In the blink of an eye, it was the fifteenth day of the first month. The sky was clear and cloudless, blue and blue. The snow on the road gradually melted, and it looked damp and muddy, although the climate has not warmed much, but the wind has blown, and there is no longer the cold of winter.

The porridge shed diagonally across from Daotai Mansion will be collected after today. Although there are still some old and young women and children drinking porridge here, there is nothing to worry about. After the porridge shed here is collected, they can go to Puji Hall.

Perhaps because of the upward and downward effects, since Cao Hao, the Taoist lord, is "benevolent", the officials and businessmen in the city have done a lot of good deeds in the past few months in order to do what they like. The rice and grain on the Puji Hall side are also much richer than in previous years, and sometimes they can occasionally eat a white flour dumpling.

After noon, a few small maids who were doing chores in the porridge shed brought firewood and prepared rice pots. I saw two and a half big girls coming out of the Daotai Mansion, and it was these Wuen and Little Walnuts who were always helpers here.

Each of them carried a willow basket and walked towards the porridge shed with a smile.

"Little Walnut, what did you take?" When the two approached, a daughter-in-law who kept the porridge shed to take care of it asked with a little curiosity.

Little Walnut put the willow basket on the stove and replied with a smile: "Sister-in-law Gao, it was sent by grandma, and the Lantern Festival was just wrapped at the other end of the kitchen." Grandma said, it's a holiday today, so let's let everyone eat a bite. ”

Sister-in-law Gao lifted the cloth covering the willow basket, saw the round rice balls below, and said with a smile: "It's weird, it's all caught up with the chickens, and this is the same for dinner in our house?" ”

Little Walnut replied: "It's just smaller than these, and there are a few fine fillings in the upper room, and the others are sesame seeds and bean paste." ”

Unn looked at the two sheds on the left and right, and now there were thirty or forty people waiting to drink porridge, and some people were rushing to this side. According to the usual number, there are 50 or 60 people. These two small willow baskets don't look big, but they contain more than 100 Lantern Festivals in total, which can almost spread two per person.

Waiting for the Lantern Festival on the side of the porridge shed to come out of the pot, the Lantern Festival in the kitchen of the house in Daotai Mansion is also boiling. Qian Kang's family asked someone to pack a food box, brought two little girls, and brought a piece of rice to the upper room.

Cao Hao had already come back from the front office, sitting on the kang and coaxing Wu'er to speak. Thinking about the letter he received yesterday, he knew that when the sky warmed up in March and April, Zhao Jia's family would send someone to pick up Wu'er back, and he was a little reluctant.

This cousin has a poor background, Chu Yu loves her so much, if she stays in this mansion and takes care of her as a daughter, it is also good. However, it was mentioned in person, and Cao Hao couldn't say anything.

Chu Yu took out a small box from the cabinet at the end of the kang, and after opening it, on the flannel inside, there were small skein silver bracelets, all of which were hung with small bells, which looked extremely exquisite.

Ming'er is sixteen, it is Wu'er's birthday, and I think these are gifts for Wu'er.

Seeing the reluctance on Chu Yu's face, Cao Hao persuaded: "You have to come in March, if you are really reluctant, let's write to my mother and talk about it!" ”

Chu Yu shook his head and said, "Look at what the forehead said, Wu'er is not a kitten or a puppy, it depends on whether we are willing to give up!" Following my mother-in-law is also serious. Even brothers and sisters have to be together to be more affectionate. Otherwise, there will be a third sister in the future, and I will always feel a little uncomfortable. ”

Cao Hao took the small bracelet and shook it in front of Wu'er's eyes, only to hear the silver bell ringing, which was crisp.

Wu'er waved his little hand and smiled "giggle" in his mouth to grab the bracelet in Cao Hao's hand.

Cao Hao didn't give it to her, and when she wanted to grab it, he raised his arm and removed the bracelet. Seeing that Cao Hao had not given it to her, Wu'er was a little anxious, turned her head to look at Chu Yu, and called, "Mom, Mom!" "When you grin, you will cry.

"Forehead ......" Chu Yu was disgusted, asked for a bracelet from Cao Hao's hand, and then sat on the side of the kang and put it on Wu'er's wrist.

As Wu'er's little arms shook and the silver bells rang all over the room, she was so happy that she couldn't stop laughing.

