In the luxurious and spacious banquet hall of the Xie family in Beiping, only one table of wine is placed, and on a huge golden silk nanmu table, there are eight treasures of water, eight treasures of mountains, eight treasures of birds, eight treasures of grass, a dazzling array of eyes, bear's paw bird's nest, hump deer tail, shark fin and black ginseng, everything.
This is just a family banquet for the Xie family.
Of course, it is a more grand family banquet, not a year, Xie Chuanzhong Xie is so solemn today, even the most favored ladies have rushed away, only with his wife and sister-in-law, there is a reason why such a table of family banquets is set up.
Xie Chuanzhong is a sheep herding baby, and unlike Zhu Yuanzhang, who led the troops to fight for decades, after the edification of the battle array, although he is reckless and self-defeating, he is a family that became rich overnight, although it has been a few years of extremely rich and noble, but whether it is talking and dressing, or dressing, it always looks a little rustic, which is the taste of the bones, which cannot be concealed.
His wife Huang is the same, originally just an ordinary village woman, this Xie Chuanzhong has a benefit, rich is not easy to wife, although now developed, beautiful concubines like clouds, some concubines are a few years younger than his eldest daughter, but he still respects his yellow-faced wife who shares hardships and hardships, although he rarely goes to his wife's room to spend the night, the relationship between the husband and wife is still very strong, and the family affairs are also handed over to his wife to take care of.
He and his wife's children are not small, the youngest is about the same age as the girl who sits at the top, they sit there straight, but they don't dare to move the chopsticks, because the father said, this is a noble person from Tianfu, there are many rules, tell them not to show their ugly eating appearance in front of others, let people see jokes, so the family sits around the table like this, only watching and not eating, to be precise, only watching the little girl eat by herself.
The little girl ate very carefully, chewed slowly, and looked calm.
Xie Chuanzhong and his wife sat on her left and right, and the chief position was given to her, and seeing that their husband and wife were cautious and agreed to this woman, they seemed to be afraid that they would be a little dissatisfied.
If Xia Xun and Ximen Qing saw this girl, they would probably be surprised, this girl who sat on the top, plain and indifferent, and graceful like a dark orchid, was actually the girl who had walked with them all the way.
The girl didn't eat much, she didn't take a look at many dishes, she took a piece of lion's mane mushroom, chewed it slowly, and waited for the lion's mane mushroom to swallow her stomach, put down the ivory chopsticks, wiped her mouth with a tissue, wiped her hands, and then said: "Well, this dish burns well." ” Xie Chuanzhong and his wife, who had been holding their breath to see her reaction, smiled when they came, and Xie Chuanzhong hurriedly said, "Eat more, eat more." ” On the other side, his wife Huang had already quickly stood up and brought the dish to the baked cake girl.
"No, I don't have a lot of food."
Xie Chuanzhong glanced at the table, a large table of delicacies from mountains and seas, and had eaten for more than half an hour, and the girl had eaten less than ten chopsticks in total, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
The girl who baked the cake said lightly: "Xie Yuanwai" Xie Chuanzhong hurriedly stood up, lowered his hands, and said respectfully: "Auntie, please command, just call me Chuanzhong, but I can't be called an outsider." ” The girl waved her hand and said, "You sit down, even if it's a family, you don't need to be so restrained."
Although my generation is older than you, after all, I am much younger than you, and I am not comfortable that you are always so polite. ” Xie Chuanzhong sat down hurriedly, his waist was still straight, and he said with a smile: "Yes, yes, but the rules cannot be abolished, elders are elders, and they will inherit the rain and dew for all generations, and they should be virtuous."
My aunt and grandmother are the same generation as Chuanzhong's grandfather, no matter how young they are, this rule can't be messed up. ” The girl smiled faintly and said, "Xie Yuanwai, although I accept your hospitality, I won't easily recognize you until I find out, so you don't have to rush to meet you with family gifts now." ” Xie Chuanzhong blushed, and hurriedly said: "Grandma, this can't be wrong, that's what my grandfather and father told me, I can't read, but I remember it clearly, my grandfather, my father told me since I was a child, I am a descendant of the Xie family of Yangxia in Chen County, and I must recognize my ancestors and return to my ancestors when I come out in the future, and I can't forget my ancestors." ” "Okay, don't worry, listen to me slowly."
The girl who baked the cake glanced around at the Xie family, and sighed faintly: "Alas, I won't tell you, Xie Yuan, our Chen Junyang Xia Xie clan has been passed down to the present, and it has long been incomparable to the glory of the year."
The side branches of our Xie family, the branches are scattered all over the world, but most of them have set up their own halls, our branch is gradually withering, and now even the ancestral shrine is dilapidated, and the incense is not prosperous.
There are few people, in my life, there are even fewer children and grandchildren in the Xie family's house, only me and my brother are left, if you can really prove that you are the lost descendants of my Xie family, and strengthen the momentum of our house, the ancestors are prosperous, that is a great thing, how can I not be happy, if I don't pay attention to this matter, can I come all the way here.
But no matter what, I can't foolishly pull people with foreign surnames in to recognize relatives, and I still have to read everything that needs to be verified before I can do it accurately. ” Xie Chuanzhong hurriedly said: "That's, that's, aunt and grandmother, don't worry, the real fire is not afraid of fire refining, you need to verify something, just give the order, Chuanzhong will prepare immediately." ” The girl glanced at him lightly and said, "I'm a little tired, I want to take a break, what's the matter, I'll talk about it tomorrow." ” Xie Chuanzhong quickly stood up when he heard this, and said respectfully: "Yes, aunt and grandmother, please, your bedroom has already been prepared, I wanted to wait for the reception banquet, I will take you over, this way, please go this way." ” The girl who baked the cake did not swing her skirt, like flowing water, and followed Xie Chuanzhong and his wife in a curling manner, and the children of the Xie family all stood up, like goose-headed geese, and they didn't know whether to salute his father's aunt and grandmother.
