The gifts listed on the gift list of Yelu Bawotai are all from the Great Song Dynasty, and Wanyuan Warehouse can supply them.

Yang Huairen instructed Wang Zhan to continue to keep an eye on the movements in the Dading Mansion, especially every move in the North Courtyard Grand Palace, so he said goodbye to Wang Zhan and came directly to the Southern Courtyard Grand Mansion with the gifts on the gift list.

Yelu Bawotai actually went out to greet him, which was very different from the first time he and Yang Huairen met, the two of them had nothing to do with each other before, it was purely polite on official business.

But now Yang Huairen has become the quasi-aunt of Yelu Bawotai, Yelu Bawotai is not so particular about etiquette, and the old man welcomes his uncle when he demotes his rank, it seems that he really attaches great importance to Yang Huairen, and no longer regards him as an outsider.

Of course, there is also a possibility that the money-greedy ghost of Yelu Bawotai is not necessarily greeted by Yang Huairen, but several carts of priceless gifts sent by Yang Huairen.

Maybe it was because of risk avoidance, or because he followed the rule that the bride could not see the groom's official before she got married, Yang Huairen did not see the ghost sister.

Yelu Bawotai finished counting the gifts, and then greeted Yang Huairen into the middle hall to speak.

Yang Huairen gradually found that the tone of the old guy talking to him began to change, and he used to talk like a friend of the same generation, but now he directly regarded himself as Yang Huairen's father-in-law, and his tone was three points more cordial.

Although Yang Huairen and the person who became a family, Yelu Bawotai still taught him the truth of being a husband, saying that he loves his wife regardless of place or time.

Yang Huairen had no choice but to smile and agree with him, but he was thinking in his heart that although Yelu Bawotai was not a good person, he had a bit of a way to love his wife.

No matter how Sister Ghost's mother was forced to marry by him, he should still be very good to her, but Sister Ghost's mother already had a heart, so she was depressed and passed away early.

Although Yelu Bawotai also continued the strings and accepted a few concubines, he could still hear from his tone that only the mother of the ghost sister was the woman he cared about the most and missed the most.

Sister Ghost is the eldest daughter of Yelu Bawotai, but his other wives and concubines also gave birth to several children for him, but Yelu Bawotai's most beloved is still Sister Ghost, and she has always been by her side, maybe she wants to see this daughter from time to time, so that she can remember her favorite deceased wife.

He was elated at first, but later said that his baby daughter was going to leave him after marrying Yang Huairen, so he became sad again, and kept telling Yang Huairen that if he was free, he must often let the ghost sister go home to visit relatives.

Yang Huairen didn't think that he and Sister Ghost were really married, but now it was just a formality, and if Sister Ghost stayed in Liaojing in the future, he would have no reason to stop him.

In Yang Huairen's opinion, Yelu Bawotai's words are indeed true feelings, and his love for the ghost sister and the ghost sister's mother is not adulterated.

Just thinking of the contradiction in the ghost sister's heart, Yang Huairen didn't know how to resolve it, the ghost sister hated the Khitan people, but her Khitan "father" was so good to her, I don't know how she dealt with the feelings in her heart.

Feelings are really too complicated, and many people are tired by feelings, and they also regard feelings as a willing burden.

Yelu Bawotai rammed for a long time, and then remembered that it was already noon, and he was going to set up a banquet to entertain Yang Huairen, and he was still more generous than Yelu Hongji in this regard, Yelu Hongji never took care of food.

Yang Huairen was touched by his deep affection for his wife, so he volunteered to make a Han dim sum called wife cake for Yelu Bawotai.

The method of wife cake is actually a bit similar to moon cake, except that when making moon cakes, the puff pastry is used to make the skin, and the wife cake is used to make the filling.

And because the ratio of glutinous rice flour and flour used is different when mixing noodles, the mooncakes are made firmer, while the wife cakes are relatively soft.

Looking at the freshly baked wife cake that was still hot, Yelu Bawotai asked curiously, "This kind of dim sum is called a wife cake?" ”

Yang Huairen smiled, "Yes, this snack is called a wife cake, but there is no wife in the wife cake." Legend has it that a young lady skillfully made a kind of cake, and her officials were full of praise, and she went outside to boast in front of her friends that the cake made by his wife was delicious, and others called this kind of cake his wife's cake.

In our Great Song Dynasty, the lady made the wife cake for the official, which was to express her love to the official, and the official's eating of the wife cake also expressed the official's gratitude to the lady, or the meaning of missing. ”

Yelu Bawotai thought for a while and said with a smile, "This implication is very good, thank you uncle." ”

For a moment, Yang Huairen had the illusion that Yelu Bawotai was actually no different from an ordinary person sometimes, he loved his wife and his daughter.

His daughter is getting married, he is happy and reluctant, and he is also quite close to his future uncle, Yang Huairen gets along with him, and he doesn't feel how bad the rumors are at all.

But the fact is that Sister Ghost will never lie, Yelu Bawotai really looks down on the Han people in her bones, and has done many things to oppress the Han people.

Maybe because of Yang Huairen's status and ability, Yelu Bawotai can let go of the mustard in his heart and don't mind the fact that he is a Han Chinese.

Yang Huairen is still very entangled in his heart, the current Khitans, who rule the north, have indeed done a lot of bad things to the people of other ethnic groups.

But when one day in the future, their dominance was gradually replaced by the rising Jurchens and Mongols, and the Khitans fell from rulers to rulers, the Khitan people were also oppressed and had a miserable fate.

Even in the long course of history, the Khitan people gradually disappeared and were directly or indirectly integrated into the Han people and other powerful northern nomadic peoples.

In other words, the development of history proves that in the next 1,000 years, they will also be part of the Chinese nation.

And only the strength of culture can make a nation stand tall in the long river of history? Isn't this exactly what the monarchs of the Song Dynasty were trying to do?

Yang Huairen laughed unconsciously when he thought about it, the monarchs of the Song Dynasty were still wrong, because they also went to an extreme.

The Chinese nation is a country of etiquette, but if you pay attention to etiquette to the extreme, others will not reason with you, but directly use force to solve the problem.

Therefore, the strength of a country and nation should not be purely cultural and military, but all-round, and only when culture, economy, science and technology, and military are strong at the same time can it truly stand tall.