On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the general and the major generals in the palace entered the palace to pay New Year's greetings to the saint and the queen mother. It is said that Emperor Jin carried out "sealing the pen" on the 26th day of the lunar month every year, and did not go to court. Wait until the ceremony on the first day of the Lunar New Year to "start writing" again. Emperor Jin would also stuff the notes with the names of the ornaments into the sachets prepared in advance, and give them the sachets when the ministers came to worship, showing benevolence and generosity, as well as celebrating.

In the Bai Mansion, Mrs. Mu and the maid Liu Er brought congratulatory gifts to the elders and the old ladies in the two rooms.

People are wearing new clothes, carrying congratulatory gifts, their faces are irrepressible joy, from the east courtyard to the west courtyard and then to the south courtyard, coming and going, lively and lively, smiling and saying auspicious words to each other.

In this comparison, my courtyard is particularly deserted, no one comes to me to pay New Year's greetings, and I have no place to worship.

Ai'er stood at the door, glancing out of the courtyard from time to time, looking at it with a blank eye, as if she wanted to see a hole in the open space in front of the courtyard, and her expression was very lost. looked at me, took two steps forward, lamented, and complained, "This is the most lonely New Year I have ever had, the seventeenth and nineteenth young people come to our yard on weekdays, and they can't be driven away, and today they have all reached this point, and there is not even a figure, sir, you can take a look."

Looking at Ai'er, I smiled, and said in my heart, after all, I am still a little girl, I like to be lively, I love to rush to the scene, and it happens that I am a person who doesn't like to join in the fun, but it is difficult for her.

I thought about it carefully, in the White Mansion, there are no my elders, and secondly, there are no relatives and family members, who wants to kowtow to people to pay New Year's greetings, who dares to accept my bow from the official rank of the sixth rank of the imperial court. If there is one person I really want to thank, it is Mrs. Mu, who has always treated me well, like my elders, and I should go and see her in all my senses.

Raising his eyes, he looked at the sky through the window, and estimated that Mrs. Mu should come back this time. Looking at Ai'er again, I saw that she looked like a frosted pickle, her eyes were blank and she looked around, and I shouted, "Ai'er, help me prepare a congratulatory gift, and we will also go out to hang out."

Ai'er shouted happily, "Okay sir, I'll go and prepare." When I entered the inner room, he poked out half of his head and asked me, "Sir, whose house are we going to?" ”

I smiled and said, "Go to the General's Mansion and send a congratulatory gift to Mrs. Mu."

In this Bai Mansion, in the hearts of the subordinates, Mrs. Mu's prestige is no less than that of the general Bai Zhanqi, not only because Mrs. Mu is the number one in the internal affairs of the Bai Mansion, but more importantly, she is rigorous, meticulous, clean and neat, and she is also very good to the subordinates. Whoever has any difficulties just tell Mrs. Mu, no matter whether it can be done or not, Mrs. Mu will try her best to do it. Won the love and respect of the people.

Ai'er Oh turned her head away, and after a while, she poked out half her head and asked, "Sir, what should we send to Mrs. Mu as a New Year's gift?"

I thought about it for a moment and said to my son, "Take whatever you have."

Mrs. Mu has nothing to do there, and it is nothing if she goes empty-handed on weekdays, but today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and I have to express it no matter what.

It coincided with the Chinese New Year, which was more grand than usual, not only dressed formally, but also vulgar, and also prepared two boxes of rice cakes like others.

Ai'er put two boxes of rice cakes in a bamboo basket and carried them on her right arm, calling out to me, "Sir, let's go."

I answered, and suddenly remembered the new clothes I made for Ai'er last time, I wanted to give them to her the day before I left, but now it seems that I can't leave for a while, today is just the New Year's Day, I turned around and walked to the cabinet, took out the clothes from the wooden box at one end and handed them to Ai'er.

Ai'er took the shirt in her hand, looked at the front and back, and then stared at me with a pair of eyes.

I smiled at her, and Ai'er immediately understood, and smiled with a smile, "Sir, this new dress is for me, it's really for me."

