At the reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve, my father asked the next people to set up a table in the pavilion next to the lake, hang lanterns, and put some lotus lanterns in the lake. At night, my father, Aunt Song and several younger sisters sat together, and Aunt Guo and Aunt Du were not identious enough and stood to serve them.

Father said: "Let the kitchen make several kinds of dumplings with three fresh, cabbage, and shepherd's cabbage, some of which are wrapped with golden beans, so be careful when eating." "Father's handsome face is flying, and he had a bad quarrel with his mother a few days ago, and he can't see it anymore.

Jin Chao shook his head secretly, Gu Xi was only eight years old, what if he accidentally swallowed the dumplings, his father really didn't think much about it.

Gu Lan smiled and said: "This is a good luck, whoever wants to eat the golden beans will definitely have a smooth life next year." ”

As a result, everyone got golden beans after eating, and Jin Chao also got two, which were first put in a purse.

After eating dumplings and vegetable mats, desserts are served in the kitchen, such as frozen pears, jujube paste cakes, persimmons, and white sugar pear cakes. Jin Chao stood up: "The father eats first, and the daughter is afraid to retreat first." ”

As soon as she stood up, Gu Lan immediately looked at her, still with a smile on her face, but her eyes were incomprehensible.

Aunt Song sat next to Jin Chao and gently shook her hand. smiled and said: "Sister Chao'er has something to do, can you slow down, it's not good to leave the table early...... "Chinese New Year's Eve's Chinese New Year's Eve meal, it is not very auspicious to leave the table early."

Jin Chao smiled: "I just thought that my mother was still alone in the house, and I wanted to accompany her." ”

When her father heard her say this, he couldn't help but nodded: "She can't blow the wind, and she is boring alone in the Oblique Garden, so it's okay for you to accompany her." ”

Gu Jinrong looked at her, as if he wanted to say something, but he turned his head to the side to look at the lotus lantern in the lake, the cool breeze blew at night, and the lotus lantern floating on the lake was full of shadows, which looked very beautiful. Jin Chao came down from the seat with Qingpu and glanced back at the lotus lantern.

Lotus lantern......

When she first arrived at Chen's house, Chen Sanye held a Lantern Festival at Chen's house. Chen Xuanqing prepared a lake of lotus lanterns for Yu Wanxue, which slowly flowed into the lake from the distant stream like a shining Milky Way, making all the lights of the Lantern Festival eclipsed. At that time, she only felt that Chen Xuanqing's personality was restrained and she didn't like to show it, she didn't know that he really loved a person, and he could hurt that person to the bones.

Seeing others as uncomfortable as sand in their eyes, the uncomfortable person is naturally her. It turns out that wanting to just look at this person and the great pain you endure when you look at him are completely different things. Later, when everyone had dispersed, she asked the girl to hold her hand, carefully leaned down and fished out a lamp, and kept it in her study. She held the stolen lamp in her hand, and her heart beat a little faster, as if it had really been given to her by him.

…… Thankfully, it's all gone. Seeing that his mother's sloping garden was in front of him, Jin Chao smiled.

Mother hadn't slept yet, Mother Xu served her to wipe her face and hands, and the room was filled with the weak warm light of the candle flame, because no one spoke, it looked extremely cold.

Jin Chao remembered the laughter in the pavilion just now.

When she heard her coming, her mother looked very happy when she raised her head, beckoned her to sit beside her, and couldn't help reproaching her: "...... Chinese New Year's Eve dinner dare to leave the table so early! Jin Chao leaned his head on his mother's arms and coquettishly said: "Without a mother, how can you call the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner." ”

He took out his purse again, opened it with a smile and showed it to his mother: "When I ate dumplings, I ate two golden beans and hung them on the curtain for my mother, praying for good weather and good weather." ”

Ji looked at his daughter with a smile and felt that she still looked like a child. She asked Xu's mother to ask for red silk threads, and hung things on her mother's curtain, and Ji's also came to her temperament: "Is it okay to accompany me today to keep the New Year of the Jin Dynasty?" ”

Jin Chao smiled and said, "It's naturally good, but it's fun to wait!" Let Xu's mother take a lot of five-color silk threads again, and want to play with her mother, and pestered her to say: "Mother's yarn is the most delicate and beautiful, give me more!" ”

Ji smiled helplessly, reached out and picked a few threads and began to fight. Her strings were indeed played very well, and the silk threads between her fingers were twisted around, a stick of incense, a stool to the sky, an elephant's eye block, and Fang Sheng, all of them were formed and lifelike.

Mother always knows something that she is not good at, Jin Chao thought, as if every mother is like this.

At this time, the girls were also called to make up for the next people's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and there was only Mother Xu in the house, talking to them, and no one even found when they walked to the door.

"Mother......" was Gu Jinrong's voice, and he walked past the screen, holding a purse in his hand.

He saw that the mother and daughter, as well as Xu's mother, were looking at him, frowned and said, "Eldest sister is fine." He saw Gu Jinchao get down from the seat, and he also thought about his mother, because he didn't want to see Jinchao, he pinched the time to come, he thought she should go, but he didn't expect to stay here.

