Without the mobile phone, an addictive monster, Liu Yu got up very early.

The maids who slept on the cots outside the sand tent had already gotten up, and when they heard the movement inside the sand tent, they did not immediately come to serve and dress.

The young people are in full swing in the morning, and the maids know that at this time, there are most obstacles in serving and dressing, and the pants are afraid that it will be difficult to put on.

After resting for about a quarter of an hour, I knew that it was not early by this time, and I needed to get up quickly.

"Book of Rites" cloud: All the gifts for the Son of Man are warm in winter and summer, and quiet and provincial.

In order to deeply understand the fatigue of parents giving birth, as children, they should greet their parents every day before breakfast and after dinner.

Yesterday, my mother knew that Liu Yu was going to eat and drink, and she was exempted from the province, but it was only valid for last night.

If you don't go today, if you reach your father, you will be scolded at least and beaten at worst.

When he was dressed, Swift combed his hair behind him and tied it up. The other maids also prepared green salt and incense tablets for gargling.

After brushing his teeth, wiping his face, and looking at the Western chiming clock in the house, the time was almost up, and he pondered for a while to borrow money, and headed towards the courtyard towards his mother.

When I entered the house, a woman in her forties was talking to a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old.

When the girl saw Liu Yu, she was still sitting, but she hurriedly got up and called her brother softly.

Liu Yu knew that this was his sister-in-law, he was his brother, and his sister was going to get up when she saw her.

He saluted his mother and greeted him, and then he took a closer look at his mother's appearance.

's mother is also the daughter of the prince, a descendant of the Xiangguo Gongdang Shousu, and now Xiangguo Justice is Liu Yu's maternal uncle.

Dashun took history as a mirror and was worried about the dictatorship of his relatives, so he would not let the children of the prince and nobles be the queen, for fear that the queen would be too powerful.

On the other hand, the prince was also annoyed that after marrying the princess, the family was restless, and occasionally he had to let the son-in-law who was not the eldest son marry a princess.

The emperor also did not like the marriage and intertwining between princes and nobles.

Therefore, an ingenious tacit understanding has been formed between the emperor and the nobles: if you are the emperor, it is best not to throw your daughter to our house and make the chickens and dogs restless; We don't marry each other, and we don't give eye medicine to your emperor.

The formation of unspoken rules requires a process.

The princes of the previous generation married each other, but since Liu Yu's generation, there has been an unspoken rule that the eldest son does not marry a noble daughter.

Liu Yu's mother's generation is the last marriage of the nobles.

is the daughter of a prince, and has a fair skin that has been raised for a long time, even if she gave birth to four children in her forties, she is still not old, and she looks like a forty-year-old woman in later generations.

Because it's at home, it's easy to wear.

Outside, there is only a stone blue embroidered silk embroidered with scattered flowers, accompanied by a long-tailed pheasant moire curtain embroidered with gold, which is pulled straight by a gold-inlaid jade Zhai Wen pendant.

Seeing that Liu Yu finished his salute, he waved at Liu Yu and smiled: "My son, tell you to eat less wine, I ate a lot last night, so what is there to eat crab roe?" I will eat here today and then go back, your father has not yet dispersed the court, and today Xu is the palace has given another gallery food......"

While speaking, he asked Liu Yu to sit aside.

The hand naturally took Liu Yu's hand, stroked it like every mother who wants her son, and said some homely words.

Liu Yu had goosebumps on his body, and his body was stiff.

To be honest, Liu Yu really has no feelings for his "mother".

Although it seems that this mother is very close to herself, after all, she is a cross-over, and she always feels a little embarrassed and a little cramped to do anything.

The other party is your own son, but you look at each other like a stranger, it is a simple hand-holding, such a mother-son interaction will be a little awkward.

If a forty-year-old beautiful woman holds hands and talks about it for the first time, it is strange.

But even if you let yourself eat here, it's not good to leave, you can only force a smile.

Thinking about the topics that my mother likes on weekdays, I chatted casually.

It seems that my mother likes the stories outside very much, probably because she has heard a lot of dramas and read a lot of scripts, but she often asks Liu Yu about all kinds of stories about Xiyi.

