Chapter 560: Bowing (Part 2)

Eleventh Lady expressed her confusion.

"Probably not!" Xu Lingyi said with certainty, "Mother will not easily get out of her wife's bedroom affairs. She is afraid that others will think that the wife is incompetent. Otherwise, Third Brother wouldn't have made such a mess!" As they said this, they were both stunned.

Xu Sijian was only a few days younger than Xu Siyu. Logically, they should have been married.

However, the old lady has been very cold towards the third lady recently. Thinking about it carefully, I feel that this possibility is very small.

Fortunately, Xu Lingyi was an open-minded person. He smiled and said, "No matter who you are arranging a marriage for, you should at least inform us as parents! Wait until mom opens her mouth." He quickly got rid of this speculation and asked about Jiange'er's situation in Yunju Temple: "...From his tone, you accompanied him the whole afternoon?"

"Yes!" Eleventh Lady wanted to laugh when she thought of her son's appearance. "He is extremely curious about everything he sees. If I hadn't drawn some picture books for him to look at before. Fortunately, he is smart, otherwise he probably wouldn't even recognize chickens, ducks, cows and sheep." As she said this, she couldn't help but sigh.

Xu Lingyi listened in silence for a long while.

Two days later, Manager Bai brought golden pheasants, roosters, white cranes, peacocks and other gifts.

"What's the point of this?" Eleventh Lady couldn't help but look troubled. "Will the yard be filled with the feces of these birds and animals?"

But Jian Ge'er shouted excitedly, and rushed over to grab the peacock's tail. The peacock was stupid, and was caught by him. It was stung and flew around in panic. He proudly held the feather to Shiyi Niang: "Fan, fan!"

There is a feather fan made of peacock feathers hanging in Xu Lingyi's study.

Eleventh Lady didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and quickly squatted down to admonish him: "These are the peacock's clothes. It would be a shame if you took off all their clothes!" She pointed at the white shirt on his body and said, "Look, you are still wearing clothes!"

Jian'er nodded and went after the peacock again, determined to put the plucked peacock feather back on the peacock.

The peacock was already irritated, how could it let him succeed? It fluttered around the yard, the pheasant was so frightened that it jumped onto the rockery made of Taihu stone, the magpie hid under the canna flowers, and the white crane flapped its big wings... The maids and women either screamed and hid aside, or rolled up their sleeves to help Jin Ge'er catch the peacock. Zhu Xiang stood in front of Shiyi Niang tremblingly: "Madam, you'd better go back to the room! Jin Ge'er is with Ah Jin, we can handle it here. It will be terrible if these flat-haired beasts jump on you!"

Eleventh Lady was worried about Jiange'er: "Hurry up and bring him over."

Hong Wen went away, but was blown aside by the crane's wings.

Just when things were getting chaotic, Xu Lingyi walked in.

"What's going on?" He was stunned.

Eleventh Lady, however, was like seeing a savior: "My Lord, quickly catch that fairy crane."

Xu Lingyi went up and lifted the two wings of the fairy crane. The fairy crane made a sad and mournful sound, which startled everyone in the Xu residence.

"Who would keep fairy things in the yard?" The lady fed the boy, who had just taken a bath and changed into clean clothes, some green bean soup while she laughed and scolded Xu Lingyi, "Why don't you let people keep it in the back garden?"

Xu Lingyi originally wanted to let Jiangeer play for two days before putting him in the back garden, but who knew it would turn out like this.

He responded somewhat awkwardly, and ordered Suifeng, the newly chosen servant to serve him, to raise the cranes in the back garden.

When Jian Ge'er heard this, he quickly swallowed the mung bean water in his mouth and said hastily, "Dad, it's mine, it's mine."

The lady laughed loudly and ordered Suifeng, "Go, tie red ribbons on the feet of those flat-haired beasts." Then she hugged Jian Ge'er lovingly and said, "Those are our Jian Ge'er's. No one else can touch them."

When Jian Ge'er heard this, he started laughing.

A brilliant smile is brighter than the sun.

The lady was so pleased with it that she asked Madam Du to get a jade cicada relief for Jiang'er: "Is it nice?"

The jade is crystal clear, watery and radiant.

Eleventh Lady was a knowledgeable person and couldn't help but call her "Mom".

Jiang'er held it in his hand and looked at it left and right, looking very curious.

The lady waved her hand dismissively: "Everything is predestined. I want to give it to him, but he may not accept it."

As a result, before the lady could finish her words, Jiang'er had already put it in his pocket.

The lady couldn't help but burst into laughter and kissed Qin'er on the cheek twice: "I knew you would like it."

Eleventh Lady didn't know what to say.

Looking towards Xu Lingyi.

Xu Lingyi disagrees.

The old man likes children, and the little boy is lively and cute. It is not something to be surprised if he uses some harmless little things to play with the child.

He smiled, patted his son's head, and went to see Suifeng put those things away.

Zhihong came in: "Madam, the Third Madam is here!"

The lady nodded and said casually, "Let her in!"

Eleventh Lady went to hug Jian'er.

"No need," the lady said to her, "the child is sweating all over just now and just sat down. Let him drink some mung bean soup here to cool off. Don't follow you around again. The weather is hot now, not like usual."

