Chapter 802, Parents-in-law
Because it was nearing the end of the year, after Daohua Sanchao returned home, Xiao Yeyang went back to Jinlingwei to perform official duties. He basically went out in the morning and came back after dark, and was very busy.
He was busy, and the rice flowers were not idle either.
First, since all the servants in Pingxitang have been replaced, there will be more or less some problems, and Daohua needs to personally supervise and manage many things.
Secondly, it was the end of the year, and the shops and farms had to start checking their accounts. Because of taking over Xiao Yeyang's part, Daohua had to look at a lot more account books this year than last year.
Third, as the New Year is approaching, it’s time to prepare holiday gifts for relatives and friends.
Fourth, you should participate in various gatherings organized by royal relatives.
The young couple were busy with their own things. Every night, Daohua would wait for Xiao Yeyang to come back, then have dinner with him and chat about the various things that happened that day.
We exchanged feelings and shared our experiences.
It was inconvenient for Xiao Yeyang to bring his official business matters home, but he liked to see Daohua happily complaining about others. When he heard someone he knew, he would agree with her. Seeing her cheerful smile, his mood would also become happy.
After dinner, Xiao Yeyang would hurriedly carry Daohua to bed.
Looking at the vigorous Xiao Yeyang, Daohua was very puzzled. He had been busy running around outside all day, how could he still be in such good physical condition?
Xiao Yeyang was busy until the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Little New Year, when he finally had some free time.
Daohua sat on the dressing table, looking through the mirror at Xiao Yeyang who was still lying in bed, and urged him, "Hurry up and get up. Today is the Little New Year. I told my father that we should go over and have lunch with him at noon."
Xiao Yeyang lay there motionless: "You tired me out last night."
Hearing this, Daohua laughed in anger, turned around and looked at him angrily: "You are a guy who puts the blame on others." Who is tiring whom?
Xiao Yeyang rested his arms under his head, looking at Daohua with a leisurely smile, as if asking "What can you do to me?"
Daohua ignored him and continued to put on her makeup. After a while, she put down her rouge, walked to the bed and sat down, looking at Xiao Yeyang: "You were busy before, so I didn't ask. The New Year is coming soon. When will you take me to see my mother?"
Xiao Yeyang sat up and said, "Grandfather has been ill since the beginning of winter. She is now living in the Duke Dingguo's Mansion to take care of him. If we go to pay a visit, we will disturb many people."
Daohua thought of Madam Guo and Guo Xueming, and didn't really want to go to Duke Dingguo's Mansion, so she said, "If it's not appropriate to visit Mother now, then we can send some New Year gifts to show our filial piety."
Xiao Yeyang lay back down again: "You decide."
Daohua refused to do so and forced him to sit up: "I don't know what mother likes, so you have to go with me to choose a gift."
Xiao Yeyang: "I don't understand either."
Daohua: "No matter what, you have to accompany me. This is the first time I give a gift to my mother. It will directly determine her impression of me. You and I can choose quickly. Even if the choice is not to her liking, my mother will not be unhappy for your sake."
Xiao Yeyang: "How would she know who chose the gift?"
Daohua: "I'll ask Meilanmeiju to send it off. Mother will know once she asks." Seeing Xiao Yeyang sitting still, she put her arms around his neck and said, "Come with me."
Seeing Daohua acting coquettishly towards him, Xiao Yeyang was secretly delighted. He curled his lips and put his arms around Daohua's waist. With a force of his arms, he hugged her and sat her on his lap: "It depends on your performance."
Upon hearing this, Daohua rolled his eyes.
Choosing a gift for his mother ended up requiring her to beg him for help!
Despite complaining, Daohua still smiled and kissed Xiao Yeyang on the cheek: "Is this okay?"
Xiao Yeyang shook his head: "Not enough."
Daohua looked at him and pecked his lips angrily: "If you keep on nagging me, I won't bother with you anymore."
Xiao Yeyang glared: "Aren't you too impatient?"
Rice Flower: "I am like this, can you get up?"
