There is a Wangfu wife at home

Chapter 264 Surprised (Part [-])
Of Li Jiaoniang's five large cages, only three were opened, and inside were the clothes and belongings of the two of them.

The other two were closed, and Li Jiaoniang didn't say to open them, so Nanny Zhou didn't decide on her own.

Now, Li Jiaoniang said that there were gifts inside, she was very surprised and went to see it.

Li Jiaoniang opened the first cage.

Take out several brocade boxes of different sizes from it.

"They're all medicinal materials. I picked them myself. These two thousand-year-old ginsengs are two 800-year-old. In addition, this box is antler and ganoderma. This ganoderma is also hundreds of years old." Li Jiaoniang said one by one. "These porcelain vases contain beauty and skin care products, which are made of flowers and plants I picked myself, including rouge and moisturizing ointment."

"Thousand...thousand-year-old ginseng?" Nanny Zhou opened her mouth wide in surprise, or two?
This is a good thing that money can't buy.

"They're all country things, which makes Mammy laugh." Li Jiaoniang smiled slightly.

She has small gray hairs, and picking a few thousand-year-old ginseng, isn't it a piece of cake?
It's just that every plant and tree in this world has a natural law of existence, and she didn't want to break the law, so she only picked a few plants.

After being harvested by her, where will future generations get ginseng if they want it?

"Wherever it is, there is no distinction between the city and the country, and the medicinal materials are most precious wherever they are placed." Nanny Zhou said with a busy smile.

Li Jiaoniang smiled, took all the things on the table and laid them out.

Although the Lu family is in decline, it must be a big family in Yuezhou.

The ancestors of the family are all civil servants, the family has a large collection of books, and the children of the family are all learned and talented.

They also look down on works of calligraphy and painting, gold, silver, pearls and jade, that is a surname that poisons them, and it will make them shameless.

Only these medicinal tonics are items that no one will dislike.

No one would have trouble with their own body, the emperor would put down his face and spend a lot of money to buy the elixir of life, let alone the common people?

She asked Lu Ji that Lu You had five brothers.

The two elder brothers above are related by the same birth, and they don't live in Yuezhou City. They take their wives and children to study and seek jobs in other places.

The other two younger brothers were born of concubines.

After Lu You's father died of illness, Mrs. Tang asked the two younger concubines to divide the mansion, and took her aunt, wife and children outside.

Lu You is the youngest son, living with the old lady and his wife.

Of those young girls, two were the daughters of Lu You's elder brothers, and one was Lu You's younger sister.The old lady loves to be lively, so she stayed by her side to take care of her.

Li Jiaoniang purchased the number of gifts according to the number of Lu's family members, but she wanted to hear the opinions of the elders in the house on how to give them.

Nanny Zhou received Li Jiaoniang's reward, she was grateful to Li Jiaoniang, and said, "The old lady is old and an elder, so give her the thousand-year-old ginseng, and give it to Madam, the third young lady is old." The lightest thing is to give her the ganoderma lucidum and velvet antler. For the girls, there are two juniors of the young lady, so just give some small things. These rouges and the like are the best."

Li Jiaoniang smiled and said, "Okay, just follow what the mother said."

Luo Cheng came to look at the presents, Li Jiaoniang told Nanny Zhou's opinion, Luo Cheng had no idea, "Very good, that's it."

After the two of them had washed and washed, Nanny Zhou walked to Old Madam Lu's upper room with the gift in her arms.

When they were about to reach the gate of the courtyard, Li Jiaoniang saw Tang Wan and a girl, and went into the courtyard first.

Tang Wan's figure is thin, and when she walks, she has the posture of a weak willow supporting the wind, which fully meets the aesthetic requirements for women in the Song Dynasty.

He is a little over 1.6 meters tall, and he only weighs eight|nine kilograms.

Severely underweight.

But Li Jiaoniang is not optimistic about such beauty, it is a sick beauty.

She took two quick steps and shouted, "Sister-in-law three."

Tang looked back and found that it was Li Jiaoniang. She smiled and nodded slightly, "It's Jiaoniang." Then she nodded slightly at Luo Cheng, "Cousin Cheng."

Luo Cheng called out "Sister-in-law Three".

