"Borrow a baby?"

Zhao Si's father-in-law played a half-night horse crane last night, and won a small amount, at this time he was making up for sleep, sleeping in a daze, and was suddenly woken up by Kuai Peng, and his brain had not turned a corner for a while, as soon as he heard that Kuai Peng wanted to borrow a baby, he suddenly thought of his baby, and couldn't help but look up at the beam.

A small box tied with red silk hung on the beam, and his "treasure" was placed there.

After the eunuchs were "castrated", they attached great importance to the castrated "treasures", and they would try their best to preserve them. Although there was no embalming liquid in that era, the eunuchs explored it for a long time, but they also had a set of effective methods to preserve the "treasure".

After they "castrate", they will put the "baby" in a lime box, absorb blood and water, keep it dry, and then wipe the lime, and then soak it in sesame oil, and then penetrate the sesame oil, and then put it in a small wooden box, seal the package, choose an auspicious day of the zodiac, and hang it on the main beam of the residence.

"Baby" hangs on a high place, meaning "ascending", which is the goal pursued by all eunuchs before their death. After death, their family or the godson of the eunuch would sew his treasure back on his body so that he could become a complete man before he could see his ancestors after death.

If someone damages or loses the "baby" because of poor storage, then the burial will be made of ceramics or gold, silver materials to create a fake "baby" to put on, but the fake is fake, even if the material is precious, so there is a "borrowed treasure".

The old eunuch "borrows the baby" from the little eunuch, and the little eunuch will borrow the baby from the next generation of the little eunuch in the future. Therefore, as soon as Zhao Si's father-in-law heard "borrowing a baby", he immediately thought of his "baby".

Kuai Peng saw him looking at the beams of the house, looking very reluctant, and followed him to take a look. suddenly realized, and said angrily: "I didn't borrow your treasure, what use do I want your treasure." I'm borrowing you the treasure I saw last time......"

Kuai Peng excitedly told Zhao Sigonggong about his intentions, Zhao Sigonggong is not very old, only in his early thirties, and the relationship with Kuai Peng has always been very good, the two are also privately partnering to do some business, and the interests are also entangled.

Zhao Sigong's face was embarrassed and said, "Brother Peng." This is a secret weapon secretly developed by our War Division for use in secret missions, and it seems inappropriate to ......."

Kuai Peng glared and said, "Nonsense! It's cheating, isn't it secret enough? ”

Zhao Sigonggong smiled bitterly: "Brother Peng, what the two of us said is obviously not the same thing. ”

"Hey, I said Zhao Sigong, Xiaotian is my good brother, who will help if I don't help in this matter? I'll treat your thing as a treasure. You're different, didn't you judge that it wasn't practical, you only had one physical object in your library, and sooner or later it would rot. Why not borrow it from your brother? ”

Zhao Si's father-in-law hesitated and said: "Brother Peng, although that thing has been designated as a waste product by our family, after all, it was developed and created by the craftsmen of our War Division. It's the Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion, once it is investigated......"

Kuai Peng immediately said: "Don't worry! Didn't we never show this thing to the outside world? In addition to the craftsmen who invented and researched this thing in the War Division, there are also you and me. No one has ever seen it again, who knows it's something from our soldiers? Anyway, your military division has already designated it as a waste product, so you can give me waste to use. I'll destroy it as soon as I use it, and no matter who asks, I won't tell me where it came from. ”

Zhao Sigonggong hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother Peng, can you talk and count?" ”

Kuai Peng smiled, patted Zhao Sigong's back hard, and said, "That's right!" Be cheerful and promote a good marriage, that is to accumulate merit and do good deeds! When the deed is done, my brother invites you to a drink. ”

"Accumulate merit and do good deeds" This sentence touched the heart of Zhao Sigong's father-in-law, eunuchs like him, forced to make a living, had to castrate their bodies to become eunuchs, there is not much hope in this life, just look forward to the suffering in this life, the next life can be compensated, just a gesture, but can accumulate a merit, this deal is naturally cost-effective.

Zhao Sigonggong nodded and said, "Cheng, then I'll give you this thing." I'll cross it out of the war book when I get back, and you will destroy it when you're done with it, and don't say it's an object that flows from my war division. ”

Kuai Peng laughed, put his arm around Zhao Sigong's shoulders and said, "This is the brother, I do things, what else are you worried about?" ”

Zhao Si's father-in-law "snorted" and said stupidly: "It's you who do things, so our family is not at ease!" ”

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New Year's Day has arrived. At this time, there was no so-called solar calendar, and a qiē festival was calculated according to the lunar calendar, so New Year's Day and Spring Festival were the same day. On Chinese New Year's Eve, firecrackers and ping-pong continued all night, and the people of Jinling wore new clothes and hats, and walked around each other to say goodbye. On the long street, dragon dances, lion dances, visiting relatives and friends, shopping to see the lively, everywhere is filled with a festive atmosphere.

Early in the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, the head of the family led the whole family to worship heaven and earth, worship ancestors, and make "plaque food" together as a family. If there is a junior in the family on the street who sees relatives and elders, he will kneel down and kowtow on the street, so unless he is proud of his seniority, it is impossible to meet people who are higher than his generation.

Ye Xiaotian and the others were stranded in the post house, and they could only spend the New Year in a foreign country. The post house also prepared dumplings and other festive food for them, and they bought some incense candles and paper money, wrote the ancestral tablets in their own rooms, and offered three cooked animals, and then burned the paper money on the third day of the Lunar New Year, which was regarded as the pocket money for the New Year to the ancestors.

