Chapter 128: Guilt
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Updated: 2013-06-21
The four princes don't know how long they have been standing, the Lantern Festival in the capital has been lit up since the eighth day of the first month, and it has reached its peak on the fifteenth, and has continued until dawn on the seventeenth. ♀ \[Fastest Update\]
The four princes stood for too long, and their steps were slightly stiff and walked to the alley, and they didn't get on the horse, but walked to the place where they shot, and suddenly ordered: "Go to Rongbaotang to see how Mingfeng dares to talk more, and hurriedly send the little servant to Rongbaotang to spread the word first, and the four princes got on the horse, and after a while, they arrived at Rongbaotang."
Rong Bao Tang fifteen to seventeen these three nights are also all night business, the four princes arrived, the shopkeeper has been respectfully waiting at the side door, all the way to the four princes into the inner hall with a smile: "Trumpet years ago just arrived a batch of good things, there is a lotus leaf pen wash, the whole piece of jade carving, jade is good, the work is better, it is simply ingenious, there is a Xiangfei bamboo arm rest, is the antiquities of the previous dynasty, Jun is the former dynasty Liu Gong wrote, very elegant, there is a pen case,"
"Do you have any good pearls?" The fourth prince interrupted the shopkeeper's words and asked, the shopkeeper hurriedly bowed down and smiled: "Yes, a batch just came, there are Nanyang, and there are big beads in the north, and there are a lot of big beads with black bodies, I don't know what the master is for, how big is it?" ”
"The size of a lotus seed," the fourth prince thought about the size of Li Tian's handkerchief and said: "If there are other beads, take them together, the rarer the better, and then there are rare and interesting things to bring over the shopkeeper to agree, drop his hand and withdraw, and after a while, he led a few small servants, and carried four or five boxes of pearls of various colors and other jade, ivory, agate and other beads and a dozen plates of various gadgets to come in, and put them on the house one by one." ()
The four princes sat in front of a few and slowly picked up the pearls from the plate, the shopkeeper saw that the four princes were fascinated, and hesitated to come forward to introduce, Mingfeng glanced at him, the shopkeeper understood, quietly withdrew from the inner hall, Mingfeng followed out and ordered: "It's cold outside, our lord has been shopping for a long time, please let someone send a bowl of hot ginger tea."
The shopkeeper hurriedly went to watch the people make the ginger tea and bring it up, Mingfeng tasted it, carefully handed it to the four princes who were still concentrating on picking the beads, and withdrew with his hand, the shopkeeper stood at the door, looking at the four princes with a depressed expression and concentrating on picking the beads, and said curiously: "What happened to the lord today?" It's not quite the same as usual, how did you pick these things? ”
"What can you do? Okay, isn't this the New Year, I think about the grace of my parents, and I think about my parents getting old, and I want to pick something for the concubine, who else can I pick things for?! Ming Feng blocked the shopkeeper's words, and the shopkeeper looked at the four princes with admiration on his face and exclaimed: "It is said that the fourth master is a filial son, #** is really, tsk, this filial piety is really admirable!" Ming Feng glanced at the shopkeeper and ignored him.
The four princes picked up for more than an hour, picked a box full of all kinds of beads, put four pieces in one, and picked a few delicate gadgets such as the white jade nine rings, and put them in a delicate Huanghuali box together, and ordered the shopkeeper to take the fire paint, take out the small seal with him, and went out of the Rong Bao Hall and instructed Ming Fengdao: "You personally run and send this to Uncle Ye, so that he can send a proper person to Qingtong Courtyard tomorrow, and say that their house will give her to play."
Ming Feng agreed, carefully held the box, and got on the horse and went to the Dongyang County Palace.
Early the next morning, Yinhua led the mother-in-law of Dongyang County Wangfu into the upper room, the mother-in-law entered the east chamber, and Li Tian on the kang was about to kneel, Li Tian was busy helping the green branch to help him up, and the mother-in-law straightened up before squatting, and gave Li Tian a blessing and a blessing, and took the heavy rosewood box from the little girl behind him, handed it to Qingzhi, and pointed to the box carried by the mother-in-law behind a few rough envoys and smiled: "In this box, our twelve mothers give five women, and there are a few fresh things that the ancestors rewarded, Our Twelve Niang said, thank you for the riddles that Wu Niangzi guessed last night, and got a lot of colorful heads, as well as yesterday's honey plum blossom tea, our Twelve Niang said, although they are all worthless gadgets, but she picked them out with her own hands, please don't dislike the five Niangzi, just dislike it, and you have to keep the mother-in-law to laugh when she said this, Li Tian also pursed her lips and laughed when she heard it, this is indeed a full Ye Twelve Niang style. 《》
"Yesterday's honey plum blossom tea ancestors also tasted, like it tight, special people according to the five ladies usually love to eat carefully made a few boxes of dim sum out, and a box is rewarded in the palace, let the old slave take it to the five ladies to taste fresh
"This is the ancestor who loves me," Li Tian heard his mother-in-law talk about Mrs. Sun, he had already stood up from the kang, stood with bated breath and listened: "There is Mama Lao, please go back and tell Twelve Niang, if the things she picked are not good, I will look for her to change the mother-in-law Haha smiled and agreed, Li Tian ordered someone to reward the mother-in-law and others, let Qingzhi call Mama Xiong in, and told her to go back with her mother-in-law, kowtow to Mrs. Sun on her behalf to thank her, and asked Yingluo to take some local products sent in by the shopkeeper from other places to bring Ye Twelve Niang as a return gift."