I raised my eyebrows and said, "Try it to see if it fits."

Ai'er sighed, jumped into the side room, and after a while, I saw a slim and pretty girl standing in front of me, Ai'er's face was slightly flushed, and she seemed to be a little embarrassed.

I nodded with satisfaction and said, "People rely on clothes and horses and saddles, this is not false at all, look, what a handsome girl." After pouring, I touched my chin amusefully.

Ai'er seemed to be a little excited, looked at me, with tears in her eyes, and said, "Thank you, Mr. for making me a new shirt, let me take it off first."

I stopped her and said, "Don't take it off, it's not right to wear it for the Chinese New Year today."

Ai'er nodded and smiled at me.

I hurriedly said, "Let's go, it's not good if there are too many people going later."

Before I left, Ai'er walked behind with two boxes of rice cakes, and as soon as we went out, we met Bai Yan Leng on the way.

Ai'er bowed slightly towards Bai Yan Leng and said, "Nineteen is good."

Bai Yan replied coldly, looked at me again, and asked, "Where are you going?" ”

Ai'er was quick to speak, and took the first step to say, "Let's go over and send a congratulatory gift to Mrs. Mu."

Bai Yan Leng had a faint expression on his face, looked at me and said, "Sister-in-law went to the third aunt's house and hasn't come back yet."

As soon as I heard the third wife, I trembled, and the two slaps last time made me remember it vividly, as if the palm was on my face at this moment, which made my heart tighten suddenly, my face trembled slightly, and I couldn't help but reach out and touch my face. I don't blame Mrs. Three, I just don't want to hear anything about her, it will make me feel guilty and feel sorry for her.

Mrs. Mu thought thoughtfully, and at the same time prepared a congratulatory gift for the seventeenth young man while worshipping the third wife, I heard Bai Yan say coldly, the third lady counted me down in front of Mrs. Mu, and then cried, so that Mrs. Mu had a good meal, crying and crying for the New Year, not to mention that I am a person that Mrs. Mu values, and it was Mrs. Mu who forcibly left me in Baifu, and the third lady obviously did not give Mrs. Mu face and made her ugly. Fortunately, Mrs. Mu understands the righteousness and knows that she is sad in her heart, and she is reluctant to go to Mobei for the seventeenth year.

Mrs. Mu and her maidservant Liu Er came out of the third wife's house and went to the seventeen young man's house by the way.

Seventeen young according to age in the Baifu is relatively backward, but has just been named a first-class Jin Mohou, although there is no specific official rank in the court, but it represents a noble status, and the prince is at the same level, all say that the mother returns with the son, now even the identity of the third wife is two grades higher than before, this time the marriage to the three Turkic princesses, is also a relative, in exchange for the friendship between the two countries, for the benefit of the people, it can also be regarded as a meritorious man.

Bai Yan Leng came in time, and the news he gave was also timely, if it weren't for him, he would only be afraid that he would have to pounce.

Ai'er was not happy, she thought that she could go out and hang around, but she couldn't go out when she heard him say this, so she returned to the house dejectedly, put the bamboo basket on the table, and pouted.

I chuckled and ordered, "Ai'er, go make a good pot of tea, by the way, just Xiaojiangyuan, you don't need to make tea, just bring the tea leaves, and then take a pot of boiling water and a piece of white gauze."

Ai'er was unhappy and moved very quickly, and she was dizzy to hear it, but fortunately, she brought everything according to my orders.

I took out the wooden box, learned the posture of the last fourteen youth, shook the box, shook out some tea leaves on the gauze, and then tied the gauze and threw it into the teapot. Ai'er squatted at the round table, looking at it without blinking, and couldn't help but praise me for all this I did, "I didn't expect that tea can be brewed like this, Mr. is really a good craft, and he can think of anything new."

As I poured out the first cup of tea, I couldn't help but rejoice, and said, "I didn't think of this method."

Ai'er wanted to ask again, but Bai Yan took it coldly, and he smiled and said, "I see, it's really not your husband's doing, your husband is not a family woman at first glance."

