Do you know: I am Yuan Wenshao

Chapter 52
After drinking tea and chatting for a while, Aunt Kang said goodbye.

Mrs. Yuan led Yuan Wenshao to the gate of the mansion, and said with a smile on her face, "My sister will often come to the mansion to sit when I have time."

"Since my sister doesn't dislike it, my sister will naturally come here often. My sister and Erlang don't need to give it away."

Aunt Kang got into the carriage with the help of the maid, smiled and nodded before lowering the curtain.

When the carriage drove away, Mrs. Yuan let out a 'bah' and said, "What the hell, there is no one who visits relatives before they are married."

Yuan Wenshao smiled and said: "Then the mother is still worthy of her sisters?"

Mrs. Yuan was a little embarrassed when she heard this. She was really disgusted with Aunt Kang's visit at first.

But as a hostess, you still have to entertain.

I didn't expect that Aunt Kang was really good at talking. She told her some things about the back houses of many people in Bianjing, and she knew everything about them. This greatly satisfied Mrs. Yuan's desire for gossip, and she took the initiative to suggest that the two of them should be sisters. .

However, as Aunt Kang asked Yuan Wenshao for help, Mrs. Yuan knew that she was here to catch the autumn wind, and naturally she didn't want to see her.

"Aren't you angry when you hear what I say?" Mrs. Yuan asked strangely.

"The mother is the child's closest relative. The child can't be angry with his mother because of an outsider, right?" Yuan Wenshao said.

It was too late for him to be happy. To be honest, he was really afraid that Aunt Kang would be too close to his mother.

If you rank the women you know, Xiao Qin is undoubtedly the king and the most difficult to deal with.

But in a sense, Aunt Kang is no less difficult than Xiao Qin.

Xiao Qin is a sweet sword of food and drink, on the surface he is kind, but behind his back he is doing bad things.

Aunt Kang is a completely crazy woman. Her methods of fighting in the back house are not very clever, but she doesn't care at all when she goes crazy.

When she plotted against Mrs. Sheng, she even counted her own sister. Yuan Wenshao didn't think she would stop plotting against him just because he was her niece and son-in-law.

He and Mrs. Yuan showed that they were still amiable. After all, they were their own sons. Even if Mrs. Yuan wanted to benefit from him, she would not harm him.

But it would be different if Aunt Kang was instigating her, so Yuan Wenshao really didn't want him to have more contact with his mother.

"Hmph, I hope."

Madam Yuan replied indifferently, turned around and walked into the mansion.

……

The next few days were peaceful and nothing major happened.

Yuan Wenshao hired some people to repair the house, and every day after going to court, and on the way back, he would go to have a look.

As the year approached, Yuan Wenshao received more and more invitations.

According to Sun Qi's instructions, Yuan Wenshao turned down all those private invitations, and only accepted invitations to wedding and birthday banquets.

Seven days before the New Year's Eve, the government also announced that the court will be suspended from today onwards, and all the yamen will also stop working.

However, there are still some officials who need to stay behind.

When I returned home, the Yuan Mansion was also bustling with busy servants with smiling faces everywhere.

In previous years, the Yuan family had a difficult time, and they did not give many rewards to their servants during festivals. They even did not make new clothes for their servants for more than a year.

This year Yuan Wenshao's ennoblement is naturally a great joy for the Yuan family.

Madam Yuan will not be stingy about this even if she picks it up. She arranged for two sets of new winter clothes to be made for each of the servants early on. Apart from that, she will also give an extra month's money as a reward.

But the servants were so happy that they worked very hard.

Yuan Wenshao originally thought that he could sleep in after the holidays, but every day he either entertained visiting guests or followed his father to visit other people's homes.

This situation lasted until the day of the New Year's Eve, when it was considered free.

The Chinese New Year in ancient times was not as lively as imagined, and with the addition of a curfew system, it couldn't be lively if you wanted to. (Some people say that the background is the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty did not have a curfew system, and they used Tokyo Menghualu as evidence. In fact, the Song Dynasty just set the curfew later. The Song Dynasty only stipulated that the Xiayuan Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Shangyuan Festival should be lifted The curfew does not include the Spring Festival.)
On the evening of New Year's Eve, the family worshiped their ancestors and began to eat.

Because they had to keep vigil, they played leaf cards again after dinner, and they didn't go back to their rooms until the next morning.

Yuan Wenshao and his son changed their official uniforms and went to the palace to pay New Year's greetings to the official family.

It stands to reason that a title will be awarded to three generations, and the mother and wife can also be granted a title.

However, Mrs. Yuan's identity was a bit embarrassing. After the Yuan family was restored to the nobility, the official family did not give her a royal title.

When Yuan Wenshao was ennobled, he didn't know whether he was considering Yuan Weichang, a loyal and diligent uncle, and the officials did not pursue the title.

After all, Yuan Wenshao was a count for three generations.

Mrs. Yuan has no royal title, so naturally she is not qualified to enter the palace to pay New Year's greetings to the Queen.

……

On the morning of the second day of the new year, everyone in the Yuan family got busy.

Because today is the day when Aunt Yuan Wenshao returns to her natal home to pay New Year's greetings.

Yuan Wenshao's aunt married into the Chen family of Earl Shoushan's Mansion and became the eldest daughter of the family.

When Yuan Wenshao never talked about getting married, his aunt Yuan Weixiu was planning to marry his biological daughter to him. Unfortunately, her biological daughter was only 12 years old, and Yuan Wenshao was already 17, so there was no way he could wait.

After being notified by his servants, Yuan Weichang and his family waited at the gate of the mansion for a while, and then saw two carriages driving over.

Not long after, the carriage stopped at the door, and a middle-aged couple got off the carriage in front.

In the carriage behind were two men and a woman.

These three are Yuan Weixiu's children. The eldest Chen Wen is 16 years old, the second Chen Qian is 13 years old, and the third Chen Xian is only seven years old.

Yuan Wenshao remembered that his younger sister, Yuan Wenying, seemed to have married into the Earl's Mansion of Shoushan Mountain. Based on her age, she should be Chen Xian.

Yuan Weichang led his family to greet him, exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then entered the mansion.

In the front hall, Yuan Weixiu took Yuan Wenshao's hand and praised: "My aunt has thought that you have a lot of potential since she was a child. Now you have been knighted. Our Yuan family is a double knight. If your grandparents knew about it, they would be very happy."

"Aunt, my nephew is just lucky." Yuan Wenshao said modestly.

"How can there be so much luck on the battlefield." Uncle Chen Jie said with a smile: "Da Lang, didn't you always want to join the army, and learn more from your cousin in the future."

There is a Chinese character in Chen Wen's name, which shows that Chen Jie hopes that he can take the imperial examination.

But he really has no talent for reading, and he is destined to take the path of a shadow official in the future.

The lord can only shade the military officer if he shades the official.

Fortunately, Chen Wen has practiced martial arts since he was a child and his martial arts skills are pretty good.

Chen Wen heard this and said excitedly: "Second cousin, can I compete with you?"

It has been more than a month since Yuan Wenshao returned to Bianjing, and many things on the battlefield have already spread in Bianjing.

Things like this are basically spread more and more exaggerated, and even compiled into scripts.

Chen Wen had a good relationship with Yuan Wenshao before, and now they admire him even more.

"For the New Year's Eve, what kind of martial arts competition? Be honest with me." Yuan Weixiu glared at him.

It is unlucky to use weapons during the Chinese New Year, and it would be bad if someone gets hurt.

(End of this chapter)