Chronicle of Farming in Muxianfu

Chapter 381
Chapter 370 Three

There is a sandalwood table in the room facing the door, and there are two tablets on the table, one is engraved with the seat of the strict father Ouyang Jinyuan, and the other is engraved with the seat of the loving mother Ouyang Gan. There are four-color fruits and four-color snacks between the tablets. In front of it is a one-foot-diameter incense burner, in which three pillars of sandalwood are burning slowly, and the curling smoke slowly fills the room.

Xifu went to the corner of the room, picked up two brocade cotton pads and put them two feet in front of the table, then bowed to Dayu and Xinger, and said, "Madam made jam this morning, and suddenly remembered that today is the day On the birthday of the young master and the young lady's biological parents, they were busy arranging the sacrifice, but the young lady disappeared. The madam was so anxious that she didn't even eat lunch. Before you came back, the madam stayed in this room, complaining about her lack of education Hello, I am ashamed of Mr. and Mrs. Ouyang."

Dayu raised his hand to wipe away his tears, pulled his sister a few steps forward, removed the brocade mat, and knelt down on the pine floor, sobbing and whispering, "Father, mother, my son is not filial, I forgot your memorial day, and I am so tired It's my son's fault that mother is so sad."

Xing'er also cried out, choked up, "Mother, it's Xing'er's fault, Xing'er shouldn't be capricious, shouldn't make mother worry, Xing'er is not a good boy..."

Xifu quietly exited the door, went downstairs, waited on his wife to grind paper, wrote letters, prepared two bolts of silk, two boxes of snacks, two boxes of fruit, and eight boxes of fruit wine. Then he said, " Ma'am, the eldest young master and the young lady are kneeling before the altar, the young lady's clothes were wet earlier, look, do you want to finish the ginger soup for her to drink?"

Mu Ai rubbed her brows, called Xihua at the door to call Kong Xi, pointed to the letter and gift box and said, "Captain Kong, you go there yourself and send these things to the Wei Mansion and give them to Mrs. Wei."

Kong Xi responded and went, Mu Ai leaned back on the sofa, and said for a while, "Go, make a bowl of ginger soup for Miss, they must have eaten nothing at noon, and then make some porridge and side dishes, today is the birthday of their biological parents , can't eat meat."

Xifu smiled carefully, "Yes, ma'am, I'll cook some mung bean porridge, mix some fresh lotus root and bamboo shoots, it's refreshing, ma'am will have a bowl too, how about it?"

Mu Ai nodded indifferently, and Xifu immediately ran to the kitchen with a smile on her face.

Kong Xi drove to the Wei Mansion, the steward of the Wei Mansion heard that it was someone from the Muxian Mansion, and immediately sent someone to inform the inside, and at the same time ordered the servants to hold the gift box, leading Kong Xi to go inside.

The old lady of the Wei family and her two daughters-in-law were sitting in the living room applying medicine to Tao'er's hands. The second lady of Wei felt sorry for her son and complained, "You too, your aunt beats you, so you can't hide."

Breathing in the pain, Tao'er laughed, "Er Niang, Gu Gu has already shown mercy, it's the child who is ignorant and soft-hearted and brought his siblings in, but didn't take care of them, almost causing Xing'er to lose his life."

Mrs. Wei nodded, "My grandson is a sensible one. Your aunt is not wrong to beat you. In the future, you must remember not to soften your heart." After she finished speaking, she looked at the confidant maids on both sides, and said, "You are the servant girl in this house. Your eldest grandson, there may be more troubles in the future, if you are soft-hearted in everything and don't know how to guard against it, you will suffer a big loss."

Tao'er hurriedly got up and bowed her head, "Yes, grandma, grandson has been educated."

Mrs. Wei quickly pulled him away and said, "Sit down quickly, your grandmother won't pick on your etiquette." After she finished speaking, she thought for a while, "Cheng'er's temper has grown a lot in the past two years, and this time she was beaten by your aunt , I'm afraid there won't be any trouble after returning home."

