klisemfg Chapter 54 General Ji is coming
Chapter 54 General Ji is coming
As soon as the Shangshu's wife left, the wife of Marquis Changning, who had been watching coldly from the sidelines, gave the attending nanny a look.
The nanny rolled her eyes and said in embarrassment, "Madam, you have an appointment with Doctor Lin for acupuncture. What time is it?"
"Oh, look at my memory. Madam Gu, I'll leave you first." The wife of Marquis Changning also stood up and said goodbye.
The Changning Marquis' Mansion and the Gu family had no dealings before. It was only because of the marriage relationship between the Gu family and the Dingguo Duke's Mansion that she sent a gift after Gu Lian was promoted.
Jiang had always wanted to make friends, so she took this opportunity to invite the wife and daughter of Marquis Changning to her birthday party.
It was natural for them to visit each other. Now that Wan Zhou had returned home, there was nothing impolite about Changning Houfu not coming. Of course, the Gu family was very happy that he came.
But the wife of Marquis Changning, who is good at scheming, will not waste her efforts on something that is of no use to her.
Now, Ji Nanzheng will not accompany Gu Wanzhou back home, and the Duke Dingguo's Mansion will not send any return gifts. This has already given a strong signal: the Duke Dingguo's Mansion will not give face to the Gu family.
In this case, she would not stay for even a quarter of an hour. Although Changning Houfu had no one in the court, the family was large and powerful, and she would not take a small third-rank military officer seriously.
It's just that she was not as unsympathetic as the Shangshu's wife and found a lame excuse.
"Okay, uh, okay, take care, madam." Jiang wanted to keep her, but she knew she couldn't do it in this situation, so she could only hold her head high and say it.
"Madam Gu..."
Many other ladies had similar thoughts to the wife of Marquis Changning. When they saw the wife of Marquis Changning saying goodbye, they also stood up and said they had something to do and had to leave first.
Jiang was almost furious. She cursed these people who were sycophanting in her heart eight hundred times. She didn't invite them, but they came here just to flatter her. Get out, get out.
Some ladies who were originally close to Jiang and those ladies with lower official positions than Gu's had no intention of leaving halfway, but seeing this, they felt that Jiang was not in the mood to entertain them, so they all got up and left.
Only clan members and close relatives, such as Gu Min and Jiang's mother, had no plans to leave.
Jiang stood up to see him off with a shameful look in her eyes, glaring at Wan Zhou with hatred. She felt that her face had been stripped of skin and flesh today, and she wanted to strip Wan Zhou.
The others either ignored Wanzhou or looked at him with contempt, to which Wanzhou responded with a faint smile that did not reach his eyes.
Today, she had personally experienced the act of currying favor with the powerful. To be honest, she had prepared herself to be ridiculed and laughed at, but she really didn't expect that they would just leave?
This is tantamount to slapping her and the Gu family in the face.
Fortunately, she is now reborn, her mentality has been tempered, and this matter is just like a passing cloud to her.
I don't know when the gift carriage from Duke Dingguo's Mansion will arrive? Wan Zhou calculated the time. If there is no delay, maybe the ladies who are going out will be lucky enough to take a look.
Wan Zhou was right in his prediction. When a group of people walked out of the gate of Gu Mansion and waited to get on their own carriages, they saw two luxurious carriages with the emblem of Duke Dingguo's Mansion coming towards the gate of Gu's house.
"Oh my god, oh my god? Is that the carriage of Duke Dingguo's mansion?"
"Of course it's true. Who would dare to print their totem on their carriage?"
"Two. Could it be that General Ji is coming?"
When a group of people were astonished and suspicious, Butler Qin got off the carriage in front and began to sing the list of return gifts.
Although those gifts were not particularly precious, they were not bad at all from the Duke's Mansion. Moreover, there were quite a lot of them, including various brocades, gold, silver, and porcelain utensils, and wild delicacies. Everyone who heard about them was envious.
"Oh my god, there are so many!"
"The Duke's Mansion is so generous, it's obvious that they value it very much."
