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Chapter 101: Mother Shen's Birthday

Although Chen Danxia was staying in the house to recover from the wounds, he knew it clearly. Because Tao knew that his daughter was smart, he did not hide it from her. So Liushun asked for it and passed it to her for what she should have known.

Chen Danxia had no admiration for Chen Muke, and she loved Tao's mother even more. Even if she felt sorry for Tao's widow at such a young age, she would never persuade Tao to be the stud man. As for persuading Tao's kindness to get rid of Chen Muke completely and look for happiness again, Chen Danxia had thought about it, but after learning that Tao's way of staying in the Shen family was unable to take her and her two brothers after Heli, she didn't persuade him. How much Tao valued her brother and sister, she knew very well.

The sun rises and sunsets, summer goes to autumn, and it is the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th. It is only about twenty days before the 7th day of the ninth lunar month. However, the family seems to have forgotten this matter, and there is no sign of holding a birthday banquet for her.

That morning the younger generation came to greet her, and Chen's mother asked directly: "Boss, although this year is my entire birthday, I don't want to hold a big invitation. Just send the invitations to the several companies I have handed over. That day, the chef from Zuixianlou came to the mansion to take care of the spoons. There is no need to bother to find any famous chefs. It's just a simple matter."

Lin's expression froze and didn't do it, but he wanted to invite the chef from Zuixianlou to take charge. How could she say this inappropriate words?

"My mother must have a grand birthday, and all her relatives and friends will be invited to come and have fun." Chen Muzai said with a smile.

"My son is filial." Chen's mother smiled happily.

Lin's face was full of bitterness. A big deal meant taking a lot of money. How could the family spend money so much? She was so worried about buying a dowry for Chen Danyao, and the younger generations, one or two, had to talk about marriage. When she thought of the money she wanted to pay for, her heart was bleeding and she wanted to divide the second and third rooms.

Lin was worried for a long time. After reminding her by her confidant, she remembered what happened a few years ago and ordered a birthday party of 15,000 taels of silver, three houses were split equally, and one house was 5,000. Lin had a good idea, and the eldest house would not really pay the five,000 taels of silver. She used the 10,000 taels of silver from the second and third houses to do this, and perhaps she could even cut it out to supplement the eldest house.

However, Lin had Zhang Liang's plan, and the second and third rooms had a wall ladder. Zhou followed Chen Danwei's advice and packed things up in a big way, saying that he wanted to send them to the pawnshop for exchange. Chen's mother was so angry that she had to secretly supplement Zhou's 6,000 taels of silver. The second room was then calmed down.

Tao was rich and was busy, and was ready to pay 5,000 taels of silver notes to solve the problem. Chen Danxia was not happy and came to her ear to give an idea, "Mom, filial son and filial son, this money should be paid by the master."

"I'm impatient to talk to him." Tao even felt dirty when he saw Chen Muke.

"Don't tell him, whoever takes his salary will be paid." Chen Danxia smiled sly.

Tao smiled, pinched her little nose, and said, "I will follow you little slippery."

The Taoist family called Dong Qixiu, "The old lady's birthday is going to be held in large quantities, and it costs 15,000 taels of silver in total. The cost of three houses is 5,000 taels of silver. You two will have a total of 10,000 taels of silver. You two will prepare the silver notes to send to the eldest wife."

"Madam is making things difficult for others. Where can I find five thousand taels of silver on me?" Dong Qixiu said angrily.

"Why did I make things difficult for you? The master's salary is handed over to you. Don't cry in front of me and give it a cry. I will send the silver note to the eldest lady quickly. If the birthday party is missed, the master will be called unfilial, it will be your responsibility." Tao said coldly.

Dong Qixiu looked at Tao in shock, "Madam, you don't..."

"You can leave now." Tao stood up and went back to the inner room, unwilling to talk to her anymore.

Dong Qixiu had no choice but to pay for it with his private house and sent 5,000 taels of silver to the eldest house and handed it over to Lin's family.

