Thinking that in the future, she would be coaxed by Song Yu'an's sweet words to the little daughter-in-law who couldn't touch the southeast and northwest, so Jin Niang sincerely bowed a handful of bitter tears for the little girl who had not yet shown up.

Song Yu'an's character and appearance can already confuse people, if he is tempting with his heart. Confused, the little girl was afraid that she would be eaten and wiped clean, and she was still complacent that she had taken advantage.

When you meet such a husband, I ask you if you are bad?

There must be bad intentions, but if such a man can coax you for a lifetime, why not accumulate blessings for a lifetime?

When Jin Niang thought of this, she really couldn't tell for a while, and then she was going to marry Song Yu'an's little girl, whether it was a good fortune or a bad blessing.

It should be a blessing to think of it......

But this has nothing to do with her, after all, the young couple is willing to fight and suffer, and she is an aunt from a family of friends, if she even cares about this, it will be too lenient.

Jin Niang shook off the waste in her brain, no longer thinking about what she had or not, and concentrated on persuading a few children to eat quickly.

In the past, when eating, the children were afraid of the rule of not saying anything, and rarely spoke unless there were special circumstances. That way, you will eat faster, and the food will still be hot when you eat it. But now this bite stops three times, the meal time is extended indefinitely, and this season has not yet reached the time to light the brazier, and the temperature is getting lower and lower at night, which causes the dishes on the table to be a little cold.

But Jin Niang is really not good at urging them, so she can only serve them with vegetables.

Fortunately, several children were a little hungry and ate quickly, until Xu Erlang, Chang'an, and Song Yu'an drank a few cups together, and the speed of eating was very slow.

But they are all big men, with good stomachs, so they must be eating two bites of cold, and they are not in the way.

After a few children finished eating, they got off the table, and when it was Jinniang, she beckoned her to serve a few hot dishes. When these dishes were served, Xu Erlang and the three of them didn't drink much. The key is that Chang'an and Yu'an have shallow amounts of wine, and after three or two glasses of wine, their eyes are a little dazed.

After the three of them finished eating, Jin Niang asked her subordinates to serve two more decanting soups. Xu Erlang naturally didn't need to drink it, the two glasses he drank just now were not even "appetizing", but Chang'an and Yu'an, for example, were more sober at this time, and after drinking the sobering soup, his mind was completely clear after a while.

Xu Erlang later wrote two letters to Suqian and Li Hehui respectively, about the family and inventory, and told Li Hehui that he could keep an eye on Yunzhou's movements for him; told Suqian because he is now working in the household department, and he is the squire who speaks in the household department.

The "accounts" collected from the family should be personally confirmed by the household department, registered, and sent to the state treasury.

Xu Erlang wanted to intercept some of the accounts, but it was not enough for Emperor Yunwen to approve. It stands to reason that the household officials should be reconciled to this matter, otherwise there are really people who are more serious, and I am afraid that even if some food can be left, the amount will not be too much.

Xu Erlang went to get busy, and several children discussed how to go out to see the lanterns.

Chang'an and Brother Rong said, "When we entered the mansion, the lanterns outside were lit. It looks quite lively, but it's not as good as the capital. ”

Song Yu'an said, "Tongzhou's Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Festival is quite famous in several state capitals near and far, but in the past, it was supervised by the family...... This is an opportunity for the family to show its strength and show off. There is no shortage of silver in the family, and the handwriting is very huge, there are flower buildings, flower boats, and lanterns to piece together the dragon and lion dance. Every year, the family spends thousands of taels of silver on this alone. Not to mention that the family will "scatter wealth" at this time for the sake of good fortune and fame. It is rumored that the guests who guess the most lantern riddles in the Jubin Building of the Sheng family every year can spend free of charge in the Jubin Building throughout the year. And the Zhu family in the couplet competition and competition, the first prize winner has a thousand taels of real money and silver.

The other three families also have similar behaviors of "scattering wealth". It is also because of their wealth and wealth that every promise will be fulfilled, which has expanded the reputation of the five major families, so that the Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Festival in Tongzhou is well-known and yearning.

Unfortunately, this kind of pomp and circumstance is not destined to happen this year. Because now the five great families are in danger, and they are all locked up in prison waiting for trial.

But even without the big money of the five major families, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Festival is still lively overall. After all, the common people pushed back the dark clouds overhead, and their excitement was indescribable. This is the first major festival they encountered after "raising their eyebrows", so they naturally have to be happy and happy.

