Chapter 144: New Year
Qi Yue's first New Year in ancient times has arrived, and after being busy with the first three days of various sacrifices and family members greeting each other, and other complicated rituals for Qi Yue, it will be easier.
The eighth day of the first month is to invite the prince and his wife to play in the west, and it can be regarded as an aunt to entertain the younger generations, and it is already dark when the second lady of the Xifu comes out, and the red lanterns are hanging everywhere.
"It's snowing." Qi Yue looked at the snow flakes falling from the sky and raised his head and said.
"Put on your hat." Aru said, taking the umbrella that the little girl had opened.
"No, it's not cold." Qi Yue said, raising his hand to feel the snow flakes fall on his face and turn into water droplets.
Over there, it's almost the New Year, no, it's going to be the New Year when she comes, and it's been more than half a year.
There is one less person in the family, and Mom and Dad are very lonely this year....
The flakes of snow were blocked by an umbrella, and someone put a hat on her at the same time.
"After eating, be careful of the wind and cold." Chang Yuncheng said, "You yourself are still a doctor, I don't know." ”
Qi Yue pursed his lips.
"It's so easy to catch a cold." She said, but didn't take off her hat.
Cold? Is that the word she called Wind Chill?
Chang Yuncheng didn't speak, but seeing that this woman didn't want to deliberately do it against herself like before, he couldn't help but smile on his lips.
"The eldest brother is really considerate to the sister-in-law." Chang Yinglan, who was sent out, said with a smile.
How's that!
Qi Yue looked back at her and smiled dryly.
"Then I'll be relieved." Chang Yinglan said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, will you teach me to cook two specialty dishes when you are free in the first month?" ”
"Okay, it's good to learn this." Qi Yue smiled, while looking at her, this girl seemed to be starting to talk about family affairs, and approached her to lower her voice, "As the saying goes, if you grab a man's stomach, you will catch a man's heart, and he will be very happy to make food for you in the future." ”
This kind of topic is very embarrassing for the little girl, especially now that the family knows that she is talking about family affairs, and visiting relatives and friends for the New Year is also a good time to discuss the marriage of her children.
"Sister-in-law, you also make fun of me." She shook Qi Yue's arm, snorted again, and looked at Chang Yuncheng, who was obviously listening to them next to her, "That big brother must eat the food you cook often." ”
Qi Yue laughed and raised his hand to poke her forehead.
"Okay, let's go back, I'll play in a few days." She laughed.
The sandwich road between the east and west mansions was also full of lanterns, and the servants in front and behind were carrying lanterns, keeping a certain distance from Chang Yuncheng and Qi Yue, who were walking side by side in the middle.
"What would you do to eat? Don't teach my sister badly. Chang Yuncheng said suddenly.
Qi Yue glanced at him.
"Look down on people." She said.
Chang Yuncheng nodded.
"Seeing that you eat everything so gluttonously on the street, you know that you haven't eaten anything good, and you will still make it? It's weird. He said.
"Oh, my army." Qi Yue looked at him and smiled, and nodded while stretching out his hand, "Today I will show you a little hand, so that you can see what a kitchen god is." ”
Chang Yuncheng smiled, looking disdainful.
When I got home, I went to Dingxi Hou and Xie to say goodbye, Dingxi Hou had a ghost in his heart and avoided seeing Qi Yue, but Xie didn't want to see him at all, so the husband and wife rarely said in a unified voice.
“。。 I'm too full, make something light, I think about it. Qi Yue said as he walked back.
Chang Yuncheng smiled unconsciously, and hurriedly put it away, with a blank look on his face.
“。。 Do you have radish pickles or something at home? Qi Yue said to Aru.
"Yes." Aru smiled, "There is everything, and the New Year's goods are all together." ”
"Then I'll prepare me some pickled turnips, half a duck, and some mushrooms." Qi Yue said with a straight finger.
The servant woman next to her hurriedly answered.
"You wait." Qi Yue shook his head at Chang Yuncheng and said
With that, he went to the kitchen.
Watching Qi Yue take the girl away leisurely, Chang Yuncheng's face that had been tense all the way finally relaxed.
"I know I love duck." He muttered to himself, and finally couldn't help but laugh.
Qiu Xiang helped Chang Yuncheng change into homely clothes, and when she saw that he went in to wash, she hurriedly pulled the magpie branch.
"Why is the prince so happy?" She asked curiously.
"The young lady went to make supper for the prince." Magpie chuckled under his breath.
Qiu Xiang suddenly covered her mouth and smiled.
"No wonder, this is the first time in the world, the last time the prince made a supper for the young lady, this time, the young lady took the initiative to make a supper for the prince, Amitabha." She put her hands together and chanted the Buddha, looking relieved, "It's finally good, but don't make any more trouble." ”
Magpie nodded and walked the line with a flying needle.
"What do you do? Day and night. Qiu Xiang asked curiously, looking at the needle and thread in Quezhi's hand and a piece of leather on his knee...
Do you make shoes? It's not like that.
"Well, it's sutures." Quezhi said with a little pride, "This cut is like a human skin has been cut, and I have to sew it up, so that the wound can quickly stop bleeding and heal." ”
Qiu Xiang was very surprised when she heard this.
"That's it. It is.. Is it like that on your stomach? She said in a low voice.
