On the third day after the application period, the Lu family came to deliver the betrothal gift.
The cart is led by two sheep, carrying eight bottles of gold wine, filled with large square silver medals, covered with red and green gold wine clothes; gold necklaces, gold bracelets, and gold pendants, all three gold items are complete; there are also large gold sleeves
, a gold skirt with yellow ruffles, a long satin-red skirt, a number of beaded and emerald bun crowns and jewelry, pieces of fine colored satin cloth, tapestry silk, woolen materials, and several silver ingots; fine flower tea, and countless fruits. The recruitment procession swam around in a mighty manner.
Half of Pingzhou City, under the attention of everyone, walked through the door of the Lin family in a lively and glorious manner.
Old Mrs. Lin led Mr. Lin San and received the betrothal gift solemnly. The whole process highlighted the importance and care that the two families attached to this marriage.
Then everything gradually returned to calm.
In the following days, Lin Jinrong had been embroidering her dowry at home and rarely went out. However, due to money negotiations, she only asked Li Zhi to send a message to Lin Shiquan through Tao. She was not even able to meet Lin Shiquan during the Chinese New Year. Fortunately, at this time,
She no longer needed to worry about the shop.
The days slipped and it was February.
It was only after February that the Tao family's cosmetics were delivered to Pingzhou. Then, several sisters from the tribe who had contact with Lin Jinrong on weekdays began to come to visit and bless her, and gave her some cosmetics such as embroidered handkerchiefs and small jewelry.
As the official day approaches, the female relatives of several large families in Pingzhou also begin to visit and congratulate her.
On this day, the Wu family's female relatives specially came to add makeup to Lin Jinrong, and were warmly entertained by Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Tao. Wu Ling and Lin Wu went to see Lin Jinrong together, making fun of her a few words, and then handed it over in front of Lin Wu.
A brocade box: "Yang Mo gave you the makeup."
A palm-sized rectangular brocade box contained a pair of plum blossom hairpins inlaid with gold and white jade. The gold was pure gold and the jade was fine mutton-fat white jade. Lin Jinrong only glanced at it, then quickly raised his head and looked at Wu Ling: "This is too
It’s so valuable.”
The reason why she originally gave Yang Mo that jade hairpin was because it originally belonged to the Yang family. The two of them had been exchanging letters over the past few years, and they had given each other gifts from time to time, which were just exquisite trinkets that were not worth much. In the previous life,
At that time, Yang Mo gave her a pair of gold-encrusted pearl earrings, and what she gave Yang Mo in return was a pair of silver-encrusted coral earrings. It was not too much, and the meaning was greater than the value. Even if the two of them have strengthened their contacts in this life,
The relationship deepened. When Yang Mo came out of the court last year, the only thing she gave her was a pair of pearl sachets. Although they were exquisite and beautiful, they were far from worth such an expensive gift. I always felt uneasy when receiving unreasonable gifts from others.
Lin Wu let out a "wow" sound and took it to look at: "What a delicate hairpin."
Wu Ling had a deliberately exaggerated look of envy on her face, and said in a slightly sour tone: "Yes, in the early years I was with her all the time, and I never saw her treating me so caringly. You stinky girl, if you don't give me the same affection in the future
, let’s see if I don’t tear her mouth apart when I see her.” He handed over a silver-backed comb with curly grass and double lions and ball patterns, and said with a pout, “Well, this is the comb I gave you, it was obviously carefully selected by me.
Being compared with her makes me look stingy. Only I am willing to be used as a foil by her, so don't think it's bad for you."
Such an expression and such a tone would not make people think she was stingy at all. On the contrary, they felt that the gift was really good and she was so cute. Lin Wu couldn't help but hide his smile: "It's hard to get such exquisite workmanship, then.
Wouldn’t it be embarrassing for me, who only gave you a pair of plain silver necklaces?”
"I don't mind, I don't mind, as long as you give it to me." Lin Jinrong always felt that something was wrong: "But Yang Mo's gift is too expensive for me to accept."
Wu Mo opened her eyes wide and said innocently: "That's your own business. You write a letter and tell her yourself. I can't help it." After saying that, he stood up to leave: "I'm leaving.
You don't have to ask me to give it back to her, and she wants me to give it to you, so I'm not stuck in the middle?"
Lin Jinrong pursed her lips: "Does she have a letter?"
Wu Mo shook her head: "She is about to give birth and is too lazy to use her brain. She just sent this box and specified that she would add makeup to you." She rolled her eyes and smiled: "I delivered the things anyway. I want you to do it."
Don't make up your own mind, just write a letter and tell her that I'm leaving first."
Lin Jinrong couldn't keep her, so he had to sit back, picked up the pair of jade hairpins and looked at them carefully. After looking at them for a long time, he saw a few corn-sized words at the end of the hairpins. When he looked at the light carefully, it was "Tang Family Gold and Silver"
The five words "shop".
In the evening, the Wu family's female relatives said goodbye, and Mrs. Tao sent their makeup to Lin Jinrong. When she saw the hairpin given by Yang Mo, she couldn't help but be surprised and said: "This girl is so generous! Today, the ladies and grandmothers of the Wu family
The gifts are nothing more than ordinary gold and silver hairpin rings and the like, but she gave you something as expensive as this."
Lin Jinrong stroked the small words on the tail of the hairpin and said, "I guess she bought it in a gold and silver shop. It was too pretentious for me to send it back to her after it came all the way. I'd rather live a better life."
