In the back garden of the General's Mansion, in the exquisite pavilion inlaid with glass on all sides, it is warm in spring and overflowing with the fragrance of wine.

A small rosewood carved square table is covered with a satin tablecloth with dark patterns of bean green bamboo leaves and plum blossoms, and the delicate tassels on the four sides of the tablecloth gently sway with the heat in the charcoal stove next to it, comfortable and warm. Three women wearing light and warm silk cotton jackets sat or leaned, each leisurely and thoughtful.

A pot of warm wine, four side dishes, and two confidants got together, not for drinking, not for trivialities, but for the plum blossoms in full bloom on the tree outside.

Outside the warm pavilion, the snow is falling, everything is dyed white, only to see the plum blossom trees standing proudly in the cold wind, and the plum blossoms in full bloom are dotted in the white world, which is particularly delicate. Flowers and snowflakes are clustered around each other, looking crystal clear; The plum blossoms in full bloom exude a fragrant smell to the air; The budding plum blossoms hide in the snowflakes with a little red, and they are also working hard to bloom their most beautiful smile to the world.

"All trees are killed, and solitary branches are cut alone. In the snow of Yanyuan, Ling Han opened several branches. The wind is fragrant and quiet, and the finches are buried without makeup. In the next year's wax month, occupy the spring platform again. Su Yuxuan pinched a small wine cup and slowly recited a five-character poem.

Han Mingcan had already laid out the pen and ink on the bookcase over there, and the pen was wandering the dragon, and wrote this catchy and beautiful little poem on the paper, and praised it repeatedly: "Yu'er is really getting more and more profitable!" ”

Su Yuyu ran to Yao Yanyu with a smile and held her arm coquettishly: "Sister, you see Sister Han bullying me again." ”

"Praise you! Where is bullying you. Yao Yanyu raised her hand and knocked on the door of Su Yuyu's head.

"Ahh It hurts. Su Yuxuan grinned exaggeratedly.

Yao Yanyu sat up straight with a smile, rubbed it in the place where she knocked, and sighed: "Such a good little brain, don't knock it out, right?" "Her arm is no longer a big problem after this period of recuperation, but Cuiwei suggests that she should not be tired, but should be carefully raised, at least after the New Year, she will diagnose and cure people's pulses and write or something.

Yao Yanyu also knows that bone injuries are the most likely to leave the root of the disease, although the ointment she prepared is powerful, but the body is still her own in the end, anyway, the emperor gave her leave, and she is more happy to be idle.

As for Wei Zhang, he was even happier to watch his wife idle, in Yao Yan's words: You can't wait to raise me as a pig. General Wei only smiled and carried her to the bed and said the most wonderful love words in his life: Even if you are a pig, you are the cutest little pig in the world.

Han Mingcan turned around and looked at the two of them coming together to laugh, and urged Yao Yanyu: "Yanyu hurry up, it's your turn." ”

"You're so me!" Yao Yanyu played a scoundrel on the couch, "Poetry and songs, I also know a song, or can only listen to it." Now you want to compare poems with me, isn't this a clear bully of me? Even if I barely repeat a piece of nonsense, I'll be at the bottom for you. I just have to admit defeat. ”

Su Yuxuan didn't follow: "How can there be such a thing as you!" You can't go back like this. Today, my sister is going to have a song, whether it's good or not is another matter, and she always has to pay a blank paper but will be punished heavily. ”

"The cold plum blooms lonely branches, and the snow is even blue. The ink clouds press the night deep, and the wind blows the morning silence. Yin Yin forgets the love of the year, and it is thousands of miles. Cold incense is lonely, and the heroic soul is comforted. Yao Yanyu leaned on the warm couch, looking at the exquisite roof of the Linglong Pavilion, and at the end, she burst into tears.

Han Mingcan couldn't help but feel pantothenic acid when he heard this, knowing that Yao Yanyu had always had a grudge against Zhang Cangbei's death, but because there was no clue, so far the order of the old man Zhang was still judged to have died of a natural disaster, and the coffin was parked in the back hall of the Chinese Medicine Museum, just waiting for the spring of the next year, Yao Yanyu was ordered to send the old man back to Chuzhou for burial.

