Nodding her head, Mrs. Liu said again: "Speaking of this, I thought about asking which temple in Beijing has the most incense, and I will also go to worship, ask for a peace charm for you and the children, and then light an everlasting lamp for you and the children......"

As soon as she heard this, Mrs. Liu no longer shirked, after all, there was Qiu Chen and the child in her belly who needed to pray for the blessing of God and Buddha the most......

Qiu Chen smiled and said, "What's the matter with your age, bye-bye, pray to the moon god to bless our whole family with good health, smooth and smooth ......"

Mrs. Liu interrupted her and said, "I'm so old, what month do I worship...... When the time comes, I'll watch with you and let them go! ”

Xiaomei, who was waiting in front of Mrs. Liu, said with a smile: "Don't worry, madam, the old lady and Mrs. Uncle have already discussed......"

Qiu Chen didn't explain what the Zhai family had done before to the Liu family and the Zhou family in detail, and he didn't plan to say more at this time, so he smiled and brought it over, and asked instead: "Have you all discussed the matter of worshipping the moon?" After the discussion was completed, he ordered them to go down, so that they could prepare and wait for them early, and don't lack this or that when the time comes! ”

Qiu Chen went through the matter in his heart, and made sure that there would be no negligence, so he threw it aside and turned around, both Zhou and Mrs. Liu paid attention to her, and hurriedly smiled with relief: "It's the virtuous grandfather who came to pick up the two children back for the holiday!" ”

Qiu Chen's fingers subconsciously touched the gift list, and after a while, he called Yuegui, asked her to bow her head, attached it to Yuegui's ear, and whispered to the side, Yuegui bent her knees and hurried away.

Tianqing listened with bated breath, and repeated it word for word when he finished repeating it, and then curtsy and retreated to pass the word.

The smile on Qiu Chen's face was exhausted, his eyes narrowed slightly, he was silent for a moment, and then nodded and said, "As a grandfather, it is a family to pick up his grandson and go home for a reunion, and no one can stop him." However, you let Ping'an take the old man of the Zhai family to the school to have a look and listen to the children's lessons...... Well, I also told the master of the Zhai family that King Yong and King Fu would come to the house on the sixteenth day, and it is always a good thing for the children to be close to the princes! ”

Tianqing bowed and said, "I really can't hide anything from Mrs...... The old man of the Zhai family said that the Mid-Autumn Festival family reunion, the second aunt and grandmother can't come back with their husband in office, there is no way, he wants to take the two cousins back for the festival, and after the festival, he will send them back to class early in the morning of the sixteenth morning! ”

The smile on the corner of Qiu Chen's mouth flashed, and he raised his hand to clap the gift list and said, "But what do you say?" ”

The girl is following Yufeng's Tianqing, it turned out to be a third-class, and a year ago it was a second-class, and now she is a good hand at accounting and bookkeeping. After listening to Qiu Chen's inquiry, he immediately replied respectfully: "Back to Mrs. Hui, according to the coachman of the Zhai family, go to the Guogong Mansion first." The coachman didn't see the gift list, but he only knew that the big boxes were carried down for the Guogong Mansion, and the small boxes for our house were all small boxes. ”

Qiu Chen raised his eyebrows, a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and asked lightly, "Do you know if he went to the Guogong Mansion?" What do I know about the gift list over there? ”

The girl agreed, but the half-pillar incense kung fu turned back, holding a gift list in her hand. Qiu Chen took it over and looked at it, the Mid-Autumn Festival on the back of the Zhai family was very thick, almost twice as thick as the festivals in previous years, especially the two boxes of good blood swallows and two boxes of Dong'a Ajing donkey skin Ejiao, it can be seen that they have put their hearts into it, and it is also a good thing for women to use in their pregnancy capacity......

Qiu Chen opened his eyes suddenly, but he didn't get up, blinked his eyes, and then said: "Tell Ping'an, let him be well received!" ”

I was feeling sorry that someone from outside reported that the master of the Zhai family in Tongzhou came to visit!

There is also the crab roe that is the most fat and yellow in this season...... The sex is cold, and it also has the effect of slipping tires, and she can't touch it...... Alas! When I think of this, I can't help but sigh!

While listening, Qiu Chen was distracted, pondering a few big golden laurel trees in the back garden, which was also in full bloom...... Osmanthus has a sweet taste, but it has the effect of breaking blood and chasing blood stasis, and is mostly used for blood stasis dysmenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, or postpartum uterine failure, lochia and other diseases. Qiu Chen is pregnant with Liujia, and there are twins who are not very stable and have a great possibility of premature birth, but the beautiful and sweet osmanthus is absolutely untouchable!

She felt undeniable in her heart, but she would never stop anything. In this era, it is rare for women to have their own activities, and if they don't sacrifice or don't talk about it, they should play casually.

Qiu Chen got up and went to the clean room, turned back and leaned to the soft couch by the window, smiled and closed his eyes and listened to the few people over there happily and softly discuss, what sacrifice, what hour, what direction, all kinds of things, etc., devoted to concentration, with a solemn expression.

The Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 has the custom of women worshiping the moon, and it is also a rare worship activity for daughters to sing the leading role, so both old and young women attach great importance to it, and when it comes to it, they are also very serious and focused.

Women do not sacrifice to the stove, and men do not worship the moon.

After selecting the lamp, Qiu Chen called a few more laurel Chengying over, and asked them to discuss the signal of worshipping the moon with Mrs. Liu and Zhou.

Mrs. Liu has been here for seven or eight days, and she has been watching coldly these days, and she has more or less understood what her daughter's life is like. From the initial surprise, staggering, and gradually adapted, although I still feel that the girl's life is too luxurious, but from the mouths of the girls and sisters-in-law I heard some piecemeal, and I also know that the nobles in the capital are like this, and even the cost of their own daughters is definitely not excessive. Not to mention anything else, how can there be such a clean family in other families, that family is not a family with countless branches, a large population, where is it like the Jingbei Hou Mansion, there are only a dozen masters in the full!

Chen listened carefully and repeated them one by one, then bowed and retreated, and hurriedly arranged.

When it was over, he said: "The little singers and musicians who have been prepared, let them sing and play music across the water when the time comes, it's also good!" ”

Chen wrote them down one by one, and Qiu Chen said with a smile: "Go down to the eaves of the corridor that hangs the rest on the waterfront in the back garden, and hang a few on the painting boat to decorate, as long as it doesn't rain at night, we will go to the garden for the festival...... Worship the moon and admire the moon, facing a pool of lake water, two rounds of jade disks and full moons between the blue waves in the sky, reflecting each other, is the good-looking tight! ”

The Ruyi courtyard where they live is chosen, and the inner layer is a lantern with a glass cover on the outside layer of red silk yarn gongbi flowers and birds, which is rich and beautiful, auspicious, and also very good-looking!

After picking and admiring, Mrs. Liu and the Zhou family were in charge, and they chose two strings of Baizi baby play lanterns for Mu'en Courtyard, which could be seen to pray for the safety of the mother and son for Qiu Chen and the child in the womb.

Laughing, Chen took his mother-in-law to carry various lanterns up and let Qiu Chen and Liu Zhou choose. This sheep's beard lantern is a must in the capital, not only has the traditional horse lantern, all kinds of imitation lights, now the glass on the market gradually circulated, the eight treasure glass lamps are also made in large quantities and put on the market, a piece of small glass inlay decoration, the eight treasure glass lamps made out of the crystal clear, Ambilight. After lighting the candles inside, under the light, it is even more dazzling, rich and gorgeous, which makes people marvel and amaze!

Qiu Chen was also amused, but he still said: "Isn't it, our family is all thousands of miles of horses, and it's not impossible to talk about horse circles!" ”

Mrs. Liu was also amused with a smile on her face, and said, "Let her say this, our family will become a horse circle!" ”

Qiu Chen also smiled and said, "When they go to the street, buying lamps is just an excuse, and the main thing is to take the opportunity to go to the street to have fun." Like the foal, it is always impossible to circle it, and it has to be released from time to time to have a good time, and it is only after two rolls that it grows strong and jubilant! ”

Hearing Qiu Chen say this, Zhou couldn't help laughing, pointed at Qiu Chen and said, "It's the mother of several children, and it's still so narrow." I ordered the best lanterns, but I let them buy them themselves! ”

Qiu Chen smiled and stopped talking about this topic, and instead discussed the lanterns on the doors of Mu'en Courtyard and Ruyi Courtyard: "The children's doors are hung with lights, and we can't leave them empty, how ugly it looks gray and abrupt...... I have sent someone to order a number of lamps from the sheep's beard, and after a while someone will bring them over, and my mother and sister-in-law will pick and choose to see which one looks better! We can't let those boys beat them! ”

