On the third day of the sixth month, Yueyao went to Jingning Houfu.

Mingzhu looked at the painting scroll that Yueyao gave her, and said with a smile: "Others add makeup or give jewelry, or send embroidery, you are good, you sent a painting!" But your painting is very valuable, so I'll take it. ”

Yue Yao smiled: "This painting can only be used by yourself, and it can't be sold!" ”

Mingzhu smiled: "What kind of painting can only be used by yourself, and you can't give it away?" After opening the painting, Mingzhu's face suddenly turned red.

What Yueyao sent was not a landscape painting, nor a flower, bird, or beast, but a picture of "Sending a Child to Guanyin".

Xiang Wei said on the side: "In order to paint this painting, the girl bathed and fasted for a month, and after the painting was completed, she kept reciting the "Sending the Child Sutra" before the painting, just to bless you with an early birth to a precious son!" "No matter how good a woman's family is, she needs to have an heir to gain a firm foothold.

Mingzhu smiled: "Yueyao, I heard her sister-in-law say that the "Sending the Child Guanyin Picture" you painted is very effective, I think I will be able to give birth to a big fat boy next year!" ”

Yueyao held Mingzhu's hand and said, "If you like it, it's fine!" "Yue Yao actually doesn't think that her painting is effective at all, it's just a coincidence. However, she still hopes that Mingzhu will go smoothly in Niu's house.

Mingzhu was happy: "Of course I like it, this is a good thing that is hard to find." When she arrived at Niu's house and gave birth to several big fat sons to Niu's family, she would be able to walk sideways in Niu's house at that time.

Yueyao originally planned to go home after giving the gift, but Mingzhu didn't let her go back: "Yueyao, there are only a few days left, you will accompany me." ”

Bai Yi said with a smile on the side: "Miss Yueyao, you can stay and accompany our girl!" You don't know, our girl has been so nervous these days that she can't sleep. You said that if you can't sleep for these two days, it will not be appropriate to wait until the day you get married. ”

Mingzhu chick kept nodding his head as if pecking rice: "Yes, yes, Yueyao, you think, if I fell asleep in the sedan chair on the day of marriage, how faceless it would be!" ”

Xiang Wei smiled beside her: "It's okay to fall asleep on the sedan chair, I'm afraid you will fall asleep in the new house." When the groom went in, the bride fell asleep without waiting for him, and that was the embarrassment! ”

Yue Yao scolded with a smile: "You can't say something good." "This dead woman, who speaks openly, doesn't know how to hide it.

Mingzhu has long been accustomed to Xiang Wei's crow's mouth: "Yueyao, you will stay with me." Okay, right? ”

Yueyao hesitated a little: "Mingzhu, as soon as you know about me." I'm afraid it's not right for you to stay. Although Yueyao doesn't care much about losing her parents, people who do happy events are generally taboo about this, so Yueyao doesn't want to stay.

Mingzhu sneered: "Yueyao, what do you care about those long-mouthed tongues? We've been friends for so many years, how can I still care about this. ”

Yueyao couldn't resist Mingzhu's plea in the end, and finally stayed with Mingzhu, even at night, the two also slept together.

The tung oil lamp in the room had been taken out by Bai Yi, but with the moonlight shining in from outside, the things in the room were still clearly visible.

Mingzhu pondered for a long time and said, "Yueyao, what are your plans for the future?" ”

Yueyao asked strangely, "Okay, why do you ask about this?" ”

Mingzhu said worriedly: "I'm worried that your single-minded painting will delay the major events of your life." Yueyao, although it is not as good as the founding of the country, which requires a woman to marry at the age of sixteen, but a woman is not a good person after the age of eighteen. Yueyao, you have to step up, you can't be so indifferent anymore. ”

Yue Yao smiled: "Let it be!" ”

Mingzhu was worried about Yueyao's attitude: "What is casualness." If you don't plan to get married, even if you have fate, fate will fly away. ”

Yue Yao asked in surprise, "How do you know that I have no plans to get married?" ”

Mingzhu glanced at Yueyao: "I've known you for seven years, and I don't know what you think?" Yueyao, you can't have this idea. After all, a woman still has to get married, so that she can have something to rely on! ”

Yue Yao turned over, and then said, "If you don't marry, you won't have anything to rely on?" I think it's good to be alone. ”

Mingzhu sighed, she was worried that Yueyao would have this idea, so she picked up this topic today: "It's good to be alone, but don't you think it's too lonely to be alone?" I know you like to paint, but can they talk and laugh when you're lonely, and can they relieve you when you're unhappy? Can't you? ”

Yue Yao shook her head and said, "I'm not alone. ”

Mingzhu cut the hair hanging on Yueyao's face and followed it to the back of her ears: "You are only sixteen years old now, so naturally you will not feel lonely, but when you are fifty or sixty years old, you will still feel that you are not lonely?" At that time, will you still be able to live with the drawings every day? ”

Yueyao was silent.

Mingzhu said: "Yueyao, I know you like to paint, but marrying someone does not conflict with painting. After getting married, you can still paint, and you can become a great painter like Mr. Yushan. ”

Yueyao smiled bitterly: "How can it be so easy, after getting married, your energy will be scattered a lot." ”

Mingzhu didn't answer, but asked Yueyao a question: "Yueyao, you like children so much, you never thought of having a child connected to your blood?" ”

Yueyao thought of the child who was gone before it took shape, and her heart ached. In order to prevent Mingzhu from discovering her abnormality, Yueyao closed her eyes.

