Expensive marriage: The concubine is begging for peace again today

Chapter 88
In the afternoon, birthday presents for Jiang Nan, Zhou Chengxin and others arrived at the mansion.

Jiang Nan is a local tyrant as always, with three big boxes of things, gold nuggets, silver ingots, pearls, agate, and rough jade.

King Jin looked at Jiang Changning who was sitting among a pile of jewels, smiling and bending his eyebrows, rubbed his chin, thoughtful.

The gifts from the Zhou brothers were all kinds of books, including two rare ancient books, which King Jin had been looking for for a long time.

Seeing that King Jin couldn't put it down, Jiang Changning generously donated it as a gift.

"Ning Ning is really willing to give it to me?" King Jin asked with a smile.

"You are my husband. Giving things to you is like giving things from the left hand to the right. There is no reason to be reluctant." Jiang Changning laughed.

The two strategy books were originally sent in by the brothers of the Zhou family for her to please King Jin. In order to make life easier, she took advantage of the situation.

The gift from the dealer is said to be a set of clothes and shoes and socks sewn by Wu and Zou.

Jiang Changning looked at the clothes, shoes and socks in the gift box, and smiled, the dealer is playing the emotional card.

It's a pity that she really doesn't have much affection for the dealer.

As far as she knew, Wu and Zou had stopped sewing many years ago, so the clothes, shoes and socks must not have been sewn by them.

"Put it in the box." Jiang Changning asked Fangju to take the gift box out.

What Zhuang Qingyu sent was a Jade Avalokitesvara, and asked the person who gave the gift to tell Jiang Changning the good news that she was three months pregnant.

"I'll go see her some other day when I'm free." Jiang Changning returned the salute and said.

After the twentieth of the twelfth lunar month, Mrs. Qiao was busy sending new year gifts to various mansions, and the ladies in the palace had to express themselves.

Mrs. Qiao looked at the thick piles of ledgers for several days, making her feel haggard.

Princess Kangren felt sorry for her mother, so she suggested: "Mother, concubine, after sorting out the accounts, give them to aunt, and let aunt take care of the house in the future, so you don't have to work so hard."

Qiao was furious, "You unfilial daughter, you actually helped her, do you still remember who gave birth to you?"

"Concubine Mu, I'm not helping my aunt, I just don't want you to work too hard." Princess Kangren explained.

"It's not hard work, I know it myself. You go back to the yard to practice the piano. This year's New Year's Eve banquet, at the palace banquet, you will play the piano. You must shine, you know?"

"Understood." Princess Kangren got down from the kang, "Mother and Concubine, my daughter is going back to the yard to practice the piano."

After sending her daughter away, Mrs. Qiao continued to pull out the abacus and look at the account book.

In Rujingyuan, Jiang Changning was not idle, and was cutting paper with his maid.

Jiang Changning has a pair of dexterous hands, let alone flowers, birds and characters, she can cut out pavilions and pavilions.

When King Jin came back, he was amazed when he saw the paper-cuts on the kang, "Ningning, what else can you not cut?"

"Characters, I don't know how to cut characters." Jiang Changning laughed.

"Ningning, teach me how to cut this." King Jin picked up the lotus flower with two pedicles.

"This is simple." Jiang Changning took the paper and scissors and started teaching.

After teaching for a while, Jiang Changning was about to collapse.

Who could tell her that Jin Wang, who can draw figures vividly, animals vividly, flowers colorfully, and landscapes vividly, is so clumsy in paper-cutting?

"Cut on the top, cut out the arc, yes, yes, okay, don't need to cut the tip. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, he cut it wrong, we can't take it anymore." Jiang Changning was extremely helpless.

After cutting out one piece of paper, two pieces of paper, three pieces of paper, and four pieces of paper, after the tenth piece of paper was also cut out, the dry-mouthed Jiang Changning made the excuse that he should go to pay his respects to the concubine, and then prepared to cut No. .11 sheets of Jin Wang was coaxed out of the yard.

