novelraw Chapter 146: Old Liu Guang
Chapter 146: Old Liu Guang
This long-awaited snow fell for two days and three nights, and it was also the coldest time of the year.The school is over for vacation, these few days Shui Cheng has been playing around with a few boys at home, and no one cares about her.
It's just that the side concubine is sick and asks for medicine every day.
At the end of the year, I have to take care of the annual gifts for several empresses in the palace, and there are also some families who have made friends with each other, the rent in the field, and the income of several shops have also come up.Also busy cutting new clothes for the servants in the mansion, and preparing lucky money, Nan Qing asked the accountant to weigh 200 taels of gold and silver, and sent them a lot of gold and silver caskets of different styles.
On New Year's Eve, presiding over Zhongfu, these are the things that a housewife must prepare for. Daiyu experienced this for the first time as a housekeeper. A few days ago, she ordered someone to open the Shui family's ancestral hall, have the house cleaned out, and ordered the offerings to be prepared.It is also necessary to prepare a list of invitations for New Year's wine and dramas in the first month.There is also the marriage of the snow geese, and all the big and small things are crowded together.
Then several family temples sent my aunt to the mansion to ask for lamp oil money, rice money, and a corresponding amount of incense money.It's just an example in the public account every year, just go through it once.
The new year is coming, and there are many things in the palace, and the yamen don't know much about it.So during this period of time, Shui Rong often leaves early and returns late.Early this morning, the Jinxiang uncle's mansion sent four women to the palace to give New Year's gifts, as well as couplets and invitations for New Year's wine.
Daiyu asked people to prepare the ruler, met them in person, and talked and laughed for a while.Then it was rumored that the Rongguo Mansion had sent someone to bring the New Year gift, Daiyu was startled, and then asked, "Who sent it?"
The mother-in-law said: "It's Laiwang's daughter-in-law and the other two mothers-in-law, who are waiting for the princess's instructions."
Daiyu pondered for a while and said, "Reward them with the best awards, and say that I have guests here and I can't leave, and I don't see anyone."
The mother-in-law of the Han family hurriedly said: "I have disturbed the princess, so I will leave now. Please let the princess do her own thing."
Daiyu said with a smile on her face, "Sit down, it doesn't matter."
The mothers-in-law of the Han family sat in front of her and talked with Daiyu for a while, then left.
By the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, the ancestral hall had already been cleaned up.Shui Rong led the people in the mansion, together with those uncles and cousins living outside the mansion, to pay respects to the ancestors.
The case enshrines the spirit tablets of several generations of the Shui family, from the first generation of Beijing Wang Shuiyan, the second generation of Beijing Wang Shuiyi, and the third generation of Beijing Wang Shuilun.Shuiyi and Shuilun are brothers, and Shuirong is the successor of Shuilun, so he is the fourth king of Beijing.
Daiyu didn't see Princess Han's sign among these tablets, she was wondering, she wanted to ask the person in front of her but couldn't.I thought to myself, after all, she is also the princess who is marrying, and she is also the original spouse, why not set up a memorial tablet for future generations to pay homage to.
After paying homage to the ancestors, everyone gathered in the main hall and talked about the hardships of the year, and said a lot of things about the glory of the Shui family, but they separated after half an hour, and they didn't have the New Year's Eve dinner together.
The courtyard behind the apse is where Daiyu and Shui Rong live. The main hall has been cleared out early. On the big table made of red sandalwood, there are three offerings of bottle stoves and incense boxes.The terrazzo floor tiles had already been covered with a new blanket that was a tribute from Persia, with exotic geometric patterns, curly grass patterns printed on it, and some allusions to characters that they couldn't tell.The doors and windows have been repainted, and the window screens have been replaced with warm Korean paper from green screens, and bright window grilles have been pasted on them.
Daiyu just changed into her homely clothes, Xiyue said to Daiyu, "Princess, Madam Li said that the prince's bedding should be moved in, and the husband and wife should be reunited when it's Chinese New Year. How can there be days and nights separated from each other?" reason."
The weather is the coldest, and Shui Rong lives outside, so naturally it is not as warm as here. Daiyu worried that he would be frozen, so she nodded after hearing Xiyue's words: "Then it's fine to set up a couch in this room first, after all, the service Not full."
Xiyue smiled and said: "Whatever you want to say at the end of the new year, it's not too bad these days. February is the princess's birthday, and the prince said that he wants to celebrate the princess's birthday in a good way, and he also invites the people close to him. Once I invite you, I want the concubine to have a good time for two days, and I even invite the consummation wine."
Daiyu's face was slightly red, and she chatted with Xiyue again, Xiyue said: "Miss Xueyan is going out, she should make up another big girl for the princess, whoever the princess is looking for, let her go Come here to serve, why don't you just buy two."
Daiyu said: "According to me, why should we follow that theory, five or six, with you by my side is enough, let's not add anyone for now."
Xiyue smiled and said: "The monthly money of the two taels of silver saved is also limited. There are three or five in the house. Why don't you stay in the princess's room. Let's talk about it after the year is over."
This year's New Year's Eve did not prepare a drama, so after the New Year's Eve dinner, firecrackers were set off and they all dispersed.At the time of Jiaozi, I had to go to the palace to greet the emperor to celebrate the New Year.
