Rebirth cannon fodder

Chapter 90 Moonlit Lotus Pond
In the end, with the help of Bai Xin and Jiang Gui, the three masters and servants solved the uncomfortable problem of pinching the quill pen. The beautiful goose feather was shaved into an ugly polished rod, and then cut with high-quality silk and satin. In strips, carefully wrapped, tightly wrapped, and then stuffed into the pen holder of the brush.

Because it was wrapped so tightly, the quill pen finally stopped spinning in the pen holder. Xu Manzhen dipped some ink and wrote. Sure enough, it felt very good, and it felt just right when held by this thick and thin hand.

She happily wrote invitations with this quill pen, which felt much easier to use than a brush.The only downside is that the goose feather pole is still too durable to use. After writing for a long time, it becomes bald and can only be sharpened and reused. It is a bit like when I used to use pencils.

Moreover, a goose feather cannot withstand several times of peeling, so there is no way to reuse it.

The invitation was finally finished, but the goose feathers were almost used up.Xu Manzhen asked Jiang Gui to go and see if he could pluck some more goose feathers.

But Jiang Gui returned to the room not long after, not knowing what happened, her face flushed with anger.

"What's the matter, have you met Deng Tuzi?" Xu Manzhen looked at Jiang Gui's appearance and teased her.

Ding Shao, the man of Xu's mansion, his elder brother is at the right age to do such a thing, but based on Xu Manzhen's understanding of Xu Dahong, he is definitely not such a person, and Xu Dayu is still too young, even if he has enough heart, his strength is not enough.

The rest can only be Xu Shixun... Could it be that he is an old man?Thinking of this, Xu Manzhen shook her head.No matter how unreliable this old man Xu is, his daughter's girl still won't touch her.

"Miss...you have been writing invitations in your room for the past few days. I don't know what is going on in the house now." Jiang Gui said angrily, "Everywhere is saying, miss, you are joking again and want to write with goose feathers , As a result, the woman in charge of the goose was bitten so badly by the goose that she spent several taels of silver on the medicine."

"Is it true?" Xu Manzhen asked.

"What?" Jiang Gui was stunned for a moment. Why didn't the lady ask who was spreading the news, but asked if it was true?What is not true?
"Let me ask you, that woman was bitten badly by a goose... Is it true?" Xu Manzhen asked, slowing down her voice.

Jiang Gui nodded quickly, and said that at that time, even Miss San and Bai Wei were bitten by geese.

Xu Manzhen knew what it was like to be bitten by a goose.Not long after she entered the industry, when she was still a dead set, she once followed a crew to the countryside to shoot a rural-themed scene. There were geese in the script.

But everyone on the set, including the props, and even the owners of those geese, couldn't handle those geese. Anyway, they just bite everyone. The entire crew, from the director to the tea below, including those delicate heroines The male protagonist, there is no one who will not be bitten.

And as a dead set, she was always bitten without anyone helping to protect her.Although a goose has no teeth, it has great strength. Wherever it bites a person, there will be a big green patch there.

Finally, under the strong request of the heroine, the director removed the goose from the play.Always biting down like this...no one can bear it!
So now that Jiang Gui said that the woman and others were bitten by geese, she also felt that the place where she was bitten back then hurt again.There is no way, the memory is too deep!
"Miss, they are all talking nonsense. The quill pen you made is obviously so useful, but it is still the business that the master told you..." Jiang Gui was talking, but Xu Manzhen stared at her and made her voice quiet.She looked at Xu Manzhen with some doubts, not understanding what the lady meant for her to stop.

"Since that woman is injured, go and see her for me." Xu Manzhen said, closing the book in her hand, putting it on the table, and said, "Even Sanmei and her personal maid I was bitten too... These days, she has come here often, but she never said anything about it, it's really strange, Bai Xin, you prepare some snacks later, let's go and see her."

It has been spread all over the house, but I don't know it at all. It seems that someone deliberately wants to hide it from me!Xu Manzhen was annoyed in her heart. Although her yard was fully staffed, she could not interfere in the arrangement of any people. Seeing them now, they were probably all from Si Yiniang's people, and few of them were interested in her.

So about this kind of thing, I and a few close maids were all kept secret.

"Is Yueju here? Call her over." Xu Manzhen thought for a while and said.If there is anyone in One Leaf Garden who can be trusted besides her maidservants, then Yueju is hardly one of them.

This time, Yiyeyuan was recruited by Yueju, but Yueju was very knowledgeable. If she hadn't been summoned by her, she would usually not go to Xu Manzhen, because she knew that no matter what, she would They can't compare with Bai Xin and Jiang Gui.

In order to avoid suspicion, she simply hid a little farther away.And Xu Manzhen was not angry with her because of this, and it proved her thoughts, so she was even more happy.

This time Xu Manzhen asked Bai Xin to call her, and she was a little surprised, wondering what the lady wanted from her.When Xu Manzhen turned the corner and asked her what was going on in the mansion recently, she was still at a loss.

