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It's approaching evening.

The men of the two houses, as well as the close relatives of each house, were all here, and there was a bustling crowd around four or five tables.

Among those prominent figures, the only one missing was the great master Jia She.

Because in the first month of the first lunar month, his practice of performing rituals for a beautiful maid has already reached Jia Mu’s ears. Yesterday, the old lady ordered someone to tell him, but he said that he had caught a cold and was afraid that he would be sick if he got over it.

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Since the old lady is hosting a banquet today, he will naturally not come over to cause trouble.

Precisely because he was not present, the younger generation couldn't help but talk about the 'Canton Fair' and the loyal prince who hosted this ridiculous party.

This King Zhongshun is the younger brother of the Supreme Emperor. When the Supreme Emperor was in power, he was quite cautious in his words and deeds.

But ever since the Supreme Emperor was unable to govern due to an eye disease and gave Jin the throne in advance, King Zhongshun gradually became arrogant and domineering. Previously, in order to compete with King Shuirong of Beijing for an actor, he even destroyed two properties of the Beijing Palace.

Now he is in the limelight and has become the most troubled person in the capital.

However, according to Jiao Shun's recent knowledge, what King Zhongshun did was probably more for 'self-protection'.

Previously, the emperor intensified the conflict with the civil service group in order to promote himself as a craftsman official. There were rumors among the people that the new emperor was unprincipled and that the Supreme Emperor wanted to abolish his son and establish a younger brother for the sake of the Jianghan Dynasty. Not long after, King Zhongshun and Beijing

Wang fought hard and then organized a 'Canton Fair', which completely confirmed the reputation of the absurd prince.

While they were laughing and making noise, a boy reported that the second master had arrived accompanied by the ancestor.

Jiao Shun hurriedly followed the crowd and walked out of the big flower hall.

Not long after, Youshi, Li Wan, Wang Xifeng and others also arrived at the door to greet him.

During this period, Jiao Shun glanced secretly, but he met Ping'er's gaze. Their eyes met. Ping'er seemed to be burned. He lowered his head in a hurry, holding a mandarin duck brocade handkerchief in his hands.

The white palms were covered with sweat.

At this time, Youshi also quietly met Jiao Shun's aggressive gaze. She didn't know that it was directed at Ping'er. She just thought that this enemy was thinking about having fun with her again, and she couldn't help but squeeze her hands tightly.

Legs, full of excitement.

Unexpectedly, Li Wan suddenly moved half a step back, blocking Youshi's view.

Youshi was stunned for a moment, then moved to look at Li Wan's face, but saw that she looked calm as if nothing had happened.

You couldn't help but secretly pouted, knowing that Li Wan still wanted to break up this bad relationship, but he was increasingly looking forward to what she would look like after being dragged into the water by him.

At this time, the old lady's companion finally arrived, and everyone hurriedly came forward to greet her.

"The old lady is so easy to be a host!"

At this time, the routine showed its charm again, and she covered her cherry and joked: "Everything is ready-made in the place. You will not come until everything is ready. It only makes Mrs. Zhen busy with her work."

Mother Jia laughed loudly: "Isn't this an advantage for you? Brother Lao Zhen has a daughter-in-law. I'll treat you to a meal at home alone in two days, and we can make up for this."

Mrs. You said she didn't dare, and at Jia Mu's signal, she stepped forward and Mrs. Wang helped the old lady get out of the sedan chair, and entered the big flower hall happily.

During this time, the old lady greeted everyone and made fun of others, but left Mr. Xing alone in the cold, which made her very embarrassed.

They were seated in equal parts, and as usual, the male guests and female guests were separated by gauze.

Not long after, the prepared drama officially kicked off.

The first person to appear was a famous actor who sang Xiaodan. He had a really good voice, but his steps were a little staggered for some reason.

Jiao Shun had never been interested in these things, so he took Xue Pan to talk about the timber business.

Xue Datou was not interested in this at first, but when he heard that he was going to do business in partnership with the heroes of the Southern Expedition, he suddenly became interested and eager to meet the heroes who were famous outside the region.

"If this can be facilitated, I'm afraid they will still be grateful to you, Brother Xue." Jiao Shun knew that he liked to make friends with these fighting men the most, so he deliberately spoke in a military tone, raised his thumb and said: "Mr. Xue, benevolent and righteous!

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Xue Pan was so coaxed that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear and urged Jiao Shun to hurry up.

After initially reaching a cooperation agreement with this stupid overlord, Jiao spent all his energy on eating and drinking, preparing to be energetic enough for the private meeting in the evening.

Seeing that the time was almost up, he took the initiative to toast the others a few more times, then pretended that he was too drunk and wanted to go outside to have a drink.

Xue Pan was afraid that he would be so drunk that he would end up in the snow, so he kindly wanted to accompany him, but he stopped him after he persuaded him.

Don't tell me, this wine really has some staying power.

