Chapter 53: Heavy Gifts
Xie Hengxu's one-month break ended shortly after the New Year's Festival, and after returning to the 9-to-5 shift, he returned to the prime minister's mansion every day when he returned to the city, and he was always cheeky and cheeky.
Jiang Luoxiu completely ignored this, but Jiang Ge secretly glared at him at the dinner table every time.
This year is the second year of Qianhua, and the first major event after the emperors ascended the throne was to enrich the harem. In March, show girls from all over the country were sent to the palace one after another, and for a time the business of spices and silk shops was very prosperous.
As early as a few days ago, Princess Shenghua gave instructions up and down the mansion, and even took Jiang Yi's wife Bai to personally supervise the people's work, from the invitation posts and banquet dishes of the guests at the ceremony, to the smoky satin decorated on every corridor in the prime minister's mansion and the pruning of flowers and plants in the garden.
Xie Fushang's second aunt Bai and the princess Wang visited every day, helping Princess Shenghua to prepare for the ceremony. The entire Prime Minister's Mansion seems to have been renovated again, and Rao is a calm and Taishan-like person like Jiang Luoxiu couldn't help twitching, and when he returned home one day, he thought he had gone to the wrong door.
And the protagonist of the ceremony, Tilian, has become the most leisurely person in Manchuria, she moved to an independent pavilion two days early, no longer lives in Pine Garden, after all, it was because of her father's love that she was left to live in Pine Garden to such a big age, and now the lady of the capital will come on the day of the ceremony, if people know that she still lives in Pine Garden, it will inevitably be chewed on the root of the tongue.
The new residence of Tilian is named 'Tanghai Garden', which is located in the northeast of Songyuan, separated by two corridors, but is vaguely opposite Jiang Li's 'Hezhai'.
In the center of the yard is a hundred-year-old begonia, this season of the enchanting begonia is in full bloom, the wind is blowing down a rain of flowers, paved in the courtyard full of jade and white gravel red and white poetic and picturesque. Surrounded by a verandah, the bamboo curtain is rolled under the porch, a pot of silk butterfly orchid is placed on the fence, the floor of the vermilion wood is newly painted, and the maids scrub the dust every day.
The pavilion where Tillian lives has two floors, the first floor is transformed into a hall, separated by two floor-to-ceiling eight-fold screens of Fanbang tribute Fulin painted ladies, facing the open four-fold front door for the hospitality, bypassing the screen on the east side is a simple study, furnishing the four treasures of the study and two rows of bookshelves, the main wall of the study is repaired with a vermilion staircase, covered with a crystal low tear curtain, on which is the outer room and the inner room where Tillian lives, the south side of the outer room is carved with six closed windows, and there are two soft couches side by side under the window, and the whole can be seen from this direction. The view of the Xiangfu to the south of the Begonia Garden.
This pavilion of Biwa Zhumu is Princess Shenghua after entering the palace and ordered people to start repairing, which lasted three years, is a boudoir specially built for Tilian, it can be seen that when she entered the mansion, she had the intention of getting along with Tilian intimately, but these years have not been exchanged for Tilian a 'mother'.
There are two days of Di Lian's and the ceremony, the house has been someone in advance to send a generous gift, this gift only with the Prime Minister of the people who have a lot of friendship will prepare, is a special gift to Di Lian, will only be more valuable than others, such as the Su family and the Bai family, to the day of the ceremony they will also prepare a new gift that is not heavy or light, and all the guests' gifts are recorded on the gift list, so that it will not lead outsiders to speculate and discuss, and all the closeness to the Prime Minister's house, is the practice of the current aristocracy.
At this time, Di Lian was leaning on the soft couch under the south window on the second floor, looking through the three gifts that Princess Shenghua asked Mama Xun to send in person.
Qinghui stood aside, pointed to the smallest purple satin brocade box and said, "This is sent by the Rongguo Mansion." He pointed to the southernmost red satin box, "This is Baifu's." ”
His eyes fell on the middle and largest jasper carved box, and Tilian stretched out her plain finger and knocked it, and said in a low voice, "This must have been sent by the Su family of the Chengguo Mansion." ”
Qingwei smiled and nodded, "That's what Miss said." ”
Glancing down, Tilian opened the red satin square box on the left hand, but saw that the box was lined with plain white, and inside it was a pair of jade bracelets with white fat and bloodshots.
"Mama Xun said, this is a rare moon wash jade, absorbing the light of the sun and the moon, and the night is like a pearl, and now there are only two in the entire Xialan." , Qinghu's gentle eyebrows were slightly curved, and he explained softly to Tilian.
What kind of moon washed jade, it's just moonstone, it will be valuable because of the rarity of things, but the Bai family sent such a gift, it was indeed painstaking.
Gently put it back in the box, the moon eyes wandered away and looked at the jasper hairpin box sent by the Su family of Chengguo Gong, and no matter what the contents were, the texture and carving of this jade box alone can be seen to be precious, both hands lifted the jade cover, and suddenly felt a cold fragrance coming to her face, seeing the contents clearly, Tillian couldn't help but be stunned.
"What is this?" , Qinghu asked with a puzzled and surprised expression.
Closing the jade cover, Tilian said lightly, "It is one of the two heirlooms of the Chengguo Mansion." ”
Qing Huo was startled, his gentle eyes widened, this is really willing to pay blood, if he guessed correctly, it is rumored that the Su family has carefully maintained the blood jade pendant for a hundred years, and if the Bai family's pair of moon-washed jade bracelets are priceless, then this blood jade pendant can be described as a priceless treasure.
Di Lian was also a little surprised, such an object was that the eldest granddaughter of the Su family married into the East Palace, and now Queen Su, who is now the mother of a country, has not been able to get it, since it was sent to her at will, what idea the Su family had was really unpredictable.
