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Not long after Mrs. An Ningbo's funeral was completed, it was the New Year.
In the first Spring Festival after the new emperor ascended the throne, there was a great amnesty for the world, and the Song Daru and Liang families, who were involved in King Ning's rebellion for no reason, were rehabilitated.
The Song family is separated, and the matter of finding the separated children will not be mentioned for the time being.
Speaking of the second lady Liang's maiden family, because the family wealth that had not been in the official position was returned, the new emperor allowed the Liang children to re-examine the scientific examination, so the Liang family, who was so decadent that they gave up on themselves, suddenly got new hope and began to cheer up.
Liang saw that his mother's family was no longer as muddy as before, and began to seek progress, and he was also relieved.
It just so happened that at the end of the year, a spicy restaurant gave her a lot of dividends, which was a lot of silver taels, so she asked her to hand it over to her sister-in-law, hoping to use the money to buy more books and pen for her nephews at home.
In the past few years, she has done something that she doesn't know how many times, but this time is the only one she is willing and happy.
Liang's sister-in-law was both guilty and grateful to this sister-in-law, she cried fiercely in front of Liang, sorry and at the same time told about the pain she had endured in the past two years.
There is no way, the men in the family have been depressed, so they can only rely on women to support the family business.
She sold her dowry and couldn't maintain the family's daily expenses, so she had to be cheeky to grind the sisters-in-law who got married.
Sister-in-law Liang is also from a scholarly family, if she wasn't forced to be helpless, she wouldn't have been able to do something like that.
Now that the darkest and helpless days have passed, and the confiscated family property has been re-delivered to her, she can finally cry sorry to her sisters-in-law in the open.
Cui Ling learned about this. Although he still doesn't look down on the men of the Liang family. But there was nothing to say.
At the beginning, she planned to open a spicy restaurant. is also to save some private space for the Liang family, and even the old lady acquiesced to asking the Liang family to supplement her mother's family, so she didn't feel strange to see that the second sister-in-law gave all the money she had saved for most of the year to her mother's family at once.
As long as the second sister-in-law is happy.
Because of this happy event, the second sister-in-law's face, which had been dimmed for many years, finally regained its brilliance, and the Yuan family had a very happy New Year.
The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve was personally handled by Cui Ling.
Affected by her, several sisters-in-law of the Yuan family have now become foodies. The nephews and nieces of the younger generation are no exception, and the words of the gentleman who is far away from the kitchen have long been thrown out of the clouds in the Yuan family.
Not only a few sisters-in-law often followed her to the kitchen to study pastries, but even several brothers also became frequent guests in the kitchen.
Especially when Cui Ling and Chef Liu were researching new dishes, the kitchen in the house was always full of people.
This time too.
Because he wanted to cook a table of good dishes with all the color and fragrance for the first reunion year after marrying into the Yuan family, Cui Ling prepared the ingredients with Master Liu several days in advance.
Early in the morning on Chinese New Year's Eve, she went into the kitchen.
There are five rooms in the house, twenty-three people, except for a few small ones, seventeen or eighteen people.
Originally, the Eight Immortals table was used for banquets at home, but later Cui Ling suggested it. A few large round tables were specially customized, and they were placed in the Zhenghua Hall. It is specially used for family dinners.
In this way, adults and children sit separately, and there are two large tables.
She had to get the two tables of delicacies out before the evening.
Although this is a seemingly huge and tiring errand, but because of the help of the sisters-in-law, it has become happy and interesting, and even the sister-in-law Yining County Lord came to help make a small snack.
The dinner was set in the main flower hall, where there was a large space and all kinds of flowers around it, which was very beautiful.
There is also a small stage in front of the hall, Cui Ling has offered a lot of money to reward the talented people in the house in the morning, if he is willing to perform a special show for the masters of the family at the night banquet, there will be a heavy reward, and more unexpected surprises.
The atmosphere of the Yuan family has always been very good, and the people in the house really like the masters, especially the fifth lady, since the fifth lady married in, the food of the people has also been rapidly improved.
Everyone was convinced by the Fifth Lady, so they responded to this call very enthusiastically.
On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, before all the dishes on the big round table were arranged, the performance on the small theater began.
Cui Ling also knew for the first time that there were so many literary and artistic experts among the servants and servants in the family.
Humming a small song and singing a minor key and saying an allegro is not mentioned, there is even a swallowing sword and a big stone in the chest, this continuous performance caused a surprise and admiration in the room.
It's just a few small ones who are fascinated by it, and even people like Lao Taijun who have seen the scene can watch it with joy.
When the table is full of dishes, the atmosphere in the room becomes even more lively.
The family banquet of the Yuan family is not as poor and exquisite as other people's, there is no food, the dishes are all shared on a plate, and you can eat whatever you like, as you like.
Therefore, when encountering a dish that everyone loves to eat, a few chopsticks often rush down, and after a while, the dish on the plate will be eaten.
In such an atmosphere, everyone was boiling, and all kinds of ideas were spoken.
