84. Chinese New Year's Eve
The days in Fancheng are always busy and happy, there are wits and courage with officials at all levels, there is the doting care of Hua Wulone, and there is also the chatter of lotus canopy, I haven't remembered the past life for a long time, it is rare that this quiet night, the sky outside the window is full of stars, bright and blinking. 'Mom and Dad, are you also celebrating the New Year?' Do you still have my daughter by your side? My daughter is doing well here, you don't have to worry. The faces of my parents in my previous life flashed in front of me, so warm.
If you don't think about it, you should forget it. With a sigh, two lines of tears quietly hung down.
The drum of the third watch has been beaten, and the new year has arrived, 'Happy New Year' Yilan whispered to himself.
It's close to zero o'clock, and it should have been a sky full of firecrackers before, but it's still quiet here. When the door was opened, the two candles next door were extinguished, and they rested. Midnight in winter, it is extremely cold, even if the strong will is also difficult to move, I want to go to the garden, but think about it, just kneel down in the yard, in fact, we live in the era has long ceased to kowtow to the New Year, but, at this moment, only long kneeling can not be pinned with deep affection.
I don't know how long it has been, but I feel that my body is already wooden. Let's go back to the house, at least you can still shelter from the cold wind. He widened his cloak and lay down on the clammy bed. What are you doing? Is there a warm brazier in the house? Enjoying a beautiful piano dance? Have a drink with friends and family? Who is with you? Zhu Lihua? Or Gao Ziying? I have never been so lonely, so lonely for the New Year, and I finally couldn't hold back my tears, shrinking into the quilt, and my tears were wet.
When the complicated ancestor worship ceremony is over, it will already be the second watch, and there are countless elders, relatives and friends who need to toast, even if Hua Wu is lonely and can't get rid of Yilan. Until dawn was approaching, he finally dispersed, refused his father's proposal to stay in the palace to rest, and hurried back to the palace, but did not see Yilan in the study. When Zhilu said that she went back to the backyard house, Hua Wulone's heart rose with a premonition that it was not good.
Sure enough, in the cold room, Yilan curled up on the bed and shivered, with only a thin quilt in autumn, red and swollen eyes, and a large wet pillow.
"Yilan" Hua Wushan only felt that his heart was pinched together, and quickly untied his fox fur cloak and covered it, and took the cloak that Yilan hung on the side, and touched her forehead with trembling hands. Fortunately, there was no fever, and most of Hua Wulone's heart was relieved, and endless anger followed.
"Ylan-ylang, wake up." Reach out and nudge.
"Who?" It felt like he had just closed his eyes and was woken up, and the smell of wine on his face, Yilan moved in disgust.
"Don't move, it's me." Hua Wulin picked him up, and what was attached to his body was a cold body.
Hearing the familiar voice, the whole person relaxed, the corners of his mouth curled, and he said in a daze, "Why are you here, today is not the first day of junior high school, are you free?" ”
"Yilan, when will you be more sensible, can you not worry about me." I wanted to reproach her so much, but when the words came to my lips, I couldn't be harsh.
"Huh?" Heat came from him, and his body, which had stayed up all night, finally warmed up, Yilan comfortably adjusted a comfortable position in his arms, and reached out to take out a small box from the side of the bed, "Wu Lone, Happy New Year." "Open it, inside is exactly the same telescope as for the emperor," There are 3 in total, and there is still one left in Fancheng, which is left for the third master. Yilan said lightly, turned his head and looked at him seriously, "But you are the best at this, and you can see it the best." ”
"Okay." Shoved her hand back into the quilt and held it tightly, "Yes, Happy New Year." "This is not a reward from the elders, nor is it a flattery from the people below, this is a simple blessing of complete equality, which makes Hua Wushan moved.
After a while, seeing that the sky was already bright, there was a voice outside, "You don't want to leave, you don't have to go to your father and mother to pay New Year's greetings?" Yilan sobered up a little.
In fact, there are a lot of things in the New Year, and the schedule is full, and every item can't be escaped, but you can't bring her with you, which makes Hua Wushan very depressed.
"Hurry up." He let go of his hand, rudely pulled her up from the bed, straightened her clothes slightly, and draped both cloaks over her body, "Why are you so stupid, can you never learn to make a brazier?" There was anger in his tone. I searched all over the room, and finally found the only black carbon left, "Look, learn from the side." After saying that, he took the fire fold to ignite the black carbon. The texture of the black carbon is very poor, and it has been left for a while, and it has been damp, and it can't be burned for a long time with the straw that supports the combustion, but it has a room of smoke, and I can barely breathe.
"Hehe, don't get it, don't choke before it gets warm." Ylan laughed beside him.
Bang, the door was kicked open, and the carbon basin was kicked into the courtyard, and the sound of the whole courtyard caused everyone in the courtyard to scream, "Come on, come out for this king." "It's Hanago's roar.
