Yan Si old man Yan Zikai only rushed back from Lincheng overnight this morning, as soon as he went home, he fell asleep, the old lady made people go to the pillow winter residence and called several times but could not wake up, had to dispatch Yan Zike, so he brought people over.

The fourth master of Yan Si was half-asleep and half-awake, and when he heard his mother ask him, he nodded sluggishly, and yawned again, tears squeezed out of the corners of his eyes, and stretched out the back of his hand to wipe it, but he was scratched by the big gold ring inlaid with jade on his finger, "hiss......" frowned his face and looked at it, and as soon as he took off the ring and raised his hand, he threw it into the charcoal basin of the house, and clanked in the middle, "Aha!

"Oh, you wicked child!" the old lady patted her leg and hurriedly instructed her servants to take the ring out of the charcoal basin.

The subordinates took the fire and pulled it in the basin for a long time and didn't find the ring, only looked at a stone lying in it, and then looked up at the fourth master of Yan, and saw that the hand stretched out from the sleeve and shook it like a rattle, and the golden light flashed on his fingers, the big ring was still on his hand!

…… Is this a trick used to make money in the gambling house?

"Naughty!" the old lady laughed, "I don't sit down yet, I'm waiting for you!"

The fourth old man Yan clicked the clogs to his seat next to the round table and sat down, lifted his legs and curled up in front of him, and the whole person squatted on the chair, like a ball without bones, the old lady saw it, slapped it on the table, and was about to get angry, the old lady hurriedly glanced at the fourth master Yan: "It's good to sit! Under the big year, it's all good!" The latter words were said to the old lady, for fear that the younger son would be wronged at the hands of her husband.

Master Yan Si had to put his legs down again and sit upright, but Erlang's legs were erected under the table, and his feet rested directly on his thighs, and Master Yan San, who was sitting next to him, sniffed and swept on the table with blind eyes: "Is there any stinky tofu today?" ”

"Hey, third brother, I knew you wanted to eat stinky tofu, I'll buy it back for you from Lincheng!" Old Man Yansi's eyebrows danced, "There is a famous stinky tofu in Lincheng, good guy, it's delicious! I can smell it from ten miles and eight streets away! I smelled it that day, and I waited in line for a day to buy it, and I ate thirty yuan in one go! It's so damn delicious! I wondered what kind of exclusive secret recipe he designated for this tofu, and my buddies said: 'Shit! What an exclusive secret recipe! Everything sold at this kind of stall is fucking a pit person! This stinky tofu stinks, doesn't it? Tell you! It's all soaked in dung water, "I said how do you soak it in dung water?" He said, "Just mix that old stinky first......

"Smack!" the old lady barely shattered the whole dinner table, shaking his beard and pointing at his little son shivering.

"Shut up! Don't let people eat?!" the old lady hurriedly interrupted and glared at her little girl desperately.

Fourth Master Yan swallowed his saliva and patted his third brother on the shoulder: "I'll tell you that in private for a while." ”

“……”

This box finally stopped, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in Yan Mansion officially began, the old lady, as the honorary patriarch, first summed up the major events and small affairs of the family in the past year, looked forward to the bright future, made a message to the children and grandchildren, and then from him each member said a few auspicious words, and finally the real patriarch Yan Zi Kei ordered the meal, and the next people began to stream the dishes from the room to the table.

At the end of the year, there is no need to pretend to be frugal, when it is time to enjoy the good life, how luxurious this meal is, how to serve the carved flowers and painted fruits for tea, ten brocade hot pot offerings, goose fat soup, pork steamed buns, Jiang rice cakes, yellow millet dumplings piled up into a hill, and there are also special pickled chicken and bacon for wine, dregs and wind fish, pheasant feet, deer and rabbit breasts, stuffed duck shark fins, fish crispy bones, clear fruit pine hazelnut lotus qing, peach apricot melon kernel, chestnut jujube branch round, hawthorn cake Geng cake, green branch grapes, Baizigang pomegranate, Qiubo pear, sweet apple, lion orange and phoenix, Orange bayberry ......

A dinner party was lively and unhurried from seven o'clock to more than nine o'clock, removed the remnants of the banquet to come up with tea and fruit, the family gossiped around to eat, Yan Shi Young Master couldn't sit still, and wanted to pull Yan Si Young Master to go outside to set off fireworks, Yan Shi Xiao Xiao drank too much wine, Mrs. Yan didn't allow him to go, afraid that he couldn't see the cannon twist being bombed again, Yan Shi Young Master was not happy, turned his head to pull Yan Qi, Yan Qi followed out, and was not in the courtyard of the Four Seasons House, went out from the corner gate to the courtyard, picked up a vacant lot, first lit a few earth-shaking thunders, and then changed to other cannons one by one to enjoy it, what a double ring, Han Yueming, Family Portrait, Family Fun, Mandarin Duck Playing in the Water, Erlong Playing Pearls, Victory Flower, Snow White and Red Plum, Sun Wukong is making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, it is lively, seeing Yan Si Master swaying out of the yard, still holding a toothpick in his mouth, standing next to him and watching for a while, and came up to teach Yan Qi and Yan Xiaoshi: "It's so boring to do this, bring the cannon, I'll put it for you!"

