Harem Changwu Biography

Chapter 23
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, it really started snowing, and it started to fall heavily in the morning, and it started to fall intermittently until the evening, leaving a thick layer on the ground.

Mingqi came to visit me in the morning and returned to Chengming Palace after paying New Year's greetings. I didn't know what I was doing for the next day, and I didn't come over for lunch or dinner. I only sent Xiao Yunzi to say that it was inconvenient to come due to the snow, and I would tell the imperial dining room Prepare it and send it directly to Chengming Palace.

"Queen Mother, the annual gift you ordered to be sent to Taifu's residence is ready." Not long after breakfast in the morning of the second day of junior high school, Qi He came over with a gift list and said to me.

"What have you prepared?" I took the gift list from Qihe and asked as I opened it.

The second day of the new year is the day when a married girl returns to her natal home among the people. Although this custom does not work in the palace, every year on the second day of the new year, I will prepare an annual gift for people to send to Qiu's house.This year is no exception.

"According to the usual practice in the past, brushes and inkstones are prepared for Mr. Taifu and several young masters, a jade Buddha is prepared for Mrs. Taifu, jewelry for the young lady and several young ladies, and silk and satin for the other rooms." Qi He Say.

"Where's Aunt Lu's?" I asked.

"According to the Queen Mother's special instructions, Aunt Lu's share is all medicinal materials." Qi He said.

"Are there any nourishing herbs in it?"

"Yes, among all the medicinal materials, [-]% of them are medicinal ingredients." Qi He nodded.

"That's good." Hearing this, I nodded my head reassuringly. In fact, the main reason for me to send New Year's gifts to Tai Tuo's residence was for my aunt.

Ten years ago, when I was willing to enter the palace instead of Chang Ruo, my father promised me that as long as I was willing to enter the palace instead of Chang Ruo, he would take my aunt out of the side courtyard and send someone to take care of my aunt.

But after all, I couldn't be with my aunt in person, so I couldn't help thinking about it. I always had to send some things in person to be at ease, and my aunt could know that I was fine after receiving the things I sent.

It's just that every time I send gifts to the Taifu's mansion, my aunt's share will be mainly medicinal materials for nourishing the body, with few silver taels, and occasionally I will send some jewelry, but they are not too expensive.

I made this arrangement because my aunt does not leave the mansion all the year round, and the mansion distributes her daily expenses, so there are relatively few places where money will be used. Furthermore, I am afraid that my aunt will not be able to keep her, and it will only cause innocent disasters.

The Qiu family started to make a fortune from the great-grandfather's generation. Before the great-grandfather, the Qiu family lived in the south for generations, and their ancestral home was from the south. They didn't come to the capital until the great-grandfather became an official. At that time, for some unknown reason, only the great-grandfather came to Beijing.

After the great-grandfather came to the Jingcheng family, he had three sons and five daughters. Five of the daughters were married, and the third son separated after the death of the great-grandfather.

Grandfather was the third son of great-grandfather, and the only one of the three sons of great-grandfather to be an official.But my grandfather died before I was born, and my grandmother passed away when I was three years old.

There are six sons and two daughters under the grandfather's name, the father is the second child, the third uncle is an official, the seventh uncle likes to travel and is away all the year round, and the other uncles are either running the family business or doing nothing.

People under the grandfather's name do not have a separate family, they live together in the Qiu family, and the population adds up to dozens of people, so even if there is one annual gift per person, the gift list has several pages, and it took me a long time to finish it.

"By the way, the Ai family remembers that I got an ancient painting from the former dynasty last year. Let me add it to my fifth brother." The fifth brother was born by Aunt Chen, who is the same age as Chang Ruo and three years younger than me.

Because Aunt Chen lived in the same yard with her, she always took good care of her.

"promise."

(End of this chapter)