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Chapter 16

Chapter 13

After all the guests from outside, the girls from the respectable families in Jiangzhou City gradually gathered in Xie Mingrou's room.Ming Yu stopped talking early, and saw more than a dozen girls in the room, all of them were brightly dressed, and they kept laughing.Su Qingnan from the Tongpan Mansion, Wu Xiangrong from Mr. Qian's family, Leng Youyun from the Dujian Mansion... and several daughters of top local merchant families.The girls were no more than thirteen or fourteen years old, and they were all acquainted with Ming Yu in the past. After meeting each other, Xie Mingrou naturally introduced her cousin and Pei Wenying to everyone.

All the girls heard that these two ladies from the middle of Beijing, one is from General Zhaowu's mansion and the other is from Jingyonghou's mansion.They were stunned and envious, and went over to salute one by one.After a while, the people in the room were clearly divided into two groups.A bunch of daughters of officials gathered around the two ladies from the capital, and the others were business ladies like Mingyu, gathered around her two sisters, looking over there with expressions on their faces. Some are dissatisfied, and some are envious.

"Usually the head is turned up like a magpie, but now it looks like a lapdog in front of the noble lady from Beijing."

The one who spoke in a low voice was Li Maoer, the daughter of Li Shoucai's family. In the previous life, Ming Yu's cousin Ming Fang married into her family.This Li Maoer always likes to be top-notch in everything on weekdays, and she has a bit of a bitter temper. Ming Yu has never talked to her very much. Out beauty.

Xie Mingrou saw that the people in the room were divided into two groups like this, and she was the master of the day, so she felt a little sorry for Mingyu, afraid that she would be embarrassed, seeing her playing leaf cards, she had an idea, and hurriedly smoothed things over and said: " Let's play cards, let's make a small bet, win or lose, isn't it more interesting than just talking?"

As soon as this remark came out, all the young ladies agreed one after another.Xie Mingrou hurriedly asked the maids to bring in a few other small tables and set them up, and served various refreshments.

Because Pei Wenying didn't talk to anyone just now, several girls who wanted to please were bored, and now they didn't dare to approach each other when they divided the table, and they only joined forces with their usual like-minded friends.There were thirteen people, and at the end there were four people at a table, and there was one more person when they made up three tables.Ming Yu wanted to give up by herself, but Pei Wenying just sat still.Knowing that my sister-in-law in the previous life may not be out of contempt for others, it's just that she is a bit withdrawn by nature, and it's not so easy to get along with others, so she didn't give in, so she sat down by herself and talked with Ming Pei and Xie Ming Xie Jingzhu was at the table softly.

There are forty cards in this set of leaf cards, which are divided into four suits, Wenqian, Baizi, Wanguan and Shiwanguan. Four players play. Each player draws eight cards first, and the remaining eight cards are placed in the middle of the table.Four people take turns playing and taking cards, playing cards to beat small ones.Feeling pity for Xie Jingzhu and wanting to cheer her up, Mingyu put some water in. After ten laps, Xie Mingrou and Ming Pei each won two rounds, and Xie Jingzhu won the rest, but Mingyu won every time. lose.Ming Pei looked at her non-stop, Xie Mingrou laughed loudly, and called Ming Yu to go back, hurry up and sprinkle grapefruit leaf water on her body to get rid of the bad smell, otherwise why would she lose money.Xie Jingzhu was a child after all, became a big winner, and gradually began to smile a little.

Seeing Pei Wenying slowly coming over and sitting on the sidelines watching, Ming Yu looked eager to try, and after losing another round, she smiled at Xie Mingrou: "If I lose again, I will really be imprisoned at your house. Just don't play." It's gone." Throwing the cards away, he looked at Pei Wenying and said, "Why don't you come and play?"

Pei Wenying finally sat down this time, and Ming Yu got up and took her original seat, watching the four of them play cards.The time passed quickly, and after playing for more than a dozen laps, a girl from the Xie family came outside to spread the word, saying that it was time for the luncheon banquet, and the wife specially set up a big table for the ladies, and asked them to go over and have a good time.The young ladies just finished the game, washed their hands one after another, and walked towards the banquet hall hand in hand.

Because of the poker game just now, the two sisters Pei Wenying, Xie Jingzhu and Ming Yu gradually became a little familiar.Pei Wenying was still calm and silent, when she was sitting on the round table, she only looked at Ming Yu occasionally, but Xie Jingzhu was very close to Ming Yu, she changed places with Xie Mingrou to be next to her, and talked a lot After getting up, Ming Yu answered patiently one by one.