"Alas," Mrs. Liu sighed and shook her head, "I don't understand this, but I also know that those who have no ability to live in Beijing can't live a good life, and they live a poor life, and they still live better in our Zhuangzi, eating grain, rice, vegetables and vegetables in the field, wearing home-spun yarn-dyed cloth, at best, they only buy some firewood, rice, oil and salt, which is enough for food and clothing." ”

Listening to Mrs. Liu's chatter, Qiu Chen smiled silently, and after listening to the old lady stop for a while, she smiled and said: "There is a lot of money in Beijing, and there are more ways to make money." A big guy in Anyang Mansion has only five taels of silver a year, and a big guy in Beijing can't hire anyone without twenty taels of silver. That's still the minimum...... The annual silver of the shopkeepers and the bookkeepers also ranged from one to several times higher...... Not to mention those who do large and small businesses, because there are more people and more money, there are naturally more ways to make money, and the profits are much thicker! ”

Mrs. Liu smashed her mouth, no longer complained about her daughter, but couldn't help but sigh: "The foot of the emperor in this capital is prosperous and lively, but it costs too much money to live here...... A lantern in our Anyang Mansion is only three or four yuan, a good yarn lantern is thirty or fifty dollars, and a better wood carved palace lamp is only one or two silver...... I didn't expect it to cost dozens of taels here! You must know that for a family of more than ten mouths, five taels of silver are enough to eat, drink, and chew a year. A few dozen taels of silver, enough for a hundred and ten people to eat for a year. ”

Qiu Chen smiled and said, "Mother, I also have a number, and I won't mess with them...... The purse looks exquisite, and the handsome and handsome books in it are five taels of silver, and the small ones are only two taels of silver each. The children have been muttering since last night that they went to buy lanterns and came back to hang them on their doors. The Eight Treasure Palace lamps and glass lamps of the sheepbeard family cost dozens of taels of silver, and they could only buy some simple and cheap ones on the street with a little silver. ”

As soon as the children went out, Mrs. Liu blamed Qiu Chen: "You are too used to them!" ”

Telling children is to let them be self-disciplined and strengthen their sense of responsibility. In fact, Qiu Chen didn't worry much about the children's problems, not to mention that his own children all had kung fu, after all, the children went to the street with a large group of small servants to accompany and escort. The guards of the Jingbei Hou Mansion are all from Qin Zheng's personal guards, and they are all battle-hardened people, not to mention ordinary thieves, even ordinary soldiers and generals can only be compared. With these people following, Qiu Chen didn't worry about who would bully the children on the street.

Qiu Chen smiled and nodded, and sent them to school.

The two of them bowed in unison and solemnly agreed: "Auntie, don't worry, the nephews must take good care of their younger siblings, and they will never let them have any problems." ”

Speaking of them, there are four brothers, and the two of them are old and weak, and they are already adults. Junyan Junshu is also thirteen or fourteen years old, almost a young man, and he is no longer worried about being abducted. It's Ah Fu, who is now ten years old, Ah Fu is tall and tall, and he is already similar to Yang Shuyong, so he is naturally not afraid of crutches...... Count it again, that is, the four Aman Junli and Zhixian Zhide, especially the two Zhixian Zhide brothers, are the most important targets to be carefully cared for!

Although my aunt didn't say it explicitly, Junwen Junshu naturally knew it.

Because the children in the family are all small, they have found someone to teach kung fu boxing, not to mention Afu Aman, even Junwen Junshu is far more powerful than ordinary strong men, and he has tricks, and three or two people can't get close. However, the two children of Zhixian Zhide are not only young, but they have been in Jingbei Houfu for a short time, and they are still in the stage of boiling their muscles and bones.

Qiu Chen instructed again: "But be sure to take a good look at a few small ones, it's okay to bump into them, be careful that there are many people and there are crutches." ”

Junwen Junshu agreed with a smile with a group of small ones.

After distributing the purses for the festival, Qiu Chen smiled and told Junwen Junshu: "It's rare to go out and play once, you guys have a lot of fun!" ”

Moreover, Qiu Chen's supply is abundant on weekdays, the children's food, clothing, housing, transportation, pen, ink, paper and inkstone are very complete, and the children's monthly money is almost useless......

This silver is not enough to buy large items, it is enough to buy some beautiful lanterns or rabbits, gadgets, snacks and food.