I glared at Bai Yan coldly, he smiled and didn't speak, just watched me make tea.

I saw that Ai'er was really bored watching from the sidelines, so I said, "I don't have anything to do here for the time being, you might as well go outside and see if the injuries on Huahua's body are healed."

Seeing Ai'er go away, I turned around and saw Bai Yanleng staring at my hand, knowing that I couldn't hide it even if I wanted to, so I said, "This tea。。。。。。 ”

I'm not done yet.

"This is called kung fu tea, and only the fourteenth brother in the entire Baifu will make it like this." Bai Yan still smiled lightly after speaking, his gaze was as warm as water as his voice, and it seemed that there was something in his words.

I glanced at Bai Yan Leng, since I already knew it, I simply told him, I said, "Nineteen Shao is right, my method of making tea is indeed learned from Fourteen Shao, that day he and Seventeen Shao played in my yard, and made this tea when he was idle, and it was also Xiaojiangyuan." I pointed to the wooden box, tugging at the corners of my mouth and smiling embarrassedly.

I don't know why the more I explain, the more my heart is empty, obviously what I say is the truth, but my heart is fluttering, what am I panicking, is it because I was told by the nineteen young people, or the fourteen young people are making tea in my courtyard, I can't say clearly, I just feel that the hand holding the teacup is trembling slightly in disobedience.

Bai Yan said coldly, "Do you know, Fourteen has never made tea for someone in someone else's house, he is very high-spirited, and others are not looked down upon, so it is a little different for you." After speaking, he slowly raised his head and looked at me fixedly.

I laughed dryly, "yes, then I'm really honored."

I pretended to answer easily, Bai Yan was really serious, it was still a shallow smile, but the smile gradually disappeared, and said, "Except for you, no one in the Bai Mansion drinks Xiaojiangyuan, if I guess correctly, this Xiaojiangyuan was given to you by Bai Qingrui, it was given to the eldest brother by the fourteenth brother when he came back from the frontier this time, and he only gave it to the eldest brother." The eldest brother thought that the taste was too light, so he kept it, and last time he played chess in the eldest brother's mansion and ordered him to soak in Xiaojiangyuan, only to learn that he had already run to you."

After Bai Yan Leng said this, I remembered, because the fourteenth and seventeenth would always come to my house, and they couldn't sit empty every time, and they didn't like to drink chrysanthemums, wolfberries, red dates, etc., so they thought about where to get some tea, so they went to the general's house, and Bai Qingrui happened to be there, so she volunteered to get me this Xiaojiangyuan from her own house, but I was afraid that she didn't know that this was given to her father by Fourteen Shao.

I secretly said in my heart, Miss Four, you are very slippery, take the things sent by others and then give them away, turn around or give them to the fourteen young people, good intentions to do bad things, no wonder the last time the fourteen young people did not ask any tea, specifically asked me if I had a small Jiangyuan, until today I learned about it, I said I was very embarrassed.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Bai Yan asked me coldly, "Do you know where Brother Fourteen learned this set of kung fu tea?" ”

I looked at him with curiosity, tilted my head and asked, "Where did you learn it, could it be self-taught?"

Bai Yan smiled at me coldly, and said, "You are really right, this set of kung fu tea is his original, it is said that one summer, he led the troops in the area of Shanhaiguan in Youzhou to prepare to attack the northern nomadic Huns, unexpectedly encountered a heavy rainstorm, the heavy rain for many days caused floods, washed away wooden bridges and houses, roads, and trapped the fourteenth brother and a group of soldiers in Youzhou for many days, although the fourteenth brother was anxious, there was nothing to do, so he simply put his mind at ease and concentrated on drinking tea, and then created this set of kung fu tea. This set of kung fu tea is not uncommon, legend has it that kung fu tea is passed down in the south, but no one has seen it with their own eyes."

Bai Yan said to himself coldly, and while I listened, I imagined in my heart what kind of scene it should have been when the fourteenth young man was concentrating on developing kung fu tea.