Chapter 207 A Mess
Chapter 207 A Mess
What? Doesn’t Prince Rui dislike women?
Oh, so it’s not that he doesn’t like women, he just simply likes divorced women?
Many of the concubines present lowered their heads, but glanced at Zhao Jingcheng out of the corner of their eyes, and they couldn't help but look puzzled on their faces.
Zhao Jingcheng thought this dish was good at first, at least the idea was good, and eating it during the New Year showed how sympathetic he was to the people, and the sauce of the dish was indeed good, but Prince Rui told him that it was made by Miss Su Liu.
Su Jin?
Zhao Jingcheng couldn't make any comment about this woman.
Su Jin is from the master's family. She is beautiful. I have met her at the Enrong Banquet. She is a well-educated, polite and well-mannered lady. The children she raised are also good. Both Gu Zixuan and Gu Zilu are outstanding. Gu Suiyu has also been quietly living a peaceful life. No matter how you look at it, Su Jin is perfect, except for one thing.
She was divorced.
In other words, this woman has been married and has three children, and the eldest child will be 17 after the Chinese New Year. How old is her younger brother?
Zhao Jingcheng calculated in his mind. His younger brother was 26 years old, and he would be 27 after the New Year. What about Su Jin?
I seem to have heard that Miss Su Liu was born in the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, so she is two years older than she actually is, so she should be 35 years old now.
Zhao Jingcheng was thinking about all sorts of things in his mind, but finally nodded: "Eat, eat. After tonight, we will start to be busy tomorrow."
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, both Beijing officials and local officials have to come to pay New Year's greetings, so the first day of the Lunar New Year is really busy.
Other people have a holiday at home to rest on New Year's Day, but the emperor has to be so busy. It's really miserable.
Seeing that the emperor changed the subject, everyone continued to eat tacitly. Concubine Dong glanced at Prince Rui, who seemed a little disappointed, and narrowed her eyes slightly.
The palace was bustling with activity, but the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion was quite deserted.
Zou couldn't be exposed to the wind, so naturally she couldn't sit at the table to eat the New Year's Eve dinner. Mother Wen had the maid bring the food to her bedside.
Gu Zhao brought his whole family to celebrate the New Year. It was ok that his wife was not around, but Gu Changqing was also alone because his wife divorced him.
The two single dogs looked at each other, and Gu Zhao's head started buzzing again. He would get angry if they looked at each other any longer.
As for the remaining males, only the sixth brother Gu Zifeng was left. The youngest brother was less than one year old. He could not even sit at the table, let alone eat. He had to be held by a wet nurse to be fed.
Marquis Yong'an let out a long sigh.
I didn't think there were few men in the family before, because Gu Changqing had many sons. Su Jin alone gave birth to two sons, Lin Wanhui gave birth to one son, and with Gu Zifeng, the table of men was quite full during the New Year's Eve dinner. Gu Zixuan was cheerful and outgoing, and he often drank with me. But what about now?
Brother Xuan has joined the army and he may have already arrived in Hexi. I don’t know whether he is in Wuwei, Zhangye, or even Jincheng.
Gu Ziyun, humph, this rebellious son has done something so heinous that being exiled to the army is the lightest punishment!
It is a blessing in disguise that the Marquis' Mansion is not implicated!
As for Gu Zilu, this kid actually went to have New Year's Eve dinner with Su Jin. Gu Suiyu also went. The two siblings took the same car. It can only be said that these two kids are filial and worried that Su Jin would be lonely...
Without these four children, the home felt a lot quieter, especially since these four were the oldest. The rest were just little kids who were neither noisy nor could please or amuse anyone. They were really boring.
Looking at the table of his concubine and daughter, Gu Zhao couldn't help but shake his head.
I haven’t dared to tell Zou about Lin Wanhui’s coming out yet. Now, this concubine actually has the nerve to sit at the table and eat? ?
Gu Zhao was angry, but he also understood that if he was gone, the Marquisate would belong to Gu Changqing, it was only a matter of time. Moreover, he could no longer manage this family and he already wanted to give up power, so he could only advise himself to watch less, listen less, get angry less, and pretend that he saw nothing and knew nothing.
Thinking of this, I finally felt a lot better. Gu Zhao announced the start of the meal and everyone started eating.
"Hmm? What's wrong with this meat?"
Gu Zhao took a bite of meat and immediately frowned.
At another table, Lin Wanhui shivered and bit her chopsticks subconsciously.
"Father, what's wrong with the meat?"
Gu Changqing looked puzzled until he took a bite of the meat, then he frowned: "This meat is injected with water."
Lin Wanhui became even more nervous.
Gu Zhao picked up another piece of goose meat, but ended up getting a mouthful of sand. The old man already had bad teeth, and now it was in so much pain that he covered his cheek. His teeth were hit, and it didn't hurt just in his balls, but his whole body was numb and uncomfortable.
"This goose meat is all sand!!"
Marquis Yong'an was about to collapse. The New Year's Eve dinners in previous years were never like this year's!
The meat is water-injected, the goose meat is full of sand, what else, what else!!
Gu Zhao tasted the other dishes angrily. The fish meat was full of water, and the mutton had air pumped into it. It deflated when poked, and more than half of the meat was gone.
"What the hell is going on!?"
Gu Zhao was so angry that he threw his chopsticks. After all, it was the New Year's Eve dinner of the Marquis' Mansion, but was this meal still edible?
Fake, all fake, all ingredients are problematic, what is going on!!
Gu Changqing was also puzzled. He subconsciously looked at Lin Wanhui, who quickly said, "All of them were bought by the fourth young lady. I, I don't know either."
Very good, the blame has been put on Gu Sui Yu, which means that Gu Sui Yu is not at home now. If he were at home, he would definitely roll up his sleeves and fight with Lin Wanhui.
The order was finally given to Lin Wanhui. She went to purchase it, but when something went wrong, she put the blame on Lin Wanhui. Isn't this crazy?
Gu Changqing didn't care about that. He said angrily, "Go call Sui Yu back!"
The servant was stunned for a moment, and just as he was about to move, Gu Changqing stood up and said, "Forget it, I'll go there myself. I want to see how Su Jin is doing now, and whether the little money that Gu Suiyu scraped out from the New Year's Eve dinner was all used to help her mother!"
Gu Changqing turned around and left. That was great. There was one less person for the reunion dinner. Marquis Yong'an was so angry that he couldn't eat. He ordered people to quickly replace Zou's dinner. He then started to arrange for people to go out and buy things again.
But there was no one on the street at that time. Except for a few shops, most of them were closed for the New Year's Eve. The servants could only go door to door looking for shops that were open, and the New Year's Eve dinner at the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion was not served after the New Year's Eve.
The night watchman outside was beating his stick. It was past midnight, the first day of the new year, and the kitchen finally brought up the food. It was still extremely shabby because they hadn't bought everything.
Gu Zhao was so angry that he was shaking all over. He had not even eaten his fill, but had to hurriedly pack up to go to court to pay New Year's greetings to the Emperor. The old man was almost going crazy.
Damn, what is going on?
As for Lin Wanhui, she pushed everything onto the Fourth Young Lady. The Fourth Young Lady's housekeeper managed the place so well, how could there be any problems with the New Year's Eve dinner?
Gu Zhao didn't have time to deal with Lin Wanhui as he had to go to the palace, so he put the matter aside for the time being and hurried to the palace.
On the first day of the New Year, all officials had to go to pay New Year's greetings to the emperor.
The Yong'an Marquis Mansion was a mess, and the New Year's Eve dinner was just a mere trifle. But on Su Jin's side, the situation was completely different.