Chapter 883 Letter
In late August of the lunar calendar, Li Haitang finally received a letter from the border town.
Wufu delivered the letter. Seeing the familiar handwriting on it, Li Haitang shook his hands with excitement, and then put the letter on the table.
"Madam, why don't you take it apart?"
Wufu brought a plate of fruit and looked puzzled.
The place on Zhuangzi was deserted. Aunt Yu and Bai Guo accompanied Doubao to Kaimeng and would not come back until noon.
The shop was too busy, so Cuiniang took her eldest daughter and second daughter to live in the shop. There were only a few people left in the village, and it was quiet now.
"It's a wishful letter."
Li Haitang calmed down and wanted to open it immediately, but he was worried that what he saw was bad news.
As a witness to Zhang Ruyi and Lu Yuanqing, she knows very well how much the good sisters have sacrificed, not only time, money, status, but also other things. What they got in the end was full of resentment.
When a person loses the most important person, he will be a little irritated, but why doesn't Lu Yuanqing want to think that the child in Zhang Ruyi's belly is also his flesh and blood!
"Wufu, please pass the letter to me."
Li Haitang thought about it. She had been in Kyoto for so long and had been waiting for Zhang Ruyi's reply. She had too much to say to her good sisters.
As Zhang Ruyi said, the high-ranking lady in Kyoto was full of schemes. For example, she helped Du Ruohe, but she was not actually doing it to get benefits from the Du family. Du Ruohe's mother, Mrs. Chen, hurriedly sent it to the shop as a thank you. present. The other party's etiquette is definitely hard to fault, but Chen did not come to thank her personally, but instead entrusted Fang Shaoyao. On the one hand, she disliked her low status and disdained to interact with her. On the other hand, having a witness among them was equivalent to using money to pay her back. Thank you for the favor, see you again
It's a stranger.
Li Haitang found the other party's little thoughts quite interesting. With her status, what could she ask of the Du family?
The so-called invitation to be a guest is just a pretentious talk, just to look good.
If Chen didn't have any evil intentions, Du Ruohe couldn't clear himself from it.
The Du family often invites opera troupes. At this moment, the Zhuang Mu family and the Yang family are all thrown into the sky prison and will be executed in the next few days. The Du family has an image of being unyielding and unyielding. Zhuang Mu has killed many people, because one case involves many people. Some of the people arrested by the officials in the past have been executed, and some are still in jail. The Yamen released them and gave them a large amount of compensation. Those who had really been wronged were the victims. , coming from the surroundings, kneeling
At the door of Du's house, he kept kowtowing.
Li Haitang wanted to keep a low profile, and since the Du family wanted to be in the limelight, he would just follow them.
Thinking of this, Li Haitang opened the letter. There were a dozen pages in total, a thick stack.
Because she was afraid of rain, which would stain the paper when it got wet, Zhang Ruyi wrote with charcoal, mainly about her daily life in the North.
"Madam, Miss Zhang... what did you say?"
Wufu didn't know how to call Zhang Ruyi. After all, he was from Heli. It was not appropriate to call him madam.
She had been away from the Northland for a while, and she gradually got used to the prosperity of Kyoto. There were many rich people, busy traffic, and even modestly affordable items were sold at sky-high prices.
In contrast, she still missed her home, the simple Northland.
It's autumn now, tigers are abundant in autumn in the north, the mornings and evenings are cold, and the wild grapes on the mountains are ripe.
The pheasants and hares are plump, and her parents and elder brother don’t know what kind of life they are living.
"The border town is still peaceful, but the Barbarians have suffered heavy losses and have ceased their activities. Almost all the people of the Barbarians believe in the Plum Blossom Sect."
When Li Haitang read the letter, Zhang Ruyi was still complaining as usual, which made her almost laugh out loud.
The cheap brother Yu Feiling was doing well. He agreed to send a letter to arrange the follow-up, but then, nothing happened.
Yu Feiling was busy forming his Plum Blossom Sect. Although the letter said that many people in the border towns of Daqi had also become believers and gathered in one place whenever they had nothing to do.
"Haitang, you don't know, I just came out of confinement, and I took my maid to the market to buy vegetables. I was grabbed by an old lady selling meat, who mysteriously persuaded me to join the Plum Blossom Cult."
Zhang Ruyi restored the scene to life. Li Haitang closed his eyes and this scene immediately appeared in his mind.
It is said that the aunt dragged Zhang Ruyi into the alley. She thought she was being robbed, but the other party gave her a plum blossom sachet and a handkerchief.
If Plum Blossom Cultists want to upgrade, they must recruit people and let more people join. Those with high positions will get a lot of benefits. Once they are upgraded to the helmsman or hall master, they will have a fixed amount of money every month.
The plague has basically been eradicated, and when the weather gets colder, the rats aren't so crazy anymore.
Lan Yi went to the mountains and only came down occasionally. Zhang Ruyi lived in the city and gathered with Liusu to drink tea and chat. By the way, he took Ruan Pingzhi's son Xiaowuzi with him.
Ruan Pingzhi opened a school. Every time he was busy with other things, he would rely on Zhang Ruyi's maid and mother-in-law to deliver food when he didn't open the door.
The two of them have had many contacts and become familiar with each other, and they both feel that they should find a partner. Zhang Ruyi can't start his own business, and Ruan Pingzhi also wants to find someone to take care of the baby. There is not much age difference between the two, and they are a good match, so they are ready to take care of it simply. .
"Wufu, what day is it today?"
Li Haitang was busy for a few days and only remembered that it was the 20th day of the eighth lunar month.
"Back to Madam, it's the twenty-fourth day of the eighth lunar month."
Seeing his wife's excitement, Wufu poured her a glass of water and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
"Five blessings, today is a happy day."
Li Haitang immediately stood up from his chair, walked around the table, smiled, and wrote in the letter that the 24th of the eighth month of the lunar calendar was an auspicious day, especially suitable for getting married. The month and day were both even numbers, and good things came in pairs.
Unfortunately, she couldn't be there to give the blessing, but the gift must be made up for.
When the sworn sister Zhang Ruyi marries her cousin Ruan Pingzhi, a problem arises.
Should she call her cousin Zhang Ruyi or Ruan Pingzhi’s brother-in-law?
this is a problem.
"Ma'am, isn't it?"
Wu Fu's eyes widened. Two people who couldn't be beaten by eight poles were actually planning to get married. This was too fast!
"Fate just comes so suddenly."
Li Haitang didn't mean what he said, but then he thought about whether he should send a letter to Zhang Zheng to explain.
"Wufu, what gift do you want to give?"
Li Haitang wanted to give something special, something gold or silver that neither of them needed. It would be better if it had a festive meaning or commemorative significance, and it was relatively rare.
"Madam, the rouge and gouache from Yaohuazhai."
Wufu hurriedly replied, she remembered Yaohuazhai's gouache, the high-end ones, which were not available at all. To have status and money, the ladies from high-ranking families in Kyoto were rushing to buy them.
"Just think about those boxes of gouache. Go back to the shop and you can choose whatever you want." Li Haitang was very generous to his subordinates. Yaohuazhai's gouache is worthless to her now. Her own things can be taken care of. So he gave it away.