The first month of the nineteenth year of Yongning in Great Qin.

dì dū fuze. Changping Street Nianfu.

On the fifth day of the first month, the mother and son of the Ji family set off from the state with the whole family and headed for the capital. When the family received the letterhead, it was the seventh day of the first month.

When the old lady heard this, she couldn't help frowning and said, "Why did you choose to go out on the fifth day?" ”

The territory of Daqin is quite wide, and the folk customs are not the same, the fifth day of the first month is called the fifth day, and it is convenient to say that the fifth is broken, which means that all taboos are broken, and everything is not taboo; However, some places say that it is not appropriate to break five or five. But there is a relatively unified saying in the customs, that is, "don't go out after breaking five". It is generally believed that the first six parties should travel.

The second lady laughed and said, "In the end, it's safe to come early." ”

The old lady sighed and said, "I will try on the ninth day of February, what is the hurry." ”

Instead, the fourth lady smiled and said, "I'm afraid that if I want to come to meet Mr., I will be the same as the same family." It's good to come over earlier and visit a few more people. He added: "Jiulang started to meet some classmates a year ago." ”

Generally speaking, when they arrive in the capital, most of them will travel around, actively participate in various gatherings of fellow villagers, fellow families, and the same year, and set up relationships with people from all walks of life, so as to lay the foundation for future political connections.

These moves, whether they are named on the gold list or those who fall to Sun Mountain, will eventually have a place to go, regardless of the big and small officials, just say that in 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, who knows who will be out of the Ming Dynasty, and who knows who will be able to use whom in the future? There is a way for many friends and many roads, and the more friends the better.

In this state of mind, February will be around the exam. There are countless large and small banquets that the lifters have to participate in, and this period has become the golden period of the hotel industry in Beijing.

A child of a wealthy family like the ninth master of the Nian family naturally doesn't have to hand over someone or pull any connections, his connections have already been laid for him by his father and brother. But because he is broad and cheerful, and he likes to travel, some people want to slap him and call him to eat and drink, but he doesn't take it big. I often follow along, and I will take turns to do two times to the east.

The old lady smiled: "Speaking of this." The old lady is disgusted that Jiulang is coming. Saying that you see Dabi, it's not good to warm your book. Pour it out and mingle and eat and drink. I also compared myself to myself, when I was more than what I had befriended before, I didn't rely on my real skills to enter the Hanlin Academy! At this time, it should be a steady Wen book, and if you mess up those things that are wrong, you just want to make friends, and you should make friends after Dabi. ”

The fourth lady listened and hurriedly said: "What the old lady taught is that the daughter-in-law should talk about Jiulang when she goes back." ”

The old lady seemed to be happy when she mentioned this, waved her hand and smiled: "Don't worry, it's irrelevant." I think it's good for him to go out for a walk. It's better than suffocating in the yard, how can the article be held back? I also told the old lady that Jiulang's mind is tight, what is he doing with him? Everybody is as dead as you are? ”

The fourth lady hurriedly stood up and said with a respectful smile: "The old lady has raised Jiulang." How dare Jiulang compare with the old lady. It is already a blessing for him to be able to get three points of knowledge from the old lady in his life! ”

The old lady smiled, "You can sit down." You don't have to be humble, and that's a blessing for you. He has been extremely intelligent since he was a child. Isn't this time in the middle of the meta? How many talents are there in the capital, isn't he still the first to come out on top? Although Dabi gathers talents from all over the world and doesn't dare to support him, the old lady and I are also looking forward to his three yuan and the first. ”

The fourth lady bowed down and said: "The daughter-in-law turned around and passed on the words of the old lady to him, and asked him to take care of his heart and prepare for the exam, so as to live up to the high expectations of the two ancestors." ”

The old lady nodded, waved her hand to sit down, and said to the second lady: "I heard that the Ji family is the most calm?" It is also very good for him to come to be the companion of Jiulang, and he learns from each other's strengths. Jiulang is young in the end and a little frizzy, so that the frizzy xìng can also go. ”

The second lady and the fourth lady all laughed and said, "What the old lady said is very true. ”

The old lady calculated the distance, the state is not far from the capital, and the car dealership is less than five rì, and more than seven rì will arrive. In the end, he shook his head and said, "It's good to come early." But this is only a long way, why bother so much! Breaking Five...... "She wanted to say that it was unlucky in the end, but now that the New Year is not yet in place, the three words "unlucky" cannot be said, so she just kept shaking her head.......

The second lady smiled: "I think I'm afraid of snow, after all, I have to walk a mountain road." Speaking of which, there were a few heavy snowfalls in the beginning of winter last year, but there was no snow in the middle of winter, and there were only a few rì snowflakes in the wax moon, and the first month was cold and tight, I don't know if there would be snow. Those who walk on mountain roads are afraid of being sleepy in the snow. If you are stuck on the road for the Lantern Festival, it is not beautiful. ”

The fourth lady said: "This is two walks, and the distance should be counted as Qilin Mountain." Look at these rìrì heads are good, and there is no obstacle to thinking about it. The second sister-in-law doesn't have to worry too much. ”

The second lady said indifferently: "It's not raining across the road, where can you see it from such a distance." I am not afraid of the others, because I am carrying a child, I am afraid that the child will suffer in the cold. ”

The fourth lady smiled: "The Ji family is too, the weather is cold, and it is inconvenient to take the child on the road, wouldn't it be good to take the root here and take it over......"

