When Xin Er returned home, Zuo was gone.

Xin Er was at a loss, raised his head and looked at the dark sky, far away in the west, the sunset dyed the clouds red, but it was gorgeous and beautiful, the intersection of light and darkness, giving people a strange feeling, he and Ling Huyan said: "It's evening, why didn't you invite the Queen Mother to stay for dinner?" ”

Ling Huyan went out early in the morning and hunted in the grassland outside the city for most of the day, harvesting a lot and feeling very good.

Hearing Xin Er's words, she glanced at Xin Er and said, "What you said is really funny. ”

"How funny?"

Ling Huyan said: "As the head of the family, don't I know that I have exhausted the friendship of the landlord and asked the Queen Mother to stay at home?" And I went hunting today, hunted a few pheasants, although it is not a first-class delicacy, good at preparation, it can also be called a delicacy, and I want to offer it to the Queen Mother to taste, but the Queen Mother is thinking about the king, anxious to go back to the palace to check the king's study today, do not want to stay to eat, what can I do? ”

Only then did Xin Er notice that Ling Huyan was still wearing a pleated hakama hunting suit.

But see her upper body narrow-sleeved robe, and the Zuo family is wearing the top is very similar, the lower body is a colorful embroidered hakama, this embroidered hakama is not the style that the Hu people are used to wearing, but mixed into the Tang people's clothing preference for wide customs, trouser legs are very wide, in order to facilitate horseback riding and other activities, at the two knees, each with colorful ribbons tightened, a pair of gray and yellow short waist leather boots on the feet, on the waist of the gold belt, hanging flint, needle, twine, kettle, short dagger and other things needed in the field, and inlaid with two jade plaques as decoration.

Dressed up, very heroic and neat.

Xin Er said: "When the Queen Mother came to the house, didn't you change your clothes to greet her?" ”

Ling Huyan glanced at Xin Er again and said, "As a golden branch and jade leaf, and as the head of the family, how can I not know etiquette? But when I got home, the Queen Mother was already waiting for me in the hall, so how could I have time to change my clothes? ”

She kept saying "the head of the family", this is what she blocked the door of Koji's house at that time, scolded Koji Shuang, greatly helped Xin Er, and made a "great contribution" for Xin Er to win the political struggle between Korea and China, and this sentence is often on her lips.

looks domineering, and the words are in people's ears, with her expressions and movements, but it will only make people laugh.

Many of the slaves and maids on the side snickered.

Xin Er said: "Okay, good, you are the head of the family, you have a reason for what you say." Thou art not to be loved by God. ”

"And what should I call it?"

"You should be very reasonable."

Ling Huyan was furious, raised her fist and threatened, and said: "Hugh has to compare me with Guo Daoqing's black and ugly rammer!" ”

Xin Er laughed and asked her, "The Queen Mother said that she had something to do with you, what is the matter?" ”

Ling Huyan put down her pink fist, but she was angry, and because of Xin Er's question, she showed a little twisted, and said, "What do you care about?" ”

Xin Er was suspicious, in front of a slave and maid, it was not easy to ask, so he said: "Let's ask again at night!" ”

Zuo hurriedly left, Xin Er was a little regretful, but there was no way to do it.

The dinner at home has been prepared, and after Xin Er washed, he said to Liu Le and Ugly, who were waiting on the side: "Bring my baby daughter and accompany me to eat." I don't see each other for a day, and I think about it so much! ”

Liu Le is not yet twenty years old, but she has given birth to a daughter and has passed the lactation period, and she already looks like a little woman. She pursed her lips and smiled, went back to the house with Ah Chou, hugged her daughter out, and came to the hall with Xin Er, Ling Huyan and others to eat together.

Xin'er's daughter is still young and can't speak, but she can sense who loves her, and she is very close to Xin'er, hugging Xin'er's neck without losing her hand, squeaking constantly, and she doesn't know what to say. Seeing that this little figure with pink makeup is so cute and pleasing, it makes Fox Yan slightly show a little longing. Xin Er handed her daughter to her and said with a smile: "You also come to hug?" ”

His daughter refused to give Ling Huyan a hug.

Ling Huyan pouted and said, "Who is rare!" He snatched the wine bowl on the Xin Er table, drank it in one gulp, and sat back on the table unhappily.

Although Liu Le and Ah Chou knew that Ling Huyan had no heart, and Ling Huyan had never insulted them as the main mother, they were inevitably nervous when they saw this scene.

Xin Er looked at the six roads, listened to the eight directions, and saw the appearance of the girls clearly, so he put his daughter on his lap, teasing her while harmonizing the atmosphere, and said with a smile: "There is a joke, I don't know if you have heard of it?" ”

Liu Le asked gently, "What joke?" ”

Xin Er said: "This joke is related to the old man. You know what happened to the old man's family, his children all died in trouble, so he was bent on having another son to inherit the lineage. Just last fall, one of his concubines became pregnant. The old man was overjoyed, because he was anxious to know whether it was a man or a woman, so he invited a so-called Western Regions monk in Guyin City to calculate it. Ask this monk, 'Make a tile'? Guess what this monk answered? ”

Langzhang is to give birth to a son, and Langwa is to give birth to a daughter.

