The Story of Leaping from the Dragon Gate

After all, Dugu Lai was taken away by her sister, Song smiled and turned to enter the house.The eldest son of the Xianhou Mansion, his mother died early, and he has an unreliable father, but he is also blessed to have such a sense of responsibility as his own sister, who takes care of him carefully.

It was too cold to go to the courtyard for activities, so I lay down on the heated kang and played Go pieces.The two armies of black and white are fighting against each other, and the left and right hands compare each other's strength, which is very fun.

Qin Xian came in and reported that the New Year decorations in the courtyard were basically completed, and asked Mr. Song to take a look and give his opinion.

Song Wei put on her coat and went out to inspect it with her hands behind her back.The entire courtyard is surrounded by palace lanterns along the corridor, and there are pairs of large and exquisite lanterns at each doorway.The bare tree branches in front of the steps are tied with colorful gauze flowers, which artificially creates a spring atmosphere, and it really looks like a princely mansion.

Glassware imported from this era was not uncommon among the aristocracy, but they were not luxurious enough to be used as outdoor lanterns.Song Wei thought of the various sound and light effects when the later generations celebrated the Spring Festival, and felt a little regretful.

Because of the sudden drop in temperature, the ice edges under the eaves became thicker and longer.Looking at the rows of shiny ice cones hanging upside down, Song Wei suddenly remembered how to make simple ice lanterns, rolled up her sleeves and entered the room with a smile, and found two celadon pen holders, one large and one small.I poured some water into the large pen holder, and put it on the railing in the corridor.I caught a glimpse of the crabapple fruit left over from the slingshot competition with Dugu Lai the day before, they were frozen crystal clear and bright red, like rubies, I grabbed a few and threw them into the pen holder.He told the guards in the courtyard not to move, and went back to the house to continue playing Go pieces.

After winning or losing a few times, I came out and saw that it was frozen.Put the smaller pen holder in, fill the space between the two pen holders with some water, and throw a few crabapple fruits into it.He found another ribbon in the house, cut two pieces of suitable length, and soaked both ends in water.

The guards didn't know what he was going to do, so they asked questions curiously.Song Wei pretended to be mysterious, shook her head and said with a smile, "You'll know when it's done."

A crisp and tender child's voice interjected: "Brother Song, how long will it take to finish?"

Looking up, Dugu Li unexpectedly came again.One of the guards guarding the gate followed behind, and because the blocking was ineffective, he looked at Song Wei with shame on his face.

"It's hard to say, it will take an hour or two." Song Wei straightened up and asked, "Didn't the Eldest Young Master go back with the Eldest Miss?"

Duguli blinked and blinked: "My sister was invited by my concubine to discuss things, and my grandfather was taking a nap. Dangui and Yuegui thought I was taking a nap too, but in fact I didn't fall asleep..."

Song Wei understood, this little guy sneaked out again.I heard him go on to say: "It's the Chinese New Year, there are a lot of things to do, and the concubine will probably keep my sister for dinner. I'll just go back quietly after dinner..."

Song Wei didn't ask any more questions, just said: "We have to wait for a while, it's cold outside, so why don't you come in and have a seat?"

Dugu Laxizi followed him in, saw the chess pieces on the Kang table, his face suddenly collapsed, and he said in frustration, "Brother Song, do you want to play chess? I'm not very good at..."

Song Weile laughed, snapped his fingers, and said with a smile: "I'm playing a new trick here, no matter who it is, it will know it at a glance."

The two took off their coats and boots, and lay on the kang table, one on each side, playing the black and white chess pieces.He laughed triumphantly when he hit, and sighed when he missed.Occasionally, with too much force, the chess bullets hit the opponent, and each screamed exaggeratedly, and then looked at each other, hugging their stomachs and laughing wildly.

Qin Xianxian reported to his subordinates, came in with refreshments, looked at the big and small, big and small, and sighed secretly.Say hello, put down the plate, and go out.

Song Wei only lived here for a few days, with daily necessities such as food and clothing.Although he is not proficient in tasting, he has rich experience, especially his tongue knows good and bad, and the grade of something can be known by the mouth.Pick up a double-layered pancake, baked with ghee on the surface, with cheese nuts sandwiched in the middle, it is suitable for decoction with strong tea, and it is very appetizing.