"Let's go to see the old lady." Li Jiaoniang said with a smile, "Last night was too late, I didn't tidy up the cage, I packed it this morning, I have some small gifts for the old lady and my cousin, by the way, there are three more Cousin and some girls."

When Li Jiaoniang spoke, she paid attention to Logan's face.

Logan's eyes were slightly swollen, bloodshot eyes were still floating, and her expression was tired. It could be seen that she cried very sadly last night.

Logan smiled slightly, "You come all the way, just to see us, why give gifts? Your life is not easy."

She had heard a long time ago that the old lady had a family of best sisters who fled to Yunhe County further south. The old lady gave birth to only one son, and the son died young, leaving only one child.

Living in a farmhouse with no one to rely on since childhood, life must have been sad.

Logan didn't ask for any gifts.

She lives here, like being trapped in a cage, and it would be great to have guests come to chat with her to relieve boredom.

"It's all from the country, so don't make jokes about the third cousin." Li Jiaoniang said with a smile.

"Etiquette is light and affection is heavy, how could I laugh at Jiao Niang?" Tang Wan laughed.

While joking, everyone came to the old lady's upper room.

Several young girls had already arrived and were talking around Mrs. Lu.

When they saw Li Jiaoniang and the others coming, they got up one after another.

Some called the third aunt, some called the cousin, some called the cousin, and some called the cousin.Li Jiaoniang was almost dizzy by these titles.

"You guys rode in the carriage for a few days, and you went to bed late last night, but you got up early today, why don't you sleep more?" Old Madam Lu saw Li Jiaoniang and Luo Cheng, smiled and waved, "Come and sit down."

Li Jiaoniang said with a smile, "If you go to sleep, you will miss lunch."

"If you miss it, you will miss it, and I will keep it for you." Mrs. Lu smiled.

"Old lady, Mrs. Cheng is interested, and brought a gift." Nanny Zhou put a bunch of gift boxes on the big round table in the room, and said with a smile.

"It's not easy for you, what gifts do you bring?" Mrs. Lu waved her hands repeatedly.

"They are all ordinary things." Li Jiaoniang took two brocade boxes and handed them to Old Madam Lu, "These are two ginseng sticks, for my cousin and grandmother."

The girl at the side received it in her hand, and she quietly opened it to take a look. After a while, her eyes widened in surprise.

She looked at Li Jiaoniang in disbelief.

"There are my cousin's and some girls' here." Li Jiaoniang said again.

"You, you really have a heart." The old lady Lu smiled, and said to the people around her, "Go and invite your wife, there was a lot of talk last night, should you be busy this morning? Cheng's daughter-in-law brought her a gift , she doesn't come to take a look, it's a bit outrageous."

A girl responded and ran out to invite someone.

Li Jiaoniang gave two boxes to Tang Wan, and several white porcelain bottles to several girls.

"This is the rouge and moisturizer I made myself, I hope you like it." Li Jiaoniang smiled to the four girls.

The girls of the Lu family also saw good things when they were young. They heard that Li Jiaoniang was a peasant woman, and they disdained her gifts.

However, they are well-mannered people, even if they really want to throw away the gift in their hands, they will not throw it away in front of the guests, but accept it in their hands very politely.

Tang Wan took Jiao Niang's gift, thanked her with a smile, and handed it to the girl, "Take it back."

The girl left with the gift.

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When Tang heard that Li Jiaoniang was giving presents, she immediately scoffed, "What gift can she have? Could it be that some cheap fruits and beans harvested in the fields?
Coax the old lady to be happy, so I can ask for some money to go back?

Doesn't the old lady of our family take a look at the situation at home?Always bring people home, and always give money and things when they leave!If you send it on, you will have to sell the land and house! "

Tang shi beat his chest angrily.

Mrs. Zeng said, "Ma'am, just like other families, seal ten pennies, arrange a small errand for the young master of the Luo family, and send them away early."

Since her son died of illness, Mrs. Lu always likes to bring some distant relatives home. When the distant relatives leave, they will also send money and gifts.

She gained a good reputation as a Bodhisattva, and the head wife, Mrs. Tang, had to complain.

Apart from the house, a little property and a pile of ancient books, the Lu family has nothing of value.

Ladies and girls, except for making a suit of clothes for the New Year, usually wear old ones, and mend when the clothes are torn.

