Chapter 92: Anti-thief banquet
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The sky cleared up after the snow.
It's suitable for making tea.
It's an elegant thing.
Although the Jiang Mansion is not as spacious as the mansions in Beijing, it has a wide range of activities.
The original layout should have three rooms, the main room for the old lady, one room for the eldest son Jiang Huaisheng, and one room for the second son Jiang Changtian.
Whether they got married or not, the house should have been reserved.
But the current layout is that Jiang Huaisheng has one room and the old lady has the main room.
The rest of the space is the old lady's Buddhist hall, tea room, study, reception room, and martial arts training ground. It is very spacious to live in.
The weather is very good today.
Jiang Wan is making tea and watching the snow in the tea room.
When old lady Jiang was young, she was also a first-class elegant person.
After many years, things have changed.
In a foreign land, tasting tea again has many new tastes.
The water in Ming County is relatively hard.
The brewed tea has a sharp aroma, but if the temperature is not well controlled, it will easily become bland.
Drinking tea on a snowy day has a different kind of elegance.
Old Madam Jiang, wearing a gorgeous gown, with a pearl headband, holding a small celadon cup in her hand, drinks tea with an elegant posture.
Although it is snowing,
the tea room is open for viewing the snow.
But it is not cold.
The best frost charcoal is warmed in the copper stove. There is no smoke, but it makes people feel warm.
Jiang Wan, wearing a white light fur robe, sits upright on a chair, with her wrist slightly suspended, brewing tea.
Snow is white, the clothes are white, and the person is white.
The warm robe embraces the white and slender neck, which has a different kind of beauty.
There are one or two guards standing at the gate of the yard, and you can also see the figure sitting in the tea room brewing tea.
The guard took a quick glance and didn't dare to look any further, his eyes refocused on the tree in front.
Jiang Wan took a sip of the tea she brewed.
It was slightly bitter, but after taking a sip, there was a light aftertaste, and the fragrance was very strong, which was most suitable for drinking on a snowy day.
This is the best tea sent by her aunt.
Light snow, pearl charcoal, tea, girl, lady.
A prosperous scene in the world.
Suddenly, the housekeeper stumbled in:
"Oh no, oh no, the rebels have entered the city."
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The rebels moved very quickly, occupying the county government and commanding the county city.
All important positions have been replaced by new faces.
The soldiers at the city gates have been replaced.
And a restaurant has been booked.
To entertain guests.
All the prominent, powerful and wealthy families in the city have received invitations.
It is inevitable to be frightened and complain.
But sending an invitation is better than sending a knife directly.
They couldn't help but curse the county government as a waste, and let people in with the door open.
The invitation asked for the wife and daughter to attend, and they all felt that the rebels were ignorant. How could a noble lady go to such a noisy place.
If there is a banquet, it should be invited separately.
The Jiang family also received the invitation.
Because when the invitation was delivered, Mrs. Jiang was also there. When she heard that they were invited to dinner and her wife and daughter were to go, she was pregnant, her face was pale, and she covered her stomach. She was almost sick.
Jiang Huaisheng's face was serious. His life was really too rough.
His sister wrote to persuade them to go to the capital, but because his wife was pregnant, they delayed it. They didn't expect that they would encounter the rebels breaking into the city now.
The old lady was also a little depressed. She was sipping tea in the morning, and suddenly she knew that the rebels were coming. At that time, she felt palpitations and shortness of breath. Fortunately, she had experienced many ups and downs in her life, so she could barely keep calm.
Jiang Wan was the most calm when she got the news.
"Misfortunes often bring blessings. Didn't aunt tell us to wait and see? Since the bandits have sent the invitation, it means they are not the kind of people who would kill innocent people. We should just go to the banquet."
Jiang Rong thought of the bandits who killed people in front of him, and he shouted loudly: "I won't go, I won't go. The bandits are bandits, I won't go."
The grandson was making a fuss.
The daughter-in-law was pale and staggering.
Mrs. Jiang picked up the walking stick next to her and hit Jiang Rong with it.
"Ah!" Jiang Rong screamed.
He didn't expect that his grandmother, who always loved him, would actually hit him.
"Shut up, Huaisheng and Wan'er will go with me tonight."
Madam Jiang leaned on her crutches and went back to her room with the help of Yaogu.
When she returned to her room, Madam Jiang's aura disappeared and she lay lazily on the couch.
Yaogu squatted down and massaged her knees.
"Madam, your leg disease has recurring."
Madam Jiang closed her eyes and nodded tiredly.
