So, Liu Changshi and his family changed into new clothes and went to Dong Cong's house with gifts.
Along the way, Liu Shuchao jumped excitedly, looking forward to eating delicious food, which was his most important purpose of visiting the Dong family.
When they arrived at Dong Cong's house, the appearance of Liu Changshi's family surprised everyone in the Dong residence.
Fortunately, Dong Qishan knew Liu Changshi and knew his identity and official position.
Everyone who came was a guest, and Dong Qishan welcomed all members of the Liu family into the back garden.
At this time, Old Madam Dong was accompanying Qian Li, Qian Chunhua and others, drinking tea and chatting in the back garden.
Dong Cong accompanied Qingsong, Xiaoling and Qingfeng, running around in the back garden and having a lot of fun.
When Madam Dong saw Madam Liu and learned about the Liu family's identity, she also hurriedly stood up to greet her, "Oh, Madam Liu, it's great that you can come, please take a seat, please take a seat."
Madam Liu also smiled and said, "Madam Dong, happy birthday. I wish you good fortune as vast as the East Sea and a long life as great as the Southern Mountains."
Mrs. Dong also smiled and replied: "Thank you, thank you."
Liu Shuchao also happily joined Dong Cong and the others in playing.
With children, conflicts arise quickly and also arise quickly.
When they first arrived at the academy, the conflicts between Liu Shuchao and Qingfeng had already been resolved.
Dong Xishan and Butler Dong were in the front yard greeting other guests.
Qian Xingshan had been working for the Dong family for three months and had become quite knowledgeable. He was busy running errands for the housekeeper Dong.
Guan Yueru and her sister-in-law Dong Nianmei were responsible for greeting the female relatives who came to celebrate the birthday.
Dong Nianmei is Dong Xishan's younger sister. She is now 20 years old. Two years ago, she married Yang Feiling, a lecturer in the Hanlin Academy, who was a seventh-rank official.
The two got married and had two children, but no children.
Yang Feiling took two more concubines.
This time, Dong Nianmei came all the way from the capital accompanied by her bodyguards and maids to celebrate her father's birthday. She just arrived yesterday.
However, Yang Feiling was unable to accompany Dong Nianmei due to his busy work.
At this time, Qian Qi sat on the left side of Old Madam Dong, Old Madam Liu was arranged to sit on the right side of Old Madam Dong, and Zhou Dongwei sat next to her mother-in-law.
Qian Chunhua was next to Qian Lu, facing Zhou Dongwei.
Zhou Dongwei was extremely bored. After looking around the back garden of the Dong Mansion, she looked at Qian Chunhua out of boredom. At first, she felt that she looked familiar.
After thinking for a while, she finally remembered that this person was the maid who came to deal with the fight between her son and the others in the academy last time.
No, not a maid. A maid would not sit here at this moment.
Moreover, she doesn't look like a maid.
The dress is made of brocade with soft and bright colors. It is embroidered with delicate winter plum patterns. Each plum blossom is lifelike, as if proudly blooming in the cold wind.
There are also intricate auspicious patterns embroidered with gold thread, which shine like golden flowing clouds.
How can she be a maid? Some wives of officials don’t dress as well as she does.
Seeing Madam Liu looking at Qian Chunhua, Madam Dong smiled and introduced her, "This is our Cong'er's godmother, and also Qingfeng's mother.
And your family's Shuchao, the three children are classmates."
Qian Chunhua smiled and nodded to Zhou Dongwei, "Madam Liu, the last time we met was at the Academy."
Zhou Dongwei smiled awkwardly and picked up the teacup on the table to hide her embarrassment.
It would have been fine if the academy was not mentioned. As soon as it was mentioned, Zhou Dongwei remembered that she had extorted one hundred taels from them last time they went to the academy.
At that time, I didn't know the status of the Dong family, and I asked for one hundred taels, which made me be looked down upon by the two of them.
Qian Yu was unaware of the blackmail at the academy. When he heard that the three children were classmates, he smiled and said, "What a fate! We are classmates now, and we may be colleagues when we grow up."
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