It is not only Zhang Xie who can understand that someone may use the sacrificial national ceremony to make a living, Qiao Ran also knows.

It's just that she can't help him with these things for the time being, so that she can do nothing at this time without causing trouble, and let him do his own thing without worries.

Therefore, on the second day, when she still took Pei Qingqing to the Yamen of Dali Temple, Zhen Shiyuan came to her with a straight face and asked, "When are you going to bring the little one next to you?" ”

"I'm afraid of death," the girl just smiled at this and said, "So I will take Princess Zhenzhen with me every day in the capital." ”

The little girl next to her, who had not yet wiped the snacks from the corners of her mouth, flashed out and looked at him with blinking eyes.

Zhen Shiyuan turned around, held back the unbearable in his heart, coughed dryly with a cold face, and didn't know which corner came out of the corner on the side, holding the flower cat raised by Zhen Shiyuan in one hand, and a cage in the other hand, in the cage was a fat big mouse, alive, but looking at the breath more and less breath in.

This is...... Qiao Ran looked at Zhen Shiyuan in confusion.

Zhen Shiyuan raised his chin with a straight face, pointed to Pei Qingqing beside her, and said: "She did a good thing, raising this mouse so fat, if it weren't for my little flower catching this culprit, I wouldn't know it!" ”

Running around with dried fruit snacks all day long, there are always some scattered outside when eating.

"That's how rats are raised." Zhen Shiyuan pointed at Pei Qingqing and said to Qiao Ran, "It's good that I've been caught now, if I haven't been caught and run to gnaw on the file or something, will this official be executed by pressing a mouse?" ”

Pei Qingqing flattened her mouth, howled twice in Qiao Ran's eyes, and then repeatedly assured that the dim sum would not leak outside to raise mice, and she was reluctant to be let go by Zhen Shiyuan.

After talking about idle things, Zhen Shiyuan took out a post from his arms and handed it over, and said with a straight face: "You also have a share of the post of the Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet." ”

This is not unexpected, the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet that year had her share, not to mention that half a year has passed, she has investigated so many cases, how can the Chinese New Year's Eve Palace Banquet not have her business?

Pei Qingqing suddenly became excited when she heard this, and pulled Qiao Ran's sleeve to ask her to repeatedly promise that she would not forget to bring her the dim sum for the palace banquet, she liked it the most.

Seeing this, Zhen Shiyuan couldn't help muttering, "I know how to eat."

Pei Qingqing didn't care about this, shook his little fist, and said proudly: "It's because I eat a lot that I grow so strong." "Miss Qiao said, what about her growing body, how can she do it without eating?

"There are so many crooked reasons." Zhen Shiyuan sighed, and he didn't take Pei Qingqing seriously, turned his head and walked out.

I have been busy all year, and when the year is approaching, it is rare to have free time.

Although Dali Temple is just a yamen, it also has a New Year's atmosphere.

The officials in charge of chores bought red paper to teach idle officials to cut paper and paste window flowers and write Spring Festival couplets. For this reason, the men of the Yamen of Dali Temple fully demonstrated their talent in some aspects, whether it was the window grille or the word blessing, they were cut vividly. One of the little officials saw that Pei Qingqing was cute, and even specially cut a little tiger for Pei Qingqing as a gift.

"It's really not a good thing, but the miscellaneous things are flying up." Zhen Shiyuan nagged while looking at it and was pulled to the table to write Spring Festival couplets, and under the gossip of a group of officials, he solemnly wrote a four-character horizontal criticism of "extremely poor standard": Nothing to do.

"Although it doesn't sound like a good word, the more leisurely my Dali Temple Yamen, the better," Zhen Shiyuan put down the pen in his hand, looked at the officials and officials who were surrounding him, and said earnestly, "It's better than your 'closing the door' or something." ”

Qiao Ran looked at all this with Pei Qingqing laughing outside the crowd, and secretly said in her heart that it was really getting more and more of a New Year's atmosphere.

Looking at the scrapped window flowers and crooked blessing characters in her hand, Qiao Ran sighed: If there is really no absoluteness in the world, not all women are good at this kind of thing, for example, she is not very good at it.

However, as the first window flower and blessing word cut out by himself, Qiao Ran still put it away and prepared to take it home to put it away.

Firecrackers are also prepared in the yamen, ready to stay until the first day of the first month, a picture of celebration or something.

Qiao Ran looked at all this with a smile, helped from time to time, and specially asked the little official who bought sundries to buy a little tiger hat and came back to Pei Qingqing to bring it.

The little girl with a tiger head hat looks serious, which is really cute. She herself likes it very much, running around wearing a little tiger hat, and even took the initiative to help hang the lantern on the door of the Yamen of Dali Temple.

