From the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, various activities for the new year began to be carried out step by step. From top to bottom, even the messenger at the gate has changed into new clothes.

Jing Yi was afraid that she would make a mistake and fall into the laughing stock of others, and she had already asked Zhang's mother carefully about some rules she could think of, and she still followed Yamei to see how she behaved on this day.

Yamei laughed at her for being too cautious, and she didn't care.

After lunch, seeing that the weather was fine, Yamei decided to take Jingyi around the house. Jingyi took Cersei's hand and followed Yamei, listening to her talk about some old things about the Tao family as she walked. Some of them she had already heard from Zhang's mother, but Yamei was richer and more interesting than Zhang's mother, and she thought it was very good. Elsewhere, she visited the main hall of the sacrifice more carefully. The main hall has been greatly decorated with the wedding ceremony held a few days ago. Covered with red felt from the outside to the inside. Jingyi walked on the red felt, as the red felt extended to the depths of the main hall, he looked up and saw the long case of the sacrifices, which was a large Huanghuali case, with all the bells and tripods on it, all of which were antiquities. Not to mention the elaborate offerings, which look like they are dazzling. On the incense table in the middle, smoke is rising from the incense burner, and the smoke surrounds the hall. Jingyi was in this thin smoke, looking up, there were huge portraits of Tao's ancestors hanging in the hall. Densely arranged, the faces of the ancestors in the portraits are either serious or kind, but the eyes are consistent as if looking down from top to bottom, Jingyi looked at it, and became more and more quiet. Even Yamei, who has always loved to laugh, and Cerse, who have always loved to laugh, have gradually become quieter unconsciously.

"The ancestors moved here with King Su in the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu. It has taken root here ever since. The Ming and Qing dynasties, especially since the Qing Dynasty, the Tao family was in the northwest, not to mention that there were no two for a while, but also unique. In the past, there was a saying that it was easy to shake the northwest, but it was difficult to shake the Tao. Whoever wants to move here has to ask the Tao family if they agree. Yamei whispered.

Jingyi nodded.

Looking at the color of the uniform, the military attache does not mention it, and the civil and official equipment is up to the top, which shows the prominence of the Tao family.

"Where's the Ma family?" Jingyi asked. Ma is a big surname here. She hasn't seen anyone else, only Ma Jiayu is alone, and his bearing is not bad.

Yamei smiled and said, "It's still worse than the Tao family." ”

Jingyi looked at her, this should be the standard Tao family's daughter-in-law's appearance, when it comes to the opponent, she is not arrogant, but proud. is not only elegant, but when the young grandmother is silent, she also has some momentum that is not angry and self-threatening.

"Oh, yes. Listening to her mother, the eldest lady came back soon. Yamei said.

"Really?" Jing Yi thought about it, as if she had heard a sentence or two about the eldest lady Er An and her husband were about to return to China, but she didn't remember where she heard it.

"Our eldest lady is not an ordinary woman. I've heard that you can be on your own when you're at home. This is needless to say, the Tao family has a powerful aunt and grandmother. Even if you marry in the past, it's good. The Fu family is also a big family in Shanxi, the family has a big business, and the people are prosperous, and the complexity of the family is not comparable to our family. The eldest brother-in-law's mother is the housewife at home, and the eldest lady is very valued by her mother-in-law. The eldest brother-in-law went abroad, and she has been on duty for several years. At the beginning, she said that she was helping to open the business abroad, but in fact, the eldest brother-in-law didn't spend much time on the Fu family's career, but she grabbed it. The Fu family has a wide network of contacts in the European Chinese social circle, and the brother-in-law is a good person, and he has done things for the government in the past two years, both openly and secretly. As soon as the former government fell, his public office was naturally gone, and people were idle. This time, I said that I was back for vacation, but I went to Nanjing first. It took such a big circle to come back, and I didn't know what new plans there were. Yamei explained.

Jingyi listened to Yamei talking, and suddenly remembered that it should have been mentioned by the third sister-in-law that night. She said, "No wonder." ”

"What's the wonder?" Ya Mei asked.

"Maybe my third sister-in-law knows the eldest lady?" Jingyi said. Her understanding of this eldest sister-in-law is limited to the indirect introduction of Yamei.

"It's not clear. The eldest lady loves Lao Qi very much, you see that you are married, and she also sent a gift back. When we got married, she only had one check to send away. Yamei said with a smile.

