This is Bai Yanran's first year in the palace after marrying a wife, which is naturally different from when she was a young lady in the Bai family in the past.

But in fact, if you really count it, Bai Yanran is even harder than the Qi family. After all, it is also beneficial for the Bai family to have a small door, and the congratulatory gifts during the New Year are always not as busy as those high-ranking families.

And among these high-ranking families, King An's Mansion is naturally the top priority. From the second day of the first month to the seventh day of the first month, the front hall of King An's Mansion can be said to be full of people, and Bai Yanran, the housewife, is naturally not idle.

Although Ji Lingyun has an idle position as a secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and he often walks around the court, anyone with a discerning eye can see that King An has no intention of fighting for the heir, and he is the right-hand man of His Royal Highness the Prince.

Therefore, there are many people who come to Anwangfu to give gifts, but except for individual subordinates or close people who come in person, most of them are housekeepers or send fast servants to come.

The people who come to give gifts have different thoughts, and the hospitality of King An's Mansion is naturally different.

If you come in person, then Ji Lingyun will come out to receive you in person and leave a meal. If you send a housekeeper or cronies from the house, then let Mr. Pei go out to receive him, and he can always talk to people without making people feel sluggish.

If you just send an ordinary person to go through the motions, then let someone bring in a cup of tea in the front hall, and then write down the congratulatory and gift-giving hosts.

It's just that often these little guys who come to give gifts don't even have the time to rest and drink saliva, and most of them hurriedly deliver the gifts and leave in a hurry.

is the so-called exchange of gifts, naturally there must be exchanges, and how to return the gift is a headache for Bai Yanran. Press the distance. Intimacy, respect for the elderly, and think about whether the return gift should be thinner or thicker than the congratulatory gift.

These should have been handled by Bai Yanran, the housewife, but this year is the first year that Bai Yanran has married, and these relationships are inevitably a little unclear, so Ji Lingyun will guide them.

It's okay on the side, but the picture of Guanyin sent by the Tong family is obviously ill-intentioned. Ji Lingyun could guess that this was about what Mrs. Tong meant, and Mrs. Tong had always disdained this little trick.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, and turned to look at Bai Yanran's face, but seeing that her expression was as usual, he only said lightly: "It's hard for Aunt Tong San to be so free to think about me so much, the concubine remembered that someone sent a Qin Se and a Mingyu pot spring bottle yesterday, so she asked someone to send it as a return gift, which is also a good intention." ”

Ji Lingyun hadn't figured it out at first, but when he came back to his senses, he couldn't help laughing.

At the beginning, Zhu Yong took advantage of his identity as a housekeeper, and Ji Lingyun didn't take it seriously, so he secretly took the things in the warehouse back to Tong's house to pay respects, including this Qin Se and Mingyu pot spring bottle.

Since it is a Qin Se and a Ming Yu pot spring bottle, it is naturally a pair. At the beginning, someone sent one that was stolen back to the Tong family by Zhu Yong, and now it happened that someone sent another one, so Bai Yanran simply asked people to send it to the Tong family to make a pair.

Naturally, there is a mockery of Zhu Yong, but in fact, there is another intention.

The name of this Qin Se and Ming is to ridicule the absurd things that Tong Sanye committed at the beginning, but Mrs. Tong San didn't know it, and she must still be complacent and wearing that fulcrum jade Ruyi jade. Jeweled hairpins.

However, this is not a big deal for Bai Yanran, and she forgot about it in a blink of an eye, the important thing is that the next day will be the seventh day of the first month. Early in the morning, Bai Yanran and Ji Lingyun packed up and entered the palace as usual and went to the Tong family.

The New Year's flavor of the harem is not as lively as the outside, and there is no hope for a family reunion when people are trapped within the high walls, so the New Year's flavor is naturally lighter, and the Fengyi Palace seems a little deserted compared to the outside.

Tong's complexion was as usual, and it seemed that he was not affected by the public reprimand of Emperor Yuan He that day, or perhaps he was used to being harshly criticized over the years.

Looking at Bai Yanran and Ji Lingyun's eyebrows in the corners of their eyes, Tong also smiled: "In the end, it is still lively outside the palace, except for some firecrackers in the palace, and some rewards have been allocated to the palaces and palace people, and it is no different from the past."

Fortunately, Concubine Shu also brought the fourth princess and the sixth prince to be lively for a while, otherwise this year would have been a bit deserted. ”

Hearing Tong's mention of Concubine Shu, Ji Lingyun's eyebrows jumped, and he had some bad premonitions in his heart.

Bai Yanran also felt the same way, on the seventh day of the first lunar month, they were going to enter the palace to see the Tong family as usual. Concubine Shu specially chose to bring the fourth princess and the sixth prince to come today, I don't know what kind of heart An's heart is.

Sure enough, Tong Shi looked at the two of them, his eyes swept over Bai Yanran's flat lower abdomen, and sighed: "The queen mother looked at the four princesses and the six princes who were really cute and tight, just now you took a nap before you came, and dreamed of Cheng Yu and Ling Yun when they were young, and they couldn't help but miss the lively Fengyi Palace in the past. ”

Ji Lingyun originally wanted to sit for a while, but at this moment, when she heard Tong's tone, she knew what she was going to say next, and immediately pretended to be suddenly enlightened, and said: "Erchen suddenly remembered that he had to go to the Ministry of Rites to deal with an urgent official business, so he really couldn't delay." Queen Mother, Erchen will go back first today, and then bring Yan'er into the palace to see you another day. ”

It is said that knowing the son Mo Ruomu, how could the Tong family not see Ji Lingyun's thoughts.

If it was a side, she was not so uninteresting, but when she thought of Concubine Shu's words, and thought of the four princesses and the six princes who were lovely in ice and snow, the Tong family made up her mind.

