Chapter 315: Lantern Festival Feast in Grand View Garden (I)
Chu Zhen sat and chatted with Sister Lin for a while, his fingers caressed her cheeks and cheeks, and the smooth and delicate skin like a shelled egg was really lovely.
In other words, it was daylight, and he didn't have to think about it like this.
Even at night, only after Sister Lin lay down
Daiyu came up sleepy, yawned again, and said in a daze: "Brother Chu, go back to sleep, I'm tired too, brother be careful on the road." β
"Well, let's sleep."
Chu Zhen pulled out his hand, folded the quilt for her, and said to Zijuan in the room again, and when he was about to go out, he reacted: "Zijuan, do you sleep with Sister Lin at night?" β
Zijuan replied yes, and then asked, "Master...... Why did Uncle Chu ask this? β
She blurted out and shouted again, and immediately she was so ashamed that she didn't dare to look at him.
"No, just asking. Then I'll go first, see you tomorrow. β
Chu Zhen said with a smile.
The ancients, especially Daiyu, who was born wealthy, had many of her living habits different from those of modern times.
made Chu Zhen worry for a while, what should I do if Sister Lin is not used to living in modern times after marriage?
But after thinking about it, if you are not used to living, you can go back to the Grand View Garden and live on both sides for a few days.
After going out, Xiangling and Qingwen came over to serve, and Qin Keqing in the warm pavilion also walked out, and Baozhu put on a satin embroidered cloak for her, and put on a snow hat.
Qingwen also came over to put on a cloak and tie a rope for Chu Zhen, and she also wore a hat herself.
"Uncle Chu, Second Miss Qin is going this way."
Xiangling led the way in front, and after sending out of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, she went back and said to Zijuan, and she was ready to sleep.
"It's so cold~"
Qin Keqing came over, Chu Zhen held her hand and pushed back, and said with a smile: "You and Qingwen follow me in turn, so that it won't be so cold." β
"Ah...... Isn't this an eagle catching a chicken? β
Qin Keqing questioned in his mouth, but his hand reached out and grabbed his clothes, and his stunning face showed a look of eagerness.
Baozhu Ruizhu followed behind the girl, and Qingwen saw that there was no place, so she walked to the master's side.
"You also have eagles catching chickens?"
Chu Zhen walked towards the palace.
"It is rumored that there were in the Han and Tang dynasties."
Qin Keqing followed behind him, and several people stepped on the snow, following Chu Zhen's footprints, making a rustling sound.
On this cold and snowy night, there was a man who was willing to shelter them from the wind and snow.
Qin Keqing returned to the side hall and said goodbye to him, but after entering the house, he didn't feel cold at all.
Baozhu told her mother-in-law to go to the kitchen to get hot water, and Ruizhu first went to turn on the electric blanket, and then went to prepare towels to wipe her body and soak her feet.
"The girl is a little reckless today."
Baozhu reminded her and said, "Although it is a fairy master, the girl will build a mattress with him, and others will gossip when they see it." β
Qin Keqing didn't answer, but only raised his fair and slender right hand and showed them a faint look of showing off.
"What's the matter, girl?"
Orb was puzzled.
Qin Keqing covered his mouth and smiled, and said very firmly: "In the future, I will live in this garden, and I don't have to go anywhere, if you two want to accompany me in the future, you can stay in the garden all the time, and you can marry anyone who wants to marry." β
"Huh?"
Baozhu Ruizhu looked at each other, and the girl explained that she was going to get married.
But Immortal Chu didn't say that he wanted her to be his aunt.
β¦β¦
The next day.
Chu Zhen got up at six o'clock, but he didn't see Qingwen, but he didn't need to be served, so he put on a set of modern clothes and went out for a run.
Let's go to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion first.
"Uncle Chu, is this practicing martial arts?" A maid who got up early saw him and was amazed.
