I Am This Type of Woman

Chapter 47 - The Yan's Conclusion

NOTES:

T/N - (Refresher) Shi Chonghai was the Right Minister. Yan Hui was the Left Minister.

momo 嬷嬷 - (ancient times) court ladies of certain age and position.

nubi - This Lowly One, This Servant

Bo Ye - Rong Xia. Remember he is a Count, Count Cheng An. So he is Cheng An Bo Ye

Da Gongzi - Eldest Young Master

Ban Heng glanced at the door, why did Cheng An residence send a guard at this moment? By now the news of the Yan family's eldest son coming to apologize must have spread over the Capital. Sending someone at this exact moment, not afraid that the Yan family would think he was sent to watch a humiliation?

Du Jiu followed behind the steward. Once inside the main hall, he saluted the Ban family members and then Yan Ming as if he hadn't known that Yan Ming would be there.

Du Jiu was Rong Xia's closest guard so anyone familiar with Rong Xia knew Du Jiu as well. Yan Ming was even more surprised than the Bans to see him here, but it wasn't because he thought Du Jiu came to see a humiliation, rather that Rong Xia had contact with the Ban family.

"Guardsman Du, please sit down." Ban Heng saw the two boxes in Du Jiu's hand. The boxes were not too big or too small, they were like boxes for books or stationaries.

This morning his sister sent some gifts under his name, so this should be the return gifts? Only this morning and the return gifts were here already, wasn't this a bit too hasty? Ban Heng soon lost interest as he thought the content must be some brush, ink, or inkstone. In their family, apart from Grandmother and Mother who dabbled in poetry, none of the others were any scholarly materials.

"Zaixia dares not." Du Jiu saw Yan Ming the gongzi of a minister family was standing so naturally a small guard like himself shouldn't sit. "The gift from Shizi is too precious, Bo Ye is both joyful and uneasy. Thankful of Shizi's kindness, Bo Ye prepared this small gift for Shizi, hopefully Shizi doesn't mind."

"Rong Bo Ye is too polite, it is just a worthless toy, there is no need for a return gift." Ban Heng waved his hand nonchalantly. "Rong Daren doing this is treating us like strangers."

Du Jiu's hands that were holding the box shook, just a worthless toy? That was <<Frosty Mountain Gazing the Moon>>, and a genuine one! Who would think of such precious thing as a worthless toy?! Du Jiu had been by Rong Xia's side ever since he was taken up by the Rong family as a child. He had seen many good things, but never had he seen a family like the Bans who did 'not bother with trinkets' this way.

"It's only like strangers if Shizi doesn't accept," Du Jiu smiled, "The painting that Shizi sent has not left Bo Ye's hand, he said it's something a thousand gold can't exchange."

"Ahem, you are welcome." Ban Heng side-eyed Ban Hua, what did she send Rong Xia using his name?

Ban Hua ignored him, she ordered the housekeeper steward to accept the gifts brought by Du Jiu. Now Du Jiu was more convinced the painting must have been from Ban Junzhu.

Du Jiu said his farewell after the return gift was handed over, Yan Ming saw that Du Jiu really came just to deliver a gift. The two families' relation didn't seem to be particularly close. Why did Ban family send a thank you gift to Rong Xia?