Chapter 185 Exchange
Xia Zihan took the list of the two families' New Year's gifts, looked left and right, and found that the Xia family's New Year's gifts this year were not thin. There were not only more than a dozen pieces of fine leather, but also four pieces of valuable tribute satin.
However, Xia Zihan quickly noticed something was wrong with the New Year's gift list.
Leather and satin are the most valuable items in this annual gift. According to common sense, they should be written first, but these two names are written at the bottom of the list, and the notes are different.
Xia Zihan called the steward who gave the New Year's gift.
The person who came was the second manager of the Xia family. Xia Zihan didn't talk nonsense to him and directly asked the question, "Did the leather and satin in the New Year's gift come from the Xia family?"
The second housekeeper was stunned, as if he didn't expect that Xia Zihan called him here just to ask about this matter. Then, cold sweat broke out on his back.
The eyes of these two girls are so powerful that the eleven-year-old girl discovered things that Mr. Lu didn't notice.
The second housekeeper wiped the sweat from his forehead and hurriedly replied, "I stayed in Mingchang for one night. Those things were added by the second housekeeper."
That means that the leather and satin were given by her father, and the rest of the things were given by the Xia family?
Xia Zihan looked at the list again and found that except for the dozen skins and four pieces of satin, the rest were some ordinary dried fruits, peanuts, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, and watermelon seeds. Even her usual The walnuts, ginkgo and peach kernels I ate were not available.
Haha...
The New Year gifts were all melon seeds.
Do the Xia family members think she and her grandmother like to eat melon seeds?
Xia Zihan sneered.
Then there are the medicinal materials, which are common yam, tangerine peel, platycodon, ophiopogon japonicus, and polygonatum odorifera, which are the cheapest ones for replenishing the body.
Then came the pork, fish, mutton, and beef, twenty pounds each, not even game.
This kind of annual gift costs less than one hundred taels of silver. Compared with the Song family's annual gift, it is simply half a catty to eight taels, and a pair of bastards and turtles.
Xia Zihan laughed at the behavior of the Song family and Xia family.
She dismissed the second housekeeper and replaced him with Manager Lu. She handed the two bills directly to Manager Lu and ordered, "Exchange the annual gifts of these two families and give them to each other. This can be regarded as a return gift from our Chu family."
Since people don't take the Chu family seriously, she doesn't need to use her hot face to touch other people's cold buttocks.
"Stay the dozen pieces of leather and satin sent by the Xia family. They were specially sent by my father for my grandmother and me."
One sentence made Manager Lu understand what was going on.
This time, the messy New Year gifts sent by the two families no longer need to be moved into the warehouse, and registration and registration are so troublesome.
When he returned, he ordered the boy to put the leathers and satin aside first, and then exchanged the annual gifts of the two families. The second housekeeper took the Xia family's return gift with him when he returned, while the Song family's return gift was Cui's return gift. The second housekeeper sent it over in the afternoon.
When Mrs. Pei received the return gift from the Chu family, her old face almost became angry, and she said that Mrs. Zeng was stingy and actually gave the Song family a bunch of food that only lower-class people would eat as a return gift.
Are you scolding the Song family for their downfall?
Or do you think you don’t take the Song family seriously?
After Song Huai found out, he thought it was nothing. In his heart, no matter what Zeng and Xia Zihan sent, everything in the Chu family would belong to him sooner or later.
Mrs. Zeng is now stingy and is not willing to spend more money to buy return gifts, not just to save a few coins, but she saves money again and again, and it will not all be his in the future.
He was eager to save money for her.
The night before New Year's Eve, Chu Jingqi came again secretly.
The middle of the night woke up Xia Zihan. Xia Zihan was wrapped in her coat and leaning on the big pillow to talk to him.
Chu Jingqi brought news about the Lu family and the Dai family.
On the evening of the 26th, the Lu family secretly sent a carload of new year's gifts to Prince Yu's palace. It happened that during the Lunar New Year, Mrs. Yu was angry with Chu Haoyu and Aunt Lu and returned to her parents' house. Mrs. Yu unexpectedly When she saw people from the Lu family sending New Year's gifts to her natal family, before Princess Yujun could accept them, the Yu family drove the chief manager of the Lu family out of Prince Yu's mansion along with a cart full of New Year's gifts.
The next day, Mrs. Yu returned to the West Courtyard to find Aunt Lu. In front of Chu Haoyu, she ridiculed Aunt Lu's natal family as toads who wanted to eat swan meat. She also said that the Lord of Danhua County would not know how to marry a poor family member. When marrying into the Lu family, a girl with a little bit of respect would not marry into the Lu family with a sister-in-law like Aunt Lu.
Aunt Lu was humiliated and cried a lot. The distressed Chu Haoyu scolded Yu Shi, and then Yu Shi and Chu Haoyu had a quarrel.
Chu Haoyu also slapped Mr. Yu.
Mrs. Yu cried and came to Mrs. Chu to make the decision for her, but Mrs. Chu protected Aunt Lu and told Mrs. Yu to calm down. If she disturbed the child in Aunt Lu's belly, she would divorce Mr. Yu.
After hearing this, Mr. Yu became very angry.
