Chapter 028 Return to Beijing

After Ling Qingyun got up, after freshening up, she followed her mother and brother to the main hall in the outer courtyard of the Jin State Mansion.

The first day of the first lunar month, called New Year's Day (Note 1), is the beginning of the year, the year of the year, the month of the day, the day of the year, the order of the year, the first year.

On New Year's Day, it is necessary to celebrate solemnly, the court holds a big court meeting, and the people want to sacrifice, set off cannons, pay New Year's greetings, paste peach charms, drink Tusu wine, eat vegetarian cakes, etc.

Ling Qingyun followed her mother and eldest brother to the main hall of the Jin State Mansion.

The main hall is hung with portraits of ancestors, incense candles, tea, fruits, cakes, wine, etc., as a memorial service.

The hour has not yet come, so the people are not even.

Grandfather has not yet arrived.

It took a few moments for my grandfather to come. He was neatly dressed, dressed in brocade clothes, and led the people up and down the Jin State Mansion to offer sacrifices to their ancestors.

After the sacrifice, a long cannon battle was set off.

"I got some 'fire bayberry', and your brother will put it later." The third uncle stood on the Dan Qi and whispered to Brother Ling Qingcheng.

Fire bayberry is a kind of fireworks, with jujube meat, carbon chips as pills, tied to iron wire to burn, flowers overflowing, gorgeous and gorgeous, all the rage.

"Really?" Fourth brother Ling Qingtong stretched out his head and asked in surprise. His favorite thing is to set off bamboo and fireworks.

"Nature." The third uncle smiled.

Therefore, after the artillery battle was over, everyone dispersed back to their own yards, and the fourth brother was abducted by the third uncle.

The eldest brother Ling Qingcheng didn't go, and followed Ling Qingyun and his mother back to the garden.

They ate vegetarian cakes and Tusu wine, and also left some for the fourth brother, so they got busy.

Ling Qingyun and her eldest brother helped their mother change peach charms, paste couplets, hang thousands, nail face snakes, make wishes, and sprinkle hemp beans, and finished everything that should be done on New Year's Day.

"I asked my mother-in-law to boil Wumu soup last night, and your brothers and sisters clean their faces, clean their hair, prolong their lives, and the green silk is thick and black." Mother said to Ling Qingyun and Ling Qingcheng.

Wumu soup is one of the New Year's Day customs by boiling five kinds of wood, such as root sandalwood, knotting, flower chicken tongue, leaf weed, and glue Xunlu, and is used for bathing and washing hair.

Nowadays, there is no need to really wash it, just clean your face and touch it on your hair, even if you have used Wumu soup, you will be blessed with thick and black hair and a healthy body.

"Wan'er, I'll help you clean your hair." Ling Qingcheng ran out of it himself and said to Ling Qingyun.

Ling Qingyun shook his head.

The maid dismantled Ling Qingyun's cloud mustache, and Ling Qingcheng picked up a handful of hair, dipped it in Wumu soup, and then carefully dried it with a silk handkerchief.

The maid helped Ling Qingyun put her hair in a bun again.

The process is simple.

After Ling Qingcheng cleaned his sister's hair, he replaced his mother.

When I was done, it was noon.

Jing took the children and went to the old lady's main courtyard for lunch.

Full of family members, Jing's family, second uncle and second aunt, third uncle and third aunt, unmarried third aunt, grandfather and grandmother, Ling Qingyun brother and sister, cousin and two cousins in the second room, two cousins in the third room, a full sixteen people.

They were divided into two seats.

At the banquet, the second aunt talked the most, and even was not polite to Jing's words. She still remembered the revenge she had warned by the Jing clan last time she sent a post to the eldest princess, and she was not happy.

Jing's Quan didn't understand, and ate slowly.

"This mutton is tasteless, shouldn't it be pork?" The second aunt was drinking yokan and said suddenly.

Pork is a lowly and dirty thing, even if you are poor on weekdays, the powerful family will not let pork on the table.

The second aunt's words were an accusation against Jing's.

Ling Qingyun, who was at the same table, couldn't stand it anymore, and immediately said: "What does pork taste like, the second aunt knows it, but we don't know." ”

The second aunt was choked.

