Chapter 398 Extra 8

Hearing this, Yu Tang looked down at her skirt.

Xu Xuan laughed and said, "Ah Tang, I also want to ask you, where did you make this skirt? It's so beautiful. I want to make one too. Is it the new style in Hangzhou? The colors are so beautifully matched."

Yu Tang smiled and said, "If you like it, I'll have someone make one for you. But you have to wait for this embroidery, which was embroidered by the lady named Mei."

It doesn't say whether it is a new style or who made it.

Xu Xuan couldn't help but feel a little strange after hearing this, and asked, "Why did you bring up Madam Mei?"

Yu Tang didn't elaborate, but smiled and said, "If you don't have high requirements for embroidery, you can ask our embroiderer to make you a similar one."

Xu Xuan had seen many good things, and she didn't think Mei Niang's craftsmanship was that superb. She smiled and said, "My embroiderer's craftsmanship is also good, but she is better at embroidering flowers. I think the color combination of your skirt is very beautiful. What kind of material did you use?"

Different fabrics can produce slightly different colors and even different gloss.

Yu Tang smiled and pointed at her skirt: "It's all Hang satin, you can buy it in any ordinary satin shop."

Pei Dan heard this and said, "Third aunt, I want one too. When you make a skirt for Sister Xu, ask Xiu Niang to make one for me." She also widened her eyes and asked, "Third aunt, did you bring Xiu Niang with you this time?"

Xi Ge'er had already drunk the water. Madam Pei took a handkerchief and wiped Xi Ge'er's mouth. She smiled and interrupted, "Your two little cousins ​​are here with us, aren't they? This time we not only brought Xiu Niang, but also a cook. I didn't have a good meal the last time I came to the capital."

This is of course an exaggeration, but it is also true that Madam Pei suffered a bit the last time she came.

Everyone laughed.

The lady who manages the courtyard came in and asked where the lunch was.

Madam Pei pointed to the large round table in the middle of the room and said, "Put it here? It's warmer here. Don't put it here or else the child will get frozen."

The housekeeper left immediately.

The old lady put Qian'er on the ground and said with a gentle smile, "Go! Go play with your brother."

Qian Ge'er nodded with a smile, ran to Jiang Ge'er and held her brother's hand.

Yuan Ge'er shouted "Brother" to the two of them.

The old lady laughed and said, "It's not my brother. It's my uncle."

Yuan'er really wanted to play with Jiang'er and Qian'er, so he obediently changed his words and called them "uncle".

Qian'er hid behind her brother and looked at Yuan'er curiously without running around. Jiang'er nodded like a little adult and said "good boy" in the manner of an elder.

This made everyone laugh again.

The housekeeper came in with the maids carrying food boxes amid everyone's laughter.

Everyone returned to their seats, rinsed their mouths and washed their hands, and had lunch.

Yu Tang took Jiang'er and Qian'er to take a nap. Old Madam Pei was in good spirits and stayed in the warm pavilion to drink tea and talk with Xu Xuan and others.

Jiang Ge'er asked Yu Tang: "Mom, Dad said that their branch has nothing to do with our family anymore, should we still let them call me uncle?"

Or maybe it was because they had children a long time after getting married. Yu Tang loved both of her sons very much. Even though Jiang'er was already six years old, she would still watch him fall asleep before leaving.

Yu Tang tucked the corner of the quilt for him and said with a smile: "Just listen to your father."

After all, Pei Tong is Madam Pei's grandson, and it is impossible for Madam Pei to really ignore him.

But in Yu Tang's family, she has always maintained Pei Yan's dignity.

Brother Jiang nodded solemnly.

Qian, who was sleeping next to Jiang, suddenly said in a clear voice, "I will listen to you, big brother."

Yu Tang couldn't help laughing.

The younger son is like the older son's belt. He follows his older brother wherever he goes without saying a word. He supports his older brother in everything he says and gives the delicious food to his older brother first. He is very adorable.

Yu Tang gently touched her son's forehead and said with a smile, "Go to sleep! Mom will leave after you guys have slept."

The two children nodded, closed their eyes, and soon fell asleep.

Only then did Yu Tang return to the warm pavilion.

Yuan Ge'er was also taken away by the wet nurse to take a nap. Gu Xi was sitting next to Old Madam Pei, peeling oranges for her. Old Madam Pei was talking to Xu Xuan: "...Then let's rest for a night before leaving. Safety first." Then she sighed, "The house that Atang bought is good. It is convenient for everyone."

Xu Xuan responded with a smile: "She still likes shopping."

"That's why they say that if you are not from the same family, you will not enter the same door!" The old lady laughed and said, "Xiaguang also likes to buy things. The two of them have had nothing to do in recent years, so they have renovated their houses very beautifully. It's a pity that you are in the capital all year round, otherwise you could go and live there often." After saying that, the old lady looked up and saw Yu Tang, then waved at her.

Yu Tang walked over.

Madam Pei took the orange wrapped in a handkerchief by Gu Xi, but did not eat a single slice. She passed it to Yu Tang and asked, "Are Jiang'er and Qian'er both asleep?"

Yu Tang didn't really want to eat the fruit that Gu Xi had peeled, but the old lady handed it to her, and she couldn't refuse the old lady's intention, so she took it and said, "Everyone has gone to bed."

