As soon as Mrs. Tai heard the name and surname of the distinguished guest on this post, she knew why this distinguished guest came, although she didn't want to see her in her heart, in the end, she was the wife of the left prime minister who was now in power, and she didn't dare not see it. I had to order the fifth wife to write a reply, saying that she didn't dare to work and drive, and she should have gone to ask in person, just because there was filial piety in the house, and she was anti-labor and respectful.

On the right day, the big and small families came to kowtow to Mrs. Tai one by one and wish her birthday. Zhao Yiming personally held a bowl of longevity noodles and sent it to Mrs. Tai, "This is the longevity noodles cooked by my mother, may my grandmother be blessed with longevity and Songhe will live longer!"

For a while, Mrs. Tai ate longevity noodles, laughing with her grandchildren, while listening to the birthday gifts sent by Zheng Pingjia, the wife of the housekeeper in the house, who came back to her relatives from time to time. Before Mrs. Zuo Xiang arrived, a group of male servants and maids from the Prime Minister's Mansion carried more than a dozen birthday gifts to Uncle Anyuan's Mansion.

The two housekeepers who led the way were naturally invited to the upper room by Mrs. Tai, and everyone saw that the two daughters-in-law were dressed in silk and satin, and the silver silk mustache on their heads was also inserted in gold and silver, and their dress was even stronger than that of the ladies of ordinary large families.

The two daughters-in-law saluted, and said in their mouths: "My wife ordered me to take a step forward with the birthday gift to give the old lady a birthday, and our wife will already go out to celebrate the old lady's birthday!" ”

On the one hand, he respectfully handed the gift list to the fifth wife, only to see that the gift list read: 600 longevity peaches, 600 bunches of silver silk longevity noodles, two high-quality Korean ginseng, and two high-quality American ginseng; Two crowns of seven beams of gold line, two pendants of golden box jade, two hanging necks, one of the eight immortals of Qingshou broad jade, and one of Shousong unicorn broad jade; Twelve pieces of red makeup over the shoulder cloud and phoenix satin, twelve horses of red carved silk peacock cloud satin, twelve horses of red gold phoenix cloud silk, twelve horses of green makeup flower fairy crane element, twelve horses of green makeup gold makeup flower phoenix luo, twelve horses of agarwood weaving gold makeup flower phoenix yarn; There are two large screens around the longevity of Magu painted in gold, and two silver deer inlaid with treasure camel coral.

When Mrs. Tai saw that this birthday gift was so generous, she hurriedly said: "This birthday gift is also a little heavier!" "The busy man took the best red seal and rewarded the two housekeeper ladies, and ordered to reward the other servants who came to deliver things, and at the same time ordered someone to invite these two housekeeper ladies to the side hall for tea.

In the midst of the chaos, someone suddenly came to report that Mrs. Zuo's sedan chair had entered the gate, and Mrs. Tai hurriedly ordered Mrs. Fourth and Mrs. Fifth to go to the second gate to greet each other. Aunt Liu was also busy following behind the fourth wife, wanting to go out with her to see the prime minister's wife earlier.

Zuo Xiang's wife, Sun, like the Empress Dowager Sun she had served, is simply a legend in the eyes of concubines like Aunt Liu. One ascended to the supreme position step by step from the outer room and became the first-class noble queen mother in the world, and the other was from a small palace maid, first married to the prime minister of the dynasty and became the second wife, gave birth to two sons in a row, and finally was straightened into the wife of the main room.

You must know that the Empress Dowager Sun is the mother of the country, and in the end, it was not her emperor's husband who corrected her, but the title of Queen Mother that his son earned for her after arguing with the ministers for three years, but this Mrs. Sun really broke the law of "don't take a concubine as a wife" and was supported by Zuo Xiang, which is simply a model for their concubines!

Every time they think of such a successful and corrected prime minister's wife, their concubines feel that they finally have a hope for this day, and they can one day get rid of the lowly status of this concubine's house.

The fourth wife and her party arrived outside the second gate, and Mrs. Zuo Xiang's sedan chair had already arrived, and two maids in green shirts and plain skirts lifted the sedan curtain and helped out a middle-aged beauty.

Aunt Liu hurriedly straightened her neck and looked at it with good eyes. I just feel worthy of being a good lady, that whole body style, tsk! What especially makes Aunt Liu's eyes hot is the gold thread five-beam crown that Mrs. Sun wears on her head, which is surrounded by beads and greenery, so it dazzles people's eyes, and she can't help but sigh in her heart, I don't know when I can wear such a gold crown, and I have such a life to wear it!

The two wives of the Bofu were busy going up to greet the ceremony, and they all hugged Mrs. Sun and went to Mrs. Tai's upper room. The second wife led the girls to wait outside the Xuhui Hall to greet them, and when Mrs. Sun was welcomed, she met Mrs. Tai and sat down, and Mrs. Sun first said a few auspicious words to congratulate her birthday.

