Chapter 128 Guilt

I don't know how long the fourth prince stood. The Lantern Festival in the capital began to set off the lights from the eighth day of the first lunar month, and lasted until the dawn of the 17th. These three days were brightly lit all night. The fourth prince stood until midnight. Fortunately, he did not attract much attention.

The fourth prince stood for too long, and walked slightly stiffly to the entrance of the alley without getting on the horse. He walked to the place and suddenly ordered, "Go to Rongbao Hall to have a look." Mingfeng didn't dare to say much. He hurriedly sent the young man to Rongbao Hall first. The fourth prince got on the horse and arrived at Rongbao Hall.

The fifteenth to seventeenth nights of Rongbaotang also did business all night. When the fourth prince arrived, the shopkeeper had waited respectfully at the side door and took the fourth prince all the way into the inner hall and laughed: "A few years ago, a batch of good things happened to arrive. There was a lotus leaf pen washed, and the whole piece of jade was carved. The jade was good and the workmanship was better. It was simply ingenious. Gong, and a Xiangfei bamboo arm, which is an antique of the previous dynasty, is written by Liu Gong of the previous dynasty. It is very elegant, and there is also a pen box, "

"Do you have any good pearls?" The fourth prince interrupted the shopkeeper's words and asked. The shopkeeper hurriedly bowed down and smiled and said, "Yes, just came a batch of Nanyang, as well as the big beads in the north. There are many big black beads. I don't know what to do? How big is it be?"

"The size of the lotus seed," the fourth prince thought about the size of Li Tian's handkerchief and said, "If there are other beads, bring them together. The more rare the better. If there are any strange and interesting things, bring them." The shopkeeper answered and lowered his hand and withdrew. In a moment, he attracted four or five boxes of pearls of various colors and other jade, ivory, agate and other beads and a dozen plates of various gadgets, and placed them one by one in the room.

The fourth prince sat down a few days ago and slowly picked up pearls from the plate. The shopkeeper saw that the fourth prince was distracted and hesitated to introduce him. Mingfeng winked at him. The shopkeeper understands and quietly withdrew from the inner hall. Mingfeng followed and ordered, "It's cold outside. Our master has been shopping for a long time. I'm sorry to ask you to send him away. A bowl of hot ginger tea.

The shopkeeper hurried to watch the person make ginger tea and served it. Mingfeng tasted it and carefully handed it to the fourth prince who was still focusing on picking beads. He lowered his hand and retreated. The shopkeeper stood at the door and looked at the fourth prince who was depressed and focused on picking beads and said curiously, "What's wrong with you today? It's not the same as usual. Why did you pick these things up?

"What can I do? Well, isn't it the Spring Festival? I'm thinking about the kindness of my parents, and thinking about my parents getting older. I just want to choose something for the noble concubine. Who else can I choose for?!" Mingfeng blocked back the shopkeeper's words. The shopkeeper looked at the fourth prince with admiration and exclaimed, "It is said that the fourth master is a filial son. It's really, tut, this filial piety is really admirable!" Mingfeng glanced at the shopkeeper and ignored him.

The fourth prince picked out a box full of beads for more than an hour, put them out, and then picked out several exquisite gadgets such as the white jade nine chain, and put them together in a delicate yellow pear box. He ordered the shopkeeper to take out the fire paint, took out the small seal with him, and went out of Rongbaotang and ordered Mingfeng: "You go there in person, send this to Uncle Ye, ask him to send a proper person to Qingtongyuan tomorrow, and say that their house gave it to her to play."

Mingfeng agreed, carefully hugged the box, and went to the royal palace of Dongyang County.

Early the next morning, Yinhua led the woman from the royal palace of Dongyang County into the upper room. The woman entered the east room and was about to kneel down. Li Tian hurriedly ordered Qingzhi to help her up. Before she squat down, the woman straightened up and saluted Li Tianfu. She took only one foot from the little girl behind. Dian's red sandalwood box was handed to Qingzhi, and pointed to the boxes carried by the rough mother-in-law behind and smiled, "In this box, there are some new things given by our twelve mothers to the five women and the ancestors. Our twelve mothers said that we thanked the five women for guessed last night and got a lot of good news, as well as yesterday's Honey plum tea, our twelve women said that although they are all worthless gadgets, they were picked out by herself. Please don't dislike it. Even if you dislike it, you have to keep it. When the woman said this and laughed, Li Tian also listened and smiled. This was indeed a full Ye Shiiniang style.

"Yesterday's honey plum tea was also tasted by the ancestors. I liked it tightly. I specially asked people to make a few boxes of snacks according to the five women's favorite food, and a box was given in the palace. Let the old slave give it to the five women a fresh taste together."