Inadvertently saw the hanging pictures in his mother's house, Liu Yu almost choked to death with laughter and coughed for a while.

I saw a painting hanging in the distance, and in the center of the painting was a kind woman wearing a right gown, with a circle of light on her head.

Behind the woman is a manger, and in front of the woman is a newborn baby, lying on a bluestone slab, and the baby also has a circle of light above his head.

Behind the manger stood a man in a long shirt, with a crown and a forehead band, followed by a green ox, and the man's turban with a crown was green, and there was no aperture on his head.

In addition to this painting, there is also a letter from Lao Tzu Qingniu; The authentic work of the "Red Arhat Picture" of the Songxue Daoist should be given by the palace.

Looking at these magical combinations of Yah, Tao and Buddha, hanging on the wall in harmony, Liu Yu also has a certain understanding of his mother.

If you take off the identities of Miss Xiangguo and Duchess Yiguo, there is no difference between them and those middle-aged women in the countryside.

Retracting his gaze and holding back his smile, the two of them talked again, and their two sisters-in-law also came.

Since she is a daughter-in-law, she always has to serve her mother-in-law to eat, even if the maid in the family can't be used up at all, she has to be the daughter-in-law's own.

The daughter-in-law has become a mother-in-law for many years, and that is not for fun.

Liu Yu came to borrow money, met his two sisters-in-law, and hurriedly greeted him.

Seeing the ceremony, he took this opportunity to say, "Coincidentally, my sisters-in-law are here." Mother, son wants to borrow some silver for ......"

After borrowing money in front of the two sisters-in-law, the eldest sister-in-law smiled and said, "Brother Yu, are you going to buy Western things again?" ”

"Yes."

"That Western stuff is expensive. But your brother just said that Brother Yu has made a rating in the Wude Palace, and His Majesty will definitely reuse it in the future, and I can't say that our family will have a knighthood again. Isn't Brother Yu good at Western learning? This money, well spent. ”

Liu Yu smiled, and said in her heart that the sister-in-law would say, is this because I am afraid that I will make trouble at home? As for it? Do you want to be reminded all the time?

He said, "Sister-in-law laughed." How difficult is it to get another knighthood? However, the younger brother has the heart to enter the upper house, and whether he can make meritorious contributions in the future depends on the future. ”

recognized the words of the eldest sister-in-law, and told the eldest sister-in-law that he definitely did not have the intention of staying at home to make trouble and rob the lord; The second is also to say that as long as you enter the upper house, you will definitely have no problem repaying the money in the future.

The second sister-in-law couldn't answer, so she could only praise Liu Yu with the sister-in-law.

The daughter-in-law is an outsider after all, and listening to the daughter-in-law praising her son, Liu Yu's mother was also happy, and asked: "Even if you open your mouth, it must be a lot." Go ahead. ”

"One thousand taels."

"Cheng, I'll write it down in a moment. It just so happens that your two sisters-in-law are also here, and things at home need to be seen in the light. After eating, ask someone to bring it to you. ”

After talking about the money, the mother waved at the two daughters-in-law and said, "You two go back, you don't need to come, the maids at home can't be used up, why do you have to come every day?" But my mouth is worn out, and the maid's feet are worn out, and I have to tell you every day that I don't use it, and if I forget it one day, you know it in your heart. ”

The two daughters-in-law hear such words every day, but they have to come every day.

My mother-in-law said no, it was a gift. But if you don't come, you'll be poked in the back.

For many years, your daughter-in-law has become a mother-in-law, this is not a simple slang, but a terrible number of tears rolling out.

Liu Yu's mother was Miss Gonghou, not long after the founding of the country, there was still a war in the south, and there were few rules, so there was no such a process of becoming a daughter-in-law for many years.

What she said was from her heart, but the two daughters-in-law didn't dare to take it seriously.

The two daughters-in-law saluted, thanked them, and then withdrew.

Liu Yu's sister only said that her mother's breakfast was a little tired and didn't want to eat it, so she went back to her own courtyard.