Eleventh Lady had no choice but to stand aside.

The third lady walked in with a smile on her face. Seeing that the lady was feeding Jiange'er mung bean soup, she hurriedly said, "Our Jiange'er is here too!"

Before the lady's spoon was passed to him, Jiang'er shouted "Third Aunt".

"Oh," the third lady smiled even more, "our Jian'er is so well-behaved, no wonder he has become the apple of his mother's eye..." There was a hint of exaggerated flattery in her tone.

The lady ignored her and continued to feed Jiang'er mung bean soup.

Eleventh Lady felt a little uncomfortable and smiled as she stepped forward and saluted her.

The lady raised her head and asked the maid to bring her a golden stool to sit on. Then she handed the empty bowl to Shiyi Niang beside her, took out a handkerchief to wipe the corners of Qin'er's eyes, and then raised her eyes to the third lady: "I called you here because I have something to tell you." Hearing this, Shiyi Niang was a little surprised.

I wonder if the fact that the Taifu is called the Third Madam has anything to do with Fang's matter?

She couldn't help but prick up her ears.

Then the old lady said, "Brother Zhao is getting old, but you haven't found a suitable marriage for him. I happen to know a family..." The old lady briefly introduced Miss Jin, "The young lady has good looks and good character, and is a perfect match for our brother Zhao. I will make the decision for him. Once you have decided who will be the matchmaker, go to the Jin family and propose marriage in the next two days!"

The third wife was speechless and it took her a long time to recover.

She never dreamed that the Madam would interfere in Xu Sijian's marriage, not to mention that the family the Madam mentioned was so poor...

"Mother, how can this be possible!" The Third Lady could not help but yell, "Let our young man ask a man on East Street who is good at measuring and weighing to be his father-in-law..."

The lady looked at the third lady coldly. Her eyes were as sharp as a knife or a sword, which made the third lady feel cold in her heart. But when she thought of her son, she continued to speak bravely, but her voice lowered involuntarily: "...Our brother Dong is also serving in the Imperial Guard. If his colleagues knew about this, where would he put his face..." At this point, she was stunned and suddenly couldn't continue.

"My son's job was found by the Madam, and now she's taking charge of a marriage... Did the Madam have this in mind when she was finding a job for her son?"

The third lady couldn't help but look up at the lady-in-waiting.

Then I saw the lady's mouth curled up with a sneer: "So, you don't agree with this marriage?"

I don’t agree!

One thousand, ten thousand disagree!

But if this was said out, the wife would definitely be angry. Would she call her husband to scold her? Her husband had been blamed for lending money at high interest rates, and because of this, he lost his official position and was forced to stay at home... He even let Xu Lingkuan contact the Ministry of War and ruin his son's job...

The third wife's mind was in a mess, her mouth was twitching, and she couldn't utter a word.

Although Jian Ge'er didn't understand Feng, he could sense the tension between the adults.

He climbed out of the lady's arms quietly and threw himself into Eleventh Lady's arms.

Eleventh Lady held her son in her arms, patted his back gently, and soothed him tenderly.

The lady smiled faintly as she looked at him, "Since you have no objection, this matter is settled." Then she called Madam Du, "Go get my name card and invite Mrs. Huang San from the Yongchang Marquis's Mansion to come over. I saw that she was very polite when she helped Qin'er to propose marriage, so continue to bother her and let her help Jian'er to propose marriage to the Jin family!"

Mother Du smiled and left.

The sound of the curtain made the third lady tremble.

No, there is already a cunning man in the house. Although her son was left in the warm room by him, he didn't even look at the maid she sent. Yesterday morning, the maid Xingjiao told her that when Fang greeted her and left the room, she actually flirted with her son.

How shameless!

She actually did such a thing in public. She didn't have the reserve that a lady from a noble family should have...

When she thought of this, her blood rushed to her head.

She had to find someone who shared her values. Otherwise, how could she suppress Fang?

For a family like the Jin family, not to mention the Fang family, even I don't like them. If I marry into the family, won't I become a dish for Fang family to eat with rice?

She could no longer care about anything else and knelt in front of the lady.

"Mother," the Third Lady pulled the Lady's sleeve, "It's not that I don't agree with this marriage, but I haven't met Miss Jin yet, and I'm a little worried..."

"I've eaten more salt than you've walked across bridges!" The old lady pulled her sleeves out of the hands of the third lady, "Can't you tell what kind of character Miss Jin is?"

The third lady said hurriedly: "No..."

"Since it's 'not', don't say anything more." Before the Third Lady could say anything, the Tai Madam took over and said, "This matter is settled. Remember to write down the birth date of the young man to me tomorrow." As she spoke, she pretended to be in deep thought and said, "If I remember correctly, the young man was born at the hour of Hai!"

The birth date represents a person's fate. If known by someone with bad intentions, they can even use witchcraft to kill the person. Therefore, when a newborn is born, the good news will not be announced immediately, and usually a time will be chosen to confuse others.

The Taifu pointed out the time of birth of the boy, which was actually the eight characters of his birth. In this way, even if the Third Lady did not bring Xu Sizhuang's eight characters, the Taifu could still write it to the girl.

The third wife replied dejectedly, "Yes."