Moreover, the mending work is still done by oneself.

Although the ancestors left a large amount of land, all of them are in Jiangbei, and they are still occupied by Jin Bing at the moment.

Jiangnan had a small amount of farmland, and in order to supplement the household income, the Tang Corporation sold some of them, and the remaining farmlands could not be rented.

There are no shops in the Lu family.

The Lu family is a scholarly family, and they regard merchants as low-level livelihoods, and would rather go hungry than touch them.

The old master died of illness, the master died of illness, and the official positions of the young masters have never been whereabouts.

The family's income has no income, and the family's food and clothing expenses all depend on selling ancient books.

The old lady is still pretending to be a bodhisattva, why isn't Tang angry?

"Send?" Tang sneered, "Lu Cheng is no different from ordinary relatives in other families. The old lady treats her like a nephew. She plans to stay by her side forever."

Madam Zeng sighed, not knowing what to say.

Tang shi endured her displeasure, and stood up, "Forget it, let's go and have a look first."

"Yes." Madam Zeng sighed.

Tang's master and servant entered the old lady Lu's house.

As soon as she entered the door, the old lady Lu smiled at Tang, "Come and see, what gift Cheng'er and his wife brought you."

What gift, a box of tea or a box of dried vegetables?Last time a distant relative from the countryside came and gave this to me.

When he left, he took ten pennies from Mrs. Lu!
Ten pennies, enough to buy a cart of tea and vegetables!

However, Tang still smiled politely, "It's hard for them, they are still far away..."

When Tang's eyes saw the box on the table, the smile on his face froze for an instant.

Didn't she have a blind eye?

Two sticks of old wild ginseng?
Judging by the size and color, it must be at least hundreds of years old. These two old ginseng are worth several hundred gins!

Luo Cheng and his wife, these two country bumpkins, how could they be so generous?

Mrs. Zeng was also surprised, it couldn't be fake, right?

"It's really embarrassing for you." Tang smiled and nodded at Madam Zeng, "Put it away."

Mrs. Zeng is eager to keep it in her hand, to see if it is true or false.

Her natal brother once opened a pharmacy, and she followed her to learn how to look at medicinal materials. The real ones and fake ones couldn't fool her eyes.

After receiving it, Mrs. Zeng went to see the details immediately, and after a while, she secretly took a deep breath.

Authentic!

She winked quietly at Tang.

Tang felt relieved, and the smiles on his face increased.

The third son, Lu You, was visiting an old scholar recently and wanted to ask that scholar for advice.But the old man has a stubborn temper, so he refuses to accept San'er as an apprentice.

Tang tried to find ways to impress the old man. She heard that the old man's first wife was weak and had been looking for old wild ginseng for health.

Not long ago, she also took a fancy to one and wanted to buy it back as a gift for her third son.

But the price is too expensive, it costs six hundred guan.

In today's family, where can you get so much money to buy gifts?

She asked the third daughter-in-law to borrow from her mother's house, but the third daughter-in-law refused, so angry that she scolded Tang.

Before Li Jiaoniang sent one, it was even better than the one she had seen before.

Now, San'er's study and apprenticeship will not be a problem.

Tang was in a good mood, and smiled at the old lady, "Mother, let's serve breakfast here, right? Everyone is having a lively meal."

"Okay, okay, it's lively today, let's set up a big table." Mrs. Lu said with a smile.

The old lady was so happy that she even called the two little nephews in the side branches to accompany Luo Cheng.

According to the past, things like this waste of food would make Tang's angry.But after receiving the expensive gift today, Tang corps endured it and asked the kitchen to make some more breakfast.

After breakfast, Tang went to take care of family affairs.

Mrs. Lu asked Tang Wan to take Li Jiaoniang to visit the house and familiarize herself with the environment at home.She called Luo Cheng and told Luo Cheng to talk with her.

The girls of the Lu family dispersed and returned to their own residences.

"Let me see, the old lady and wife, and the third sister-in-law have the best gifts. They are all ginseng or something. They are worth a lot. What do we have? A broken bottle to hold some flower juice cream?" Miss Lu Qi said with a look on her face. Disdainful, he threw it to the girl beside him, "I'll see you off."

The girl thanked her and put it in her arms.

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(End of this chapter)