The moon comes to take pictures

It was a small victory for the Nanjing Ministry of War to retire from Japan, and a celebration banquet had to be held, and the banquet was opened just after the Yamen was settled.Chang Xi was the host, setting up a running water table filled with hot and cold meat and vegetables, and opened a cellar of fine wine for decades, creating a grand scene in his own garden.

All the officials, big and small, arrived in the yamen, with a total of more than a dozen tables. There were at least a hundred people in each department hall, together with those officials who could be named.There is also a table at the Jiangnan Company, which is occupied by people from the Songjiang Chamber of Commerce who rushed over from Hangzhou.

In the first month of the lunar year, Nanjing hadn't even started winter yet. Xie Yan warmed his hands with warm wine, and heard the people around him whispering: "After eating so many dinners, this meal is the most magnificent. It really is the guardian of Nanjing. It's a big deal. "

They were toasting at the front, and they were talking flattering words. At the main table, there were women and male actors playing around. They were all found by Chang Xi. In the winter when all the flowers are withering, there are still these "flowers" in the garden. The pasted silk sleeve robe was swept back and forth on the table, making people's hearts feel greasy.

Halfway through drinking, I don't know what the previous halls said. Chang Xi laughed and waved his hand. The actor who was drinking at the table stood up. Play it first, the mellow and long tune slipped out from behind the curtain with a graceful figure.

"Once upon a time, there was a monk Mulian who saved his mother from going to the gate of hell..."

What a pretty little nun, dressed in paddy field clothes, walking back and forth among the guests, with her orchid fingers raised, she said sadly: "It's pitiful for Nishi to cut her hair, and she sleeps with a Zen lamp. Time passes and makes people grow old. Live up to the young and beautiful boy—”

He is still a child of undersized stature, about ten years old, petite and exquisite, a pair of embroidered shoes is exposed from time to time, and retracted like a rabbit, his eyes are the most agile, the two pupils are black and shining, what a covetous person in the world of mortals The small color space.

"Hey, come prepared." Xie Yan knocked on the table lightly, turned his head and whispered to his companion, but saw that his companion stared blankly at the fake nun with a slightly drunken blush on his cheeks.

"Hey, Shuzhou, Shuzhou?" Xie Yan bumped his elbow and called out in a low voice, "Zhang Shuzhou?"

The companion surnamed Zhang suddenly regained his senses, he couldn't hold his hand steadily, the wine in the glass spilled all over the table, and the front and waist were wet.Xie Yan snickered, took out a handkerchief and wiped it for him: "Why, listen to "Si Fan" and lose your soul?"

"This, this girl..." Zhang Shenxiu lost her mind and was really hooked away.

When Xie Yan heard it, he couldn't help laughing: "Where are you going, this is a man!"

"Ah?" Zhang Shenxiu frantically raised his head to identify it, and suddenly met the eyes of that little Sekong, causing him to stop breathing.He turned away as if running for his life, and quietly asked Xie Yan: "Your eyes are so poisonous? How did you know that?"

"You stupid... There is no Kundan in Chang Dugong's house."

"Oh... oh." Zhang Shenxiu covered her panic and straightened her clothes, she was still a handsome young master of the Zhang family.

Xie Yan took this as a joke, drank a few glasses, and suddenly said: "The thing we brought, has it been delivered?"

Zhang Shenxiu also took a look at the little nun who was throwing whisks at the table, scooped up a bowl of silver water shield soup just served on the table, couldn't tell whether it was fresh water shield or something else, and replied slowly: "We will arrive in Nanjing in the morning."

"If you think about it, it's not impossible for me to ask Chang Dugong for convenience... But I said," Xie Yan swallowed a bowl of wine to make Fuyuanzi, "this kind of thing is a bit deviant."

"Deviant?" Maybe it was about Si Fan's drama, Zhang Shenxiu gave a spoonful of water shield to eat, and savored it carefully, "If someone loves you, how can you care about being deviant."

Xie Yan was taken aback, with a complicated expression on his face: "I didn't expect that Shuzhou is still a lover..."

After the banquet lasted until midnight, each family went back drunk, and eunuchs from various ministries stayed overnight to have fun. After all, it was the eunuch's home, so the others didn't stay much.Chang Xi acted as the host, played the horse hanging all night, and left in the early morning.

