Rebirth of the Main Room Manual

Chapter 328
On the day of Mrs. Xu’s birthday, the streets near Jinguifang, where Xu’s mansion is located, were full of traffic and crowds. Some went to Xu’s mansion to pay their respects and gifts, and some came to watch the excitement. Seeing that the road was blocked and it was about to become impassable, the government had to dispatch soldiers to disperse pedestrians, vehicles and horses to keep the road clear.

Sitting in the carriage with Bao'er in her arms, Yiqing didn't bother to look at the hustle and bustle outside the window. Thinking of Mrs. Zheng holding Bao'er's hand and crying bitterly before the carriage left, Yiqing felt extremely uncomfortable.

Although Mrs. Zheng is weak and easily influenced by others, she also has her own bottom line. No matter what, as long as it endangers the person she loves the most, even if it is only possible, she will not touch it. Back then, her father wanted to protect her. , wanting to take her away from the Zheng mansion by force, she was reluctant to part with her dying son Zheng Jingyan, and would rather betray her father and clan members than leave!But today, her father and the clansman forgave her and invited her back to her natal family. She actually longed to go back to reunite with her natal relatives, but hesitated at the last moment, just because of the common oath of father and daughter: cut off the family relationship from now on , Father and daughter will never meet again!If there is any violation, the sky will be struck by lightning!

She wanted to see her father, but she didn't want him to be hurt!

Therefore, she would rather be sad and miserable, bear the name of unfilial piety, and resolutely refuse to go to Xu Mansion with her son, daughter-in-law and grandson to pay homage to her father's birthday!
Yiqing sighed for her mother-in-law, thinking wildly, unknowingly approaching Xu's mansion, the sound of gongs and drums became more and more noisy and lively, Bao'er was full of excitement and curiosity, she quickly climbed from Yiqing's arms to stand up on the seat cushion, facing the flower Yu shouted twice, while pointing out the window.

Hua Yu smiled and embraced Bao'er, and opened a corner of the curtain to let the curious baby look out.

However, Zheng Jingyan opened the door curtain of the carriage at this moment, poked his head in and said to Yiqing: "There are too many guests who came to celebrate my grandfather's birthday, and the crowd of carriages and horses can't get through for a while, and it's only a dozen steps away from the gate. It was washed with water two days ago, and it is very clean, why don't we walk over with the baby in our arms, okay?"

It's not difficult to walk more than ten o'clock, Yiqing nodded with a smile, Zheng Jingyan first helped Yiqing out of the car, then turned around and took Bao'er from Huayu's hand and held her in his arms, holding Yiqing's hand, the family The three of them passed through the fragrant BMW cars, and soon arrived at the gate. The intellectuals standing on the door were all members of the Xu family. In terms of communication, Zheng Jingyan has only been to the Xu Mansion three or two times since he was so old, and they all came at night, but one of the four or five well-known guests always recognized him. Seeing him holding a child and leading a woman, he naturally understood that this was a family. Immediately announce loudly to the gate:
"Duke Wen's mansion, grandson Zheng Jingyan, with his grandson-in-law and little grandson!"

After passing the news three times in succession, when Zheng Jingyan and Yi Qing walked into the main entrance, a dozen people immediately gathered around, laughing and shouting that the cousins ​​were coming. He dared to pass by when he came over, seeing the bustling scene of people coming and going, the little milk boy became more and more excited and joyful, with a pair of clear and bright eyes looking forward, and his red face smiled into a flower .

A few more young daughters-in-law in brocade costumes and rich ornaments came up and called Yiqing "cousin" with a smile, then pulled her away from Zheng Jingyan's side, surrounded her and walked inside, Yiqing hurriedly turned her head Going to see Zheng Jingyan, Zheng Jingyan nodded to her with a smile, letting her go in with peace of mind, Bao'er was also carried by a woman, and followed Yiqing all the way.

After entering the back hall and meeting the female family members of different generations in the Xu Mansion one by one, Yiqing truly understood the hard work of Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden—the big family is really not fun, so many people, so many With such a complicated relationship, just recognizing her seniority will make Yiqing dizzy!
Yiqing reunited with Zheng Jingyan again, and they came to the hall where the golden "Shou" plaque hung high. The huge "Shou" character was made of pure gold and was bestowed by the emperor. Sitting under the Jinshou character in the yellow brocade robe with the Chinese character "Fu Shou Tuan", he is full of glory and accepts congratulations from his descendants, relatives and friends with a smile on his face.

The desks on both sides of the hall are filled with various birthday presents, among which the most eye-catching one is a radiant and seven-foot-high coral tree, and below it is a three-foot-high smiling golden birthday star, as big as a fist. The luminous pearl of the night, the priceless Xiangshanzi with its exquisite shape, and countless other jade ruyis, jade vases, precious calligraphy and paintings, etc., can't be placed in the hall, and the servants are moving other birthday gifts to the side hall one after another.

Yiqing looked left and right and couldn't see anything from her family. Although the birthday gift from Wen Guogong's mansion is not as expensive as the gold bestowed by the emperor, it is still very valuable!Zheng Jingyan searched for materials carefully, and Yiqing gave him a suggestion to provide paintings and poems by famous masters of later generations, and hired skilled craftsmen to carve them carefully. After the completion, even Zheng Jingyan couldn't put it down after seeing it. up.

