In a blink of an eye, on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, a few days earlier the court yamen will begin to seal the pen, Emperor Qingfeng wrote a lot of blessing words to distribute to the ministers' homes, after writing the blessing words also sealed the pen for the New Year.

At this time, the people of Jinling City are rich, and their lives are better, and there are not many thefts at the end of the year, but there are fewer cases than at other times, and it is the New Year, Jinyiwei is to check the officials, and he will not investigate at this time, Cheng Huaijin is rare to get a little leisure.

What do other people's masters do when they are free, Ji Songxian looks at Ji Yi, and Cheng Ping'an and Cheng Guogong in the early years, but he also knows a little.

It's about reading a few books, talking with the Qing guests, and then going out to visit friends, inviting friends to go in groups to play and compose poems, and even going to the brothel of the Qinglou.

In Ji Songxian's cognition, the officials in the court are about the same.

However, she didn't think that Cheng Huaijin would be free, and she didn't study or practice martial arts, let alone make friends to go out to play, if she wanted to go to the brothel of the Qinglou, it would be even more impossible.

Cheng Huaijin pulls Ji Songxian back and forth between the kitchen and the bedroom every day, in his words, the New Year is coming soon, and he always has to prepare some New Year's goods.

Therefore, Ji Songxian began to follow Cheng Huaijin to steam pastries and croquettes, make small blood sausages by himself, sausages stuffed, and make sauce meat, and marinade, after all, by the time of the Chinese New Year's Eve, I don't know how many ingredients I made, just the fat chicken and duck stewed a lot, waiting for the New Year to be used.

Ji Songxian also learned a lot of cooking skills from Cheng Huaijin, and she followed Cheng Huaijin to cook for a while, which was funny for a while. Xin said that if she told others that Jinyi Wei often went to the kitchen to cook when she was at home, I was afraid that no one would believe her.

Ji Songxian thought so, and said this to Cheng Huaijin.

After she finished speaking, Cheng Huaijin was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "If others don't believe that it's someone else's, let's just live our own lives." ”

Speaking of this, he said: "Originally, when I followed the master, the master didn't like to go into the kitchen, and during the Chinese New Year, I had to prepare all the food, so many years have passed." I'm used to it. ”

When he said this. Cheng Huaijin had just made a lot of fish balls, and was holding a spoon to cook fish ball soup and drink it.

Ji Songxian poked his head out from behind him, looked at the white and tender fish balls floating in the pot, and smelled the aroma. The saliva was almost pouring out. She and her group looked at the fish balls. The line pinched his arm: "Since you have been free for the past few days, I have grown a few pounds, and all kinds of food continue every day." After this year, I'm afraid of what I have become fat. ”

"It's better to be fatter." Cheng Huaijin smiled back, and handed over a bowl of soup to Ji Songxian: "How good-looking it is to be white and fat, that is, those high-ranking families are willing to marry a thin daughter-in-law, and the common people are not willing to marry a white fat daughter-in-law for the New Year." ”

Ji Songxian took the bowl and took a sip: "It's a pity that you didn't marry a white fat daughter-in-law, but married a thin man like me, so you tried every means to make me fat." ”

Cheng Huaijin nodded very seriously: "I look good at you, and many people worry about you when you are fat, but it reassures me a lot." ”

Ji Songxian's fist had already slammed into Cheng Huaijin at this time: "Uneasy and kind, bad thing." ”

Cheng Huaijin neatly took out the soup, grabbed Ji Songxian with one hand and took a sip on her face, then blocked her mouth violently, and snatched the fish balls in her mouth: "That's it, I'll be bad for you." ”

When the two of them came out of the kitchen, they saw Cheng Huaijin looking satisfied, but Ji Songxian was spring-colored, shy and timid.

This day happened to be the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, in the middle of the morning Cheng Huaijin cooked fish ball soup to drink, in the afternoon he took his subordinates to begin to paste the Spring Festival in various places, and hung horn lamps under the corridor, verandah and other places, red palace lanterns and other lanterns, as soon as the sky was dark, the lanterns were lit everywhere, and for a time, the entire mansion was brightly lit, as if it was day.

Ji Songxian also explained that the big kitchen had made up many tables, and asked people to take turns to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and she herself took a few girls to personally cook and prepare a table of tables, waiting for Cheng Huaijin to finish the Spring Festival, and the two of them sat in a warm room and ate while talking.

Cheng Huaijin drank a glass of wine and sighed: "The Queen Mother passed away this year, and people with knighthoods and official positions are not allowed to have fun, but they have lost a bit of interest. ”

Ji Songxian said while adding wine to him: "I think this is good, everyone else is in trouble, only our family is the two of us, but it is rare to be quiet, in previous years, when I was at home, there were too many people, and the roots of my ears were full of various sounds at night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and I felt uncomfortable and tight when I went to sleep." ”

Cheng Huaijin didn't understand that Ji Songxian deliberately said this, just to comfort him, he drank another glass of wine and instructed Ji Songxian: "Except for going back to your parents' house in the first month, you should not go to eat and drink again, let's be quiet at home for the first month." ”

"Okay." Ji Songxian agreed with a smile, thought for a while and said, "Let's go to Zhuangzi outside the city after the second day of the first lunar month, okay?" I would like to soak in the hot springs, there are fewer people in Zhuangzi, and it is quieter than in the city. ”

This is also a good idea, and Cheng Huaijin also agreed to it because he thought it was good.

