On the second day of the lunar month, Yuan Yi took the recipe of roast duck with the warm farewell of the four brothers in the Gu family's room, stared at Gu Ci without any reluctance, and gritted his teeth and stepped back to the palace.

It's no wonder that Gu Ci has no conscience, with Bajie, she doesn't need to be accompanied!

Although Bajie is only three months old, he seems to be born with the ability to do anything. It didn't have to be taught where to go to the toilet over and over again, but every time it was clever enough to run to a small basin that had been specially prepared for it to be used as a toilet, and on the edge of the basin were two planks, four fingers wide apart, and it stood on the board with its four paws apart and urinated into the basin.

And it recognized Gu Ci as its owner on the first day, and when others called it or teased it with food, it never paid attention to it, but as long as Gu Ci looked at it and didn't open his mouth to call its name, it ran over upside down.

Gu Ci followed wherever he went, stepped on the snow and wet his paws, would sit at the door and wait for the maid to wipe it clean before going in, and when he entered, he would lie at Gu Ci's feet and not move the nest. Others can only hand it over if they want to hug it, otherwise they will hide from all sides.

If someone spoke loudly to Gu Ci or made a gesture to hit her, Bajie quickly stopped in front of Gu Ci, stretched his little tail and bowed down to make an attack. Gu Xi likes to bully it like this, such as suddenly patting the armrest of the chair Gu Ci is sitting on, or suddenly picking up Gu Ci and lifting it up, just seeing Bajie on the ground anxiously circling in circles, milky 'Wang' roaring, until Gu Ci squatted down and touched it comfortingly, it lay down with a bulging white belly, and looked at Gu Ci with big black eyes asking for praise.

It's so smart!

Bajie's cotton mat kennel is placed at the foot of Gu Ci's bed, and the gorgeous dog house occupies too much space and can only be placed outside. Wash her paws and buttocks before going to bed every day, and when Hu's mother turned off the lights and went out, Gu Ci quietly lifted the bed curtain, and it jumped on the bed and let her sleep in her arms. Early in the morning, when it heard the maids' movements, it jumped down on its own, pretending to be stepping on it all the time.

Hu's mother found out seven or eight days later, and she could only tell Yuyi. Yuyi took the time to take a sneak look, and found that Bajie was being held and pressed by his daughter, no matter how uncomfortable he was, he didn't resist, and he raised his head vigilantly when he saw any movement, and when he saw that it was someone he knew, he wagged his tail and relaxed. So he acquiesced that Gu Ci could sleep with it.

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After Laba drank porridge and made ice, the fifteenth class was suspended, the twenty seals, the four elder brothers and Gu Yaoqing were idle, giving a hand to the busy housewife Yuyi, and by the way, they swiped their sense of existence in front of Gu Ci.

Yuyi had already pushed the invitation card outside, and concentrated on preparing for her daughter's first time at home for the New Year. Thinking that I have neglected my daughter a lot in the past few months, it seems that in the blink of an eye, my daughter, who was still wearing a tulle skirt yesterday, has changed into a thick brocade cotton jacket today, and I really want to take her everywhere.

Gu Ci was also the first time to feel the atmosphere and rules of the ancient wealthy family for the New Year, and he didn't care about the goose feathers and snow flying all over the sky, and excitedly took Bajie around the yard every day. Either follow her mother to watch her deal with family affairs, or go to the outer study with Gu Yao to see the four brothers being checked for homework.

Occasionally, when I think of it, I will pick up a pen and write a 'well, don't read it' to Yuan Yi and send it out.

Only the master didn't have time to pay attention to people, and studied her 'copycat perspective painting method' with great interest, and didn't even plan to come out on Chinese New Year's Eve.

As soon as you enter the wax moon, the market in Beijing is even more prosperous, it is the unique wax moon market, the goods are dazzling, and the merchants have begun to increase their prices, so there is a saying that 'the water and soil of the wax moon are three points more expensive'. First of all, he began to sell bacon and porridge and fruits, such as walnuts, dates, persimmons, chestnuts, water chestnut rice, as well as all kinds of game, big Buddha flowers, etc. After the tenth day of the first month, he sold guards and painted door gods, gold and silver leaf, and burned paper. The twelfth day is the Spring Festival couplets, and every household has to write Spring Festival couplets and paste Spring Festival couplets. After the 20th, they mainly sold sugar melons, sugar cakes, Jiangmi bamboo cakes, Kanto sugar, and grass fried beans, which were prepared for the Chinese New Year's Eve festival, and after the 25th year, there were more people selling sesame oranges and pine and cypress branches, and families began to prepare for Chinese New Year's Eve.

Gu Ci couldn't go out, but every time her brothers went out, they brought her some gadgets from the market, such as sugar paintings, clay sculptures, noodle figures, windmills, etc., and she didn't regret it.

The twenty-three young men sacrifice the stove, sweep the dust on the twenty-fourth, paste the Spring Festival on the twenty-eighth, and then the fireworks night of the Chinese New Year's Eve that Gu Qi is looking forward to.

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, Changfang had to go to the Guogong Mansion to attend a family banquet before the family could return to the Qingyi Yuan to watch the fireworks.

Before leaving, Yuyi pulled her daughter to satisfy her habit of dressing up dolls, and put on a new set of peacock open-screen pomegranate red brocade robe bordered by white rabbit fur for her, wrapped in a small cloak of white fox fur, and the small mustache on her head also had a circle of fluffy lying rabbits, with fluffy hands on her hands, and even the tips of her shoes were two fluffy bunnies, which were completely snow-white hairy balls.

