Chapter Twenty-Three: Gifts, Roundabouts, Instigations
When Ye Qianyun heard this, he sat back again.
This limelight can't be given to the Jin family, since she has started, let the concubines come first.
Dabao went to say hello to Tang Yanqiu, and Cai Marriage went directly to the Yu family.
Ye Qianyun's words as the main mother, the Yu family has always listened to them. So next, the person who gave the gift was the Yu family.
The Yu family is a fisherman's daughter, so naturally she does not have the wealth of the Jin family. The congratulatory gift chose a pair of Baishou embroidery, which she embroidered herself. Just looking at the embroidery, it is the best grade. But after Kim's, it looks shabby.
Those deliberate cynicisms, Yu Shi turned a deaf ear, and came back to sit down, always with a smile on his face. It's just these, but it makes Ye Qianyun feel that he can't see this person more and more clearly.
The Jin family gave a gift, and the Han family really couldn't sit still and get up.
The brocade box opened, and the guests fried again.
What Han gave was a thousand-year-old ginseng, a thousand-year-old ginseng that had become humanoid. It's not a good thing that money can buy.
Ye Qianyun turned his head and saw Su Mo staring at the brocade box, his expression as if he was about to swallow the ginseng raw.
Tang Jinyan then also gave a gift, and after that, Tang Yanqiu, the son of the lord, and Ye Qianyun, the daughter-in-law of the lord's mother, finally got up and walked in front of Tang's mother.
The two of them knelt down together and bowed, saying, "I wish my mother good luck, prosperity and good health." ”
Tang's mother above was busy talking quickly, and seeing Tang Yanqiu carefully helping Ye Qianyun up, the old man felt a little more comforted. This son really takes Ye Qianyun to heart, so good...... It's just that Ye Qianyun has always refused to call her mother, even just now.
Tang Yanqiu asked people to carry a wooden box, which was placed vertically, enough to be one person high. Several subordinates worked together to lift the contents of the box and remove the wooden box, so that everyone could see clearly that it was a life-tall white jade Guanyin statue.
Guanyin carved lifelike, eyebrows and eyes expressive, the shape is realistic.
Tang Yanqiu said: "The son accidentally got a piece of mutton fat and Tianyu, carved this Guanyin statue, and gave it to his mother. ”
The surrounding guests were in an uproar, and the part that was thrown away when carving Guanyin made this piece of mutton fat jade so large that it was difficult to find in the world. What is even more rare is that the jade body is transparent, so that this Guanyin statue can set off the mystery.
Most of the guests were businessmen, and they were thinking about the value of this Guanyin statue in their hearts. Then, there was another exclamation. The Dongshu Tang family made a move, and it was really extraordinary.
When the exclamations of the guests became smaller, Ye Qianyun took two steps forward and walked in front of Jade Guanyin.
I saw her stretch out her right hand and hang in the air, and for a moment, a magpie flew out of nowhere and stopped in her palm.
Ye Qianyun slightly sent his hand closer to the Jade Guanyin, and the magpie flew up again, circling the Guanyin statue twice. Then, the magpie pulled out a blessing bean from the jade bottle in Guanyin's hand.
The magpie held the Fu Dou and stopped in front of Tang Mu impartially.
Everyone was speechless by this scene.
Until the magpie flew away and disappeared, leaving the fudou on the ground. Ye Qianyun picked up the Fu Dou and gave it to Tang's mother: "Fu Dou, Fu Shou." It means happiness and health, and a long life. The daughter-in-law invited the magpie to send blessings and congratulate her on her birthday. ”
"Good!" Tang Jinyan was the first to clap.
The guests in the garden were amazed.
"Guanyin sends blessings, magpies send blessings. I wish Mrs. a blessed East China Sea and a longevity than Nanshan! ”
I don't know who said it first, causing everyone to congratulate him on his birthday in unison: "Congratulations to Mrs., Shoubi Nanshan!" ”
After nightfall, in Changping Courtyard, Tang Jinyan pestered Ye Qianyun, saying that he wanted to learn how to domesticate magpies.
"Where would I do this?" Ye Qianyun smiled, "That magpie was raised by a patient of Sumo, and I got some of the things it eats on weekdays, so I naturally attracted it." As for Fu Dou, there are all in the open space in front of Mrs. ”
Tang Jinyan thought about it, she remembered that Ye Qianyun was very afraid of these sharp-mouthed things before. What chickens, ducks, she was afraid of.
Cai Ma said: "In order not to be shocked today, the main mother has been busy practicing magpies in the past few days. ”
At the beginning, Ye Qianyun exclaimed in fright, and after a few more times, the magpie became irritable, and pecked her hand harder, and the big treasure of marriage was distressed.
Ye Qianyun asked Cai Marriage to send things to Ruyi Courtyard, which attracted Tang Jinyan's curiosity.
After taking the things in Cai's hand, Tang Jinyan asked strangely: "What kind of good things, I won't send them until it's dark." ”
"It's a birthday gift for my wife, a knee pad that I sewed myself." Ye Qianyun said, "Madame's legs and feet are not good, and it will be even more uncomfortable in winter." ”
Tang Jinyan asked, "Birthday gift...... Didn't you send it? ”
Ye Qianyun called her stupid girl with a smile: "The Jade Guanyin was given by your brother, and I just accompanied him to make a scene." Birthday banquets are mostly used to give face to the house, and gifts at the banquet are even more to give yourself a face. I don't have the wealth of the Jin family, nor the rich dowry of the Han family, and I don't even have the craftsmanship of the Yu family. Fortunately, your brother is here, otherwise I would have lost face with this gift today. As for this birthday gift, it is natural to give it. ”
Today, the Jin family took the lead in giving gifts, and it also meant deliberately waiting to see Ye Qianyun's jokes. The people in the Tang Mansion, the Yu family and the Han family are concubines, and they don't care about their origins. But Ye Qianyun, as the main mother, was born to make gossip outside. If she really took this pair of knee pads out today, no matter what she said, no matter how happy Tang's mother was, she would always be unable to avoid more gossip.
