Chapter Ninety-Four: Tea Ceremony
Early in the morning of the second day, when Eighteen Niang went out to the main hall, she met Shen Qin, who had just come out of Xunmei Courtyard.
She looked a little haggard, and the thick powder couldn't hide the dark blue under her eyes. Seeing Eighteen Niang, she hesitated for a moment, and shouted a little embarrassedly: "Eighteen Niang is early, Qianlang has something to do, so she didn't come to congratulate her, but the Li family came over as a gift." ”
Eighteen Niang looked at her lightly: "Sister doesn't need to explain to me." However, I heard that the little lady of the Kong family occasionally felt cold, and Mrs. Li went back to her parents' house yesterday. ”
Shen Qin's face turned white, "In the end, it is my mother-in-law's own niece and nephew, and it hurts a little, and it is also ......"
"Let's go over quickly, if we let the eldest brother and sister-in-law wait, it won't be good." Shen Qin, who was interrupted by Eighteen Niang, said directly.
Li Qianzhi wasted so much thought about marrying Shen Qin, how could it be that the Shen family did not come to have a happy event. He did come, but halfway through, he heard that his cousin Kong Meixian was not very good, so he went to Kong Mansion again, and this time, there was no shadow.
Shen Qin looked at him for a day yesterday, and he didn't wait for him, so naturally he couldn't sleep at night.
By the time they arrived in the main hall, Qin Zhao and Shen Yao had already come over.
She wore a garnet-red pleated skirt with vivid twigs embroidered on it, and her little face was blushing, with the joy of being a new woman on her face.
Eighteen Niang winked at her, walked to her position, and stood quietly.
There are very few families in the Shen Mansion who have gathered together.
The old lady sat on the main seat, Shen Ze sat on her left, Shen Lin sat on her right, and Shen Lin was the eldest lady Wang under him.
The others are juniors, sitting in a row according to their age.
Qin Zhao first gave the old lady tea. The old lady took the tea, took a sip with a smile, and gave Qin Zhao a bracelet that she was used to wearing.
Eighteen Niang frowned, this granddaughter-in-law and concubine's daughter-in-law gave the same meeting gift, the old lady is going to slap Qin Zhao's face?
Qin Zhao took it with a smile, "Thank you, grandmother." Grandmother is teaching her granddaughter-in-law, although the concubine is different, but I am the eldest sister-in-law, so I naturally want to be harmonious with my sister-in-law. My younger sister and I used to be old acquaintances in the boudoir, and now we are fortunate to be the wife of the Shen family, and my granddaughter-in-law will definitely take good care of her. ”
The old lady's face sank, although her words were good, why did she sound so unpleasant?
It's just that when I thought that she was Qin Xiang's only granddaughter, and today was the day of tea, I blackened my face and endured my anger.
Qin Zhao didn't care either, and gave Shen Ze tea again. Then I met with my brothers and sisters, and gave the brothers the four treasures of the best study, and gave the sisters a pair of arms with a golden osmanthus pattern, although the type is the same, but the quality of the concubine is very different.
When the old lady saw it, her face darkened.
After Wu Gui died, several of her children kept a low profile. Shen Yu, Shen Rui, and Shen Yu all took it with expressionless faces, only Shen Lang smiled, looking at the powerful Qin Zhao, and he was honored, as if the person who married a good wife was him.
Seeing Qin Zhaodu, he was a little inexplicable.
After everyone saw the ceremony, they dispersed, Shen Ze went to the household department to deal with official business, although Shen Yao had a big vacation, Tubo was about to move recently, and there was a messenger in Chang'an, preparing for marrying Princess Rongyang, and all six of them were not idle at once.
Eighteen Niang took Qin Zhao's arm, asked Nanzhi and Dongzhu to gather the stewards of the mansion, and began to hand over the affairs of the mansion with Qin Zhao.
Qin Zhao poured a bowl of tea angrily, "Good guy, you have to let me take a breath and take a sip of tea first, so you are so busy handing over all the things to me, I can't even recognize people." ”
Eighteen Niang stuck out her tongue, "There is a sister-in-law, where is the reason for a sister-in-law to be in charge." If you take it quickly, I'll go buy you rouge roast goose! ”
As soon as Qin Zhao heard the rouge roast goose, his face turned red all of a sudden, "What are you doing to your brother, saying that I love to eat rouge roast goose." In the past few months, there has been a smell of roast goose in our house, and I am almost laughed to death by my grandfather. ”
Eighteen Niang couldn't help laughing, she didn't expect Shen Yaoxian's diligent method to be less clever than Li Ziqi!
Qin Zhao spoke, it was a set of things, where to use Eighteen Niang to intervene, now people were trained by her to be obedient, and the population of Shen Mansion was relatively simple, and the handover was completed in a short time.
The two talked and laughed, and after a while, it was time for the morning meal, and Eighteen Niang simply didn't leave, and asked Nanzhi to take her share and use it with her. At this moment, Shen Qin also came over.
She was carrying a food box in her hand, but she didn't expect Eighteen Niang to be there, and she was suddenly a little embarrassed.
"Qin Niang came just in time, I was about to ask someone to call you, let's have a morning meal together, my married cook is a Bashu person, especially good at cooking fish. This spicy fish skin with blue stem rice porridge couldn't be better. Eighteen Niang also brought soup dumplings. ”
Shen Qin was relieved to see that she was still as affectionate as before, and said with a smile: "My chef is a fan, she only made some osmanthus cakes and sugar taro seedlings, let's eat them while they are hot." ”
Eighteen Niang loves to eat double-skin milk, but she doesn't like too sweet food, so she only slams at the spicy fish fillet, "Sister-in-law, your fish is so delicious, I'll let the kitchen give me a copy to take away, and I won't be polite to you." ”
"It's all a family, what's so polite", it wasn't Qin Zhao who said this, but Shen Qin, looking at the two of them, Shen Qin lowered her head embarrassedly, and said in a small voice: "Speaking of which, I still have something I want to ask my sister-in-law." My family affair was scheduled for March next year, but the dowry had not started for a long time, so I asked my sister-in-law to help me buy it. ”
Qin Zhao already knew the reason for this, this is not a good job, it's just that Eighteen Niang is a young sister who can push it, and she is a newly married eldest sister-in-law, but she can't push it.
If you can't push it, it's better to take it generously.
"It's my business, don't worry."
When Shen Qin heard this, he smiled happily, and hurriedly took out the silver ticket and put it on the table.
Qin Zhao smiled and waved his hand at the big girl behind him, who walked up with a booklet after a while.
"Take this booklet back and take a look, this is the treasure that my mother passed down to me, all kinds of dowry regulations. My sister wants to do a dowry of a few thousand taels, and it is written in great detail. For example, three thousand taels, and there are several kinds of A, B, C, and D, and my sister can only choose the one she likes, and my sister-in-law will do it for you. ”
As soon as Eighteen Niang heard it, this Qin Zhao's mother is also a god person, and she must have expected that the dowry of the sister-in-law of the Shen Mansion would depend on her daughter in the end, so she wrote such a booklet.
What to buy, how much to spend, how much to make, that is clear, you can choose. You picked it yourself, and you can't complain about it when the time comes.
Shen Qin didn't expect it, but she had no concept of these affairs, and she didn't notice anything wrong. After only a few pages, his face began to look ugly.
With these three thousand taels of silver, how could it be possible to buy a dowry as luxurious as Shen Sixteen and Qin Zhao? Do you want to take out the silver that Shen Yao gave her?
Just as she was thinking about it, she saw her eldest maid Jade hurriedly running in and shouting, "Little lady, it's not good, the Li family has come to withdraw from the family." ”