Chapter 40: Chinese New Year
Sure enough, as Li Qingning said, on New Year's Day, Li Ran didn't have half a minute of free time all day.
The sky has just been white...... In fact, since the time of the Heavenly Friendship, things have been strung into a chain one after another.
Don't mention eating dumplings, no matter how solemn it is, it is full of ritual, and it can be regarded as eating.
The next ritual of exorcising illness and removing disasters made Li Ran feel like he was participating in the witch blessing.
This ceremony was more solemn, the house was large and small, neatly arranged, standing in the courtyard, watching the servants and servants go through this and that, digging a pit and burying a lot of things, the two servants who dug the pit, tied silk and wore flowers, dressed like two sacrifices, Li Ran almost thought that they were going to dig a pit and bury themselves.
Li Ran stood in the middle of a group of people, listening to the solemn chanting that resounded throughout the whole house, what snake is sick, black beans are sick, and chickens are sick......
It was dark, and she was far away, and she really didn't understand what this line meant, but she just thought, this snake, if it was really that snake, that snake, it would definitely work, and it would do it very quickly.
Then the cloves burned all around, and in the strong clove fragrance, everyone dispersed, and Li Ran went back to Cuiweiju and took the first bath of the new year.
The bath water was sent from the big kitchen, and it was sent solemnly, the water was blue, and it exuded an indescribable fragrance, which was not a good smell, but fortunately, it was not too bad.
After taking a bath, Li Ran picked a cherry red skirt, a red gold-rimmed short jacket, and a red embroidered gold-faced silver fox cloak. It's very festive to wear.
After changing his clothes and rushing to Rongxi Hall, Tu Su Tang was ready, Li Ran had heard of this Tu Su Tang, and he also knew that he was drinking it from the youngest.
The third lady, Li Qingrou, pouted, looked at Li Ran, who was the first to hold a wine glass, and watched her being taught by Mama Qian to read sentence by sentence: If one person drinks it, the whole family will have no disease, and if one family drinks it, there will be no disease in one mile. There were bursts of unspeakable grievances in my heart.
She didn't want to have a sister at all!
She's the youngest in the family!
After drinking Tusu wine, another person shared a hard-boiled egg and ate it, Chang'an Hou Li Mingshui, Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Zhang, and Li Qingning, hurried back to their courtyard, changed into the most formal dress, and rushed to Miyagi by car.
They are all going to attend today's New Year's Day pilgrimage party.
As for the second master Li Qingping, the second grandmother Cao, the third lady Li Qingrou, and Li Ran, who are not enough for the level of the Great Dynasty Meeting, they are not at all more idle than Chang'an Hou and others who went to participate in the Great Dynasty Meeting.
The second grandmother, Cao, stayed in the house to guard, packed up last night's things, and watched the children of the families who received the New Year's greetings.
The second master, Li Qingping, took Li Qingrou and Li Ran and went out to pay New Year's greetings to various families.
This New Year's greeting is simple and very simple, that is, to the door of each house, there is a loud voice of the little guy shouting: so-and-so house and so-and-so to so-and-so and so-and-so New Year's greetings, etc., a festive steward in the house greeted him, accepted the post, a polite, just fine, and then went to the second house.
No matter how simple it is, you always have to go one by one, the streets are full of New Year's greetings and horses, and it is not often time to meet the familiar New Year's greeting team, and when you meet, you always have to stop and say a few words of greetings, and greet each other for a new year, more than a dozen families walked down and returned to the Chang'an Hou Mansion, and it was already dark.
It seems that the New Year's Day court meeting is also a very tiring thing, and Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Zhang will rest when they come back.
Li Mingshui, Marquis of Chang'an, went to inspect all parts of the capital after the court meeting, and Li Qingning was left by the crown prince after the court meeting.
Li Qingping took Li Qingrou and Li Ran back to the house, and they were also tired, so they hurriedly went back to rest.
Li Ran's day was too tiring compared to watching a big drama for a day, so she struggled to take a shower, fell asleep on the bed.
The bath she took in the morning, the smell was so long-lasting, she smelled it all day, although it didn't smell bad, but she always hated the smell on her body, whether it was fragrant or smelly.
The next day, Li Ran woke up naturally from a sleep, and as soon as she had breakfast, Li Qingning arrived, and the two mothers-in-law followed behind and brought in a small box.
"It's all in this box." Li Qingning motioned to her mother-in-law to put the box on the ground, pointed to the box and Li Ran smiled and said, "I have written a note and pasted it on those few things, you look at it slowly."
