Jiang Yashuang expected it to be good, it was a matter of her daughter's life, although Jiang Qilai had been avoiding the Jiang family before, this time she also responded happily, promising that she would return to the Gongfu with her husband and daughter on the second day of the first lunar month.

After getting her letter, Qiu Yulan personally went to Mrs. Tao and said it - of course, she couldn't mention Jiang Qilai's life experience, and directly said that the purpose was for the marriage of the younger generation: "The ninth brother-in-law thinks that Lu He is good, but we think that for such a big thing, it is better to let the niece meet in person, lest the adults take a fancy to it, but the two children do not surrender to the deed, and they will not come in the future, but this is a bad thing to do with the kindness of the elders!" ”

"That's true, after all, they will live their own lives in the future." Of course, Old Madam Tao would not have an opinion, and said kindly, "But it's too late to let Lu He's child apprentice on the second day of the first lunar month, right?" There is no master and apprentice, but it is inconvenient for him to enter the back house. If you ask Xiao Jiu's children to take the initiative to go to the front yard, this is too deliberate, and it will inevitably be a loss of grace. This arrangement of their face to face must be carefully considered, so as not to cause any embarrassment! ”

"The daughter-in-law plans to arrange for Lu He to paint in the plum grove in the garden at that time." Qiu Yulan had already thought about this problem, and said, "At that time, I will ask my grandmother to help, and I will lead my niece over to enjoy the plum blossoms, so it is natural to meet each other." ”

Mrs. Tao muttered: "This girl who looks like her age doesn't seem ......to be deliberate" After thinking about it, she asked Mother Hu next to her, "The eldest girl under Xiaoba's knee seems to be in her early tens, right?" ”

"Miss Eleventh Sun will be twelve years old after the New Year." Mother Hu said softly.

"It's better for the girls in your own room to tell you." Old Madam Tao said, "When the time comes, I will refer to her receiving the girls brought by Xiao Jiu, what do you think?" ”

Don't care if Jiang Qilai is the bloodline of the Jiang family's fourth room, anyway, her name is hanging here. It was only natural that she would go back to her mother's house and have the daughter of the eldest brother of the house receive her daughter.

Qiu Yulan thinks that this arrangement is very good: "It's still the grandmother who is thoughtful, and the daughter-in-law only thinks that someone has to lead her niece to enjoy the plum, but she hasn't thought about the candidate!" ”

"When you go back, go to see the little eighth daughter-in-law and tell her about it, it's cold, I have a lot of old bones here, so I'm lazy to steal this." Old Madam Tao said with a smile.

Qiu Yulan also smiled: "I've been so tired of my grandmother, how dare I ask my grandmother to work hard?" ”

I laughed with Mrs. Tao for a while before retiring.

Back in the fourth room, she went directly to see Chu Yitong according to the words of the old lady Tao - she didn't see it like last time - according to Zhu's mother: "The young lady has vomited so much in the past two days, and she can't be at peace for a moment!" I really can't afford to see guests, and I hope that the nineteenth young lady will forgive! ”

Qiu Yulan explained her intention after expressing her understanding, and Zhu Mother said: "Miss Eleventh Sun is raised under Aunt Gu's knees, why don't you invite Aunt Gu to come?" ”

After Gu Qianna arrived, she naturally agreed, and she would definitely tell Jiang Huizhu well, so that she could accompany Jiang Qilai's daughter.

This matter is done, and the time for Qiu Yulan to make an appointment with Mei Xue and Qianqiu has also arrived.

"Calling us for the New Year, isn't it going to be a New Year's money?" As soon as I saw the face, the swing was funny.

"This year hasn't passed yet, and you haven't given me New Year's greetings, but how can you give you the New Year's money?" Qiu Yulan smiled and waved her hand, and everyone withdrew from the flower hall, and after clearing the scene, she said, "Besides, you are not a three-year-old child at your age now, and you want to buy candy to eat with New Year's money, according to me...... It's still a good thing to have someone who knows the cold and the heat! ”

As soon as she said this, Mei Xue and Swing also knew the purpose of her inviting the two of them today.

Swing pursed the corners of her lips, and was about to say something, but Mei Xue gave her a look to silence her, and said with a smile: "Qian'er is not a person at this age, and Brother Nie and I are actually a little anxious." It's just that you also know that the life of this girl's family is very important. If we can't find the right person, we would rather lack it. After all, Brother Nie is such a sister, I don't want her to be wronged! ”

"Cheng Xide, who proposed marriage before, asked my fourteenth sister-in-law to probe when I was confined, and I heard my fourteenth sister-in-law say that they still want to hire a swing, I don't know why Qiu Nie refused this family business?" Qiu Yulan explained, "I'm not persuading you to allow the Cheng family, but I just heard from others that this Cheng Xide seems to be a good person, and the Cheng family style he was born in is also very upright?" ”

"It's because the Cheng family is upright that my brother refused!" Swing is not embarrassed, and said disapprerovitically, "My brother said that the kind of people who pay the most attention to the virtuous and virtuous virtues of girls, I have this kind of sex. The son must not have had a good time when he entered the door! ”

"But I heard that Cheng Xide's parents have passed away, and he lived with his uncle Cheng Jin in his early years, but he has moved out of Cheng Mansion since the second half of this year to live alone?" Qiu Yulan said, "In this way, his wife actually doesn't need to meet with the rest of the Cheng family often?" ”

Mei Xue was a little surprised: "Didn't he live with Cheng Jin's family?" We found out earlier that he lived with his uncle. That Cheng Hanlin is said to be a square person, and when Xue Rongying reported the news that he was about to die several times, he insisted on refusing to regret his marriage...... Although his conduct is respectable, think about how strict he is with his daughter, let alone his niece and daughter-in-law? Qian'er couldn't stand the constraints of the orthodox scholar's family, and Brother Nie refused to agree. ”

Qiu Yulan heard what she meant, Qiu Nie and she also thought that Cheng Xide was very good, but they were not at ease with the environment of the Cheng family. After all, the nature of the country is easy to change, and the temperament forged by the experience of swinging is okay to pretend to be virtuous and virtuous for a while, so it is too painful for her to restrain her edge and pretend to be docile and virtuous for the rest of her life.

