Chapter 133: Qixi Qiqiao
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The next evening, Yu Qingqing ran over, "Xiaoxiao, do you know who the person who rode the horse on the street that day?" โ
"Who?" Yan Hagi has been waiting for someone to come to trouble for the past two days.
Yu Qingqing pouted and said, "The people of the Zhou family, Zhou Mei'er's younger brother." โ
Yan Hagi was stunned, "The brother-in-law in his mouth is King Zhao!" โ
Yu Qingqing sneered, "The younger brother of a side concubine, what qualifications does he have to be called King Zhao's brother-in-law, shameless." "Although the side concubines also have grades, they are more noble than ordinary concubines, but they are still concubines, and they are not serious relatives.
"By the way, how did you know his identity?" Yan Hagi asked.
"Concubine Zhou came into the palace with her stomach up, saying that someone was murdering in the street and beating the emperor's relatives, and they didn't avoid people, so I didn't hear it." Yu Qingqing sneered.
"Imperial relatives! They deserve it, too. Yan Hagi also sneered.
"I quickly told my aunt and grandmother about the events of that day, so that the Zhou family would not talk nonsense and wronged good people." Yu Qingqing pouted.
"I have to tell Sister Li about this, so that she doesn't worry." Yan Hagi smiled.
Yu Qingqing took Yan Hao's hand, "Xiaoxiao, thank you." โ
Yan Hagi withdrew his hand and touched Yu Qingqing's forehead, "I don't have a fever, how can I talk nonsense?" โ
"Nasty." Yu Qingqing brushed her hand away, "You know what I'm talking about. โ
"If you want to be a friend for a lifetime, tell me this politeness, you hate it." Yan Hagi patted it lightly.
"I'll never say it again, I'll keep it in my heart." Yu Qingqing said seriously.
The two gossiped for a while, Yu Qingqing said goodbye and went home, and the next day before Yan Hagi went to Anguo Mansion, he went to Li's house to see Li Yichun. Li Yichun was dealing with the three former "friends" with an indifferent face at this time, and the three of them found similar reasons for the estrangement some time ago, this one said: "My grandmother is unwell, and I will stay at home to take care of her." โ
Li Yichun pouted secretly, when who didn't know that her grandfather and grandson had a bad relationship, she would take care of her grandmother? Fool whom.
The other was, "My mother sprained her foot, and I'm going to be there." โ
Li Yichun pouted again, will the pampered young lady serve people? I'm afraid I'll even pour a glass of water.
The last person's reason: "I was weak, the weather was too hot, I had heat stroke, and my mother wouldn't let me come out." โ
Li Yichun looked at her round figure, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help twitching, if she was weak, then no one in this world would be better.
The maidservant girl came over, "Miss, the twelfth lady of the Yan family is here." โ
"Xiaoxiao is here!" Li Yichun was overjoyed, after she became friends with Yan Hao, Yan Hao never came to Li's house.
Li Yichun didn't care about these three people and went to greet Yan Hao; The faces of the three people who had been flattered for a long time, but were still left out in the cold, all looked a little bad, "Who is this surnamed Yan?" Yichun went to pick her up in person, so big face. โ
"There are not many people surnamed Yan in Beijing, and it should be the granddaughter of Mrs. Yan."
"I remember that there are fourteen young ladies in Mrs. Yan's family, what is the first room of this Yan twelve?"
"In the fourth room, my mother is the lord of Nanping who was born in the Rongwang Mansion."
"When did Li Yichun befriend her?"
"I don't know."
"Let's go and say hi to her, too." Although the Yan family is also a family, the Yan family has had officials in the past generations, and most of the people who come and go are officials or first-class families. The Li family is between a first-class family and a second-rate family, there was a princess of Dongning County in the past, and now there is a princess, as long as the men of the Li family are angry, it will not be a problem to squeeze into the first-class family over time.
"Okay."
The three of them got up and walked out, but they didn't go far before they were stopped by the maidservant, "Are the three young ladies going back?" Without waiting for the three to answer, he continued: "The slave maid sent the three young ladies out." โ
"We didn't have to leave, we were going to go and find Yichun."
"I'm sorry, my young lady has a distinguished guest to greet, don't let people disturb, the three young ladies please go back, come back another day if you have something." The maidservant girl came over by Li Yichun's order.
"Yo, Yichun has a new friend and forgets the old friend, the surname Yan is a distinguished guest, are we a cheap guest?"
The servant girl stiffened her neck so that she did not nod her head.
"As a princess, you look down on people like this, you don't want to get along with us, do you?"
"The surname Yan is the young lady of the Taifu family, a big family, are we the girls of the low family?"
The three of them said a lot of sour words, but the maid was unmoved, and kept a decent smile on her face; The three of them were so dry that they could only leave in disagreement. Yan Hagi didn't stay at the Li family for long, and left after finishing speaking.
"It's all here, what's wrong with staying for dinner?" Li Yichun took her hand and didn't want her to go.
"I promised Aunt Fu, I can't go, people have to keep their word, you send a post to invite me another day, I'll come again, play for a day." Yan Hagi smiled.
