Chapter 20: The Winter Solstice

As soon as her mother left, her father Zhao Cheng came, "Girl." ”

"Daddy." Zhao Wangshu called out in a voice.

Zhao Cheng asked a similar question to Zhao Li's, and then told her, "The people in the mansion all have a pair of snobbish eyes, don't be stingy, make a little money, and live a comfortable life is worth everything." ”

"Daddy, where did you get the money?" Zhao Wangshu pinched his purse and asked curiously.

Zhao Cheng said with a smile: "Your father earned it by copying books, don't tell your grandma and your mother." ”

"Daddy, there is no shortage of money at home, you concentrate on reading, don't be distracted by idle things." Zhao Wangshu said.

"Copying books is not an idle matter, copying books can not only practice calligraphy, memorize the content of the book, but also make money, and the collection of books at home can also be more, how good it is to count in one fell swoop."

Zhao Wangshu smiled, "It's good not to delay my father's study." ”

"No delay." Zhao Cheng said with a smile.

As soon as Zhao Cheng, who was coaxed by his daughter, left, he replaced Zhao Yin to find his sister.

He also gave silver to his sister, and he was also copying books to earn money.

Looking at the three purses containing silver in front of him, Zhao Wangshu smiled happily.

When Zhao Cui's came in to deliver the purse again, Zhao Wangshu was a little crying and laughing, how afraid the family was that she would have no money!

"Obediently put away the purse, grandma will take you to see the rice dumplings." Zhao Cuishi said with a smile, and thought that his granddaughter was a young child.

"Oh." Zhao Wangshu obediently put away the purse and followed Zhao Cui's to the vestibule of the ancestral hall.

The fog lingers in the front courtyard of the ancestral hall, and the aroma of glutinous rice wafts in the wind, and it is the farmers who are steaming glutinous rice, which was soaked in water last night.

The glutinous rice is steamed and poured into a washed stone mortar.

Two sturdy men stood on both sides of the stone mortar, raised their wooden mallets high, and took turns beating the glutinous rice in the stone mortar.

After a short while, the owner of the village would use a wooden shovel soaked in water to turn the glutinous rice balls in the stone mortar.

Zhao Wangshu was looking at it interestingly, Zhao Yuxiu and Zhao Yuying came over, "Sister Shu." ”

"Sister Xiu, Sister Ying." Zhao Wangshu said with a smile.

"Yue'er, you play here, don't walk around." Zhao Cuishi saw that someone was accompanying her, so she looked for a concubine on the other side.

As soon as Zhao Cui's walked away, Zhao Yuying couldn't wait to tell the two, "Sister Qing's family invited a doctor last night, saying that she was overly frightened and scared sick. ”

"In the carriage, didn't you get relieved, why did you get sick again at night? It can't be a feigned illness. Zhao Yuxiu said.

"Anti-stamina." Zhao Wangshu said casually.

Zhao Yuxiu pouted, "She has enough stamina." ”

As the three of them chatted, the glutinous rice balls in the stone mortar had been beaten to a sticky shape, and the rice grains could not be seen at all, and they became sticky and tough.

"Up." The owner shouted, and the strong man worked together to lift the glutinous rice dumplings into the big wooden basin with the mallet in his hand.

Most of the onlookers share the food, each person pulls a ball of glutinous rice and sticks it with the white cotton candy or soybean flour prepared in advance to eat.

The next day, the girls gathered at the ancestral hall and waited for the carriage from the mansion to pick them up.

When the carriage arrived at the place where the horses were frightened that day, there was a crowd of people around, and they didn't know what they were doing.

This time, Zhao Shuqing took the initiative to say: "Let's get off the carriage and take a look." ”

Zhao Yuxiu asked directly: "This time, you don't have to worry about bad people?" ”

Hearing this, Zhao Shuqing's face was red, her lips were red, and she didn't know how to answer.

"At the feet of the Son of Heaven, how can there be so many villains." Zhao Yujia made a round and opened the car door, "Let's go down." ”

But before the girls could get over, the group dispersed.

Then I saw a young man in a dark robe, with a few men in navy blue suits, turned over on his horse and walked away.