Yuyi herself is also wearing the same mother-daughter clothes, but there is no fluff, the embroidery pattern is auspicious for dragons and phoenixes, and even Bajie is replaced with a set of embroidered lion cotton clothes of the same color!

The two of them took the summoning beast and stood in front of the big four, small and five men, and even the serious and serious Gu Yao couldn't help but laugh from ear to ear.

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When the group of people in the long room entered the Sixi Hall where the banquet was held, the people in the other rooms all arrived except for the second master.

Groups of flowers are red and willow green, and all kinds of head and face gems are blind, and there seem to be many women who don't know each other.

Everyone had to salute Yuyi's mother and daughter, the women squatted for a thousand blessings, and the men bowed their hands.

After the ceremony, the fourth lady gestured to Gu Ci very intimately, among the women who didn't know, the eldest two were Aunt Liu and Aunt Fang, the other few were Aunt An and Aunt Zhang in the fourth room, and Aunt Ding in the fifth room. Gu Ci bowed slightly to them. Aunt Fang just wanted to open her mouth at her, but Gu Pu coughed and announced that she would be seated.

Today's seat is not the same as the last family banquet Gu Ci ate. Although there are still separate seats for men and women, there is no screen in the middle. On the men's table, Gu Pu sat alone at one table, Gu Yao and his two brothers at one table, Gu Ci's brothers divided into two tables, six tables in the long room and the fourth room, and five tables in the second and fifth rooms.

The women's side is much more subtle, and the six seats are exactly a hexagon. On the right of the first two tables are Yuyi and the three concubines, and on the left is Mrs. Fang; The middle two tables are farther away, and there are two aunts and grandmothers and three aunts and sisters; Girls and boys share two seats. It's just that it seems that Gu Ci's position is also arranged on the seat of the long room and the fourth room, she sits on the head, and Gu Yi sits on her left hand. Thinking about Da Yu's obedience to the Tang rule, 'respecting the left', no wonder his mother glanced at Mrs. Fang just now.

Gu Ci took Yuyi's hand, Gu Yi walked towards her, and said with a smile: "Eldest princess, Sister Aluan will sit with us today, I will take care of her." ”

Gu Ci looked up at Yuyi, and her mother said gently and domineeringly: "No need, Ah Luan and I sit." ”

Gu Yi smiled slightly, bowed and retreated.

"It's the first time for Luan to spend the New Year at home, let's have fun with my sisters." Mrs. Fang was still as loving as ever.

Yuyi still replied gently: "In recent months, my busy feet have not touched the ground, and our mother and mother have not spoken well for a long time, so we will be reluctant to leave her in front of us." Then he sat down with his own resignation, but fortunately, the people did not dare not prepare the seat of the county lord.

Gu Ci smiled at Yuyi very sweetly, how could her mother let her position be lower than that of Aunt Fang.

This kind of shameless concubine who climbs on the bed should be the enemy of all wives!

The fourth lady came to the rescue and sighed with a smile: "No, I took a look today and saw that the robes made by Ah Shan last year were all shorter." ”

Gu Yi is a ten-year-old girl during the New Year, according to the rules here, it is 'ten years old is not the same seat', her birthday is big, although the sixth and seventh girls are the same age as her, but they can continue to go to home school until the end of the year, she can't go.

"No, the dowries of the five girls should be prepared." It was Aunt Ding who opened her mouth to answer.

Compared with the fifth lady, Aunt Ding seems to be more graceful and soft-spoken. Compared with the two aunts in the fourth room, who were so quiet that they didn't have any sense of existence, she was much more calm. And the fifth and fourth ladies are quite accepting of her liveliness.

It's not that the concubine in the fifth room is very much, the fifth uncle also has a beloved Aunt White Lotus, even if the name violates the taboo of the fifth lady, there is still no need to change the name.

Why is this Aunt Ding, who only gave birth to the second son of the five-room concubine, so face-saving?

Gu Ci felt that he had missed a lot of wonderful moments during this time, and he would definitely talk to Ganyu about life when he turned around!

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A family banquet was eaten quietly, without staggering and no clash of words, quite unremarkable.

Gu Ci held the teacup and waited boredly for the old lady Gu to announce that they would disperse so that they could go back to the room to keep the New Year, and the brothers said that the fireworks prepared tonight would definitely open her eyes.

How do you know that today's Gu Pu really wanted to emphasize the sense of existence, and sent an invitation to the eldest son to chat: "Shunqing, today is a rare reunion and celebration, why don't you brothers come to my study and sit down and taste the Lingquan wine just sent from Zhuangzi?" ”

"Father, I'm not good at drinking." Gu Yao didn't plan to give face to his father.

When Gu Ci heard this, he felt uncomfortable, his grandfather didn't even know if his father liked to drink or not?!

"Then let Ah Luan accompany me, it's okay, she doesn't leave the house on weekdays, and she doesn't have much chance to get close to her sisters."

"Ah Luan still needs to recuperate, and the master has told her to go to bed early, and it will be time for her to sleep in a while."

"Big brother is usually busy, so it's good to go back early to rest. I still have to keep a New Year's Eve at night. "The four masters played a round game.

"If you don't dislike it, I'll stay with you for a while! I don't drink much Lingquan wine. The fifth old man happily assisted.

Gu Yao went down the stairs, "There are fourth and fifth brothers to take care of my father, and the princess and I will go back first." Tomorrow I will go directly to the ancestral hall to worship my ancestors. He turned around and left with his daughter and the family, not caring at all about Gu Pu's face at the bottom of the pot and the eyes of a room of silent female dependents flying around.