Chapter 229 New Peach Old Talisman

The two got on the sedan chair and returned to Qinglian Courtyard, Cheng Ke got off the sedan chair, stood at the door of Qinglian Courtyard, stretched his waist, and sighed with satisfaction:

"It's better to go home"

Li Xiaonuan pursed her lips and looked at him with a smile, stretched out her hand to push him and said:

"Hurry up and wash and rest, and then sigh after resting, look at you, your eyes are picked."

Cheng Ke walked in along Li Xiaonuan's push, slowly raised his eyebrows, laughed softly, paused suddenly, stretched out his hand to pull Li Xiaonuan, hugged her waist, lowered his head to her ear, exhaled hot air, and said in a low voice:

"Hurry up...... Resting? Of course, I've been thinking about it for two whole months, do you want to hurry up and think so too? ”

Li Xiaonuan turned his head, only smiled and ignored him, and entered the main house, Zhu Qing had already prepared hot water with the little girl, Cheng Ke took a comfortable shower and came out, dragged Li Xiaonuan into the inner room, and refused to let her leave half a step if he said anything.

In the evening, the two had dinner, Cheng Ke leaned on the pillow contentedly and comfortably, looked at Li Xiaonuan who was wearing an embroidered jacket and a pink and purple skirt, and said with a smile:

"You still look good in delicate clothes, the more delicate the better"

Li Xiaonuan was looking at the jade board with a set of tea sets, listened to Cheng Ke's words, sighed with a smile, turned his head to look at Cheng Ke and said:

"People say that if a person is good-looking and doesn't care what he wears, he is wrapped in a rotten cloth, and he is just as graceful, and if he has average qualifications, he can only rely on clothes, jewelry and rouge gouache."

"This is nonsense, I have seen more beauties, and the more beautiful people are, the better they should be dressed up."

Cheng Ke retorted, Li Xiaonuan raised his eyebrows, turned his head to look at Cheng Ke, Cheng Ke hurriedly waved his hand and explained:

"It's all in the past, before I got married, a long time ago, I accompanied Xiaojing to watch, you don't know, Xiaojing loves this."

The jade board set up the tea set, lowered his head, and retreated with a smile, Li Xiaonuan ignored Cheng Ke, sat in front of the tea set, and slowly brewed tea, Cheng Ke leaned forward and asked curiously:

"You've learned to divide tea, too?"

"It's so hard to divide tea, how can I learn it? It's not a tea, I asked someone to make some fresh fruit tea and brew it for you to taste. ”

Li Xiaonuan took out the thick sticky honey jam from the glass bottle, added boiling water to melt it, took it up and tasted it, nodded with satisfaction, and handed it to Cheng Ke, Cheng Ke took it and drank it, tasted it for a while, and laughed.

"Where is this called tea? It's clearly just honey and candied fruit mixed together, but it's also sweet and sour. ”

Li Xiaonuan made another cup and handed it to him,

"I've got something in mind, and I want to hear what you mean."

"Well, you say."

Cheng Ke took the cup, drank it slowly, nodded and signaled to Li Xiaonuan, Li Xiaonuan tilted his head to look at him, and said the matter of Chuncao and the princess's words word by word, looked at Cheng Ke, and said with a smile:

"It just depends on what you mean, if you think it's good, after the New Year, I'll bring someone back for you, if you think it's not good, I'll send her to marry someone else, and then go back and find a good one for you."

Cheng Ke looked at Li Xiaonuan with suspicion and vigilance, shook his head and said:

"Don't you want them to do anything here? You don't have to worry about this, tomorrow I will let Ping An settle this matter, you don't have to find anything good for me, I don't want any of them, didn't we say okay, just the two of us. ”

Li Xiaonuan held the cup to his mouth, slowly drank the delicious fruit tea, and did not answer with a smile.

The next day, Cheng Ke told Li Xiaonuan about his illness again, and he also slept until three poles in the sun, and then leisurely walked out of Qinglian Courtyard, and when he arrived at the outer courtyard, he ordered someone to call Ping An to come over and command:

"From today on, in this house, the lord will set up a rule again, the girls in the house, all who want to wait beside the lord, will be sent to the gospel temple first, and go to practice for ten years, quietly accumulate blessings, when the heart is like an ancient well, no desire and no waves, and then come back to wait."

Ping An listened to a breath in his chest, looking at Cheng Ke with a strange face, Cheng Ke frowned, and asked impatiently:

"What's wrong? Didn't you hear what you said? ”

"Yes"

Ping An hurriedly bowed down, promised heavily, and as soon as he spoke, he reacted again, and hurriedly corrected:

"No, it's the master's words, the little one understands it, all the girls in the house who want to wait beside the prince will be sent to the gospel temple to practice for ten years, and they can come back and wait only after they have calmed down."

"Well, this rule starts today"

After Cheng Ke finished speaking, he raised his feet and walked out of the gate, got on the horse, and galloped towards King Jing's mansion.

Ping'an watched Cheng Ke go out of the door, stood in the gate with his head hung for a long time, sighed heavily, and went to the inner study to ask the prince to show down.

Two hours later, Cheng Ke's new rules reached the ears of thousands of people up and down the mansion.

The princess listened to Mama Tian's report, blinked her eyes for a long time, sighed and said:

"Xiao Ke's temper, why is he still so weird? What kind of reason is this? ”

Mama Tian stood without saying a word, and the princess sighed heavily, waved her hand and said:

"Alas, his temper is also helpless, he is awkward to him, if he is screwed like the previous two years, I don't know how to do it, you pay attention to pick a good one, marry Chuncao."