Why do you give a son to play with jade, and give birth to a daughter only to play with a tile? Ling Huyan has always been dissatisfied with this description, snorted, and said, "How else can you answer?" Either get Zhang, or get tiles. ”

Xin Er shook his head and said, "No, no." The monk was vague and replied that Zhang also wanted to get it, and he also had to get the tile. ”

"Isn't that nonsense?"

The old man also thought he was talking nonsense, so he casually gave him some reward money and sent it away. But just a few days ago, the old man's concubine gave birth, guess what? actually gave birth to a son and a daughter! Dragon and phoenix fetuses. ”

Ling Huyan was surprised and said, "There is such a thing? In this way, that Western Regions Divine Monk is really a divine monk! ”

Xin Er smiled: "The old man thinks so too." ”

"What do you mean by thinking so?"

The old man prepared a generous gift again and personally sent it to the monk, and after the old man left, one of the disciples of the monk asked him, how could it be so accurate? Guess what the monk said? ”

Ling Huyan couldn't wait and said, "Don't always let us guess, what kind of bend!" What did the monk say? Say it quickly! ”

Xin Er dipped a little wine and wiped it into her daughter's mouth. Or the child's sense of taste has not yet grown, or the current alcohol content of the wine is too low, and his daughter does not think it is spicy, so she chirps and eats very deliciously. Xin Er pinched her little face with satisfaction and said, "You can eat wine today, and when you grow up, you can ride a horse and shoot arrows!" My daughter of Xin Agua should be a tiger girl! ”

Ling Huyan hurriedly left the table and got up, went to the side of Xin Er is food table, snatched her daughter away, raised her eyebrows coldly, and said, "Little child, what kind of wine do you feed?" Dare to feed it again and see how I clean you up! "My daughter was crying. Ling Huyan had no choice but to return her to Liu Le. It's no wonder, the child suddenly stopped crying. Ling Huyan watched the villain coquettish in Liu Le's arms, and said in her heart: "Sure enough, whose daughter kisses whom!" After looking at it for a while, he remembered that Xin Er hadn't finished what he had just said, and asked him, "What did the monk say?" Say it quickly. ”

Xin Er took the roasted meat and ate it himself, and while eating, he said leisurely: "The monk said: I have only been in Dingxi for more than a year, and I have just learned Tang dialect, so how do I know what it means to make Zhang and make tiles?" At that time, it was just the end of the day, and I had to respond to it! ”

Ling Huyan, Liu Le, Ah Chou and others all laughed when they heard this.

Ling Huyan said: "It turned out that he didn't learn and didn't know how to do it, but he was right!" After a pause, he said, "Fu Fuzi gave birth to a dragon and phoenix fetus?" ”

"Yes, because it is a concubine, he may not hold a full moon ceremony or anything like that, but the 'trial' should have it, and when that happens, I will take you there."

"Try" is the grasp of the Zhou in later generations, this custom in modern times, began to be popular in Jiangzuo, Dingxi was influenced by it, some scholars in the family, on the occasion of the child's first birthday, also gradually did this.

Ling Huyan said unhappily: "I'm not going!" ”

Xin Er asked strangely, "What's wrong?" For no reason, and a temper tantrum. ”

Ling Huyan ignored him and just buried his head in eating.

Xin Er knows her temperament, many times like a child, in terms of her age, older than Liu Le, but more mature, not as good as Liu Le, she neither said, it is useless to ask, so she will not ask for the time being.

After eating, Xin Er played with her daughter for a while.

It's getting late, and tomorrow is the morning meeting, so I have to get up early, so I go back to the house and get ready for bed.

The candle shadow in the room is red, the dark fragrance is around, on the bed, in the bead tent, Ling Huyan supports her head with her hands, lies sideways, and the brocade painted with mandarin ducks and other patterns covers most of her body, revealing a snow-white neck and a plump chest, which is very different from the appearance of suddenly sulking during the meal just now, but it is very different, her eyebrows are affectionate, provoke her eyebrows, and say: "Ah Gua, you ask me what the Queen Mother is looking for me?" ”

"yes, I was about to ask you again."

Ling Huyan pursed her mouth, wore a tulle skirt, exposed the delicate curves of her body, and stood barefoot under the bed, and immediately picked up a bowl from the desk and held it in front of Xin Er.

Xin Er saw that there was nothing in the bowl, only a little remnant of soup, smelled a medicinal smell, and asked, "What is this?" ”

The big head said: "This is the medicine that the Queen Mother gave to the Lord when she came to the house today." ”

"God love, are you sick?"

The big head said, "Everyone, this medicine is not used to cure diseases. ”

"That's?"

The big head's eyes also became watery, and she whispered: "It's used to help you get pregnant!" ”

Ling Huyan bit her lip and said: "Ah Gua, as the head of the family, I still have no children, so my wife is not happy, because the queen mother is concerned about me, she specially asked the medical officer in the palace to prescribe and gave me this medicine." Saying that, half-shy, he threw a wink at Xin Er, and then said, "I just took the next post, why don't you take advantage of the strength of the medicine to let us make Zhang and tiles next year?" ”

Xin Er took off his robe, walked to the side of the bed, and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll ask you to be the head of the family for a while!" ”

In the courtyard on a summer night, the moon is bright and fragrant.