Chapter 17
When Yue Ping heard this, she waved her hand and said to her aunt, "What did you say? I have never thought about it like this. Our wife is so kind to us. How could I do this? Let's not say that our master is a self-disciplined person, let's talk about it, those concubines are not so easy to be? Now, I just want to save some money. Even if I want to get married in the future, I have to be a regular lady."
Yueping's aunt heard her words and immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that you have this ambition, don't worry. If your money is not enough to redeem yourself, it won't be a problem for your aunt to add some."
After hearing this, Yue Ping just chuckled and shook her head: "Auntie, you don't have to worry so much, I know everything in my heart."
Although Yueping's aunt's family has improved a little in the past two years, after her eldest cousin got married, there is another cousin who is only in his teens. In a few years, it will soon reach the age of hiring. The money spent by her aunt is still in the future, so she naturally won't ask for money from her aunt.
Yueping returned to the mansion later than the original time, and Mu Yun didn't care much about it. It was inevitable that she would take some time to visit relatives, so she still understood this.
Not long after Jingwen was released, Yuan Chuzhi was born. When Mu Yun received the news, it was already the second day of the child's birth.
However, Zhou Qing's mother rushed to the capital two days before the child was born.
Although Zhou Qing had already sent a letter to tell Zhou's mother not to travel to the capital for a long distance, after all, this child was Zhou Qing's first child, so Zhou's mother naturally wanted to come and see it. However, Zhou's father was appointed to leave the place where he was not allowed to leave his post, so he did not come.
Zhou Qing is the youngest son of Zhou's mother, and there are two relatives and sisters, as well as two concubines, and one concubine. There are about four concubines.
Since Zhou Qing entered Beijing to become an official, he has basically been separated from the Jinling family, so he is now the head of the family.
At this time, the Zhou Mansion must be busy, and Mu Yun was not inconvenient to bother him more at this time. He planned to wait for the third day to pass, but Mu Yun still sent someone to the Zhou Mansion to give some tonics to express his condolences to Yuan Chuzhi.
Today is Xu's birthday. Duke Cheng originally intended to do it for her, but Xu is really a person who doesn't like lively. Duke Cheng couldn't argue with her and had to give up.
Xu just set up a table and was about to have dinner with people close to her. Muyun brought the gift into the mansion. When she brought the little monkey to Country Garden, Shan Jingyan had already arrived and was sitting in the main hall chatting with Xu.
When the two of them saw Mu Yun come in, they both stopped to say hello to her.
Muyun came in the afternoon and the birthday party was held in the evening, so the women chatted for the afternoon.
That night, Xu specially set up a dinner in the yard and invited Wen Tingzhou and Jin Wang's family to the family.
The second wife of Duke Chengguo’s mansion has another job, and the second wife still went to serve as the second master.
However, Shan Jun in the mansion is about the same age as Wen Tingzhou this year. He was released as an official after the scientific examination. Now he has returned to Beijing to report his work. His wife's surname is Huang, and Mu Yun and Bairi have also seen it.
Perhaps because Huang was traveling outside with her husband for several years, she looked a little haggard. Mu Yun looked at Huang as if she was not as young as Xu. When she saw Huang in the daytime, she seemed a little disdainful of herself, but Mu Yun didn't take it much to heart.
After all, Shan Jun has been in office for about four years. Even if he has the relationship with the Duke of Chengguo, he has only been promoted from a seventh-rank official to a fifth-rank official.
When Huang met Mu Yun, the wife of a second-rank official, even if she was Duke Cheng's daughter-in-law, she really couldn't take it. Even though she knew that Mu Yun was just a maid in the family before, who said Mu Yun's current imperial edict was higher than her?
When Mrs. Huang saw Mu Yun, even though she was unhappy, she still smiled and said, "Hello, Mrs. Wen. In the past, I heard my mother say you are a good person. When I saw you today, it was indeed brilliant."
After saying that, he pinched the little monkey's fat hand and smiled, "This is Mrs. Wen's brother, it looks like a clever child!" Then Huang took out a jade buckle strung with a knot from his purse. The buckle was transparent and moist, and there were several gem beads around him. He knew it was very valuable at first glance. Mu Yun was about to refuse, but Huang was already tied to the little monkey's clothes with his hands and feet. In fact, her heart was also very painful.
Then Huang smiled and said, "It's not a good thing. It's for the children to wear it. Mrs. Wen, don't be humble anymore." Then he pointed to some boxes placed on the ground and said to Xu, "Mother, this is a specialty brought back by my husband and I on duty. It's all local rituals. Don't dislike me..."
Xu smiled and said, "How could you dislike it? It's rare that you, a child, have spent so much effort to bring it back. Thank you..."
