FSC [QT] Chapter 105.2

Whenever the girls from the marquis’s mansion go out to visit guests, Mrs. Xiao Wu begs Mrs. Fan to take money from the public treasury to make new clothes and jewelry for the girls.

For Mrs. Fan, these were just small amounts of money. A woman like her who had been taught by clan women since she was young did not want to lose face for these things, so she never refused.

Because of what Mrs. Xiao Wu said, the eyes of the three girls from the second branch suddenly lit up, especially Ling Ying, the concubine’s daughter from the second branch.

Mrs. Xiao Wu didn’t even care about her own biological daughter, let alone Ling Ying, a concubine’s daughter.

It was said that when the Second Madam and her husband were together privately, Ling Ying had to serve Mrs. Xiao Wu while she had meals, and she was set rules like a concubine.

This showed how depressed Ling Ying was in the second branch.

For Ling Ying, the happiest time was when the family made clothes together.

Because her mother was a Hu woman, her physique was like that of her mother, so she was much taller than her sisters in the mansion.

Her clothes could not be worn by other sisters in the family, and Mrs. Xiao Wu would not snatch the clothes of the concubine’s daughter and modify them for her own legitimate daughter.

However, the jewelry could usually only be worn when she went out of the mansion to visit guests and would always be taken away by Mrs. Xiao Wu for various reasons.

But, Ling Ying did not care. Every time she went out of the mansion to visit guests, she could be happy for several days by looking at her beautiful self in the mirror.

Even if Mrs. Xiao Wu found an excuse to establish her own daughter, she was still in a good mood.

“Winter is coming soon, and it’s time to make some new clothes for the girls in the mansion.”

Mrs. Fan was thinking about her little daughter who had been lost and found. As early as when she knew that her daughter was about to return home, she asked the embroiderer to make a few clothes according to Nanny Liu’s letter.

However, those clothes were not tailored to fit her body well after all. So, she took this opportunity to ask the embroiderer to make a few more new clothes for Xiao Wu.

Also, Xiao Wu’s jewelry box was still a little empty.

A girl of her age was not suitable for gold and silver, and jewelry and jade seemed a bit exaggerated. However, the pink pearls she collected before were of excellent quality.

If she could ask a craftsman to make two sets of head ornaments with pink pearls, it would definitely be very suitable.

In addition, the batch of jade ore sent from foreign mining previously actually produced a large piece of transparent glass-type jade.

Nowadays, people like emerald green and dark green and do not admire this kind of colorless and transparent jade.

However, this kind of transparent color was just suitable for Xiao Wu’s age, and the glass-type jade was still precious. Even if it was colorless jadeite, it was precious enough.

In a short period of time, Mrs. Fan thought of several sets of jewelry suitable for her youngest daughter.

“The Fourth Girl and Fifth Girl are not young anymore. It’s time for them to meet someone new. Eldest daughter-in-law, you are the eldest aunt of several children, so you should help pay attention to them.”

Old Mrs. Wu took a sip of strong tea, rinsed her mouth, spat the tea back into the teacup, and wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief.

No matter how they targeted each other in private, Old Mrs. Wu still trusted Mrs. Fan’s character very much.

She knew that no matter how much Mrs. Fan disliked her and Mrs. Xiao Wu, she would not vent her resentment on the children of the second branch.

Mrs. Xiao Wu was still too low-class, and the grandson-in-law she got in touch with was not of Old Mrs. Wu’s ideal standard.

On the contrary, Mrs. Fan was different.

As the Madam of Marquis of Changping, the people she met were all wives of high-ranking officials above the third rank. With her as a matchmaker, the marriages of the Fourth Young Lady Ling Ying and the Fifth Young Lady Ling Wei could be better.

For the second branch, it would also be a help if these girls married well.

Old Mrs. Wu saw this more clearly than Mrs. Xiao Wu. Although she doted on her grandsons more on weekdays, she was also good to her granddaughters.

“Daughter-in-law knows.”

Mrs. Fan responded casually, but she thought of her daughter in her heart.

She glanced at Ah Wu and Ling Zhuo. Both children were already eleven years old.

Although it was not time for them to get married, they should start to meet each other. If it was any later, those talented young men might have been picked up by others.

This was the case with most aristocratic families. They got engaged early but married late.

Mrs. Fan and Ling Yaodong were engaged in their mother’s womb, but it was not until Mrs. Fan was eighteen years old when she married into the Marquis of Changping’s Mansion and became the wife of the heir.

 

 

 

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