Tao'er shook her head, "No, he came back with Hai'er in a car, although he complained about his body pain halfway, but when he got out of the car at the end, he told Hai'er that it's good for Auntie to come back."

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Wei family laughed when they heard this, and the old lady Wei said, "Then Mrs. Zhu is really plotting for nothing. After all, this killing has not made this child lose his heart to distinguish between good and evil. He still knows that his aunt beat him for his own benefit. .”

Everyone nodded. At this time, the servant girl came to report that the Muxian Manor had sent someone to deliver things. Then Kong Xi entered the flower hall, bowed to salute, and delivered the letter and gift box. Mrs. Wei made an extra trip."

Mrs. Wei waved her hands and smiled, "Go back and tell your wives that I will ensure that her daughter-in-law will marry home safely. However, when the time comes, my matchmaking thank you gift will be thicker, and I don't want any gold or silver, just move more." Just a few jars of good wine."

Mrs. Wei also smiled and said, "Well, that's right, the fairy girl is good wine, I drink a glass or two every day after dinner, and I feel much more comfortable in my internal organs."

Kong Xi bowed his head and agreed, then left and went back to the mansion, Mrs. Wei read the letter carefully, and discussed with her mother-in-law and younger sister not to mention going to Sun's mansion the next day.

Dayu and his younger sister knelt for two hours until night fell. Then they kowtowed to their parents and burned incense. Then they limped out of the door and went downstairs to see their mother. Xihua, "Where's Madam?"

Xihua pointed to the roof, and Dayu sighed, leaving behind his younger sister whose eyes were swollen like walnuts, then went out alone and jumped onto the roof.

Mu Ai didn't say a word, she poured a glass of wine for her son as usual, then sipped the glass in her hand, and said in a low voice for a while, "Da Yu, it's 25 today, you see, the moon has only such a bud left."

Dayu nodded, "It will be my mother's birthday in six days."

"Yeah, birthday, 31st birthday, my mother is already old. Life is like a fleeting moment, we must cherish every moment, otherwise when life comes to an end, all that is left is regret, wouldn't it be a pity."

"My mother is not old. Dayu remembered that my mother suddenly appeared in the ruined temple and rescued Xinger and me. Dayu thought, it must be our parents praying to the gods in the spirit of heaven to send a fairy like mother to rescue us."

"Silly boy, mother is not a fairy, how could a fairy move the ruler viciously?"

"Da Yu knows that mother is for our own good. In fact, when mother hit us, she must have felt more pain than us." Dayu raised his head, swallowed back the tears in his eyes, and said after a while, "Mom, don't be sad, we know we were wrong. gone."

Mu Ai drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, and stretched out her arms to embrace the eldest son, "No, it's my mother who got angry. Recently, my mother is in a bad mood, so don't blame her."

"No, mother should hit us." Dayu insisted, not wanting to make mother feel guilty at all.

Mu Ai chuckled, sighed and said, "Xing'er doesn't have the ability to protect herself now, and the world's etiquette for women is too strict. Although mother doesn't want to restrain her, she also doesn't want her to develop a bold personality. Today's grandson Miss Jia was almost forced to commit suicide after only getting her clothes wet. If Xinger leaves home privately one day, once she is injured, what will happen to her in the rest of her life. So, I still have to give her a good beating today to make her remember."

Dayu knew that what his mother said was reasonable, but he couldn't bear to see his sister being beaten, so he lowered his head and said, "Then, that son went to find a good bottle of wound medicine."

Mu Ai had no choice but to jump off the roof and enter the house. Xing Er accepted the ten precepts with tears in her eyes, and finally hugged her mother's sleeve and cried non-stop. He took the wound medicine that Dayu had found, and put her to sleep.