Yes, if you haven't eaten pork, how can you suspect that it is pork?

Isn't that a slap in the mouth?

"What kind of rule is this?" The second aunt shifted the contradiction and asked Jing, "Our elders talk, what does the child say?" Sister-in-law, that's how you're in charge. ”

"That's how it works." Jing's was not in a hurry, and said lightly, "Yun'er didn't point to the noses of the third brother and sister and the third girl."

Jing's voice didn't look like a quarrel at all, and his voice was gentle and even a little smiling.

The second aunt was so angry that her face changed.

She wanted to say something, but she saw Ling Qingyun staring at her squintingly, her eyes were sharp, her expression was majestic, and she pouted with unquestionable coldness, which made the second aunt stunned.

Over there, the third aunt didn't know what to say, Jing and the third aunt laughed, the atmosphere was relaxed, and the second aunt's words were interrupted, and if she went to pick it up, she would lose her confidence.

A meal, not very happy to eat.

After the meal was withdrawn, the maids served tea.

Grandfather went back to his study, the second uncle, the third uncle and the Ling Qingcheng brothers all went out to pay New Year's greetings, and there were only a few women left in the house, sitting with their grandmother.

The grandmother was also unhappy, probably because Ling Qingyun's mother and daughter didn't give the second aunt a good face at the dinner table.

"When I listened to my second siblings, I didn't like beef and mutton, and I felt that the taste was wrong. In this way, the meat in the second room will stop for half a month, so that they can change their taste. Jing said to the old lady as if nothing had happened.

The old lady's face changed suddenly, and the second aunt's face became even more ugly.

Stopped the beef and mutton and let them go vegetarian?

"Besides, the family road is difficult" Jing's slowly, settling accounts with the old lady, talking about all the hardships of being in charge.

The old lady was so angry with her that she couldn't catch her breath, and she couldn't scold her. After a long time, the old lady reluctantly spoke calmly and said to Jing's: "In this case, you don't want to be in charge of this family, give it to the second daughter-in-law!" ”

The second aunt was angry, and when she heard this, she was just ecstatic, the lines on her face moved slightly, and she tried to control her smile.

"How dare you work hard for the second brother and sister?" Jing said, "She can't even tell the difference between pork and mutton." ”

Jing's is borrowing strength.

The second aunt's face was distorted.

The third aunt and the third aunt held back a smile.

The old lady was also half angry.

The old lady and her daughter-in-law and daughter are not of the same mind, and the third aunt and the third aunt are smart and biased towards the Jing family.

In this way, Jing's was stunned and silent, stopped the meat in the second room for half a month, and didn't give them any meat.

Even the vegetables and rice are halved.

The second uncle couldn't stand it first, so he bought meat from outside and had to cook it himself. It's a pity that the whole kitchen is filled with Jing's people, and there is no small kitchen in the second room, so you can't make meat if you buy it.

The meat in the restaurant outside, not to mention unpalatable, the price is also high, the Ling family is a lonely family, the second uncle is tight, where can he afford it?

Therefore, the second uncle forced the second aunt to come to the door to apologize to Jing's.

The second aunt swallowed her anger and sincerely said her mistake, indicating that she would not dare in the future, so Jing's added meat and vegetables to them again.

"It's stupid too." Jing's commented on the second aunt, "This family is in my hands, what's the use of being idle with me?" Isn't it easy to cure her? Eating so many vegetarian days in vain"

That's why Jing's never gets angry with old ladies and ** milk.

They talk about theirs and make trouble for them, but Jing turns a blind eye and doesn't pay attention to it at all.

really annoyed Jing's family, Jing's cut off their rations, laid off their maids, and reduced their daily necessities, didn't they have to apologize to Jing's in the end?

The second and third uncles of the men in the outer courtyard were all smart, and they didn't dare to help at all, for fear of offending the Jing family.

They all knew that Jing was powerful.

To be precise, Jing's brother and brother-in-law are so powerful that they can't be provoked.

Ling Qingyun laughed on the side.

Jing looked back and said to her, "What are you smiling at, do you think it's so easy to be in charge?" In the early years, your uncle was only an official from the fifth grade, and he followed King Mujun, and his future was bleak; Your uncle took care of the horses in the army, but he was just a petty official.

At that time, I was in charge of the Ling family, and I was cautious every step of the way, how angry was the old lady? She didn't have a lot of eggs to pick bones, but your grandfather refused to let her preside over the feed, and he insisted that I be in charge of the house.

Now, your uncle is a member of the second grade, and your uncle is a feudal official. My mother is at home, so I have the confidence, do you understand? ”

"Understood, mother." Ling Qingyun said with a smile.

In fact, she doesn't need to be told by her mother, she knows it.

Where is it so easy to be home?

A family needs to be weighed in all aspects. Only if your backers and power are far superior to the others, can you heal them as you wish.

Jing relied on the power of her mother's family, and she didn't need to take the second room and the old lady in her eyes at all.

She is not provocative, it is her humility.

But the old lady and the second aunt always stumbled, and the Jing family generally put up with them. If it weren't for the second aunt having a love affair on New Year's Day, Jing wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to her.

In the blink of an eye, it was the eighth day of the first month.

These days, Ling Qingyun followed her mother, went around to pay New Year's greetings, and also held a banquet to entertain those who came to pay New Year's greetings.

Naturally, there are many days to go to the Xuanping Marquis Mansion to settle down.

Ling Qingyun and An Wei met many times.

An Wei is still the same as before, when Ling Qingyun is not there, he doesn't look at her and ignores her. The aunt deliberately let them be alone, but Ling Qingyun skillfully avoided them.

An eaves is even more avoidable.

After the eighth day of the lunar month, someone from Cangzhou Wangfu came to deliver a letter again.

Ling Qingyun's eldest aunt is Princess Ji, who will come to Beijing the day after tomorrow.

They originally planned to go to Beijing in Layue last year, but there were heavy snowfalls in Layue, blocking the road, and the cars and horses could not move forward, so they were trapped on the road for the New Year.

Jing's was very happy, and hurriedly cleaned up the cross-courtyard outside, and even vacated the hugging house behind the pavilion, which was the house where Ling Qingyun lived, and prepared to live in it for the eldest aunt.

Although she knew that the eldest aunt would not live in the Ling family at all.

"You look like your aunt." Jing was in a good mood and said to her daughter with a smile, "She is like your father, and you are like your father." I haven't seen her for almost ten years, and I don't know where she is now. ”

Then, she thought about what Xiao Jing had told her last time.

Princess Ji returned to Beijing this time, if she was good, she might be the queen mother in the future.

"Wan'er, you have a sweeter mouth and be more intimate with your aunt. Of these people in my mother's family, only your brothers and sisters are the closest to her. Jing told Ling Qingyun.

Ling Qingyun said yes.

She was also a little curious about her aunt, who had never been masked.

On the tenth day of the first month, the carriage of King Ji's mansion became the capital. They settled in the annex first.

Before she could clean up, Princess Ji took her sons to Ling's house, and couldn't wait to meet her widowed sister-in-law and nephews and nieces.

Jing asked all the family members to go to the door, prepared a cannon battle, and greeted King Ji and Princess Ji lively.

***

Note 1: The festival of "New Year's Day" is the first day of the new year and is one of the more important festivals in the Song Dynasty. But we also use New Year's Day today, I'm afraid that the sisters will feel discordant, so I will mark it out.

Explanation from bai|du.

New Year's Day, it is said to have originated from one of the three emperors and five emperors, and has a history of more than 5,000 years. The word "New Year's Day" first appeared in the Book of Jin: "Emperor Zhuan took the first month of Mengxia as the yuan, but in fact, it was the spring of New Year's Day." ”

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Meng Xiyue (January Month) was stipulated as the first month, and the first day of Meng Xiyue (the first day of the first month) was called New Year's Day, which was used until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

(In addition, the background of this book is not the Song Dynasty, because my history is too weak, I am afraid that it will be written indecently, basically it is empty, but some rules, festivals, customs, I try to refer to one or two, and strive not to make it up.) Of course, there are also blind fabrications, like the Tang and Song dynasties, there are no young masters, masters, and adults, and they can't marry relatives, I still use them, all for the sake of the empty story, and I ask the relatives to pat ~~)

I954