Ji Shi saw that he was holding the purse of the navy blue embroidered Sui Han Sanyou in his hand, and asked with a smile, "What is Brother Rong doing here?" Also to give golden beans to my mother? ”

Gu Jinrong was quite strange: "How does my mother know!" ”

Ji Shi pointed to the curtain in the inner room: "That was sent by your sister, you really think about it for a while!" ”

Gu Jinrong coughed, and the hand holding the purse tightened, how did he know that Gu Jinchao also had this idea!

Jin Chao smiled and said, "We're playing, do you want to come too?" ”

Gu Jinrong pursed his lips and said, "No, the second sister invited me to celebrate the New Year together!" ”

Jin Chao heard the coldness in his words, and thought to himself that he was only twelve years old, and he couldn't pretend to be in harmony with her. Then he said casually, "Then you can go." ”

Gu Jinrong was about to leave, but he saw Jin Chao talking to his mother, picking up his mother's slap and asking her how she did it, his side face was extremely gentle by the candlelight, and he looked vaguely like his mother!

Gu Jinrong suspected that he had seen it wrong, Jin Chao was not like his mother at all, she was more like her grandmother when she was young, she was as beautiful as a begonia. But his footsteps stopped, his mother was sick, and he left her to keep the New Year with his second sister, wouldn't it be unfilial.

He stepped forward and said, "Since the eldest sister has invited, I naturally want to accompany my mother more!" "I called the scholar to reply to Gu Lan and said that he couldn't go.

Mother Xu looked at his awkward expression but laughed, brought more silk threads for the mother and daughter, and after playing for a while, Jin Chao asked him to go to the cellar in the kitchen to get white radishes.

Ji Shi was puzzled: "What to do with that thing!" ”

Jin Chao smiled silently. When the turnip was brought over, she asked for a knife for twisting the thread, and carved the turnip flexibly.

At this moment, not only Ji and Xu's mother, but even Gu Jinrong couldn't take their eyes off it. Jin Chao's fingers are flexible, and after a while, he carved a Chang'e running to the moon, holding a jade rabbit in his arms, Chang'e is lifelike, with open sleeves and feathers, and the shawl is elegant.

Ji didn't know that the Jin Dynasty had such a hand, and he was surprised: "My Jin Dynasty hand is really clever!" ”

Jin Chao played with the knife and said: "The mica screen candle shadow is deep, and the long river is gradually falling to the stars." Chang'e should destroy and steal the elixir, the blue sea and blue sky and night heart. A flash of loneliness flashed in her heart. Chang'e should repent of stealing the elixir, the blue sea and the blue sky and night heart, is it also her?

It was she who killed Yu Wanxue's child, so she was trapped in the courtyard and died of illness!

In her previous life, after Yu Wanxue lost power, she often came to see her in the small courtyard. She couldn't give birth to a child after a miscarriage, Chen Xuanqing married a concubine again, she felt lonely alone, so she came to Jin Chao to talk to her and bring a lot of things. This person is indeed pure-minded, and treats her very well, he was blinded by jealousy, and he actually hurt her so much!

Ji Shi said: "It's a pity, this thing is good in the Mid-Autumn Festival, now on Chinese New Year's Eve, Sister Chao is better than carving a unicorn, Xiangrui." ”

Jin Chao came back to his senses and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "...... Then I won't, my daughter can only carve Chang'e! ”

Gu Jinrong focused on the eldest sister, did he see it wrong just now, how could he feel Gu Jinchao's expression...... Lonely?

said that it was a year old, but the mother still fell asleep first because of her frailty and sleepiness. Jin Chao and Gu Jinrong were relatively speechless, at this time the girls came back, so they asked Mo Yu to come over with a game of Go, Jin Chao smiled and said: "Sister can still accompany you to play chess to solve your difficulties!" ”

Gu Jinrong didn't believe that she played chess well, and after a few games, she really collapsed, and Jin Chao also happily admitted: "I'm a half-ass, just accompany you to play these games." Then he said, "You go back first, tomorrow morning you will have to worship your ancestors, and my sister will keep the New Year here." ”

She admitted it so briskly, Gu Jinrong felt that she was free and easy, and after being silent for a while, she said, "...... It would be good to go down. "He had good intentions, you must know that Gu Lan will not do this. But after saying this, I don't think it's a good thing, and I don't know how to explain it.

When he came out of the Oblique Garden, he glanced back, and suddenly felt that maybe this sister was really not what outsiders said, nor was it like Gu Lan's mouth, she gave herself a very strange feeling, and she couldn't say it clearly.

There was a little girl waiting for him outside, and he recognized it as the hibiscus next to the second sister. She smiled and saluted, "...... Our second lady is still waiting for you. ”

Gu Jinrong frowned, a little distressed and a little reproachful: "Second sister is still waiting...... She's really, it's so late! But he quickly walked towards the Cui Xuan Courtyard.