The only ones who could eat on the table were Liu Yu and his mother, and the maids had already been put away, and the two moved to the back room.

It's just a simple breakfast, and there aren't many dishes.

Most of the Xungui of Dashun are from Shaanxi, and they are not used to eating rice, so the breakfast of the kitchen has some small nests made of millet and chestnut noodles, and some sesame filled Lantern Festival for breakfast.

Because it was breakfast, the dishes were simple.

A product of bean seedlings and whitebait, a fresh green bean meat diced with snow cabbage, assorted shredded chicken, dried pickled civet cats in honey wine, winter melon with pomelo peel...... No more, it's nothing, it's a simple breakfast.

Worried that Liu Yu ate too many crabs last night, he asked the kitchen to prepare a shredded vinegar and ginger earlier.

The taste of the dish is average, and the bowl of sour bamboo shoots and duck strip soup at the end is a bit special.

"By the way, yesterday your uncle sent some Western tribute from the Ukola, which is from America. It is said that many spices and honey are used, except for sugar, cinnamon and gentian, the remaining seven or eight kinds are produced in Xiyi, what kind of spices are called Anis......"

"When I drink it, I need to brew it with boiling water and honey sugar, and I just think it is a good object, and I only take a sip and spit it all. If you like Western things, I'll have someone send them to you in a moment, and if you don't like them, throw them away. There was also a set of silverware for boiling this cocola, which was rough and tight, but it was not as pleasing to the eye as the uncarved boxwood spoon. ”

Listening to these strange names, Liu Yu thought of the translation nightmare he had experienced in the Qi State Mansion yesterday, and pondered for a long time while tasting all kinds of things in his mother's mouth.

Whikola?

Anies?

Depend on......

When he finally understood what his mother was talking about, his stomach couldn't help but churn.

Can this Nima be drunk?

Chocolate cocoa, which is said to be delicious, and in his previous life, he was greedy for silky smoothness when he was in elementary school.

Anies is the transliteration of cumin.

Coupled with more than ten spices such as cinnamon and star anise, and salt and star anise are boiled in cocoa, this thing is only worse than swill, right?

I wanted to excuse myself, but I heard my mother say that there was a set of silverware specially used for boiling, and when I thought that I needed money now, my eyes couldn't help but light up, and I secretly said that this was really buying a pearl and collecting a cooking pot and throwing cocoa.

Liu Yu thanked him, and told a few Western stories to relieve his mother, who was bored at home and couldn't go out, and only hoped that his mother would quickly agree to let him leave - this kind of feeling that others treat themselves as their own sons, but they treat her as a stranger when they first meet her, is really bad.

The mother gossiped some more, and asked the maid to take a beaver fur hat that was "tributed" by France, saying that it was also made in Quebec, America.

I only said that when I went to Wude Palace to perform martial arts a few days, the weather was cold, this hat was soft and hairy, and the hair was smooth and not bad when it met the water, and it was the warmest.

Liu Yu could also feel her mother's loneliness, accepted the beaver fur hat, finally accepted her heart, and chatted with her a few more words.

He had the insight of his previous life, so he found some stories that middle-aged women liked to hear, and only deduced that they were Xiyi stories to make his mother happy.

After talking for a while, the mother broke away from the maid and said with a smile: "Who gave you the bad idea?" Borrowing money in front of your two sisters-in-law? ”

Liu Yu couldn't give up the swift either, so he lowered his head and said, "Isn't this afraid of being verbose in the future." ”

"Afraid of a Rausch rambling? Now I'm still at home! ”

"Your eldest brother is going to attack the knighthood, and your second brother also has a job, and he is married to a family whose money is like snowflakes. As long as you are still young, I can still get your mother for a thousand taels of silver. Since you have gone to the public account, you will have to pay it back in the future, so why bother? In the future, I will use the money, call the swift over, and tell me quietly. This fanfare, I only use as much as I want, it turns out that a thousand taels of silver, it's really useless. Is 1,000 taels enough? ”

Parents love their young sons, and Liu Yu can't attack the knight, so his mother is very fond of him in private.

Liu Yu was grateful, nodded again and again, and only said that enough was enough.