Chapter 367: The Palace Maid of the Long Kingdom
The last days of the year were spent in such a joyous atmosphere and planning, and Chinese New Year's Eve was fast approaching. On the evening of Chinese New Year's Eve, Mo Xiao Mo Cong and Mo Min took thirteen maids and five young men to worship the ancestors of the master on the top of the Black Dragon, and then went down the mountain together to spend Chinese New Year's Eve on the shore of the Black Dragon Lake.
Mo Mansion now has a young master, a big young master, five young grandmothers, one hundred and fifty-one maids, twenty-seven family members, and Long Youduo, a person who is nothing, a total of one hundred and eighty-eight people, Mo Mansion set up more than twenty tables of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner that night, and a large family gathered together to celebrate Chinese New Year's Eve.
Murong Mingyue and the sixteen palace ladies of the Longguo Kingdom celebrated the Spring Festival of Ruiguo for the first time, and they were very curious about various customs, and the various bright fireworks and sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner also made them feel a strong festive atmosphere. After staying in Rui Country for a few months, the sixteen palace maids already spoke some Rui Guo dialect under the careful teaching of Murong Mingyue, although the pronunciation sounded exotic, but there was no problem in communicating. When a large family gathered for a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Mo Cong asked them if they were used to life here, whether they wanted to go home, and so on, and the sixteen palace ladies all said that sometimes they would be homesick, but it was also very good here.
"Aren't you over there for a long time?" Hang Rui asked Murong Mingyue curiously.
"I have to pass, but many customs are different from here, we all use cattle and sheep for sacrifice, and the food is different from here, in addition to gathering together to eat, there will be toasts to the elders, singing and dancing, horse racing and other activities, anyway, it is quite lively. Murong Mingyue said.
"It's good to sing and dance, we also have a lot of girls who can sing and dance, let's sing and dance together after dinner." Hang Rui said happily.
"What about Miao Jiang, how do you celebrate the New Year?" Mo Cong asked Long Youduo.
"It's all pretty much the same, it's all sacrifices, eating, visiting relatives and friends, and there are also some bullfighting, horse racing, male and female singing, and so on. Long Youduo said.
After a lively Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, some maids stayed in the dining room to clean up the cups and utensils, while others lit a bonfire and sang and danced on the shores of Black Dragon Lake. The sixteen palace maids who married from Longguo usually don't talk much, but they are very lively on such occasions. And all of them can sing and dance, which is eye-opening. Hang Rui saw that the palace maids brought by Murong Mingyue were so powerful, of course, she did not show weakness, and immediately organized some Ruiguo palace maids who were proficient in singing and dancing to go up to compete.
"I think I can do some of these activities more often in the future, which is more lively than the bonfires in the barracks. Mo Cong said to Chen Ruoping.
Chen Ruoping's identity was limited and he couldn't say anything, just nodded in agreement.
A lively bonfire was over, and everyone returned to Mofu to start making dumplings for the New Year. Murong Mingyue was very interested in dumplings, a magical food, and followed everyone to wrap a few, and then they were better than blue, and soon they were faster than some ingenious maids. Long Youduo is also the first time to participate in many activities, and her curiosity is not much less than that of Murong Mingyue. But everyone was a little scared of the Five Poisons Sect Leader making dumplings, and they were very worried that she would accidentally get some poisonous powder and kill the family.
"How can our Five Poison Sect's poisoning methods be as bad as you think, how can you accidentally go out when you don't want to poison, don't worry, I won't poison you. Long Youduo ignored everyone's doubts and continued to wrap them one by one lightly and quickly.
After the New Year, I set off fireworks and ate dumplings, and Chinese New Year's Eve is over, and the new year has arrived. Mo Cong followed the practice of having a good omen in the New Year, and slept with Mo Min, Moyu, Murong Mingyue, Chen Ruoping, and Hang Rui. I also slept with Long Youduo.
When I woke up the next day, it was the first day of the new year, and everyone had breakfast in Mofu, and then Mo Cong rode Ma Momin and others in a carriage and went to Uncle Zhang's house to pay New Year's greetings. There are so many people in gorgeous clothes and stunning people in the small mountain village at once. The villagers were all stunned, and many of them went to Uncle Zhang's house to watch the excitement, and for a while the courtyard was crowded with people inside and outside the courtyard. Mo Cong took the opportunity of the New Year's greeting to ask about everyone's living conditions, and then talked about Montenegro's plan to expand the scale of silk weaving and special products. Let everyone be prepared in all aspects, organize people to learn mulberry and silk weaving and other crafts during the slack time, and some mountain specialties are also consciously planted more.