On the evening of the second day, Mrs. Wei sent someone to report to the door, and the Sun family agreed to the marriage. They were also very happy that their daughter could stay at home for three more years. Send it, and the marriage will be completely settled.

Chun Equinox and Mu Wu heard the rumors and came to Banyue Mountain early to wait for the news. As soon as they learned that the marriage was settled, they rushed back to the city before the city gate closed.

Mu Ai led the two children to have dinner, and then moved out all the good things in the space and the warehouse upstairs, and picked them out in order to prepare a decent and expensive dowry gift for the eldest.

After all, the master of the Sun family is a third-rank servant. Although his family holds the title of prince, Dayu is still white. He has never even passed the examination of a scholar. He is a bit high in the eyes of the world, so Mu Ai made up his mind to prepare a A rare betrothal gift in the world, to support his son.

On that day, Dayu proposed in front of everyone very calmly, but now seeing his mother busy with his dowry, he was a little shy, and hid in the room under the pretext of studying, which made Xing'er and all the maids lying on the sofa They couldn't stop laughing.

Mu Ai took Xifu and the others, and first picked out the eight boxes of gifts that Na Cai wanted to use. Dayu couldn't take nothing but a wild goose. It's flooding.Adding some satin snacks and snacks is also very handy.

As for the betrothal gift, it needs to be carefully considered. For so many years, Xiao Heng sent ornaments from Huadu, and every year on birthdays, shopkeepers from all over the world send back a lot of playthings. not difficult.

In less than half an hour, sixteen boxes of brocades were collected, four boxes of brocades, all of which were high-quality Zhuanghua brocades, Caitiaojing brocades, Liuxia brocades, Yusi brocades, scattered ground brocades, Huanhua brocades, Fangfang brocades, etc. Floor brocade, it has everything that one expects to find.

The four boxes of display utensils contain the excellent Langhao pens and rice paper from Shuxiangge in Fengcheng, the blue and white inkstone from Shancheng, the coral agate bonsai from Yacheng, the red flame stone paperweight from Liecheng, and the long-necked vase carved from sapphire. , very delicate.

In the four boxes of calligraphy and painting, there are paintings of landscapes, ladies, flowers and birds, and a random volume is drawn by famous artists in the founding period of Hundred Flowers, plus eight sets of solitary prose collections.

The last jewels are the most expensive and the most brilliant.The head hairpins include the magpie ascending plum hairpin, the five-bat holding longevity hairpin, the emerald pan-intestine hairpin, and the coral bat hairpin, all of which are carefully crafted by in-house craftsmen.The head flowers include ruby ​​string rice beads head flower, emerald emerald inlaid pearl Suihan Sanyou head flower, sapphire dragonfly head flower, red coral cat butterfly head flower four pieces.There are also eight boxes of earrings, necklaces, bracelets, hairpins, and a complete set of jewelry, two sets of red gold hollowed out carvings, two sets of cloisonne red coral, two sets of emerald drop beads, and two sets of ruby ​​​​inlaid.

Only these pieces of jewelry are packed into two boxes, and the third box is filled with various jade pendants, jade rings and other accessories.Only the fourth box, a cosmetic box with lilies carved on the top of the lid, was placed in a large box, and there was one thing in the box.

Xifu carefully placed a lot of cotton around the box, for fear that the makeup box would be broken, and then checked all the betrothal gifts in person according to the list, and then smiled, "Madam, everything is ready, the betrothal gift from our house As soon as it comes out, I don’t know how many boudoirs will be envied.”

Mu Ai smiled lightly, waved the box and put it into the space, then supervised the little daughter to drink the goat's milk, and each went to bed without mentioning it.

　Dayu finally has a good wife who will accompany him all his life, such a filial and sensible child, Red Wine can't bear to let his family life not go well, hehe, lovers in the world can finally get married, what a beautiful wish, I also wish all friends There are people who love and know each other to spend such a cold winter day together and warm each other!
　　
　
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