After leaving the palace, Gu Jinzhi's luxurious carriage with a soft awning and a team of spirited horses slowly made its way to Yuanbao Hutong.
Gu Jinzhi and Zhu Zhongjun sat in the car, each silent.
They seem to think victory came too easily...
It's probably because of the struggles in past lives, knowing that victories that are too easily won often foretell heavier suffering to come. Gifts obtained without effort make one's heart uneasy.
Gu Jinzhi and Zhu Zhongjun did not have a single bit of joy, but instead had a faint sense of worry.
Perhaps it's just unnecessary worry...
But they all got used to borrowing trouble from others.
Since when has there been no more luck in life?
Arrived home, met several ladies in the main courtyard.
Gu Jin does not know.
Song Pan'er introduced her.
They were all acquaintances of Song Pan'er in the past, and two of them were wives of the Gu family. They didn't often come and go, but during the New Year, they should still pay their respects.
Gu Jin bowed one by one.
Zhu Zhongjun followed behind him in a daze.
When they saw Zhu Zhongjun, several ladies were stunned, and then learned that he was the King of Luyang, and they all stood up to pay their respects.
Zhu Zhongjun sat directly on the kang.
Song Pan'er didn't like others gossiping about Zhu Zhongjun, so she said to Gu Jinzhi: "There's nothing going on here either, you can take the prince to rest first."
Borrowing an excuse to send Luoyang Wang away.
Gu Jinzhi's way is to come out with Zhu Zhongjun.
"Seventh sister is more and more like you, a beauty just like an immortal." A paternal aunt in the clan said to Song Xiang'er.
Song Pan'er smiled slightly.
After Gu Jing's eyes and eyebrows opened, she looked more like Song Tan'er.
After seeing off those ladies, Song Pan'er thought that she should also go pay her New Year's respects and couldn't be lazy anymore.
Then in the afternoon she visited Xiaoshi and Xiaoyi, and after feeling relieved, she handed them over to Song Mama and Mu Qing for care, and took Haitang and Shuyu out to pay New Year's visits.
Went to the old house first. Paid respects to the first and second madams.
The fifth daughter is still at the mansion of the great lady.
She is still so gentle and soft-spoken, but completely different from before. There's just a hint of impatience between her eyebrows, I'm afraid she can't pretend anymore?
Song Pan'er saw Mrs. Big's painstaking guidance to the fifth girl and endured it, no longer provoking her.
Song Pan'er had paid her respects to the first lady and then went to pay New Year's greetings to the second lady.
The lady knew that her sisters-in-law had nothing to say, and fearing they would make a disturbance, she called the elder sister-in-law to follow, and made some circular remarks in between.
Sat for a while at the second wife's place and then returned to the main house.
It so happened that Xia Shou's family was at home, and they sent someone to pick up San Niangzi Xia Shi for her return visit.
San Nai Nai is Xia Shou Fu's little granddaughter.
The lady hastily called out to Wu Gu Niang to go and inform her.
The fifth daughter obediently went as she was told.
Third Sister-in-law arrived soon. She wore a pink satin jacket with moon-white embroidery, green silk shoes with double layers of embroidered flowers, and a grey squirrel fur cloak with a cyan lotus pattern on the outside, looking both elegant and lovely. Her hair was styled in a high bun, adorned with two gold pins inlaid with jade, and sparkling long earrings that made her face look even whiter.
The madam pulled it over and looked left and right, still feeling like something was missing.
She took another look around, and then Madame Wang removed a pair of solid yellow jade bangles from her wrist and put them on Third Sister-in-law: "It's not necessary to be too formal during the New Year, but you can't dress too plainly, or the elderly people at home won't like it."
Third Granny hastily declined: "Elder Aunt, I have some myself. I'll just call a servant girl to go fetch them."
This pair of handcuffs, both are heavy... probably 80% of a real one...
The three grandmothers thought it was too expensive.
The old lady on the side looked at her, smiled and said: "It's a reward from your mother, take it! Come back and be more filial in the future. Hurry up, the housekeeper of your family has been waiting for a long time..."
