Chapter 55: Mother and Daughter
Tao took his children back to Chen's house. Not long after, Chen Danyao brought several girls from the eldest house to pay tribute to Tao. Tao received their gifts according to the etiquette and gave them a gift of meeting. This etiquette was originally supposed to be completed yesterday, but because of the farce, it was postponed.
Not long after the girls in the long house left, several girls in the second house, led by Shen Danfu, also came to greet Tao. However, Chen Dannian, who was the one who should come to visit Tao, was not here for a long time.
Chen Dannian was young and thought that she had the backer of Chen Mother, and she would not be afraid of anything, and ignored Tao's legitimate mother. However, not all around her were her ignorant and above all her eyesight. One of her wet nurses, Lady Liao, had some knowledge and advised her: "Twelve Girls, look at the eldest girl and the others have gone to pay tribute to the third wife. If you don't go, the third wife will be angry."
Chen Dannian frowned and said, "I'm not afraid of her being angry."
Lady Liao smiled and said, "Miss Twelve doesn't have to worry about whether the third wife is angry, but no matter what, the third wife is your legitimate mother. You have to respect her on the surface. If you are disrespectful to her, it will attract gossip and affect the girl's reputation at that time."
"Who dares to tell me gossip?" Chen Dannian put the teacup in his hand heavily, "I insisted that the old lady peel her."
Lady Liao's heart tightened, her eyes turned slightly, and she said, "Miss Twelve, the old lady is old, so it's better not to disturb her such a small matter. Girl Twelve, let's go and move, and then she can eat dinner. The old lady always says that when she sees the girl eats, she has a better appetite and eats more food."
Chen Dannian pursed her lips and said nothing, her eyes flashing.
Seeing all her intentions, Lady Liao quickly asked the maid to serve her to change clothes. Chen Dannian glanced at Lady Liao and said, "Forget it, I will listen to you once, this trip will be used as a food."
Lady Liao smiled and said, "I'm sorry, Miss."
When Shen Dannian came to the third room, Chen Danxia and his three sisters came back to pay homage to Chen Mushi and Zhou. The Shen Bomi brothers sent their sister to their mother and went back to the room to read and practice calligraphy. Chen Danxia was useless. He took out the small slingshot on his waist, climbed onto the Arhat couch where Tao was sitting, sat on this end of the couch, aimed at the beautiful crane on the other end, and shot silver bullets to play.
The maid came in and reported: "Madam, the twelve girls are here."
Dow was looking through the account book. When he heard the notice, he closed the account book, looked up at the Western clock in the corner, and curled the corners of his lips, "Oh, it's quite early."
Chen Danxia held the silver bullet in the soft cowhide and went to see the Western clock. It was getting late, almost five o'clock. Well, it was better to be late than not coming, but Tao didn't think so, and said lightly: "Congratulations, change the gilded set and let her come in." The meeting ceremony was reduced to the level, and it was obvious that Tao was dissatisfied with Chen Dan's thoughts too late.
When Chen Dannian came in, she saw her legitimate sister sitting on the couch playing with slingshots and frowned in disgust. The business girl could not raise a noble girl, who is a wealthy girl in a family who could play with such rough things. Tao saw the expression on Chen Dannian's face, and even more annoyed. A small concubine dared to dislike her legitimate mother, who was worthy of growing up with the old lady. She is so well educated!
"It's getting late, why are the Twelve Girls here?" Tao asked knowingly.
"Come and pay tribute to your wife." Chen Dannian said in a stiff tone.
"It's hard for the Twelve Girls to take this trip, so I dare not take it." Tao curled his lips, "Congratulations, go and bring the head and face of the silver-plated magpies playing with butterflies."
Chen Danxia raised his eyebrows, and the level of the meeting ceremony was reduced to another level. Her mother was about to announce it to her if she was disliked by Chen Dannian.
Chen Dan was young and could not show his emotions without showing his emotions. His face became increasingly ugly. He said bluntly: "Madam keeps that to his servants, please give it to his servants. The maternal mother around me doesn't wear silver ornaments."
As soon as she said that, Miss Liao was so scared that she fell to her knees and said to save her, "Madam, isn't the Twelve Girl..."
"Bold, my master is talking, how can you, a servant, interrupt?" Mrs. Qi interrupted her and signaled her maid to block her mouth and drag her out. Lady Liao closed her eyes with her fate. This trip might have been wrong.
"I'm confused. The Twelve Girl grew up next to the old lady. I haven't seen any good things before? How could I care about silver jewelry? Forget it, congratulations on getting the things. In the future, there is no need to prepare something like this that cannot be put on the table. After all, the old lady will give a lot of good things to the Twelve Girl. I don't have to worry about it." Tao said a few words lightly, and found a reason to not read things for Chen Dan in the future.
Chen Dannian didn't realize it, and snorted lightly on his face. Chen Danxia heard the meaning of Tao's words, but no matter how could she remind Chen Dannian that there was something different about her closeness and distantness.
"Madam, it's getting late, it's time to pay tribute to the old lady." Mrs. Qi stepped forward and reminded.
Tao glanced at Chen Dannian and smiled and said, "It's time to pay tribute to the old lady."
Hu Jiao and others quickly stepped forward to serve Chen Danxia from the couch, surrounded the mother and daughter and went to Xuanziyuan. Outside the three-bedroom courtyard, they met Shen Baimi's brothers who had changed their clothes. Shen Baimi saw Chen Dannian following behind, and a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes. Shen Baiyu asked directly: "Why are you here?"
"I'll say goodbye to my wife." Chen Dannian said, rolling his upper eyelids.
Shen Baiyu widened his eyes and asked, "Why did you suddenly understand..." Shen Bai pulled down his sleeves and stopped him from keeping his mouth shut. Looking at Chen Dannian's expression, he also knew that she was unwilling to come this time, so why bother to say more?
The three-bedroom man arrived at Xuanziyuan and entered the small hall after the notice. Chen's mother looked at Chen Dannian who came in with Tao, and her eyes flashed, "I said, it's this time, why haven't Nian'er come yet? It turns out that she is going to your wife's place."
Tao continued with a smile: "Miss Twelve went to greet me, it was all well taught by the old lady."
Chen's mother hummed a few times, not saying anything. Chen Dannian bit the corner of her lower lip lightly. She shouldn't have heard the stupid slave go to greet her. Look, the old lady is unhappy.
After the farce in the morning, the maid didn't dare to set up a chair at night. More than a dozen girls from the Shen family sat down to accompany Chen's mother for dinner. Chen Danxia couldn't eat. Chen Danxia was old and loved to eat sweet and glutinous food. Chen Danxia liked salty food, and the dishes on the table were not as good as her taste.
After finally waiting until his mother finished eating, Chen Danxia quickly put the chopsticks on her chopsticks. After using the meal, she accompanied Chen's mother back to the hall. Chen's mother picked up the teacup, took a sip, and asked, "Jiu Yatou, are you almost six years old?"
Tao's eyelids twitched. The old lady was going to move her baby to the small building. She couldn't bear to leave and stood up and said, "If the old lady said, Miss Ninth will only be six years old next year." Liuxu Sui and Liuxu Sui are different. It is one year later.
Chen's mother glanced at Tao with displeasure. She couldn't get on the table. Nine Girl was kept by her side. Could it be that Nine Girl still insulted Nine Girl? If Nine Girl is not the only legitimate daughter of the third wife, she doesn't want to raise it yet, a fat and swollen stinky girl.
Chapter completed!