049 On the fifth day of the first lunar month, I returned to my parents' home
On the first day of the new year, everyone is a little lazy and lazy, every year is probably the most leisurely day, and after the family has dinner in the evening, they will go back to their rooms to clean up, and prepare for the fifth day of the new year.
It's just that the mother's house is close, and the farther ones naturally have to be packed up early, and there are a lot of things to bring!
The palace has been dispersed since the twenty-four years, the emperor sealed the pen, and there was no call for nothing, so that the courtiers had a good rest for a few days, and there was no palace banquet until the evening of the second day of the new year, and the officials above the fifth grade could enter the palace to drink and feast.
The first three reopened the early dynasty.
This rule is very different from the previous life of Xia Chu.
The palace banquet in the previous life was the thirtieth night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, although it had a meaning of celebrating with the people, in the end, it also disturbed the family reunion of many people. However, the rules of the Great Jin Dynasty sound strange, but they are much more humane.
Mr. and Mrs. Xia and Mr. and Mrs. Dafang were both eligible to participate in the palace banquet, but Mr. Xia retired early, but he did not go for many years. He is a father who sits further back than his son, how can he be strong in his heart? Fortunately, it is not mandatory to participate or not, and there are not a few officials who have taken leave in previous years, and his actions are not eye-catching.
Luo Ziqian is a husband and wife, although his son's command is higher than that of his daughter-in-law, but he never joins in the fun.
What's so delicious about the palace banquet? In her last life, did she eat less as a concubine? She has had a more honorable status, and she will not care about this so-called decency.
However, the Zheng family was quite envious, and in previous years, when Xia Yan and his wife brought someone into the palace, they had to talk in Xia Qing's ear, bluntly saying that their serious master was not even as good as the maid next to the Wu family.
Xia Qing, who is also a loss, has always been broad-hearted, otherwise she has been saying this for a few years, and it is difficult for the husband and wife not to centrifuge!
However, this year, the Zheng family didn't say anything, just looked at Xia Qing's gaze for a few more times.
Xu is that he got an official position this year, so that she has a hope, although she is still only an eight-grade petty official, but it may not be in the future.
In fact, what she envied was not what palace banquets she ate, but she was counting on her husband's income, and she was also asked to be a wife!
After a few days, it was the fifth day of the new year, and early in the morning, Zheng called someone to take the car and take the children and husbands back to their parents' house together.
When she first got married, her husband accompanied her back to her parents' house several times, and not long after the birth of her eldest son, her husband recommended Lieutenant General Lang. Although the man was promoted, she returned to her parents' house and had a glow on her face, but she never enjoyed the treatment of being accompanied by her husband to her parents' home to save her relatives.
The Zheng family did not live in the inner city, but in Ling County, a suburb of Beijing.
said that it was a suburb of Beijing, but it took half a day to sit in a carriage. I left early in the morning, and when I entered the door, I had already missed the meal.
The old man Zheng and the old lady had already swept the couch to greet each other, and before the daughter and son-in-law entered the door, they ordered someone to set the meal and serve the food.
Old Madam Zheng smiled and took Xia Chu's little hand, and waved her big hand like a fan: "Eat first, and then talk when you're full!" ”
Because of the small number of people, only one table was sitting.
The Zheng family's daughters are noble, but there are many sons. But on a day like the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, in the end, there are still only two old people left at home, and there is no one else except for their family.
In these years, except for the Beijing officials who want to go to court every day, as long as they don't want to make enemies with the Yue family, they have to follow the door to visit the old man in a proper manner. Even if there is such an unobtrusive loser, he will also be a little more restrained.
And at this time, it is natural to show the benefits of having a daughter.
is also because of this, Old Man Zheng and Old Mrs. Zheng are more and more partial to Zheng's daughter.
Even her children are more pleasing than her grandchildren. What kind of fresh food and interesting things did the family get, the first one was to send it to the second room of the Xia family, and the Zheng brothers didn't have any opinions.
The Zheng family has loved their daughter since she beat the Zheng family, she has been pampered by the family since she was a child, and even several in-laws and brothers dare not provoke her.
When it comes to the juniors, Old Man Zheng and the old lady are the ones who love the beginning of summer the most, but this year they have added a smaller ...... Seeing her grandparents holding Xia Yu who couldn't even speak and laughing like two chrysanthemums, she also knew that she was going to fall out of favor.
Naturally, it's just a joke.
Where was Mrs. Zheng willing to snub her granddaughter, Xia Yu didn't wait long for the nurse to hug her - the child felt a lot, and it was comfortable to hold her, but didn't she fall asleep?
The old lady held a small hammer to eat the walnuts that had been cracked in the thin shell at the beginning of summer.
Zheng was reluctant to let his mother be tired, so he said: "Mother, there is a subordinate!" Besides, she's so old that she asks her to eat by herself by herself. ”
"When you're so old, don't you pestering me to knock every day?" Old Madam Zheng knew that she was eating, and poked a finger at her heartlessness: "You are still a mother, so embarrassed to blush your own girl?" ”
Zheng pursed his lips twice, snuggled up to his old lady and sighed: "It's still comfortable at home." ”
"That's natural, how can a daughter-in-law be a daughter?" Mrs. Zheng knocked a small plate of walnuts out, pushed it in front of Xia Chu and told her to eat it slowly, and then looked at her daughter who was tired of herself as if she had no bones, and finally she was reluctant to say her: "I see that you have been a lot more stable over the years, and your mother-in-law taught her well." ”
Hearing this, Zheng pursed his lips.
Even though Luo Ziqian is not a bad mother-in-law, she will not be used to her like her mother-in-law. She was a noble girl in her previous life, although she came from a military general's family, she learned the rules completely. Later, before entering the palace, he was specially taught by the housekeeper in the palace for two months. To say that she has big rules is not nonsense.
However, if Zheng is sensible, Luo Ziqian will not use those frameworks to detain him.
It's just that she was ignorant when she first got married, relying on her mother-in-law who was not close, and her husband loved her, and she was very small.
Xia Qing is not a tough character, and he is the Zheng family he likes, so he is holding and coaxing. The old man didn't care about anything, and the sister-in-law of the big house didn't interfere in their family's affairs, but it also let her get away with it for a while.
Luo Ziqian didn't look at it coldly, so naturally he wouldn't let her go on like this.
Even if Xia Qing is a concubine, she was raised by her, and it is impossible for her daughter-in-law to climb on her head to be powerful!
The good life was only three months, and Luo Ziqian took advantage of her momentary mistake to make a disrespectful remark, and punished her to eat fast and think about it behind closed doors for half a month!
Where did the Zheng family suffer this? Within two days, I cried and took the maid back to my parents' house.
I thought that Xia Qing would come to pick it up after a few days, and it would be fine when the time came, but I didn't expect to wait for January.
Mrs. Zheng couldn't sit still, and asked what was going on with the maid beside her, so she was shocked and came to the door with her daughter and a generous apology, and gave Luo Ziqian compensation.
It was also at that time that the Zheng family realized that in Xia Qing's heart, she was far less important than Mrs. Xia!