Chapter 70: Luxury
() Mei is still very clear.
Rather than spending the silver on concubines for the prime minister and spending it on a bunch of uneasy concubines, concubines, and concubines, she is more willing to use it to give porridge, repair bridges, help the poor and the elderly, and donate incense money to save yin virtue like now. Of course, if they can really protect the sister-in-law and be safe, it would be better if they found her as soon as possible.
It's a pity that after so many years, the people in the house, including the mother-in-law herself, probably already feel that there is little hope!
Before she got married, her mother had mentioned her sister-in-law to her, and explained the cause and effect of the matter to her. also took the trouble to tell her, saying that she made a mistake in anything in the house for a while, and it didn't matter if she did something wrong, and there was still a chance to change it.
It's just the same, when you encounter something about your sister-in-law, you must consider it in your heart, and don't impulsively say anything that will misunderstand. The simplest way is to do whatever your mother-in-law tells you to do. Not only can she refute it, but she can only do it for the better. Otherwise, if she offended her mother-in-law because of this, her good life would have come to an end.
She is not an eyeless person, after looking at it over the years, she has secretly chatted with her father-in-law, and while sighing for her sister-in-law, she is even more unambiguous about her mother-in-law's words.
She is also a mother, with three sons and two daughters around her, put herself in her shoes, if this kind of thing happens to her, she is only afraid of ...... Bah, what a pity for the hearts of parents all over the world.
The simple question and answer ended quickly, and the qiē tended to calm down again.
No one here spoke anymore, one by one they were drinking tea with their heads down, and most of the tea was left when it was cold in their hands.
Even Han Hao, the second lady who was considered by the Jiang family to look the most similar to her Ruyi, and was very favored, and usually liked to talk the most, shrank her head at this time and did not dare to speak.
People really don't know what to say. The matter of finding someone has not progressed for many years, and even the person who said it will feel empty when the comforting words come out. What is the use other than to provoke Jiang's tears?
You say, say something else happy to lighten the mood?
In previous years, it was not that no one had tried, and the result was often that the Jiang family, who was particularly sensitive to tears every day, thought of his little daughter, and then flooded the golden mountain.
So in the end, the helpless people could only accompany the Jiang family to be silent. If you don't speak, everyone will simply accompany the old lady.
Everyone is silent, but no one is going to leave, or no one is going to come on this day of the year. On the contrary, everyone will consciously refuse other things in order to accompany the Jiang family on this day.
Jiang's heart was actually like a mirror, although she really didn't have the mood to speak. But I am still very touched that her husband, son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren can accompany her like this. She didn't want to let people spend too much time with her like this. So usually in the middle of the morning (9 a.m. to 11 a.m.), she will open her mouth to chase people.
But outside the house, after a long time, people who are familiar with it know that every year on October 19th, no matter how big things are, don't come to invite the people of the Lijun Palace. Even the emperor has a tacit attitude towards the father and son of the Han family, who will inevitably take leave and not go to court every day every year.
Naturally, he didn't know about this Qiē An Ruyi of the Han Mansion, even the person in charge of the Mumao Villa, who specializes in collecting and sorting out the intelligence of various families in the capital, would only sigh about the unfortunate past of the Xiali County Palace, and would never associate this with his own master.
And on October 19 of this year, An Ruyi was no different from the past. After breakfast, she was ready to take Liu Yue out for a walk, and by the way, she went to the Treasure Pavilion under the name of Mumao Villa to see if there were any suitable jewelry purchases - it is always not wrong to have a little more for the meeting gift.
October is the time when the chrysanthemums bloom and the crabs are plump.
As the saying goes, "When the autumn wind rises, the crab feet itch; Chrysanthemums bloom, smell crabs. ”
Recently, the Zhenguo Mansion has received not ten invitations to appreciate chrysanthemums and crabs, but also seven or eight. It's impossible to go all of them. However, tomorrow's invitation on October 20 is from the Qi Palace.
Other people's posts may not necessarily go, but those in Qi Wangfu can't refuse. Of course, An Ruyi didn't think about refusing.
Women, when it comes to going out for entertainment, banquets, spring or something, they will have the feeling that they are missing a piece of clothing and jewelry.
But Liu Yue has never had this feeling. On the contrary, she is distressed that she has too many clothes and jewelry, which often makes her pick and choose everything and think that everything looks good, but unfortunately she can't wear them all, so she can only choose one. So later, she simply didn't choose by herself, but let the maid who was in charge of clothes and jewelry match it for her.
An Ruyi sometimes feels that she is actually suffering from some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Every year, every season, the new clothes she prepares for her family are not based on pieces, but on the basis of boxes. Especially the new clothes and matching jewelry of herself and Liu Yue will be so frustrating that they can be worn for a whole season without repeating them once a day or twice.
Liu Heng and Liu Huairan didn't pay attention to these at all, as long as they had clean clothes every day, they didn't notice whether the clothes were new or old.
And Liu Yue had a poor experience when she was very young, she was too young and she had no memory for a long time. On the contrary, she only remembers that she has been like this since she was a child, and she can't wear new clothes every season, and many of them don't even have a chance to get on. It's the same with new jewelry, there are just too many.
Liu Yue has long been accustomed to this, not only does she not think that there is anything special about it at all, but deep down in her little heart, she even thinks that other boudoir ladies are also in this situation.
So it turned out that this is not the case, and there are still many women from all families who feel that their new clothes are not enough to wear, and there are only a few new sets of new clothes every season. When you are at home, you can't wear new clothes and new jewelry every day, and many of the clothes you wear at home will be worn to the old and new. There are only a few pieces of jewelry that are fashionable. If she saw that she liked it and had to rely on her sweet mouth to make the elders buy money, and when she complained in private, she was surprised for a long time.
It turns out that not all mothers are the same as their own mothers?
Thinking of the New Year's money, monthly money, and various meeting gifts that I save every year, as well as the silver that my mother will stuff over from time to time but have no place to spend it at all, Lin Lin can add up to as much as 100,000 taels. Hearing that others were going to coax the elders to be happy for a few hundred taels of silver, she endured and endured, thinking of her grandmother's daily teaching, she finally didn't say anything that was out of place, making people feel uncomfortable and would attract everyone to besiege her, but nodded her head against her will. Say that you are also "the same". Then when she went back, she finally couldn't help it, and said something to An Ruyi that made her cry and laugh: "Mother, you are so extravagant!" ”