""The Book of Fragrances"?" Yu Tang and Gu Xi were both confused.
Xu Xuan said proudly: "This is a book reviewing various flowers in various places. Yin Mingyuan wrote it for ten years and revised it every two years. Now it has become a model and guide for many people to buy flowers."
Yu Tang exclaimed: "Your Lord Yin is so powerful."
As far as she knew, Yin Mingyuan had edited several books.
However, Gu Xi immediately realized the significance of this book. She smiled and said to Xu Xuan: "I never thought that there would be someone who puts effort into compiling such a book. I also like planting flowers and grass, can you give me a copy?"
Some people like to praise Yin Mingyuan's books, even if Xu Xuan doesn't take Gu Xi seriously, she is not as disgusted as she was when she saw her before. She raised her eyebrows and said, "Okay! I hope it will still be on your bookshelf in a few years. Find this book."
"Look at what you said." Gu Xi didn't like dealing with Xu Xuan either, but the reality forced her to deal with Xu Xuan. She said, "Even if it's not on my bookshelf, it will be on my brother's, my brother's. On sister-in-law's bookshelf."
While everyone was talking, Yu Tang decided to go to the flower farmers recommended by Xu Xuan to invite them to come to the yard to have a look, and to give them the garden of Pei's mansion to tidy up, so that in summer, the garden can add some new varieties and make more flowers. It's all in sight.
It's hard for Gu Xi to mention her reason for coming, but fortunately, Miss Fifth came over at this time.
Everyone met Li again, and Fifth Miss immediately integrated into the topic of Yu Tang and Xu Xuan.
Miss Zhang looked at her carefully from the side, until their topic came to an end, Miss Zhang hurriedly said to Yu Tang: "Actually, I am here this time to send invitations to you—grandmother said, it is rare for you to come to the capital , I would like to invite you to my house as guests."
The Zhang family is definitely going, but when is the right time to go, Yu Tang thinks he should ask Pei Yan first. She immediately smiled and said: "Miss Zhang is too polite. We should have visited the old lady, but we are all young and don't understand many things very well. Although we have been here for two days, many things at home have not been resolved yet. Shun, I'm so devastated, I don't feel the nerve to say hello to the old lady, you just reminded us."
As for when to go, there is no clear response.
In this way, she can discuss with Pei Yan some matters about visiting the Zhang family.
It can be seen that Miss Zhang is also a transparent person. She answered the question with a smile: "It's because our family didn't think carefully. Is there anything our family can help you with? You just say hello. Don't dare to say anything else. This is a shopping trip. Well, our family is full of people."
Yu Tang thanked him, but he never agreed with the Zhang family on a specific time.
Miss Zhang was very calm and played with Xu Xuan at Pei's house for a day, and had dinner at Pei's house. Yin Mingyuan, who picked up Xu Xuan, sent her back to Zhang's house.
Mrs. Zhang asked Miss Zhang: "How is the Pei family?"
Miss Zhang felt that this matter was not for her to discuss. She just told Mrs. Zhang what she saw and heard. Mrs. Zhang nodded and said: "It seems that Miss Yu is not just lucky. I just married to the Pei family." Then she told the third daughter-in-law, "When the female relatives of the Pei family come over, you can take out the set of Dielianhua pastel dishes that I have treasured in my warehouse to treat guests. Our two families are worthy It’s good for the whole family to move around.”
The third wife agreed with a smile.
Pei Yan felt that Yu Tang and the others could go to Zhang's house anytime: "Men's business has nothing to do with women. You just feel free to go there and play. If you don't want to go there, I will deal with Zhang's house."
Yu Tang had a good impression of Miss Zhang, and felt that the Zhang family didn't seem mean, so she should go to the Zhang family to greet Mrs. Zhang.
Pei Yan didn't care about these trivial matters. He was thinking about Zhang Ying's words: "It is impossible for an official to become an official in my role. I already understand what you said. Master Shen, no matter whether he is It's a fool, two years at most, even if he doesn't want to go down, he has to go down for me. As for who will take over after he goes down, it depends on everyone's luck. But Mr. Shen is so deliberate, I'm afraid the plan is not small , we have to be careful."
So his mentor is picking chestnuts out of the fire
No wonder he had to find a way to appease Fei Zhiwen.
Among the brothers who became climate, only Fei Zhiwen and Jiang Hua have become third-rank officials and have the opportunity to compete for the cabinet bachelor. Jiang Hua had already had a lot of political views with Zhang Ying before Zhang Ying became an official. Disagreement, if Fei Zhiwen retreats first, Jiang Hua will be in power eight or nine times out of ten, and then it will be a joke. The students supported by the teacher have entered the cabinet, but they have different political views from him... this matter At least it can make Shihlin laugh for fifty years, and if you are not careful, you will "remember your name in history".
This is what worries Zhang Ying the most.
Pei Yan decided to meet with Fei Zhiwen first, and clarify some things.
On Yu Tang's side, he took the initiative to send someone to Zhang's house to post a famous post, saying that he wanted to go to Mrs. Zhang to say hello.
Mrs. Zhang is naturally very willing.
Xu Xuan also wanted to go together after hearing this.
Mrs. Zhang felt very distressed about this nephew and granddaughter-in-law who was pregnant with a child when she entered the door. Miss Zhang had to stand aside. When she heard that she was coming, she directly ordered the nurse next to her to open the warehouse and took out several sheets. The thick cushion will be used exclusively for Xu Xuan at that time: "She is a double body now, so I can't wrong her."