Mama Tian respectfully agreed and withdrew.

Cheng Ke had lunch in King Jing's Mansion, and only after Shen Zheng did he quit Zhou Jingran and returned to Runan Palace.

As soon as he got off the horse at the gate of the palace, the horse steward of the return office rushed out, and he greeted the salute and reported with a smile:

"Back to the prince, the new imperial history Zou Yingnian just after the end of the afternoon, I went to our house to ask to see you, the little one said that you went out, and I don't know when I will be able to come back, but Zou Yushi has to wait, now sit and drink tea at the back office, the prince of the world, you see ......"

"Zou Yingnian ......"

Cheng Ke groaned, and suddenly remembered who this Zou Yingnian was, this person could be locked up in Xiao Nuan...... Cheng Ke frowned slightly, and the horse steward paid attention to Cheng Ke's expression, and reported with a smile:

"A few days ago, Zou Yushi sent you and the young lady a gift over, and the little one asked the young lady to show it, and the young lady said that Zou Yushi has nothing to do with our house, and the gift that fell from the sky cannot be accepted, so she told the little one to retreat."

Cheng Keshu stretched his eyebrows, waved his hand and commanded:

"Send him back, just say that I am tired on the road, and I need to recuperate, and it is not good to see people."

Steward Ma bowed down and agreed, and watched Cheng Ke turn into the shadow wall, then straightened up, turned around and went back to send Zou Yingnian.

The next day was the twenty-eighth of the month, Li Xiaonuan stole a day of laziness, things were still waiting for her there, the next day was Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Xiaonuan was busy all day, returned to Qinglian Courtyard at night, and her mother-in-law had to come over to ask for instructions because of urgency.

Cheng Ke stayed in King Jing's Mansion for another whole day, and as the New Year approached, he and Zhou Jingran had more things to do.

Twenty-nine, Cheng Ke didn't go out, but before dawn, Mama Tian guarded Cheng Ke outside Qinglian Courtyard for Ping'an Chinese New Year's Eve...... There are too many things to arrange for adjudication, the prince has ordered, he is old and in poor health, these things, from this year onwards, let Cheng Ke preside over the handling.

The two of them were busy until midnight.

Early in the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, as soon as the sky was bright, Cheng Ke and Li Xiaonuan got up and washed up, Cheng Ke wore a big red silk long shirt, Li Xiaonuan wore a light gray short coat, and a pair of red pomegranate pants.

The whole house has already prepared five-color paper money, wine and fruit, door gods, peach charms and other things, Cheng Ke went straight to the gate, Ping An is leading the stewards to look forward to it, seeing him come out, he hurriedly let people set off firecrackers, Cheng Ke took off the peach charm hanging on the left side of the gate, put it in the red lacquer tray held by Ping An, and took a new peach charm from the tray and hung it.

Seeing that Cheng Ke hung up the peach talisman, from the gate, the door gods and peach talismans in various parts of the Runan Palace, were replaced in a moment, and the five-color paper money, the peach talisman Zhong Kui, the tiger head, the pearl cui Baishiji and other mascots were hung all over the place.

From this point on, this year has officially begun, and all kinds of rules and avoidances of the New Year must be solemnly observed.

Li Xiaonuan sat in a sedan chair, picked up the princess in the main courtyard, Cheng Ke picked up the prince, and went to Ruizitang to change the door god and peach charm for the old lady, and asked the old lady to move and have a day of fun with her children and grandchildren.

The prince and Cheng Ke did it themselves, Li Xiaonuan held the tray with the peach talisman, the princess followed the old peach talisman, the four of them were busy for a long time, and replaced the door god peach talisman inside and outside Ruizi Hall, and the old lady did not come out, only let the middle-aged servant woman pass the word, and when it was time to worship the ancestors, it was not too late for her to go over.

The prince was full of disappointment, drooped his shoulders, and stood in the courtyard for a long time with great sadness, before he reluctantly agreed, and retreated out of the courtyard with the princess and others.

Li Xiaonuan helped the princess and followed cautiously, and before she stepped out of the courtyard door, she heard a rapid earth-shattering running sound from the courtyard, with a wild scream in the middle:

"Sugar sister, sugar sister, sugar sister, wait for me, wait for me!"

Li Xiaonuan paused with a smile in her eyes, the princess laughed, turned around hurriedly, and looked at Hongfu who was wearing a brand-new red dress and red pants, like a red silk forging flower ball, and said while laughing:

"Good boy, don't run, look at the fall, your sugar sister is waiting for you."

Hongfu exhaled hot air, ran to Li Xiaonuan's side, and said:

"Whew...... Sugar sister, ...... Mama said, it burns well!"

Hongfu said while looking up at Li Xiaonuan proudly and longingly, Li Xiaonuan raised his hand with a smile and stroked Hongfu's cheek, took out a piece of dried apricots from his purse, stuffed it into her mouth and praised:

"Hongfu has been doing a good job lately, the fire is burning well, and the grandmothers have praised you, haven't they?"

Hongfu drooled, chewed the dried apricots vigorously, and nodded like kowtow worms.

The prince put his hands behind his back, looking at Li Xiaonuan and Hongfu chatting with a smile in his eyes, Cheng Ke looked at Li Xiaonuan with a strange face, and then looked at Hongfu, these two people, standing together, it was so interesting

It's almost the New Year, think about it, it's still a good year in the past, grand and lively, pity the children now, there is nowhere to taste the joy and joy of the New Year, our tradition, it's sad to be annihilated.