214 New Year

A small wind drifted in the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the snow like salt particles fell down all night, and when I got up in the morning, there was no bright snow outside to shine, and the sky looked particularly blue and beautiful.

After discussing with the big kitchen, Ah Man and Xianfang placed the stove and charcoal fire for barbecue in the harmony hall next to the hot spring pool.

In addition to the two masters, Xia Kun and Hui Zhi, Hui Zhi also called out the first-class maids in the Yuhua Pavilion and Zhuqing Garden, and opened a small table next to it, and Pei Lan even went to Jiamu Hall to invite Linglong and Pearl out to play together.

Pearl was serious and reluctant to go out, and in the end, Duan's mother personally pushed her out of Jiamutang - "I have been working diligently and carefully on errands all year round, and when it is easy to have a play, I still don't want to go? ”

Linglong happily pulled the pearl to the yard, and when a few people arrived, Xia Kun was still hesitant: "Let's barbecue here, it's also a good thing, if you don't let people invite Sui Ya and New Year's gifts, isn't it appropriate?"

Hui Zhi patted her head, "If you don't say it, I almost forgot about it - even if my sister-in-law kindly invited them to come, the New Year's Ceremony was so stiff with my sister-in-law before, and if something happened again, we didn't want to go home today......?"

Pearl next to her, who was helping to clean up the meat slices, said with a smile, "What's so difficult about this? What about the ready-made candidates, please ask Duan's mother to go to Fushoutang to invite the two girls in front of Mrs. Tai, how could Mrs. Tai let the two girls come out?"

Hui Zhi clapped her hands, "You're so smart! Then bother Sister Pearl to ask Mother Duan to go...... When she comes back, I'll roast a plate of venison for her!"

Xia Kun frowned and said, "This is not good after all-it's better than this, let's bake some delicious food, put it in the food box and simmer it on a small stove, and send it to Fushoutang." Lizi has done all the face, so it's good. ”

It doesn't make sense for grandchildren to barbecue meat in the yard, but they don't honor their elders.

Hui Zhi nodded, "What my sister-in-law said is very true. Quickly prepare more meat and vegetables, and grill a few portions, Jiamutang, Fushoutang, and the second room. There is also the study in front, which is really a place that cannot be left behind. ”

When Duan's mother took people everywhere, it was already early past noon, several people were happy to bake and eat happily, and when they were about to go back to rest, the housekeeper of Zhao Lai's house, who was in charge of the house, suddenly walked hurriedly to the Heyin Pavilion, and said respectfully: "The palace sent someone to come over on the way to the house, Zhao said, look at it is the eunuch who passed the decree." The one who started looked like a person from the Cixiao Palace. ”

Everyone in the Harmony Pavilion was stunned, Xia Kun reacted quickly, thanked Zhao Laijia, tugged at Huizhi's sleeve, and reminded, "Hurry up and go back to freshen up and change your clothes." ”

Hui Zhi knew - if it wasn't for herself, the housekeeper in the front yard had no reason to go to the backyard to sue her.

After Hui Zhi changed into a proper dress and swept the rouge, she really waited for the Empress Dowager's decree. Although this will is unexpected, it is also reasonable: not only Hui Zhi, but also the Empress Dowager specifically named the name of Cheng'an Hou's wife Wang, and also named Hui Zhi. Attended the palace banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve with Qin Weien, Marquis of Cheng'an.

With the decree of Yi, there are a few palace satins, a jade Buddha - the Empress Dowager said: "Wang's virtue is good, and the woman's virtue can be an example for women, and a Buddha statue of the monk is specially given to show praise." ”

The position of Cheng'an is high and powerful. In previous years, Qin Weien would definitely enter the palace to participate in the royal banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve, and the Wang family had a fate, so naturally he also had the identity to participate in the banquet, but Qin Weien did not want the Wang family to go into the circle of right and wrong, so he often found reasons to let the Wang family stay in the mansion.

It's just that since the Empress Dowager has made an edict this year, the family will naturally go to the palace to participate in the banquet.

The Empress Dowager gave a decree, and the New Year's gifts sent by relatives and friends in the Cheng'an Hou Mansion in a few days seemed to be two or three points thicker than in previous years.

Tsai carefully swept through the house, the kitchen grinded fresh tofu, cleaned up the meat that came in from the Zhuangzi from all over the country, the cellar should be under the cellar, the frozen outside was frozen, and most of the hard lamb meat that had been frozen was sliced into thin slices, ready to make hot and fresh pots for each yard, a few large pots were set up in the kitchen, and the big bone broth or chicken soup was stewed day and night, and the smell of fragrant fragrance was scattered in the yard, and the flavor of the year became stronger and stronger.

On the twenty-ninth day, Wang specially called Hui Zhi to Jiamutang, and carefully explained the rules in the palace banquet for a long time, what chopsticks can't touch the plate, a dish can't be sandwiched more than three times, and when drinking water, you must cover your face with the sleeve of your right hand......

Hui Zhi listened carefully, and responded again and again, and Wang asked Pei Lan, who came with her, to take back the two sets of clothes that had been rushed out, and pulled her to pick them out for a long time

The Wang family put on such a big formation, and Hui Zhirao couldn't help but get nervous no matter how indifferent she was.

After all, it was the first time she had participated in the banquet in the palace.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, there was a heavy snowfall, and after three o'clock in the Shen hour, the carriages marked with the Cheng'an Hou Mansion lined up in the direction of the palace.

In all directions, naturally, all the nobles and nobles of the prefecture were marching to the Imperial Forbidden Palace in the center of the capital.

Unexpectedly, I met the carriage of the Marquis of Wuwei, and it was Pei Gu who opened the way.

Seeing that it was the family emblem of the Cheng'an Hou Mansion, Pei Gu raised his hand and said softly, "Let the carriage of the Cheng'an Hou Mansion pass first." ”

The carriage passed in front of him silently, and a slender hand appeared in a curtain with crimson embroidered magnolia patterns behind him, and it rested on the window for a moment, but after all, the curtain was not lifted.

It's just that the bracelet inlaid with many treasures on his wrist made Pei Gu only glance at it, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was carried all the way to the palace gate.

It's a pity that he is on duty tonight, the task is a bit heavy, the palace banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve, with the palace knife, patrolled before and after the Guanghe Hall where the banquet was held, and could not enter the main hall, and he could only look at her from a distance, but as long as he thought that after the New Year, February would soon arrive, and the smile at the corner of Pei Gu's mouth was a little thicker, straight into his eyes.

Hui Zhi over there didn't know that he had already blossomed in his heart, and he was taking careful steps, supporting his mother who was wearing a life wife dress, step by step, first to the queen's palace to say goodbye, and then to the queen mother and the queen mother's palace to ask for thanks. (To be continued.) )