Nong Zhaohua

Chapter 139

Sister Rou saw that Mr. Zhang wanted to give Tan Xiaozhi a step down, so of course she couldn't be aggressive anymore, she turned her head to look at Yan Zhaohua, and asked, "Shall we go?"

Yan Zhaohua didn't answer, and Sister Rou asked the other girls. The girls all looked at each other, biting their lips, wanting to say something, but also embarrassed, but Yan Zhaoning was more active:

"Big sister, let's go, it's so fun, will the princess also attend? Who else?"

After Yan Zhaoning said this, Yan Zhaohua couldn't say no more. The most important thing was that the other girls listened to Yan Zhaoning's words and agreed to go together. Along the way, Yan Zhaoning kept asking Zhang Dechuan Non-stop, Sister Rou looked at her with fire in her eyes, but she still didn't notice it, sandwiched between Zhang Dechuan and Tan Xiao, talking non-stop.

Xie Xinrou pulled Yan Zhaohua to the end, pointed at Yan Zhaoning, Yan Zhaohua patted the back of her hand comfortingly, and said softly, "We're almost there, we're just ahead."

Yan Zhaohua pointed to the brightly lit three-story building not far away. That building was the well-known Wangjiang Tower in the capital. It was three stories high and had eight doors. There are many boundless rivers, sparkling waves, and during the Lantern Festival, the Wangjiang Tower is surrounded by lanterns similar to the Lantern Festival. The whole building is as bright and brilliant as a heavenly palace. The guards in casual clothes lined up on both sides outside the building He has a straight posture, with a sword on his waist, and looks like three or forty people. The shopkeeper in the building in front of the door greets the guests in person, but he just follows behind a middle-aged man with noodles. Yan Zhaohua knows this middle-aged man with noodles. It was Wang Fuquan, the prince's close servant. With him, the prince reckoned that he was really in the Wangjiang tower.This kind of ostentation, if not invited, ordinary people would not even be able to enter.

Needless to say, Tan Xiaozhi, Xinke Tanhualang, Wang Fuquan knows him, and Zhang Dechuan is also a familiar face, a leading student of Bailu Academy, and the girls who follow behind, although they are not the talented women in the capital invited by the princess, are also famous ladies. Yan Zhaohua's identity as the county magistrate, and Xie Xinrou's background in Duke Ding's mansion, was enough for Wang Fuquan to let him in.

After entering the door, everything is very orderly. Male and female guests are not grouped together as imagined, but divided into left and right sides. Male guests go to the left, and female guests go to the right. Xie Xinrou is a little embarrassed, low She said to Yan Zhaohua, "Oh, if I knew this was the case, I wouldn't have come. We are not talented women, and we have not been invited. How embarrassing it is to come."

Yan Zhaohua pursed his lips into a smile, covered his mouth with his sleeve, and replied, "Since you are here, don't think too much about it. I saw the third lady of Li Shangshu's family just now, and she is on the same level as us. Since she also came Well, then it should be fine for us to come.”

Xie Xinrou nodded, trying to calm down.

Yan Zhaoning looked left and right, looking very interested.

After a while, they were taken to the third floor. It turned out that there was a circular hall in the middle of Wangjiang Tower, which was decorated with lights and festoons. After going upstairs, I felt a little more at ease, because I found that all the ladies sitting on the third floor were similar to them, and many of them still knew each other. When asked why they came, anyway, they were not invited seriously, or they were just casually invited. The elder brother came here, or he got the news by accident and came to join in the fun.

They were arranged in private rooms in the middle, and the private rooms were separated by gauze curtains, which was both beautiful and private. The girls took off the veils on their heads, and all stood on the railing with great interest to look down. Go, chatter non-stop, Yan Zhaoning, who was quite active just now, is silent now, staring deeply at a certain point downstairs, Yan Zhaohua leaned over and took a look, Yan Zhaoning was like As if aware of it, he withdrew his gaze, turned his head and smiled at her.

Xie Xinrou was still a little cramped just now, but when she saw some friends were there, she suddenly let go and went to say hello to her friends. Yan Zhaohua gave the front seat to the little girls while he sat In front of the low table farthest from the railing, he picked up a book on the table to relieve the guests and read it.

Although this poetry meeting was held in the name of the prince and princess, Yan Zhaohua did not believe that the prince and princess would attend today. There was a Lantern Festival banquet in the palace, and Yan Xiu brought Yan Ruiqian into the palace. She, it's just that there is no mistress in the Marquis of Changning. If she wants to enter the palace, she can only be alone in the female guest table. Thinking about it is boring, so she didn't go. She stayed and played and talked with the sisters. interesting.

In the middle of the third floor is a bright yellow gauze tent, which should be reserved for the prince and concubine, and there are some purple gauze tents beside it, which should be reserved for princes and nobles. Yan Zhaohua couldn't help thinking of what Zhang Dechuan said earlier. The top three will come, even Prince Gong's son will come, to be honest, of course she came because of this, even though she also thought that Pei Xuan is the son of Prince Gong who is holding a banquet in the palace today, so he probably won't come yes.

