Kangxi fifty-four years, the first day of the first month.

According to the annual practice, Kangxi first led you, Baylor, Beizi, Guogong, Minister of the Interior, scholars, guards, etc., to pay homage to the Empress Dowager's Palace. Subsequently, the royal drive to the Taihe Hall held the first grand meeting of the new year.

The civil and military officials below the prince, the foreign vassal kings, and the envoys will go to the court to congratulate and stop the feast.

Next, it is the spring of Shuntianfu.

A set of great etiquette came down, and it was not until the beginning of the year (nine o'clock in the morning) that Cao Yin's father and son came back from the palace.

Li and Chu Yu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have already dressed up, combing their heads with two handfuls, wearing flag uniforms, and their heads are full of pearls and emeralds, looking very energetic.

The two butterfly hostas on Chu Yu's bun are very gorgeous, with jade-colored butterflies on the top and jade flowers and jade leaves at the bottom. The butterflies, flowers, and leaves are dotted with rubies, and they look very bright.

echoing the other pomegranate velvet flowers on his head, looking at the whole person with a lot of joy, Cao Hao couldn't help but look at it twice.

Chu Yu thought that her husband was looking at the hairpin on his head, and whispered: "It was given by my wife in the morning......"

There is a sentence, but she swallowed it in her stomach and did not say it, that is, this hairpin is also an internal thing. Gold inlaid with pearls and gemstones, faintly a bit of royal style.

Cao Hao was very happy to see that his mother and his wife had a harmonious relationship, and said in a low voice: "Mother really loves you as a daughter-in-law, be careful that my sister and third sister know, and complain about my mother's partiality." ”

Chu Yu just laughed and didn't respond.

Cao Yin sat on the kang and gossiped with the Li family, turning his head from time to time and teasing the two grandsons playing on the kang.

Li sat on the other side, answering with her husband in her mouth, shaking Tianhui's rocking car with one hand and glancing at the table clock on the ground at the other.

While talking, I heard the maid under the corridor say: "Master and Mrs. Qiqi, several masters, girls, and grandmothers from Dongfu are here!" ”

When Cao Yin heard this, he "coughed", straightened up, and said, "Come in!" ”

As he spoke, Cao Song took his brothers, sisters, daughters-in-law, and sisters-in-law into the house and stood halfway on the ground.

When everyone saw Cao Yin and Li, they did not rush to pay New Year's greetings, but bowed their heads and stood with the words "uncle" and "uncle".

Cao Yin nodded and asked Cao Song, "Why didn't your mother come over?" ”

Cao Song bowed his head and said, "Back to the eldest uncle, my mother was a little uncomfortable, and she just drank the medicine and sweated, so she didn't come out." ”

Cao Yin and Li glanced at each other, looking a little helpless, but they were not surprised.

The husband and wife got up and lit incense.

The whole family knelt down and bowed three times to the "ancestral board" enshrined on the west wall. Even Tianhui in her infancy was held by Chu Yu.

After the ceremony, Cao Yin and his wife sat down again, and Cao Song and others knelt down together and kowtowed to the New Year.

In addition to auspicious words such as "auspicious Ruyi" and "Shoubi Nanshan", Li took the purse that had been prepared long ago, which contained various colors of gold and silver, and handed it to his nephew, nephew's daughter-in-law, and niece in turn with a smile.

Cao Song and others got up and gave New Year's greetings to Cao Hao and his wife.

Because it is between peers, there is no need to kneel.

Chu Yu also smiled and handed the purse that had been prepared to everyone.

At this time, there is an unwritten etiquette, that is, officials greet each other on New Year's Day. It's just to meet the boss and connect with colleagues.

Basically, they all set up banquets and drinks, and officials gathered together to worship.

Cao Hao and Cao Song both have jobs, and they also have to go out for "group worship". However, before that, Cao Hao also needed to take the children to Dongfu with Chu Yu to pay New Year's greetings to Zhaojia's family.

After paying a New Year's greeting to Zhaojia's family, Cao Hao wanted to go to his father-in-law's house to pay New Year's greetings, and then went to participate in the "group worship" between Taifu Temple and the guards. Other relatives and friends are ranked after the second year of junior high school.

Not only Cao Hao and Cao Song are going out, but Cao Shuo is a few small ones, and they are all dressed up and going out.

Cao Shuo is going to his father-in-law's house, Cao Xiang and Cao Fu are going to their grandfather's house, uncle's house, Zhaojia Mansion and Shilang Mansion are both going to go, and other relatives and friends can be ranked after the second year of junior high school.

