Daily Life of Jiang Liuniang

   Chapter 108 Wang Family Birthday Banquet

"Liu girl, sixth girl, big news!" After Jiang Erye started to practice archery with Lu Dingyun, Jiang Houer, in order to survive, passed the honorable errand of serving Erye to Jiang Bao, who was specially responsible for driving out of the prefecture to learn the piano girls. So of course, Jiang Hou'er robbed Ya Yin's errand and became Jiang Liu's sidekick.

   "Monkey-er-brother, what-what?" Jiang Liu slowly got up from the stone bed in the yard. Jiang Liu liked to call Jiang Hou'er that way, with a kind and inexplicable joy.

  This black stone bed was originally placed in the outer courtyard of the study for my father to bask in the sun. After being split into two halves by Huyan Tu, who was showing his art, Erye Jiang had the big stone bed polished into two small stone beds, one for Jiang Liu and one for Xiaoshilang. The black stone absorbs heat, and it is very comfortable to lie on it, so Jiang Liu often lies on it and basks in the sun.

   Jiang Hou'er smiled and showed twenty-four teeth, "Jiang Cai is back, just waiting outside!"

   No wonder Daddy kicks him every day, and Jiang Liu also wants to kick both feet, "Let-he-come in, you-go-accompany-daddy-daddy-practice-arrow."

   Six girls are really bad! Jiang Hou'er went out with a frown and changed Jiang Cai in. Jiang Cai came in to salute Jiang Liu, and only whispered two words: "It's done."

  Jiang took notice, gave Jiang Cai a thumbs-up, and lay back comfortably on the stone bed, lazily basking in the sun.

  Because he was afraid of leaking the news, Jiang Liu didn't even tell his nurse about the armor, only his brother Jiang Ling and Jiang Cai knew about him, so Jiang Liu asked Jiang Cai to stare at Xue Xiawan to see if the Wang family would take the armor.

   Now everything is ready, just waiting for my grandmother's birthday.

  Because of the death of the second daughter-in-law, the Wang family and the Jiang family can't wait to stay away from each other. But last year, the granddaughters went to Wang's house to learn how to play the qin for a few months, and the relationship between the two families eased.

   So in the early morning of February 11th, Jiang Erye brought the children and birthday gifts, and was driven out by his mother to go to the Wang family to celebrate his birthday. Because of the death of Wang Shi, Chen Shi went to Shaoxing Mansion again and did not come back. Mrs. Jiang could only let her daughter-in-law, Yan Shi, follow her.

   When the carriage entered Qingya Lane, Shengping Square, where the Wang family was located, Nanny Zhao, who was following the carriage, whispered, "Third Madam, the carriages of the Meng family and the Kong family have arrived."

  The Meng family, the Kong family and the Jiang family are all related by marriage to the Wang family, and they also came to celebrate their birthday after receiving an invitation written by Wang Fangyu himself. Who knew that they were the last to arrive, Yan Shi was a little anxious, and ordered, "Let the driver hurry up."

   Nanny Zhao responded immediately.

   Mrs. Yan told her daughters and nieces again, "Today we are here to celebrate our birthday. None of you are allowed to quarrel with others, let alone fight, and your mouths are sweet. Say something nice, do you hear?"

   "I heard it." The four sisters of the Jiang family replied in unison.

Hearing the slow pace of speech, Mrs Yan thought it was quite cute and couldn't help laughing, "You guys are good, if you do well, we'll go to the flower market when we come out later, and the third aunt will give it to you. Buy five flowers each. You can choose whatever is less than ten cents."

   "Okay—" The four sisters happily answered.

   The Flower Festival is coming soon, and the flower market in Kang'an City is full of flowers, which is very beautiful. The girls all want to buy the most beautiful flowers and put them in their hairpins. Even if they can't wear them on national mourning, they can make people happy to wear them at home. A good-looking peony will cost fifty cents at a minimum, and ten cents can only buy small camellias, peach blossoms or begonias, but the family is tight on money, so the little sisters are very happy to be able to buy flowers.

   After the carriage stopped, the curtain was raised, and Mrs Yan told the children, "Step on firmly before getting out of the carriage, don't fall, leave the baby to be held by the nurse."