The sister was waiting outside, and when she saw the young lady coming out, she was busy with her, and the snow outside was getting heavier and heavier, and the wind was soft, and the falling snowflakes dyed the earth a piece of silver.
A few people walked around the corridor and the pavilion, walked in the back flower courtyard for a while, and then entered a very rich house, inside and outside, painting screen dressing table, Qiluo embroidered tent, all available.
The four large braziers were burning with animal charcoal, and the room was full of strange fragrance, warm as spring.
Xie Chuanzhong said with a smile: "Grandma, this house has a warm wall and a dragon, my aunt and grandmother are people who have lived in Jiangnan for a long time, and they may not be able to withstand the weather in the north.
The girl smiled lightly and said, "Very good, you think about it thoughtfully, I'll rest, belch, I'm so tired all the way." ” Xie Chuanzhong hurriedly said: "Then Chuanzhong will retreat, what does my aunt need, just say it, just say it." ” The two of them nodded and withdrew, as soon as the door opened, the elegant and dignified appearance of the baked cake girl disappeared immediately, she rushed to the baked cake sister and asked, "Feifei, do you have anything to eat?"
The little girl laughed, took out an oily paper bag with body temperature from her arms and handed it to her: "Oh, when I was eating just now, I stole the meatloaf, the mutton filling, is fragrant."
How about it, the old rich man Xie didn't suspect you, right?"
"Nonsense, this girl pretending to be a dragon is a dragon, pretending to be a tiger is a tiger, even if he Xie Laocai is born with a pair of discerning eyes, he can't see through this girl's Dharma body hum, you look at it, I sold him, and he has to count the silver for me happily" The girl said triumphantly, couldn't wait to tear open the oiled paper bag, and while walking behind the screen, she devoured it, and said vaguely: "Water, pour me a cup of tea." ” The little girl leaned on the crack of the door and looked out, dropped the latch, and then walked to the table and lifted the pot to pour tea.
Xie Laocai put his hands in his sleeves, hummed and chirped, and walked to a pavilion with his wife, looking at the heavy snow outside, and said happily: "It's such a heavy snow, how many times has it snowed like this, and it will be a good harvest next year." ” "You, you have a lot of money, gold and silver, and you still can't forget those few acres of land in the countryside."
Huang dusted off a few snowflakes that fell on her husband's shoulders in disgust, and said: "I was so scared just now that I didn't even dare to breathe, but at the end it was a character from the great family, don't look at the fall of others, look at the appearance of others, that style, ouch, I can't learn how to learn."
But what are you doing in this way, I see that the girl is a shrewd person. ” "Hehe" Xie Laocai smiled slyly, and a shrewd look flashed on his simple and honest face: "Why can't you have money to make ghosts push ghosts, and money can make ghosts push ghosts, I don't believe it" He stretched out his hands red, and said in a loud voice: "In this life, I was poor in the first half of my life, and the villagers looked down on me; Now that there is money, the nobles look down on it; Grandma is a bear, go to a banquet, eat a wine, and sneer at me with a gun and a stick, I don't come back with a stomach but if I recognize Chen Junyang Xia Xie as an ancestor, why do you still look down on me, let's compare, I am richer than you; You laugh at me, who is low, who is low, who is low, my ancestors are more bearable than you, hehe, hehe" "Look at your beauty," Huang said a little on her husband's forehead, and said worriedly: "If you can really hide it, why shouldn't you let the news out first, now they are staring at our family, if the girl doesn't recognize us, it will be a shame, and I won't have to face the street in the future." ” "Okay, you can rest assured, don't nag, my ears are calloused.
When we went to Tongzhou to pick her up, didn't you also see it, although she was dressed and generous, she couldn't compare to our family after all.
Lao Xie's family is left with a name, I Xie Lao Cai only has profit, recognize me, she is famous and beneficial, I am advantageous and famous, what's not good" Huang said: "That's not what I said, I heard that these families are very well-behaved, even if they are poor and starving, they still hold the family shelf, and refuse to go back and forth with ordinary people like us, don't let others see what is wrong." ” "Hmm" Xie Laocai thought about it, and instructed: "You are a woman, it is convenient to enter and exit, go back to talk to her, set her bottom, see what she wants to check, I let Master Jiang spend a lot of money to find a lot of people to wait, not the most powerful sword and pen official in the government, or a famous Confucian scholar in the Beiping area, what she wants to see, we will build her what, she just wants to see our family's ancestral grave, I can also make a large piece for her overnight, to ensure that I can't see any flaws" Xie Laocai suddenly remembered something, and instructed: "I see that she trusts that little girl the most, you have some benefits for that girl, maybe it will make a big difference, at least she can help us say good things in front of Miss Xie." ” Xie Chuanzhong said this, and said proudly: "Pass her a message through the little girl named Nan Feifei, as long as she lets me recognize my ancestors and return to the genealogy of the Xie clan in Chen County, I will donate money to repair the ancestral temple, I Xie Lao Cai lacks everything, but there is no shortage of money, I want to use the money to smash out a noble ancestor, hahaha" To be continued: