The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor

The matchmaker secretly breathed a sigh of relief, touched the purse in her sleeve and said flatteringly: "Although that girl is a prince, she comes from a small family and has no knowledge. She is really not suitable for your family background. It's a pity. I don’t have the chance to live under the knee of such a loving and kind-hearted lady like the old lady, otherwise I will fall into a nest of blessings for the rest of my life.”

Mrs. Cui couldn't deny it. She nodded slightly at the maid Hongshang who was standing beside her, turning a blind eye to the matchmaker's flattery.

Hongshang understood what Mrs. Cui meant, she bowed down to receive the gift and went to the inner room. When she came out, she had a satin purse in her hand. She held it in front of the matchmaker and said with a smile: "Old Madam, I pity you for your hard work. These are the wine money to reward you, please accept them!"

Matchmaker Qian dared to take advantage of the Mo family, but she didn't dare to take advantage of the Cui family. She also pointed out that the old lady of the Cui family would leave it to her to arrange marriage for the concubine and grandson! So, she quickly got up and apologized to Mrs. Cui: "The old lady failed to complete this matter and failed the old lady's instructions. The old lady is kind and generous and does not care about the old lady. The old lady is very grateful. You would never ask me for anything again. Man’s money.”

If these words were said to ordinary people, they might be favored by the host, but Mrs. Cui was not short of money. Rewarding the matchmaker with money was just following the old rules, and the matchmaker's refusal was disrespectful.

Originally, she often walked around wealthy families, so she shouldn't have made such a mistake. However, she was greedy and thought of taking over the job of proposing a marriage to herself, so she forgot her identity and duty.

Sure enough, Mrs. Cui's face paled a bit and she was too lazy to talk to Matchmaker Qian. She said to Hongshang who was still holding her purse: "Since Qian Bingren doesn't want it, I will reward you with the money. Why don't you thank Qian Bingren quickly?"

"Thank you, old lady, thank you Qian Bingren!" Hongshang was also smart and quickly thanked him for his blessings. Under Qian Matchmaker's pained eyes, she happily put her purse into her sleeves and said with a smile: "Qian Bingren, Please come with me, and I will take you out."

Matchmaker Qian's face froze, but she didn't dare to say anything. After bowing to Mrs. Cui who was concentrating with her eyes closed, she followed Hongshang unwillingly.

After a while, Hong Shang came back, walked behind the old lady, and while beating the shoulders of the old lady Cui, she said: "Just now, the servant bumped into the broad beans in front of the seventh master at the entrance of the courtyard, and asked the servant what you told the seventh master. I think it was Master Qi who told me about the marriage, so I asked him to take Qian Bingren aside to discuss it in detail."

The "Seventh Master" in Hongshang's mouth is Cui Ping'an, the bastard of the Cui family whom Matchmaker Qian arranged for Mo Yan to marry, and Mrs. Cui's favorite grandson.

The name may seem like a bad street name, but it entrusts Mrs. Cui's heartfelt prayers, because Cui Ping'an suffers from a congenital defect and has been soaked in medicine jars since birth. If it weren't for the Cui family's great business, the rare and exotic herbs Cui Ping'an had eaten in the past eighteen years would have destroyed the family fortune long ago.

Mentioning her favorite grandson, Mrs. Cui's serious face instantly softened: "He has such an awkward temperament. He never mentions the things in his heart in front of me, my grandmother, and he can only say a few words when his aunt asks."

Although the tone was helpless, it was full of love.

As the most capable maid in front of Mrs. Cui, Hongshang didn't have the courage to follow Mrs. Cui's words and say something wrong with the Cui family's seventh master, but she praised her from the bottom of her heart: "The seventh master is filial, and I don't want you to bother me with it." Well, and my aunt is here, the old lady can rest assured."

Although Qi Ye's temperament is a bit awkward, he is the simplest. He is very filial to the old lady and never shows off his master's record in front of the maids. Except for that person, there is no one in the house who doesn't like Qi Ye.