The screen in front of her eyes was embroidered by an embroiderer with the worst craftsmanship that Yunchu had asked to find, and it took one day to finish it.
This was the birthday gift she brought to Old Mrs. Xie, spending less than two taels of silver in total.
The past four or five years, every year the old lady birthday, she took great pains to send gifts, the first year to send a pot of coral pots worth eight hundred taels of silver, the second year personally involved in the creation of a whole set of emerald embedded gold silk head, the third year ... In short, every birthday gift, time and also cost silver, looking back to think about it is really for themselves to feel worthless.
Look at this screen, although ugly, but as long as said she personally embroidered, no one dares to say anything, and will even praise a filial piety.
Yunchu let the screen be put away, and the maids brought up the dinner one by one.
She ordered a table of light dishes that children loved to eat, and a steamed fish, which she personally picked out the fish spines for Chu Hongyu and placed them in his bowl.
Chu Hongyu stood on a chair to set up the stage and stretched his little arm to give Yunchu a bowl of chicken soup.
After dinner, the little one picked up a book and continued to read, originally read all the three-character sutra, this will have been able to stumble out a large part of the memorization.
Yun Chou asked Listening Frost to carefully accompany the child to read, while she got up and headed to the small temple of the Xie Mansion.
There is only a small nun and He living in this temple, because of the fear that He will come out to cause trouble again, Xie Jingyu ordered two grannies to guard the entrance.
Seeing Yun Chu come, the two grannies hurriedly saluted, "Greetings to you, ma'am."
Yun Chu said in a faint voice: "Then, is He still peaceful and honest these days?"
A granny replied, "She was lying on her back in the house all day to nurse her wounds, no matter what kind of food was sent in, she ate it all and brought it out, and she was quite peaceful."
Yun Chou nodded and stepped in, listening to the wind as he stepped forward and pushed He's door open.
He was lying on her back embroidering something, when she saw Yun Chou come, her face changed, then she lowly and obediently got down from the bed to salute and greet her.
Listening to the wind, he picked up the embroidered thing and handed it to Yun Chou.
Yunchu glanced at it and smiled, "Mother He is grounded here, but she can still think of embroidering birthday gifts for the old lady, it is rare to have this heart."
He's eyes hung down and said, "This smudge will take another half a day for the slave girl to embroider, when that time comes, can you please ask Your Ladyship to be gracious and find someone to help send it to the old lady?"
"This is your own embroidered birthday gift, of course it is more appropriate for you to deliver it yourself." Yun Chu's voice is gentle, "The old lady is happy once in a while on her birthday, so you will be exempted from being grounded for this day, but remember, no trouble."
He couldn't believe it.
She went to great lengths to plant evidence that Madam had poisoned Aunt Tao, only to end up grounded, and Madam took the initiative to exempt her from a day's grounding?
She didn't dare get too happy too soon, she always felt like something bad was waiting for her.
Yun Chou threw down these words, lifted his steps and walked out.
Back to the Sheng residence, Chu Hongyu had already gone to sleep, the little guy was still holding the book in his arms, his mouth was reciting words, listening carefully, he was even memorizing the Three Character Classic.
Losing her smile, she pulled the book out, undressed the child, tucked him in, and lay down on the edge to fall asleep as well.
She slept soundly that night, and when she got up in the morning, it was dawn.
Turning his head, he saw that the little one beside him was gone, and his heart suddenly emptied for a moment.
Hearing Frost smiled and said, "The young world son woke up so early, he said that today is the last day to stay in the Xie family, and he wants to give you, ma'am, a gift."
Yun Chou followed Listening Frost and quietly walked to the side hall and saw the little guy holding a piece of wood in his hand and a short knife in his other hand, making a wood carving.
He looked serious, like he was on to something big.
Yunchu also pondered, what should she give to this child?
"Ma'am, the aunts are here to greet you."
Listening Frost stayed in the side hall to watch the child, while Yun Chu went to the front.
Aunt Jiang, Aunt Tao, Aunt Yu, plus a few brothers and sisters were all there.
"Madame looks good, she seems to have recovered greatly." Aunt Jiang smiled and said, "Just in time to attend the old madam's birthday banquet."
"Speaking of the birthday banquet, I just happened to ask sister Ping'er." Yunchu spoke, "Everything we need for tomorrow is ready, if there is anything we can't decide on, we can discuss it now."
Xie Ping returned, "The old lady personally stared at the progress of the birthday banquet, everything is ready, mother need not worry about these trivial matters."
The old lady said, once the birthday banquet is over, the mother will be in the hands of all the power of the housekeeper to her hands, before she got married, Xie House all by her in charge, the unmarried girl if you can take care of the mansion in order, will be a big advantage of the said marriage ...
Yun Chou did not inquire about the birthday banquet and asked one by one about the recent situation of the aunts and children.
Aunt Tao's body was getting heavier and heavier, probably giving birth at the hottest time of the year.
Auntie Jiang has allowed Sister Xian to start learning to recognize words and read, and is in the process of opening her eyes.
Aunt Yu listen to rain is also not willing to lag behind, will be sent to Yun brother child to the residence of the small school to follow the husband to study.
Xie Shiyuan was much more honest after receiving the family law last time, and sat on the side without saying a word when asking for peace.
The group talked for a while and then dispersed.
Going out from the Sheng Residence, Xie Shiyun tugged on Listening Rain's sleeve and said, "Auntie, mother doesn't like me anymore, is it because she has another child?"
Listening to the rain shook his head, the lady is not only much colder to Yoon, to the eldest young master second young master are also like this, and even adults have been slapped ...
To be honest, even if she had grown up serving the madam and knew her habits like the back of her hand, she couldn't see through what the madam really wanted to do now.
"Auntie, I saw other children in mother's courtyard." Xie Shiyun whispered, "Yesterday I came to play by mother's yard and heard a child talking in the yard, a boy's voice, I waited for a long, long time before I saw a boy walk out of the side hall, about the same age as me ... It must be this child that made mother dislike me! "
These words were not made up at first hearing, and Hearing Rain looked stunned, "You really saw it?"
Xie Shiyun nodded vigorously.
Hearing Rain's hand tightened violently.
This child is very likely to be the Yun family side branch who's child, could it be that, the lady has nothing to produce, is trying to inherit one from the Yun family?
If she really let the madam raise a child with the same bloodline by her side, it would be impossible for her Yun-geo to please the madam anymore.
Does the old lady know about this? Does the missus know? Does the lord know?
Tomorrow is the old lady's birthday banquet, is madam going to let this child be known on her birthday?
Listening to the rain in her mind turned all kinds of thoughts, but did not dare to do anything, because, she was not sure what the lady was going to do ...
Yun Chou had just walked to the side hall when the little guy hid the things in his hand, "Mother, don't look at me, I'll send you a surprise later."
"Yes, then Mother will wait." She sat down by the window and her hands were busy.
She's also working on a parting gift for the little one.
This was the last day, as long as she thought of the little one leaving the Xie family tomorrow, a faint feeling of reluctance unexpectedly arose in her heart.