Chunyu and Qin Caiyu couldn't help but refute Zhou Mengya's intention today, so they had no choice but to follow her to Lanting.
After a group of them also came to Orchid Pavilion, the lotus appreciation feast really began.
As the birthday girl and the host of the banquet, Zhou Mengya naturally needs to say a few words.
After she said a few words in general, the ladies all asked the maids to present Zhou Mengya's birthday gifts.
Most of the gifts are jewelry, and some want silk, satin and embroidery.
However, when they arrived at Zhu Zhiyuan's place, her father, although he was only a county magistrate, was still relatively well-off.
She gave Zhou Mengya a set of jadeite headbands and a string of agate bracelets of good quality.
"Miss Zhu is from an official family, so she is quite generous, but those of us merchants cannot compare."
Ma Guixiang said here and asked the maid to bring a box.
The box was made of carved crabapple wood and gilded. box.
After opening it, there was something covered with fine cloud silk satin.
Ma Guixiang smiled softly, then reached out and opened the piece of satin.
I saw the luster inside flashing past, and what appeared in front of people were two half-sized night pearls, with the sunlight refracted onto them and they were full of brilliance.
"Ah, these are Nanling Night Pearls, and they come as a pair."
"Yeah, it's probably worth a lot of money."
"Miss Ma said she is not as good as Miss Zhu, but she is not speaking modestly."
"that is" Seeing that the night pearl caused a lot of discussion as soon as it lit up, it slightly satisfied Ma Guixiang's vanity.
She looked at Zhu Zhiyuan sideways with a seemingly modest smile, with a hint of provocation on her face.
Although she, Zhu Zhiyuan, could barely be considered an official lady, her family background was average.
How much money could a county magistrate have?
"It's just two broken beads, what's the point?"
Zhu Zhiyuan snorted coldly.
She hated these people who showed off their money the most, but they were just lowly businesswomen who really took themselves seriously.
Although her family is not a wealthy family, it is an official family.
They are no better than a merchant girl like her.
Although the Zhou family is also a businessman, it is a family of officials and merchants.
An ancestor also served as the governor of the Weaving Bureau.
Moreover, Zhou Xu'an has made great achievements at a young age and will have a bright future in the future.
This is not comparable to ordinary wealthy businessmen.
After hearing Zhu Zhiyuan's words, Ma Guixiang wanted to refute, but her sleeve was gently pulled by her concubine Ma Yuxiang.
Then she remembered that although the Ma family was considered a wealthy family in the city, they couldn't handle it because they were the daughter of a county magistrate.
Her father's business Some matters require approval from the county magistrate.
He had no choice but to stop talking reluctantly, but glanced at the empty seats where Zhou Mengya and the others were sitting, and sat directly there.
"Sister Mengya, this is" Ma Guixiang said with a smile without giving in.
She took one look at Chun Yu's clothes and already knew that she was not a young lady from a wealthy family.
She just saw Zhou Mengya being very kind to her, so she felt good about it.
She's not like Zhu Zhiyuan, who doesn't do anything noble and wants to marry into the Zhou family, but it won't do anything good even if she marries into the Zhou family.
"This is my best friend Chun Yu.
Chun Yu, this is Miss Ma Guixiang's Guixiang."
Zhou Mengya was also afraid that Ma Guixiang would say something else, which would be really embarrassing for Chun Yu.
This time Ma Guixiang didn't say anything sarcastic, she just smiled and nodded to Chunyu, who also smiled and nodded.
"Miss Zhou Zhou, I don't have anything to give you for your birthday.
I embroidered a pair of dancing butterflies and peonies for you.
Thank you for inviting me to the lotus appreciation banquet.
Don't dislike my embroidery skills."
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At this time, Na Na sat quietly.
Liu Yiting, who was in the corner, finally got up and walked over with her maid.
"How dare you disdain it?
I think your craftsmanship has already caught up with the royal embroidery that big brother brought back."
Zhou Mengya said, Liu Hua and Liu Ying had already unfolded the butterfly dancing peonies.
