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Madam Qin quickly called for Mother Du and told her to prepare the gifts. The next day, she went to visit Madam Cao from the Marquis' Mansion.

Three days later, news of Jiang Chuanzhong's absence arrived. It was the same person who had pointed out that he was going to be taken away by the Seventh Prince the same year as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice.

At the same time, the Jiang Clan at Three String Lane received a post from the Left Imperial Censor's Lee family inviting the women of the Jiang Clan to the Spring Festival, which was held in the Li Residence on March 3rd.

The Qin family was overjoyed. She felt that this was the sign that her family members were accepted by the entire circle of noblewomen in the capital. Thus, she was extremely busy with ordering clothes for herself and Jiang Shu, as well as going to the Silver Restaurant to get jewelry.

But they seemed to have forgotten the existence of Jiang Wan in this family.

"How can Madame do this!" Jasmine said with a smelly face as she carried the lifeless, black, and lacquered food box up to the second floor of the Pure Heart Pavilion.

"Shh!" Clove, who had already taken off her jacket and changed it to a peach-red suit of armor, came out of the room and signaled Jasmine to keep quiet.

She quietly put down the curtain and walked over to Clove. "What happened to you again?" she asked in a low voice.

"Madam is so unfair!" Jasmine took a glance in the direction of the inner room and said angrily, "When I was carrying my lunchbox downstairs, I saw Pearl and Emerald happily trying out the clothes for Fifth Miss to wear for the March third Spring Festival. But look at our Young Miss, there was no movement at all!"

Clove also looked into the inner room with a troubled expression. Ever since they had learned that the Jiang Family's women had been invited to the Spring Festival, they had also been happy for a while. But after so many days, their wives had ordered clothes and jewelry, so there was nothing wrong with Fourth Miss.

As maidservants, they were so anxious that they almost couldn't sit still. However, their young miss would still be able to peacefully sit there and draw a painting of a virtuous woman every day.

"Do you think Madame didn't want to take our Miss at all?" Jasmine made a bold guess, "If that's the case, then that's too much!"

Hearing Jasmine mention the thing she was most worried about, Little Cai could only sigh, and begin to worry about her own future.

Fourth Miss was sixteen this year and no one had ever given her permission to marry her. And he was one year older than her.

Back then, when my mother sold her to the Jiang family, she said that she would do her best to serve her master and gain a good future for herself. To put it bluntly, they didn't plan to redeem her, let alone kiss her.

Now that his wife was so uninterested in the Fourth Miss, what would become of them, the maidservants, in the future?

"Tell me …" Should we urge the young miss to fight for it? " Jasmine tugged on Lilac's sleeve and pointed at the curtain that led to the inner room.

Let the young mistress fight for it?

Just as Clove was hesitating, she heard Jiang Wan suddenly ask from the other room, "Clove, has Jasmine not returned yet? My stomach is growling with hunger! "

"It's here, it's here!" Jasmine hurriedly replied, then placed all the dishes she brought back onto the round black table in the banquet room, while Clove quickly lifted the curtain for Jiang Wan.

The dishes provided by Grandma Wang were as sumptuous as ever.

"It smells so good ~!" Jiang Wan lowered her head slightly and walked out, saying with a smile, "Is it because I'm hungry today that I feel this food is so fragrant?"

When she saw the bowl of steamed sage fish on the table, she was stunned for a moment.

This old woman Wang must have gone mad! At this time of year, the amount of sage fish was about 10 taels of silver each.

How could such a petty person like the Qin eat such expensive fish?

"You … OK... You didn't take the wrong food box? " Jiang Wan looked at Jasmine with uncertainty, and blinked her eyes to confirm.

Jasmine, who didn't know what was going on, looked at Jiang Wan, scratched her head, and said, "It's this food box every day, how could there be a mistake?"

But no matter what, she didn't need to ask for money for the kitchen expenses. No matter what people gave her, all she had to do was eat!

"There are no outsiders here anyway. You two can go get Mama Han to come over for dinner." Looking at the good dishes on the table, Jiang Wan sat down and suggested.

Lilac and Molly, on the other hand, looked at each other hesitantly.

"What's there to hesitate about?" Jiang Wan looked at the two of them and smiled, "In any case, I can't finish it all by myself. Rather than letting you guys eat the leftovers, why don't you follow me and eat it? It's a bit more lively like this."

"Also …" "This is a sage fish!" Jiang Wan raised her eyebrows at the two of them.

When Jasmine heard this, she volunteered to go to the west branch and call for mother Han. The four of them sat together happily and ate lunch.

After the meal, Jasmine went to pick up the tableware on the table, while Clove went to the ear room downstairs to make tea.

Mama Han sat opposite Jiang Wan, hesitating several times, but she didn't know how to start talking to Jiang Wan.

"What's wrong? Mother Han, do you have something you want to tell me? " After eating lunch, Jiang Wan felt a bit sleepy, but because she was afraid of accumulating food, she could only sit there full of energy.

"Fourth Miss …" Mama Han looked at Jiang Wan, her face full of anxiety, "About March 3rd …" "I'm afraid you'll have to go and talk to Madam about it. What if she doesn't bring you along?"

Jiang Wan shook her head, looking at Mama Han with a helpless expression and smiled. "Others might not know about Madame, but could it be that Mama Han doesn't know?" How can I be the one to easily decide what she decides to do? Rather than bringing disgrace upon yourself, it would be better to take it lightly. "

"But …" Although her mother knew what Jiang Wan said was the truth, she was still a little unwilling.

The Qin family's heart was too distant.

Jiang Wan only smiled, telling her mother not to say anything more.

On the third day of the third month, the Qin, dressed in a peony bun with large green flowers in the middle, and dressed in a rose and purple gold rind, brought Jiang Shu, dressed in a crimson dress, to the Li family's mansion in the back streets of XX.

As soon as they stepped out of the carriage, they saw the Li family with the black paint door wide open. A woman wearing a bright red dress with ten kinds of brocade flowers was welcoming the guests at the door.

At the same time, another carriage stopped right in front of the black paint gate. A young girl with a blue and white hair stuck her head out of the carriage, and behind her followed a beautiful woman who was not much older than she was.

The moment Jiang Zhuzhe saw the girl, he called out with a bit of excitement, "Sister Huang!"

The young girl with a blue collar and a blue lake was Huang Yi, who met Jiang Shu at Cat's Ear Lane on the fifteenth day of the first month. When she heard someone calling her, she raised her head slightly and saw that it was a little follower she knew.