After the two cows were brought back, Chang Yue kept them at the entrance of her small yard. Anyway, her yard was big and no one usually came.
Sang Ye was very happy. She also bathed the two cows and trimmed their hair. The bison's hair was messy and thick, which was really unsightly.
In a blink of an eye, the day of the banquet came, and Li Mansion started to get busy early in the morning, but this had nothing to do with Chang Yue, she still did whatever she had to do as usual.
She doesn't have to appear until all the guests are here. Who would care about a person with no sense of existence like her?
Early in the morning, Chang Yue took some medicinal herbs, carried his own medicine jar, and refined the hemostatic medicine in the yard. After spending several portions of medicinal materials, he finally succeeded in refining a patent medicine, although the color was not that good-looking.
Sure enough, learning from Yao Rabbit is effective, isn't it?
Changyue was very happy and prepared several more medicinal materials. In the end, the refining became easier and easier, and the number of successful refinings became more and more.
At this time, Sang Ye came over and said, "Miss, it's time for us to go. It's not good to go too late."
After hearing this, Chang Yue had no choice but to pack up everything, and then went back to the room with Sang Ye to dress up.
Chang Yue sat in front of the dressing table and let Sang Ye fiddle with her head. Sang Ye said excitedly: "Miss, I will dress you up to fascinate everyone today."
Changyue waved her hand and said, "Hey~ No need, just dress up normally. There is no need to be so eye-catching."
Hearing this, Sang Ye was immediately unconvinced: "Why, miss! You are so good-looking, so you should dress up nicely."
"No matter how beautifully you dress up, will anyone give you money? You might get into trouble easily. Your lady, I just want to attend the banquet smoothly and come back as soon as possible." Chang Yue said nonchalantly.
When she becomes stronger in the future, she can be as beautiful as she likes, but now it is not necessary. Beautiful people often cause trouble easily.
"Okay." Sang Ye responded in a low voice, "But miss, you are beautiful. Even if you are not dressed up, you look like a fairy."
Changyue was amused by her: "You have a sweet mouth, but my mulberry leaves are also very beautiful!"
"Hehehe... They are all beautiful, they are all beautiful!" Sang Ye smiled stupidly.
Under Sang Ye's skillful hands, Chang Yue finally styled her hair into a simple yet lively double bun. She didn't wear too many jewelry on her head, only two precious-looking jade ornaments, so as not to disgrace Miss Li's beauty. identity.
Dressing for such occasions is very particular. Although Chang Yue doesn't want to attract attention, if it is too simple and too shabby, it will make the Li family lose face.
So moderation is most important.
Simple and weightless jewelry, paired with a long emerald green skirt, really made Changyue look like a woman with ice-cold muscles and jade bones.
However, it was precisely because Changyue's skin was too white that her complexion looked very sick.
After dressing up, Chang Yue took Sang Ye and Granny Feng and set off, leaving Ah Cai to look after the house.
Originally, Chang Yue only wanted to take Sang Ye alone, but Granny Feng was worried and insisted on coming together. It was the first time for her young lady to attend such a banquet. What if someone bullied her.
In desperation, Chang Yue had no choice but to bring Granny Feng with her.
The first place Chang Yue wants to go is to the eldest lady's yard. Today, the ladies of the Li Mansion will gather at the eldest lady's house, and they will be taken to the banquet by the eldest lady.
Correspondingly, the young masters were led by Li Xuan.
But when it came to the banquet, the young master and the ladies did not have to separate, they were all together.
This is a world where martial arts is the most important thing. It doesn’t care about the defense of men and women. It’s not a big deal for young boys and girls to gather together.
On the contrary, the elders and juniors do not stay together for a long time. Since their seniority is different, there is nothing to talk about when they are together.
When Chang Yue arrived at the eldest lady's place, the twins, Fourth Miss Li Changyu and Fifth Miss Li Changyun, had already arrived.
Li Changyu had always had a good attitude towards Chang Yue. When she saw Chang Yue come in, she immediately ran over to hold her hand and said with a smile:
"Seventh sister, you are here, come and sit down."
After saying that, she pulled Changyue to the seat next to her and thoughtfully poured her a cup of hot tea.
"Thank you, Fourth Sister." Chang Yue greeted politely, then looked at Li Changyun and said, "Fifth Sister, too."
Li Changyun had never been cold to this sick sister who didn't see him often, so he only responded with one word.
"Um."
Li Changyu glared at Li Changyun fiercely when he saw this, but Li Changyun didn't care.
Chang Yue actually had nothing to say to sisters Chang Yu and Chang Yun. Li Chang Yu could only be heard saying concerned about Chang Yue's health:
"Is Qimei feeling better recently? I see that you don't look well. I heard that you have been making medicine in the hospital recently. Is there nothing wrong?"
Chang Yue has been refining medicine recently, so that the smell of medicine would come out of her courtyard from time to time, and the servants thought that Chang Yue's health was not good again.
