Chapter 413 Face
What Chen Afu wanted most now was to take a hot bath quickly, then sit on the warm kang to eat mutton soup pot, and then sleep like crazy.
But Princess Rui came, so they had to solve their problems first.
She carried Li Xuan to the upper room and said, "Xuan'er, your mother is here to pick you up. She has been away from you for so long, and she misses you so much that she cries every day. You have to be good..." and go home with her.
Princess Rui came out of the upper room and stretched out her hand and choked, "Xuan'er, Xuan'er..."
Li Xuan already had an impression of his biological parents. During the time in the Chu family, his wet nurse Wei Ma would tell her every day how his mother loved him and missed him, and how the palace in the capital was. Li Xuan always knew that his real home was the palace. Before returning to the capital, Chen Afu also did a lot of work for him, telling him that he would return to his home after returning to Beijing.
Li Xuan let Princess Rui hold him for marriage, but he was unwilling to go back to the palace with her. He was forced to go back by his wet nurse, and he cried a lot.
Chen Afu was reluctant to let him go, but he couldn't just monopolize someone else's son. Touching his head, he said, "Xuan'er, don't cry. If you miss your aunt, come to your aunt's house to play."
Li Xuan sobbed and said, "When your aunt returns to the house in Dingzhou, remember to bring Xuanxuan with you. Xuanxuan likes your aunt, brother, sister, and brother."
Chen Afu didn't know how to answer this question, so he laughed twice.
Princess Rui had long heard the prince say how smart her son was. Today, she saw that he was indeed much smarter and more articulate. She didn't expect him to make this request. This, this, this is really smart beyond measure. Not only was she not angry, she cried with joy.
She held Chen Afu's hand and said, "Mrs. Chu, I cannot thank you enough for your kindness. My prince and I will remember your kindness forever."
Chen Afu smiled and said, "You are too polite, my princess. I also like Xuan'er very much. I often bring him here to play when I have nothing to do."
After sending them away, Yu Saozi pointed to the pile of colorful gold and silver jewelry on the table and said, "This is a gift from Princess Rui."
Chen Afu and his son took a bath and changed into clean clothes. The maid of Mrs. Chu San came.
She smiled and said, "Mrs. San said that it is late now and the eldest lady is tired from the journey, so she doesn't need to pay respects to the elders..."
Chen Afu stood up and thanked her, and asked someone to give the maid a purse.
She sat on the kang, fed the two children, and put them on the kang to play, eating soup pot while listening to Yu Saozi's report.
Yu Saozi said that the mansion was calm and peaceful. With Mrs. Chu San in control, the second wife couldn't do anything to make a witch. However, when the two brothers were one month old, the two sisters-in-law had a fight.
Because the third wife wanted the second master or the third master to take the second girl to Dingzhou to drink the full moon wine on behalf of the Marquis's Mansion, but the second wife found an excuse not to let the second and third masters go. She said that when the third master got married, the old marquis, the marquis, the first master and the grandmother did not return to the mansion. The first house did not give face to the second house, so why should the second house give face to the first house.
The third wife was so angry that she teased her, "Your face is not much bigger than a sparrow on a tree, and you still have the nerve to bring it up. If you don't rely on the first house, what are you?"
The second wife was so angry that she burst into tears...
The second house's legitimate son Chu Ling'an got married on September 8th. At that time, Chu Lingxuan was the busiest. The old marquis was pretending to be sick, and the marquis Chu was in Lingyin Temple. How could he come back to attend the wedding? It was even more impossible for Chen Afu, who was pregnant, to come back. She would not come back even if she was not pregnant.
Chen Afu knew that what Li was really angry about was not her face, but her belly that gave birth to two sons. She laughed for a while and said, "How much face Li has, everyone knows except herself. If you dream of getting things every day, you will lose face more and more in the future."
After breakfast the next day, Chen Afu took her son and the gifts for the third room to Anrong Hall. He also asked the servants to deliver the gifts for the second room to them.
Chen Afu felt that he and Li had torn their faces apart, and he didn't want to pretend that nothing happened.
Mrs. Chu San was holding Chu Lingzhi and talking. When she heard Chen Afu coming with the child, she laughed loudly, "Hurry up, let me see the two little brothers."
Chen Afu saluted the third wife and asked someone to put the children on the kang.
Mrs. Chu San kissed this one and then the other one, and she liked them very much. She smiled and said, "What a beautiful boy, it would be even better if he was a girl."
She also gave two seven-treasure necklaces to the two brothers as a gift.
Chu Lingzhi went out to show off to other people's homes with Sasa's family of three.
Not long after, Chu Zhen came. She would come to the Third Madam every day to set up an hour's worth of rules, and learn how to treat people and manage household expenses.
Chu Zhen saluted the Third Madam, bent her knees to Chen Afu, and called, "Sister-in-law."
Although the smile was far-fetched, she knew to smile and call people, and her temperament was much better than before. This is a big improvement.
Chen Afu also smiled and said, "Auntie."
Chu Zhen took out two small jade pendants and said, "This is a gift for my two nephews, sister-in-law, please don't dislike it."
Chen Afu knew that this must be the suggestion of Aunt Qian, but it was not easy. He smiled and said, "Oh, I thank the second aunt on their behalf."
The two mothers came to salute Chu Zhen with two children in their arms.
Chu Zhen found it very interesting to see the two little brothers who looked almost exactly the same. Her smile became much more sincere, and she went over to tease the children.
Mrs. Chu San wanted to say something to Chen Ahfu, so she said, "Zhen'er, I'm busy today, so you can go back first." She thought Chen Ahfu had done a good job today, so she took off a red gold butterfly hairpin inlaid with rubies from her head and said with a smile, "Everyone likes good children. This is a gift from my grandmother, you can wear it."
This was the second time that the Third Madam had given her something, and it was a reward from the Empress Dowager. Chu Zhen happily accepted it, and said goodbye to Chen Afu before leaving.
Chen Afu smiled and said, "Third Aunt is really good at training people. In less than a year, Second Aunt has changed a lot."
Mrs. Chu smiled, looked at the light snow falling outside the window, her face became serious, and she whispered to Chen Afu, "It is said that Master Wuzhi is very good at predicting things. It is already the end of the year. I wonder if there will really be a snowstorm..."
She also said that since getting the brocade bag, Lord Chu and Master Chu San have not gone north. Even if there are some errands that have to be done, they find excuses to push them away. I just don't know when this deadline will come, and whether it can be avoided...
"It's really worrying." Chu Sanfu sighed, and changed the subject and said, "You brought me two jars of wine last time, and I gave one to the Royal Grandmother. She liked it very much. She would drink a cup every night, saying that it tasted good and made her energetic."
Chen Afu smiled, "I brought two more jars this time." He whispered, "To tell the truth to Aunt San, some rare medicinal materials were added to the mother and son of this wine. That thing was given to me by Master Wuzhi, so it's good for people."
It's not good to let the royal family know that you have good things in your hands, and blame the trouble on the old monk Wuzhi.