Looking at her angry face, Xiao Yeyang showed helplessness: "My lady has given an order, how dare I disobey?"
Daohua smiled after hearing this and said, "That's better." She lowered her arms and got off the bed, "Hurry up."
Xiao Yeyang got out of bed resignedly, dressed himself, and went to the warehouse with Daohua to choose gifts. Duke Dingguo's Mansion also prepared one.
After finishing all these, it was almost noon. Daohua asked Meilan and Meiju to go to Duke Dingguo's Mansion to deliver gifts, while she and Xiao Yeyang went to Pingxi Hall.
Pingxi Hall.
All the masters of the palace have gathered here, including Xiao Yechen, who has returned from Yuanma Temple with the help of the third prince.
Everyone was surprised when they saw Daohua and Xiao Yeyang coming together.
It's no wonder everyone was surprised. Most of the people present thought carefully and realized that they seemed to have never had a reunion dinner with Xiao Yeyang before.
Prince Ping looked at the two of them. Although his face showed nothing, his eyes were filled with smiles. He coughed lightly and said, "You're here. Please sit down. Dinner will be served soon."
As he said this, he looked at the rice flowers.
"What are you doing with the lunch box?"
Daohua smiled and said, "My daughter-in-law made some rice cakes and rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice wine. I brought them here for you, father, to try."
Prince Ping's eyes narrowed in laughter. Just as he was about to praise Daohua for her filial piety, he heard Princess Ma say sarcastically, "How dare you bring out something so unpresentable?"
This statement is a double entendre, and it is unclear whether it is referring to food or to the person named Daohua.
Xiao Yeyang's face darkened immediately, and he looked at Princess Ma indifferently: "What is truly unworthy of being on the table? In this room, except for you, who has a child out of wedlock, no one else is really qualified."
"Xiao Yeyang!"
Xiao Yechen stood up quickly: "Don't go too far."
Xiao Yeyang sneered and looked at Xiao Yechen sarcastically: "Do you think that by following the Third Prince and reciting poems with those sour scholars all day long, you can erase your shameful background?"
Xiao Yechen was so angry that his eyes turned red. He looked at Prince Ping angrily and aggrievedly: "Father, Xiao Yeyang humiliated me like this. You have to stand up for me!" As he said that, he knelt down with a plop.
Princess Ma also knelt down, weeping bitterly, "Your Highness, you saw this, this is how Xiao Yeyang bullied Chen'er and me."
Prince Ping is somewhat sympathetic to the weak, but that doesn't mean he can't distinguish right from wrong. Today's incident clearly showed that Ma was embarrassing Yan Yatou, so it was understandable that Ye Yang got angry.
Seeing Ma pretending to be pitiful, Prince Ping felt annoyed for no reason.
Seeing Prince Ping was silent, Concubine Jiang thought that he was dissatisfied with Xiao Yeyang. After thinking for a while, she said, "Today is the Little New Year. At this time of year in previous years, our family would have a happy reunion dinner. Why is it that every time Yeyang comes home, the family always..."
Daohua looked at Concubine Jiang and interrupted her directly: "Concubine Jiang, isn't the real troublemaker the princess? You are just watching the show and not thinking it's too big a deal."
Just as Concubine Jiang was about to retort, she saw Prince Ping and Xiao Yeyang looking at her with indifference.
Xiao Yeyang would be fine, but why did the prince look at her like that?
The prince had been very nice to her before, but a few months ago, she was shocked to find that he was deliberately ignoring her. Now seeing him looking at her with such indifferent eyes, Concubine Jiang felt a little panicked and scared.
It is true that she is a member of the Jiang family, but if she wants to live a good life, the only one she can truly rely on is the prince.
Xiao Yuhua anxiously pulled Concubine Jiang, signaling her to stop talking.
She really couldn't understand the dispute between her mother, the princess and her son, and her second brother and his wife. Why should they get involved? Wouldn't it be better to sit on the mountain and watch the fight?