After seeing such a treasure, Tilian stabilized her mind, opened the remaining purple satin brocade box, and saw the fine pen of a tourmaline glass rod, and couldn't help but be stunned.
Qing Huo smiled when he saw his eyebrows, and said softly, "This is sent by the Duchess of Rongguo herself, and it is said that it is a birthday gift from Mrs. Xie to the young lady." ”
Grandmother, Tillian's eyes were slightly hot, she gently stroked the glass pen, pursed her lips and said slightly, "This is the Xie family's life talisman, why did my grandmother give it away so lightly." ”
Qing Wei smiled when he heard this, "Miss, this is Old Madam Xie's intention. If you feel that the gift is too heavy, when the young lady leaves the cabinet, this money will be taken back as a dowry. ”
"That's what my aunt said." , Tillian smiled lightly on the lid of the box, "These things are precious things, none of them can be damaged in the slightest, my aunt will receive it in the locker at the head of the bed for me." ”
"The slave knows, Miss don't worry." , Qingwei responded, gently picked up the three gift boxes on the small table, and walked to the inner room.
The moon's eyes moved lightly, Tilian looked at the courtyard outside the window, the breeze was blowing the flowers and rain, she couldn't help but smile lightly, reached out and touched the snow that was sleeping lazily on her legs, and muttered, "You are old, you can't be so lazy." ”
The ferret seemed to hear her, raised its pointed head and arched her hand, then threw herself on Tillian's leg and 'squeaked' twice, and with a bow of her hind legs, she jumped out of the window.
Seeing this, Tilian couldn't help but stare at the moon's eyes, lying by the window and looking at the snow like white light, she flashed into the canopy of the begonia tree and disappeared, and couldn't help but raise her voice and reprimand.
"You're old now, and you're still playing tantrums with me! If you have the ability, stay in the tree and don't come back! ”
Hearing a burst of laughter, Di Lian followed the sound and saw a few people walking slowly on the corridor in the east, and it was Liu Junchen who led the way with a smile, and behind him was a handsome man in a Yuehua robe, who was not Yun Shili who had not been seen for months? Behind him, a brown robe and a navy blue military uniform were none other than Uncle Liang and Song Jue.
Xu is seeing her, Yun Shili tilted his head slightly and smiled gently, and Tilian also smiled when she saw this, leaned out half of her body and waved her hand at them, and exclaimed, "Shili, you are back." ”
After saying that, she watched the group turn from the east corridor to the north corridor, and in a blink of an eye they entered the open four-fold Zhu Gate, she turned around and sat down, and after a while, she heard a crisp sound of bead curtains, and with the sound of 'dong dong' staircase stamping, several people came up one after another.
Uncle Liang and Song Jue stood at the top of the stairs and bowed, and called respectfully and harmoniously, "Miss Tilian." ”
Tilian waved her hand to signal them to sit down, and looked at Yun Shili, who was slowly pacing beside her, "I said a few years ago that I would return to Beijing for the New Year, and now I will come back when spring is in the spring." ”
The deep sea-like peach blossom eyes are warm and clear, Yun Shili smiled lightly, and the petal-like diamond lips opened lightly, "The road passed, and there was a sudden trivial matter, and it was delayed." ”
Although he was still speaking slowly and intermittently, his voice was becoming more and more soft and clear, and Tilian's eyes were crooked when she heard the smile, "Fortunately, you didn't miss my gift, what gift did you bring me?" ”
Ling lips curled slightly, Yun Shili lowered his eyes and took out an object from Xue Huaguang's sleeve, and held it in his slender jade white hand and sent it to Di Lian.
Seeing the things in his hand, Di Lian couldn't help but smile lightly, this hexagonal rhombus woven by vermilion rolling thread unconsciously reminded her of the beautiful young man who was lying on the chaise longue under the locust tree, and was born like a picture scroll.
Taking it with both hands, Tillian smiled, "Thank you, I like it very much, and I will wear it on the black jade." ”
It may not be a precious thing, but it is the result of years of weaving by Yun Shili, and Tillian knows that it is more heart-warming than the priceless object.
Seeing this scene, Liu Junchen couldn't help but move his eyebrows, and suddenly laughed, "When I entered the garden gate, I heard the girl reprimanding the snow region, is it disobedient again?" ”
At the mention of this, Tilian couldn't help but purse her lips, and received the vermilion hexagonal rhombus in her hand to her waist, and then said with a little resentment, "How well-behaved Xue Yu was when he was young, and he didn't know how to learn some bad temperament with Luo Jia. ”
Yun Shili smiled when he heard this, his peach blossom eyes rippled, he knew that Di Lian, a loving pet, was the one who led Zuo Xiang when he was young, and he and Di Lian were able to get out of the pond, but they were half of his life-saving benefactors.
"Leave it to me."
Hearing him say this, Tillian blinked, and then grinned, "It's okay, your temperament is so gentle and polite, you will definitely be able to hone it back to its original well-behaved appearance." Then he looked at Song Jue, "You go to the tree to catch it down, turn around and take it all the way back to Yunhou Mansion." ”
Song Jue responded with a smile, turned around and went downstairs, jumped up in the courtyard, and before he could move, Xueyu was frightened and screamed, and rushed out like lightning, startling a burst of begonia rain, and rushed back to the second floor in the blink of an eye, squeaking around Tillian.
Di Lian snorted coldly, stared at it and said, "Girl, I'll send you to cultivate your body, and you won't be allowed to come back if you don't change your temper." ”
Yun Shili smiled when he heard this, leaned over and picked up the snowy region, and the blue eyes of the deep sea were clear and soft.