The second wife is tidying up the east side of the house where she lives these days. Seeing Yu Tang coming over, she hastily pulled her to look: "How do you think the tidying up is going? Do you want to add something?"
After the two brothers Pei Xuan and Pei Yan discussed, they planned to live here after Pei Lao'an came to Beijing.
The walls have been repainted, the flowers and trees in the yard have been pruned again, and some pineapple furniture, red sandalwood, and wenge wood screens have been added, and the tents and cushions are hung up, and people live in.
Yu Tang smiled and said: "Second sister-in-law has worked hard. I see that the furnishings here are similar to the place where my mother-in-law lives in her hometown. My mother-in-law will definitely be satisfied."
Then the second wife felt relieved and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that she won't be used to living in the elderly. The climate in the north is far from that in the south."
Indeed, it was already winter when Lao An arrived in Beijing.
"Then order more charcoal this year." Yu Tang helped out with an idea.
The two chatted some more gossips before Yu Tang raised his interest.
The second wife was naturally happy when she heard that, and said with a smile: "I was afraid that the second master would be an official in the capital and block other brothers' official paths. Now a cousin is coming to the capital to be an official. It's great that we can take care of each other." Then he asked if the place to live had been arranged, and if he wanted to help rent a house, "After all, I came from a long way, and some things are inconvenient."
Yu Tang smiled and said: "Xia Guang said that the housekeeper over there will arrive a few days earlier, and Mr. Shu has already arranged to help with the reception. Presumably, we don't need to worry about these things."
The second wife's expression changed slightly when she heard this, and she said, "Are you planning to go to Tongzhou to pick up people then?"
Yu Tang said: "What's the matter with you?"
"No, no." The second wife said with a smile, "I just thought, it's a good day, and I'm almost busy with the things that should be busy at home. If you go to Tongzhou, I will follow you to live in your new house for a few days." God, let's breathe."
Yu Tang laughed loudly, and said: "There are too many people giving presents, and my second uncle won't let me accept them. You are afraid of offending others, so why don't you hide out?"
The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and Pei Xuan is in charge of Yanyin's re-examination. Although Pei Yan has made it clear that he will not discuss business at home, he can't stand the fact that the Pei family has been in the south of the Yangtze River for hundreds of years. There are too many friends. Recently, people who come to visit Almost broke the threshold of the Pei family.
The second wife smiled embarrassingly.
Yu Tang also became interested and said, "Why don't I discuss with Xia Guang that we go to Tongzhou a few days earlier?"
The second wife said with a smile: "I will also take Ah Dan and Ah Hong there at that time."
Yu Tang readily agreed, and sent a steward to Tongzhou to arrange related matters in advance.
Mrs. Song Si brought Mrs. Wu Da to visit Yu Tang.
When Yu Tang got the call letter, he couldn't believe it and asked the boy who came to report: "You heard clearly, the fourth wife of the Song family is here to visit me?"
During this time, I mostly came to visit the second wife.
The servant hurriedly said respectfully: "I have asked clearly, I said that I am here to send invitations to you and the second wife."
Yu Tang was stunned.
During this period of time, he was only busy with the trivial matters at home, and forgot about Miss Wu's leaving the cabinet.
She invited Mrs. Song Si in.
Miss Wu is not the daughter of the head of the family, but it is the clan wife of the Wu family who came to the capital to handle her leaving the cabinet, that is, Mrs. Wu, the biological mother of the eldest wife of the Jiang family.
Mrs. Wu Da is also an extremely good-looking woman who can give birth to a beauty like the eldest grandma of the Jiang family. Mrs. Song Si recommended Mrs. Wu to Yu Tang.
Mrs. Wu Da directly praised Yu Tang for her beauty, and she didn't neglect Yu Tang because she was about the same age as Yu Tang's mother. It can be seen that she is a very capable woman.
The two greeted each other politely, and after the guests and hosts sat down, Mrs. Wu personally brought the wedding invitation to Yu Tang.
Mrs. Song Si said to her side, "I said that I will deliver this wedding invitation, and I will come to your house by the way. But Mrs. Wu thinks it is disrespectful, so she has to come here in person. I think everyone will look up in the future." Don't look down and see, it's good to come to recognize the face. I came here with her."
Seeing that Ms. Wu's wedding date was set on September 22, Yu Tang first said "Congratulations" to Mrs. Wu Da, and then answered Mrs. Song Si's words: "Thank you very much. I came to Beijing a few months earlier, yes Although the capital city is not very familiar, the family steward should be fairly familiar with it, if you need our help with anything, just send someone to say it, and I will ask the family steward to help."
It was impossible to ask her to help.
Mrs. Wu didn't know if she heard her unfinished words, she smiled gratefully, and asked Pei Tong: "I heard that we have moved out. We are not familiar with each other, and we don't know where we moved. I was afraid I couldn't find a place, so I had to send someone in charge to deliver the wedding invitations."
How could he not know where he moved
When Mrs. Wu said this, she was just asking Yu Tang tactfully whether Pei Tong and the Pei family would still be a family in the future. If it is a family, then the Wu family only needs to send a wedding invitation to the Pei family. If they want two, they will send someone to deliver a wedding invitation to Pei Tong. However, after Pei Tong left Pei's house, it was an ordinary scholar's house, and it was impossible for Mrs. Wu to send wedding invitations to them in person.
Yu Tang thought of what Pei You had done, and of Pei Yan's intention to separate Pei Tong from the clan, so she just took this opportunity to explain clearly to those who were talking about their family behind their backs.