"It's all my fault, and I made my sister sad." Su Yuyu hurriedly took a handkerchief to wipe Yao Yanyu's tears, and she was ruined to death.

Yao Yanyu wiped her tears and smiled bitterly: "I don't blame you, it's me who is not interested." ”

Han Mingcan wrote down Yao Yanyu's poems, and then instructed the maid: "Go outside and put a pair of incense cases under the plum tree,"

Although the maid did not know what she meant, she did it anyway.

Han Mingcan ordered someone to take a cloak to put it on the three of them, called Yao Yanyu and Su Yuyu out of the Linglong Pavilion, and knelt down in front of the incense case. Then he sighed softly, looked up at the snowfall in the sky, and said, "Today, we will use this snow and plum blossoms to pay tribute to the order of the old man Zhang." Burn this poem by Yan Yu to him to comfort his soul in heaven. ”

"Yes, it should be." Su Yuxuan was also busy clasping her hands together, "It's not good for our women to go to the Chinese Medical Center to pay respects, so we have to kowtow to the old hospital here." He is Sister Yao's mentor and the elder of the three of us. ”

Yao Yanyu knelt next to Han Mingcan, her heart was sour, and tears couldn't stop flowing.

Because of the national disaster, he was busy raiding the Feng family, from top to bottom, no one in the Manchu Dynasty could even come to the National Medical Center to worship the old man. It can be seen that this person's affection is as thin as paper, and the world is very cold!

The three sisters here kowtowed three times to the flying snow and a plum tree, watching Han Mingcan incinerate Yao Yanyu's poem and the snow, the black paper ash like an ink-colored butterfly, was blown up by the cold wind and chased the snowflakes to the sky and disappeared, only then did they kowtow again and were helped up by their respective maids.

And today, the original majestic and prominent Prime Minister Feng's mansion in front of the white flags flying, and the paper money flies up and down like snowflakes.

Today is the day of the funeral of Feng Zongye and his wife.

Although Feng Ziyun and Feng Ziday were both imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department, the funeral of Feng Zongye and his wife could not be left unattended. The lord of Lingxi begged King Yan, and King Yan begged the emperor, and the emperor was in a better mood because Wei Zhang really took a treasure map from Pu Kun's corpse, so he allowed the descendants of the Feng family who were not implicated to come out of the funeral of Feng Zongye and his wife in the main hall.

The cost of the funeral is naturally from the lord of Lingxi, and the descendants of those side lines are all concubines for three generations, and when they reach their generation, they are barely mixed with the Feng family, and they are all not growing. Those who are willing to grow up were promoted by Feng Zongye, and now they are all in prison.

These people are not treated well on weekdays, and they can't even get a good errand, so they are scattered in the corners. Now that I finally have a chance to make money, I naturally won't let it go.

The county lord of Lingxi took out his makeup and pawned five thousand taels of silver, and the general branch was given to a clan child named Feng Zixian, who was in his forties, and was good at drilling camps on weekdays, but he did not take the right path, and the family business left by his father was ruined by him. Now that I have such a good errand, I can't miss it easily.

When the five thousand taels of silver arrived, Mr. Feng Zixian first deducted three thousand taels and deposited them in the bank, and then divided the two thousand taels into two parts, one was handed over to his mother-in-law, saying that it was for his son to marry his daughter-in-law, and the other 1,000 taels were exchanged for a small silver ticket, and he kicked it in his arms and went to Fengfu to do a funeral.

It's just that he didn't want to take out all the thousand taels, and left half of the buckle and rope, and only took out a few hundred taels of silver to buy it.

The longevity materials that have been prepared in the house long ago cannot be used, and the house is copied and the coffin is made of high-quality golden silk nanmu, which is not waiting to be copied again? Feng Zixian spent dozens of taels of silver to buy two thin coffins to decorate Feng Zongye and his wife, and called the cats and dogs scattered in the clan back to support the field.

Of course, there is nothing to buy, and there is no need to prepare for banquets, because not many people will come at all. All the expenses are just cars, horses, paper money, etc., and then find some foot strength to carry the coffin and hire a few cars to send the funeral.

Feng Shaoying naturally wanted to come back to cry and send the spirit, because it really didn't look good, so she asked someone to call Feng Zixian over and ask a few words.

