Jiang Yashuang's prediction was good. It was a matter of her daughter's life. Although Jiang Qilai had been avoiding the Jiang family before, she readily agreed this time and promised to return to the Duke's Mansion with her husband and daughter to visit the family on the second day of the first lunar month.
After getting her approval, Qiu Yilan went to Mrs. Tao in person and told her - of course, she could not mention Jiang Qilai's life experience, but directly said that the purpose was for the marriage of the younger generation: "Brother-in-law Ninth thinks Lu He is good, but we just thought, For such a big thing, it's better to let the niece meet in person, so that the adults won't take notice of it. If the two children don't get along, they won't be able to get along with each other in the future. This is an elder's good intentions and a bad thing! "
"That's true. After all, they will live their own lives in the future." Of course Mrs. Tao would not have any objections and said kindly, "But on the second day of the first lunar month, it's too late for that kid Lu He to become a disciple, right? Without the title of master and apprentice, he But it is not convenient to enter the back house. It would be too deliberate to ask Xiaojiu's children to go to the front yard, and it would be unbecoming of a lady. You have to think carefully about arranging their meeting to avoid any embarrassment! "
"My daughter-in-law plans to arrange for Lu He to paint in the plum grove in the garden." Qiu Yilan has already considered this issue and said, "At that time, I will also ask my grandmother to help and guide my niece to go there to enjoy the plum blossoms. It will be a natural meeting. "
Mrs. Tao muttered: "It takes a girl of the same age to do this without looking artificial..." After thinking about it for a moment, she asked Mother Hu next to her, "The oldest girl under Xiaoba's knees seems to be in her early tenth year, right?"
"Miss Eleven Sun will be twelve years old after the Chinese New Year." Mother Hu said softly.
"It's more convenient for you to ask the girls in your own room." Mrs. Tao said, "When the time comes, I will ask her to receive the girls brought by Xiaojiu. What do you think?"
Regardless of whether Jiang Qilai is a descendant of the fourth family member of the Jiang family, this is where her name hangs. When she returns to her parents' home, it is only natural that the daughter of her eldest brother should receive her daughter.
Qiu Yilan thought this arrangement was a good one: "Grandma is more thoughtful. My daughter-in-law only thinks about someone to lure her niece to enjoy the plum blossoms. She has not thought about the candidate!"
"When you go back, stop by the eighth daughter-in-law and tell her about this. It's cold and I have a lot of old bones here, so I'm just lazy." Mrs. Tao said with a smile.
Qiu Yilan also laughed: "You have troubled grandma so much, how dare you ask grandma's people to work hard?"
After chatting and joking with Mrs. Tao for a while, they left.
Returning to the fourth room, she followed Mrs. Tao's advice and went directly to see Chu Yitong - she didn't see Chu Yitong like last time - according to Zhu's mother: "The young lady has been vomiting in the past two days, and she can't rest for a moment. ! I really can’t afford to see the guests, so I hope Madam Nineteen will forgive me!”
Qiu Yilan expressed her understanding and explained the purpose of her visit. Mother Zhu said, "Miss Eleven Sun was raised under Aunt Gu's knees. Why don't I invite Aunt Gu to come?"
After Gu Weina arrived, she naturally agreed and would definitely tell Jiang Huizhu to accompany Jiang Qilai's daughter.
After this matter was done, the time that Qiu Yilan made with Mei Xue and Qianqiu arrived.
"The New Year calls us here, shouldn't we give out New Year's money?" Swing joked as soon as they met.
"This year hasn't passed yet, and you haven't given me New Year greetings, so how can I give you the New Year's money?" Qiu Yilan waved her hand with a smile, and the servants all exited the flower hall. After clearing the place, she said, "Besides, you are now He is not a three-year-old at this age. He has to use his New Year’s money to buy sweets. According to me... it’s a good thing to have someone who understands the cold and the hot!”
As soon as she said this, Mei Xue and Zhu Qian also knew the purpose of her inviting them here today.
Shuqian curled her lips and was about to say something, but Mei Xue gave her a look to silence her, and said with a smile: "Qian'er is still young at this age, so brother Nie and I are actually a little anxious. But you are too We know that the life of this girl’s family is very important. If we can’t find the right person, we will do nothing. After all, Brother Nie is such a sister and we don’t want her to be wronged!”
"Cheng Xide, who proposed marriage before, asked my fourteenth sister-in-law to talk to me when I was in confinement. I heard from my fourteenth sister-in-law that they still wanted to hire a swinger. I wonder why Qiu Nie refused this marriage?" Qiu Yilan explained, "I'm not advising you to accept the Cheng family, but I just heard from others that Cheng Xide seems to be a good person, and the Cheng family he comes from is also very upright?"
"It's because the Cheng family has a pure family tradition, that's why my brother refused!" Zhuoqian didn't feel embarrassed at all and said disapprovingly, "My brother said that people pay most attention to the virtuous and virtuous nature of girls, and a person with my kind of personality will definitely be able to live well if he enters the house. Not happy!”
"But I heard that Cheng Xide's parents have passed away. He lived with his uncle Cheng Jin in his early years, but since the second half of this year, he has moved out of the Cheng Mansion to live alone?" Qiu Yilan said, "It seems like his wife is not the same." Do you need to meet with other members of the Cheng family often?"
Mei Xue was a little surprised: "Didn't he live with Cheng Jin's family? What we heard before was that he lived with his uncle. Cheng Hanlin was said to be a very upright man. When Xue Nongying repeatedly reported that he was dying, he They all insist on not regretting the marriage... Although his character is respectable, but think about how harsh he is to his daughter, let alone his nephew-in-law? Qian'er can't stand the constraints of an orthodox scholar's family, so Brother Nie refuses to agree. "
Qiu Yilan heard what she meant, and both Qiu Nie and she thought Cheng Xide was very nice, but they were worried about the environment of the Cheng family. After all, nature is easy to change and hard to change. The temperament forged by the experience of Swing, it is okay to pretend to be virtuous and virtuous for a while, but it would be too painful for her to restrain her sharp edges and pretend to be docile and virtuous all her life.
