When the table was set, the side dishes were exquisitely prepared, with several kinds of pastries, a few kinds of fresh fruits, and a bowl of stewed bird's nest.
Si Fujin looked at An Xin and took his sisters-in-law out.
Aunt Yun sent it out in person, and came back and said to Fucha: "Sibeile's Mansion is to the east. Sibeile and Ba Ye were also raised together in Jingren Palace from childhood. They have the deepest friendship. Fujin will know it later. …”
Mrs. Fucha looked puzzled and said, "But isn't the Eighth Master raised in the name of Concubine Hui?"
"That happened after Empress Tong passed away. The Emperor was kind and pointed out Empress Yanxi Palace to be the adoptive mother of the Eighth Master. However, the Eighth Master was already old at that time and could not continue to live in the inner court. The renovation of the Fifth Ganxi Palace happened to be completed. I just moved the palace to my elder brother's house and never lived in Yanxi Palace..."
Grandma Yun said.
Mrs. Fucha listened carefully, took it to heart, and then said: "I also heard that the eighth master had a good relationship with the ninth elder brother and the tenth elder brother before..."
Grandma Yun did not answer immediately. She thought about it and said, "It was true earlier. The elder brothers are of similar age and live next to each other in the elder brother's house. They are the closest to each other. They are no different from the brothers. It's just that After the eighth master and the ninth master got married last year, there were less people walking around..."
Mrs. Fucha glanced at Granny Yun.
Grandma Yun didn't mean to elaborate.
She is also an old lady who has been serving in the palace for more than ten years, so she naturally knows the rules.
You can say whatever you want in private, but publicly you cannot say anything bad about the master, otherwise it will be a fault...
Mrs. Fucha didn't want to talk endlessly, so she picked up the bird's nest.
When she saw clearly what was in the bowl, she had doubts in her eyes, and she looked at Aunt Yun and said, "Mommy, this bird's nest..."
Wealthy people all know that bird's nests are nourishing.
Fu Cha's family also had a comfortable life. Although she was a concubine, she was raised by her aunt's mother and was supported like other sisters since she was a child.
Aunt Yun looked ashamed as she said: "This year, the government has not been very financially prosperous. At the beginning of the year, the emperor divided the property, but he lost a few things over time..."
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In the inner courtyard, the banquets have been laid out.
The ladies took their seats.
The other female relatives were just going through the motions, but Shi Fujin was really looking forward to eating.
She is a "hot pot lover" and rarely has the opportunity to eat out, so she is looking forward to today's wedding banquet.
When it was time to eat, Shi Fujin was disappointed and his interest dropped a lot.
The other female relatives looked at each other with strange expressions.
Leaders like Shu Shu and Si Fujin, who have clear accounts in their minds, will know at a glance where the problem lies.
The banquet surface is the "swallow's wing banquet" that is popular in the capital, and it looks decent, but the bird's nests are made from crushed bird's nests, and the shark's fins are also made from loose wings.
Sifujin held back his expression so that his expression did not change.
When Shu Shu saw it, she didn't touch these two dishes.
The ingredients for the main course were lacking, and other ingredients were also a bit mediocre.
It looks like the face is shiny.
There are many plates, many bowls, and the quantity is huge.
But Prince Fujin is used to being pampered, so no one can see the shortcomings here.
The dissatisfaction of the sisters-in-law of Anjun Prince Fujin was clearly visible on their faces. Prince Yu Fujin and Prince Gong Fujin didn't say anything, but they didn't move their chopsticks very much. They just drank from a bowl of sweet soup.
The female family members were reserved, and no one said anything even if they saw that the table was inappropriate, but the male guests in front became lively...
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"Is this bird's nest or mouthwash? Is it disgusting?"
A prince in his forties took a bite of bird's nest and was disgusted.
The ninth elder brother and the tenth elder brother happened to be at this table.
Brother Ten looked at the stranger and whispered: "Brother Ninth, who is this?"
It's definitely not Prince Heshuo and Prince Duoluo. There are countless princes in the clan, and all ten princes know them.
At such an old age, you can't say that you are "childlike", right?
But this is too casual.
There are so many people here and no one else has spoken yet. Is it his turn to be disgusted?
Brother Jiu whispered: "The Duke of Zhenguo Tunzhu..."
Brother Ten understood in his heart.
He can't deal with anyone, but he knows his name.
This one is the great-grandson of Prince Rao Yu, but he is not from the line of Prince An, but a descendant of another Wenliang Beizi family.
Although he is so old, he is the cousin of Prince An and the brother of all the princes in terms of seniority.
This attack is somewhat of a borrowed form.
After all, today's card is not much different from marrying his direct wife Fujin.
It's hard to say anything to the uncles and father-in-laws in Prince An's palace. They are probably all disgusted.
Tunzhu, the cousin of Ba Fujin, came out to fight against injustice.
Before the change, Brother Jiu would definitely have retorted, but now he no longer has that interest.
He thought of Yaqib.
This old boy is really willing to die.
I have handed the evidence of his corruption to the fourth brother for several days, but the fourth brother has not touched it.
This is understandable.
Slowing things down will make things easier, and those who treat others as slaves are likely to be inhumane inside and out.
But today, there was no one else but Yaqib's handiwork at this table.
This is how greed is raised.
In the past, maybe it was just three melons and two dates, and I was greedy in places where others could not see. But after I got used to it, I felt that I was losing money if I was not greedy, and I dared to do anything.
After Tunzhu picked at the bird's nest, she went to pick at the shark's fin and sneered: "This deserves to be called shark's fin, the fans are more uniform than this!"
