Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 981 Five Blessings
Before Prince Zhuang Fujin's carriage arrived, Chu Yu had already got the news.It was Mrs. Li who sent Xiuhe to come back first, so as not to save the daughter-in-law from being in a hurry to entertain guests.

Chu Yu had met this Prince Fujin in the past socializing and socializing, but when it came to Prince Zhuang's Mansion, he didn't have much contact with the Cao family, let alone a visit.She was suspicious and couldn't figure out the reason for this old Fujin's visit.

Since he came from the uncle's mansion, could it be that he was persuaded by Li Si'er to be a lobbyist?

Speaking of Prince Zhuang's Mansion outside, everyone knows that Prince Zhuang is a greedy and foolish person, but this Prince Zhuang Fujin is not a fool.Otherwise, Prince Zhuang's Mansion would have been in ruins.

Chu Yu changed into a blue plain-pattern women's robe, added a pair of silver bracelets to her hands, and a beaded flower on her hair.Although it is filial piety, the whole person looks more graceful immediately.

While waiting for the servant girl to come out to welcome her, she asked Xiuhe about the details of Mrs. Li's stay in the country's uncle's mansion.

Hearing that Li Si'er mentioned her family's God Bless, and her mother-in-law Li Shi said "it is not appropriate to marry early", Chu Yu nodded slightly; after hearing that, Li Si'er's expression was not right, Prince Zhuang Fujin did not wait for the uncle's house to eat, so he pulled Seeing her mother-in-law as a guest, her face was ugly.

The reason why she and her mother-in-law gave Li Si'er face was because of Long Kedo's face, and they didn't want to offend Tong's house, which made it difficult for Cao Yong.

If Li Si'er was really rude, even if Chu Yu could bear it, Cao Yong, as a son of man, would not bear it.

Thinking of this, Chu Yu had an idea in her mind, temporarily put Li Si'er aside, and only thought about how to receive Prince Zhuang Fujin in front of her.

Prince Zhuang Fujin was from her grandmother's generation, not to mention Cao Manor, even if he went to Chunjun Prince's Mansion, Seventh Elder Brother and Seventh Fujin would greet him outside the gate.

Therefore, Chu Yu went directly to the front yard and waited, and made the boy to watch at the entrance of the alley.

After waiting for about a cup of tea, the servant reported that the carriage had already entered the alley.

When the carriage arrived at the gate of the Cao Mansion, Mrs. Li stepped out of the carriage first. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had seen each other, and then went to Prince Zhuang Fujin's carriage, and greeted Fujin to get off.

Prince Zhuang Fujin looked at Chu Yu with a smile, and accepted her gift.

Afterwards, Chu Yu asked Prince Zhuang, Fujin, to get into the soft sedan chair, and she and Mrs. Li walked into the mansion with maids and servants, surrounded by old Fujin.

Because Prince Zhuang Fujin came under the banner of looking for Chuyu, Chuyu didn't stop when he passed by the Orchid Court, and directly led everyone to Wutong Garden; Go back to Lanyuan to change clothes.

After entering Wutong Garden, the servants put down the soft sedan chair.

Chu Yu stepped forward in person and helped Old Fujin get off the sedan chair.

It was the first time for Prince Zhuang Fujin to come to Cao's house, and while supporting Chuyu's hand into the upper room, he paid attention to the furnishings in the room.

The Indus Garden was newly built before Chu Yu married here, and the furniture in the upper room was Chu Yu's dowry. It has been used for more than ten years, but it is still [-]% to [-]% new.Speaking of it, it is already the best house in the east and west of the Cao family, even more exquisite than Li's house.

Even so, it was just ordinary in the eyes of Prince Zhuang Fujin.

She was born in a royal mansion, and most of the women who come and go with her are the female relatives of other royal mansions, and she is used to the magnificence of the inner courtyard of the royal mansion.

It is said outside that the head of the Cao family is well-off in making money, and the Cao family is rich, but seeing it now is nothing more than mediocrity.

Chu Yu's attire was three points more grand than usual. Prince Zhuang Fujin looked at it, but still felt that she was a little thinner.There are only a pair of bracelets on the wrist, two hairpins on the head, and only buttons of muslin on the clothes.

Looking at the two maids waiting in this room, they are ordinary in appearance, with azure gowns, autumn-scented bijia, and plain faces.

"The old lady came just as she said, but did you disturb Da Gege?" Prince Zhuang Fujin took the noodle tea delivered by Chu Yu himself, and said with a smile.

She came over suddenly, and it was just in time for dinner, if she said that Chu Yu was not in trouble, it would be a lie.

It's just that people have already arrived, Chu Yu can only think about entertaining.Before saying this, it would be uncomfortable to call the banquet directly; if the speech is delayed, the meal is missed, and the old Fujin is hungry, it is not appropriate.

Therefore, Chu Yu asked someone to directly prepare some tea for Lao Fujin.

Drinking this tea will keep you warm, and eating it will satisfy your hunger.It just happened to be able to spare time for the kitchen, prepare a table of high-quality noodles, and let the two of them talk for a while.