She said: "Since this is the case, then you can go and get busy first, and Yan'er will stay and talk to the palace." Why, are you still afraid that the queen mother will eat her? ”

At this point, Ji Lingyun naturally didn't want to say anything more, but he didn't want to leave Bai Yanran alone. was hesitating, and then heard Tong urging: "Didn't you say that things can't be delayed?" Then let's go. "Cola Literature

Seeing Bai Yanran cast a reassuring look, Ji Lingyun had to leave first for the time being, and before leaving, he said that he would come to pick up Bai Yanran after dealing with official business in a while, and then he reluctantly left.

Tong sighed: "Seeing that you two are so affectionate as husband and wife, the queen mother is also very pleased. Yan'er, you are a smart person, and you must have guessed the queen mother's intention to keep you.

It's not that the queen mother has to be this wicked person, but I don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at the moment. There is no movement in your belly, and there are some people who are ready to move behind your back. ”

Bai Yanran lowered her eyes, her face was indifferent, but she was sneering in her heart. I'm afraid that these eyes are the tightest, and the first one who can't sit still is the Tong family. It's just that the Tong family is now blind, and no matter how much she says, it will be useless.

Tong patted Bai Yanran's hand, and said with a heartfelt look: "You believe in the queen mother, the queen mother is a person who has come over, so naturally it will not harm you."

In such a situation, if you pick two trustworthy people to wait by Ling Yun's side, you will not be troubled by others, and you will not let people talk nonsense behind your back. ”

Su Xin on the side looked at Bai Yanran worriedly, she knew her young lady's expectations, for fear that Bai Yanran would not be able to help but contradict her.

It's not King An's Mansion right now, and the prince is not there, if the young lady has a collision with the queen's mother, they will naturally not be able to please them in Fengyi Palace.

But then Bai Yanran's answer made Su Xin's eyes round in disbelief.

Bai Yanran lowered her eyes and listened to Tong's "heartfelt words", her expression was still indifferent, as if she had expected it, and it seemed to be completely irrelevant, so she only replied lightly: "Erchen respectfully listens to the teachings of the queen mother, and it is all up to the queen mother." ”

Ji Lingyun really came back quickly, but it took half an hour to pick up Bai Yanran. When Tong's wish is fulfilled, he will naturally not catch Bai Yanran anymore and let him go.

The two of them went out of the palace together, and at some point the snowflakes fell, and a thin layer of snow had accumulated on the ground, making a slight "creaking" sound when they walked around and landed.

Walking out of Fengyi Palace and walking outside the palace, Ji Lingyun asked, "The queen mother didn't embarrass you, right?" ”

Su Xin on the side wanted to speak and stopped, but Bai Yanran looked as usual, shook his head with a light smile, Ji Lingyun relieved his heart, took Bai Yanran's hand and said, "That's good." Although the queen mother is well-intentioned, I don't want you to be wronged. I'll find a time to talk to her about this, you don't have to feel embarrassed, let's go with the flow. ”

Bai Yanran seemed to be touched in her heart, and held her hand back, and responded, "Okay, let it be." ”

They turned the corridor, and the two eunuchs turned their backs to each other and didn't see anyone coming, still gossiping to themselves. One of them said: "Speaking of which, Mr. De'an is also ill at an inopportune time, and this Chinese New Year is really bad luck." ”

Another said, "Not really." Moreover, Mr. De'an's illness this time was urgent and fierce, and he was not young. After being sick these days, the emperor also sent a special imperial doctor to see him, and he didn't get better after drinking the medicine, so maybe there was something in case. ”

The person who spoke earlier said, "I see that it is also hanging, haven't you seen that the people who surround Chief Dean on weekdays have gradually disappeared?" Fu'an is a solid-eyed person, and he also takes care of his master every day, and I just saw him carrying a food box again. ”

The two walked away while talking, and Ji Lingyun couldn't help but squint when he heard this.

The people in the palace saw it well, and at this time, Fu'an was indeed carrying a food box to De'an's residence.

In the end, De'an is the head of the harem, although he is not as good as the masters in the palace, but it is also a spacious independent courtyard. At this time, the courtyard was empty, and it had lost the popularity of the crowd in the past.

Fu'an skillfully pushed the door in, entered the innermost bedroom, and found that the stove in the room was about to go out, so he quickly put two pieces of carbon into it to burn. But I found that there were half footprints printed on the ashes next to the stove, and someone had come.

The sound of the fire was not loud or small, but it also woke up De'an, who was sleeping. De'an opened his eyes for a while before he saw that the person who came was Fu'an, but instead of relaxing on his usual days, he stared at him for a long time.

Fu'an turned around and collided with this gaze, and subconsciously grinned: "Master, do you feel better?" ”

Dean narrowed his cloudy eyes and asked in a hoarse voice, "Are you really asking this?" ”

The honest smile on Fu'an's face remained unchanged, and he replied, "This is natural, why does Master ask that?" ”

For the first time, Dean carefully looked at his elm-headed apprentice, but with his experienced eyes, he couldn't see the slightest flaw.

It seems that this is still the stupid apprentice of the honest Mu Ne in the past, but if he still thinks this person is stupid at this time, then he is a real fool.

Fu An didn't seem to know anything about his strange look and expression, and took the medicine from the food box and ate it as usual, and said, "Since the master is just awake, let's eat first, and then drink the medicine." ”

Dean sneered: "I'm afraid that if I continue to eat and drink, I won't have to eat and drink again in two days." Anyway, who told you to come and ask for my life? ”

Fu An looked at him for a moment, the simple mask on his face finally faded, and he said lightly: "Why do you bother? It is said that life is rare and confused, since they are all people who are going to die, why bother to know this? ”