Chapter 486 Female Officials (two chapters in one)
As it turns out, Yan Xuehuai's idea is still simple.
Two days later, the queen sent a female official named Peng to the Duke's Mansion, saying that she wanted to guide the etiquette during the wedding.
Li Qiniang believed it and was very polite to the female official Peng. She said with a smile: "The last time I came, two nannies, and also taught the rules of the palace. I thought it also contained the etiquette of the wedding. Now I know that it was not, but the Empress was thoughtful."
Yan Xuehuai looked at Female Official Peng and saw that she was seventeen or eighteen years old, with thin eyebrows and round face, and an ordinary appearance, with a kind appearance.
This female official is very young.
Yan Xuehuai asked where the female official Peng was from. She didn't go around the circle and said directly that her father had served as the magistrate of Datong. She grew up in Datong and was only recruited into the palace last year.
When Yan Xuehuai heard the word "Datong", she felt aroused. She had heard Mrs. Ye say that officials who could serve in Datong would learn Tatha dialect.
"Can Sister Peng speak Tartarism?" Yan Xuehuai looked curious.
The female official Peng smiled and nodded: "I'll find out a little bit."
Yan Xuehuai immediately looked excited, took the hand of Ms. Peng, half acting coquettish and half serious: "Sister Peng, can you teach me the Tatha language when you teach me etiquette?"
Female official Peng asked, "Miss Big Girl wants to learn Tartar dialect?"
"Yes, I have liked to learn dialects from all over the world since I was a child, but there is no Tartar dialect around me. Good sister, just teach me, right?" Yan Xuehuai looked like a young daughter, which made people unbearable to refuse.
The female official Peng obviously couldn't persuade her, so she had to agree: "It's just that I didn't teach well, so don't dislike her, a girl."
The female official Peng sighed in her heart that she could still call herself "me" in front of Miss Yan. After two or three months, she would call herself "a minister".
Yan Xuehuai was like a little girl who had a baby, and she was so happy.
Three days later, Ms. Peng returned to the palace, and the queen asked her: "How?"
The female official Peng reported: "Miss Yan is very interested in learning dialects and learns very quickly. She studied with her daughter for three days. If she buys things with the merchants of the Tatla at this time, she will probably be able to bargain."
The queen laughed, and told the emperor that night: "In the future, Xiaoqi's children will have a clever mouth, and they can talk directly to foreign countries in the future to promote the prestige of our great Wei. Alas, I'm afraid I won't see it."
The emperor patted her hand and comforted her: "How could you not see it? You can not only see your grandson growing up, but also see your great-grandson."
The queen's eyes lit up: "The girl from the Yan family can speak Central Plains, which is more authentic than me. Alas, for decades, I have even changed my local accent."
Duke’s Mansion, Haitangyuan.
After sending away the female official Peng, Yan Xuehuai screamed strangely a few times. Xiaoman asked, "Sister, don't you like that female official very much?"
Yan Xuehuai looked at him and said with a smile: "She was sent by the queen to test me."
Xiaoman instinctively tightened his whole body and asked with concern: "Why should the queen test her sister?"
Suddenly, he remembered something: "Sister, are you really the words you learned from Li Shiji's old man?"
Yan Xuehuai glared at him: "Look at you, you don't even believe it. Of course the queen wants to test me. My sister is talented and rare in the world. I said I learned it from my grandfather, so I learned it from my grandfather. Otherwise, where did you say I learned it from me?"
When Xiaoman thought about it, it seemed that their family, together with their neighbors when they were in Pingcheng, really didn't know how to speak anything.
My sister is really smart. Although my sister did not compete in person with Mr. Gao, Lu Jinxing said that her sister's words were like Mr. Gao, just like a teacher and a student, which was not of the same level.
At Yanmen Pass, King Duan finally met Chai Yan and the second prince who came with Chai Yan.
"Xiao Qi, why are you getting thinner and darker? How can you get married like this?"
"My brother, I'm going to grow on the horse's back. I'll be able to stay thin and not black through storms? But don't worry, brother, I have a good foundation and are not afraid of trouble. When I return to Beijing to get married, I will definitely be the most handsome groom in the city." Chai Yan said.
Duan Wang patted his chest: "I want to be calm and lest I vomit all the overnight meal."
Chai Yan asked, "Where is King Fu now?"
King Duan said, "King Fu and Prince Huaian are now hiding in a village called Fengjiakou at the foot of Hengshan Mountain. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. You are just right. The people from Tartar were just put in by our people yesterday. I guess the fastest day and tomorrow at the latest, King Fu will send someone to join him."