The old lady asked again, "Who is guarding their room?"

Yu Tang knew that the old lady treated the two children as her own precious eyes. If she was worried about the people on duty, she would send Madam Ji or Madam Chen to look after them personally.

She said hurriedly, "Their wet nurses are both guarding there."

As expected, the old lady still couldn't be completely relieved and said, "We should have taken Ah Xing with us."

Since Ah Xing saved Yu Tang, she became one of the most loyal people in the old lady's heart. After Jiang Ge'er was born, the old lady discussed with Yu Tang and let her become the housekeeper in Jiang Ge'er's room.

The old lady had wanted to take her with her when she left the capital this time, but she had been married for several years and finally got pregnant. Yu Tang was afraid that she would be tired from the long journey, so he let her stay in Lin'an.

Pei Dan listened and asked Ah Xing: "Is she still in the Pei family now?"

The Pei family intentionally kept the news of Yu Tang being hunted down by Peng Shiyi secret, but the family still knew about it. Especially Pei Dan, who was also one of the parties involved. Afterwards, Pei Dan specially rewarded Ah Xing with a small bag of gold ingots for her loyalty and bravery. So she also knew that after Ah Xing returned to Lin'an, the old lady released her from the state and gave her fifty acres of high-quality farmland as a dowry.

"Still." Yu Tang smiled, "She is a person with her own ideas. With the protection of the old lady, she found a son-in-law to live with her. He usually works in the mansion, and returns to her own home during festivals."

"It's still possible!" Pei Dan said in surprise.

"Why not?" The old lady smiled and said, "Rules are set by people. She has done a favor to our Pei family, so naturally she is different from others. The maids in the house saw it and knew what they should do. It's a good thing."

Pei Dan was thoughtful.

After greeting Madam Pei in the evening, she sent Yu Tang back to her room and asked him curiously, "Have you found out the origin of Ah Xing?"

Yu Tang smiled and said, "She is just a girl from an ordinary farmer's family."

Pei Dan was a little unconvinced.

Yu Tang laughed and said, "You still don't believe that I have a strong opinion!"

Pei Dan thought it made sense, so he put the matter behind him. He chatted and laughed with Yu Tang for a while, and when he saw it was getting late, he stood up and said goodbye.

Yu Tang felt that the fewer people knew about Ah Xing's life experience, the better.

According to Pei Yan's investigation, their family must have offended the local gentry in their hometown, and when they fled, they passed through Lin'an and were forced to stay in Lin'an. Ah Xing was dissatisfied with his parents' preference for his younger brother since he was a child. He always liked to compete with boys and acted like a boy. He was quite chivalrous and courageous.

But as long as the Pei family has no ill intentions, both Pei Yan and Yu Tang are willing to accept her.

She did help Yu Tang a lot.

It’s just that Pei Yan drank a little wine when he came back in the evening, and talked more than usual.

He questioned Yu Tang: "I heard that you wanted our embroiderer to make a skirt for Xu that is exactly the same as the one you are wearing today?"

Yu Tang knew that his "jealous" problem had come back again, and the older he got, the more childish he became. If she didn't coax him, he would really not speak to her for two or three days.

"No!" Yu Tang said calmly, "Didn't we agree that if you have any doubts, you should come and ask me, and don't just listen to what the middlemen say? I did tell my embroiderer today to make a skirt for Madam Yin that is similar to the one I'm wearing. It's similar, but not exactly the same. And I also told Madam Mei that the flowers and birds were embroidered by her, and if she wants, she can only let my embroiderer help her embroider the flowers."

The skirt she wore today was given to her by Pei Yan.

I specially asked someone to send the embroidered pleats to Miss Mei.

He also liked to make hairpins and jewelry for Yu Tang himself.

Yu Tang likes it very much.

But she was afraid that others would think Pei Yan was a plaything and had lost his ambition, especially since she became pregnant. Pei Yan had hardly left the house and even helped her take care of the child. She never mentioned these things in front of outsiders.

Pei Yan looked much better.

Yu Tang took the opportunity to say, "Look at you, you like to talk nonsense when you drink. Can't you drink anymore? You can't control yourself after drinking?"

"Nonsense!" Pei Yan denied, "Do I know what I'm doing?"

Of course Yu Tang knew that she was just messing around with Pei Yan.

Pei Yan heard what he wanted to hear, and was very satisfied. He thought of his son and said, "Are they all asleep? I'll go check!"

Yu Tang stopped him and said angrily, "Look at you, you reek of alcohol, change your clothes and wash up before going."

The longer she lived with him, the more she felt that Pei Yan was rebellious. He scoffed at such ideas as "holding grandchildren instead of sons" and "women's virtue lies in their lack of talent". Not only did he hold his son, he also liked to play with him.

Jiang'er was the one he enlightened himself.

By next year, he plans to personally enlighten Xi Ge'er.

The two sons were not like other sons who were as happy to see their father as a mouse seeing a cat. Both sons were very close to him. When he came home late like this, he would always have to see the two sons in person before he could feel at ease.

Pei Yan was not really drunk, he was just a little angry that Yu Tang wanted to give the skirt he made for her to Xu Xuan as an example. He followed Yu Tang's advice and changed his clothes. He also drank some sobering soup before going to his son's resting room with Yu Tang.

(End of this chapter)