When Gu Xi offered tea to Yu Tang, his mood was very complicated.
She couldn't figure out whether it was more unwillingness, more jealousy, or more regret.
If she had been calmer and waited until the news of Yu Tang and Pei Yan's marriage came out before deciding on her own marriage, wouldn't she have faced such an embarrassing situation
It seems not.
In the Jiangnan area, among the younger generation, there was no better son-in-law than Pei Yan. Even if she didn't marry Pei Tong, she would not be able to seduce Pei Yan. And Pei Tong was the best candidate among the people she knew.
If she missed Pei Tong, she might regret it even more.
so be it? !
Gu Xi thought, she lived her life by herself. Back then, her mother also married a good family, so she didn't end up sick and died in the end.
She didn't believe it, she couldn't live this life well.
Thinking about it this way, it seems that offering tea to Yu Tang is not so unacceptable.
Gu Xi called "Third Aunt" to Yu Tang in a steady voice, neither enthusiastic nor deserted.
The eldest lady nodded with satisfaction.
The Miss Pei next to her covered their mouths and laughed.
Pei Lao'an looked at them and glared at them angrily.
The Third Miss, Fourth Miss and Fifth Miss who had not yet left the cabinet shrank their shoulders like quails, not daring to laugh anymore.
Yu Tang has a kind of exalted and refreshing, and he is in a particularly good mood.
She and Gu Xi are really destined!
She likes the fate of this life so much.
"Nephew and daughter-in-law don't have to be so polite." She said with a smile, handed the teacup to Xi Po who was standing next to her, took the meeting gift from Qing Yuan, and gave it to Gu Xi.
Gu Xi thanked her with a smile, and saw that Yu Tang's meeting ceremony had more jade pendants than her sister-in-law of the same generation, and the water of the jade pendants was not bad, and her mood became better.
Although Yu Tang had to perform the junior ceremony when she saw Yu Tang in the future, Yu Tang still had to give her a red envelope during the holidays. It could be considered that she suffered a loss in terms of etiquette, but she compensated her in terms of money, not that the loss was so severe.
On the contrary, Mrs. Yang, who is the sister-in-law of the eldest wife's natal family, couldn't help but start complaining about Pei's family on the way back after having the marriage recognition wine: "It's still so stingy. I can't even bear to be in a couple."
This time Mrs. Yang came here on behalf of the Yang family, and the meeting gifts of the uncles' families were all around two thousand taels of silver, which was very respectable.
The eldest lady smiled wryly, and said: "Do you still expect the Pei family to be different from before? Even when his father was there, there was no way to change it, not to mention that his father was gone, and Pei Yan was as stubborn as our old man. In short, I can't count on the Pei family."
Mrs. Yang sighed, helped Mrs. Pei straighten the fox fur on the cloak, and said, "How do you think about what I told you?"
She came here for a purpose.
The Yang family wanted to marry the Pei family again.
Pei Tong is gone, and there is Pei Fei.
If Pei Fei's side can't do it, then the Yang family can marry a girl from the Pei family and go back.
The Yang family took a fancy to Fifth Miss Pei Dan.
Mrs. Yang said: "I will definitely not embarrass you. I am here to propose marriage for Feng'er."
Yang Feng is the second son of Mrs. Yang.
Although he is the second son, he is the best educated one in the Yang family.
Indeed, Pei Dan was not wronged.
Mrs. Pei frowned. She doesn't like the second wife, and naturally she doesn't like the fifth lady who was born by the second wife, and she doesn't want the fifth lady to marry such a good husband.
"We have to wait until Ah Tong's marriage is over." She said with a little reluctance, "The second wife will leave for Shandong after the Chinese New Year. There is still time."
But Mrs. Yang hurried back, she wanted to settle this matter before going back. She couldn't help saying: "Your elder brother said that Pei Xuan was underestimated in the past. Do you know who is fighting with Pei Xuan for the position of the Shandong governor? It's the fifth master of the Li family! Mrs. Zhang personally Pei Xuan is recommended."
The eldest wife doesn't know.
She opened her mouth slightly.
Not to mention that the Li family and the Zhang family are related by marriage, they advance and retreat together in officialdom. If Pei Xuan's Shandong chief envoy is really what Mrs. Yang said, it means that the Zhang and Li families paid a lot of money and gave up a lot of benefits in order to bring Pei's family into the game.
"Not only that," Mrs. Yang gave the eldest lady another heavy hammer, "Pei Xuan's mentor, it is said that he has become the imperial censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate."
One of the nine ministers, entered the core of the imperial court.
"Your brother hasn't figured out whether this is one of the conditions that the Zhang, Li families and Master Pei Xuan said, or it was just to win over the Pei family." Mrs. Yang murmured, "We all thought that Pei Xuan would stay in the capital to do business. A boss or a Shaoqing, I didn't expect him to give up the capital and choose Shandong, which is very close to the capital. Of course, this may not be the one he wants to choose, but the current position is definitely for him. the best… "
She was rambling on, and the eldest wife was a little upset, but she knew better that her current backer was her natal family. Whether she liked it or not, she had to help her natal family.
"Then let me hurry up and ask." Mrs. Pei changed her mind, "Just wait for my news."
She couldn't guarantee that the second wife would agree.