In Ming Yu's eyes, these girls who had something to do with him in the previous life were like juniors, but in fact, they were similar to Jiang Shi's feeling when he saw her.But Xie Jingzhu didn't think so.She lost her loving mother, her father was always stationed in the army, and he was strict. Although her elder brother loved her, now she was accompanied by her cousin Pei Wenying, but one was from a man's family, so it was unavoidable to be careless, and the other was a cousin who was only a few months older than herself, with a natural temperament A little cold, so I have been feeling sad and anxious for several months.When I saw Mingyu suddenly today, seeing her talking in a novel way, being gentle and amiable, she suddenly had the same comforting feeling as when she was with her dead mother in the past, and a little bit of attachment suddenly appeared in her heart. After a meal, I just wish I could It would be better to change identities with Ming Pei and go home with her.

Xie Jingzhu's attitude towards Ming Yu naturally caught the eyes of the rest of the ladies at the table.The daughters of the merchants are nothing but the ladies of the official family. Seeing that they are being flattered in every possible way, the two noble ladies from the middle of the capital don't seem to appreciate it. The eldest lady valued it so much, she was inevitably envious and jealous in her heart, the atmosphere in the banquet suddenly became a little weird, no one raised her chopsticks, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes looked at Ming Yu.

Ming Pei has always been a shrewd person, so she naturally saw the way, and felt that she had a good face, and today she finally got proud in front of these official ladies, and her face inevitably showed a smug look.Ming Yu secretly kicked her feet lightly, seeing her turn her head to look at him in a daze, she couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

When the birthday feast was over, all the young ladies dispersed, Ming Yu called Ming Pei and was about to go to find Jiang, when Xie Mingrou came over and said, "Sister Ruan, my cousin will live here for a long time, she is free It's very boring. I heard that your family has a very rich collection of books in the Congzhen Library. When my sister is free, I will take them there to find some books for entertainment. How about it?"

Ming Yu followed her gaze and saw Xie Jingzhu and Pei Wenying standing not far behind Xie Mingrou.Xie Jingzhu smiled sweetly at herself, but Pei Wenying's expression was a little unnatural. Seeing herself looking over, her eyes immediately changed to staring at a mica landscape screen next to her, and she remained motionless.I already knew it in my heart, and it should not be Xie Jingzhu, but Pei Wenying who had this idea.It's just that the little girl got used to it, and she was too thin-skinned to speak up, so she just pretended to be Xie Jingzhu's name.

That's all for Xie Jingzhu, it's just a coincidence that the members of the Pei family met here today, Ming Yu doesn't want to have any contact in the future.It's just that since Xie Mingrou opened his mouth like this, how could he shirk it?Then he nodded to the two ladies, and then replied: "I was just thinking about inviting you and the two ladies to my house as guests, but I didn't mention it because I was afraid of being abrupt. I am at home every day. Anything, welcome anytime."

Xie Mingrou grinned and shook Ming Yu's hand. Just at this moment, the girl from the Xie family came over and said that the Jiang family was going to leave. Ming Yu took the opportunity to say goodbye and left with Ming Pei. Xie Mingrou personally sent it to the hanging flower gate of the inner house. forward.

Although Jiang's body is safe now, he only had socializing for half a day, after all, he was a little tired, and on the way back, he sat in the sedan chair with half-closed eyes to rest his mind.However, Ming Pei kept talking to her about what he had seen and heard today, and praised the two ladies in the General's Mansion and the Hou's Mansion like heaven and earth.Gradually, the Jiang family also became interested, interjecting a few questions occasionally, Ming Pei became even more excited, and hurriedly said: "Mother, I only knew about Xie's General's Mansion before, but today I really opened my eyes. The old lady in the mansion is actually the sister of the current empress dowager, full of glory. I thought that the ladies in the high school in Beijing must think highly of themselves, but I realized that I was thinking too much when I saw it today. Mother, you don’t know, those two ladies actually They are extremely humble, and the room is full of people, they all left, and they kept talking to me, and at the end they said they would come to our house as a guest."

Jiang Shi was a little surprised and looked at Ming Yu.Ming Yu glanced at Ming Pei, then slightly mentioned Xie Mingrou's last words.Jiang said with a smile: "Looking at it this way, girl Pei is not all talking in plain language, maybe she is really attracted to them. It's just that the young lady who comes from such a family must be more disciplined. If you really want to come one day, you must If you want to be entertained well, you sisters must also do your best to treat guests, and you must not be negligent. If you can really form a good relationship, it will not be harmful to your sisters after all."

Ming Yu and Ming Pei agreed in unison, and Jiang nodded with a smile.

(End of this chapter)