Huaxi returned to Cheng's house, changed her clothes and went straight to Mu Xiangqing's room. After saluting, Huaxi showed Mu Xiangqing the water sink she bought today, and by the way, she told her about meeting Cheng Xiaoxuan and King Chengjun on the road today. Mu Xiangqing was stunned when he first heard it, but he didn't say anything, but only told Huaxi to write the recipe well. Huaxi promised and asked about making incense.

"I see that my aunt's house is full of apricot blossom balm, but this is not the right time, but the plum blossoms in the garden are blooming just right, why not make some plum fragrance, and fragrant hair oil or something." Huaxi asked Mu Xiangqing what he meant.

Mu Xiangqing nodded and said, "It's okay." I prefer the sweet scent of plum blossoms to the sweet scent of apricot blossoms. I came back in a hurry, and when I arrived in Beijing, I was entangled in a lot of miscellaneous things, so I didn't care about preparing for these, so I took the first use given by the palace in previous years. Luckily, you came, so I saved a lot of worry by helping me get some. ”

"Oh? The apricot blossom balm was originally given by the palace? She originally thought that Mu Xiangqing liked it.

Mu Xiangqing explained: "Concubine Xian Niangniang likes all kinds of apricot fragrance the most, and she has nothing to think about, so she has made it and gave it to the edicts in various mansions. ”

It's actually that Concubine Xian likes apricot fragrance? Huaxi couldn't help but think of Mu Yunning, and secretly sighed that the people in the third room were really uneasy masters, casting nets to catch big fish, and which one of the nets was counted. At that time, he had not been in the mansion for a few days, but he was calculated twice a day by Xiao Wu and Yun Ning.

After a moment's thoughts, Huaxi's mind turned to making incense again, "Does my aunt like to use balm or dry incense?" ”

"I don't pay attention to that, you just have to look at it. But speaking of which, I see that the one you gave me last time is called rose cream and flower water is good, and the one that I used before my head is fragrant, just listening to the name is loud, I don't think it's as good as yours, why don't you make a few more boxes and keep it for the New Year. ”

The flower water and cream mentioned by Mu Xiangqing were all made and brought by Huaxi in the Mu family. The balsam used in the Dahua boudoir is soaked in four types of spices: herbs, cloves, alfalfa, and chicken tongue in wine, and is mixed with beef pith and tallow, and artemisia annua is added to color, and poured into a porcelain jar to condense into fat. This kind of facial fat has a large oil content, less moisture, and a strong smell of beef pith tallow, which is used on the face and is shiny. Huaxi has always disliked it.

This time, I came over and specially took the flower water made of my own distilled rose petals to replenish Mu Xiangqing's water, and then used facial fat to make it better. The rose cream is made of local materials, with fresh rose petals in the Mujia greenhouse added to the sesame oil, but the addition is not tallow and other substances, but in the raw materials that can be found, the liquid yellow wax oil is selected, put in it and stir well, sealed in the porcelain jar and boiled through water, fine cotton filtration, cooled and set in the box, the aroma is rich, the color is much better than that of Artemisia annua, and the oil is smaller than the commonly used facial fat. Therefore, Mu Xiangqing liked it as soon as he used it.

"Since my aunt likes to go back to Huaxi and make some other flowers. It just so happened that there were still some wood rhinoceros in Qixia Garden, so I went back and asked Chunying to take them, plus the plum blossoms in the garden, I could make some plum fragrance and wood rhino flavor. ”

"Well, that's good. It's just to work hard for you......"

"It's good if my aunt likes it, these are small things."

The two talked for a while, had lunch together, and went back to the house to sleep. When Huaxi helped make incense for Mu Xiangqing, Cheng Xiaoxuan came back.

Because he was young and Mu Xiuyuan was in the filial piety period, the two didn't drink much, but only drank two glasses symbolically. Cheng Xiaoxuan's face was flushed when he came back, and as soon as he got home, he rushed to Mu Xiangqing's house to say goodbye, and told Mu Xiangqing about the situation when he had dinner with King Chengjun and others.

