“Thank you madam.”
Song Wangyue still didn’t push back and accepted it graciously.
The First Lady liked her just the way she was.
“When your big brother is all right after the betrothal and I’m well enough, I’ll definitely go and see your family.”
“Good, I was thinking of taking the family for a good look around the capital, so why don’t you be our guide, Madam?”
“No problem, it’s a deal.”
Song Wangyue came out of the house holding the box containing the head noodles.
Sister Wu thought about it and told her the truth, “Miss Song, this set of head masks is one of the dowry that Madam prepared for Miss at the beginning ……”
She didn’t have any other ideas, but was afraid that if the Song family really took it as a betrothal gift, it would be disliked by the people of the Ding Guo Mansion in the future.
“Sister, don’t worry, this headdress is just temporarily put away in my place, I will return it to its rightful owner when Miss Xu returns.”
“I don’t mean that.”
Thinking she had misunderstood, Sister Wu hurriedly explained.
“I understand that Sister is thinking of us and will not misunderstand.”
Sister Wu breathed a sigh of relief.
Gu Yi came out of the room off to one side. He would go and sit in that room every time he came, and Sister Wu had prepared a lot of snacks for him and books for him.
He walked up to Song Wan Yue and took the box from her, and the two of them left the Xu Mansion. When they got on the carriage, Gu Yi opened the box and the red coral beads on the head were almost average in size, each round and full, colourful and dazzling.
“This is the dowry for my mother when she was first purchased.”
Gu Yi heard the meaning of her words and covered the box, “You mean ……”
Song Wan Yue nodded, “Maybe my mother will remember what to write when she sees it.”
This was also the reason why she did not refuse to accept the head face.
……
The carriage returned to the entrance of the house and before it stopped, Xiao Si could be heard shouting excitedly, “Young master, Miss Song, they have arrived.”
Song Wangyue lifted the carriage curtain and saw two carriages parked at the entrance, immediately asking the carriage driver to stop, jumping down and running towards the courtyard with the hem of her coat, “Grandma! Mother! Second Aunt!”
When she heard the shout, she immediately stood up and took three steps to the door, just as she lifted the curtain, Song Wan Yue ran in and hugged her, “Grandma, I’ve missed you so much.”
She had been out since the beginning of February, and now it was the end of March, so she hadn’t seen her for nearly two months, and she missed her too.
“Of course Grandma misses me, without me as a happy girl, you guys don’t know how boring it is at home.”
“That’s right, that’s right ……”
Liu Cui Lan smiled and answered, “When you are not at home, second aunt has no energy to sell spicy hotpot.”
The crowd laughed.
“Second Aunt, Second Uncle.”
Song Wan Yue came out of Grandma Song’s arms, and after calling out to the people, she jumped into the arms of Xu, “Mother.”
Liu Cui Lan was envious.
Xu stroked Song Wan Yue’s head, “It seems to have grown a bit taller. ”
“Not only is she taller, she is also whiter and more handsome, it seems that the water in the capital city still nurtures people. ”
Grandma Song kept her eyes on Song Wangyue.
Gu Yi lifted the curtain of the door and came in, holding the box in his hands, calling out to the people one by one.
Grandma Song immediately looked at him again, seeing that the marks on his face had not yet gone down, her smile faded and she beckoned towards him, gesturing for her to sit beside her, “You’ve lost some weight, is it because you’re not used to eating the food in the capital, in a moment grandma will cook you a few special dishes, so you can have a good meal.”
“Thank you, Grandma.”
Gu Yi gave the box in her hand to Song Wan Yue and sat over.
Song Wangyue put the box in front of Xu and said with a smile, “This is a head noodle from First Lady Xu to thank me for helping her heal these days. Mother open it and see if it’s good.”
“You. ……”
Xu gave her a doting look, opened the box and saw the head noodles inside, a sense of familiarity rose up from deep inside her, she couldn’t help but extend her hand, “This is ……”
Song Wan Yue had been observing her expression, seeing this she immediately asked, “Mother knows it?”
It was as if something flashed through her mind, passing in a flash, Xu failed to catch it and frowned slightly.
And then, shook her head, her daughter had gone to the house of a great Confucian, how could she know them?
“It’s a coincidence to say that the House of the Great Confucian is also surnamed Xu, the same surname as Mother, so ah, the first time she saw me, the First Lady was doubly affectionate and kept giving me things.”
“That’s because our Yue’er is pleasing to the eye.”
Grandma Song didn’t notice Xu’s abnormality and wasn’t interested in the headdress, for country people, a silver bracelet was fine to wear, a headdress was not useful.
Liu Cui Lan, however, took a curious look and immediately let out a shocked cry, “It’s so beautiful!”
She had never seen such beautiful jewellery before, and the red beads emitted a dazzling light even inside the house.
Grandma Song took a look at them and was similarly shocked, “This, this must be worth quite a lot of money, right?”
“It has to be tens of thousands of taels.”
Gu Yi said.
Grandma Song’s hand shook and almost touched the tea jar on the table, she was busy saying, “It’s too expensive for us to accept, Yue’er you will send it back to someone tomorrow.”
As if she hadn’t heard their words, Xu looked at the head and face in a trance, voices seemed to echo in her head, and she punched herself on the head.
“Mother?”
Xu looked up and stared blankly at Song Wangyue.
“What’s wrong with you?”
Xu’s lips twitched, “I …… I’m just a little tired.”
“I’ll help Mother to rest.”
Song Wangyue got up, Gu Yi also followed and stood up, the two of them helped her left and right to the house where Song Wangyue lived.
“Yue’er ……”
Xu wanted to say something, but when she saw Song Wangyue looking at her, she swallowed the words that followed.
“I’ll be fine after I sleep for a while, you guys go stay with grandma and the others.”
Song Wangyue nodded, helped her cover up the quilt, watched her close her eyes, and went out gently with Gu Yi.
As soon as the door closed, Xu’s eyes immediately opened, vacant and dull, and only after a long time did she withdraw her gaze and close her eyes again.
Outside the door, Song Wangyue and Gu Yi looked at each other before returning to the hall as if nothing had happened.
Grandma Song was asking Song Si about the process of getting engaged in the capital.
Song Wan Yue smiled and sat down next to her, “Grandma, has big brother told you which girl he has a crush on?”
She hadn’t seen Song Wan Yue and Gu Yi since she had entered, so she had only been asking about them, and had really forgotten to ask Song Si which girl he was interested in.
“Which girl is it?”
Song Wan Yue tilted the tealight in front of her, “Grandma, second uncle, second aunt, you should sit tight, my future sister-in-law’s identity is not simple.”
The three of them lost their laughter.
Liu Cui Lan said, “How uncomplicated can it be? Is she a girl from one of the royal families?”
Song Wan Yue nodded her head with a smile, “It’s true that Second Aunt was right, it’s Sister Xiao from the Ding Guo Gong House.”