   "Sister give me a hug."

   Jiang Ling squeezed Nanny Zhao away and reached out to hug her sister.

   "Don't make trouble! You are leading Shiro." Jiang Erye pushed his son aside, he took the little girl in his arms and held it in his arms, and instructed Mrs Yan, "Let's leave at most three cups of tea after the birthday."

  During the national mourning, the Wang family did not hold drinks and banquets for guests, so they had tea, and of course there were refreshments. Mrs. Yan knew that the second brother didn't want to stay at the Wang's house, but the time for Sanzhancha was too short, so Mrs. Yan had to bite the bullet and said, "We have to wait for the children to present birthday gifts."

   Jiang Erye nodded and walked towards Wang's house.

   Seeing the uncle coming, the steward of the Wang family hurriedly went downstairs to greet them and invited them in. Jiang Liu looked around. Although the Wang family did not hang up the red lanterns, everyone in the courtyard had changed into new clothes, and they were all beaming. She hoped that she wouldn't be too stiff for a while and let her grandmother have a bad life.

   Feeling the girl's stiffness, Erye Jiang patted her on the back and asked in a low voice, "Liu'er wants to go to the toilet?"

  Jiang's face tensed, "No-thinking."

   "Really don't want to?"

"real!"

  Er Ye Jiang nodded, and warned anxiously, "Eat if you don't want to talk when you go in, but don't eat candy and fruit that stick to your teeth, be careful to stick your teeth down, it's ugly."

   Jiang Liu clenched his arms tightly, and just strangled Daddy to death!

   After kowtowing to Mrs. Wang’s birthday in the backyard, Mrs. Yan took her nieces to eat tea in the backyard, and Erye Jiang was invited to the front yard for tea. Jiang Erye took two steps and found that his son was not following. He turned his head and stared at the black boy who was crowded with the little girl, "Ling'er, go to the front yard to play with your cousins."

   Jiang Ling, who was in charge of important tasks, got up and said, "I haven't seen my grandmother for a long time. I want to sit with her for a while, and go to the front yard to find my cousins ​​later."

  My son stayed here because he was afraid that Liuer would be bullied. Jiang Erye nodded, "That's fine."

   "Good boy, eat the fruit." Mrs. Wang smiled kindly and asked Jiang Ling to serve fried crispy fruit. Jiang Ling was not her daughter, so Mrs. Wang couldn't get close to him, but in front of many guests, she couldn't say anything.

   "Thank you, grandma." Jiang Ling didn't care about the sneering eyes of a house of children, picked out a fruit that didn't stick to the teeth and handed it to her sister, whispering, "Don't use your front teeth."

   Jiang Muyan also said, "Yes, be careful with your front teeth."

  Jiang Liuu sighed and decided to use pliers to pull the loose front teeth off when she went back, so that the whole family would not worry about her teeth. Thinking like this, Jiang Liu couldn't help laughing when he saw Meng Yamei, who was making a face at her, split her mouth and was missing a front tooth.

   She smiled, and Meng Yamei immediately covered her mouth and glared at her.

  Jiang Liucai didn't have the heart to fight with her, and he didn't have the heart to pay attention to Kong Mei who gritted her teeth at her. She looked at the female family members in the house.

   In addition to the Meng family and the Confucius family, there are six or seven people she doesn't know. Jiang Liu listened quietly for a while before he understood the identities of these people. They were the daughters of the Wang family, and there were only two foreign guests: the eldest uncle's immediate boss, the wife of Ma Peiqing, who sacrificed wine at the Imperial College, and the wife of the second uncle's friend, the Hanlin scholar Sun Shijie.

   After the guests were gathered, everyone moved to the courtyard to have tea. The spring and the sun are warm, the peaches and plums are vying for their fragrance, and the eagles are melodious. Sitting in the yard and drinking tea is also a kind of enjoyment. The girls at the three tables were chatting, and the adults at the two tables above were also laughing and laughing.

   "...You Ying, this child, was preparing for it years ago." Kong's loud voice sounded, and it was time for the girls from various prefectures to present birthday gifts and show their talents. Everyone calmed down and looked at Wang Youying.

  Jiang Liu's excited little heart was pounding, and it was finally about to start!

   (end of this chapter)