It seems that Lian Yueju has also concealed it.Seeing Yueju's blank expression, Xu Manzhen's heart sank. It seems that this time, Fourth Aunt and Xu Shuzhen joined forces again.

I refused to help Xu Shuzhen, causing her to lose face in front of her father... Did she return it like this?

But in such a big family, is the opinion of the servants really that important?Xu Manzhen thought carefully.If she could be a very gentle and generous host in front of everyone...if possible, she would of course be willing.

But because of the savage character of the former owner of this body, and Xu Shuzhen's efforts to discredit it for many years, it is necessary to establish a very good image of the owner in front of all the servants in the house... Xu Manzhen never expected much. .

So be it.I remember that in my previous life, it was an era when things like "democracy" and "human rights" were emphasized. In a company, the people with the most opinions were those with high positions.

As for the subordinates... who cares what their opinions are?That's why there are terms like "meat eaters" and "herbivores".

Then, in such a mansion in the feudal era, the role of servants should be even more unnecessary.If you have a good image, you can't wait for it, but if your image is not particularly good, don't worry too much about it.

I just need to be myself slowly and change people's opinions slowly, and I don't need to care about these at all.

Waved to let Yueju go out, Jiang Gui and Bai Xin had already packed up the presents, so Jiang Gui and Xu Manzhen took Bai Xin out, and went to visit the patient respectively.

Although Xu Manzhen didn't care much about it herself, Jiang Gui was different. She cared about it very much.She's not like that idiot Bai Xin, who bases everything on the young lady's attitude. She thinks what the young lady says is important, and she really ignores what the young lady thinks is unnecessary.

Jiang Gui deliberately made a big circle around the mansion. Whenever someone asked her what she was doing with her things, she would say that the young lady heard that the woman watching Ximen was bitten by a goose and told her to go. visit her.

Every time people hear it, they naturally have to act very touched and praise Xu Manzhen a few words.But Jiang Gui also knew, don't look at what people say, who knows what's going on in his heart?So I added a few words lightly, some time ago, it was originally the master's confession to the young lady. I don't know why, but the third lady insisted on snatching it away, but the second lady didn't hear about the fact that the woman was bitten by a goose until today. .

Everyone who heard it suddenly looked stunned, and then smiled mysteriously.

Because Xu Manzhen specially sent someone to visit the woman, and Jiang Gui said that Xu Manzhen wanted to play and caused the servant to be bitten by a goose, and finally slowly calmed down.

At this time, most of the invitations sent out were returned.Because Meng Liya agreed to be in the front, almost all the people who received the invitation from Xu Manzhen agreed to come. There were only a few of them, who were really too busy, so they were specially sent to apologize.

When writing the invitation, because I really couldn't find any reason to hold this party, Xu Manzhen remembered that in Dream of the Red Chamber, you can also congratulate you by catching a few fish, hold a small banquet, and have a pot of rare flowers bloom. Get together for an excuse to have a meal and recite a few sour poems... If there is any integrity, it will be easier.

Xu Manzhen came up with an ingenious idea, and came up with a name called "Moon Night Lotus Pond". It was to hold a banquet beside the lotus pond in Xu's mansion. Cool, anyway, every comfort.

Of course, this idea still came from high school Chinese textbooks, but Xu Manzhen can no longer remember which author wrote that text. I only remember that there is a line "the skirt of the graceful dancing girl" in it, which is really beautiful!
This gathering was also a very important reason for calming down all the servants in the mansion.For so many years, the Xu Mansion has not had such a large-scale event, and everyone in the mansion was a little excited, so naturally they couldn't care less about gossiping.

Because Xu Manzhen was holding such an event for the first time, in order to allow enough time, she set the date for late July, and there were still ten days to organize it.But even so, because most of the servants in the mansion have no such experience, they are still too busy.

And in such a rush, time passed very quickly, and soon came this day, just as it was dark, ladies from various mansions in Deyang came over in their own carriages, crowding the gates of Xu's mansion. It is full, and the water is not moving. They are all here to participate in the lotus banquet.

Meng Liya has prejudice against concubine daughters, but it doesn't mean that Xu Manzhen also has prejudice.When she issued the invitation, she made it according to the list of ladies who had not yet left the court in each mansion. The concubine daughters all came because of Meng Liya's face, and many concubine daughters also came.Such an opportunity is more precious to concubines than prostitutes.

The servants of the Xu Mansion had already been warned by Xu Manzhen that if one came, they would lead them to sit by the lotus pond, enjoy the cool breeze, eat snacks, and wait for others to come.Soon, the moon had just risen, and almost everyone was there.

There are not many ways to play in the boudoir, the most important thing is to play drums and pass flowers for a drink, and make a hundred flower wine order, etc., but Xu Manzhen doesn't like to play these things-not only she doesn't like to play now, but Xu Manzhen in the past also didn't like to play.

Ever since, she came up with a new way of playing - telling jokes.

　I beg for a ticket...Baobaochun yelled vigorously, everyone who is passing by, please do me a favor, let's pass it off...

　　
　
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