"It seems to be the house that his parents liked when they were officials in Beijing. Unfortunately, they passed away before they could buy it. Later, Cheng Jin sent someone to Beijing to handle the funeral arrangements for his parents, and took him to raise him. He has been there ever since. I lived with Cheng Jin’s family. After winning the lottery last year, I remembered my parents’ wish and bought it as a memory.”
Qiu Yilan talked about the news she had recently inquired about - after all, if she wanted to ask Mei Xue's opinion on the Cheng family's marriage proposal, she had to do her homework - at this moment she said clearly, "But that house has been in trouble in recent years. There was no one to live in, so I spent some time tidying up. Thinking of Cheng Jin's support, I finished it in the first half of the year and spent the Mid-Autumn Festival with Cheng Jin's family before moving in. The house was just two streets away. It’s not far from here. I asked someone about it, and it’s a house with three entrances and three exits, which is pretty neat.”
Mei Xue calculated in her mind that the first two streets were not close to Cheng Mansion! If Swing Qian marries Cheng Xide, it will be inconvenient for her to interact with the Cheng family every two days.
"Cheng Xide is nearly ten years older than Qian'er, and he is almost thirty years old now." Mei Xue mused, "But considering his status as the number one scholar, it is not an insult to Qian'er... If the Cheng family's gentle, courteous and thrifty requirements are not met, It’s a good marriage to impose on Qian’er!”
Qiu Yilan has introduced many people to Zhuoqian in the past two years, but has never been able to marry her off. Although Mei Xue and Qiu Nie are more inclined to be people in the world, they are informal and watch Zhuoqian wasting away their years day by day. In the blink of an eye, they are... It’s time to celebrate Double Ten, but I’m still in a hurry!
The reason for rejecting Cheng Xide before was mainly because he was afraid that after the swing passed the door, he would be pressed down by Cheng Jin and other elders. Now that she knew that Cheng Xide no longer lived with his elders, and that it was Cheng Xide's own intention to propose marriage to Swing, Mei Xue was immediately moved. She raised her head and said, "Then I can discuss it with Brother Nie when I go back?"
Qiu Yilan nodded: "We can't let Swing be wronged after all!"
… After this meeting, the New Year’s Day also arrived.
At the New Year's Eve banquet, everyone from the Duke's palace, except the sick Duke of Qin, attended the banquet in fine costumes.
Seeing such a big scene for the first time, He and Jin were very nervous.
After all, they were just the daughters of squires, and their father and brother were not even county magistrates, even though they had known that the Jiang family in Beijing was very prominent. However, hearing and seeing are two different things. I have never even seen the governor, and suddenly I have to enter the palace to see the most noble empress dowager, emperor, empress and concubine of Da Rui - even if I know that they are relatives, how can I not be frightened
The two mothers were so nervous, not to mention the daughters.
Jiang Yazhao's second grandson, Jiang Huiyan, and third grandson, Jiang Huili, were so timid that they even wanted to say they were sick.
"How can this be done?" Mrs. He was also afraid that her daughters were timid and would be embarrassed if they behaved inappropriately after entering the palace. Although it was a pity not to think about it, it was safe.
But when she reported this idea to Mrs. Tao, she was rejected without hesitation, "If you don't want to take the younger children, we won't take them with you. Yan'er and Li'er have already reached the age of marriage, that is, you In the past few months since arriving in Beijing, things have not stopped at home. Otherwise, I would have called their aunts and taken them out frequently! How can we miss such a great opportunity like the palace banquet?"
As an ally of the fourth brother-in-law, Mrs. Tao was not really that considerate of the great-granddaughters of the second brother-in-law. The main reason why she said this was because she didn't want to follow the truth. After all, other people of the same generation in the Jiang family, such as the three children raised by Jiang Yashuang and his wife, will be brought to the palace banquet this time. If the second wife, a serious girl of an age who needs to socialize, is not brought there, she may be criticized. The Duke's government did not take enough care of the male branch of Kui County.
The old lady naturally refused to suffer this loss.
Mrs. He was really grateful: "Thank you, Second Aunt, for the advice! My grandnephew will tell them right now that they must practice their manners well, so as not to lose the face of our Jiang family!"
The He family has only one biological child, the third grandson, Jiang Huili. She was fond of her concubine Jiang Jingmu, but she hoped that her own flesh and blood would have a good future. The old lady just said clearly, "If you are lucky, a good person might take a fancy to your daughter at the palace banquet. You keep her at home." "If others can't see it, why should you come to propose marriage? If you really love her and it's for her own good, you shouldn't let her go if you don't want to go." Naturally, Mr. He wanted to coax her daughters to attend the palace banquet no matter what. .
"You are overthinking. Are you going to embarrass the Jiang family? The Queen Mother is your fourth aunt, and the Queen is also your cousin. They are not outsiders. What is there to be afraid of?" Mrs. Tao smiled faintly, wondering who these two nieces and nephews were. Coming to Beijing, you are really honest - why should the Jiang family be afraid of losing face? Over the years, all the shame that could be lost has been lost by Jiang Yadan, Jiang Qiyun and other children. How can two great-granddaughters cause a big disturbance at the banquet
... Facts have proved that although the old lady is well-informed, she will inevitably make mistakes sometimes - Jiang Huiyan and Jiang Huili, two juniors, really caused an uproar at the New Year's Eve banquet!