The vermilion door opened, with red couplets on both sides. A pair of majestic stone lions stood at the doorway down the steps, with red ribbons hanging on them, adding to the festive atmosphere. Red longevity characters were posted everywhere in the mansion. Today, there was a wedding in the mansion, and the servants in the mansion all changed into new clothes, with happy faces, and were busy going in and out.

Shen Zhengyang brought the housekeepers and servants in the mansion to greet guests at the door, smiling and doing a good job.

The housekeeper had worked in the Shen family for half his life, and was familiar with everything inside and outside the mansion. He knew all the wealthy merchants and gentry in Nanyang. The old lady specially assigned him to the side of the young master to remind him from time to time.

"Mr. Zhou's presence is truly a great honor to the Shen Mansion. Mr. Zhou, please come in, please come in." Seeing Mr. Zhou getting off the carriage, Young Master Shen said with a bow and a gesture of invitation.

"Young Master Shen, you are too polite. It is my honor to be able to come to the Shen Mansion." Mr. Zhou said with a bow.

With a wave of his hand, the servants following behind him lifted the gift in their hands, and Mr. Zhou also went into the mansion.

The ancestors of the Shen family were businessmen for generations. When the Shen family was at its most glorious, it was the richest in Nanyang, with a huge fortune. However, in the recent generations of the Shen family, the head of the family died young, leaving behind a house full of old and young people. The Shen family's property was gradually occupied by others and showed a trend of decline. Unexpectedly, this generation of the Shen family produced a nobleman, and became a wealthy family in Nanyang.

Since ancient times, merchants in Feng Dynasty had no status to speak of. Today, the Shen family is not an ordinary wealthy family. Even the governor of Nanyang has to curry favor with the Shen family. However, the Shen family has always been low-key. It is not easy to enter the gate of the Shen Mansion under normal circumstances, let alone ordinary people who want to curry favor with them.

Today is the old lady's birthday, and she invited everyone to the Shen family. Only those who received the invitation had the opportunity to enter the Shen family. Taking this opportunity, the invited families took the opportunity to present a generous gift, hoping that the Shen family could say a good word for them in front of the noble lord, and maybe they could get the noble lord's favor, and their fate would be very different from then on.

A carriage came and stopped in front of the Shen Mansion. The curtain was lifted, and Cao Xiangnan came out first, reaching out to take the person down, holding Lele in the arms of the evening breeze. They only brought Lele here, and the rest of the children were left upstairs. There were Wei Qi, Wei Lin and the Liu brothers looking after the children, so they were relieved.

Shopkeeper Fang got off the carriage at the back. He had received an invitation from Young Master Shen, which gave him the opportunity to enter the Shen family.

Seeing Shopkeeper Fang coming, Shen Zhengyang greeted him.

"Xiangnan, Wanfeng, you are here. I thought you were not coming today." Shen Zhengyang saw Cao Xiangnan and Qi Wanfeng coming together. He walked over with a smile. The smile on his face was very different from the smile he had when he greeted guests just now. He was really happy to see Cao Xiangnan coming. He

had been welcoming guests outside for a long time today, and his face was almost stiff from smiling.

"If you invite me, I must come. There is no reason not to come." Cao Xiangnan replied.

They came after coaxing Xiaobaoer to sleep, so they were delayed for a while.

Seeing Lele looking at him with round eyes, Shen Zhengyang reached out and touched the fat boy, who glared at him. "Why didn't you bring An'an and Xiaobaoer with you?" Shen Zhengyang asked when he didn't see the other children coming.

"Xiaobaoer has gone to bed, and An'an and the others are too hardy, so it's better to leave them upstairs." There were too many children for the wives to take care of, and Mrs. Shen's birthday was different from other occasions, so Cao Xiangnan didn't dare to bring all the children.

The housekeeper followed their young master and saw that he was so happy about Mr. Cao's arrival. Naturally, he knew that their young master and Mr. Cao had a very good relationship, and it was rare for their young master to have a close friend.

He had investigated the origins of this young master Cao under the order of the old lady, and found out that he was just a country boy. However, even this country boy should not be underestimated. Even a shrewd person like Fang treated this boy with courtesy, and he, the housekeeper of the Shen Mansion, did not dare to underestimate this boy.

Later, he saw that the things in this boy's hand were more novel than the other, and they were similar to the store opened by their young master in Nanyang. Even he could not help but buy a novel little car for his grandson, and his grandson loved it very much.

When the old housekeeper saw the boy holding the child beside Master Cao, he knew that this was Master Cao's daughter-in-law and child. He looked at the fat boy of another family with envy and said with a smile, "This child is really good."

He didn't know when their young master would have a little young master, and he was waiting to take care of the little young master for their young master. It's a pity that there are several young servants and concubines in the house, but no one is willing to give birth to a fat boy, which makes him very worried. Qi Wanfeng smiled and nodded to the old housekeeper, and Lele smiled at the old man who praised him.

"Let's go inside." Shen Zhengyang said to the housekeeper, and led the group of people into the mansion.

There was a stage in the Shen residence where a play was being performed. The play was the scene where Sun Wukong caused chaos in the Heavenly Palace.

