In September of the 21st year of the capital, the autumn is high and cool, the first rays of the morning sun break through the morning mist, blooming ten thousand rays of light in every corner of the capital, the capital is lively and lively and began a prosperous and peaceful good day.

In the inner city of the capital, in the bustling Jiaolou Street, the shop guys have cleaned up the inside and outside of the shop, and are neatly ready to do the first business, while the shopkeepers greet each other and go to the familiar tea house to drink the first bowl of tea soup in the morning. On the side of the spacious and smooth blue brick road, Mama Shen, who was dressed in an indigo silk dress, carefully carried a delicate thin rattan basket, and turned briskly into the back alley of the Li Mansion.

The back alley of the Li Mansion only leads to the back door of the house of Li Jingsheng, the former deputy envoy of the Privy Council and the young master of the prince, and the people who live in this alley are all the subordinates of the Li Mansion, and the alley has been lively at this time, and the daughters-in-law of the families are busy with housework in and out, and from time to time they scold the children who are too naughty, and several children rush past Shen Mama and shout: "Shen Mama An!" The mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law on both sides also greeted Mama Shen respectfully and affectionately, Mama Shen carefully protected the basket in her hand, avoided a few children, and returned the salute one by one, but she was not slow at all, and entered the back corner door all the way.

Diagonally through the small half of the garden, to the door of Xia Yingju, the courtyard door is ajar, the girl Huyue is in a white dress and blue dress, is standing at the door and looking out, seeing Shen Mama, hurriedly carrying the skirt a few steps down the steps, graciously took the basket and smiled: "Mama is a little late today, the girl has asked twice." ”

Mama Shen said 'um', handed the basket to Hu Yue and asked, "Have the curtains in the yard been changed?" Have you seen it once? ”

"It was changed when it was dark yesterday, and I haven't had time to see it yet." The two of them talked and went up the steps, the courtyard door is four oily green wood carving four seasons flower screen, turn the screen, the courtyard flowers and trees and onion cages, the dark fragrance floats, the houses on both sides and the verandah on both sides are red pillars and green rafters, the larks, yellow finches and so on hanging under the corridor are singing gracefully and non-stop, rich and exquisite in the lively comfort.

Mama Shen couldn't help but smile all over her face, and paused at her feet and instructed Hu Yue: "Hurry up and send the cake to the girl, it won't taste good when it's cold, I'll look at the window screen everywhere first." Hu Yue said crisply, carried the basket, and walked in briskly.

In the west wing of the main courtyard, Li Danruo sat upright at the table, took a bite of the crispy and delicious Zheng Jiaman sesame oil shortbread, and then took a sip of ground chicken soup, closed his eyes slightly, and tasted the strong fragrance in his mouth with satisfaction.

On the first and fifteenth days of the new year, her mother and ancestors are vegetarians, and she can eat such a delicious market, these delicacies can't be made in the big and small kitchens in the house, not to mention their house, and the capital has never heard of anyone making shortbread that is better than the Zheng family, sugar cakes can be better than the Cao family, not to mention the north food of the Li family in the alum building, and the southern dim sum of the Siqiao Jin family! I heard that Ding Xianggong went down to the court, and let people buy newly baked Zhangjiahu cakes to eat!

Li Danruo is satisfied, slow and methodical to taste the delicious, for this time and space, this dynasty, this family, she is dissatisfied everywhere, although it is not perfect, but, how can there be a perfect thing in the world? It's harder than before...... Not to mention the past, she lived too carefully in the past, and in this life, she wants to enjoy the blessings of this world in a dull way.

Doulu and Fat Red waited for Li Danruo to rinse his mouth, Yao Huang came over with a fold of handkerchiefs, Li Danruo picked a moon-white handkerchief embroidered with dandelions all around, Doulu looked at it, and said with a smile: "This is just embroidered by me, I know that the girl must like it!" Li Danruo stood up with a smile, followed by Doulu and Fat Red, and went out to the front courtyard to greet his grandmother, Mrs. Ning.

Just walked a few steps along the verandah, the big girl next to Mrs. Ning Yingluo hurriedly turned into the weeping flower door, saw Li Danruo at a glance, hurriedly walked a few steps forward, bent her knees and smiled: "It's finally not too late, the fourth lady doesn't have to go over to say goodbye, today Mrs. Weiyuan Hou is out of the funeral, I'm afraid that it will be inconvenient on the road, the old ancestor originally planned to go out to the temple later yesterday, but this morning I got up to see, such a crisp autumn day, I temporarily changed my mind, I want to go out early, I was busy, and the old ancestor has already gone out." ”

Li Danruo stopped his steps and asked with a smile: "Did you say when you will come back?" ”

"I'm afraid it's too early, Daxiangguo Temple has a lecture today, the ancestors like to hear this the most, maybe they will use vegetarian food in the temple and come back." Yingluo replied with a smile, and Li Danruo also laughed: "I forgot this, but no, today is the fifteenth, the ancestor went out so early, he must be afraid that he will miss a sentence and a half sentence if he goes late!"

"I think that's the same!" Yingluo also quipped: "Don't dare to delay more here in the fourth lady, the old ancestor has not finished playing the rope used to reward people on the day of his birthday, this rope has to be calm to play well, and when it comes to the head, I can't catch it out!"