It seems to be the house that his parents fancied when they were in Beijing, but unfortunately they passed away before they could buy it. Later, Cheng Jin sent someone to Beijing to handle the funeral for his parents, took him to his side to raise, and he has been living with Cheng Jin's family. After winning the list last year, remembering his parents' wish back then, Tete went to buy it as a memory. ”

Qiu Yulan said the news he had heard recently-after all, if you want to ask Mei Xue's opinion on the Cheng family's proposal, you have to do your homework--At this moment, she said, "But the house has not been inhabited in recent years, so it has been cleaned up for a few days." Thinking of Cheng Jin's parenting again, he got it done in the first half of the year, and accompanied Cheng Jin's family to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival before moving in. The house was two streets ahead, not far from here. I've been inquired about, it's a three-in, three-out house, but it's also exquisite. ”

Mei Xue calculated in her heart, if you are two streets ahead, it is not close to Chengfu! If the swing is married to Cheng Xide, it will be inconvenient to communicate with the Cheng family for three days.

"This Cheng Xide is nearly ten years older than Qian'er, and now he is almost in his prime." Mei Xue groaned, "But considering his status as the champion, it is not an insult to Qian'er...... If the Cheng family's gentle, courteous and frugal requirements are not imposed on Qian'er, this marriage is good! ”

In the past two years, Qiu Yulan has introduced many people to Qiu Swing, but she has never been able to marry her - although Mei Xue and Qiu Nie are more inclined to people in the rivers and lakes, they are not informal, watching Qiu Swing spend their years in vain day by day, and they are about to turn double ten in the blink of an eye, but they are also in a hurry!

refused Cheng Xide before, mainly because he was afraid that he would be pressed by Cheng Jin and other elders after the swing passed the door. Now that she knew that Cheng Xide didn't live with her elders, and that it was Cheng Xide's own intention to propose marriage to the swing, Mei Xue suddenly moved, raised her head and said, "Then I'll go back and discuss it with Brother Nie?" ”

Qiu Tuolan bowed his head: "After all, we can't let the swing be wronged!" ”

…… After this meeting, the New Year's Day has also arrived.

At the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, the whole Guogong Mansion, except for the sick Qin Guogong, all attended the palace banquet in gorgeous costumes.

He and Kim, who had seen such a big scene for the first time, were very nervous.

After all, they are all just the daughters of the squire, and their father and brother are not even county magistrates, although they knew that the Jiang family in the capital was very prominent. But hearing and seeing are two different things, I have never even seen the history of assassination, and I suddenly want to enter the palace to meet the most noble queen mother, emperor, empress and concubine of Da Rui - even if I know that it is a relative, how can I not be honestly afraid?

Both of them are so nervous, let alone the daughters under their knees.

Jiang Yazhao's second grandson, Miss Jiang Huiyan, and the third grandson, Miss Jiang Huili, were even so timid that they wanted to call themselves sick.

"How does this work?" He is also afraid that his daughters will be timid, and if they lose their honor after entering the palace, they will lose face, and although they regret not going, they are safe.

It's just that when she told Mrs. Tao about this idea, the old lady vetoed it without hesitation, "Younger children, if you don't bring them, you won't bring them." Yan'er and Li'er have both reached the age of kissing, that is, in the past few months since you arrived in Beijing, things have not been interrupted at home. Otherwise, I would have called their aunts and aunts and led them out often! How can you miss such a great opportunity as the palace banquet now? ”

As an ally of the fourth room, Mrs. Tao is not really bitter about the great-granddaughters of the second room. The main reason why she said this was that she didn't want to tell the truth. After all, other people of the same generation of the Jiang family, such as the three children raised by Jiang Yashuang and his wife, will be brought to the palace banquet this time, and the girls who are serious enough to socialize in the second room will not be brought over, and they may be criticized that the Guogong Mansion does not take enough care of the men in Kui County.

The old lady naturally refused to suffer this loss.

He Shi is really grateful: "Thank you for the second aunt!" The niece and grandwife went to tell them that they must practice their manners, so as not to lose the face of our Jiang family at that time! ”

There is only one of He's own flesh and blood, that is, the third grandson, Miss Jiang Huili. She is good to her concubine Jiang Jingdu, but she hopes that her own flesh and blood can have a good future - the old lady almost said, "If you are lucky, there may be good people at the palace banquet who take a fancy to your daughter, you always detain her at home, others can't see it, why do you come to the door to propose?" If you really love her and do it for her good, you shouldn't be used to saying that if she doesn't go, you won't go", He naturally said that he would coax his daughters to participate in the palace banquet.

"You think too much, why don't you lose the face of the Jiang family...... The Queen Mother is your fourth aunt, and the Queen is also your cousin, they are not outsiders, what is there to be afraid of? Mrs. Tao smiled faintly, thinking that these two nephews and daughters-in-law had just come to Beijing, they were really honest - what face was the Jiang family afraid of? Over the years, the face that can be lost has long been lost by children such as Jiang Yadan and Jiang Qiyun, and the two great-granddaughters can make a big storm at the banquet?

…… It turns out that although the old lady is well-informed, it is inevitable that there will be times when she looks away - Jiang Huiyan and Jiang Huili, the two juniors, really caused an uproar at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet!