Chapter 218 Hong's Door Banquet

The big shopkeeper Xu Fuquan should have been the most suitable candidate, but firstly, there is no one who can replace him, and secondly, Mr. Xu's health is not very good, and the climate in the desert is not very suitable for him. Last time he was in the desert. After staying for a month, my body was unwell for half a month. ( ) I'm afraid it won't work if you stay in the desert for a long time.

But this time Xu Fuquan came to find Qin Tian, ​​not for himself, but for his son.

His son, Xu Changping, is the tea collection manager of the tea shop, and he has also worked in the tea shop for nearly ten years. It's okay to do things, and there hasn't been any big 'chaos', but it's hard to impress Qin Tian on weekdays.

"The young master's milk, I also know that with Changping's qualifications, it is difficult to be in charge of the entire desert. I just want to ask the young master to give him the position of deputy, and let him follow more Learn, see the market, and help the young and old in the future!" said the shopkeeper Xu.

Given that Manager Xu had been working diligently in Shengshi for so many years, it was not too much to make such a request, so Qin Tian readily agreed. The goal was achieved, and the shopkeeper Xu left happily.

As soon as Shopkeeper Xu left, Qingliu came in with a big red post and said, "It's a post sent by the prefect's wife."

Mrs. prefect? Qin Tian was surprised, and took a look, but it was the prefect's wife's house that held a "Spring" party, and specially invited the famous business "women" in the city to go.

This kind of banquet is held twice every year by the prefect's wife in the 'spring' season, one is to entertain the officials' wives' of the whole city, and the other is to entertain the business' wives. This time last year was the prefect and the eldest wife. When they were in a bad relationship, the prefect did not invite the eldest wife, but this year, Shengshi's business has become more and more prosperous, and with the relationship between Song Taifu, naturally Shengshi will no longer be excluded.

Qiulan heard that it was the prefect's banquet, and immediately said: "Can you not go? The second concubine has just been sent to the other courtyard, and the prefect's wife invited the young master's 'milk', 'milk', I think this prefect must have no peace of mind. !"

"Don't talk 'nonsense'!" Qingliu immediately covered Qiulan's mouth, and then walked outside the 'door' to look, making sure no one heard what Qiulan said just now, so she felt relieved. She turned around and pointed at Qiulan to rebuke: "Qiulan, if you don't change your reckless 'sex', sooner or later, you will hurt the big and young 'milk' and 'milk'!"

Qiulan walked to Qingliu's side, shook her arm and said, "Good Qingliu, don't scold me, I will definitely change!"

Qingliu put her finger on her forehead and smiled, "You are shameless, and I don't know what Haifu sees in you!"

Qiulan blushed, and immediately went to Squeak Qingliu, Qingliu broke away from her and hid behind Qin Tian, ​​and said, "You've said this before, you have the ability, you have the ability, Squeeze, Master's milk." Milk'!"

How dare Qiulan, looking at Qin Tian blushing and bowing his head, paced his feet and said, "You are all bad guys, you only know how to laugh at me!"

Qin Tian clapped his hands and smiled: "I'm not laughing at you, *** is a matter of course, you and Hai Fu are not too young, so what if you look at each other? I'm still planning to wait for the 'spring' season. After a while, I will mention your affairs to my mother, and find a good day to help you do things!"

Qiulan was happy in her heart, but she couldn't hold back her face. She stomped her feet again, covered her face and said, "I won't tell you!" After speaking, she slipped out like a fly.

Qin Tian and Qingliu both smiled and looked outside the 'door'.

This time in the desert, it is not without good things. It is because of this accident that Haifu rescued Qiulan and the others. The two developed a relationship in the midst of adversity. After returning, the two met secretly. In the end, the paper couldn't contain the fire, and it wasn't long before Qingliu and Qin Tian discovered it.

This is a good thing, how could Qin Tian stop it, he has already made plans for them in his heart.

"Now that Qiulan has settled down, what about you, Qingliu? But there is no one who is interested. You are far more stable than Qiulan. If you are determined to hide from me, it will be difficult for me to find out!" Qin Tian pushed Qingliu.

Qingliu's face flushed red: "Young Master 'milk', 'milk', what do you say? I don't have it anymore. I want to serve 'milk' and 'milk' for the rest of my life!"

"Silly girl!" Qin Tian smiled, but he was thinking about finding a suitable husband for Qingliu, and he definitely couldn't wrong her.