Because of getting old, Lao Fujin used his hands in the morning, and now he is really hungry.After drinking a few spoonfuls of sweet noodle tea, I felt warm and comfortable all over my body.

"With Fujin's status, it is my granddaughter's blessing to be able to go to her granddaughter's house. Whatever disturbs her, her granddaughter can only be happy." Chu Yu said with a smile.

According to Xiuhe, Prince Zhuang Fujin dragged Mrs. Li out of his uncle's house, with the intention of helping Mrs. Li out of the siege.Based on this, Chu Yu was only grateful.

Seeing her respectful words, Prince Zhuang Fujin nodded, feeling that he did not run in vain.

She put down the tea bowl, took the half cup of tea from Chuyu, rinsed her mouth, wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, and said, "This tea smells strange, is it from Daoxiang Village?"

Chu Yu was a bit surprised when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Exactly, the kitchen at home also has fried noodle tea, but it's not as delicious as the master chef in the shop. The old lady in my family and the children below all like it. this."

"This kind of noodle tea will be greasy if you don't fry it well. Only Daoxiang Village's noodle tea is filled with sweet-scented osmanthus. It tastes sweet and doesn't make people feel greasy. I have used it for several years, and I have to serve a bowl every day..." Speaking of which, she looked at the remaining half bowl of noodle tea and said, "The one you use today seems to taste better than the one bought in Daoxiang Village."

What Daoxiang Village sells is fried in a big pot, and the ones used by the Cao Mansion are fried in a small pot by the master.In addition, the beef bone marrow oil and sweet-scented osmanthus used in this are both top-grade, so the taste is even better.

When it comes to food, the atmosphere is much more relaxed.

"My old lady and children love to eat sweets. The noodle tea here has an extra portion of sweet-scented osmanthus than the one in the shop. If Fujin eats it well, the granddaughter will borrow flowers to present Buddha and honor Fujin. I hope Fujin will feel sorry for her." Granddaughter, give granddaughter this dignity." Chu Yu said.

Old Fujin narrowed his eyes, pointed at Chu Yu with a smile, and said, "Look, this housewife is very calculating, don't think that a few packs of oil fried noodles will send the old woman away. Since I have come to you like this, I will definitely ask you for half a pot." Wufu wine' go back."

Most of the mansions in the capital have excellent wines, and this "Wufu Wine" is the wine brewed by the Cao Mansion itself.

That is to use five kinds of preserved peaches, apricots, pears, jujubes, and green plums, plus five fresh fruits such as bergamot, papaya, fragrant round, orange, and loquat, and use peach wine to make mud and seal the cellar.

After one year, the color of the wine is slightly yellow, but it is sweet to drink; after three years, the color of the wine is like amber, and the aroma is overflowing.

This is the wine recipe that Cao Yong poured out by himself. The original purpose was to solve the peach trees all over the mountains and plains in Changping Hot Spring Village.The fruit of the peach tree, in addition to making peach preserves or peach juice for Daoxiang Village, the rest is made into fruit wine.

As a result, because there were too many fruit wines and the taste was single, everyone didn't like to drink it.Later, Cao Yong poured out "Wufu Wine".

These fine wines from various prefectures are for men to drink; the "Five Blessings Wine" in Cao's Mansion is made entirely of dried and fresh fruits, and is only suitable for the family members to drink.

Imported things are not easy to give away. Occasionally relatives give some entertainment, and they are also close relatives, so they send one altar or two altars. Unexpectedly, they have gained a bit of fame after coming and going.

Prince Zhuang Fujin once had a drink in the Prince's Mansion of Pingjun, and he was quite impressed.

"How can it compare to the 'fragrant baijiu' in Fujin's mansion? Fujin is not idle, let alone one jar, there are ten jars." Chu Yu continued.

After a few gossips, the two hostesses became much more intimate than before.

Prince Zhuang Fujin saw the arrival of the fire, glanced at the maidservant beside him, and said to Chuyu: "Big Gege, the nuns who waited on me have been out for half a day, if it's cheap, let you girls, Take them down for a rest."

Chu Yu understood, and said with a smile: "It's the granddaughter who neglected it. It's noon, and I'm letting the nuns drink some tea." Then, she ordered Xichun to lead the nuns down to resettle, and she didn't forget to say goodbye to Xixia. Explain a few words, send her to Lan Yuan to see Mrs. Li, and ask how to arrange things during the banquet.

This doesn't require Mrs. Li to make up her mind, but it's just to let her know that Lao Fujin wants to talk to Chu Yu alone, so there's no need to rush over to accompany her.

Chu Yu and Prince Zhuang Fujin were the only ones left in the room. Prince Zhuang Fujin showed a bit of helplessness on his face, and did not cover up for Li Si'er at all. Tell it again.

Even if she didn't say these things, Mrs. Li would say them, and she was happy to sell favors.

Chu Yu listened, first surprised, then frowned, and finally laughed out of anger.

She stood up, squatted down respectfully, and said sternly: "Thanks to Fujin, our old lady's face is preserved. Otherwise, Mrs. Guo will make a fuss, even if our old lady doesn't blame us, we will be talked about. , became the laughing stock of others. The granddaughter thanked Fujin for protecting her. Our master is not here, and when he comes back, we will kowtow to Fujin together."