"That's what you said, I'll post it to you when the time comes, and you can't make excuses to say no." Li Yichun said with a smile.
Yan Hagi smiled, "There is food and drink, I will definitely come." โ
Li Yichun sent Yan Hagi into the carriage and learned that the three had been sent away by the maidservant, "Good job." Those three were the thickest skinned of the people she had befriended before, they were all daughters of a family, but they did not have the demeanor of a family girl at all.
Thinking of Yu Qingqing and Qiao Huaiqing, whom Yan Hagi introduced her, Li Yichun couldn't help but sigh: "I don't have as many friends as Xiaoxiao." โ
At the same time that Yan Hagi went to the Anguo Mansion, Yu Zhilin also found King Zhao and told him about the brother of Concubine Zhou on the street and Concubine Zhou's entry into the palace to complain, "He is relying on the power of the prince outside, flying and domineering, offending many people, and the reputation of the prince is almost ruined by him." โ
King Zhao's face sank like water, Concubine Zhou was the Zhou family, and when he entered the palace, he was always far away, and he didn't favor her; Once calculated, he slept with Zhou Meier. Just one time, Zhou Meier was pregnant with a child. Princess Zhao and another side concubine have not been pregnant for a long time, although they are calculated to feel that they should respond, although they don't like Zhou Meier, but they still look forward to the child in her belly, so they give Zhou Meier a little face. But I don't want to, these few facets made Zhou Meier public, and the Zhou family was also presumptuous.
"Zhong Kun, thank you for telling me this, I'll take care of it." Zhao Wang really regretted sparing Zhou Meier for the sake of the child.
"The prince doesn't think I'm too troublesome." Yu Zhilin smiled indifferently.
What will King Zhao do with Zhou Meier's family, Yu Zhilin doesn't care, he is practicing martial arts diligently for the martial arts in August.
After a few days, it will be the sixth day of the seventh month, and tomorrow is the Daughter's Day of Qixi Festival. Although Yan Hagi didn't allow anyone, he also had to learn to carve melons.
"Sister Twelve, do you want to carve something?" Yan Hong asked.
Yan Hagi put his hands on his cheeks, "I haven't thought about it yet, what about you?" โ
Yan Hong smiled, "I want to carve a pig." โ
"Are you serious?" Yan Hagi asked.
Yan Hong nodded, "I like to eat elbows." โ
The reason for this...... Powerful enough.
"Sister Twelve, don't you like to eat fish, you can carve fish." Yan Hong gave advice sincerely.
Fish.
The carp jumps over the dragon gate.
Yan Hao's eyes lit up, "I know what I'm going to carve, I want to carve fame and wealth, I wish the second brother, the third brother and the fourth brother, Qiufu High School." โ
"Twelfth sister, I also want to wish the second, third and fourth brothers, Qiuqiu High School." Yan Hong said immediately.
"You don't carve a pig's head anymore? Don't want to eat elbows anymore? Yan Hagi asked.
Yan Hong licked his lips and said, "When the three elder brothers are in high school, let them buy elbows for me to eat." โ
Yan Hao smiled, this is a good idea, "You carve the Toad Palace to win the laurels." โ
"Good, good." Yan Hong smiled and narrowed his eyes.
The sisters decided what to carve and went back to the yard.
The four treasures of the study on the desk were moved a little, and a layer of cotton cloth was spread on them, and a small winter melon was placed; Winter melon is also called east melon, the sun rises from the east, giving people hope, flower melon carved with winter melon, representing auspicious wishes.
Opening the box containing carving knives of various sizes, Yan Hagi's palms were sweating. Seeing that she was slow to get off the knife, Zeng said with a smile: "You are practicing now, it doesn't matter if the carving is broken, I asked the almond to take ten winter melons back, you can rest assured that you can carve it." โ
"Ten winter melons! Auntie, you underestimate me too much, do you? Yan Hagi couldn't laugh or cry.
"It's not to look down on, it's the water chestnuts that said to make winter melon candy, so I'll take a few more and make more." Zeng smiled.
Yan Hagi didn't bother about it, he carefully went to the knife, Rao thought about what to carve, but when he really carved, it was beautiful to imagine, and the reality was cruel.
The first melon was carved a quarter of an hour later.
Water chestnuts took away the carved winter melon, and Almond put a good winter melon in front of Yan Hagi, who continued to carve the melon with a carving knife.
Zeng's prediction was really not bad, the first nine, Yan Hagi was all carved, but fortunately, the tenth was finally carved. After carving for more than an hour, Yan Hagi's back hurt, put down the carving knife, and rubbed the back of his neck, "Fortunately, I will go back to Tanabata once a year, and I will have two more times, I have to have cervical spondylosis." โ
"Don't talk nonsense, what is not sick." Zeng's disgust is strange.
Almond hurriedly stepped forward to help her pinch.
