Chapter 298 Hundred Days
When I got home in the evening, my third cousin told Mrs. Mo's words: "...You said, can we kiss my ninth sister?" When I asked this, my third cousin had a little expectation in his eyes.
Marriage is a matter of getting two families. The two have never talked about this before, and the third cousin doesn't know what her husband is planning.
The third brother-in-law couldn't help but ponder: "As the saying goes, my daughter Xiao Mu. The ninth sister's character is nothing to say..." He paused slightly, "It's just that the ninth brother-in-law is a second-rank official at a young age, and has the ability to follow the dragon. The Zhao family has a bright future... It may not be that they can look down on our spring cake..." There was a little hesitation between his eyebrows.
The third cousin was filled with joy and sorrow.
What is happy is that her husband agrees to marry Jiu's sister's family, but what is worried is how to speak this? If it becomes a happy event, it will naturally be a happy event. But if Jiu's sister has other arrangements for Youyou, how can she be ashamed to go to Zhao's house often in the future?
For a moment, she was sitting or standing. When it was the day when Brother Han was 100 days, she looked a little dazed.
Mrs. Wu teased her, "What? My third aunt is heartbroken and the money is money? But the things are given out, and the heartache is useless."
For Han Ge'er's first year gift, the Shen family gave a pair of red gold bracelets, a pair of red gold anklets, two sets of carved silk clothes, two sets of lake silk clothes, two pairs of shoes and socks, a Duan inkstone, and a box of lake pens. Among relatives, it can be regarded as the first one.
"Mrs. Wu is not talking about it." The third cousin quickly restrained his mind and cheered up to socialize with the female relatives around him. "I just envy Sister Jiu for having another son, and I couldn't help feeling a little sour."
Everyone laughed when she heard her funny words.
Fu Tingyun glared at the third cousin even more coquettishly, grabbed the dates and stuffed them into the arms of the third cousin: "The third sister eats the dates."
It made everyone laugh again.
In the lively atmosphere, Baoshu rushed into the curtains and said, "Madam, the second master asked me to report to you, saying that Wu Ding Hou and his wife are here to send the third master a year-old gift."
Everyone in the room was stunned.
Although the Empress Dowager in the hall that day revealed the meaning of getting Meng and Fu Tingyun closer, after leaving the palace, Meng did not have any connection with Fu Tingyun. Fu Tingyun thought for a long time and gave him a festive gift to Wuding Marquis Mansion on the Dragon Boat Festival. Wuding Marquis Mansion received the gift, and then returned the gift. On August 15th and the Spring Festival, it was also the festive gift that Fu Tingyun gave first. For this reason, Fu Tingyun and Yuwei muttered privately: "If there is the words of the Empress Dowager, it would be a bit disrespectful if he didn't give it to him. Given that the Marquis Mansion of Wuding is lukewarm, it seems like we are clamoring to them. It makes people feel unhappy." Thinking that Zhao Ling was not at home, Han Ge'er's hundred-day gift did not post to Wuding Marquis Mansion.
I never thought that Wuding Hou and Meng came uninvited.
Fu Tingyun couldn't help but look at Yu.
Yu Wei shook her head repeatedly, indicating that she would never talk nonsense.
Of course Fu Tingyun would not doubt Yuwei. Yuwei's appearance made her smile, and she stood up to greet Meng with the female relatives in the room.
Meng was wearing a real red gold-sleeved jacket and red gold-sleeved stroll, dignified and grand, showing her importance to visiting the Zhao family.
Fu Tingyun was a little surprised and stepped forward to salute Meng.
But before she could kneel down, Meng took her hands two steps forward and took her: "When you and I were girls, we had the fate to meet the Empress Dowager, and it was considered a friend of the boudoir. Don't tell me these false rituals." The attitude is intimate but not excessive, making people feel comfortable as if they were bathed in the spring breeze.
Fu Tingyun secretly admired her, politely greeted her, and introduced the female relatives behind her to her.
Meng was joking with everyone affectionately, and Fu Tingyun accompanied him to the inner room.
Fu Tingyun Yili brought Brother Han over to her to show her.
She gave a pair of jade locks with red gold inlaid jade step by step as a meeting gift, hugged Brother Han and teased for a while, and then asked the other children: "Why didn't you see your sister and brother?"
"The child is naughty," Fu Tingjun smiled, "I held a banquet at home today, so I held them in the house."
"It is better to be naughty, smart and strong." Meng smiled. "I have to recognize people for the first time. Otherwise, I won't know each other when I meet each other, wouldn't I make a joke?"
The so-called "children are naughty" are just Fu Tingyun's humble words. The children are lively and cute, well-behaved and sensible, and are not afraid of going anywhere. She smiled and asked Yuwei to bring the children over.
The children respectfully saluted Meng.
Meng took Yoyo's hand and asked Brother Xi'er what Brother Xu said.
Both children were eloquent and spoke clearly. Meng couldn't help but nodded, and his smile reached the bottom of his eyes, and a little joy was added to his expression.
Fu Tingyun couldn't help but sigh in her heart when she thought of her emptiness.
Meng seemed to feel something, suddenly turned around and looked at Fu Tingyun with a smile, and asked, "Have your sister ever said she was kinship?"
Fu Tingyun was shocked and couldn't help but say, "Youyou is still young, we are not ready to make a reservation for her so early."
Meng nodded with a smile, turned around and talked to a few children.
But Fu Tingyun's heartstrings became tense.
Is Meng's words intentional or unintentional?