"But then again..." Qingliu lowered her voice and said: "Although Qiulan is reckless, what she said is not unreasonable. Why don't you just push the banquet this time?"

"It's easy to find an excuse to push this banquet off, but think about it, Qingliu, did we do anything wrong with the second concubine?"

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Qin Tian smiled: "Since this is the case, we are walking and standing upright, why should we avoid it with a guilty conscience?"

Qingliu smiled and nodded, "Young Master's 'milk' and 'milk' are right!"

On the day of the banquet, although he didn't like those ding ding dong very much, Qin Tian let the maids dress up for the sake of the banker's face.

The maids didn't have the opportunity to perform on weekdays, but they were able to give full play to their strengths today, so they took out the ability to press the bottom of the box and dressed Qin Tian like a 'girl' down to earth, making Zhuang Xinyan, who was accustomed to Qin Tian's simple dress up, ruthless. He was stunned for a moment.

"Eldest young master, in fact, our young master's 'milk' and 'milk' are not much better than those Yangcheng's most beautiful 'girls', right?" Qiu Lan said playfully.

Zhuang Xinyan just looked at Qin Tian and couldn't move his eyes.

Seeing the love between the young couple, the big maid Bilian took the maids down with a sense of interest. When Qiu Lan came out of the 'door', she smiled while covering her mouth and quietly closed the 'door'.

As soon as the maids went out, Zhuang Xinyan couldn't wait to hug Qin Tian and kissed her red lips until they couldn't breathe. Reluctantly let go.

Zhuang Xinyan hugged her and was reluctant to let go, and repeated in his mouth: "I found a treasure, I found a treasure!"

"Could it be a treasure to be dressed like this!" Qin Tian pouted, unhappy, so it is true that men value appearance the most!

Seeing that she was unhappy, Zhuang Xinyan was anxious, and quickly let go of her and took out a small notebook and wrote: "No matter what you look like, it is my treasure! It's just that you are really beautiful today, and it's amazing!"

"Meat is interesting!" Qin Tian glanced at him angrily, and said again: "I also know that dressing up will be very beautiful, but when I do things on weekdays, how can I put on such bright 'bright' makeup and wear it so fresh.' Yan's light and soft clothes, wearing so many beautiful accessories, I need someone to support me even when I walk around. In the morning, I have to spend nearly an hour on this. Where is the convenience? Beautiful is beautiful, but I have to pay for it. Too much!"

Seeing her words clearly, Zhuang Xinyan fell silent, thinking to himself: He should learn to speak quickly, and then he can take over the tea shop and let his wife do whatever she wants, without so many worries.

How can it be so easy to just learn to speak? Qin Tian taught him every night, and he tried hard to ask himself, but until now, he still couldn't speak clearly, as long as it was a sentence with more than five characters, he often couldn't understand the pronunciation. Can't blame him, he can't hear, two or three words can be dealt with, but it's easy to get confused. It was because of his talent and intelligence that he could make such progress in such a short period of time.

But as a man, many times, he can't stand up to protect his wife, such as the horse thief incident, the last Qin Tian humiliation incident, and even many things before, all because of his flaws, whenever Qin Tian is in In times of crisis, he could not give her protection in time. This was not uncomfortable for him.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Xinyan couldn't help but hug Qin Tian into his arms again, and said softly, "I'm sorry for you."

Hearing this sentence, Qin Tian wanted to laugh at first, okay, why do you imitate others to be somber? But slowly, Qin Tian felt the affection and apology contained in his simple words, and his heart suddenly became extremely sour.

She wrapped her tightly around his sturdy waist and pressed her face to his 'chest'.

Fool, what's wrong with that? I've got so much, so much more that I can't believe it's real happiness...

After going out of the door, Zhuang Minglan had dressed up and waited in the yard. Seeing Qin Tian and Zhuang Xinyan, she called out timidly, "Big brother and sister-in-law."

Zhuang Xinyan smiled slightly, he had other things to do, so he left the hospital first.

Qin Tian walked over, took her hand and said, "Let's go too."

Zhuang Minglan smiled, her eyes lit up with excitement.

This banquet can bring 'female' and 'sexual' relatives, so Qin Tian took Zhuang Minglan, who was about to plan a marriage, out, and let her meet the business wives, and also let the business wives meet her and let them know , The banker also has an unmarried concubine 'daughter'.