At this time, he grabbed Yamei and Jingyi's hands, and asked the Buddha's hand on the table to play.

Jing Yi thought about the offerings on the table, it was not good to really give them to the children to play, for fear of disrespecting the ancestors, so she picked up and coaxed her, and said, "Second sister-in-law, you are jealous again." ”

"Well, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat your jealousy from now on! But then again, I don't dare to provoke the eldest lady. When I married Yuyuki, she was still in China. It so happened that she gave birth to her third son and lived at home for a few months. People are very good, but their tempers are really unbearable. Yamei said, and really took a Buddha's hand out of the huge golden-painted pastel bowl and gave it to Cersei.

"Second sister-in-law, this is not good." Jingyi said.

"There are so many more, and they are not delicious, you can only smell the fragrance, and the ancestors will not blame." Ya Mei sighed and waved her Buddha's hand again, as if it was no different from before. She folded her hands and bowed to the portrait hanging here, "Let's go." ”

Jingyi felt that it was inappropriate, but Yamei did it, and then she liked the golden Buddha's hand in her arms, so it was enough. The two hurried around the back hall to get out like children who had teamed up to play a prank. I didn't want Yamei to be in a hurry, so I tripped over my foot, and I fell at the gate of the back hall. Jingyi walked in front with Cersei in her arms, and when she heard Yamei's oops, she looked back and saw Yamei falling to the ground, startled.

"It's not the New Year yet, and the second sister-in-law grabbed the ingots?" Er Yi came out of nowhere and ran over to pull Yamei up.

Jingyi put Cersey down and came over to see how Yamei fell.

Yamei rubbed her knees and whispered, "It hurts." Where did the eighth sister come from? ”

"Let the second sister-in-law move the offerings." Er Yi rubbed her knees and said with a grin, "I'll follow you two and see what you two have to do." Who knew that the second sister-in-law was so bold, I was going to sue my mother and ask her to punish you. If you fall this big fall yourself, you will be punished. I'm not going to talk about it anymore. ”

Yamei was teased by her sister-in-law, her knees hurt again, and she said with a smile: "Then I will give you one more red envelope." ”

"Thank you, sister-in-law." Er Yi smiled and picked her up.

Jingyi was reminded by Yamei's reminder that she also had to prepare a red envelope - this matter, it seemed that she should discuss this matter with Tao Xiang, but she didn't see him again after having breakfast with him at her grandmother's this morning......

"Seventh sister-in-law, what do you want?" Er Yi helped Yamei to walk out, and when she saw that Jingyi was still standing still, she turned around and called her. "She is unruly, it must have something to do with your seventh brother." Ya Mei joked about Jing Yi.

"Brother Qi said that he went back to catch up on sleep. Last night, the dance broke up so late. It's going to be dawn when I come back, and I've drunk so much wine, maybe I'm really tired. Er Yi said, blinked, and asked, "Seventh sister-in-law, will you go back and see Seventh Brother?" ”

Jingyi was about to go back to find Tao Xiang, but when Er Yi said this, she hesitated and said, "Since I went back to make up for sleep, what should I do to see him?" ”

Er Yi hadn't spoken yet, Ya Mei was happy, but seeing that Er Yi was by her side, she couldn't make too much of the joke, so she only nodded at Jingyi and said, "I think you should go back and have a look." They had a really bad dance last night, and when Gozhi came back, he said that because you couldn't go, the seventh brother was punished for dancing on your behalf...... Why doesn't the eighth sister help your seventh brother? I just played by myself. ”

Er Yi smiled, looked at Jingyi and said, "It's all for the seventh sister-in-law, I'm useless." Ouch, by the way, I have something else to do...... Second sister-in-law, seventh sister-in-law, I'm leaving. ”

She was about to run.

"Eight aunts, I'll go too!" Cersei called her.

Er Yi came over and pinched his face and said, "I can't take you there." ”

"What's the matter, don't run, go slowly." Yamei shouted.

"Uncle Li got up early and asked someone to tell me, saying that my Queen Mary is going to give birth, I'll go and see, why is there no letter at this time......" Er Yi said and had already entered the back hall door, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"It's all about the wind." Yamei said.

"Queen Mary?" Jingyi asked.

"Her horse. gave the horse such a foreign name, and was told by his father. I don't change what I say. Yamei explained to Jingyi, "The people who love horses the most in this family are the seventh and eighth sisters." Why don't you go back and see? ”

"What am I going to do when I go back?" Jingyi is still pulling and squeezing.

