Drunk House

  Chapter 11 Gift List

   Seeing that Su Rong stopped asking questions, Eunuch Su breathed a sigh of relief.

  Su Rong caught a glimpse, and thought silently, she didn't know what to hide from her, what is there to hide, she is so old, she is not a three-year-old child.

   It seems that she might not be counting on the Duke Protector's Mansion.

  As soon as she thought of the Duke Protector's Mansion, someone came to report, "Master, Miss Seven, the Duke Protector's Mansion has brought gifts."

  Prefect Su was startled, and turned his head to look, "What did you say?"

  The visitor was panting, but he pronounced the words clearly, "Master, the guard Li who was sent by Madam to the capital to deliver a letter to Duke Huguo's Mansion has returned, and said that Young Master Zhou also came to Jiangning, bringing two big carts of gifts, said to be a gift for Miss Seven."

  Prefect Su stood up abruptly, with a look of shock on his face, "Master Zhou has come to Jiangning?"

   "Yes, I came with Guard Li."

   "Where is he now? Has he come to our house?"

   "No, no, Mr. Zhou said that someone will bring the gift first, and then come to visit at another day."

  Prefect Su breathed a sigh of relief, "Good day."

  He turned his head and said to Su Rong: "Father looks like this, I really can't meet guests. Daddy is going to take a bath, you go first..." He said halfway, his eyes fell on the scar on Su Rong's forehead, and he changed his words, "No, don't go, let your mother take the gift!"

  At this moment, he felt that he couldn't do it, and neither could his daughter. She couldn't be seen by others, even if Zhou Gu didn't come in person.

  Su Rong was also very surprised. She knew that the Da Furen had sent someone to the capital, but she didn't expect that the Duke Huguo's Mansion would send Zhou Gu to Jiangning in person. Could this engagement really come true?

  She was a little dazed, "Father, go!"

  Prefect Su nodded, stopped talking with his daughter, and hurried away in a gust of wind.

  Su Rong turned to look at Wang Ma and Yue Wan.

   Wang Ma and Yue Wan understood immediately, and put down the embroidery at hand, "Let's go and take a look for Miss Seven."

  The room became quiet, Su Rong was thinking more about her mother's real skills, she had been dead for many years, yet the Duke Protector's House had no plans to ruin the marriage.

   After all, it would be too easy for Duke Protector's Mansion to divorce her, so there is no need to send Zhou Gu here in person. Zhou Gu came in person, explaining that the Duke Huguo's government not only recognized the marriage, but also put it on the agenda.

  She thought that Zhou Gu's robbing the woman and making such a big fuss meant that the marriage would be ruined.

  In the front hall, even though Zhou Gu didn't come to the door in person, the eldest lady still came out in person to receive Zhou Xi, the steward of the Duke Protector's Mansion.

   Zhou Xi is in his thirties and is a very exquisite person. Seeing the eldest lady receiving him in person, he saluted solemnly, and then said nice words, "My young master has just arrived in Jiangning, and the boats and cars are exhausting. It is getting late today and it is not convenient to go to the door. I sent a young man to bring the gift prepared by the old man first. Madam, don't blame me, my young master will come to see you another day."

  Where can the lady blame her? After all, such a valuable son-in-law came to Jiangning. If she came to Jiangning suddenly today, she would feel numb if she came to the house suddenly without any preparations. It would be better to come to the door another day, and it would give her a buffer time to prepare.

  Then, the eldest lady smiled very dignifiedly and kindly, and said nice words without asking for money: "Where is the manager Zhou? The young master has just arrived in Jiangning, so he has to rest quickly. I don't know where the young master is staying. We also have a place to live in our mansion. When we come to Jiangning, how can we wrong the young master to live outside?"

  Zhou Xi smiled and said, "Madam, don't worry, the young master has been settled. He rented a yard on East Street, so I won't bother Madam to make arrangements."

  The eldest lady nodded when she heard the words, "If you are not used to living here, let the young master come to our house. There is an idle courtyard in the front yard."

  Zhou Xiying responded, took out two more gift slips and handed them to the eldest lady, "Here are the gift slips. This one is for the prefect, his wife and family members in the mansion, and this one is for Miss Seven."

  The eldest lady took the gift list. Although she had already seen the gifts from the two carts, she was shocked, but after all, she hadn’t looked at the things carefully. Now that she took the gift list, she took a cursory look and was shocked again, "This, the gift from the old man is too heavy."

  Zhou Xi still smiled, "The old man said that he hasn't moved around for many years because he was afraid of disturbing the cleanliness of the prefect's mansion. Now that Miss Seven is about to die, the marriage with my little son should also be put on the agenda. The two families will be relatives in the future. These gifts are to make up for what was lacking in those years. It is the old man's heart. Madam, don't shirk it."

   It is naturally impossible for the eldest lady to shirk it. Wouldn't it be a slap in the face of the old Duke if she shirked it? Just thinking of Su Rong, I feel that that thing is not worthy of being treated so seriously by the Duke Huguo's Mansion, but fortunately, the absurd incident that Young Master Zhou made a few days ago is barely evened out, so that she won't be frightened and feel too flattered.

  She thanked with a smile, "Thank you, old Duke, for your concern. If that's the case, I won't shirk it."

  Zhou Xi completed the task, and left with a smile. Li Fu, the housekeeper, sent him out of the prefect's mansion.

  The eldest lady held two gift slips, looked at the strings of important gifts on them, and her heart was pounding, no wonder people said that if you get married, you can see three generations of families, this is really true.

  The Duke Huguo's Mansion did things properly, and there was no fault in the gift giving. They gave gifts to everyone in the family of the Taishou Mansion. After the gifts, they all noted their names. Even Su Xingze, who was studying at Yunshan Academy, was also polite.

  The gift list given to Su Rong is even more precious, and the dowry she gave to the concubine girls in the prefect's mansion is nothing more than this. But people said, this is just a gift for Miss Seven.

  After reading the sincere letter from the old Huguogong, the eldest lady called Li Yan who had been waiting for a reply, and asked him, "Is the Huguogong's mansion as rumored?"

  Li Yan nodded, "Mrs. Hui, just like the rumors, is very impressive."

   "What about Zhou Gu?"

   "My subordinates have inquired about Mr. Zhou's robbing of women." Li Yan told about the situation of his investigation in Beijing the first day, and then added, "Mr. Zhou is a nice person. He came to Jiangning all the way. His subordinates observed him, and did not see that he has the bad habits of Mr. Gao.

   After he finished speaking, he added, "Also, when we left Beijing, we met Young Lord Xie from the Ruian Palace, and the two reconciled. We walked together for a hundred miles, and as for what to say, the suffix after the subordinate was a little far away, so I couldn't hear it clearly. Anyway, the two of them were talking along the way, and they didn't fight again."

  The eldest lady did not expect that the two of them would reconcile so quickly after a violent fight, and it turned out to be young people. She nodded, feeling relieved, "You're tired from running around the capital, go down and rest!"

   Li Yan should be, and retreated.

  Prefect Su came over immediately after taking a bath. Seeing that the eldest lady was holding two gift slips, he was stunned. He asked, "What's the matter? He left?"

   "Let's go." The eldest lady handed him the letter from the old Hu Guogong and the two gift slips, and then said Zhou Xi's words again. At the end, she sighed, "It's like a dream. More than ten days ago, I was worried that that **** would not be able to get married."

  Prefect Su: "..."

  (end of this chapter)