Cao Song and Cao Shuo are new sons-in-law, and they paid New Year's greetings to their father-in-law's family for the first time this year. On the Li side, he had to give a few words, and asked how the gift was prepared, or something.

After Cao Yin's front foot accepted the New Year's greetings from his nephews, someone spread the word on the second door of the back foot that Pingjun Wang Nersu and the third aunt Seshtu came to Cao Yin and his wife to pay New Year's greetings.

Cao Yin went to the front yard with Li and accepted the New Year's greetings from his sons-in-law.

Because there were many things in the palace and the princess's mansion, Nersu and Seshtu did not stay for long, and they left in a hurry. Narsu went to his mother's family's house, and Seshtu had to go to Dongfu to make a scene before leaving.

After the sons-in-law left, Cao Yin changed into auspicious clothes and went out of the house to attend the banquet. There are those with the Ministry of Rites, those with Jiangsu and Zhejiang guilds, and those with white flags.

In a day's work, you have to run several grounds, and the time is also tight.

One time later, Cao Yin and his nephews went out first, and Cao Hao and Chu Yu also took the children to Dongfu to pay New Year's greetings. Jinghui and Ruhui were two, but they were left by the Li family to speak.

Li was worried about Zhao Jia's family, afraid that she would be angry in her heart and say something unpleasant when Cao Hao and his wife paid New Year's greetings in the past.

Even if it is a junior, there is no reason to contradict the elders, but if it is in front of the new daughter-in-law, I am afraid that Cao Hao and Chu Yu will not be able to hold their faces, and the more they make trouble, the more stiff they become.

There are fewer people, even if there is a quarrel, it should not make a big fuss and make the new daughter-in-law laugh.

Li asked the two to sit, and asked the maid to bring snacks to eat, and said to them with a smile: "If you want to go out for the New Year, you can't go out, it's boring, so you can come to sit in the courtyard here." It's not easy for a new daughter-in-law, and when I first married my lord in the early years, I was also a little apprehensive. After all these years, it can be regarded as coming. ”

The custom of the New Year, pay attention to the "taboo door", that is, during the New Year, from the first to the fifth day of the new year, whoever comes to the house with a woman or a little girl, that is to collide with the festivities, and the year will be unlucky.

During the Chinese New Year, although men go around to pay New Year's greetings, women have to be tied up until the end of the "taboo door" on the sixth day of the new year before they can visit relatives and friends. Therefore, Li said to his two nieces and daughters-in-law that they were bored.

Like Jinghui and Ruhui came to this mansion, Chu Yu took the child to the East Mansion, which is still in his own house, not a visit, so there are no taboos.

Jinghui just smiled and listened, Ruhui raised her head, looked at Li's face, and then looked at her white right hand on the kang table, and praised: "It's not the flattery of my nephew and daughter-in-law, the eldest wife is so young, I think it's worry-free, not better than my ......aunt" Speaking of this, she stuck out her tongue mischievously, laughed twice, and continued: "It's not as bad as our wife, it looks like it's very bad." ”

Less than ten days after entering the door, Ruhui is still a little inconvenient to change her mouth.

Although Ruhui said it bluntly, she also had a bit of what she really thought.

Li sighed and said, "You are still young, and you don't know the difficulties of being parents. After two years, when you have added children, you will know that it is an endless heart. Your wives are blessed and have more children than I am, so you think more and need more heart. As a daughter-in-law, even if you enter the door, you must abide by filial piety. In the end, there was a bit of positive color in his voice.

Jinghui and Ruhui hurriedly stood up and restrained their hands.

Here, the Li family is taught by Chunchun, and the Zhaojia family in the Eastern Mansion can scrape the hoarfrost on their faces when they look at Cao Hao and Chu Yu's family.

It's just a ritual, and it's just about not being rude.

Cao Hao and Chu Yu only did not see each other, Cao Hao took Tianyou and Hengsheng, Chu Yu hugged Tianhui and greeted the New Year together.

Tianyou and Hengsheng were still a little uncomfortable, but when they came, Cao Hao and Chu Yu had already coaxed all the way, and they were also obedient.

Zhao Jiashi was wearing a blue flag suit, and although there were no velvet flowers, pearls and other things on his head, there were several plain gold hairpins. Although his face was covered with powder, he still showed a faint tiredness, thinking that it was due to a lack of rest.

Seshtu only left on the front foot, and she was thinking about the title of the Duke's Mansion on the kang to her son-in-law, what grade it was, and her grandson would be the little grandfather in the future.

Not to mention anything else, she can't prepare for this "catch the week" ceremony.

Although Cao Yi is related to the Li family, she is just mediocre, but she is the child's serious grandmother, and no one can change this.

I heard that the in-laws' wife was reluctant to move to the Guogong Mansion to be the old feudal monarch because of her son's succession, and she stayed in the old mansion. In the future, if the two families move around, she is a serious in-law wife...... Thinking about the relationship with the concubine who was not embarrassed or embarrassed, Zhao Jiashi held his forehead, and his heart was a little confused.

Am I really wrong? This is not a blessing to anyone. However, having said that, if the third girl was recognized back to the second room like this, eighty percent of them would be to be relatives in the south, where could they still go to Beijing to be the duchess of the country?

Speaking of which, her coldness back then can be regarded as a concubine. Thinking like this, Zhao Jia's heart was ironed a lot and felt a lot more comfortable.

Seeing Cao Hao's family come to pay New Year's greetings, she tugged at the corners of her mouth and wanted to sneer. Speaking of which, the third girl does not kiss the second room and the long room, and there is also the reason why Cao Hao, the elder brother, is indulgent.

However, seeing Cao Hao's faint smile and clear eyes, she swallowed the words that came to her mouth again. She also muttered in her heart, the New Year, is this here to pay New Year's greetings, or to do something?

Why does it make people feel that this little couple is more than respectful, not close enough, and a little alienated. Could it be that she was really annoyed because she beat Hengsheng, and complained about her aunt in her heart?

This is really too immeasurable, as a junior, how can it be so?

She coughed twice, cleared the phlegm in her throat, and nodded at the green chrysanthemum standing beside her.

Lu Ju sent the prepared purse to the front with a tray, and Zhao Jiashi stretched out his hand and helped Cao Hao and Chu Yu to say: "Get up and sit down, it's hard for you, you can come and see me!" As he spoke, he glanced at Hengsheng at Cao Hao's feet and frowned.

Cao Hao and Chu Yu were counted up, and they didn't bother to care about Zhao Jia's yin and yang weirdness, and when Zhao Jia's purse was sent, he got up and said goodbye.

Zhao Jia's originally wanted to say two more words, but the words were blocked in his throat and he didn't have a chance to say it.

After they left, Zhao Jia's had to ask for a bag of cigarettes and chatted with the two girls around him.

Not to mention the few small ones of the Cao family, to the father-in-law's house of the father-in-law's family, to the mother's house, Cao Yin was already riding a horse and arrived at the restaurant on the side of the Xidan archway.

The "group worship" reception of the Ministry of Rites is set here.

The two Shangshu, the four attendants, and the officials below were also present. In addition to the officials of the Ministry of Rites, before the banquet, there was a big man who came to the banquet.

That is the third elder brother among the two elder brothers in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Rites, wearing regular clothes, greeting everyone in the Ministry of Rites with a warm face.

When he arrived at Cao Yin, the third elder brother was particularly enthusiastic, and said with a smile: "I still remember that when Lord Cao was not out of Beijing in his early years, he taught this king to ride and shoot. Compared with other elder brothers, the king's arm strength is insufficient, and Lord Cao has also made a wristband for the king. Now that I think about it, it has been more than 30 years in the past. At the end, he shook his head with feeling.

Cao Yin smiled on his face, but he sighed in his heart, could it be that the third elder brother didn't see the eighth elder brother's previous experience, and he still wanted to win people's hearts?

Outside the restaurant, several figures dispersed one after another...... * Outside the Anding Gate, Prince Yong's Mansion.

Hearing that the fourth elder brother had returned to the house, Dai Jin was quite puzzled, greeted him, and said with a little doubt: "Fourth master, didn't you say in the morning that you would come back from the Tong Mansion and go to the Xidan archway?" ”

The fourth elder brother waved his hand and said, "I originally wanted to take a look at the adults in the household department in the New Year, but I got the news on the way, and the third elder brother also went over there." It's better to avoid suspicion, and there is no land for a meal, and then alarmed Huang Ama. ”

Dai Jin heard the meaning of the fourth elder brother's words, if the elder brothers all went to the wine banquet of the officials of the six ministries, it would inevitably attract the attention of people with a heart, which made the long live lord scruples.

At present, the Sacred Heart is not clear, and it is really not the time to win the hearts and minds of the people......

(To be continued)