Chapter 16: The New Year
On the evening of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Zang Mansion was also jubilant.
The lanterns in the West Garden have been hung up, the Spring Festival couplets and window flowers have been pasted, and the maids are giggling around Li's mother to make dumplings together, and even the most squeamish pickers have made several by hand.
Li's mother's craftsmanship is liked by everyone in the West Garden, steaming, frying, boiling and stir-frying are complete with eighteen kinds of martial arts, and it is rare that everything can be done, and everything is delicious.
This time the dumplings are very particular, first of all, the skin is rolled out by yourself, and when you want to wrap it in advance, you can spread it directly, and the white noodles without mixing are very attractive just the dough dough.
The stuffing is an eight-color filling, a four-color vegetable filling, a two-color meat filling, the dish is cabbage, leeks, camellia, sword beans, the meat is pork and mutton, plus a little fresh shrimp. There are very few shrimps this season, and only girls have this blessing to eat, and the slaves and maids can't take their turns. Even so, when the bulging white dumplings were made, everyone drooled.
The straight Cai Hu couldn't help it at first: "Mom, the girl doesn't know when she will come back, let's eat a few dumplings first, the slaves and maids are almost hungry." ”
The maids laughed for a while, and while picking her itch, she said unrelentingly, "Come and see if the saliva is flowing out."
Mother Li also laughed, and pretended to be a serious face and said: "I have been messing around all day, and I have forgotten the rules I have learned. “
Although it was a joke, several little maids trembled, and they all learned Liu's mother's "rules" of destroying flowers, and they have converged a lot at the moment.
Hagi Niang was awkwardly eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with her own father and two younger brothers at this time.
When kowtowing before, Hagi Niang saw her two younger brothers who she hadn't seen for a long time, and she was very happy and wanted to hug her, but who knew that Zheng's two children were held in the arms of the nurse, and they wanted to touch the little face when they went up to touch the little face, and the nurse pushed it away on the grounds that "the girl carefully soiled her hands, and the baby was cute and spitting".
Hagi Niang's heart also faded, thinking about it, these two dolls are the lifeblood of the Zheng family, and they are also the competitors of Hagi Niang's younger brother Xi Ge'er, it is indeed right to be careful.
If the mother is not kind, how can the son be filial?
Hagi Niang took the New Year's money and wanted to go back to Xiyuan, but the reunion dinner once a year always had to be a scene, otherwise "Yu Li didn't agree", and she would be nagged by Li's mother when she went back.
She could only eat the dish in front of her in silence with her head down, completely ignorant of the taste.
Father Zang Jun and Zheng also didn't say a word, which was simply not the atmosphere of the New Year at all.
I'm here, and everyone is uncomfortable.
Hagi Niang sighed, sat for nearly a cup of tea, and then politely got up and said goodbye: "My son is full." I wish my father a prosperous and prosperous New Year, and I wish my mother a long time of youth and good luck. ”
Zang Jun breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and nodded, signaling that she could go.
Hagi Niang caught a glimpse of Zheng's blue face out of the corner of her eyes when she left, after giving birth to two children, Zheng's no longer had the charm of the original, and I heard that Zang Jun planned to collect the girl in the house again.
It's better to charge a few more and let them eat the dog's hair.
Xiyuan soon opened another table of reunion dinner, and Li's mother carefully reorganized the six-color cold dishes, six dishes, and took six or six major shun. The maids, who usually do not serve the table, brought a large round table out of the storeroom and placed it in the middle of the courtyard, and a pottery brazier was placed under the table, and the fire was warm up. The crowd sat around the table with joy, regardless of their seat.
It's a pity that there is no moon, and it would be even more beautiful if the full moon was in the sky, so now I can only light a few more lanterns.
Jinu and Caitang sat together, the two children were extremely beautiful, and they were dressed up extraordinarily, they were really golden boys and girls, and Mother Li loved the two children more and more.
Hagi Niang was a little sad.
In the past, the slaves used to follow him and shouted "Sister Hagi, Sister Hagi", and he was still annoyed.
In a blink of an eye, this little kid followed the "sister Tang'er" who was full of mouths every day behind Cai Tang, and he was so affectionate.
Children of the same age can play together.
After the New Year, I will be thirteen years old, which is really an embarrassing age.
I remember my eldest aunt in my previous life, eh, in ancient parlance, it was "decay water", and I used to come for the first time when I was thirteen years old.
The ancients were precocious, and their own body should be fast.
The fireworks that should be set off during the New Year, why is there no one at all in this era, and the New Year is not lively at all.
I once asked Li's mother, where can there be fireworks and firecrackers, Li's mother asked "what color are the fireworks", "what season are they blooming", "where are the firecrackers produced", and there is a posture that as long as the girl says it, her mother will definitely help you buy it back.