Qiao Ran stood outside the yamen and looked up: she had only seen such a New Year's atmosphere through the screen before, but it was the first time she had experienced it herself.

It's quite interesting, muttering in my heart, and the girl can't help but smile a little more.

The official list on duty was also lined up, and the previous words that he would arrange her to be on duty in Yamen on Chinese New Year's Eve were really just a joke by Zhen Shiyuan, and the days he arranged for her were almost close to the Lantern Festival.

For a few days, Pei Qingqing was full of joy, Pei Qingqing did the same, took the lanterns, window flowers and blessing words left over from the yamen and took them home, and decorated the small courtyard, especially her favorite little tiger paper-cut pasted on top of her small pillow at the head of the bed.

Approaching the end of the year, the smell of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, and Zhang Xie is getting busier and busier, but he has not forgotten the matter of picking her up and going home every day, and sometimes he even sent her to the alley and left in a hurry, clearly heading to the imperial city.

Hongdou expressed great satisfaction with this, and several times caught Zhang Xie to ask his uncle when he would come to propose his relatives, and he was even more happy after getting Zhang Jie's promise of "soon", and even happily prepared to drive Tang Zhongyuan to sleep in the firewood room, so as to vacate the room for the "uncle" to prepare a room for the "uncle" to visit his own miss.

This proposal was so shocking that the temporary resident Old Doctor Feng was shocked, and even planned to go back to his brother who "specializes in andrology" two days before Chinese New Year's Eve, but after thinking about it, he actually quit early.

But fortunately, Qiao Ran spoke out to stop Hongdou's proposal, so that Tang Zhongyuan was temporarily spared the "miserable" fate of going to the firewood room to live.

The gambling contract that Zhen Shiyuan had been talking about for a long time was finally revealed when he was approaching the annual leave, and Xie Chengze took the initiative to withdraw from the promotion quota this time, on the grounds that his body needed to be raised, and he was afraid that he would be affected after the promotion.

His casual refusal made Zhen Shiyuan's heart tremble, and he suddenly remembered that his bet with Qiao Ran didn't seem right, but how could the girl allow him to regret it? Especially Pei Qingqing urged Qiao Ran to wait on the side early.

"Our gambling contract is to investigate that case, if this case is not easy to investigate, it can only be considered a tie, and you will return the official's money bag." Zhen Shiyuan stretched out his hand towards Pei Qingqing and said.

"Do you want to deceive the child?" Unexpectedly, Pei Qingqing, this kid is not easy to deceive, his eyelids flickered, he touched the heavy big money bag, and snorted, "Isn't it a gambler who can get that promotion?" Now that Xu He has cultivated, we have won! The money bag hung on her waist every day, and she wanted to secretly use it to buy snacks from Yum Yum Lou, but after thinking about it, she still held back, Miss Qiao said that since she gambled, she had to abide by the rules, and she couldn't move the big money bag casually until Lord Zhen didn't admit defeat.

God knows how long she's endured it, how can this adult not admit it? She Pei Qingqing didn't follow, and the little girl instinctively clenched her fists.

Zhen Shiyuan, who looked at this fist, was shocked for a while: I almost forgot that this little girl is not easy to mess with, if it really provokes her: the child has no light or heavy hands, maybe he will have to explain here.

Yes, after thinking about it in the end, Zhen Shiyuan still reluctantly gave up and admitted defeat.

However, although she admitted defeat, her heart was dripping blood, and she couldn't help but ask Qiao Ran who was smiling calmly on the side: "Did you guess that Xie Chengze would quit early in the morning?" ”

In this regard, the girl did not hide it, nodded and said: "Not to mention the outcome of this case, it can be checked, Xie Chengze has found the result first, and he will also quit and will not compete for this place." ”

"Why......" Zhen Shiyuan instinctively wanted to ask, but the moment the words were spoken, they suddenly became clear.

Because Xie Chengze is hiding clumsy. Although in terms of his ability, Zhen Shiyuan doesn't think that he will really be much worse than Xie Shu, who is now regarded as the heir of the next generation of the Xie family, but a Xie family does not need two heirs, otherwise who will listen to when two heirs with equal ability and status have different opinions? Behemoths like the Xie family don't need to expand their territory at the moment, what they want is to maintain the behemoth of the Xie family from collapsing. And the destruction of behemoths such as the Xie family often does not come from external forces, but more from internal disintegration.

"Cui, Wang, and Xie are all like this, there is already a Xie Shu, so naturally there is no need for a Xie Chengze who also shines." Qiao Ran said, "This is also Xie Chengze's own choice. ”

So, he's not going to compete for this spot.