She was born in the Duke of Fuguo and married into the Duke of Dingyuan. The people who came and went back and forth were either nobles or royal relatives. If she intended to help Youyou talk about marriage, the other party would definitely not be a child of an ordinary family.
Qi Dafei.
She had suffered such hardships herself, and she never thought of marrying Youyou into a family of ministers with complicated personnel, let alone the royal family.
What I fear most is that Meng is quite self-respecting and wants to marry Yoyo for the Dingyuan Marquis’ Mansion.
You know, Dingyuan Marquis' Mansion still has no legitimate son...
A trace of worry flashed in Fu Tingyun's eyes.
The third cousin, who was sitting quietly beside him, gritted his teeth.
After having lunch at the main table, Meng was about to go back and ask the maids around him to go to the outer courtyard to see if the banquet for Wuding Hou had ended.
The maid came back but whispered a few words in Meng's ear.
After hearing this, Meng said, "Our Marquis and Lord Qin, Mr. Zhao Er was drinking happily, saying that he had to eat for the afternoon banquet before leaving." She said, and smiled at Fu Tingyun, "Our Marquis is accustomed to dating with others, but he didn't expect to leave after leaving at your house. It can be seen that this is also fate."
Fu Tingyun suppressed the surprise in his heart, and smiled and said to Meng with a smile: "It's too late to welcome me, but it's a pity that the banquet is not good, and I feel wronged by the Marquis."
"The Marquis of the Palace often drink nectar and jade liquid, but he was not as interested as he is today." Meng quietly praised Fu Tingyun, "It can be seen that Mrs. Zhao's banquet was well-organized, which made the Marquis feel more comfortable than drinking nectar and jade liquid."
Fu Tingyun hurriedly and humbled.
The two of them were talking in a mess, while the others sat aside with laughter and listened, making the originally lively banquet restricted.
After finally using the evening banquet, everyone parted one after another. The dinner had not yet ended. Fu Tingyun had to continue talking with Meng. It was not until the knocking time of the hour of Hai, and the drunk Marquis of Dingyuan said goodbye.
Yu Wei whispered to Fu Tingyun: "Just when the maid of Dingyuan Marquis went to invite Dingyuan Marquis, Dingyuan Marquis seemed to have drunk too much, and he actually said to everyone, "You are impatient and go back. I want to drink two cups here."
Fu Tingyun frowned, closed the door and wrote a letter to Zhao Ling, told him about his worries, and asked Anxin to ask someone to deliver the letter overnight.
Early the next morning, the third cousin ran over and pulled her to the ear room and said, "...Do you know why the Dingyuan Hou and his wife came together yesterday?"
Fu Tingyun was anxious and said, "What have you heard?"
The third cousin whispered: "After the Dingyuan Marquis' Mansion suffered that great disaster, the population had withered and there was no other person to be promising. The current glory and wealth were nothing more than the grace of the Empress Dowager to the Emperor. The Empress Dowager was old and was afraid that the Dingyuan Marquis' Mansion would gradually decline in a hundred years. So he helped the Dingyuan Marquis's favored ministers to make friends with the emperor's favorite ministers, so that someone could help Dingyuan Marquis speak in front of the emperor in the future."
"Not only do I know these, but Qin Feiyu and the others also know them," Fu Tingyun said impatiently, "No one in Kyoto is unaware of them."
"Do you know that the emperor wants to set up a governor of Yunnan and Guizhou in Yunnan and Guizhou to control the garrisons and the Dushi in Yunnan and Guizhou?" asked the third cousin.
Fu Tingyun was stunned.
She thought that the third cousin was because she heard rumors about why Meng asked Youyou whether she had sex or not!
Fu Tingyun's expression relaxed.
The third cousin showed an angry expression and said, "Did you understand it? Governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, your Zhao Ling is the most likely! That is from the first grade! Do you know that from the first grade? If the ninth brother-in-law became the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, his status would be different. So the couple of Wuding Hou would have been condescending to nobles yesterday..."
"The hope of Jiu Ye shouldn't be great, right?" Hearing that it had nothing to do with Youyou, Fu Tingyun smiled, "The emperor just rewarded him, and it is impossible for him to be promoted to another position so soon..."
"Oh," said the third cousin anxiously, "You have to fight for everything." As he said that, he pulled her up, "Go and change your clothes and ask Mr. Xu to help you get an idea."
But Fu Tingyun held the third cousin's hand: "Sister, since you all know, I believe Mr. Qi must have also known it. I think whether it is the emperor or Mr. Qi, you must have your own opinions. It is probably inappropriate for us to participate in this rashly. Let's tell Master Jiu and let him make his own decisions!"
The third cousin was stunned.
Fu Tingyun nodded at her with a brilliant smile and pulled her to sit on the kang next to the window: "Sister I came here so early, have you used breakfast? Today I made a thousand-layer cake in the kitchen. How about the third sister? How about it taste like this!"
"You..." The third cousin bit his lip, "You really don't care?"
Fu Tingyun said implicitly: "Some things can only be done, but not again."
The third cousin sighed long and stopped talking about this, but asked about Youyou's marriage: "If Meng really proposed marriage to her eldest son..."
"I won't agree even if she asked for the imperial edict." Fu Tingyun's eyebrows were a bit aggressive and sharp.
The third cousin wanted to speak but stopped.
Fu Tingyun was upset by this incident and did not think about the strangeness of her third cousin. Instead, she lowered her head and pondered for a moment, saying, "But you are right, I have to go to see Mr. Qi as soon as possible... Some things must be asked by the emperor."
As soon as she finished speaking, Baoshu ran in.
"Madam," he looked a little anxious, "I feel at ease to see you."
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