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Chapter 60 The Troubles in the Nie Mansion ([-])

Time flew by ten days later, and today was the time agreed in the post, which was the birthday of the second young lady of the Nie family.

Huo Qi was picked up from the bed by Mrs. Wang today.Mrs. Wang delivered the presents to bring early in the morning, and instructed her on the etiquette that should be paid attention to, almost covering all the details inside and out.In addition, Wang Shi also pointed out a dozen guards with good kung fu to accompany her.

I am going out as a guest today, so I will inevitably have to make arrangements.Ting Yu's hand is the most skillful, and she always combs Huo Qi's hair.

Tingyu quickly finished combing her hair into a flying fairy bun. She looked at Huo Qi in the bronze mirror and said: "Today, there will definitely be many ladies and ladies from the capital coming to the Nie Mansion. The girl usually lives in seclusion and seldom goes out to show her face. Today's Although the dress is beautiful, it is too simple."

Huo Qi lowered his eyes and looked at his clothes, then silently replaced the beaded hairpin on his head with the green bamboo-patterned hosta.The etiquette mentioned by Wang is all for gentlemen, but there is another set of rules for dealing with jackals, tigers and leopards.There will definitely be a tough battle to fight when we go to Nie Mansion today. How can we do it without bringing sharp weapons?

Upon seeing this, Tingyu's round eyes flashed with light, and he retracted his previous thoughts.She had a clear mind and thought that this hairpin was indescribably beautiful and could be regarded as the finishing touch of an outfit.

Huo Qi examined the bronze mirror for a moment and said, "That's it. I'm not the protagonist of today's opera, so there's no need to compete for the limelight."

Huo Chi had just died not long ago, and although she didn't have any stupid thoughts about dressing her brother in mourning, she still had to do her best on the surface, and it was always right to dress neatly and simply.Furthermore, today is the birthday of the second young lady of the Nie family. She is just a guest. It would be unsightly if the limelight exceeds that of the protagonist.

Lefeng, who had just packed the gifts, came in from the outside and urged: "Girl, it's almost time."

Huo Qi only had two personal maids around him, so he left Tingyu to take care of the affairs of the house, while Lingfeng accompanied her to the banquet.Huo Qi tied on his cloak and led Ye Feng to the door of the mansion. The two quickly got into the carriage and were escorted by a team of guards towards Nie's mansion.

In less than an hour, the carriage stopped at the gate of Nie's Mansion in Liuying Lane.

Huo Qi got out of the carriage with the help of Lingfeng, but she didn't go in directly. Instead, she stayed beside the carriage for a while and looked at the gate of Nie Mansion from afar.A golden two-character plaque hangs high above the gate of Nie Mansion, with two stone beasts placed on both sides. The gate of the mansion is painted with thick paint, which is even more imposing than Duke Ning's mansion.

Huo Qi couldn't help sneering.Seeing that the Nie family is so extravagant and ambitious, how can the people in the capital think that Nie Qingan is an honest and law-abiding minister of the Ministry of Rites for Huo Ruhai's fledgling?

At this moment, a lot of people had already arrived in the flower hall where Nie Mansion entertained guests, and they were chatting lively.

Although the Nie family is not from the Zanying family, the head of the family, Nie Qin, has made a lot of achievements in the court, and can be regarded as a veritable rising star.Mrs. Liu made it clear this time that she wanted to flatter her daughter, and most people couldn't help trying to save face.Therefore, for today's birthday banquet, almost all the official wives and ladies who can be named in the capital came.

Mrs. Liu deliberately dressed up today, and she looked even more charming than usual, but the rouge was too gorgeous, and she lost a bit of her usual dignity.However, everyone present is a smart person, so naturally no one would point out with such incomprehensible winks.

Mrs. Liu, wife of the cabinet scholar, complimented: "Mrs. Nie is really lucky now. Married to such a good husband-in-law as Mr. Nie, I don't have to worry about it on weekdays. No wonder it is so well maintained."

Another Mrs. Chen took up the conversation: "Now that Mr. Nie is skyrocketing, your cousin is also doing the same. Such a good fortune is something we cannot envy."

Fang Shi had been sitting beside her drinking tea, and she felt a little proud when she heard Mrs. Chen compliment her husband by the way.If Huo Qi marries her son, the Liu family will only become more prosperous.Thinking of this, her heart was very tight.

Covering her sleeves, Liu smirked and acted modestly: "Where is it as good as you said? We mothers, don't we have to worry about our children's marriage?"

