This year's Chinese New Year's Eve was no different from usual, but there were fewer people.

On the children's side, the eldest son, the sixth prince and the seventh prince were not there, and the Empress Dowager Xu didn't like to be lonely, so she interceded with Xiao Qian and released the ninth princess, which was not too unusual.

Although she already has more than a dozen grandchildren, Empress Dowager Xu is still not satisfied.

"A few of you," she raised her glass to Li Xiuyi, Shangguan Xiuyi and the others, "All of them are at the age of flowers, but you have to serve the king well and strive to open up branches and leaves for the Xiao family as soon as possible." ”

Several nobles stood up and responded.

Empress Dowager Xu looked at Xiao Yuanhao, who was laughing with the eighth princess, and sighed softly.

Why does this girl still look heartless.

If she had a brother, she would not be bullied in the future, and even if Empress Dowager Xu died, she could close her eyes with confidence.

But this child's life is miserable.

Empress Dowager Xu shook her head, and remembered the sentence "Wisdom will hurt, and love is not long", and she always felt that Xiao Yuan was a little thinner.

Did you really answer this sentence?

Looking at the eight princesses next to her, who were born round and jade, Empress Dowager Xu was even more shocked.

She is such a lovely granddaughter, if God takes Xiao Yuan away, how can she live.

Empress Dowager Xu had already made up her mind, and after the fifteenth day of the first month, she discussed with Xiao Qian.

"King, I'm thinking, Ah Hao is also old, and now there are only two sons, Ah Yu and Ah Bao, who are studying, and it is a little inappropriate to let Ah Hao go. It's better to let this kid go. ”

"I'm about to talk to my mother." Xiao Qian said with a smile, "My son also thinks it's inappropriate, so he told Qi Gong a few years ago, and let Ah Hao follow Qi Gong to read and write in the first month." ”

"Follow Gong Qi?"

Empress Dowager Xu couldn't hide her surprise on her face.

Qi Jing, Chu Yu and Yuan Qizi, this is the three big Yan families. Among them, Qi Jing is especially famous for reading poetry books. It is rumored that Qi Jing has read all the books in the world, and there are no books that Qi Jing does not know.

But Qi Jing has a strange temper and once threatened not to accept apprentices in his life. Not to mention outsiders, even his own children and grandchildren don't have the honor to be Qi Jing's disciples.

Unexpectedly, Qi Jing would agree to accept Ah Hao as an apprentice.

"Gong Qi likes Ah Hao."

Xiao Qian's face was proud: "Ah Hao has such talent at a young age, and has a pure heart, and Gong Qi likes her." As soon as Lone told Qi Gong, Qi Gong agreed. ”

He rubbed his hands and walked around the room twice before sitting down: "Queen Mother, Gong Qi is a stubborn person!" Lone remembers that when he first ascended the throne, he wanted to ask Qi Gong to be the gentleman of a few sons, but Qi Gong was stunned and refused. begged him to give a lecture to Aning's child alone, and he didn't let go. Lone never expected that he would take a fancy to Ah Hao. ”

After the initial surprise, Empress Dowager Xu's face was full of displeasure.

Xiao Qian was excited for a while, only to find that Empress Dowager Xu was displeased: "Queen Mother, who made you angry?" ”

Empress Dowager Xu glared at her son angrily: "Who else can there be?" ”

Xiao Qian touched his nose: "How did the son make the queen mother angry?" ”

Empress Dowager Xu had to tell Xiao Gan about her worries.

"I'm afraid that Ah Hao, that kid has three long and two short. She's not a child, what are you doing with her reading so many books? Wouldn't it be nice to make her rough and stupid? ”

Empress Dowager Xu has already thought about the future path for Xiao Yuan: "You spoil her so much, no one dares to treat her slowly." When she is older, I will point her a good family business, so that she will have a smooth ride in her life and don't have to worry about anything, how good it should be. ”

The smile on Xiao Gan's face slowly faded: "Did the queen mother give Ah a good eye?" ”

Empress Dowager Xu subconsciously wanted to respond, but when she saw the smile on Xiao Gan's face, the words swirled on the tip of her tongue and swallowed back.

She smiled self-deprecatingly: "I'm an old woman who has lived in the deep palace for a long time, what good family can I fancy to her?" I just don't want to watch my little granddaughter work too hard. ”

Xiao Qian laughed again: "What is the queen mother talking about!" Ah Hao is my princess of Da Yanyan, where is her lazy. Let her suffer a little more now, so that she can be happy in the future. ”

Empress Dowager Xu couldn't resist Xiao Qian, so she could only order the blister to stew soup for Xiao Yuan every day, hoping to make up for Xiao Yuan's good body and bones.

There is no need to go to class to study in the first month, and Xiao Yuan's good life is very easy.

Dingguo Gong and Jing Yuanjun entered the palace again to ask for instructions, and Empress Dowager Xu approved it, and asked Xiao Yuanhao to follow him back to Dingguo Mansion and come back after the first month.

As soon as she left the palace, Xiao Yuan was happy, she was unwilling to ride in a carriage with Jing Yuanjun Xu, and she was noisy about riding a horse.

Dingguo Gong had no way to take her, so he had to go with her.

"Grandfather, whose house are you taking me to pay New Year's greetings in the first month?"

Xiao Yuanhao rode a little black horse, followed Dingguo Gong's side, flicked the leather whip in his hand, and casually pointed to the shops and restaurants on the street: "I still want to eat delicious!" Don't forget to bring me, grandfather! ”

Dingguo Gong, who usually does not smile, couldn't stop smiling when he met Xiao Yuanhao: "The New Year is over, where are you going to pay your New Year's greetings now?" ”

Xiao Yuan leaned on the horseback and said: "Grandfather will take me again, it's not strange to have many people, let's go to the door to pay New Year's greetings, and the host is embarrassed to kick us out." ”

In this way, she will have the opportunity to taste the specialties of each province.

Nowadays, recipes are family heirlooms, and whoever makes a good dish will never pass it on. Even the blisters themselves have a set of rules, what is passed on to men and not to women, and what is passed on to the elders and not to the young.

For example, the elbow in Mrs. Cuiwei's palace, Miao Miao went to learn for more than half a year, but she learned how to do it, but when the blister reached the last process, he refused to tell Miao Miao.

It was still ingenious and Miao Miao who figured it out by himself, although it was not quite the same as the taste made by the blister, but it had its own merits, and it tasted even sweeter than the elbow in Lady Cuiwei's palace.

It's kind of my own recreation. But many recipes and crafts do not have such good luck, because of the lack of an aura heir like Miaomiao, under such harsh conditions of circulation, slowly disappearing.

Xiao Yuan is so idle, he regrets that he can't eat other people's specialty dishes.

She is not like Qi Ruyi and Chu Qi, she can often receive posts to go to other people's houses as guests, and sometimes I hear them talk about who has good dishes, Xiao Yuan is so greedy that he can flow for a long time.

Now let her seize this opportunity, this time she will stay in the palace for more than ten days, and she will pester Dingguo Gong to take her family to eat one by one.

Princess Yan came to beg for food, who dared not to give her food.

Speaking of which, this year's New Year Festival in the Dingguo Mansion is also very deserted.

Sun Chi and Qi Yuanniang were still in the south, but they sent someone back to send back a few carts of New Year's gifts, but they couldn't make up for the old couple's longing.

Xu always talked to Sun Chi and Qi Yuanniang: "The letter said that everything was fine, but I didn't see the two of them, so I was up and down in my heart." ”

Xiao Yuan comforted Xu: "Don't be sad grandmother, wait for me to go to the south in person and help my grandmother take a look." ”