The day before Chinese New Year's Eve is the ancestor worship. All the masters in the house got up early in the morning, put on heavy sacrificial clothes, and went to the family temple to make sacrifices.

The family temple of the Guogong Mansion is located in the west of the mansion, not far from the Qingcang Temple, and it is usually closed. Since this family temple is called "temple", it naturally has two doors and two gates, and a platform and a main hall. Since the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the people who are responsible for managing the family temple have begun to clean the family temple, scrub all the sacrificial vessels, put them out, sort out the ancestors' images, prepare all kinds of tributes, and work for half a month to finish.

When it was time to worship the ancestors, Gu Qing, as the woman with the highest status and the longest year in the house, inevitably had to take the lead to say some words of encouragement to the younger generations outside the family temple, and take the female dependents and the family to bow outside the family temple. After kowtowing, the men entered the main hall, and the women sorted out the tributes outside.

Women are not allowed to enter the temple until the sacrifice is completed, and the main sacrifice is a matter for the men.

Gu Qing was very satisfied with this. Seeing the two little beans getting up before dawn to recite the extremely long sacrificial text, and for fear of a little mistake, Gu Qing felt that the egg hurt.

It's so beautiful to dress like an old lady who can't even write or something!

Li Mao, the male owner of Xinguo Gong, led Li Rui and Li Ming's two children to worship in the family temple. Thinking of the row of young men behind other people's ancestors, and the two boys in their family when they turned around, Li Mao couldn't help but shake his head.

Lao Guogong's parents died, he was born poor, and his serious relatives were only his cousin's family.

Now Li Mao's grandfather and grandmother have long gone, leaving only one son in his hometown in Jingnan, who is also one of the top local squires. Grandpa Tang's family education was strict, and before he died, he instructed his children not to go to Beijing to climb the mansion, so as not to cause trouble. He sent money over every year, and he also wanted to take their family to Beijing, which was regarded as a repayment, and it was also an extra arm to help, but he was rejected every year.

Such a high-spirited festival, even he admired it very much.

Now he only hopes that Li Rui and Li Ming will spread out as soon as possible, and when there are more children and grandchildren, their branch will finally stand up. After Ding worried, he returned to the court and learned the disadvantages of being alone. Although he was a national prince, he did not come into contact with that circle before the death of his eldest brother. Later, although he became a knight because of the vacancy of the son and the death of his father, he also went home for several years. If you talk about the most prominent status and the most fragile foundation in the nouveau riche of the imperial court, like duckweed in the water, only the Xinguo Mansion is the Mansion.

Fortunately, he is still young, and the saint still trusts the Xinguo Mansion, and it is not difficult for the Xinguo Mansion to regain his position on the stage of Dachu.

Speaking of juniors, although Li Rui is raising them now with unreasonable and shallow knowledge, the matter of having children has nothing to do with these. His nephew has long been engaged, and when he has children and opens a house, as compensation, he will cultivate his nephews and grandchildren well, so that he can become the right-hand man of Ming'er's son-in-law.

…… Ming'er will be ten years old next year, and this year he will be filial piety, so that his mother will walk around in the noble family more, and see who has a daughter who has a good appearance and a stable and intelligent personality, and it is good to book it as soon as possible. When the princes of the saint reach adulthood, I am afraid that the good girls will not be able to keep them.

After Li Mao took the two children to officiate, Li Rui and Li Ming went out of the palace gate and returned to the middle of the female dependents. After the sacrifice is completed, the tribute is to be offered. Li Ming and Li Rui handed the tributes one by one to Old Taijun Qiu and the Fang family, and then they placed them on the platform.

After sacrificing to his ancestors, Gu Qing felt that his knees and waist were not good. Especially if it was not his ancestors who were sacrificed, Gu Qing said that he was very at a loss. But think about it, these people are all ancients, if they are in their own world, how can they also be the "ancestors" hundreds of years ago, kowtowing to them is nothing, Gu Qing feels that it is worth it.

The next day after worshipping the ancestors, it was not idle again, because this was the first time that the filial piety queen of the Xinguo Mansion entered the palace to participate in the "farewell to the old and welcome the new". Therefore, Gu Qing and the Duchess Fang Wan had to wear the coats of the Lady of the Decree together early in the morning, and enter the palace with the men to congratulate.

Gu Qing sat in the carriage and looked at the clothes on his body with some curiosity.

