Chapter 360 Causing Trouble
The Wei family is a scholarly family that has been passed down for hundreds of years. The family education is excellent, and Mrs. Wei is the only exception in the Wei family.
Mrs. Wei's surname is Zhu, and she lives in Huaihuai City. Her father, Mr. Zhu, is the chief catcher in the official office of Huaihuai City.
The old man of the Wei family returned from a study tour when he was young. When he got off the boat in Lianghuai City, he accidentally provoked a group of local ruffians.
On the way back to Beijing, he was blocked by someone and the boy was beaten to death on the spot. He was also seriously injured. He met Mr. Zhu who was returning to Huaicheng on business in the capital and saved his life.
The old man of the Wei family owed the Zhu family a favor.
A few years later, after he married a daughter-in-law and gave birth to his eldest son, he went to the Zhu family and made a girl from the Zhu family his daughter-in-law, which was considered as repaying the Zhu family's favor.
Unexpectedly, this girl from the Zhu family has been nurtured by the Zhu family's couple to have a petty temperament since she was a child.
Xiaojiazi is so angry that he still can't carry it clearly, and he doesn't know how to look at others, so he always embarrasses the Wei family in public.
Mr. Wei despises her, but she is the daughter of his father's savior, and he has read poetry and books since he was a child. He was taught by his father to repay kindness, know etiquette and be filial. It is with the mood of repaying his kindness that he tolerates Wei. What the wife did.
Therefore, although Mrs. Wei's character is not very good, her status in the Wei family cannot be shaken by anyone.
What's more, she is very fertile. After marrying into the Wei family, she gave birth to six children, three sons and three daughters. Wei Kaiyue was the youngest.
There was no credit, but hard work, and the Wei family master turned a blind eye to her.
However, the Wei family members did not dare to leave the children she gave birth to to be taught by her. The old lady of the Wei family personally took care of them and taught them.
The old lady taught her grandchildren and had no time to take care of the household, so she gave up her position as the mistress of the Wei family to Mrs. Wei. However, the old lady was also shrewd, and she placed The inner court does not have much silver in its books, just enough for the inner court to use for a month.
This is to prevent Mrs. Wei, a daughter-in-law who is unclear about what she is doing, from becoming too powerful and losing control of the Wei family.
Sure enough, there was enough money for a month, but within half a month, there was no money left on the books.
Without money, what can the family eat and drink?
This made Mrs. Wei anxious.
Later, the old lady of the Wei family sent a personal nanny to help Mrs. Wei take care of the house, so Mrs. Wei did not dare to spend money lavishly.
However, Mrs. Wei's temperament is even more petty. She is timid in doing things, caressing about every detail, and always cares about everything.
No, at this time, if Mrs. Wei is a discerning person, she should give the Qi sisters a wedding gift to make up for the makeup, and the previous things will be wiped out.
But Mrs. Wei was stingy. She looked at the jewelry she was wearing and couldn't bear to part with any of it.
Wei Kaiyue was still smart and had already prepared two sets of makeup. However, after learning the identity of Qi Mei and Qilan, Wei Kaiyue secretly took off the two pairs of bracelets he was wearing and quietly put them into the two sets of makeup.
Before she came today, she wore a total of four pairs of bracelets just in case.
Pick off two pairs, and there are two more pairs.
After Wei Kaiyue gave her makeup, Mrs. Wei smiled even more attentively and was busy trying to please the Qi sisters. Until the sound of firecrackers, gongs and drums was heard outside, Xiniang came in and put on a red hijab for the Qi sisters. Mrs. Wei then I had to leave the house and followed Mrs. Liao and the others to the front hall.
Dongfang Yi and Zheng Qing rushed to Chu's house one after another at the auspicious time.
After the two entered the door, they were welcomed to the inner courtyard.
Soon, the two brides were carried out by their respective grooms. When they arrived at the hall, the bride and groom said goodbye to their elders, Zeng and Master Qi, and then were carried by the groom onto the sedan chair outside.
Miss Zhang stood in the crowd watching the excitement, staring at Dongfang Yi's handsome face that could destroy heaven and earth, her eyes widened.
She was envious and jealous, "Shouldn't it be the bride's brother who carried it out? Why did the groom do it himself?"
Liao Fangyi, who knew the inside story, smiled innocently and said, "The bride has no brothers in her family, only one father, and the Chu family has no male heirs. Of course, the groom has to bear his own daughter-in-law."
Otherwise, if their daughter-in-law is cheated by another man, they will be angry to death?
Miss Zhang curled her lips and was about to say something when suddenly, she felt a sharp and cold gaze directed at her.
She trembled all over and quickly turned her head to look, but that gaze disappeared again.
Her heart trembled, and she no longer dared to speak nonsense.
After the bride was picked up, the Chu family held a wedding banquet.
After dinner, a group of girls rushed to the back garden to play. Xia Zihan sent someone to prepare a lot of fruits and refreshments, as well as papayas, star fruits and lychees that Nuan Xiang specially asked someone to transport back from Jiangnan
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These kinds of fruits are sold in fruit shops in the capital, but because they are difficult to collect and the shipping costs are expensive, they are also very expensive. They cost more than ten taels of silver per pound, and ordinary people really can't afford them. .