The courtyard is full of women who are lonely, no matter what the background of their mother's family is, at least for the time being, they can only spend the New Year alone in their own courtyard, and no one expected to meet Hua Wulone on the morning of the first day of the New Year.
After the initial panic, someone reacted and knelt down to kowtow to Hana Goku.
The news spread quickly like a wildfire, and for a while everyone rushed here, and after a while, the courtyard was full of kneeling people. I can see that there are many people who have just run over, and they haven't even combed their hair, but no one wants to miss this opportunity to meet.
He obviously didn't expect this flower to be lonely, and he was a little overwhelmed and stunned. "Get up." It took him a long time before he said, "I'm going to enter the palace soon, so I won't accompany you, inform the kitchen, and cook more dishes these days." The fire could no longer be fired, and soon changed to that high-minded expression.
Yilan almost laughed when she saw it in the room, but she felt foggy in her eyes. In fact, which of the women in this courtyard is not a poor person, Hua Wushan also knows the Tao, he can't let himself like them, and he can't really ignore them.
"Yilan, these ** are still waiting for their father to send them in the study at any time, and all the people in this courtyard will be moved to live in other courtyards, and this place will be sealed." He commanded coldly, and glared at Yilan, who was standing at the door with a smile on his lips.
"Hmph, why do you have to go to that empty study and seal my yard." Yilan frowned when she heard this, and before she could come back to her senses, she was rudely pulled out by Hua Wulone, and behind her was the sound of them kneeling down to say goodbye.
The bedroom in the study is as warm as spring, and there is a large basin of hot water for bathing in the room, "You wash first, continue to sleep, and someone will come to teach you etiquette in the afternoon." He didn't seem to have recovered from the state he had just been angry about, so he made a tiger face and beckoned, "In the future, the four of them will serve you together with Lianpeng." If you have something to look for, he will arrange it for you. After saying that, he left in a hurry without waiting for any response from Yilan, and did not take the cloak that was still draped on Yilan's body.
"Miss, let's wash up first." One of the four was a little older, about twenty-two or thirteen years old, two looked about the same age as himself, and one was a little younger, probably fifteen or sixteen years old.
I barely slept for less than 3 hours, and I didn't wake up at all. Yilan didn't dare to rely on willpower to not sleep for a few days like Hua Wushan, she knew that her body couldn't support it at all, once she was tired and brought out the poisonous injury, she couldn't face Hua Wulan's self-blaming and worried eyes, so she was very obedient to let them serve and wash and bathe, and then immediately lie down and continue to sleep. We'll talk about it when we're resting.
I really slept well this night, and it was too late to wake up.
I had just eaten something when I saw the old palace maid come over with two women who were in their forties and had already been slightly blessed.
The three of them saluted in unison, "Miss, the slave maid is a female official in the palace, and she is assigned by the sixth prince to serve the girl with the other three sisters, these two are the grandmothers of the Ministry of Rites, and they are specially designed to teach the etiquette in the palace. The woman was neither humble nor arrogant, and spoke clearly and clearly.
Mama, who teaches etiquette in the palace full-time, must have come here to teach herself, Yilan smiled bitterly. I think that when I first came to serve the emperor in the study, Hua Wulian didn't mention etiquette at all, and the first time I entered the palace to say goodbye, I only talked about some rules in the car because of my own requirements, and it didn't matter if I understood it vaguely or not.
And this time, I specially sent the palace maid to teach, and it can be seen how much Hua Wulian attaches great importance to this time, and she should be very nervous. Although he didn't say what the purpose of studying was, Yilan vaguely felt that he would let him see his mother, and he was afraid that the mother would not approve of him at all.
No matter in the past or present life, I never thought about how to face a mother-in-law who didn't like me. Helplessly, he pouted, "The three don't have to be polite, I don't know how to call the three?" I don't know what to learn about the etiquette in this palace? ”
"The slave's surname is Chang." The fatter mama replied.
"The slave's surname is Luo." Mama Luo looked very stern.
"According to the rules, the slaves and maids assigned by the master no longer use their former names, and the girl can give them names." Mama Chang said again.
"Okay, you can name it after spring, summer, autumn and winter, you are the oldest, and your name is Lichun." It's really inconvenient to have no name, so Ylang said a name casually.
"Lichun Xie girl gave her name." She knelt down and kowtowed.
Yilan was stunned for a moment, seeing others kowtowing to herself, Yilan was still very unaccustomed to it.
"According to the rules of the palace, women from inside and outside should enter the palace before the hour of each day and wait for the summons, and if there is no special call, they should leave the palace before the hour." Mama Luo said expressionlessly.
If you have to enter the palace and wait before the hour, won't you have to get up at three or four o'clock in the middle of the night to prepare? Ylan rolled her eyes.
"A woman should have a calm complexion, a dignified demeanor, and a moderate pace of speech." Mama Luo still said slowly with a blank face.