Reborn ten times, she is the real daughter of the Marquis Mansion and she doesn't pretend anymo

The old lady looked extremely frustrated. She wanted to curse but couldn't.

After all, Yuntang bowed and greeted her as soon as he arrived, and even wished her a happy new year.

The old lady frowned, suddenly sneered, and spoke in a sarcastic tone.

"The New Year begins on the twelfth day of the first lunar month. After the twelfth day, the New Year is over. Today is the fifteenth day. Why is Tang girl still paying New Year's greetings?"

The old lady asked this question knowingly, and waited for Yuntang to say that he was not at home for the New Year, but...

Yun Tang smiled calmly and said, "That's right. The New Year has already passed. I went to the Western Territory before the New Year and to the Northern Territory after the New Year. I just returned to Beijing yesterday."

"I haven't been able to spend the New Year at home, which is a pity, but what can I do? I can't say I won't go on an errand for the Emperor. It's best for me to go home and spend the New Year, right?"

Yuntang lightly pushed the issue of not being able to go home for the New Year onto the emperor, and everyone was stunned.

Jiang Yanlang asked incredulously: "Why did Tang'er go to the North again?"

It was agreed long ago that she would return home to celebrate the festival today. Wasn't she recuperating in Qingfeng Palace these days?

Yun Tang looked at him and said helplessly: "You also know that I was very weak when I came back from the Western Territory. I could only stay by the emperor's side and borrow the emperor's energy to recover. That's why I couldn't go home immediately."

"The twelfth day of the first lunar month was the celebration banquet for the coronation of the Third Prince. The date was set after consulting with me about my health. That night, I went to the Northern Territory with a few of my brothers and sisters. We only returned yesterday, but we were never idle for a moment."

When Yuntang said this, he looked back at the old lady who had an unpredictable look on her face but could only hold her breath and not take the opportunity to attack, and revealed a face full of shame.

"On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Prince Cheng's Mansion held a family banquet. My uncle's family went, as did my uncle's parents, Duke Chen and his wife. Our Marquis Mansion... I thought my grandmother would go too."

This sentence was so clear that the old lady blushed and had to explain:

"I was going to go, but I was not feeling well. I was afraid that it would be unlucky for others to pass on my illness in the first month of the year, so I had to not go."

"So that's how it is... I was thinking that the wife of Duke Chen gave me a big bag of New Year's money. My own grandmother didn't see it. Isn't it a pity?"

Ignoring the old lady's dark and ugly expression, Yuntang continued speaking with a faint smile.

"I finally got home today. If I don't pay New Year's greetings to my grandmother, I will have to leave Beijing for some time tomorrow, and this first month of the year will be wasted."

"I'm meeting grandma today, so even if it's a little late, I have to pay my New Year's greetings right away. Otherwise, should I wait until next year?"

After Yuntang finished speaking, while many people secretly turned their heads to hold back their laughter, he bowed to the old lady again and said with a smile:

"Yun Tang wishes Grandmother a happy new year. I hope Grandmother will understand that it is not easy for Yun Tang to do errands for the Emperor and that he cannot be both loyal and filial at the same time."

She had to finish what she had to say, and she forced the old lady to stiffen her neck and say, "It's more important for you to do the emperor's work, so grandma doesn't have to worry about it."

Finally, under the eager gazes of many people, the old lady turned her head and said to Mrs. Ge beside her: "Give me Tang girl's New Year's money."

The old lady was here to find fault with Yuntang for being "unfilial", so naturally she couldn't let herself be wrong. Thinking of what Yuntang had said about her grandmother being stingy at the family dinner a few years ago, she came prepared.

There was indeed a small bag of silver plum blossoms, probably weighing about ten or twenty taels.

Mrs. Ge quickly brought a small tray and presented the bag of silver plum blossoms. She looked serious and didn't dare to look at Yuntang for too long, but she couldn't help muttering in her heart.

The eldest lady was not so enthusiastic and polite in the past. Today she bowed twice in a row. I’m afraid it was just for the old lady’s New Year’s money.

"Thank you, grandma." Yuntang took the small bag without hesitation, lowered his eyes, opened the bag, took a look, then re-tied the knot and smiled slightly.

"Yun Tang has never seen Grandma's money since she came back home. She has been feeling aggrieved for a long time. Years ago, she said Grandma was stingy. Now I know that I misunderstood Grandma."

"So grandma can also give Yuntang a bag of silver cakes as New Year's money. Yuntang would like to thank grandma for the reward."

Yuntang directly told people the value of the bag, and many people changed their expressions.

Although the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion was frugal and did not keep extravagant playboys, the gifts and rewards given to the children during the New Year were never shabby.

Golden plum blossoms are prepared as New Year’s money, and this is also the most popular way among wealthy people.

Although the old lady gave not many golden plum blossoms to her grandchildren, and the number varied from person to person, at least they all received golden plum blossoms.

As the great-grandson, Jiang Yiming received from his great-grandmother a bag of golden plum blossoms that was no less than what his father Jiang Yanting had, as well as a pair of gold bracelets.

Unexpectedly, the old lady who had always complained about Yuntang prepared silver plum blossoms as New Year's money for Yuntang in advance.

Silver plum blossoms are used as gifts to the lower-class people in the mansion during the New Year, and are not used for children of relatives.

"But you, an old woman, took the wrong one in such a panic?!" Jiang Mingli glared at Mrs. Ge first, wanting to use this as an excuse to give his mother a way out and get the golden plum blossom back.

As Yuntang is the eldest granddaughter, the amount of New Year's money the old lady should give her should be the same as that given to the other grandchildren in the mansion.

The other legitimate granddaughters and illegitimate grandsons are treated the same, but illegitimate granddaughters are slightly inferior.

There are many rules in a big family, and it is in accordance with the rules to have such a hierarchy.

But the old lady is really foolish to make such an arrangement!

"You didn't take it wrong. The old lady just said that the New Year is over. It would be inappropriate to bring up the New Year's money again."

"But then I thought, what if Miss Tang wants to pay New Year's greetings? It would be bad to say nothing, so I asked someone to prepare some silver cakes."

"Besides, Miss Tang has already thanked you for the reward, so why are you, as her uncle, making a fuss?" After the old lady explained the reason, she glared at her second son with dissatisfaction.

Jiang Mingli was so angry that he almost glared at his old mother.

"Uncle, calm down. Whether it's New Year's greetings or festival greetings, it's not easy to get a stingy grandmother to pay a few taels of silver without complaining. That's what I thanked her for just now."

Yun Tang spoke calmly, the smile on his face never changing, and his tone was smiling.

But she kept calling her a "stingy grandmother", and the old lady was so angry that she could hardly maintain the calm and dignified expression on her face.

"Which granddaughter doesn't kneel and kowtow to her grandmother when wishing New Year's greetings? You are so arrogant that you think you have already paid your respects by just performing the blessing ceremony?" The old lady's voice was full of questioning. Finally, she couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to settle the score.

Yuntang chuckled, looked at the old lady's angry face, curled his lips slightly, and spoke with a hint of coldness.

"The Taoist practitioners kneel to the heaven, the earth, and the ancestors. Walking in the secular world, they do not kneel to the emperor or the ministers. The filial piety of the secular world is nothing in front of the Tao!"

Yuntang's eyes were stern and arrogant. He stared at the old lady until she felt a chill all over her body and her back went cold. Her old face turned red and white.