Then write a letter and prepare a gift to thank her. She is going to give birth, so I will prepare a generous gift so that she will not suffer any loss."
Mrs. Tao nodded and said, "That's exactly the truth. Yang Mo is more generous than I was when I was a girl."
Lin Jinrong held up her chin and smiled: "Mother was very generous when she was a girl?"
A smile appeared on Mrs. Tao's face: "Yes, your grandparents pampered me very much at that time. I was never short of money. I had many beautiful clothes and jewelry. I can't even remember many of them. How much do I need?"
Mom and Iron Mom only remember clearly. Among the little sisters who play well and the sisters in the clan, there is no one I am willing to put makeup on." Then he showed an angry look, "But it's my turn.
When I got married, the gifts they gave me were not good. Only two or three gifts were good, but they married far away, and now I have not even heard from them."
Seeing that she was like a child, Lin Jinrong couldn't help but smile and said: "Two or three are enough. I'm reluctant to part with it. Adding makeup, unless it's that person, has more meaning than value. For some people
For people, giving too heavy a gift will actually add to the burden."
Mr. Tao laughed and said, "I was so confused at that time, how could you know how to calculate?"
The mother and daughter had a laugh. When Lin Jinrong saw that Aunt Gui and others had gone out, she turned to the topic: "Mom, let Guiyuan come back tonight."
Seeing her mention longan, Mrs. Tao lowered her voice and said seriously: "What are your plans? I thought you were going to use her as your mother in charge, but you asked Mother Gong to suppress her rules and temperament. Morning.
A few months ago, I asked her to come back, but you didn’t want her to come back. Now it’s so urgent that you want her to come back. What are you going to do?”
Lin Jinrong lowered his eyes and smiled: "Why not? She has grown up with me, and I will always take her away. As for the rest, it depends on her own destiny. She is quite obedient now and knows how to advance and retreat according to the rules, right?
"
Mrs. Tao nodded: "You are indeed very obedient and know the rules, but you are very timid." After a moment of silence, he sighed slightly: "No matter what, you have to live a good life."
Lin Jinrong said seriously: "I will, and I will try my best to live a good life. The seventh brother is the backbone of us and my sister. Mom, you must take good care of him, but don't suppress him too tightly."
Tao naturally agreed not to mention it.
In the evening, Guiyuan nervously returned to the yard where she had been away for nearly four years with a small bundle in her arms. After entering the door, the first thing she did was to kowtow to Lin Jinrong. But at that time, Lin Jinrong was taking a bath, and she kept standing by the door.
After waiting for more than half an hour, when Lin Jinrong finished taking a bath, he rolled up his sleeves without saying a word and followed Dou'er in carrying water to wash the bathtub.
Lin Jinrong sat in front of the photo booth, looking in the mirror at the slim and conscientious figure printed on the screen behind her, and was very satisfied. After calculating that the work was almost done, Fang ordered the cherries in her hair to be wiped:
"Go and ask your sister Guiyuan to come over."
Cherry hurriedly handed the handkerchief to Lychee and ran to the back of the screen to ask Guiyuan: "Sister Guiyuan, the girl said, just let me and Dou'er do the work. You go over and serve the girl."
Guiyuan was startled for a moment, then looked back at Lin Jinrong outside the screen with a mixture of worry and joy. Lin Jinrong was dressed in a plain white light robe, sitting in front of the photo booth leaning on the smoke cage, with her long hair held in Litchi's arms, and using a white
Wrapped in cotton, they gently absorbed water in the direction of growth. The two were chatting and laughing in a low voice, and they didn't know what they were talking about. They only saw Lin Jinrong's smile like a half-opened magnolia, beautiful and elegant.
Once upon a time, she was the one doing such work, and she was the one who chatted and laughed with the girl to relieve her boredom. But now, after nearly four years, after she almost thought that she would never be able to return to the girl again in her life, she suddenly came back.
At this point, she realized that she and Lychee were completely different. Even if she stood by the girl's side like Lychee, she didn't know how to serve the girl.
Cherry looked sideways at Guiyuan, who was dazed, and did not remind her to stop being in a daze. Douer, on the other hand, was soft-hearted and gently tugged on Guiyuan's sleeve and smacked at her silently.
It took nearly four years to finally return to the girl. She could not make any more mistakes. Guiyuan suppressed the worry, joy, sourness and discomfort in her heart. She walked cautiously towards Lin Jinrong, knelt down on the ground and shouted softly: "Girl, slave Guiyuan"
I kowtow to you, the girl is so kind and compassionate, and I will never forget you."
Lin Jinrong lazily turned around and smiled charmingly at her: "It doesn't matter, just correct your mistakes. Small things are okay, but I can't help you with big things. Aunt Gui is getting older, so you have to do more for her in everything."
Just think about it."
Guiyuan did not dare to look at Lin Jinrong, she lowered her eyes and said, "Yes." Aunt Gui outside the curtain suddenly felt her eyes well up.
On the seventh day of February, the earliest cherry blossoms have bloomed, and the spring cold is still severe. Lin Jinrong was woken up early in the morning by Xi, Ping, Lin Wu and others, laughing and joking, waiting for the Lu family to make up. Not long after he sat down,
Luo Shi, the twins, and the two young ladies from the second room, Wen Shi and Bai Shi, came in to join in the fun.
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