Chapter 199: Remarriage
Liu smiled and said, "This year's Dragon Boat Festival is the Empress Dowager's sixtieth birthday. The Emperor has issued an edict that all officials of the fifth rank and above in the capital must bring their families to the palace to celebrate the Empress Dowager's birthday!"
"All of them?" Yuan Ziyu opened his eyes wide and asked hurriedly.
"Yeah!" Liu nodded.
Yuan Ziyou thought for a moment, then suddenly looked up at Liu: "Mom, does Second Uncle have to attend the banquet as well?"
"Of course we will go!" Liu nodded and said.
"Since Second Uncle doesn't have a wife now, doesn't that mean he's going to entrust Yuan Zitong to us?" Yuan Ziyu puffed up his cheeks and pouted, "Mom, you and Dad can't agree to this. Yuan Zitong might be up to something bad!"
Upon hearing this, Liu smiled and said, "Don't worry, your second uncle won't let us bring Yuan Zitong into the palace!"
"Why?"
"I forgot to tell you that your second uncle has remarried!" Liu said.
"Ah!" Yuan Ziyou was startled: "When did this happen?"
She hadn't heard a word!
"It happened a few days ago!" Liu said, "I don't know who arranged for your second uncle to marry the concubine's daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Zuo Da Ren!"
Yuan Ziyu nodded. The Minister of the Ministry of Rites was a fourth-rank official in the capital. If a concubine's daughter married a fifth-rank official as his second wife, it would be considered a match made in heaven.
"Mom, you, dad and grandma are all gone?" Yuan Ziyu was so busy these days that she didn't even know anything about it.
Liu sighed, "After all, he's your father's brother, and the two families are still related. If your second uncle remarried, it would be unreasonable for your father not to go. So that day, your father, your grandmother, and I went to help with the arrangements. We returned in the afternoon after the guests had dispersed!"
"Mom, let me take your pulse!" Yuan Ziyu heard that Liu and Yuan Qifeng had both gone to Yuan Qilei, so he hurriedly took Liu's pulse.
Ever since Nanny Gu discovered the Qingyi Powder last time, Yuan Ziyu asked Nanny Gu to make an antidote.
Now, all the people in Yuan Mansion who were infected with the Qingyi Powder have been completely cured.
When Liu and Yuan Qifeng went there, Yuan Ziyu was worried, fearing that the people over there would use some insidious means against them!
Fortunately, there was nothing abnormal about Liu's pulse.
"How is it?" Liu smiled and let Yuan Ziyu take her pulse.
"Not bad!" Yuan Ziyu smiled and let go of Liu's wrist.
Liu smiled and said, "It seems that you have learned a lot from Aunt Gu!"
"That's right!" Yuan Ziyou smiled and said, "Madame Gu knows a lot. I've benefited a lot from learning from her."
"That's good!" Liu smiled and said, "Mother can see that Madam Gu has put her heart into teaching you!"
"Yes, that's right!" Yuan Ziyu smiled and clung to Liu again: "Mother, Aunt Gu treats You'er very well!"
"Then mother is relieved!" Liu smiled, thought for a moment, and then hurriedly said to Yuan Ziyu, "The day after tomorrow we will go to the palace to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday. I heard from your Aunt Meng that in addition to the gifts presented by each family, the noble ladies of each family will also present their talents. Do you have any ideas?"
When it comes to talent, Liu is actually quite worried. She knows her daughter very well. Apart from martial arts and cooking, and the pharmacology that she has become obsessed with after returning to Beijing this time, she is not proficient in other arts such as music, chess, calligraphy and painting!
"Ah!" Yuan Ziyu was a little dumbfounded. She didn't have any talent!
It’s true!
Never mind music, chess, calligraphy, painting, or poetry, she had nothing to show for it. The only thing she had was the couplets and riddles from Moxiangling during the Lantern Festival, which she had memorized because she had fallen so hard in her previous life.
"Mom, can I also offer a birthday gift?" Yuan Ziyu blinked and asked Liu.
"What do you think?" Liu raised her eyebrows and said with a slight smile.
Yuan Ziyou sighed helplessly: "Okay, I'll think about it and think about what talent I can perform!"
Liu felt a little distressed, but there was nothing she could do. At the birthday banquet, it was an unwritten rule that the noble ladies of each family would perform.
"You'er, I've thought about it carefully these past two days!" Liu said, "If it really doesn't work, then you can just dance with a whip. Swords and knives are not allowed in the palace, but whips are still allowed."
"Okay, mother, I'll think about it carefully!" Yuan Zi's worries faded, and he suddenly thought of his own Qiongjiang Pavilion. An idea came to his mind, and he smiled and said, "We must not lose face for our General's Mansion!"
Liu smiled and stroked Yuan Ziyu's hair: "Our General's Mansion's reputation doesn't need a girl like you to fight for it!"
"You'er, you know. Mother is worried that you won't be able to show your talents in the palace and will be laughed at!" Yuan Ziyu leaned against Liu and smiled, "Don't worry, mother. No one will laugh at me. If anyone dares to laugh at me, I'll whip them!"
"You, this is in the imperial palace, be careful not to offend the noble!" Liu was startled when she heard this and said quickly.
Yuan Ziyu nodded quickly: "Don't worry, mother, You'er knows his limits!"
Liu heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this: "That's good. You must control your temper the day after tomorrow. We are in the palace. If you really anger the noble, I'm afraid even your father won't be able to save you, understand?"
"Oh, I see, Mom!" Yuan Ziyu quickly responded with an obedient look on her face.
At the same time, the Yuan family in the west of the city.
Yuan Zitong brought Lian Qiao to the main room and bowed respectfully to Zuo, who was drinking tea: "Tong'er greets mother!"
Zuo was only eighteen or nineteen years old. Although she was a concubine's daughter of the Zuo family, she had been proud and arrogant since childhood. She was eager to marry into a wealthy family. However, because she was jealous of her elder sister, she complained to her aunt. Somehow, the words got to the ears of her mother, who angered her. She even used the excuse of attending to her elder sister's illness to delay her marriage for three years.
It was not until she was nineteen years old this year that her stepmother allowed her father to marry her into the Yuan family because she knew it would cause criticism if she did not marry.
Zuo was unwilling at first, but she couldn't resist her father and stepmother, so she had to marry with grievance. She comforted herself in her heart that although her husband's official position was not high and he was a second wife, he was still the mistress and not a concubine.
But no matter how much she comforted herself, Zuo felt a wave of suffocation in her heart when she saw Yuan Zitong, her stepdaughter who was only a few years older than her. Fortunately, the Yuan family only had a daughter and no son, which made her feel a little comforted.
Zuo blew the tea in the teacup slowly, took a sip slowly, and then lazily placed the teacup on the table beside her. At this time, Zuo seemed to see Yuan Zitong: "Oh, it's Tong'er who is here!"
After saying this, he didn't ask Yuan Zitong to stand up, but only blamed his personal maid: "Qiu Hua, why didn't you remind me that the eldest lady was here?"
Qiu Hua naturally knew what Zuo Shi meant, and she quickly bowed and apologized, "Please don't blame me, Madam. It was my negligence!"
Zuo scolded Qiu Hua, then smiled at Yuan Zitong and said, "Tong'er, hurry up and get up. It's mother's fault. I didn't see you coming and made you stand there for so long!"
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