Daohua looked at the pitiful Princess Ma and the stubborn and aggrieved Xiao Yechen, and sneered in her heart. They would show weakness, but she wouldn't?
Crying, definitely without tears.
Daohua couldn't hold back her tears and could only lower her head and say, "Father, this is the first time Xiao Yeyang has come home for the New Year since moving into the palace. It's also my first Little New Year since I got married. The princess and my elder brother are making such a fuss, and Concubine Jiang is fanning the flames. Are you trying to drive Xiao Yeyang and me out of the palace?"
When Prince Ping heard this, he couldn't help but remember what the emperor said about the ambitious mother and son of Ma. Looking at the mother and son kneeling on the ground, he felt more impatient and annoyed.
Xiao Yeyang's patience had run out, and he didn't want to see Daohua compromise. At this moment, he no longer wanted to stay for the reunion dinner, so he stood up, pulled Daohua and was about to leave.
Daohua quickly held him back. If he left like this, it would not go as Ma's mother and son wished. "Sir, I want to have a reunion dinner with my father."
As he spoke, he turned to look at Prince Ping.
"Father, since the princess and my elder brother don't welcome us, why don't you come with us to Pingxi Hall for dinner?" He paused and said, "I will cook for you myself."
Prince Ping immediately went down the stairs and said, "Your cooking skills are good. I miss the meals you cook. Let's go. I will go to Pingxi Hall for dinner today." After saying that, he was the first to leave the house.
When Daohua saw this, she smiled and hurriedly pulled Xiao Yeyang to follow, leaving behind the stunned Ma mother and son and Concubine Jiang and her group looking at each other in bewilderment.
"Why make such a fuss over a good reunion dinner?"
Concubine Ji shook her head and sighed, then stood up and bowed to Princess Ma: "Since the prince has left, Ye Chang and I will not stay to disturb the princess."
Luo Qiong waited until everyone else had left before he went to help Princess Ma.
Princess Ma stood up, pushed Luo Qiong away, and frantically pulled Xiao Yechen with her: "Chen'er, is your father tired of us mother and son? How could he go to Pingxi Hall to have dinner with Xiao Yeyang?"
Xiao Yechen was also a little panicked. In the past, whenever he was wronged, his father would immediately comfort him. But this time, Xiao Yeyang humiliated him like that, but his father didn't say a word.
Luo Qiong looked at the two of them, turned around and left the room.
She also understood that Xiao Yechen's success and failure were both due to his mother-in-law. The prince obviously wanted the family to have a reunion dinner, but the mother-in-law chose to stir up trouble at this time.
A person's patience is limited. In addition, the appearance of Yan Yiyi has eased the relationship between the prince and Xiao Yeyang. If the mother-in-law continues to pretend to be weak and pitiful, she will only push the prince further away.
Pingxi Hall.
After Prince Ping came with Daohua and Xiao Yeyang, he was invited to the living room for tea.
Under Daohua's stern warning, Xiao Yeyang sat in the living room to accompany her, while she went to the kitchen to busy herself.
The father and son looked at each other in silence, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.
Defu and Huai'en were also looking at each other, praying in their hearts that Daohua would come back soon.
Although Xiao Yeyang had a blank expression on his face, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. He and his father rarely had such a peaceful time to sit down together, so he could only hide his feelings by drinking tea.
Prince Ping opened the food box that Daohua had been carrying, took out the rice cakes and glutinous rice balls with fermented rice wine and started eating.
Looking at Prince Ping eating a bowl of glutinous rice balls and half a plate of rice cakes, Xiao Yeyang hesitated for a moment, but still walked over and took the rice cakes away.
Prince Ping looked at Xiao Yeyang in surprise: "What are you doing?"
Xiao Yeyang: "Tangyuan and rice cakes are not easy to digest, so don't eat too much." After a pause, he quickly added, "Yiyi cooked them herself, and I don't want to waste her kindness."
Prince Ping glanced at Xiao Yeyang, said "hmm", and picked up the teacup to hide the smile on his lips.