She always thought that the costume of the decree was a luxurious Hanfu, because the official clothes worn by the noblewomen in the TV series were similar to the phoenix crown and xia veil when she got married. When the maids respectfully "invited" the dress out in the morning, Gu Qing found that this dress was not so much a skirt as an official uniform worn by a woman.

Gu Qing hadn't worn bright clothes for a long time here, just to wear this bright and gorgeous dress of the Lady of Destiny once, she also decided to endure no matter how hard she worked today.

Under the service of the girl's mother-in-law, Gu Qing put on a round-necked undershirt embroidered with a unicorn and phoenix pattern on the red ground and gold, put on a green makeup yarn and phoenix pattern skirt, and then put on a vermilion python official clothes, covered with a coat, tied with a jade belt, and finally put on a group of flowers and clouds.

Gu Qing felt that he must be extremely elegant when he was dressed so heavily, and even the process of putting on the clothes layer by layer was full of ritual. She wore a gown, took a square step, and looked in the bronze mirror beautifully.

……

What about the head? Why is her head missing?

Oh, it turned out that it was not gone, but it was lined with a small section of the towering flower curtain on both shoulders. The color of red, red, green and green makes her face sallow and her eyes blank.

it! It's a little too miserable to dress as an old lady or something, right? This body is a precious cultural relic, even now I heard that it will take a few years to complete one, but as soon as she wears it, the effect is not as good as the hanger that just supported the clothes!!

You read that right! The clothes rack looks better than her!

Maybe her face was not good, and she was about to enter the palace with her, but Mama Hua, who was a female official, comforted: "Mrs. Tai, you are not wearing makeup now, and you are not wearing your head and face, it is too early to see if your clothes are neat or not." Why don't you let the girls comb your hair? ”

Gu Qing already had no hope that he could be "beautiful". This tragic life made her powerless to complain.

After putting on her makeup, she put on a nine-zhai crown decorated with jade and birds, wiped her forehead with emerald feathers and black gauze, held a wat board, and stood in front of the bronze mirror.

Well, the head is very important! It finally doesn't look like it's headless!

Gu Qing and Fang were separated from Li Mao in front of the palace gate, and they had to enter the palace through different gates.

Gu Qing didn't pay attention to what this palace was like at all. Her head was muddy all day, and the other houses were full of mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, little by little to mention what to do. When she arrived at Gu Qing's place, it was Mama Hua who was waiting beside her who whispered to remind Mrs. Qiu how to stand and how to behave.

Fang's first time entering the palace this time, her husband was an official of the fifth rank before she was knighted, and her edict was still sealed after her husband became knighted. In the past, it was always the mother-in-law who brought her sister-in-law into the palace. Before coming, she had consulted her family in detail, her mother was the second rank of the lady, and her brother and daughter-in-law were the fourth grade of the courtesy, all of them were in the line of worship of the wife, and the two sides took care of each other, and finally there was no big mistake. In fact, she is also worried, there are so many people, and everyone is not an ignorant woman without eyes, she will only give them convenience, how can there be any problems?

The Queen Mother has not been in good health in recent years, and she has not been out for a long time, and this year it is still the Queen who presides over the big banquet.

Gu Qing's body was weak, and his joints hurt after winter, and he almost couldn't straighten his waist when he bowed, and his legs were shaking all the time. Fang Clan secretly complained in his heart while going to help. They stand in the front row, and their every move is watched by others, which is already considered a crime of "dereliction of decency".

Didn't you see that the old lady of the Jin State Mansion was almost eighty years old, and his waist was still straight, and his body didn't shake? Her mother-in-law was born in the countryside, and the rules are a little worse, so she won't kowtow a few times and tremble? Or is it true that the old lady has always been not very good with the queen?

"It's Hongu negligence. Come on, show a few old ladies a seat. Several old ladies, pregnant women, and sick ladies are exempt from prostration. ”

"Mother's mercy!"

Gu Qing also shouted with the crowd. Gu Qing, who was forced to kowtow and was overwhelmed by the heavy clothes, began to regret entering the palace. As soon as the novelty of the morning wore strange clothes passed, she began to fall asleep.

If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't be sick! That's what I used to do in the past.

"Old Madam Li's health is not as good as before. When you think about the past, you have always marched with Li Lao Guogong. The queen said to Gu Qing, who had already sat down, with a pleasant face. Sometimes when you go out for a walk, your body will naturally become stronger. If you are bored in the house, you will get sick. What do you say? ”

Gu Qing had to stand up again and bow down in response.

