Chapter 32: Chinese New Year (I)
A good night's sleep.
Huizhu woke up slowly, looking out the window at the sky was still dark, thinking that she had slept for a long time yesterday. Now I can't sleep, so I have to get up, and as soon as I unscrew the futon, I feel a gust of cold air coming, and I hurriedly get into the quilt again.
After a while, the outside remembered the footsteps of the squirrel, and then Su Xin walked in, saw Huizhu get up, hurriedly rummaged through the box, and took out a black-collared orange pattern cheongsam: "The master is up?" Huizhu said: "It's a little cold today?" Su Xin dressed her and said, "The master forgives the sins, and the four charcoal basins in the house have been extinguished." Everyone is busy, and Mama Zhang will come to change the charcoal basin later. ”
Hye-joo asked, "What are you busy with?" Su Xin waited for Huizhu to put on the bottom of the flower pot, and Fang smiled: "The master has forgotten, it will be twenty-nine today, and the house has already been busy." Our yard is still the same, squatting in the house every day, playing with paper-cutting. The slaves thought that tomorrow would be the Chinese New Year's Eve, but they couldn't clean up or anything like that, so everyone got up and cleaned up in four days. Huizhu smiled embarrassedly when she heard it, and couldn't help but think that in the past, every year after the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Niu Hulu's mansion was busy cleaning the courtyard, pasting window flowers, hanging notes, couplets and the word "Fu". On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, early in the morning, a yellow hanging note was pasted on the top of the ancestral board, and a yellow flag was pasted on the gate, and the whole house was busy.
After a small half-sound, Mama Zhao came to change the charcoal basin, and Yuehe also came in with hot water. Huizhu cleaned her face, sat down in front of the dressing lift, and Su Xin groomed herself.
Su Xin persuaded: "Master, there is a strong wind blowing outside, so let's apply some honey cream." Huizhu thought that she hadn't gone out for a few days, and it was windy, so it was better to wipe some, so she responded obediently. Su Xin continued: "It's going to be the New Year, and it's better for the master to dress up and be happy and rich. After hearing this, Huizhu smiled, glanced at Su Xin with a slanted smile from the mirror, and said, "Just now, didn't you put on a new cheongsam for me a long time ago, look, I'm still busy in my hands." ”
Su Xin didn't pay attention to Huizhu's jokes, and neatly tied Huizhu's hair on the top of her head, divided it into two locks, and knotted it into a horizontal and long high bun, and then knotted the rest of her hair into a "swallowtail" style long flat bun, pressed on the back of the neck. After half a ring, he looked left and right, and Fang said with satisfaction: "After the New Year, the master is a year older, and the comb woman's hair is getting better and better." Then he picked out the jewelry box and put a few red hairpins and a pink and white plum blossom-style velvet flower on Huizhu. Huizhu touched the velvet flower and smiled: "Such a big one, it seems that I have to be "glorious" and live up to your velvet flower." ”
Talking and laughing, Huizhu has been dressed up properly, and she looks a little rich. At the same time, Xia Mei also made a simple breakfast, and Huizhu felt that it was still early, so she used half a bowl of white porridge with kimchi, and ate a few bites of bean noodles to cushion her stomach. It wasn't until the hour was almost over that he walked out of the house and towards the main courtyard with Su Xin.
Along the way, the gates of each courtyard in the house have been replaced with the white-faced Qin Shubao and the black-faced Wei Chi Jingde's military general's door god paintings, as well as the three-star door god paintings of fortune and longevity that imply praying for blessing Najib. But this god painting is different from Niu Hulu Mansion, and the door is pasted. I remember that during the Chinese New Year, the left side of the gate of Niu Hulu Mansion was pasted with the god of adding officials to enter Lu: one person holding a "crown" and one person holding a "deer", "crown" and "official" homonym, "deer" and "Lu" homonym, combined with the meaning of "adding officials into Lu". On the right side of the door is the god of wealth and prosperity: the door god is a person holding a "peony", a person holding a "jue", "peony" is a metaphor for wealth, and "jue" is a metaphor for "official". However, the prince's mansion does not need to add officials to the knighthood, except for the top one, the prince's title has reached the top.
Huizhu continued to walk and look, and found that the Spring Festival couplets posted next to the door did not look like the couplets written on red paper in the Niu Hulu Mansion and other Manchurian aristocratic mansions. Instead, it is a couplet written in two white scrolls with two narrow borders on the top and bottom, and is also pasted in a rectangular frame with fixed positions. Come to think of it, this is a privilege that only the imperial family of the Qing Dynasty had. Some of the frames are carved from wood, and they usually hang for a year, but now they are all re-oiled, and when they look at it, they look new, and Huizhu suddenly feels that her eyes are bright.
