Pei Yan and Yu Tang's husband and wife laughed and made a fool of themselves because of the money from their private house. Pei Yan thought that he would have to spend the night in Tongzhou, and it would be good to bring Yu Tang there, and he could go shopping with Yu Tang and come back. Discuss with Yu Tang to stay in Tongzhou for a few more days.
It's good to be able to go out and play.
Yu Tang happily agreed.
The two immediately felt like they were going on an outing. On the day of departure, they asked the kitchen to make a lot of snacks to take with them on the way.
Yu Yuan followed Zhanguang and ate a few chrysanthemum cakes, but he commented: "The rice cakes from our hometown are better." Speaking of this, he couldn't help thinking about Xiangshi: "I'm not at home, and she is pregnant again." She is pregnant and still has a baby, so I don’t know what’s going on now?” She also thanked Yu Tang, “She has always liked your head flowers, she must be very happy to see that box of head flowers.”
Yu Tang pursed his lips and smiled.
When she has nothing to do, she makes head flowers and gives them to those who have fun.
Besides Xiangshi, she also brought some food and play for Ma Xiuniang and the children.
On Gu Xi's side, taking advantage of Yu Tang's absence at home, she moved all her belongings to the old house that Pei You bought before.
Gu Chang still took a look and asked Pei Tong: "When is the room warming scheduled?"
When he went to Pei's house that day, he didn't wait for Pei Tong.
Mr. Yang went directly to the old house, Pei Tong invited Mr. Yang to have a meal outside, and it was almost curfew when he came back, Gu Chang couldn't wait, so he left first.
The two haven't spoken yet.
Seeing Gu Chang's question, Pei Tong hurriedly said, "I'm planning to discuss with you and set a good date." Then, he took out the date that he had invited from the White Horse Temple and gave it to Gu Chang to choose.
Gu Chang didn't care, and said: "I can say, even if I ask for leave, I will come here. You should ask your second uncle first, so as not to conflict with his affairs."
Let those who speculate that Pei Tong was kicked out of Pei's house see that Pei Xuan is still on Pei Tong's side, and will help Pei Tong if something happens.
After hearing what he said, Pei Tong decided to go to Pei's mansion later.
Gu Chang asked him: "What did Mr. Yang do with you that day? What did he talk to you about?"
Pei Tong didn't hide it from him, and said: "Ask if the money from Pei's house has arrived. Then tell me about some trivial matters at home."
Specifically, he didn't tell Gu Chang.
Actually, Master Yang came to him that day mainly to talk about the letter Pei You left with him.
According to Mr. Yang, since the Pei family didn't mention it, there's no need for them to try to curry favor with the Pei family, and wait for the Pei family to come to talk about it.
Pei Tong could vaguely understand what his uncle meant.
After all, I just don't want to return it to the Pei family, and I want to use it as a handle.
He was a little unhappy at the time, and reminded Mr. Yang: "If someone else took it or saw it, it would be a trouble."
Mr. Yang never mentioned the matter of safekeeping, but only said to reassure him that such a thing would never happen.
Pei Tong knew that this letter might not come back.
Afterwards, Grandpa Yang discussed with him that he wanted to wait for his mother to come to the capital before warming the house. He also said that "it is not afraid of being late for a good meal": "This is how the family is reunited and neat."
If it was in the past, even if he thought about it too much, he would find a way to suppress it, but now, when he heard Mr. Yang say this, he would only guess whether he had some idea about their family again.
Maybe this is because after he doesn't trust his family, he will pay attention to what people from his family do, right
So he is not going to listen to Mr. Yang this time.
He decided to invite relatives and friends to warm the house after all the things in the house were tidied up. It was also a tactful way to tell those who knew their branch clan that he had established his own family from now on, and the family was supported by him. In case his mother had to sit at the main table after his mother came, others would still treat him as a child who had to rely on his mother. If there was anything to discuss with his mother beforehand, his mother would first ask his uncles for their opinions, and then treat him as a child. Playing around like a puppet.
A single tree cannot make a forest.
As a result, he had to turn to other people for help.
For example, his uncle Gu Chang.
He felt that it was better than asking the Yang family for help.
It's just that his father's letter is of great importance, and he hasn't made up his mind whether to tell Gu Chang, so he concealed part of the conversation with Mr. Yang. And Gu Xi would not tell Gu Chang about Pei You, Gu Chang felt that his sister and brother-in-law were hiding something from him, and he was very unhappy because of this. He purposely stayed at Pei Tong's house for dinner, but he still couldn't make out what Pei Tong said, which shows that Pei Tong is still closer to the Yang family.
Although Gu Chang left without flicking his sleeves, his face was very ugly.
Pei Tong could faintly feel that he had been thinking for a long time alone in the study room, but in the end he didn't make up his mind, thinking that there were still a lot of things going on at home, so he didn't necessarily have to tell Gu Chang about it now, so he kept procrastinating and procrastinating until Warmhouse days.
The Yang family must be unhappy.
Mrs. Pei hasn't come to the capital yet.
But Pei Tong's invitations were all sent out, and they couldn't help but come.
Mrs. Yang gave a set of pineapple furniture to Pei Tong and his wife, while Mrs. Yang and Mrs. Yang were listless. One family gave a set of tea sets, and the other a set of dishes.