Dou Si eats it often. The Dou family has a lot of property, and they also have property in the south of the Yangtze River. The steward there will often ship some fruits from the south of the Yangtze River to please the owner.
Families like the Liao family, Zhang family, and Wei family may not be able to eat it more than once a year.
Several girls looked at it with their mouths watering.
Miss Zhang wanted to eat, but couldn't save her face, so she could only stare and swallow hard.
Wei Kaiyue has a reserved temperament, and no matter how greedy he is, he will not make any move to leave the cabinet.
Liao Fangyi, on the other hand, screamed excitedly when she saw it, then opened her cheeks and started eating.
While eating, his mouth was still busy, "I have been greedy for star fruit for a long time. Sister Chu Yu, you don't even know how expensive the star fruit is sold in the shop. In the past two days, I was so greedy that I felt uncomfortable. My second cousin used his own money to buy two for me. "Oh my god, it's three taels of silver each, so it's not like eating star fruit." My second cousin said, it's just money." br>
Xia Zihan pursed her lips and smiled, "When you go back, remember to bring some back. This time Qi Mei and Qi Lan are holding a wedding, Nuan Xiang bought a lot."
"Hmm, let's pack some more lychees and some papayas. These grapes are also early ripening, right? The grapes in my yard are still green. Pack me a basket of grapes too. My grandmother likes to eat them. Get her some later.”
Liao Fangyi said a lot of things unceremoniously.
What Xia Zihan likes most is her unpretentious, straightforward and carefree temperament.
No scheming, simple and naive.
No heart, no worries, how wonderful.
Xia Zihan smiled at the corner of his eyes and said, "There are also strawberries, do you want it? And the fruit wine. I opened a few large cans of fruit wine today. You can also pack some and go home to drink. I'll see if you drank it at the wine table just now." ”
The fruit wine won't get to your head and won't make you drunk. Liao Fangyi likes to drink it, so she drinks it like water.
She nodded frequently, like the arm of the Lucky Tree, "If you want it, I want it all." She looked like she wasn't afraid of having too many things.
Xia Zihan smiled and told Si Cao, "Pack up everything Sister Fang wants and send it to the Liao family in a carriage."
"Yes, County Lord."
The silk grass blessed me, so I quickly went to work.
Miss Zhang looked at it with envy.
She wanted it too, wanted to eat it, and even wanted to flatter Xia Zihan, a big tree inlaid with gold.
If she and Xia Zihan get along well, her status in the family will be higher, and she won't be suppressed by her sister.
Just like Wei Kaiyue, Wei Kaiyue's status in the Wei family has gone up a notch higher since he became the county head of Xia Zihan, and even his monthly income has increased by ten taels of silver.
But this time she and her mother came uninvited. Her relationship with Xia Zihan was not good, and she got close to Xia Zihan several times, but was separated by Xia Zihan intentionally or unintentionally.
Even if she was a fool, she could still see that Xia Zihan didn't want to be friends with her.
She was even more unable to open her mouth.
She couldn't speak, but there were people who could.
Xia Zilan was not polite, filled her mouth, her cheeks were bulging, and said vaguely, "Second sister, you can also pretend for me, I want it too, and there is fruit wine, it's sweet, I like to drink it too, second sister, Fill more pots for me.”
This snack foodie.
What a shame.
Xia Ziqing glared at her fiercely, but she didn't politely say no.
Just kidding, these fruits were not something she could eat even when she was in the Xia family.
There is food to eat now, so why not?
Xia Zihan nodded with a good-tempered smile, "Send it over tomorrow. I've asked Butler Cui to prepare it, but I've been busy these past two days and haven't had time to send it over."
Xia Zilan was satisfied, her eyes narrowed with joy, and then she and Liao Fangyi stood aside, feasting and devouring the fruit as if in a competition.
The residences of the Zhang family and the Wei family were very close to each other. When leaving, the two families said goodbye together.
Mrs. Zeng ordered Xia Zihan to send the two families to the gate.
"Let's go together." Dou Si and Liao Fangyi followed Xia Zihan like two tails.
However, when they arrived at the gate, they happened to see Si Cao commanding several attendants, carrying several baskets of fruits and stacking them on a carriage.
Miss Zhang whispered to Mrs. Wei and Mrs. Zhang that Xia Zihan had prepared it for the Liao family and the Dou family.
Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Wei were filled with envy when they saw half a cart of expensive fruits and fruit wine.
Mrs. Wei immediately turned to Xia Zihan with a shy face, "Sister Yue was talking about eating lychees a few days ago. Unexpectedly, she actually ate them at Chu House today, but her grandmother also likes them. I don't know. …”
He actually used Wei Kaiyue and the old lady of the Wei family to open this door.
Wei Kaiyue's pretty face suddenly became too embarrassed to see anyone.
She winked at a maid next to Mrs. Wei, and the maid quickly persuaded Mrs. Wei to get in the car.
Wei Kaiyue smiled shyly and apologetically at Xia Zihan, "Don't mind, my mother drank too much..."
"Yes, I know." Xia Zihan comforted her with a smile, "I have already asked the maid to load a basket of fruit for you, but the Chu family only has two carriages for transporting goods, and there is no one free, so just put the fruit in Your carriage is in, I hope it won’t be too crowded.”
(End of chapter)