Jia Lu through the Red Chamber

Chapter 129 Blind Date Banquet

Jia Zhen looked at his father flatteringly, Jia Jing looked at him with a dog-legged look, and Jia Lu frowned with hunger, and nodded.

Seeing this, Jia Zhen picked up her chopsticks and was about to pick up vegetables, but was stopped by Mrs. Zhang.

"Master, this dish is cold, shall we eat it warm?"

How can Jia Zhen care about this, "Farewell, I don't care!"

When he wanted to put down his chopsticks again, he heard a servant outside reporting, "He's out! The young master is out!"

Mrs. Zhang hurried out and asked, "What's wrong with Brother Rong? But you're going home?"

The boy swallowed his saliva, and hurriedly said,

"The young master went out of the palace gate and was brought into a carriage by the people brought by Manager Jiao. Now he is on his way back. Manager Jiao ordered the young one to come back and report first!"

"What about the grades? How did Brother Rong do in the exam?" Jia Qiang asked.

"The little one doesn't know, the little one watched the uncle get into the carriage and hurried back!"

Zhang Shi waved his hand and let him go down, but she couldn't sit down anymore, leaning against the door and looking out.

Looking at her, Jia Lu was too anxious and lost her composure. Jia Rong didn't know if she had eaten or not when she came back at this time, so she hurriedly asked people to remove the cold dishes and ordered a few bowls of hot noodles. Those pastries come, first cushion.

About half a stick of incense was touched, and someone came to report that Jia Rong had returned. Sure enough, Jia Rong came back accompanied by all the servants.

I saw him smiling, and when he walked to the middle of the yard, he knelt down on the ground with a "poof!"

"Rong'er please greet the old lady, master, wife, and aunt. Fortunately, Rong'er did not disgrace her life. She won No.5 in the imperial examination and No.2 in Jinshi!"

"Okay, okay! Good boy!" Even Jia Jing narrowed his eyes, he never thought that Jia Rong could do so well in the exam, Zhang even narrowed his eyes with a smile, and quickly pulled him up.

"Good boy, have you eaten yet?"

Jia Rong rubbed her stomach, but she couldn't feel it, she said that the hunger came up again, "I've been hungry for a long time, I don't know why it's better until now, I'm thinking about the food at home!"

"Then let's eat quickly!" Zhang's face changed as she said that, the food was cold, and Jia Rong had been hungry for a long time, how could she eat it.

Turning around, I saw Jia Lu came up with all the maids and women, holding various kinds of noodles in their hands, including soup noodles, mixed noodles, and various side dishes, the only thing in common is that they are all steaming hot.

Mrs. Zhang cast a grateful look, and hurriedly called everyone to sit down, and served them hot noodles. Everyone was hungry for a long time, and it was better to eat a lot.

After everyone had finished eating, Mrs. Zhang was going to order people to go out to set off firecrackers. It was festive and festive, but was stopped by Jia Jing.

"It's getting dark now, setting off firecrackers is easy to disturb others, so let's wait until the imperial court issues a notice tomorrow!"

Mrs. Zhang nodded, "Yes, yes, it's better for the old man to be more calm, and just listen to the old man!"

After speaking, he greeted everyone to sleep.

Only Jia Jing’s lights were turned on late at night. He was happy that there would be a successor to the Jia family, but he was also worried about whether there would be any changes. After all, everything is possible before the imperial edict is issued. The other one is doubts. Their Ningguo Mansion is low-key, but they still wear the hat of an old minister. How can Rong Ronger rank so high today?

Full of excitement, joy and worry, Jia Jing stayed up all night, and did not settle down until after the notice was issued the next day, the ranking was determined and announced to the public.

Later, I heard that a student of the Zhen family made a big joke. He originally said that he would be at the top of the list, but it turned out to be at the bottom. It has nothing to do with Ningguo Mansion.

The whole Ningguo Mansion was full of excitement, even if it wasn't too good to put on lights and festoons, it was full of joy, but Jia Rong might have blown a cold wind in the palace, and felt a little unwell the next day, and now she is bedridden.

Even if Jia Rong was sick in bed, she couldn't stop her enthusiasm. Jia Rong was already 22 years old, and she couldn't afford to delay the marriage, so Mrs. Zhang planned to hold a small banquet to see him.

At the end of spring and early summer, it is the season when hundreds of flowers are in full bloom. The flowers in Huifang Garden are in full bloom, and the fragrance is fragrant. In addition to those who are close to the family, most of them are those who have women of the right age at home. When others think about Jia Rong's age, they can understand it. Nine out of ten have come.

At the beginning of the banquet, Jia Rong was unwell and her mother came out to walk around before going back to rest. Jia Qiang followed her father Jia Zhen and grandfather Jia Jing to entertain the male guests outside.

Because of the small number of people in Ningguo Mansion, there are only Zhang's female family members in the back house. Facing such a banquet, she is a little busy. Fortunately, Jia Lu is old enough to help out. Zhang Shi asked her to stay with the female family members who came to entertain. , Jia Lu naturally agreed.

Mother Jia and the others came not too late. The clan elders, the Shijia, the Xue family, and the Wang family came, but the other guests did not come.

When Jia's mother arrived, Mrs. Zhang invited her to the seat.Because someone will come to see the ceremony later, Jia Baoyu couldn't stay longer, so he went out with Jia Lian and others.

Since then, people have come one after another. This is not a formal banquet. The elders entertained them one by one, but the younger Zhang and others could not invite them one by one. However, they met a few important girls, who were also the ones Zhang focused on observing. , which are:

Wang Mengting and Wang Mengyu, the two daughters of the wife of the Ministry of Rites, Qiu Qinzhi, the granddaughter of Mrs. Jingtianhou, Liu Shanshan, the daughter of Mrs. Li Guogong's son, Jiang Yixue, the stepdaughter of Mrs. Pingyuanhou, Li Xiaowan, the daughter of Mrs. Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, Hanlin Tian Tian, ​​the daughter of the academician's wife.

Of course, there are Zhang Yanhan, the daughter of Zhang's natal sister-in-law, Zhang Qinghan, the niece, and so on. These are also to be seen, and the other concubines and unfamiliar girls stay in the flower hall to drink tea.

The elders chatted and said this, Zhang told the young girls not to follow them who were of a certain age, and asked Jia Lu to lead the girls to Huifangyuan Meiyuan to play, and when they could sing and have dinner Someone will be sent.

Jia Lu went to the flower hall first, called all the girls there, and brought them to the plum garden together.

Jia Lu is the youngest girl in Jia's family, and it's the first time to be the master. Even Mrs. Zhang can't worry about her, so she sent her maids, Er Rui and Ming Mei, to take care of her. There are ten kinds of things that I like to play. The girl in the house is still young, so I can't organize everyone to do some activities and competitions.

This banquet was said to be a flower viewing feast, but no one knew that drunkards were not interested in drinking, those with higher status were more reserved, and those who wanted to climb up to Ningguo Mansion all came up to please her.

Based on the idea of ​​being a guest, Jia Lu treats everyone well.

Seeing that Jia Lu was chatting happily with everyone, the two maids, Er Rui and Ming Mei, stood respectfully aside, and kept looking at the girls who had met Li before from the corner of their eyes.