"It's still early for the evening sacrifice. If you want to keep the New Year, you can't doze off when the time comes. Go back and take a break, change your clothes and come back. I'll have to go back and change my clothes. Ya Mei said, pulling Cerser over, "Say goodbye to the little aunt." ”

"I don't, I'm going with my little aunt." Cersei said.

"You kid!" Ya Mei glared.

"Then let her follow me." Jing Yi said, looking down at Cersei.

Yamei had no choice but to say: "Then I'll go back and clean up, and let Hu Niu'er pick her up after a while - if you don't take a nap today, you are not allowed to make trouble at night." Also, in the past, you weren't allowed to argue with Uncle Seven, you know? ”

Cersei nodded, held back and didn't speak, and when Yamei left, she took Jingyi's hand and walked to Langyuan, before she whispered, "I won't make trouble." ”

Jingyi listened to her young age, muttering milkily, for some reason she felt very funny, she couldn't help but laugh all the way back to Langyuan. Before I entered the door, I heard Tao Xiang shouting "come back" inside. She paused, followed by another "come back". The tone was aggravated, but not angry.

Cersei had already broken free of her hand, thought about it, came back and shoved the Buddha's hand into her hand, and ran in first.

"Slow down." Jing Yi hurriedly shouted.

"Uncle Seven!" Cried out as soon as he entered the door.

Jingyi caught up and looked, and there were only Tao Xiang and the white lion in the courtyard. At this time, plus Cersei, and herself, there were only "four" - and the white lion had a belt in his mouth and was running in the direction of the house, obviously Tao Xiang was calling it back just now - she watched Tao Xiang pick up Cerse casually, but the white lion got into the cotton curtain with the belt in his mouth and disappeared without a trace...... After a while, he led Cersei into the door with Tao Xiang.

Tao Xiang saw Jingyi enter the house and put the Buddha's hand on the coffee table, and asked Cersei, "Naughty again, right?" ”

"Mom gave it to me." Sharp teeth.

Tao Xiang looked at her.

"I asked my mom to bring it to me." Cersei changed his words.

Tao Xiang touched her forehead and said, "This is good." ”

Jingyi asked Qiu Wei to take a wet towel to wipe her hands and give her something to eat, and she was busy when she heard Tao Xiao say: "I asked Qiu Wei to put the things that will be used in the new year in your room, wait and go up and take a look." ”

"Okay." Jingyi originally wanted to ask him this, but when he took the initiative to say it, she saved her question.

While Tao Xiang took Cerse into the study to play with the white lion, she went back to the room. Sure enough, there was a colorful brocade box on the bedside table, and when I opened it, there were two rolls of banknotes, a blank checkbook, and a large stack of red envelopes. Open the red envelope and see how much money there is. She thought that the red envelopes for her subordinates could come back, and those for Er Yi and Se Se Qilin had to be brought. She took a few red envelopes and put them on her body and put away the brocade box.

I vaguely heard the sound of the piano, and it must have been a chord playing the piano downstairs.

She saw that she was already wearing a very festive red skirt, and she didn't need to wear a lot of makeup tonight, so she didn't change her clothes if she could cope with the past.

I thought of what Tao Xiang was going to wear at night, and wanted to take it out and prepare it, but Qiu Wei said, "Uncle's clothes have been taken to the next room." Adjutant Ma came over and told me to clean it up. I asked, and he said it was my uncle's meaning. After noon, my aunt was resting in the study, but was quarreled with by the white lion and took to the yard to play. Somehow he remembered this stubble...... Does my uncle know that there is not enough place for the young lady's clothes to hang? ”

Jing Yi frowned slightly.

"But in that case, Uncle really won't have to go into this room, miss." Qiu Wei said in a low voice.

I could tell she was a little worried.

Jingyi didn't speak for a long time, but when she got up to go out, she said, "It's okay." ”

Save coming and going, embarrassing for each other.

"How's that going to work! If you don't sleep in the same room......" Qiu Wei muttered.

"What the are you doing?" Jingyi said casually.

"Who let you not have a room in Beiping......," Qiu Wei said in a very thin voice.

When Jingyi heard this, she closed the door again with a "snap", turned her head and glared at Qiu Wei and shouted, "Shut up!" ”

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