Seeing the visitor from the Qin family packing up their boxes and bowing before leaving, Mrs. Cheng was a little startled.
"Sister." Mrs. Wang's voice sounded behind her, and she came out from behind the screen with the sound of footsteps. She looked at the unconscious Mrs. Cheng, "You are not really tempted, are you?"
Mrs. Cheng smiled.
"How could it be?" she said, "If it were any other girl, that's all. She is the only one who knows herself. How could those people be doing it for her?"
Those people really did it for her.
But it is impossible for Mrs. Wang to say this. People should always think more about themselves.
Mrs. Wang smiled guiltily.
"Actually, Madam Cheng herself has fallen in love with our family, Shi Qi," she said.
"Of course, we are more than seventeen," Mrs. Cheng said.
"Then it's settled. The wedding invitations have been exchanged. I'll go back and make arrangements for the rest in the next few days. I'll get married on the 11th and celebrate the New Year in the twelfth lunar month." Mrs. Wang smiled and walked out.
"You're so tired, let's take a rest before leaving." Madam Cheng persuaded her with concern.
"No, no, I'd better go back earlier." Mrs. Wang smiled.
"Go ahead, don't let Shi Qi wait in a hurry." Mrs. Cheng smiled and stood up to see her off.
Mrs. Wang, who was stepping out the door, staggered slightly and stretched out her hand to hold on to the door frame.
Seventeen….
The family is still waiting eagerly, what should I do?
"Ms. Wu, what should I do? I didn't expect the Cheng family to refuse. This, this is different from what Madam guessed."
Outside the Cheng family door, two servant women asked anxiously.
The woman holding the Gengtie box in her hand also looked a little anxious.
"Unexpectedly, I'm not moved at all..." She also said, looking back at the door of Cheng's house.
So there are always many unexpected things happening when you go out.
"Are we going back like this?" another servant asked.
"Then how can it be done?" Mrs. Wu immediately shook her head and said, "How can we go back if we haven't done anything?"
"Then who should I look for now?" the servants said, "should I look for Mrs. Cheng directly?"
After saying this, the corner gate of the alley over there became lively, and a group of people came out talking and laughing.
"The colorful ball show here is very good. Mr. Cao, you have never seen such a lively show in the capital." Jin Geer said with a bit of pride, while not forgetting to add, "I'm treating you."
Manager Cao and others smiled and were not polite.
"Okay, then let Brother Jin spend the money." They laughed.
"Brother Jin!"
A woman's voice came.
"But Mrs. Cheng's golden brother?"
Manager Cao, Jin Geer and others were startled and looked at the smiling women walking towards them, as well as the carriage and four mounted guards behind them.
"Are they the mothers of the Qin family?" Manager Cao recognized the emblem of the carriage at a glance and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.
The women of the Qin family breathed a sigh of relief when they met acquaintances in a foreign land. Although they did not recognize the people in front of them, they were very close to them in their hearts.
"Have you just arrived or have you seen it before..." Manager Cao asked, pointing to the inner courtyard of the Cheng family.
"I've seen it before." Mrs. Wu said, "I just don't know what to do."
Manager Cao then understood.
"Well then, you are tired after traveling a long distance. How about we sit down at a tea shop and talk and rest?" he asked.
The women of the Wu family all laughed, bowed and saluted.
"Thank you very much."
"Brother Jin, look..." Manager Cao turned around and asked Brother Jin with a smile, "The best tea shop here..."
"Come with me." Brother Jin said, puffing out his chest.
Fanjiayuanzi is the most famous restaurant in Jiangzhou Prefecture. It is quiet in the bustle. In addition to the two-story elegant rooms on the street, the garden in the backyard is also exquisitely decorated.
In the past, a servant would not have had the opportunity to step into a place like this. Of course, it might be possible if he could serve as the master's personal servant, but Brother Jin had never even thought about being a servant of the master before. He would not be able to enter a place like this.
I never thought I would come in, and I came in as the host of a treat.
Seeing people coming, the guy in charge of carriages and horses ran over and nodded and bowed in greeting. When he saw the person in front of him clearly, his eyes widened.
"Hey, are you Brother Jin from the riverside behind Cheng's house?" the boy asked in surprise.
Brother Jin recognized him.
"Brother Bao," he said with a smile, reaching out to pat his shoulder, "It's been such a long time."
"You, it is said that you were sold..." the waiter asked, looking at Brother Jin.
The clothes on this boy's body may not look like much, but as a clerk in Fanjiayuan's house, he has a sharp eye and can tell at a glance that they are of high quality and are the kind of clothes only worn by wealthy gentlemen who go to private rooms in the back garden.
Impossible?
"What, stop talking nonsense, quickly arrange the biggest and best private room for us." Brother Jin said.
The biggest and best private room!
"Brother Jin, you're crazy, do you know how much it costs..." The man's jaw almost dropped, he pulled him and whispered.
Brother Jin took out a bag of money from his arms and was about to throw it to the waiter. The guy next to him was ready to greet him at first, but stopped when he heard what the carriage waiter said. When he heard that he wanted the biggest and best private room, he stood up straight again.
As a person who knows my body, I didn’t hesitate to step forward at this time.
"Sir, please come with me." He said in a loud voice, pushed aside the carriage and horsemen, and bowed to invite him.
Seeing Brother Jin and no less than twenty people cheering in, the carriage driver was so stupid outside the door that he almost forgot to drive the carriage.
Crazy...
Even if he doesn't eat, it will cost him a year's salary to enter the biggest and best private room, not to mention more or less food and drinks. I'm afraid that money is the salary he will earn in his lifetime. This is still
He can guarantee that he will be a waiter in Fanjiayuan's house for the rest of his life.
Will he be beaten to death and thrown out soon?
