My parents are omnipotent

In this way, the group of three remained silent all the way until they reached the second gate of Hou Mansion.

At the second gate, there were already servants waiting in the inner house, and one of them took over the task of leading Ye Anlan and Qiu Xing'er, and took them straight to Old Madam Bai's Rong'an Hall.

There was silence in Rong'an Hall. When Ye Anlan and the others came over, Mrs. Bai and Mrs. Bai were offering incense and chanting scriptures in the small Buddhist hall, asking the Bodhisattva to bless their relatives who fought in the northern border. Bai Qingzhi's two daughters were sitting quietly and copying books. .

Haitang, the big maid next to Mrs. Bai, first invited Ye Anlan and Qiu Xing'er to the sitting room for tea and waited quietly. After Mrs. Bai and Mrs. Bai walked out of the small Buddhist hall, Haitang whispered to Mrs. Bai to report.

When Mrs. Bai heard that she was here to give jewelry, she immediately invited Ye Anlan and Qiu Xing'er in.

In order not to obstruct other people's eyes as much as possible, the Bai family never went out to dinner or play unless necessary in the past two years.

But the birthday banquet of the little emperor and the empress dowager every year, the pilgrimage to the palace after the next year, the birthday banquet of the empress dowager's first brother and sister-in-law, etc., these are the Bai family who cannot refuse and dare not think twice. of.

This time, the Bai family made new clothes and ordered jewelry to attend the birthday banquet of the empress dowager's second sister-in-law.

The banquet was scheduled for twelve days later, when most of the nobles and officials in the capital would go to the Empress Dowager's natal home to support her.

It's not that the remaining nobles and officials don't want to go, but they are not eligible to get the posts at all, so they can only give gifts to their door, and then they can't even get a meal and go home to eat themselves.

This is just the birthday banquet of the empress dowager's second sister-in-law. If the birthday banquet of the empress dowager's two elder brothers and her elder sister-in-law were replaced, the empress dowager's natal family would even have their threshold leveled.

Weipinghou's Mansion is now in an awkward position in the capital. They are not the kind of shabby households who can't get the post from the Empress Dowager's mother's family, but because there is no communication between the capital and the northern border, every time they go out to a banquet, they will be greeted by some people with red tops, whites, and laughing. No one hates others, and some villains deliberately push and step on them.

In order to cause as little trouble as possible, they not only have to think about what gifts to give, but also spend a lot of manpower and material resources on wearing them.

It wasn't that they wanted to curry favor with the Empress Dowager's natal family, or to show off their power and wealth. The reason why they tried their best was to try their best not to show off and offend others without being rude.

The gift must be good, but not too good. It must be seen that people have put their heart into it, but it must not be suspected of being flattering. People will point fingers and mock the Bai family who started with military exploits, but now they have lost their character. Became a flatterer.

There are more points to pay attention to when wearing. Whether it is color or style, you must pay attention to absolutely not clashing with other unofficial people's shirts or jewelry. At the same time, you must not dress too well or too mediocre, so as not to become someone else's thorn in the side or the target of teasing.

To do this, the Bai family must first find out all the outfits that certain people wore on the day they went to the banquet.At the same time, they have to be careful not to be discovered that they are inquiring in private.

All these things, the two generations of hostesses of the Bai family have taken great care and thought.

Fortunately, the children of the Bai family are also very obedient. Even at an age that yearns for freedom and friends, none of the three children of the Bai family insist on going out to play and entertain friends.

Let's talk about Ye Anlan.

After entering the room, Ye Anlan saluted Qiu Xing'er with lowered eyebrows, "I've seen old lady, madam, ladies."

The old lady Bai frowned slightly, but she didn't express the doubts in her stomach. She raised her hand slightly, "There is no need to be polite. Haitang, go and get the brocade stool for these two girls, Shaoyao, go and get the jewelry for the child Let's take a look."

Ye Anlan and Qiu Xing'er thanked them, leaned forward and carefully sat down on the brocade stool, waiting for the two girls from the Bai family to inspect the jewelry.

The two white girls thanked their grandmother and mother, and then came to look at the jewelry hand in hand.

Qiu Xing'er was afraid that the two Misses of the Hou's Mansion would be picky, and she would not be able to do the job, so she kept her expression tense and stared straight at the jewelry box.

Ye Anlan was much more relaxed than her. She turned her head slightly and quietly looked at the four female relatives of the Bai family.

Quickly glanced at each of the four of them twice, Ye Anlan used the same method again, trying to be as unobtrusive as possible, and began to carefully observe the maids in the room.

There were two nuns, two young daughter-in-laws, and six beautiful young maids standing in the room. Judging from their respective positions, they obviously had their own masters.

Ye Anlan doesn't know how to read minds, she can't tell from other people's faces whether they are loyal or treacherous, and she doesn't have Li Jing's ability to observe others' every move to judge whether there is something wrong with the other party.

The only thing she can rely on is her sixth sense that she thinks is very reliable, but Pei Huaiyu always complains that it is purely subjective.

Ye Anlan was thinking about how to make all these maids and maids meet her eyes, when Miss Bai stared at Ye Anlan's pocket purse and let out a sigh.

When she was gesturing jewelry on her younger sister's head, she accidentally caught a glimpse of Ye Anlan's pouch on her waist out of the corner of her eye. At this glance, the familiar patterns, colors and fabrics attracted Miss Bai's attention.

"What's the matter, sister? I don't look good in this?" The second girl Bai asked, blinking her big moist black eyes.

"No, no." Miss Bai put the hairpin back into the box, and then walked quickly to Ye Anlan's side, "Girl, your purse is really well embroidered, let me take a closer look at it." patterns and stitches?"

This child is still young, even though he has tried his best to calm himself down and not look too eager, his tone and eyes still reveal a little anxiety.

Ye Anlan had already suddenly remembered the purse she asked Wen Liuniang to embroider as early as when Miss Bai groaned.

This purse of hers is almost exactly the same as the purse that Bai Qingzhi gave her as a keepsake. It is not easy to display things like safety symbols to the public, so the purse is different. The second day after Ye Anlan got the purse, she asked Wen Liu Niang embroidered an identical one for her.

She is a girl, wearing a purse embroidered with stones and grass is already strange enough, but the fabric used for the purse is still dark blue.

It's also thanks to the fact that she's playing a poor girl in a slum. She picked up this muslin purse and put it on after seeing the fine stitching and strong fabric. No one would suspect her of anything.

At most, it was other clerks in the jewelry shop, secretly complaining that this girl really doesn't know how to distinguish beauty from ugliness at all, she really is a country girl who came from a small place and has never seen the world.