When it was comfortable, Yan Hagi asked the maid to go to Chunhui Hall with the flower melon, "Grandmother, my flower melon is carved, you see." โ
"Let me see, what is it carved?" Mrs. Yan is old, her eyes are old, and she wears glasses, "Fame and wealth are good." โ
Yan Hao's eyes swept and found that the five cousins and Yu Fangfei had all arrived, except for Yan Fen, who had made a marriage, no one else had a marriage, and this flower melon didn't need to be sent to her mother-in-law's house, just show it to Mrs. Yan. The flower melon carved by Yan Fen is chilled with ice and will be sent to Qiaoyang Bofu tomorrow. The best flower melon carving is Yan Ying, who carved a hibiscus out of the water.
In the afternoon, the ladies gathered in the stove room to fry Qiaoguo. The dough is kneaded by the cook, and the ladies are not good at kneading, and the dough is not kneaded.
"Thirteenth sister, what are you pinching?" Yan Hagi was busy and took the time to glance at Yan Hong next to him.
"Chicken legs." Yan Hong said with a smile.
Yan Hagi took a closer look, and it really looked like a chicken leg. Yan Hagi made a four-petal flower, which is a bit laborious. It took more than 30 flowers to finish the dough, and at this time, the oil pot was also boiling, and Yan Hagi put the flowers in it one by one.
When the young ladies made all the clever fruits were fried, they were held for Mrs. Yan to taste, and Mrs. Yan reached out and took Yan Hagi's fried, "Xiaoxiao is lazy, just four petals." โ
"Grandmother, don't pick a style, you can taste it." Yan Hagi was embarrassed to say that she originally planned to make three petals, but three petals did not become flowers, so she made four petals.
Old Madam Yan took a bite, "It's crispy, not bad." โ
Yan Ying and others' clever fruits are made into animals, some are made into flowers, and there are also four-fold square wins, rounds, etc., as for the chicken legs made by Yan Hong, they are too thick and not ripe inside.
"What should I do? If you blow it up again, it'll be scorched on the outside. Yan Hong looked at Yan Hao, "Twelfth sister, you can help me think of a way." โ
"Steam, you can eat it when it's steamed, it's just not crispy." Yan Hagi smiled.
"As long as you can eat it." Yan Hong is not picky at all.
Yan Hong's fried Qiao Guo became a steamed Qiao Guo, Yan Hagi tasted a little, just like a steamed bun, she didn't like to eat it, Yan Hong led Yan Jing to eat it. Yan Hong also said eloquently: "The weather is so hot, this fruit is stained with water vapor, and it will spoil tomorrow." โ
"You're greedy, you're greedy, and you have so many excuses." Mrs. Yan Wu angrily poked her head hard with her hand.
At night, licorice and almonds are used to dye Yan Hagi's nails with mashed impatiens, which is also a custom of the Qixi Festival. Yan Hagi has fair skin, slender fingers, red nails, and a pair of jade hands that are as delicate as tender.
Impatiens are no better than nail polish, the color takes too long, Yan Hagi leaned on the pillow, almost fell asleep in a daze, or licorice lifted the thin blanket she put on her body, she woke up, "The toes are not stained, I am tired, I want to sleep." โ
Licorice and Almond were busy asking the little maid to bring in water and wait for her to wash. Yan Hagi went to bed, closed his eyes, and fell asleep, dreamless all night until dawn.
The next day, the Qixi Festival, the Yan family itself has nine young ladies who have not yet left the cabinet, as well as the two young grandmothers of Wang and Ma, if so, they did not invite anyone, although Yan Hagi received a post invited by others, and also pushed it away. In the evening, Yan Hagi received a happy spider sent by Tang Zhi and Tang Hai.
Looking at the boxes of happy spiders, Yan Hagi felt a headache, "Let's put them all on the cabinet in the corner room." "Fu Zhixing is out of town and hasn't come back yet, and he hasn't received any gifts this year. This jade pendant has to wait for him to come back and then send it.
In the evening, everyone gathered in the garden to worship the Weaver Girl. There are tea, wine, fruits, cakes and other offerings on the incense table, and the fried fruit from yesterday is also placed on it, and a few flowers are inserted in the bottle, and a small incense burner is placed in front of the flowers.
Wang's eldest sister-in-law is the leader, she has given birth to two sons, and this one she silently prayed to the Weaver Girl: "Please Weaver Girl Fairy give me a delicate daughter." โ
Ma also wants to have a son.
Then the seventh lady Yan Fen also burned incense and prayed, and said silently in her heart: "Weaver Girl Fairy, please bless me after marriage, the husband and wife Qin Se and Ming, and win the man in one fell swoop." โ
Yan Hagi has nothing to pray for, Ruyi Langjun, she has it.
"I want to be pretty, not so fat." This is Yan Jing's wish to the Weaver Girl, she is too young to recite silently, and everyone has heard this wish.
"If you eat less, you won't be so fat." Yan Fen said with a smile.
"Eat less, that's impossible." Yan Jing said and grabbed an apple and nibbled on it.
"You gluttonous girl." Yan Fen scolded with a smile.
The maidservant brought up a long needle bag with nine needles tied with it, and asked the ladies to thread the needles and beg.