Chapter 23: The Year of the Fright (2)
The next day, the wind spirit woke up to the crackling sound of a popping rod. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info drank too much wine last night, and when I got up, I still felt dizzy and dizzy, and my head was dizzy.
Ah Mi came into the house with a steaming copper basin, and said auspicious words in his mouth, which was nothing more than a wealth of money and a prosperous business, and Feng Ling took a few words indiscriminately.
"Auntie is sleepy, but don't forget that you are busy today." Ah Mi hung up the curtain and counted for her: "Our own stewards have arrived half an hour ago, waiting for the words of the eldest lady." The rice lady from Yongning Fang sent someone to ask what the eldest lady wanted to eat. ”
Feng Ling grinned, "Sister-in-law is in a hurry, I should have said hello first." ”
Ah Mi handed over the steaming face towel, "There are also people from the Fachang Temple who have come to deliver the words, and the voices are all right, Shen Zheng immediately went to the open space in front of the Zhichong Mansion Office to set up a stage to perform the scriptures, please let the eldest lady go over early, so that she can be blessed by a suffering master first." ”
Feng Ling heard her mention the Zhichong Mansion, and somewhere in her heart jumped subtly and quickly, so fast that even she didn't have time to notice it, so she was pressed in front of the makeup mirror by Ah Mi, combing her hair and washing her makeup.
Because he wanted to go to Kang Dazhi to congratulate him, Feng Ling deliberately chose a small collar with a white background and gold thread embroidered auspicious cloud pattern, wrapped in a red fire fox fur, and a pair of Hu Jin soft boots under his feet, and walked out of the inner room with joy.
Only then did she open the thick curtain, and the congratulatory voices all over the courtyard came and went, and the wind spirit fixed his eyes to see that the housekeepers, shops, and housekeepers and servants gathered in a courtyard, and they all arched their hands to ask her for good luck. Others, with their faces, also stood behind rather restrainedly.
"The latter ones are the newly established tenants of the public land. Everyone learned that this matter was thanks to the mediation of the eldest mother, and they were grateful and came to thank them. Buddha Nu walked up the wooden steps from the courtyard, smiled and said to the wind spirit, and spread out a large oil-paper bag in his hand, which contained a large mass of bright red animal meat.
"Everyone can't repay it, so they found some raw beef and sent it over, just talk about it, don't be suspicious."
The wind spirit pulled the Buddha slave closer and whispered: "According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, cattle cannot be slaughtered at will, and beef is not edible to ordinary people, this meat is ......."
"Auntie, rest assured, this meat was purchased from the herdsmen outside the gate, and it is definitely not a cow that is forbidden to be slaughtered in the city." The Buddha slave replied: "The eldest lady just takes it, it's not good to blow everyone's minds." ”
Feng Ling smiled and thanked him, and neatly instructed Ah Qi to put the beef in the back kitchen. He also ordered the Buddha to bring out a large bag of money, and his own servants and the tenant farmers who came to deliver the beef distributed the money one by one.
After making a fuss for half an hour, I was able to go out and board the car, first went to the Thousand Buddha Cave to ask for the first pillar of incense in the New Year, and out of the Buddha Cave, I rushed to Yongning Fang Kang Zhai.
Kang's family was Sogdian, and although the customs were different, the New Year Festival was still celebrated in the same way as the Tang people, but it was renamed "the first festival of the year".
When the wind spirit entered the door, the front yard was already drumming and beating, and the pipa was winding around the beams, and there were five long cases listed under the porch in front of the main house, and the new white stacks were neatly pressed on the top of the long case, and the treasures that were packed in various boxes reflected each other.
Feng Ling hurriedly removed the lapis lazuli bracelet with red agate on his wrist and placed it at the end of the long case.
The Sogdians have the custom of having Chen Bao fighting for wealth on the first day of the year, and in the early days, he decided who was the most valuable exhibit to be the head of the merchants, but now this has just become an old custom of passing the scene. First, the Great Sabao has long been ordered by the imperial court, and secondly, the Kang family's wealth is a person, and since Kang Dazhi's father, he has been the irreplaceable Great Sabao in the eyes of the Sogdians.
Under the verandah on the other three sides of the courtyard, it was full of Sogdian merchants who were sitting in the same place, all of them sat in the low tables according to the appearance of the Tang people, greeting each other and laughing and laughing.
Feng Ling was the only one present who was a Tang person, but she didn't care at all, the crowd swirled three times and two times, and greeted one by one with a smile and a delicate smile, and the courtesy was thoughtful and straightforward.
Seeing that she was young, everyone couldn't help but think of themselves as elders, and a few acquaintances even gave a big red brocade New Year's bag, she didn't quit, said a sweet greeting, and accepted it generously.
A pot of grape wine was served on the table, the stewed fragrant and crispy mutton was sent to a large plate, the drum music was more joyful, the whole sheep's head was sent to Kang Dazhi and Mi's case, Kang Dazhi took the silver dagger, cut off twenty or thirty parts of the meat on the sheep's head, and ordered the maids to send them to each food table one by one.
The feast dispersed in the afternoon, and everyone took back their own objects on display and returned happy. The little monk of Chafa Chang Temple came to invite Feng Ling, saying that the platform was ready, and Master Baku had been waiting for a long time, so he asked her to preside over it in person.
Feng Ling took Mi's arm and looked at her slightly bulging lower abdomen, "The blessing of the mage is hard to ask for on weekdays, and my sister-in-law should ask the mage to bless Xiao Langjun." ”
Mi Shi said happily, and the two went out hand in hand to go to the Zhechong Mansion, and Kang Dazhi hurriedly pointed to a few servants, "Hurry up and follow, and wait carefully." ”
Kang Zhai and Zhechong Mansion are not far away, slowly out of Yongning Fang, on the right road after two teas, you can see the vermilion lacquer gate of Zhechong Mansion and the wide bench that has been erected in front of the mansion.
Mi was extremely happy, and he clenched Feng Ling's hand, and his steps sped up a lot. "You actually invited the voice of Fachang Temple, and also invited Master Baku to come and chant the scriptures in person, but you spent a lot of sesame oil money and made a lot of merits, right?"
"What did my sister-in-law say?" Feng Ling held her arm and said with a smile: "Feng Ling only spends money, how much is it worth?" This time, I was able to invite the Bitter Master, but it cost my brother's face and favor, which is really precious. ”
As she spoke, she glanced at the vermilion lacquer gate on one side, and secretly added in her heart: Naturally, there is still the affection of Captain Yandu. My heart suddenly moved slightly, and I faintly hoped that the solemn and boring face would appear earlier tonight.
In a flash, a person walked out of the multicolored canopy barrier on the opposite side of the pedestal, coming straight in her direction.
"This, but the little lady of the Suo family who is good at music and dance? Call...... What are you calling, look at my memory, more and more ......" Mi Shi couldn't remember the name of the little lady of the Suo family, and helped his head in annoyance.
"It's Yin Niang." Wind Spirit Interface.
Mi Shi looked at it from a distance, and couldn't help nodding, "I can't complain that everyone outside praises it, and it is such a good color, and it is reasonable." ”
Suddenly, she let out a long sigh again, "The Tang family is the most particular about the family, but she is from the orchid, it is a pity for this good look, and I don't know which big door I want to go to be a concubine in the future." If she can be the master herself, it is better to marry an ordinary wealthy merchant, although she is not a good person, she is a proper wife in the end, and she can't say that she can live a more comfortable life. ”
"Sister-in-law......" Feng Ling shook Mi's arm lightly in disgust.
"What my sister-in-law said is not all true." Mi didn't pay attention to it, and continued to himself: "She is not as comfortable as you, after all, she was born in such a family, and her appearance is mediocre, but she is such a wonderful person." When you first returned to Dunhuang, wasn't Suo Alang thinking of a way to send her to the general of the Right Prison Gate? ”
Feng Ling's mind appeared with the tears of Suo Liangyin's biological mother Cao Niangzi, and the noble Turkic man had to agree with Mi's words in his heart.
Although he solved a problem for her that day, he always couldn't solve her for a lifetime, and he made up his mind that he would find an opportunity to tell her what Mi said to her, if she had a heart, she would make a plan as soon as possible.