Chapter 722: Exposed
Looking at the busy gift-giving procession outside the door, the porter Lao Li was surprised at the same time, and couldn't help but think of the fifth lady's instructions. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
At first, he thought that Miss Fifth was thinking too much, but he didn't expect that there were so many gifts, and they were all heavy gifts, and any family's gifts were rare before. Now he is like a god for Miss Five.
Because of Li Shu's orders, the porter Lao Li did not accept a gift, that is, he did not even dare to accept the silver that honored him.
However, the porter Lao Li was still a little worried.
The queue outside this door is the home of dignitaries, although the porter Lao Li doesn't know much, but he still knows the truth of etiquette and exchanges.
I haven't heard of anyone in the capital who has closed their doors and has been a single household.
Look.
Outside the door, there are so many dignitaries and dignitaries.
The fifth lady ordered that she was not allowed to accept gifts, did she not expect so many dignitaries to come to give gifts?
If you refuse them all, wouldn't you offend too many people at once, how could my uncle still be an official at that time.
The matter of the porter Lao Li Jue was too unexpected.
No way.
I'll have to tell Miss Five.
So, the porter Lao Li asked him to take the top in the gatehouse for a while, and he trotted all the way to the second door of the hanging flower door to find his Hun family, and asked his Hun family to ask the fifth lady for instructions to see what to do now.
About a quarter of an hour later, Li Shu came to the gate surrounded by a group of old girls, and the girl on the side was holding a parasol, and the magpie covered half of Li Shu's pretty face.
Li Shu glanced at everyone outside the door, the slender jade hand held the embroidered handkerchief and half-covered the cherry lips, and whispered a few words to Qin'er, who listened with her little head down, nodding from time to time.
"My aunt went to work on an errand early in the morning, but let you run for nothing. My young lady asked me to thank you on behalf of my aunt, everyone please go back. ”
After listening to Li Shu's instructions, Qin'er came to the door, and generously made a blessing to everyone outside the mansion, and said softly.
"Where, where, the young lady is polite, it's me who is abrupt. A little courtesy, please smile. ”
"Lord Zhu is young and promising, and loyal to his duties, he is really a model for officials, and his future achievements are bound to be limitless, and I dare not disturb Lord Zhu's work. This is our greeting post from Lord Zhang, the treasurer, and a little bit of courtesy, not a respect, but also hope to smile. ”
"The young lady is polite, I will come uninvited, and I will cause trouble to your house. After our adults heard that Lord Zhu and the young lady got married in Xiangzi, we sighed that we could not congratulate them in person, so we didn't personally choose a little gift, and wished Lord Zhu and the young lady a good ......marriage for a hundred years."
The people outside the gate of the mansion saluted and greeted each other, saying all kinds of congratulations and auspicious words, and then successively presented the prayer posts and gift lists to the concierge Lao Li.
The porter Lao Li didn't dare to accept it, standing there at a loss, and asked Qin'er for help with his eyes.
Seeing this, Qin'er came to Li Shu to ask for instructions.
Shaoqing, Qin'er came to the door again, and said to everyone again: "Thank you for your love for Miss Uncle, we have received our kindness, and we can leave the post, but please bring back the gifts." When my uncle comes, I will present the greeting note to my uncle, and when my uncle has time, I will visit them one by one. ”
"Thousands of miles to send goose feathers, the gift is light and affectionate. Although this gift is thin, it is a piece of our master's heart, and please accept our lord with a face. ”
"This pair of jade is the original stone selected by our master all the way in the Western Regions, and it has been pondered for more than ten days by looking for someone to carve it out carefully, just to serve as a wedding gift to congratulate Lord Zhu and the young lady, and to wish Lord Zhu and the young lady a good ......marriage for a hundred years."
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The people outside the door were indomitable, sincere in their words, and they were so sincere that they made people feel as if they were embarrassed not to accept it......
"Miss, what should I do?" Qin'er didn't know how to reply, so she had to come to Li Shu again and ask Li Shu for advice.
"These people are either from Taicang Silver Treasury, or they are related to Taicang Silver Treasury. They didn't come to give gifts with kindness, they came to stick knives, the handle of the knife was in their hands, and the tip of the knife was stuck in the husband's heart. If they accept gifts, they will be left with a handle, and the husband will be subject to them, and how will they inspect the treasury in the future. These people who come to give gifts are all weak-hearted, and their hands and feet are not clean. In the future, no matter who comes to give gifts, they will only accept worship posts, not gifts. With the post, it is convenient for the husband to follow the map. Li Shu glanced at everyone outside the door, rolled her eyes, and whispered.
So that's the case, then they're all bad people.
When Qin'er and the little girl with the bun heard this, they suddenly realized, especially the painting, if it wasn't for Li Shu glaring at her, this girl would have gone to the door to scold.
"Thank you for your thoughts, but since it's your heart, then we'll understand it. You can leave the prayer note behind, but please bring back the gifts. It's hot today, so don't stand outside, please come back. Once again, she went to the door and said hello to everyone.
Everyone is naturally indomitable, and they will not give up if they don't give up on the vow.
After Qin'er understood the deep meaning, she knew what to do, no matter what they said, they just didn't accept gifts anyway.
Don't eat soft and hard, don't get a drip.
Today is not to accept gifts, but to accept me, only to receive prayers.
"Master Zhu is honest and honest, and he is really a model for us. Lord Zhu is incorruptible, and we can't be villains, so that Lord Zhu breaks the rules. Then let's leave a prayer post, and we will all take the prayer home with us, and bring back everything that is left. The crowd outside the door had run into the wall many times, and it seemed that they had given up, and a man who looked like the leader stepped forward and said, "However, we still have a few pots of flowers here, so let's put them in the courtyard for the adults to decorate." The flower pot is made of pottery, and the flowers are also ordinary flowers, which are not worth a few pennies at all, but they are good-looking, and whoever says that they will receive a few pots of small flowers, they will not be related to greed...... Please don't shirk any more. ”
Soon a few girls each held a small flower pot forward, the flower pot is indeed an ordinary pottery flower pot, it is a small flower pot with a diameter of more than ten centimeters, and the words in the flower pot are ordinary chrysanthemums, moon seasons, peonies and the like, which are not a precious variety, in terms of value alone, this pot of flowers is worth a few pennies.
After counting them, there were only six pots of flowers in total.
That's about 20 wen.
In this way, it really doesn't look like anything, it's just twenty dollars, whether it's the law or human favors, there will be no problem.
In this way, there is no gift, but also to give the other party a step down, so that the other party can go back to the business, and kill multiple birds with one stone.
The porter, Lao Li and the others, all looked at Li Shu.
"Bring me a pot and take a look." Li Shu casually pointed to a pot of chrysanthemums.
The girl holding the chrysanthemum outside the house stepped forward in response, holding the chrysanthemum with both hands very respectfully, and handed it to Li Shu.
Seeing this, the person in the lead outside the mansion couldn't help but smile on his face.
"This pot of flowers looks chic."
Li Shu took a closer look, her cherry lips curved a little, and she stretched out her slender jade hand to pick up the flower pot, but it wasn't just a slip of her hand or something, her hand just caught the flower pot, and the flower pot slipped from Li Shu's hand to the ground.
With a bang, the pot shattered.
"Huh?"
An exclamation rang out.
I saw a heavy ingot of gold rolled out of the soil of the flower pot that was broken on the ground......
Exposed.
The people outside the gate had no choice but to leave with gifts and flower pots, leaving only a letter of worship.