Mu Xiangqing looked at his excited son with a smile, touched his head and said: "You are not too young, you know how to do it in moderation, it is a good thing to make friends with the prince and the prince, but don't get carried away and lose your dignity because of this." Talk less, listen more, watch more, think more, and have a bottom in your heart for everything. You are the eldest son of Hou Ye, when you are over the age of twelve, Hou Ye plans to invite the prince, and you must be more cautious when you become the son of the world. Besides, you have to remember that, like princes, you can make friends but you can't make deep friends. ”

Cheng Xiaoxuan didn't seem to understand, but he always obeyed his mother's words, and nodded in response: "The child understands." ”

Mu Xiangqing patted his hand, "After the New Year, I will discuss with Master Hou, I have to find you a gentleman......

Although Cheng Xiaoxuan doesn't like to study, he likes to go to the sect with his brothers, but he heard his mother mean to invite him to invite the master alone, and it seems that his father also plans to do the same, and he can't say anything but agree.

Seeing the demeanor of the princes and princes, and happily following Mu Xiangqing's words, Cheng Xiaoxuan remembered the advice of King Chengjun, and was afraid that his mother would talk about it if he stayed for a while, so he bowed to Mu Xiangqing and said goodbye, and went to find Huaxi to write a prescription for him.

On the twenty-second day of the lunar month, Huaxi took the car back to Mu's house.

Twenty-three, sweeping the New Year's sacrificial stove. Thirty, the house up and down the door gods, paste the Spring Festival couplets. The main gate and the second gate are all pasted with the god of martial arts, and the door of the inner courtyard of each room is pasted with the god of Wenmen, which is nothing more than "adding officials to the knight", "blessing Lu longevity", "full of descendants" and the like. An offering table is set up in the atrium, offering the whole picture of the heavens, apples, dried fruits, steamed buns, vegetarian vegetables, rice cakes and other offerings, signed with the eight immortals of Tongcao, pomegranates, ingots and other things.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Mu Jizhong led the male dependents, and the Xiao family led the female relatives, went to the incense and worshipped in turn, returned to the main hall, and gave the old lady Xiao Shi a farewell in the room, and Xiao Shi smiled and rewarded the New Year purse. After dinner, the male dependents were in the outer hall, and the female dependents accompanied Xiao to sit in the inner hall to observe the New Year. When it was time to receive the gods, he burned the whole picture of the heavens and the heavens on the table, and then burned incense until the fifteenth day of the first month. Then it's time to open the door and set off firecrackers. At this time, gunpowder was not used here, and bamboo poles were burned in every house.

Huaxi stood with the girls, looking at the beating flames, the sound of crackling firecrackers sounded in her ears, she looked up at the sky, and said silently in her heart, Mother, this is the first year I have returned to the Mu family, have you seen it?

As soon as the firecrackers were released, the ghosts and demons were eliminated, and then there was another round of ancestor worship and incense, and everyone dispersed.

Huaxi returned to Qixia Garden, his head was groggy, and he washed up casually and fell asleep on the bed. In the dream, she saw her deceased parents in her previous life, Mu Xiangwan who touched her head and called her Huaxi, and all kinds of figures, all of whom were those who had walked through her life, but their faces were blurred, no matter how hard she tried, she didn't see it clearly......

The sound of firecrackers outside the door sounded again, Huaxi opened her eyes, and woke up from her dream, it was a new year, facing new people and new things, what would be waiting for her on the road ahead.

The third year of junior high school, the beginning of spring.

Hundreds of officials entered the palace to congratulate, and the palace gave spring plates and spring flags made of ayara. Mu Jizhong and Xiao Shi came back from the palace, and brought colorful silk flags to hang on the highest branches in their yards. The girls in the house put small flags with colorful silk scissors on their heads, and Mu Yunning's feet were good, so she happily invited the girls from all the houses to get together and hang spring flags for the trees in the old lady's garden. Shaw had been laughing, clearly in a good mood.

Fifteenth, the Lantern Festival.