I have to leave quickly, the prince is going to pay New Year's greetings to a few teachers today, Huo San and I have to accompany them, if I have time in the evening, I will take you and my third sister to the elephant shed to watch the music of the teaching workshop, I will go first. ”
Li Qingning came and went in a hurry.
Li Ran sent him out of the upper room, watched him go out of the hanging flower door, then turned around and entered the house, stood in front of the half-human tall box, looked left and right for a while, beckoned to the two little girls standing in the room, and asked the two to carry the box into the bedroom and put it on the couch under the south window.
Yesterday, the second grandmother explained, the New Year's wine of the Hejian County Wangfu arrived in the middle of the day, Li Ran glanced at the dripping leak in the corner of the house, it didn't take long, she should leave, and she didn't have time to look at the contents of this box.
Li Ran came out of the bedroom, walked straight to the long desk in the east room, sat down, motioned to the little girl to study the ink, cut a long note by herself, picked up the pen and drew a string of words on the note, picked it up and looked at it, picked up a cup of tea, and walked into the bedroom.
Qiu Yue stretched out her head, stared at the two of them with big eyes, and watched Li Ran wet the two ends of the good cooked xuan with tea and paste it on the box, and was stunned for a moment before she reacted, is she sticking a seal?
Li Ran pasted it out, changed the cup again, poured a cup of tea, sipped half a cup, estimated that the rice paper should be dry, and then entered the house, touched it, looked at it carefully, and clapped his hands with satisfaction, the effect was very good.
Li Ran took the inkstone and pen from the desk, drew the talisman from the pasted sealing paper to the box, looked at it, was satisfied, and handed the inkstone and pen to the little girl.
"There's no one in this room." Qiu Yue saw it clearly and confirmed this time, the girl was indeed sticking a seal, she couldn't help it, and muttered, she put a seal in her room, and it was the first time she had seen it.
"Aren't you human?" Li Ran looked at Qiu Yue and asked.
Qiu Yue's mouth was open, and her face changed in a moment.
What does this mean, girl? Is this suspicious of her? Still suspicious of them?
Is the girl beating her?
What can she do?
Should she explain it to the girl? How to explain it?
Alas......
She's so hard.
……………………
The New Year's wine of the Hejian County Palace, almost all of the Li family of the Chang'an Marquis Mansion were dispatched.
In addition to Chang'an Hou, who is in charge, and Li Qingning.
Throughout the first month, especially before the 16th, Li Mingshui, the Marquis of Chang'an, as the chief person in charge of the security of the capital and Gyeonggi, had to inspect various places every day and visit the yamen.
As for Li Qingning, he was by the prince's side, and the prince was busy, so of course he had to be busy.
Li Qingping got off his horse at the gate of the Hejian County Wangfu and went to the left door to enter, and Mrs. Chen and her five cars entered the right door.
Mrs. Cao, the daughter-in-law of the mayor of Hejian County, stepped forward, personally opened the curtain for Mrs. Chen, and helped Mrs. Chen get out of the car.
Mrs. Cao greeted Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Zhang, and greeted her second grandmother Cao, as well as Li Qingrou, Li Ran and others.
“…… The third lady is really good-looking today, and the fourth lady is also very good-looking. Sister Lin was still talking about it yesterday, and this year is still arranged as in previous years, and the third lady knows ......"
Mrs. Cao was very vague politely. This time, whether Mrs. Chen detained the fourth lady by her side, or let her play with the little ladies, before Mrs. Chen opened her mouth, she really couldn't guess, and of course she didn't dare to talk nonsense.
"You go with them, watch a little, and don't get into trouble." Old Madam Chen looked at the second grandmother Cao and instructed.
"Yes." The second grandmother, Cao, agreed without any waves.
Anyway, she definitely can't see it, not only she can't watch it, but even the old lady herself can't watch it, and she may not be able to see it, this is something everyone knows, and if something really happens, she can't blame her.
Mrs. Cao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, Mrs. Chen could let this fourth lady and other little ladies be together, she could do whatever she wanted, she would be able to breathe a sigh of relief, if it was the same as last time, she had to be detained by her side, this New Year's wine would be very embarrassing.
As for whether something will happen, this one, since the incident in Caofu, she and the princess have repeatedly discussed I don't know how many times, and she also went back to Caofu on purpose to ask her wife for advice.
First, this girl...... Now she is the fourth lady, she is very reasonable, and she is also very considerate of others, which is clear from the first time she returned to their house as a guest, and the words of the six ladies of the Wang family.