There is also news about the Dai family.
Dai Yumin's eldest aunt had her eyes set on young masters from several families, but none of them were willing to marry Dai Yumin. Later, the eldest aunt didn't know who told her about the incest between Dai Yumin and Dai Shaomin, and then... everyone in the Dai family knew.
Dai Shaomin is the second son of the third generation of the Dai family. His mother died when he was a child. He grew up next to the old lady of the Dai family. Dai Shaomin is the most promising among the third generation of the Dai family. This is why Mr. Dai is willing to give this nephew to him. Take it with you to teach.
No one expected the incest between Dai Shaomin and Dai Yumin, but Dai Shaomin died because of Dai Yumin.
The eldest aunt was very angry when she heard the news.
Dai Yumin did such an immoral and despicable thing, but still pretended that she was a young lady and asked her to come forward to help her find her husband's family.
She asked several ladies with whom she usually had good relationships to help, but because of this incident, she lost face in front of several friends.
The eldest aunt said nothing in front of Dai Yumin, but never mentioned the matter of finding Dai Yumin's in-laws again.
Master Dai San lost his son because of Dai Yumin. From then on, every time he saw Dai Yumin, he had a cold face.
Although it wasn't as much as cursing and yelling at her like a shrew, it was still considered a cold burial.
During the days in Dai's house, everyone didn't mention anything to her face and pretended not to know, but you can imagine how they would laugh and despise her behind her back.
Therefore, Dai Yumin's days in the Dai family, starting from the day the secret was exposed, were as difficult as living in hell.
Dai Yumin hated the person who leaked her secret.
From the beginning, she pinned the suspect's hat on Xia Zihan's head.
Xia Zihan didn't get along with her, so Xia Zihan must have wanted to take revenge on her, so she told her about it.
He also secretly investigated Xia Zihan.
But after Xia Zihan came back, he went out three times in total, once to Duke Anguo's Mansion, once to Dou's house, and once to Zhuangzi on the outskirts of the city.
Dai Yumin checked again and again, but she didn't find that this incident was related to Xia Zihan. However, she found that the incident came from a restaurant.
After spending a lot of money to recruit the waiter in the restaurant, I was able to investigate the matter clearly.
It turned out that the person who leaked the secret was Xu Meng, the eldest son of Qinyang Mansion.
Dai Yumin then remembered that on the day of the accident, Mrs. Xu and her sister-in-law Mrs. Wan were both present at the scene.
Dai Yumin sent a maid to bribe the boy next to Xu Meng. After the boy told her, she found out that not long ago, when Mrs. Xu wrote to her mother, she mentioned her incident by the way, and inadvertently , this letter was seen by Xu Meng, Mrs. Xu’s nephew.
Xu Meng served in the Feiyu team. One time when he and several companions were drinking and eating in a restaurant, he revealed the incident and revealed the matter.
In this way, it was spread to ten, and to hundreds of people, and everyone in the capital knew about it.
Dai Yumin was furious and wanted to kill Mrs. Xu and Xu Meng, so she secretly planned to get close to Xu Meng for revenge.
Of course, Chu Jingqi has not yet found out how Dai Yumin wanted to take revenge. He was able to find out so many things and know so detailedly, thanks to Ma Bao hooking up with Dai Yumin's personal maid.
After the maid got a golden hairpin from Ma Bao, she regarded Ma Bao as Prince Charming. She said whatever Ma Bao asked, telling everything she knew, and betrayed Dai Yumin completely.
After talking about the Dai family, Chu Jingqi talked about the Song family. Of course, he would not mention Song Huai, but only about the Pei family and Song Baiqing.
"I heard that Mr. Pei lost his temper two days ago, accusing my grandmother of being a little arrogant, and sent a bunch of inedible things to the Song family," he said.
Xia Zihan snorted and sneered, "She still has the nerve to accuse others. What she sent is not much better than that."
"That thing is a New Year's gift from the Xia family. I just exchanged the New Year's gifts from the Xia family and the Song family and made a gift in return for both families. If she says that my grandmother is a petty family, what about herself?"
"She is a junior, so she should give heavy gifts to her grandmother and respect her elders. Grandma would like to give some gifts in return to the younger generation, but do you know what the New Year's gift she gave her is? It can be said that it is for ordinary small families. The annual gifts are thicker than that.”
"She looks down on the Chu family and doesn't take my grandmother into consideration. Why should I look down on her?"
When this matter was mentioned, Xia Zihan was also very angry.
She never cared about those things, but some people only allowed state officials to set fires and not allow people to light lamps. Why? Is it because they were thick-skinned?
Why is she only allowed to be in the first grade of junior high school and not allowed to be in the fifteenth grade?
Is it just because she, Xia Zihan, is the daughter-in-law of the Song family?
Or is it because the Song family is infatuated with Concubine Lu and has no need of the Chu family, so they just try to step on the Chu family everywhere?
Seeing that Xia Zihan was very angry, Chu Jingqi hurriedly comforted her, "Don't be angry. It's not worth getting angry with that kind of person. It's not worth it to ruin your body. If she likes to say it, let her say it. People are doing it, and God is watching. , one day she will be punished for what she did.”
(End of chapter)