"Why do you need to worry? Needless to say, Mr. Nie, the second lady is like a fairy, and her future will be very bright!" Another voice came from the crowd of ladies.

"You can't say that. It is reasonable for Mrs. Nie to have a headache about the second young lady's marriage. It is not easy for such a kind-hearted daughter to choose a suitable son-in-law!"

The compliments were endless, and they sang together, but after a while, a delicate voice sounded in the flower hall: "My little girl is late, I will apologize to all the ladies."

Everyone was busy talking just now, but they didn't notice that Nie Ying had arrived.

It was Nie Ying's birthday today, so she naturally dressed up deliberately.She was wearing nine phoenix and moon hairpins, and a crimson blouse topped with palace brocade tinsel flowers and butterfly brocade, and a pleated skirt of the same color, but she was covered with a milky white rabbit fur cape, which made her look relaxed.

Seeing Nie Ying's appearance, many wives downstairs couldn't help but think to themselves, this daughter Liu's appearance can be regarded as first-class, if she finds an opportunity to make a kiss for her son in the future, it's not bad.

The ladies have different ideas. They only think that Nie Ying is beautiful and has a good family background, and they intend to make friends with her.After all, the connections between father and brother in the family were established in the court, but the relationship between them, the noble daughters of the capital, was drawn closer in various banquets.

Liu looked at Nie Ying in front of her with a smile, and scratched the tip of her nose with her fingers: "You, the protagonist, are here, and I still want someone to find you."

Nie Ying smiled shyly, and leaned against Liu's side: "It's my daughter's fault that I'm late."

"Second Miss is really beautiful today, people can't take their eyes off it, it's no exaggeration to say that she is the most outstanding in the capital city!"

The person who pleased Nie Ying was a woman with a pointed chin and a bit of a fox look on her face. She was Aunt Zhang in the mansion.

Aunt Zhang was Liu's dowry maid, and later climbed onto Nie Qin's bed when Liu was pregnant with Nie Ru, and was lifted by Nie Qin as his aunt.However, Mrs. Liu didn't care about this back then, instead she was pregnant with Liujia and took care of concubines for Nie Qin. Outsiders only said Mrs. Liu was virtuous, virtuous and open-minded.

Over the years, Aunt Zhang has kept her low profile and done a lot of work under Mr. Liu, so Mrs. Liu gave her three points of face.Therefore, no other concubines could come to such a formal occasion as Nie Ying's birthday banquet, but only Aunt Zhang could attend.

Aunt Zhang said this a bit shamelessly. The lady below just smiled awkwardly and did not refute.

The praised Nie Yingyan looked at Meixing, pursed her lips and smiled, but she didn't answer Aunt Zhang's words, instead she glanced around the flower hall: "Miss Huo hasn't come yet?"

Nie Ying knew that Nie's Mansion and Ning Guogong's Mansion were not on good terms, and she was influenced by her ears and eyes, and she didn't like Huo Ruhai, a daughter who had only met a few times.Seeing that Huo Qi was still in the future, he immediately wanted to trip her up.

Nie Ying's words fell into Madam's ears, and they seemed to have a lot of meaning.First, he said that he was late, but when he saw that Huo Qi hadn't come, he asked the question knowingly. The meaning in the words actually implied that Huo Qi came later and put on airs.But when they saw Nie Ying's concerned face, they felt that they were being overwhelmed.

Just after Nie Ying finished asking, Huo Qi brought Lefeng and was led to the flower hall by the servants of Nie's mansion.

Nie Ying's words had originally drawn everyone's attention to Huo Qi, but now that they meet the right lord, everyone is even more interested in watching the show.

There are also many ladies here who have been to the Qiu Ju Banquet. They thought that Huo Qi would be shining brightly again today.But unexpectedly, Huo Qi was completely different from her at Qiu Ju's banquet today.

She was wearing a bi-color dress inside, and an emerald-colored fox fur cape outside, no makeup was applied on her face, and there was only a hosta on her head.Although this outfit is far from shabby, it is still very homely.

But for some reason, the more people in the hall looked at him, the more they felt that Huo Qi's body was full of charm, and the simple embellishments made his facial features more beautiful and beautiful, and even faintly overwhelmed Nie Ying just now.

The young girl walked slowly towards the hall, with lotus growing every step of the way, as if she was walking in her own yard.

It's effortless beauty.

Even Nie Ying was dumbfounded.

　Ask for a ticket~~~

　　
　
(End of this chapter)