Grandmother was so angry that she knocked on the door:

   "Come here! Open the door! I'm going to find you girls!"

   "The girl has been on the road for a day, and she has already rested. The housekeeper ordered that all the courtyards should be tied down in advance, so as not to disturb the girl's rest."

  Grandmother had to go back to the house angrily.

  The next day, she ate breakfast.

   "Come here! Take me to see your girls."

   "The girl went out to do some errands, and I don't know when she will be back."

   "..."

   On the third day, she went to find Xu Yin without breakfast.

  The gatekeeper of Longxiangyuan stretched out her hand and stopped her: "Sorry, the girl is chanting scriptures to the late Mrs. Madam, and there are no outsiders."

   "..."

  Day four...

  Grandmother couldn't bear it anymore, rushed out of the guest house, and wanted to go to Xu Yin aggressively to ask for an explanation, what was the purpose of letting her dry like this.

  Meeting the butler halfway, he said with a smile that he had prepared a load of mid-autumn festival gifts for her, and asked her if she needed a carriage. There was an empty carriage parked outside the house right now.

  As soon as she heard that her niece had prepared a gift, grandma immediately thought of the silk silks and satins and nourishing medicinal materials that were sent to her natal family every year when the second brother was still there. There is not much difference between silk and silver.

"I'm going back to Fengcheng now! Originally, I wanted to say goodbye to Yinyin. After being away for so many days, it's time to go back. Since Yinyin is so busy, I won't bother her, and I have to ask the housekeeper to help me with my things. Get into the carriage."

   "This is natural."

  The housekeeper asked the boy to help her carry a heavy burden tied with wedding silk to the door and put it into the carriage.

  Passers-by looked at grandma several times with envy. It is really lucky to be a relative of Xu's mansion.

   "Which relative is this from the Xu Mansion? Did you come here empty-handed when you came here a few days ago?"

   "No, eat and drink for a few days, and bring back a load of ritual gifts. At best, it's visiting relatives, but at worst, it's autumn wind!"

   "Hey, why don't we have such rich relatives!"

  When grandma got into the car, the steward and the driver reported the general address of the Sun family in Fengcheng, and waved to grandma, wishing her a smooth journey with a smile.

  Grandma waited for the carriage and ran out for a while, wanting to untie the wedding silk knot, open the gift bag, and see what kind of gift the Xu Mansion gave her family.

  But I didn't want to, the knot of the silk silk was tightly tied and difficult to untie. Not only did it tie the burden tightly, it couldn't be untied no matter what, but the untie became tighter and tighter, and finally I had to give up.

  But she had a guess in her heart, the gift from the Xu Mansion, there were a few items: cloth brocade, nourishing herbs.

   Because of this, I am in a particularly good mood along the way.

   "Sikong, she really didn't come back after she left! How did you do it? You were able to tie the wedding silk so tightly?"

  The boy would go to the gate of the mansion every once in a while to have a look. He didn't see grandma's carriage returning until dark. He was supposed to have left the city, so he happily ran to ask the accountant for advice.

  The housekeeper happened to be there too. Hearing this, he looked at Sikong curiously: "What kind of knot did you tie? Can't you untie it without scissors?"

   "Knot."

   "..."

   One sentence will kill the chatter!

  The old housekeeper believed more and more that the scar on this kid's face was cut with a knife. Seeing this casual tone, he really deserves a beating.

  The boy expressed some regret: "I couldn't see the expression on her face when she unpacked the burden and saw the boxing ceremony. It must be very funny."

  The old butler thought about that scene, and felt it was funny, and shook his head with a smile: "Thanks for the girl who figured it out!"

  In Longxiang Garden, Zi Yuan and Hong Qian, the two maids in charge of loading the load, were also pursing their lips and giggling.

  Xu Yin looked up at them and said helplessly, "Haven't you laughed enough?"

   "Pfft ha ha ha...Girl, I can't hold it anymore, why would you think of giving her those..."

   "No way, girl, I need to spend a lot of money now." Xu Yin spread her hands.

   There is still half a sentence left: I would rather give a monthly increase to the servants in the mansion than to my grandma.

"Speaking of which, the new accountant has a scary face, but he has a really kind heart." Ziyuan said, "I know that the girl is worried about the difficulty of tying the wedding silk knot tightly, so she stood up to help without saying a word. gone."

  Xu Yin also felt that although the new accountant was timid and didn't dare to speak loudly, she didn't expect to have some skills to tie the knots of wedding silk as tight as strings.

  She was thinking at first, how about getting some 502 glue to seal the lid of the litter box, but that would easily arouse her grandma's suspicion.

  After thinking for a while, he said, "Tomorrow in Zhongqiu, we won't put up any decorations because we have to honor our parents. Let's give each of you an extra month's money as a holiday benefit!"

   "Thank you girl!"

  …

  In the other side, grandma was exhausted all the way, but because she was full of joy, she didn't feel tired.

  Finally back home in Fengcheng, she couldn't wait to go home and unpack the burden.

   But he was chased by the coachman to ask for fare.

  Mother Sun was stunned: "Isn't the carriage hired by the Xu family? They didn't pay for it?"

   "It was the manager of the Xu Mansion who asked me to wait at the gate of the mansion, saying that there might be business, so I stopped there. You came up without asking, what's the matter? You want to lose the fare now?"

  Grandmother: "..."

   Secretly scolded the housekeeper of Xu's house for not being a man.

  But no matter how much you scold, the fare must be paid.

  Grandmother suffered from being dumb, and she was in a bad mood after enjoying the trip.

   Fortunately, there is still a heavy burden of ceremony.

  After entering the door, he couldn't wait to call his son to fetch the scissors.

   "Your cousin still knows a little bit about people and the world. She stayed with me for a few days and gave me a load of boxing gifts. Later, I will take a few bolts of silk and satin to the brocade shop to exchange for silver. You will have enough money to catch up with the exam."

   As soon as the words fell, as the wedding silk tied with the burden was cut, the lid of the ritual burden was lifted, revealing the etiquette inside.

  Grandma's grandma turned pale with shock: "Ahhh—what is this?"

  Xu Yin is so disgraceful that she kept the gift list of the gift that her father gave to her married sister's house since she entered the family, bound it into a book, and gave it to grandma as this year's mid-autumn festival gift.

  Her father has been in the Xu family for fifteen years, and there are six festivals a year to give gifts to his parents' family, namely Shangyuan, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongyang Festival, Laba Festival, and Spring Festival.

  In addition to Chongyang, the other five festivals will also give a gift to the married sister.

Although not as valuable as those given to the elders, there are meats such as ham and elbows, as well as food for the occasion, such as rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival, moon cakes for Mid-Autumn Festival, sweet porridge for Laba, etc. Compared with the etiquette of visiting relatives and friends in small households , obviously much richer.

  In addition, on the tenth birthdays of grandma, grandpa, and Sun Zhiqian, he would ask someone to prepare a congratulatory gift and send it to Fengcheng.

   It can be said that apart from not giving money directly, the etiquette is quite comprehensive.

  Xu Yin spent a day, leading the maids to sort out the gift lists kept over the years one by one.

   Some of them were dusty and yellowed due to the age, and the housekeeper specially asked someone to frame them.

   In this way, it will appear thick, and the burden will be heavy.