A play of Journey to the West was told by the storyteller in Yipinzhai, and spread from one person to another, and spread to the market, and then was made into a play and performed on the stage. Today was the birthday of Old Lady Shen, and such a play was performed for her.

The guests who came were all in this courtyard to listen to the play. Everyone never got tired of listening to Journey to the West, and the song was chosen right today. "This monkey." Old Lady Shen also loved listening to stories in Yipinzhai on weekdays, and her favorite was Journey to the West. She and the guests sitting next to her were pointing out the play on the stage, and she saw that he also liked it very much.

Shen Zhengyang led Cao Xiangnan and his group over, walked straight to his grandma, bowed and respectfully called "Grandma." "Yang'er, come, sit here, Grandma." When Old Lady Shen saw Sun'er coming, she knew that he must be exhausted from being outside today, and she felt very distressed. When she saw Sun'er coming in, she asked him to sit down, thinking that he could take a rest.

Shen Zhengyang did not sit down immediately. He said something in front of the old lady, and the old lady looked in the direction where Sun'er pointed.

Cao Xiangnan took a look at what was being performed on the stage, and then he realized that it was a performance of "Journey to the West". He didn't know that his "Journey to the West" had already spread all over the country and was adapted into a drama and put on the stage.

Most of the people who can sit in this courtyard today are the wealthy merchants and nobles of Nanyang. Even the governor came in person to celebrate the old lady's birthday. Young Master Shen personally brought people in, and some people present noticed it. Now that Old Lady Shen looked at them, everyone followed her gaze and saw a few people standing by.

Who are they? Someone asked.

The people sitting together whispered to each other, asking who the people Young Master Shen brought in were, but in the end no one knew them.

Seeing that Manager Fang was standing with that boy, they naturally knew Manager Fang. There were few people in Nanyang City who didn't know Manager Fang.

In the eyes of these people, Shopkeeper Fang was just a servant. They greeted Shopkeeper Fang with a smile on their faces, but in fact they didn't think much of him. They didn't expect that even Shopkeeper Fang was invited to Mrs. Shen's birthday.

Some of the servants who were serving beside them remembered the boy they had seen in Yipinzhai, but no one knew who this unfamiliar boy was who could enter the Shen Mansion to attend Old Madam Shen's birthday.

"Xiangnan, Wanfeng, Manager Fang, come on, my maternity asked you to go over there and sit down." Shen Zhengyang came over from his maternity. There were a few empty seats there, so it was just right for him to take Xiangnan and Wanfeng to sit over there.

Before Cao Xiangnan left, he subconsciously scooped up the people around him with his hands and took Wanfeng with him.

When he saw Old Madam Shen, he bowed respectfully and congratulated her, "I wish you good fortune as vast as the East Sea and longevity as long as the Southern Mountains."

Qi Wanfeng and Manager Fang also followed suit and said words of congratulations.

"Okay, okay." Old Madam Shen was in a particularly good mood today. After learning from her grandson that Journey to the West was written by Cao Xiangnan, she had a completely new respect for Cao Xiangnan.

Two servants carried a palace lamp and placed it in front of the old lady. Shen Zhengyang motioned the little servant who followed him to go over and demonstrate the lamp to his grandmother. Bai Zhi understood, came forward to pay her respects to the old lady, and introduced the magic of such a lamp to the old lady.

It turned out that the outside of the lamp was connected to a shaft. When the shaft was turned, the lamp would turn, and the paintings on the four walls would shake along with it, slowly and vividly. After the shaft turned for a while, a lamp lit up inside.

As soon as Bai Zhi stopped, the light inside went out. As

soon as the lamp was put out, everyone in the room focused their attention on it, looking at this magical thing. The pictures and people on the lamp looked just like the real people, and the light inside flashed for a moment and then turned on. How come everyone was very curious.

"How is this done?" The old lady asked with surprise when she saw the lamp.

"Grandma, this lamp is like this." Shen Zhengyang explained the lamp to his grandma. These were all things Xiangnan had told him, and the drawings were given by Xiangnan, and his craftsmen made it. As

soon as Young Master Shen explained, everyone in the room naturally heard it, and immediately understood what was going on, but how could the light inside turn on just by turning it? Don't you need to pour lamp oil in it? Thinking about the store opened by Young Master Shen, are there any novelties in it? They were not surprised, but they were still very curious about the birthday gift for the old lady.

"Grandma, this is the red wine Xiangnan brought you. Do you want to try it?" Shen Zhengyang grinned, revealing a good mouthful of teeth.

He now knows a lot from Xiangnan that is different from his previous business, and he doesn't feel guilty at all for letting everyone see these good things on his grandma's birthday.

Old Madam Shen understood, looked at his grandson for a second longer, and motioned for him to open it and show him. The waiter understood what was going on, picked up the bottle, opened the lid, and a mellow aroma came out. The ladies who were close could smell it.

Good wine!

"Pour a glass for everyone." The old lady waved her hand and said.

The longer the wine is brewed, the mellower it tastes. Even before you put it in your mouth, you can smell it.

Take a sip, it's delicious, good!