Fan Zijin had just succeeded in agitating his concubine Fan Zixiao to the point of indifference. He was drinking a cup of tea when he saw Qi Haoran, beckoned, and said, "I was about to tell you, Chen Qian and I complained that we couldn't inquire from you. A bit of real news, saying that you are not friends enough, and it happens that the list will be released in two days, and then we will go to the Quanju Building to celebrate together, and you will explain it to them."

   Qi Haoran pouted and said, "What, I said that my sister-in-law and nephew are all right, but they just don't believe it."

Fan Zijin smiled indifferently, "I don't believe that he also bought the health of your sister-in-law and nephew with you. Wouldn't that work?" His eyes flashed coldness. He was not just angry at the casino's behavior, but he was now focused on the imperial examinations. , don't care about them for the time being, it's not too late for the villain to take revenge.

Qi Haoran didn't know what Fan Zijin was thinking, he told the Hundred Days Banquet, Fan Zijin promised to attend, after thinking about it, he rolled his eyes and said, "Since Mrs Wu wants to accept the Hundred Days Banquet, let her take over, but The banquet must be ordered from the Quanju Building, and it must be a first-class banquet.”

   Qi Haoran opened his mouth wide and asked, "How much does this cost?"

  Fan Zijin gave him a sideways glance and said, "You don't need to spend money, and we earned this money. What do you feel bad for? How could Mr. Wu not give some of the gifts he received?"

The two immediately finalized the order. Fan Zijin was very happy, and asked Yanmo to send the order to the money manager. He also asked him to serve in place. We must take advantage of this great opportunity to promote the banquet in Quanjulou. .

   Money Steward agreed with his ambitions.

   Qi Haoran didn't bother to look for Mrs. Wu when he went home, so he called Director Zhao over and explained it. The banquet was set for the first-class banquet in Quanjulou, and he returned to send the money to Quanjulou.

Mrs Wu, who had originally decided to invite the chef to host the banquet herself, saw that the list that Director Zhao handed in almost disappeared, Mrs Wu said bitterly: "This cost is too much, a hundred-day banquet is even more expensive than ours. The family's two marriages cost more."

   Mr. Wu gritted his teeth and said, "Go, return the list, and I'll tell him when the master comes back."

   The voice just fell, and Yu Xing came in and replied, "Madam, the Queen Mother of Zhaohua Court is here."

   Mr. Wu suppressed his temper and said expressionlessly, "Let her come in."

  Wang Ma came in with a smile, gave Wu a blessing and said with a smile: "Madam, this is the list of guests drawn up by the eldest grandmother and the fourth grandmother, and you will need to add it when the time comes."

   Xu's heart moved, and she gave Yu Xing a wink, Yu Xing hurriedly took it and handed it to Wu, Wu opened her face calmly, and after only reading one page, her face softened slightly.

Wang Ma smiled when she saw it: "Madam, our eldest grandma said that she is still a little weak, and the fourth grandma has to help with the children, so the matter of the banquet can only be left to the wife and the second grandma and the third grandma. Please forgive me for any troublesome things."

   Mr. Wu looked down at the list in his hand and said, "Some people, we invite them and they may not come."

   "The eldest grandmother said that the wife only needs to post, whether they come or not is up to each family." Although Wang Ma said this, she was very confident, as if she was sure that they would definitely come back.

   Mr. Wu thought that Qi Xiuyuan was already a second-rank officer, so the people he invited were considered to be of equal status.

  Thinking about it, Mrs Wu nodded.

   Wang Ma withdrew, and Mrs. Wu no longer pursued the matter of the banquet. Instead, she took a key and asked Mrs. Wu and Director Zhao to open the warehouse to get the money to pay the banquet in the Quanju Building.

   Xiao Wu refused to accept it. She didn't know what was written on the list, but she knew that the first-class banquet in Quanju Building was not cheap, it was almost five years of Wu's expenses.

   "Mother, why did you agree?"

Mrs. Wu waited for Mrs. Wu and Director Zhao to leave, and then she gave her daughter-in-law a sideways look and said, "What do you know, this list includes all the first-rank and third-rank high-ranking members except Qin et al. If you come, you will definitely bring a lot of gifts. The most important thing is that in the past, our Wu family could only entertain officials and family members of the third rank. When can we invite the first and second rank? This is an opportunity, understand? The third child will be called back to help them clean up, and then memorize the names of all the adults and sons in Beijing, and then the two brothers will go out to greet the master in the front yard."

   Xu's eyes lit up like stars in the early morning, and she responded happily when she heard the words, only Xiao Wu still pouted and felt sorry for the money.

Seeing this, Mrs Wu sighed. Back then, she insisted on marrying Qi Feng, and Qi Feng also insisted on taking her as his concubine, but Wu Jiaxin fled to Lin'an and had a hard life, and they all counted on the Qi family to help one. two.

This inevitably annoyed the Zhu family. Although Zhu Wan said she didn't mind and accepted her generously, in private, the Zhu family targeted the Wu family a lot. During the years when Zhu Wan was alive, the Wu family did not have a single one. She was able to stand out in the officialdom, and after Zhu Wan died, she took care of Qi Xiuyuan's brother as Xiao Fudi, but found that Qi Xiuyuan was not less malicious towards him, and Qi Haoran was also taken over by Xia Tong to raise him, and the Zhu family suppressed the Wu family even more. She spared no effort. Although she hated, she had to suppress her temper and seek peace.

  Fortunately, God's mercy, Zhu Wan's family was dispatched from the capital not long after Zhu Wan's death.

  Because she was far away from the capital, although the Wu family was still suppressed, she found some vitality with the help of Qi Feng, and slowly came forward, she no longer had to suppress her aggrieved son to please brother Qi Xiuyuan.

   But the Wu family has had a hard life for several years, and Xiao Wu's stingy and loving temperament has also developed. After she married, she wanted to break it up, but it didn't work.

   She doesn't mind that she loves money, who doesn't love money?

   But you must also distinguish the priority from the secondary. Like Mrs. Xu, doesn’t she also envy the things of Mrs. Li and Mrs. Mu? But at this moment, she knew that the connections brought by this hundred-day banquet far outweighed the money spent. What's more, the people invited would not make them lose money at all, and they must have received a lot of gifts in the end.

   Qi Haoran didn't want to give them free gifts, so he ordered a first-class banquet in Quanjulou?

  Let's decide, anyway, in the end they will make money.

   However, there are some things that can be said to Mrs. Wu, who is both a daughter-in-law and a niece, but it is not easy to tell Mrs. Xu, so Mrs. Wu found a reason to leave Mrs. Xu, so she pulled Mrs. Wu to teach her in a low voice.

   When Mr. Wu came out of the main house, there was no resentment on his face, and there was even a faint joy in the corners of his eyes and brows.

Xu's girl kept staring, and when she saw this, she went back to report to the second grandmother, Xu's lip pouted in disdain, and said, "I asked my mother-in-law to teach her for a long time for such an easy-to-understand question, and I don't know how the Wu family raised her. of?"

   Mrs. Xu put away a set of the child's gold ornaments and waved: "If you send it to Zhaodetang in person, it means that I, the second aunt, will give my nephew a gift."

   Yuju asked: "Second grandma, why don't you go and see? Speaking of the birth of the second young master, you haven't been there yet."

Mrs Xu leaned on the pillow indifferently and said, "Let's go after the Hundred Days Banquet, do you think the West Palace is rare for us to see? When she had a difficult childbirth and washed three, we were all blocked from the door, even the wife. This grandmother can't get in if she wants to see her grandson, they're guarding us."

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