No one refuted, but no one supported it either.
Everyone looked at their bowls and chopsticks and wished they didn't have ears.
Tunzhu didn't know whether he was really drunk or pretending to be drunk. Maybe he didn't feel the excitement, so he looked at the ninth elder brother and the tenth elder brother, raised his eyelids, and said: "Why don't you two speak? Could it be that what I said is wrong?
Or is this the kind of shark fin that the palace only eats?"
Brother Jiu's face suddenly darkened and he said: "You also know that you are two masters in front of you, not a grandson? Why, if you want to know what kind of shark fin is in the palace, this is easy. You and I can go directly to Changchun Garden.
Wouldn't it be faster to go to Khan Ama and ask him whether the shark fins he eats are whole or half-finned?"
Tunzhu's face turned red and he said, "That's not what I meant..."
"That's not what you mean, why don't you shut up! Even a three-year-old child knows that 'eating doesn't mean talking'. Are you bothered by your endless blabbering?" Brother Ninth said unceremoniously.
Tunzhu was annoyed when he was told that he could not come to the stage, and said: "The table is bad, why don't you want to talk about it?"
The ninth elder brother still wanted to speak, but was stopped by the tenth elder brother.
Brother Ten looked at Tunzhu and said, "You are a guest, and we are guests too. You have nothing to say to us..."
With that said, he raised his voice and called out: "Myna, myna, come here..."
The eighth elder brother was being accompanied by the eldest elder brother and the fourth elder brother, and they were toasting from table to table.
Just after paying respects to the first and second seats, a few people came over when they heard the noise.
The eldest brother smiled and said: "Old Shi wants to drink, can't he wait any longer?"
The tenth elder brother pointed at Tunzhu and said: "The Duke of Zhenguo has an opinion about today's banquet and wants to talk to the eighth brother..."
Several people looked at Tunzhu.
The ninth elder brother and the tenth elder brother were young and had not left the palace before, so they did not know much about Tunzhu.
The eldest brother and the others knew about this Tunzhu.
Although he is only the Duke of Zhenguo, the number of subordinates in his name is the same as that of Beizi.
Because his grandfather's title belonged to Beizi, his father's title also belonged to Beizi, and in his generation, he and his two brothers were both Dukes of the country, and each of them received half of the title.
Last year, the emperor dismissed several clan members, including his younger brother.
According to the practice of the Eight Banners, his younger brother's prince was dismissed, but the leader could not be returned to someone else, but had to be returned to the original owner.
It was still led by Tunzhu.
Therefore, Tunzhu is also a worthy lord of Zhenglan Banner.
Tunzhu looked stiff.
The room fell silent.
The eighth prince smiled and said, "Brother, what do you want to give me?"
Tunzhu waved his hand and said: "Nothing, nothing. I ate too much wine and chatted a few words..."
Brother Jiu rolled his eyes, disdainful of this coward who dared to do something but dared not act.
The tenth prince shut up and had no intention of beating the drowned dog. In that case, it would not be Tunzhu who would be embarrassed, but the eighth prince.
It happened to be our turn to toast, so the eighth prince raised his glass, and the banquet table became lively again.
Brother Ninth was in a low mood.
He also saw what hypocrisy was.
Just now when Tunzhu was picking on the banquet, no one spoke for Brother Ba.
Now they are all close relatives of flesh and blood.
He couldn't stand it, so he took a moment, pulled Fourth Brother out, and whispered: "Fourth Brother, the banquet is made of inferior shark's fins and bird's nests, how come you didn't notice?"
Fourth Brother's face showed surprise: "Why are good bird's nests and shark's fins inferior?"
Brother Jiu sneered: "I really guessed it. The bird's nests and shark fins of the first and second seats are normal..."
The first and second seats were occupied by the elders of the clan, guests seeing off their relatives, and the eldest elder brother and fourth elder brother who were accompanying the guests.
Brother Si's face turned dark and he said, "How bad is it?"
Brother Jiu said: "The bird's nest is broken into pieces and looks like mouthwash; the shark's fin is also loose and the color is blue-grey. Anyway, my brother doesn't dare to taste it..."
Brother Si was so angry that he gritted his teeth and said, "Is this what Tunzhu was complaining about just now?"
Brother Jiu nodded and said: "He kept talking about it, and finally he talked to me and Lao Shi, and his words were disrespectful, so Lao Shi called someone over..."
Brother Si's face was ashen, he was embarrassed in front of his clan members.
How much can we save on dozens of tables with these bird's nests and shark's fins?
Dozens of taels of silver are enough to last, but this is so embarrassing.
"Okay, I understand..."
Fourth elder brother said.
As for Yaqib's family, he originally thought about taking care of it slowly.
But, this is the disaster...
Brother Jiu filed a complaint and dropped the matter.
But when he returned to the garden, he still talked to Shu Shu and said, "I found out. It's terrible that this slave didn't handle me properly. He made the master look like a fool..."
Shu Shu remembered the embarrassment at the table and said, "Not many people used chopsticks. It's so embarrassing..."
Brother Ninth Brother said: "It's not like I've been around for a year and a half. I've been around for more than ten years, and Brother Ba is still not aware of it?"
Shu Shu shook his head and said: "I may not know anything about it. I guess I was thinking about 'when the water is clear, there will be no fish'. I thought it was the small head that was greedy, but I didn't know that the appetite was fed little by little..."
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After five days, I still have a low fever, I feel weak, and want to cry. I come here first, hoping that I will feel better tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
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