After getting a satisfactory answer, Chen and Qin finally left the Wu'an Marquis Mansion. Before leaving, they each took a set of tea sets.
Just like a troublesome relative who wants to extort money from you.
Jiang Shi looked at Yu Tanqi and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, they are my elders after all. I can't get rid of them for the time being. I'm sorry to trouble you."
Yu Tanqi smiled and shook her head: "It doesn't matter."
Jiang Shi sighed softly, wanting to say something but stopping himself.
There are some things that cannot be said now.
Yu Tanqi was also very sensible and did not ask any further questions.
Jiang Shi looked at her and suddenly said, "You don't have to pay for the kitchen's daily necessities. Since you are my fiancée, there is no reason for me to ask you to spend money to live in the Marquis of Wu'an's mansion."
Yu Tanqi lowered her head and said softly, "But the servants I brought with me are even more than those in the Marquis' Mansion. The daily food expenses are quite high. I don't want to let you spend the money."
The hairpins on the girl's bun swayed slightly, like wind chimes falling on his heart.
Her long, thick, black eyelashes covered her round pupils, and because of shyness, her fair cheeks were stained with a rouge-like blush.
He looked a little dazed, but quickly put his hand to his lips to cover up his loss of composure, and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "It's okay, it's more lively with more people. I can still afford this little money."
"Okay." Yu Tanqi didn't say anything else, fearing that the male protagonist would think she looked down on him.
But why did she inexplicably feel like she was being kept?
shy.
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When Yu Tanqi was still an orphan in the 21st century, she had never known what it felt like to have relatives.
She has seen many topics and videos about relatives on the Internet. Some relatives are very good, while some are very bad, so bad that they can be called "the worst."
The Xie family members are all very good relatives, while the Jiang family members are the legendary "best" relatives.
When others take the initiative to propose a meal, they should prepare a feast to entertain the guests. However, the Jiang family asked Jiang Shi to prepare wine and food to entertain their entire family, and they even called it a welcome party for Yu Tanqi.
Yu Tanqi:?
Jiang Shi was a kind person. He did not argue with the Jiang family and asked people to prepare several large tables of delicious food for the more than ten people in the Jiang family.
Compared with the declining population of Wu'an Marquis' Mansion, the Jiang family was prosperous. Jiang Qi had five children, two legitimate and three illegitimate; Jiang Qin had six children, three legitimate and three illegitimate.
The two couples were really shameless. Not only did they bring their children to eat for free, but the gifts they prepared were very shabby. Each family contributed one, and the total amount of the two families was no more than one or two taels of silver. They were all cheap things bought on the street.
And any dish of the delicacies on the table cost more than ten taels of silver, so this meal cost at least several hundred taels of silver.
Linlang was shocked when she saw this, and couldn't help but whisper in Yu Tanqi's ear: "How could the uncles of Jiang Shizi be such people?"
Yu Tanqi covered her mouth with her hand and whispered, "Prince Jiang is Prince Jiang, he is not a member of the Jiang family. These people are just relatives, don't take them to heart."
Linlang nodded: "I understand."
Prince Jiang is much better than these relatives. The gift he gave to the young lady was a hairpin worth ten thousand taels. The young lady loves it so much that she still wears it in her bun.
Jiang Huicen, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Jiang Qin and Qin Shi, was doted on and used to asking for whatever she wanted. She looked at the hairpins in Yu Tanqi's bun and felt an itch in her heart. After finishing her meal, she couldn't wait to ask, "Sister Yu, your hairpins are so beautiful. Can you let me wear them?"
She still had some brains and knew that she couldn't just ask for it directly, but once something was in her hands, she would not return it.
Jiang Huicen thought with disdain in her heart that if Yu Tanqi, a woman from outside the province, wanted to marry the prince of the Marquis's Mansion, she must please her future sister-in-law, otherwise she would not acknowledge her identity.
Yu Tanqi looked at Jiang Huicen in surprise and shook her head to decline. "Sorry, this is a gift from the prince. I treasure it very much and cannot let anyone else wear it."
Jiang Huicen didn't expect to be rejected, and immediately looked at her angrily: "I just want to wear it, why are you so stingy? People from small places are really petty!"
Jiang Shi frowned, looking at Jiang Qin and his wife, who hadn't tried to stop him, and said in a slightly cold voice, "Uncle San, Aunt San, didn't you tell Hui Cen that Miss Yu is from the century-old prestigious Xie family of Chen County? She spoke so rudely to my fiancée on our first meeting. I think it's best not to let them meet again in the future."
Jiang Shi, who was always gentle and taciturn, actually spoke to Jiang Qin and Qin Shi like this for his so-called fiancée. Everyone present except Yu Tanqi and Xie Jing was stunned.
Jiang Qi coughed lightly and looked at Qin Shi pretentiously, "Madam, what's wrong with you? You didn't even tell Hui Cen about Miss Yu's family background. Miss Yu is Jiang Shi's fiancée, how could she be from a humble family?"
Qin was slightly annoyed. It was just a hairpin, what was wrong with giving it to Hui Cen? This Yu Tanqi was really petty. Why didn't she bring them any gifts?
Impolite.
She looked at Jiang Huicen, who looked dissatisfied, and said coldly, "Huicen, quickly apologize to your sister Tanqi. Although she refused to let you wear the hairpin, she may have prepared a gift for you."
Yu Tanqi exclaimed, "What a guy! He wanted her to give him a gift after just a few words. He was indeed the Third Madam Jiang who was the best at taking advantage."
If she didn't give a gift of at least two taels of silver to so many people, would they just give her a cold shoulder and say that she was deliberately humiliating them?
Jiang Huicen suppressed her dissatisfaction and apologized to Yu Tanqi. For the gift, she said, "I'm sorry, Sister Yu, I shouldn't have said that to you. What gift did you prepare for me?"
Yu Tanqi smiled and said, "I don't know what you all like, so I prepared some of my favorite snacks as a gift. When you go back later, each of you can take a box. They are all famous snacks in Chen County. I hope you will like them."
Jiang Huicen looked at her in astonishment: "You're just going to send us off with some snacks?"
"How can this be called a dismissal? You are not beggars. Although you have already had a meal at the Marquis' Mansion today, which was worth a hundred taels of silver, snacks are still different from meals. You have certainly never tasted Chenjun's snacks. This is a special gift I prepared for you. I can't bear to eat it myself."
Yu Tanqi was indeed feeling a bit pained. There was only one old brand in Chenjun, and she had to queue for a long time every day just to buy a few boxes of snacks.
Although a box of dim sum is not expensive, only one hundred coins, it is really delicious.
She had finally saved up dozens of boxes of snacks and came to Beijing to eat them slowly, but ended up having to send more than ten or twenty boxes away at once, which was equivalent to losing one-third of her snacks. How could she not feel pain?
Jiang Huicen immediately became restless. She looked at Yu Tanqi angrily and threatened her, "Who are you calling a beggar? Yu Tanqi, you're like this, and you still want to enter the Marquis' Mansion? I tell you, it's wishful thinking!"
Yu Tanqi felt that the girl's brain might have been eaten by zombies.
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