Aunt Xue smiled, "What's this?" It's like your own home, your sister Bao has a good temperament, it's okay to get along more, your brother is very arrogant, occasionally say a sentence and a half and don't like it, don't take it to heart, if there is any grievance, just tell me directly, I'll rectify him. ”

"Hey, hey, hey," Xue Pan refused, "Am I your son or Sister Lin your daughter?" ”

"Your sister Lin is a hundred times more well-behaved than you," Aunt Xue said with a smile, "I wish I had such a daughter, I'll tell you." ”

"That's the best," Baochai grabbed Daiyu's arm, "Then I have an extra sister." ”

When everyone was talking and laughing, the sky gradually got dark, the lanterns were lit everywhere, the inside and outside of the Lixiang Courtyard were like day, the grandmother in Jia's mother's house came to invite Aunt Xue and her party to go to the banquet, originally Rongguo Mansion and Ningguo Mansion were general, there was also a back garden, but later because Jia Yu and Jia Zheng lived in two rooms, so the east garden was separated, and all of them were given to Jia Yu to live, and the garden in Rongguo's house became a small area, which was not enough to set up a banquet to invite guests to watch the play, so the daily banquet was in Jia's mother's house, In addition to the Mid-Autumn Festival in the East Mansion, everyone in the Rongguo Mansion, including Jia Yu Jia Zheng and other children and grandchildren, will all appear, plus Aunt Xue and others, these guests are naturally also invited.

The servants and women played lanterns, led the way in front, only to see that Rongguo Mansion was full of lanterns, and the grandmothers led, so they turned to the east, passed through a hall of east and west, and after the south hall, the courtyard in the Yimen, there were five large main houses on it, and the wings on both sides of the deer top ear room drilled the mountain, extending in all directions, magnificent, and different from Jia's mother. Xue Pan knew that this was a serious inner room, a big road, and went directly out of the gate. Entering the hall, look up and see a red gold nine dragons and green land plaque, the plaque is written with three big characters, is "Rongxi Hall", there is a line of small characters at the end: "a certain year, month and day, the book is given to Rongguo Gong Jia Yuan", and there are "the treasure of thousands of Chenhan", this is the imperial pen of Emperor Taizu.

On the big red sandalwood carving case, there is a three-foot-high blue-green bronze tripod, hanging to be leaked with the large painting of the Molong of the Dynasty, on one side is the golden dragon, on the other side is the glassware. Sixteen Nanmu chairs on the ground, and there is a couplet, which is an ebony joint card, inlaid with chiseled silver handwriting, and the road is:

The sun and moon are shining on the seat, and the front of the hall is dark and smoky.

The following line of small characters reads: "The handwritten book of the fellow townsman and the world's religious brother Xun attacked the king of Dong'an County." It is also written by Wang Jue, these things prove the heritage, you must know that the Xue family has nothing, just with the words "Rongxi Hall" written by Emperor Taizu's imperial pen here, and idlers will not dare to be presumptuous.

Although the banquet is set up in the Rongxi Hall, but the serious inner room lobby, and eat and drink under the imperial pen of Emperor Taizu, it is always not polite, so the place to set up the banquet is in the west wing of the Rongxi Hall, located in the west wing facing east, as long as the moon rises, you can see at a glance, the gentlemen set up a banquet under the corridor, the inner family is in the west wing, and the atrium outside has set up a stage, Aunt Xue and others arrived here first, Jia's mother also arrived in a sedan chair after a while, and when she saw Aunt Xue and others, she smiled and said: "I am old and useless, Tell my aunt to wait! ”

Jia's mother got off the sedan chair and sat down, Jia pardon, Jia Zheng, Jia Lian Baoyu and others stood in the south, Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang welcomed the spring and cherished the spring, Daiyu and others stood in the north, kneeling together towards Jia's mother, congratulating the Mid-Autumn Festival, Aunt Xue and Xue Panbaochai also knelt down together, although they were guests, in the end, they were lower, and it was not a big deal to bow down, Jia's mother hurriedly ordered the mandarin duck to help Aunt Xue up, "How can my aunt give such a big gift, I will never dare to accept it." ”

He also ordered Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang to help Jia Zheng up, and gave the reward money, so she ordered everyone to sit down, "This is a good day for the Mid-Autumn Festival, the big guy eats and drinks by himself, he doesn't have to be restricted, and he doesn't have to worry about my wife," she saw Jia Zheng and others sitting outside the room, and asked, "The old men are all sitting outside, the wine should be hot to eat, the weather is cold, if the cold wine eats the stomach, I am afraid that it will not be digested, and the brazier will have to give birth to a few." ”

Sister Feng was busy and prepared, Mother Jia sat down, Mother Jia and Aunt Xue sat at the same table, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing sat together, Sanchun sat together, Li Kun, Jia Lan and Sister Feng sat together, Baoyu Daiyu Baochai sat together, Xue Pan didn't have the treatment of sitting inside, so he could only go out and sit with the men outside.

Xue Pan walked outside, Jia Yu and Jia Zheng sat at a table respectively, Xue Pan was originally going to walk towards Jia Zheng's side, after all, Jia Yu had already sat with Jia Lian, and the rest of the Jia family disciples next to the king sat farther behind, but I didn't expect Jia Yu to see Xue Pan, "Brother Xue," Jia Yu beckoned to Xue Pan, "You sit here." He scolded Jia Lian away, "You left me!" ”

Jia Lian sat down towards Jia Zheng's side, Xue Pan was fine, and bowed his hand towards Jia Yu, "Master." So he sat down. Jia Yu and Jia Mu, Jia Zheng, and Jia Baoyu all the way to the round face look different, he has a thin long face, very tall, but quite thin, with a few goatees under his chin, he sits facing west, his expression is calm, and he asks Xue Pan to sit facing south, "The virtuous nephew came to the mansion, this is the first time we sit and eat together," Jia Yu smiled, "I must drink a few more glasses later." ”

"Naturally," Xue Pan said with a smile, "Please have a few more drinks when the old man waits." ”

At this time, Lin Zhixiao came up with the play list and asked Jia Yu to order some play, Jia Yu waved his hand, "Take it to your master to see." Jia Zheng hurriedly said, "Dedicated to it." ”

Lin Zhixiao handed it over to Lin Zhixiao's family, and handed it in layer by layer and handed it to Jia's mother, Jia's mother asked Aunt Xue to order a play first, and Aunt Xue smiled, "I'm here to accompany the old lady today, where is the first to order the play by yourself?" So she refused, she just asked Jia Mu to order a play, so Jia Mu ordered a play first, and then asked everyone to order a play in turn. Aunt Xue ordered it, Mrs. Xing didn't order, Mrs. Wang ordered it, Baoyu originally wanted to order, but when she saw her father sitting outside, she really didn't dare to be coquettish, so she just stopped.

After a while, the stage was played, incomparably gorgeous and wonderful, all of them had the posture of a heavenly demon, Jia's mother was old, she liked lively and auspicious plays, and the first play was ordered "Full Bed Wat", which was about the 60th birthday of Guo Ziyi, the famous general of Fenyang in the Tang Dynasty, when the seven sons and eight sons-in-law all came to celebrate their birthdays, because they were all high-ranking officials in the court, they all had wat boards in their hands, and they put the wat board all over the bedside when they worshipped their birthdays, borrowing the family fortune and prosperity, wealth and longevity.