Looked at the door of the gift delivery team, concierge old Li surprised at the same time, can not help but think of the command of the five misses.
At first, he also felt that the five misses are overthinking, but I did not expect to really come to so many gifts, but also heavy gifts, random family gifts in the past are rare. Now he was simply respecting the fifth miss.
Because of Li Shu’s command in the front, the concierge old Li did not receive a gift, even the silver to pay tribute to him did not dare to accept.
However, the concierge old Li still had some worries in his heart.
The queue outside the door can be a dignitary house ah, although the concierge old Li knows little, but the reasoning of courtesy and reciprocity he still knows, courtesy and reciprocity, this two to two, the relationship will be familiar.
I’ve never heard of any family in the capital that has closed its doors to a single family.
You see.
Outside the door of so many dignitaries.
When the fifth miss ordered not to accept gifts, she did not expect so many dignitaries to send gifts.
If you rejected all of them, you would be offending too many people at once, and then how can you still be an official?
The concierge, Li, thinks it’s too unexpected.
I can’t.
I have to tell the Fifth Miss.
So, the concierge old Li let the people in the concierge for a while, he ran all the way to the second door in front of the hanging flower gate to find his housekeeper, let his housekeeper to the fifth miss to ask for instructions, see what to do now.
About a quarter of an hour or so, Li Shu was surrounded by a group of maids and old mothers and came to the front door, the maid on the side held a parasol, the magpie umbrella covered half of Li Shu’s pretty face.
Li Shu swept a glance at the crowd outside the door, delicate jade hand holding an embroidered handkerchief half covered the cherry lips, and the qin’er whispered a few words, the qin’er lowered her small head and listened, nodding from time to time.
“My aunt went to work early in the morning, but let you all run a trip for nothing. My young lady asked me to thank you all for your love on behalf of my aunt, everyone please return.”
After listening to Li Shu’s instructions, Qin’er came to the door and fell to do a Wan Fu to the people outside the mansion door, saying softly.
“Where where where, Young Lady is polite, it is we who are being abrupt. A little thin gift, please accept it.”
“Ta-Jen Zhu is young and capable, and loyal to his duties, truly a model for an official, his future achievements will certainly be unlimited, we wouldn’t dare to disturb Ta-Jen Zhu’s work. This is the invitation from our treasurer, Lord Zhang, and a small gift, I hope you will accept it as a token of my respect.”
“Young Lady, you are most welcome, we have come here uninvited and have caused trouble for your house. After our lord heard that Lord Zhu and young lady got married in Xiangzi, he sighed that he was not able to personally come to congratulate them, so he personally chose a little thin gift, wishing Lord Zhu and young lady to grow old together and have a hundred years of happiness ……”
The people outside of the mansion door saluted and greeted each other, saying all sorts of congratulations and auspicious words, and then one after another, they offered their invitations and gift lists to the concierge, Old Li.
Old Li, the concierge, did not dare to accept them and stood there at a loss for words, using his eyes to ask Qin’er for help.
Seeing this, Qin’er came to Li Shu for instructions.
Shaoqing, Qin’er came to the door again, and once again said to the crowd: ”Thank you all for your love for the aunt and young lady, we appreciate the good intentions, we can leave the invitation, but the gifts, I’d like to ask you all to take them back with you, sirs and lords. When the aunt comes, I will present the invitations to the aunt, and when the aunt has the time, she will pay a visit one by one.”
“A goose feather sent from a thousand miles away is a light gift. This gift may be thin, but it is a piece of our lord’s heart, so please be kind enough to accept it from our lord.”
“This pair of jade shutters is the raw stone that our master chose all the way in the Western Regions, got someone to facet it for more than ten days, and carved it into a fine piece, just to be used as a congratulatory gift for the new marriage of Sir Zhu and the young lady, wishing Sir Zhu and the young lady a hundred years of good luck and happiness. ……”
……
The crowd outside the door were indomitable, their words were sincere, and they spoke sincerely, making it sound as if they were embarrassed not to accept it ……
“Miss, what about this?”Qin’er didn’t know how to reply, so she had to come to Li Shu again and ask for instructions.
