Chapter 2663 Yo ho
Chang Yu understood and asked, "Did Mother only invite people of our generation, or did she invite all the aunts as well?"
The eunuch smiled and said, "It's not good to leave out the other princesses, but the eldest princesses may not be well-off, and Your Majesty doesn't want to ask them to spend money, so we have only sent invitations, and they are limited to these few families in the capital. If any family is interested, they can just give a few taels of silver. As for the princesses, tomorrow will be the fourteenth day, and Your Majesty means that it is a good time to have a reunion dinner in advance."
In other words, the queen only intends to fleece her daughters and has no intention of asking for money from her younger sisters-in-law.
Chang Yu understood and nodded, saying, "Okay, tomorrow night my husband and I will go to the palace to accompany my father and mother."
The eunuch then smiled and took his leave.
Princess Changyu thought for a moment, then asked her maid to fetch some money. She then opened her jewelry box and picked out some pieces of jewelry she didn't particularly like. She then ordered, "Go find a box."
Princess Changyu put the jewelry in and said with her chin slightly raised, "Take all of these with you tomorrow."
Donate it to the Queen to prepare military supplies.
The maid agreed.
Princess Mingda's mansion next door was also looking for things, not to mention gold and silver, but also some things they didn't need or didn't like very much.
Bai Erlang rolled up his sleeves and personally rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, pointing out many pieces of cloth that he didn't like. These could all be sold. Each piece could be sold for twenty or thirty taels, enough to buy a lot of medicinal herbs.
Mingda also opened her jewelry box. Bai Erlang went over to take a look. Every time she took out a piece, he put it in the big box on the other side. After a long time, there were only two gold hairpins in the small box, and they were put there because the styles were not very good-looking.
Mingda looked at him helplessly. Bai Erlang said, "These are all beautiful. Why don't we go back to Zhou's house tomorrow? My mother left behind a lot of things before she left. Her jewelry is all old. We can use hers to pay for it."
Mingda: "...If your mother-in-law knew, she would kick you out, right?"
"No, at worst we can just buy some new jewelry for Mother. She would be heartbroken if she knew you were donating such beautiful things."
Mingda couldn't help but ask, "Isn't that for raising military funds? You didn't say anything when I donated the money."
"That's money, not jewelry," Bai Erlang said. "There's a difference between the two. These pieces of jewelry have to be sold at a discount to convert them into money. If they were truly bad, it would be fine, but I think these pieces are quite good, with good craftsmanship. They were all given to you by His Majesty and His Majesty, and it would be painful to sell them at a discount."
Mingda was stunned for a moment before he smiled. He lowered his eyes and thought for a moment before nodding, "Okay, then we'll donate more money and keep Grandma's jewelry."
Bai Erlang said, "Let's go back tomorrow to take a look. It's Mid-Autumn Festival soon, so we can go back and give some mooncakes to our great-aunt."
Mingda immediately said, "I have two boxes of good tea here. I'll send one to my great-aunt tomorrow."
Bai Dalang was sent to a remote place, while Mr. Bai and Mrs. Bai returned to their hometown. Now the only relatives of Bai Erlang in the capital are Bai Shan's family.
Well, there is also the Bai family, with whom we don’t interact much.
Mingda has a good relationship with Manbao, and also has a good relationship with Mrs. Liu and Zheng. After all, they are elders, so Mingda respects them very much.
So the next morning, they took the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts and went out, and then they ran into the carriage of Princess Changyu's family.
Princess Changyu's carriage caught up from behind. Since they were the only two families on the street, she arrogantly occupied the other half of the road, side by side with Mingda's carriage. She lifted the curtain and shouted, "Mingda, what are you doing so early in the morning?"
Mingda opened the curtain, and Changyu saw Bai Erlang, whose head was nodding and almost falling asleep in the car.
Mingda smiled and said, "Let's go to Zhou's house to give festival gifts. Where's my sister?"
Chang Yu was stunned for a moment before saying, "I'm going back with my husband to deliver festival gifts, and I also have to have lunch with my parents-in-law. Didn't Mr. Bai go back to his hometown?"
Mingda said, "I'm going to give a festival gift to my great-aunt."
That's a huge gap. Changyu was a little envious. This wasn't about giving a holiday gift, it was clearly about going to have fun with Zhou Man.
She looked as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
Wei Yu saw this and smiled, "After lunch, Princess, why don't you go visit Master Zhou and Master Bai? Our families don't live far from each other, so I wonder if a sudden visit would bother them?"
"No, no," Bai Erlang woke up with a start while Changyu was talking. He was now leaning against the window and said to Wei Yu and his wife, "Just go ahead. I'll ask Bai Shan and the others to prepare some food. It's cool in the open pavilion at home right now. My aunt has planted a lot of chrysanthemums, so we can enjoy them and drink tea."
Bai Erlang said with a smile, "You don't know, but last year my great-aunt had a lotus pond dug on their farm. We originally wanted to pick lotus roots and eat lotus roots, but this year there was a bit of a drought, the water was not deep, and the place where the pond was dug was mostly sandy. So my great-aunt had some crabs raised in the lotus pond. Now is the time to eat crabs. I wonder if the farm has sent any to our family. If so, you can enjoy some crabs when you come."
Chang Yu's eyes lit up when he heard this and he immediately grabbed Wei Yu's arm.
Wei Yuhan smiled and nodded, "Let's go."
Chang Yu was a little scared of Wei Zhi, so he whispered, "Eunuch..."
Wei Yu whispered, "I'll go and tell them."
Changyu was satisfied.
When they reached the intersection and entered another district, the two carriages could no longer run side by side, so Changyu's carriage fell behind.
There were more and more pedestrians on the street. There were more people here, and it was close to the East Market. Some people had set up stalls on the roadside. Chang Yu sat by the window and looked at the things outside without blinking.
Seeing her reluctant look, Wei Yu hesitated and asked, "Do you want to eat some?"
Chang Yu immediately said, "Okay."
She immediately tapped the carriage wall to stop it. Pointing to a table of customers on a bun stand outside, she said, "Is that roasted persimmons? I want some roasted persimmons."
Their group stopped and completely separated from the people from Princess Mingda's mansion.
The people in the princesses' mansions on both sides were accustomed to this situation. They just went back to their homes and did their own things without waiting for anyone.
As Lou Mian was dawdling towards the street corner, he looked up and saw a couple standing in front of the stall. Wei Yu was holding a plate in her hand and carefully using a reed tube to let Princess Changyu suck out the juice from the persimmons, so that she could eat all the roasted persimmon flesh in a nice and elegant way.
The guard following Lou Mian also saw it and immediately reminded him, "Master Lou, the princess is over there, hurry up."
Lou Mian: "Didn't you see the prince consort and the princess together?"
The guard said nonchalantly, "So what? Is he as handsome as you? The princess won't even look at him while you're here."
Lou Mian: ...What if you don’t want to go up?
But this was not something he could decide. Seeing that he was hesitant to move, the guard even reached out and pushed him, saying, "Master Lou, the prince gave instructions before you came out."
See you at 6pm
(End of this chapter)
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