Amber is really optimistic about Jiang Yan, "She is an eight or nine-year-old girl who has only been in the house for a few months, and she hasn't missed a single errand call, so it goes without saying that she is smart." Although the needlework is short, it is ingenious; In her spare time, she still knows how to learn to make tea, at her age, which one doesn't like to play? Such a steady party is good, and she looks smart, and I think she will sooner or later fall into the eyes of the old lady. ”

If Jiang Yan knew that Amber looked at her like this, she would definitely blush.

Although she is a child, she is completely an adult inside, so naturally she does not like to play like a real child. Besides, can she get lost and forget her words for such a trivial thing as running errands and passing words, she has lived in vain for more than 20 years. The glove mask was not something she came up with, it was completely stained with the light of the crossing; It's because it's really boring, you can't be in a daze, if you want to give her a mobile phone, there must be nothing to do with tea.

Mandarin Duck and Amber can be regarded as deciding the matter when they say something, and they will be notified when they are ready to eat together in the evening, so as not to let the little girl below mess around.

When the others knew the news, no matter what they thought in their hearts, they all congratulated Green Aya with a smile on their faces, and coaxed her to treat her, and Green Silk saw this lively scene on the side, and slammed the door and left.

Midoriya didn't seem to see it, but she still smiled at those who congratulated her.

Jiang Yan looked at them funny, she was too long away from elementary school, and she really forgot if there was such a fighting spirit between girls back then, and now she looks at it as a memory of her childhood.

At the same time, Amber also said that the finch Jiang Yan had changed, but with Green Aya in front, they were still third-class, and this small improvement was not very conspicuous.

But it is inevitable that some people will still say sour things, after all, Jiang Yan has entered the mansion for the shortest time, and there are still two above her that have not been arranged, but she got a specific errand first. Jiang Yan can't say that in fact, she doesn't want to have an errand at all, and would rather be a handyman. It is estimated that it will also be considered hypocritical. Just don't hear it.

And she couldn't figure out where the curtains were outside on this cold day?! What are you jealous of? Freeze to death, okay?

If you have an errand, do it well, anyway, she has almost been to the places where she can go in the two mansions, and the rest will only wait for her to practice her physical skills and then explore it.

When it comes to the New Year, the whole house is busy, there is a shortage of people everywhere, and everyone is busy. Their maids are fine, they eat and live in the house, and they have nothing to worry about running their own errands. The servant women and mothers-in-law are different, they still have a small home outside, and they have to prepare things for the New Year.

Mama Qian accepted Jiang Yan's apprentice, and this year was finally easier, Jiang Yan went to help her when she changed shifts, so that she could have time to go home to buy New Year's goods.

So Jiang Yan is also busy in this lunar month, but she is very busy. What's the most stuff for the Chinese New Year? From ancient times to the present and the future, it is an answer, eat!

First of all, Laba porridge, red dates, japonica rice, ginkgo seeds, walnut kernels, chestnuts, chicken head rice, water chestnut rice, etc., boil slowly, boil the porridge thick, sprinkle brown sugar, white sugar, and then use dyed peach kernels, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, raisins, etc. to embellish, posing a variety of auspicious patterns and words.

Because of the good relationship with the kitchen, Jiang Yan drank a lot of Laba porridge before Laba, although there was no embellishment, the taste was just as good.

After Laba passed through the kitchen, he began to prepare for the sacrificial stove, and all kinds of sugar melons, sugar cakes, rice cakes, Jiangmi bamboo cakes, Kanto sugar, grass fried beans, etc., began to be made. These masters don't eat either, at most they are in response to the situation, and they are not cheap people at the bottom. On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the king of the stove went to heaven. After the sacrifice, the ancestor worship and the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet are coming again.

Around the Spring Festival is the busiest day of the year in the kitchen, but it is also the most lucrative time for oil and water. All kinds of good things flow like water, just tasting them can make the master chef eat oily, not to mention that they must not only taste it. Jiang Yan felt that she had gained more than three pounds this month.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the entire mansion has been renewed, and the door gods, couplets, and tags have been replaced, just waiting for the New Year.

In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Jia Mu and other people with seals all made up according to the quality and prepared to enter the palace to receive the banquet. At the beginning of Yin (three o'clock in the morning), the whole courtyard had been lit with lights, and the candles were shining clearly, and the people who were shining with the candles were clear, and the mandarin ducks served Jia's mother to wash and dress, and the kitchen hurriedly sent breakfast, and a table was neatly placed. It's a pity that Jia's mother was going to enter the palace for fear of eating too much and being indecent, so she only picked a few pieces of gluttony to pad her stomach.

After a little use, Jia's mother went to the warm pavilion to change her clothes, and several big girls hurriedly put on the court clothes that had been prepared yesterday for Jia's mother one by one, and took the phoenix crown and put on the xiaxia veil. Then I walked to the main hall.

Inside, Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Xing, and Mrs. You from the East Mansion had already come over to wait, and when they saw Mother Jia coming, they hurriedly got up and saluted. Jia Mu was not polite, called everyone, said a few words, and saw that the time was almost there, so she took everyone out.