When Mrs. Tai heard this, she said: "Because I still have to keep filial piety to my second son, and this birthday is not a whole life, so I didn't set up a banquet to entertain relatives and friends, and I don't want Mrs. to come to my wife in person to congratulate my old wife on his birthday, which is really tormenting the old body!" ”

Mrs. Sun said with a smile: "The old lady is an elder, I am a junior, I didn't know when your birthday was, but now that I know, I naturally want to come to congratulate you on your birthday." And this is also the order of our family's Xiangye, that is, these birthday gifts are also selected by Xiangye, but some mustaches are thin, just ask the old lady not to dislike it! ”

Cai Wei couldn't help frowning slightly when she heard this, feeling that this speech was a bit nondescript. Just thinking about it in his heart, he saw that Mrs. Sun had turned her eyes to the girls and said with a smile: "These are the granddaughters of the old lady, I have heard that several young ladies in the Bofu are all very good, and now when I see them, they really live up to their reputation!" ”

Why does this sound so awkward?

Cai Wei couldn't help but glance at Yizhi, and when she saw that Mrs. Tai ordered them to come forward to see Mrs. Sun, they all stepped forward to greet the prime minister's wife in twos and threes according to the order of teeth. Although this Mrs. Xiangguo is not very clever in her words, she is very generous, and she gave each of the five young ladies of the Zhao family, a pair of gold box jade inlaid jewelry bracelets with seven taels and a gold peony inlaid with five treasures and silk rings.

Later, Cai Wei and the two daughters of the second aunt Zhao Mingxiang, Wu Wan and Wu Juan, the granddaughters of the three wives, came forward to greet them, and Mrs. Sun also gave each of them a pair of bright and heavy gold bracelets and a gold lotus inlaid jewelry ring.

Yi Fei and Yi Fen were overjoyed to see that they had received such a rich meeting gift, but in Cai Wei's heart, they were a little disappointed in this Xiangguo lady.

Before seeing her real person, Cai Wei was also a little curious about this strange woman, because this lady can be said to be the first concubine to be officially corrected since the founding of the Great Qin. After all, since the beginning of the founding of the Great Qin Dynasty, Emperor Gaozong set the law of "no concubines as wives" when he revised the "Great Qin Law".

In the meantime, although there are also men from high-ranking families who want to straighten it out because they love the concubine room, they don't dare to blatantly change the concubine room into the main room, and most of them send the concubine room out first, re-install a decent identity and then marry in.

Previously, there was a county king in the Northern Qin Dynasty who wanted to straighten a concubine as a step-room, and he had to send it out first, assuming that the daughter of a good family would marry in, but later the matter was leaked out, not only was the concubine beaten back to its original form, but the county king was also questioned*.

I didn't want to go to Yan Qin here, because Emperor Hongwu made a good start, and the distinction between concubines and concubines was far less clear than before, and I didn't think that in the current Emperor Lin De Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Sun actually forced her son to change the law, and deleted the article that he could not take a concubine as a wife from the "Great Qin Law", and he actually promised that the concubine room could be corrected.

Therefore, for Mrs. Sun, a strange woman who can change the laws of the dynasty for her, Cai Wei previously thought that she must be a woman with something extraordinary, but she didn't want to see it now, her words and demeanor were really a little disappointing.

I heard Mrs. Sun say again: "Actually, the reason why I took the liberty to come here today is because our two families will become a good family in a few days, and I always have to discuss a few words with the old lady for this matter." ”

Mrs. Tai didn't realize that before she could say a few words, the prime minister's wife went straight to the point like this, and regardless of the girls on the side, she hurriedly asked Yizhi to take her sisters to go somewhere else for a while. Only then did he look at Mrs. Sun and said, "I don't know what Mrs. said, what is the matter?" ”

Mrs. Sun couldn't help but secretly say in her heart: "Knowingly ask!" ”

Although she is now also a noble lady with a good fate, whenever she deals with these famous ladies who are really from a family, she still can't stand their attitude of pretending to be confused, and she always beats around the bush and hides her words. It's just that this old woman is pretending to be confused with her here, and she can't tell the truth well, after all, the reputation of filial piety is not very good.

So I had to say: "I just saw the old lady's eldest granddaughter born very well, and looked dignified and generous, I heard that it was raised in front of the old lady, how can there be anything bad about the person □□ by this old lady?" I wanted to ask the old lady to be my eldest daughter-in-law, but I don't know what the old lady wants? ”

Although Mrs. Tai probably guessed the intention of this Mrs. Sun today, she knew that this family business was bound to be done, but she always didn't want to make the Prime Minister feel too smooth. Then he said: "The eldest son of your mansion is naturally excellent, but although our sister Zhi is the first among the sisters, if you don't divide your brother and sister together, she also has a cousin Brother Jun, who is sixteen years old this year, and because of his second uncle's funeral, he has not yet said his relatives." It's not good that this brother hasn't married yet, but he married off a sister first. ”

As soon as Mrs. Sun heard this, she looked at the eldest lady and raised her eyebrows and smiled: "It turns out that the old lady is worried about this, hasn't the eldest lady told the old lady about that happy event?" So that the old lady knows that the family affairs of the chief son of your mansion have also been decided. ”