Prime Minister

Chapter 243
The boudoir of the Seventeenth Lady of the Wu Mansion.

Wu Shi and Shi Qi Niang sat opposite each other.

But when she saw Mrs. Wu holding out the box, Seventeen Niang couldn't help looking at Mrs. Wu hesitantly.

"Seventeen, open it and have a look."

Seventeen Niang opened the jade box as she said, and took out the jade hairpin from it.

Wu Shi asked, "Do you like it?"

Seventeen Niang said with a smile: "My sister gave it to me, I really like it, peony jade hairpin, I wanted to have one for a long time, and it happened to be a pair."

Wu said with a smile: "Yes, it's a coincidence, but what if I didn't give this pair of jade hairpins?"

Seventeen Niang looked down at the hairpin in a daze, her cheeks blushed, as if on fire.After a while, Seventeen Niang looked out of the window and said, "Sister, the days go by so fast, it's going to snow in Bianjing."

Mrs. Wu smiled and agreed: "That's right, when it snows, it's New Year's Eve, and after New Year's Eve is the spring exam, and you're also a year older."

Xun Wu's eyes fell on Yuzan again and asked: "Do you like it?"

Seventeen Niang looked at the hairpin for a long time, she didn't say whether she liked it or not, but said: "Why do you get married? Jin Bohua scratched his head."

Wu knows that this allusion comes from "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes", which says that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty liked Mrs. Li, and one day he took off Mrs. Li's hairpin and scratched his head.

This question seems to be answered again and again.

Seventeen Niang held the jade hairpin and looked at the box, then said: "This jade box is not the same as the jade hairpin."

Wu said: "Yes, I made this jade box for you."

Seventeen Niang asked, "What about the original box?"

Wu asked with a smile: "Why are you afraid of buying a basket and returning the pearl?"

Seventeen Niang smiled slightly and said, "I also want the trellis and the hairpin."

Wu pretended to be surprised and asked: "Oh? Is the wooden box more valuable than the jade box?"

Seventeen Niang said: "Sister, the five elements of jade belong to wood, so the jade hairpin matches the wooden box. There is no reason to match the jade box. It's like adding a house to the house. Don't sister know this reason?"

Wu said with a smile: "My sister knows this. In fact, this jade box is for you to hold your wedding jewels. You should return the wooden box."

Seventeen Niang showed a smile on her face and said: "Sister, I'm not sure about this, and I don't know when I can get married?"

"Don't you say that you can stay at home with your parents for a few more years, and you can't get married if you want to get married?" Wu laughed jokingly, "I see, it might happen next year."

"next year?"

Wu said with a smile: "It's so called the little Dengke after the big one."

Seventeen Niang bowed her head and said, "I don't understand what my sister said. But this jade hairpin is very expensive!"

Wu said: "I've read that it's worth a hundred hits to say the least."

Seeing that Shi Qi Niang heard this, Mrs. Wu looked a little dazed.

Sometimes a thousand words are not as good as a hosta.

Wu Shi and Shi Qi Niang would not ask Zhang Yue where he got the money from, they only looked at the intention behind it.

Seeing her sister holding the hairpin on her chest, looking sweet and sweet, Wu couldn't help being envious.

Didn't you say how much is a hosta worth?

She knows her sister's temperament best, if she likes it, even a wooden hairpin is enough, if she doesn't like it, even if mountains of gold and silver are in front of her eyes, she won't be tempted.

But when it comes to the present, more is better.

It's not that the jade hairpin is so expensive, but that you are worthy of it in his heart!

Wu thought to herself that she was worried that her sister would have a hard time after marrying Zhang Yue, but now it seems that she is thinking too much.

However, Zhang Yue, a humble scholar, could give his younger sister a jade hairpin, but his husband, as the prime minister's son, never even gave him a wooden hairpin.