"They moved to the original site." Yu Tang smiled, "I haven't seen them for some days, and I don't know if they have any other arrangements. If the manager of your mansion is not free, then I will let me The steward at the side will go out for the steward of your family."
Before she finished speaking, the expressions of Mrs. Wu Da and Mrs. Song Si had subtly changed, and Mrs. Wu even smiled reluctantly and said: "That's what they do, why bother your housekeeper to run errands for them? Since Now that I know where they have moved, I'll let the family steward go there."
Yu Tang nodded with a smile, chatted with them for a long time, and finally left them for lunch.
The two of them didn't know if they were really busy or pretended to be busy, they excused that they wanted to send wedding invitations to people like Zhang and Li, politely declined the lunch, and made an appointment to visit Yu Tang next time when they were free.
Yu Tang was not reluctant, and personally sent them out.
It's just that on the way everyone met the second wife who came to look for Yu Tang.
The fourth wife of Song was overjoyed and introduced Mrs. Wu to the second wife.
During this period of time, the second wife saw that everyone seemed to be looking for her to do business, so she couldn't help but put up a bit of guard, and said a few words to Mrs. Wu hastily, knowing that she was here to send a wedding invitation, and promised that she would definitely talk to Yu Yu when the time came. After Tang went there together, he accompanied Yu Tang and sent the two of them out the door.
Yu Tang couldn't help being a little funny looking at the second wife's face as if she was facing a formidable enemy.
The second wife complained to her: "You don't even know how tricky those people are when they deliver things-yesterday I received a box of mooncakes, which I said were brought from Guangdong. Come over here and have a taste. Who knew that when I opened it, there was a box of bank notes. I was scared to death, so I quickly handed it over to your second uncle. Sigh, I don’t know when this day will be the end!”
Yu Tang teased her: "Others can't think of it, and you are still worried. It really doesn't hurt your back to talk while standing."
The second wife smiled and pinched Yu Tang's face.
The two laughed and went to the inner house.
Mrs. Song Si, who had already got into the carriage, asked Mrs. Wu Da in a puzzled manner: "Why are you stopping me from telling Mrs. Pei Er? After the autumn harvest, we will start sending food to Jiubian? Neither of our two families In this business, the Peng family followed the Pei family and bought several farms in Jiangxi, and today is a good harvest year."
When the grain is sent to Jiubian, it must be exchanged for Yanyin. If you want to get the salt, you have to register with the Ministry of Households.
Mrs. Song Si couldn't help complaining: "I don't know who thought of it. Isn't the Salt Transportation Department just a decoration?"
Mrs. Wu laughed and said, "That's because something happened in the Lianghuai salt transportation, and the inspection at the household department is only temporary. I don't think Mrs. Pei likes to make troubles, maybe she will be unhappy if she speaks." .Why bother! The Peng family is not what we imagined, they must have a way to solve this matter. Let's not add superfluous things.”
That's what she said, but she was a little annoyed that Mrs. Song Si was too ugly.
However, it is estimated that someone else would be uglier than her.
Jiang Chao appeared in Suzhou these days, taking away a lot of business from the Song family, but they didn't know who was standing behind Jiang Chao. After finding the Pei family, there was no one in charge, so the Song family had no choice but to go the way of the Peng family.
The Pei family should already know by now.
I wonder what the Pei family will do
The Wu family never put all their eggs in one basket, and deliberately followed the Pei family's path.
She came to Pei's house to send wedding invitations since she was young, but she took the opportunity to meet Mrs. Pei San, and it was a big surprise to meet Mrs. Pei Er.
It's just that I don't know if the person sent to contact the Pei family has contacted the Pei family.
Mrs. Wu Da was thinking about something, and she was a little absent-minded when talking to Mrs. Song Si: "When the Peng family settled down, I would like to invite two Mrs. Pei to support the show. It will not be too late to visit them again then."
Mrs. Song Si is more concerned about the marriage that the Wu family introduced to Miss Song Qi before.
It is definitely not as good as the Peng family, but the eldest uncle of that family is an official in Jiangsu, and the current official is not as good as the current management. But whether it will work or not, she still has to go back and discuss with the fourth master.
The two went back to the house that the Wu family bought in the capital with their own thoughts.
The shopkeeper Gao and his wife sent by the Peng family to assist the Wu family were already waiting at the second gate.
Shopkeeper Gao stood a little far away, while Mrs. Gao came over to help the nanny who was accompanying the carriage lift the curtain, and helped Mrs. Wu get out of the carriage.
Mrs. Wu has been flattered by Mrs. Gao for the past two days, and she is also sent by the Peng family, which gives her a lot of face. She smiled and asked Mrs. Gao: "But what's the matter?"
Mrs. Gao hurriedly said: "It's nothing, I just came here to see if there is anything we need to run errands."
Mrs. Wu recalled that she had helped the Peng family get a batch of salt after vaguely hearing that shopkeeper Gao had come to the capital.
The Wu family started their business by boat, if they can get Yanyin, they will be more profitable than other families.
She stopped slightly, smiled and said to Mrs. Gao: "You help our house every day, won't it delay your business?"
Mrs. Gao is very good at talking, and said with a smile: "Your place is our business!"
Mrs. Wu laughed, and said, "You don't have to say nice words in front of me. I heard that it was thanks to your family that the Peng family was able to get Yanyin smoothly before. Don't be sloppy in front of me." !"