Prince Zhuang Fujin felt proud when he saw her acknowledging his affection, he helped Chu Chuyu, took her hand, and said, "They are all relatives, so it would be outrageous to say such things. What kind of uncle and madam? It's just a servant girl who doesn't know what to do. Our prince's Personality, you also know. Longko sent 1 taels of silver as filial piety, and begged to come to our prince, what can I say? Speaking of it, it's really embarrassing. Tsk tsk, such a goddaughter, I recognize Ben I was aggrieved, and now I'm pushing my nose and face, forcing me to be a matchmaker for her. I almost carried it back in anger, who would bother to talk to her? It's just that Long Keduo backed her up, and she had to beware of this wicked woman. She fell in love with her Your family is the eldest, although Mrs. Tai refuses, but this wicked woman may not give up."

There is one thing she didn't say.

That is, in addition to honoring Prince Zhuang's 1 taels, Longkodo also honored Prince Zhuang Fujin's 1 taels in private, which is why she was invited to come forward.

After only spending half a day in the uncle's mansion, and "mother and daughter" getting along for half a day, Prince Zhuang Fujin already regretted it.

On the way to Cao's mansion, she thought only of her own size, knowing that if she didn't handle it properly, she would be dragged down by Li Si'er and became a big joke in Beijing...

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Lanyuan, go to the room.

Mrs. Li changed into the big clothes she had when she went out, and picked out a [-]% new jacket to put on. Before she could go to Wutong Garden to accompany her guests, she was blocked by Mrs. Zhao Jia in the house.

Mrs. Li didn't take her fourth sister and fifth son out. The excuse she used was that there were unmarried sons in Tong's residence.

Mrs. Zhao Jia didn't think so at the time, after all, Mrs. Tong's wife passed away for less than a year, so there is no reason to talk about marriage now.It's just that Mrs. Li insisted that no matter how embarrassing Mrs. Zhao Jia was, she would just sneer and go back to sulk herself.

Today, it is the day of the banquet in the Uncle Guo's mansion, and the Zhaojia family makes people stare at the Xi's mansion.

When Mrs. Li left the mansion and when she returned to the mansion, she got the news immediately.

Hearing that Mrs. Li came back early, along with Prince Zhuang Fujin, Mrs. Zhao Jia couldn't sit still, and hurried to Lan Yuan.

"Since we went out for a drink, why did my sister-in-law come back before dinner time?" Mrs. Zhao Jia entered the room, and saw that the room didn't look like there were any guests, so she raised her voice and asked, "I heard that a distinguished guest came, why is it?" not see?"

"Old Fujin came looking for a wife, so he went directly to her yard." Mrs. Li replied.

Seeing Zhaojia's eyes flickering, Li was afraid that she had a knot in her heart, and then said: "I guessed it, Mrs. Guo's drink today is really for the sake of her children, and she is not afraid of other people's talking. It's really amazing." People are angry and funny."

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhao Jia became very curious, sat down next to the edge of the Kang, and said, "Could it be that she really fell in love with our girl? She doesn't look at her own background, who would be willing to have the face to be in-laws with her? Don't say yes." Fourth sister, even Wu'er, I can't bear it either."

Having said that, she was a little moved.My own fourth sister was reluctant to marry such a family; if it was Wu'er, it would be better to be a daughter-in-law for the uncle's house than to be a concubine for the clan.

The Tong family is powerful and they are real relatives of the emperor. If they can get married with the Tong family, it will be of great help to the official careers of the several sons.

Mrs. Zhao Jia has a broken-mouthed temper, and it has something to do with Liu Gege's boudoir reputation. Li Shi hides this paragraph and only says that Li Si'er will choose the clan family to be his daughter-in-law.

When Zhao Jia heard this, she was a little ashamed, spit out, and said: "What! It came out of her stomach, and even a decent official lady might not be worthy of it. How dare you think about the clan? It's so contemptible, I don't know myself How many catties and taels!"

Mrs. Li followed suit, and was also displeased with Li Si'er.The most regrettable thing is that the brothers and sisters in Tong's house have such a biological mother, and they don't know what will happen in the future.

After Zhao Jia's nagging, she remembered something, looked at Li, and said with doubts: "Didn't it mean that there is a girl from a concubine in Tongfu? Sister-in-law came back so early, could it be that Li Si'er mentioned God's blessing?"

Although she was right, Mrs. Li didn't want to have more gossip, she didn't admit it, and said casually: "No, it was her filial piety that made old Fujin unhappy, so old Fujin dragged me out."

Pulling Prince Zhuang Fujin as an excuse, Zhao Jia really believed it, didn't ask any more questions, and only said: "After all, she is a person who can't get on the stage, making such a joke. Xiaozhong said that she would lose face at all... "

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Tong Mansion, the front hall, has already opened the table.

Cao Yong sat at the head of the sixteenth elder brother, listening to the conversation of several people on the table.The fourth elder brother's seat is right next to Longkodo, and the two are talking about something...

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Falling out of the top six in history, Xiao Jiu begged for a monthly pass. .

(End of this chapter)