Chapter 43: New Year
Su Hanran buried his head in Bai Huanru's neck, and his shoulders shook with laughter, until he saw that Bai Huanru seemed to be really annoyed that he gradually calmed down.
After careful calculation, Bai Huanru and Su Hanran had only met three times before they got married. Once on the mountain behind Hanshui Temple, the two met for the first time, but they were flustered; Then it was in the Qing'an Hou Mansion, and the third time was there, but it was just designed by Su Hanran with great effort.
But the two get along, but they are like old husbands and wives, and they have a tacit understanding of doing things, sometimes Chunting looks at them from the sidelines, and only thinks that her girl's life should be like this.
When he returned to Su Mansion, Su Hanran walked back to his courtyard with steady steps like a normal person, but as soon as he entered the courtyard, he thought he was drunk and refused to get up on Bai Huanru.
The people in the courtyard thought they were blind, and they completely ignored the two crooked people in the courtyard, and they all went about their own work.
In the winter moon, it is not far from the New Year's Pass, and now Bai Huanru is in charge of the middle feed of the Su Mansion, and all the things to be purchased during this New Year's Festival will fall on Bai Huanru. Although Bai Huanru helped the Chen family deal with some affairs when she was a girl in the past, she had never managed such a big family, so she couldn't help but be a little in a hurry.
Bai Huanru got busy, and the big girls below naturally followed. Although a while ago, the house bought a batch of people, in the end they were bought from outside, and the rules and things have to be run in for a period of time, and it is better to follow them for several years, and in the end they have to use spring, summer, autumn and winter and a few sunshines.
Even the always idle Chunting was taken out to watch the purchase, it was Shumu who was originally followed by Chunting, but Shumu is a fool, and Chunting himself is also a fool, Huanqing was afraid that she would be framed, so she transferred the picture screen that had always looked clever to Chunting, so that Chunting could have someone to discuss in case of trouble.
There was nothing in the house, and there was no needlework room, so I had to hire a garment shop outside to make a few clothes. It stands to reason that the new clothes for the New Year should have been purchased a long time ago, but I was busy with Su Hanran's marriage a few days ago, so I forgot about it, although it is a little late to do it now, as long as the money is in place, there is nothing that can not be done.
When picking materials, Bai Huanru picked a brighter one as in previous years, and the rest can come elegantly. When Su Hanran was asked to pick it up, this person was a scoundrel, picked up a piece of material and wanted to compare it on his body, and asked Bai Huanru to see if he looked good in that color, until Bai Huanru was so discouraged that he personally ordered four materials before sending people away.
After this matter reached Su Ge Lao's ears, Su Ge Lao pulled Su Hanran over and scolded him fiercely.
"Your daughter-in-law is already enough to work as a housekeeper every day, you kid is good, don't help her and make trouble for her! You are so old that you finally got a daughter-in-law and don't cherish it, and you will regret it when the time comes! ”
This is really wronged Su Hanran, he has no errands on his side, he is detained in the house every day, he doesn't go to the flower building, he doesn't make an appointment with the gentlemen in Beijing, he doesn't wander around to have fun, and he doesn't have a concubine room around him, and he lives with Bai Huanru every day. Seeing that Bai Huanru is busy, he can still help Bai Huanru check the account books, which is really the best husband.
Even Chunting couldn't help but sigh with emotion, her girl was really lucky to meet someone like Su Hanran.
If there was no Han Ya who had evil thoughts at the beginning, now Bai Huanru is afraid that she would have married into the Han family smoothly. It's not that Han Sangongzi is not good, Han Sui is naturally not bad, but a horizontal comparison, whether it is character or family background, none of them can compare to Su Hanran. Not to mention anything else, the four rooms of the Han family have not been separated until now, and a large family lives together, how many concubines Bai Huanru has to face as soon as she marries in, not to mention a difficult sister-in-law like Han Ya.
Just thinking about it, Chun Ting felt that Su Mansion was really good.
In previous years, there were only Su Ge Lao and Su Hanran's ancestors and grandchildren in this Su Mansion, both of whom were masters, and they were not informal, so they all made do with it, eating some dumplings for Chinese New Year's Eve, giving some rewards to the next people, and hanging two red lanterns at the door can be regarded as the New Year.
But with Bai Huanru here this year, this year is a little different.
Even the people noticed that there was something different, not only was the reward a little more than in previous years, but the new clothes purchased in the house for the New Year were also much better than before, and everyone started to do things neatly.
What are these people looking forward to? Isn't it just that life is better, and if you can save some money, maybe one day you can redeem yourself and become that free man.
Yizhu Garden is also cleaned up, Chunting is skillful, and when he is free, he leads the little maid to cut the window flowers and paste them, and the yard is full of joy.
The clothes of spring, summer, autumn and winter are picked by Bai Huanru, the concubine-colored short jacket is matched with a lotus-colored lower skirt, and the outside is also covered with a jujube red armor, and the embroidered patterns on the hem and cuffs are different.
The four maids stood neatly in front of Bai Huanru, wearing the same clothes, and they were more beautiful than each other, how could Bai Huanru not be happy?