Mrs. Yang looked displeased, and before she could go home, she sat in the gazebo in the back garden of Pei Tong's house and began to accuse her eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Yang: "Even if the official career is not going well for a while, it is not so dilapidated. They are ignorant, and you Ignorant? Look at the second wife of the Pei family, she gave two pieces of calligraphy and painting from the previous dynasty, and the third wife sent antiques, you let the Yin family and the Gu family know, what do you think of us?"
Mrs. Yang was very wronged, and said in a low voice: "When I discussed with them before, they didn't say that."
Mrs. Yang felt it was too embarrassing, she refused to let her go, and said: "What do they say? What do you do? Besides, we still count on the Pei family to help get the second and third children back quickly. You are like this, aren't you? Hit the Pei family's face? How can we speak?"
When Mr. Yang Er and Mr. Yang San committed a crime, they took a lot of money. At that time, they only wanted to save people, and they didn't divide it between you and me. Now that the matter is settled, the hands of the second and third families are empty. Well, the old lady and the old man don't subsidize the two of them, so she can't let her take her own dowry to live for the second and third families, right
Mrs. Yang bowed her head and said nothing.
Pei Yan and Yu Tang played in Tongzhou for two days, and bought a three-entry small house near the water in Tongzhou. Yu Tang liked to decorate the house very much, and took Qing Yuan to tidy up there for several days, thinking about next year I don't know if they are in the capital yet, but she really wants to plant a few pomegranate trees in that house, who can entrust them to? Or if there are old mothers or old stewards of the Pei family who want to be honored, they can be placed in this house and help look at the house by the way. When they come to the capital in the future, they don't need to live in the inn in Tongzhou. Her eldest cousin Yu Yuan will come to the capital often in the future, and the warehouses coming from the canal are all in Tongzhou, and her house can also help with the storage of goods, so she didn't pay attention to what the Yang family gave Pei Tong when he was warming the house.
The second wife has been thinking about buying a dowry for Pei Dan all day long. At the end of summer, Mr. Qin was ordered by his father to go back to his hometown to take part in the imperial examination. The second wife was also thinking about making some clothes for their uncle and buying some good pens If you want to find some good inkstones, you can go to Pei Tong.
The two sisters-in-law have their own affairs, and the Fourth Mrs. Song came to the capital suddenly.
Yu Tang and Qing Yuan were in the courtyard where Pei Tong used to live, talking to the big maids around him about what kind of flowers and plants to plant to make up for the peonies that had been dug out. Pointing to himself, he said, "Mrs. Song Si wants to see me?"
"That's right." The woman also came from Lin'an's hometown, and she smiled authentically, "The head wife of the Song family came to visit our house, and you must have gone to see it. I will report to you directly."
Yu Tang couldn't help feeling a little ashamed.
During this period of time, she only cared about playing with herself, and she didn't fulfill her responsibilities as a clan wife.
She hurried to freshen up and went to the flower hall.
Mrs. Song Si did not come alone, she also brought Miss Song Qi along.
After the ceremony, the two families sat down separately as guests and hosts, and when the little girl served tea, the woman next to Mrs. Song's fourth handed over the gift list.
"The road is too far, and some things are not easy to bring," Mrs. Song Si said politely, "Since you have lived in the capital for a while, I brought some special products from home to satisfy your hunger."
Qing Yuan, who was standing behind Yu Tang, took the gift list, and Yu Tang also greeted her with a smile: "Thank you very much. Everything in the capital is good, but I am not used to the food. You are here, and we have a good time."
Fourth Mrs. Song smiled and chatted with Yu Tang, and Yu Tang found out that Mrs. Song Fourth had come to attend Miss Wu's wedding.
Yu Tang couldn't help feeling a little strange.
She, a Jiangnan person who lives in the capital city, doesn't know about Miss Wu's marriage, but Mrs. Song Si, who is far away in Jiangsu, not only knows, but also came here to attend Miss Wu's wedding... She couldn't help asking who Miss Wu married to.
Mrs. Song Si laughed straight after hearing this, and said, "What are you doing all the time? You don't even know about such things? Miss Wu married into the Peng family and became Master Peng Jiu's second daughter-in-law."
The Peng family
Yu Tang thought that Peng Yu and Peng Jiuye were brothers, and Miss Sun also married into Peng's family.
There is also Jiang Hua's eldest daughter-in-law, the eldest daughter of the Wu family.
In this way, the Jiang family and the Peng family are also related by marriage.
Yu Tang's heart was up and down.
"I don't go out of the door, I don't go in the second door, I really didn't pay attention to these things." Yu Tang talked to Mrs. Song Si absent-mindedly, "Is the Wu family going to marry a girl in the capital? You came so far away, Is it just to marry the young lady of the Wu family?"
"Not all of them." Mrs. Song Si smiled, took a look at Miss Song Qi, and said, "No, the girls in the family are all grown up too, and we always stay in Suzhou, coming and going all the time. Say goodbye to those families, and you should come out and have a look."
In other words, the Wu family showed the Song family another possibility. The Song family was going to follow the example of the Wu family and use the marriage of their children to fight for their own interests.
Yu Tang can't say much about this kind of thing, she just wants to see Pei Yan as soon as possible at this time and tell him about it.
She pretended not to understand, and said perfunctorily: "I should come out for a walk. Although the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is the best in the world, the capital city also has its advantages." Then she said, "It has not been reported that the Wu family is going to marry the Peng family. ? We haven’t received the invitation yet, so I wonder when the two families have set the wedding date?”