During the Spring Festival, regardless of men, women and children, they will use gold leaf paper to fold into moths, butterflies, grasshoppers and other shapes of ornaments and insert them in the bun or hat brim, so as to set off the festive atmosphere of the festival, called "noisy yelling", the big "noisy" is as big as a palm, and the small one is the size of a copper coin.

Naturally, Ye Xiaotian doesn't have to do these things, Zhang Luo is Miss Ning'er and Sister Sun who do these things. The two girls were very interested in this. Needless to say, Sister Sun, since Ning Er listened to Tang Xianzu's words, her attitude towards Ye Xiaotian has also changed significantly, the two girls have regarded Jinling Post House as their home, and Ye Xiaotian is the head of the family.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Ye Xiaotian wore a head full of butterflies and grasshoppers, and walked tremblingly, and there were lights everywhere inside and outside the inn, illuminating the gold leaf on his head, which was particularly eye-catching.

Zhang Hongchou and others are all children of big families. In the past few days of the Chinese New Year, they were so busy that they hit the back of their heads, and they didn't bother to come to the post house to get together with Ye Xiaotian and others, and Ye Xiaotian also spent the New Year in the post house peacefully. Anyway, he also inquired, and Old Man Xia's family did not leave Jinling, and they still stayed in the Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion, but they were not afraid that they would not be able to find them.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Ye Xiaotian, who was extremely bored, was watching Mao Wenzhi and Sister Sun set off fireworks in the yard.

Jinling is a large fu, and there are hundreds of varieties of fireworks sold in the city, and the most brilliant fireworks can realistically show flowers and plants, characters and other patterns when they are set off. However, that kind of fireworks have to be specially ordered by skilled craftsmen, and it will cost hundreds of taels of silver to put them on one night, and Ye Xiaotian and the others were in a hurry when they came to Jinling, and they didn't have so much silver on them. So they put some "cannons", "three-level waves", "ground rats" and other things.

Rao is like this, Mao Wenzhi and Sister Sun are also having a lot of fun, and the yard has been the laughter of the two of them. Although Hua Yunfei is young, he has been taciturn since he was a child. Coupled with the plot of encountering a catastrophe and the death of both parents, his temperament is more calm, and he doesn't look as lively as Mao Wenzhi, who is still a child.

Ye Xiaotian looked at Mao Wenzhi, who was scurrying around with a big horse monkey with a fragrant head. Shaking his head and smiling: "This old Mao, sometimes I really envy him, in fact, Lao Mao has suffered a lot since he was a child, and now he is alone, but he can always find fun on his own." ”

Hua Yunfei nodded and said with emotion: "Yes, this is Lao Mao's strength, but it's a pity that I can't learn it." ”

As soon as Ye Xiaotian was about to speak, Tang Xianzu's voice sounded from afar: "Xiaotian, they are here." ”

As soon as Ye Xiaotian looked up, he saw Zhang Hongchou, Qiao Zhenhua and others walking in from outside the courtyard dressed in new clothes, smiling and groaning, their heads were full of golden light, covered with grasshoppers, moths, butterflies, dragonflies and other gold foil paper things.

When Ye Butian saw it, he hurriedly stepped forward and arched his hand: "Brother Zhang, Brother Qiao, Brother Liu, Brother Kuai, auspicious New Year!" ”

Zhang Hongchou and others also smiled and saluted him: "Auspicious and auspicious, get rich and rich." ”

Zhang Hong said: "I'm sorry, for my brother's year, I kowtowed everywhere, and I didn't go out until today." ”

Ye Xiaotian said with a smile: "Knowing that you are busy, how can my brother be strange." ”

Liu Junyang's eyebrows fluttered and said: "However, we don't collect less money for the New Year, today the brothers are the east, let's go to the light smoke building?" ”

Kuai Peng said: "What kind of light smoke building to go to, since I took that treasure back, I haven't asked Xiaotian to practice seriously." ”

Kuai Peng came to Ye Xiaotian's side and said, "Our brothers have all ridden horses, and we have brought two horses for you and Brother Tang, how about it, let's go out of the city and find a secluded place to practice first, so as not to make mistakes in the busy." ”

Ye Xiaotian had been waiting for their news, and happily replied, "Okay!" Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be right there. ”

Zhan Ning'er was sitting on the edge of the couch, gesturing with a piece of fabric, when suddenly the door creaked, and Ye Xiaotian's voice sounded: "Miss Ning'er, Miss Ning'er." ”

Zhan Ning'er hurriedly stuffed the fabric to the bottom of the quilt, stood up in a panic, and said, "I'm here." ”

Ye Xiaotian poked his head out from behind the screen and said to her, "Miss Ning'er, Brother Zhang, they are here, I'll go out with them." ”

"Oh! Okay, you're busy with your ......."

Ye Xiaotian's head shrank and disappeared, Zhan Ning'er just breathed a sigh of relief, Ye Xiaotian's head swished out again, glanced at Zhan Ning'er, and said suspiciously: "Miss Ning'er, is there something wrong with you?" ”

Zhan Ning'er became nervous again, and said in the future: "No...... Nope! ”

"Oh......" Ye Xiaotian glanced at her again and walked away in disbelief.

Hearing the footsteps out of the door, Zhan Ning'er breathed a sigh of relief, returned to the couch and sat down, pulled out the cloth from the bottom of the quilt, held it with her hands that were accustomed to dancing guns and sticks, and said dejectedly: "This is the seventh cloth......"

Suddenly, she perked up again and cheered for herself: "As the saying goes, practice makes perfect!" You will surely be able to make a robe for him with your own hands and let him know your heart! Zhan Ning'er, you can do it! ”

:It's the last two days of 2014, ask for a double monthly pass!.

(To be continued......)