Because of the funeral of the fifth master, on this New Year in the twentieth year of Linde, Uncle Anyuan's mansion was lifeless again, and he never invited New Year's wine, only a few relatives and friends went back and forth.

She is young, and she has become the housekeeper of Bofu not long after marrying, and she wants to take advantage of the New Year's Festival to feast on guests and friends, so as to show off. But he was defeated by the short-lived ghost of the fifth master, and he really wanted more fires in his heart.

On the day of the Shangyuan Festival, I tried my best to push the ladies to go out with her to watch the lanterns.

In the previous Northern Qin and Southern Qin, the confinement of women was not as strict as this time, and every Shangyuan night, women could not only go out to watch the lanterns and play generously like men, but even men and women watched the lanterns and admired the moon together. There was once a great poet who specially wrote a poem "Shengchazi" to describe the scene and its feelings, saying that it was "the willow tops on the moon, and the people are about after dusk".

But when this scene came to Yan Qin, in addition to being short-lived in the decades when Empress Tianshun was in power, the girls in the boudoir were never allowed to go out to watch the lanterns on the day of the Shangyuan Festival, but only allowed to watch at their own homes. As for the wives and wives of those wealthy families, in order to show their dignity, they even sat in the car and watched the lights, and they were not crowded around on the street or in the crowds at all.

In the past few years, Emperor Lin De and his mother, the Empress Dowager Sun, liked to go to the lantern festival when she was poor, and when she became the most noble woman in the empire, she held a lantern festival in the palace to enjoy it, but it was not enjoyable and not lively enough. Every Shangyuan Festival, I still like to take my nieces, nieces and granddaughters and other relatives, and a large number of eunuchs and palace maids to run outside the palace to see the lights.

This up and down, seeing that the queen mother brought the girls who had not left the pavilion out to see the lights, gradually, some young ladies from famous families followed their mothers and sisters-in-law out to watch the lights.

It's just that this kind of fashionable and stubborn method has never existed in Anyuanbo's Mansion, and Mrs. Tai doesn't like this kind of liveliness, and several wives have also passed the age of liking this kind of liveliness. That is, a young grandmother like Grandma Jun likes to take this opportunity to go shopping on the street.

As early as last year, she wanted to call her sisters out to watch the lanterns, but unfortunately she was not in charge of the house at that time, and secondly, Mrs. Tai was unfortunate to be ill at that time, so she had to stay in the Bofu and watch the fireworks set off in the sky from time to time to solve the slander. So this year, she started to prepare early, and she was going to pull all the young ladies in the house out to watch the lights with her.

Although this kind of opportunity to go out of the house to watch the lights is really rare, but Cai Wei still politely declined, this appearance of the lights, many people are easy to mess, she is afraid that in case of some other variables, it is better to sit in the house with the old lady more stable.

Grandma Jun was not happy, the other girls and young ladies, who was not happy to hear that they were going to take them out to watch the lanterns, and thanked her, but only this one dared to save her face?

Immediately, he snorted coldly, "Cousin, this shelf is too big, right?" I'm a poor girl who is bored in this house all day long, the door is not out, the second door is not stepping, it is rare to have a lively lantern festival tonight, I want to take you out with you to have fun, but you are so uninteresting! ”

Cai Wei had to laugh and say: "Thank you cousin-in-law for taking care of me, it's just that I have to accompany my grandmother every night, if I also go out with my sisters to watch the lanterns, I'm afraid that my grandmother will be unaccompanied, and please forgive my sister-in-law!" ”

Seeing that Sun Xiluan was speechless for a while, Yi Fei was busy helping on the side and said: "You don't carry the old lady out as a shield, it's just one less night, what's the big deal." I don't believe that if my cousin said that my eldest cousin took us to see the lights, the old lady would not give my eldest cousin face and would not let you go. I'm afraid that my cousin just used this as an excuse, and I don't want to go out with my eldest cousin and us, so it's true! ”

With Yifei's suggestion, Sun Xiluan immediately continued: "My cousin, you might as well give me a word of truth, do you want to go or not, I will definitely want the sisters to gather together today and have a lively and stubborn night." For this reason, I ordered all the carriages in the house to be replaced with glass windows ten days ago, just to make the lights look good tonight. If you're ruined, hmph, then let's not go out to see the lights, and stay with the old lady in the house! ”

This is really ruthless, it is clearly a sitting!

