"My darling, let me hurt and hurt." Xu Hanyun shook off Mother Liu, went upstairs in a few steps, and hugged the peony in his arms.

"Third master, don't worry!" Peony half-pushed and half-pushed Xu Hanyun into the house and closed the door.

Linghua, who was renamed Peony, is already the top brand of Caifeng Building. Now there is no thirty or fifty taels of snowflake silver, and I can't see her if I want to see her.

"Mother Liu, Second Master Chen's mansion is holding a banquet, and I want to invite Miss Yuyao to serve the wine bureau. Look at ......" Liu Jia stood beside Liu's mother with a post.

"You send it."

"Yes."

"In the end, Mother Xu will train people." Watching Liu Jia and Yu Yao get into the carriage of the Chen Mansion, Mother Liu muttered and came to the door to welcome the send-off.

"Shumei to the master, Mrs. please be safe." Early in the morning, Yue Shumei knelt in the front hall of the National Teacher's Mansion, and in front of her sat Zhang Qingyan and the eldest wife Zhang Fang.

"Get up." Zhang Fangshi gritted his teeth angrily, and reluctantly squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth, "Come over and I'll take a look." ”

Yue Shumei stepped forward, Zhang Fangshi took her hand and kneaded it vigorously, with a smile on her face: "The master is really a blessing, and I have found a beautiful girl like a flower and jade, the master should take care of his body, don't fall asleep in the light tent of the beautiful girl!"

"Spread out!" Zhang Qingyan saw that Yue Shumei's hand was pinched and twisted by Zhang Fang's family, and couldn't help but be annoyed, "What kind of words!" Full of gibberish! ”

Zhang Fang's spirit let go of his hand, and seeing Zhang Qingyan defending the woman in front of him like this, Zhang Fang's couldn't help but feel sad, and waved the tea bowl on the table to the ground, lying on the table and crying: "Zhang Qingyan! You're over half a hundred years old! I also dragged a sixteen or seventeen girl like your daughter into the room, and I was ashamed of you! ”

"Someone!" Zhang Qingyan saw that Zhang Fang's more and more troubles were getting worse and worse, and called the servant, "Shut her up!" Drag it to the firewood room! ”

Zhang Fangshi was gagged and dragged out, and in the violent struggle, Zhang Fang's two embroidered shoes were scattered in the courtyard. Yue Shumei turned around and sat on the chair, looked at the embroidered shoes in the courtyard to cover her mouth and smiled: "I didn't expect Mrs. Zun to be so spicy."

"The eldest lady smiled." Zhang Qingyan wiped the sweat from his sideburns and said with a smile.

"Don't be a big lady, before going out, my father told me that what I want to do this time is to be done at all costs, if I want to stand firm and have a reasonable identity, I think about it, it is better to be your concubine, not to mention that the national teacher has the heart to do great things with us, then we are a family. Don't be so outside in the future, just call me Shumei. ”

"Yes, yes, the eldest lady is right, family, family." Zhang Qingyan was so happy that her eyebrows were about to fly into the sky, this is the sister who fell from the sky.

"Green bamboo, last time the handkerchief embroidered with begonia flowers sold for a lot of money, is there still an embroidered handkerchief like that?" Zhou's mother asked quietly by drawing water.

"Not this time, next time." Lu Zhu quickly glanced at Qiu Tang, who was washing clothes, and replied in a low voice, "Mother Zhou is bothered." Seeing that no one around was paying attention to them, Luzhu quickly stuffed a burden to Zhou's mother.

"Don't worry." Zhou's mother stuffed the burden into her arms and continued to fetch water as if nothing had happened.

"Concubine Rou, seeing that the New Year is coming next month, it is easier to celebrate the New Year in the palace this year, after all, the saint said before that Concubine Yun passed away, and she will not be entertained for three years, and in the last year of this year, don't break the rules."

"Don't worry, the concubine remembers." Concubine Rou's head should arrive.

"The Holy One has arrived!" Outside the hall, the voice of Gonggong You suddenly sounded, and the queen and the harem concubines in the palace knelt down: "The concubines and others greet the holy car."

Mu Jianyu didn't squint, walked straight to the right seat and sat down, and said lightly: "Get up."

Everyone thanked them, flattened, and no one dared to sit. Mu Jianyu's gaze slid over everyone's faces, and the calm gaze made it impossible to understand what he was thinking.

"Queen." After a long time, Mu Jianyu spoke again, "There is now another month to celebrate the New Year, I said before that these three years should be simple, this year is the last year, you have also been wronged in the past few years, the fifteenth day of the first month of this year is a good day, the palace has not been lively for a long time, fifteen will be lively." ”

"The concubine received the order and thanked him." With the queen taking the lead, all the people saluted in unison.

"There is one more thing, the queen has arranged to choose an auspicious day, and I want to be promoted to the position of the harem." When Mu Jianyu's gaze slid over Zhang Wan, he was a little more gentle.

"Yes." Although the queen was a little uncomfortable about the promotion, she still pretended to be full of smiles and responded.

The day of the New Year is getting closer and closer, and the work of pulping and washing clothes is also less, and the girls began to prepare for the New Year according to Xu's mother's instructions. The older ones are in charge of making all kinds of pastries, and the younger ones are in charge of picking and washing vegetables. Although the water is still bitterly cold, after all, it is warmer in the kitchen than in the yard. The sisters finally had a smile on their faces.

"Jin Niang, distribute the newly made clothes and newly prepared hairpin ring jewelry I made for the girls, let them all wear them, and come to see me." On the morning of the thirtieth day of the lunar month, Xu's mother summoned Jin Niang, who was specially designed to buy clothes and jewelry for Linglong Pavilion.

