The lady escaped marriage and became addicted

Chapter 42 Gifts
Gu Wanniang was startled, a little confused.An Ran couldn't help but smile knowingly, her father is transparent.

Zhao Shihua looked down and saw the faint smile on An Ran's lips, he was taken aback for a moment, and then asked with a smile: "You little girl, do you know what father and mother said? What are you laughing at?"

An Ran proudly raised her chin and said: "Why don't you understand? Daddy said that he would not go to Aunt Zhou's place in the future. My daughter doesn't like Aunt Zhou, so she is happy."

Zhao Shihua patted her head and exhorted: "It's good that Nannan knows these things in her heart, but don't say them out."

An Ran nodded, and responded obediently: "Don't worry, Daddy, my daughter knows."

Zhao Shihua told An Qi anxiously again: "Don't even tell your cousin what your parents say at home, you know?"

An Qi nodded, but felt a little unhappy.Isn't he more reassuring than his sister?She even had to give him a special warning.

An Ran saw that her mother did not look happy after hearing what her father said, knowing that she was still worried about offending Aunt Zhou, she couldn't bear it for a while, so she came up with an idea.

"Mom, if you think that if you don't give Aunt Zhou a gift, you might be upset, why don't you prepare a gift and entrust others to give it to her, so that Mrs. Wen doesn't know about it! That way neither side will be offended."

Gu Wanniang's eyes lit up when she heard it. "I see. I will tell my sister-in-law tomorrow that we will send the gift from Aunt Zhou to the Zhou family. People value her more."

Zhao Shihua also looked at his daughter in surprise.This is indeed a good way, it's really hard for this girl to think of it at such a young age.This girl followed him, she was smart and transparent.After all, it is a fairy descending to earth, it is really unusual!
The next day, Zhao Anqi found an opportunity to ask An Ran quietly: "Sister, why don't you like that Aunt Zhou? Cousin Shaolin said that Aunt Zhou said a lot of good things for uncle and father, so adults let him go." Daddy made him his teacher."

Zhao Anqi looked at An Ran suspiciously, and asked worriedly: "Could it be that Aunt Zhou treated you and mother badly? Did she say something bad? She looked down on us coming from the countryside?" Zhao Anqi had just arrived at the school People looked down on him and said he was a bumpkin from the countryside, so I asked this question.

An Ran propped her head and looked sideways at her elder brother, and patiently taught him: "Brother, have you forgotten what daddy said last night? The reason why daddy can be your master is because daddy is knowledgeable and capable, unlike uncle's family and aunt Zhou. It doesn't matter too much. As for the fact that I don't like Aunt Zhou, it's because she is a bad woman who robbed other people's husbands." After the influence of her previous life, in An Ran's heart, all mistresses are vixen, bad women!

Zhao Anqi was startled. Before he came to the county, he didn't know what auntie was. It was only when he went to school and heard about it from his wealthy classmates that he realized that auntie was the concubine.It turns out that my sister doesn't like my aunt!He decided that he would not like aunts in the future, and all aunts would not like them.

The next day, Gu Wanniang waited for Gu Shaolin and Zhao Anqi to go to school, and brought An Ran and Gu Tingfang back to Gu's house.

Gu Wanniang chose a light yellow satin quilt embroidered with pomegranate blossoms and happy pomegranate fruit, and asked Mrs. Yang to take it to Zhou's house as a birthday gift for Aunt Zhou, wishing her an early birth.

As for Mrs. Wen, Gu Wanniang chose a screen with a picture of peonies blooming golden pheasants and spring flowers and birds that she had just embroidered.The picture was drawn by An Ran, and Gu Wanniang always felt that the picture was too good to sell, so she planned to put it at home to see for herself.

Chinese flower-and-bird paintings were formed in the Tang and Five Dynasties, and did not mature until the Song Dynasty.At this time, there were very few paintings of flowers and birds, and even if there were, they were not very brilliant.An Ran was the most impatient in learning fine brushwork in her previous life, but at that time, her mother suddenly wanted to embroider a screen, and she still thought that embroidered flowers and birds were the most beautiful, so she drew a picture of peonies stretching out from behind a mountain rock, and below it were two golden pheasants pecking at each other. A picture of flowers and birds for food.

It took Gu Wanniang more than a month to embroider it, using silk threads of all colors that can be seen on the market, especially the feathers on the golden pheasant, which are so finely detailed.Coupled with the three-dimensional processing of An Ran's drawing, this screen is a unique treasure in this era.When it was used to install the base, the shopkeeper offered 100 taels of silver and Gu Wanniang was not willing to sell it.

In fact, this screen is not big, it is round and less than two feet in diameter, it is just a small screen for pure decoration.The base is made of huanghuali, which is carved into a flame shape to hold the screen in the middle. It is only painted with two layers of varnish, which is simple and reveals a rich and beautiful atmosphere.

An Ran secretly sighed that her mother was really willing, but apart from this, there is really nothing at home to give away.She originally wanted to go to the Gu family's silver building to pick out a piece of jewelry for Mrs. Wen, but they still can't afford the expensive ones, and they don't like the cheap ones.After much deliberation, this screen is the most suitable one, Mrs. Wen will definitely like it.

Gu Wanniang was actually very thoughtful. When Yang sent her family and sister-in-law's gift to Zhou's house, she also mentioned the quilt from her sister-in-law.She said that her sister-in-law's family is not well-off, it's just a small gesture, and she hopes that Aunt Zhou will not dislike Yunyun.

The recipient of the gift was Cen Shi, the eldest grandmother of the Zhou family, who was also Yang's mother-in-law, and Aunt Zhou was her sister-in-law.In view of Yang's face, Cen didn't say anything at the time, but after Yang left, she curled her lips in disdain and said, "She's still a scholar! She can even get a quilt as a birthday present. She This is sending off beggars! I don’t know if it’s really too poor or I look down on our aunt as just an aunt.”

Therefore, in the end, although she also sent this quilt to her sister-in-law, she only mentioned a few words about the Gu family, and she felt embarrassed to mention the Zhao family.

On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, the yamen was sealed, Zhao Shihua went home to worship the Kitchen God, and the next day, he took his wife and children to Qian County Magistrate's house for a banquet.

The magistrate of Qian County, named Ming, named Pengyang, is 42 years old this year. He was a Jinshi in the middle school five years ago. This is the second term of his re-election in Hejiang County.It is said that the ancestral home of County Magistrate Qian is in Hubei, and there have been many Jinshi scholars in the family. People like County Magistrate Qian are no more than average in the family.

(End of this chapter)