Otoharu

Chapter 62 Visiting the Zhou Family
After Li Meier and the others had finished their breakfast, Mrs. Jiang took her and Jiang Shanqing out. The Zhou family lived not far from the Li family, about a ten-minute drive away. Most wealthy families in Zhangshui Town lived there. The Zhou family, The Liu family and the Li family's family are almost all on the same street.

The ox cart stopped outside the side door of Zhou's house, Li Meier jumped out of the cart, and turned around obediently to help Mrs. Jiang.

Although Jiang's belly is not big at the moment, she is still very careful in her actions.

"Mother, I'm going to knock on the door." Li Meier jumped to the door and knocked on the door knocker on tiptoe.

Soon, someone answered the voice and opened the door. It was a woman in her forties who opened the door. When she saw Li Meier standing outside the door, she looked slightly puzzled.

Mrs. Li quickly led Jiang Shanqing forward and handed out the greeting card.

Seeing the greeting post, the old woman understood her expression, and immediately asked respectfully: "Is this the grandma of the Li family? Please come in quickly, the eldest lady has already greeted the old slave, you come with the old slave."

"Excuse me, ma'am." Mrs. Jiang nodded, responded politely, and led the two of them to follow behind the mother-in-law.

Zhou's house is not very big, it only has three yards, but it is much bigger than the second yard of Li's house, and the house of Zhou's house is also very grand, with blue bricks and red walls, it looks like it has been in recent years Newly repaired.

The three Jiangs followed the woman into the Chuihua Gate, and they saw the chaste corridors on both sides, and the hallway in the middle, where a large marble screen was placed.

They passed through the Chaoshou corridor and arrived at the main hall.

The eldest wife of the Zhou family, Mrs. Qin, had already been notified by the gatekeeper, knowing that Mrs. Jiang and the others had arrived, she was already waiting in the main hall with Zhou Hanju.

Qin's age is [-] this year, a few years older than Mrs. Li, but she takes better care of her than Mrs. Li. She describes her as rich, her skin is fair, and there is no trace of wrinkle. It is obvious that she has been pampered all year round.

"Hanju, do you think Mrs. Jiang will bring that child here?" Mrs. Qin stretched out her well-maintained hand to pick up the teacup, and suddenly looked at Zhou Hanyu and asked.

"Should be." Zhou Hanyu replied with a smile, "I see that Jiang's family loves the child very much, especially sister Jiang, who is willing to take him to live with her in-laws."

"You said that child is not Jiang Juren's flesh and blood, so why did the Jiang family treat him so well?" Qin asked with a skeptical attitude towards Jiang Shanqing's background, frowning.

"Mother, Jiang's family are all kind people. Buyu said that the child is the son of his friend. Before his friend died, he took care of the orphan. He naturally wants to take good care of this child, and that child is not like him. You will You'll know when you see someone." Zhou Hanyu had long stopped doubting Jiang Shanqing's identity, and helped Jiang Yanzhi explain it to her mother.

"It's not naturally the best, otherwise I would have to consider this marriage. My daughter is so good, so naturally she needs the best man in the world to match her." Qin was slightly relieved, and looked at Zhou Hanyu with a smile Said.

When mentioning his own marriage, Zhou Hanyu felt a little embarrassed, lowered his head and did not speak.

It just so happened that the little maid came in to report that the person had already arrived outside the main hall, so Qin hurriedly asked him to come in.

After Li Mei'er entered the main hall, she saw Qin Shi sitting on top of her at a glance, and her first thought was that Zhou Muyi really looked like his mother.

She followed Chiang and saluted Qin.Zhou Hanju got up and saluted Jiang, and Li Meier and Jiang Shanqing saluted Zhou Hanju.

After a while of etiquette, Jiang sat down on the chair.Li Meier and Jiang Shanqing sat on the shorter Wuzi.

"Han, these are the two children you told me about, right? They are really just like what you said, they are really good-looking, and they are much better than those boys and girls in my family." Qin said first, saying to Li Meier and Jiang Shanqing were very impressed by their looks.

"Mrs. Zhou's reputation is too high. My Mei'er is just a wild girl. She can't compare to the ladies in your house." Jiang Shi immediately said modestly.

"I saw these two children for the first time today, and I didn't prepare any expensive gifts, just two small objects. Don't dislike them."

Qin Shi exchanged glances with the big maid next to her, and the maid immediately walked up to Jiang Shi with a beautiful box in her hand, opened the box, and there were two pairs of exquisite gold collars inside.

"This...is too expensive, we can't accept it." Mrs. Jiang quickly pushed the box out, obviously thinking that this meeting gift was too expensive.

"This is not just a meeting gift, it can also be regarded as an apology for my incompetent son. Grandma Li, don't refuse." Qin said with a smile.

"The incident between the young master of your mansion and my Mei'er last time was also an accident. Besides, the young master apologized to us last time, so this matter is over. Yesterday in front of Baiweilou, it was thanks to sister Zhou It should be us thanking you for helping us."

As Jiang said so, she took out the thank you gift she had prepared. It was a small and exquisite embroidery screen with evergreen patterns of pines and cypresses embroidered on it. It took her a whole year to embroider the screen. , I wanted to give Mrs. Li a 50th birthday gift in the future, but I couldn't think of any thank you gift for me at a short while yesterday, so I took it out first.

Although her embroidery skills are not top-notch, she is also one of the best in this Zhangshui town. If this embroidery screen is put on consignment in the embroidery workshop, it can be sold for dozens of taels of silver. Although this item is not too expensive, it is rare. .

"What a delicate embroidery screen." Qin took the embroidery screen handed over by the maid, and couldn't help but praise, "Grandma Li, I accept your thank you gift, but my meeting gift is for the two children." , so don't refuse."

"Yes, sister Zhou, just accept it. This gold collar is really nothing compared to your embroidered screen. After all, this gold collar is easy to get, but your embroidered screen is rare." Zhou Hanyu also persuaded from the side .

Both of them said that, but it was hard for Jiang to refuse, so he had to accept the brocade box first.

Several people exchanged pleasantries for a while, but Mrs. Jiang didn't know how to talk about Baiweilou, and felt a little anxious.His expression was a little absent-minded.Although she concealed it very well, who is Zhou Hanyu? She has been in the business field all year round and is the best at observing words and expressions. She saw Jiang's strangeness, so she smiled and said: "Our adults will inevitably find it boring for children. Let them Go down and play first." After saying this, he told Fu Ling beside him, "Fu Ling, take the two guests to Miss Sun's place."

Fu Ling agreed, and looked at Li Meier and Li Meier, but Li Meier didn't move, only looking at Jiang Shi.

Jiang knew that Zhou Hanju saw that she still had something to say, and that she wanted to distract the two children, so she nodded at them.

(End of this chapter)