"Boiling a frog in warm water? I'm afraid the frog will drown before the water warms up! Do you believe that as soon as I tell my mother the truth, she will run to Yan Yongchen and question him? You can imagine what will happen to her then."
"Alas~" Both the master and the servant sighed.
Yan Muxi forced a smile at Yinxia, "Good Yinxia, don't sigh so much. Grandpa said that people who sigh too much will age prematurely. Anyway, it's not just mother who has been deceived. Everyone is the same. We need to be more open-minded."
Yin Xia hated seeing her forcing a smile, and turned her head away angrily, "Miss, do you think I'm the Princess of Jiahe County? You don't have to worry if we're all the same. I don't know what's going on in your mind. I really don't understand why Madam can love a man who is not related to her by blood so much."
In fact, Yan Muxi couldn't figure it out. There were five wives and concubines in the mansion. Su had a good family background and was smart and capable. Concubine Ge also had a good background and was gentle and considerate. Even Concubine Sun and Concubine Li were women picked from thousands of people. Why were they all willing to revolve around one man?
Especially my mother, she even lost herself for my father.
Grandpa also cares about A Niang. She knows better than anyone that the longer A Niang persists in her wrongdoings, the longer Grandpa's hands and feet will be bound. If she can't change A Niang, then everything she does will be in vain.
In the following few days, Prince Rong's Mansion did not send anyone to visit, and Prince Rong's condition should have improved.
Yan Muyun and Gu Yunting's wedding date is set for the sixth day of June.
In order to prevent enemy invasion, Gu Yunting had to return to the northern border before autumn. After some calculations by the Imperial Astronomical Observatory, the wedding date was set on the sixth day of June.
The imperial decree was hard to disobey, and Yan Muyun, the third child, became the first among her sisters to get married.
On the third day after the wedding date was set, the betrothal gifts from Dingbei Marquis's mansion were also carried in. The thirty-eight loads of betrothal gifts were quite standard, neither too much nor too little, but a pair of fresh wild geese were particularly eye-catching.
The wild geese have bright feathers and look full of vigor. You can tell at first glance that they are adult geese that have just been captured. It takes great skill to capture them alive without hurting them at all.
The wedding date is approaching, and the wedding dress should have been embroidered by the bride herself. However, now there is less than a month left, and it is too late to embroider the wedding dress by hand. Yan Muyun only needs to embroider the veil.
Having been taught by Aunt Ge, the original body was very good at embroidery. Unfortunately, Yan Mujun failed to inherit the original body's skills, and could only sew some simple clothes. She couldn't even embroider the simplest duck.
Aunt Ge thought Yan Muyun had not done embroidery for a long time, so her skills were not good enough, so she kept her in the room doing needlework.
Yan Muyun had just started to learn witchcraft and was very interested in it. Whenever she had free time, she wanted to go to Jinyu Garden and was not willing to sit down and do embroidery.
Because of this matter, the mother and daughter fought their wits and courage every day. Aunt Ge couldn't convince her daughter, so she went to Su's place to make a fuss.
Su knew that Yan Muyun was learning Gu from Minghui. She thought that the situation in Dingbei Marquis' Mansion was complicated, and it would be better for Yan Muyun to learn more tricks to support herself than to be confined to the house embroidering. Therefore, she sided with Yan Muyun in the lawsuit between mother and daughter.
Aunt Ge felt that Su was warning her and felt very sad. Her already frail body could not bear it and she fell ill that night.
After receiving the news, Yan Yongchen rushed to Junlanyuan as soon as he got off work.
"Yingniang, why are you doing this? Our sister Yun has found a good husband, you should be happy and relax, don't worry about everything and compete with yourself."
Aunt Ge cried silently. How could Yan Yongchen not know what she was thinking? "Yingniang, are you regretting giving yourself to me as a concubine? You blame me too. I shouldn't have provoked you in the first place..."
"No, I have never regretted following you, Master. I have never regretted it, really." Aunt Ge hurriedly grabbed Yan Yongchen's sleeve and sobbed, "I just feel sad. My daughter, who I carried for ten months, is about to get married, and I can't even make decisions on small matters."
"I know you feel wronged. Although the Madam is usually a bit strict and rigid, she has a good heart. She probably did this for the good of our sister Yun."
Yan Yongchen took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket and said, "This is the money I have saved in recent years. You can use it to add to Sister Yun's dowry!"
Aunt Ge took the banknotes and looked at them. There were ten banknotes with a face value of 500 taels, which totaled 5,000 taels. The master had always been an honest official, and this was probably the amount of money he had saved over the years.
She asked uncertainly, "Are you going to give all this money to Yun Jie'er alone?"
Yan Yongchen nodded, "Give them all to our sister Yun, just keep them with peace of mind."
Aunt Ge felt bad, "The master has more than one daughter, and all his money was given to Yunjie'er. What about Qingjie'er and Xijie'er?"
"It's okay. Sister Xi has no shortage of money for her dowry. Sister Qing's dowry is managed by Madam, and she has been well prepared with money since she was born. The three sisters are getting married at the same time, and in the end, only our sister Yun is wronged." Yan Yongchen looked guilty.
Aunt Ge was so moved that her eyes were filled with tears. "Jun Jie'er has the master thinking about her, so she shouldn't feel wronged. Five thousand taels of dowry is more than enough for her to marry into the Marquis's mansion and become the mistress."
She originally had some resentment and regret, but now she is just moved.
Being able to follow the master was a blessing that Ge Yingying had earned in several lifetimes, and she never regretted it even though she became a concubine.
Yan Muxi, who was also a bride-to-be, was also confined in the house to do needlework.
Fortunately, Qian Manman is only moderately good at sewing, and she doesn't have high requirements for her daughter. She just wants the shoes to be the same size and have a hole for the socks to fit into.
Even so, Yan Muxi complained continuously and started to feel sleepy after sewing a few stitches every day.
After many days, the master was not tired, but the maids were very tired.
Yan Muxi slept enough during the day, and when she was not sleepy at night, she would tell them stories and read them storybooks. Several of them lived a miserable life day and night.
It’s June now, and even the wind is hot during this hot summer season.
After dinner, Yan Muxi sat under the grape trellis and put eye drops on Qian Manman as usual.
Hard work pays off. Thanks to Yan Muxi's unremitting efforts, the number of times Qian Manman mentions her husband has been greatly reduced, and she no longer mentions her husband every three out of ten sentences.
Yan Muxi was talking excitedly when Dong Yu suddenly coughed heavily. She immediately understood what he meant and changed the subject.
"My third sister is getting married soon. I wonder what dowry my mother has prepared for her?"
"Several boxes of gold and silver jewelry, all of which are popular styles. Sister Yun should like them." Qian Manman said truthfully.
"Mother is so generous. She gave me several boxes of jewelry! Could it be that my third sister is your biological daughter?" Yan Muxi said dissatisfiedly.
Qian Manman glared at her, "No matter how generous mother is to Yun Jie'er, can she surpass you? What mother lacks the most is gold and silver jewelry. There are still many good things in the storehouse. When you go out, you can pick whatever you want."
"Then I won't be polite. I will empty most of your storehouse!"
"How can it be enough to empty most of it? If Xijie empties out all your mother's warehouse, your mother will definitely be happy." Yan Yongchen said with a smile as he walked into the room.
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