Looking at the thick cushion, Miss Zhang felt a little sympathetic to Xu Xuan, and then thought that Xu Xuan could still eat some fruit and salad at Yu Tang's place, and suddenly felt that there was a reason for Xu Xuan to go to Yu Tang's place every day Well, Yin Mingyuan pampered her like this, maybe it was because she knew that Xu Xuan was being watched too closely by her family and felt sorry for her.
When going to Zhang's house, Gu Xi is naturally indispensable.
Gu Xi didn't expect that Yu Tang would give them fifty taels a month.
You know, it's Lao'an Pei, only thirty taels a month.
Of course, a person like Pei Lao'an doesn't need to live on a monthly basis at all, but Yu Tang's ability to give her so much money at least shows that Yu Tang has no intention of defrauding her.
Gu Xi couldn't help but let out a long breath.
If the names of the two of them have been decided, Yu Tang will make things difficult for her. Although she has a way to deal with Yu Tang, it will not be good in the long run if she wants to tear her face.
When she went to pay her respects to her sister-in-law Yin Shi, when Yin Shi asked her if she had enough chews, she hesitated for a moment, but said it straight.
The Yin family didn't know about the grievances between them, but they knew that the wife of the suzerain of the Gu family only had thirty taels to fifty taels of silver a month, and with the addition of some repayment from the business, she could already live a decent life. .
She couldn't help laughing and said: "Your brother occasionally mentioned Yu Shi to me, saying that she is a good person. You also know that those men look at women differently from us women. I don't care. I never miss you. Brother, I didn't miss you this time, this woman has a good heart and bearing. You have to get along with her well."
Gu Xi felt like a lump in her throat, but she couldn't spit it out, so she could only digest it silently.
And Yin Shi has already gone to look through the things that Xu Xuan asked Gu Xi to bring over. She looked at it and laughed, then turned to Gu Xi and said: "My sister-in-law, there is no one else, she is more naughty when she is married than when she is not married, you know What did she ask you to bring me? The pickles from the pickle shop in the east of the city are sold every day before dawn, until the afternoon and evening, if I want to eat, I won’t buy it myself!”
Is Xu Xuan trying to tease her
Gu Xi's face was even more ugly.
She finally endured it, and Yin asked her: "The Jiang family is marrying a daughter-in-law, when will you go?"
Gu Xi wondered if he could go.
Seeing her like this, Yin thought for a while, and said: "You'd better find a way to attend. Almost all the officials and officials in Beijing have gone. The Jiang family will definitely send a message to the Pei family. You'd better go and talk to the Pei family." Yu Shi said. People are afraid of facing each other, I believe she will definitely be willing."
This is the meaning of asking her to beg Yu Tang.
Gu Xi hesitated a little.
Yin Shi secretly watched it, feeling a little displeased.
She knows that her sister-in-law has a stubborn temper, but whether she can be stubborn depends on the time, when people are under the eaves, they have to bow their heads when they should.
The Yin family is not the kind of person who likes to take matters into their own hands. Gu Xi didn't answer, and she wouldn't try to persuade her, she just picked herself out: "Of course I can take you there too, but after all, you still have elders around. Going over the elders like this is easy to cause trouble, it's better not to do this."
She was also afraid that Gu Chang would not know the seriousness, so she agreed to Gu Xi's request in private. When Gu Chang came back, she specially told Gu Chang about this matter, and in order to prove her worry, she told Gu Xi how many monthly cases Yu Tang had given to Gu Xi. Gu Chang said: "When they were in Lin'an, they only had ten taels of silver. When they arrived in the capital, the Yu family raised them five times. Like you said, she is not the kind of stingy person. We are even more so when we are brothers and sisters-in-law of our mother's family." I can't hold my sister back."
The Yin family almost didn't directly say that Gu Xi's mother died early, and her stepmother didn't teach her how to deal with the relationship between the inner house.
Gu Chang nodded slightly as he listened, and said, "I need to bother you more about these matters, I will not be idle for a while."
He didn't expect that the Peng family would take over the mess of the Sun family, and there were some pointers to him from outside. He wondered if he should go to the Imperial Academy to hide for a while. If this is the case, then you have to ask the Li family or the Zhang family to come forward to take care of it.
Gu Chang looked at Yin who was busy instructing the maids to help him change his clothes, and fell into deep thought.
Gu Xi was unwilling to beg Yu Tang no matter what.
She went to beg the second wife of the Pei family.
The second wife of the Pei family was busy with socializing during this time, Yu Tang helped her take care of her daughter, and Pei Hong handed it over to Pei Qi, she thanked Pei Yan and his wife very much, she was very surprised when she heard this, and said: "The Jiang family should invite Let's go as a family?" Afraid that he had misread it, he called the woman beside him to look for the invitation.
The mother-in-law came over with the invitation, and the Second Mrs. Pei opened it, glanced at it, and handed it to Gu Xi with a smile: "Look, it says to let us all go, you must come with us too!"
At this time, Gu Xi suddenly realized that compared to Yu Tang, she was a junior in the eyes of others. With Yu Tang around, all she had to do was post a message to Yu Tang. Taking her to attend depends on Yu Tang's intentions, she is just an accompanying person.
For the first time, she clearly felt the gap between her and Yu Tang.
If she wants to change this gap, unless Pei Tong becomes a member of the third rank. Otherwise, she will always be just a junior serving Yu Tang in public.
No name, no seat.
Gu Xi suddenly understood why her mother-in-law forced Pei Tong to make progress.