When Mu Yun saw that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were chatting, he naturally couldn't interrupt. He swallowed the refusal of the words and listened to them with a smile.
Then, Mu Yun met Shan Jingyao again. Shan Jinglian took her husband's job and was not in the capital.
Shan Jingyao has given birth to one son and one daughter in recent years. Her youngest daughter is only seven months old and her son is three years old.
Moreover, she also had two concubines and three concubine daughters. When she heard this news, Mu Yun was surprised. Although she had heard of it for a long time, Mu Yun never thought that Shan Jingyao would live like this now.
Although he was shocked, Mu Yun would not say much to her. After all, she and Shan Jingyao were not particularly familiar with each other. When he saw Shan Jingyao, he still gave away the gifts he had prepared early in the morning with a smile.
The boy gave her children a gift of two pairs of gold turtles, two pairs of pen ingots, one pair of Duan inkstones, and one new book. The girl was two pairs of gold turtles, two pairs of apple-style silver turtles, one string of pearls, and one pair of collars. The concubine's son Jingyao didn't bring it, and Mu Yun didn't give it.
Huang has not made any appearance in recent years, so the meeting gift Mu Yun prepared earlier is useless.
However, the little monkey received a lot of gifts.
Mu Yun also saw a girl from a side branch of the single family. Because she was not prepared, she took off a pair of pink red gold hibiscus bracelets from her hand and put them on the girl's hand: "I haven't been here for a few days, and I didn't know that there was a lovely person coming to the Duke's mansion." The girl was about to refuse, but Mu Yun said again: "This bracelet is better because of its fresh color, and it is suitable for a young and beautiful girl like her sister to wear."
Shan Bingbing glanced at Xu, saw her nodding slightly, then accepted it and saluted Chao Muyun smiled and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Mrs. Wen."
Because the dinner was not an outsider, everyone just gathered in the same room and separated by only a screen.
After a long separation, the men are naturally happy and they are also filled with sighs and sighs.
As for the female family members, to be honest, Mu Yun can't stand Huang and Shan Jingyao now.
Although Huang knew that his mother-in-law and her sister-in-law, as a princess, had never been a good-looking person, but when she left for a few years, she saw that her sister-in-law was now the prince's concubine. The old lady who was originally a mighty man in the Duke's mansion was now lying on the bed waiting to die. Even the people in the third and fourth rooms were sent to the Duke's mansion... Huang was also trembling in her heart, and she couldn't help but be more awe of her mother-in-law and sister-in-law. She had to show her great affection for the two during the meal.
Xu was not surprised. He looked at his daughter who was now majestic beside him, and then looked at Shan Jingyao next to him, and couldn't help but sigh.
Huang's words and deeds were often welcomed. However, her number of paragraphs was relatively low. Although she was trying to please her, she did it too obvious, which made people feel disgusted.
Even Shan Jingyan felt uncomfortable when she heard Huang's flattery, but she still responded with a smile on her face.
After attending Xu's birthday party, Shan Jingyan pulled Mu Yun and complained about Huang and Shan Jingyao on the way away.
Then there was Yuan Chuzhi's child's three-day banquet. Mu Yun was busy welcoming and seeing him off all day long, and there was no time to rest. After attending Yuan Chuzhi's child's three-day banquet, Mu Yun felt tired all over.
Just as he was preparing to take a good rest for a few days, news came from Prince Jin's mansion that Concubine Zheng had a difficult time giving birth.
When Mu Yun heard this news, he was somewhat worried about Shan Jingyan. Concubine Zheng was unable to give birth. Will it be rumored that it was Shan Jingyan who did it? This would have some impact on her reputation.
However, on the day of the third day of the Jin Palace, Mu Yun prepared a generous gift to go to the palace with Xu to participate in the third day of the baptism. The little girl will remember it in Shan Jingyan's name from now on. Concubine Zheng gave birth to a full term. Speaking of difficult childbirth, Mu Yun also wondered for a moment if Shan Jingyan had a hand?
Xu and Mu Yun did not go to visit the little girl, but went to the main courtyard to meet Shan Jingyan.
As soon as Xu entered the door, he said to Shan Jingyan: "Now, you have these two legitimate sons by your side. That child is a girl again, so it's nothing, but isn't it white in your name? "
Shan Jingyan leaned lazily on the chair and said carelessly: "Don't worry, mother, how can I take advantage of my advantage? The prince has already said that I will keep it. As for the princess, there is no need to think about it."
Seeing that there were no one around, Xu whispered, "It's really not your move?"
Upon hearing this, Shan Jingyan shook her head with a serious expression: "Mother is really not me. I'm also surprised. Concubine Zheng's fetus looks very good, but I look at it when the remaining children are still alright, and somehow she bleeded heavily. Actually, I suspect..."
Chapter completed!