Chapter 12: Congratulatory Gifts

"Father, this is a painting I found for my father."

A handsome young man of about seventeen or eighteen years old, dressed in a blue-purple round-necked robe and wearing a jade crown, stood up and said, holding a gift box at the same time.

This is the third son of Dingxi Hou, Chang Yunqi.

He raised his head and looked at Dingxi Hou who was smiling on the main seat, the appearance of the father and son was completely made out of a mold.

Dingxihou, who is about to know the destiny of heaven, is not old because of his pampering, and his handsome face has a little more precipitation of years, and he looks elegant and honest.

Dingxihou looked at this son and smiled gently.

"What a good thing, open it and let my father see if you have been deceived?" He laughed, with a bit of a joke.

Dingxi Hou thinks he is a very funny and good-tempered person, likes to joke, when he wants to joke, he regardless of the occasion and generation, for this reason Mrs. Hou is very unhappy, no less scolding him, Dingxi Hou's good temper is also manifested in this, no matter how his mother scolds, he should respond, how to do and how to do.

Chang Yunqi smiled, opened the box with his hand, and nodded his chin at a young man of the same age sitting next to him.

"Fourth, help." He said.

The young man hurriedly got up, this is the son of another concubine, Chang Yunhong.

The two brothers stretched out the scroll, and it turned out to be a horizontal scroll of a sleeping beauty, this beauty was charming, as if she had only woken up from a spring sleep, her eyes were like silk, her clothes were slightly messy, and the painting was lifelike as if she was alive.

Dingxi Hou laughed, and a trace of disdain appeared on Xie's face.

The other sisters and brothers also gathered around to look at this beautiful picture, and the men laughed, and the women were a little shy.

"Hey, the third young master gave this painting to his own father...", an aunt sitting at the bottom whispered to another, "How can a son send Lao Tzu this..."

This aunt is in her twenties, beautiful and pretty, and has a plump figure.

"Aunt Zhu just came, I don't know." The aunt who listened to her was about thirty, stirring the soup with a spoon, and said without looking at her, "Our Hou Ye is not taboo about this, Hou Ye said, the family is really temperamental, there is nothing that can or can't, is it possible to know that his father likes flowers, grass, and beauties, but to send a defeated exhortation to add blockage to others is filial piety?" ”

The sentence just came, which made this Aunt Zhu slightly surprised, but she was fine soon.

"Yes, sister, my new arrival is young and ignorant, my sister is old, remind me more." She said with a smile.

The aunt who stirred the soup moved a little bigger, and the sound of the bowls and spoons touching each other was crisp.

No one paid attention to the small movements here, but the people looking at the paintings over there were lively.

"Brother." A slender sixteen or seventeen-year-old young man suddenly asked, "This painting has a bit of the flavor of the Tang family..."

Tang everyone is today's celebrity, surnamed Tang, calligraphy and painting attainments are high, over time the real name has been forgotten, all call him everyone, calligraphy and painting is hard to find, for people are also chic and uninhibited, it is difficult to see a face, it is even more difficult to ask for calligraphy and painting.

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Chang Yunqi.

"Brother, do you want to be stunned by the paintings of the Tang family?" Another young man pulled the young man who spoke, and said in a low voice, "No one in the entire Yongqing Mansion can get the paintings of the Tang family, and in the past two years, the Tang family has become more and more cloudy, and the fog and fog cover are nowhere to be seen, and they all say that they have ascended to immortal..."

Before he finished his words, Chang Yunqi here seemed to be waiting for this sentence, laughed, picked up the carton that had just been filled with paintings, took out a small narrow piece from it, and opened it with a shake of his hand.

"Father, this is a painting that the child specially asked for his father." He said loudly.

The narrow strip was shaken open, unframed, as if it had been torn haphazardly from a piece of paper, with a few words written on it.

"Dingxi Hou Changrong auspicious"

There is also a large seal and a small seal nomination.

"It's Tang's!" The young man who was the first to ask a question shouted, if it wasn't for Chang Yunqi to hide quickly, this narrow area would have been grabbed by him.

Dingxi Hou also stood up, with a look of surprise.

Dingxi Hou was originally a children's thing, he liked it, and he didn't take it seriously, he didn't take it seriously, he didn't see a real beauty, at this time it was from the hands of the Tang family, and the meaning was not as simple as a picture of a beauty, not to mention that there was a spokes with the name of the gift.

"Okay, okay, bring it to me and see." Dingxi Hou said loudly.