Feng Zixian played a bachelor's game with Feng Shaoying: "Grandma doesn't want to think about the current situation of our family." As the saying goes, the tree falls and the tree is scattered, and how many people avoid this door and dare not come forward. If I hadn't been maneuvering around it, the old man and the old lady would have to stop at home for the New Year! ”

"That's ugly! Where did you get the two sheet coffins? Carrying it out is not afraid of being embarrassed? Feng Shaoying lost her temper, as the saying goes, the daughter who married out spilled the water, and there is still a younger brother at home, and it is impossible for her to come back to preside over the funeral for her grandfather and grandmother.

"Oh, hey, my aunt! Our family is like this, do you still want to get a coffin for the old man? I'll tell you the truth, the longevity materials that the old man has prepared a long time ago are still stored in other people's stores! But even if we have silver now, we don't dare to use it, do we? ”

Feng Shaoying was helpless when she heard this, so she had to take off a bracelet with pure gold and gems on her wrist and hand it over: "Take this and press it, make some silver, and get more curtains and banners when you go out, and get more paper money to guide the way, don't be too ugly." ”

"Gotcha!" Feng Zixian carried the bracelet, thinking that his daughter-in-law's dowry had a big head.

After some tossing, Feng Zixian hired a few people to carry the two coffins out of the palace gate and send them to a temple outside the city for temporary placement.

Poor Feng Zongye and his wife have been in a good place for a lifetime, and finally their son died and was tortured in prison, and their grandson was banned in the county lord's mansion and could not go out, so they were sent by these collateral descendants.

But he was okay, the emperor cared about the face of the royal family and the Yan Palace, and finally occupied a thin coffin.

After she hanged herself in Fengyi Palace, the emperor ignored it, and the eunuch rolled people out with a broken mat and burned them directly. Poor generation of queens, the mother has been in the world for more than 30 years, but in the end, she ended up with broken bones and ashes.

However, there is a good saying that the earth revolves the same way without anyone. This winter, tens of thousands of people died from top to bottom, and the days passed day by day, and people were busy working until Chinese New Year's Eve.

Because of the death of the old man Zhang, and because of the national disaster caused by the earthquake, this year's Chinese New Year will be simple from top to bottom.

Yao Yanyu even stated that he valued filial piety on the grounds that his master and apprentice were like father and son, and he didn't even hang a red light inside and outside the general's mansion, but only posted a picture of the emperor's 'spring' word and a pair of spring couplets on the shadow wall of the gate. Other places are as usual, and even some side houses and courtyards have not had time to clean up, and they are still collapsing and decadent.

It is still the old rule, General He Xi and his wife took Ji'er, Tang Xiaoyi and his wife, and the newlywed Ge Hai and his wife plus Zhao Dafeng to Chunhui Hall and Wei Zhang and his wife to eat this meal at noon on the Chinese New Year's Eve, and everyone went back to observe the New Year in the evening. It's just that this year is obviously not as lively as in previous years. Everyone doesn't have so much energy to drink and guess boxing.

In the evening, Xiang Zhi and the others put the tea and snacks on the table and then retreated, leaving only the two of them crooked on the couch.

Wei Zhang twisted a handful of pine nuts and blew them in front of Yao Yanyu, but she was indifferent, so she raised her hand and pinched her chin, and asked in a low voice, "What are you thinking?" ”

"I'm thinking about my first Spring Festival after entering Beijing." Yao Yanyu smiled faintly, twisted her face and broke away from Wei Zhang's hand, took the pine nuts in his palm and put them in her mouth.

"The first Spring Festival?" Wei Zhang thought seriously for a moment, and chuckled: "At that time, Yao's Mansion was just a small courtyard with three entrances, not half as big as it is now. ”

"Yes, when I think about the reason why I entered Beijing, I think it's funny." It's not funny, it's sad. It's just that you can't say that.

Wei Zhang saw that her smile was bitter, so he persuaded: "It's a matter of the past, don't think about it." ”

"But I've been thinking about it lately." Yao Yanyu leaned into Wei Zhang's arms, raised her hand and played with the buckle on his collar, "That year, my second brother and I spent the New Year in the capital, although there were no close relatives and friends to interact with each other, it was calm and comfortable. Later, after a year of tossing, I got engaged to you, and you went to Northern Xinjiang to fight again. It was a miserable year. ”

"Hmm......" remembering that Nian Weizhang, he couldn't help but open her clothes, and his fingers slid over her warm skin and pressed against the wound.

Yao Yanyu held her hand through her clothes and sighed in a low voice, "Fortunately, it's all over." Last year was the most lively year we had, and everyone was here to gamble and drink, how happy! ”

"It's a little cold this year, and it will be fine next year." Wei Zhang persuaded in a low voice.

"Well, it's been four years since we met, and time flies!" Yao Yanyu said, stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around Wei Zhang's neck, leaned into his ear and whispered, "I have something I want to discuss with you." ”

"You say." At this distance, she spoke in such a soft tone, Wei Zhang had never been able to hold it, and he pressed her under him with a strong hand.

"Well, what do I say?"

"Why can't you say? I didn't gag your mouth. He kissed her on the neck, bit by bit, and the kisses fell like a drizzle. It disrupted the draft she had been thinking about for days.

It's clear that you don't want people to say it! Mrs. Yao sighed helplessly, and her fingers gently rubbed the roots of General Wei's hair.

When he was about to fall, Yao Yanyu stopped him in time: "It can't be like this, the master's filial piety has only passed for more than a month." ”

Since ancient times, generations of emperors have admired Confucianism and ruled the world with filial piety. The so-called heaven and earth are the prince's teacher, heaven and earth are naturally not disrespectful, and among the remaining three, the teacher is the existence of the king and his parents, and the master and apprentice are not in vain if they are father and son.

Wei Zhang had to stop abruptly, panting depressedly, and pinched his wife's waist dissatisfied.

"I'm sorry." Yao Yanyu was also a little apologetic, in fact, she was unwilling to follow these tattered rules, which was also a last resort.

Although it is said that after the two got married, there were always such and such bad things, so that she has not conceived a child yet, but if she is really pregnant during this period of time, even if no one participates in the impeachment, as soon as the child is born in the future, people will calculate the time, and then it will be a ready-made handle in the hands of the other party.

Nima, is it easy to mix with ancient times!

Of course, Yao Yanyu, as a miracle doctor, could get herself some contraceptive decoction or something, but General Wei refused, she mentioned it casually, and he really stopped. Therefore, the poison of certain ideas is incalculable.

Wei Zhang was thinking about the problem from another angle, and sighed while caressing Yao Yanyu's slightly red cheeks: "The future will definitely not be stable. The matter of King Hengjun and King Jingjun seems to have passed, but in fact, the emperor is not at ease with anyone now. You and I have special identities, so it's better to be cautious. ”

"Hmm. So I think that after sending the master back to Chuzhou for burial after the New Year, I will stay in Chuzhou for a year, which can be regarded as keeping the system for the master. The topic finally came back, and Yao Yanyu looked at Wei Zhang with a little apprehension after speaking.

"Shou system?" General Wei really frowned and didn't speak for a long time.

"Yes, the master has no children or daughters, and I don't know if there are any clansmen in Chuzhou, so I just buried him there, and I can't come back again. I always have to buy some fields around the grave and put two people to guard the tomb for the master. In the future, there will be people who will celebrate the New Year's festival and send some valuable money to the master. More than 1,000 miles from Chuzhou to Yundu City, we can't always take care of it. ”

Wei Zhang was not in a hurry to speak, obviously thinking about something more important.

After a long time, he nodded slowly and said, "After the year, you will play a fold and invite yourself to worry." However, the emperor may not be gracious, if you really want to stay outside for a year, you have to take care of the affairs around the emperor. ”

Yao Yanyu had already thought about this matter, because she said: "I left Cuiwei and Cuiping behind." Coupled with the concubine, the emperor's body should be worry-free. ”

"Now in the harem, Concubine Hui and Concubine Xian are equally divided, but King Hengjun and King Jingjun have not even been able to return to Beijing for the New Year. Although Feng Zongye fell, those ministers were like headless flies looking for backers, which made the emperor very unhappy. It's just that after the catastrophe, there is an urgent need to employ people, so I have endured it. If my guess is correct, the spring will be in the next year, and the emperor will have a ruthless hand to rectify the dynasty. At that time, it is estimated that a large number of people will be unlucky. If you can stay away, that's not a good thing. Wei Zhang slowly said his thoughts.

