Chapter 8 Leaving the House

With the end of the "Xia Yuan Festival" festival on October 15, the weather is getting colder and colder, and everyone begins to change into winter clothes. Because of the cold weather, Mrs. Jiang changed the daily morning and dusk province to a morning and dusk province once every five days.

Early this morning, Nanling Mo was the first to arrive at Rongjin Hall. Then the mother and son of Concubine Zhang, and the mother and daughter of Concubine Jiang also came in to say goodbye. This was the first time I had seen Nanling Mei since that day in Yusheng Garden.

Speaking of the Xia Yuan Festival, it is the last festival of the year to worship ancestors. Sacrifices will be performed throughout the country. Because it is at the end of the year, this festival is not as solemn as the Qingming Festival and the Midyear Festival; Usually it ends with just a sacrifice at the ancestral hall.

As the children of the concubine, Nanling Mei, Nanling Ce, and Nanling Xiang are not eligible to enter the ancestral hall to worship, and the son Nanling Xiao has fallen ill since he was eight years old, and it has become more and more serious in winter. In order to show his care, Emperor Xiping also sent a physician to take care of him from time to time, so he did not participate in the ceremony.

Zhennan Wang Nanshen is stationed in the south all the year round, and is not allowed to return to Beijing without an edict on weekdays, and the time to return to Beijing every year to report on his work is in mid-October, and he enters Beijing before the first day of December. Therefore, the Yuan Festival ceremony in the middle and lower part of the palace is not treated as solemnly as other families, and is only symbolically held with the help of Jiang Lao Taijun and Concubine Zhang.

As soon as Nanling Mei saw Nanling Mo, she was furious, and she couldn't wait to eat her alive. After everyone said goodbye, Nan Lingmei stepped forward and said softly: "Grandmother, the weather has been getting colder and colder recently, are your waist and legs still sore?" Mei'er will give you a thump of your legs! Nanling Mei stepped forward with a dignified smile and squatted down to beat Mrs. Jiang's legs. Mrs. Jiang said with a smile: "You are the most intimate, grandmother didn't hurt you in vain." ”

"Hehe, eldest sister, if you beat it like this, I'm afraid that my grandmother will have to lie in bed for a few more days." Nanling Mo sneered.

"I don't know what the second sister means by this? Grandmother is old, the weather is cold, waist and legs are uncomfortable, second sister, you just came back and don't understand if you don't take the initiative to serve your grandmother, forget it, why do you still talk about the wind and cold? Nan Lingmei retorted.

"Grandmother," Nan Lingmo said after getting up and blessed her body, "My granddaughter has been by her mother's side since she was a child, and although she is not as good as her mother's concubine, she has also learned a lot of medicine. My grandmother's waist and legs hurt when it was cold because the cold was in my bones, and my grandmother's symptoms were probably going to worsen after beating me like this. ”

When Mrs. Jiang heard this, her heart sank slightly, and she still smiled at Nanling Mei and said, "Girl Mei, grandmother knows your filial piety, get up!" ”

Nanling Mei saw that Nanling Mo changed her mind when she said a few words, and she gritted her teeth with hatred and said: "Since you know how to treat medicine so well, second sister, why don't you come to treat your grandmother in person, and you are still talking here, what kind of heart do you have?" ”

"Grandmother, during the period when Mo'er was filial piety for her mother and concubine in the nunnery, in addition to reciting scriptures, she also carefully studied the medical books given to me by my grandfather, thinking that Mo'er would leave her grandmother for three years and be filial to her grandmother when Mo'er returned home...... Mo'er wants to go out of the house today to personally choose some medicinal materials for your grandmother, and plans to make some plasters for your grandmother herself, so that her grandmother can stick it to the sore places in her waist and legs, and then use the decoction prescribed by the imperial doctor to relieve her grandmother a lot, and she will not be so uncomfortable in winter. ”

Nanling Mo smiled and took out the recipe and handed it to Mama Jin, who was proficient in the way of health preservation beside Mrs. Jiang, and said, "Grandmother, you see, Mo'er has even prepared the recipe ......."

Mama Jin took the recipe and glanced at it slightly, and said to Mrs. Jiang: "Ancestor, the slave maid can't see the doorway here, only knows that all the angelica in this recipe, Tianxiong, and blood karma are good medicinal materials for dredging the meridians......"

Ignoring Nanling Mei's resentful eyes, after obtaining the consent of Mrs. Jiang, Nanling Mo swaggered out of the house with Mei Qian.

