Chapter 5 Birthday Celebrations
Zhuo Yijia returned to the courtyard, and more and more people came to congratulate Mrs. Zhuo Jiahua on her birthday. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Mrs. Hua, this is the longevity stone that our family has prepared for you! This stone is a stone when you look at it, and when you look at it from the side, it is the word 'longevity'. The meaning is to wish you a long life than Nanshan!" said a woman in the hall to the old lady with the support of the maid.
Old Lady Hua, who was sitting at the top of the hall, smiled and nodded. Mama Cao on the side raised her voice and said, "Sit down and serve tea!"
"Old Mrs. Hua, this is a congratulatory gift prepared for you by our Ji family, Buddha beads made of warm jade in Dongshan. After the old woman retreated, a younger man stepped forward and greeted Mrs. Zhuo.
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Zhuo Yijia went to the hall and sat in front of the Huali case in the inner room of the Zhuo family, quietly looking at the people in the hall who were celebrating his birthday.
Let's not say that Mrs. Hua is the second lady of the order, the Zhuo family is one of the three major families of Nanshang, or the only family of military generals, the ancestors have followed the founding emperor of Nanshang to conquer the world, and then went north many times to fight against the barbarians, and regained lost territory many times in the war in Hezhou. The ancestor remembered that the Zhuo family had made meritorious contributions to the founding of the country and the family, so he awarded the hereditary title of the Zhuo family's military generals. Therefore, the 60th birthday of this old lady Hua is qualified to come to celebrate her birthday.
"Grandmother, these are sixty scriptures that my granddaughter copied for you. I wish you good luck, prosperity and good health. The second lady, Zhuo Yirou, stepped forward with a carved mahogany box. With that, he presented the peach box with a smile.
Mrs. Hua looked at Zhuo Yirou and said with a smile, "Rou'er, you have a heart." ”
Mama Cao on the side stepped forward to take the box.
Zhuo Yijia's eyes narrowed slightly, and the grandchildren of the Zhuo family began to offer congratulatory gifts.
"Grandmother, this is the hundred-year spring that your grandson has prepared for you!" It was the second young master Zhuo Yiyu who spoke. Saying that, Zhuo Yiyu picked up the jar handed over by the servant on the side, "This is good wine! There are not a hundred years, but fifty years, and I let people dig it up from the ground!"
As he spoke, Zhuo Yiyu smiled flatteringly and handed the wine to Mrs. Hua.
"You monkey. will engage in these crooked ways. Mrs. Hua said with a smile while motioning for Mama Cao to take it.
The Zhuo family is a family of military generals, and the women in the family are more beautiful and heroic than the average lady, and it is not surprising that Mrs. Hua has been to the frontier and mixed among the soldiers, so it is not surprising that she loves to drink.
"What grandmother likes is crooked, and my grandson has to get it for you!" Zhuo Yiyu smiled flatteringly at Mrs. Hua. The old lady Hua who was amused by one sentence smiled.
Then the grandchildren of the Zhuo family presented their congratulatory gifts to Mrs. Hua one by one, and the last one was the daughter of Aunt Wen in the second room, Miss Zhuo Yiyun, the sixth lady.
"Grandmother, this is the longevity picture I embroidered for you. Zhuo Yiyun smiled and stepped forward with a two-foot longevity chart and said respectfully to Mrs. Hua.
"Hmm. Mrs. Hua nodded and said, "The sixth girl has a heart." As she spoke, Mama Cao stepped forward to take Zhuo Yiyun's embroidery.
Old Lady Hua glanced at the hall and said with a smile, "All the gifts you want to give are gone." "Mrs. Hua is ready to start the dinner. Except for the congratulatory gifts sent by the palace family, which are not on time, other congratulatory gifts and congratulatory messages have to be carried out before the dinner.
But the dinner party can only be held if Mrs. Hua speaks, so now I asked everyone in the hall first.
"It's done, it's time to start the dinner. Zhuo Yiyun, who had not yet sat down in the hall, looked at Mrs. Hua and said with a smile on her face.