After eating the wine and food, and scattering the rest to the girls below, Ji Songxian and Cheng Huaijin packed up and read around the stove, which was also rare and comfortable.

It's just that it didn't take a while to be comfortable and quiet, and then I heard a burst of laughter outside, and then, Huan Liang and Lu Qi came in with a curtain, both of them had a smile on their faces, Ji Songxian looked at them and asked, "Have you eaten the noodles?" ”

"It's good to eat." Huan Liang approached with a smile, took off the gold bracelet he was carrying on his wrist and wrapped it in a handkerchief, and came over to serve Ji Songxian: "Nu and Sister Xueye won a lot of money with a few strokes, and Sister Xueyu and Sister Xueying bet and drank, but both of them were drunk. ”

Ji Songxian shook his head and smiled: "After a while, you took an eyebrow pencil and painted flowers on their faces." ”

"Exactly." Lu Qi clapped her hands: "The slave is thinking about it, but the wife is talking." ”

Huan Liang looked at Ji Songxian twice: "Old lady is also too quiet, the Chinese New Year's Eve is also a little different, it is better to take some dried fruits, let's eat and talk in one line, but it can be lively, otherwise, how can this Chinese New Year's Eve be kept?" ”

"Go get it." Ji Songxian responded with a smile, and then advised: "Put on a coat, it's cold outside, be careful of freezing." ”

"Save." After going out around the beam for a while, he took the fruit box and came in, which was divided into several compartments, and each compartment contained a kind of dried fruit, including melon seeds, almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, candied fruits, etc.

Lu Qi took the walnut clip, sandwiched two walnuts, and handed them to Ji Songxian and Cheng Huaijin.

The two of them took it over and ate, and Huan Liang made another pot of good tea and brought it over, and the four of them drank tea around the stove, ate dried fruits, and gossiped.

After about half an hour, Lu Qi was so young that she couldn't stand it anymore and yawned.

Pushing her around the beam, he took a cold hand towel to wipe her face, telling her to be more sober, Lu Qi stared at her eyes and opened her mouth, and patted her face again: "But there is still more than half the night, how can I survive this?" ”

Huan Liang smiled: "Mrs. has always been the best at telling stories, so it's better to tell a story with a slave and listen to it, and stay up all night if you can't say it." ”

Cheng Huaijin agreed, and said to Ji Songxian: "If there is nothing left or right, you can talk about one." ”

Ji Songxian thought for a while: "It's very boring for me to tell it alone, it's better for us to tell one by one, no matter what the story is, it's just to listen to it fresh and refreshing." ”

Lu Qi immediately clapped her hands, and Ji Songxian smiled: "In this way, I will make a start." ”

She thought for a while, and then said: "I have a story in my heart, but no one dares to say it, and I don't dare to write it, this story is a little scary, you have the right to listen to it, if you feel scared, I won't tell it." ”

What Ji Songxian wants to tell is the story of the end times, she thinks this kind of story is very good, and in the last days, in order to survive, father and son kill each other, husband and wife kill each other, anything can happen, it can alert the world, but this story is a little scary, but she doesn't dare to write it.

"Mrs. just say that the slave is not afraid to follow his wife." Wrapping up the beam with a smile.

Lu Qi looked at Cheng Huaijin: "The master is powerful, and the slave is not afraid." ”

Ji Songxian saw that these two girls said that they would not be afraid, so he began to talk: "You have also seen the future tour I originally wrote, this story happened many years after the later generations, only to say that at that time, people drilled wells deep into the ground, took out the oil in it, and could go to the sky and the earth almost anything, but this is against the way of heaven, and at a certain time, God will be powerful......

Ji Songxian told slowly, but only at the beginning, talking about the protagonist's neighbor's father's abnormal change, and when he ate his own son, he was frightened and hugged Liang and Lu Qi and shivered.

As soon as she saw this, she stopped, but Huan Liang urged: "Mrs. speak quickly, what about later?" What about the red lady? What's going on? ”

Not to mention the two of them, even Cheng Huaijin heard of such a strange thing for the first time, and listened to it very much, full of seriousness and expectation, Ji Songxian smiled, swallowed a few melon seeds and continued: "The red lady rented a house by herself, she was the only one in the whole house, she had a fever all night and no one cared, fortunately, the door was very solid, and she locked it well, but she didn't ask people or strange corpses to break in, and when she woke up, she only felt uncomfortable in her hungry stomach, and it happened that there was still food in the house, and the red lady made all the food, and when she finished eating, a strange thing happened." ”

"What wonder?" Cheng Huaijin asked.

Huan Liang and Lu Qi also stared and waited to listen, but at this time, they heard a noise outside the window, but it was Xue Yu's voice: "Okay, you two only said that you can't drink enough to sneak back, what should I do, it turned out that I went to my wife's house to eat alone, and asked my wife to tell a story to listen to you, which can be regarded as catching you." ”

As soon as the words fell, Xue Yu opened the curtain in front of her head and came in, and then the Xue Ye sisters also entered the house, and the room, which was still a little cold, was in a commotion for a while. (To be continued......)