"Yes." Jin Niang took four or five people to carry the boxes to the small courtyard where the girls lived. Brand new clothes were taken out of the box, and the girls' eyes were straight, although it was not a precious fabric, it was better than nothing.

"Mother Xu has instructed, the girls in our Linglong Pavilion should dress up beautifully, not only to be able to do things, but also to be able to dress up. Six pieces of clothes per person, three pairs of shoes, two sets of hairpin ring jewelry per person, one piece of fat powder rouge per person, the older ones with belts and the younger ones, all dressed up, follow me to Xu's mother to kowtow. Jin Niang instructed her subordinates to distribute things to the girls, and sat on the stone bench in the small courtyard herself. On the stone bench, there was already a little maid beside Jin Niang who put a soft cushion, which was soft and warm.

After a while, the girls all received their clothes, stood neatly in the courtyard, and saluted Jinniang: "Thank you Aunt Jinniang, Aunt Jinniang has bothered." After that, I went back to the room to change clothes and shoes, and freshen up.

About half an hour, the girls came out one after another and gathered in the small courtyard.

"It's really a person who relies on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, and this dress is really a top person." Jin Niang held the hand stove, paced, looked at the warbler Yanyan in the courtyard, and couldn't help but praise, "Go, follow me to the front hall to kowtow to Mother Xu and Master Quan." Then he led the girls to the antechamber.

The front hall is full of lights, the flaming red lanterns are hung at the door, the two pairs of water-red candles on the Eight Immortals table in the middle of the front hall illuminate Xu's mother's face more and more ruddy spirit, and there are four delicate fruit bowls in the middle of the Eight Immortals table, fresh fruits and dried fruits. Six futons are placed in front of the table of the Eight Immortals, each of which is wrapped with a layer of pink silk, embroidered with tuantuan peonies in the middle, and embroidered with small characters next to the yellow silk thread "Flowers bloom and are rich". Looking up, there were countless red lanterns hanging on the beams, and a bunch of tassels was thrown out from under each lantern, and two of each tassel grew out of one section, and a small small ingots wrapped in gold leaf fell.

Qiu Tang looked here, look there, in a trance she faintly remembered the scene of the New Year at home when she was young, she was young and sitting in her mother's arms, playing with the gold bills given to her by her father in her hands, and at that time there would be small jewelry from her sister in the palace, sometimes a collar, sometimes a bracelet.

"Qiu Tang," Lu Zhu quietly pulled Qiu Tang's hand, "Quickly wipe your eyes, don't let your mother see it." ”

Only then did Qiu Tang realize that he had already burst into tears.

"Come on, come on, line up, and kowtow to Mother Xu in turn." Jin Niang and the girls stood in front of the futon.

The girls kowtowed in order, and said auspicious words in their mouths, and after kowtowing, Xu's mother said "Reward!" The delicate and small silver bills were scattered on the ground, and the older girls were responsible for collecting them, and then distributed them to the smaller girls.

After the girls kowtowed, Pearl Pearl, the personal maid beside Xu's mother, walked in with a curtain. Mother Xu looked at the pearl and stood up: "Let's pass the rice."

With the sound of rice, all kinds of dishes came in one after another, and in a short time the two round tables placed at both ends of the front hall were filled.

"Don't be afraid, Mother Xu will eat with us at this time of year." Luzhu took Qiu Tang's hand and said softly.

This exquisite and sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Qiu Tang was trembling and eating. The table was full of dishes, the taste of begonia was the same as chewing wax, the pain in her chest made her not care about the taste from the tip of her tongue, her clenched fingers dug through the flesh of her palm, and the pain from her palm suppressed some of the discomfort in her chest, and Qiu Tang's tears did not fall again after all. Finally finished eating, Qiu Tang trembled and put down her chopsticks, and she found that there were a few older girls who didn't know why, their eyes were slightly red, and they seemed to have cried.

"Okay, today's New Year, everything is free. The girls also rested early. Mother Xu saw that the dishes on the table were almost finished, took a sip of tea, and ordered.

"Yes." The sisters stood up and fluttered with great blessings.

Qiu Tang followed the sisters out, deliberately slowed down, and seeing that the sisters had left, Qiu Tang turned back, cleaned up his mood, and knelt down in front of Xu's mother: "Qiu Tang thanks Mrs. for taking in her kindness for a year, this veil is carefully embroidered by me in the past few days, and I hope Mrs. will not dislike it." Qiu Tang held up a silk handkerchief, and the silk handkerchief was embroidered with a blooming peony, which was extremely gorgeous.

"I have a heart. Get up. Mother Xu picked up the handkerchief and looked at it carefully, "Qiu Tang, who are you?" The begonia in front of him is thinly powdered, lightly swept the eyebrows, and a pair of Xiangfei-colored begonias are hairpinned on the simple double flat bun, and the whole person looks like a young lady from an official eunuch's family.

"Madam, I'm Qiu Tang." Qiu Tang said with vertical eyelids.

Mother Xu stared at Qiu Tang, holding the silk handkerchief in her hand, and was silent for a long time. She was waiting, waiting for Qiu Tang to panic, and then sat down to confirm the conjecture in her heart.

"Does Madame like this handkerchief?" Qiu Tang saw that Xu's mother didn't speak for a long time, she was a little panicked, she didn't know what Xu's mother was thinking, she just wanted to end and leave as soon as possible.

"Like. Go down. Mother Xu waved her hand.

"Yes." Qiu Tang got up and retired.