Tang Jinyan returned the knee pads to Cai Marriage: "I look at what kind of person visits the sound, my mother doesn't necessarily like it much." She must have been very happy with this pair of knee pads. Mother's favorite is still you. ”
Ye Qianyun smiled and lowered his head to drink tea.
After the birthday banquet, some of the daughters of the family with good relationships stayed overnight, and Tang's mother saw that the spirit of the old man was much better.
In the Ruyi Courtyard, Ye Qianyun brought a few concubines to ask for peace, and saw a lot of people sitting in the house.
The eldest aunt smiled and introduced: "This is the master mother of the Tang Mansion, our family Yanqiu, it is rare." ”
Ye Qianyun saluted without being surprised.
"I have long heard of the deep friendship between the lord and the lord mother, and when I saw it yesterday, it seems to be even better."
The person who spoke had a smile on his face, and Ye Qianyun felt that the smile was very similar to that of the third aunt.
The other woman put down the tea bowl and said to Tang's mother: "The old sister is happy now, but the child's affairs are not right, and it should be talked about." ”
Tang's mother asked strangely: "What does my sister mean by this?" ”
The man's eyes drifted to Ye Qianyun, and he said with a smile: "Yanqiu is now the lord of the Tang Mansion, and Dongshu is in power, how many eyes are watching." Everything around him is very important, and there are people waiting to find fault. In the backyard, there are already young ladies born in the two families of Xijin and Beiliang as concubines, this master mother ...... How can they be so much worse than them? The child is nonsense, and the sister doesn't talk about it. It's been so long, it's time for the housewife to change. ”
Ye Qianyun's eyes rolled, and his heart came again.
Tang Jinyan was not happy to hear this, and just wanted to say a few words, but Tang's mother opened her mouth first.
"My sister cares, isn't it a little too much?" The tone is displeased, and the eyes are angry. Tang's mother rarely gets angry, but when she wants to start a fire, even Tang's father didn't dare to say a word back then.
The woman probably didn't understand what she had said wrong: "Sister......"
Tang's mother said: "The matter of the Tang Mansion, the matter of Yanqiu's own backyard, you are an outsider, where did you get all this nonsense?" A wife with a good birth should be a concubine, and a bad life should be a concubine, so why should I? ”
The second lady of the Tang Mansion, born in an official family, was later implicated and degraded to slavery because the people in the clan were convicted. Back then, the second lady was sold into the Tang Mansion as a slave, and she had a friendship with the second room master, which led to today's existence.
To say that back then, Tang's mother's road was not easier than Ye Qianyun's.
The woman suddenly realized that she had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly apologized: "Yes...... It's me who talks too much, so don't be angry, sister......"
Ye Qianyun thought that at this time, Dafang should come out to make trouble.
Sure enough, the eldest aunt over there chuckled twice: "People are also for Yanqiu's good, and they said a few words that some people don't like to hear...... That's it, just talk about it, and don't get angry. ”
"I really don't like to hear that." Tang's mother looked at her aunt, "When my sister-in-law said this when she was old, I didn't like to hear it. ”
"You ......" was put in the past, the eldest aunt didn't jump up, but now it is someone else's son who is in charge, and they don't deal with their big house, no matter how unconvinced she is, she can only sit down.
The smiling fake woman opened her mouth to relieve the siege: "Don't be angry with the sister-in-law of the Tang family, what the sister-in-law of the Li family said is not right, you can forgive her once, sister-in-law is a straightforward person, an unintentional mistake, an unintentional loss." ”
The Jin family and the Han family also opened their mouths to ask Tang's mother to calm her anger.
"Look at these children, they are sensible and filial, so sister-in-law will not be angry anymore."
The implication is that Ye Qianyun, who didn't speak, is just ignorant and unfilial.
This woman is really the same kind of person as the aunt of the third room.
But there is one thing that Ye Qianyun thinks is very strange, didn't these women in the house say that they are Tang's mother's old friends? Anyway, the relationship is not much better.
Even ordinary people who know the details of the second lady of the Tang Mansion do not dare to commit a taboo in person, the woman who talked about the selection of a wife just now, as an old friend, it is impossible not to know this taboo, why, knowingly?
There is also this one with a smiling face, and a few people who have been watching the play on the side and have not spoken.
No matter how you look at it, you can't see how good the relationship between these people and Tang's mother is.
Tang's mother keeps people, and she will not use the relationship between Pingshui and Ping Shui as a heart-to-heart. What the hell are these people in the house doing secretly?
Ye Qianyun put down the tea bowl and said with a smile: "It's okay for me." It doesn't matter if the lord is a concubine and raises his wife, or if he marries another one, or if I am a wife, a concubine, a slave, or a maid. ”
Looking at the expressions of a room of people, and seeing the unexpected contempt, Ye Qianyun continued: "But this matter, what is the use of others talking about it?" Aunt Jin, Aunt Han, Aunt Yu, what do you say? ”
The Jin clan Han clan bowed his head and did not answer, and the Yu clan smiled at Ye Qianyun.
"A few ladies are guests from afar, so don't cause any trouble to your family. If you don't know the temper of the lord of the house, you can ask the two ladies in the third room of the big house. Stand aside, but also choose the right talent. ”
"How do you talk, kid?" Someone couldn't hold his breath, "Did you talk to your elders like this?" ”