Chapter 22: Family Feast, Sesame Candy
Coming out of Ling'anguo Temple, the snow in the sky is getting bigger and bigger.
Ye Lingwu was about to get into the carriage, stepped on the horse stool, but he slipped without wanting to, and was about to fall, but his waist suddenly tightened, and a strong arm came across his arm.
The man's breath mixed with the clear smell of grass and wood surrounded the leaves and mist.
She stiffened, looked up in surprise, and saw Shen Zhan's angular jaw.
Without waiting for her to react, Shen Zhan moved the hand around her waist to her back, and pushed her back with a slight force.
Ye Lingwu hurriedly grabbed the frame of the car, frightened, but heard him ask, "Is the cousin okay?" ”
Ye Lingwu was stunned, and only after a while did he speak: "Thank you, Master Hou." ”
Everyone watched, and Shen Zhan didn't ask much, so he only said lightly: "Be careful next time." ”
Ye Lingwu only felt that his scalp was numb, and said glutinously: "Yes." ”
Jiang Lanshu followed behind, and when she saw this scene, she was covered with goosebumps.
Tanchun glanced back at her and said with a smile: "Sister Lanshu, the old lady was the best to you when Miss Lingwu didn't come, I remember that Sister Lanshu was seventeen years old when she opened the spring, and she is getting older and older, you have to plan for yourself!" ”
Jiang Lanshu frowned worriedly, but turned her face with a light smile: "Sister Tanchun, why worry about me, I have the Jiang family to rely on, is it possible that I can't find a good family?" ”
After that, I stepped on the stool and got into the car.
After a few days, it was time to build a dynasty, the house was full of lights, red lanterns were hung high, and Qin Mingyu prepared a family banquet in Haitang Zhai.
Mrs. Shen sat at the top, and sat on both sides at the bottom. The family in the second room sat on the right side, and Qin Mingyu and the old lady Shen sat on the left side.
The seats were full, but Shen Zhan was missing.
Old Mrs. Shen looked at the empty seat on the left and couldn't laugh: "What about the boat saver?" ”
Qin Mingyu was about to pick up the vegetables, and gently put down the jade chopsticks and said: "Bang Zhou came out of the National Temple that day and went back to the barracks, saying that he had something important to deal with, but when he left, he said that he came back from a banquet." ”
Mrs. Shen slapped her chopsticks angrily and said, "He runs to the barracks all day long, when will he be able to start a family, and you don't know how to urge as a mother?" ”
The juniors lowered their heads and ate their dishes, trying not to make a sound.
Seeing Qin Mingyu's embarrassed face, Zhao said: "Doesn't the old lady know that the kid has his own opinions, and the eldest princess is useless even if she is in a hurry, if she is really in a hurry...... It's better to rush Jingyan. ”
"......" Shen Ci glanced at Zhao casually, pulled the corners of his mouth and said, "I don't care, if my mother likes which girl to lead me to meet." ”
Old Lady Shen squinted at Shen Ci's flowery appearance, and said, "You wait a little longer, and if I lead me to meet you, it will be a disaster for other girls." ”
Everyone laughed, and the room was peaceful.
At this moment, the warm curtain at the door was lifted, and I saw Shen Zhan, who was wearing a dark fox velvet cloak, walked in, followed by Yue Yang, who was holding several strings of sugar gourds and was slightly funny.
When Shen Pan'er saw the sugar gourd, her eyes were straight, and she was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth: "Big brother rushed back from the barracks and actually bought us a sugar gourd!" ”
Yue Yang said: "When the young lord and I came back, we happened to meet a sugar seller, thinking that the girls should like to eat, so I bought some and came back." ”
Old Mrs. Shen smiled and said, "Sit down quickly, I will go to the courtyard to set off firecrackers after eating, the capital is very lively tonight." ”
Every year on the day of the founding of the dynasty, the capital is always full of fireworks, and the fireworks of the Shangyuan Festival are different, firecrackers are set off in their respective homes to drive away the beasts of the year.
When the first firecrackers exploded in the capital, Shen Paner excitedly ran out with her skirt first, and the others were polite and waited for Mrs. Shen to speak before leaving the house.
In the end, when they grew up, the children who used to set off firecrackers at night and loved to hug each other have become little adults who stand under the eaves and enjoy fireworks with their elders.
Only Shen Pan'er was alone in the courtyard with high spirits, and when she finished setting off a string, she turned around and saw everyone standing under the eaves looking at her, so she shouted: "Big brother, second brother, Yue'er, you all come down quickly!" ”
It's rare that sometimes Shen Pan'er thinks of Shen Yue'er, Shen Yue'er is not good at destroying her interest, so she pulls Ye Lingwu down the stairs and passes over.