Daiyu and Shui Rong returned to the courtyard hand in hand, Chun Ying and Lu Ling were guarding the brazier and were joking. All the big maids went to watch the excitement.
When the two entered the room, Chun Ying and Lu Ling quickly stood up with a smile: "Why did the prince and princess come back so early?"
Shui Rong asked, "Where are the others?"
Lu Ling smiled and said, "Let's go out and play."
The couple didn't care about this, and they entered the house.Daiyu saw that the bedding brought in from the outside was piled up on the bed, so she said to Shui Rong, "After all, this room should be warmer. There also happens to be a couch, and I'll make the bed for you."
Shui Rong took her hand but refused to let her go: "What are you doing all this hard work, tonight will be a night if you squeeze anywhere, and you have to go to the palace after midnight, and you won't be able to sleep well."
Daiyu heard that and ignored it, Shui Rong suddenly handed Daiyu something, which turned out to be a white silk handkerchief.Daiyu said in a daze, "I have a handkerchief. You got a good one. Keep it for yourself."
Shui Rong smiled: "You really don't know each other?"
Daiyu took it and took a look. It turned out that it was a piece she accidentally left behind that night a few years ago.She held Sipa tightly in her hands, and the past scenes came to her mind, with mixed feelings, and she almost forgot about it after all these years.Daiyu looked and looked, the two poems embroidered on it were also there, she glanced at it for a few times, wondering where Xiangyun is now?It was said that she had gone back to the south, but she hadn't heard from her for a long time, maybe her life was unsatisfactory, and she wanted to meet again, but she didn't know when.
"These two poems are really good. They are novel and neat. But now that you have followed me, I don't want you to make such sad sounds again. I really hope to see your smiling face, less sad, I don't know Can it?"
Daiyu glanced at him, only to see his black pearls gleaming under the lamplight, with a sincere expression on his face.Shui Rong covered her hand and wrapped it tightly.
The water-soluble palm was very warm, and at the same time brought her courage and firmness.Daiyu smiled slightly: "I promise you."
Shui Rong smiled sincerely.
Daiyu put away the square handkerchief, and said with Shui Rong: "Last year, you accompanied me to watch the lights of Wanjia. Whenever I think of that night, my heart is filled with warmth. I don't know if I can go to pick the stars again." What about the booth?"
"What's so difficult about it." He took a cloak from the hanger and put it on with Daiyu, and the two went out hand in hand.
The sound of firecrackers at different distances could be heard beside her ears, Shui Rong held her hand tightly, and the two of them walked slowly towards the Star Picking Pavilion.
Looking from that direction, Daiyu vaguely saw that when she was young, her mother let her sit on her lap, and told her about her grandparents' family, and about her mother's childhood.Under the lamp, her father held his hand and taught her to write stroke by stroke.She had a younger brother, but unfortunately died when she was three years old. Since then, she has been the jewel in the palm of her parents and raised her like a boy. She even invited Jia Yucun to be her teacher.
The word "hometown" can only be lived in a dream, Daiyu wholeheartedly wants to go back, but living there for a few months is no longer the world of her childhood.Looking at the high and low, the little lights of different distances, it seems to light up all the good memories of childhood.
With the faint light, Daiyu's face was somewhat blurred, Shui Rong asked her in front of her, "Are you homesick again? If so, I will go back with you when I am free next year."
Daiyu smiled sadly: "Reminiscences are nothing more than getting old and embellishing the past."
Shui Rong was startled for a moment, then suddenly understood, smiled and nodded, "That's true."
Daiyu called out: "My lord!"
Shui Rong replied heartily: "Yu'er, if you can't call me in front of people, but when it's just the two of us, you can call me by my name. It's been a long time since anyone called me like that."
Daiyu smiled, but couldn't get out.
"It's okay, we'll just improve it slowly." He looked into the distance, and the lights in that area were like stars falling in the world, as bright and bright as Daiyu's eyes.For some reason, my heart softened suddenly, maybe it was because of my emotional agitation, and my voice became a little hoarse and trembling: "Yu'er, I really want to accompany you to see all the scenery in the world in this life. Until one day, when we meet again When you can’t walk, you can still look at the lights in the distance and the starry sky together like now. When you look back at that time, I will still be by your side. Maybe then you will be truly loved by me. move."
Daiyu's heart trembled slightly, she turned her head to look at him, and smiled knowingly: "Maybe we can't wait that long. Congshan."
Shui Rong was very happy, he hugged her tightly, and kissed her smooth forehead.
Daiyu suddenly remembered something, pushed him away and asked, "Why is there no tablet for my sister in the ancestral hall?"
Shui Rong replied: "That's what she meant. She said that she didn't want to accept the incense of the descendants of the Shui family. I can't go against her will. I made her feel so awkward when I was alive, and I have to let her be at ease after death."
Daiyu lowered her eyes: "Sister, she is a hard-working person. I often think, if it wasn't because of the embroidered screen, or because of the horse lover, my sister is so real, and you must be an enviable couple." .”
Shui Rong's eyes also calmed down. He knew that Daiyu's mind was delicate and sensitive, so he thought over and over again before saying: "There are not so many ifs and assumptions in life. The past is over, and now I only hope to spend the rest of my life with you." .As you said, the prosperity of youth is nothing but a decoration of the past after all."
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