Yu Tanqi didn't expect that she just asked Danhua to help deliver a token of love to Jiang Shi, and Jiang Shi immediately asked Butler Ying to give her the key to the warehouse.
She naturally refused to take it, but Housekeeper Ying said, "The Wu'an Marquis's Mansion has been without a mistress for many years, and the storeroom is rarely opened. No matter how precious the things inside are, if no one looks at them or uses them, they will just gather dust. What a pity.
"The young lady will marry the prince sooner or later. Now she is just managing the mansion in advance. When she marries the prince, everything will be in order as usual. Isn't that wonderful?"
Butler Ying was really good at talking. Yu Tanqi felt that if she didn't accept the key to the warehouse, it meant she didn't want to marry Jiang Shi or the butler anymore.
She hesitated for a moment, but finally took the heavy key.
After an autumn rain in September, the weather became even colder.
Butler Ying brought people to deliver three new autumn clothes for Yu Tanqi before Yu Tanqi's birthday. The three sets were all different colors.
Although Yu Tanqi likes green, she also likes beautiful clothes in other colors.
September 9th was her sixteenth birthday. Before that day, the entire Wu'an Marquis Mansion was busy.
The red gate of Wu'an Marquis Mansion began to be decorated with lights and colorful lanterns. Passersby were very confused when they saw it and couldn't help but come forward to ask.
"Is there any good news in your family? Is Prince Jiang finally going to marry his fiancée?"
A servant said with a smile, "It's not our prince who is getting married, but his fiancée, Miss Yu, is about to celebrate her sixteenth birthday. We are preparing a birthday banquet for her."
The passerby suddenly realized what was going on and couldn't help but ask curiously, "When is your prince going to get married?"
Another doorman said, "We don't know about that."
Other passers-by also asked questions, but the two servants, as usual, knew nothing and could not get a single useful answer from them.
Yu Lan walked out from the back door of Wu'an Marquis Mansion. She just found out that Yu Tanqi's birthday was tomorrow, so she hurried out to carefully choose a birthday gift.
She had been following Xu Mubai in the Marquis of Wu'an's mansion to grow herbs recently. She was considered his maid and received a monthly allowance of one or two taels of silver.
Occasionally, Xu Mubai would give her some unwanted medicinal herbs and pills, letting her do with them as she pleased. The servants in the Marquis's Mansion would buy these pills from her, so in just a few months, she had saved as much as twenty taels of silver, which was more than she had earned from working hard at various embroidery jobs.
Yu Lan had never had so much money in her hands, nor had she ever spent too much money on herself.
She was used to saving money and had no place to spend it, so she thought of saving the money and giving it to her parents in her hometown in the countryside so that they could enjoy their old age.
Yu Tanqi saved her and gave her a new life. He was her savior. She decided to take all her money out to buy a good birthday gift for Yu Tanqi.
But she didn't expect that the person she deliberately avoided thinking about would appear in front of her again.
The young man had a handsome face, and his slender eyes looked straight at her. The white robe he was wearing was already worn, but it made him look no different from the poor and elegant scholar he used to be.
"Alan."
Rong Ze called her in a gentle voice, as if it was still the same as before, when he was studying in the academy, and when he knew she was coming to see him, he would specially ask for leave from the teacher and come out to greet her.
The look in his eyes when he looked at her was so affectionate that it didn't seem fake. This was what Yu Lan found most difficult to let go of, and that was why she couldn't accept that he would abandon her in the end.
They had indeed had a very happy and unforgettable time.
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The next day, the weather was clear and the climate was pleasant.
Today is Yu Tanqi's sixteenth birthday.
She got up very early, changed into a waist-length skirt inlaid with vermilion silk, and inserted the hairpin that Jiang Shi had given her into her bun. She was no longer as fresh and elegant as usual, and her whole body was as bright and beautiful as the frost-resistant flowers blooming in September.
Grandma Gao looked at the charming young woman in front of her and exclaimed, "Today is a good day. At your age, anything looks good on you, so you should wear something bright and delicate. Although a green dress better suits your temperament, red can also better show your delicate and bright appearance."
Yu Tanqi is usually lazy and doesn't like to dress up. Today, she finally has the opportunity to dress up. Nanny Gao personally ties her hair and makes sure to dress her up beautifully so that she will not be in vain at such a beautiful age.
Yu Tanqi looked at herself in the bronze mirror and felt narcissistic. She was so beautiful, with bright eyes, white teeth, fair skin, red lips and white teeth. How could there be someone as beautiful as her in the world?
She couldn't help but say, "Mirror, mirror, tell me, who is the most beautiful girl in the world?"
"Of course it's Tan Qi."
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Yu Tanqi opened his eyes wide in surprise, looking at the young man who suddenly appeared in the bronze mirror. He turned around abruptly and unexpectedly met his gentle and smiling eyes.
"You, you, why are you here?" She was a little incoherent, at a loss, lowered her head and blushed slightly.
Ahhh, did he see her being narcissistic in front of the mirror just now?
So embarrassing.
Jiang Shi smiled gently and said, "Today is your birthday. I want to be the first to say happy birthday to you."
Yu Tanqi blinked and whispered, "Thank you."
She couldn't help but curl her lips. The feeling of being cared for and cherished was so wonderful that her heart felt warm.
Jiang Shi said gently, "I made longevity noodles for you, go eat now."
"good."
Traditionally, when someone has a birthday, the family will prepare a bowl of longevity noodles for the birthday person, which symbolizes health and longevity and represents good wishes for the birthday person.
Yu Tanqi had lived two lifetimes, but this was the first time someone cooked longevity noodles for her.
In the 21st century, she was an orphan with no relatives or friends. She herself didn't even know when her birthday was, so no one would celebrate her birthday.
She never received a blessing either.
Looking at the steaming longevity noodles, she picked up the noodles with chopsticks and put them into her mouth, chewing slowly. Her black eyelashes trembled slightly, as if wet by the heat, her eyes became misty and her vision became blurred.
Jiang Shi asked gently, "Is it delicious?"
For the first time, Yu Tanqi answered in a somewhat unclear voice: "Delicious."
Jiang Shi immediately noticed something was wrong with her voice, frowned slightly, and said with some concern: "Is it because the noodles have been left out for too long that the taste has gone bad? If it doesn't taste good, you don't have to force yourself to finish it."
"No, it's delicious."
Yu Tanqi blinked, trying to dispel the moisture in her eyes. She said seriously, "This is the most delicious longevity noodles I have ever eaten."
It was also the first bowl of longevity noodles.
She ate every bite with great care. In this strange time, she once again felt the unprecedented warmth.
She thought, it would be great if she was the original owner.
The girl lowered her head, her shoulders trembling slightly.
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