It seems that almost all the guests have come. On the third floor, except for a few places next to the main seat, no one has entered, all the gauze tents on the other three floors have already been seated, and the beautiful music is flowing out, but Because people can't see where the joy comes from, several groups of bookboys and maidservants holding trays lined up, came to each gauze tent, and handed the trays in their hands to the people in the gauze tent, Yan Zhaohua and the others here It was no exception, the girls leaned over to look, and saw several flat and thin gold nuggets the size of grapes in the tray held by the maidservants. The front and back of the gold nuggets were woven with delicate patterns of red and gold threads, and the middle was gold. Hang tag, there is a number engraved on the tag, the maid asked everyone to choose a piece, saying that after the poetry meeting, there will be a lottery link, the number drawn is the number in your hands, and those who win the number can get a big gift package provided by the East Palace, As for the girls asking what was in the gift bag, the maid only smiled and said that she would know when the time came.

Since you are being polite, it's time to try your luck. Girls, you look at me and I look at you, and you all want to be the first to pick. Xie Xinrou asked Yan Zhaohua to pick first, and Yan Zhaohua waved his hand: "You guys pick, last Give me the rest."

Xie Xinrou squeezed a piece in her hand first, and came to Yan Zhaohua's side to show off: "You are so generous, don't regret it when the time comes."

Yan Zhaohua took a piece of snack from the table and stuffed it into Xie Xinrou's mouth. The girls all took their number plates one by one. On the tray in the maid's hand, there was only the last piece left, and it was brought to Yan Zhaohua. Yan Zhaohua reached out to take it. , looked down, Xie Xinrou also leaned over to take a look, and said, "Hey, I am number 38, and you are number 44. My number looks easier to be drawn than yours."

Yan Zhaohua smiled indifferently: "Okay, okay, your easy draw, can Miss Xie sit down, I'm tired of lifting my head."

The other girls were also exchanging and looking at their number plates one after another, full of expectations, Yan Zhaohua felt very strange, how could such a good poetry meeting include the part of drawing gift bags?Looking down at the 44 in his hand, he sighed a little, it's really not a good number.However, no matter how bad the numbers are, it cannot be denied that this is a piece of gold. It really is a big deal from the Eastern Palace. Even the number plate issued is made of pure gold. There are so many people, and each person has a piece of gold. It is estimated that thousands of taels of gold will be used .

The girls are also discussing this matter, and it seems that they are also discussing this matter in the gauze tent next to it. It seems that everyone's psychology is similar.

Then the drums sounded suddenly, and the poetry meeting officially began.Yan Zhaohua has no interest in the poetry meeting, that's not her specialty, Xie Xinrou, Yan Zhaoning and the others are naturally not interested either, Xie Xinrou sat next to Yan Zhaohua after watching it for a while, but Yan Zhaoning always stood in front of the railing, He looked at the downstairs hall without blinking.

"Oh, I thought I could see Uncle Biao, but I didn't expect him to come, just like the Crown Prince and Princess Concubine." Xie Xinrou peeled an orange and said with emotion.

Yan Zhaohua's ears were hot, and he said: "There is a banquet in the palace today, maybe we are in the palace with the crown prince."

"Well, that's probably the case. Alas, Uncle Biao doesn't know what he's been busy with during this period of time. He usually goes to live in Xie's house occasionally, but he hasn't been here for a long time now."

When Xie Xinrou brought up this topic, Yan Zhaohua didn't dare to answer it, because she was really guilty. Fortunately, Xie Xinrou was just feeling emotional, and didn't think about other things. It happened that there was a lot of applause downstairs at this time. Yan Zhaohua went to look at the railing, it turned out that Tan Hualang Tan Xiao was on the stage, he was very high-spirited and bowed to the crowd, his eyes slightly raised, the angle of view was exactly the direction Yan Zhaohua and the others were in, and he smiled, As if they are really familiar with them.

Yan Zhaohua didn't have a good impression of this man, so it made him feel even more disgusted.Because she was sure that Tan Xiaozhi was smiling at her, but he took care of everyone, and the little girls next to him all looked flattered, Yan Zhaohua couldn't help shaking his head.

Fortunately, there was a more sensible person beside him, and I only heard Xie Xinrou say: "I used to think that Tan Shizi was okay, but now it seems that his character is not very good."

Yan Zhaohua raised his eyebrows in agreement, and Xie Xinrou approached Yan Zhaohua's ear again, and whispered, "You know what? For the sake of Tan Shizi's marriage, Mrs. Mighty Marquis has seen all the noble ladies in Beijing. She Both openly and secretly expressed interest in him, but after he agreed, she put on a high-profile attitude and made him want to win, but she refused to agree, as if she still wanted to climb other high branches."

Yan Zhaohua was not surprised by Mrs. Wuhou's behavior, because that's what she did. At the beginning, she said that she liked her, but she didn't take any actual actions. After two times, if she really wanted to, why didn't she go to the Marquis of Changning to talk about it?She was just waiting and watching, and wanted to pick a one-in-a-million, noble one to match her son. Anyway, she couldn't face up to the serious proposal of marriage to other girls' families. If you care about it, it will only ruin your own daughter's reputation, and it will not hinder her.

Some people are the Buddha in front of the face and the devil in the back. They are selfish to the bone. I really don't know which unlucky person will marry into the mighty Marquis Mansion in the future.

(End of this chapter)