A maid in the house heard it, came out to see, and when she saw him, she hurriedly shouted: "Uncle Chu is here!" β
"Did Miss Lin get up?" Chu Zhen asked with a smile.
"Wake up, the girl is getting dressed up right now." The maid replied.
Chu Zhen nodded, walked into the house, Xiangling came out from inside, Chu Zhen entered the boudoir with her, and Sister Lin, who was sitting in front of the dressing mirror, had already turned around and waited for him.
Chu Zhen was amazed.
Daiyu got up and said distressedly: "Why are you wearing these two clothes!" β
"It's okay, I'm out for a run, Sister Lin may not know, someone jumps into the frozen river to swim in winter, I'm nothing."
Daiyu's eyes were complaining: "What I say, you always turn a deaf ear, and compare other people's affairs, is it possible that you have to chisel the ice, jump into the river, and swim from Xiaoxiang Pavilion to Wuyuan?" β
Zijuan Xiangling laughed.
Chu Zhen stretched out his two hands and rubbed her face, "Look, is it cold?" β
"I can't count with a treasure book!" Daiyu was not convinced.
"Even if you don't have a treasure book, it's common to go out for a run in winter."
Chu Zhen said with a smile: "You are weak, suitable for recuperation, I am different, you can endure hardships and exercise, last time in Yandi, I also saw the battle between the Yan Wang Army and the Ming Army, they also braved the cold to fight, although I don't go to the battlefield, but it is good to have a good physique." I want to wait for spring to tell you to go out for a quick run. β
"The girl is running in the garden?!"
Zijuan and Xiangling didn't dare to think about what it would be like at all, if the old ladies and grandmothers in the house saw that the girl's family rolled up their sleeves and ran sweaty and panting, they didn't know what would happen.
Daiyu stretched out her hand to open her clothes and said, "I'll go with you now!" β
"Don't, it's not suitable for cold weather, wait until it's warm, you can do five poultry plays in the house."
It's good to say it, but Sister Lin stopped her thoughts.
Chu Zhen left the Xiaoxiang Pavilion and ran clockwise in the Grand View Garden from the left, passing through Xiaocui Hall, Daoxiang Village, Luwuyuan, Convex Crystal Pavilion and other places.
When passing by the Concave Crystal Pavilion, I heard a noise inside, and when I listened carefully, it was Qingwen arguing inside.
"The old man who is not satisfied, he treats you well on weekdays, and he always wants to steal chickens and dogs, I find the door and push, my aunt and grandmother, I return to the girl, and then I will go back to Rongguo Mansion with you!"
"The little prostitute's hooves are just the obscene seeds that everyone bought to fill the house and serve Master Lai, and they are also shaking their majesty in front of me! You want to get rid of me too?! β
"Qingwen!!"
Chu Zhen heard that he was going to fight, so he shouted inside, and soon, Qingwen, who was wearing a red jacket, hurriedly walked out, and after seeing him, he hurriedly cleaned up the expression on his face and greeted him with a smile.
A group of maids and women in the house also came out, and there were seven or eight of them.
A mother-in-law rushed to complain: "Master Fairy, she really wronged me......"
"You don't have to tell me."
Chu Zhen stopped her lightly, and when she saw Qingwen raising her eyebrows and wanting to scold the mother-in-law, she also stopped her and said:
"Qingwen, you don't have to quarrel, the right and wrong of things are not quarreled, after you ask clearly and find out clearly, you can deal with it on the spot, and if you can't dispose of it, go back to the manager, Miss Lin, Miss Qin, or Miss Bao, they will decide."
Qingwen's anger disappeared, and she immediately ordered them to take the account book and go to Xiaoxiang Pavilion together.
But the mother-in-law shirked and said, "It's just a few taels of silver, how can you disturb Miss Lin?" β
"Phew!"
Qingwen opened her mouth to scold, but she immediately remembered what the master said just now, endured it again, and only sneered: "I don't care if you go or not!" β
After speaking, he took a few maids and women and left with Chu Zhen.