Jiao Shun originally pretended to be drunk, but when he was hit by the northwest wind when he went out, he was actually a little drunk.

He was worried that he would miss the real thing, so he quickly grabbed the snow on the bushes, wiped it on his face randomly, then looked for the necessary heating things from Xiangling, and quietly rushed to the cave to set up.

at the same time.

The second table of women's families was really busy.

But it was Wang Xifeng who 'remembered' Li Wan's previous jokes and tried all kinds of tricks to get Li Wan to drink.

At first, as a landlord, You stepped in to stop it, but then an idea suddenly came to his mind, and he immediately changed his position and became Wang Xifeng's accomplice.

Although Li Wan has an idea, how can he defeat the two of her joining forces?

Not long after, he fell into a drunken stupor.

Youshi was waiting for this to happen, so she ordered Suyun and Yindie to help her to the guest courtyard to rest, and then found an excuse to send Suyun back to take care of Jialan.

But she said that Li Wan was lying in the room in a daze and felt her stomach churning. She managed to get up from the bed and staggered to the door. She was about to call Suyun to bring the spittoon, but she heard Youshi and Yin hazy.

Die made a plan and said that he would invite Jiao Shun to come over and cook the raw rice into cooked rice while he was drunk!

Li Wan was so excited that he finally woke up.

Only then did she understand why Youshi had been preaching about the love between men and women in her ears all day long.

At that moment, she gritted her silver teeth so hard that she wanted to go out through the curtain to expose Youshi's dirty thoughts, but she was worried that the two masters and servants would take risks and forced herself to submit.

It happened that at this moment, someone came over to report that there was something wrong in the big flower hall, and asked You to go over and deal with it quickly.

Li Wan's heart moved and he hurriedly lay back on the bed and pretended to be asleep.

Not long after, Youshi and Yindie came in to visit. Seeing that she was drunk and unconscious, they decided to go and take care of the housework first, and then come back to take care of her.

So he ordered a little maid to hold the door, and the master and servant hurried away.

As soon as they walked away, Li Wan fell to the ground and rushed out of the courtyard without caring.

After all, she was very drunk, and even though she managed to cheer herself up temporarily, she still staggered and almost fell down after crossing the threshold.

"Grandma, be careful!"

The little maid guarding the door hurriedly stepped forward to help her and advised, "Just rest inside. Our grandma and second grandma will take care of you over there."

Li Wan didn't know whether the little maid knew this, so he gritted his teeth and pushed her away with all his strength, not trusting others. While stumbling forward, he scolded: "You, don't follow me! I'll go back to the big house by myself."

That’s the flower hall! If you come again, I, I will be annoyed!"

The little maid followed Li Wan for a few steps, but after seeing Li Wan's gnashing of teeth, she didn't dare to approach her again, and retreated to the entrance of the courtyard.

Li Wan threw the little maid away. He was confused and didn't know whether to go north or south. He only wanted to get away from here. He headed forward in the night wind, and his consciousness of one foot being deep and one foot shallow gradually became blurry.

I don’t know how far I have gone.

She was in a trance, as if in a dream, when she suddenly noticed a familiar silhouette standing in a dark hole not far ahead.

Li Wan tried hard to identify it, and then he suddenly remembered that the rockery next to Lixiangyuan was where Jiao Shun and Youshi had their wild union, and it was a scene that often appeared in his dreams.

Every time I come here in my dream, a man will come out of the darkness. Most of the time, he bears the face of his late husband Jia Zhu, but occasionally...

"Good sister, you are finally here!"

Just as I was thinking of this, someone came out of the cave and I couldn't help but come up to hug him.

Why did you dream about Jiao Shun again this time?

Li Wan was a little shy, but he had no intention of struggling. Instead, he leaned on Jiao Shun's chest and allowed him to half-drag and half-carry him into the cave - it was a dream after all, so what was the use of struggling?

It's just that this time the dream is more real.

When I turned into the depths of the cave, I was stung in the eyes by charcoal fire.

Li Wan subconsciously raised his sleeves to cover his face. Jiao Shun happened to look back and couldn't help but smile when he saw this scene: "Good sister, why are you so shy now?"

After saying that, he untied his cloak, spread it on the furoshiki that had been prepared earlier, and wrapped the familiar person in it.

But Li Wan just thought it was in a dream, and there were several "precedents" there, but he was actually at his mercy...

During this period, Jiao Shun also vaguely realized that something was wrong. However, he was already quite tipsy, and the cave was not bright, not to mention the warm and fragrant soft jade, so how could he have time to think about other things?

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I dare not say more about it.

However, Ping'er thought about it carefully and finally couldn't bear to let Jiao Shunkong wait all night.

So he also excused himself from feeling unwell, asked Wang Xifeng for leave, and quietly left the flower hall.

She lit a lantern and went to the other courtyard to avoid the eyes and ears, and then followed the inner wall to find the Lixiang courtyard.

Seeing the rockery right in front of you, your steps are as slow as one step at a time.
To be continued...