Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Chen Family
Jin Chao thought about it, but changed into an azure pigment satin jacket, and came to Gu Dezhao while discussing the matter of worshipping ancestors.
Gu Dezhao was talking to the Qingxu Daoist in the study, and the Qingxu Daoist heard that the eldest lady of the Gu family was coming, so he naturally wanted to avoid it. Jin Chao stood far away under the corridor and saw a tall and thin middle-aged man wearing a dark blue Taoist robe coming out of the study, with three beards and beautiful hair, fairy wind bones, and a snow-white whisk on his arm. Unhurriedly, he walked out of the mezzale.
I heard that the Qingxu Dao is more than fifty years old, but it looks less than forty. Even the princes and ministers in Yanjing who don't like Taoism will also associate with him, thinking that he has a good look. It's just that there aren't many people who are as grand as my father.
Jin Chao walked into the study and talked to his father about things, and saw his father sitting on a circle chair with a faint smile on his face.
After asking how many times to offer tea and dinner to the ancestors this year, Jin Chao mentioned this Qingxu Dao chief: "...... I just saw a man in a robe go out, I haven't seen this person before, is this your newly recruited staff? β
The minister's family will always have a few staff members to help with advice. Gu Dezhao is a five-grade Langzhong, so he is naturally not a big official in a place like Yanjing, but he also has two staff, and he can talk to him about the affairs of the court and the central government on weekdays.
Gu Jinchao heard his father say this, and after smiling, he stopped asking.
When it was time to worship the ancestors, the Jin Dynasty was busy directing the mothers-in-law to invite the ancestors to come out, and set up the tea and rice. But her father came to her and said, "The Taoist chief said that the house has not been clean for several months, and it is necessary to do a ritual to ward off evil spirits first, so as not to disturb the ancestors." β
Gu Jinchao was a little helpless, she had been busy for a few hours, so she could only withdraw her things and start setting up a dojo outside the ancestral hall. After a while, the Qingxu Daoist came over to do something, she avoided watching from a distance, and the Qingxu Daoist discussed with her father, and removed the wine and food she had arranged, and replaced it with a three-legged tripod.
When the Taoist chief was doing things, his father was watching from the sidelines, and Gu Jinchao felt that there was a miasma, so he went back to Qingtong Courtyard first.
Gu Jinrong hadn't gone to the Yu family's clan study yet, and was waiting for her in Qingtong Courtyard.
He made a few lotus lanterns and held them in his hand to show Jin Chao: "...... Let's go and put it in the lake and pray for Mother! Looking at Jin Chao's eyes cautiously, he was a little expectant.
Jin Chao smiled, "Your thin layer of paper can't be used as soon as it enters the water." β
She took Gu Jinrong to the west room, asked the girl to bring the bamboo strips up, and remade a few delicate and good-looking lotus lanterns, with bamboo sticks tied with the lamp bones, since it was for her mother's blessing, she did not paint red on the lamp, and the flowers were as pure as white lotus.
Jin Chao held the lamp to Gu Jinrong to see, he scratched his head and laughed: "It's still good to do by the eldest sister!" I wouldn't have been, but this is still what Qing Xiu taught me to do......" took the scissors again, and asked Jin Chao to teach him the same with interest.
Jin Chao specially looked for these two girls to see, and they were born better than ordinary girls, white and plump, with beautiful eyebrows and eyes. He is only fifteen or sixteen years old, and he seems to be honest and obedient.
Gu Jinrong was surrounded by either mother-in-law or servant, the original girl did not serve him, before the man was less than fifteen years old, the people of the big family would not let them contact those first, I am afraid that they will lose their spirit, and it will not be beneficial to study if they are distracted. But you can't completely ignore the affairs of men and women, otherwise you won't know if you are deceived by a girl with a heart in the future. Jin Chao estimated that his father was the one who hit this idea.
She asked him how the two girls were in the room.
Gu Jinrong just smiled: "My father sent them to serve me, but he didn't allow them to enter my inner room and study. I don't usually see them much, so I should always be obedient......"
He probably felt embarrassed, and didn't say anything about these two girls, and told her Gu Lan, "... The second sister came to me the day before yesterday and said that she wanted to borrow two famous books from me, and she wanted to practice calligraphy. I said that her handwriting was still very naΓ―ve, and asked her to find a red painting suitable for a boudoir woman first, which made her angry. β
Jin Chao thought it was funny: "You see that she is angry?" β
Gu Jinrong thought for a while and said, "Although she has been smiling, I can see if she is angry or not." When she is upset, she looks down at her skirt...... But I didn't borrow her name, so she went to her father, who was asking me to ask for my homework. I saw that my father not only gave her a name card and a red drawing, but also taught her how to move a pen. Tell her to read more and write more, and be able to behave properly. β
Jin Chao didn't think so, he read a lot, and there were many people with bad conduct. Isn't Ye Limit an example? 's father was still a two-rank jinshi, and in his previous life, he didn't do the matter of raising his stepfamily less than a year after his mother's death.
After the Qingxu Daoist finished the rituals, everyone went to worship their ancestors together. Gu Lan and the girl beside him smiled Yan Yan, saw Jin Chao and Gu Jinrong coming over together, and asked Gu Jinrong again: "...... I saw Brother Rong making lotus lanterns just now, and I don't know if it's done well. β
Gu Jinrong snorted and didn't speak.