On the way, Chu Zhen said to her: "In big things such as picking people off and accusing the other party of stealing, you must find out and ask clearly." If it is the first offense, and the other party's attitude of admitting guilt is good, you can consider giving it a lenient sentence and warning them not to commit it again. β
Qingwen followed him, thought about it carefully, and said hatefully: "The master looks at her like a person who admits her guilt and is lenient? During the New Year, she was given thirty taels of silver to buy things to decorate the Concave Crystal Pavilion, she was greedy for not knowing how much, and made up a lie to ask for five taels, only one New Year, she said that she earned fifteen taels! β
Chu Zhen smiled: "It's up to you to decide." β
The decentralization of financial power will definitely breed corruption, but it is too strict and troublesome, and Chu Zhen doesn't want Sister Lin to be too tired.
In the matter of money, just grasp the big and let go of the small.
Qingwen returned to Xiaoxiang Hall, Chu Zhen ran to the southeast corner, passed by the Lucui Nunnery, and ran another lap to complete the ten-kilometer exercise three times a week.
In the afternoon, Wang Xifeng came to Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and after saying some things, he mentioned the matter of his mother-in-law, saying that he would take her away and change the mother-in-law to the Cave Crystal Pavilion.
Daiyu agreed.
The next morning, the Lantern Festival.
Ping'er brought a mother-in-law over, Daiyu and Chu Zhen were in the warm pavilion, and they didn't go to see each other, but only let Qingwen go out to tell things.
Chu Zhen was drinking tea, but Sister Lin, Qin Keqing, and Baochai were not free, they were busy looking at the gifts sent by the princes and nobles in the capital yesterday, recording them in the warehouse, and preparing to send them back in the future.
Zijuan and the others were also busy before and after, telling things, Wang Xifeng also came over from time to time to report things to Daiyu, and several people went out together.
Chu Zhen stayed in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion and let them go to work.
At noon, Daiyu came back and fell asleep, Qin Keqing slept with her, Chu Zhen rested on the kang, and Baochai went back to Wuyuan.
After getting up, Daiyu instructed Xiangling to go to the Lucui Nunnery to ask Miaoyu.
After a while, Xiangling went back and forth: "Girl, Master Miaoyu said that she received her heart, but tonight there were many people and mixed people, and there were male guests, so she didn't come to eat Lantern Festival, and only sent two copies." β
Xiangling lifted the two food boxes and said that they were all given by Miaoyu, one for Miss Lin and one for Uncle Chu.
Daiyu smiled: "It's hard for her to make Lantern Festival, let's put it first, and then we'll send her a copy back when we're ready." β
"We also make Lantern Festival?"
Qingwen asked strangely.
Baochai smiled and said: "You just came to Uncle Chu's room and didn't know, the girl has been making Lantern Festival for Uncle Chu every year since a few years ago, and our sister will wipe the cards and listen to the play during the New Year, so she will find an excuse to go back to Lixiangyuan." Once we quietly went back with her, and when we saw that she was in a hurry to return to Lixiangyuan, we were busy instructing the maid to fry sesame seeds, just to make a Lantern Festival for Uncle Chu! β
Xiangling Zijuan laughed, remembering the past, the girl really worked hard to make the Lantern Festival.
Daiyu looked at him.
Chu Zhen also looked at her and said with a smile: "It just so happens that today I asked Master Daiyu to teach me how to make Lantern Festival!" β
"Okay, okay, I haven't wrapped the Lantern Festival either!"
Qin Keqing came to join in the fun.
Daiyu sneered and said, "I knew you didn't have a good word, so I'll punish you for going to meet us later!" β
Meaning, they come to make glutinous rice balls.
"No problem."
Kneading dough is a physical job, and Chu Zhen is in charge.
Glutinous rice flour, sesame seeds, brown sugar, bean paste, and chopping boards were placed in the house.
