Xie Qing pulled her and ran out: "Let's just watch the fun. My leg can heal for a while."
Qin Wan grabbed Xie Qing and looked at him with a smile: "As His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, you often travel outside. I think quite a few people know you. How about this, we disguise ourselves. Otherwise, I'm afraid the Pingyang Marquis' Mansion won't let us in."
Xie Qing's scalp tightened when she looked at him, but he was still attracted by her smile and nodded.
A quarter of an hour later.
A handsome young man with a graceful figure came out from behind the curtain, and turned around to lead out a tall, delicate and pretty girl with a shy face.
The girl was holding a round fan in her hand, her eyes twinkling, she looked so beautiful.
Zhenzhen was stunned, and even Xiaoluzi rubbed his eyes in disbelief: "Ma, Madam..."
Zhenzhen pushed him and said with a smile, "Call her Miss, why call her Madam?"
Qin Wan held a folding fan in her hand, pointed at Zhenzhen, and said with a smile, "Good eyesight! This is my distant cousin, Miss Qingqing. And I am the third young master of the Qin family."
This third child was naturally counted from his parents' side. She smiled like a cat that had succeeded in its evil plan, cunning and playful.
Xie Qing covered her face with a round fan, and glanced at Zhenzhen and Xiao Luzi with her beautiful eyes. Xiao Luzi shuddered all over and immediately lowered his head, not daring to remain silent.
Zhenzhen quietly moved two steps to the side and hid behind Qin Wan, but couldn't help but stick her head out to look at Xie Qing. She was so beautiful!
Qin Wan reached out and pushed Zhen Zhen's head back, then pulled Xie Qing's sleeve and said with a smile, "Let's go. If we walk too slowly, we won't be able to see the excitement."
Qin Wan had been the head of the Lu family for eight years, so she was naturally familiar with all the relatives of the Lu family. She threw five taels of silver and reported her name as a gift and went in directly.
Xie Qing whispered, "Five taels of silver is a bargain for them."
Qin Wan opened her folding fan and whispered to him, "When you see monkey performers on the street, don't you have to give them a few tips? Isn't this more exciting than the monkey show?"
Xie Qing chuckled: "That makes sense, let's go!"
The dowry is being delivered today, and the Lu family is also going to have a banquet. After all, a big happy event like a wedding will make every family excited for a few days.
Because it was so lively, the two of them couldn't be noticed. They mixed in with the crowd and found a corner where they could sit at a table with a good view.
Qin Wan greeted and spoke to the people at the same table familiarly, saying, "The person who went to deliver the dowry should be back to report the news, right?"
The people who deliver the dowry are usually brothers in the family. Sometimes there is a ceremony, which is a bit embarrassing. The man’s family will ask for a few red envelopes before they unload the dowry. Then, of course, they have to stay there for dinner.
But when the master is eating, the servants have to come back to report and see whether the husband's family is satisfied with the dowry.
The people at the same table didn't see it: "I don't know, I didn't hear anything, are they back?"
As we were talking, the team that was sending the Zisunbing cakes back from the Chang'an Marquis' Mansion, which had circled half of the capital, arrived at the Pingyang Marquis' Mansion.
Several young masters of the Lu family followed the team dejectedly and went straight to the inner house after entering the door.
Qin Wan stood up and looked at the things in the team: "What is that?"
"Zisun Bobo." Xie Qing has been researching this a lot lately and can explain it clearly. "Zisun Bobo is a custom that came from the north. It symbolizes the early birth of a son and embodies the people's hope for a prosperous family and many descendants."
"Because of its good meaning, we've learned it here too. In the north, anyone can make Zisun Bobo as long as they know how. When it spread to our Great Zhou, we follow the local customs. The one who makes Zisun Bobo is best to be a fully blessed wife, and at the very least, she should have a large family, or at least one or two sons."
"At the very least, a happy family is the best. If you think about it this way, there are only a few shops in the entire capital that can make Zisun cakes, and even fewer that can satisfy Madam Quanfu."
Qin Wan asked curiously, "So the person making the Zisun cake is wrong?"
Xie Qing had good eyesight. He looked at the Zisun cakes placed in front of the hall and shook his head: "If the person making it is not right, then we should go find the shop. It's obviously not the right thing."
The people at the same table, some who knew and some who didn't, all asked at once:
"What's wrong with something?"
Just as Xie Qing was about to speak, someone handed down a piece of Zisun cake, and there was a Zisun cake on the table.
Zisun Bobo is similar to the big flower steamed bun in Qufu, but it has a better shape. Xie Qing has seen it before.
The Zisun Bowen on the table looks neither fish nor fowl. It looks like a Zisun Bowen, but also like the big flower steamed bun from Qufu.
The steamed buns are very soft.
My table mate had never seen one before, so he asked, "It looks like a little pig? It seems quite fragrant."
They moved quickly and broke open the two fist-sized buns.
"It's like the flower steamed buns in Qufu, not bad."
Xie Qing shook his head: "Real descendants' cakes are not made entirely of flour. Instead, they are added with chestnuts, peanuts, and red dates, which symbolize the early birth of a son. This one only has flour, but lacks the key ingredients, so the meaning is not good."
"What's more, this thing represents a very important meaning. Just finding someone to fool around with... this..."
Xie Qing didn't finish his words, but everyone knew what he meant.
You can choose not to do it, but you can't fool around. Isn't that disrespecting people?
Everyone present heard this and immediately started talking about it.
Inside the hall, Old Lady Lu felt a pang of pain on her face as she listened to what the maid from the Marquis of Chang'an's mansion had relayed.
The maid from the Chang'an Marquis's mansion was neither humble nor arrogant, smiling broadly, and speaking sharply, "Our wife said that if the Lu family disagrees with this marriage, we don't have to marry Miss Lu Eighth, so we can call it quits."
Breaking off the engagement on the day of delivering the dowry would be tantamount to trampling on the face of Marquis Pingyang. How could Old Lady Lu agree to that?
She slammed the table and said angrily, "This grandchildren's cake was prepared by my grandson's wife. I was negligent."
After saying this, Old Lady Lu turned and glared at Wu Ziya, and then a maid from Captain An's mansion said with a smile, "This is my fault. However, His Majesty has rewarded me with a jade ruyi for this marriage, so I think he is very satisfied with it. So, I will personally give a shop as a gift to express my apology."
Old Madam Lu was heartbroken. The maid from the Chang'an Marquis' Mansion was only here on behalf of the Madam to ask for accountability and see the attitude of the Pingyang Marquis' Mansion. Naturally, the marriage had to go on.
Hearing that a new farm was going to be built, the old woman was delighted. She expected to receive a large reward when she returned home. However, she did not show it on her face and simply said, "I still have to go back and report to the Madam."
The implication is, of course, that you should stop talking nonsense and just go get it.
Old Lady Lu had no choice but to order the old nanny beside her to go and get the things.
The things in Old Lady Lu's hands, even from the most humble shop, were worth three to five thousand taels of silver. She took the deed from the old nanny and reluctantly handed it to Lu Yan: "Yan'er, you go there in person and apologize to my in-laws on my behalf."
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