took a second kicker, found a snowdrift, inserted the cannon into it, lit it with incense, turned his head and ran, leaving Yan Qi and Yan Shi Young Master aside, catching up with this cannon twist is also short, and it exploded in a short time, and the snow flakes splashed everywhere when he landed, and he flew Yan Qi and Yan Shi Young Master who were standing there with a straight face.

Yan Qiyan ten: "......"

"Hahaha!" their fourth uncle pointed at them and laughed unscrupulously, "Isn't it fun?"

…… It's fun to have a grandpa...... Young Master Yan Shi cried and ran back to the Four Seasons House to complain to his grandmother, Yan Qi lowered his head to brush the snow from his hair, and heard the sound of clattering clogs in his ears and walked in front of him, her fourth uncle squatted down and looked up at her, and asked with a smile: "Little Qi'er, is the arrow god really your senior brother?"

"It used to be. Yan Qi didn't hide it, after all, she and Tu Mi's archery routines could be seen by anyone with a discerning eye, and they were from the same school.

"Tsk, I won!" "Master Yan Si was happy.

"Are you betting with others on this?" Yan Qi asked.

"Yes!

"It's only two or two. ”

"Gambling money is not important, what matters is victory or defeat!" "Little Qi'er, come, gamble with the fourth uncle, if you win, I will give you double share of the New Year's money, if I win, you can help me do something, how about it?"

"What's the matter?" Yan Qi asked.

"Ahem, help me get a thorn of your uncle's name. Old Master Yan Si looked at Yan Qi as he spoke, and he was a little bit of a thief.

The name tattoos of the officials of this dynasty are all stamped with private seals, and the more important things such as seals are generally carried with them, just to prevent being impersonated.

"What do you want him to do?" Yan Qi asked. This person definitely doesn't want to do anything serious, otherwise he would go directly to Yan Zike to ask for it.

"Go somewhere. "Fourth Master Yan is secretive.

"Puji'an?" Yan Qi asked.

"——!" Master Yan Si looked at his niece with wide eyes, "I [beep]!!How do you know?!"

"......" Yan Qi just said casually, recently when it came to the matter of famous thorns, it seems that only Puji Nunnery is the case, but I didn't expect it to be true, this is also quite unexpected by her, "Puji Nunnery can only be entered by female guests, and the fourth uncle can't enter even if he has a famous thorn." ”

"I can pretend to be a woman!" Master Yan Si pinched out an orchid finger and compared it to his cheeks, although this facial features were good, but in no part did he look like a woman.

"Why do you want to go in?" Yan Qi asked.

"Hey, that Puji Nunnery is disgusting enough!" Master Yan Si stood up and stomped his feet, "My good brother's family has a special restaurant, and the signature dish is vegetarian food, which is specially made for the old ladies and ladies in the official family who believe in Buddhism and vegetarianism and sent it to the house, but I don't know when a Puji Nunnery will pop up, and he fucking does not make vegetarian food, and many wives don't want to eat other people's vegetarian food after eating Puji Nunnery, and I can't do my brother's business! I'd like to see what the vegetarian food in Puji Nunnery is made of! Could it be that it's still dragon liver and phoenix marrow?!"

"Wouldn't it be better for your brother to take the name of the thorn from his house? "Yan Qidao.

"My brother's family is not an official," Yan Si squeezed his eyes at Yan Qi, "He is just an ordinary person, once I went to his restaurant to eat, and I thought it tasted good, so I bowed to him." ”

“…… The fourth uncle is really well-traveled......"

"What's going on, Xiao Qi'er?

"Actually, I've eaten the vegetarian food in Puji'an, and it's really good," Yan Qidao, "Although the taste is light, it seems to be able to bring out the aroma and taste of the food to the extreme, so that people want to eat it a second time after eating it once, I think they probably have some exclusive secret recipe in the seasoning." ”

"Let me tell you, I just want to know what the exclusive secret recipe of these old nuns is," Master Yan Si looked left and right, pulled Yan Qi to a place farther away from the people, and said in a low voice, "My brother is not an ordinary person, he has a skill that others can't compare to - no matter what kind of dish, as long as he gives him a taste, he can tell what seasonings are put in this dish!"

"Such a?" There are so many capable people in this world.