"Wan'er has long persuaded me to come to Beijing. I should listen to her. Even if that little beast is torturing here, I am worried. I didn't expect that I would be in this situation now. My noble wife is also going to attend the banquet of the rebels."
Yaogu's hand was even lighter. After a while, he comforted: "These rebels don't seem to be simple bandits. The eldest young master said that they behave like aristocratic families, so they will be fine. But over there, the rebels are targeting aristocratic families, and they are not polite to those untouchables, and they will use knives."
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At noon, Mianmian and her parents had dinner together at home.
When my brother led the villagers to train, he would eat a big pot of rice with the villagers.
My sister's best friend is getting married tomorrow, so we started having dinner today.
Grandma cooked a pot of noodles.
The soup base is wild vegetable broth and the noodles are kneaded by hand.
Eating a bowl of hot noodle soup with a handful of wild onions on a snowy day in the cold winter is so delicious that it makes your nose runny.
Jiang Mianmian also thought it was delicious.
It was just that she didn't have enough teeth, so it was a bit difficult to chew the noodles.
But as she chewed, she could smell the fragrance of the noodles, which was very good.
Jiang Mianmian worked hard to eat a small bowl, and then added another small bowl.
She should have been worried, after all, the person who came today was a thief.
But seeing that her father was about to become sworn brothers with the thief representative, Mr. Mustache, Jiang Mianmian didn't think it was a big problem.
And that thief brother~~~he was also very good-looking when he didn't talk.
Jiang Mianmian chewed another noodle with her few teeth, thinking that if her elder sister knew that they would have noodles for lunch, she would definitely regret going to the banquet, because the noodles at home were better than those outside.
A Cui Niang was just a big talker, and it was said that the food she cooked was very unpalatable.
Sure enough, her elder sister came back in the evening.
She didn't even bring leftovers with her, and usually people would pack some for banquets.
Jiang Yu said angrily: "Mother, mother, I will not get married, and my sister will not get married either. We will stay at home until we are old."
Qin Luoxia was shoveling snow, and saw that the second child's face was puffed up with anger, and asked with a smile: "What's the matter? It's fine if you don't get married, but why don't you let your sister get married?"
Jiang Yu didn't say anything, but it was obvious that she was in a bad mood, and her eyes were red.
The little girl was inexplicitly worried.
Jiang Mianmian was also curious. With her father's current status, at least no one in the village would let her sister suffer grievances.
When she was playing with her sister in her sister's room, she took out a small golden bean and said, "Guest, give it to me, sister, look."
This was a handful of small golden beans that the little mustache stuffed into her when he left. It
was confiscated by her mother, who left one for her.
"A Cui's mother told A Cui that once you get married you belong to someone else's family, and if you are beaten, you have to endure it." When Jiang Yu said this, she hugged her sister aggrievedly, and tears in her eyes fell.
Jiang Mianmian reached out to wipe her sister's tears and said, "Sister, don't be afraid. I, my father, my mother, and my brother are all very timid. Beat him."
Jiang Mianmian tried hard to speak long sentences.
The voice is coquettish and out of tune.
Jiang Yu burst into tears, and while crying, she took the gold beans from her sister's hand and put it away...
Jiang Mianmian: ...My eyes are red too.
In the evening, someone sent an invitation to Mr. Jiang to attend a dinner at Qingfeng Restaurant in the county town.
Note: You can bring your wife and children.
Jiang Changtian looked at the invitation and said to the visitor, "Dashan, it seems that Mr. Xi has already taken over Ming County. We must keep the appointment."
The guard who delivered the invitation did not leave immediately, but said respectfully, "Mr. Xi said that the road is slippery in snowy weather, so let us escort him to the banquet."
A Niang warmly invited the guard to sit down, pressed him to sit down, and handed him a bowl of thick hot noodle soup.
"It's cold, drink something hot before leaving. It's a good time for us to clean up."
The guard delivered many invitations and was treated with cold eyes and curses along the way.
Only at Mr. Jiang's place did he encounter a bowl of hot soup.
The snow in the yard was shoveled clean, and there was still snow hanging on the trees outside the yard. There were
several broken pottery jars under the eaves, and the small wild onions in the pottery jars were green.
After a bowl of soup, he felt a little warm.
The guard heard a little girl in the next room shouting, "Mother, I don't have any new clothes to wear."
He couldn't help but smile. He thought, when the master captures another city, he will go back to pick up his wife and daughter.
Buy new clothes for his daughter.
This winter is really cold, and this bowl of soup is really hot.
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