By Jia Xiuzhen

On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, everything is ready.On New Year's Eve the next day, Jia's mother and others who had received the imperial edict first went to the palace in full attire to congratulate and receive a banquet, and then went to the Ningguo Mansion to worship the ancestral hall when they returned. Even Jia Jing had to follow the custom.

When Jia's mother returned to Rongguo Mansion, all the children of the tribe came to kowtow and salute. After everyone took their seats in order, the servants of the two mansions came to salute shifts.After several stops like this, it is time for the family reunion dinner.

Xue Baoqin traveled around with her father since she was a child, and she was very enthusiastic about the strange sights and rare things everywhere, and because she had already recognized Mrs. Wang as her godmother, this time she got Jia's mother's permission, and went to Ningfu with her.It's just that they are not from Jia's family. They just stood in the courtyard and watched the whole scene, but didn't go in to worship.

After the family banquet, everyone dispersed, and Mother Jia went back to her room to change clothes.After serving Jiamu, she changed her python robe and put on homely clothes embroidered with fragrant gold plates, combed her hair again, and the mandarin ducks went out and brought in a cup of soup. "Old lady, do you want to take a short rest before going out? Tonight I will watch the New Year's Eve, and Yinshi will be the time to meet heaven and earth, and I have to go to the palace again in the morning... It's good to take a rest while you have free time."

Mother Jia nodded after thinking about it, "Help me over there for a while."

In fact, on this day, from morning to night, running around a few times is still a matter of worrying, and by this time, I am really tired.It's just everyone's rules, and there is nothing wrong with it.In a while, I have to go out to preside over the matter of keeping the year, and tonight, incense is burned and offerings are made everywhere tonight, which is really wrong for a moment.Especially when Sister Feng is still pregnant and Mrs. Wang has been ill all the time, it is even more difficult to rest assured.

Yuanyang went outside, Baoyu and others also went back to change their clothes, but they hadn't come back yet, and after a few words to Huber Glass and others, they still went back.

At this time, the lights in the Grand View Garden are brightly lit everywhere, reflecting the remnant snow and lake ice like a world of glazed glass.All corridors were lit with red gauze lanterns, and a special team of people managed the lights and prepared candles to replace at any time to ensure that they would not go out all night.The upper and lower people all put on new clothes for the New Year's Eve, commuting and hustle and bustle, and the silk and satin reflect the moon, which is a scene of prosperity.

Both Baoqin and Xiangyun were at Baochai's place. Looking at it this day, they were admiring: "If you let me think about it out of thin air, I can't think of it anyway. Such a grand scene, decent and well-mannered, so the so-called everyone's atmosphere should be like this." look."

Baochai smiled and said, "What are you talking about? Half of the places you have been to now are places we have never been to. Now you are praising and admiring, what can we do? No matter how good it is here, we can't compare it. "

But Shi Xiangyun said: "It's the first time you look at it, and you feel it's lively. It really makes you worship in it, so you know how powerful it is! In previous years, I worshiped shadows at home on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. This way, I kowtowed, and the next day I was still there." Dizzy! I have to watch the New Year's Eve again at night, and if I accidentally get sleepy, there will be a nanny to carry it by the side. When it's urgent, you can only bear it if you pinch and pinch you. Don't mention it, it's so boring. "

Baoqin remembered that the Shi family had a family of two princes, and it was also inherited by the family, so she leaned over and asked what it sounded like.Shi Xiangyun was originally a talker, but this time someone asked him, he was very eager.Seeing the lively conversation between the two, Baochai interrupted: "Okay, let's get down to business. It's time to observe the new year. Are you going to my house? Or follow her to the old lady's place?"

Baoqin asked: "Sister, don't you go? Just now, Sister Yuanyang said that all the sisters will gather at the ancestor's place in a while."

Baochai laughed and said, "Speaking of a child! If the old lady is happy on weekdays, let alone me, even my mother is willing to go with her. What day is it today? There is no reason to go to someone else's house to watch the new year. Only you are the same We are different, you accepted your aunt as a godmother, and you are considered half a daughter. What to do, you make up your own mind."

