Chapter 559: The Golden Artifact
Just after lunch, the people from the Jingcheng Guogong Mansion and the Eldest Princess's Mansion arrived. They had left a month earlier, but unfortunately they were still a day late.
The one who came from the Guogong Mansion was Aunt Sikong, but the person from the Princess Mansion made Huo Roufeng not expect that it was Guo Yuling.
Huo Roufeng suddenly understood why Zhanyu would send the elderly Sikong Lady to travel a long distance, Guo Yuling has been by the eldest princess's side since she was a child, and the women who came out of the Forbidden City, which are all seven-tricked and exquisite, I want to come to Zhanyu because I am worried that if I change to someone else, I will be said by Guo Yuling in a few words that I shouldn't say.
This is the second time Huo Roufeng has seen Guo Yuling.
The first time was in the Hall of Merit of Yongji Temple, when she was eleven years old, when she first arrived in the capital, she was also the ninth master of the Huo family.
After five years, Huo Roufeng's appearance has changed, from Yuxue's cute little boy to a girl with bright eyes and bright teeth, and now she is dressed as a woman, she has looked in the mirror herself, and thinks that she must not recognize it if she is replaced, but Guo Yuling can deny it, then I don't know.
But Guo Yuling didn't look half surprised, she was generous and calm, but when Aunt Sikong looked at Huo Roufeng, a trace of confusion flashed in her eyes.
Aunt Sikong remembered the child named Huo Jiu, Huo Jiu liked the flat meat swallow she made very much.
Later, once she went out to run errands, she heard that the Huo family in Shuangjing Hutong was doing a funeral, and it was that Huo Jiu who died, and she was so sad that she couldn't eat for a few days.
She is used to seeing life and death, but she is still very sad when a lively child says that death is dead.
The gifts given by Princess Zhanyu and Eldest Princess Fangyi to their new wives were a set of pearl heads, 20 tribute materials, a set of four treasures of the study, and a picture of a peony painted in the former pilgrimage.
The gift list was sent to Huo Roufeng, Huo Roufeng looked at it line by line, and frowned slightly when she saw the end.
In the last column of the gift list, there are 12 pieces of palace-made dragons and phoenixes, rich and noble, and four large and eight small!
Even if it is a palace-made gold artifact, it is not a rare thing for the eldest princess's mansion, to Huo Roufeng's surprise, these twelve gold artifacts should not be listed at the end, and although they are twelve gold artifacts, they can only be regarded as one gift, and there are already four in front, and this one is a singular number, which is also inconsistent with convention.
These gifts were sent all the way to the capital, Huo Roufeng had no reason not to accept them, she quietly let people carry the gifts into the warehouse, and arranged a guest room for Guo Yuling and Aunt Sikong, and sat on the big kang near the window, while eating melon seeds, while waiting for Guo Yuling to come over.
Sure enough, half an hour later, Guo Yuling came to see her.
Guo Yuling wore a lake-blue plain jacket, a single screw bun, and two hairpins with mutton fat jade, which were as light as a person who came out of an ink painting.
Huo Roufeng invited her to sit down, and asked straight to the point, "Aunt Guo is here for those twelve gold objects?" ”
Guo Yuling: "The fifth grandmother guessed right. ”
has just gotten married, and Zhanhuai has not yet asked the court for Huo Roufeng's seal, so she is called her fifth grandmother up and down.
"If I'm really as Aunt Guo said to guess correctly, then these gold artifacts were brought by King Qing on behalf of you?" Guo Yuling was originally a female official in the palace, and after the eldest princess Fangyi opened the mansion, although she got rid of the palace, she did not return home, so Huo Roufeng still called her Aunt Guo according to the rules of the palace.
Guo Yuling's calm and waveless eyes flickered invisibly, and then returned to calm and peaceful.
"The fifth grandmother is really a crystal clear person, as you said, these four big, eight small and twelve pieces of gold are brought by His Royal Highness King Qing let Yuling, His Royal Highness King Qing has always appreciated the five generals of Zhan, but unfortunately he was detained by the identity, even if he learned that His Royal Highness King Qing was married, he could not send a congratulatory ceremony to the northwest, I heard that the horse and the eldest prince mainly sent people to the northwest to give gifts, so I asked me to bring them over, and asked the five generals and the five grandmothers not to think too much, this is just a congratulatory ceremony."
As a clan, King Qing can't form a party for personal gain, and of course, he can't make friends with a feudal general like Zhanhuai who holds heavy troops.
Huo Roufeng smiled slightly, and asked Zhu Cui to bring a plate of Western Regions grapes on the table to Guo Yuling.
"Yes, it's just a congratulatory ceremony."
She was repeating Guo Yuling's last sentence, but to Guo Yuling's ears, she had changed her meaning.
Even if King Qing sent a mountain of gold, it was just a congratulatory ceremony, and many congratulatory ceremonies were regarded as the same, and Zhanhuai did not need to receive anyone's favor for a congratulatory when he got married.
Guo Yuling's heart moved slightly, neither the eldest princess nor her knew about this fifth grandmother. What they know is actually much the same as what is said outside, nothing more than the speculation of outsiders.
Miss Xie is the daughter of a lost lady, her father left a family fortune, orphans and widows are difficult to support, and by chance she met an official wife of Zhishi, and the son of the official wife met Zhanhuai, once Miss Xie came to this lady's house, she happened to be seen by Zhanhuai, so she had this family business.
The eldest princess of Fangyi was very emotional about this, when Zhanhuai and Miss Sun were married, who would have thought that a few years later, Zhanhuai would marry another woman, and such a family affair that was not the right family, the Duke of Min and Mrs. Zhong actually agreed!
It's a pity that the eldest princess Fangyi is just emotional, although she is a princess, she has no status in the Zhan family. She has never even seen her mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhong, let alone other concubines, she has nothing else in front of her mother-in-law except to send things during the New Year's holidays.
Before coming to Yulin, in Guo Yuling's imagination, this fifth grandmother should be a woman with a bit of grace and means, but she didn't think like those officials in Shaanxi, thinking that Xie was a small family girl who had never seen the world.
Whether in the palace or outside the palace, Guo Yuling has seen too many women. Others may think that only the women in the market and the broken households make the next means, but in Guo Yuling's opinion, the methods of the ladies may not be much more noble than those who are broken and settled.
is like Huo Jiang's daughter-in-law, Huo Sijin.
If it is said that Xie was able to marry into the family by using means, Huo Sijin can be pointed out to King Qing, how can his means not be inferior?
It's all the same, except for the birth, no one is more noble than the other.
But now, Guo Yuling has decided to retract his previous speculation about the Xie family.
This Xie family is by no means a woman from a small family.
She was born in a scholarly family, and at the age of six she was selected by the Queen Mother from a bunch of young ladies to accompany the princess.
For more than 20 years, she has seen more noble ladies and ladies than others have seen, Xie Shi smiled skillfully, looking like a young man who didn't know the taste of sorrow, but the nobility that came out of his bones was incomparable to many noble girls in the capital, besides, Xie Shi's body revealed not only extravagance, but also not domineering, what is it?
Guo Yuling thought about it, maybe it was domineering, domineering that shouldn't appear on a woman!