Zhao smiled with relief, looked back at Shen Ci and said, "Your two younger sisters have gone, and you can't go yet." ”
Shen Ci wrinkled his brows and replied: "Mother still treats me as a child, I only ...... this kind of firecracker"
Before the words fell, he saw Shen Zhan beside him also step down the stairs, and Shen Ci stared at his big eyes in disbelief, as if the sky had fallen.
The dignified general of the country would rarely set off firecrackers?!?!
The girls in the courtyard only cared about laughter, watching the little girl hold the fire fold with a tense face, and carefully ignite the fuse.
Ye Lingwu covered his ears and waited for the firecrackers on the ground to explode, he was ready in his heart, but he was still frightened by the deafening sound.
She unconsciously took a step back, not wanting to put a touch of warmth on her back, and the familiar smell lingered on the tip of her nose.
Ye Lingwu turned his head suspiciously, and his whole body instantly became tense.
- Sword eyebrows and starry eyes, nose like a peak, with a smile on his face, but still exudes a domineering aura that only a battle-hardened person can have.
"Big brother is here too!"
Shen Pan'er didn't notice the situation at all, grabbed Shen Zhan's arm and said coquettishly: "Big brother, help me light this firecracker, I'm going to play with it in my hand." ”
Shen Paner held a long fireworks stick in her hand, as long as she didn't touch the part of the fireworks, she could light it and play with it in her hand.
The little guy on the side handed over the fire fold in his hand when he heard this, Shen Zhan took the fire fold and lit the fireworks stick in Shen Paner's hand, and Shen Paner happily ran under the eaves with the fireworks stick.
At this time, the sky was bright.
Everyone looked up, I don't know who set off fireworks, there are one and two, not long, the sky is full of fireworks, compared to the fireworks that are full of fireworks in the Shangyuan Festival.
When Shen Pan'er saw it, she immediately shouted that Ningbei Houfu couldn't lag behind, and hurriedly asked the little maid to move the fireworks at home, and directly filled the courtyard, which can be called the "general" who commands the heroes on the battlefield.
Zhao and Shen Congwen couldn't stop it, and Qin Mingyu and Old Lady Shen couldn't stop laughing.
In the end, it was Shen Ci who asked Shen Paner to tell her not to play crazy, which stopped her plan to blow up the Ningbei Hou Mansion.
Ye Lingwu looked at it, and his eyes were foggy.
It had been many years, and this was the first time she felt the excitement of her home.
Although Song Lao and his neighbors would also set off firecrackers in the past, the atmosphere was different after all. I vaguely remember that when my mother was still there, she would hold herself to watch the fireworks every year during the Jianchao Festival.
At that time, Ye Huaisheng was still a good father, in order to please his mother, after the firecrackers and fireworks were over, he would take the mother and daughter to buy lanterns and visit the temple fair.
At that time, Liu Yuping was not favored, but she was secretly kept in another house.
It is also Ye Jinxiao who is getting older and older, and Liu Yuping is unwilling to come to the house to make trouble just by doing an outer room.
When she was a child, Ye Lingwu thought that her mother would be very angry, but her mother didn't care at all, so she ate Liu Yuping's tea that day.
Later, when she asked about it, her mother's answer was forever in her heart.
- "Qingqing remember, life is short, if you want to do everything according to your own heart, it is impossible, the daughter's family is not only for men in this life, how can you expect to have a couple for a lifetime." ”
Perhaps Ye Lingwu's expression was too sad and incompatible with the fireworks in the sky, Shen Zhan lowered his head and moved his gaze to her face for a long time.
He couldn't help but feel funny, how could a fourteen-year-old girl look like she could see through the red dust.
"I didn't eat the sesame candy that day, but I can eat it today." Shen Zhan stretched out a hand from under the dark fox velvet cloak, and his bony fingers hooked the sesame candy with white threads wrapped around the paper bag.
Ye Lingwu was so surprised that he raised his eyes to look at him, the fireworks in the sky were blazing, his face was backlit, and Ye Lingwu couldn't see his expression clearly.
The people under the eaves only looked at the presumptuous Shen Pan'er, and didn't notice the two, Ye Lingwu took the sesame candy, pursed his lips and said, "Thank you, Master Hou." "He saw it.
It is rare that there is no curfew tonight, and it is not until the early hours of the morning that everyone who is tired of playing will return to the house to rest.