Third Granny knew that Big Madam was always generous with her gifts and thanked her before turning around and leaving.
The fifth girl glanced a few times in the direction where the third granny had gone far away, and slightly raised her lips.
The fifth daughter had a pair of hollow shrimp claw bangles on her hands. They were quite pretty, but not worth much money, and a pair wasn't even as valuable as the half one that the madam gave to the third lady...
She felt a sourness in her heart.
The madam saw it and smiled, giving a signal with her eyes to the old lady.
The old lady saw the expression on Wu Niang's face, couldn't help but smile, nodded knowingly and said: "Wu Mei, come out, your sister-in-law wants to have a word with you..."
Take Fifth Daughter back to her courtyard.
Song Pan'er coldly gazed at her, and only now smiled, saying: "Elder sister is still so generous!"
"What's proper or not." The madam smiled and said, "When the children go out, it's the face of our family. As their elder aunt, I have to maintain their dignity, what can I do?"
Then she remembered the fourth daughter who had married out and said: "The second house hasn't come to ask, it's time to welcome Sister Shan back for a visit..."
The second wife's several daughters, those who entered the palace entered the palace, those who got married got married, and only one fifth daughter was adopted by the madam, she became more and more unmanageable, only acting as a rich and noble lady, every day if the meal is not to her liking, she would scold and beat the maids for half a day to vent her anger.
In his heart, he was getting more and more desperate.
She even forgot after passing the New Year and receiving the fourth girl's return visit...
"Second Aunt has been too idle these days." Song Pan'er said, "Even forgetting that Cousin Shan is coming back for a visit. Later, it will be up to you, the elder aunt, to take care of things again."
The lady lowered her voice and smiled at Song Xiang'er, "There's a reason for that. In the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, Ye Mama, who was by the side of my second brother's wife, went to see Shan Jie and said that the Yuan family is wealthy and prosperous, but the second branch doesn't have money to spend on New Year's, so she asked Shan Jie to bring back some money for them to use.
Sister-in-law entered the house, with her husband and two sisters-in-law, where could she be in charge? Even her brother-in-law was living on the allowance from the estate, neither of them had their own private money. No matter how big the Yuan family's business was, it wasn't in their hands, Fourth sister said they didn't have any, and even asked Yemama to take back her dowry for Second Brother's wife.
Ye's mother is even more clueless, she actually brought it back.
I heard this and got angry. The young lady is a new daughter-in-law in her husband's family, and many people are watching her, waiting to see her make mistakes. With the upcoming ancestor worship during the Chinese New Year, if she loses face, how can Xiang sister go out? I gave another 200 taels of silver to the second house and got the head ornaments back, sending them to Xiang sister.
Second Master scolded her, and she was only afraid that San Jie would intentionally harm her, so she deliberately didn't mention the words about San Jie returning home.
Song Paner was slightly stunned.
She wanted to laugh, but couldn't bring herself to do so.
She doesn't like the second wife. She also has no good feelings towards Si Gu Niang's daughter Shan Jie.
Imagine yourself in her shoes and think about how nervous you were when you first became a daughter-in-law. If your own family came to cause trouble like this, wouldn't you be even more at a loss?
What's more, Shan Jie is not as good at thinking on her feet as Song Pan'er.
I recall last time when Sister Shan's father-in-law discussed the maidservant beside Sister Shan and these things about her natal family...
"She really doesn't give her daughter a way out!" Song Pan'er sighed lightly.
The madam smiled and said, "Sister-in-law's mother-in-law is a formidable one. On the second day of the New Year, Brother Chen's wife brought their daughter to pay respects, and Sister-in-law's mother-in-law gave her a purse and stuffed it into the child's clothes. I didn't notice at the time. That night, Brother Chen's wife hastily brought it over for me to see, and inside were three thousand taels of silver notes, all with denominations of one thousand taels each..."
Song Paner was shocked.
What a big move indeed.