After solving the problem of money, Lin began to hold a birthday party for Chen’s mother. On August 30, Xie Jiagui’s final exam was taken; on September 1st, Xie Jiagui’s school was on vacation, and Chen Danxia won three excellent and five good results.

On the seventh day of the ninth month, the Shen family is also full of guests. Of course, no matter how lively it is, it is not as good as the Xu Mansion. At least the Prince of Anping, Prince of Jin, Taifu Xie and others will not surrender to congratulate the birthday of a fifth-rank official. Accompanying Shen’s mother is the wife of the Marquis of Yunyang, the wife of Renyi, the wife of Jin, the wife of Xu, the wife of Yu and Shen Wanwan, and the mother of Shen. There is a third-rank marquis and a first-rank marquis to hold the scene. The birthday banquet of the Shen family is not too embarrassing.

The juniors in the family gave their own birthday gifts. Shen Baikuan gave a "Hundred-life Picture" written by himself. Shen Baimi's brothers gave a sandalwood root carved birthday star. Most of the girls gave an embroidered piece. Chen Danyao gave a hand-embellished pine crane longevity screen. Chen Danyan gave a hand-embellished outer dress made by himself. Chen Dannyen gave a ten thousand character guard with green background gold and silver thread embroidered; Chen Danxia gave a potted plant trimmed into auspicious clouds.

There was no gold and jade thing or famous calligraphy and painting. Even though Chen's mother was not happy, she was not easy to show it. She smiled and praised: "All of them are good children."

Although Lin is versatile, it is hard to cook without rice. Especially this cute woman wants to deduct some silver, so the birthday party is naturally unsatisfactory. I won’t mention the tea that is used to treat guests. By noon, the host’s guests got into the table, the dishes served, bird’s nest, and shark fin, and the dishes are extremely ordinary, which are worse than ordinary gentry families.

Chen's mother looked at Lin several times in a cold look. Lin pretended to greet the guests, ignoring Chen's mother's eyes. In the afternoon, after listening to the play a few times, the guest said goodbye and left. After seeing off the guests, Chen's mother called Lin to Xuanziyuan. There was no way to know what the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law said, but only knew that Lin would complain about illness in the next few days and did not go to pay homage to Chen's mother-in-law.

On the 17th, Chen Danxia went out to Baofu Building to meet Xu Lang's appointment. The carriage stopped steadily outside Baofu Building. Before getting off the car, he heard a familiar voice, "Please please, please make peace and help me find a table. Even if it is a corner, it doesn't matter. Let me taste the fish from your store! If I have to wait until tomorrow, I will be greedy."

"Cheng Yan, you're enough!" There was a tone of anger in his tone.

"Not enough, I want to eat fish, I want to eat fish. Second brother, second brother, do you really have the heart to see your little brother drooling and greed to death?"

"I have the heart."

Chen Danxia got out of the car and saw a boy wearing ink blue bamboo stick patterns standing at the door of Baofu Building and a fat boy wearing a yellow round robe. He held back his smile and called out, "Brother Cheng, Cheng Xiaopang."

"Hey, it's a little fat girl!" Cheng Yu Dongdong ran over, "Little Fat girl, are you here to eat fish too? I told you that the business of this store is so good that you have to book a seat before you can enter. Today, the customer is full, so we had to book a private room tomorrow so that we can taste the delicious food in the store tomorrow."

An accident flashed in Cheng Jue's eyes, the corners of his lips raised, and a gentle smile appeared. He walked to Chen Danxia and said softly: "Little Jiumei."

"When did Brother Cheng come to Jindu?" Chen Danxia asked with a smile. The tenth day of October is the day for Tao Jie and Haiban. My mother-in-law Miao is the guest of honor. The Cheng family must come to Beijing together to discuss the marriage, but they didn't expect that the Cheng family would come so many days in advance.

"Yesterday afternoon, I planned to visit Aunt Tao in a few days." Cheng Jue said with a smile.

"Brother Cheng, this is not a place to talk. Let's go to the store and I will introduce Brother Lang to you." Chen Danxia took Cheng Jue's hand and said.
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