At noon, I had dinner at Uncle Zhang's house. Mo Cong and the others returned to the shore of Heilong Lake and organized a jockey party on the lakeside, which was attended not only by the palace maids from Longguo, but also by some of the maids and maids of Mofu. Watching dozens of horses galloping out, listening to the laughter and laughter of the little maids and palace maids, Mo Cong whispered to Murong Mingyue if these palace maids of the Longguo Kingdom had a crush on any of the housekeepers or generals outside, and if so, they could be the masters and marry them off.
"They came to take care of me, are you going to drive them away?" Murong Mingyue was extremely surprised.
"I'm just asking casually, if they have someone they want to marry, I can do it, not to drive people away. Mo Cong said.
"They are not familiar with life here, just follow me a little better, how can they survive if they marry outside, others may be hostile or even abuse them because they are from Longguo, and then it will be very miserable, you better quickly dispel this idea." Murong Mingyue said.
"Actually, I also have good intentions, I think it's a pity that they waste their youth here every day, and there are a lot of singles outside who can't find wives, so I think that if there is a suitable one and they like it, they can marry it, and I don't want to forcibly assign them to anyone. Mo Cong explained.
"They are all very good girls, don't you want them yourself?" asked Murong Mingyue.
"I don't care so much, there are a total of one hundred and fifty-one maids here, and I have only slept with twenty-four of them, and it is out of necessity or other circumstances, and the others have not been touched at all and are not ready to be touched. Rather than spending their days here wasting their time, it is better to find them a good family to settle them down as soon as possible. Mo Cong said.
"It's better not to, they are already living well here, there is no need to find another person outside, I also need them to accompany me here and take care of me, don't you drive them away, okay?" Murong Mingyue said.
"Okay, okay, then let them stay. Mo Cong looked at the backs of those Longguo palace ladies galloping horses and said.
A lively horse race was going on fiercely in the whispers of the two, those Longguo palace maids were proficient in equestrianism, more powerful than some Swiss cavalry, not to mention those who had not ridden horses much, so in round after round of competition, it was always the Longguo palace maids who had a great advantage and took the lead in a roundabout turn, until Xiaoyue Xiaozhu and Xiao Dongzi and others went up to pull back a few games, fighting for the Ruiguo side.
"Do you want to go up to Bibi too?" Mo Cong said with a smile as he looked at Chen Ruoping's eager look.
"A little, but I'm thinking that the riding skills of the people of the Long Kingdom are indeed very powerful, even ordinary palace maids are so powerful, let alone the special cavalry of the Long Kingdom. Chen Ruoping said.
"Okay, let's talk about the New Year, don't keep thinking about those things in the barracks. Mo Cong saw that Chen Ruoping's occupational disease had committed again, and he immediately said speechlessly.
A unique Jockey Club ended, everyone was very happy, some Yahuan Xiaohuan gathered together to talk about who won and who won, the success or failure, Xiaomei Xiaoyue and other Yahuan who had seen the big world did not participate in such a small discussion, but stood behind Mo Cong and Mo Min, and those Longguo palace maids were hugging Murong Mingyue You and I talked word by word, some in Ruiguo dialect and some in Xianbei dialect.
That night, Mo Cong and Mo Xiao discussed opening some new businesses after the Chinese New Year to buffer the huge pressure on military salaries, Montenegro is basically self-sufficient in food now, but the pressure on the salaries of hundreds of thousands of troops is huge, and last half a year has been eating the old bottom left by corrupt officials, but it will definitely not work in the long run, and we must find another way to open source. The two discussed it and agreed to open some business outside Montenegro, anyway, there are ready-made kitchen gods, maid rings who are proficient in silk weaving, and mountains of rare treasures, and it is a matter of course to open some restaurants and cloth jewelry stores. However, these things are more troublesome to discuss, including which personnel to assign, which locations to choose, what to buy and sell, what to do in the early stage of training and what to do in the later stage, and so on.
The two were discussing when Murong Mingyue suddenly knocked on the door and came in and called Mo Cong out. (To be continued......)