On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, when Chen Xun and Yan Lizhou were preparing gifts for returning to the Hou Mansion tomorrow, Chen Ruowei was about to visit Prince Ning's Mansion.
"Princess, the concubine of King Jin has sent you a greeting card."
"Besides, she is still waiting outside." Yun Ji said as he handed the invitation to Chen Yu.
"What? After I sent you the greeting card, the host didn't agree to see me, so she was waiting outside?" Yun Ji's sister, Yun Xiu, the housekeeper of the palace, said in surprise when she heard this.
"Yes, Prince Jin's concubine is waiting outside the palace." Yun Ji nodded.
Chen Yu didn't say anything. She took the greeting note and read it. The content written on it was quite literary. It didn't show the thoughts of the person who wrote the post about greeting the person who sent the greeting. However, the other person spoke sincerely and hoped to meet Chen Yu.
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Chen Yun sighed, put down the invitation and said to Yun Ji, "Let her go back. I don't have time to see her. I have to go back to the Hou Mansion tomorrow."
"Yes." Yun Ji responded.
Yunxiu watched her brother exit, then looked at Chen Xun and said, "Princess, is your adopted daughter always so polite?"
Chen Xun smiled and said, "At least she knows how to send greetings."
Of course, she quickly explained, "Don't worry, she is quite polite when facing other people. Maybe she thinks that I came back from the countryside, so she doesn't need to be so polite when facing me."
"After all, when we live in the countryside, we don't need to send a greeting card when someone visits us." Chen Xun said, "When we visit someone's house in the countryside, we just need to shout at the door, or let others send a message.
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"Concubine Chen, she may still think of me as a country person. She thinks that if she sends a greeting card when she comes over, I will not care about it."
Yunxiu frowned. I had heard before that this girl from the Pingyang Marquis Mansion was well-educated and sensible. Although there were many noble girls in Chang'an City and there were many girls from the Pingyang Marquis Mansion, this one also had a good reputation, although it was not so widely known.
Just spread it.
But Yunxiu really didn't expect that the other party would be so condescending when facing their princess. When one of her concubines visited someone else's princess, she would go directly to the door. Even though she also sent a greeting card, she didn't say goodbye until she arrived at the door.
It's very rude to post this, okay?
"It's right for the princess not to see her, otherwise she would have thought that the princess was easy to bully." Yunxiu defended her princess, saying that her princess has already married their prince, so she is theirs, so how can she let others bully her?
"Don't worry, I'm not that easy to bully." Chen Yu smiled and reassured Yun Xiu, "Okay, let's not mention her anymore. Let's see if we can exchange the gifts for the Hou Mansion."
Chen Xun doesn't have much affection for Pingyang Hou Mansion. Even though she gave her a lot of dowry when she got married, isn't that what the Hou Mansion should give her? And she also gave the Hou Mansion a lot of benefits before. She is already considered a dowry.
Be filial.
Now that she and Yan Lizhou are going back to the Hou Mansion, of course she can't give them too good gifts. Why should she give them to the Hou Mansion if she doesn't have those good things?
Chen Xun and Yun Xiu happily chatted about gifts. Chen Ruowei, who was outside Prince Ning's Mansion, turned ugly when Yun Ji told her that Chen Xun refused her visit.
"Your princess said you won't see me?" Chen Ruowei, who was wearing a veil, couldn't see her face clearly, but it was clear from her eyebrows that she was unhappy.
Yun Ji did not change his attitude just because Chen Ruowei was unhappy. He replied calmly, "Our princess is busy today and has no time to see Concubine Chen."
Chen Ruowei frowned slightly and said, "What is your princess busy with? Did she miss me on purpose?"
"Concubine Chen is worrying too much. Our princess is indeed very busy. The prince has just woken up and the palace is in chaos. We need the princess to take charge."
"Nowadays, our palace does not have a clean environment to entertain Concubine Chen. I'm sorry." Yun Ji explained with a polite and distant smile.
"Concubine Chen, go slowly, I have to go back to help you." Yun Ji said with a smile, and then turned around and went back to the house.
Chen Ruowei looked at Prince Ning's Mansion with the door closed, and her face became even more ugly.
"Master, Master?" Qingliu looked at his master's expression and shouted hesitantly, "Where are we going next?"
Chen Ruowei stared at the door of Prince Ning's Mansion and took a deep breath to suppress her anger. It was because she didn't think well and didn't send the greeting card in advance. She admitted her failure.
"Go and find out if Ning Prince's Mansion will return to the Marquis Mansion soon." Chen Ruowei told Qingliu.
"yes."
Chen Ruowei turned back and took a deep look at Prince Ning's Mansion, and then left. It was a rare trip for her to go visit her own trousseau shop, or visit other jewelry shops.
Since she married into Prince Jin's palace, she rarely goes out. She is a side concubine but not the main concubine. When Prince Jin has any entertainment banquets, he will always bring Princess Jin with him instead of her as a side concubine.
For a moment, Chen Ruowei regretted it. It was indeed good to marry the King of Jin, but she was a concubine, and to put it bluntly, she was also a concubine. She could not attend various banquets with her husband, otherwise she would be scolded for spoiling his concubine and destroying his wife.
It has been two months since she entered the Jin Palace, and this was the first time she came out except for the day when Chen Yun got married. Of course, she couldn't miss this opportunity to take a look around.
"Go to Zhenlong Pavilion."
Chen Ruowei went shopping, and Princess Jin at the Jin Prince's Mansion laughed when she heard the news that Chen Ruowei failed to enter Prince Ning's Mansion.
"Haha, how did Chen Ruowei have the nerve to come directly and tell her that she wanted to see Princess Ning? Such rude behavior, does she think she did the right thing?" Princess Jin almost cried because of Chen Ruowei.
Doesn’t that woman look very smart? Why didn’t she send a greeting card to Prince Ning’s Mansion in advance? Instead, she went directly to the door and only sent a greeting card when she arrived at the door, saying that she wanted to meet Princess Ning?
"Concubine Chen may look down on Princess Ning from the bottom of her heart, so she is so negligent." Princess Jin's maid guessed.
Everyone knows where Princess Ning came from. Chen Ruowei grew up in Pingyang Hou Mansion. Of course she looks down on Princess Ning, who grew up in the countryside.
"Huh? Chen Ruowei still looks down on Princess Ning?" Princess Jin sneered after hearing what the maid said, "Is she worthy?"
"She has occupied the magpie's nest for more than ten years and robbed the real girls of the Hou family of their good life for more than ten years. What right does she have to look down on Princess Ning?"
"Besides, Princess Ning is the official concubine. She is just a side concubine who works as a concubine for others. Why should she look down on others?" Princess Jin rolled her eyes and said, "Okay, just watch the excitement over there. You guys should also think of me."
There is a way to get the kang and floor heating ready."
"It is true that the children in the mansion cannot be exposed to the cold." Princess Jin sighed. She didn't care about concubines and concubines, but of course she wouldn't want her own children to be frozen in the winter. Fire pits and floor heating must be repaired in Prince Jin's mansion.
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"My slave understands." The maid responded respectfully.
Princess Jin didn't bother to care about what Chen Ruowei did after she went out. If she dared to mess around outside, Prince Jin wouldn't care about it.
If Chen Ruowei still had any brains at all, she would know to keep to herself and not do anything outside.