With this, neither the princess nor she was worried that the fourth lady would take the initiative to make trouble.
Besides, looking at this fourth lady's body today, how rare it is, this is obviously a gesture of being kind to people with light and dust!
Second, this fourth lady is not a bully, but since the incident in Cao Fu, who dares to bully her easily?
The people who came here today, those little ladies, the princess and her have passed more than once, there are two or three of them who are brave and courageous, but they are all very reasonable and smart people, and they will never get along with this fourth lady. As for those who are not very smart, they don't have the guts.
Today's New Year's wine, if something really happens, it will be a destiny that cannot be violated.
Mrs. Cao smiled brightly, respectfully and politely let everyone into the Li Mansion, and a few cars came in outside.
Li Qingrou must avoid Li Ran, walking in the front, the second grandmother Cao is sandwiched in the middle, and Li Ran follows behind.
A group of three people, Li Qingrou can go as fast as she can, she can't get rid of Li Ran in a few steps, and there will be no sister who has to come out of nowhere, she hates this sister so much, obviously she is the youngest one!
The second grandmother Cao Shi who walked in the middle was very calm, and she made an absent-minded idea while walking, she had to rest for a day no matter what, she was tired for more than half a month, and the day after tomorrow they asked for New Year's wine in the house, and tomorrow the Wang family's New Year's wine, she couldn't go, she had to stay in the house to prepare, just a day free today, no matter what, she had to have a good rest!
As for Li Ran, she was busy looking at the surrounding scenery.
Today's road is different from the previous few times she came, this Hejian County Palace, it is really huge.
Today's Hejian County Palace, the look and feel is also very different from the previous few times, probably because there are colorful lanterns everywhere, and there are azaleas and daffodils everywhere, which is particularly festive.
It seems that the flower industry in the capital is really extremely developed, she smashed the next day, the teahouse also placed a pot of excellent peonies in her private room, she was amazed, and couldn't imagine what the greenhouse at this time was built with.
Huo Wenlin stood in front of Yiyun Pavilion and saw Li Qingrou and his party of three, so he hurriedly went down the steps and hurried up to meet him.
"Three ladies, two sisters, four ladies."
Huo Wenlin was wearing a pine-colored cloak, green and fresh as early spring, and greeted the three of them with a smile.
The second grandmother Cao is the cousin of her sister-in-law Mrs. Cao, before the second grandmother Cao married into the Chang'an Hou Mansion, she often went to the palace of Hejian County, this second sister has been called down from a very early time, and the second grandmother Cao is also very willing for her to call her second sister.
At this time, the second grandmother Cao had found a good place to rest, pointed to a small warm pavilion next to it and said with a smile: "Sister Lin, just take care of you, don't worry about me, I'll go there to see the scenery, your house is full of good scenes, I like to sit there and watch the scenery the most." ”
"Yes, then I won't be polite to the second sister." Huo Wenlin smiled and motioned to the girl who followed to wait for the second grandmother Cao to go to the small warm pavilion.
"Who's here?" Li Qingrou crossed Huo Wenlin and asked with a smile as she entered the warm pavilion.
"There are a lot of people. The fourth lady is so good-looking today. Huo Wenlin answered, and let Li Ran go to the warm pavilion together.
There were indeed many people in the warm pavilion, and the beads were flashing, and the room was full of laughter.
"Second sister!" Li Qingrou didn't walk a few steps into the house, and saw the second sister Li Qingli who married into the Wang family, and couldn't help but scream with joy and ran towards the second sister Li Qingli.
Li Qingli, the third grandmother of the Wang family, heard the shout, hurriedly turned around, saw Li Qingrou, smiled from the bottom of her heart, and hurriedly greeted her, "You look good, do you still have nightmares?" ”
Wang Qi, who was standing with the third grandmother Li Qingli, was also busy catching up.
"I haven't done it for the past two days, have you seen the things that the third brother brought back? Those ...... Six ladies are good. ”
Li Qingrou was about to complain a few words, but her sister Li Qingli pinched her hand, and hurriedly turned her head to greet Wang Qi.
"The third lady is good, the third sister-in-law, this is the fourth lady." Seeing that Li Qingrou didn't mean to introduce Li Ran at all, Wang Ji took a step forward, gently pushed Li Ran, and introduced it to her third sister-in-law, Li Qingli.