"That's right, slow work can produce fine work, and Doulu will also be connected, I don't have anything to do with her here today, let her go with you to touch the blessings of the ancestors." Li Danruo said with a smile.

"I can't ask for it! I was about to speak, the fourth lady was the most considerate of us, and the bean green was the first one in our house, fast and good! With her help for a day, this network will be complete today!" Yingluo thanked her busily, and said goodbye to Li Danruo with Doulu, and went to the front yard with a smile.

Next month, nineteen is Li Danruo's grandmother, Mrs. Ning's seventy full birthday, the ancestor of the Li family, in fact, can be traced back to Mrs. Ning's father-in-law, who was originally a cook, the master's family rebelled, and the young Chef Li followed all the way with the pot and spoon, and as a result, the master became the emperor, and he became the hero of the founding of the country, Chef Li married late, and the heirs were difficult, and he only got Li Jingsheng, the only son in his fifties, who knew that Li Jingsheng was smart and agile since he was a child, and he became a jinshi before he was twenty years old, and he became a deputy envoy of the Privy Council in his forties. When he was about to rise further, he got sick and died, and at that time he had just ascended the throne for a few years, he was very sad, and he gave the prince and young master five days, and gave the prince and young master, among the four sons of the three grandsons and one concubine, three of them were enshaded, and only the youngest son, that is, Li Danruo's father, Li Yu'an, the fourth master of Li Yu'an, had already been in the jinshi the year before, and there was no need to be enyin.

Li Si is the son of Mrs. Ning, and is also the smartest of the four sons, since he was a child, he is the top of Li Jingsheng's husband and wife, according to Li Jingsheng's words, among the four sons and one daughter, the fourth child is the most with him, and there will be a big future in the future, sure enough, Li Yu'an, like his father, was also less than 20 years old, and his father died when he won the love, and he had outstanding performance for several years, all the way up fast, and he did four products at the age of twenty-five or six, even the corpse capital was not found.

At that time, Li Yu'an's wife Yang took her daughter with her in office, got bad news, under the pain, most of the people died at once, and the people in the house were panicked and confused, Li Danruo was only five years old that year, frightened and frightened and lost his care, after a serious illness, even his temperament changed, when Yang relieved his breath, he saw that his daughter was demented as if he couldn't even understand the words, and he was remorseful. I don't know how to hurt my daughter, what my daughter says is what, even if the fourth room is going to pass such a big event, my daughter said not to be small, and when she gets married, she will pick an adult to come back to inherit you, and the Yang family also agreed, Mrs. Ning thought about it carefully for two days, and felt that it made a lot of sense, so she agreed, these years, because of the need to take advantage of this matter, the most important thing for those distant relatives of the Li family is the Yang family.

In May, Li Danruo's family affairs and succession were mentioned in front of him, Yang's whole mind was on his daughter's family affairs, as for the succession, who was the successor, she didn't have time to think about it, Mrs. Ning was worried about the family affairs of her baby granddaughter Li Danruo, and the succession of the four rooms was a big deal, occasionally empty, and she had to pay attention to the family affairs of the third girl Li Jinrui, the third girl was a few months older than the fourth girl, so busy, even the favorite Daxiangguo Temple lecture was missed several times.

This family matter, Mrs. Ning and the Yang family have their own challenges, sandwiched between Li Danruo and a child who has an idea, although there are many young people of the same age in the capital gate, they may all enter the eyes of the three people, it is really difficult to find, in the middle of the year, the sixth young master of the Mingyuan Hou family came to the door to propose, from the door, family style, parents to people, it is appropriate everywhere, after the Yang family, and through the old lady Ning, but Li Danruo refused to nod, the Yang family was never willing to go against her daughter's wishes, Mrs. Ning listened to Li Danruo say one, two, three, I think that the few things that my granddaughter said, after thinking about it carefully, it is really very reasonable, this girl's family is married, and the man's character is the most important, and this family business is just like that.

Li Danruo walked along the verandah unhurriedly twice, let people move a rocking chair, sat at the door of the main house and slowly flipped through the book to kill time, mother Yang and aunt Mrs. Liu went out early in the morning to send the funeral to Mrs. Weiyuan Hou, and there was no need to go over to ask for peace, it was best to visit the garden and appreciate the chrysanthemums on such a day, but it was rare that the ancestor and the aunt were not at home, and the two aunts of the long house must take advantage of this time to go to the garden, and they could visit the garden whenever they wanted, so they didn't have to disturb people's freedom at this time.

Mama Shen turned into the door of the weeping flowers, Li Danruo's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly instructed Fatty Hong to move a low chair, Mama Shen stepped forward to salute, Li Danruo straightened up and returned the half-salute, motioned for her to sit with a smile on her face, and stretched out her hand to her, Mama Shen looked at Li Danruo helplessly, her girl is good at everything, she is sensible and polite everywhere, she just loves to read tabloids, her lips are thin, and she didn't persuade her, alas! Fortunately, the girl is cautious and has never aroused suspicion.

"The girl is really, there is obviously a ready-made newspaper at home, and I have to buy another one outside to come back and see it, what else can I not do!" Mama Shen took a roll of paper from her arms and handed it over, deliberately complaining loudly.

"Go get busy, I'll talk to Mama." Li Danruo took the paper roll, turned his head and instructed Fat Hong, who handed the tea to Shen Mama, and retreated to the back seat to do needlework and talk.