When Su Hanran saw it, he chattered, only saying that Bai Huanru treated these maids more attentively than he treated him.
When Su Hanran said this, Bai Huanru was sitting next to him to check the accounts, and when he heard him muttering like this, he threw the account book in his hand on him and scolded with a smile: "You follow me every day, how do you want me to care about you?" ”
"Madame, of course, should be full of heart and eyes full of me." Su Hanran didn't realize that there was anything wrong, and reflexively pressed Bai Huanru on the couch and made trouble for a while, until Bai Huanru begged for mercy and let go of her.
Bai Huanru's hair bun was half scattered, and she couldn't, so she could only add winter calluses and come in and comb her hair again, so that she could continue to look at the account safely.
When it came to dinner, Bai Huanru asked casually: "Grandfather still hasn't gone back to the house for dinner today?" ”
Recently, some people in the DPRK and China are about to move, and Su Ge is so busy every day that his feet don't touch the ground, and he hasn't gone home for three days in a row. Su Hanran reassured: "It was like this before, my grandfather was busy when the New Year was approaching, and it would be good to wait until the New Year." As he spoke, he also sandwiched a pair of chopsticks to steam the sea bass for Bai Huanru.
"This steamed sea bass is doing well today, Madame eat more."
Bai Huanru knew that Su Hanran didn't want to ask herself any more, so she accepted the topic and talked about what to give New Year's gifts to a few people close to her.
In the days before the New Year, Su Ge was really idle, drinking tea and teasing birds in the house all day long, just like the most ordinary old man, who was at home for a long time.
Su Ge Lao did plan to live for the rest of his life, and he handed over the fold of the beggar bones a year ago, and went home to celebrate the New Year with peace of mind. He is not afraid that this fold will not be approved, today's saint is extravagant, and Prime Minister Guo Cheng has always regarded these old bones of the cabinet as a thorn in his side, and now Su Ge Lao took the initiative to resign, I am afraid that it is right for his appetite.
In the first year after Bai Huanru got married, she lived a lively and lively life.
The Su family counted Bai Huanru, the bride, and had a total of three masters, but the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was also prepared by Bai Huanru. Su Ge Lao does not advocate luxury, and he looks down on those extravagant and wasteful people. Bai Huanru asked the kitchen to prepare each dish exquisitely, the portion was not large, but everything was appetizing, and the three of them actually used half of it.
Originally, this would be the year of the year, but Su Ge was always a non-formalistic red tape, and he himself couldn't stay up, so he asked everyone to disperse and go to bed early.
This is the turn of the Spring Court vigil, after the baptism of this month, the Spring Court can finally sit outside with a pestle without blushing and heartbeat, doing needlework, but not hearing the movement inside.
Maybe it's because I saw that today is a good day for the New Year, God is also happy, there is no cloud in the night sky, and the moon is bright and the stars are scarce. Chunting didn't want to light the lamp, so he simply sat by the window and embroidered carefully with the help of the bright moonlight.
The brightness in front of him was suddenly blocked, and Chunting looked up and saw that it was Qiuzhi standing outside with a lantern.
Qiu Zhi put his hand in from the window and directly snatched the embroidery shed of Chunting, "You don't light the lamp at night, do you want to blind your eyes?" ”
"Then it's so serious, the moon is shining." Chunting reached out, "Give it to me, I'm going to finish it soon." ”
Qiu Zhi couldn't help her, so he had to hand back the things in his hand, and Yu Guang glanced at the pattern on it, and said strangely: "What are you embroidering here?" How come I haven't seen it? ”
"It's a peace charm." Chun Ting said, "This is what my mother taught me to do, when I was at home before, my mother had to embroider a few every year during the Chinese New Year, and everyone in my family had to wear one, so as to bless the next year of peace and smoothness." ”
Qiu Zhi lightly lifted the curtain and came in, sat on the edge of the spring court and looked at her, and when she said this, he smiled and said: "Then you can make one for me, my mother has never made these things, even the sweat towel she uses is bought from her sister next to her." ”
The two sat side by side and whispered a whisper, but they didn't think the vigil was such a difficult thing to do.
On the second day, Bai Huanru still got up early, this is the first day of the new year, and she is going to visit relatives and friends. The Su family has nothing to leave, that is, the Qing'an Hou Mansion and an Anguo Mansion. As soon as Bai Huanru and Su Hanran discussed, they decided to go to the Qing'an Hou Mansion first, and then go back to the Anguo Mansion, so that Bai Huanru could stay at her mother's house for a while longer.
A few people in Chunting were helping Bai Huanru to freshen up, so they heard her say: "Chunting was afraid that he was tired from being on duty last night, so I will go with Dong Cocoon and Xia Yun today." ”
Chun Ting was stunned, she followed Bai Huanru out these days, and she thought it would be the same today, but when she heard Bai Huanru tell her to stay, she was a little uncomfortable, and then she was relieved.
Whatever the girl says, it's just that.
However, Huanqing noticed that something was wrong, and when she avoided the Spring Garden, she asked, "Madame didn't take the Spring Court out, but what was the reason for being inside?" ”