Chai Yan laughed: "I hope it is today, I can't wait."
At this moment, a soldier rushed in: "Prince, 800 miles of speed."
King Duan's personal companion took the letter, checked the fire paint, and then checked the envelope. After confirming that it was not poisonous, he handed the letter to King Duan.
After seeing it, Duan frowned slightly. He handed the letter to Chai Yan, and after Chai Yan read it, he handed it to the second prince.
While the second prince was reading the letter, Chai Yan said to King Duan: "The eldest prince is getting more and more powerful. The person who killed Chai Hui can be found so quickly. It is from the Tartar."
"Nonsense, the eldest brother can be the prince, of course it is amazing. The most powerful one for us brothers is the eldest brother." Prince Duan admired the prince since he was a child. Outsiders only knew that Xiaoqi was raised by the prince, but they didn't know that the second brother and he were also following the prince since childhood, but the second brother ran to chant scriptures halfway.
Capital.
Bailan was driven out to go shopping by Wen Xiu. In order to get Bai Lan out of her house, Wen Xiu invited Tang Ru to accompany her. For this reason, Wen Xiu secretly gave Tang Ru ten taels of silver. Tang Ru refused to accept it. Wen Xiu said, "You can't just go shopping and not buy it. Look at your sister. She has not been dressed up since she divorced her. She is young and looks like a yellow-faced woman. You can buy some rouge and water powder for her, and buy two pieces of materials to make a new dress."
Tang Ru accepted the money happily. When she heard that she was going to call Bailan to go shopping, Dazhuang took the initiative to ask them to drive the car.
Tang Ru smiled and said, "No, no, we just need to hire two sedan chairs. You have to pick up Young Master Man in the afternoon."
Da Zhuang smiled silly: "Today, the Duke of the State went to give a lecture in the academy. He went home with Young Master Man. There were many guards and I couldn't use them, so Young Master Man gave me a holiday early in the morning."
Tang Ru stopped refusing and asked Dazhuang to drive the mule cart. She originally wanted to call Sister Guo, but Sister Guo had just finished a fight with Sister Xia in the morning and didn't even have breakfast. She had already started a hunger strike. She could not go out shopping now, otherwise all her previous efforts would be wasted.
Boss Bailan followed Tang Ru out unhappily. The two went to several places that the women liked to visit the most. They went to Baihuitang to buy rouge and water powder. When they heard that Baihuitang had invited a dressing woman to dress the woman, Tang Ru pressed Bailan on the chair and asked the dressing woman to make up her hair. The woman's mouth seemed to have honey, and she kept praising Bailan for her thin skin and delicate facial features, looking like she was seventeen or eighteen years old. Bailan was unwilling to do it before, but after she was dressing up, she almost couldn't believe that she was herself in the mirror.
In fact, it was not only after she divorced, but since she gave birth to a child, she no longer dressed up.
After dressing up, Tang Ru took Bailan to buy materials to make clothes, and bought toys for Xiaoni.
Dazhuang sat in a mule cart and waited, grinning and silly.
He had already thought about it. After the eldest girl got married, he asked a matchmaker to propose marriage. He asked Tang Ru, and Tang Ru had only one request, that is, she could not leave her younger brother behind after getting married.
Dazhuang felt that this was not a requirement. The Tang family had only two people, Tang Ru and Tang Long. If he, the brother-in-law, would he still be a human if Tang Long was abandoned?
Seeing Tang Ru and Bailan coming from afar, Dazhuang jumped out of the car, put on a footstool, and waited for them to get on the car.
But the two stopped, and Tang Ru was talking to someone.
He was also a woman. Dazhuang couldn't see her face. Just judging from her back, he should be a young girl.
Dazhuang waited patiently for a while, and when the girl left, Tang Ru and Bai Lan walked to the mule cart.
Dazhuang asked, "Where are we going?"
Tang Ru did not answer, but looked at Bai Lan and asked, "Sister Bai, why don't we go to Shantang to have a look, I haven't been there for some days."
Bai Lan has never been to Shantang. Besides, Tang Ru has been with her for most of the day, so it is natural for her to accompany Tang Ru to Shantang.
Seeing that Bai Lan agreed, Tang Ru said to Da Zhuang: "Brother Da Zhuang, let's go to Shantang. I'll see a snack shop later. Please stop. I'll buy some snacks and candies to take them to the children in Shantang."
Of course, Dazhuang agreed and agreed with a smile: "I'll count it."
It turned out that the girl Tang Ru met just now was the one she met in the Shantang.
Half a year ago, the girl's uncle and his family came to the capital and found her in the shantang. Now she has been engaged. Today, she is here to buy a door curtain and pillowcase for dowry in the wedding shop.
Sitting in the mule cart, Tang Ru said to Bailan: "Just Xiaofang just said that she had taken a lot of handicrafts from outside the Shantang, and I don't know what handicrafts it is. I think it's okay, but I can actually do it."
Dazhuang heard it through the curtain and hurriedly said, "You want to make money by hand, are you short of money? I have it here."
Tang Ru's pretty face turned red. Bai Lan had long seen that the relationship between the two was unusual. At this moment, she had something to understand and immediately covered her mouth and laughed.
Da Zhuang outside the curtain heard laughter from inside, and then he realized that it was not the only one in the car, but Bai Lan was still there.
Dazhuang also blushed. When he saw the dim sum shop, Dazhuang didn't say hello, jumped out of the mule cart, and used his own money to buy more than a dozen boxes of dim sum. Bailan was shocked when he saw it and said, "Dazhuang, do you bring so much money on your daily life?"
All the money from Dazhuang was asked by Xia Erjie to help him save. Today he wanted to go shopping with Tang Ru. He asked Xia Erjie for the money he wanted.
When he arrived at Shantang, Tang Ru found that there were fewer people in Shantang than a while ago. After asking, she realized that many wealthy families often came to choose people these days, but most of them needed to sign contracts for sale. Some people did not want to sell themselves as slaves, so they stayed in Shantang.
"Aru, you are lucky, you don't have to sell yourself, you still have to get your salary." The little sister said enviously.
When Tang Ru asked about handicrafts, she turned out to be weaving a flower basket with rattan and willow, and a flower basket was given two cents.
At this time, someone secretly pulled Tang Ru. When Tang Ru saw that it was Xiaoying.
Xiaoying pointed to the side, Tang Ru and Bai Lan said, and followed Xiaoying to the bottom of the big tree next to her.
Several very young children were playing shuttlecock under the tree. When they saw them coming, they ran aside.
"Aru, I heard that your boss has become the Duke's wife, is that true?" Xiaoying asked.
Tang Ru and Youyou Rongyan: "Of course it's true. Not only did the boss become the wife of the Duke, but our young master also wanted to be the prince's concubine. By the way, you have met the young master, do you still remember that the last time we came to Shantang to pick people was our young master. Unfortunately, you didn't want to work in the house, otherwise you might have chosen you together that time."
"Then your young master is the one who is very good at studying, and Sister Xia is just taking care of him." Xiaoying asked.
"The young master is studying in the academy. Now he lives in the Duke's Mansion, and there is no need for Sister Xia to take care of him. Those who are following him are servants. After the eldest girl's marriage is completed, my brother will be transferred to the young master." Tang Ru was happy when she talked about this. This was what Mr. Man said in person.
"What about you, are you going to get married?" Xiaoying remembered the young man who was following Tang Ru and was responsible for carrying his bags, and asked, "Is it the one who came with you?"
Tang Ru's face turned red and she nodded with her lips pursed.
"Of course there is no more. Who dares to bully the young master of the Duke's Mansion?" Tang Ru said.
"That's good, that's good, by the way, I heard that the Emperor Changsun was also studying in that academy. Your young master would not want to go to the palace with the Emperor Changsun, right?" Xiaoying asked again.
"No, I haven't heard that the young master has entered the palace, but the young master is the elder grandson's companion, and he lives in the palace on weekdays." Tang Ru said this, suddenly felt something was wrong. She looked at Xiaoying in confusion, "Xiaoying, tell the truth, why do you always ask our young master about it?"
Just now, some young sisters in the Shantang asked her about the matter, but they all asked about the boss's wife and the young boss, such as how many betrothal gifts the royal family gave to marry their daughter-in-law, and whether they also found a matchmaker to propose marriage. In short, it was the curiosity of the common people about the royal family, which was a very normal manifestation.
It’s abnormal for someone like Xiaoying.
The environment can change people. Tang Ru has long been a country girl who has just entered the city. She has met the prince, the emperor and the eldest grandson, and she has also met the eunuchs and female officials in the palace.
Tang Ru looked at Xiaoying's eyes, as if she wanted to see something from Xiaoying's eyes.
Xiaoying lowered her head and avoided Tang Ru's gaze.
Tang Ru's expression frightened, Xiaoying was guilty.
She looked around and grabbed Xiaoying's hand and asked seriously: "Is someone instructing you to ask me who is it?"
Chapter completed!