"When I came to the governor's palace, the people had already started to hang lanterns in front of the gates and on the streets, and even on the tall trees on the roadside, there were lanterns of different styles. Some merchants have also set up colorful sheds in front of their shops, thinking about what other entertainment activities there will be. ”

Changzhou Changhui clapped his hands excitedly, "Then we naturally have to go over and see it." ”

Even Changle and Xiao Yu'er said, "I don't know what the lantern style here is different from that in the capital?" In the early days, when we were in Hezhou, every Mid-Autumn Festival, the young and young people who were married could travel with their companions, and those who were not engaged carried a moon lamp. If you have a good impression of each other, you will exchange lanterns. If both parties accept it, they can let the parents talk about family affairs later. ”

This is true, when Chang'an and Changping went to Hezhou during the crazy summer vacation, they also participated in the Mid-Autumn Festival twice. They don't look bad, even if they are still teenagers, their stature is not as majestic and generous as the local teenagers in Hezhou, but their handsome appearance and chic posture still make them attract the attention of many girls. Then these people passed by the street, and many lanterns were stuffed in their hands, and some of the girls were really spicy and bold, and seeing that they did not react in return, they took the initiative to grab their own lanterns. That brutal appearance can scare Chang'an a few times. For this reason, I originally wanted to take the moon old lamp to vassal the wind back to elegance, but at this time, I couldn't care about it, so I quickly lost it is serious.

Otherwise, if the lantern is really snatched away, they don't go to propose marriage when they turn around, and people go to the government to accuse them that their words don't count, and deceive the girl's heart, what can they do?

In order to prevent ruining the kindness of other girls and ruining their reputation, several people in Chang'an only participated in the Mid-Autumn Festival twice, and they didn't dare to show up again.

It's really unremarkable, after all, as they get older, they are more beautiful than before. Even if you don't walk in the lantern festival with a lantern, there will be many girls who walk shyly and timidly for a thousand years, asking them if they are married. They are destined to meet, and it is good to get married.

Not only Chang'an, but also Changle, was asked by the teenagers if they could give them her lanterns. Changle Ke hasn't opened his mind yet, and he doesn't want to marry in Hezhou, so he was scared after being asked, and he won't go to the lantern festival after that.

Xiao Yu'er even said these things with a smile, which made Chang'an embarrassed, and Changle patted his sister even more ashamedly, giving her an angry look: You don't have a door on your mouth, you can say anything. What is there to say about that little thing, it's not embarrassing enough.

Song Yu'an couldn't help laughing out loud when he saw Xiao Yu'er smiling flatteringly at Changle. He didn't like to joke about Chang'an or Changle, so he coughed lightly and said, "Tongzhou is not as open as Hezhou." This is the foundation of the family, and the people are elegant and subtle, like in the public, cough, there is no such thing. ”

Since there are no "jackals, tigers and leopards and other fierce beasts" at the Lantern Festival, the people in Chang'an naturally want to go out to have a good time. Changzhou Changhui was particularly energetic when he heard about it, and the two boys turned their heads in the flower hall and almost hit their heads on the stool, and the angry Jin Niang wanted to hit someone.

But although the child was naughty, he was really clever, and when he saw that his mother was unhappy, he ran to Chang'an and Changle, and grinned at their mother with his head on his head.

What else can Jin Niang do, she can only swallow this breath and tell a few people, "It's okay to go out and have fun, it's boring to stay in the house all day." It's hard to catch up with the excitement, so you guys have fun. ”

asked Chang'an a few more, "How many of them are small, can you and Yu'an take care of them?" ”

Chang'an nodded, "Don't worry, Auntie, except for Changzhou and Changhui, the rest of the people don't need to be taken care of." Yu'an and I looked at the two of them more than enough. However, Changle and Xiaoyuer are girls' families in the end, and in order to prevent being bumped into, they still have to bring a few mothers-in-law to protect them. ”

"That's nature."

Then Jin Niang simply arranged manpower and put a few children to go to the street to watch the lantern festival.

The lantern festival in Tongzhou is really the same as that in Liaodong and the capital, although the appearance of the lanterns is similar, but the lanterns here are more elegant. Even the decoration of some color sheds is full of culture.

Looking at the pedestrians coming and going from north to south on the street, most of them are wearing scarves and dressing up as students. Even the female dependents who are mixed in it look like they are full of poetry and books, and their words and deeds are full of rules and elegance.