Gu Lan's expression darkened, and he smiled apologetically: "It's the second sister who is not good, and she shouldn't mention the lotus lantern." β
The father placed the offerings and walked over, just when he heard Gu Lan's words, and saw that Gu Jin Rongli ignored Gu Lan, he sighed: "Brother Rong, Sister Lan is your sister after all." "Even if you don't like it in your heart, you have to make a harmonious appearance on the surface! If my sister and brother don't get along with this kind of thing, it's not good to talk about it.
The Ji family is dead, Gu Jinrong is now only with Sister Chao, and Gu Yi and Gu Xi have never talked to Sister Lan. Now that Aunt Song is crazy, Gu Lan doesn't even have anyone to talk to. He always saw Sister Lan alone.
Gu Dezhao remembered that Gu Lan came to him yesterday and said that he wanted a few books to practice calligraphy, and asked him to teach her how to move the pen, and stayed with him for a long time. When Gu Dezhao asked, she hesitated and said: "My daughter can only talk to the girl now, and my aunt is like that again, I really feel distressed......
No matter how many mistakes she makes, it is also her own daughter, so she is indeed a little cruel to her. Gu Lan's current appearance, he also has a little to do with it, he shouldn't have let her grow up next to Aunt Song in the first place, otherwise he wouldn't have been raised like this.
Gu Jinchao didn't say anything on the side.
After the Midyear Festival, the grange on the other side of the Xianghe River handed over the letter, and more than ten acres of fruit trees were all rotten. The steward of the grange is surnamed Liu, and he didn't come up with a charter after saying it, saying that it was good to grow peaches, but there were too many diseases, and he had to eat according to the weather. It's okay to plant jujube trees, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to sell them for a price. On the contrary, he couldn't decide what the idea was, and Jin Chao didn't understand the matter of serving the peasants, so he wanted to ask his grandmother, and she was guarding the system and going out.
Xu's mother said to her, "...... When you go out in mourning, it is better to go out with the gray bowl in front of the Bodhisattva, incense every day, and you will come back within seven days. β
Jin Chao can only think about it, now that his mother's seven seventies have passed, he doesn't need to be too strict. After all, she still had a lot to ask her grandmother for, and she couldn't explain it in a letter or two.
sent a letter to her grandmother, and the girl helped pack the box, Jin Chao went to tell Gu Dezhao, and went to Tongzhou on the third day.
When my grandmother got the letter, she waited for her at the Hanging Flower Gate in person, took her by the hand and took her to the East Cross Courtyard.
ββ¦β¦ I was thinking about going to a letter with you, but I heard Mother Song say that you were coming, and I was looking forward to you coming all day long. Ji Wu smiled lightly and said to her, "Your fourth cousin Ji Cang and the second lady of the Wanping Chen family are married, and tomorrow you will set up a drink to thank the matchmaker." It's a pity that you are in mourning, so you can't go and see, the matchmaker is the wife of the political envoy Lord Xu, and she is a very good person......"
Wanping Chen family! Jin Chao was very surprised when he heard this. How could she forget that Ji Cang married Second Master Chen's concubine!
In her previous life, she didn't have much contact with several cousins, and in March after the marriage, Chen Xuan, the second lady of the Chen family, married into the Ji family, which was when Chen Xuanqing and Yu Wanxue officially got married. She was mourning again, and she didn't even drink the wedding wine.
No matter what she said, she always had to get involved with the Chen family, Jin Chao smiled helplessly.
She no longer thought about it, but told her grandmother about Aunt Song.
Ji Wu also thought for a long time after hearing this: "...... Song Miaohua is a resolute character, if you want to say that this is crazy, I won't believe it. But if she can keep pretending, it's also her ability, so you don't have to worry about her. She took Jin Chao's hand and sighed, "Our sister Chao'er, who originally looked cold and hot-hearted, can now be ruthless." β
Jin Chao and Ji Wu joked: "Then now my grandmother dislikes me?" β
Ji Wu touched her hair and said with a smile, "You are the most like me." I dislike you, don't I even dislike myself! β
After talking to Ji Wu for a while, the third cousin-in-law Liu heard that she was coming, and came to greet Ji Wu with the child in her arms.
Brother Chun is almost two years old now, and he is very active. As soon as he arrived at Ji Wu's house, he broke free of his mother's hand, staggered into Ji Wu's arms, and called "great-grandmother" crisply. Liu's face turned white with fright, and he drank: "Brother Chun, slow down, be careful of hurting your great-grandmother!" β
Ji Wu said: "It's not in the way, he hasn't come to me for a few days." β
Picked up Ji Anchun, pointed at Gu Jinchao and asked him with a smile, "Take a look, do you remember your aunt Jinchao?" β
Ji Anchun tilted his head to look at her, and Jin Chao looked at Brother Chun, a little man who looked like a jade carving, and smiled at him. Brother Chun'er's big black eyes looked at her for a long time, then turned his head and hugged Ji Wu's neck without speaking. Liu's heart was even more anxious, for fear that it would make Ji Wu's unhappy.
Fortunately, Brother Chun spoke again: "Mother said that Aunt Jin Chao who gave me the silver hairpin, Brother Chun remembers!" β
Liu finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this,
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