Yao Yanyu couldn't help but nod after listening to it: "It's better to be thoughtful." ”

"There's no way, it's also a matter of eating a trench and growing wise. Speaking of which, if it weren't for this sudden natural disaster, the two of us wouldn't necessarily be spending the New Year somewhere at this time. Wei Zhang smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Before, he was too confident, thinking that he could have nothing to worry about controlling the Eagle Guard and the emperor's trust, but now it seems that this is not the case at all.

The emperor's trust is just the morning clouds and twilight rain, as long as something alludes to the throne, even his own son can be polite, let alone a military general? In the final analysis, the emperor is actually guarding himself all the time.

If he Weizhang was alone, there was naturally nothing to fear. But now that he has Yao Yanyu, he has to be cautious, he wants to ensure that the two of them survive the past few years of the full replacement of the imperial court.

This year's quiet New Year's Eve, Yao Yanyu is not sleepy. Until the time passed, the people in the capital began to set off firecrackers.

Yao Yanyu and Wei Zhang also got up to tidy up their clothes, went to the courtyard to worship heaven and earth, and came back to eat New Year's dumplings, and accepted a kind of slaves at home to congratulate the New Year.

Yao Yanyu ordered everyone to disperse, and asked Xiangzhi to take General Wei's court clothes to dress him neatly, and finally brought the second-grade military attache to the crown, and put the ruby the size of a pigeon's egg on the crown, which symbolized the grade, in the right position, Fang Huixin smiled and said: "I have known the general for four years, how can I still not get tired of looking at it?" ”

Xiang Zhi and the others next to him couldn't help but snicker, but Wei Zhang reached out and scratched her nose, laughing softly and scolding: "You still look forward to seeing me and hating each other?" Doesn't it take care of it? ”

Yao Yanyu hurriedly smiled and urged: "Let's go, go to the emperor on the first day of the new year, it's not good to be late." ”

Wei Zhang was not in a hurry, bent down and carried her into the bedroom and put her on the bed, and whispered: "You are still on leave, you don't need to enter the palace to face the saint, and sleep at home." ”

"I'm going to sleep, so go ahead."

Wei Zhang lowered his head and kissed her lightly on the forehead, and said in a low voice, "Good girl, wait for me to come back." ”

Yao Yanyu hurriedly stretched out her arm to hook his neck and kissed him lightly on the chin: "Husband, Happy New Year." In the new year, I wish you high progress and good luck. ”

Wei Zhang smiled evilly, originally wanted to straighten up and leave, but leaned down again, grabbed the two red lips like cherry blossom petals and sucked them hard.

"Nasty!" Looking at someone's satisfied back, Mrs. Yao raised her hand and rubbed her red and swollen lips to the point of dripping blood, giving General Wei an infinitely beautiful white eye.

On the same day, there was no banquet in the palace, and the civil and military ministers kowtowed to the emperor and said some auspicious words before returning home.

On the first day of junior high school, everyone didn't go out, Wei Zhang accompanied Yao Yanyu to make up for sleep at home, and the second day of junior high school was the day to go back to his parents' house, which was an arrangement that could not be moved. When she got up early in the morning, Yao Yanyu changed into a purple brocade jacket and skirt, and dressed up seriously and went to Yao's mansion with Wei Zhang, who was wearing a dark purple new brocade robe.

No matter how low-key the New Year is, it is also the New Year, but the banquet on the second day of the Yao Mansion is several times richer than last year. There is no other reason, the old lady and the wife are here this year, except for the eldest son Yao Yanen's family in the south, the Yao family can also be regarded as a reunion.

Yao Yuanzhi's face swept away the seriousness of the past, and he sat in the middle hall with a kind smile, waiting for the eldest daughter and his wife and the second daughter to come back to pay New Year's greetings to him.

------Off topic------

The day before yesterday, the second hurt even more! Yesterday it wilted directly....

However, if you have a monthly pass, you have to throw it over in time, because only if there are more monthly passes, the big beads will regain their majesty!