Magpie nodded.
"Wow, that's amazing." Qiu Xiang said with an amazed face, looking at the magpie branch, "You have also learned?" I thought only Sister Aru would. ”
The magpie branch hand neatly completes a figure-of-eight stitching.
Sister Aru will? Of course not, she will, not only will, but also the best one, wait and see.
Qi Yue quickly cut the radish and shiitake mushrooms, chopped the duck meat, blanched the water, and began to boil.
"Don't lift the lid halfway." Qi Yue instructed the servant woman in the kitchen and said, "Just change the fire to low after it is opened, and I will have someone pick it up when the time comes." ”
The kitchen maid was busy.
Qi Yue walked out with Ah Ru at this time.
"It smells very fragrant before it is stewed, and the prince must like it very much." Aru said happily.
"Of course, my craft, there are really few people who don't like it, at that time, to my house for dinner, but it was a grand event in our department." Qi Yue said with a smile, and when he said this, he couldn't help but look up at the winter night sky.
The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and it is shining brightly in the surrounding lights.
The bustle of opening the wine bottle, the constantly changing music, the colleagues who do not forget to taste it in the busy kitchen, the overflowing aroma of the food...
Never again...
Everything will only exist in memory.
Maybe I won't be able to remember it anymore over time...
When he was reminiscing about the past, he heard the shouts of the servant woman leading the way.
"Who's hiding there and sneaking around?"
Qi Yue followed, and saw two girls moving out of the shadow of the big tree next to the wall, kneeling on the ground and trembling.
In order for the girl not to delay the young lady's walking, two mothers-in-law stood aside waiting to ask for punishment, and the other servants still led the way on.
As she walked by, Qi Yue couldn't help but glance at the girl who was kneeling on the ground.
In winter, the servants of the family have changed into new cotton clothes, but the two girls are still wearing old clothes, almost lying on the ground, and their faces cannot be seen clearly.
Qi Yue couldn't help but think of how Aru looked good before.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
The two girls were even more afraid to speak.
"The young lady asked you something." The servant woman scolded.
"Yes. . . Be.. A girl shuddered, but stammered.
"It's the young lady, please be gracious, let us go out of the house and ask a doctor for the third young master." The other gritted his teeth and raised his head and said with tears in his eyes.
Qi Yue was stunned.
Chang Yunqi?
Since Aunt Zhou's incident, the third young master and the second young lady, who were her children, have been implicated to a certain extent, at least in the mansion.
It's been so long, except for the occasion of ancestor worship, they really haven't seen each other again.
Aru couldn't help but feel complicated when she looked at the two girls, there had been this kind of scene before, but it was herself who was kneeling, it was really feng shui in turn, or rather, her life was not up to herself, it seemed that the flowers were full of good scenery, and it might disappear in a blink of an eye...
"Sick?" Qi Yue hurriedly asked, while facing the servant woman and instructing the doctor, he raised his feet by himself, "I'll go over and take a look." ”
The two girls were very surprised, surprised and happy, and kowtowed and thanked them again and again.
“。。 The third young master studied too hard, he couldn't sleep well and hurt his nerves, and he caught a cold a few days ago, and he couldn't get up this morning. The girl whispered as she led the way.
"Didn't you ask the doctor to see it?" Qi Yue asked, looking at this girl, she was a little familiar, and she was called Caijuan in a trance.
"In the first month, people say that it hasn't broken five yet. No. The girl next to her spoke.
Caijuan hurriedly interrupted her.
"Originally, I didn't think it was so powerful, the third young master said that it would be good to drink some hot soup and sweat, it was the slaves and maids who were derelict in their duties, and they didn't expect so much, so they didn't want to ask for a doctor." She said with a look of self-reproach.
Thinking that Ah Ru Ah Hao and they were suffering when they asked for some food, this must be the person with shallow eyelids on the door who made it difficult for them.
Qi Yue smiled.
"Let the mother-in-law in charge hand over the errand tomorrow and rush to Zhuangzi." She spoke.
This made everyone startled.
"But, madame." The servant woman was stunned and replied in a panic.
"The young master is sick, and he doesn't know how to ask for a doctor, such a subordinate is obviously ruining Madame's reputation, will Madame still keep her?" Qi Yue said with a heavy face.
Now that Qi Yue has spoken, thinking about her current status in the mansion, the servants will not hesitate to respond.
Knowing that Qi Yue was coming, Chang Yunqi was startled.
"Let's just say I'm asleep." He said in a daze.
"Is the young master missing?" The girl asked in a low voice.
See? What else is visible ...
"Nope." Chang Yunqi said lightly and closed his eyes.
"If you don't see your sister-in-law, you have to see the doctor, right?"
The woman's voice was heard outside the door, and the curtain was lifted.
Chang Yunqi closed his eyes tightly.
Missing.. Missing... No face to see....
The biological mother did such a thing, what should he, as a son, do?
I resented that my biological mother couldn't do it, and I didn't hate and was ashamed of the person in front of me....
Thanks to him, he has always boasted that he is the best person in the family to Qi Yueniang...
What a resounding slap in the face!
Qi Yue waved her hand, letting the panicked girl stand aside, looking at Chang Yunqi, who seemed to be asleep on the bed covered with a thick quilt. (To be continued)