Dayan established the country by force, and many of the military generals of the past dynasties over the past few hundred years were women. Therefore, the defense of men and women in Dayan is not obvious, and the restraint on women is not so strict. Ordinary women can also go to the street at any time to play, the women of the family can take the maid out on the fifteenth day of the new year, and the top two teahouses in Beijing, such as Penglai Pavilion, etc., are regularly held to appreciate some poetry meetings such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, etc., and the women of the family can participate.

In his previous life, Li Yunqing's "Xiaoxiang Tu" and the famous poem "Ancient Congjunxing" were circulated from these appreciation meetings. In addition, the upper class families regularly hold various flower viewing parties, banquets, etc., to provide opportunities for men and women of the right age who are about to meet each other, and it is also convenient for each family to find suitable marriage partners.

Nanling Mo spent a lot of time with Jiang's side, and spent more time in the army than in Beijing, plus she didn't like these qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, after Jiang was seriously ill that year, the old princess asked Nanling Mo to follow Nanling Mei and Nanling Xiang to the women's school of Yunlu Academy in Beijing to learn these poems, songs, qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she sternly refused. In her words: "These things are just disease-free moaning/groaning things, what kind of birds are used, this county lord doesn't learn!" "I refused to go to the girls' school for a day.

The women of the Qing noble family in Beijing disliked her vulgarity and did not want to be with her. And she herself didn't care.

Nanling Mei is different, her mother-in-law Concubine Zhang herself is from the Qinggui Zhang family in Jiangzhou, and her father is Jiangzhou Thorn Shi Zhangyuan. It's just that she is the daughter born to Zhang Yuan's stepwife and Zhang Yuan's young daughter, so twenty years ago, the first emperor was the lord and gave the seventeen-year-old Zhang's Yuechan to Zhennan Wang Nanshen as a side concubine. Concubine Zhang was born in a scholarly family, and her attainments in qin, chess, calligraphy and painting were also among the best in Jiangzhou at that time. Nanling Mei can be regarded as 100% inherited Zhang's talent, and the piano painting can be called a must, and it is said that it is only succumbed to Song Yu, the "first talented woman" in Beijing, the daughter of Anguo Gong; Her dancing skills are also a must in Beijing, and this year's lotus banquet danced the world, known as "the world's first dance". After the lotus feast, there was an endless stream of people who came to the door to ask for marriage, which made Concubine Zhang very proud.

Nanling Mo took Mei Qian to walk on the street, eating, drinking, and shopping along the way, and bought a lot of snacks and gadgets. Mei Qian is a gluttonous girl, her small mouth has not stopped all the way, and her cheeks are bulging, like a squirrel. The two shuttled through the crowd in the downtown area, having a good time.

"Dodge, dodge!!" The crowd heard shouts from afar, and saw the driver holding on to the reins and shouting, "Get out of the way, this horse is out of control!" "Where the carriage passed, the stalls and vendors were disturbed, and the people were thrown into confusion.

Nanling Mo pulled Mei Qian in, "Look, that kid ......"

A woman in the crowd shouted, "Three Treasures...... Come here, Sambo......"

I saw that the child seemed to be frozen in the middle of the road, and the driver shouted for the pedestrians to back off. Saying that it was too late, Nan Lingmo took out the soft he carried with him and scooped the child from the middle of the road into his arms, turned around and threw the dagger at the horse's head, the horse was killed instantly, Nan Lingmo held the child tightly in his arms and rolled aside.

"Master!! Mei Qian was shocked and hurriedly ran towards Nanling Mo. Helped Nan Lingmo up and looked nervously up and down, left and right: "Master, you are not injured, are you?!" Nan Lingmo shook her head to indicate that it was okay, and sent the safe child to the woman. The woman left with a thousand thanks, and before leaving, Nan Lingmo also gave the sugar man in her sleeve to the child.

Turning around, Nan Lingmo grabbed the driver and asked, "Which one are you?" Can anyone in the car be injured? ”

"Thank you, Miss, there is no one in the car, the villain is driving to pick up my old lady and miss in Zhaoyun Temple in the suburbs, but who knows that this horse suddenly has a temperament......" The coachman's voice lowered.

"Forget it, you go, since it's a false alarm, pay attention to it in the future." After speaking, Nanling Mo took Mei Qian and left the downtown area.

She didn't see a room with open windows on the third floor of the Zuihuan Building not far behind, and the people inside could see what was happening clearly, and the man in a blue gold-rimmed brocade robe said with a wicked smile: "Seventh brother, it seems that my future seventh brother and sister are not quite the same as the legendary ones~"

The man in purple who was sitting in a wheelchair snorted coldly, and did not answer the man in blue's words, and after a while, he spoke: "Chase the wind, go and stare at her." A man in black suddenly appeared in view, then suddenly disappeared......