In this era, lanterns are hung not only during the Lantern Festival, but also during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The difference is that the Lantern Festival not only hangs lamps at the front of their homes, but also hangs all kinds of lanterns on the street, which are concentrated in one place to form a lantern market and lantern festival...... During the Mid-Autumn Festival, lanterns are hung only at the head of their own homes, and large families and courtyards in the courtyards of deep houses gradually begin to hang lanterns at the heads of small homes. Strictly speaking, the Jingbei Hou Mansion is Qin Zheng and Qiu Chen's monogamy, and there are no rooms and courtyards, but the children have their own exclusive courtyards in the first year, and they are excited when it comes to the Mid-Autumn Festival, thinking about hanging lamps at their doors. Qiu Chen also went with them, children, as long as they don't get into trouble, entertainment and play are all right, so as soon as the children said, Liu was still a little unhappy, and some thought that the children were wasting money, but Qiu Chen generously waved his hand and agreed, and smiled and motioned to Yuegui to bring a tray out, there were more than a dozen purses on the tray, and the two eldest children of Junwen Junshu each had a gold silk embroidered purse, each containing five taels of silver. Junyan Junzhang and Afu Aman are all silver silk embroidered purses, each containing two taels of silver.

In the morning, when the children went out, they discussed it, and Junwen Junshu came to explain to his grandmother, parents, and aunt that they would leave school early in the afternoon, and then come back to pick up Junyan Junzhang and Zhixian, and go to the street to buy the rabbit for August 15 and the lantern to be hung at the door.

However, children still like the festival the most, not only because there is delicious food and fun during the festival, but also because this kind of big festival will be closed.

At this time, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a big festival, but because the Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, March 3rd Dragon Boat Festival, Zhongyuan, Chongyang and other festivals are very important, the Mid-Autumn Festival is not particularly prominent.

Making zuò moon cakes, ushered in the delivery, in the blink of an eye to August 14.

What I didn't expect was that a few boys who didn't like sweet snacks very much loved several kinds of cloud leg stuffed mooncakes. In particular, the cloud leg rose cake has become the most popular one among children because of its salty and fragrant fragrance. The next day, Qiu Chen asked the big kitchen to pick roses and make another batch, and put some in the gift boxes of several close families, so that the children in the family could eat enough.

Of course, she won't treat herself too badly, she was indignant, and she really reminded her of the Cantonese cloud leg five-kernel mooncakes she has eaten now, which are made of traditional Cantonese five-kernel mooncakes with cloud legs, salty, fresh and fragrant, the key is that there are no taboo materials, Qiu Chen can eat with confidence. In one go, she made cloud leg egg yolk five-kernel mooncakes again, and finally found a little psychological balance.

The cloud leg rose cake has a salty and fresh taste, with a rich floral fragrance, but after all, it is salty and fresh, which is different from the sweet taste of traditional moon cakes, so Qiu Chen didn't dare to do more, and only made a dozen and stopped. In addition, I sat on pure rose stuffing and chrysanthemum stuffing mooncakes.

The reason why Qiu Chen has such a big grievance at this time is not only that he can't move easily and casually, he can't wander the sea of flowers with the girls, pick flowers, and make zuò flower cakes by himself, but because roses invigorate blood and regulate qi and dispel stasis, chrysanthemums are cool, and the flower cakes made of these two flowers are not good for the fetus, so she can't participate in picking or eating the flower cakes she came up with...... can only watch, no wonder she is depressed.

The palm of his hand subconsciously stroked the huge belly, looking at the little girls in the flowers, full of envy, while secretly muttering to the little ones in the stomach in his heart: "For you, your mother and I have sacrificed too much!" I was almost tossed to death by pregnancy reaction, not to mention that my image was ruined, not to mention that I was tired to death every day, not to mention that my legs and feet were almost broken skin, and not to mention obvious gestational hypertension...... The most important thing is that since your mother and I are pregnant with you, you can't go out, you can't walk around at will, you can't laugh out loud, you can't stride, you can't eat this, you can't eat that...... Now, even the freedom to pick a few flowers in your own home is gone......"

Qiu Chen held his stomach with both hands, and he couldn't close it anymore. Her belly was too big for her to hold herself.

The autumn breeze is cool, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the weather is neither hot nor cold, and there are great autumn colors...... She could only sit on the chair and watch as if she were a key protected cultural relic, watching the little girls show their flowers and branches, laugh and laugh, pick roses, and chrysanthemums......

In the end, Qiu Chen went to the garden, but he couldn't pick the flowers in person as he wished, but he changed places, sat on the chair and watched the big girls and little girls like butterflies, carrying baskets and shuttling among the flowers and laughing.