The coachman exclaimed, "It's Long Tingwei." ”

Long Tingwei is the emperor's personal guard and only obeys the emperor's orders.

The excitement was gone, and the girls got into the carriage and continued on their way.

Go back to the mansion and go to see Mrs. Zhao.

Old Mrs. Zhao glanced at them, drooped her eyelids, and asked lightly, "Are you okay at home?" ”

"The family is very good, Mrs. Xie cares." Zhao Yujia replied.

"You have been free for two days, this day of practice, one day of exercises, one day of practice, one day of non-practice for ten days, you are already studying at night than others, so you can't slack off."

The meaning of beating is really strong.

The girls stood up, and Zhao Yujia bowed and said, "We will work hard and live up to the old lady's expectations of us." ”

Old Mrs. Zhao tugged at the corners of her mouth, "I'll listen, okay, you just came back from Zhuangzi and worked hard, so go back to your room and rest." ”

"Yujia and a few sisters won't bother the old lady." Zhao Yujia bent his knees and led Zhao Wangshu and them back to the courtyard.

Although the girls did not go to school today, they all gathered in a small warm room.

As soon as they entered the courtyard, they were invited into the small warm hall by the maidservants.

The person who asked the maid to wait there was Zhao Shuangzhi, and the reason why Zhao Shuangzhi wanted to find them was to show off.

"Niangniang rewarded a box of new palace flowers, look at it, is it good?" Zhao Shuangzhi held the palace flower inserted in his sideburns, and said proudly.

"It's pretty good." Zhao Yujia said dryly.

"The old lady gave us a box of palace flowers, one person divided three branches, if you like, I can give you a branch." Zhao Shuangzhi said deliberately.

Zhao Yujia waved his hand, "No need to ......"

"Okay, you can give me a branch." Zhao Wangshu said with a smile.

Zhao Shuangzhi was stunned, but he didn't expect Zhao Wangshu to come according to common sense.

"What's wrong? Reluctantly! Zhao Wangshu raised his eyebrows, "Why pretend to be generous if you are reluctant." ”

With that, he turned and walked out.

Zhao Yujia hurriedly played a round, "Sister Zhi, we just came back from Zhuangzi, we are a little tired, let's go back to the room to rest first, if you have anything to say, let's talk about it tomorrow." ”

She slipped away quickly, and Zhao Shuhui immediately followed out.

Seeing them leave like this, Zhao Shuangzhi stomped his feet angrily.

In the evening of this day, the girls were about to go to the upper room, and Mrs. Zhao sent someone to spread the word, "The weather is too cold, and it is going to snow again, so the girls will stay in the courtyard to eat, don't come to the upper room in the wind and snow." ”

Mrs. Zhao's sudden compassion made Zhao Wangshu feel weird, and he always felt that this old lady was holding back her big move and was ready to rectify them who were disobedient and had to go home for the holidays.

Facts have proved that Zhao Wangshu's sixth sense is quite keen.

Mrs. Zhao had earlier set that the girls' dishes for each meal were three dishes, one meat, one vegetable and one soup, if you wanted to eat better, or a few more dishes, she would pay for it herself and ask the stove to make it.

The three dishes for lunch on several days in a row are braised meatballs, stir-fried vegetarian tofu skin and chicken skin soup, and these three dishes are again for dinner.

Zhao Wangshu looked at the oily skin on the soup, frowned, and pondered for a moment, "Green Branch, you take Bai Rong and Orange Fragrance to look around." ”

Let them go out and ask if everyone else's food is the same these days, confirming her suspicions.

Green Zhi took the order, went out for a spin with Bai Rong and Orange Xiang, and came back to report: "In addition to the girl, the dishes of Miss Jia, Miss Hui, Miss Qing, Miss Xiu and Miss Hua are also these three kinds these days, and the dishes of other girls are different, and the old lady also rewarded each of them with an extra dish." ”

Knowing that as she expected, Zhao Wangshu laughed angrily, Mrs. Zhao used this simple and rude method to make things difficult, which shows that she has no fear, and it can also be seen that she has no love for the girls.