The two rode in a carriage and went to Hu Zhifu's mansion while talking and laughing.

Outside the big 'door', the two got out of the car with the help of the maid, and as soon as they landed, they saw a Cui Gai Zhu Ying Eight Treasures car driving towards this side.

The person who came here at this time was naturally a business woman who was also invited. Thinking of this, Qin Tian was not in a hurry to go in. Naturally, when he saw it, he had to say hello.

After the carriage stopped, Qin Tian looked at the 'door' of the carriage with a smile, but saw a man in a black robe getting out of the carriage.

But it was Nicholas Tse.

Qin Tian was stunned for a while, why did he come to the prefect's wife's banquet?

Just thinking about it, he saw him stretch out his hand and lead a graceful woman down, Qin Tian immediately guessed her identity, it should be Xie Tingjun's mother, Mrs Xie!

That's right, how could a salt merchant as big as the Xie family not be invited by the prefect's wife.

Just when Qin Tian was looking at them, Xie's mother and son also saw Qin Tian, ​​and the expressions of the mother and son were different.

Nicholas Tse was visibly stunned, his eyes suddenly lit up, and there was an obvious look of astonishment on his face.

Today Qin Tian was wearing a squirrel jacket with rose gold and rose red thick silk, a silver-white 'color' folded branch 'flower' robe, and a 'meat' cinnamon powder pleated 'flower' skirt. The blue silk is combed into a bun, with a Western pearl emerald 'flower' on the left, a few branches inlaid with jewels, gilt and jade 'jade' on the right, and red gold tassel earrings dangling on the cheeks. It even made her skin glow like snow, bright and attractive.

It was the first time that Nicholas Tse saw Qin Tian dressed up in such a dress, but he saw that her skin was like snow, her cheeks were like glow, her eyebrows were like willows, and her eyes were like apricots. Compared with the beauties he had seen before, she was not inferior. . More pure beauty.

In an instant, Nicholas Tse felt a 'dang' in his heart, as if he was about to melt.

Qin Tian couldn't help frowning under his gaze.

Mrs. Xie next to him pushed him heavily, and said angrily: "Tingjun, aren't you going to see the prefect? ​​What are you doing?"

After being reminded by his mother, Nicholas Tse came back to his senses. He quickly calmed his mind, bowed slightly to Qin Tian, ​​took the lead in entering the gate, and walked towards the front yard.

Leaving Qin Tian and Mrs. Xie behind, their faces were a little unnatural.

Out of politeness, Qin Tian still gave her a slight bow, and Mrs. Xie looked at her carefully from beginning to end, thinking: Didn't she say that this girl has no appearance? Now it seems that it is not much worse than Wanjun!

When she thought that the person in front of her had caused her daughter to suffer, Mrs. Xie was full of displeasedness, she snorted coldly at Qin Tian, ​​and without returning the salute, she entered the yard with the help of the maid.

"This person, why is this?" Zhuang Minglan murmured.

"Ignore her, we just take care of ourselves!" Qin Tian said lightly.

The venue for the banquet is in the backyard hall.

Under the leadership of the maid, Qin Tian and his party walked along a very spacious corridor to a bright and spacious hall, where a row of ten bright vermilion lacquered wood 'doors' were still closed because of the 'spring' and the cold. , As soon as he entered the hall, there was a warm warm air mixed with a strong fragrance of fat and powder blowing towards him.

"The 'milk' and the 'milk' have arrived." A maid told clearly.

A dozen pairs of eyes in the room suddenly looked towards Qin Tian. For a moment, Qin Tian only felt that the beads were surrounded by green jade, and he could only hear the ringing bells, but he couldn't tell who was who.

"What a handsome man!" A steady and dignified voice sounded.

Qin Tian looked at the sound, but saw a 'woman' in gorgeous and dignified clothes sitting on the main seat. saw that she looked about forty years old, with a face like a full moon, long eyebrows and slender eyes, and a graceful look. It must be Mrs. Prefect.

Qin Tian hurriedly brought Zhuang Minglan over to greet the prefect's wife.

The prefect's wife spoke very cordially, took Qin Tian's hand and greeted the eldest wife a few words, and praised her a few words for her ability, and then said: "Speaking of which, we are still close to each other, so we need to move more in the future. "It's actually not at all unpleasant.

