Because Dong Yuzhen was banned by Dong Jisheng because of Lin Zhu's affairs, Lin Zhu felt a little embarrassed, so he specially selected some gifts to send to her.
Also because of the gift from Lin Zhu, Mrs. Lin's anger at having Dong Jisheng and Mr. Liu pick someone to take the blame became much better.
"Zhen'er," Mrs. Lin asked her servant to take the gift from Lin Zhu and enter Dong Yuzhen's yard. Although Dong Jisheng had lifted her restraint, Dong Yuzhen still didn't go out. "Look, what did mother bring you?"
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"Mother," Dong Yuzhen went out to greet Mrs. Lin.
"Well, I look good today." Mrs. Lin was very happy to see Dong Yuzhen's face turn rosy.
"Mom, what good things did you bring?" Dong Yuzhen watched as the servants brought several boxes.
"You should open it yourself and take a look. Your sister Xiaozhu brought it to you." Mrs. Lin waved her hand and everyone put the things in their hands on Dong Yuzhen's table. Then she looked at Dong Yuzhen with a smile and motioned for her to open it in person.
Dong Yuzhen couldn't help but walked to the table out of curiosity. There were two identical boxes. She picked them up and weighed them one by one. They were so heavy! There was also an octagonal box. She picked them up and weighed them again. They were okay and not very heavy. The last one
The box was so big that she didn't dare to pick it up for a while.
Finally, starting with the two identical boxes, she opened them and said, "Wow!" She couldn't help shouting. Mrs. Lin also came to her and couldn't help but be moved. There were neatly coded inside.
There are two boxes of peanut silver pins and pepper silver pins. The silver is shining and the workmanship is very exquisite.
Mrs. Lin grabbed a few and looked at them carefully. "It's more exquisite than the ones made in our house." She nodded.
"Mom, I didn't expect that Sister Xiaozhu still remembers it." Dong Yuzhen also happily grabbed a handful of silver needles and played with them in her hands. "It was the first time I saw this kind of silver needle before. I thought it looked good and even asked her for it.
A few, I didn’t expect so many to be sent this year. They are even better looking than last year.”
"You are such a good sister. Miss Xiaozhu is so kind to you." Mrs. Lin looked at her daughter's happy look and felt very comforted in her heart. She didn't expect that calling each other sisters with a little country girl would be better than calling each other sisters with the same father.
It's much better.
"Of course." Dong Yuzhen proudly raised her chin and continued, "Mom, I don't know why? When I see sister Xiaozhu, I always feel that she is a sister to me, and she is closer than the cousins in the capital.
feeling.”
Mrs. Lin didn't expect that she would say such a thing. The nieces of Mrs. Lin's natal family are all very high-minded. They don't like her daughter, a concubine, very much, but there are some who are close to her.
Unexpectedly, Dong Yuzhen thought that Lin Zhu's position was higher than theirs. She couldn't help but wonder, Lin Zhu's surname was also Lin, could it be related to the Lin family in Beijing?
But she quickly rejected this idea. She once sent someone to inquire about Lin Zhu's life experience. Not only was she an abandoned daughter, but all the servants around her left when she was eight years old. Not only herself. Even Lin Zhu's village
No one in the world knew about her life experience. Moreover, she had returned to Beijing several times, but she had not heard that any child of the Lin family had been abandoned. Moreover, Lin Zhu's facial features were not as expected from those of the adult Lin children of the Lin family.
"That's just the relationship between you sisters. You have to be nicer to Miss Xiaozhu in the future, you know? Reciprocity is a courtesy." Mrs. Lin dismissed the doubts in her heart and said to Dong Yuzhen earnestly.
"I know mom, I have to choose some good things to send to her later." Dong Yuzhen said as she excitedly opened the octagonal box.
"Mom, look." Inside the box, there are various kinds of rice and beans. Each kind of seed is in a small grid, which looks very beautiful in the box.
Mrs. Lin looked at the contents of the box, "Zhen'er, do you know what these are?" Dong Yuzhen shook her head in confusion.
"Then wait, you can read the contents of the last one, and then my mother will tell you." Mrs. Lin said to Dong Yuzhen with emotion.
"Oh." Dong Yuzhen didn't know why her mother became a little weird, but she still followed her instructions and opened the last box.
"Wow, it smells so good." Not only Dong Yuzhen, but also the surrounding servants also smelled the fragrance. It was an elegant and quiet smell, floating gently and softly in the room.
When she took out the contents of the box, everyone was shocked. It turned out to be orchids in full bloom.
"Mom, why are they still blooming at this time?" Dong Yuzhen carefully placed the pot of orchids on the table. There were five or six yellow-green flowers on the stems, standing tall and graceful, just like a girl in her prime.
"It's amazing." Mrs. Lin was also stunned by the sight before her. She had never seen such beautiful orchids at this time of year. Lin Zhu also carefully wrote the orchid variety, Xia Hemei, beside it.
"Miss Xiaozhu actually has such excellent orchids." Mrs. Lin sighed. The things Lin Zhu came up with at such a young age were more and more strange, which made her increasingly confused.