When Baoqin was hesitating, Aunt Xue sent someone to ask Baochai to go to Jiamu's yard, saying that it would be better for everyone to watch the New Year's Eve together and be more lively.Baoqin was overjoyed: "Auntie saved me!"

When Baochai heard this, she changed her clothes and went to Jiamu's yard together.When passing the Qinfang gate, Xiangyun looked at the Xiaoxiang Pavilion from a distance and sighed: "We are a group of people talking and laughing, it's so lively. I don't know how Sister Lin survived alone at home, lonely. "

Baochai's eyes darkened, and she said with a smile: "It's also a set of rules for her to worship the ancestors on behalf of the father. How can there be time to feel about this? You are just worrying about others by yourself."

After she finished speaking, the three of them suddenly remembered that they were all living in relatives' homes at this time, although their eyes were full of wealth and prosperity, they had nothing to do with them.On the other hand, Daiyu, although she is an orphan, has a group of capable servants to support and assist her.Now that people are in their own homes, they naturally know everything in their minds, and they don't have to bother to guess the preferences of the people around them, and take into account the rules and customs of other people's homes. Isn't it much more comfortable than myself?For a while, my thoughts became stronger, and I just walked in silence without speaking.

Li Wan also took Jia Lan to Jia's mother to watch the new year.The gold and red two-color embroidered auspicious animal interior reflects the large copper tripod stove in it, which is the customary arrangement for the New Year's Eve in Jia's Mansion.On the table are auspicious snack decorations such as "Everything goes well", "Fu Lu Shou Xi", "Melons and Ginseng", "Lan Gui Qi Fang".

Although the salute had just been done before the carnival, Jia Lan still knelt and kowtowed in front of Jia Mu first.Jia Mu smiled and said hello, Yuanyang hurried forward to help Jia Lan, and Jia Mu picked a Chunxi purse from a plate on the side and stuffed it into Jia Lan's hand.Jia Lan saluted again and thanked him.Only then did he sit down on the chair beside him.

Xichun was sitting next to him, and said in a low voice, "I don't have time to sleep today, you just went back, did you eat to make up for it? Look," pointing at the table, "it's all sleazy." Eat stuff, you have to keep it until the new world."

On New Year's Eve, all the families had to get together for the New Year, and there was no reason to call it an opera troupe or a juggler, so they had to play Shuanglu and go for fun together.Xichun wanted to ask someone to go out together for a walk, but Baochai and the others were not in a good mood at the moment. Tanchun had been helping Mrs. Wang with some housework these days, so she was not in the mood. Yingchun was working with Li Wan whispered, seeing that she didn't pay attention to her, but she had no choice but to force Jia Lan, and the two walked around to the back to see the lights.

When they arrived at Yinzheng, Mrs. Wang offered incense candles and paper horses in the main courtyard, and Baoyu took over the heaven and earth.All of a sudden, firecrackers blared everywhere, deafening, the yard was full of smoke, and the aftertaste of sulfur and saltpeter was choking.Jia's mother, Mrs. Wang, Youshi and others who had been granted the imperial edict had already dressed neatly. They sat on the sedan chair all the way, laid out all the deacons, and went to the palace to congratulate them.That day was Yuanchun Fangchen again. After the ceremony in the Central Palace, I went to Fengzao Palace to celebrate my birthday.Among the several birthday gifts prepared, there is the long scroll of "Grand View Garden" that Baoyu and Baochai previously collaborated on.Yuanchun was overjoyed to see him, and met Jiamu and Mrs. Wang again. After the banquet in the middle palace, he said goodbye to his respective seats.

After receiving the banquet and returning it, we have to go to Ningguo Mansion to celebrate the New Year's Day, which is similar to the ceremony of saying goodbye to the new year yesterday. Jia Mu and others went to the main hall to pay respects.After everything was over, I gave a few more instructions before going back to Rongfu.When they arrived at Rongfu, it was still the children of the tribe and the servants of the two mansions who came to celebrate the new year.After receiving the ceremony, Jia Mu went in and changed her clothes, so she had to take a solid rest.