After sending away the people of Dongyang County's palace, Li Tian motioned to Qingzhi to open the box. Yue Niang heard the movement, lifted the curtain and came in, looked at the box that had just been opened, and saw that the box was set with a box, and the green branches were taken out one by one, and one of the two boxes above put a few fresh piles of yarn palace flowers, one put a string of lapis lazuli bracelets, and the two boxes below, one put a white jade pendant with an excellent water head, and a yellow pear box, but it was sealed with fire paint.
Li Tian frowned involuntarily, took the Huanghuali box, and carefully looked at the seal on the fire paint, his brows suddenly furrowed, this is the private seal of the fourth prince! Li Tian threw the box on a few in annoyance, Yue Niang grabbed it, raised it up and looked at it carefully, pulled it over Yingluo and asked, "How did this word turn in a twist, what is written?" ”
Yingluo wanted to laugh but didn't laugh: "It's Ziyu, the fourth prince's Ziyue Niang's eyebrows suddenly raised high, and she turned her head sharply to look at Li Tian and said, "Go back?" ”
"Return to whom? Ye Twelve Niang? Old lady? Or is it the fourth master? Open it first to see what it is Li Tian flicked the box in annoyance and ordered, Yue Niang took the paper cutter from Qingzhi's hand, picked open the lacquer seal with a knife, opened the box, and looked at the box full of beads of various colors in surprise. Poof' laughed out loud, while laughing and pushed the box in front of Li Tian, Yingluo looked at it, subconsciously glanced at the handkerchief in Li Tian's hand, wanted to laugh but felt inappropriate, the expression on his face was a little strange, Li Tian swept his eyes, ignored the smiling Yue Niang, and instructed Qingzhi and Yingluo to turn over the things in the box, and didn't see anything else, so he gently relieved and ordered: "Yingluo take it down and put it away carefully, it's best to make an account, which day in whose name will it be sent to, and it will be convenient to get up in the future."
Yingluo smiled and went to make an account. Yue Niang dragged over a chair, sat down on the chair with the back of the chair, looked at Li Tian and asked, "What kind of madness are these four masters?" The old lady in the Dongyang County Mansion also went crazy, isn't he going to get married? ”
"What are you talking about?" Li Tian lowered his head and looked at the account book in his hand, and replied in a straight tone, Yue Niang sighed, looked at Li Tian sympathetically and said: "This person, it's not good to be born too well, let me tell you, everything can't start, with the first return, just two times, and then three times, four times will be used to it, if he keeps sending it back and forth in the future, this thing is also very annoying, you have to think about it."
Since his family matter is almost decided, it should be a ceremony in February at most, and when he has a gift, no matter what he has sent back, Li Tian replied without raising his head, Yue Niang's chin rested on the back of the chair, looked at Li Tian and smiled: "What do you mean, do you want him to think that he is married, are you angry?" ”
Li Tian glanced up at Yue Niang, and explained in a low voice: "Yesterday he stood in our alley until midnight before leaving, and this morning he sent these things over, this is too abnormal compared to before, there must be a reason for abnormality, what can this cause be?" It must be that his family matter is decided, and he also knows that it is decided, and most of the things that men send are because of guilt, so I bet that he feels guilty, and when his marriage is announced, I will return these things to him together, with this guilt in the way, when I make a marriage in the future, he may not be angry or less angry. At this time, I only plan for myself and Jiang Yan, and I can't take care of the others
"Don't make any mistakes in the matter of marrying, Princess Jiang Jun clearly knows the fourth master's thoughts, if she knows, she will definitely stop the Jiang family from convicting you
"Well, that's why I explained this to Jiang Yan back, the Jiang family, he can only think of it, if he?? What scruples do you have, so that he can have a chance to think about Li Tian's words calmly without a trace of emotion, Yue Niang looked at Li Tian and sighed: "In the past, when your grandmother was here, I thought your life was too comfortable, and now when I look at you, I feel that your life is too difficult, can you still get married?" ”
Li Tian took a deep breath when she asked a word, and stared at her and didn't know what to say.
Like Yue Niang said, there must be two things, three or four can become a common thing after three or four, the next day, Dongyang County Wangfu sent someone to send a box over, a few snacks in the box, and a red lacquer box sealed with fire paint, the box is just a few seasonal snacks in the palace. Two days later, the box sealed by fire paint was sent again, this time it was a pair of crystal paperweights, and a few days later, the box was sealed with four lotus seeds carved from agarwood and a string of agarwood bracelets carved into buds to be released, and a small painting was pressed on the bottom of the box, which was painted with lotus seeds and lotus bracelets
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