Chapter 350: "The whole family" is dispatched
After the intensive preparations were over, Ye Anlan and the others changed their identities under Wen Liuniang's skillful disguise, and each went to the stage where they were about to appear.
Zheng Fengshou took advantage of Ji Tongyue's family to go to Ji Tong's house for a banquet. He took people to give medicine to the servants who stayed behind, and then swaggered in the carriage to take away all the treasures from the other party's house.
Ye Anlan disguised herself as Mrs. Bai, and with the two large vases that Mrs. Bai and the others threw in the Hou Mansion because they were too heavy and took up too much space, the "whole family" went out to pay respects to Ji Tong's birthday.
The second steward who was in charge of receiving presents in Ji Tong's mansion saw these two large vases that had no other merits other than being pretty, and he almost couldn't control the expression on his face. The birthday gift that came was registered on the gift list.
"Old Lady Bai" Ye Anlan took her family out less than ten steps away, when the sneering voices of the servants of Ji Tong's mansion came from behind her.
He stared at the backs of Ye Anlan and the others, deliberately raised his voice and said to the second housekeeper: "Uncle, if this vase is sold, can the money in exchange be worth the food and tea money for their family of five?"
The second housekeeper said, "What nonsense are you talking about! Gifts are all about intentions, and it doesn't matter whether they are expensive or not." The contempt and disdain in his eyes and expression revealed his true thoughts.
When the guests who entered the door behind Ye Anlan and the others heard this, the expressions on their faces suddenly became very subtle.
Coincidentally, the ones who entered the mansion after the Bai family's carriage were none other than Ye Anlan and the others, the brothers and sisters of the Han family who had met once.
The brothers and sisters of the Han family came here with their parents. They had nothing to do with Ji Tong's family. The reason why they took the initiative to celebrate Ji Tong's birthday was because Ji Yu, the son-in-law of the Han family, was also a son of the clan.
Although Pingkang Wang’s lineage stayed in the palace honestly most of the time because they wanted to avoid suspicion, trying to reduce their sense of existence, but as the clan’s children, they still had to attend the occasions they should attend.
Originally, Ji Tong, a son of a clan with no high title, seniority, and blood relationship, and no real power to celebrate his birthday, the Pingkang Palace had no intention of sending a son over with great fanfare, but Ji Tong's family first posted a post, and then Come to invite someone in person, as if you insist on the other party coming.
Princess Pingkang was very disgusted with their approach, and at the same time, she also smelled an unusual conspiracy from the other party's attitude.
She was afraid that Ji Tong had obtained a secret order from the palace and was trying to help the Queen Mother deal with them, so she told her husband and children about it.
Pingkang and his son first asked people to inquire about the news, and then got together for a secret discussion. After a lot of tossing, Pingkang ruled out the possibility that the palace wanted to attack their family.
But what made their family even more depressed was that the people they sent out failed to investigate what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of Ji Tong's family.
The enemy’s situation is unknown, how could King Pingkang and his wife be willing to let their son come to their door? They originally wanted to make up an excuse for Prince Pingkang’s illness and let him stay at home honestly.
However, Prince Pingkang disagreed. He reminded his father and mother, "If I don't go, the second sister will have to attend on behalf of the palace. She is a girl. Are father and mother assured that she will go by herself?"
Princess Pingkang gritted her teeth, "Then I will go with your sister."
King Pingkang vetoed his wife's proposal, "There is no reason for you, an elder, to celebrate the younger generation's birthday."
Yes, in terms of seniority, Princess Pingkang, who is thirty-six years old and still a great beauty, is actually the aunt of Ji Tong, who is already in her early fifties.
No way, the aunt's princess had no choice but to give up her previous plan, and was forced to accept the alternative plan of letting her son "go deep into the tiger's den" to find out.
Ji Tong's successor, who was entrusted by others, got the news, and immediately asked his confidant mother-in-law to send a message to the Han family.
But Ji Yu, the heir son of King Pingkang, who was completely ignorant of their plan, stepped a little to Ji Tong's mansion, and besides six servants, there were actually ten stern-faced, tall men beside him. Big, skilled royal guards.
Ji Tong didn't know about his wife's secret deal with the Han family, he thought that his step-wife had the cheek to visit the door again and again, really just to please Prince Pingkang's son and give him a face for the birthday star.
Seeing the unbelievably grandiose Prince Pingkang enter the door, Ji Tong was stunned for a moment before suppressing the strange feeling that suddenly popped up in his heart.
His first thought when he saw Ji Yu was, why did this man bring so many guards in when he went out to a banquet? Shouldn't the normal operation be to bring only one or two or none at all?
At this time, Ji Tong didn't know that his second wife, who had already met the "Old Lady Bai" family, was even more broken than him at this time.
why?
Because Ye Anlan was pretending to be Mrs. Bai, she brought more than a hundred servants and more than two hundred guards to the banquet, not to mention, and even brought all the women among the servants to the female guests.
More than eighty maids and servants lined up, so crowded that the maids and servants in Ji Tong's mansion couldn't even find their way in and out to serve food_(:з」∠)_
Ji Tong's stepwife took a deep breath several times, and there were several red marks on the palms of her hands because of her excessive force. She tried her best to suppress her anger, and tried her best to look amiable, "Old lady, who is this?"
Ye Anlan's back was straight, and she acted in the heroic and heroic manner of Mrs. Bai, the general's tiger girl. "According to the Queen Mother's orders, the old lady and all the Bai family will come to your house to congratulate you. No, when there are more people going out, the servants who need it will follow It has changed a lot, Madam please don’t take offense.”
Before she finished speaking, the eighty-odd people who had been standing casually before immediately divided into five groups and stood next to the fake Mrs. Bai, Mrs. Bai, Miss Bai, Second Miss Bai, and Young Master Bai.
With such a distribution, each of the "Bai Family" is followed by sixteen or seven servants. It is no exaggeration to say that this number is five or six times that of other guests who came to the banquet.
Ji Tong's stepwife was very angry. She thought that Mrs. Bai was trying to mess things up on purpose, and she was using such a seemingly childish behavior to vent her dissatisfaction with the Queen Mother's oral order.
But the problem is that when you go to someone else's house for a banquet, the "rule" of bringing only three or two servants with you is just a rule after all, not a rule clearly stipulated by someone. But Ji Tong's stepwife really can't make trouble against the Bai family because of this.
Especially the young master of the Bai family, who was being held in someone's arms with a sick face at this time. He was young and "sick". I don't know how many girls present secretly felt pity for him.