"Miss Gu didn't lie. It seems that she really doesn't know how to perform the etiquette of returning home, so she came back on her own."
The wife of Marquis Changning was the one with the highest status here and had seen the most of the world. She listened carefully to Butler Qin singing the menu. After listening, she asked her nanny.
"Why do I feel that this list has a lot more than when the Fifth Young Master's wife came back?"
Shi Xuanting, the fifth young lady of the Duke Dingguo's Mansion, is a cousin of the wife of the Marquis Changning, and she has seen the return ceremony with her own eyes.
"I also think it's a lot more."
The Shangshu's wife naturally also noticed that the return gift had extra specifications, and her heart tightened.
Not only did the Duke Dingguo's Mansion send a return gift, it was also over the standard and was delivered personally by the chief steward.
Besides, who is in that carriage behind?
The Shangshu's wife prayed silently in her heart, hoping it wouldn't be General Ji, otherwise she would really lose face today.
But her prayers had not yet been received by the gods, and the door of the carriage that had been silent at the back was opened.
Ji Nanzheng stepped down from the carriage leisurely.
The Shangshu's wife was so shocked that she closed her eyes.
The rest of the people all looked stunned.
Ji Nanzheng was dressed in a crescent-white robe, and his body was as strong as a pine tree, walking towards the group of stunned ladies.
"Oh my god, General Ji is really here?"
"What should I do? General Ji is here?"
"The general's wife said that General Ji couldn't leave. It seems that this is true. It seems that he must have rushed to Gu's house after finishing his work."
The group of ladies were shocked and looked at each other, feeling embarrassed and sad.
What should they do? They had previously ridiculed Gu Wanzhou, but now they were about to be slapped in the face.
Moreover, now that Ji Nanzheng was here, they didn't want to leave for both official and private reasons, but they had already said goodbye and walked out the door, so how could they go back?
The Shangshu's wife was even more confused and bit her lips tightly as she thought of a solution.
The wife of Marquis Changning was calculating rapidly in her mind.
Ji Nanzheng came in person and presented such a generous return gift? If Gu Wanzhou was not welcomed, how could he be treated well as a third-rank general with no foundation in the Gu family?
She came here originally to make friends. Now that Ji Nanzheng is here, she can't leave. She must maintain the relationship with the Gu family.
"Nan Zheng greets his mother-in-law." Ji Nan Zheng walked over gracefully and politely gave Jiang the salute of a junior.
"Okay..." Jiang spoke incoherently.
The honorable General Ji came and greeted her, his mother-in-law, as a son-in-law. She was the first one among so many ladies to receive greetings from General Ji. What an honor it was.
Jiang's heart was trembling with joy and she didn't know where to put her hands.
Jiang looked around and saw that everyone had envy in their eyes. She felt extremely proud and all the bad temper she had previously felt was finally vented.
I'm asking you to curry favor with the powerful, why don't you all get out of here right away? Ji Nanzheng is here, don't you want to leave? She wants to see what excuses they can come up with to stay.
"Hello, ladies." Ji Nanzheng bowed to the other ladies again.
He was a serious person, and the military environment made him look solemn. When he didn't smile, he seemed too cold and people were afraid to talk to him.
"Ji, General Ji, how are you?" Everyone said almost in unison.
"Nan Zheng, look at you, everyone heard that you were coming and they all rushed out to greet you." The wife of Marquis Changning relied on her status and relationship with her elders and lied with open eyes to plead for herself to go back home and find a way out.
"That's right. If we don't take this opportunity, how can we see the true face of General Ji? Right?" Someone else quickly flattered and agreed.
"Yep……"
With an excuse to stay, the ladies who came with a purpose happily agreed. Some were too embarrassed to leave and simply wanted to leave, but if they left like that, they were afraid of upsetting some lady, so they had no choice but to follow the crowd.
The most difficult person to deal with is the Shangshu's wife.
She didn't want to stay at all. She had humiliated Gu Wanzhou without any concealment before, and now Ji Nanzheng was here, what should she do if Gu Wanzhou complained?
But everyone followed her in, how could she leave alone?
A real dilemma.