On the winter solstice, according to the custom, Jingyang Hall cooked dumplings, Qi Jing was afraid that Qin Xun would eat too monotonous, and ordered the kitchen to stew a pot of mutton soup, the medicine is not as good as the food, the weather is cold, the mutton is warm and replenished, I heard the old man say, drink a bowl of mutton soup on the winter solstice, and you will not feel cold throughout the winter.

When the sky was bright, the kitchen stewed the mutton soup, and it had been stewed all morning, Qi Jing only ordered the palace people to bring the food to the table, and he came to the eaves corridor to arouse Qin Xun, who was ventilating in bed, and before he walked a few steps back to the palace, he asked Qin Xun to explore the existence of mutton soup like a dog's nose.

Originally, when eating dumplings, some people in order to please a good fortune, or just to coax the children in the family to play, will pick a pot of dumplings wrapped in copper coins, it is said that whoever eats dumplings wrapped with copper coins can be blessed in the coming year.

In order to coax Qin Xun to play, Qi Jing naturally did according to this custom, but he had a slight cleanliness habit and felt that the copper coins were not very clean when they were put into the food, so he instructed the kitchen to wrap the copper coins in the dumplings and change them into brown sugar fillings, and replace the copper coin dumplings with brown sugar dumplings.

He didn't follow the customs and rules too neatly, he didn't mix a brown sugar dumpling in a pot of dumplings and cook it, but in addition to the two of him and a bowl of meat-filled dumplings, a small bowl containing a few brown sugar dumplings was served on the table.

Because they wanted to keep their stomachs to drink mutton soup, they didn't eat much dumplings, Qin Xun ate a bowl of dumplings stuffed with shepherd's cabbage and pork until the last one was left, the chopsticks were unintentionally pricked, and the round hole in the dumpling skin overflowed with soft brown sugar filling, he was stunned for a moment, and clamped

I took a bite of the dumplings and made sure that they tasted brown sugar filling.

"I thought all the brown sugar dumplings were served separately, it couldn't have been leaked when the chef fished the dumplings, right?" Qin Xun was suspicious.

Qi Jing's face did not change: "After all, we still have to come according to customs." In the end, he still left a brown sugar dumpling in Qin Xun's meat-filled dumpling bowl.

Qin Xun bent his eyes, bit half of the last brown sugar dumpling, and put the remaining half on the chopsticks and handed it to Qi Jing's mouth: "Pick it up, the brown sugar filling is about to flow out." ”

In the real sense, this "copper coin dumpling" was also eaten by the two.

The mutton soup that has been stewed all morning has sucked all the deliciousness of the mutton into the soup, and the soup has also boiled some vegetables to relieve greasy, the mutton is soft and rotten, and the selection of materials has been worked on, and there is no too heavy fishy smell, the meat and soup are full of fresh fragrance, Qin Xun is full of food and drink, rubbing his mouth and rubbing his abdomen, looking out of the window where light rain began to fall again, and he was in a good mood: "Sloppy winter solstice clean year, winter solstice has been raining for the past few days, it seems that the weather in the Spring Festival this year is good." ”

On the day of Laba, Qin Xun moved back to the General's Mansion, and the folk nursery rhyme was used to singing "Children, children, don't be greedy, after Laba is the New Year", Laba arrives, and it is not far from the New Year, after all, it is not a few months to be at home, this is about to be the time of the New Year, and it is really a bit unreasonable to not go home again.

The main reason is that Xiliao finally handed over a letter to Daqi a few days ago, saying that the New Year was approaching, and it was almost at this time that the two countries made peace, and no longer continued to station troops at the border, and let the generals of the two countries go home to have a reunion with their wives and children. Of course, Daqi is not credulous because of Xiliao's request for peace, but it was originally expected that in the recent period, Xiliao, who is in urgent need of cultivation and recuperation, will really not be willing to stalemate with Daqi, and has already taken the initiative to sue for peace.

That is to say, General Qin Zhenhai will come back to the capital for this year, and it happens to be the first year that Qin Xun spent at home after returning from Jiangnan, Lin Chu, who has not spent the New Year in Qin's house for a few years, did not go back to his mother's Dingguo Mansion when he moved back to the imperial city from Shanglin Yuan this year, but went back to the General's Mansion directly, waiting for Qin Zhenhai to come back, and the family will celebrate the New Year together.

So Qin Xun had to move back to the house after his mother returned to the house, just if he wanted to go back to the palace and be with him, he had to stay at home at least until the New Year, otherwise it would be a little unruly.

Of course, Qi Jing also has to understand the rules, but after all, he is still reluctant to Qin Xun, Laba personally sent Qin Xun back to the General's Mansion that day, and was left by Lin Chu to have lunch with everyone in the General's Mansion, after lunch, Qin Xun sent him out, until the carriage looking at Qi Jing disappeared from view, and even the dust raised could no longer be seen, so he turned around and went back to the mansion.

As soon as he turned around, Qin Xun saw Qin Miao by the door behind him, the daughter of a family dressed in brocade clothes and fox fur, but his expression seemed to be a little timid, and he was also looking at the direction of Qi Jing's carriage leaving, and saw Qin Xun turn around, although he didn't look at her, the timid look on her face became more and more obvious like a reflex

Qin Miao actually didn't have much contact with Qin Xun, although her mother didn't like Qin Xun very much, and always expressed her dissatisfaction and disgust with Qin Xun in front of her in private, but her mother never allowed her to show too much unfriendliness in front of Qin Xun, she had vaguely known since she was a child that their mother and daughter could not be friendly with Qin Xun, but they couldn't afford to offend him.

Qin Xun was not so bad to offend, when she was young, Qin Miao occasionally couldn't control the temper of the eldest lady, and she spoke a few times, Qin Xun didn't care too much about her, and then left home for a few years, Qin Miao almost thought that this smiling young man had changed his bad temper.

Thinking of Kwai Xiang who died in front of him that night, Qin Miao felt a chill down his spine.

Qin Xun always knew that Qin Miao was behind him, and Qin Miao and her mother were thinking Qin Xun could also guess it, he turned around and didn't look at her, he stepped over the threshold and stepped into the door, and when he passed by Qin Miao's side, he whispered: "Don't fight Qi Jing's idea." ”

(End of chapter)