The fragrance of roasted sweet potatoes wafted in the layer, and Qingwei moved a brocade stool to sit next to Tao Huā. His eyes looked at the hearth, "It's so fragrant, how long will it take?" ”

"yes, when will it be okay?" Qi Zhen leaned aside and stared at it, and said, "This smells too fragrant?" When I go back to Ming'er, I will let people roast at home. ”

"Fourth girl, sixth girl Qi, you wait a little longer, it's almost good!" Tao Huā smiled, only thinking that the girl from the rich family was used to brocade clothes and jade food, but it was rare to see this vulgar dirt thing.

The three of them were talking around the stove, and several people were eating melon seeds on the kang on the south wall behind them.

Qinglian heard Qingwei and the two talking, thought about it, and smiled, "I said fourth sister, could it be that my mother still lacks your food on weekdays, and look at you when you are hungry like that?" "I feel a little disdainful in my heart, that sweet potato is just some coarse food of the countrymen on weekdays, is it so rare?

"Huh" Qingwei snorted and ignored Qinglian.

"Second sister, don't you know, that's a slanderous ghost reincarnated?!" Qingdai glanced at Qinglian and joked with a smile. Qingwei immediately objected, and Tingjia next to Qingdai covered her mouth with a handkerchief and lowered her head and smiled, and said, "Pearl, you can be considered to have found someone who is like-minded with you!" Qi Zhen snorted in her nose, grabbed Qingwei's little shoulders, and mocked herself at the few people sitting on the kang as if demonstratively: "The people take food as the sky!" Qingwei, let's eat first in a while, don't leave those few when we eat up. ”

Qingdai sat on the side of the kang and swallowed melon seeds, "Big pearl, you can be more capable!" Be careful of food accumulation, you won't be able to eat the dishes later. ”

Tingjia echoed: "When Qingdai looked at the menu just now, I also took a look twice, they are all famous dishes from the south of the Yangtze River, don't regret it then!" "My prime minister can hold the boat in his belly and eat!" Qi Zhen snorted, turned her back and still stared at the hearth, her expression was a little tangled, obviously doing a psychological struggle.

There was another burst of laughter behind him.

Momo Huā used fire tongs to pull out all the sweet potatoes roasted in the stove, put them aside to dry, then stretched out his fingers and pinched them gently, and threw them into the pre-prepared porcelain basin. Qi Zhen stretched out her hand to take it, but Tao Huā hurriedly stopped it and held the copper basin in her arms, "My girl, burn your hands carefully, it's hot." Wait until it's cool before eating. ”

"Momo huā, go to the small kitchen and cut it and present it to cool down quickly." Qing Dai commanded, and Tao Huā ignored Qi Zhen and Qingwei's burning eyes, and went out of the house with the porcelain basin.

After a while, Momo Huā and Yinhong returned with plates and cutlery.

Roasted sweet potatoes are sweet and soft in the mouth, hot and suitable for such a cold day, a room of children with a nose eat too much fine grains and fine rice, and then eat these rural things, they feel fresh and delicious.

Qinglian prides herself on being elegant, dislikes vulgar food and is reluctant to use chopsticks, but she can't stand the applause of others. Qi Zhen even devoured it, as if it was really a delicacy in the world. Looking at the girl Zhang Shi sitting next to her, she also ate, even a really elegant person like her didn't think that this food was rude, and she was not good at being pretentious. Qinglian couldn't wipe her face and followed the chopsticks, but after eating it, she felt delicious, but she forgot her contempt for Qingwei at first.

The girls laughed and played for a while, and had lunch, although the dishes were light, but the taste was unique and different from the dishes they were used to, and the guests enjoyed themselves after a meal.

After lunch, Miss Zhang Shi got up and said goodbye. Qingdai sent her to the second door, and Zhang Shi said in a kitten-like voice: "The third girl doesn't have to send it." Today's food is very good, thank you for the invitation, I haven't been to other people's homes except for the women's school.

Qing Dai was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect the Fuping Hou family to be so strict, she couldn't help but sympathize with the little girl, and said with a smile: "Sister Zhang is polite, if you want to come and sit down, let someone bring me a letter, and I will go to the house with a post." ”

As soon as Qing Dai said, Miss Zhang Shi smiled shyly and nodded, "Hmm!" ”

Sending Miss Zhang Shi away, Qingdai came back to Rongxi Hall, and Qingwei took Tinglan to Wuju. Qinglian sat in the room with Qi Zhen and Tingjia talking.

"The queen mother and the emperor personally gave the marriage, which is the supreme glory, and others can't ask for it." When Qinglian said this, she didn't know how envious she was, but Tingjia's face changed slightly after hearing this, and she pursed her lips and smiled without responding.

"Are you two planning to stay until the middle of the moon and then go home? Why don't you stay with me tonight? Qing Dai was afraid that if Qinglian continued to talk about it, Tingjia would definitely become more and more unhappy, so she hurriedly intercepted the conversation.

Qi Zhen pushed Tingjia and said to Qingdai Nunu, "Look, I just ate her, and she is going to drive people away." ”

Tingjia dodged her claws in disgust and flicked a slap on her hand, "It's not that you're too good at eating!" Qinglian looked at the intimacy between the three of them, as if she was an outsider and couldn't interject, and felt a little embarrassed for a while.

"In the evening, my grandmother allowed my sisters and us to go and watch the lanterns. You're not going? ”

"Eighteen before the lights are closed. I have scheduled to go at home for sixteen nights, if I don't want to go back to the banquet today, I would like to go with you in the evening" Qi Zhen was a little reluctant "Tingjia, what about you?" "At night, the lantern festival will be held, and the family has set a place in Chunjiang Tower." Tingjia looked at Qingdai, "Since you go to watch the lanterns at night, why don't you go all the way with me?" ”

"That's a good dare, let's watch the lights together!" Before Qingdai could speak, Qinglian responded first.

