Early this morning, the Kaiyang Marquis Mansion sent someone to deliver several lacquer trays of gold and silver jewelry to officially finalize her marriage to the grandson.
After guiltily avoiding her gaze, Qiu said calmly, "You are a woman!"
"Remember it clearly. Regardless of whether anything happened between you and Mr. Xie last night, you must say to the outside world that nothing happened!"
After Mrs. Qiu said these words sternly, fearing that she wouldn't listen, she softened her voice and said consolingly, "Remember to stay away from Mr. , he may not care about the rumors outside, but as a woman, you should pay attention to your reputation."
Chen Anning sat up with her hands on her hands, "Is the peach pendant on my mother's body newly bought?"
"Of course not," Mrs. Qiu quickly covered the tourmaline belt around her waist, "I have bought this for a long time, but I have never worn it."
"Really?" Chen Anning asked casually, "How much did it cost?"
Qiu said sarcastically: "Three or four taels of silver, right? I can't remember exactly how much it was."
Chen Anning stretched out her hand calmly, "Show me."
Mrs. Qiu didn't want to give it to her, but facing her intimidating gaze, she could only reluctantly pull off the peach pendant and hand it to her.
Chen Anning took the peach pendant, played with it for a while, and joked: "Mom, are you sure this peach pendant only costs three or four taels of silver?"
Ms. Qiu said bravely, "That's probably it."
"This peach pendant..." It looked like it came from Yubaozhai. Judging from the quality of the jade, it cost at least twenty taels of silver. As soon as Chuntao opened her mouth, Chen Anning interrupted her, "He Xiang, take five taels of silver and give it to mother. I like this peach pendant very much, so I bought it from mother."
He Xiang obediently went to get five taels of silver and handed it to Qiu.
I don't know if she did it intentionally or not.
The silver that was brought back was one of the fifty taels of silver that Qiu returned yesterday.
Among the several lacquer plates of gold and silver jewelry sent by the Kaiyang Marquis Mansion, Qiu's favorite was this tourmaline with green peach pendant. Seeing that Chen Anning had taken it away, Mrs. Qiu endured her heartache and reluctantly took the silver ingot. When she saw the teeth marks on it, her legs went weak and she fell to the ground.
He Xiang quickly supported her with quick eyes and hands.
"Mom is reluctant to give me this peach?" Chen Anning asked, deliberately playing with the peach.
"Of course not." Mrs. Qiu held He Xiang's arm and said with her eyes on Tao Pei, "It's because I didn't rest well last night, and my legs were a little weak for a while."
"Since you haven't rested well, mother should go back and make up for it while it's still early." Chen Anning threw Taopei onto the bedside cabinet.
The rude action scared Qiu's heart. Seeing that Taopei had landed on the cabinet, he relaxed a little and said, "I'll just sit down and take it easy."
"Then mother, just sit down and take it easy." Chen Anning said and got up from the bed.
Chun Rui and Chuntao immediately went to the cabinet, took out clothes and accessories, and stepped forward to change her clothes.
Qiu's eyes followed the movements of the two people and inevitably fell on the clothes they were holding.
Seeing that the embroidery on the clothes was no different from what she wore yesterday, she couldn't help but go up and touch it. After being stopped by Chun Rui, she couldn't help but turn her eyes to the accessories they put aside, "Are these all from Jinxiu Pavilion?"
Chuntao said proudly: "The clothes worn by the eldest princess and the princess have always been made by Jinxiu Pavilion. Miss Chen Er's stay in the eldest princess's mansion was not long enough, and she did not have time to ask the embroiderers to cut them from scratch, but the clothes she wore The items are still carefully selected from Jinxiu Pavilion."
"The colorful embroidered white damask with red bird and mandarin duck patterns in my hand comes from the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau. It can only produce seven pieces a year, and each piece costs at least 500 taels of silver. And this piece of silk is from Jiangnan Weaving Bureau. , only three such backs can be cut out at most."
Qiu looked at the back of her hand absentmindedly.
A bolt of 500 taels of silver can only be cut into three such backs, and each one costs at least more than 100 taels of silver.
In addition to tops, inner skirts, gauze skirts, belts, shoes, accessories and hairpins, etc., the whole outfit costs at least 500 taels of silver.
When they were getting clothes from the cabinet just now, although she didn't see clearly how many clothes there were, judging from the height of the piles of clothes, no matter how high she estimated, there were at least five clothes.
Assuming that one body is worth 500 taels of silver, the five bodies will be worth 2500 taels of silver.
No wonder Chen Anning can throw the peach pendant so casually...
No, now is not the time to worry about this.
The few lacquered trays of gold and silver jewelry sent by Kaiyang Marquis Mansion in the morning totaled almost a thousand taels of silver. I originally thought it was enough, but compared with what the eldest princess had given me, it seemed a bit shabby.
Chen Anning only treated the eldest princess's head ailment, but the eldest princess gave so much as a gift.
The Marquis of Kaiyang wanted to marry her, but he only got less than a thousand taels of silver?
She is the only descendant of Yaowang Valley, and she is a disciple of a miracle doctor who can match any prince or noble!
The Kaiyang Hou Mansion just wanted to send the Chen family away like this, which was really too much!
Qiu's face turned cold for a moment, and after casually finding a reason, she hurriedly left Qingzhiyuan.
Chen Anning looked at her retreating back and told He Xiang: "Find someone to follow her."
He Xiang responded. After quickly going out to arrange the people, as soon as she returned to the house, there was a noise outside the door.
He Xiang glanced at Chen Anning and then walked out quickly. After asking about the situation, he took a careful look at Chun Rui and Chuntao when he came back, and reported in a low voice: "It's the groom from the eldest princess's mansion. He said that the lady wanted to use the carriage from the eldest princess's mansion. After he refused, the lady asked someone to take the carriage. He pulled it down by force and stole the carriage.”
"You wait for Miss Chen Er to eat while I go out and take a look." Chun Rui told Chuntao and hurried out.
She came back after a while and said calmly: "Everything has been comforted, Miss Chen Er, don't worry."
She's not worried.
It was just a pity that she originally planned to use this incident to test the eldest princess's purpose for her.
Now being comforted by her is obviously not going to work.
Glancing outside, Chen Anning ordered He Xiang, "Let people continue to follow."
After the lotus fragrance came, I went out to make arrangements again.
After dinner, Chen Anning wandered around Qingzhiyuan for two idle times, then asked Hexiang to find a fishing rod, carry a bucket, sit on the edge of the lotus pond, and catch a carp.
Two hours later.
He Xiang arranged to follow Qiu's servant back.
Coincidentally, a greedy carp also took the bait.
While listening to the boy's report about Qiu's visit to the Kaiyang Marquis Mansion, Chen Anning slowly dragged the carp from the middle of the lotus leaves to the shore, then swung the pole and threw the carp onto the grass.
Putting down the fishing rod, he caught the struggling carp, took the hook out of its mouth, and threw it into the bucket. Looking at its figure still swimming freely in the small bucket, Chen Anning said leisurely: " He Chun, Chun Rui, you two and others, take her and the carriage to Qingzhiyuan for me!"