The old lady raised her eyes and interjected: "Luo Niang didn't say that I almost forgot, the Ji family came over, and the house ......."

The second lady hurriedly smiled and said, "Liulang is preparing." This one or two rì will be gone. Rokuro is the most careful, and the old lady puts it

The old lady nodded and said, "I only have one sentence, don't slack off my aunt and wife." Ran Rokuro's own aunt, I feel at ease. "It's easy to get a house, but Wei Di, the great housekeeper of foreign affairs in Changshengju, was overwhelmed by this time.

Or because of the year, I strive for perfection and are picky in every way.

Wei Di was still not in a hurry a few years ago, but he felt that he was going to live in the final place, and in the end, the master would not be so picky, and he could live anywhere. I didn't think that this year had passed, and I said that my aunt and wife arrived fifteen years ago, and now it's the seventh day of the new year, and the master can still find fault unhurriedly!

He is in a hurry, but isn't the master in a hurry? ---- master is very anxious when he urges him, and he is not in a hurry at all when he is picky!

He kept his duty. I didn't dare to persuade in a hurry, but Qing Ying and Xia Xiaoman persuaded tightly: "It's the seventh day of the new year today, and the tenth and eleventh days of the first month of the morning will be the tenth and eleventh days of the aunt's wife." Now it's time to settle down the house, don't you have to send someone to clean it up first, at this time, it's better to choose a top-notch one, clean it up and live at any time, settle down with my aunt's family, and then find a better one. Otherwise, my aunt and wife have arrived. Isn't it rude to have nowhere to live! ”

Nian Liang smiled helplessly and shook his head. said: "I thought that my aunt would have a rare trip to Beijing." I have to make her live comfortably...... Well, as you say, settle down first. ”

He flipped through it. found a picture and handed it to Xia Xiaoman, and said, "It's better to look at it like this." If you are free tomorrow, you will go with Xiao Wei's sister-in-law to take a look, if it is the same as the picture, it will be changed according to what we said before. ”

Xia Xiaoman nodded and took the picture, and handed over the picture to Wei Di again.

Wei Di was depressed when he took it, this was sent a few days ago, when the sixth master glanced at it twice, drew two strokes and gave it no, and asked him to look for it again. Okay, he was tired and broke his leg and looked for the side, so let's see this again! But where did he dare to say anything about it, he only smiled and said: "Ye Yingming, this house in Wanxiang Lane is indeed good." And it is only half an hour to go out from the east gate of the house. It's really cheap. ”

Sent Wei Di away. Nian Liang said to Xia Xiaoman: "You go and see it, so ask them to pave two paths according to what we said before---- this looks cumbersome." In fact, it is also fast. There are no flowers and plants in the winter, the flower pond must be an open space, you go to see it tomorrow, if it is really not beautiful, ask them to buy some lanterns to decorate one or two,---- aunt's house is almost to the Lantern Festival, hanging lamps is also considered to be the ......"

He said a lot, Xia Xiaoman couldn't help but nod and laugh at the same time, and when he finished speaking, he couldn't help but joke: "You are not renting a house, you are working harder than building a house!" ”

Nian Liang smiled and said, "It's troublesome at this time, but it will be easy to live in." ”

Changping Street is very close to Wanxiang Street, and when you come out of the east gate of the New Year's Mansion, it is a walk, and it will take a quarter of an hour at most. The car should be faster, but because of the New Year, the stalls placed in the two alleys on the road leading to Wanxiang Street are bustling, and the speed is much slower.

In the first month of the year, there are festivals and festivals, and there are two blessing sacrifices on the eighth day of the first month---- and the stars are sacrificed at night.

Xia Xiaoman looked at the many stalls outside that sold birds in cages and fish in pots, presumably for people to release for life, and asked Xiaowei's sister-in-law, and sure enough.

Xiao Wei's sister-in-law smiled: "It is exactly what was released." Look over there, it's not the yellow lanterns that sell the stars...... These are all rushed out to sell a stubble in response to the New Year, and there is no such situation in these two alleys. ”

Xia Xiaoman, the star of the festival, knew about it, because he was informed that he was involved in the family. Daqin folk customs take the eighth day of the first month as the rì of the lower realm of the stars, generally sacrifice to the Big Dipper, burn the god code, light the yellow lanterns all over, and recite the words on the incense of the family, ward off evil spirits and pray for blessings. And this release is something that the masters and masters do nǎinǎi, and it has nothing to do with Xia Xiaoman, and she doesn't disdain to use such a so-called release to accumulate blessings.