"That's," Master Yan Si patted Yan Qi's shoulder proudly, "None of my Yan Zikai's brothers are ordinary people! Xiao Qi'er, your archery skills are also rare in the world, why don't you also bow to me?"

...... "Snake spirit disease, uncle and nephew worship and become brothers?!"

"I think it's more reasonable for us to be uncles and nephews......" Yan Qidao, "Don't gamble, I'll help you with this." In fact, the eldest aunt also often goes to Puji Nunnery, so it would be more convenient for you to ask her for help, fourth uncle. ”

"Hey," Master Yan Si didn't hide the disdain on his face at all, "I asked her for help when my head was clamped on the donkey's buttocks! I asked—does she have the word 'help' in her head?!There are only two kinds of things in front of her: 'advantageous' and 'unprofitable', and if you talk to her normally, these words will have to turn hundreds and eighty times in her stomach, and if she breaks it open and crumple it, she has to figure out a flower, and the old lady hurts me too much, and it is like ripping off a piece of her heart with one finger! I almost told her clearly- This business will be shocking in the future, I don't want a penny! Let's see if she will be happy to get into the house!"

"I don't think the nuns in Puji Nunnery are fuel-efficient lamps, Fourth Uncle, if you really want to pretend to be a woman, I'm afraid you'll show your feet. Yan Qi opened the topic.

"Then Xiao Qi'er, how about you go in for me?" asked Fourth Master Yan with a grin.

"What are you going to do when you get in?"

"Thoughts on bringing out their vegetarian fast!"

"I'm afraid not," Yan Qidao said, "Last time I followed Mrs. Cui, when I was using vegetarian food, there were nuns standing in the four corners of the room, saying that they were listening to the call, but I looked more like monitoring the guests and not bringing things outside, after all, this kind of thing is the foundation of people's livelihood." ”

"Tsk," Master Yan Si scratched his head and slapped his head abruptly for a long time, "I'm so fucking stupid! Why use the name of the eldest brother!

"What's the method?" Yan Qi asked.

"I have a brother in the juggling team, who is usually in charge of playing monkey shows, and he trained a few monkeys, which is called a human nature! I might as well let him make the monkey sneak into the kitchen of Puji Temple and steal a plate of vegetarian food, isn't this unaware?" said with a smile from the fourth old man.

“…… Dare to ask how many brothers does the fourth uncle have?"

"One hundred and twenty-eight. Master Yan stretched out three fingers.

"......" The more than 100 brothers are all people with strange specialties, and they all say that the fourth brother of the Yan family is a complete gentleman, Yan Qi feels that her fourth uncle actually has a valuable ability, that is, he is tolerant of all rivers, knows how to appreciate the advantages of others, is good at accepting people from all walks of life, and is also very righteous, living like a Meng Weijun.

"I wish you success. "Yan Qidao.

On the eve of Chinese New Year's Eve, the big bell on the tallest floating tower in Beijing will ring nine times, and the sound can almost spread throughout most of the capital in the vast night sky, of course, it will soon be drowned out by the deafening cannon sound, and the fireworks will be set off in the sky in a flash, dazzling and colorful.

"Happy New Year! Happy New Year!" Everyone in the Yan Mansion is congratulating each other, Yan Zike took a large group of brothers, wives and children, knelt on the ground in a hurry, kowtowed to the old lady and the old lady to greet the New Year, and the two elders were so happy that they couldn't close their mouths on the seat.

asked her children and grandchildren to get up, and the old lady took out the red envelopes that had been prepared long ago from her sleeves: "Come on, come on, press the New Year's money, you have a share, no one should fight, no one should rob it!"

No fighting, no grabbing, no excitement, the children and grandchildren all understand this truth, and rush to the front, chattering to grab the red envelope in the old lady's hand, the old lady can't help but be happy, and first patted the long hand stretched out to the front: "What kind of fun are you following! My son is going to get married!"

"No matter how big your son's son grows, your son is also your son. Swallow smiled and continued to stretch out her hand.

"Uncle is ashamed!" Young Master Yan shaved his face, stretched out his arm to hold Yan Zike's hand and prevent him from grabbing the New Year's money.

"Come on, little Shi'er, the fourth uncle will help you grab it!" "The fourth master of Yan will be guilty, and he will fork up the young master Yan Shi and hold it up in front of the old lady, "Old lady, ten red envelopes!"

"Whoa!" the old lady glared at him, "I'll give you a hundred!"

"Why bother so much, your old man directly gave me your small box to hide private money, and I will get enough of a hundred red envelopes from it myself. Master Yan said.

"Just remember your mother's coffin book!" the old lady continued to smack at him.

