Chapter 30 Years Ago
Han Qing came back from Linglong Zhai and carefully recalled the case in her previous life, but she had no clue. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoAt that time, she had only been in Daqi for a year, and she encountered a great drought in the north, and she was worried about eating and drinking in Da'an County, and she was finally taken back to the capital by the Han family, and fell into a house fight. Her mother-in-law, Jiang, was born in Yicheng Bofu, but she is not a fuel-efficient lamp, she is used to grinding concubines, and she has become a black-eyed chicken with the second wife of the Han family, Sun, if she has nothing to do, where does she still have the heart to care about national affairs.
Even if you have the heart to know the news outside, you are very weak when you first arrive at Han's house. The Jiang family locked her in the inner house, raised like a canary, if it wasn't for the fact that she gradually came to Mrs. Han Jiatai, she would not even have been able to go out as a guest.
Later, I was able to know some things about the outside world, but fortunately, Mama Chen was worried about her, so she and Zhou Lai moved back to the capital, and occasionally went to Hanfu to see her. Jiang Shi saw that Mama Chen was Han Qing's grandmother, and Zhou Lai was a businessman with no big prospects, so he did not prohibit the two from meeting.
Now that I think about it, in my previous life, Jinghe and myself for 16 years didn't know that there was such a corruption case in Jiangnan. It was only after many years that there was a fuss about the aunt in the house, and I learned something from the maid-in-law. But it was only to know that my aunt's family was raided and wiped out because of greed for ink and silver.
However, she vaguely remembered that Mama Chen had said that when Jinghe was sixteen years old, the Gu family, a salt merchant in Yangzhou, came to the capital, as if she wanted to ask for help from her cheap father, in order to get out of the big case that was widely implicated in Jiangnan. But when she heard about this, it was already Jinghe's seventeenth year, and she only listened to it as a parent. I don't know if it's the same thing. If it is the same case, why does the disaster silver have a relationship with the salt merchant?
I really couldn't figure it out, so Han Qing put this matter aside. began to embroider anything for Chu Yuan.
She listened to her aunt's teachings and did not dare to use the finished product made with her heart. I had to pick up another piece of fabric and prepare to sew a purse. Han Qing was tied up in the boudoir by the Jiang family in her last life, where would the female red craftsmanship be bad, but now she is just a child, and she still has to hide some strength.
In a few days, a purse embroidered with gold and silver double-stranded auspicious cloud patterns was ready. Chengxin took the purse and looked at it, crying and laughing, "Girl, don't mention the rough stitches of your purse, so you can embroider one side all over it, and there is a cloud pattern in this corner, and I don't know if it is a finished product." ā
"Sister Chengxin is doing well, I didn't see it. I promised my aunt to do it herself, so naturally I would never say anything. Pity my little hand embroidery these days, it's already sour. Besides, I have also worked this auspicious cloud pattern, and this gold and silver double-strand thread is too difficult to embroider. ā
Chengxin called this a block, but she didn't know what to say, she was the girl's maid, so she naturally had to listen to the girl's orders, and she was decisively out of sight.
Han Qing put the jade bottle fan pendant into the newly made purse, and then put it into the box of golden silk nanmu, and let Feng Piao hold it. I casually covered a big coat and led the wind to Zhaojin Courtyard.
As soon as I entered the courtyard gate, I saw the mothers in charge everywhere coming in and out, and the big girl Lu Huai beside Cui's side had just sent people out, and when she saw Han Qing, she hurriedly greeted her. "Greetings to the third girl, Madame is now in the hall of the council."
"Please ask Sister Luhuai to help you say goodbye." Han Qing wanted to wait for the Cui family to finish before going in to find her uncle.
"The weather is so cold, the slave maid doesn't dare to let the three girls wait, so the girl will follow the slave maid into the house, anyway, the lady will see people at any time in the hall." Lu Huai is the Cui family's right-hand man, and Han Qing naturally followed into the hall without objection.
I saw several housekeepers and mothers reconciling accounts around Cui's, and Gao Yanagi, another big girl beside Cui's, was holding a pen and paper and kept writing something. Cui Shi saw Han Qing coming in, stopped everyone's reply, turned to Han Qing and said, "Ah Qing must have prepared a gift." ā
Han Qing Shili smiled and said, "Uncle is wise. As he spoke, he took off the big coat by the green locust, walked to Cui's side, and took the gift box from Feng Piao's hand, "Here is the purse made by Aqing herself, and the fan pendant that I bought in Linglongzhai that day, please send someone to help Aqing send it away." ā
Cui Shi smiled, "You are young, everything you give is a heart, and you don't pursue perfection." I heard that you met the Yu family's grandmother and two girls that day? ā
"Exactly, the young grandmother of the Yu family is gentle, and the two sisters are also very kind to Aqing, and they also said that they will be good friends with Aqing in the future."
