HCB Chapter 213: Banquet...
Chapter 213: Banquet...
Ye Jiu accompanied his daughters in a luxurious and low-key carriage as they went to attend the birthday party of the old lady of the Duwei Mansion.
Gu Shuang'er in a pink and purple glutinous skirt and Gu Tian'er in a goose yellow autumn shirt sat on Ye Jiu's right hand side. Two maids Chunying and Xiaju in green clothes accompanied their young ladies... and sat on low stools in the carriage.
Gu Tian'er's eyes were sparkling with excitement. In her hand, she was holding a wooden figure that she had carved with a knife. The folds of his clothes, hat, and cloak were vividly portrayed. The figure was dressed as a man, and his face looked like the great hero Zhao Zilong.
Ye Jiu looked at Gu Tian's well-behaved appearance, she smiled and reached out to touch her precious daughter's hair.
She said to Gu Tianer:
"Tian'er, you haven't left your room these days. What are you carving? Show it to mother..."
Ye Jiu was surprised to see a blush on the little girl's face. She lowered her head shyly and smiled secretly. Then Gu Tianer secretly hid the wooden man with his face covered behind her.
Ye Jiu was very puzzled. Who was the statue in her hand carved out of? Ye Jiu had not paid attention to the face of the wooden statue just now.
She reached out behind Tian'er to grab the wooden figure. Gu Tian'er quickly hid aside, and she hid the little wooden figure under her skirt, as if the little girl was afraid that her mother would see the face of the figure in her hand.
The little daughter acted like this.
This caught Ye Jiu's attention. Why was her daughter like this? Could it be that the face she carved was someone she knew? Ye Jiu took back her hand from playing with her daughter. She looked out the window.
The sound of horse hooves was very urgent... A figure flashed past the window, with an anxious look on his face. He was wearing a tight black short robe with narrow sleeves, which was different from what the people in the Southern Wilderness wore.
Ye Jiu directly separated a trace of spiritual consciousness from her own sea of consciousness, and her spiritual consciousness floated out to secretly observe the whereabouts of that person.
The general's wife Ye Jiu discovered that he was heading west. What was he going to do in the Western Wilderness?
Why did this man come out from the back door of the Southern Wilderness Commandery and rush to the Western Wilderness in such a hurry?
Moreover, this person was not wearing an official robe, and Ye Jiu suddenly found that this person's behavior was very sneaky.
Gu Shuang'er looked at her mother Ye Jiu's thoughtful expression, and then looked at her sister Tian'er's shy face...
Ye Jiu frowned and thought for a while. They had already arrived at the gate of the Commandant's Mansion. There were many carriages lined up in a row and everyone was waiting to enter.
The butler and more than thirty servants stood in front of the door to receive the guests.
Some people took the gift boxes and cases handed over by the guests one by one, while others recorded the names of the gift givers and the contents of the gifts.
Ye Jiu brought three boxes of gold, silver, jewelry and a half-human-height jade carving of Guanyin Bodhisattva.
She heard that the old lady worshipped Buddha and all the gifts were piled up in Ye Jiu's Golden Luan Space, which contained the jewels that Ye Jiu had collected from various mansions in the past.
It was the servant's turn to record the gifts that Ye Jiu brought. They stood and waited for a quarter of an hour. After the servant collected the gift list, they bowed and invited the general's wife in.
Although Ye Jiu was exiled to the Western Wilderness, she made great contributions to improving the barren land of the Southern Wilderness.
The Duwei Mansion has specially approved...
General's wife Ye Jiu can move freely in the Southern Wilderness.
Many local tyrants and wealthy families in the Southern Wilderness especially like to curry favor with Ye Jiu. They are very discerning and all the ladies believe that Ye Jiu is an extraordinary woman, a woman with a heart as smart as any that is rarely seen in the history.
The people of the Southern Wilderness can now solve the problem of food and clothing and have surplus grain at home. This is such a great thing to be happy about. Before the general's wife came to the Southern Wilderness, the local land was barren and there was a severe drought.
One third of the people in Southern Wilderness starved to death, and some were waiting to die, if the general’s wife hadn’t come to Southern Wilderness to help them solve the problem of the land containing too much salt and alkali.
What awaits them is a very miserable death.
The day after Ye Jiu arrived in Southern Wilderness, she devoted all her efforts to treating the dying people. Ye Jiu mixed the spiritual spring water with the best rejuvenation powder.
She saved more than 5,000 local natives who were about to starve to death.