Baba's catch the bird, and then release it again, so that a form is great compassion? Will it be blessed? If it was really merciful, why catch the bird?!

When I arrived at the house on Wanxiang Street, the door plaque had already been removed, and I don't know what kind of person it was, but I heard that it was an official who was released to the outside world, and he was reluctant to sell the house in Beijing, so he handed it over to the tooth man to lease it out. It is said to be an ancestral property, but it is not old, and the ground on the door is good, but it looks like a neat family.

Four into the house, more than 30 rooms, two small gardens on the left and right, the layout is good, the size is also appropriate. Although the Ji family is out of the family, there are not many people,---- Ji Zheng and her youngest daughter Ji Lingshu, son Ji Songshu and his wife, with two grandchildren, one is eight years old and the other is five years old, both of whom are children; There were only a dozen servants, enough to stay.

Xia Xiaoman walked around, and saw that it was indeed as described by Dawei's housekeeper, so he asked Dawei's housekeeper to sign the lease contract, and then went down according to Nianliang's instructions one by one, and asked a few housekeepers to take people to hurry up and get the yard, and after the small-scale civil engineering work was over, arrange to clean up the room and prepare to welcome guests.

Because the hardware and furniture in the room are ready-made, and the bedding and sheets on the software are all brought by themselves, so there is no need for her Xia Xiaoman to have any heart, and when she looks back, she finds that she is missing.

Although there was nothing left, Xia Xiaoman still specially turned around twice, and waited until the time of release had passed before returning home, so as not to look at the false compassion.

When I returned to the Immortal Residence, I saw a group of people standing under the porch, looking at a bird cage. Looking at the white bird in the cage from a distance, Xia Xiaoman was secretly surprised, he had always been lazy in raising birds and beasts, and he didn't know what this meant.

Nian Liang was on crutches, leaning on the pillar, and looked at it with a smile.

His leg bones began to grow better, and he was able to walk a few steps on crutches, but it was still not a rope, and he still had to use a wheelchair to walk a little farther. However, compared to before, there is no way to go at all, and it is already much stronger, so the Nian family is also quite pleased. Now everyone's requirements for forgiveness are not so high, not to be more robust, just not to be bedridden, Amitabha.

Xia Xiaoman walked over, and the maids hurriedly saluted, and introduced the cage with a smile, saying: "It's crested red, such a pure feather is very rare...... The one who flew in just now, who released it...... is not afraid of people, the sixth master stretched out his hand, and jumped into the sixth master's hand, and refused to leave again, wouldn't he have fallen in love...... "Xia Xiaoman looked at the bird's snow-white body, with a long tail, a pinch of red hair on its head, and a few black feathers on the tip of its tail, which looked playful and beautiful.

She only raised a goldfish once when she was a child, and raised a chick bought on the street once, but she didn't raise it well, and she died within a few days, and she didn't dare to raise any animals again, so she didn't know anything about pets. She knew the sparrows, magpies, parrots, and seagulls of the birds of her life, so she could not tell what they were. Where do the maids know what biology subject syllabus, ask what kind of bird it is, and only say "crested red", she has to watch the excitement, anyway, whether it is a sparrow or a parrot has nothing to do with her, and it is not her who serves the birds.

"You just flew in? And then refuse to go? Xia Xiaoman asked them.

They nodded hurriedly, and said that Fang Caiye went to the old lady's side to follow the release and pray for blessings, and as soon as he came back to the courtyard, the bird fell. The master said don't be shocked by it, just catch it up and let it fly. But no matter how much he caught up, the bird refused to leave. The master stretched out his hand, and the bird jumped into the master's hand, and pecked twice, as if looking for food. And when he had brought the cage and put it with water and food, the bird went in on its own, and when it was full, it refused to fly. The master said that the cage door has been open, so he kept it like this, and he left for a while.

Xia Xiaoman saw that the cage door was really open, but the crested red had no intention of leaving, it seemed to be very comfortable, pecking saliva for a while, grinding her beak for a while, and entertaining herself, she couldn't help laughing. Changping Street is full of wealthy families, and this bird is afraid that it is someone who has been released for a while. But such birds have been tamed since childhood, and they only adapt to the cage, and if you release it, it will not know how to forage outside, and it will starve to death. This is not a release, but a creation of iniquity.

After helping Nian Liang to return to the room, he reported the house in detail, and the little maid brought up the freshly boiled soup to warm her stomach and ward off the cold.

Sweet white porcelain orchid bowl, begonia red glaze spoon, small glutinous rice dumplings in the soup hanging pulp, the light is flowing, just looking at it is very tempting. Xia Xiaoman sat by the smoke cage, warmed his legs with the hot air, tasted the hot soup in small sips, looked at the comfortable crested red outside the window, and sighed in his heart.

No wonder it is said that "born in sorrow and died in peace", such rìrì in brocade clothes and jade food pampered down, he rì is open the cage door, but he is willing to fly away?

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