Chapter 182: Years Ago
It was precisely because of Jiang Ke's desire to marry a flat wife that Mrs. Wu was very happy for several days in a row.
In fact, marrying a wife is secondary, mainly because Jiang Ke has accepted the county lord of Kangning in such a short period of time, which is really unexpected by her.
For Mrs. Wu, the good things around Jiang Ke are simply one after another.
Thinking that Princess Chengyang's Mansion and Yanguo's Mansion would become his help in the future, Mrs. Wu's pride in her heart could no longer be suppressed, not to mention that Jiang Ke actually had an heir before Jiang Xuan.
Mrs. Wu has been secretly praying these days, only hoping that Qiu Jinting is a brother in her belly, and that will be more complete.
However, on the last day of the year, it made her angry.
On this morning, the Marquis of Jingyuan's Mansion finally received the New Year's gift from the Marquis of Anle's Mansion.
In the stable, in addition to the two prominent queen mothers and the crown princess in the palace, who are relatives of Mrs. Wu, there is only the family of Anle Houfu. Over the years, Mrs. Wu and the Hou Mansion of An Le have been extremely close, and it stands to reason that their New Year's Gift should have arrived a long time ago, but they didn't want to send it on the last day.
Mrs. Wu didn't care too much, as long as it was delivered before the year, it was still within the usual range of the customs of the Great Qi Dynasty. However, when she took the gift slip from Lu's mother's hand, she frowned at just one glance.
"What's going on?" Mrs. Wu looked at Lu's mother suspiciously, and asked, "Is this gift list incomplete?"
"It's all on this list." Mother Lu replied in a low voice.
"But what happened to the Anle Hou Mansion?" Mrs. Wu couldn't understand how many times the New Year's gifts sent by the Marquis of Anle Mansion in previous years were many times that of this time!
Mother Lu shook her head, and then said: "The slave maid was also very puzzled before, remembering that last time Mrs. Shizi transcribed a copy of the annual gift list that we sent to the various mansions and kept it, so she went over and flipped through it......"
She said as she handed it to Mrs. Wu to look at.
At this time, the first one above is the Anle Hou Mansion. After Mrs. Wu saw it, she was immediately furious.
"What's going on? actually gave such a shabby New Year's gift to Anle Hou's Mansion! The last time she showed me the gift list, it was obviously very proper......"
"These are the ones that Mrs. Shizi left that day." Lu's mother explained.
Actually, she doesn't need to remind me. Mrs. Wu already remembered that she had just looked at the first few photos. found that they were all decent, so I lost interest, and knew that it must be Cao's mother or someone else who helped come up with the idea, so I didn't read it all.
I didn't think that something went wrong in Anlehou's Mansion.
At this moment, if you take a closer look, you will find that most of them are still relatively proper, and there are only two copies of the anomaly.
One is from the Anle Hou Mansion, and the other is from the Zhenbei General's Mansion.
Diametrically opposed to the former, the gift list of the Zhenbei General's Mansion. The dense small characters are almost squeezed, and the number of gifts and the richness of the variety can be seen.
Mother Lu had already noticed this just now, but because she knew Mrs. Wu very well, she knew that she had always been a little resistant to the Zhenbei General's Mansion, so she just stood there at this time and didn't say a word.
Mrs. Wu stared at the two gift lists in front of her, and her heart was mixed.
The feeling that she hadn't felt in many years hit again, as if she had returned to the time when Mrs. Jiang was still alive. At that time, this was the case every New Year's Festival, and she was the daughter of the Wu family who was the same as the Queen Mother, and she was the wife of the Marquis of Jingyuan. But the Anle Hou Mansion did not receive any courtesy from relatives at all......
It took a long time for Mrs. Wu to recover from her memories, but her eyes were still fixed on the two gift lists. The current situation in Yuyuan is farther and farther away from her original purpose of trying to marry Lu Qingrong to "rush to joy......
"Ma'am." Mother Lu finally couldn't help but ask, "Do you think you want to invite Mrs. Shizi to ask clearly?"
"No need!" While Mrs. Wu let out a long sigh, she showed a sarcastic smile, "Since I agreed to it at the beginning, there is no need to entangle it at this time, let's pay attention to it in the future. Make up a generous gift first, and go to Anle Hou's Mansion to make up for it! You can do it yourself. Let's just say that it was our negligence before, don't let the two families have mustard."
Mother Lu nodded solemnly. Retired on an errand.
Mrs. Wu's thoughts still couldn't be calm, and Gu Zi sulked.
Remembered for almost a year. Since Lu Qingrong married into the Hou Mansion, the situation is completely different from what he imagined, and the moths that made a fuss at the New Year's Ceremony this time are only a small part of it.
Today's Yuyuan makes her very powerless to deal with.
None of the first-class-looking maids he had chosen with all his might could attract Jiang Xuan's attention. Now that Lu Qingrong is here, Jiang Xuan's body has become more and more energetic......
Especially this time Tang Shan's matter, it was obviously arranged for the Yu Academy, but in the end she accidentally wanted to marry Jiang Ke, although Mrs. Wu had already figured it out and was happy to see it happen, but she was still a little more vigilant about Lu Qingrong.
In the future, you must not take it lightly, Mrs. Wu sighed secretly, and then thought about how to take the initiative......
At this time, Lu Qingrong obviously didn't know that Mrs. Wu had already begun to think about calculating herself.
She's been too busy these days to think about it.
Regardless of the affairs of the Hou Mansion that helped Mrs. Wu take care of, there are many things that need to be decided by her on the side of Yuyuan alone. At the end of the year, the red reward for everyone in the Yuyuan must be prepared, and the whole set of clothes and etiquette for the first time entering the palace to congratulate cannot go on any business trips, as well as the grange where she married, must also be reconciled at the end of the year. Even if there is Ye's mother around to help. [,! Lining, Lu Qingrong is also flawless.
Although tired, the mood is good.
In recent days, Jiang Xuan has tried to rush back before dinner every day, and the two have eaten together with laughter. After dinner, walking hand in hand in a quiet place where no one is in the courtyard, or reading a book in each of the inner rooms, in short, it is a rare leisure time of the day.
And when it was time to go to bed, Jiang Xuan's restraint could be clearly felt.
What is different from the past is that whenever Lu Qingrong wants to go back to the inner room, Jiang Xuan always has to put a kiss on her face before stopping.
or the forehead, or the eyelids, or the lips......
Lu Qingrong still blushes every time, but Jiang Xuan is getting more and more comfortable.
But that's not all.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, Lu Qingrong felt that not long after lunch, Jiang Xuan returned.
"So early today?" Lu Qingrong greeted him as he spoke.
"At noon, my colleagues went to have a drink together, and I couldn't excuse myself, otherwise I could have done it earlier." Jiang Xuan saw that only green bamboo was waiting in the room, so he directly took Lu Qingrong's hand.
Seeing this, Luzhu hurriedly bowed his head and retreated.
Lu Qingrong came closer, and his nose pretended to sniff near Jiang Xuan's collar: "It seems to smell of wine......
Jiang Xuan laughed out loud for a while, then quickly suppressed his laughter, and pretended to be serious: "Is there a smell of wine, how can you smell it there!"
After speaking, he leaned over and maintained a posture of looking at Lu Qingrong, as if he was waiting for her to continue to check.
Lu Qingrong smiled and pushed him to the clean room: "I'll call the maid to help you change your clothes, and I'll go to Jingchun Hall for a reunion dinner later."
Jiang Xuan nodded, but still grabbed her hand and didn't let go.
It wasn't until the maid outside took the order to enter that Jiang Xuan reluctantly let go of her.
When he came out of his clothes, he put on a blue-purple clean Hangzhou silk jacket, and his hair was combed again.
The moment he walked out, Jiang Xuan showed a big smile at Lu Qingrong.
The afternoon sun shone on his face, making that smile even brighter, especially his face like a crown of jade, and his eyes like stars.
Lu Qingrong was a physical god for a while, but he actually looked fascinated, and he didn't come to his senses until he found that the smile on Jiang Xuan's face was deeper.
This person must have done it on purpose, Lu Qingrong thought to himself.
Jiang Xuan stopped teasing her, and asked, "Are you ready to enter the palace tomorrow?"
"Hmm." Lu Qingrong thought for a moment: "There shouldn't be anything left behind, this time it's not just Luzhu, but also Mother Ye and Mother Cao have helped to prepare together. The last time I entered the palace was the flower viewing banquet, and it seems that this time it will be more formal."
Jiang Xuan nodded in agreement: "That's certain, the New Year's greeting has always been the grandest scene."
Lu Qingrong was not very enthusiastic about this, but worried: "That outfit is really complicated, especially that headdress, you don't have to hold on for too long, right?"
"If nothing else, there will be a feast." Jiang Xuan directly broke her thoughts.
Seeing Lu Qingrong's dejected look after hearing this, Jiang Xuan continued: "Princess Jing will definitely be there tomorrow, you should really want to see her!"
Jiang Xuan remembered that she was very compatible with Tang Yue.
"I think about it, but I'm afraid that I may not even have the opportunity to say a word at that time." Lu Qingrong is looking forward to it.
"And your third sister, she will also be there then." Jiang Xuan thought about someone who had something to do with her.
"My third sister?" Lu Qingrong was a little surprised, "The side concubine can also participate in the court?"
She had learned these rules, and vaguely remembered that only the crown princess in the East Palace could participate in various sacrifices and pilgrimage activities.
"Her current situation, of course, should be special." Jiang Xuan's meaning is obvious, this is because Lu Manyu is happy.
In fact, Lu Qingrong went to King Jing's Mansion not long ago to see Tang Yue, but Lu Manyu has indeed not seen her for a long time.
Lu Qingrong misses her a little, after all, after all these years of sisterhood, even if she can't get along with her personality, she will inevitably miss her.
Especially after learning that Lu Manyu was diagnosed with a happy pulse, Lu Qingrong was often worried about her, always afraid that she would be pregnant, pampered and arrogant, and lose proportion between her actions. She is only the crown princess and concubine now, and there are not many people in the palace who have a higher status than her, and it is unbearable to offend anyone.
However, Lu Qingrong will soon find out that her worries are not unreasonable. (To be continued) R752