Chong Dugu said: "This is from your mansion, I borrow flowers to present Buddha, please feel free, Mr. Young Master." When they were playing, both of them were children, but when they were talking seriously, Song Wei, as a foreigner, of course would not treat the Hou's mansion as a foreigner. The eldest son is treated like a child.

Dugu looked at the tea tray, swallowed a little, and said, "Brother Song, you can eat by yourself. If I eat indiscriminately, I will easily get sick. My sister won't allow me to eat indiscriminately."

Song Wei was taken aback.Looking up at the child, the expression was obviously greedy, but he held it back very restrained.Such a young child is so patient in his own family, which shows how successful the person who teaches is.

He seemed to have no intention of asking: "Is the eldest son very afraid of the eldest lady?"

Probably no one had asked so directly before, the child was startled: "Brother Song, you, how do you know..." Immediately said, "I'm also afraid of Daddy!"

Song Wei smiled, drank tea and ate snacks slowly, it was so sweet.

The child swallowed again, and said as if to excuse: "My sister is doing it for my own good, I know. When I was young, because of eating recklessly, I got seriously ill and almost died. Later, as long as I didn't listen to my sister's orders and ate recklessly, she Just, she just..." She shook her shoulders with lingering fear, "Just stabbed my ass with a hairpin..."

Hearing a child of a few years old say that he was "children", there is a wonderful sense of joy.Song Wei couldn't help raising the corner of her mouth.Hearing that he was about to die, he retracted the corner of his mouth.When he heard that the hairpin was piercing his butt, he spit out all the tea with a "poof".

"Sorry, sorry." Song Wei frantically wiped the chessboard with her sleeve.

Dugu Lai was quite calm at first, but after being sprayed by him, she suddenly felt embarrassed.With a blushing face, she whispered: "She will still cry to me." Sighing like an adult, "Oh, I am most afraid of seeing her cry. Once she cries, I dare not do anything."

Song Wei finished tidying up, thought for a while, and asked, "When did the eldest son get sick?"

"My sister said she was four years old. I don't remember. Dad was still fighting at the border at that time."

Song Wei calculated in her heart, four years ago, Dugu Mian had indeed not returned to court.He didn't want to gossip at first, but at this moment he couldn't help asking: "You still have a younger brother, right?"

When mentioning his younger brother, Dugu Lai was obviously very happy: "Yes, brother Song, how do you know? My concubine doesn't let my younger brother come out to play casually, so you can't see him." She looked very regretful.

Song Wei grabbed a handful of chess pieces and threw them to play, and said casually, "How old is your brother?"

"My younger brother is seven years old, only one year younger than me, but much shorter than me. But he is very smart, I can't answer the teacher's questions, so he secretly wrote it in the palm of his hand for me to read. I like my younger brother and want to play with him. But my sister said 'there is a difference between a concubine and a concubine', every time she plays with her younger brother, she gets angry." Dugu Lai frowned, as if feeling helpless that the two she liked didn't get along well.

In a blink of an eye, she smiled again: "But my sister herself also wants to learn from my concubine's mother-in-law. At that time, I played with my brother, and she couldn't help it."

Song smiled slightly.Stop gossiping, and pat the child's head: "Anyway, you are right about one thing. Your sister is doing it for your own good. Obediently listen to her. Let's go, it should be almost done, let's go see if the water is frozen."

Afterwards, Song Wei added water and crabapple fruit to the pen container twice, and when everything was frozen solid, the sky had already turned dark.He took it into the room and lit a candle to warm it up a bit, took out the small pen holder inside, picked up the ribbon, and a small ice bucket that was crystal clear and exquisite came out of the large pen holder.The inside of the ice wall is embedded with bright red crabapple fruit, which is really novel and lovely.Dugu Lai cheered and rushed over: "It's so beautiful! Brother Song! It's so beautiful!"

Song Wei asked him to hold the ribbon: "Take it out quickly, so as not to melt it."

Find a thin candle and light it, carefully place it in the center of the ice bucket, and a unique ice lamp is formed.The soft light shone on the red fruit in the ice wall, causing the guards to gather around one after another, amazed.

Song Wei looked up at the sky, and said, "I'll give this to the Eldest Young Master. It's getting late, the Eldest Young Master should go back."

