Transmigration: A Farm Girl’s Brocade
Chapter 725 - 351 Mr. Qian and Yueniang_3

Chapter 725: Chapter 351 Mr. Qian and Yueniang_3

He felt too embarrassed to continue speaking. Although Lady Cui showed indifference to him, he believed that he could eventually coax her over, after all, they shared so many years of deep mother-son affection.

But it was difficult for Lady Lin and Maternal Aunt Qin to appease Lady Cui’s anger. Today, Maternal Aunt Qin knelt in the main courtyard for a whole day, but Lady Cui didn’t even meet her. Lady Lin did meet her, but her words were laced with sarcasm.

Liang Jinchen believed that Lady Lin and Maternal Aunt Qin also deserved a lesson for being careless and not knowing how to judge the situation. Other people’s legitimate sons, suppressed by their stepmothers, were even persecuted to death. Yet he was fortunate, his stepmother cherished him as her own, and his legitimate brother and sister also did not look down on him, treating him as a true sibling. Those two didn’t know how to be grateful, didn’t know how to help him make his stepmother happy, but also harbored thoughts they shouldn’t have had...

Afterward, he and his brothers played Go in the room to the west, and Qian Yixiu considerately brewed tea for them by hand.

The next morning, not long after sending off Liang Jinzhao, he saw Lady Lin come to Lianxiang Courtyard; she was here to arrange with Qian Yixiu to visit Lady Cui in the main courtyard together.

Qian Yixiu also acted as if nothing had happened, inviting her to sit in the room with a cheerful smile, and then they went together to the main courtyard.

The road had completely dried up, so the two expectant mothers walked on their own.

Upon entering the courtyard gate, they saw Maternal Aunt Qin standing under the eaves of the upper room with a red face, ignored by the bustling servants. Lady Lin’s face was as red as Monkey Brother’s; Qian Yixiu pretended not to see, and they passed her to enter the upper room.

In the side room, Duke Liang and Lady Cui were sitting cross-legged on the kang, eating breakfast. Yesterday, the first day of May, was the day Duke Liang spent the night in the main courtyard.

Lady Cui’s eyes and brows were filled with joy, looking much gentler than usual. Qian Yixiu remembered a saying from her past life, "A woman who has been nourished by love is exceptionally beautiful..."

Today, Lady Cui was also exceptionally good-spirited, and was much gentler towards them.

After they had eaten, the group went together to Wanshou Hall. They all ignored Maternal Aunt Qin as if they didn’t see her and walked past her to leave.

After that, the preparation of another major event for the Liang Mansion began; the 16th day of May was the wedding day for Liang Jinyu.

Liang Jinyu was not only Duke Liang’s legitimate eldest daughter, but she was also to marry into the Eldest Princess Mansion of Changfeng, and her husband Huang Jinyu was the top scholar of the current imperial examination and now served as a compiler in the Hanlin Academy.

The Liang Family put a lot of effort into the preparations. The dowry goes without saying, the public coffers provided fifty thousand taels of silver, the family ancestors contributed ten thousand taels from their private savings, and Lady Cui gave twenty thousand taels from her private savings. Qian Yixiu also added to the dowry a few days in advance – she gifted a set of embroidered gold-threaded head ornaments embedded with Cave Sky Pool pearls, two sets of exquisitely carved jade boxes filled with premium Liancourt Cosmetics, and a forty-six piece set of the most fashionable purple glass utensils. These glass utensils were highly sought after and sold out as soon as they hit the market, currently in high demand, specifically requested by Liang Jinyu.

As an expectant mother, Qian Yixiu did not go to the observation ceremony. She was standing under the Hai Sang tree in a daze when she heard two familiar voices from outside the courtyard, "Big sister, I grabbed two red envelopes."

"Big cousin, I snatched three red envelopes."

It was Mingming and Fufu.

Qian Yixiu suddenly broke into laughter, brighter and more radiant than the Hai Sang flowers above her.

She had seen Grandma Wu and her mother for nearly two months but longed for her other relatives to the point of desperation. Her little aunt had given birth to another son a month ago, and she hadn’t visited yet.

She had just taken a few steps when she saw the courtyard gate burst open, and in ran a beaming Mingming and Fufu. They charged towards Qian Yixiu, only to be held back by the wet nurse following closely behind, who exclaimed, "Oh dear, don’t bump into your great-aunt!"

The two children were restrained by the wet nurse but continued loudly, "We also blocked the door and posed riddles for the groom..."

Then, Grandfather Sangui, Grandma Wu, Father Jiang, mother, little aunt, Jingjing, and Fangfang all followed. Old Master Pan also came; he missed his granddaughter and did not go to the closer Eldest Princess Mansion but instead came here.

Qian Yixiu, holding Grandfather Sangui’s hand in one and Old Master Pan’s in the other, invited everyone into the hall. Mingming and Jingjing saw their big sister beaming with joy, but both had enough sense to know they couldn’t compete with their grandfather and great-grandfather. After they had spoken, they squeezed their way to Qian Yixiu’s side. She pinched their little cheeks and then summoned Fangfang and Fufu over, indulging in a few jokes and laughter.

Father Jiang also missed his daughter but couldn’t squeeze in, so he stood to the side, intently watching the now much plumper Qian Yixiu laughing heartily.

Everyone chatted lively for a while before proceeding to the main hall for a feast.

After the meal, the most famous Siqing Opera Troupe in the Capital City put on a performance. Qian Yixiu wasn’t usually a fan of opera, but when she heard they were performing "Flowers Blooming on the Wayside," her interest was piqued, and she went to watch eagerly.

Although the opera was based on the Previous Dynasty, everyone knew that its main characters, Mr. Qian and Yueniang, were a metaphor for Qian Manjiang and Pan Yue, celebrating their steadfast and tear-jerking love story.

Nowadays, not only was their love story performed by opera troupes, but poets and scholars also immortalized it in poems, songs, and rhapsodies.

In this era, one poet praised as the Immortal Poet wrote two lines that existed in her previous life, "In heaven, I wish to be birds that fly wing to wing, on earth, I wish to be branches that grow together." He did not write them for Emperor Tangming and Consort Yang Guifei but for Mr. Qian and Yueniang.

At first, Qian Yixiu thought she had encountered someone from her old hometown, but apart from those two lines, the Poet Immortal did not have other poems resembling those of the previous world. Moreover, his mastery in poetry was exceptionally high, his poems graceful and exquisite, unmistakably genuine talent. Those two lines were simply a coincidence.

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