When I returned to Fushoutang, the next person came to report that the carriage of the Duchess of Dingguo had arrived at the door, and Zhang's mother was busy dressing Mrs. Xia with a hood, and then greeted her in front of the house with Chanyi.

The Duchess of Dingguo wore a blue mandarin duck rattan neck makeup gown today, combed a round bun, and only had a golden lotus on her head and a hairpin with ruby flowers.

She was followed by a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, dressed in a red skirt, with a pink plum blossom gown on the outside, a water-red gauze flower on her head, a cloisonné inlaid ruby sideburns, and a sweet smile between her eyebrows.

This is Dingguohou's sister, Wang Lin, the previous life Chanyi saw her at the banquet of the party, the two could not talk about deep friendship, as far as she knew, Wang Lin was married to the nephew of her grandmother's mother's family in the last life, that is, Zhu Bi, the uncle of the Qinghe Zhu family, and lived a very happy life.

Chanyi smiled and stepped forward to salute, "Madame is finally here, but grandmother has been talking about it for several days." ”

Duchess Dingguo bowed her head, turned her eyes to Mrs. Xia, and said with a smile: "Why did your old man come out, it's freezing outside, beware of the cold." ”

Old Mrs. Xia smiled slightly, "It's okay, the old woman's body is hard." ”

Then he talked to them enthusiastically and entered the house.

When I arrived at Fushoutang, the little maid served this year's new tea in Fujian.

As soon as Mrs. Xia picked up the tea, Chanyi said, "Grandmother, you are still taking medicine, why did you bring tea to eat again." ”

Mrs. Xia was stunned for a moment, then laughed, pointed at her and said to the Duchess of Dingguo: "Look at her, she looks like a housekeeper at a young age, I had a cold a few days ago, and the doctor told me not to eat cold and dry, so she banned my tea." ”

looked like a complaint, as if he had been wronged, but with intimacy, the distance between the two families was shortened at once.

Duchess Dingguo also laughed, and said softly: "This is your old man's blessing, the tea party is brewed with medicinal properties, you still avoid it, and it is more important than anything else to get better as soon as possible." ”

Chanyi said: "Grandmother, don't sue, when you are well, there will be some Wuyi sparrow tongues there in the evening, and they will be brought to you to eat," instructed the maid to withdraw the old lady's tea bowl, and put a Sichuan Beiqiu pear soup to her, and then said, "You should eat more sweet soup now, and the tea will be free." ”

Seeing the girl who was only eleven or twelve years old chattering about her grandmother's concerned expression, quite a little doll pretending to be an adult, Duchess Dingguo couldn't help but smile and glanced at her daughter.

Wang Lin understood, and took the dim sum box she carried with her and came out to the old lady, "This is the dim sum that my mother taught me to make, give it to the old lady to taste." ”

The vermilion food box with peony patterns was opened, and inside were several unique snacks, all of which looked like peony flowers, from budding to fully blooming, and sprinkled with icing sugar and nuts.

Such a delicate snack is nothing more than a reward in the palace.

Old Mrs. Xia glanced at it, and said with a smile: "It's really ingenious, it's the first time I've seen such exquisite tricks," and looked at the Duchess of Dingguo kindly, "Madame is from the south, when it comes to eating, the south is still more refined than the north." ”

Mrs. Dingguo said with a smile: "It's the Yunzhou Cai family, since the husband went, he has been busy taking care of the affairs of the house, and he hasn't been back for many years." ”

Mrs. Xia thought of Dingguo Gong, who was a capable minister, both civil and military, who had made meritorious contributions to following Emperor Taizong to quell the chaos, and was also hot back then, but unfortunately she died of a sudden illness when she was still in her prime, otherwise today's court will definitely not be the dominant Wei family.