Shunhe's great kindness to the master and servant.

I saw the back street of Zijin Street.

Jingyi led Jiao Shun to the temple gate, and was about to take out the key to open the door, when she heard crying and screaming from inside, she couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise: "Senior sister is awake!"

As he said that, he hurriedly quickened his movements.

Because of the strange movement inside, after she opened the courtyard door, Jiao Shun strode in immediately, only to see Miaoyu in the main hall, with disheveled hair holding a fire stick in both hands, smashing it like crazy. Tathagata statue.

I just heard her crying and shouting: "I worship you day and night, but you have never blessed me?! What is the boundless Dharma, what is the mercy of my Buddha, it is fake, it is all fake!"

The Buddha statue was already dilapidated, but now she smashed half of its head, and everything above the nose disappeared, leaving only a sympathetic and mocking smile at the corner of its mouth...

(End of this chapter)