The old man was right, the eldest son’s temperament was just weird.
It didn’t take Daohua long to prepare the meal for three people. Soon, five dishes and a soup that were delicious and tasty were on the table.
There was a set of luminous cups in Daohua's dowry. She took them out and poured wine into them.
"Xiao Yeyang, let's toast to our father."
Daohua raised her wine glass and looked at Xiao Yeyang.
Xiao Yeyang had no choice but to raise his glass to Prince Ping.
Daohua smiled and said, "Father, thank you for coming to spend the New Year with us. Xiao Yeyang and I would like to toast you with this glass. We'll drink it first as a token of our respect. You can do whatever you want." As she said that, she tilted her head back and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.
When Xiao Yeyang saw this, he could only follow along.
When Prince Ping saw that both of them had drunk, he drank his own wine.
Daohua quickly poured a cup for Prince Ping and said, "Father, please try the food I cooked and see if it suits your taste."
Afterwards, under Daohua's intentional guidance, Prince Ping and Xiao Yeyang would say a few words from time to time. Overall, the atmosphere at the dinner table was pretty good.
Defu and Huai'en were serving on the side. As they watched the dishes on the table gradually decrease, the regret on their faces became more and more obvious.
In the end, all five dishes and one soup were eaten.
Prince Ping put down his chopsticks with a look of satisfaction and praised Daohua, "Yan girl, your cooking skills are really amazing."
Daohua immediately smiled and said, "Father likes it. Then come to Pingxitang more often in the future. Whenever you come, I will cook for you myself."
Prince Ping glanced at Xiao Yeyang and said modestly, "Since you are so filial, I will come here often in the future."
Daohua smiled: "If father could come more often, Xiao Yeyang and I would be very happy."
Prince Ping showed a satisfied smile on his face. He thought that he had married a good daughter-in-law. She was the right one!
Dingguo Gongfu.
Guo Ruomei couldn't stop smiling when she looked at the New Year gifts sent by Daohua and Xiao Yeyang.
Mei Lan took the initiative to say, "The Young Madam and the Young Master chose the New Year gifts together, and the food was prepared by the Young Madam herself, saying that she wanted the Master to taste her cooking skills."
Hearing this, Mei Shuang immediately laughed: "Young Madam, you may not know that our master has already tasted her cooking skills back in Zhongzhou."
Guo Ruomei smiled and said, "Yiyi is a good child." Then she quickly asked, "How is the relationship between Yang'er and Yiyi after they got married?"
Mei Ju smiled and replied, "The young master really likes the young mistress. They are inseparable every day and are very happy. Master, you can rest assured."
Guo Ruomei nodded: "That's good."
Mei Shuang looked at her master and suggested, "Master, isn't the mansion going to hold a family banquet on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month? Why don't you send a notice to the young master and the young mistress?"
Guo Ruomei shook her head: "Forget it. I'm going to post a notice for them. It's not good for the two children not to come, but if they come, I don't know what trouble Ma will stir up."
Mei Lan: "Master, the young master and the young mistress are not afraid of Princess Ma." As she said this, she told Daohua that she did not offer tea to Ma and did not go to pay her respects to her.
"The young lady even obtained the prince's consent and directly replaced all the servants in Pingxi Hall."
Mei Shuang smiled and said, "It's true that birds of a feather flock together. The young lady really has the demeanor of the master back then."
Guo Ruomei smiled and looked at Mei Lanmei Ju: "Serve the young lady well in the future. No one in the palace is simple. Don't let her be bullied."
Mei Lan Mei Ju said at the same time: "As you command."
Guo Ruomei didn't want to keep them for long: "You should go back soon."
Mei Lan thought for a moment and said, "Master, I heard Guyu mention that the young lady has said several times that she wants to come and see you."
Mei Shuang immediately took over the conversation: "Yes, Master, just post it. No matter what, the young master is your son. When your son gets married, it is considered a complete etiquette for your daughter-in-law to offer you tea."
(End of this chapter)
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