On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, the pen was sealed in the middle of the court. Except for those on duty in various departments, all other officials went home to celebrate the New Year.

The officials who seem to be at leisure are busier than usual. They are actively inquiring about who has won the reward from the palace and who can attend the royal annual banquet.

From this morning, from time to time, servants rushed to each mansion with rewards.

There are thick and thin rewards, more or less.

Jinwang Mansion, Qingwang Mansion, Dewang Mansion, Sui Guogong Mansion, Xinjian County Mansion, and Xingzhou County Mansion not only received blessings and Spring Festival couplets bestowed by the emperor, but also received rewards from the Queen Mother and Empress.

Prince Qing's Mansion didn't receive any treatment last year, but this year he was rewarded by the Three Palaces. It can be seen that King Qing's status has improved.

It's just that not many people know the reason why Prince Qing's Mansion can be valued by the emperor.

Except for these six families, the other mansions may receive the emperor's blessing, or the empress dowager's reward, or the queen's reward.

But as long as there is a reward from the palace, it is a kind of honor.

Jin Wang Taifei is not uncommon, looking at the emperor's words, she curled her lips in disgust.

Seriously speaking, the emperor's handwriting is not too bad, and the layout of the frame is good, but the brushwork is a bit frivolous, not as vigorous as Jin Wang's handwriting, full of majestic majesty.

For the New Year's Eve banquet, in addition to members of the royal family and royal family, first-class titles in Beijing, and officials above the second rank, they were also lucky enough to enter the palace to enjoy the banquet.

On this day, there are not only dinners, but also ceremonies to ancestors.

At Yinshizheng, Jiang Changning got up and dressed up.

Jin Wang didn't go to the morning court, but he still got up at the beginning of Yinshi, and he didn't know where he was going.

Jiang Changning didn't ask any further questions, and sat in front of the dressing table with a look of lovelessness.

The princess's phoenix crown is covered with emerald jewels like a cloud and mist pavilion. The six dragons and three phoenixes are exquisitely shaped and lifelike, and the gems are like stars at the front of the phoenix crown.

Luxurious and beautiful, it can be said that it is an incomparable blessing.

Putting it in the exhibition cabinet, Jiang Changning can write a small composition of more than a thousand words to praise it.

But now, Jiang Changning's evaluation of it is just one word: heavy.

With such a heavy phoenix crown, she has to hold it up for a day.

Just thinking about it makes my neck tired, alas, if you want to wear a phoenix crown, you must bear its weight!

"Princess, the snacks you ordered the small dining room to prepare yesterday have all been put into food boxes." Xiulan came in to report.

Ever since Jiang Changning knew that the ceremony took three full hours from beginning to end, he almost fainted, "Fortunately, the sleeve pocket is big enough to hide a few more cakes."

Even if it takes a long time, there is no way to eat in the middle. If you have to be hungry all the time, the dinner will not start until Shen Shizheng.

How inhumane!
"What would the princess want for breakfast?" Xiulan asked.

"It's early in the morning, I don't have much appetite." Jiang Changning frowned, "Just a bowl of porridge, and some pickles are enough."

"Princess, it's inconvenient for you to go to the clean room in this suit, and besides, the ceremony lasts for three hours, so let's eat noodles, even if you're full and hungry." Xiulan persuaded.

This made sense, and Jiang Changning accepted the opinion, "Well, fine, just do as you say.

After the words fell, King Jin came in. He had already changed into the prince's mianfu, "Is everything packed?"

"Almost." Jiang Changning put earrings on his ears.

"What's for breakfast?" King Jin sat down on the round pier next to him.

"I'm eating noodles, what do you want?" Jiang Changning asked with a smile.

King Jin smiled and said, "Same as you."

Jiang Changning was not in a hurry to put on the phoenix crown, which weighed more than ten catties, but ate noodles first.

In the small dining room, three fresh noodles are prepared.

Three fresh noodles, the first freshness is in the soup; the second freshness is in the ingredients; the third freshness is in the winter bamboo shoots.

(End of this chapter)