Cao Hao looked at it and said to Chu Yu: "I remember that she wasn't so noisy before, but now she is a little like a naughty boy, and she loves to laugh like this." ”

Chu Yu touched Wu'er's hair, looked at Cao Hao, and said in a low voice: "Listen to E-niang, Chu Yu also loved to laugh when he was a child!" ”

Cao Hao listened to it and said with a smile: "Could it be that this is the reason for 'close to Zhu Zhechi'?" If it can really touch your blessings, it is also the creation of Wu'er. ”

Chu Yu just smiled and said to Cao Hao: "This pair of bracelets was given by the third sister with the New Year's gift a year ago, and it was specially used for the fifth child's life. ”

When Cao Hao heard the mention of Cao Yi, he remembered that he went to the capital last year, paused, and asked, "The girl in the second brother's courtyard, the one who was sick a year ago, how is it now?" ”

Chu Yu sighed: "It's hard for her, it's been two months, although it can be regarded as surviving, but the body is almost ruined, and it needs to be taken care of." Chu Yu still wants to mention it with the same forehead, if Jiang Ning comes to pick up Wu'er, let the four of them go back with them. ”

Actually, Cao Hao Fang wanted to mention Cao Yi, but when he thought of this girl, he felt a little angry in his heart, and he changed his words when he came to his mouth.

"What is the girl's character? also made a special trip to mention Ping'er's matter in the second brother's letter, is it a deliberate joke, or is it unintentional to leak out? Cao Hao asked.

Chu Yu thought about it for a while and shook his head: "The second brother is not here, and it is not yet time for her to climb the high branches and fight the law, if it is said that she is deliberately playing right and wrong, it is unreasonable." I think I didn't want to hear what Jade Dragonfly said, and I wanted to sell it well in front of my second brother, so I mentioned it in the letter! Looking at her actions, although she is more clever and not as loyal as Jade Dragonfly, she is also a duty, and there is no evil deed. ”

Cao Hao nodded: "It's good to do your duty, 'family and everything is prosperous', I'm afraid that someone will make a fuss." Speaking of this, he said, "But there is no need to bother with this. If you want to go back to the southern mansion, there is a second aunt there, who is not as kind as her mother. If this girl is safe, there is naturally no no, otherwise it will not be as good as hers. ”

Outside the Daotai Mansion, after the last meal of porridge, Zhao An and Qian Kang took a few servants to dismantle the stove here, and the curtains on the shed were rolled up and put away.

At this time, I saw a servant leading a young man over, and everyone looked familiar, it was Lin Si'er, a young man from a foreign country who had been eating porridge here.

According to his own account, he was an orphan, and he originally had an uncle, and the two went to Yizhou to join their relatives, but the relatives did not vote, and the uncle died of illness again. This winter, Lin Si'er ate porridge on the side of the porridge shed of Daotai Mansion, and also helped to catch up with some odd jobs, and a few servants on duty here were also familiar with each other, and now the porridge shed was about to be collected, Lin Si'er had nowhere to go, so he begged a servant who was good friends to bring him to the housekeeper of Daotai Mansion.

When he arrived in front of Zhao An and Qian Kang, he knelt down on his knees and said, "Uncle housekeeper, Lin Si'er begs uncle, have mercy on the little one, and give the little one a job." The little one received the great favor of the Taoist government, and was not frozen to death and starved to death, and now he is willing to be a slave and repay the great kindness of the Taoist government. At this point, he kowtowed.

Zhao An and Qian Kang looked at each other, and their eyes were a little proud. Zhao An deliberately grimaced and said, "More than a decade, do you have any craftsmanship?" In our house, the subordinates who don't accept the live deed will sign the death deed every time they are in the water. As soon as you enter the house, your children and grandchildren will be servants of the Cao family in the future, can you save it? ”

When Lin Si'er heard this, his face couldn't help but be moved, and he clenched his fists vigorously, before he whispered: "The villain is fifteen, and he knows that these are the graces of the Cao family's life, so he naturally has no complaints if he gives up his free body. ”

This sentence made Zhao An and Qian Kang a little surprised. Zhao An thought for a while and said, "Well, the rules in our house are stricter, and the big housekeeper has the final say on whether or not to enter." You get up first, the master knows this, go back and ask the big butler, and then call you back. ”

Lin Si'er kowtowed a few more times, and then got up and went back to the broken temple to settle down.