Ignoring the concerns of the waiters outside, Brother Jin and others were already seated in the private room. Although Fanjiayuan only received rich people, there were only a handful of such large numbers of people setting up private tables in a year, and the entire garden suddenly
Everyone here is busy.
The shopkeeper personally came to entertain. Cold dishes, fruits and tea were served first. Bowls of fruit, vegetables, and water were waiting to be summoned. The prostitutes who were singing and drinking before the banquet were also being ordered. They came with harps in their hands, and they were busy and unhurried.
, chaotic but not noisy.
After everything was arranged, the shopkeeper Zhike left, and everyone in the room introduced each other to drink tea. Accompanied by the singing of prostitutes, Mrs. Wu from the Qin family saluted Manager Cao.
"We were ordered by Madam to do something, but Madam Cheng rejected her just now. I didn't know what to do, so I asked Mr. Cao for an idea." She said straight to the point.
"Is it related to my wife?" Manager Cao asked.
Madam Wu nodded.
"Before she came, Madam told us not to bother Madam Cheng. She said that the parents of the family could make the decision. What do you think we should do now?" she said.
Manager Cao then smiled and looked at Brother Jin.
"Then you have to ask Brother Jin." He said.
In any case, they are members of the Zhou family, and Brother Jin is the lady's personal servant.
All eyes turned to Brother Jin.
"What's going on? Is someone bullying my wife?" Brother Jin also asked unceremoniously.
"It's about Madam's marriage." Madam Wu replied without hesitation.
Brother Jin laughed happily.
"You don't have to ask our wife for such a trivial matter," he said, waving his hand.
Little things?
Sure enough, I asked the right question, and it was almost the same as what Madam meant.
"Then..." Madam Wu leaned forward and asked more respectfully, "What else can we do?"
"You have found the eldest lady." Brother Jin picked up the tea bowl and said vaguely while eating, "I haven't found the second lady yet..."
Second lady?
They were not familiar with the place here, so they were immediately stopped and rejected by the head wife of the Cheng family. It would take a lot of effort to see a lady again.
Madam Wu smiled, leaned over and gave a slight salute.
"Then Brother Lao Jin took the trouble to send a message," she said.
Jin Geer's old acquaintance was squatting at the door, and ignored the guests when they came. He glared at him and refused to leave the door even after being scolded a few times, for fear of missing the good show that was about to be staged. But in the end, he waited until Jin Geer and others
When I came out, I didn't see the scene of beating up the freeloader. Instead, I saw the shopkeeper personally delivering it, with a smile on his face.
"Young master, you're welcome to come back next time." The shopkeeper said with a smile, and gently stretched the corners of Brother Jin's flat clothes.
The group of people walked away talking and laughing, while the carriage and horseman stood there dumbfounded and had not yet recovered.
"..Which young master is this? He is so generous..."
"...Yeah, yeah, look at the reward you gave me, it's enough for me for a month..."
Two prostitutes were laughing happily in the hall.
The rewards given to prostitutes are so huge...
The carriage driver swallowed his saliva.
"Yes, whose young master is this? Why haven't you noticed it before? You are so generous." The shopkeeper also sighed.
Which family's son?
"He's not a young master at all." The carriage boy couldn't help but say, "He, he's just a boy from the Beicheng family!"
A boy!
Everyone present stared wide-eyed.
"A boy from the Cheng family?" the shopkeeper said in surprise, "Oh my god, they say Beicheng is rich, but he is so rich! A boy can spend hundreds of dollars without blinking an eye.
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Cheng Qiniang ran into Mrs. Cheng's hall with a gust of cold wind and sat down by the charcoal fire to warm her hands.
"Where is your sister?" Mrs. Cheng Er hurriedly looked out the door, picked up her hand stove, and waited to give it to Cheng Jiaoniang.
It was empty outside the door, except for the servants, women and girls scattered around.
"She's a fool. I won't go shopping with a fool." Cheng Qiniang said with an unhappy look on her face.
"You kid! What did I tell you?" Mrs. Cheng Er frowned and scolded, "She is a fool, so she needs you to coax her. Can't you even coax a fool?"
"She is not obedient at all." Cheng Qiniang argued, "I asked her to go east but she went west..."
"Who told her to be obedient? Just obey her!" Mrs. Cheng Er said with her hand and tapping her forehead.
"I don't want to hang out with her in the smelly place in the south." Cheng Qiniang snorted, "She's just a fool! She does weird things!"
Mrs. Cheng Er ignored her and hurriedly asked Cheng Jiaoniang.
"We walked in the south alley and then went to the river." The servant woman replied, "Madam, don't worry, we said that the Seventh Lady came back first because she was afraid of the cold, and there are people over there to accompany her."
Mrs. Cheng Er then nodded.
"Take the hand stove and deliver it to her," she ordered again.
While he was talking, a servant girl ran in in a panic outside the door.
"Madam, madam."
"What's wrong?" Mrs. Cheng Er frowned and asked displeasedly.
"Madam, madam, I just heard from the woman who was washing at the riverside that someone came to propose marriage to Cheng Jiaoniang." the servant woman said anxiously.
"What's so strange about this? The marriage has been decided..." Mrs. Cheng Er said nonchalantly.
"No, it's not from the eldest lady's natal family, but someone from the capital. They took a lot of Geng Tie, from more than one family..." the servant woman said hurriedly.
Mrs. Cheng Er hummed, then came back to her senses and sat up straight.
"What did you say?" she asked quickly.
The maid took a few steps forward.
"...He just came. Everyone outside the door saw it... He said he was from the Qin family in the Princess's mansion..." She whispered.
"Princess Mansion!" Mrs. Cheng shouted in a loud voice and reached out to grab the servant girl's arm. (To be continued)