Because the second wife is a filial daughter-in-law, she listens to Mr. Pei for everything, and she is the one that Mr. Pei dislikes the most.
The two said, and went back to the house where the eldest wife lived.
Mrs. Yang still has a lot to ask Mrs. Pei, and they decided to rest together tonight.
The next day, Gu Xi and Pei Tong returned home, and Mrs. Pei went to the second wife's place.
The second wife was not there, so she asked the maid next to the second wife, and said she had gone to the third wife.
It took a few breaths for the eldest wife to realize that the third wife was referring to Yu Tang's girl.
Now it's on par with them.
The eldest lady was a little unhappy, but the little girl was still chirping and said: "The three young ladies are also at the third wife's place, and they said they want to go to another courtyard outside the city to see plum blossoms together. The third master also said that if the weather is too cold, today's I won't be back at night. The fifth lady was so happy, she even brought the grill, saying that she wanted to barbecue there. The third master also asked to bring venison. I heard that it was sent by the Zhang family in the capital. We all want to follow. We haven’t seen how venison looks like. I heard that the big families in the capital eat venison every day. If it’s delicious, Fifth Miss will definitely eat venison in winter. Maybe we can all try it!"
He looked petty and had never seen the world.
Speaking of which, the second wife also came from an aristocratic family, so why are there all these things in the house.
The eldest lady snorted a few times, turned around and left.
The little maid looked left and right to see if there was no one there, made a face at the back of the eldest lady, and ran back to the room where the cage was burning.
After hearing the reply, Mrs. Yang murmured: "The Zhang family? They even sent someone to deliver venison. Do you value the Pei family so much?"
Unfortunately, after the second wife knew that the Yang family intended to marry her, she politely refused: "I have made an agreement with my natal sister-in-law, and I want Ah Dan to go to Jinling."
This is what it means to marry your daughter to her natal family.
The eldest wife is not good at persuading others, and it is even more difficult to say anything when she hears that - if she has a daughter, she is willing to marry her natal nephew.
It's just that as soon as she left, the second wife ran to Pei Lao'an's back foot, told Pei Lao'an about this, and cried like a girl complaining in front of her mother: "I don't have to tell you the truth." A Dan married to Jinling, but a mother-in-law like the eldest wife of the Yang family must not do it."
She can't even beat the eldest wife, let alone Mrs. Yang. Her delicate daughter is married, so she will be bullied so that she can't even speak.
Earlier, when the eldest wife said that she would pick up her daughter-in-law in Hangzhou City, Mr. Pei held his breath. Later, he called Pei Tong over and beat a few words. Pei Tong was smart and persuaded the eldest wife to change his mind. Lost his temper, seeing that the Yang family has made up his mind about the Pei family again, how could he bear it. Before Mrs. Yang returned to Beijing, she called Mrs. Yang over to reprimand her: "You are also a person who raises sons and daughters, why don't you have any sympathy? You can also intervene in the marriage of the children of the Erfang family? They don't have mothers." I still have no grandparents. Oh, I was wrong, you only raised a son, so naturally you don’t know how to raise a daughter. Our old man is gone, so you don’t have to worry about me, an old woman who only knows about deep houses. But you are a mother I’m a real person, am I right? Since you are a mother, you have to set an example. Why are you not as good as those servants at home? Those servants still know what to say, you You have been married to Pei's family for so many years, can't you learn something? You... "
The mother-in-law slapped her head and face, and the speed of her speech hit her head like hailstones, and it took her a while to react.
When she came to her senses, she was anxious and angry, and ashamedly wished she could bump her head to death on the thick red lacquer pillar in Pei Lao'an's hall.
However, Mr. Pei Lao'an still didn't let her go, and said: "Don't feel wronged. Do you know why I look down on you? It's because you are hard to learn. And you are ignorant and hard to learn. What are you Yang family? Is the smell clean? Why didn’t you learn well, and brought some market habits to our house? If Pei Tong was not a sensible child, I think your house is waiting to be like the Yang family. There's nothing more to do."
This hit the eldest lady's sore foot.
She got up and was about to hit the pillar.
Pei Lao'an looked at him with a sneer, and said, "Don't dirty my place. If you want to bump into it, go back to your own room. It's just right, hand over the two children to his second uncle or third uncle to raise them, so as not to worry about it." It was broken in your hands."
Mrs. Chen was all there, so of course it was impossible for the eldest wife to bump into the pillar. Some went to call Pei Yan and his wife, some reported to the second wife, and some called Mrs. Yang to come over.
Mrs. Yang was not a vegetarian either, she contradicted Pei Lao'an with a half-smile: "Who would treat a widowed daughter-in-law like this."
Mr. Pei Lao'an used to knock the mountain to shake the tiger, but now that the tiger has come out, his fighting spirit is even stronger. He sneered: "If you feel wronged, why don't you take my sister-in-law home to live, and let those big families in the capital see that it is us?" The Pei family is wrong or your Yang family is right? Or are my two grandchildren wanting to follow their mother back to the Yang family?"
Mrs. Yang couldn't answer those words.
Because no matter how you look at it, it's easy for the eldest wife to go back to her mother's house, but she can't take away the two sons who have reached the age of dancing spoons.
This is what the eldest wife will rely on in the future.
Can't take it away, what should I do if the little girl returns to her mother's house
Mrs. Pei Lao'an choked Mrs. Yang with a word.