Chu Zhen made noodles under the command of Sister Lin, she was responsible for adding water, and Chu Zhen kneaded the dough repeatedly.
Qin Keqing took the grinding bowl and laboriously mashed the fried black sesame seeds, and then added brown sugar.
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Chu Zhen glanced at her, only to feel thrilled, Qin Keqing's beautiful figure was more and more revealed when he was pounding hard.
"Sister Xue is here for you, my hands are sore!"
Qin Keqing began to be lazy.
Chu Zhen took another look, and saw that Baochai's plump body was also swaying from pounding sesame seeds, which was actually a little bigger than Qin Keqing.
Don't look at indecent acts.
But Chu Zhen really didn't know how Baochai grew, plump and tender white, completely like a noblewoman, and had the youthfulness of a girl.
It's a disrespectful offense.
After a while, the noodles were reconciled, and Chu Zhen, under the command of Daiyu, kneaded the dough and cut it into sections with a knife, and Zijuan divided them in front of the three people.
Daiyu and the others sat on the chair and began to wrap the rice balls, and the round rice balls were rubbed out in the slender and white hands of the three young ladies, making people look greedy, and they didn't know if the taste would be better.
Chu Zhen also wrapped some of it, and was going to take half of it back to give it to his fiancΓ©e, and eat the rest with Daiyu tomorrow.
"Miss Shi is here!" A maid shouted outside.
Daiyu didn't get up, she looked out the door with the rice balls in her hand, and sure enough, she saw Shi Xiangyun.
"Sister Lin is making dumplings again this year?! I'm coming too! β
After Shi Xiangyun entered the house, he hurriedly said happily that he didn't see Chu Zhen until he got closer, and he hurriedly saw the salute again.
Baochai smiled and took her hand to sit down and said something.
After a while, they also came, and the room was full of laughter and frolic, and the girls were not so much rubbing the Lantern Festival as playing with each other.
Chu Zhen is strange, why hasn't Jia Baoyu seen anyone for two days? In the past, he came to Daguan Garden very quickly.
Not only did he have such thoughts, Tanchun also asked strangely: "Why didn't the second brother see him today?" In the past, he loved to come to Sister Lin's Xiaoxiang Pavilion. β
Daiyu ignored the sentence.
Shi Xiangyun said with a smile: "When I came over just now, I saw a girl from the Xia family at the old lady's, and the old lady asked my brother to take her to the house to chat, so I went into the garden, but I happened to see Sister Lin making rice balls." Let's eat glutinous rice balls at tonight's Lantern Festival banquet! β
She smiled at Chu Zhen.
Chu Zhen also smiled, Shi Xiangyun really loved his brother and loved his brother, as Sister Lin said, he preferred to bite his tongue before talking.
Daiyu said with a smile: "The gods ordered me to prepare a lot of food and drink, but you only 'love' to eat glutinous rice balls, and I will serve you tangyuan to eat tonight!" β
Shi Xiangyun replied to her: "I don't love anything else, I just love the rice balls made of noodles kneaded by the gods himself, and the emerald green vegetables!" β
Everyone laughed and couldn't say anything, even Miss Shi knew that the gods had brought down the vegetables to earth.
Chu Zhen: "......"
These girls love to call him a fairy when they are naughty, right?
It's all Sister Lin who has a bad head!
Chu Zhen continued to knead the dough, and Daiyu was afraid that his hands would be cold, so he brought hot water for him to soak in.
Qin Keqing Baochai and the others are the same, they will never let their hands be cold to pinch the rice balls, soak in hot water and then dry their hands before continuing to pinch them.
How else to say that it is a daughter?
Half an hour later.
The glutinous rice balls were ready, and Jia Baoyu finally appeared, with a bad expression on his face, as if he was uncomfortable.
Xia Jingui followed Jia Baoyu, and after she came in, she saw a room full of young ladies making a lot of Lantern Festival.
