On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival had just been darkened, and Xie Mulin's brothers and sisters had already put on their new clothes, all dressed up exquisitely and decently, and were ready to go out to visit the Lantern Festival.

There is a tradition of walking all kinds of diseases during the Lantern Festival in Beiping, so she wore a white satin placket brocade jacket woven with silver plain white satin, and tied a white horse-faced skirt with a vine branch pattern embroidered with silver thread at the bottom of the skirt, and wore a small pearl on her head and gathered into beaded flowers, and a white jade ring ear pendant was hung on her ears.

Xie Yinghui and Xie Yingfen were also dressed similarly, in order to avoid looking plain white, they also put two newly folded red plum blossoms on their heads, and also gave one to Xie Mulin. Only Xie Yingrong is wearing a red jacket and green skirt, wearing gold bead jewelry on her head, and a gold collar and pearl and jade tassel around her neck, looking luxurious, as if she is a daughter of a rich family.

She herself seemed very satisfied with her dress, and critically said that the sisters were dressed in white, which was not festive at all. In the month of the Great New Year, it's too unlucky! In a high-ranking official like their Xie family, the daughters must at least have a style like her before they can go out to meet people.

Xie Mulin found out that she really thought so, and she didn't mean to ridicule her sisters, so she was speechless for a while, and she didn't bother to say more to her. Anyway, the brothers and sisters went out to play together, and arranged a few more girls for Xie Yingrong to keep an eye on her, so as not to let her make trouble outside. They don't have to hang out with this sister, so why bother with it?

Xie Yinghui had no intention of talking nonsense with Xie Yingrong, seeing that Xie Yingfen wanted to carefully explain the customs of Beiping to Xie Yingrong, and pulled people away.

Only Xie Huizhi glanced at Xie Yingrong with a slightly mocking gaze, sneered twice, turned his head and left.

It didn't take long for Xiao Rui to arrive at Xie's house. He brought with him a few attendants, all dressed in civilian clothes, but all of them were very handsome young men. Of course, he is the most handsome spirit among them, and no one can compare to him.

At least in Shermulin's eyes.

Xiao Rui first went to greet Xie Pu and Wen's family, and then greeted the Xie brothers before coming to see his fiancée.

Seeing him coming, Xie Yinghui and Xie Yingfen both snickered and walked away, and the former also pulled Xie Yingrong away by the way.

Xie Mulin was in a good mood and watched his fiancé walk up to him with a smile: "Are you very busy these days?" I see your dark circles are a lot heavier. ”

Xiao Rui subconsciously touched the corners of his eyes with his hand, and now he also understood the meaning of some of Xie Mulin's words: "Actually, it's nothing, it's just that a few days ago, I met a lot of generals in the army with the prince, and I dealt with the children of their family, and I spent a lot of effort and didn't sleep well at night." But I've had some free days to recuperate, and I'll be back to my original state soon. You don't have to worry about me. It's you, I've been very busy lately, and your chin is much sharper, doesn't it matter? ”

Xie Mulin smiled: "It's okay, I'm fine, I'm not tired at all." The main thing is that my mother is busy with the relief of the victims, and I am on the side to help one or two, and it doesn't take much effort. ”

"I've heard it all." Xiao Rui showed an expression of admiration, "The princess said that the new charter brought out by the mother-in-law is very thoughtful and makes up for many of the shortcomings of the old practice. In the future, the officials and dependents in Beiping City want to give porridge and do good deeds, according to the rules, which can not only save time and effort, but also reduce a lot of criticism. ”

Xie Mulin didn't think he had done anything big: "It just stipulates the size of the pot used to boil the porridge, the size of the spoon used to scoop the porridge, and how much water and rice should be put in each pot of porridge." According to this new rule, the porridge boiled normally can always make the people who are receiving the disaster barely half full. Otherwise, each time a different official or family member is in charge, the porridge will be different and thick, which will also make people confused. Fortunately, the wives and grandmothers of the adults were very understanding and willing to cooperate with my mother's plan, so the matter was successfully completed. As for whether this rule can be used in the future, it depends on the character and temper of future generations. I don't dare to hope that I can set the rules of the future generations all at once, I just do my best. ”

Xiao Rui sighed: "This is already not easy. My mother-in-law is also compassionate. ”

As he spoke, Xie Jinzhi greeted his siblings and brothers-in-law: "It's time for us to go." Otherwise, when it will be completely dark in a while, and the whole city will be lit up, the road will be crowded. ”

Xiao Rui hurriedly responded, picked up Xie Mulin's little hand, and pulled her in the direction of the second gate: "I have already asked people to take care of it all the way, everyone just walk over with confidence." ”

Xie Mulin looked down at his hand, pursed his lips and snickered, but did not say a word.

Xie Jinzhi stared at Xiao Rui and took Xie Mulin's hand, and stopped talking, but was dragged away by Xie Huiyi.

With many guards, servants, and mothers-in-law, they walked all the way to the nearby lamp market, but they encountered no obstacles. The streets have long been cleaned, and there is no snow and mud at all, and the street lamps on the side of the road are lit, illuminating the surroundings. There are many pedestrians on the road, almost all of them going in the direction of the Lantern Festival. Probably because this area is mostly a neighborhood where official residences and rich and noble families live, everyone is very polite, well-dressed, and no matter whether they are rich or poor, there is no inappropriate behavior.

When they arrived at the light market, there were more pedestrians, and more plainly dressed ordinary people came in and out or sold all kinds of lanterns and groceries. Yang Yuan pulled Xie Yingfen with one hand and his brother Yang Chun with the other, staring at the stall selling snacks not far away, discussing with them whether to bring a few more mothers-in-law and squeeze over to try it? Xie Hui asked the owners of those stalls about the prices of various commodities, but only the things that he was very interested in would really sell, which made people speechless. Xie Yingrong glanced at the people around her who were not rich enough to dress with disgust, and looked at her feet from time to time, for fear of stepping on her embroidered shoes, but the two girls she brought out were happy and wishful, but they looked around excitedly, and whispered a few words from time to time. Xie Xianzhi and Xie Jinzhi took Xie Hanzhi, who was dressed exceptionally thick today, and the three brothers watched the colorful lanterns on the side of the road with relish, discussed the lantern riddles hanging on their heads, and occasionally guessed a few.

Xie Mulin has been letting Xiao Rui hold his hand, listening to him introduce to him the allusions of each lantern, as well as the origin of the craftsman who tied the lantern, which local noble family came from, and by the way, he would also listen to what kind of fresh lanterns there are in the internal small lantern festival of Yanwangfu this year. In addition to lanterns, there is also food. The snacks produced by several time-honored brands sold at the lantern festival are all delicious. He encouraged her to try it for a while.

Xie Mulin could sense that Xiao Rui was holding his hand, and his palm was getting wetter and wetter. Is this sweating? Are you excited, or are you shy?

Xie Mulin pursed his lips and smiled slightly, secretly glanced at the smile on his fiancé's face from time to time, felt the temperature change of his hand holding her, and felt that tonight's lantern festival was indeed quite interesting.