The Chinese New Year's Eve vigil sleeps late, but the first morning of the new year must also be up at five o'clock.

"Agua, the time has come, fire the cannon quickly!" Steward Liu urged. Ah Gua took Haiying and Haiming at the gate of the East and West Courtyards, pulled a long hanging of paper cannons, and put them up "crackling".

Soon, the sound of firecrackers came one after another in the alley, and the confetti of firecrackers at the door of every house became red in the alley.

"Girl, young master, eat dumplings!" Sister-in-law Liu came in with two bowls of dumplings, Hu Yanjin didn't go back to the east courtyard last night, and slept in her own wing room in the west courtyard.

Hua Qiao only found out this morning that if he hadn't been able to criticize people in the New Year, he would have been scolded a long time ago. She picked up the two bowls of dumplings and said, "Let's go, let's go over and greet your father." ”

Hu Yanjin didn't want to go, so he was stomped on by Hua Qiao, and quickly jumped up from the chair.

"Happy New Year, Uncle! Let's eat dumplings and see who can eat the silver horns, this year is going to be lucky! ”

Wu Chenliang saw that his son was holding two bowls of dumplings, and when he saw that he looked over, he also called "Happy New Year, father". He put his mind at ease, how could father and son have an overnight feud?

Wu Chenliang served a bowl of dumplings, Hua Qiao served another bowl to Hu Yanjin, picked up the tray himself, and turned around and went out with a smile.

"The dumplings are so ugly, they are wrapped in buckwheat?"

"It's delicious, and besides, I think it's beautiful, and each one has so much personality." Hu Yanjin said, took a bite, quickly stopped, carefully spit out a small silver horn, and his heart blossomed: My daughter-in-law still hurts me.

But Wu Chenliang also ate one: this little girl still has a conscience.

The father and son ate again, okay, two bowls of dumplings, and ate eight silver horns! At this time, even Wu Chenliang couldn't hold back and laughed: "Hua Qiao has a heart, go and ask her to come over, and my father will send you a red envelope for the New Year." ”

After receiving the red envelope, Hu Yanjin saw that the buckwheat was thicker than his own, and he was instantly happy.

In a blink of an eye, it was the ninth day of the first lunar month, and Lin Longfeng sent a small servant to find Hu Yanjin in a hurry, and he was waiting for him at the mouth of the alley. The two finally found a tavern that was open, and before they could sit down, Lin Longfeng said:

"Tomorrow things will change."

"Oh? The operation is canceled? If that's the case, Hu Yanjin really wants to drink two glasses.

"No, it's not a cancellation, he called me yesterday afternoon and said that in order to arrange for me to go to Zhu Zhanpei's side, he had to send a letter of submission. So...... The scope of action has expanded. He said...... It won't affect you, so I don't have to tell you, but I think you should still know. ”

Hu Yanjin silently poured two glasses of wine and listened to Lin Longfeng continue.

"The plan includes framing the imperial grandson. That day, I said that I would attack all the horses and mix vanilla in their forage, at most it would paralyze the horses' nerves and make them move slowly, but this time I had to attack Zhu Zhanpei's horse and make the horse lose control, and I just happened to save Zhu Zhanpei. He was grateful to me, and it was naturally easier to get close to him. ”

"That's all?"

Hu Yanjin didn't believe it, if there was only this, he really didn't have to tell him, because his task was only to ensure that the imperial grandson's horse ate the vanilla. However, this is not Yi Chengjin's style.

"Ah, that's it. I was afraid that you would be surprised at the scene, so I came over to talk to you. After all, horses are brutes, and they are crazy, I am afraid that the scene will not be covered, and I am more at ease with you. ”

Lin Longfeng smiled innocently, clinked glasses with Hu Yanjin, and drank it all by himself.

"Well, I'll pay attention, you also have to protect yourself, you can find another opportunity, there is only one life."

"There is one more thing......" Lin Longfeng said with some embarrassment: "Mr. Cheng mentioned it to me, saying that I am alone, so it is better to join the Cheng family, so that everyone can take care of it." Mr. Cheng was a close friend of my father, and my father ...... on his deathbed."

"Mother-in-law! You just say you go or don't go. Hu Yanjin felt that his brother was a big and tall man, and he squirmed and said that it was a little funny.

Lin Longfeng scratched his head and said: "I want to marry Yingxue, but I want to leave some incense for the Lin family, Yingxue also has a younger brother, and his Cheng family has no shortage of sons." ”

"Then you can tell Mr. Cheng directly, he is not an unreasonable person."

"It's just that this is embarrassing, I don't have much money now, and doing things for him has just made a start, so what is it to marry Cheng Yingxue? The girl has been waiting for several years, and if it drags on, I feel sorry for others. ”

Lin Longfeng is such a contradictory person, who wants to please others but also doesn't want to feel sorry for himself.

The two drank two glasses silently, and Hu Yanjin said:

"It's hard for a Qing official to decide the housework case, you better go back and discuss with Miss Cheng, this is your business, you should listen to her opinion. Also, he knows that Miss Cheng is the only witness, but he doesn't know it yet, there is tampering in it, don't be careless. ”

Lin Longfeng nodded, this is also what he has been worried about.

The reason why he wants to do his best to do a good job in His Royal Highness, and even with the greatest enthusiasm, hopes that His Royal Highness will succeed in taking power, because he hopes that after Yi Chengjin takes power, he will remember his merits and let Cheng Yingxue go.

But Hu Yanjin didn't think so.

The tavern was already very old, even the windows were closed, and there was a "squeak" sound in the north wind, and there were only two of them in the shop, and the shopkeeper was not at the counter, so he took them the wine and went inside.

Hu Yanjin drank the last glass of wine, took out a piece of broken silver and put it on the table, and said with a smile: "I think he may not be able to tell both of us everything, tomorrow we will only have to improvise." When I saw you for the first time in the New Year, you had to say auspicious words to me, right? ”

Lin Longfeng stood up, only then did he look at him from head to toe, his eyes stopped on his bun, and he pouted and said:

"Aren't you just wearing a new 'grass gold'? Sent by the big girl? Look at you beautifully. ”

Lin Longfeng thought disdainfully: The middle coat that his daughter-in-law sewed for himself would not be so conspicuous to take it out for others to see!

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the buckwheat gave him one, the hairpin is a pea-sized golden gourd hairpin, which is called "grass gold", the buckwheat specially carved a "buckwheat" word on the gourd, she said: "New Year, everyone wears grass gold, but only this one has a buckwheat word on it, only this one, no other semicolon!" ”

He also gave her a butterfly hairpin, Hu Yanjin went to pick it several times, and only then did he find this blue butterfly with a special shape, and when he put it on her hairpin, he said:

"I'm the only one, and I don't have a semicolon. Because I replaced the butterfly's eyes with rubies, and the last time I gave you a jeweled pendant, I asked the goldsmith to keep the rest of the corners, just to use. ”

This is the first time they have spent the New Year together, and there will be many more in the future.

He firmly believes.