"The character of the Yu family is trustworthy, their family style is strict, and the upbringing of the two girls is also very good, I am very relieved that they have a relationship with your sisters. During the Chinese New Year, several large families in Hangzhou also need to move around, but you are still in the filial piety period, and it is inconvenient to go out as a guest, but our family is scheduled to have a banquet on the sixth day of the first month, and then you will be able to see them again. ā
Han Qing didn't expect Cui's evaluation of the Yu family to be so high, and she couldn't help but be stunned. Suddenly felt a warmth in her hand, it turned out that Cui Shi handed her a very small hand warmer stove, "Auntie, I will arrange for someone to give you the gift you prepared in a while." During the Chinese New Year, your two sisters are on vacation, and you don't have to go to class, so just have fun. Tomorrow is Laba, the kitchen starts to boil porridge early, this private recipe has also been improved from generation to generation, there are already one hundred and eight kinds of ingredients, and you can drink it early tomorrow morning. ā
Han Qing was also very happy after hearing it, and she was also full of expectations for tomorrow's Laba porridge.
In a hurry in the wax month, Han Qing is with Wanran every day, sending flying stickers today, writing Spring Festival couplets tomorrow, grandfather and brothers also took a holiday on the twenty-second day of the lunar month, and they were busy sacrificing stoves early in the morning of the twenty-third day, and it was not until the twenty-fourth day that the house was swept that Uncle Xie Zan hurried back from Nanjing.
Xie Zan had a good relationship with his family, and compared Xie Yi and Xie Yan's knowledge, so he took out a lot of gifts for the children that he bought on weekdays, and made fun of them one by one. Han Qing got a silver silk bracelet inlaid with sapphires, and she liked it very much, so she hurriedly showed it to her grandmother.
Pei squinted his eyes and said, "This drawing technique is not ordinary, and it can be worn for fun during the New Year." Xie Zan saw that his mother's eyes were obviously able to see, and he couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Doctor Chu's medical skills are really good, and my mother's eye disease has been cured like this?" ā
Cui Shi explained with a smile on the side, "Doctor Chu said that Niang's eye disease mood occupies one side, but our family's underground spring water is medicinal, if he doesn't make a move, Niang is expected to recover in time." Now Dr. Chu has helped her mother to perform the golden needle technique, which has accelerated the recovery process of her mother. ā
After saying that, he continued amusefully, "Doctor Chu has recently become obsessed with our family's spring water, and he develops different medicines with spring water in the house every day, and also looks for our family's sick servants everywhere to do experiments. Fortunately, my father said that he couldn't expose the secret of our spring water, otherwise Dr. Chu would have to go to the street to find someone to test. ā
"There is such a strange thing, I have never heard of our spring water having medicinal properties. In previous years, when I went back to live in the old house, I didn't feel so magical. ā
"It is true that after moving back to Hangzhou this time, some people with old diseases in the family have gradually improved. Maybe it's something that's happened underground over the years that we don't know. In the end, it is a good thing, not a poisonous thing. ā
Xie Zan thought about it, this natural thing is beyond the reach of many people, although it is the groundwater of his own home, but he can't dig it up to see what happens. "This matter can be big or small, Ayu can tell the people in the family not to spread it." ā
Cui's face turned red, this bastard was not stingy, and he even called his nickname in front of the children. couldn't help but secretly pinched Xie Zhan. Xie Zan saw that his wife's face was like a hibiscus, and he was also a little upset.
The second day was the day of worshipping the gods and ancestors, Xie Zan had the heart of a thief, but he had to go out at the beginning of the shift, so he had to take a short rest after dinner. As soon as the time passed, the male in the family was taken by Xie Heng and went to the ancestral tomb to worship the ancestors.
Naturally, these things have nothing to do with Han Qing and the others, they just need to get up early the next day and welcome their grandfather back. I heard that the fruit offered by the ancestors can be eaten by the children to get rid of all kinds of diseases, although it is not true, but it is to please a good intention. Han Qing feels that it is these customs that make the New Year Festival lively and interesting.
As soon as Xie Zan came back, the smell of the New Year at home became even heavier. Not to mention that the brothers have to accompany or entertain guests or go out every day, even Han Qing's little sisters can also receive some gifts every day, and many of them are the same. Han Qing couldn't help but think that the waste caused by this etiquette had really existed since ancient times.