Chang Yu understood, and asked: "The Queen Mother only invited people from our generation, or did she also invite aunts?"
The servant smiled and said: "It's not easy to leave other princesses behind, but the eldest princesses may not have a lot of money, and it's not easy for the empress to ask them to spend money, so I only sent posts to these few families in Beijing. , just send a few taels of silver. As for the princesses, it will be fourteen tomorrow, and what the empress means is that it happens to have a reunion dinner in advance."
That is to say, the queen only intends to grab the wool of her daughters, and does not intend to ask for money from the sisters-in-law.
Chang Yu understood, nodded and said: "Okay, tomorrow night my son-in-law and I will definitely go to the palace to accompany the emperor father and the empress mother.
The waiter smiled and left.
Princess Changyu thought about it, and asked the maid to get the money, and opened her jewelry box by the way, and picked out some jewelry that she didn't like very much, and she ordered: "Go find a box."
Princess Changyu put the jewelry in, lifted her chin slightly and said, "Take all these tomorrow."
Donate to the queen to prepare military funds.
The maid agrees.
And Princess Mingda's mansion next door was also looking for things, not to mention gold and silver, there were also some things they didn't need, or things they didn't like very much.
Rolling up his sleeves, Bai Erlang rummaged through the boxes and cabinets himself, and found a lot of cloth that he didn't like. These could be sold, and one piece could be sold for twenty or thirty taels, and he could buy a lot of medicinal materials.
Mingda also opened his jewelry box. Bai Erlang went to look at it. She took out one and he put it in the big box on the other side. After a long time, there were only two golden hairpins in the small box. It was because the shape was not very good-looking. Just let it go.
Mingda looked at him helplessly, Bai Erlang said: "These are all beautiful, otherwise we will go back to Zhou's house tomorrow, my mother left a lot of things before she left, her jewelry is all old, take her money. "
Mingda: "... Mother-in-law will kick you out if she finds out?"
"No, the big deal is that we can buy some new jewelry for my mother. If she knows that you donate such good things, she will feel distressed."
Mingda couldn't help but said, "Isn't that for raising military funds? I didn't see what you said when I donated money."
"That's money, not jewelry." Bai Erlang said: "The two are different. These jewelry have to be sold at a discount to be exchanged for money. It's fine if it's really bad, but I think these The jewelry is not bad, the workmanship is also good, and it was given to you by His Majesty and Empress, so I feel sorry for selling it at a discount like this."
Mingda was stunned for a moment, then laughed, lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Okay, then let's donate more money, and keep the jewelry for mother-in-law."
Bai Erlang said: "Go back and have a look tomorrow. It just so happens that the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, let's go back and send some mooncakes to my uncle and grandma."
Ming Da immediately said: "I have two boxes of good tea here, tomorrow I will send one box to my uncle and grandma."
Bai Dalang was released, and Master Bai and Mrs. Bai returned home. Now Bai Erlang's relatives in the capital are Bai Shan's family.
Well, there is also the Bai family who don't have much contact with each other.
Mingda has a good relationship with Manbao, and even has a good relationship with Mrs. Liu's Zheng family. After all, they are elders, and Mingda respects them very much.
So early the next morning, they went out with their Mid-Autumn Festival gifts, and then bumped into the frame of Princess Changyu's family.
Princess Changyu's carriage chased up from behind. Anyway, there were only two of them on this street, so she occupied the other half of the road in a domineering way, and stood side by side with Mingda's carriage. She raised the curtain and shouted, " Mingda, what are you doing this early in the morning?"
Mingda opened the curtain, and Changyu saw Bai Erlang in the car who was almost falling asleep.
Mingda laughed and said, "Let's go to Zhou's house to give the gift, where's sister?"
Changyu was stunned for a moment and then said: "I'm also going back with my son-in-law to deliver gifts, and I have to have lunch with my parents-in-law. Didn't Master Bai go back to his hometown?"
Ming Da said: "It's to give a gift to my uncle and grandma."
How many floors are there, Changyu is a little envious, this is not a boxing gift, it is clearly to find Zhou Man to play.
She hesitated to speak on her face.
Wei Yu smiled when he saw it: "After lunch, the princess should also go to see Lord Zhou and Lord Bai. Speaking of which, our two families are not far away, so I don't know if our sudden visit will be troublesome?"
"No, no," Bai Erlang woke up when Changyu was talking, and he was lying on the window and said to Wei Yu and his wife: "You just go, I will ask Bai Shan and the others to prepare more food , it is cool time in the open house at home, my aunt has planted a lot of chrysanthemums, just in time to enjoy the chrysanthemums and drink tea."
Bai Erlang said with crooked eyebrows and eyes: "You don't know, my great-uncle asked someone to dig a lotus pond in their village last year. They wanted to pick lotus and eat lotus root, but this year it was a bit dry and the water was not deep. The place where the pond was dug There is a lot of sand, so my aunt asked someone to raise some crabs in the lotus pond, and it is time to eat crabs, I don’t know if someone in the village will send them home, if so, you can eat crabs when you come.”
Changyu's eyes sparkled when he heard this, and he immediately grabbed Wei Yu's arm.
Wei Yu nodded with a smile, "Let's go."
Chang Yu was a little cowardly to Wei Zhi, so he whispered: "Eunuch..."
Wei Yu whispered, "I'll tell."
Changyu was satisfied.
When we reached the intersection and entered another square, the two carriages could not run side by side, so Changyu's carriage was one step behind.
The number of pedestrians on the street also began to increase. There were more people here, and it was close to the East Market, and some people set up stalls on the side of the road. Changyu sat by the window and looked at the things outside without blinking his eyes.
Seeing her reluctance, Wei Yu couldn't help hesitating, "Do you want some?"
Changyu immediately said: "Okay."
She immediately patted the wall of the carriage to stop the carriage. She pointed to a table of guests on the bread shop outside and said, "Is that roasted persimmon? I want roasted persimmon."
Their group of people stopped and completely separated from the people of Princess Mingda's mansion.
The people in the princess mansions on both sides are not surprised by this situation, they go back to their respective houses, do their own things, and don't wait specially.
When Lou Mian dawdled towards the intersection, he looked up and saw the couple standing in front of the booth. Wei Yu was holding a plate in his hand, and was carefully holding the reed pipe to let Princess Changyu suck up the persimmons. Soup, and then she can eat all the grilled persimmon meat nicely but elegantly.
The guards following Lou Mian also saw it, and immediately reminded him: "Young Master Lou, the princess is right there, you go up quickly."
Lou Mian: "Didn't you see the son-in-law and the princess together?"
The guard said indifferently: "So what, does he have a good-looking son? With you around, the princess won't even glance at him."
Lou Mian: ... What if you don't want to go up
But this is not up to him. Seeing that he was still not moving, the guard even stretched out his hand and pushed him, saying, "Young Master Lou, the prince has given an explanation before he came out."