There is a lantern festival in the capital, and the plum blossom appreciation club failed to go to Mu Yunning, who was suffocated in the house, to go to find Xiao's coquettishness, and finally Xiao agreed to let the juniors go to the lantern festival to see. Even Yun Yi, who has always been calm, became radiant when she heard the news, and the sisters went back to dress up.

After dinner, Mu Xiuyuan's brother rode a horse, Zhao and Feng took Mu Xiuwen and Xiucheng's two aunts to each take a car, Yun Yi and Yun Ning, Huaxi a car, Yun Lin and Yun Xin a car, and the group went out of Mu's house to Zhengyang Street and Deyu Street, which had the most lanterns.

Zhengyang Street in the east-west direction and Deyu Street in the north-south direction run through Shangjing, which are the two largest streets in Shangjing. There are countless lanterns along the way, stretching for miles, and the firelight is brilliant and converges into a river of lights, just like day. In order to make the lantern festival more lively, the imperial court gave a glass of wine to all those who entered the lantern festival, so the lantern festival was crowded with people and noisy.

When I arrived at Zhengyang Street, the flow of people was too large, so I could only walk to watch the lights. The people in Mufu separated, and Mu Xiuyuan followed Huaxi, Yunyi and Yunning, followed by three maids and four servants, all the way from the east end of Zhengyang Street to the west end.

Along the way, people buy lanterns, and there are many lantern watching riddles. Yun Ning loves to be lively, and when he encounters a riddle stall, he has to stop and take a look, if the light is good, he will guess a few, but he has not guessed a few times. Yunyi watched from the sidelines most of the time and didn't participate, and Huaxi didn't just want to move her mouth when she looked at those riddles. Yun Ning had no choice but to pull Xiuyuan to help her guess, but she won two and won a jade rabbit lamp and a beauty lamp under the moon.

After walking for half an hour, there were many people gathered at the edge of a dragon flying phoenix color shed in front of me. Yun Ning shouted to go in and take a look, and the three little guys opened the way in front, and finally sent the four of them to the front position.

When he arrived, Huaxi found that this colorful shed was indeed unusual. In the center of the color shed, there is a five-zhang tall group of immortals to celebrate the birthday lamp, the fairy mountain jade tree, the peach fairy grass, all are vivid. And on the roof of the shed hung two rows of lanterns of different shapes, horse lanterns, glass lamps and so on are all exquisitely made, no wonder it attracts so many people to stop and watch.

There is a red silk cloth strip hanging under each lamp, and the difficulty of the lantern riddle on it is much higher than that of the stalls in front. The most exquisite three lamps are not riddles, but a limited-time poetry competition, which meets the wishes of the stall owner and the winner does not take a penny. For a time, many young scribes gathered under the canopy, eager to try.

Yun Ning was very interested, and pulled Xiuyuan's sleeve to ask him to participate, but Xiuyuan was so entangled by her that he had no choice but to respond. Huaxi was purely in the fun, naturally supporting Yun Ning, and looked sideways at Yun Yi, but saw her staring at a horse lantern painted with twelve flower fairies on the top, and asked curiously: "Fourth sister, is there anything special about the twelve flower fairy lanterns?" ”

"No, nothing special." There was a hint of panic in Yun Yi's words, "It's just that I saw a similar one during the Mid-Autumn Festival last time, but it's not as exquisite as this one." ”

Huaxi could see that Yun Yi had special feelings for that lamp, and when she mentioned the Mid-Autumn Festival, she vaguely guessed a few points in her heart. That Xiang Xiuyuan helped Yun Ning guess the riddle, and hit an octagonal glazed palace lamp, Yun Ning held the lamp and waved it towards Huaxi and Yun Yi, so unhappy. It's just that Yun Yi kept staring at the twelve flower fairy lanterns in a daze, and didn't see it. Huaxi smiled and didn't say much.

Suddenly, a gong sounded on the stage, and the presiding lantern officer came out and announced that the title of winning the three palace lanterns was "lamp", and the top three would each get one.

As soon as the lamp officer put the question, someone answered below, and there was no shortage of good works. Mu Xiuyuan also gave a song, although it is not bad, but it is not a top-notch work. Huaxi peeked at Yun Yi and saw that she read out the poems in everyone's mouths one by one, the handkerchief in her hand was stirred up, and her face was disappointed.