"The location of Chunjiang Tower is not easy to decide, your family will go, it won't bother too much, right?" Qingdai felt that it was inappropriate for the family to go out and the three sisters to keep up.

"Don't worry, they are all their own juniors, and they are divided into two private rooms." "Third sister" Qinglian reminded Qingdai to agree quickly.

"Then I'll ask my grandmother later." Qinglian urged Qingdai to go to the main house to discuss with the old lady, and when the old lady heard Tingjia's invitation, she nodded and agreed, and asked the housekeeper to find four competent nurses to keep up.

Afraid that there would be a lot of people at night, in the evening, Qingdai and the others took a carriage to Chunjiang Building. Because there are many people who come to the lantern festival, they are worried that the girls are too small, so before going out, the old lady told Qingdai that they are not allowed to go downstairs to watch the lanterns.

In addition to the two sisters Tingjia and Tinglan, the Wang family also has Tingjia's two sisters-in-law. After the three of them saw the ceremony, everyone sat down to eat tea and chat.

Until sunset and nightfall, the tourists outside the Chunjiang Building are weaving, the lights look at each other, the golden drums smell each other, and the carriage can no longer move. There are many stalls along the street, and there are also juggling troupes and lantern parade performances. The mountain sheds of each sè bring together the lights from all over the world of Daqi, and also arrange large-scale scene lighting, such as the pearl lantern in Fujian, the white corner lamp, the southern Yunnan filament lamp and so on to attract the attention of visitors: there are also lantern riddles, which attract men and women to jam the way, compete with each other, and all are famous lanterns to win the lottery. And standing in the Chunjiang Tower and looking out, even the hill in the Yulin Garden outside the city is decorated with gold and blue, and the lamps are like star cloth, which is extremely luxurious.

"Wow" Qingwei is young, no matter where she has the opportunity to go out in Wuzhou or Qingyang, let alone see such a lantern scene, even if she is standing on the second floor to see the lights, she is also excited, pulling Qingdai with her left hand, dragging Tinglan with her right hand, and then pointing to the lamp market downstairs, "Third sister, Tinglan, look, where is it...... Where ......"

Qing Dai silently followed the direction of her finger and kept nodding her head in response, but in her heart she secretly admired the prosperity of the Great Qi Capital. Qinglian stood by the window, always maintaining a quiet and elegant demeanor, but her eyes did not move away from the sea of lights in front of her, obviously taken by the scene in front of her.

Tingjia's eldest sister-in-law looked at the lively Qingwei and said with a smile: "Sister Wei, the good-looking ones are still behind, and there will be dragon and lion dances in the four seasons class later." Don't look at it over there, the refreshments in Chunjiang Building are good, but this pearl cake should be eaten while it is hot. ，…

The girls all came back from the window and sat around the table to eat. After half an hour, the team of the Four Seasons Class passed by the downstairs of Chunjiang, and danced downstairs for two moments, and then the second child in the building called the class master to enter the building, and received the reward outside the two private rooms on the second floor, and the dragon and lion dance team slowly left the range of the Chunjiang Building.

After watching the performance, it was too late. The grandmother who came with reminded the three of them that the hour was not early, and the three of them had to say goodbye to the people of the Wang family. Tingjia and the others had to wait for their brother to leave together, so they didn't go with the three Qingdai sisters. The three sisters left Chunjiang upstairs and got into the carriage back to Dai Mao Alley.

Sitting in the carriage and walking for a while, Qinglian lowered the curtain and sighed: "Four years ago, I went to the Yuhang Lantern Festival on August 15, which can't be compared with the Lantern Festival in Shangjing, it is simply a heaven and an underground. It really deserves to be the imperial capital, prosperous and rich, not comparable to those places in Wuzhou and Qingyang, I just hope that my father will not be transferred out in the past three or four years. ”

"It's better to go to Beijing, the lights are good, the fun is good, the food is good, and the accommodation is good!" Qingwei Liáo opened the corner of the curtain and looked out, obviously unsatisfied, and turned around and dragged Qingdai, "Third sister, did you say yes?" Qing Dai was excited, got in the car and found that she was a little tired, so she closed her eyes and dozed off to the side. Qingwei woke her up, míméng her eyes, and snorted softly: "Huh? "Third sister, can you really sleep? Can you fall asleep on this little road? ”

Qingdai covered her mouth and yawned, "I'm tired all day, I'm really tired." What did you just ask me? "I said it's good to go to the capital, and I hope we don't leave again." Qingwei looked out of the curtain again.

On the side of the road outside the car, those brilliant lights illuminate the entire street, and also illuminate the night sè of Shangjing, and the sea of lights of the golden sè is rich and prosperous, making people can't help but get drunk.

"Yes," Qinglian replied leisurely, her eyes not knowing what to think.

"Then you go back and beg your father, so that he must keep the position of the Beijing official." Qing Dai glanced out the window, muttered something in a low voice, then closed her eyelids and turned over to continue sleeping.

There was silence in the car for a while, and the noise outside the car became clearer.

Suddenly, the car shook violently, and Qingwei stumbled backwards and hit the back wall of the car. Qinglian was crooked to the side, and her palm accidentally touched the incense burner and burned it. As for Qing Dai's head touching the side wall, she couldn't help but cover her forehead and exclaimed.

"What's going on?" @。