"...... you guys?"
Xia Jingui looked at their hands stained with white flour and various fillings, and there was a faint contempt in his eyes.
She has never done this kind of work at home, and she has made her dirty, what kind of body has she become?
Daiyu smiled at her: "It just so happens that you are here, we are about to cook rice balls, do you want to eat some?" β
Jia Baoyu clapped his hands and applauded.
Daiyu adhered to the hospitality and didn't say much, picked up some rice balls from everyone, and told Qingwen to send them to the kitchen in the backyard of Xiaoxiang Pavilion, so that her mother-in-law could cook them and serve them.
Chu Zhen and Daiyu didn't make many rice balls, so they kept them and gave them to Li Qingzhao.
After eating a few rice balls, Daiyu said to them: "The dinner time is almost here, I will go to Dongfu to invite the old lady over there, and then invite the old lady." β
In the Guogong Mansion, you can't just treat yourself.
Especially to invite Jia's mother, all families come to invite, and Jia's mother only depends on the mood to go or not.
Today is Chu Zhen's banquet, so she can naturally be invited, but Sister Lin will invite her in person, and the etiquette is the number.
Jia Baoyu hurriedly said: "I'll go to Dongfu with Sister Lin!" β
Chu Zhen wanted to laugh in his heart, but he was not good at talking, and Daiyu would refuse.
It's just that this time it wasn't Daiyu who spoke, but Xia Jingui.
She smiled at Jia Baoyu and said, "Miss Lin is in charge of the garden, and she is ordered by the Chu Immortal to invite the old ladies and ladies of the Eastern Mansion, what is Brother Bao going to do in the fun?" β
Brother Bao......
When Chu Zhen heard this title for the first time, he couldn't help but glance at Xia Jingui more.
Can this woman hold Jia Baoyu?
Xichun said with a smile: "Brother Bao, let's stay, it just so happens that we are going to visit Miaoyu, today is the Lantern Festival, send her some rice balls." β
Among all the people, she has the best relationship with Miaoyu, and she still remembers her during the festival.
Jia Baoyu looked sullen: "Miaoyu doesn't know what to be angry with me, and she still hasn't let me go to Lucui Nunnery." β
Chu Zhen smiled and said, "Maybe it was when Qin Xiangu was at the funeral last time." β
This sentence was like a knife in his chest, and Jia Baoyu's face turned white.
Everyone was puzzled, and Shi Xiangyun hurriedly asked, "Second brother, what happened last time?" β
Jia Baoyu was completely deflated, his face was ashamed, and he couldn't answer Shi Xiangyun's question for a long time.
Although everyone didn't ask, they became more and more curious, what happened in Tieji Temple when Qin Xiangu was funeral?
They only heard that Baoyu was beaten by Jia Zheng, and after coming back, he lay down for almost half a month.
Jia Baoyu couldn't answer, Xia Jingui's eyes flickered, and he wanted to find out what was going on inside!
Daiyu thought about it for a while, and asked Qin Keqing, "Second Sister Qin, do you want to go to Ningguo Mansion with me?" β
"Me?"
Qin Keqing was stunned, she was very afraid of Ning Guofu, and Sister Lin should also know it.
But after thinking about it, Qin Keqing still agreed.
So the two said goodbye to everyone, went out from the north gate of Daguan Garden, and got on a sedan chair, and some people came to Ningguo Mansion - more than ten eunuchs and palace maids followed, and there were some maids and wives in the garden.
Coincidentally, Qin Keqing had just entered Ningguo Mansion, holding the walkie-talkie that Chu Zhen had given her at the beginning, and when she was worried, the jewel outside the sedan chair said: "Second girl, your godbrother is ahead!" β
It's Qin Zhong.
Qin Keqing's relationship is complicated now, and he said to the outside world that he lives in the capital, guards filial piety for Qin Xiangu, and recognizes Qin Zhong as his godbrother.