Zhen Shiyuan naturally knew this, but it was just the result of sticking to the case itself, but he couldn't see Mount Tai at all.

Although he felt sorry for his money bag, but the matter had come to this point, he had to admit defeat, Zhen Shiyuan sighed: Nine out of ten bets were lost, and sure enough, the saint did not deceive me.

Just as he was sighing, Qiao Ran on the other end said to him: "By the way, my lord, there is something I have always been curious about. ”

Zhen Shiyuan squinted at her.

Qiao Ran said: "The names of the children of big clans like the Xie clan are not taken randomly, right?" ”

Zhen Shiyuan snorted and said What's wrong.

The girl thought for a while and said seriously: "I admit that the name Xie Chengze is also very good, but whether it is Xie Shu or Xie Yi in the prison or even Xie Taiwei's own real name Xie Jie, they are all single names, why is Xie Chengze a double name?" ”

At first, she thought that Xie Chengze's word Chengze was his word, just like Zhang Jie's word interpretation, but after reading the list of officials of Dali Temple, she found that Xie Chengze was really his real name.

This question made Zhen Shiyuan roll his eyelids: I thought it was a big deal, but it turned out to be just such a small thing.

"He was also a single name, surnamed Xie Mingze, but after Xie Liuye and his wife had an accident and finally found it, Taiwei Xie took pity on this young grandson who was finally found, so he specially asked the Yin and Yang Division to calculate, saying that it would be better to change his name, and he deliberately changed his double name to Chengze." When Zhen Shiyuan said this, he asked Qiao Ran, "So, do you have any questions?" ”

The girl spread her hands, shook her head, and said, "So that's the reason." ”

What do you mean by "that's what it was"? Zhen Shiyuan asked her rhetorically: "What did you think of it?" ”

The girl thought for a while and explained: "I think this word is easy to be ambiguous, if you look at it as the meaning of inheritance, it is as if Xie Chengze is inheriting Xie Ze's name." ”

What a mess, Zhen Shiyuan didn't focus on such trivial things anymore.

……

The days flickered, and on the day of the New Year, Pei Qingqing flattened her mouth and said goodbye to everyone who was learning to make dumplings: "My mother asked me to go home for the New Year!" ”

Qiao Ran said "En", pinched her little nose with her floured hands, and helped her straighten the crooked little tiger hat, and said to her: "Okay, we know, you can go home quickly!" ”

Pei Qingqing is not like them, she has a family, and her family is in Chang'an City, so she naturally wants to go home for the New Year.

The little girl seemed to be a little sad, and folded her hands and counted: "How many days will we not see each other, will you miss me?" ”

After Qiao Ran's response, the little girl turned around and left.

Qiao Ranfu looked down at the dumplings in her hand and felt a little helpless: she didn't seem to be very good at handicraft.

This dumpling is also too weird to look at.

However, she is not the only one who can't wrap dumplings well, Qiao Ran looked at Mrs. Fang's mother and daughter, and looked at the round dumpling skin, the two of them can't wrap it well, but the red bean buns that have always been drilled in and out of the kitchen are very similar to that.

"In the past, dumplings were not made in Jinling." Fang Xiuting explained.

"I haven't wrapped it either," Hongdou said, shaking the dumplings in his hand proudly, and the other party Xiuting showed off, "Isn't it okay?" ”

Fang Xiuting snorted coldly in dissatisfaction, turned her face to look at the few copper plates on the table on the side: "Then you come to wrap it, don't forget to wrap the copper plate in it for a while." When it comes to eating dumplings, whichever eats more copper plates will have the best luck. ”

That's what it means. The young lady said that if you really want to be lucky, just scoop it to the bottom of the pot. Red Bean didn't care about this.

I've been following Miss for a long time, and occasionally I know how to watch and think more: after all, this is not a difficult thing.

What's so interesting about a good tradition being said like this? Fang Xiuting snorted twice, and was about to speak, when a noise sounded outside the door, it was Tang Zhongyuan who brought back Qiao Shu, who was studying in Guozijian.

The last person in the family arrived.

The twelve- or thirteen-year-old boy was growing taller, and he had grown a lot taller after ten days and a half months, and even his sleeves seemed to be much shorter. I don't know if I get along well with my classmates in Guozijian these days, Qiao Shu's complexion is very good, and he has a little more smile on his face, and as soon as he enters the door, he washes his hands and comes over to learn to make dumplings.

After wrapping the dumplings in the pot, everyone was very happy to eat a pot of strange-shaped dumplings.

At noon today, she will attend the New Year's banquet with Zhen Shiyuan, Xu He and Xiujin Palace.