"This is the ancestor who loved me," Li Tian, who heard about Mrs. Sun, had already stood up from the kang and stood solemnly to listen: "Mother, please go back and tell the Twelve Niang that if what she chose is not good, I will find her to change." The woman laughed and agreed repeatedly. Li Tian ordered someone to reward the woman and others, let Qingzhi call Mother Xiong in, ordered her to go back with the mother-in-law, kowto-face with Mrs. Sun to thank her, and let her take some local products sent by foreign shopkeepers to Ye Shiiniang as gifts.

Send away the people of Dongyang County, and Li Tian motioned Qingzhi to open the box. Hearing the movement, Yue Niang lifted the curtain and came in. She looked at the box that had just opened. She saw the box in the box, and the green branches were taken out one by one. In the two box above, there were a few fresh gauze palace flowers, one with a string of lapis lazuli bracelets, and the two box below, one with an excellent white jade pendant, and a The yellow pear box is sealed with fire paint.

Li Tian couldn't help frowning, took the yellow pear box, looked carefully at the seal on the fire paint, and frowned. This is the private seal of the fourth prince! Li Tian threw the box on several times annoyantly. Yue Niang grabbed it, raised it and looked at it carefully. She pulled it over and asked, "Why is this word turned around? What is it written?"

Yuluo wanted to laugh but didn't laugh: "It's Ziyu, the word of the fourth prince." Yue Niang raised her eyebrows suddenly and turned her head to look at Li Tian and said, "Go back?"

Who should I return it to? Ye 12 Niang? Old lady? Or the fourth master? Open it first and see what it is. Li Tian flicked the box angrally and ordered that Yue Niang took the paper knife from Qingzhi's hand, opened the paint seal, opened the box, and looked at the box full of various beads in surprise. She laughed and pushed the box to Li Tian while laughing. Yingluo looked at it and subconsciously looked at the handkerchief in Li Tian's hand. , wanted to laugh but felt inappropriate, and the expression on his face was a little strange. Li Tian glanced, ignored Yue Niang, who couldn't stand the smile, and ordered Qingzhi and Yingluo to turn over the things in the box. They didn't see anything else. She was gently relieved and ordered, "Yiluo took it down and put it away carefully. It's better to make a bill. Whose name will be sent one day? It's convenient to get up in the future.

Yingluo smiled and took down the box to make a account. Yue Niang dragged the chair, sat upside down on the chair with the back of the chair in her arms, looked at Li Tian and asked, "What's wrong with this fourth master? The old lady of Dongyang County's palace also went crazy. Isn't he going to get married?

"What are you talking about!" Li Tian looked down at the account book in her hand and replied in a straight tone. Yue Niang sighed and looked at Li Tian sympathetically and said, "This man, it's not good to be born too well. Let me tell you that nothing can be started. With the first time, it will be two times, and then three or four times will be used to it. In the future, he will often come and go. Send, it's also very annoying. You have to think about it.

"Since his marriage is almost settled, it should be a gift in February at most. When he gives a gift, no matter what he sends back together." Li Tian replied without raising her head. Yue Niang put her chin against the back of the chair and looked at Li Tian and said with a smile, "You mean to make him feel that he is married. Are you angry?"

Li Tian looked up and glanced at Yue Niang and explained in a low voice, "Yesterday, he stood in our alley until midnight and sent these things here early this morning. This is too abnormal. There must be a reason for it. What can this be? It must have been settled, and he also knew that it was settled. Most of the man's gifts were because of guilt. I bet that he felt guilty. When his marriage was announced, he would return these things to him together. With this guilt, when I get married in the future, he may not be angry or less angry with others. I'm only planning for myself and Jiang Yan now, and I can't take care of it.

"Don't make any mistakes in the marriage. Princess Jiang clearly knows the fourth master's thoughts. If she knew, she would definitely stop the Jiang family from marrying you."

"Well, that's why I explained this to Jiang Yan. At the end of the Jiang family, he can only think about it. If he has any scruples, he can give him a chance to think clearly." Li Tian's words were quiet without any emotion. Yue Niang looked at Li Tian and sighed: "In the past, when your grandmother was here, I felt that you were too comfortable. Now looking at you, I feel that your life is too difficult. Can you still get married?"

Li Tian took a deep breath by her question and stared at her and didn't know what to say.

As Yue Niang said, there must be two things, and it can become common after three or four. The next day, the royal palace of Dongyang County sent someone to send a box. There were several snacks in the box, and a red lacquer box sealed with fire paint. There were only a few new snacks in the palace. Two days later, the lacquered box was sent again. This time it was a pair of crystal paperweight. A few days later, four lotus seeds carved from incense wood and a string of incense wood bracelets carved into budding lotus flowers were sealed in the box. A small painting was pressed on the bottom of the box, which was the pattern of lotus seeds and lotus strings. Yue Niang shook the paper for a moment. Bo said, "The painting is so ugly that it is not easy for this craftsman to carve it like this."