Yifei also deliberately pulled her sleeve and squeezed her, "Oh, cousin Zhou, you quickly promise your eldest cousin to go to watch the lantern with us." Otherwise, if the eldest cousin is really angry, we won't be able to leave the house and see the lights. Even though my cousin didn't care about this Shangyuan Lantern Festival, and just wanted to go to the old lady to curry favor with her, she also thought about the love between sisters, and thought about it for those of us who haven't been out for half a year. ”

Cai Wei saw that the two of them tried their best to take themselves to watch the lanterns, and the more they didn't dare to go, and they still had to think about how to deal with it, Sun Xiluan couldn't help but shout: "The cousin has promised to go, why don't you help the cousin to get into the car." ”

The most important thing around Grandma Jun is the maids, and immediately hula and a bunch of people came up, she only followed a sweet orange by her side, how could she stop it, and after a while, she was surrounded by a large number of maids by Sun Xiluan and pushed the two of her into the carriage.

Fortunately, after a while, after Wu Juan also sat in, Cai Wei made up her mind in her heart, although she didn't know what tricks Sun Xiluan and Yifei wanted to use to calculate her, but if she was always with her sisters, it would be inconvenient for them to start.

Sun Xiluan and Yifei were in a car, Yifang and Wu Wan sat in one, Yihui and Yifen sisters and sons, a total of four Cuigai Babao cars, two young ladies sat in each car, lined up from Bofu Gate to the lamp market, followed by two green cloth cars that the maids sat on.

This is the first time that the girls have appeared in the exterior lights, and they are all very novel. At this time, looking out from the glass window, I only felt that all kinds of lanterns on the street were all beautiful, and the flow of people was even more lively.

In the years when Cai Wei and her father depended on each other, although they had seen lanterns on the street every year, how could the lamp markets in Meizhou and Chang'an compare to the prosperity of the night of the Shangyuan in the imperial capital, I couldn't help but look a little dizzy, and sighed in my heart.

Looking at it, the carriage stopped again, because there were a lot of people coming to see the lights tonight, and the car was in it, often stopping and walking, Cai Wei and Wu Juan didn't care, but when there were too many people in front of them, they couldn't stop. I don't want to think that after a while, the two little girls ran over and called her two to get out of the car, saying that the young grandmother invited them to Baiwei Building for supper, and said that the building had been cleared, and there was no outsider.

Cai Wei saw from the window that the sisters in the three cars in front of her had already put on their hats and were walking towards the Baiwei Building, so she had to get out of the carriage too, because she was in too much hurry when she came out, and she didn't even have time to bring out the hats, so she had to take a handkerchief and pin two small beads to the temples on both sides, covering her face, and temporarily serving as a hat.

The ladies of An Yuanbo's Mansion went down to the restaurant for the first time in their lives, and when they went in, they saw that there was really no guest inside, except for a few small servants, a bunch of maids and servants standing in the hall.

I heard Sun Xiluan say proudly: "This restaurant is my dowry, and the business in Su Rili is excellent, so it is not an exaggeration to say that it is not an exaggeration to say that the daily income is making money." Since I am your sister-in-law, I have to take you with you who are not stubborn, but also eat some delicious food that I have never tasted. Therefore, I have already passed the word that they will not let a single outsider in tonight, and only a few of us sisters will come here to have fun. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, Yi Fei couldn't stop praising it: "I really don't know when we have such a blessing to get such a good sister-in-law, thinking of our sisters everywhere!" What other young lady in the world can be as lucky as us to be sisters with my sister-in-law! ”

Although the other girls felt that this cousin's tone was somewhat contemptuous and arrogant, if it weren't for this cousin, they wouldn't have been able to go out to have fun this time, so they all thanked each other, but they were not as flattering as Yifei said.

After being praised by everyone, Grandma Jun was even more proud, "Let's go and go, let's go up to the Accord on the second floor and sit down, watch the lights upstairs, and eat wine and food at the same time, that's what is interesting!" ”

Cai Wei saw that everyone had moved their chopsticks, so she also used a few fruits, but she didn't drink a sip of the wine in the cup in front of her, and every time she used her sleeve to block it, and quietly poured it on the handkerchief.

Yifei has to praise a few words every time she tastes a dish, and the women think that these dishes taste good, and they have the heart to praise one or two, seeing that all the words have been snatched up by her alone, she is also happy to say that she might as well move her chopsticks more. Especially the youngest Wu Juan, pity her for being able to eat either green vegetables and tofu or tofu vegetables in the Qiutang Courtyard these days, and at this moment, when she sees this table full of delicacies, she can hardly take her eyes off.

Cai Wei saw her little appearance, and spent most of her time preparing vegetables for her, while telling her to eat slowly. Although her sister Wu Wan hasn't eaten anything good these days, she hasn't put all her attention on this table full of delicacies, but from time to time she turns her head to look at the street scene downstairs through the beaded curtain.

Yifang did the same, glancing downstairs from time to time, as if she was looking for someone.

Suddenly, I heard Wu Wan say: "Hey, the person downstairs looks very familiar, fifth sister, come and see, is that person very similar to the fourth cousin of the Zhang family?" ”