The old lady was still holding up the exquisite headband she had just received, when she heard her husband's words. She rolled her eyes at him and deliberately said, "You usually cherish those few things on your table the most, and you never let the maids clean them. Now you're willing to replace them?"
Yu Chongshan waved his hand dismissively and said, "No matter how good those things are, can they compare to what my granddaughter gave me?"
As he spoke, he leaned closer to his wife and said somewhat embarrassedly, "My dear wife, I've thought about it, and you're right. Although this year isn't a full birthday celebration, who says that we can't invite relatives and friends to celebrate our 52nd birthday?"
As if he had thought of something, he smiled and said, "Madam, look, there aren't many days left until the actual day. Shouldn't we have the eldest son's wife take care of things and send out invitations to all our relatives and friends?"
His granddaughter said she would prepare a birthday gift for him and present it to him in front of everyone. Just thinking about it made Yu Chongshan very excited.
This will also let those who want to take his granddaughter away see that the child is very close to them, and they shouldn't always try to take his granddaughter away.
The old lady naturally saw through his little scheme and deliberately said, "Didn't you say before that it would be fine for the family to have a meal together?"
This is going to be a big event, and time is really tight, especially now that the weather is getting cooler. We'll have to carefully consider the menu.
A hint of embarrassment flashed across Yu Chongshan's face as he said, "I just wanted to let our granddaughter have some fun since it's her first year coming home to celebrate my birthday."
Besides, we don't need to put too much thought into the dishes; the usual banquet dishes will suffice.
When people come, it's enough for my granddaughter to give me gifts. As for food, as long as I'm full, that's fine. Which of his colleagues' families is short of food?
Old Master Yu and his wife Zhong Chun were also looking at the things their daughter had sent to them in their room.
Yu Zhongchun pointed to a jade pendant carved from green jade and said, "Madam, remember to have this jade pendant hang on your waist when you go to court tomorrow."
Zhang picked up the jade pendant on the table and examined it carefully. The jade pendant was carved with a scene of the Four Immortals of Fortune, Prosperity, Longevity and Happiness preaching on an immortal mountain.
It's clearly the work of a master craftsman; the carving is exquisite and carries a rustic charm, plus it has auspicious connotations.
Zhang said with a smile, "Didn't you usually dislike wearing these pearls and jade? You even said that these are things for women and not suitable for a grown man like you."
It's safe to say they're a perfect mother-in-law and daughter-in-law; they both tease their husbands in the same way.
Yu Laoda hadn't yet developed the thick skin of his father, and his face immediately turned red when his wife teased him.
He quickly smiled ingratiatingly, "Madam, it was my fault before, I hope you can forgive me. This jade pendant was a gift from our daughter, so naturally I will wear it every day."
Seeing that her husband had given in, Zhang stopped teasing him and said with a smile, "Don't worry, sir, I will definitely put it on you tomorrow morning. Also, would you like to wear this jade thumb ring as well?"
Yu Zhongchun took the white jade thumb ring from his wife, silently put it on his left hand, and said with a smile, "Our daughter has such good taste, it fits me perfectly."
This gift has made some people happy, but others are not.
The courtyard of the fourth wife, Yu Ningrong.
Yu Ningrong asked her head maid, Fuxi, "Have you found out the things I asked you to inquire about?"
Fuxi's heart sank. She had been serving the Eighth Miss for three or four years and knew her personality well. She felt a little uneasy.
She curtsied and said, "Miss, I asked the maids around the young ladies, and the things they received in their courtyards are the same as ours."
As she watched the Eighth Miss's once beautiful face become increasingly distorted, her heart sank.
Sure enough, the sound of a kettle and teacups hitting the ground followed immediately.
Fuxi quickly knelt down to beg for forgiveness, hurriedly saying, "Miss, please calm down. Perhaps... perhaps those maids made a mistake..."
Yu Ningrong said resentfully, "She just looks down on me. She sees me as the same as those other concubine's daughters. That bitch Yu Ningrou was the same way before."
But now that bitch is gone, another wild girl of unknown origin treats me the same way, comparing me to those lowly concubine's daughters..."
With a crash, she knocked over a vase containing several bright red chrysanthemums, splashing water all over Fuxi's head and body.
A small shard of porcelain flew past her forehead, leaving a tiny blossom of blood.
The commotion quickly alerted the couple from the fourth house.
When they entered, they found Fuxi kneeling on the ground, covered in tea and bleeding from his forehead, while his daughter stood in the messy inner room with a furious expression on her face.
"What's wrong? Why are they so angry?"
As Madam Bao, the fourth wife of the Yu family, walked inside, she asked anxiously, "If the maids make a mistake, just take them out and beat them with a board. Why do you, a young lady, have to do it yourself?"
"If word gets out, people will laugh at you to death. You're an eight-year-old girl now. You must never act so recklessly in the future."
Seeing that her daughter hadn't hurt her, Mrs. Bao was finally relieved.
Hearing her mother say this, Yu Ningrong became even angrier. "Mother is in charge of our courtyard. How could such a small matter be spread to everyone?"
This isn't the first time she's done this; hasn't a single word of it gotten out?
The Yu family only knew that the Eighth Miss was a bit spoiled and willful, and liked to compete with the Sixth Miss, but these were all just matters between the two young ladies, minor squabbles that were harmless.
However, the fact that the Eighth Miss had a bad temper in private and would often take her anger out on others was known only to the people of her fourth branch of the family; the rest of the household was unaware of it.
The rumor that the Eighth Miss had an even worse temper than the Sixth Miss had not reached the ears of the head of the family.
Old Master Yu didn't pay much attention to these matters in the inner quarters. As for Old Madam Yu, being born out of wedlock in the fourth branch of the family, she still had a concubine alive, so she was generally well-off and even less likely to care about these things.
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