The structure of the hall is roughly the same. There are two rows of benches on the left and right under the main seat. Food and wine are placed on the small tables. In the hall, a seven-story lotus 'flower' table is warmed by brass, and the red fire of silver charcoal burns the whole room. All warm.

Afterwards, the prefect arranged for her to sit in the third position from the bottom right, while Zhuang Minglan arranged to sit with some of the family members. After Qin Tian took his seat, he greeted everyone present. She knew that the one sitting on her left was Mrs. Liu from the Silk and Satin Village, and the one on her right was Mrs. Wang from the owner of the salt field.

Both of them were around forty years old. Although they were smiling, they looked at Qin Tian with deep meaning. Qin Tian thought it was because of those rumors and didn't care.

She noticed that Mrs. Xie was sitting at the bottom left, closest to Mrs. Prefect, and the two seemed to be very close to each other. Seeing Qin Tian looking over, Mrs. Xie glanced at her coldly, and then said something to Mrs. Prefect. Mrs. Zhifu looked at Qin Tian with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.

Seeing this, Qin Tian remembered that Nicholas Tse had been able to give advice to the prefect, and it could be seen that the relationship between the prefect of Hu and the Xie family was close.

But as soon as she came, she was at peace, she didn't do anything wrong, she didn't have to be afraid of anything!

Such banquets are nothing but gossip. The prefect's wife affirmed the businessman's contribution to Yangcheng in the attitude of the official wife, and thanked the business "women" for their contributions to their husbands and children. After that, it was boring to flatter each other, show off each other, where did I buy my jewelry, where were my clothes made, and how precious the materials of the clothes are, and so on, I can hear Qin Tian. Almost dozed off.

Suddenly, the voice in the family area grew louder, and a 'girl' child said sharply, "So I actually underestimated you..." The tone was full of ridicule.

The prefect's wife was busy asking what was going on, and the maid came to report: It was the young ladies who were quarreling.

The business 'women' looked over, but saw that it was Miss Wang, the direct 'daughter' of the owner of the saltworks, who was mocking Zhuang Minglan.

At this moment, Zhuang Minglan was sitting in the corner with her head lowered and her hands tightly clasping each other, looking very nervous.

Zhuang Minglan was brought here by Qin Tian. Seeing that she was wronged, how could Qin Tian turn a blind eye and ask, "Minglan, what happened?"

Hearing this, Zhuang Minglan raised her head and glanced at Qin Tian, ​​her face flushed red, her eyes were full of tears, but she pursed her lips. She glanced at Miss Wang beside her, daring not to say more.

Seeing Qin Tian asking, Mrs. Wang didn't care, and asked her daughter what was going on.

Miss Wang was obviously much bolder than Zhuang Minglan, she stood up, first saluted the prefect, then glanced at Zhuang Minglan contemptuously, and said aloud: "If you go back to the prefect, the people's daughter asked the fifth lady of the Zhuang family curiously, if After she gets married, she will be like her sister-in-law and will not allow her husband to have any other 'women'. She even replied that she also hopes that her future husband will be as devoted to his wife as her elder brother! She even asked me , don't you want to?"

Speaking of which, Miss Wang raised her head; "Of course I don't think so. We ladies from regular families have been obedient and virtuous since elementary school, and only ignorant market 'women' would have such ignorant thoughts. I have to think about my husband's family and make the children of my husband's family prosperous. How can I have such an idea because of my own 'self'? It's really despised! It's just because I think it's too disgusting, I'm rude, please also prefect Ma'am and ladies, please bear with me!"

The prefect nodded her head again and again, her face full of admiration: "Ms. Wang's words are really good, as a 'woman', how can you put the word jealousy in your heart, and say it a bit harsher, this is a crime Seven out, those who are to be divorced, a 'girl' like Miss Wang is the best candidate for a good wife and mother!" As he spoke, he looked at Miss Wang and said with a smile, "Miss Wang, which son would marry him? It's a blessing to be here with you!"

The rest of the business 'women' joined in.

Miss Wang blushed, and bowed to the prefect's wife: "Thank you for your admiration, Madam!"

At this time, Mrs. Xie, who was sitting next to the prefect's wife, 'shot' at Qin Tian with her eyes like electricity, and said with a smile, "I wonder what Mrs. Qin thought about what Miss Wang said?"

Hearing this, Qin Tian knew that today's highlight is coming!

However, do you think I am afraid of you because there are so many of you?

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