In the next few days, New Year's wine was invited everywhere, and there were exchanges of etiquette.Only Jia Mu hardly slept all night on New Year's Eve, and then tossed and tossed for a long time on the first day of the new year, how could she still support it.The so-called "one night without sleep, ten nights without waking", the reason for staying up all night is the most harmful to the body, not to mention Jia Mu's age.In this way, when she arrived, Mother Jia ignored all matters such as dealing with relatives and friends, and only left it to Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng to Zhang Luo.

Sister Feng was under Zhang Luo's supervision, so she didn't take it seriously, but I don't know why, these days I can't sleep peacefully at night.As soon as I fall asleep, I will have chaotic dreams and upside down, and it is inevitable that I will not be in good spirits when I wake up early.But at this time, others can do it, she is the first one who can't retreat, and because she is pregnant, it is not suitable to use ginseng soup to refresh her mind, so she can only eat some bird's nest to replenish her body, but it has no effect.

Today, I was talking about the Lantern Festival lighting in the garden, and I felt dizzy and almost fell down.Ping'er was so bluffed that he rushed to the nearest Daoxiang village.Li Wan was talking to Jia Lan about several Daoist books in the Pearl Realm, when she saw Sister Feng being helped in with a pale complexion, and quickly asked someone to move a soft couch to help her lie down.After checking his pulse, he said, "I'm tired." He asked Suyun to pour some reassuring tea.

Sister Feng felt dizzy after leaning on her for a while, so she struggled to sit up again, so Li Wan had to stuff two more pillows behind her, and persuaded, "'Without the carrots, I really don't want to put them on the table. You are already like this, so why bother. Let them do what the subordinates can do, and don’t hold on to your wife. Is it important for people or things? You are such a smart person, How come you're so confused by now?"

Sister Feng drank a few sips of sweet tea, calmed down a bit, and sighed: "It's easy for you to say! You're still a servant, the grandmas and mothers in our house, don't talk about leaving things to them, I'm so good-looking He stared at me, and even took advantage of the loopholes to trip me up. If I really become soft like my wife, I don’t know what field I will get into. Everyone only cares about the easy things and avoids the hard things, and they form cliques to stir up trouble They are all good players, and if I am not careful, I will be tricked into being a gunman by them, how can I rest assured."

Li Wan said: "Although this is the case, you should also pay attention to maintenance. It's like this now, what are you still holding on to? At that time... if there is something good or bad, you just need to make more contributions, so what's left for you."

Sister Feng was silent for a long time, then sighed: "I know what you mean. I'm not the same as you. I can't live your life. Don't worry, it's not a serious problem. I know it well. It's just that there are many things these days. I can't sleep well, which is why I am short of energy. After two days of busy work, after fifteen, it will be all right."

Li Wan knew that she had a strong temper, so he didn't want to persuade her much, so he just asked her to wrap a few pairs of Ning Xin Yang Shen tea stickers, and told Ping'er what to avoid when drinking this tea, and others couldn't help her much.Before leaving, Sister Feng also told her not to tell the story just now, so as not to worry the old lady.

At night, seeing her still flattering and teasing the old lady as usual, I didn't know whether to admire her or pity her.

After all, it's not my own business, so I put it on my mind after a while.Now Li Wan has achieved success in cultivating his mind in the Pearl Realm, he is more introverted, and less and less focused on many things outside.Now she has a few villages in her hands, especially Caotian Village, which has complicated affairs and has benefited a lot; there is also the hot-handed Jiuzhou Commercial Bank's fleet shares and the annual dividends of Heshengdao. Calculated in this way, there are tens of thousands of dollars every year. Ten thousand taels of credit.

It's just that her mind is not on these things now, and she has no worries about leaving behind for Jia Lan.Because of thinking about the flow of money, it can be used by the world. It is just a dead thing that is deposited in her hands every year like her, and it is of no benefit to others or herself.Then I thought about how to find a proper way to disperse all these things.It's just that although these things are worthless in her eyes, if they are not kept properly outside, it will lead to some turbulent stories.In the end how to act, still have to think carefully.