How can this be considered pampered? Old Madam Mu thought unconvinced. Her red dress has been studying with her brothers in the outer study since she was a child, and the gentleman in the outer study teaches general studies such as the Four Books and the Five Classics, and the teachings of the sages are not far stronger than those "Female Commandments" and "Female Virtues"?

Besides, Mu Hongsheng's surname is Mu and she is a member of the Mu family. The Mu family reads hadiths and practices the art of war, and they have a ruler in their hearts for behaving and doing things. What if such a good child is used to it??

The more Mrs. Mu thought about it, the more she felt that her pampering of Hongshang was justified, and the granddaughter in front of her who was obedient and copied the book became more and more cute, but she still did not say anything and exempted Mu Hongsheng from punishment.

Cute is cute, pampered is spoiled, but at the age of twelve, the temperament still has to be collected......

Mu Hongsheng felt that she had to copy books during the festival, but the Duchess of Anguo, who was sorting out the salutes sent by various families in the flower hall, was a little confused.

The Anguo Mansion is not close to the various noble families in Beijing, that is, several courtiers who were born as military generals have deeper contacts with the Anguo Mansion. The rest of the big clans, and the Anguo Mansion are all general friends, and there are rules for the exchange of gifts on weekdays, how many gifts to give, how many gifts to give, which family to send the gifts, which family needs to add the greetings of the Duke of Anguo, every year is almost the same.

Originally, the Duchess prepared a gift list before the holiday, and the housekeeper received the cards one by one, some of them need to be attached to the post, make a list, An Guogong or the Duchess of the country personally wrote the post and attached it, and then checked it the day before the festival, and rushed to send someone out early the next day.

This is the case for the Anguo family, and the same is true for the rest of the families in Beijing, so whenever the New Year's festival is the busiest time for the housewives who preside over the middle feed, not to mention it, just say that this is the festival that is ushered in, and it is enough to be busy.

How many gifts are received in the morning, which people attach worship posts, which people only have gifts to come, which posts need to be replied in time, which ones can wait and then say, what are the gifts sent by each family, one by one opened and looked at the registration and storage, these are all things, thousands of things, all kinds of things, so on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, before the hour, the Duchess of Anguo was already sitting in the flower hall waiting for the mothers in charge.

Duchess An Guo has been married into the Guogong Mansion for nearly 20 years, and she has been presiding over the housekeeper since the fifth year after marriage, and it has been nearly 15 years since she arrived.

But it was precisely because he knew it in his heart that Mrs. An Guo was even more confused. This year, the Boxing gifts sent by the Gu Bachelor's Mansion were twice as many as in previous years, and there was also an extremely delicate sachet to ward off evil spirits, embroidered with the little girl's favorite cordyceps pattern, stuffed with fine cinnabar, realgar and incense. Listening to what's going on outside, my mother said that it was the housekeeper mother of Gu's Mansion who personally brought it and handed it over to the housekeeper of Anguo Mansion, saying that it was made by Gu Yilan, the ninth lady of Gu's Mansion, and gave it to Miss Mu.

Ding Xingwang, a native of Gu Bachelor's Mansion, has thirteen young ladies of the granddaughters, and the Duchess of An Guo knows about this. However, the Gu Mansion and the Anguo Mansion have always had a general friendship, and there has never been any case of female relatives in the family visiting each other.

Besides, Duchess An Guo rarely walks around with red clothes, so Duchess An Guo can't figure out how this Miss Gu Jiu and her family's red clothes ...... Do you have a relationship? Why haven't you heard my daughter say it......

Duchess An Guo thought for a moment, beckoned a maid and ordered: "Go to the old lady and say that I have something." ”

The maid's legs were quite fast, that is, the kung fu of the two sticks of incense ran back, and brought back Mrs. Mu's reply: "The old lady said, it will take half an hour for the eldest lady to copy the book, and the lady can go over at any time." ”

Duchess An Guo nodded, indicating that she understood. She knew that her mother-in-law was telling her to go later if she needed to avoid the child.

Half an hour later, Duchess An Guo really appeared in the main hall of Mrs. Mu, and the time was just right. When she entered the door, Mu Hongshang just finished copying the last word, and when she saw the Duchess of Guo entering the door, she immediately dropped her pen and ran towards her mother, showing a smile like a flatterer: "Mother, I finished copying today's book, and my grandmother praised me for copying well." ”

"Is it still merit to be punished?" Duchess An Guo laughed, she lowered her head to look at her daughter's tender smiling face, and couldn't help but stretch out her hand and gently tap the tip of her daughter's nose: "Your brother bought a kite from outside and came back, and waited for you in the garden with his brothers." ”

Mu Hongshang grinned, turned her head and wanted to bow to her grandmother to say goodbye, but Duchess An Guo stopped her again: "What's the hurry." The ironclad had been waiting for both hours, and they were not at this moment. ”

"Let my mother take a look," Duchess An Guo personally stretched out her hand to tidy up Mu Hongsheng's double bun, straightened the pearl flower for her, and looked her up and down: "The longevity wisps and sachets are complete, yes, who cleaned it up for you in the morning?" ”

Mu Hongshang looked down at the longevity wisps and sachets hanging on her chest, and replied with a confused expression: "It's Aunt Qiulan, isn't this longevity wisp and sachet made by you yourself, my mother, I sent Aunt Qiulan over early in the morning and stared at me before I got out of bed." ”

Duchess An Guo smiled slightly, and didn't explain much, but turned back slightly behind her, and the big girl Chunhui, who was standing behind her, immediately stepped forward and showed the tray in her hand to Mu Hongsheng.

"This is a special sachet sent to you by Miss Gu Jiu, it is a sachet made by her, do you like it or not?" Duchess An Guo smiled softly, picked up the sachet in the tray and showed it to Mu Hongsheng: "If you like it, mother will help you tie it." ”

Miss Gu Jiu? Mu Hongsheng didn't react for a moment who this person was, but someone gave her something, and Mu Hongshang was still very happy. It's not that Mu Hongshang hasn't received a gift, she is the granddaughter of Prince Li, the only eldest lady in the Anguo Mansion, where can she lack a gift? Every year during the Chinese New Year, even the queen mother in the palace will personally send someone to send New Year's money and all kinds of newly made gadgets in the palace.

But Mu Hongshang really didn't receive a gift made by Miss Shijia like today. When she grew up to the age of twelve, Duchess An Guo rarely took her out to socialize, so most of her and those young ladies in Beijing were also general friends, where there were good little sisters, and she never received small gifts from these girls to socialize with each other in private.

The four-color needlework, poetry and flower basket fan, which are not expensive but are better than making heartfelt gifts by hand, Mu Hongshang has never received them.