Yun Yi looked at the lamp and remembered the scene when she first saw him on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival that year, and her heart was bitter, if she could win it back, it would be a thought. But seeing that the third brother is not successful, although he has some literary talent, he is not as good as the third brother, what should I do? Yun Yi inadvertently caught a glimpse of Huaxi, saw that she listened carefully, sometimes nodded and sometimes shook her head, suddenly remembered the apricot blossom poem, pondered for a while, and finally bit her lip and asked: "The fourth aunt is a famous talented girl in Beijing in front of her, and I heard my sister read a poem last time, I don't know if there are any good works in the codex she left?" ”

How could Huaxi not hear Yunyi's meaning, and when she saw her give up her face and beg herself, she knew that the lamp really had a special meaning to her. helped, fell on her favor, if she didn't help, it was reasonable, I was afraid that she would have a bad heart for herself in the future. Although he may not be looking for his own trouble like Yun Lin, it is worth the loss to offend the second master and the second lady because of this.

After thinking about it, Huaxi had a plan in her heart, pulled down the hood of her cloak, covered half of her face, and whispered a few words in Yun Yi's ear. The more Yun Yi listened, the more surprised she became, she looked up at the lamp, nodded, and then moved a few steps to Mu Xiuyuan's side, leaning closer and whispering a few words.

Until no one gave the poem inscription again, the lamp officer asked loudly: "Is there any guest officer who wants to write a poem?" ”

"Yes!" Mu Xiuyuan responded, and as a result, everyone looked at them in unison.

Yunyi on the side hurriedly pulled the corner of her clothes and said in a low voice: "Huaxi, you see that no one will ...... this time."

Huaxi thought for a while and responded: "Come and go, that is, that song is suitable, and it won't be bad if you think about it." ”

The lamp officer above looked at Mu Xiuyuan, who was standing in front, he didn't care about it just now, this time he took a closer look, he was dressed well, and he wanted to come from a rich and noble family, so he asked with a smile: "Childe made a song just now, this time ......"

"I just got a song, I want to try it again, I don't know if it's okay?"

"Yes, yes, Childe, please!"

Mu Xiuyuan lowered his head and cleared his throat before slowly reciting the poem that Yun Yi told him. Xiuyuan's voice was clear, and he lowered his voice until the end, which was even more memorable.

After reading the word, Yun Ning seemed to be aware of it, and looked at Yun Yi beside Xiuyuan, his eyes were dim and unclear. And Yun Yi stood there and whispered the last two sentences, "The crowd looked for him thousands of times, and suddenly looked back, but the person was in the lamplight", and he couldn't return to his senses for a long time, and a trance appeared in his eyes.

Everyone talked about it for a while, and suddenly behind the colorful shed, a person said in a deep voice: "The leader tonight is this son." ”

The lantern officer hurriedly smiled and said to Huaxi: "My master has ordered Gongzi to be the leader, so please choose Gongzi as the leader." ”

Mu Xiuyuan pointed to the one in the middle, "Twelve Flower Fairy Lanterns." ”

The lantern officer asked people to take the twelve-flower fairy marquee lamp, and handed it to Mu Xiuyuan with a smile on his face. Xiu Yuan stuffed it into Yun Yi's hand.

Huaxi whispered: "Take the lamp and leave." Yun Yi woke up and responded, Xiu Yuan saw that the eyes around him had been cast on them, and told Yun Ning to leave quickly.

The four of them sprang out of the crowd and walked a hundred paces before slowing down. Xiu Yuan was about to go up and ask Yunyi, but he heard someone behind him shouting: "Is the son of the Mu guerrilla family in front?" ”

The four of them turned around, but saw two big men walking over with a young man, about twenty years old, with a long robe and a graceful demeanor.

Huaxi's hand hurt, and Mu Yunyi beside her pulled her hand tightly and tightly, her palms were sweaty, I don't know if she was nervous or excited.

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Two chapters and one chapter~~ Guess who's coming, oh roar~~