When Zhu Bo saw Chu Xinyu coming back, he immediately walked into the study and took out a silver post. She said happily: "Girl, Princess Zhaoyang has sent you an invitation."

"Is it true?" Lan Yi seemed happier than Zhu Bo. Before Chu Xinyu could respond, she reached out and said, "Show me what invitations from those wealthy families look like."

Zhu Bo gave her the invitation. Lan Yi took the post and read it several times, but she didn't think it was special. But just like this post, how many people were competing for it, probably because of the interests behind the post. Making friends with powerful people and expanding their connections. If you get a good or a ruled person from these powerful people, it will be of great benefit to future negotiations.

Not everyone can get posts. For such banquets, only third-rank or above can attend, and only one is given. The second house of the Hou Mansion just meets the requirements. The girl's invitation was specially invited by Princess Zhaoyang. The Sixth Girl and others must have been jealous of them.

Lan Yi can foresee that after tomorrow, this small courtyard will definitely be very lively!

She returned the invitation back to Zhubo, then looked at Chu Xinyu and said, "Miss, if you go to the Hundred Flowers Banquet, do you think of any gifts to Princess Zhaoyang? Miss Yang said that that day was also the birthday of Princess Zhaoyang."

Chu Xinyu didn't think about it. Because she had confiscated the invitation before, she thought the princess was just saying polite words, so when Yang Qianjun was about to choose a gift for the princess, she didn't prepare anything.

However, the princess was born with a noble family and had never seen any good things. Although she was good at painting, Yang Qianjun was ready to send calligraphy and paintings, so she would not repeat them.

This is her first time attending a banquet when she returned home. She can't steal the limelight too much, nor can she be unknown. Of course, like her current situation, it is difficult not to steal the limelight. Just like when she attended the birthday party of Mrs. Wei that day, even if you want to keep a low profile, someone will deliberately make trouble.

Chu Xinyu couldn't think of any gifts for a while, so he didn't think about it anymore. So he ordered Zhu Bo to give her water to wash her face and change her clothes. Lan Yi ordered Zi Ling and Danqing to go to the kitchen to serve the dishes, and wait until Chu Xinyu finished washing and came out for meals.

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Qingliyuan

When Zhao's mother brought the two maids back, Yuan had just finished the meal, and Qin's mother was serving her with tea.

Yuan said nothing. After sending Mama Zhao back, he asked the two maids to return to their original positions, but Mama Qin stretched her face and said, "These five girls are so ignorant. You have good intentions. She doesn't appreciate it. Don't you clearly slap you in the face?"

Yuan took a sip of tea and said, "Actually she is right. The place she lives now is indeed a little smaller. It is understandable that I am starting to think about it carefully."

At the beginning, she should have sent the two maids just now, and it was even earlier than the old lady sent them, so she had no reason to refuse.

Mama Qin said with a serious expression: "From all the signs after she came back, she is indeed different from before. She seems to have become smarter. She actually thought of the maid who refused you to arrange it in with a house. Will she guess your purpose?"

Yuan put down the teacup and said lazily: "It is normal for her to change, and it is normal for her to have a barrier against us. After all, I sent her to such a distant place and was lonely. If I didn't hate us, I would still be as close to us as before."

She was not afraid of Chu Xinyu's change. She had worked hard in this family over the past ten years. Even if Mrs. Chu knew her selfishness, she would not do anything to her. She just wanted to let Mrs. Chu know that everything she did was for the good of this family and for the good of the marquis.

"Then let it go?" Qin's mother was referring to the matter of installing a maid.

Yuan chuckled with a calm expression on her face. She said, "Of course not, I don't have to deal with her for a moment. The most important thing at the moment is the marriage with Anxing Bo Mansion. As long as she is willing to agree to this marriage, what's wrong with treating her as a Bodhisattva? Besides, don't we still have a secret chess?"

After hearing Yuan said this, Qin's mother felt relieved, and then remembered another thing, and said, "When talking about marriage, I think the fifth girl should not attend the Hundred Flowers Banquet now, so as not to think too much. Also, it is not a good thing to let her get close to the cousin of Duke Wei. The Duke Wei's Mansion and the Mei family were family friends, and the Duke Wei's wife and Mei Ruochu also had a handkerchief. It is difficult to guarantee that the fifth girl had contacted them too much, so she became suspicious of the past and went to investigate?"

Yuan felt that what Qin's mother was considering was not unreasonable. Many years ago, when the current Duke of Wei returned to Beijing, she came to visit her door and said she wanted to meet Chu Xinyu, but she refused for other reasons, because she was afraid that she would have too much contact with them and that she could not control her stepdaughter due to their influence.

After many years, fortunately, Qin's mother reminded that she almost forgot about this matter, but now it seems that the wife of the Guguo seems to like that little girl very much.

"My mother is right. If they are exposed to too much, they will cause trouble." Yuan told Qin's mother: "In the future, all posts from the Duke of Wei's Mansion will be rejected. As for other matters, you should know how to arrange them."

"Don't worry, madam."

Yuan said again: "By the way, has Princess Zhaoyang invited me to send me an invitation?"

"I've sent it here, one for each of the two houses in the big house, but the invitation was personally handed over to the maid of the fifth girl by the person from Prince Chu's mansion." When talking about this, Mrs. Qin was angry. She thought that Princess Zhaoyang would give the invitation directly to the sixth girl. After all, she had a reputation for being a virtuous person, but I wonder if the princess was given a cup by the fifth girl, and actually passed the sixth girl and gave the invitation directly to her.

When Yuan heard this, his face slightly darkened and he sneered: "So what if she got the invitation? I am the mistress of the house. She wants to attend the Hundred Flowers Banquet, and it depends on whether I will give it to you!"

Qin's mother said, "So what if she goes? That day she offended the fourth girl of Duke Rong's Mansion in Duke Rong's Mansion. We asked the sixth girl to instigate her in front of her. I heard that the girl was the most resentful, and she had two grandsons, the Queen Mother of Beiping and Princess Mingxi, who were the most beloved. The fifth girl wanted to get into the noble girl circle and wait for the next life."

Yuan said dissatisfied: "No, I won't take this step until the end. If that little girl can't make it in the noble girl circle, it will definitely affect Ting'er and Yun'er. I must think of a way to do it once and for all, so that she won't have the chance to get in."

"If she marry into Anxing Bo's Mansion, wouldn't she also join the circle of ladies?"

"It's different. She married a fool, so why would she have the face to join the circle of noble ladies? Besides, the people in Anxing Bo's mansion only treat her as a fertility tool, so how could she show up in public?" Lin's mother's meaning was very obvious today. Concubine Qi only fell in love with the identity of the slutty girl, the lord daughter of the Marquis' mansion, and she would not have to go out for social activities in the future, so her personality and reputation are not important.

"Then she must marry her." Qin's mother thought for a while, and then suggested: "How about you find an opportunity to test her meaning. If she doesn't want to, let's discuss how to make her surrender."

"It's OK."
Chapter completed!