"Call him over!"
Qin Keqing lifted the curtain and looked out, and after seeing Baozhu shouting, her younger brother Qin Zhong, who had clear eyebrows, walked over with slightly messy steps.
After he got closer, Qin Keqing saw that he was frowning bitterly, as if he was enduring some pain, grinning his teeth.
"Sister......" Qin Zhong's momentum weakened a little.
"What did you just do?"
Qin Keqing asked him with a slashed face, but when he saw his younger brother, his face changed, and he couldn't answer.
Qin Keqing became more and more puzzled, looked in the direction he was walking from, and happened to see ...... Tianxiang Building!
Qin Keqing's face also changed.
At the beginning, Jia Zhen asked her to go to Tianxiang Building several times, wanting to do wrong, but fortunately she escaped in a hurry, why did her brother also come out of that building now?!
"Second sister, you are busy first!"
Qin Zhong changed his title, "I'll go home to spend the Lantern Festival with my father first, and come back another day!" β
After speaking, he hurriedly walked out with his head bored, and his walking posture was still very strange, as if he was carrying his buttocks.
Baozhu whispered to her, "When I first saw him, he was walking with his butt covered and looked like he had been beaten. Could it be that someone spanked him? β
Qin Keqing frowned, and he didn't know who would beat Qin Zhong.
Daiyu in the sedan chair said, "Why don't we go and ask the wife of Dongfu?" β
Qin Keqing agreed.
The two got off the sedan chair at the Yimen in front of You's courtyard, and after entering, Daiyu first invited Jia Zhen and You to the Grand View Garden for a banquet, and then asked about Qin Zhong just now.
When You Shi heard this, the teacup in his hand was almost unstable, and his face became extremely ugly.
"Sister-in-law Zhen......?"
Qin Keqing was even more puzzled, but he could only say: "If my godbrother does something wrong, please be more lenient and send someone to inform me." β
Spanking his brother's ass like that, I don't know how long it will take to get better.
You Shi looked at the two girls who had not yet left the pavilion, and really didn't know what to say to them.
I can't talk about it!
She's ashamed!
After a while, You Shi squeezed out a smile: "Second girl, don't worry, it's not a big deal, I have already given him healing medicine, and I will invite a doctor to go to his house later." β
Qin Keqing got up and thanked him, and after sitting for a while, he said goodbye to Daiyu and left.
As soon as they left with their front feet, You Shi threw the teacup in his hand to the ground with a loud bang.
The maids rushed to hear the sound, but saw that the grandmother's face was very scary, they didn't dare to ask, only persuaded a few words, and cleaned up the broken cups on the ground.
Back at Rongguo Mansion, Daiyu and Qin Keqing went to invite Jia's mother again, and returned to Xiaoxiang Hall after a while.
Yingchun and the others were gone, Qin Keqing told Uncle Chu about what happened just now, and sighed: "Alas, my younger brother is becoming more and more difficult to discipline now, I am afraid that he stole something from Ning Mansion, so he was arrested and spanked." β
Chu Zhen: "......"
Daiyu didn't notice his frozen expression, and comforted Qin Keqing: "Sister doesn't have to worry too much, it's good to be beaten or on the contrary, after beating him, he won't go to Ningguo Mansion, it's just that he can't go like my sister before." β
Chu Zhen: "......"
Okay, he doesn't say anything, it's that he's dirty, he's not pure!
Sister Lin and Qin Keqing are both simple good children, they thought that Qin Zhong was just beaten by Jia Zhen when he walked and covered his buttocks, not something else.
But Jia Zhen is so violent?
lost a beauty like Qin Keqing, and instead targeted Qin Zhong.
Fortunately, Qin Keqing escaped, otherwise it would be "one female and one male, both flying into the Purple Palace".
Half an hour later, Daiyu brought Jia's mother to the Grand View Garden.
The Lantern Festival dinner officially began.
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