When Xiao'er returned to the mansion, she found that the sky in the west had darkened.

A storm is coming.

Xiao'er walked to the courtyard where Liu's was, and along the way, she saw many maids and mothers-in-law running to pack up their things.

This morning, the sun was just right, Liu thought that he was about to give birth, so he asked the maid to take out the baby clothes and cradles, cots, quilts and other supplies that had been prepared and cleaned long ago to dry in the sun.

Xiao'er walked into the house and saw Lu and Liu sitting together chatting, talking about what happened on the street yesterday.

When the two of them saw Xiao'er coming in, they hurriedly stopped, after all, it was not a good thing, and it was not suitable for the little girl to hear.

They didn't know that Xiao'er had known about it for a long time, and she had a part in designing it.

"Why does the fourth aunt have time to come and sit today?" Xiao'er walked in and said hello.

"There is a letter from my hometown, saying that Shen Jingwen is going to get married, let me and your fourth uncle go back and invite your family to go back for dinner. Lu Shi took out a letter and handed it to Xiao'er.

Xiao'er took it and saw that the words should have been written by Old Man Shen, and it could be seen from the handwriting that the person who wrote the letter was a little overwhelmed.

Old Man Shen is also old, and his life should have become more and more difficult in the past few years.

Xiao'er's family didn't pay much attention, but they could imagine it.

The content of the letter is very simple, just invite the two of them to go back to the banquet, in the end they are brothers who are related by blood, just go back to drink the wedding wine, the whole village is invited, there is no other meaning.

After reading the letter, Xiao'er asked Lu, "Do the fourth uncle and fourth aunt plan to go back?"

They have already severed their relations with those two people, and their own family will definitely not go back, and it is reasonable not to go back, of course, they will definitely be said by bitter people that they are impersonal, but many officials in the imperial city also have hometowns, and this is not modern, and there are planes to sit on, and it is very convenient to go abroad! If every official goes back to his hometown to drink wine, then there is no need to work in the yamen all year round! Just pass by on the road.

Lu Shi hesitated a little and said: "You and your fourth uncle's shop are inseparable from people, and besides, Jing Jie is still studying in the academy, and the two younger ones are young, so it is difficult for us to find time to rush back, and this time it will be delayed for more than two months! I don't want to go back! What about you?"

After going back, she didn't know that something would happen, what if Shen Zhuang's pretended to be sick and asked her to serve her illness and was dragged back and couldn't come back, she couldn't forget how they left Shengping County in the first place.

Xiao'er nodded, this means that she doesn't want to go back, it's normal to not want to go back.

"We're definitely not going back. My mother is about to give birth, my father has official duties, my brother and my brother will be out next year, now is the critical moment for studying, and besides, our two families have broken off the relationship, there is no need to go back. Xiao'er shook her head without thinking about it.

In the past few years, the New Year's gift has not been given, probably because Old Man Shen saw that many years had passed, and he wanted to ease the relationship between them!

Liu nodded: "Don't go back, I think that since the whole village has been invited, then I will be as polite as the people in the village, and then let the housekeeper send a foot of cloth or a basket of eggs to the banquet!"

If there is a happy event in the village, if the whole village is invited to a banquet, everyone will use a basket of eggs or a half-foot cloth to make a gift.

In recent years, there have been happy events in the village, and they have invited their families, and the Liu family has asked the housekeeper to come forward to accompany the ceremony and eat the banquet, as for what to send, it depends on the previous relationship.

Lu's Family: This is to treat the people in the second room of the big house as neighbors in the village! It would be nice if their family could do the same! I am really worried that when the things are delivered, the people in the second room of the big house will think that they are doing well, and they will stick up like leeches to suck blood. If it is not delivered well, there are shops in the town, and the emperor has a shop, which will be criticized by the people in the village!

Lu Shi is a person who is reluctant to face, but he doesn't want to send more things cheaper, and he is worried about being talked about.

"So how do we do it in our family? I always feel that it is not appropriate to do whatever we want. "Lu's head is authentic. They almost miscarred themselves, and the Lu family really didn't want to have a relationship, but unfortunately they didn't break off their relatives, and they had to prepare a heavy gift for the sake of fame, which made her feel particularly aggrieved.

This is not easy for Liu to answer.

"What's so difficult about this, people pay attention to the exchange of gifts, how does Xiao Jingmin's hometown follow the gift when the moon is full, how can the fourth aunt follow the ceremony!" "Why do many people write down these things in the book at home, just for the purpose of future gift exchanges! The gift is not good if it is light, and it is not good if the gift is heavy! First, it is their own loss, and secondly, for the people who value etiquette, next time others will send the same heavy gift back, if the family is not in a good situation, it will increase the burden of others!

Lu Shi clapped his hands: "Why didn't I think of it!"

Lu's youngest son was full moon, Shen Zhuang's sent half a foot of moldy cloth over, and the second room sent a basket of eggs, and I don't know if the eggs were originally stinky or stinky on the way to them, in short, Lu Shi received a basket of rotten eggs! She was so angry that she almost didn't take the carriage back and threw them in Li's face one by one! It was hard to feel that none of the eggs in the basket with more straw than eggs were broken along the way! Lu thought hatefully.

Now is indeed the time for reciprocal gifts!

She had to go home and rummage through the storeroom to see if there was any moldy cloth, and she saluted them to the long house, and she gave them enough foot!

I really regret throwing away the half-foot moldy cloth at that time!

"When are the four brothers and sisters going to bring things back, my family seems to have goods to be shipped to Huiping County tomorrow, and by the way, I will help you bring your things." Liu said.

"Okay, I'll go back tonight and prepare the gifts, and I'll send them early tomorrow morning. Lu nodded.

Xiao'er glanced out the window, only to see that the wind was raging, and the rain was about to fall, so she said, "It's going to rain heavily, the fourth aunt will go back after dinner." I'll go back to my house first. ”

Lu nodded and talked to Liu about some family life.

This rain has been falling for more than an hour, and after dinner, Shangguan Xuanyi has not sent someone to deliver the news, thinking that it should be that the waiter is on the side and can't leave.

Xiao'er looked at the garden after being washed by the wind and rain a little distracted, Shangguan Xuanyi has a pill in his hand, the emperor will definitely be fine, but I don't know why the emperor suddenly fainted.

When a person is old, the body will be worse year by year, and the function of every organ in the body will naturally decline.

The emperor fainted this time, which will probably bring hope to some people.

Xiao'er thought to herself while writing down the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts for her subordinates.