After the guests left, Yuan Jiaqi and Qiao Mai looked at each table stupidly, all of them were empty.

It's really unkind, and the food is clean and clean.

The people cleaned up the table, the family rested, and it was really tiring to marry a daughter-in-law, it was really not easy.

Mrs. Wang saw Qiao's banquet and followed the old lady back to Penglai Pavilion.

"Mother, when Zihan gets married, can the banquet be the same as Qiao's?"

"You have to talk to Miss Qiao about this, the ingredients are all provided by her to the kitchen,"

"Okay, I'll go find her"

Qiao Mai was drinking tea and resting, when she heard Mrs. Wang calling her in the courtyard, and Yuan Jiaqi asked her with his eyes.

"Call her in, you don't have to hide, just listen."

He went out to welcome Madame Wang into the house, and she came and sat down opposite Qiao Mai.

"I'm here to discuss something with you."

"Say it"

"Zihan will be on the day of his wedding, can you borrow your cook, and you will provide me with such ingredients as today?"

"Yes, I can respond to the ingredients and the cook,"

"Thank you."

"It's just our Qiao family's salute, okay?"

"How much money did you spend on today's banquet?"

"Only 100,000 taels of silver, only a little more."

Mrs. Wang gasped, "Then I'll thank you for Zihan." ”

"You're welcome."

Mrs. Wang left, Yuan Jiaqi sent her to the gate of the courtyard, and when she came back, she saw Qiao Mai with a gloomy face.

"What's wrong?"

"I'll just say that this Jiaru is angry with whom, dare to be virtuous with her mother"

"What did she mean when she asked the price of today's ingredients?"

"Hmph, you don't think she wants to give me silver, but inquire about the price and see how important my courtesy is."

"I didn't expect this Mrs. Wang to be so small-minded"

"It's very atmospheric."

"I heard that her mother's family is also an important minister in the court, I don't know who it is?"

"I don't know, I don't want to know, who I love, the biggest is just a first-class official, even if I am knighted and crowned, I am not afraid, the reason why I give her face is completely in the face of the old man and the old lady."

"Alas~"

After completing another task, Qiao Mai's mood was relieved again, and the hearts of the two daughters-in-law were all in Qiao's house.

This made Qiao Mai very pleased, they all regarded this place as their home, and the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law used to be best friends, but now they are concubines, and they get along very well.

Didn't just salute the tea and admit his relatives, Mu Shi handed over the power of the family.

"Mother, I'm sinking now, it's a little difficult to be in charge, just when Qingling entered the door, just leave it to her, if there is anything I don't understand, I can teach her."

"You two can do it, whoever is in charge of the house, just take care of the affairs of the family"

In this way, the new daughter-in-law began to run the house the next day after entering the door, and after the Xiao family heard about it, they all said that the daughter married the right family.

On the day of returning to the door, the return gift prepared by Qiao Mai, the mother-in-law, and the gift of the eldest daughter-in-law when she returned to the door, achieved a real bowl of water.

This is a good story in the capital, the old emperor sighed when he heard it, and Yu Bao asked puzzled.

"Your Majesty, what are you sighing for?"

"I went to the Qiao family's wedding that day, and I didn't see that Mrs. Qiao."

"She's very ordinary, but a little better than other women."

"Which point?"

"White, very white, ice muscle jade bone is not an exaggeration"

"Well, one white covers three ugliness, how can I marry a good-for-nothing woman for a heavy minister."

"Hehe, I heard that Lord Yuan is submissive and obedient to Mrs. Qiao, and he never gets close to any woman."

"Well, I know this, otherwise I would rather die than marry Princess Yihe at the beginning, just for this woman, and sure enough, the husband has a way."

"Speaking of this, the minion thinks it's strange."

"What's the matter?"

"When the princess came back from the north, it seemed that she had forgotten all about Lord Yuan, and she agreed to the marriage you arranged, and she married obediently, this is not the princess's character."

"I asked, and she said that she couldn't remember anything, so she couldn't remember, so she didn't have to worry about other people's husbands, so that the world could see my jokes."