Zheng Jingyan knew what Yiqing was looking for, so he whispered in her ear and said, "Grandfather has a habit of not displaying things he likes for others to see. The eight-panel agarwood screen carved with inscriptions we gave you was a gift yesterday. The child was delivered, but it was only placed in the hall for a long time, and a child came up to touch it twice, and the old man directly taught someone to carry it back to his quiet room!"

After hearing this, Yiqing couldn't help laughing: This old man Xu is quite stingy, he refuses to share good things with others!

It was the grandson's turn to kowtow to pay respects to his birthday. Zheng Jingyan and Yi Qing carried Bao'er and put Bao'er on the cushion beside him. The couple knelt down and kowtowed three times. Seeing his parents kneeling and kowtowing, the little guy understood what was going on. He clasped his two chubby hands together and bowed to the old grandpa who was sitting high above him. His innocent appearance made people stand around The people laughed non-stop, the wives and wives loved and loved her, and praised her, and two daring girls in their teens even ran over, picked up Bao'er and wanted to take him away.

Children like children, and they just play together when they take them away, but Bao'er is too young and Yiqing is worried, and is about to stop her, when the mother in charge of Xu's mansion has long since walked up to stop the little girl, and hugged Bao'er from her arms with a smile Son, send it directly to Mrs. Xu.

Yiqing and Zheng Jingyan also walked to their grandfather's side. The 80-year-old Mr. Xu didn't show his old age. He looked like he was in his 60s at most, with a ruddy complexion and a good spirit. Er stretched out his hand to scratch his gray beard that reached to his chest, instead of offending, Mrs. Xu laughed happily.

Zheng Jingyan said that his little grandson was naughty and offended, so he took Bao'er from his grandfather's arms. Grandpa Xu looked at Yiqing and asked, "Your mother-in-law, how is she?"

Yiqing replied: "To my grandfather: my mother-in-law is fine! She can't come in person, so I ask my daughter-in-law to take her place and kowtow to my grandfather!"

Old Mrs. Xu closed his eyes and sighed lightly, leaning on the back of the chair and nodded slightly.

Yiqing went down again, knelt down on the mat, and worshiped three times devoutly and respectfully.

Returning to Mrs. Xu again, Mrs. Xu sighed, "It's my grandfather's fault, I shouldn't have said such unfeeling words!"

Yiqing smiled and said: "My mother-in-law only cares about my grandfather and has no complaints. Although I can't see each other, it's good to know that we are both safe and healthy!"

Old Mrs. Xu nodded: "Good boy, you should show respect to your mother-in-law! When you have free time on weekdays, you often bring Bao'er back to your grandfather's house. When you come, treat it as if she came back!"

"Yes, granddaughter-in-law remembers!"

Afterwards, the crowd took turns kneeling down to celebrate the birthday. They performed the ceremony for a full half a day, and it was not until the banquet at noon that the work was basically finished.

Just as I was about to invite the guests to the table, I suddenly heard an urgent message from outside the gate: "The emperor is here! Pick him up quickly! Please invite the old lady! Welcome the holy driver!"

Everyone was shocked and overjoyed—all the grandsons of the emperor came, how grand and lively the birthday banquet was!

Empress Xu Ning was pregnant and couldn't leave the palace. Yuan Zhao brought three five or six-year-old boys to pay respects to his grandfather, and gave him a hundred delicacies carefully prepared by the imperial dining room, various snacks, and a hundred altars of tribute wine. .

Seeing Yuan Zhao's handwriting, Yiqing couldn't help feeling ashamed when she thought that she had questioned Zheng Jingyan's 6 taels of silver for his birthday. Many happy events are sealed like this, and no amount of silver is enough!

Couldn't help but whispered to Zheng Jingyan: "The same is grandson, grandpa's birthday, Yuan Zhao also gave gold longevity characters, coral treasure trees and luminous pearls, and a birthday banquet, and a lot of gold and silver, right? Let's give that A screen and 6 taels of silver, will you be disliked?"

Zheng Jingyan said: "In addition to those, he also gave 5 taels of gold and 15 taels of silver for his birthday! He is the emperor, how can we compare with him? No matter how much he gave, it was because of the money in the palace treasury. Yes, just carry it out! Besides, look at the golden longevity characters and the coral tree night pearl, what’s so interesting about being cold? Did grandpa look at it more often? How can we compare with the agarwood screen we gave you? Find it carefully and make it carefully , Grandfather has to enjoy it for a while every day, it can be said that we have received so many birthday gifts, this one is the most suitable for the old man, this is enough!"

Yiqing breathed a sigh of relief, took his arm and smiled at Mimi and said, "Your husband is right, a lot of money is not as good as a piece of sincerity! Well, from now on, it will be up to your husband to give generous gifts, I don't know much about it." , don’t dare to talk anymore!”

Zheng Jingyan looked down at her, and couldn't help laughing: "It's not a big deal. We have no choice but to become cousins ​​with the emperor. We share a grandparent's house, so we have to be careful when sending gifts here...It's only on the grandfather's birthday. New Year's Day or happy event just follow the usual routine!"

"I see, if you don't understand, discuss it with your husband!"

Zheng Jingyan nodded with a smile, and switched Bao'er to the other hand. The family of three snuggled up and smiled, watching Yuan Zhao and his son salute the old birthday star.

(End of this chapter)