"Why are you so unruly? I can't even see my sister when I see it? That's too arrogant, isn't it? ”
Probably because she became a relative and experienced the exclusivity of her loved one, Li Qingli's dislike for Li Ran was far greater than that of her sister Li Qingrou.
"You see," Li Qingli raised her voice and looked around at the people who had already paid attention, "Our Li family's face has made her lose everything. ”
Wang Ji frowned, and was about to speak, when Li Ran looked at her and asked with a smile, "This is your third sister-in-law?" The third grandmother of your Wang family? ”
"How are you ......?"
Li Qingli's eyebrows were raised, but she had just said half of her sentence angrily, and she had been following her with her eyebrows lowered and her eyes lowered, and her mother-in-law, who was extremely unobtrusive, pulled her quietly, and Li Qingli's second half of her words immediately stopped abruptly.
Li Ran's eyebrows moved slightly, looking at her mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, and retreated to the side, and Li Qingli also hurriedly retreated to the side of the warm pavilion.
"What are you pulling me for? Am I wrong? Far away from everyone, Li Qingli looked angry, but her words were frivolous and unconfident.
If she hadn't made a mistake, she wouldn't have pulled her.
"Third grandmother, people have already said that you are the third grandmother of the Wang family." The mother-in-law still lowered her eyebrows and was pleasing to her eyes, and her voice was soft.
"What's wrong with the third grandmother of the Wang family? Our Li family ......"
"The third grandmother is our Wang family. The third grandmother's sentence is our Li family, is it to invite yourself out of the clan? The mother-in-law lowered her eyes and said softly.
Li Qingli was choked by her words, and her neck was stretched.
"No matter what, it's the Li family's business, and I can't ignore it......" Swallowing the words that almost choked her to death just now, Li Qingli struggled.
"Third grandmother, your father is fine, you have two elder brothers and a younger brother, and some of the Li family are people who support the family, so you don't need our Wang family to dictate you." The mother-in-law does not raise her eyelids.
This time, Li Qingli's choked tears almost flowed down.
……………………
Li Qingrou had already been pulled over by Huo Wenlin and Cao Sanniang, Wang Ji gently pushed Li Ran, who had been looking at Li Qingli and her mother-in-law, and said with a smile: "Let's sit over there and talk." ”
"Hmm." Li Ran retracted his gaze and walked with Wang Ji to the two circle chairs placed next to everyone and under the window.
"That's my mother-in-law arranged to teach the grandmother next to the third sister-in-law, the third sister-in-law thinks less about everything, and is a little outspoken, people like us pay more attention to it, and the mother-in-law gave her a teaching and guiding grandma." The two sat down, and Wang Yi first explained with a smile.
Li Ran sighed softly, and after a moment, sighed.
Compared with an authentic eunuch family like the Wang family, the Li family is an authentic mud leg, in the middle, it is really the difference between cloud and mud, mud marrying Yun is already difficult enough, but this second lady of the Li family doesn't seem to be a smart ......
Well, maybe it's because I'm not smart that I can feel very happy when I marry into such a family.
"What does the girl think?" Wang Ji looked at Li Ran, who was thinking about it, and laughed while flicking his fingers on the arm of the chair.
"I see that your third sister-in-law looks very good." Li Ran didn't hide what she was thinking.
Wang Ji raised his hand and pressed it between his eyebrows, laughed for a while, put down his hand, and coughed lightly, "The girl is really ...... The third sister-in-law is a blessed person with a big heart and a big heart, and she doesn't think much about everything.
My second sister-in-law and second brother are childhood sweethearts, and they are extremely deed. The next month after the third sister-in-law got married, the second sister-in-law felt sorry for her, carefully picked out such a pile of books and gave them to the third sister-in-law, and told the third sister-in-law that she could understand the words of the third brother after reading those books. ”
When Wang Ji said this, he paused and looked at Li Ran, who raised his eyebrows and shook his head while laughing.
That's it, the third sister-in-law glared at the second sister-in-law and said: I can understand everything of San Lang's words, and what he said is not a foreign language, how can I not understand?
Later, A-Niang taught the second sister-in-law a lesson, saying that she should not treat others with herself, and punished the second brother for taking the second sister-in-law and walking to a few Zhuangzi for half a year. ”
Wang Ji said as he laughed.
"Your third brother...... Some grievances. Li Ran wanted to say pitiful, but when the words came to his mouth, he changed them to grievances, and when he said the word pitiful, it was even more pitiful.
The smile on Wang Ji's face froze, and for a moment, he sighed lowly.
Book Keju Reading Website: