While having breakfast, everyone in the family noticed Lin Wanwan's swollen eyes, which had not yet recovered, and were extremely concerned.
Little Qingyu raised her little head and asked Lin Wanwan: "Mother, what's wrong with you?"
Lin Wanwan rubbed her little head and said, "Mom, the snow outside blew into her eyes."
"Ah, then why doesn't the baby get blown into the eyes by the snow?" The little guy has reached the age where he is always chatting to death.
"Because you are powerful, you are the most powerful!"
Today, all the servants in Linzhai are very cautious because the head of the family, Mr. Le'an Xiangjun, is in a bad mood.
Even Xiao Yixun has become much more well-behaved, and Xiao Qingyu's animal army has learned to keep silent and curl up quietly.
In the Nuan Pavilion, Lin Wanwan was writing with Xiao Qingyu, and what she was copying was the copybook written by Xiao Chong for her.
The ground outside was frozen, and Lin Wanwan didn't let little Qingyu go out to play wildly, so she stayed at home and wrote big words.
As long as Lin Wanwan is willing to accompany her, Xiao Qingyu doesn't mind writing.
There was silence between heaven and earth, and you could even hear the sound of snow melting on the branches outside the window.
Lin Wanwan's heart calmed down under Xiao Qingyu's comfort. Such a small person gave her endless power.
After practicing calligraphy, Xiao Qingyu couldn't sit still, so Lin Wanwan simply took her with her to choose New Year's gifts for each family.
Lin Wanwan prepared two sets of quilted brocade robes for Xiao Chong, Dugu Di and Xiao Ce in the county government office, as well as the doctor Chen Liang. The cotton came from Lin's workshop, and the garments came from the garment shop she purchased in Xiaoxi Town.
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In addition to clothes, Xiao Chong’s favorite delicacies are of course also indispensable.
Lin Wanwan "collected" the goods twice from the wild dock, and let the carriages and horses drag them into Lin's house in a grand manner. Then there were the New Year's gifts of cherries and sugar oranges for Xiao Chong, as well as the sunflowers and peanuts she planted in the flower house.
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Melon seeds and peanuts stir-fried with salt and pepper are an absolute casual delicacy.
Lin Wanwan not only gave them to Xiao Chong, but also to various houses in Xiaoxi Town.
In addition to these people, the most important New Year gift is prepared for Qiantang's maternal family.
In addition to the New Year gifts, we also need to prepare makeup for the twin sisters of the Xiao family.
They were both engaged, and the wedding ceremony was scheduled for the same day, the day after tomorrow.
The gift Lin Wanwan gave them was a "luxury" for the Tang Dynasty. It was an antique bronze makeup mirror for each of them.
The original version has a normal mirror on one side and a three-fold magnifying glass on the other.
Lin Wanwan felt that the double-sided mirror was too advanced and too rare, so she modified the triple-magnified mirror and turned it into a Suzhou embroidery work. The embroidery was the peony flower (also known as peony) that was the favorite of the noble ladies of the Tang Dynasty.
Lin Wanwan only spent 118 yuan to buy a bronze mirror with a fine copper base in modern times. As for Su embroidery, it was produced by an embroiderer in her own embroidery workshop and cost nothing.
The embroiderer's monthly salary of 800 and additional business rewards are completely negligible to Lin Wanwan.
After all, whether it is sold through a silk and satin clothing store, or directly sold as a high-end luxury product in modern times, the profit is thousands of times.
I chose to change the three-fold magnified side of the mirror to Suzhou embroidery, on the one hand to reduce the technological content of the mirror, and on the other hand to better highlight Lin Wanwan's intention in preparing gifts.
At this glance, you can tell that the peep show has been carefully modified, and it is not just throwing money at people, it is extremely vulgar.
On the day when the twin sisters Xiao Shulian and Xiao Liwei received their makeup gifts, the climax was when the servant in charge of gift registration announced Lin Wanwan’s makeup gifts.
As soon as the Glazed Mirror was reported, it caused a sensation, and the news soon spread up and down Qiantang.
From ancient times to the present, gossip in noble families has always been the most talked about topic.
As long as there are lower-level servants, there are no complete secrets in the mansion.
What's more, if this kind of thing spreads, it will be the face of the master's family, so there is no reason to stop the servants from discussing it.
After the world's first exquisite mirror appeared in Italy in 1507, it immediately caused a sensation throughout Europe and became a fashionable good that everyone in the upper class was competing for.
The Carpenter Tan mirror that Lin Wanwan took out last time at the Gexian Temple Polo Ground only caused some discussion among the small circle of upper-class female relatives.
Because Lin Wanwan did not hang out with these little girls, but directly became the disciple of Sun Simiao, and surrounded him, so the mirror matter did not spread too widely.
And this time, two glazed mirrors were used as a gift for the two young ladies of the Xiao family, which naturally attracted many little sisters they socialized with to come over and take a look.
As a result, the news about the glazed mirror spread more and more widely, and many noble ladies sent people to the merchants in the Western Regions to inquire about where the glazed mirror could be found.
But how could they possibly find it?
According to history, it would take more than 800 years for mercury and tin foil mirrors to be produced in the world. It is strange that merchants from the Western Regions who came to the Tang Dynasty to trade could get such glazed mirrors.
In this time and space, only Lin Wanwan can make a glass mirror, but Lin Wanwan doesn't want to do it.
It was enough for her to buy a few things in modern times as a favor. Glass, soap, perfume, wine, these epoch-making huge profit industries, she did not want to get involved in any of them for the time being.
As Lin Wanwan, who pretends to be the granddaughter of the Xiao family, giving her some gifts that are easy for her to show face to the Xiao family is considered giving back.
She prepared four of these bronze mirrors, one for each of the four Xiao sisters.
Although Lin Wanwan has the best relationship with Xiao Xianghua, she doesn't want to favor one over the other when it comes to makeup gifts.
Because every gift in the dowry gift will be reported and registered on the spot, it will become part of the woman's dowry, and it is completely open to the public (the dowry list will be useful in a divorce lawsuit, as there are divorce lawsuits in the Tang Dynasty), so there is no risk
Why should she bother when she is few and suffers from inequality.
She has a close relationship with Xiao Xianghua. If you want to give her an extra gift, you can just send it in your daily correspondence with her. Why make a fuss about the makeup gift?
With Lin Wanwan's generous gift for the Xiao family, she won't be afraid even if the Xiao family's real granddaughter appears in the future. I believe the Xiao family will try their best to protect her.
If the real granddaughter is in trouble, she may not even be recognized.
After all, Lin Wanwan's current status as the Lord of Le'an Township and her unparalleled wealth are a great help to a branch of the Xiao family that has been separated.
As long as a person is useful to others, he will never be given up. If he is useless, even his closest relatives may not be reliable.
Why does Xiao's mother have the highest say in the Xiao family and only rely on the brainwashing of "filial piety comes first"?
The bigger reason is that most of the Xiao family's property in Qiantang is now held by the old lady, and the old lady's own dowry industry supplements the family income.
Not to mention the Tang Dynasty, even in modern times, elderly people with pensions and those without pensions are treated differently from their children.