"It's so beautiful. Mom, I want to put it in the room. The fragrance of this flower is so good, it must be fragrant in my house." Dong Yuzhen was very happy and walked around the room as if she wanted to find it.
The most suitable place to place this superb orchid.
"Okay, okay, let's put it in your room." Mrs. Lin loved her lovingly. The servants around her were also being ordered around by Dong Yuzhen.
"Mom, what should I do if there is no suitable flower stand to put it on?" Dong Yuzhen came to Mrs. Lin's side and shook her hand.
"Humph, don't you know what you are planning?" Mrs. Lin gently tapped Dong Yuzhen's forehead. "Mother Zhao, bring my huanghuali flower stand to the eldest lady."
"Mom, it's the best." Dong Yuzhen said to Mrs. Lin with a sweet smile.
Only after these things were done did Dong Yuzhen think of the box of rice and beans.
"Mom, what do you think this is for?" Dong Yuzhen looked at the things in front of her and looked at Mrs. Lin in confusion.
"Look at this first." Mrs. Lin took out a piece of paper.
Dong Yuzhen took it and looked at it carefully. On it was a list of things sent by Lin Zhu. Counting them in detail, there were one hundred taels of silver ingots, a pot of top-quality orchids and summer plums, various rice seeds and various bean seeds.
One hundred pounds.
After Dong Yuzhen read it, she raised her eyes and looked at Mrs. Lin. "I have asked people to put those things away." Mrs. Lin retreated, leaving only mother and daughter in the room.
"You know that the things produced in Miss Zhu Zhuangzi are magical, but I didn't expect that she would be so generous and give these seeds to you." After Mrs. Lin said this, she said to Dong Yuzhen seriously, "The existence of these seeds and
You can’t tell anyone about your extraordinary achievements, not even your father.”
Dong Yuzhen nodded, "Mom, I know." She told Mrs. Lin about the contract signed between Lin Zhu and Lu Mingtao, "Mom, is this not a violation of the contract for Sister Xiaozhu?" She was a little worried for Lin Zhu.
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"It doesn't matter. The rice seeds Miss Xiaozhu sent are enough to plant a few acres of land. And if we don't tell you, who knows that the special seeds grown there are only for home consumption, so don't worry." After listening, it will be fine.
Mrs. Lin's words made Dong Yuzhen feel relieved.
Dong Jisheng also knew that Lin Zhu had sent something to Dong Yuzhen again, but he had no idea what it was.
"Hmph, does she even think of me as her father?" Dong Jisheng secretly resented, "Being friendly with outsiders and not even saying a word to me is just like her mother." But no matter how angry Dong Jisheng was, these words were
Not a word can be stated openly.
"Butler." Dong Jisheng, who calmed down his temper in the study, ordered the butler to prepare some gifts. He then sent someone to the Li family to find Li Dabai and asked him to prepare a heavy gift. Dong Yuzhen took it with him.
Over there at Lin Zhu.
"Brother Dong Xian, has this eldest lady agreed to make peace for us?" Li Dabai didn't expect that he would convince Dong Yuzhen so quickly.
"Huh, she can't decide whether to go or not." Although Dong Jisheng's tone was very strong now, he was not very sure in his heart. Although he made some apology gestures, he also knew that these would not satisfy Mrs. Lin.
"That?" Li Dabo said in his heart. He couldn't even handle his own daughter, so he was talking big words.
"You have to show some sincerity to her." Dong Jisheng glanced sideways at Li Dabai, "You want my daughter to do things for you, but you actually want to give me nothing, how beautiful you are."
"Yes, yes, I will prepare some clothes and jewelry for the eldest lady." Li Dabai nodded repeatedly.
"She has no shortage of clothes and jewelry." Dong Jisheng shook his head, "You can prepare a small village with a hundred acres of land to send to her."
Li Dabai was stunned when he heard this, thinking that just one sentence would cause me to bleed so much.
"What do you look like?" Dong Jisheng glared at him, "You gave her the land. If she grows something good in the land in the future, can you not give her a share? You are still pointing at that girl Lin Zhu.
Can I sell you some good seeds?"
When Li Dabai heard this, he said, yes, it is much easier to get improved watermelon seeds from Dong Yuzhen than from Lin Zhu. Dong Yuzhen and Lin Zhu are so good, how could they not send some improved seeds?
"Thanks to Dong Xiandi's reminder, I'll go and do it now." Li Dabai left the magistrate's office in a hurry, but he was looking for a suitable small village.
Lin Zhu knew nothing about Dong Jisheng and Li Dabai's plan. She was now getting Lu Mingtao's letter from the capital. The news in it made her happy and sad at the same time.
"Grandpa, please take a look. This is from Mr. Lu from Muyue Trading Company." Lin Zhu took the letter to Dr. Zhang's study.
"He has news so soon?" Dr. Zhang thought it was Lin Zhu who asked him to buy land near the capital. After he read the letter, his eyes widened, "This, is this true?"
Lin Zhu nodded, "He wouldn't write a special letter to let us have such a happy time about this kind of thing." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes.