It's just that she can't protect her for her whole life. She only gave birth to such a baby when she was nearly thirty years old. She will eventually get ahead of her. Even if she can take a good rest and live to be eighty or ninety years old, when she is so old,
He can't protect Jiao Jiao anymore, but will become a burden to her. It is better to find a husband for her who can rely on her for the rest of her life when she is young and strong.
She saw that Qi Xiaowu had a gentle temperament and was interested in Jiao Jiao. He was a good child. She thought of letting the two of them get along for a while to try. No matter what, Jiao Jiao would have to like him.
Before she saw him, Jiao Jiao had always been attached to the second son of the Shen family, and she was still a little picky about him. After all, she had suffered a disadvantage by marrying a scholar, and she also had some prejudice against these literary scholars, so she didn't want Jiao Jiao to marry a weak scholar in the future.
Apart from other things, this scholar looks frail, unable to carry anything on his shoulders or lift it with his hands. He really cannot protect Jiao Jiao, so he needs to find a home of a military general.
Jiao Jiao can stay with her for a few more years and not be in a hurry to get married, but now he has to make early plans for her.
Wen Jiaojiao didn't know what Xiao's mother was thinking. She wanted to marry as late as possible. After all, there was nothing better than being by her mother's side.
Back at Wen Mansion, when Wen Jiaojiao was washing up and getting ready to sleep, Yuzhu and the others were collecting her clothes and jewelry, and then they discovered that she had lost a piece of jewelry.
"Miss, why is your jade pendant missing?"
Wen Jiaojiao was lying on the bed so sleepy that she couldn't even open her eyes, and murmured: "What jade pendant? Let's talk about it tomorrow..."
When she went to the banquet today, her body was covered with a bunch of accessories. There were several hanging ornaments around her waist, all hung by her mother. She couldn't tell which jade pendant she had lost.
Yuzhu sat beside the bed and said, "Miss, what I lost is the full moon jade pendant given to you by the Queen. There is also a crescent moon in it."
Wen Jiaojiao opened her eyes and thought about it carefully. She seemed to have some impression.
Yuzhu said: "That was a birthday gift given to you by the Queen on your sixth birthday. You have been wearing it for many years. The jade is the finest jade that Salo paid tribute to. It would be a pity to lose it."
Wen Jiaojiao remembered that she usually wore this piece of jade, but she always had various accessories on her body, so she didn't pay much attention to it.
Wen Jiaojiao looked at Yuzhu: "I really can't find it?"
Yuzhu shook his head at Wen Jiaojiao, "Miss, it is indeed lost. Xiang Jin and I searched for it for a long time and couldn't find it."
Wen Jiaojiao rubbed his eyes and said, "Maybe it was lost in Lingyang Marquis Mansion. Tomorrow you can send someone to Lingyang Marquis Mansion to ask if anyone has found it."
After saying that, Wen Jiaojiao couldn't resist the sleepiness and rolled up the quilt.
As a result, her jade pendant could not be found for several days. Qi Yao even came to Wen Mansion to find her and lie down with her, holding a jewelry box containing various jade pendants, some of which were very similar to the jade pendants she described.
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It turned out that Aunt Shuang thought her jade pendant was very important, but she sent people to search the entire Lingyang Marquis Mansion several times but could not find it. She was afraid that she would be sad, so she collected many jade pendants for her, including Qi Shuo.
Qi Yao's share, even the Marquis of Lingyang heard about it, and asked someone to dig out some jade pendants from the warehouse and give them to her, and also added a lot of other gold and silver jewelry, which made Wen Jiaojiao dumbfounded.
Finally, I had a good talk with Qi Yao and asked her to send these jewelry boxes back if they couldn't be found. This would be too troublesome.
Wen Jiaojiao is such a person. The nicer she is to her, the more she is afraid of causing trouble to others.
However, Qi Yao still forced her to keep those jade pendants and other jewelry boxes.
Qi Yao said: "What are you doing, Sister Jiaojiao and I, so out of sight? We can't keep these things in our warehouse."
Wen Jiaojiao had two coins in his pocket that jingled in his last life, and he finally experienced the mentality of a nouveau riche in this life.
The matter of the jade pendant fell into disuse and was gradually forgotten by Wen Jiaojiao. As soon as Wen Jiaojiao got up from her nap that day, she saw her mother-in-law entering her room and rummaging through boxes and cabinets to pack her things.
Normally, when her mother-in-law behaves like this, she knows that she is either going to eat or going out.
Xiao's mother packed her things and told her that in a few days it would be the day when all nations would come to the palace to pay homage. At that time, the palace would entertain envoys from various countries, and all the aristocratic families in Beijing would also enter the palace to attend the banquet and communicate with these envoys.
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This is a grand banquet held once every three years. It is to show the strength and friendship of Beiyuan to all the countries. All the officials invited by the palace are going to the banquet.
Wen Jiaojiao has become accustomed to going out for a banquet every now and then. For her, the only difference is whether the scale of the banquet is large or small.
Of course, she would still be happy to go to a banquet that she knew well, but now she didn't have many people she knew well.
So Xiao's mother planned to go to Yunqing Temple on Yunlu Mountain on the outskirts of Beijing to pay homage to the Bodhisattva before taking Wen Jiaojiao into the palace.
This was an autumn outing that Xiao Yurong had planned before, but it was delayed by Wen Jiaojiao's injuries every three days.
Tomorrow happened to be her father Wen Tingshan taking a rest, so Xiao Yurong was going to take the whole family there together.
Xiao Yurong didn't want to take Ye's mother and daughter with her, so she just said a few words. As a result, the couple had another big quarrel in the study room and broke up unhappy.
"Your father goes to court when he is in office. When he is not in office, he spends every day in the Hanlin Academy studying books and reading calligraphy and paintings, or hanging out with that bitch all day long. He doesn't want to take care of this family at all."
"Beautiful girls should end their friendship before they grow old. Jiao Jiao will never find a man like your father in the future. He seemed to be an honest man at the beginning. Within two years, he took in one concubine after another and fell in love with one after another."
"Those elegant literati are just prudes. They are full of sweet words and full of lies. Jiaojiao should not marry a scribe in the future."
Wen Jiaojiao sat on the side holding a fruit plate and eating seasonal fruits, watching her mother-in-law packing things while chattering to her father.
These words made her ears feel calluses, but she felt that her mother was right. Literary men were really good at coaxing people. These days, Shen Zhishu went to Wen Mansion every two days.
Although Shen Zhishu had a good relationship with his eldest brother Wen Hong and often exchanged calligraphy, painting, and poetry, he always brought her gifts and pastries and candies every time he came, as if he pretended not to listen to what she said that day.
Fortunately, she said hello to her eldest brother. Every time Shen Zhishu asked her, he said he was not feeling well and rested in the yard.
Several times when Shen Zhishu came, the gossips Xiang Jin and Zi Ju said that the second son of the Shen family had given many good calligraphy and paintings to Wen Miaoran.
Wen Miaoran had a cold personality and loved calligraphy and painting. When she was studying in the academy, Wen Ruyue always asked her to help her with her homework, so after studying for more than ten years, Wen Ruyue's handwriting was still like a dog's.
Beiyuan's writing is mostly similar to modern writing, except that the glyphs are much more complex. Wen Jiaojiao has never practiced calligraphy, so writing is like a dog crawling.