"That's what the mother said."

Evil feudal society! If she is destined to dress as an old woman, why not let her dress as an old lady! At least you don't have to kneel around and don't have to pat the horse's legs.

"It's okay to come to the palace to sit often, even if it's a saint, I'm always talking about you. If you are really impatient to wear these cumbersome things, you can come by car. The queen's words surprised all the wives. Such a favor has never been seen even in the Queen's maiden Jinguo Mansion!

The wives present looked at Mrs. Qiu in unison. Being stared at by so many women, Gu Qing felt a little uncomfortable. After the queen said this, as if she said casually, she went to greet the other feudal lords and wives one by one.

But when the queen's words came out, who would think that she said them casually? Everyone couldn't help but weigh the weight behind these words.

As the saying goes, husband and wife are one, and this queen is the most stable, so she will never think about it.

It is said that "often come to the palace to sit", which is very debatable. Does this "come often" once a month, once every half a month, or do you just come if you want to?

Even if it is the queen's maiden family, Qiu Lao Fengjun, who is sitting on Qiu Taijun's left hand, only brings the wife of the house into the palace every six months to see the mother. If you are close to each other, the Xinguo Mansion is not a royal relative, not a national relative, why can the old lady often enter the palace? She didn't have anyone to visit.

There is also the meaningful sentence "The Holy Elder is talking about you." ”

Let's talk about this "light car and simple service". At first glance, it sounds like she was just worried about Mrs. Qiu's body, so she avoided a lot of complicated etiquette. Most of those who can enter the palace in a light car and simple clothes are called to enter the palace in the name of "private individuals". In other words, this kind of entry into the palace is not a regular pilgrimage to the harem, but a reminiscence, or a normal communication.

Just like Old Man Li resigned from all public offices back then, but he still often entered the palace to accompany the first emperor.

These women of the court can't wait to pass on what happened in the harem to their men. More young women were thinking about whether there were any relatives related to the Xinguo Mansion in their heads, and they went to the Xinguo Mansion to walk around during the New Year and visit the wife Fang of the Xinguo Mansion.

It's a pity that the Fang family doesn't have a daughter, otherwise the juniors can also walk around.

Receiving such grace, if it is another wife, I am afraid that she has already bowed down with gratitude, or she is ashamed, or she sings praises of virtue. But as a modern person, Gu Qing couldn't understand the meaning of the queen's words at all, and could only be regarded as the queen's politeness.

It's like if you go to someone's house as a guest, and they say, "Come to my house often next time, don't bring anything, just come empty-handed!" "That's the case. If you have a good relationship, you will naturally be generous and move around often. But if the relationship is average, you can only deal with it casually, and you won't take it to heart.

Gu Qing, who had just worn it to ancient times, did not obtain equipment such as "Seven Exquisite Hearts and Livers".

So Gu Qing stayed for a long time, blinked his eyes, and responded as he had often done before.

"Oh, yes, definitely."

……

The ladies looked at each other. Gu Qing once again successfully cast a large-scale "group silence".

Fang had already used a wat board to cover his face.

The queen was amused by Mrs. Qiu's reaction. There is no difference between the royal family and the outsiders, she has been busy since the wax moon, and after so many busy days, it is the first time she really smiled.

This old lady is really cute. If I had married the Xinguo Mansion back then, I am afraid that I would have been much happier, right? If Lemon is still alive......

Forget it, why do you keep thinking about what you don't have during this time? She's really old.

I even dared to give birth to such a disrespectful thought.

"The old lady is straightforward." The queen chuckled and said, "I am not polite when I say this. Old lady, if you want to enter the palace to meet the Queen Mother, or look at me, a junior, the doors of the harem are open to you. ”

The queen took a waist card from the female official on the side.

"You keep this. When entering and leaving, show the guards in front of the palace gate, check the identity is correct, and then let you go. ”

If the queen's previous words made the wives have all kinds of thoughts, the queen's initiative to show favor and send a waist card will undoubtedly cause a seven-magnitude earthquake among the wives.

Feel free to come and go in the harem! This is equivalent to sending a road to heaven! If there are girls in Mrs. Qiu's family, and the old lady often brings them into the palace, it is difficult to guarantee that there will not be one more lady or something in the Xinguo Mansion in the future!

There are no girls in her family now, but won't there be a few more in Fang's belly? The Xinguo Mansion has taken off its filial piety this year!

Fang looked at his mother-in-law tremblingly. She was afraid that her mother-in-law would suddenly say, "What do I want this thing for?" or "It's too troublesome to enter the palace, so forget it." ”

Judging by her usual style and her increasingly eccentric temper lately, she may actually do so.

God knows how much she's the one who wants to get that brand!

Fortunately, Gu Qing was not stupid, seeing that everyone was looking at her with a blank eye, even Fang Shi had an eager expression, so she generously took the small brand sent by the queen and stuffed it into her sleeve.

Seeing that Mrs. Qiu casually took the wooden card, and put the palace card into her sleeve like a handkerchief or a sachet, many women with strict family education gasped.

She should have held her hands over her head and taken the wooden sign, and then knelt down to thank her! I heard that this old woman Qiu is a well-known weirdo, and it really doesn't seem to be wrong at all!

Fang Shi was so frightened that he knelt directly on the ground, and the sound of his knees hitting the floor tiles made Gu Qing feel pain when he heard it.

"My mother's body is not good, and her knees often don't obey the call, and the concubine Fang thanked the mother for the grace of the Xinguo Mansion! If the mother offends the mother, the concubine is willing to be punished. ”

Fang Shi kowtowed heavily, unable to bury himself.

Only then did Gu Qing know that he had done something wrong again. She thought about whether she should also kneel down and kowtow to the queen? But as soon as she came to her heart, she didn't want to kneel around, and secondly, Fang said that her knees didn't obey the call, and as soon as she said that her knees didn't obey the call, she knelt down, didn't this mean that the Fang clan was lying to people?

Although the Fang clan is not a good thing, the face of the Xinguo Mansion cannot be lost now, at least not in the hands of her Gu Qing, otherwise it will be too sorry for the dead old lady Qiu.

Belch...... Did she inadvertently lose face?

Looking at Gu Qing, who was standing there embarrassed, the queen, who knew that Mrs. Qiu was a person, patted her hand comfortingly, back then, Mrs. Qiu was also an equal friend to the Queen Mother.

She bent down again to pick up Fang on the ground. Well, it seems that when I met the people in this house, they kept helping me around.

"I just said that the old lady who is old and virtuous, the sick and the pregnant woman do not need to be polite, and the old lady of your house is certainly not among them. I have seen your filial piety, for your mother-in-law to take the responsibility of 'dereliction', you should be rewarded, how can you be punished? Come on, give the Duchess of Xinguo and a pair of wishes! ”

Fang, who had just been helped up, fell to the ground again, and kowtowed again to thank him. Gu Qing, who was "shot in the knee", had to bend down in response to the situation.

Yes, today's banquet for the wives has become a venue for their family and the queen to stage a "gentleman and minister".

Gu Qing watched Fang get up from the ground in flattery, and couldn't help but be impressed by Zhang Shaoguang's methods. At least all the wives looked at their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law with all kinds of envious eyes, and Fang's eyes were full of happiness and admiration for the queen's generosity.

It turned out that they had become the objects of the queen's "favorability".

Until the end of the banquet, the car of their group was waiting for Li Mao to come out outside the palace gate for half an hour, and there were women from various mansions who came to pay their respects. During this period, the Fang family also received countless posts from other people's families, some of whom were invited, and some of whom wanted to go to the Xinguo Mansion to pay a visit.

In short, the Fang family finally had the confidence to be the "Duchess of the Kingdom".

Zhang Shaoguang was naturally not generous to the Xinguo Mansion for no reason, let alone casually sent out the waist card of "entering and exiting safely".

In fact, she does not have this kind of "safe in and out" waist card, and in the entire palace, only the emperor and the queen mother have it. And her palace card of "entering and exiting peace" was given by the saint three days before the feast.

It seems that His Majesty is determined to help up the Shinkoku Mansion.

Also, the Xinguo Mansion has always been helpless, the previous generation is relying on the "lonely minister" who is dedicated to the king and has been standing proudly among the nobles in the capital, although this generation of Li Meng died, but Li Mao is not the kind of Adou who can't be supported, His Majesty just wants a person who is willing to stand up at a critical moment, this person must have weight, no party and no group.

This Li Mao has no powerful relatives behind him, and in two years, the father-in-law of Dali Siqing will also be a minister; The two have no ties to the relatives of the wealthy gentry, so they can only be the king.

