"It's disgusting! I don't want to see it! Take it away! Take it away!" Fucha said.
"Master, she said this can beautify the skin and improve complexion," Yan'er said.
"I don't want to use her things. Who knows if she's put anything in them!" said Lady Fucha.
Upon seeing this, Yan'er immediately removed those things.
In the following days, the Fourth Prince learned from Lanqin that Lady Fucha had sprained her ankle, and naturally he wouldn't go to her place. In the Fourth Prince's mind, Lady Fucha was a woman who talked nonsense and had no manners. He really didn't know how the Fucha family had raised such an ill-mannered woman.
Because of her sprained ankle, Lady Fucha had to focus her energy on wrapping zongzi (sticky rice dumplings). She decided to incorporate her idea of the Fourth Prince becoming emperor into the zongzi and send it to him. She figured that if the Fourth Prince saw it, he would be interested in her. He would surely ask her why she could say such things, and then she could seize the opportunity to tell him that she was reborn, that she knew everything about the future, and that if he paid more attention to her, she could slowly guide him to conquer the world.
With this in mind, Lady Fucha immediately urged her maids to go to the kitchen to prepare the ingredients for making zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) for her.
With the Dragon Boat Festival approaching, Lanqin was busy again. Holidays were always busy for her. First, there were matters concerning the palace, then the gift lists for the various princes' households, and the gifts to be prepared for their visits. Because Emperor Kangxi was not in the capital, nor were the Third and Eighth Princes, these visits between brothers were temporarily suspended. However, the Aisin Gioro family had many more brothers and nephews than just these few; counting relatives, there were several hundred people. Now that the Fourth Prince had been granted the title of Prince and was highly regarded by Emperor Kangxi, many people had begun to visit. Those who might not have visited often before, or who only sent gifts to maintain relationships, were now willing to pay their respects.
These people came to visit with their families, and Lanqin had to go out to entertain them, sometimes on behalf of Nian Shi. Even so, Lanqin felt exhausted, because the people who came to deliver gifts almost wore out the threshold of Prince Yong's mansion.
"Oh, my lady, these are the things that the head nanny just sent over. There are jewelry, fabrics, various ornaments and antiques, and also things like the Four Treasures of the Study," Cui Niang said as she walked up to Lan Qin with a gift list.
Lanqin glanced at the gift list, which was densely covered with Qing Dynasty characters. Although Lanqin couldn't read them very well, she could still understand their basic meaning at a glance.
My goodness, the gift-giving during holidays is a nightmare! And these are after the initial screening at the gate. They directly reject those that don't meet the requirements.
"Cui Niang, record everything in the register, then put it in the warehouse and seal it away," Lan Qin said. She had no interest in looking at those things anymore. At first, she was full of curiosity and would have looked at them, but now she had absolutely no desire to see them. Because every day, she was surrounded by a bunch of people reporting all sorts of things. She had seen countless precious things, and even the Fourth Master had bestowed many good things upon Lan Qin.
“Yes, Master. Which items look quite nice? Why don’t we keep a few for Ushiha and Bechuk as dowry?” Cui Niang suddenly said.
"Cui Niang, you really know how to plan. I'm afraid this money won't even stay warm before someone finds a way to get it," Lan Qin said.
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