In addition, the lintel and eaves of the house are cut into various patterns and patterns with colored silk and red paper, and some of the signs are embedded with various auspicious words. Huizhu really didn't expect that she hadn't been discharged from the hospital for a few days, and this mansion was already filled with a festive atmosphere, dressed up both festive and solemn, and the luxurious atmosphere of the prince's mansion was really not comparable to that of ordinary noble families.
Because I looked carefully all the way, I came to the main courtyard, and it was a little late. Except for Yinzhen and the pregnant Nian, everyone else arrived, and even Da Gege, who had never met before, stood beside the Li family with Hongyun. After entering the main house, Huizhu didn't dare to look at it more, so she hurriedly knelt down with Su Xin and kowtowed: "Please Fujin Da'an." The Ulanara clan bowed his head, and Huizhu thanked him again, and sat down under Geng's hand.
Sitting down on the embroidery pier, Huizhu quietly glanced at everyone in the room when she had nothing to do. Except for the Wulanala clan wearing a red cheongsam with gold patterns and the Li clan wearing a silver-red embroidered gold and black two-color large flower cheongsam, the rest are wearing peach, orange and other festive colors of cheongsam, and they don't stand out in orange.
In a blink of an eye, Huizhu secretly read an article about the people in the house, and thought to herself: Li is really a beautiful embryo, and the second elder brother Hongyun who was born looks like her, not to mention the pink carving, even the shy and shy Da Gege is also a jade person. Da Gege is about ten years old, although she looks like Li, but she doesn't feel like Li's flamboyant beauty, she is a little reserved, she looks a little nervous, and her hands keep pulling the handkerchief. Just as he was about to look up, Geng turned to the side and laughed quietly: "Sister Huizhu, I haven't seen you for a few days." But your yard is closed all day and night, and I can't come and break through the door. Having said that, Huizhu also understands that Geng doesn't like to go out, and he doesn't make good friends with other people, so he is friendly to himself, but he only comes to his yard two or three times. But I haven't seen him for a few days, and I am also happy, so I pulled Geng's smile and said: "Sister Geng, my sister is always welcome to come." In the past few days, my sister has cut some window flowers with the girls, if Sister Geng likes it, I will pick a few new ones to send to you. But I think you've already posted the curtains. Geng said: "Then when I go back today, I will ask Sister Huizhu for a few photos, which happen to be posted in my inner room, and I will also be touched by Sister Huizhu's blessings." ”
As he spoke, he saw Nian, who was wearing a silver-red cheongsam with black trim and embroidered with gold ornamentation, walked in and saluted the Wulanala clan: "Please Fujin Da'an." After the Nian clan finished saluting, the Ulanala clan persuaded: "Sister Nian has a body, you must be polite, Mama, don't help Sister Nian sit down quickly." Mama Wang helped Nian's chair on the side and just sat down, Li said with a smile: "Fujin is right, why do you have to do these false courtesies, you are weak and pregnant with a child, you are the most expensive in this house." No....... ”
Before the Li family finished speaking, the chief manager of the mansion, Gao De's father-in-law, came to talk back, and it was not easy for the Li family to say anything more. I saw Gao De finish the salute and said: "Back to Fujin, the house is wide open from the gate, the instrument door, the hall, the warm pavilion, the inner hall, the inner door, the inner instrument door and the inner plug door, and the main hall door, and each door is arranged to be guarded by a ring and a small servant. Now that the people in the palace are almost at the gate of the mansion, please ask Fujin and the masters to prepare. ”
Ulanala said: "Well, everyone should also have heard that there is a great hunger in Tai'an this year, cannibalism, and the dead are sleeping." There are also many places where there is a great hunger, and most of the people die, so that they eat grass in their houses. Therefore, the special case of "blessing" that should have been given in the first month was advanced, and I hope that God will bless my people in the Qing Dynasty. I am worried about the country and the people, and I decided that from today onwards, the dishes of the New Year and each courtyard will be reduced by half, and I will also make it clear to you at this time. Okay, Lord for our house, kneeling in the Qianqing Palace this morning and waiting for the 'blessing' from the Long Live Lord, and we are also kneeling now waiting for the 'blessing' to arrive. After saying that, he first got up and knelt at the door of the main hall.
Then Hongyun and Da Gege knelt at the side of the Ulanara clan, and the Li clan knelt behind her. Then there were the four Gege, including Huizhu, kneeling in the third row, and then kneeling behind the three concubines in the house and all the slaves in the house.
At this time, Huizhu was a little frightened, she had been staying in the Baylor Mansion, and she didn't know what was going on outside. Thinking that Kangxi was very famous in his previous life, it stands to reason that now should be a prosperous year. The capital is bustling and lively, and in some places people actually cannibalize. What kind of world is this, I have no worries about food and clothing now, and there are people to serve me. If he hadn't been reborn in a family of Manchu petty officials, what would he be now? I can't believe that people cannibalize each other, and the dead sleep on their pillows......
Huizhu was thinking wildly, only to hear the slight swaying sound of the golden bell jade pendant outside, and the chaotic sound of boots.
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