For this reason, the eldest lady even sent someone to ask about the situation.
Although Chang Yue has always said that she is fine, not many people believe her. Why is she still taking medicine all day long when she is fine? So much so that the medicine money allocated to Chang Yue by the eldest lady has increased a bit.
Because it was difficult to say that he was learning to refine medicine, Chang Yue simply accepted the rumors that he was in poor health. He had been ill for more than ten years anyway.
The eighth young lady, Li Changye, was the last one to arrive. As soon as she entered the door, she saluted the three sisters one by one with a very gentle attitude.
Although Li Changye has a gentle and demure personality, she is actually Li Xuan's favorite among the ladies because she is the one with the best martial arts qualifications among the ladies in the Li family, except for the eldest daughter (actually the third in line) Li Changning. one.
Her character is probably greatly influenced by her aunt.
Seeing that all the ladies have arrived, Mother Wang who was in front of the eldest lady came out and said: "Since all the ladies have arrived, let me follow the old slave to the front yard."
Although the rules require the madam to take the ladies with her, the Li family is the host today after all, and the eldest lady is busy entertaining guests, so she naturally has no time to come in person.
"Then let's go."
As the elder sister, Li Changyu stood up first and said.
Under the leadership of Mother Wang, Chang Yue and the others went to the garden of the Li family, where today the gathering place for the younger generations of the Li family was arranged.
As soon as Chang Yue and the others arrived, the eldest son, Li Changming, greeted them excitedly.
"Sisters, you're here, it's really easy for everyone to wait."
Today's banquet of the Li family was held by Li Xuan to show off his eldest son, so Li Changming was quite high-spirited today.
Nowadays, the martial arts cultivation of the younger generation in Mingyue City are basically still in the Pulse Opening Realm, but Li Changming has broken through to the Condensing Yuan Realm early, and he does have the capital to be ambitious.
Li Changyun is the most fiery of the sisters in the family. When she heard what Li Changming said, she rolled her eyes and said, "You are the elder brother, and you don't want to wait for the sisters for a while?"
When Li Changyu heard this, he glared at Li Changyun fiercely and said quickly: "Brother, don't listen to this girl's nonsense. She has always had no rules. It's our fault. It's too late to wait."
Li Changyun still wanted to speak, but under his sister's eyes that were about to get angry, he could only curl his lips angrily and swallow the words that came to his lips.
However, Li Changming didn't care about Changyun's words. He said with a smile: "We are all brothers and sisters from the same family. A few jokes don't matter."
Then Changyue and the others, led by Li Changming, went to meet the young masters and ladies of each family.
In Mingyue City, in addition to the City Lord's Mansion belonging to the Chaoyun Sect, there are four other families that can sit on equal footing with the Li family, namely the Song family, the He family, the Kang family and the Shentu family.
These families have existed in Mingyue City for a long time. Because they have coexisted with each other for so long, they have formed a community of interests in a sense.
Although they all live under the rule of Chaoyun Sect, to some extent, their interests are not consistent with Chaoyun Sect.
The Chaoyun Sect sent a city lord to check and balance the aristocratic families in Mingyue City, and the aristocratic families would unite to prevent being annexed by the Chaoyun Sect.
Under the Chaoyun Sect, some aristocratic families in the city died quietly, and the city lord became the only person with the right to speak in the city.
As for the reason for the demise of the aristocratic family, everyone knows it well. Therefore, the attitude of the aristocratic family ✓ sect is both fearful and defensive.
However, the relationship between various aristocratic families and sects is not simply a hostile relationship. Their families are often involved in many deeper things, just like the Li family will send their most talented daughters to the Chaoyun Sect.
Only the top executives of each company are qualified to know the secrets involved.
Changyue tried her best to reduce her sense of presence. After meeting the young masters and ladies of the family, she went to visit her second brother Li Changyou and her sixth brother Li Changfeng.
As for the ninth son Li Changqian and the tenth son Li Changkun of the Li family, they did not appear at the banquet. They were too young to appear on such an occasion.
Because there were so many people to meet, Chang Yue soon felt a little bored. Rather than socializing here, she would rather go back to the yard to make two more batches of medicine or meditate for a while.
A group of young masters and ladies gathered together, chatting about everything from martial arts moves to world knowledge, from talking about the future to bragging and joking, and it was very lively for a while.
Because they are all family friends, the young masters and ladies are all familiar with each other, and most of them have good relations with each other. Only Changyue, who does not know anyone, quietly hides aside and is lazy.
Chang Yue sat in a pavilion in the corner of the garden. Granny Feng couldn't help but said: "Actually, young lady can also make a few more friends. Today's visitors are all family friends of the Li family. There can always be one or two who suit the young lady's temperament." It’s good to have even one good friend.”
Grandma Feng was also worried about Chang Yue's future.
