Chapter 19: A Lot of "Relics"
Ning Xin's first New Year here really felt the strong smell of the New Year in the air.
She thought that apart from her parents, she really had a sense of belonging to life here, and it didn't feel bad.
On the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, Wei Ya dressed Ning Xin fragrantly, and a family of three arrived at the Wenguo Mansion in an ox cart with a group of slaves.
Ning Xin has been here for so long, and when she went out for the first time, listening to the sound of pedestrians talking outside, she only felt that the car curtains on the left and right were particularly eye-catching.
"Lekang wants to look outside?" Wei Ya saw Ning Xin's little hand stretched out, and asked by pointing at her little nose.
"Hmm." Ning Xin didn't know how strict the etiquette here was for women, and she lifted the curtain on the road and looked around, not knowing if it was in line with the rules.
"Let's drive a little bit and watch secretly." Wei Ya said with a smile, and then secretly opened a corner like a thief.
Ning Xin looked at her mother with black lines on her head, and she didn't know whose posture of covering her ears and stealing the bell. Is this a legacy left behind by doing too many bad things, obviously there is no need to be so sneaky.
"Lekang, this is more feeling, as if you are succeeding in doing bad things behind your parents' backs."
Mother, as a parent, is it really good to educate children like this?
Well, I've always been a good kid and I've never felt a sense of accomplishment in doing bad things, so it's a new experience to do "bad things" with my mother.
Ning Xin saw the outside world for the first time from the small flickering slit.
The street is spacious and tidy, and there are many shops on both sides of the street, probably because the doors of the shops are closed during the Chinese New Year. There are a lot of pedestrians on the road, most of them going back to their parents' homes.
There are several people in the family, carrying things and talking and laughing. Ning Xin noticed that there were many women on the road, some wearing hats to cover their faces, and most of them were striding on the road without covering.
It seems that it is okay for women here to go to the street or anything, Ning Xin breathed a sigh of relief, she thought that she could also come out and walk around in the future, even if it was good to breathe.
There is really nothing to see on the road, and you can't even see a single green leaf in winter.
Although there are pedestrians, the shops that are closed on the left and right still seem deserted.
She thought that her grandmother used to say in her previous life that there was no New Year's flavor now, and everyone was not busy. They will be really busy, from Chinese New Year's Eve to fifteenth Street there is no vegetable selling, everyone takes advantage of the New Year holiday.
So before the Chinese New Year, I would buy things in a big bag and go home, but there was no family planning, and there were several children in the family. Why do you want to make so many dishes for the New Year, one is to let everyone manage enough to eat well, and the other is to eat so many days. When you're ready, you just have to eat hot and hot. At that time, if you didn't have food, you really couldn't buy anything with money.
Ning Xin saw the deserted scene on the street and thought of what her grandmother said at that time. This is probably the case here, all shops are closed for the New Year, and the second child also has a New Year's holiday.
In about a quarter of an hour, the ox cart stopped.
Before half a cup of tea, after turning into an alley, there were no more people coming and going. The road is also obviously smooth and clean, and the mighty stone lions on both sides of the gate are looking at everyone with fierce eyes.
"Lekang, we will be able to meet our grandfather, grandmother, uncle, aunt, and brother soon." Wei Ya saw the familiar plaque and said happily to Ning Xin.
"Hello to the fourth girl, Ning Langjun, and the fifth little girl, the eldest princess just said that the fourth girl should be here, and the slave wanted to go out to greet her, this coincidence, as soon as I arrived at the door, I saw the car of the Guogong Mansion coming in."
"Fauber told those little guys to come out and watch, it's too cold outside these days, and the legs are susceptible to cold."
"These are our duties as slaves, and Fu Bo hasn't seen the fourth girl for a few days. It's the first time I've seen the little five girls, and they look like you when you were a child. ”
Ning Xin saw the old man with white hair in front of her and looked at her with a smile, this old man is seventy or eighty. The wrinkles on the face are layered, but it looks quite tough.
"Lekang, this is Fubo who served your great-grandfather." Wei Ya said to Ning Xin.
"Fauber is good."
served his great-grandfather, no wonder he was so old, so face-saving, and his mother was so kind to face.
"Alas!" Fu Bo saw that the voice of the cute milk doll like jade snow was sweet and glutinous, and the folds on his face became deeper.
The Wenguo Mansion is about the same size as the Anguo Mansion, and the housing layout is also similar. It's just that the Wenguo Mansion looks more gentle and charming, and the layout of the pavilions is more exquisite.
This is related to the family style of the two families, although the Anguo Mansion is also a big family, and the poetry is heirloom. But at the beginning of the establishment of the Great Chen Dynasty, the first Anguo Gong Ning Jianjie had 100,000 elite soldiers under him, and he was a fierce general under Chen Taizu. In the early days of the establishment of the Great Chen Dynasty, the official worshiped Taiwei and had a fief.
After the four seas were leveled, Chen Taizu wanted to take back the military power and fiefdom, and Ning Jianjie was the first to respond.
In order to set a good example for the ministers, Chen Taizu generously gave the hereditary title of Duke of Anguo, and gave Danshu iron coupons, and the number of troops could be increased to 1,000.
Since the first generation of An Guo Gong, the Anguo Mansion has gradually focused on martial arts, and the current An Guo Gong has used military merits to stabilize the status of the top family of the Great Chen Dynasty of the Anguo Gongfu.
Although the Ning family is a big family and pays attention to civil and military cultivation, martial arts are relatively more important. Therefore, the construction of the pattern of the Anguo Mansion gradually revealed a bit of uninhibited military generals.
"My mother said that my sister was about to come, and I told the kitchen to prepare goat's milk and your favorite red bean cake when you were at home for Xiao Lekang."
Ning Xin saw a woman with gentle eyebrows and eyes, like a lady walking out of the painting, and walked forward a few steps, and her relatives did not pull her mother to talk abruptly.
"Does Lekang still know his aunt?" Yuan asked with a smile.
"Auntie, the flowers are drifting." Ning Xin's black eyes rolled around and said softly.
"What a smart little kid." Yuan Shi was surprised and admired, she hadn't seen her for nearly two months, and she didn't expect such a young child to remember herself.
"Lekang remembers your mutton fat white jade lotus bracelet, and you know that you love beauty at such a young age." Wei Ya said with a smile.
Her daughter doesn't know who she looks like, and she knows how to hide private money at such a young age.
After the big child got the things, he asked the maid to put them away, and collected a few small boxes in different categories.
When I'm fine, I like to take out the things in these small boxes to play, and I must remember to let the maid put them away after playing.
When Yuan came to Anguo's mansion for the first time, he gave Ning Xin a bracelet made of lotus flowers carved from a string of pearls, mutton fat, and white jade, and Ning Xin liked it very much. She can't bring these with her now, and when she's fine, she often asks the maid to take out this bracelet to play with.
Wei Ya was very impressed by this bracelet.
"Little girls should like some flowers, and there are still a lot of beautiful things in my aunt's place, and I will take Lekang to choose them later." Yuan picked up Ning Xin and asked with a smile.
There are so many cultural relics, so many works of art, you can touch and see!
Ning Xin's directness is equated with the thing in Yuan's mouth.
"Good!" Ning Xin smiled into starry eyes.