At noon, the gifts from each family were long overdue.

In the inner room where the candles flickered, several flamers struggled to move an embroidered screen as tall as a person.

"Grandpa, they are all sent from the yamen below." The eunuch Qing Yisa opened several boxes, "Look first, what are you keeping?"

There are not many windows in the room, and it is very dark. Chang Xi likes this tune that can't see people clearly, and it is dedicated to having fun.

A curtain was vaguely seen separating the front and back, and behind the curtain was a Babu bed. The eunuch Qing Yesa waited for a while, and the curtain opened left and right.The first thing that caught my eye was a fair and clean young man, with rouge and cinnabar on his face, he gave him a delicate look, which made his bones shudder.

"Disappointing." The young man with his hair curled up, Shi Shiran walked out, and there was a creaking sound behind the bed curtain engraved with figures.

It was early in the morning, and there were still red waves in the bed.Qing Yesa took a look inside, but didn't see anyone, so she quickly bowed down: "Duke got up."

There was no answer from inside, and it took a long time for a lazy voice: "Show me the gift list."

Qing Yisa said: "Grand Du, I didn't accompany the gift list this time."

Chang Xi snorted: "He knows how to be a man!"

With so many curios, it's hard to guarantee that there won't be one more delicate than the one presented to the palace, and it's going to be a birthday today, whoever wants to show up at this moment is a fool.

Qing Yisa wondered again: "Grand Du, this ceremony..."

"Come on, let's take a look." Chang Xi stood up slowly, still in obscene clothes, as if he didn't take these big boxes of treasures seriously at all.When the eunuch saw him coming, he quickly got on his body, said "hold the lamp", and then sang his names one by one.

"How are you, duke?" The eunuch smiled brightly.

Chang Xi flicked the broken hair in his collar, still looking boneless and lazy: "Well, Coral and Baocui, our family is tired of looking at it, and I can't appreciate the landscape, flowers and birds."

Facing a proud eunuch, Qing Yesa carefully swallowed her saliva: "Duke, that little one will go back..."

"Wait a minute," Chang Xi suddenly interrupted him, "The embroidery screen, who gave it to you?" The big embroidery screen that Huo Zhe moved in just now was set up at some point, and Chang Xi looked at it for a while. It was a double-sided embroidery screen, one foot wide. , embroidered with stretches of green mountains and rivers, and on the other side are clusters of auspicious cloud patterns squeezing the Heavenly Palace among the clouds.

Eunuch Qing Yisa stood there, thinking for a while: "The one from the Songjiang Chamber of Commerce, thank you boss."

"Oh, it's such a big deal, it's a pity that our family is not elegant." Chang Xi leaned up to see the direction of the silk thread, the whole screen was densely flowing with brilliance, making people dizzy, he withdrew his body, and in a blink of an eye, he saw the eunuch was still by his side Waiting for a word, he ordered: "I've got the love, the stuff, pack it up and send it to Beijing. Brother Cui likes this thing."

For the rest, he picked and picked, a few calligraphy and paintings, a few corals, and rewarded them all to his subordinates. Finally, he took out a shiny silver dagger, looked at it for a while, and picked out two strands of hair, which could be broken by blowing. .

Just thinking about it, the fireman on duty outside reported that Wei Shui had arrived.

People who are often invited, don't want to come so soon.After a lot of picking and sorting in the house, the boxes were put away, the embroidered screen was wrapped in silk, and Wei Shui stepped in boldly.

Chang Xi was still dressing, and raised his eyebrows when he saw this, the eunuch who was serving him immediately understood, and sharply reprimanded: "Bold!"

"Hey," Chang Xi cut off the conversation, "What are you doing, Wei Tongzhi and our family!"

Wei Shui knew that the two of them were singing together to show off their prestige, so he cupped his hands vainly, pleaded guilty, and took his seat.As soon as he got on the chair, Chang Xi waved away the waiter, smiling, with a damp breath just getting up from the bed, and threw the silver dagger onto the small wooden table beside Wei Shui.

"It's a coincidence, I just found a treasure, can you use it?"

Wei Shui took the dagger without looking at it, and said bluntly, "Duke Gong, you know that I'm not here to ask you for a reward."