Chapter 379 Gift

Ruan Yan's needlework is very good. She tried to embroider double-sided embroidery. The boss thought it was very good, better than some embroiderers in the embroidery building.

So Ruan Yan also participated in this double-sided embroidered screen.

This is a screen presented to the Empress Dowager. The owner of the embroidery building is very careful in everything. He specially mobilized fifty embroiderers, divided into several groups, and embroidered day and night.

Before embroidery, you must rinse your mouth and apply ointment on your hands to prevent your fingers from being rough and snagging. This double-sided screen of "Prosperity and Splendor" was made in a hurry.

The Empress Dowager was 38 years old, so 38 peonies of different shapes were embroidered and completed on the last day of the deadline.

Su Wan came to inspect the goods specially. The double-sided peony screen is luxurious and majestic. What's more surprising is that this screen is not a simple double-sided embroidery, but a double-sided three-different embroidery. The pattern is different, the color is different, and the needlework is different. Every detail is very in place, and there is no fault to be found.

After paying the balance, Su Wan ordered Qi Wu and others to carefully carry the family back to the Gu Mansion, as tomorrow is the Empress Dowager's birthday.

Su Wan went to the clinic, and Gu's mother picked up Gu Jiaojiao to feed her baby on time. Su Wan was still treating patients, and Gu's mother held Gu Jiaojiao and stood in front of the clinic to bask in the sun, so that she could see the hustle and bustle of the city.

Gu Jiaojiao sucked her little hand while staring at Su Wan's figure without blinking, not crying or making a fuss, and was so well behaved that she was loved by everyone.

Gu's mother took her little hand away, and drooled: "Jiaojiao, are you hungry? Wait for your mother for a while. When our Jiaojiao grows up, she must be as kind-hearted as your mother and save the dying and the wounded."

Gu Jiaojiao stared at Gu's mother, opened her little mouth, and made a sound: "Ah~"

As if responding to Gu's mother's words.

Gu's mother was stunned for a moment, and laughed so hard that she couldn't close her mouth, "Your good grandson is so smart."

Gu Jiaojiao put her hand in her mouth and licked it again.

"Mom, bring Jiaojiao to the backyard." Su Wan shouted.

"Okay." Mother Gu carried the child into the clinic: "Let's go, Jiaojiao is going to find her mother."

Gu Jiaojiao grinned, revealing her pink gums.

Mother Gu kissed her fair and tender face twice.

Su Wan changed into clean clothes, washed her hands again, and held Gu Jiaojiao to feed her.

"Wanwan, I won't go to the Queen Mother's birthday tomorrow." Mother Gu had her own concerns: "Jingyun was raised by me for nine years before he recognized his ancestors. If I go, it will be too controversial."

"It doesn't matter. If someone deliberately gossips, they will gossip whether you go or not." Su Wan comforted Mother Gu: "Jingyun is probably looking forward to seeing you."

This touched Mother Gu's heart. After hesitating for a while, she finally agreed.

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Early in the morning of the next day, someone from the palace came to pick up Mother Gu, Su Wan, and Gu Jiaojiao to enter the palace together.

Gu Baozhu was particularly happy to see her little niece, and she would not let go of her arms.

Jingyun was coming after handling government affairs, but Gu Huaizhi stopped him.

On such a day, he should go to see the Empress Dowager first.

Jingyun naively thought that after paying respects to the Empress Dowager, he would be able to see his mother, sister-in-law and niece. Unexpectedly, he stayed in the Empress Dowager's palace until he went to Feitian Pavilion to attend the birthday banquet in the evening, and then he had the opportunity to see them.

The seats were also far away, and they sat according to Gu Huaizhi's rank. Jingyun felt wronged and resentful, and wished that the Prime Minister, who was about to retire but still refused to leave, would be kicked down to the countryside to make room for his elder brother, so that he could sit in the front at the palace banquet in the future.

The Prime Minister sneezed and rubbed his nose, wondering who was thinking about him.

"Today is the birthday of my mother, and you don't have to be restrained, everyone is free to do as you please." Jingyun said, and drank a cup of tea instead of wine.

The ministers raised their glasses and drank the wine in one gulp.

The Empress Dowager looked at the increasingly stable new emperor, with a loving smile in her eyes, relieved and sad.

He had been sitting uncomfortably in Ci'an Palace today, how could she not know why?

She said softly: "Let them stay in the palace tonight."

Jingyun's eyes suddenly lit up: "Thank you, mother!"

The Queen Mother smiled and said: "Sit down, the ministers will present gifts soon. Before the banquet is over, aren't you going to confer Su Wan the title of First-Rank Lady?"

Jingyun sat upright immediately.

"Officials present gifts--"

The order is based on rank. Su Wan looked at the gifts everyone gave, all of which were precious and rare. Gu Huaizhi's words really proved that expensive is enough.

Soon, it was Gu Huaizhi's turn to present gifts.

The eunuchs carried the double-eyed folding screen embroidered in and placed it in the center of the hall, attracting everyone's attention.