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"Mrs. Xu Sima, I have waited for you." Mu Yelai smiled and went forward to salute, while deliberately looking behind Fang Wuniang, "There are four ladies in the Sima Mansion, why are there only two?"

Du Hengshuang glanced at Mu Yelai in surprise.

The complexion is white, the eye sockets are slightly sunken, but the eyes are deep and dark, the nose is straight, and the lips are well-defined. They are wider and thicker than girls in the Central Plains, but they are plump and tender, with a unique style.

He is also tall, only a little shorter than himself.

The Mu family migrated from Anxi, and the women in the family must be somewhat exotic.

Du Hengshuang looked carefully, while listening to Fang Wuniang's greetings with the little lady, "The second and fourth misses of our family just caught the cold, so they couldn't get up, and they couldn't come to the banquet. They still look forward to Mu Hou and his wife Haihan." He asked again. : "Excuse me, are you...?"

Mu Yelai smiled coquettishly, and made an elegant gesture, "I am the daughter of Master Mu, ranked third, everyone in my family calls me Yelai, Madam, please call me Yelai."

It turned out to be the third lady of the Mu family.

Du Hengshuang nodded secretly in his heart.She heard Fang Wuniang talk about the situation of the Mu family, and knew that the third lady was a special one among the concubine daughters of the Mu family. She was originally born by the second wife's grandmother, but she was recorded under the name of the aunt, and she was pampered just like the aunt.It's no wonder that there is no cowardly look like ordinary concubine girls in her gestures, but her eyes are always a little evasive when looking at people.When you looked over, her eyes slipped away again, as if nothing had happened.

Mu Yelai felt that Du Hengshuang's scrutinizing eyes kept falling on him, and his heart trembled.Not daring to look at her secretly from the corner of his eye anymore, he smiled and led the female family members of the Xu family into the second gate.

Arriving at the middle hall of Muhou Mansion, one can see a huge picture of a white tiger descending the mountain, majestic and majestic, and a sense of fierceness rushes towards his face.

"Muhou's family is worthy of being from the royal family of Anxi. Judging by the grandeur of the middle hall, it is not a Hou's mansion, let alone a prince's mansion. I don't think it can compare to the style here." Everyone said politely.One side took a seat.

Mrs. Mu Hou's wife, Mrs. Cao, sat on the top seat, and kept greeting the guests who came in. Standing beside her was her own eldest daughter, Mu Yege, who greeted the guests with her.

Seeing Mu Yelai walking in with Fang Wuniang, followed by two young girls with outstanding looks, Cao's eyes narrowed.The smile on his face became more dignified.

"Mrs. Muhou is well." Fang Wuniang bowed her head in salute.

When Mrs. Cao heard that she was Xu Sima's house-filling wife, she hurriedly got up to respond, "Madam, you are very polite, take your seat soon."

Besides the Cao family, Fang Wuniang's identity can be regarded as one of the best here.He took the first seat without hesitation.

After everyone finished talking here, a woman came to invite everyone to the banquet.

The table of the autumn feast.Placed in the back garden of Muhou Mansion.

In the middle, there is a square green grass field, separated by several screens that are one person tall, and men sit on the left and women on the right.

On the left and right sides of the screen, countless seasonal melons and fruits are placed on long tables.Sliced ​​cantaloupes in golden yellow, bright red sandy watermelons stuck in small silver skewers, and large peeled Sydney pears.One by one neatly stacked inside the silver tray.There are also bright green grapes and green and white pumpkins.The purple red jujubes and bright red apples all have a unique flavor of Anxi.

Du Hengxue loves melons and fruits the most.Seeing the things on this long table, I couldn't stop smiling from ear to ear.

Du Hengshuang laughed softly: "These things are cold, don't eat too much, be careful to hurt your spleen and stomach."

Du Hengxue looked away embarrassedly, and sat between Fang Wuniang and Du Hengshuang, honestly watching the adults toast and drink, and after eating a few pieces of roast goose with rouge, she put down her chopsticks and stopped eating.

What's more, whoever comes to the autumn feast can't get enough to eat?

After drinking for three rounds, Mrs. Mu Hou got up and smiled and said, "It's our custom in Anxi that during the autumn banquet, we have to watch Hao Erlang's archery competition. Whoever can shoot the most apples will be the champion of the autumn banquet!"

"The number one scholar at the autumn banquet, what's so good about it?"

"Lucky head? There are many, besides the 1000 taels of gold from the Muhou Mansion, there are other benefits. The number one scholar at the autumn banquet will generally have a smooth life, marry a happy wife and house, and have a lot of children and grandchildren!"

Some of the people here are not the first time to participate in the autumn feast of Zhaomu's nine surnames.These people still remember the autumn banquet in An Guohou's mansion.

Hearing this, someone curled his lips, and muttered disdainfully: "You know what to say. Back then, An Guohou was also the champion of the autumn banquet. Look at him now, not to mention his head, how can there be a house full of children and grandchildren?" ?—In the entire An family, there is only one son left, and this son is still a murderer who killed the king and father..."

"You don't want to die? That kid is now King Qi's vanguard general. As long as he takes down Hedong County, he can wipe out the last elite soldiers of Dazhou, and Dazhou... will no longer exist. At that time, you No matter how much you talk, I don't think you can keep your head." Someone beside her warned her in a low voice.

Du Hengshuang, who was sitting by the side, glanced at them quickly when he heard this.