In the afternoon, the maidservant next to Dugu came to look for him, so naturally she couldn't call him.The maidservant is very loyal, knowing that the eldest miss is most afraid of letting the concubine catch the wrongdoing of the eldest son, and it is inconvenient for the eldest miss to ask for instructions because she is with Mrs. Ru at the moment.Lord Hou was not at home, and he didn't dare to disturb the old Lord Hou, so he had to come over every once in a while to have a look.Finally seeing the Eldest Young Master coming out, he rushed to meet him and lead him.

Duguli held a crabapple ice lantern in one hand, and a branch of wintersweet in the other hand, and showed it to the maidservant: "Dangui, brother Song gave it to me, is it good? My sister likes wintersweet the most, I will go back and make a wintersweet ice lantern to give to the maidservant." She, she will definitely not be angry."

Girls love beauty more, Dangui looked at the ice lantern again and again, and grabbed it to carry it on the pretext that she was afraid that Dugu would fall down.But he said in his mouth: "Eldest son, the eldest miss sees that you are so playful and despondent, only the one who is more angry, just watch."

The atmosphere of Chinese New Year is getting more and more intense day by day, the east courtyard is decorated lively, but actually it is very quiet.Because of the cold weather and the fact that he was determined to find a chance to leave after the new year, Song Wei'an stayed in the yard peacefully, never brought up the door, and only changed ways to entertain himself.

Dugu Mian has accepted the official appointment of the emperor to lead the imperial guards of the capital as the general who protects the country, and is in charge of the inner city guards and the outer city guards.

The defense military system of the capital in the Xianxi Dynasty was actually divided into three parts: the court guards stationed in the imperial palace, the Suwei army protecting the capital, and the government guards protecting the outer capital.In order to check and balance power and ensure security, the three forces are in charge of each of the five princes alternately.Unless there are very special circumstances, the emperor will generally not allow a general to command the two armies at the same time.

Therefore, the appointment of Marquis Xian shows how much the emperor trusts and respects him, and how much he favors him.

This kind of appointment is not in line with the rules, but the voice of courtiers' opposition is not loud.First of all, today is the son of the Holy Tomorrow, and the Marquis of Xian is not a traitor and sycophant. The emperor entrusts the most trusted and capable people with important tasks, which is not out of the ordinary.Second, after the great changes in the court in the first year, the issue of the succession of the throne has not yet been settled. The emperor's actions will help stabilize the overall situation.Third, any position is not permanent. When it is necessary, even if the emperor does not mention it, the three princes in charge of the government will naturally mention it.

Marquis Xian took over the new post, and the defense work inside and outside the capital was all on his shoulders. Even with the support of the old Marquis, he was still so busy that he forgot to sleep and eat.In the middle of coming and going in a hurry, Dugu Mian seized the time to explain to Song Wei.Song Wei expressed her relief, no matter what, the stronger the backing, the better.What's more, in the past in Xidu, I couldn't see him for half a year, so I was not very comfortable.Hou Ye was very depressed and found out again that the feeling of neglect was nothing compared to Song Xiaoyin's powerful entertainment spirit.

All the civil and military masters in Dugu Mansion were on vacation, and Dugu Li didn't have to go to class. After a day, he came back again with a sad face.In order to pursue the flame effect, he poked a big candle in the small ice lamp, and before he mentioned his sister's yard, it melted through the bottom.Song Wei laughed and helped him re-fold a branch of wintersweet, and the two of them made an ice lantern inlaid with wintersweet flowers while playing Go pieces.

Song Wei asked: "How come no one came to arrest you?"

Duguli held the ribbon tightly with both hands, and asked him to put candles in the ice lamp.Hearing this, he raised his head, with a blank expression on his face: "Hey, yes, why didn't anyone come to arrest me?"

Song Wei thought to herself, this baby is really stupid, she doesn't look like Dugu's rogue bastard at all.

In fact, the reason why no one took Mrs. Dugu back from the East Yard is that Mrs. Dugu entered the single man's yard as a boudoir, and was found out by her concubine. This made her have no time to separate herself; secondly, Dangui Yuegui took her servants all over the yard to search for the eldest son every day, and finally alarmed the old Hou Ye, who learned that he was with Mr. Song in the east courtyard, and said that there was no need to restrain her.

The big and small two had a good time, neither knowing nor caring about it, and played until the day before New Year's Eve.