Yu Bao lowered his head and said no more, his eyes flashed, as if something was brewing.

After coming to the capital for more than two years, many people in the capital wanted to give their daughters to the Yuan family as concubines, and some high-ranking officials also wanted their daughters to be their wives in the past, but they were all scolded back by the Yuan family.

Why scold? If they were told to them, they wouldn't listen.

Only by scolding, they will get angry and tear their faces with him, so that no one will send women, and he doesn't care about any royal family, what wealthy family, or what huge nobles he is, anyway, as long as he sends women, he will scold.

Scolding people for being uneasy and kind, sending a woman is to make him disagree with his mother, to make him a negative man, and to prevent his family from being peaceful.

scolded this one, who would dare, in the past two years, the Manchu Dynasty has almost made him scolded.

Many people went to the palace in private to complain, and as soon as the emperor heard about it, he also wanted to reward the Yuan family for raising a few palace maids, but one of them stopped thinking.

also scolded those who complained back, of course the courtiers he valued had to be protected, and it was not a problem not to accept women, people were not good at this, you had to send it, not looking for scolding?

So in the past two years, the Qiao family has been very quiet.

Some people saw that they couldn't send it to the Yuan family, so they wanted to send it to the Fengyun brothers, and there was one who didn't touch the eyes, just a few days after Xiao Qingling entered the door, they wanted to send their daughter as a concubine.

Immediately scolded by Qiao Mai, Mu's, and Xiao's, three women in a play, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law pinched their waists, standing at the gate of Jixiangyuan, like three tigresses, and has always been famous in the capital.

Jixiangyuan is like an iron wall, many people envy it, and they can't get in.

Yuan Jiaqi also posted a notice at the door of his house, advising those people in the capital not to stuff women into their homes again, otherwise they would go to the yamen to sue them for sparing people and Qingning.

When Mu and Xiao are alone, they are often glad that they have a good mother-in-law.

They are never allowed to ask for peace, and the affairs of the family are discussed, and they are always spoken in a gentle voice.

If there are good things, I also think about my daughter-in-law first, and I don't disagree with the requirements I put forward to them as long as they are reasonable.

Chuan'er and Zihan were assigned to the Hanlin Academy, one was a sixth-rank official and the other was a deputy sixth-rank official, which was slightly stronger than the original Yuan Jiaqi.

In June, the rainy season in the south arrived, but living in Kichijoin was very refreshing.

The rain is always clean, the ground is always clean, and Mrs. Wang is used to living here, so she doesn't want to go back.

She took a fancy to the second daughter of the Shangshu family of the Ministry of Rites, but it was Chuan'er who asked the matchmaker to come together, because this Mrs. Wang had been angry for a long time.

"Although my father-in-law is a fourth-grade official, that is because he doesn't want to return to Beijing, otherwise he would have been a first-class official, why should he look down on people."

In fact, people don't look down on her, in ancient times, it was the right family, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials are all first-class official positions, and they are all equal, of course, it is the most suitable to be a family member.

But Mrs. Wang's heart is high, so she wants to find a daughter-in-law of a high family, pick and choose, she falls in love with the Qian family, that is, the Qian mayor's own family, and is also a concubine, and the highest official position of the Qian family in the capital is the second grade.

Miss Qian is of good character, and she has just turned sixteen years old, and her gametes are more than poked.

Fortunately, the Qian family did not dislike Zihan, and the two sides also looked at each other and were very satisfied with each other, so Mrs. Wang wrote a letter to Wang Zongsheng and asked him to come to Beijing quickly.

In mid-June, the matchmaker went to the Qian family to propose marriage, and at the end of the month, Wang Zongsheng took his wife and son to the Qian family to get married.

In July, Wang Zongsheng took his wife and son to live in Bichun Garden, and he was about to be hired, and the dowry could not come out of Jixiangyuan.

No matter how good the relationship is, this is also someone else's family, and there is no reason to hire from others.

Even Wang Zongsheng understands the truth, but this Mrs. Wang is not happy, it is really too face-saving to marry a daughter-in-law in Jixiangyuan, and Mrs. Wang wants to save face.

(End of chapter)