I guess fireworks haven't been invented yet.
For the first time, Haginiang had the feeling of "although I was in a noisy crowd, I was still very lonely", and she inevitably missed Xie Yan.
He must not have eaten well in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, just busy with all kinds of entertainment in the family, it is estimated that he has to move around constantly from the first day of the new year to the Lantern Festival, the family's, officialdom's.
Will he think of me?
"Brother Jinu, how did you get into the courtyard? Every time I see you, I don't come from the second door. Cai Tang was chatting with the slave, which immediately attracted Hagi Niang's attention.
"I'll tell you......" Jinu immediately happily wanted to show off, but Hagi Niang quickly coughed and interrupted him.
Jinu glanced at Hagi Niang in confusion, and continued: "It's over there......" Hagi Niang coughed heavily twice more and glared at Jinu.
Jinu asked weakly, "Sister Hagi, do you have a sore throat?" I'm going to help you get the medicine? ”
Hagi Niang couldn't cry or laugh, and said seriously: "I see that this dish is almost eaten, Mother Li, let's eat dumplings." ”
The little maids waited for this, and everyone cheered and rushed to the kitchen to make dumplings.
It's so dangerous, and finally diverted the topic.
Hagi Niang pulled the slave aside, and once again told Zhengse, "The hole in the wall is very important, and you must not tell others", and the slave said very aggrievedly: "Caitang is not someone else, Caitang is my only sister." Hagi Niang couldn't explain to him the sophistication of knowing people and faces, but not knowing their hearts, so she could only force him to "If you tell a third person besides you and me, I will immediately seal the hole, and I will no longer treat you as my brother." The slave was finally frightened and promised not to say anything.
With a burst of fragrance, the dumplings came out after a long time, each person had a big bowl full, and Li's mother also prepared sweet and sour balsamic vinegar, and Haginiang almost bit her tongue when she ate it.
The slave also hugged his full dumplings, smiling so much that he couldn't see his teeth.
At the same time, Huan Xuan was mixing incense in his own inner room in the Kaoru Hall.
The joyful atmosphere has nothing to do with him, the noise of the New Year is farther away from him, and the New Year is not a joyous thing for him, it only means that it is one step closer to his death.
Fiddling with his beloved spices, he slowly calmed down and was able to think more carefully.
A car accident ended his past life.
When he first crossed into this world, Huan Xuan's father, Huan Wen, had passed away.
It turned out that the genuine Huan Xuan was pushed into the lotus pond. It's a simple and crude approach, but it's very effective.
When he was rescued from the water, Huan Xuan's body had already changed.
Since he was a child, he was faced with all kinds of open guns and hidden arrows around him, and he used to be more panicked than Haginiang.
But he is smarter than Hagi Niang, and he also has a better memory than Hagi Niang.
When I was reading the history books, I saw the wind and clouds, the flowers blooming and falling, and you sang and he appeared on the stage, but it was just a smile.
The horror is that he is actually standing on the scroll of history, or a small cannon fodder chess piece on it, it is simply a nightmare.
He clearly knew that Huan Xuan would not die well in the end, and he also knew that the Qin army would be defeated in the Battle of Weishui.
But what's the use of that?
did everything possible to marry Liu's daughter, thinking that it would be a great help to him, but it made the emperor even more jealous of himself.
contacted so many officials to ask for the command of the Battle of Weishui for himself, but the emperor didn't dare to let himself stand out, and gave the opportunity to the Xie family in vain.
Sometimes he recalled, sometimes he pondered, but he still suddenly found that no matter how hard he tried, he could not compete with the inevitable course of historical development. It is easy to know the sky, but it is difficult to go against the sky. He finally understood Zhuge Kongming's pain back then.
In that case, why did you let him come to this world, it would have been okay if he died in the first place.
But since you have come, lived, and gone this way, as long as you try your best to fight for it, no matter what the outcome is, as long as you can live your own wonderful life wantonly, it is enough.
He thought of the Zang girl who looked very comfortable, she was really an interpretive flower, she smiled, and her gestures were very natural and untwisted, which made people feel very kind.
Xie Yan's vision is really good, and the hero sees the same thing.
If it weren't for Xie Yan, I was afraid that Huan Xuan would have already accepted Zang Hao Niang as a concubine, so it would be okay to chat with him.
The incense powder in his hand has been beaten into a seal script of the word "Shou", Huan Xuan used gilt copper tweezers to pick up the red-hot charcoal strips, ignited the powder, in the dark, a winding "Shou" word is slowly burning, and the pious sandalwood fragrance spreads out. At the same time, a plan to kill two birds with one stone is gradually taking shape in his mind.