Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 771 Mother-in-law and son-in-law (two in one)

What's even more rare is that the person who designed and sculpted this hosta is definitely a master in both aesthetics and craftsmanship. The design of the whole hosta is quite similar to Yu Ruyi, with one curled like a cloud, and the blue color is just on the top of the cloud , the hairpin handle is a smooth curve, which contains the meaning of "smooth progress".The whole hosta is simple and elegant, with elegant style and smooth and graceful lines, making Qi Muyuan fall in love with it just by looking at it.

The most rare thing is that because of its simple and elegant style, this hosta can be worn by both men and women.

If Du Jinning really disguised himself as a man, and he didn't plan to revert to women's clothing in the future, then a woman's hairpin could only be pressed at the bottom of the box, and he would never wear it a few times in his life.This hairpin is both male and female, so she can wear it on her head all the time, as if she is always by her side.

Thinking about Du Jinning wearing the jade hairpin he gave, Qi Muyuan's heart was sweet, and he looked at this hairpin even more eagerly.

The shopkeeper saw his expression in his eyes, and his mood was settled.It seems that the business has been secured.

"My lord, you might as well take a look at these two pearl flowers." The shopkeeper opened another brocade box.

Qi Muyuan was attracted by the pearl flowers in the brocade box again.

His mother, Su Shi, has nothing to do every day and is extremely beautiful, so all she has to do all day is to dress herself up.Qi Wencong often buys jewelry to coax his wife.Even though Qi Muyuan didn't have much contact with them, he often heard them talk about jewelry at the dinner table.

The bead flowers worn by women come in just a few styles, the only difference being the size and luster of the beads.

As for the two pearl flowers in front of him, among other things, the deep purple color and bright luster opened Qi Muyuan's eyes.

There are quite a lot of pearl flowers in the Su family, but very few of them have this kind of color, most of them are white.

Like these two deep purple flowers, they are dazzlingly beautiful, and the beads are not small, round and bright, which is really rare.

Seeing Qi Muyuan's appearance, the shopkeeper showed a smile, stroked his beard and said, "The asking price for these two pearl flowers is 900 taels of silver."

Hearing this, Qi Muyuan looked away, looked at the shopkeeper, and asked with some puzzlement: "These two items are both rare and rare. I don't understand. I'm just a stranger passing by Runzhou. You don't leave this kind of treasure to the rich and powerful in Runzhou to make connections, so why sell it to my subordinates?"

He couldn't help being suspicious.These two things are difficult to see in the market even in the capital.After all, each bank has its own well-known big customers, and they will deliver any good things to their door, and they will never put them on the counter to sell to ordinary customers.One is to make connections, and the other is that this kind of thing is not something ordinary people can afford.

It would be understandable if the shopkeeper wanted to kill him, deceive him that he was not familiar with the place, and sell him at a high price.But judging from his eyesight, the price of these two things is not expensive, not only not expensive, but also relatively cheap.

It is a bit strange that something abnormal must be a demon.

The shopkeeper's smile froze, the complacency on his face faded, and the smile faded away.

He glanced at Qi Muyuan, and his voice became a little cool: "I sell things, you buy things. As long as the goods are good, don't ask where they come from. If the guest officer is satisfied with these two jewelry, I'll ask someone to wrap it for you; if not, You can't force it, you can only send the young master off respectfully."

Qi Muyuan stared fixedly at the shopkeeper for a while, then he suddenly smiled, raised his hands and arched: "Then trouble the shopkeeper to wrap it up."

Hearing this sentence, the shopkeeper felt relieved, and waved his hand, and the clerk brought up another brocade box, but it was a pair of head jewelry.But this pair is obviously much better than the last one, and the style is also better than the original two.

"How much?" Qi Muyuan asked.

"One thousand and one hundred taels." The shopkeeper said.

This pair of head and face jewelry includes three hair combs, a pair of hairpins, and a pair of step shakers.Although there are many things, gold is valuable, and the inlaid gems, pearls, and jade are relatively fine and not as rare as the first two, so the price is naturally not much higher.

Without further ado, Qi Muyuan ordered: "Watch the chess and pay the money."

Guanqi took out three 1000 taels of silver bills and handed them over, then took out a stack of small bills in his sleeve pocket, took out two of them 100 taels of money and put them on the table.

The shopkeeper was speechless.

It's much more than not taking money as money.

But he didn't know that when Qi Muyuan came out to investigate the case, he was disguised as a big businessman buying goods, so both he and Guanqi carried a large amount of banknotes to win people's trust.With their skills, petty thieves can't get close at all, so they are naturally not afraid of others stealing.