The maids surrounded the ladies to the Hanging Flower Gate, and watched them sit on the eight-carrying sedan chair, except for the personal servants who followed the sedan chair to go out, the others dispersed.

Jiang Yan didn't even have the qualifications to send them to the Weeping Flower Gate, so they were waiting in the courtyard, and when they saw that the outside was scattered, they were also relieved, and they each found a comfortable place to rest.

Jia's mother got up early, and they only got up earlier. still has to run around boiling water and carrying food, Jiang Yan feels that her body as a child is about to be unbearable, she is really thirsty and sleepy, and she takes a nap by leaning on the kang table in the tea room.

Fortunately, Amber knew that everyone was tired today, and they still had to stay up at night, so she didn't scold them for being lazy, so she let them go.

After resting for a while, Jia Mu and the others came back from the palace to receive the banquet, and they did not enter the Rongguo Mansion, but went directly to the Ningguo Mansion to worship the ancestral hall. Jiang Yan naturally couldn't see the grand occasion, just listening to the sound of the drum music and playing could imagine the lively scene.

They are busy over there, they are not idle here, Jiang Yan and they are called around, all kinds of screens, pillows, backrests, seats, etc. are replaced with new clusters, the newly sent flowers in the conservatory are arranged, silver silk charcoal is placed in the brazier, lily incense is lit, everyone changes into new clothes, and when Jia's mother returns to the room, Rongqingtang has completely changed from the morning.

After a while, the You family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law from Dongfu came over, and the old ladies from other rooms also came to visit Jia's mother, and there was a lot of laughter and laughter in the house. Seeing off the concubines, Jia Jing and Jia Yu also led many children to come in and salute.

When the masters finished receiving the salutes according to the elders and young, the men, women, and maids in the two mansions also saluted according to the errands. Jiang Yan was on an errand in the Rongqing Hall, but she also got a good position, and she didn't wait long, and the people in this courtyard, under the leadership of the mandarin duck, kowtowed in the courtyard from a distance and retreated.

After the next person finished saluting, a few small people came over with a basket of New Year's money, and Lu Aya immediately pulled Jiang Yan to line up, and it was amber that gave them the New Year's money, and each person had a string of copper coins, so happy that everyone said auspicious words to her again and again.

Jiang Yan took the money and was about to go back to the house to put it away, but she was pulled by Green Aya, and stood in the verandah with the other little maids waiting, Amber looked at them with a smile and didn't say anything, and continued to send out the New Year's money. By the time they were all gone, there were still several strings left in the basket. Amber beckoned them over, and one of them grabbed a handful, "Let's play with it, the old lady has a good reward." ”

Everyone smiled and bowed their knees to thank them, holding hands and running back to the house. They didn't dare to stay longer, so they put the money and went back to the main room to wait, and then they were still busy.

The tables and chairs over there have been placed, the kitchen is preparing to send the dishes for the feast, the men and women of the Jia family are seated separately, the little maids are carrying plates of steaming southern and northern flavors into the main house, and the big maids have set up the dishes.

After the Hehuan feast, Tusu wine, Hehuan soup, auspicious fruit, and Ruyi cake, the night finally ended, and everyone dispersed.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Jia Mu and others had to enter the palace again to congratulate, and after the guests left, she immediately prepared to rest. Of course Jiang Yan and the others are not so happy, they still have to clean up this mess in the house, although the bedroom is far away, they still have to pay attention to their actions.

It's been three shifts after the thing is done, and there is no need to keep the New Year, and the maids went back to the house to wash up and fell asleep tiredly, and even Jiang Yan didn't have the energy to practice physical skills.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I went through yesterday's events again, entered the palace and the ancestral hall, but fortunately, Jia's mother no longer had the energy to socialize, and her seniority was high enough, so she directly refused to congratulate her relatives and friends, and let Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng go to receive them, and they hid in the house to enjoy their leisure, and only played chess and cards with Baoyu Daiyu and others for fun.

Jiang Yan and the others were also empty because of this, and after a comparison of the New Year, they found that their usual days were really easy, and they were more dedicated to their work.

In the next seven or eight days, Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng were busy inviting people to eat New Year's wine every day, and there was an endless stream of relatives and friends. The hearts of the maids were all drawn, everyone wanted to see it, Jiang Yan helped people on a lot of shifts because she was the only one in the whole courtyard who was not interested in babbling dramas, if she was the kind of person who turned over a dozen heels, she still wanted to see it, but unfortunately the ladies in the backyard were not aesthetically consistent with her, and no one ordered.

It's easy for their own family to finish the invitation, and someone else comes to invite them to the banquet. Jia's mother went to two houses, but she gave Rongqingtang a vacation, and many people took the opportunity to take leave to go home and reunite with their families.

Mandarin duck took four maids to go out with Jia's mother as a guest, and Amber was the master of the house, she was not unsympathetic, leaving enough manpower to prevent Jia's mother from coming back early, and gave the person who took leave on leave according to the batch.

Jiang Yan is naturally a left-behind person, her family is half a day's journey from Jiafu, this time is not enough, and she doesn't have any feelings for the Jiang family halfway, she is not happy to run in winter, it is good to stay in the house, there is food and drink, she can also seize the time to practice physical skills, it is rare that there are so few people in the courtyard.