"Look at this. I know about that matter. The Yuan family is trying to curry favor with us, how dare they make things difficult for Sanjie? Since it's a red envelope for Xijie, it's not good to back out now. I don't want to give it to Erxiong and his wife either. So, I'll just spend it on her daughter-in-law and granddaughter instead. I've also ordered a new set of hair accessories, which I'll give to Sanjie when she comes back for the reunion; and I've made many pieces of jewelry, which I'll give to Peijie and Xiaoshi one by one in the future." The old lady said with a smile.
Song Pan'er burst out laughing.
"So you're borrowing flowers to offer Buddha!" Song Pan'er laughed and said, "Then what will you give to Sister Jin as a reward?"
The madam glared at her: "Sister Jin hasn't even come to pay me New Year's greetings yet!"
Song Paner was at a loss for words and buried her head in drinking tea.
After taking a sip of tea, Song Xiang'er smiled and said: "Today I accompanied the king to the palace to pay New Year's greetings to Empress Dowager. Tomorrow at dawn, I will personally send her over to pay New Year's greetings to your aunt!"
The madam smiled: "Then I'll also prepare a thick gift for her, you don't have to fight! If the second house's daughter has it, then my sister will too. When did I ever favor one over the other?"
The two mothers-in-law chatted and laughed. The elder grandmother brought back Fifth Daughter again.
The smile on Wu Niang's face grew thicker.
She put on a new bracelet and also wore two new crimson agate hairpins with red gemstones inlaid.
Song Pan'er smiled and didn't say anything.
The madam asked: "Hey, why did you change your outfit?"
"Does it look good? This is the New Year's gift I was going to give to Fifth Sister before the Spring Festival, but I kept forgetting..."
The lady repeatedly said it was good-looking, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law understood each other's minds.
On the way back, Song Xiang'er was still thinking about Madame Zheng.
The silver ticket given by the Yuan family, although I knew what was going on, was stuffed into Xishier's red envelope. If the first wife didn't know about it, would the second wife dare to say anything?
The Yuan family returned the gift with an even more valuable one, just because of the old master's status and position.
The madam instead came to dress up the children of the second wife...
After all these years, Mrs. has changed a bit, but the kind-heartedness in her bones remains unchanged.
Song Pan'er slightly supported her forehead and smiled lightly.
She went back home and told Gu Jinzhi about it with a smile.
The next day, Gu Jin followed his mother to the old house for New Year's greetings.
Song Pan'er said as soon as she entered: "We've come for the red envelopes..."
It was Eldest Aunt and Third Aunt who came to greet them.
"The princess has entered the palace." The old lady's eyes and eyebrows were all smiles, "Our family's De Fei Niang Niang has ruined the dragon breed!"
Song Pan'er was both shocked and delighted.
The third grandma's eyes dimmed slightly.
She has been married for almost a year and still hasn't shown any signs of pregnancy.
Sixth Sister is pregnant with a dragon's child, and everyone's attention will definitely be focused on her belly again...
She is very embarrassed.
Gu Jin thought: Within tomorrow, Sixth Sister will definitely summon her to the palace to take her pulse. Although there are imperial physicians, they can't compare to a family member's care.
Sure, here is the translation:
As expected, the next morning, a message arrived from the palace.
It's not Gu Jinzhi, but Lao Yezi.
The old man didn't respond, just saying let Empress De rest and recover quietly, then said: "Jin sister go take a look."
Gu Jin had no choice but to replace his grandfather and enter the palace to take Sixth Sister's pulse.
Last year's draft, so many concubines, but only Sixth Sister got pregnant...
Even an ordinary person would be extremely nervous, let alone the sixth sister who was raised by her second aunt. Gu Jinzhi felt that the next few months would be difficult to live in peace.
The old man was unwilling to show up, so Gu Jinzhi couldn't avoid it.
She was not very willing to enter the palace.
The variables in the palace are getting bigger and bigger, she's afraid of accidentally stepping into the center of the whirlpool and stirring herself in.
Riding in the horse-drawn carriage into the palace, Gu Jin had been deep in thought...
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Looking for pink tickets oo~
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