Guanqi has been with Qi Muyuan for many years, if he doesn't have this trust, how would he dare to put Guanqi by his side?

The buddy took a big brocade box and put all three boxes in it, and wrapped it with a layer of blue satin furoshiki, and handed it to Guanqi.

"So I'm leaving." Qi Muyuan got up and left.

The shopkeeper and his party sent the three of them to the door.

Watching the three leave on horseback, the waiter asked the shopkeeper, "Do you want to send someone to follow them?"

The shopkeeper shook his head: "What if they find out? Is it for fear that others will not know that we have ghosts? These three people are extraordinary at first glance. As long as they don't provoke us, this matter will be over. Let's just sell Goods, don’t get involved with anything else.” He said again, “Go back, close the door.”

This time Qi Muyuan didn't hesitate anymore, and went straight to Du's mansion.

Old man Zhu is still the housekeeper of the Du Mansion.Seeing Qi Muyuan and Guanqi, he was overjoyed: "Master Qi, long time no see."

"Where's your young master? Are you still at home?" Qi Muyuan asked.

"Ah, unfortunately, because of the double robbery, my young master has already left the house, probably already out of the city." Old man Zhu was anxious, "Do you want the villain to send someone to chase them back?"

Rice in Guangxi province is harvested twice a year, so Qi Muyuan naturally knows what double grabbing is.He knows more about the significance of this bumper rice harvest to Du Jinning.

He waved his hand and said, "Since that's the case, then there's no need to call her. I'll go and say hello to my aunt and go directly to Zhuangzi."

"That's fine." Old man Zhu called Zhu Xiaoliu and led Qi Muyuan in.

The good of the Tong family is like this, there is no need to go to report, Zhu Xiaoliu takes it to the gate of Chen's courtyard and asks someone to speak again.If Chen is convenient, he can see Qi Muyuan directly.

Mrs. Chen also woke up not long ago and just washed up.Hearing that the mother-in-law came to report that Qi Muyuan had come and was waiting at the gate of the courtyard, she was so happy that she quickly stood up: "Please come in quickly."

Turning around, she told the maid again: "Go to the kitchen and ask them to make some more delicate and delicious breakfasts." After thinking for a while, she said, "I remember that Xiaoyuan's child likes to eat the crystal buns made by Aunt Zhu. Tell her to quickly make a cage."

"Yes." The servant girl hurried to deliver the message.

Mrs. Chen didn't go to the hall either, but stood by the porch and waited. From afar, she saw the burly and straight Qi Muyuan striding into the door. His skin was darker than last time, but he looked more masculine.

She looked more joyful, and smiled from a distance: "Why are you here so early? Where did you come from?"

Qi Muyuan has long legs and long feet, and he has already reached the bottom of the steps in a few words.

As he climbed the steps, he said with a smile: "Come from the east, and stayed in a small town not far away last night. I came here early in the morning, just in time to open the city gate."

After going up the steps, he bowed deeply to Mrs. Chen: "Mu Yuan has seen Auntie."

Chen waved her hand: "My family, you're welcome."

As soon as the word "my family" came out, a strange emotion surged in the hearts of the two of them, and they were both extremely happy.

"Come on, come in and sit down." Mrs. Chen led Qi Muyuan into the hall.

Guanqi followed closely behind with the burden in his hands, and stood behind Qi Muyuan after entering the house.

Mrs. Chen acted as if she hadn't seen the chess game, and asked Qi Muyuan, "Have you come so far, haven't you eaten yet? I've asked the kitchen to prepare breakfast, and I didn't eat it. We'll have some later, my wife and I." .”

She didn't look outside, and treated Qi Muyuan as her own son - half a son-in-law, ha ha.

Because of Du Jinning's relationship, the closer the Chen family became to Qi Muyuan, the more invisible he became, and the happier Qi Muyuan was.

He said: "I really haven't eaten. I always like the food at my aunt's house, and today I am lucky."

He gestured to Guanqi, turned his head and said to Chen Shi: "I saw some jewelry on the way here, the style and quality are good, so I bought them for my aunt, I don't know if you like them or not."

At this time, Guanqi had opened the fur skin, revealing the brocade box inside.

He was about to open the brocade box when Qi Muyuan suddenly stopped him: "Guanqi, you go out first."

Guanqi was stunned, but he didn't say anything, he saluted and then retreated.

Qi Muyuan took another look at the maidservants standing in Chen's room.

Mrs. Chen understood, waved her hand and said, "Mother Tao stays, everyone else should leave."

She thought that the jewelry Qi Muyuan sent was too expensive, and she didn't want people to see it, so as not to make people covet it.He didn't even think about the fact that Du Jinning had revealed to Qi Muyuan that he was a daughter, so Mama Tao was left behind.

Although she is over forty years old and older than Qi Muyuan's mother, she is a woman after all, staying alone in the same room with Qi Muyuan, not to mention outsiders, and the servants in the family will gossip.

Seeing this, Qi Muyuan was also helpless.

He knew that it was a serious crime for Du Jinning to disguise himself as a man. In this world, except for the Chen family, maybe even Du Jinning's sisters might not know about it.With Du Jinning's cautious temperament, he would never let servants like Mother Tao know about it, it was a deadly trick.

He gave up the idea of ​​using jewelry to test the Chen family, and explained with a smile: "The reason why I asked my aunt to send people out is because these jewelry are sold by the silver building called Deqing Building in Runzhou. It’s hard to find, the price is still low, and the shopkeeper’s behavior is secretive. According to my experience in investigating cases, it’s probably a bit strange. I’m worried that some of my aunt’s servants are locals, and I’m inextricably linked with the locals, so I’m going to be careful.”

Chen's and Tao's mother's doubts disappeared.

Chen said with a smile: "You are right, be careful with the Ten Thousand Years Ship, Jin Ning often whispered this sentence in my ear, making me confused, I don't know if she is my mother or I am her mother. "

Everyone laughed.

Qi Muyuan opened the brocade box.

What he opened was the mask he bought for Mrs. Chen: "This is for my aunt."

"Ah, this is too costly." Chen cried.

She is no longer the miserable woman in the small country village she used to be.

Because Du Jinning bought more and more high-end houses, Du Jinning himself went higher and higher, and the neighbors and women that Chen came into contact with became more and more powerful.

In order not to embarrass Du Jinning, under Du Jinning's persuasion, she also changed her previous simple style and paid more attention to food and clothing.The more jewelry and clothes you buy, the better, and the more your servants use them.

The set of hair masks that Qi Muyuan sent may not be very unique in style, but the quality can be seen. It is worth a lot of money at first glance, at least 1000 taels.

What is the concept of 1000 taels?The house she lives in now covers an area of ​​500 to [-] mu and is only [-] taels - Runzhou is a small place, and the house is far away from the city center, so the price is naturally cheap.

In the past, she would definitely not accept it.Even when she was the poorest, she was not a woman who gave up her dignity for money.

But now, since Du Jinning has established a relationship with Qi Muyuan, this is his son-in-law.It is only natural for a son-in-law to respect his mother-in-law, so she accepted it unceremoniously.

Don't look at Qi Muyuan who doesn't talk much usually, but when he really wants to socialize, he is very talkative.

He said: "What is the cost? What is the relationship between me and Jinning? Brothers. The price of an old wild ginseng he gave my grandfather last time was far more than that. I hope my aunt will not refuse, otherwise After I go back, I won’t be able to explain to my grandfather.”

He said this because Tao's mother was present, and he was afraid that his act of presenting Mrs. Chen would be too thought-provoking, so he made up a loophole.

Sure enough, when she said this, Mother Tao, who was muttering in her heart, suddenly realized.

I see.This would make sense if it was a gift in return.

Otherwise, Qi Muyuan and Du Jinning have been dating for several years, and the usual exchange of courtesy is just eating during New Years and festivals, such as giving some rice dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival, which is very common.This sudden generous gift of several thousand taels of silver jewelry—there is only a brocade box on the head, and there is another brocade box over there—cannot help but make people murmur.

If you are polite to others, you must ask for something.Could it be that the Qi family committed a major crime in Beijing and transferred money to the Du Mansion in Runzhou?

Don't blame Tao's mother for thinking too much, her former owner's house was ransacked because of a crime, and their family was sold to Du's house.After going through the past, she will naturally think about it.

Now with Qi Muyuan's excuse, Tao's mother made up for his inappropriate behavior of giving head and face: Qi Muyuan is a child, he just came out to be an official, and he has not been involved deeply, so there are also some inappropriate gifts.

Furthermore, it is not an easy task to get back a gift worth several thousand taels of silver.Chen's is not like Qi Bokun who is seventy and eighty, and doesn't need to take tonic.And it can't be that Du Jinning sent an old ginseng, and Qi Muyuan returned another old ginseng, right?So I can only buy head jewelry as a gift.

Qi Muyuan didn't know Tao's mother's short-term effort, so he just made up his own mind, and gave him a reasonable explanation for his impulsive and somewhat flawed actions.

　Hit me, I really didn't mean to procrastinate the plot, woo woo woo
　　
　
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