The two seemed to sense that someone was looking at them, so they hurriedly stopped talking and raised their glasses to taste the fine wine in Muhou Mansion.

A few servants came over and removed the screen in the middle of the grass, and moved the long table to the edge of the lawn, vacating the center of the grass.

On the southernmost side of the grass, a long white curtain was drawn.Then, a foot away from the white cloth curtain to the north, eight archery targets were inserted.The archery target was further north, about a foot away, but there were four throwing pots with small mouths and large bodies.

Du Hengshuang watched with great interest, not knowing what kind of trick they were going to do.

Mu Yelai endured it for a long time before he felt that the time had come. He came over with a plate of sliced ​​cantaloupe and watermelon with small silver skewers, put them in front of Du Hengxue and Du Hengshuang, and said with a smile: "I saw this little lady staring at you all the time. The table over there was in a daze, and I thought it would be inconvenient for you to pick it up, so I brought it over for you myself."

Du Hengxue was really overjoyed, thanked her again and again, then impatiently ate a slice of cantaloupe, and when she was happy, she squinted her eyes like a greedy little cat.

When Du Hengshuang saw it, he couldn't bear to blame her.He took out a handkerchief and put it on Du Hengxue's chest to prevent the melon juice from dripping on the clothes he just changed today.

Mu Ye looked amazed.

This kind of sisterly love is definitely not for outsiders to see.

But later, why did the two sisters become strangers to such an extent?Especially this sister...

Before the death of Du Hengxue in her previous life, she had posted several times to Xiao's family, saying that she wanted to visit, but Du Hengshuang ignored them without a trace.

Until Du Hengxue passed away, Du Hengshuang never went to Du Hengxue's husband's house to express his condolences.

They are sisters.What is it for?

Mu Yelai propped up his cheeks and sat opposite Du Hengshuang and Du Hengxue, his scrutinizing eyes turned back and forth between Du Hengshuang and Du Hengxue.

"Miss Mu San, thank you for your kindness." Du Hengshuang said with a smile, with a sense of alienation in his voice.

Du Hengxue nodded again and again, "Miss Mu San, your melons are really delicious. They are very different from those sold in the market outside, and they are also different from those sold in our village."

Mu Yelai said proudly: "That's natural. The melons and fruits of our family's autumn banquet this time are all transported from Anxi all the way. Compared with the melons and fruits in the Central Plains, they are not bad!"

Du Hengxue boasted in surprise: "Really? Then you are really blessed." After speaking, she said childishly: "If I were you, I would never move to the Central Plains. Even for these melons and fruits, I would not bear it." After speaking, he giggled.

At the male guest's table, Xu Yanbang heard Du Hengxue's laughter.His eyes moved over and refused to leave for a long time.

Du Hengshuang noticed that Xu Yanbang was looking at Du Hengxue, and was slightly unhappy, so he moved the stool to the side to block Xu Yanbang's sight.

Xu Yanbang snorted, and said to his elder brother Xu Yanhui: "The elder sister is really disgusting."

Xu Yanhui glanced at it.Smiling and not talking, he said to the young master next to him: "Later on the archery competition. Are you going to participate?"

The son said with a bitter face: "Can I say no? If I had known that I would come to this banquet and shoot arrows, I wouldn't come even if I was killed! Wouldn't it be better to eat wine at home and lie down? I just want to come here to seek guilt. "

An Zi often wore a beautiful blue Shu brocade robe embroidered with red dahlias, and leaned leisurely on the enthroned bed, holding a glass of amber wine in his hand, and drank it for a long time without drinking a drop.

He was born handsome, and he was dressed so eye-catchingly, which caused the eyes of the girls at the women's banquet to fly over.

An Zichang didn't care about it, and occasionally returned a half-hearted smile, causing exclamations from the table over there, and a girl blushed from time to time, holding her cheeks and calling "it's too hot".

Seeing An Zichang like this, many young masters and sons took the initiative to stay two feet away from him, so as not to be horribly reflected by him.

There was a murmur of murmurs here, and there the white drapery was ready.

I saw four Anxi girls, dressed in tights, standing gracefully in front of the white cloth curtain with their arms outstretched.

Each of them has an apple on top of their head and on their outstretched arms.

Bang!

When the gong sounded, Lord Mu Hou stood in the middle and announced loudly, "The archery competition at the Autumn Banquet officially begins!"

Then he preached the method of today's autumn banquet competition.

It turned out that there were three rounds of competition.

In the first round, it was a competition of arrow cluster throwing.Use the tail of the feathered arrow instead of the arrowhead to throw the pot.The princes and young masters present were divided into eight groups by drawing lots. In each group, whoever casts the most arrows at one time will win and enter the second round.

In the second round, there was an archery target competition.Each person shoots four arrows at the four targets respectively to see who can shoot the most accurately. The four people who shoot the most and most accurately will enter the final round.

In the third round, Bi tried to shoot the apples on the heads and arms of the four Anxi girls.If you are not confident about your archery, you can declare abstention and give up the game.Otherwise, it is always bad to shoot the servants of the master's family.

Du Hengshuang felt that the third round of competition was interesting, and became very excited.

The men began to draw lots and grouped in a chaotic manner, and suddenly heard someone report loudly: "Qi Yizhi, the second son of the King of Qi, has arrived! Chang'an Xiaoshi has arrived!"

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