Looking at his back, Zhao An shook his head: "Now I'm confused, if I sell the death deed into our mansion, what is the reason?" ”

Qian Kang smiled and said, "What are you doing?" Not to mention that there is no shortage of people in our house, even if there is a real shortage, in the two mansions of Jiangning and Beijing, how many people want to camp here, where will they enter from outside! ”

Zhao An also smiled: "That's right, but this time the two of us won." In the evening, I went to find Ren Lao San and Ren Lao Si to eat and drink. The two of them still bet that this kid is from the mountains, and they are really uninformed. Although he was deliberately dumbfounded, he inadvertently brought out the official white. If the expectation is good, it is either a child of an official family, or a person who is directly subordinate, but for some reason he fell into Yizhou. ”

Having said that, he still asked someone to follow Lin Si'er behind him to see. Although Lin Si'er is not very old, he has been watching at the gate of Daotai Mansion for the past two months. If it hadn't been found out that he lived in a ruined temple and didn't talk to anyone, except for drinking porridge, there was no other sneaky, and he would have been detained and tortured carefully.

Laughing and laughing, watching the other servants dismantle the porridge shed, tie up the wood and felt, and Zhao An and Qian Kang went back to their homes.

Lin Si'er returned to the ruined temple where Su Yue lived, took out a coarse cloth package after beating the crippled land mud tire, looked at it a few times, and burst into tears, muttering: "Brother Ma, don't worry, Xiao Linzi will take you home." Speaking of this, I couldn't tell whether I was happy or sad, I knocked my chest, and a terrible cry occurred in my mouth: "Ah......"

The people who followed to check were startled, and quietly looked at the gate of the broken temple, only to see that the young man had turned off the sound, prostrate on the ground, his body trembled, and sobbed in a low voice.

* The fifteenth day of the capital is lively, not to mention the lanterns and fireworks. The banquet in the palace is also the fourteenth, and the fifteenth is the same.

Cao Jia's family still had half a month to go out of filial piety, so he didn't go with him, and took his sons to eat in the house.

When the king of Pingjun returned from the palace, it was almost midnight (nine o'clock in the evening), and he was supported by two eunuchs to the main room.

Cao Jia's family has already sent the ** to hold the two little elder brothers to settle, and they are thinking about the gift list to send to Horqin there.

Out of the first month, I want to send people to Mongolia, send two midwives to Baoya, and send some tonic medicine to eat. Nersu returned to Beijing with Hu a few years ago, and told his wife about his sister's condition, but after all, he was a little worried. However, since it was her own idea, it was not easy for her to be a brother, so she could only do her best to support her.

Seeing that her husband was so drunk that he walked and swayed, Cao Jiashi said to the elderly eunuch: "Why is the prince drunk like this?" Why don't you persuade you when you wait before you? ”

The older eunuch's name was Wang Shan, and he was a personal eunuch who had been waiting for Nersu since he was a child.

Seeing Fu Jin's question, Wang Shan replied: "Fu Jin, the slave has been persuading to come, the master didn't drink much earlier, and then the seventeenth master came and talked with the master at the same table." I didn't know what to say, but when I was happy, the two of them started to drink. The master is better, but the seventeenth master is drunk directly on the table! ”

Cao Jiashi put her husband on the kang, and helped him get his clothes and boots with Wenqin and Juanshu.

Cao Jiashi took another towel and helped Nersu wipe his face, but he grabbed him, only to hear him mutter: "Yan'er...... Yan Er......"

This is Cao Jia's maiden name, Cao Jia's in front of the girl, a little inexplicable, disgusted: "Master, what are you doing like this?" Don't let it go! ”

The two of them couldn't help laughing and went out with the basin of water.

Nersu didn't let go, but stretched out his other arm and hugged Cao Jiashi into his arms.

The husband and wife came face to face. Although he was full of wine, his eyes were bright, staring straight at Cao Jia's face.

It wasn't until he looked at Cao Jia's face that his eyes were sour, and Cao Jia's face was red, that he grinned and said, "Not only is the seventeenth master blessed, but the master is also blessed...... I'm resting here today......"

Cao Jiashi was so blushing by him that he still spoke: "Master, the concubine still has half a month of filial piety, you ......"

As he spoke, his little mouth was gagged, but he couldn't say anything......

(To be continued)