People who hang out in the world more or less need a few friends. Those who live alone and never get into trouble are generally the best among masters.
Changyue sighed and said, "Mother-in-law, who would make friends with someone like me who can't even practice cultivation?"
The aristocratic family attaches great importance to the cultivation of their offspring. To put it bluntly, in their family, even the sweeper knows how to use both fists and kicks.
You see, Chang Yue herself doesn't know how to practice, but the maids assigned to her are all trained to knock down an ordinary strong man with one punch.
People like Chang Yue who can't practice at all are really rare (in the past).
"Hi~"
After listening to Chang Yue's words, Granny Feng could only sigh softly. From the outside, her young lady was indeed a weak woman who had never practiced cultivation. She didn't know if it was because of her special physique.
Grandma Feng sometimes suspected that the elder of the Li family did not find out the young lady's cultivation talent. It was probably this special physique that was causing trouble.
Although Granny Feng misunderstood, she did not persuade Chang Yue to make friends.
At this time, Sang Ye, who was bored, suddenly discovered that by the lake not far from the pavilion where they were, there were two men in rich clothes pointing at them. One was in green clothes and the other in white. They were both handsome young men. .
Sang Ye was confused: Could it be that my young lady is so beautiful that she attracted the attention of the young men?
Sang Ye couldn't hear clearly what the two people by the lake were saying, but Chang Yue, who had outstanding cultivation, could hear it clearly.
"Brother Song, do you see that the seventh lady of the Li family is sitting in the pavilion over there?" The young man in green said to the young man in white.
Chang Yue had met these two young masters before following her eldest brother. If I remember correctly, the one in green clothes was He Longxin from the He family, and the one in white clothes was Song Shi from the Song family.
Song Shi and Chang Yue of the Song family had similar identities, they were concubines.
The situation of the He family is somewhat special. The current head of the He family is a woman. Although she has more than one husband, she only has one child, who is the current young head of the He family.
Giving birth to children for female warriors is very harmful to the body, so after the He family master gave birth to one child, he never gave birth to a second one.
This He Longxin is the son of the younger brother of the head of the He family. Although he is the legitimate son, his status in the He family is equally mediocre because of his low cultivation talent.
It's just that Chang Yue didn't understand why she, a person who usually had almost no sense of presence, attracted these two people to discuss.
Song Shi glanced at Chang Yue, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised. Although the seventh lady of the Li family could not practice cultivation, she was indeed more beautiful.
It's just that her face is too pale. It looks a bit scary...
Song Shi couldn't help but think of what his mother had said to him before.
When the head of the Song family proposed marriage to Li Xuan, Li Xuan casually mentioned Chang Yue, so the head of the Song family originally wanted to recommend Song Shi as the marriage partner.
However, Li Xuan later refused, so the matter was settled. The relationship between the Li family and the Song family had always been very good, so no one cared about it.
Later, the head of the Song family accidentally mentioned it to Song Shi's aunt, and the aunt took it to heart and secretly cried in front of her son.
Aunt Song Shi complained that the head of the Song family didn't care about her son. Although he was just a concubine, he couldn't be worthy of a sick girl who couldn't practice.
She didn't dare to complain in front of the head of the Song family, so she could only cry in front of her son.
The concubines married by heads of aristocratic families are usually women who have not practiced cultivation, so their status in the family is very low. If they do not have a son and a half, their status will be even lower.
To be honest, Song Shi had no objections to marrying the seventh lady of the Li family. He was not very talented in cultivation and had no special abilities. His future in this life could be seen almost at a glance.
But it will be different if he becomes the marriage partner of the Song family and the Li family. Regardless of how successful he will be in the future, it will definitely be no problem to live a decent life. Isn't this better than marrying another woman?
Now seeing such a beautiful Changyue, Song Shi was a little ready to move.
Seeing Song Shi in a daze, He Longxin pushed him.
"Why are you so dazed? Are you really attracted to this sick boy?"
Song Shi came back to his senses and quickly waved his hands and said: "Brother He, please don't use the title "Sick Yangzi" to describe Miss Li Qi. Miss Qi's current situation is not what she wants."
He Longxin curled his lips and said: "She's still protected. If you ask me, she is just a waste who can't practice. It's okay to take her home as a concubine. As a wife, Brother Song must think carefully."
He Longxin actually said this on purpose because he heard the rumors about the marriage between the Song family and the Li family.
Because his cultivation talent is not good, what He Longxin usually hears his father say the most is, "Look at so and so from the Li family, and look at you!"
It is true that most of the children of the Li family have outstanding talents, which is obvious to all in Mingyue City.
After being talked about so much, He Longxin naturally developed a rebellious mentality. Now that he saw the seventh Miss of the Li family who could not practice cultivation, he wanted to express his anger no matter what.
Just now he saw Chang Yue walking towards the pavilion, so he pulled Song Shi over as if unintentionally.