Even Sister Xin, who has always been quiet and doesn't like to talk, tilted her little head and asked from the next table, "Aunt Five, can I eat another piece of sweet and sour pork ribs?" The last piece on our table was eaten by Yu'er! ”
Cui Ling naturally immediately took two pieces from her own table, "Sister Xin, you like to eat, wait for the next time Aunt Fifth will make a plate for you." ”
Brother Yu also leaned over, "Aunt Five, you don't love me anymore, you only do it for Sister Xin, you didn't think of me!" ”
He rubbed Cui Ling's sleeve with his little head, "Aunt Five, didn't you say that you want to be good friends with each other, and you can't leave me a plate when you make pork ribs for Sister Xin?" ”
Cui Ling's face was full of black lines, and she was helpless, "Okay, okay, as long as you want to eat, don't say one plate, ten plates will be made for you." ”
In view of her special revolutionary relationship with Brother Yu, she never forgot this little child during her pregnancy and childbirth. The little kid also came to spend time with her and the children. He was even closer to Ke'er and Yi'er than his own brother.
Because of the relationship that is too familiar. Brother Yu and her are a little big and small.
Several other nephews saw her, which one was not respected and loved, in order to eat the unique dishes she made herself, even the older nephews did not slap her beard.
Only Brother Yu has never forgotten to bury her.
But who told her to have a deep relationship with him? She still enjoyed the intimacy.
The people in the family were so happy when they heard Cui Ling and Brother Yu'er's poor mouth that you came and went, and the old lady was even more laughing and holding her stomach. "Oh, little fourth daughter-in-law, look at it, is this still our family's serious little old man-like Brother Yu?"
In the past, Brother Yu was a big ghost, very deep, and he couldn't see the childishness of a child on his body at all.
And now, he is the most lively of the children, especially the poor-mouthed, no one is his opponent.
Su Zihua also felt very helpless, but after Cui Ling got married. Her own personality has also changed a lot, and it's really no wonder that Brother Yu will be "edified".
Fortunately, this change in Yu Ge'er. She likes it too, so she and Shiro are happy to see it happen.
While watching the endless performances of talented people, everyone tasted the delicacies and said happy words to each other, and they were happy.
Only Yue'er still seemed to have a sentimental look on her face.
Seeing this, Cui Ling said with a smile, "Although this is not the first New Year for me to marry into the Yuan family, it is the first time that the family has gathered like this, so I have prepared gifts for everyone." ”
She cleared her throat, "Although the gifts are not very valuable, they are the same as Gorou and I, and I hope that grandmother, father, brother and sister-in-law, and children will not be disliked." ”
When Mu Hibiscus heard this, he immediately asked the mother-in-law to hand over the prepared gifts to Cui Ling.
Cui Ling personally distributed.
For the old lady, she made a pair of white eiderdown knee pads herself.
Lao Taijun suffered an old knee injury when he was young when he was fighting, and the weather has been cold recently, so he always has a dull pain, and I don't know how much medicine he has used has not improved.
She thought that white duck down was warmer than ordinary cotton, and if she used this to make a pair of knee pads, maybe it would make the old lady feel better, although she didn't know the specific effect, but she always wanted to give it a try.
For the general was a nine-shot repeater.
Although the general had been disarmed and returned to the field and no longer fighting, his old man was obsessed with hunting, and almost every few days he would go to the enclosure in the West Mountain to hunt animals.
Cui Ling actually didn't know anything about weapons, but she had read a lot of martial arts novels in her previous life, and she thought that the concept of the nine-shot repeater was quite interesting, so she told Goro about the general design.
Gorou was also very interested, so he found a skilled craftsman to do it, and he actually made it.
No, he gave it to the general as a gift, hoping that the next time he goes hunting, he can use this to lock the faster animals he encounters.
Nine-shot repeater, no matter how fast the animal is, there is always one shot that can hit.
The gifts of the sisters-in-law are all exquisite workmanship and novel design of the pearl hairpin, the brothers' are the small tools at hand, Cui Ling even designed an ancient version of the Swiss Army knife for the fourth brother, although the process is not advanced, the shape is slightly clumsy and rough, but the fourth brother is still happy to see the eyes straight.
The children's gifts are toys and all kinds of special stationery, which are all things that cannot be bought on the market, most of them are designed by Cui Ling himself, and then made by the hands of skilled craftsmen.
On this Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone got their own satisfactory gifts, and they were very happy.
But they also secretly thought that when they waited for next year's Chinese New Year's Eve, they would also spend their time preparing gifts for their families like Cui Ling.
Yue'er turned her face and looked around, pouting and asking, "Aunt Five, where is my gift?" ”
Everyone else has it, and even a few younger brothers who can't even speak have gifts, so they just pulled her down, and she didn't follow.
Cui Ling smiled at her, "Silly girl, how can you be missing?" Your gift has already been placed in your room, and you will be able to see it when you return to the house. (To be continued......)