It seems that in the eyes of picking a husband, my sister is the only one among my sisters who is like a mother.This chapter is the first time the imperial examination has taken the third exam. What kind of family, what kind of yamen, even the husband-in-law of Shiwuniang, I am afraid that in the future it will not be as good as this chapter.

That day when the other party came to Ouyang Xiu's residence for the first time, I just thought that this chapter was more beautiful and beautiful, but I didn't know that there was a lot of talent outside of gold and jade.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Wu sighed unwillingly in her heart: "It's even more rare that 'it's easy to find a priceless treasure, but it's rare to have a lover'."

But after Zhang Yue left Ouyang Fa's house, he didn't go back to Taixue, but asked Tang Jiu to follow him to his brother's house.

When he came to his elder brother's house, seeing that it was Zhang Yue, Yu said with a smile: "Your elder brother has gone out, only Xi'er and I are at home, does uncle have any homework today? Let's have dinner here."

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "No, just sit down for a while and leave. Sister-in-law, let's talk."

Seeing that Zhang said something more solemnly, Yu immediately sat aside as he said.

At this moment the servants came and served tea.

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "Second Aunt is very thoughtful, she not only borrowed the house to settle down, but even prepared servants."

Yu said with a smile: "Although there used to be servants in the family, they were useless for a long time, but now they are not used to them. I still think about things."

Zhang Yue felt a little ashamed when he heard that, if it wasn't for his second elder brother running away from marriage, and he had been losing his family all the time, and finally put Zhang's family in trouble, it wouldn't have made him a housewife who took care of the family's food and daily life.

Zhang Yue said: "Sister-in-law is suffering."

Zhang Yue immediately ordered Tang Jiu to put down the package in front of Yu Shi and open it.

At the beginning of the Yu family, what was in the package was so heavy, but after opening the package, it was more than a dozen pieces of horseshoe gold.

"Third brother, how did you get so much money?" Seeing the dozen or so pieces of yellow gold, Mrs. Yu gasped.

No one can remain indifferent to this mountain of gold.

Zhang Yue said: "The one who opened the shop saved money, and he also made some money by helping others with advice. This is worth 350 guan, sister-in-law, take it."

"350 guan?" Yu asked, "Why did you give it to me? Not to your brother?"

Zhang Yue said: "It's for my sister-in-law, not for my brother. Of the two hundred guan, I will return it to my sister-in-law's natal family. Our Zhang family has owed so much money for so many years. If you count the capital, the two hundred guan should be enough to pay back. But it may not be enough if you count the interest. There is still a hundred guan to hire a famous teacher for Xi'er, and the last [-] guan to pay for the family, all of which are here, if you plan hard, you can use it for a year or two."

Seeing so much money in front of her eyes, Yu couldn't help crying.After a while, Yu took a deep breath and said firmly, "Third brother, sister-in-law can't take this money."

"Sister-in-law, are you meeting me too?"

"It's not that I'm out of touch, it's just that the restaurant paid for it before, and I still owe you two hundred guan. Besides, it was your brother who lent money to my natal family, and it has nothing to do with you. Why do you have to pay it back for him?"

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "Sister-in-law is still out. At the beginning, when I was studying, eating, drinking and having fun, I didn't need the family's money. My brother couldn't make ends meet. Thanks to my sister-in-law, I saw the face of my mother's family and paid for it. I can study, thanks to my sister-in-law who never argues with my brother, now that I have a little spare energy, it's time to repay my kindness and share the family's worries."

In the end, Zhang Yue said solemnly: "Besides, the reason why I have made progress in studying all these years is not to have today?"

Yu wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and said, "Third Brother..."

The words were only half spoken, and Yu Shi was already sobbing.

Zhang Yue couldn't help being touched, and his eyes were red beside him.

Yu wept for a while before he stopped crying and said: "Since it is the third brother's kindness, then I will keep the money for you first, and return it to you when the family is separated."

"Sister-in-law..."

Yu interrupted Zhang Yue and said, "It's enough for you to have this kind of heart. Why are you so clearly divided as a family?"

(End of this chapter)