When everyone carefully held the painting, they didn't care that it was at the banquet, Dingxi Hou had a good look at it, and he couldn't hide his smile.

"It's hard for you, how much effort did it take to get it." He looked at his son and laughed.

"When the father is happy, the son is worth it." Chang Yunqi said loudly.

"Uncle, uncle.." And without waiting for their father and son to be filial and prosperous, the young man squeezed in and saluted.

"Yun Sheng, stop, it's useless to say anything." Dingxi Hou smiled and raised his hand at him, "Calligraphy and paintings are not borrowed."

The young man's face immediately covered with gloom.

"Uncle.." He shouted.

"This kid, the painting is a good painting, the framing is too rough, when I finish framing it well, you come to my study, and let you see it for a day." Dingxihou said with a smile.

"Uncle is too stingy, he has only watched for a day." The young man muttered.

"Stingy? Uncle will tell you a way. Dingxihou said with a smile.

"Uncle, tell me quickly." The young man's eyes lit up and he hurriedly asked.

"Go and marry a daughter-in-law and come back, and then give birth to a big fat son, wait for more than ten years, and when your son grows up, I will go and buy you a picture, no one will dare to have an opinion even if you sleep in your arms..."Dingxi Hou said with a smile.

As soon as these words came out, the audience burst into laughter.

"Uncle, how can an elder joke with a junior like this." The young man couldn't laugh and cry, and said, it was not good to talk about this topic again, so he had to sit down.

"Brother Qi has a heart." Xie Shi, who was sitting on the side, looked at the lively hall with a slight smile and said, but his eyes were looking at a woman on the other side.

The room was full of beauties, but the woman, who was nearly forty years old, was not overshadowed.

This is Dingxi Hou's concubine, the maiden niece of Mrs. Lao Hou, Zhou, if it wasn't for Xiao Xie's marriage, then now Dingxi Hou's main room is her, giving birth to a son and a daughter.

But this is all rumored in private, for this rumor, Zhou also cried to invite his mother's house, saying that this is to provoke the relationship between himself and Xiao Xie's family, so that she has no place in Dingxi Houfu, she is a side branch of her father's early death, can come to serve Hou Ye and Mrs., it is a blessing that has been cultivated for several lifetimes, she is to Hou Ye and Mrs. to be a cow and a horse to repay, this rumor is to slander her Yun Ying had a personal affair with Hou Ye when she was not married, this kind of dirty Hou Ye ruined her innocence really cost her life, is not able to gain a foothold here.

At that time, Xiao Xie's just entered the door not long ago, the old lady killed several servant women in a rage, this is not the end, and scolded Xiao Xie's housekeeper is not strict, and regained the housekeeping rights just given to her, since then no one dares to say the slightest rumor, but the Liang Zi between the wife and concubine is over, but this Zhou has the support of the old lady, and there is the Hou Ye in front of the spoiling, and no one can stop the limelight, until the old lady later suffers from illness and cares about family affairs, and the Hou Ye has a new love, which is silent, and when the old lady dies, she is more and more low-key, I was obsessed with chanting Buddha and copying scriptures, and it was more than three years to copy them.

This third young master is her son.

Hearing Xie say this, Zhou just lowered his head and smiled.

"It's the good upbringing of the lady." She said.

"I don't dare to be it, my brother grew up with the old lady, and if he is well raised, the old lady will raise him well." Xie Shi smiled faintly, "If you read it, let him go and kowtow to the old lady." ”

"Yes." Zhou still bowed his head and said obediently.

Because of the amazing gifts of the third young master here, there are no surprises in the gifts of the other children, but Dingxi Hou has always been kind and makes every child feel that he has not been left out, and the atmosphere is very happy.

"Master Hou, madam, the prince sent someone." They shouted.

A smile immediately appeared on Xie Shi's face, this smile was completely different from Fang Cai's smile, it was a smile overflowing from the bottom of his eyes.

It's to send someone to say auspicious words, the prince's gift arrived home as early as a few days ago, it is an inkstone, placed in the study of the Hou Ye, everyone thinks like this, and they don't care, except for Xie, and no one looks at the door, not long to hear a jingle ring, there are many women in the family, this ringing sound is not surprising, but listen to everyone to notice the difference, this jingle sound actually has a rhythm, seems to be playing music, so everyone stopped the chopsticks and wine glasses, and looked out.

I saw several people dressed in military clothes crowding four or five men and women in, and one of the women at the head was particularly eye-catching.

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It's been a late weekend update, hehe, good weekend everyone.