Mingzhu was worried about saying too much, which provoked Yueyao's disgust: "Yueyao, you must think about these things carefully." ”

Yue Yao calmed down and asked with a smile, "What will happen if you think about it clearly?" ”

Mingzhu saw that Yueyao's expression was not unusual, and he said happily at the moment: "When you think clearly, no longer stick to your own opinions, I naturally want to find a good search and find you a wishful husband." ”

Yueyao pulled up the brocade quilt and covered Mingzhu's white and tender hands: "I'll talk about this later." It's late, go to sleep! ”

Mingzhu said this, where was he willing to interrupt: "Yueyao, you may not know that Mr. Yushan will go to Jiangnan after a while, and he will settle in Jiangnan in the future." Do you know why Mr. Yushan settled in Gangnam? ”

Yue Yao nodded: "Mr. Yushan's daughter is in Jiangnan. ”

Mingzhu smiled: "I thought you didn't know!" Mr. Yushan settled in Jiangnan because his daughter was in Jiangnan. When Mr. Yushan went to Jiangnan, even if he didn't live with his daughter and son-in-law, he could pick up his grandchildren and granddaughters to live with him. Yueyao, you can't get married now for painting, but when you become famous, it will be too late for you to marry again? ”

Yueyao was a little upset by Mingzhu's words.

Mingzhu didn't stop: "Yueyao, after getting married, it may distract you, but I believe that with your perseverance, even after getting married, you can still become a person like Mr. Yushan." ”

Yue Yao smiled: "Are you so confident in me?" "She herself has no confidence in it, Mingzhu can say it so confidently.

Mingzhu said happily: "That's natural." Yueyao, when you pass the period of flowers and apricots, the good candidates have been picked away, and you will regret it at that time. ”

Yueyao nodded Mingzhu's forehead: "Who told you today?" "There was no one to point out, Yue Yao didn't believe that Mingzhu would tell her this.

Mingzhu was very unconvinced and said: "It's whether I think it's good or not!" You're underestimating people. How could she admit that it was Xiang Wei who pointed her out, how shameless it was to say it.

Yue Yao had always known that Jingning Houfu had a lot of influence in the capital and many in-laws, but she didn't feel much about it. But in the past two days, Yueyao has felt a lot. The person who adds makeup to the pearl has never stopped from the fourth to the fifth day of junior high school. These people who came to add makeup were very generous, and the worst ones were worth hundreds of taels.

Yue Yao looked at these things that Mingzhu had received, and said with a smile: "Just these things added by others are enough to carry several times." ”

Mingzhu smiled: "If there is something you like here, you can just take it." "Mingzhu will wear the jewelry given by the Queen Mother and Luo Shao and other relatives, and she never wears it when other people give her. The reason is simple, Mingzhu doesn't use things that others have worn.

Yueyao won't ask for Mingzhu's gift: "Speaking of which, it seems to be the most shabby I gave." "A painting, although it is a thousand taels of silver to the outside world, but comparing the friendship between the two, Yueyao feels that her courtesy is light.

Mingzhu scolded with a smile: "What kind of stupid words, among the gifts I received, yours is the most valuable." "No matter how valuable the gifts given by others are, they don't have Yueyao's intentions. Think about who would fast and bathe for a month to paint her and recite a thousand times.

On the evening of June 5, someone came to the palace. The queen mother gave gifts, and then the queen and the concubines of the palace also gave gifts.

The queen mother rewarded a wish, crystal clear, fine workmanship, is a rare treasure. The jade coral bonsai given by the queen is also priceless. As for the gifts of the concubines in each palace, they are naturally worth a lot.

Yue Yao looked at these gifts and said with a smile: "These gifts alone are enough for you to eat for a lifetime." "Just by adding makeup to others, Mingzhu got tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Mingzhu didn't put it in his eyes: "These things are dead things, and what my brother gave me is the most affordable." "The dowry that Luo Shao prepared for Mingzhu was very generous. There are 3,000 acres of high-quality fertile land alone, and the grange shops are all the best.

Yue Yao smiled: "Rich and rich, but this is good." ”

When the Niu family was hired, the Luo family had already said that the courtyard that the Niu family gave Niu Yanghui to marry, whether it was the main house or the wing room, was all prepared by the Luo family, even if there was a toilet. Generally, one day of makeup is enough, but the Luo family is rich and rich, and it took four days to complete it. Moreover, these furniture made by the Luo family are all made of yellow rosewood, and these furniture are worth tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Mingzhu showed a bright smile on her face: "Yueyao, there are a lot of antique calligraphy and paintings in the dowry given by my brother, and now I can't be the master, and I can be the master after I get married." When the time comes, if there is something you like, you can choose. ”

Yue Yao remembered the painting that Ping's gave her last time, and couldn't help but feel moved, Ping's casually gave herself a painting that was a treasure, and Luo Shao's dowry to Mingzhu would definitely not be bad. Yueyao didn't pretend to Mingzhu: "Okay, when the time comes, those calligraphy and paintings are really treasured, you can borrow me to observe for a few days." "Yue Yao definitely wouldn't ask for such a valuable gift, but it's okay to take it over and observe it for a few days.

Mingzhu didn't ask either: "It's so polite in front of me, really." ”