Whoever wins the crouching dragon wins the world

Chinese people pay attention to reciprocity, especially in ancient times.Since I ordered the full moon wine from the young master of the Cui family, I couldn't come to the door empty-handed, and I was worried about the gift for several days.I was so shy that I couldn't afford the longevity locks and silver bracelets that the rich often gave, and I couldn't afford the female red embroidery that was popular with the poor, so I was in a dilemma and didn't know what to do.

Ah Xiang saw that I was restless, and gave me an idea: "Why don't you go to the street and buy some snacks, melon seeds, dried fruits, candied fruit, whatever it is is good."

I was stunned: "How can I send these?" In modern times, many customs have been weakened, and many people's children are no longer a big deal.But in my impression, since the celebration is in the name of the child, it is natural to give gifts related to the newborn, such as diapers, milk powder, small clothes, small shoes, toys, etc. "Master Cui is so young, where can he eat melon seeds and dried fruits?"

"Young master can't eat it, but other people can eat it too." Ah Xiang said disapprovingly, "In a big family like the Cui family, the adult masters don't eat outside food, let alone Jin Miaomiao who just landed? You send it over there It’s just a thought, they wrote down your love, and after changing hands, they rewarded the lady’s servant. If it’s really for the young master to eat, what if it’s not clean and you get sick?”

Is that so?There are many rules in the high school. Although Zhuge's family was once brilliant, Kong Ming's lineage has been in decline. As early as the death of Kong Ming's father Zhuge Gui and uncle Zhuge Xuan, he had no spare energy to care about "rules" and "style". .The Cui family is different.Cui Zhouping's father, Cui Lie, had a solid family background. When Emperor Ling opened the Hongdu gate to sell his official titles, he spent 500 million taels of silver to buy back Situ's official position.Ah Xiang had a young lady who had the honor of serving Aunt Cui's grandma. According to her description, the Cui family is full of gold and jade, and the family style is strict. Not only the food, but also the clothes, shoes and socks, purses and other delicate things are also handled by special needleworkers. Absolutely refuse to use things of unknown origin outside.Even if other people bothered to embroider and send the embroidery, they would just stuff it in the corner and never really put it on.

In this way, on the contrary, it is true that buying some leisure fruits and sending them can make the best use of them-it is better to fill people's stomachs than to lock them in the warehouse to accumulate dust.

On the day of the full moon ceremony, the Cui family was full of traffic.Cui Zhouping had brought his eldest son Cui He to welcome the guests in front of the door, but he was still busy.Unfortunately, when I arrived, there was a high-ranking official in person, Cui Zhouping had no skills, so he could only apologize secretly, and asked one of his servants to greet me. "Then these gifts..." I have never been to a similar occasion, and when I met Cui Zhouping just now, I didn't have time to hand over the candied fruit to him. I went straight to the banquet hall.

A forty-year-old woman who looked quite mature was standing in front of the hall directing a few girls to do things. When she saw me passing by, she immediately put down the work at hand and came up to her, but her attitude was not very hospitable. Give it to me, I will report it to our wife later, thank you for my wife. Please Cao..." She probably wanted to call me Miss, but she didn't think it was right after looking at my attire. Swallowing the words, he changed his mouth and said, "Miss Cao, please go to the living room to have a rest. We have to wait a while for the banquet to begin. Please sit down for a while."

The guest is up to the owner.The boy who brought me had already retreated to the front hall, and the woman was too busy to take care of me, she just pointed to a row of round tables in the distance, and asked me to find an empty seat and sit.I felt a little resentful of being neglected, but I couldn't care about such a trivial matter, so I could only hold back my anger, and sat down at a random seat.

The Choi family looks really busy.The maids and maids around came and went, and everyone was in a hurry, but I sat for about twenty minutes and no one remembered to serve me tea. Instead, a young daughter-in-law with a woman's hair in a bun sitting opposite did it herself and ran to A teapot came from next door, and he grabbed a lot of melon seeds and stuffed them into his daughter's pocket: "Hide them quickly, don't eat them now, and eat them when we go home..." Like a thief.

It was clear that some of the Cui family's maids had seen her behavior, but they didn't step forward to stop them, they only whispered with interest, as cheerful as a joke.

Perhaps after sitting for a long time, I felt my back was stiff. Occasionally, a few gossip floated into my ears: "A countryman is just a countryman, and he can't pretend to be a Buddha if he wears gold clothes... as long as there is enough fat on these seats, These people should be grateful to Dade if they have meat to eat..." His tone was full of disdain.

It was only then that I noticed that the family members sitting around were all peddlers, and they belonged to the same class as me, the liquor seller.In the Three Kingdoms, lowly slaves are not qualified to demand respect.The ones who really deserve to be treated with courtesy by the Cui family are tall ladies like Huang Yueying and Lin Yuejie, each of them will be warmly received by the hostess, and there will never be someone like me who can’t even see Mrs. Cui Condition.

Some of the new guests offered to kowtow to Grandma Cui, but she was rudely rejected by the mother-in-law: "My wife is very busy today, how can I have time to deal with you? If you really want to, I will come back tomorrow for this matter." Once you go to the door, you have to prepare a generous gift. Just like that, it depends on whether my wife will give you a compliment..."

I feel more and more stuffy.Originally, he was expecting to see Kong Ming, so he specially put on the most decent clothes for this purpose, and now he also rested his mind.In ancient times, there was a lot of emphasis on male and female defense, and there were no seats at the age of seven. There were still three rooms between me and holding ink and serving tea, let alone Kong Ming, who was counted as the guest of honor, it was as if we were separated by thousands of mountains and rivers.

After finally getting through to the banquet, the dishes on the table were indeed full of fish and meat, as the girls said. The ingredients were rich and flavorful, without any embellishments, which was in stark contrast to the delicate snacks presented to the guests.The woman who stole the melon seeds before found out a square handkerchief from nowhere, carefully rolled a few pieces of braised pork into the handkerchief, and hurriedly stuffed it into her sleeve to hide it.Her daughter noticed the silent ridicule around her, and secretly pulled her mother's sleeve to signal her to restrain herself. The young woman frowned and stared at her with blank eyes: "What are you talking about! Your father refuses to bring your brother here, and he is still hungry at home. What! We don’t take it for nothing, those who give gifts have to earn back! The Cui family is so rich, they don’t care about such a small amount of food..."

The girl's face was flushed, her head was lowered almost to her collarbone, and she didn't raise it until the banquet was over.

I completely lost my appetite, I didn't even have a single acquaintance around, and I was almost bored for hours.The young son of the Cui family named Cui Long naturally would not come to condescend, the Cui family only sent a concubine daughter-in-law as a representative to toast a round of wine-the daughter-in-law did not know what kind of leisure, from the beginning to the end. Didn't even smile.

I can't laugh either.To tell you the truth, I feel pretty stupid. I came here to drink this wine, and struggled for a long time about what gift to give, but in the end, people don't care about you, a little person.Negative emotions reached their peak when they went out: Huang Yueying was sent to the gate affectionately by Mrs. Cui, hugged and smiling.On her left stood a slender figure, whose crescent-white gown was so familiar that I dared not look directly at it.

"Hey! Go, go, why are you blocking the door! It's blocking the way!" Someone pushed me from behind, and I couldn't help but staggered. When I stabilized my figure and looked again, the familiar figure had disappeared.