“These people are either from the Taicang Silver Vault or related to the Taicang Silver Vault. They are not kindly coming to give gifts, they are coming to stick a knife in it, the handle of the knife is clutched in their hands, and the tip of the knife is stuck in the husband’s heart. If you accept the gift, is to give them to leave a handle, husband will be subject to them, how to audit the silver bank in the future. Those who come to send gifts are all weak-minded, unclean hands and feet. In the future, no matter who comes to send gifts, we will only accept invitations, not gifts. With the invitations, it will be easier for Husband to follow the map.”Li Shu glanced at the crowd outside the door, rolled her eyes, and whispered.
Ah.
So that’s how it is, then they are all bad people.
Qin’er and Baozi’s little maid, Painting, sniffed and came to a realisation, especially Painting, if Li Shu hadn’t glared at her, this girl would have gone up to the door and cursed.
“Many thanks to all of you adults for your thoughts, but since they are thoughts, it’s fine for us to receive them from the heart. All of you can leave your invitations behind, but please take the gifts back with you. It’s hot today, so don’t stand outside, all of you please return.”Qin’er once again reached the doorway and spoke with the crowd.
Naturally, the crowd was once again indomitable, with an air of not stopping until the gifts were delivered.
After Qin’er understood the deep meaning of it, she knew what to do, no matter what they said, they just wouldn’t accept the gift anyway.
Soft and hard to refuse, dripping water.
Today is not to receive gifts, to receive I only receive a worship invitation.
“Lord Zhu’s door style is clean and honest, really a model for us. Lord Zhu is clean, we can’t be a villain and let Lord Zhu break the rules. Let’s do it this way, then we’ll leave behind the invitations to pay our respects and all take our gifts home individually, all of them without a single one left.”The crowd outside the door had bumped into the wall more times than not, and looked like they had given up, a man who looked to be the leader stepped forward and said, “However, we still have a few pots of flowers here, so let’s give it to your lordship to put in the courtyard to embellish it. The flower pots are made of pottery, and the flowers are ordinary flowers, not worth a few pennies at all, it is just to look good, anyone who says to receive a few pots of small flowers, it is not so much as to be involved with greed …….Please don’t excuse yourself anymore.”
Soon there will be a few maids each holding a small flower pot to come forward, the flower pot is indeed an ordinary burnt pottery flower pot, just more than ten centimetres in diameter, the words in the flower pot are also ordinary chrysanthemums, moon season, peonies, and so on, they are not valuable varieties, in terms of value alone, this pot of flowers is also worth just a few pennies.
After counting, there were only six pots of flowers in total.
That’s about twenty cents.
In this way, it really doesn’t seem like much, it’s only twenty cents, no matter if it’s a law or a favour, there won’t be any problems.
This is not only did not receive a gift, but also gave the other party a step down, or let the other party go back to deliver, a multi-purpose move.
Concierge Old Li and the others all looked towards Li Shu.
“Bring me a pot.”Li Shu casually pointed out a pot of chrysanthemums and said.
The maid who was holding the chrysanthemums outside the mansion answered and came forward, respectfully holding the chrysanthemums with both hands and handing them to Li Shu.
Seeing this, the person leading the way outside of the mansion couldn’t help but have a smile appear on his face.
“This pot of flowers looks quite chic.”
Li Shu took a close look, her cherry lips curved out in an arc, and she stretched out her delicate hand to pick up the flower pot, but it wasn’t just a slip of the hand or something, before her hand picked up the flower pot, the flower pot slipped out of Li Shu’s hand and fell to the ground.
With a crash, the flowerpot shattered.
“Huh?”
A cry of shock rang out.
Only to see a heavy ingot of gold rolled out of the soil of the flowerpot that shattered on the ground ……
Defeated.
All the people outside the mansion gate had to leave with their gifts and flower pots in a greyish manner, only leaving behind a letter of obeisance.
