Transmigrated as A Farm Girl Making Her Family Rich-Chapter 283 - 253 Gossip Heard_2

Mrs. Mo didn’t know which of the two girls was the better painter, she had seen the artistic skills of Ye Shiqi, merely a little girl of just over two years old, whose painting skills were already more formidable than hers, despite being someone’s wife already.

She also felt ashamed that, as a teacher who took a salary for tutoring, she could teach other children various skills, yet she couldn’t teach this little girl.

For instance, when they first started teaching the sisters how to play the instrument, everyone was learning the basics then.

While Ye Shiqi’s elder sisters were still diligently practicing the basics, she was already smoothly playing full pieces, and as she started using sheet music she had picked up, she gradually played better and better.

Sometimes she wondered, could this girl have learned these skills in her mother’s womb?

Or is it that some people are truly born geniuses, capable of learning anything they attempt!

The title of "genius" came about this way, just as the people of Bushen Village sighed, feeling that it was a waste of talent for such a little girl to be born female.

Many guests, having had their fill at the banquet, the servants brought out some fruit.

And for the guests, tea was poured; the women and men had different customs, for the women, friendships were made over tea, and even if they drank, it was fruit wine.

Today, unlike usual when the guests would leave the Tang Mansion after satiating their hunger and drinking tea, some lingered with the thoughts of the honey gifts that the host had received.

"Madam Tang, I heard someone has sent a lot of honey to your family. Could we also have the pleasure of tasting it?" a guest inquired.

"Yes, Lady Tang," chimed in another, "just now, someone told us your family received a great deal of honey, and honestly, it made our mouths water just hearing about it."

"Madam Tang, so there’s a secret to how your family’s chef makes such delicious pastries! No wonder the desserts here are so delectable. I can’t help but indulge a little more each time I visit, and by the mealtime, I’m so full that I can barely fit anything else," another guest confessed.

The women among the guests, who could all be seen speaking up for the honey, were those who were seated not far from Mrs. Lai and had been enticed by her boasting, yet unable to procure any honey themselves.

The other distinguished ladies, who had been sitting with the doctor earlier, had no knowledge of this situation.

Hearing so many of the ladies chattering for the host to serve them tea sweetened with honey,

Both Madam Tang and Lady Tang only knew that the Ye family had sent gifts, with the important gifts already having been presented to their grandson.

"Oh, is that so? The housekeeper should have a list of all the gifts received from guests. We can summon him and find out." said Madam Tang.

Madam Tang sent her maid to find the housekeeper; now that the word was out, it was clear that the Ye family had indeed sent honey.

Reluctantly thinking about sharing the honey with so many people, she had initially intended to send the gift to the Capital City.

Lady Tang glanced disdainfully at the table of the Ye family members, her look seemingly saying, "If you give a gift, give it quietly. Do you want everyone to know and reward you with money?"

Lady Tang, too, was reluctant to share the prized honey she had received with others; having experienced the benefits of good honey, she was well aware.

Their family, as hosts, desired to keep some for themselves and send the surplus honey as gifts to important relatives.

Especially someone like Lady Tang, a concubine’s daughter, who sought to curry favor with her legitimate mother and full brother in the Imperial Capital to secure her position within the Tang family.

Soon after, the Junior Housekeeper entered, followed by a maid carrying a pot of honey.

This five-pound clay jar, if shared among all the guests in the garden, excluding the male guests, might not be enough to serve honey to each lady, which was a decision made after much consideration by the Young Master Tang—wanting to be generous without being wasteful.

Fortunately, the Ye family had sent over several clay jars of honey, so when he instructed the maid to bring in the five-pound pot,

Madam Tang showed no change in expression. After a maid whispered something in her ear, she nodded and instructed her to prepare honey chrysanthemum tea for all the women and children present.

Young Mrs. Tang, seeing the five-pound jar of honey being consumed by so many, felt a pang of regret but did not dare to utter a word, glaring instead towards the table of Ye Manor.

Blaming them for not keeping the gift a secret, how could they have let it slip that they sent honey, and even boast about it to others?

In the expansive garden, the children tasted the honey tea, unlike any they had previously sampled, and couldn’t help but lick their lips. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

They quickly finished their cups of tea, fixing their gaze eagerly on those of others.

Finally, the noble ladies got to taste the honey they had heard was the finest, realizing that the farmer had not been showing off.