Your Majesty believes in people like Lao Guogong. In other words, His Majesty believes in the "isolated" Xinguo Mansion. There are very few people in the capital who only rely on the grace of the Holy Grace like the Xinguo Mansion, and more importantly, the army is still secretly worshipping the spiritual position of the old Guogong and Li Meng in private, and the prestige of the Li family army is still undiminished.

If anything really happens to the family......

In recent years, the clan dispute has become more and more intense, and the former dynasty and the harem have been affected. Although she was born in a big family, her father died early, and her mother was the sister of the current Jin Guogong's widow, so she could not be regarded as the blood of her relatives.

Besides, he and His Majesty have been husband and wife for so many years, he should have known that she had no intention of getting involved in the struggles between the family and the royal power, and she just wanted to serve him wholeheartedly. Even under her persuasion, even the Jin State Mansion has reined in a lot over the years.

But His Majesty still couldn't fully trust her. As long as her surname is Zhang, as long as she is from a family, she will always be branded as a "family". The power of her relatives was too great, so that her emperor was nearly ten years old and did not become the crown prince.

She was about to reconsider the issue of companionship. If Li Rui can't do it, isn't there still Li Ming?

To say why His Majesty the Emperor Da Chu gave Lao Taijun this waist card, in addition to the reasons that the queen guessed, another important reason was that he was worried that his old friend Li Meng's son would have something to lose.

Li Meng died for his father, so he can't even have someone to inherit the incense after his death, right?

The Xinguo Mansion has been away from the court for so many years, and he needs to prove his status in the palace again, he observed Li Mao for a while, and felt that he was a usable person, at least in terms of "prudent words and deeds", he was very similar to Li Laoguogong. It's just that Chu Rui is bent on helping up the Xinguo Mansion, and there can't be any problems in their own mansion first. And there must be no such thing as Goshi's impeachment.

Chu Rui will let Old Madam Li often enter the palace is also the whole reason. First, he showed his ministers the importance he attached to the Xinguo Mansion; Second, the old lady has a straight temperament, she has something to say directly, and she can't hide things, so she will inevitably be cautious and cautious in her actions in the Xinguo Mansion. The third is that Chu Rui got a report from the spies, saying that Li Rui in the Xinguo Mansion was taken by the old lady to raise him personally, and he was a little suspicious that Fang's and Li Mao's hands and feet were not clean.

That child was originally the pride of the sky, the eldest grandson of the in-laws, but now he has become an embarrassing eldest grandson and young master, and two grandsons have appeared in one house. Although I heard that the husband and wife of the country regarded this child as their own, even outsiders could not find fault with it, but the Chu family and the Li family had been friends for many years, and they already knew what kind of character Mrs. Qiu was.

If there was really no problem at all, she would not have reached out to interfere with her grandson's upbringing with such a dull temperament.

She doesn't know a few big characters, and she doesn't know any piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, what can she teach?

Vegetables? Raising chickens?

So there's got to be a problem.

As the king of a country with a heavy heart, Chu Rui's heart first floated on all kinds of harem tilts, and all kinds of conspiracy and family business would appear in the selfishness. Although the Fang family was born in the Dali Temple, but the founding of the Great Chu has not yet been ten years, this Dali Temple Qing also saw that the old man of his family was in charge of prison litigation in the army back then, and he was loyal to the throne. If you talk about knowledge, it really can't compare to her sister-in-law who was born in a scholarly family.

If she wanted to assassinate Li Meng's son Li Rui, Old Taijun Qiu would not spare her. I haven't told it now, I'm afraid I just made some small mistakes that made the old man unhappy.

But this kind of thing will always be done a second time, and giving the old lady a waist card is to give the old lady a chance to enter the palace and apply for the palace. If the Fang family is not virtuous, he will let the Queen Mother issue an order to dismiss the Fang family's Yipin Lady Decree, and then give an innocent wife to Li Mao.

When Li Meng and he were poor, although they were estranged for a few years because of the shaking of light, they were finally irreversible. If he hadn't died early, he would have been his humerus by now. Li Rui's child, it seems that he should not be able to inherit the position of the prince of the country now, but it cannot be concluded that he cannot become a talent, let alone be at the mercy of others because he has no parental protection.

If Li Mao destroys the Great Wall by himself, he does such a treacherous and unfilial thing, and he doesn't need it.

The author has something to say: everyone knows what they did today. In short, because of this, the original 3000 main chapter has 3700 words, let's continue to read, the stupid author almost ran away from the reader.

Li Xiaopang, the author's aunt arranged a "uncle emperor" for you to protect your short, you have to thank me!