The customs of a place were revealed between these words and deeds, so that Chang'an and Brother Rong couldn't help but sigh, "Jiangnan is worthy of being a place where people from all over the world gather, and the pedestrians we just met are afraid that seven or eight out of ten are literate." ”

This probability is really very high, you must know that in the capital, it would be good to have fifty percent of the people who could read and hyphenation. But in this land south of the Yangtze River, eight or nine times out of ten are "scholars", even those elderly women, who can still open their mouths and spit out one or two sentences of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also very remarkable.

Without the Mid-Autumn Festival run by the family, it is indeed much inferior to previous years. But the smiles on the faces of the people are sincere, cheerful and bright, and the feelings are the easiest to convey, which makes the Changle people who saw this look can't help but be happy in their hearts.

Xiao Yu'er even said, "Daddy is a really good official, you see they are all saying that it is precisely because Daddy came to Tongzhou that they have a good life." ”

"Not really." Changzhou said, "These people are really pitiful, I heard them just now say that in the past, the lanterns they made at home during the Mid-Autumn Festival had to be sent to the major families." If you do well, you will not be rewarded, but if you do not do well, you will be ridiculed. To be reasonable, the juan yarn and bamboo strips used to make lanterns were bought by these people themselves. ”

Changhui said after a pause, "In order to be busy with the Mid-Autumn Festival, the family invited many workers to hang lanterns and arrange tricks. The big meat buns that can be said to be good were replaced with wowotou, and they said that they would be paid for their wages, and finally offset them with leftovers. ”

Changzhou sang a double reed as if he had to echo his brother, "This family is too good at saving money, no wonder it can save so much business." ”

"It's a pity that I'm busy coming and going, but it's just to make wedding clothes for our father."

"Stupid you, there is a wedding dress for our father, our father deserves to be innocent, but he has not embezzled a needle or a thread. The family is obviously making wedding clothes for His Majesty, and those stocks will be sent to the capital after that, and they will be transported to the treasury after being registered by the adults of the household department. Brother Rong knocked his little brother's head, and the little kid is just a little kid, and he can't speak. This made people with a heart listen to it, did the ministry think that their father was corrupt?

Brother Rong glared at Changzhou and Changhui, "Shut up, you two, this person comes and goes, don't say anything you shouldn't say." ”

Chang'an and Song Yu'an smiled and said nothing when they saw this, Chang'an protected Changle and Xiaoyu'er from pedestrians coming and going, while Song Yu'an held Changqi's hand and listened to the little girl say in a glutinous voice, "Brother Yu'an, I want to eat sugar gourds." ”

Before Song Yu'an could say anything, the little fish on the other side of him had already leaned over and warned Changqi, "If you eat sugar gourds again, you won't be able to save your remaining teeth." You'll be a toothless little girl, wow, how ugly that would be. ”

Changqi cried angrily, remembering that she was quite ugly now, and the little girl hung her head in self-pity, feeling that the lanterns on both sides were not good-looking.

Seeing this, Song Yu'an began to cry and laugh again, he smiled and glanced at Xiao Yu'er, Xiao Yu'er was a little weak-hearted and quibble, "What I said is the truth, although I don't like to listen to the truth, I am for her good." ”

"Let Changqi eat one, it's a holiday today, it's not good for her to stay happy. Just buy a bunch and eat it with your sisters when the time comes. ”

Xiao Yu'er was a little embarrassed when she heard this, she was a big girl, so she wouldn't eat like no one on the street like when she was a child. She's a beautiful girl, and beautiful girls have to be faced.

Xiao Yu'er felt that her little face was a little hot, she puffed out her cheeks, and in the end she still said, "Then Brother Yu'an, you can buy a bunch for us, just a bunch, let Changqi and Changzhou Changhui eat together, and my sister and I won't eat it." ”

Changle heard the words and said, "You shouldn't eat it, after all, it's not sightly." It's Changqi that they are still young, so they don't need to be so strict. ”

Song Yu'an was going to buy sugar gourds, but Chang'an hurriedly stopped him, "I'm coming, how can I let you run errands." But as soon as he touched the purse on his body, he came out with silver, but where was the broken silver that the small merchants and vendors could exchange? A string of sugar gourds killed three or five cents, and he took a tael of silver to buy it, and people couldn't think that he was deliberately looking for trouble.

Chang'an paused, Song Yu'an penetrated people's hearts, and when he saw this, he chuckled lightly, and took out a few copper plates from his purse, "I'll go anyway, I have some broken copper plates." ”