Chapter VII: The Thirtieth Year of the Chinese New Year's Eve
The next time I saw everyone in the family was the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
Cheng Yiyao went to the flower hall with the Duchess of the Kingdom, and after crossing an arched bridge in the garden, you can see the hand-copying verandah, and the hand-copying verandah can see the door of the flower hall after passing the hanging flower door.
Today, the Chinese New Year's Eve, the few rooms that have already been divided into the Chengguo Mansion are also back today, and when they approached the flower hall, they heard laughter inside.
The maid at the door saw the Duchess turn into the weeping flower door from a distance and shouted: "The old lady has arrived!" β
As soon as she entered the door, the eldest lady hurriedly greeted her: "Mother is not bad to say anything, so that we can pick you up by ourselves!" β
The second lady took the old lady's cloak and said with a smile: "Mother, go to the house and drink a cup of hot tea to warm up!" β
Surrounded by a group of ladies and ladies into the flower hall, the three older ladies also got up to greet each other: "Sister-in-law, you are here, we are talking that we haven't seen you for a long time." β
"Isn't this a meeting, you also sit, you don't have to see the outside like this in your own home!" The Duchess of Guo smiled.
These three ladies are the second old lady, the fourth old lady and the wife of the sixth old lady, the second old lady and the sixth old lady are the brothers of the grandfather of the country, but the fourth old lady is the master of the concubine, but this old lady and the grandfather of the country have always been close, and it is also the most promising of the old ladies of several concubines.
After the separation, the other old ladies had little contact with the Guogong Mansion, and only these three old ladies spent the Chinese New Year's Eve every year in the Guogong Mansion.
Everyone sat down in different orders, Cheng Yiyao stood behind the Duchess of the Kingdom, and the second lady smiled and said: "Yao girl is getting more and more standard, and she is raising people by her sister-in-law's side!" β
"The second uncle praised it!" Cheng Yiyao gave a blessing to the second wife, and stood behind the duchess in a proper manner.
"This child is too regular, he doesn't look like a child, I feel distressed when I look at it, so I take it with me to take care of it more!" The Duchess took Cheng Yiyao's hand and patted it kissing.
Cheng Yiyao couldn't help but reddened her eyes, so she could only lower her head and dare not raise it, for fear of being seen something, if she was said to have touched her head during the New Year, it would be bad.
"This kid is also painful, okay, don't talk about this for the New Year!" The fourth lady interjected, "I think it's almost time to start the table." β
"yes, let's go out and have a look!" The Duchess got up and took the lead towards the dining room.
The dining room is in the outer courtyard, and generally the female dependents will not appear in the dining room, except for the New Year, which is a place for men to feast, and the female guests are set up a few tables in the backyard.
Now all the people here are family, naturally there are many fewer rules, and when I walked into the weeping flower door, I saw that five tables of banquets had been set up in the dining room.
The Duchess of the Kingdom naturally shared a table with the three wives, and the eldest lady and the two young ladies of the long room were also accompanied, and the second lady and a pair of children in the second room were also called, and Cheng Yisheng in the second room was the eldest grandson of the younger generation of the Guogong Mansion.
The Duchess sat down, the other ladies and ladies also sat down, the ladies and children sat at three tables, men and women were seven years old, and now the eldest Cheng Yiyao was only seven years old after the New Year, so naturally she didn't have to worry about these rules.
The Duchess of Guo pulled Cheng Yiyao to sit beside her, and when she saw Cheng Yiqi's eyes looking at her resentfully because of jealousy, Cheng Yiyao was a little stunned, how could she have thought that her sister would also have such an outward appearance.
But also, at this time, Cheng Yiqi was only five years old after the New Year, and the children's minds couldn't be hidden, not to mention that they didn't have the consciousness to hide their minds.
Cheng Yiyao grabbed her grandmother's hand, glanced at Cheng Yiqi with a little snort, and then bowed her head and said, "I'd better sit next to Mrs.!" "The lady Cheng Yiyao said is naturally the Wang family.
Therefore, the Duchess of Guo naturally saw Cheng Yiqi's eyes, a child looked at his sister with such resentful eyes, and after paying it back, the Duchess Guo's face immediately sank: "Look at what you have taught your daughter to be!" β
At this time, Cheng Jingrui, the son of the world who had just come in, asked, "Mother, what's wrong?" If it wasn't too much for the New Year, my mother would naturally not be angry, and Cheng Jinghao and others also watched it.
"It's okay, let's have a table!" The Duchess of the Kingdom regained her normal color, and still pulled Cheng Yiyao to sit beside her.
Grandpa Guo led troops to garrison the border pass, and he couldn't come back for the New Year this year, the eldest son was going to leave after the New Year, and there were uncles and uncles for the New Year, and the Duchess didn't want to make a fuss.
But he didn't want Cheng Yiqi to have red eyes because of the Duchess Guo's loud drink, and he actually choked at this time.
"Don't let anyone take it back yet." The Duchess said lightly, unable to hear the joy and anger.
Cheng Yiqi was taken away, without this annoying sister, Wang had a stinky face again, and Cheng Yiyao felt that this Chinese New Year's Eve meal was very happy.
Although in order to cover up, I could only eat a little and pretend that I couldn't eat, and my stomach was not full, but I was in a good mood.
After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the adults naturally wanted to stay to keep the New Year, and the children were taken back.
At this time, Cheng Yiqi was crying sadly in Wang's yard, and the house was in a mess, but she was still young, and nothing fell, but she looked chaotic, and it was all knocked over when the maids stopped her.
Wang had to keep watch outside, and he couldn't come in to see his daughter, so he sent his powerful grandmother back to take a look.
"Miss, it's unlucky for you to cry during the New Year?" Mama coaxed Cheng Yiqi.
"Grandmother knows that it hurts Cheng Yiyao, am I not her granddaughter? Everything is close to her, the red fox cloak before was, and it is today, what kind of thing is she! β
"Yes, yes, yes, my little ancestor, you have to pretend even if you don't like her, how can you just stare at her like this in front of the old lady."
"I just don't like her!"
"What's the use of you doing this, so that the old lady can only dislike it more, you have to find a way to make the old lady dislike her."
"How can I make my grandmother hate her?" Cheng Yiqi forgot to cry and looked at Mama Dao.
Not to mention what happened to Cheng Yiqi, Cheng Yiyao returned to Yao Jingxuan and went to bed to rest after washing.
She knew that although she was relieved today, she was also a little reckless, would her grandmother see that she deliberately let Cheng Yiqi be scolded?
As for the revenge of these two mothers and daughters against themselves, it is completely out of Cheng Yiyao's consideration, is there a worse end than the previous life? That kind of humiliation that is more unbearable than death!
If the result of his patience is like that, this time Cheng Yiyao will never wronged himself again!
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Cheng Yiyao was dug out of the bed by Mama Tong early in the morning, and today is the first day of the New Year.
Cheng Yiyao was wearing a red embroidered flaked jacket with frayed edges, and a vermilion filament inlaid with gold-edged pleated satin skirt on her lower body, with two buns on her head, and a small braid on both sides, and two red velvet flowers on the bun, which was full of joy for the New Year.
Outside, a cloak of red fox fur is draped, like an auspicious doll, which is very cute.
This red fox is rare, so the fur is naturally more rare, there are a few pieces of red fox skin in the New Year's goods that my grandfather brought from the border pass a few years ago, but it is not enough for adults to make cloaks, and the children are just right, and my grandmother made one for her.
For this cloak Cheng Yiqi has been red for a long time, but Cheng Yiyao has never worn it out and is not good at attacking, I remember that in the last life, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Cheng Yiqi coughed a few times, and then her maid said something, the second lady is afraid that she has a cold at this time, the red cloak has no fur, and the cotton cloth is still too thin.
Then he stupidly gave her this red fox fur cloak, Cheng Yiyao thought that she was too young at the time, very stupid and naΓ―ve, right?