Everyone received a red envelope from the old lady and the old lady, from the young master Yan to the tenth young master of Yan, the ten children knelt down and kowtowed to Yan Zike and Mrs. Yan, Yan Zike smiled and let the children get up, but did not give the red envelope, and rewarded the boys with a piece of stone used to make a private seal, Young Master Yan picked a bloodstone, and the third young master Yan picked the top orange light jelly in the Qingtian stone, and the fourth young master Yan took a piece of blue-white translucent fish brain frozen stone like beautiful jade, and the young master Yan Jiu took a crystal jelly, and the tenth young master Yan didn't understand this thing, so he asked his father to help pick it, and his father put his face on the stone and went through it, and picked a piece of Tianhuang stone for him, but he didn't like it yet, I grabbed it on the plate for a while, and chose the peach blossom jelly with the best color.

Yan Zike gave the girls a bottle of the secret essential oil of the palace for each person, and a drop in the bath bucket was enough to fill the room with fragrance, so as to bathe the whole body, and the fragrance could last for several days. Yan Er girl picked a slightly light plum blossom fragrance, Yan Wu girl picked a more intense rose fragrance, Yan Sixth girl picked a sweet osmanthus fragrance, Yan Qi took a refreshing and mysterious green bamboo fragrance, and Yan Eighth girl picked a pleasant and elegant jasmine fragrance.

Mrs. Yan gave each child a thick red envelope with a silver ticket.

Next is to the old man Yan San and his wife and the fourth master of Yan in turn kowtow to the New Year, the third master of Yan San gave the children a box of good pine smoke and ink per person, and Mrs. Yan San was very angry to give everyone a silver ingot, to the fourth master of Yan, this seems to have forgotten to prepare, scratched his head, untied the gold silk on his waist, and patted it on the table: "You can pick whatever is hanging on your head!"

"......" Everyone doesn't want to pay attention to him, this is too insincere, and the casual ornaments on his waist are embarrassed to send us away, so it is better to give the silver directly.

"Hey, I can't serve you anymore!Sanyuan!" "Master Yan Si called his little servant, "Go, go back to the house and bring the souvenirs that the master brought back from Lincheng, and give them to these little ancestors!"

"What kind of stunnifer, Fourth Uncle?" asked Fourth Young Master Yan.

Then everyone got a box of black chicken and white phoenix pills.

"I was the one who opened the pharmacy for me and brought my brother with me. Master Yan said.

……

After the noisy New Year, all kinds of dumplings with fillings are also steaming on the table, there are one or two silver coins wrapped here, whoever eats it will get an auspicious omen, and the people help to put the masters in the plates, in fact, these dumplings with silver coins have inconspicuous marks, and as a result, each master has eaten a good dumpling, and everyone is happy.

To the fifth watch, the house burned incense, the sound of cannons outside again, it was the time to open the door to welcome the New Year, took the door pole and threw it three times to the outer yard, called "falling a thousand gold", and then led by the big housekeeper in the house to kowtow to the masters, and then the old lady led the master slaves to open the ancestral hall to sacrifice the heavens and the earth to worship the ancestors.

After worshipping the ancestors, everyone went back to the room to wash, put on new clothes, and then went back to the upper room of the Four Seasons, had breakfast together, rested, packed up and went out to visit relatives and friends to visit the New Year, regardless of men and women have inserted "shouting" made of black gold paper on their heads, there are butterfly-shaped, there are flying goose-shaped, grasshopper-shaped, and tiger-headed, big like palms, small ones like money, wear a branch can also be plugged in, all of them are beaming, and they must go out in the direction where the god of joy is.

The busiest thing in the New Year is the adults, every day to usher in the usher, the children are not very free, except for Yan Xiaoshi, everyone has their own friends, today to gather tomorrow, even Yan Qi has rushed to three or five fields, there are four to nine combinations of internal gatherings, there are brothers-in-arms of the Zongwu Society, and Min Xuewei invited the literary girl New Year's poetry meeting or something.

By the time he was about to save it, it was already after the tenth day of the first month, and Yan Qi didn't go out much again, and began to carefully prepare his luggage to leave Beijing. The adults of the Yan family were able to take a breath easily, but before they could catch their breath, news came from the palace - the sixteenth day of the first lunar month was Yan Zike's birthday, and the emperor rewarded him with an island.

Well, yes, you read that right, it's not a bird, it's an island, an island, an island on the Thousand Island Lake.

Even the house on the island was built for him, the palace master was responsible for the design, and Cui Chunyi, the director of the Ministry of Works, was responsible for supervising the construction, which lasted several months, and quietly completed the construction before Yan Zike's birthday, waiting to surprise him.

This is really-good friends, a quilt!" Yan Qi sighed. So everyone also wants to rest again, roll the things and go to the island to live for a few days, the emperor rewarded this island, you can't accept it without saying anything, how can you also hold a banquet to invite a guest to express your gratitude to the lord Longen - some people speculate that Yan Zike is probably going to rise. 166 Reading Network