Chapter 31: Chinese New Year's Eve
He stood there, looking at the sky for a long time, and finally nodded with satisfaction, and then called Xiaoli to find a wooden ladder, and pasted these Spring Festival couplets with undried ink on the door one by one from the inside out.
When Chen Xian was standing on the ladder in front of the gate of the street, and was carefully supporting Lu Xiaochai's master and servant to stick to the last Spring Festival couplet, he heard someone jokingly coming in the sound of firecrackers.
"Yo, I thought this kid was really sick in bed and couldn't move! Xiangyun, you see, he is a live monkey who climbs up and down......"
Chen Xian looked back, but it was the sound of firecrackers that Feng Niang and Xiangyun walked over with a smile on their faces with meat and gifts.
It's thirty, Huancai Building is also closed for recuperation, the little two who run the hall want to go home for reunion, and they will open the door to entertain guests after the second year of junior high school.
"Feng Niang." Lu Xiaochai hurriedly bowed.
Chen Xian patted the Spring Festival couplets that had just been pasted, and after making sure that the sticking was firm, he climbed down from the ladder and said with a smile: "There is no red envelope for me to come here to pay New Year's greetings!" ”
Feng Niang pretended to be annoyed and snorted, but Xiangyun's cheeks turned red, and she bowed slightly.
In fact, the Ming Dynasty was not popular to visit the New Year in person, as the folk proverb says, "You don't have to enter the house to pay New Year's greetings, and send business cards to meet people." If you want to give this family a New Year's greeting, you only need to let the servant take the name card and throw it into the "blessing" bag.
If she really came to visit the New Year, it would probably be relatives and juniors giving New Year's greetings to the elders, Chen Xian made this joke, as if he was comparing Feng Niang to a junior, which would naturally make her unable to get off the stage.
Lu Xiaochai quietly glanced at Chen Xian, and then smiled and walked into the mansion with Feng Niang and Xiangyun.
The two entered the courtyard and saw those couplets written by Chen Xian, Xiangyun covered his mouth and exclaimed: "Chen Gongzi is really talented. ”
Chen Xian was already quite satisfied with his suitable operation, but at this moment, he was praised by Xiangyun, so he couldn't hold back a smile and said: "Everywhere, I came with it, hehe." ”
Where did he have half of the modesty, Xiangyun had to smile, but he didn't know how to respond to him.
In fact, Chen Xian's couplet, such as "the world is fair to ask who is the master", this kind of sentence has some provocative meaning of provoking the government, fortunately, Feng Niang and Xiangyun are both people in the Qinglou who have been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and they are used to seeing all kinds of situations in the world.
Several people entered the house, and without saying a word, Chen Xian was stunned and shouted: "What! You're going to spend the New Year with me? ”
It's not that Feng Niang and Xiangyun are not welcome to come to celebrate the New Year, but ...... Feng Niang's meaning just now was to let all the left-behind ladies of Huancailou come over! Chen Xian was stunned at first, and then secretly said in his heart: What do you think of me as a place! Is it a sub-building?
"yes!" Feng Niang raised her eyebrows, her expression was provocative, but she seemed to have helped Chen Xian a lot when she spoke: "Do you know that your new home must be popular in order to be prosperous." ”
"If you were alone, wouldn't it be miserable?"
"Wait!" Chen Xianyi raised his hand, interrupted Feng Niang's words, and said, "Isn't Xiao Hai here?" Besides, this is not my new home, it is my house! ”
"Humph!" Song Jinfeng rolled her eyes and snorted: "Why did you let her stay with you before you combed it for her!" ”
"Me!" Chen Xian was stunned by her words, and then said angrily: "I haven't been able to comb the little hairpin so far, isn't it because there is an old witch who is a hindrance!" ”
"You damn poor sour showman! Say who is the old witch! ”
"Hmph, I just said that there is an old witch who is making a stumbling block, you have to sit in the right seat, what can I do......"
For a while, the main house was lively.
In fact, there is indeed this custom about Feng Niang's statement, Chen Xian suddenly discovered this problem after such an argument with her-he didn't even have a servant in such a big mansion, so he secretly decided to let Xiao Liang help find a few servants after the second year of junior high school.
Chen Xian never thought that his first Chinese New Year's Eve night in this world would be spent like this.
Yingge Yan danced, Tingting's curvy women surrounded him in the center, these women who have been in the Qinglou all the year round have their own strengths.
There is a Qing Qi'er who works in calligraphy and painting to paint the red plum in the snow, and there is a Qing Qi'er who works in dance skills to change into a long-sleeved dance robe and dance, and there is also a red Qi'er like a spring to drink wine, which also makes Chen Xian unreachable......
For a time, this small house located in Qiantang County, Hangzhou Prefecture was full of flowers, singing and dancing, and it was very lively.
At this time, Chen Xian was dizzy and swollen by Shuquan and Feng Niang, he was already not strong enough to drink, plus his body was recovering, just after drinking a few cups, he felt a little sore in his head, and the room was more and more stuffy because of the burning charcoal basin and warm pipes, so he rubbed his head and walked out of the door.
The courtyard was already covered with snow in the morning, and after a day, it had already been stepped on into pieces of black mud, but fortunately, the weather did not mean to clear for a while, and it still snowed in the middle of the night.
The plum blossoms newly planted a few days ago by the wall have bloomed in the snow, and the color is not as red as imagined, but more elegant.
The woman stepped out, she bowed, and called in a clear voice: "Chen Gongzi." ”
"Oh!" Chen Xian turned around and said with a smile: "Miss Xiangyun also thinks that the room is too stuffy?" I seem to have contributed to this warm pipe! ”
Although the winter in the south is not as cold and windy as in the north, it is a kind of clammy cold that overflows from the bones, Chen Xian is categorically unwilling to suffer this sin, although the smelting technology in this era is far inferior to six hundred years later, but there is no problem in creating the kind of iron sheet used for iron-clad rods, he spent dozens of silver to let the blacksmith build a warm pipe around the house, and a warm basin is placed under the pipe, so that the heat can be surrounded in the house with the pipe.
Xiangyun smiled sweetly and said, "Xiangyun wants to thank Chen Gongzi for the gift in person. ”
Chen Xian raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "With a gesture, why should the girl be polite." ”
Xiangyun listened to Chen Xian's words, but looked down at the remnants of snow all over the ground, and there was some sadness in her expression, not as sweet and outgoing as she had always shown, she said softly: "The slave family is like this white snow in this life, born clean and crystalline, but fell into the dust as it fell to the ground......
Speaking of this, she sighed nonchalantly: "In the end, it was wantonly trampled on and turned into black mud that no one wants to take a look at." ”
Chen Xian glanced back at her, and saw that her sad expression did not seem to be fake, and he understood in his heart that this woman was thinking of her own life experience, and felt sorry for herself.
He thought about it, but he didn't know how to persuade him, and he was even more afraid of setting himself on fire, so he could only nod at her with relief, and turned around and walked towards the house.
Xiangyun was thrown in place, and she didn't see her angry, just silently looked at the back of Chen Xian leaving.