Chunyu and Qin Caiyu also came up to take a look, and saw that the embroidered silk was about four feet long and two feet wide.
It is embroidered with a flourishing peony, with layers of red, purple and moon-white peonies.
There are also more than a dozen butterflies of various colors flying, either flying high on the front, flying low on the sides or spreading their wings to do the embroidery work.
The exquisite and lifelike picture makes people smell the elegant fragrance of peonies, and makes people feel that the colorful butterflies are about to fly out.
"Oh, this embroiderer" “The embroidery is really good” "That's right, my embroiderer who makes clothes can't even compare to her."
"But she is a young lady after all.
What's the use of her embroidery skills?"
As expected, this caused a lot of discussion among the ladies, but fortunately Zhou Mengya said a few more words, only saying that the banquet was about to start, so they stopped talking about it.
Zhou Mengya then asked her to sit next to her, and Chun Yu and Qin Caiyu also sat down.
This was the real start of the banquet.
Liu Hua and Liu Ying also explained the process of the banquet to the ladies present in detail.
After hearing the novelty, everyone stopped talking about other things for the time being.
Some asked the maid to get some fruit drinks, and some ladies just took the maid over to watch and choose by themselves.
After the ladies ate and chatted for a while, Chunyu asked Liu Hua and Liu Ying to put several jars of mulberry wine on the table.
He first poured it into a small jug and then poured a glass with the ladies.
"Everyone, try this mulberry wine.
It's sweet but not intoxicating.
Today's theme is mainly about appreciating lotus flowers.
So why don't we get up and go to the Orchid Pavilion and the verandah in the lake to perform the order of appreciating the lotus flowers.
Drawing flower lots is also a fun thing to do.
I'm tired of it, but it's too noisy to play drums to encourage flowers.
It just so happened that the Zhou Mansion invited a music girl a few days ago, so why not let her play the zheng to add to the fun?"
Zhou Mengya came here on a whim and said with a smile while holding a wine glass.
After hearing this, everyone naturally agreed.
Women originally had few orders when playing.
Apart from playing dominoes, they also played lotteries.
They have long been tired of it.
Now it is good to try a new method.
After getting everyone's unanimous approval, Zhou Mengya ordered Liuying to invite Le Ji over.
He took the lead and walked a few steps to the verandah.
Liu Hua picked up the small wine bottle and followed.
Zhu Zhiyuan also stood up with a wine glass, and her maid naturally followed up with a wine bottle.
Then all the ladies and maids followed, and the long veranda was very lively.
Chunyu and Qin Caiyu were unwilling to step forward.
They just got up and walked a little outside the Lanting Pavilion, and finally stood in front of the railing and watched.
After a while, Liuying brought Le Ji over, and saw that she was about seventeen or eighteen years old.
She was extremely gorgeous, but she didn't look frivolous.
Instead, she was pleasing to the eye.
Wearing a crimson dress, she stood outside the Orchid Pavilion with her qin in her arms.
After receiving the order, she sat in front of the stone table there and put the qin in front of her in preparation.
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Chun Yu saw that even though she was Le Ji's slave, she was very generous and did not feel any discomfort from Le Ji, so he looked at her curiously for a while.
Le Ji also saw Chun Yu and nodded to her with a smile.
Chun Yu also smiled and nodded.
But at this time, her fourth aunt Qin Caiyu once again acted as the narrator and told Chun Yu about Le Ji.
It turns out that this happy girl's name is Changting, and she was originally a courteous singer on the Jianghuai River.
The young master went there to discuss business and saw her being harassed by dandy boys, so he helped her out a little.
Changting begged Young Master Zhou to let him take her out of the sea of misery.
Young Master Zhou also thought that Zhou Mengya was missing a musician and it was inconvenient to hire a male musician to teach her, so he redeemed her body and brought her back.
Chun Yu couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.
He didn't expect that this paralyzed young master Zhou would actually have a warm heart, and he would have the opportunity of being a hero to save a beautiful girl.
At this time, Liuying took a bright handkerchief to the side and waited for a while to start and stop waving the handkerchief.
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