Otoharu

Chapter 448 The Smell of Gunpowder at the Banquet

As soon as everyone talks, it will be far away, but Jiang's mother and daughter, Li Meier and Li Meier, are well aware of the matter of warming the banquet. Zhou Hanyu also instructed Jiang to exchange some silver coins, and then pull some rulers. When the children come It can be used as a meeting gift, and she said that during the introduction, Li's family served a warm banquet, and she brought the cook, maid, and boy to help, otherwise, with the few members of the Li family, it would be too busy.

Although the Li family is small, fortunately, the Jiang family reminded them in advance, so they knew exactly what to do with the table. Li Meier arranged the menu, and let Jiang and Li Lao Niang look over it. After confirming that there was no major problem, Lin asked Mammy went shopping in person, and borrowed pots, pans and dishes from Jiang's family, and six maids and six servants, and Li Meier dispatched the rest. Although there were many people who came that day, they were all in order.

Now that Li Mei'er is grown up, Mrs. Jiang led her to socialize among the female relatives.

The people living on this street are all the wives of official families, which are always different from the wives of businessmen and officials that Li Meier met in the past. They all speak and act in a very good way.

For example, the fourth wife of Hanlin Jiang looked at Li Meier and praised Li Meier with a smile: "Your girl is really beautiful. I have been in this capital for so many years, and I have never seen a girl born better than your girl. It is more than enough to enter the palace and become a concubine."

Although these words are praised at first glance, they are not tasteful at all. It seems that the watery girl raised by the Li family is just to climb high branches.

Mrs. Jiang was upset, but she couldn't show it on her face, she just smiled and said: "Mrs. Jiang, you are absurd, my girl is just born neatly, and she was already with my nephew when she was in her hometown. It's a kiss."

When Mrs. Jiang Si heard this, she seemed to think of something, and asked with a smile, "I heard that your family has two masters who came to the capital to take the exam. Is your nephew one of them?"

Mrs. Jiang nodded with a smile, and said lightly: "My Shanqing was lucky enough to get the title of Jie Yuan."

Mrs. Jiang Si was a little surprised when she heard the words, and the smile on her face became a little forced in an instant, but she still held her face and continued: "My incompetent son barely won the exam last year. Xie Yuangong of your family, when Xie Yuangong is free, you might as well visit my house more, and we can also discuss articles with each other."

Mrs. Li was listening to Mrs. Fourth Jiang's passage, but she didn't understand all of it, but she could hear some meaning. It was nothing more than asking Shanqing to teach his boy to study. Mrs. Li didn't realize Mrs. Jiang Fourth was being polite. Yes, the old man was always confident, and she said directly, "It's no problem, why don't you ask your son to write an article and ask Shan Qing to help him see it. Since we are neighbors, we should be more helpful."

Fourth Mrs. Jiang's complexion suddenly became a little stiff. Li Meier stood aside and glanced at Mrs. Jiang Fourth's half-worn maroon sweater robe. She was really convinced by her grandmother's speaking skills.You are so good at talking, don't you see that the Jiang family is just modest.

On the other hand, Mrs. Li, another supervisor of the household department, suddenly became interested and asked Mrs. Li about the rankings of the two family members.Mrs. Li praised, "Such a good ranking, next year will definitely be eight or nine."

Mrs. Li was very happy to hear this, and said with a smile, "I say the same, I hope they can rank higher, just like my little uncle did back then."

Mrs. Jiang Si has never seen Mrs. Li in her life who is not obedient, does not look at people's faces, and is so confident that she is so arrogant. She smiled slightly and said, "I envy your self-confidence, and I am always worried about my family. Boy, there are thousands of applicants, but Jinshi only takes 300."

Mrs. Li didn't think so, waved her hand, and said, "What are thousands of people afraid of! As the saying goes, true gold is not afraid of fire, as long as the writing is good, even tens of thousands of people can win!"

Her old man also said to Mrs. Jiang Si, "If your family is not sure, you might as well wait a little longer. I heard from my little uncle that the Gongyuan is very miserable. Once you go there, you will spend nine days locked in it to write articles. If you feel the fire If you haven't arrived, it's better to study for a few more years, and you won't have to suffer that crime."

If the Jiang family boy doesn't go, there will be fewer competitors for his own children, right?Mrs. Li was secretly complacent, and persuaded Mrs. Jiang Si to make a speech, until Mrs. Jiang was persuaded to the point of losing her face. Mrs. Li just shut up.

Mrs. Zuo, a member of the etiquette department, was amused, and smoothed things over, "Hey, it's a good time to eat wine, and we're talking about learning again. My family is not like your two families. There is such a young master, and you two keep talking about it. Isn't it eye-catching."

The Second Mrs. Lin of another military officer's family also looked sideways at Mrs. Jiang Fourth, and said rather optimistically: "Yeah, it's delicious when you come here for a drink. You don't have to show off your son all the time. You see, there are As for Xie Yuanlang, he didn't show off all day long."

The Fourth Mrs. Jiang's face turned green in an instant. Obviously, she had a very bad relationship with Mrs. Lin on weekdays.

Li Meier watched silently from the side, and probably had a basic understanding of her almost neighbor in her heart.

Today's warm house wine is quite lively, except for the gunpowder smell of Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Jiang, who are full of gunpowder, because these two people seem to be out of temper, Mrs. Jiang deliberately separated them to sit.It was only later that Mrs. Jiang and Mrs. Lin had some disagreements in the past.

After seeing off the guests, Mrs. Jiang thanked the Jiang family very much for coming to help, talked with Zhou Hanju and Mrs. Xu about her son, and then sent her to the door with Li Meier.

After the Jiang family left, Mrs. Li took Li Meier to count the house gifts received. Mrs. Li also said, "The people in the capital are very enthusiastic, and they all give away things when they come to eat wine."

What's more, the things they gave were much more decent than the ones from my hometown. Even the clothes, Mrs. Li felt that they were not bad after looking at them.It's just that Jiang's family is the most annoying. A dozen people came to eat wine, and An Zhaili only gave two feet and two baskets of fruit, so that Mrs. Li muttered, "I don't think this family is an honest family." There are few, and this family still habitually doesn't look at people directly. When they speak, their chins are raised high, and the words they say are not long-winded, and people can't understand them.

Mrs. Li decided to have less contact with this family in the future.

Li Meier also received a meeting gift from several wives and grandmas. Mrs. Li asked her to take it out for a closer look, and glanced at the silver ring given by the Jiang family. It's a big loss."

Her family didn’t give many meeting gifts, they were all silver rings, and there were quite a lot of money, but Jiang’s family had a lot of children, seven or eight children of the same generation, two small silver rings for one person, compared to Li Meier’s two silver rings. , Mrs. Li is so lucky that sparks can come out of her eyes.

(End of this chapter)