"Wait. Zhuo Yijia got up and said. It wasn't loud, but it was just enough for the people in the hall to hear.
When the people in the hall heard this, they looked back at the little girl in the light green skirt who stood up in the hall.
Old Mrs. Hua supported her chin with one hand, looked at Zhuo Yijia with a slow smile, and was noncommittal.
Zhuo Yiyun looked back at Zhuo Yijia who stood up, and smiled disdainfully. This fourth sister even wears clothes that are made of maids' materials, and what other good things can she give to her grandmother.
Zhuo Yijia slightly lifted her skirt and walked to the center of the hall without looking.
"Grandmother. Zhuo Yijia respectfully made a blessing salute to the top where Mrs. Hua was sitting, "Jia'er embroidered a screen for you." ”
After speaking, Qingling and Hongshan walked up carrying a two-zhang high painting screen. The bright red cloth covers it, which makes people look a little curious.
Zhuo Yijia stepped forward and picked up the cloth with one hand, looked at everyone, and then slowly uncovered the red cloth.
"This is the pine crane Changchun embroidered by Jia'er for her grandmother. Zhuo Yijia turned to the old lady Hua above and said.
Everyone in the hall looked at the picture screen and sighed. They thought it was some kind of good idea, but it turned out to be just an ordinary pair of embroidery.
Zhuo Yijia ignored everyone's disappointment. Just quietly looking at the old lady above. She hadn't thought about getting anyone in this room to pay attention to her. Except for the old lady.
Seeing this, the old lady Hua sat up a little and squinted her eyes slightly. The old lady was the second lady of the Hua family back then. Although she was raised as an adopted daughter under the knees of the Hua family's mother-in-law, her biological mother was actually Princess Jiajing of the former dynasty. When I was a child, I often went to the palace in the name of asking for peace. Now the pine crane in the pavilion, the rockery standing, is the rockery in the palace of Princess Jiajing.
At that time, because of the imperial honor, the first emperor suppressed this matter, and later gave Princess Jiajing to death for other reasons. Now almost everyone who knows about this has gone to Huangquan except for her. And this rockery disappeared in the change of dynasties.
Mrs. Hua looked thoughtfully at Zhuo Yijia who was standing next to the screen.
"You pine crane Changchun, where is the spring?"
Zhuo Yijia took in the old lady's thoughtfulness, and replied in a low voice, "The long nature is the longevity of the grandmother and the spring of the Zhuo family." ”
"Zhuo family's spring, what kind of spring is it?" asked the old lady Hua with a slight raised voice, not angry and arrogant. She looked at the picture with some trepidation.
"Grandmother and longevity are healthy, children and grandchildren are around the knees, and the Zhuo family is as prosperous as Wanmu Spring. Zhuo Yijia hooked her lips and looked at Mrs. Hua, gentle and calm.
The girl's performance in the hall did not seem to be timid at all, but it made her a little surprised. Let's not talk about whether she knows anything about this painting, even if it is not about painting, the younger generations of the Zhuo family have not been afraid of her coercion.
Zhuo Yijia just stood quietly in the lobby and made no sound. Quiet and peaceful.
Mrs. Hua looked at the smiling girl in the hall and laughed. "Mama Cao, reward. ”
"Yes. Mama Cao waved her hand to the two maids behind her, and the two maids walked up with their hands down and removed the paintings in the hall.
Mama Cao stepped forward again with a sandalwood box and handed it to Zhuo Yijia, "Fourth Miss, the old lady has something to reward you." ”
Zhuo Yijia glanced at Mama Cao and took the sandalwood box. Then he saluted the old lady Hua above, "Jia'er thanked grandmother." After finishing speaking, he took Qingling and Hongshan back to the wine case.
Zhuo Yijia returned to the wine table, knelt on the futon, and looked at the people in the hall.
In her previous life, these people bowed and bowed to her, but now that she has changed her status, the beings who look at her like this are really different from what they saw in their previous life.