Fenghou

Chapter 456 New Years
Half a month after the birth of Chen Qing's son, the new year finally arrived. Every family was busy worshiping ancestors, pasting peach charms, setting off firecrackers, preparing Tusu wine, and housewives were too busy to cook bacon and make vegetarian cakes.

Chen Qing's mansion is the first new year after having a new life, so it is also very busy. Lu Xiu is still in confinement and has to stay in the room, but she is not absent, planning strategies in the room, directing Yu Lian and Yu Ying ran errands to get her family ready for the New Year.

Lu Xiu also specially rewarded each of the servants with three pennies to thank them for their efforts in the past few months.

Like other families, Chen Qing's mansion was decorated with lanterns and festoons, full of joy.

Today is New Year's Eve, Lu Xiu has something to worry about, everyone else's family is worshiping the ancestors, but my husband has no idea of ​​worshiping the ancestors at all, I asked my husband last night, and he even proposed to put a sign of heaven and earth.

Lu Xiu couldn't laugh or cry, but she was deeply worried. She is Xiangguo's granddaughter, how could she not know what it means to sacrifice to heaven and earth?

At noon, Chen Qing returned home as usual. His son was asleep most of the time, only waking up for a while at noon every day, so that Chen Qing would go home at noon every day.

Today, as usual, he changed his clothes and walked lightly to his wife's room.

In the room, the little guy was lying beside his mother, sucking milk sweetly. When Lu Xiu saw her husband come in, she smiled and said, "The little guy is having lunch!"

"Daddy hasn't had lunch either!"

Chen Qing leaned forward with a smile, and Lu Xiu poked him on the forehead, "I don't even speak properly in front of my son. If I don't have dinner, I will go to Mrs. Wen, and she will arrange it for you."

Just as Lu Xiu was about to call Yu Lian, Chen Qing quickly pressed her mouth, "Wait a while, I'll see my son."

Chen Qing rested his chin and quietly looked at his son's little face. The little guy no longer had the same old appearance as when he was born, and had completely turned into a pink and jade-chiseled baby. Although he was concentrating on sucking milk, Wu Liuliu's eyes secretly glanced at the father beside him from time to time.

"Husband, let's prepare the spirit card for the sacrifice!"

Lu Xiu softly said to her husband: "Every family sacrifices. After all, this is a respect for the ancestors. Husband thinks it is inconvenient to have too many spiritual cards. At least you should arrange the tablets for your parents."

Chen Qing smiled wryly and said: "Before I didn't want to, it was because I didn't worship my ancestors since I was a child, and neither did my parents. Of course, there must be a reason for this, but I don't know that's all, but if I only arrange the spiritual seats of my parents, That's fine."

Seeing that her husband had compromised, Lu Xiu was overjoyed and said quickly, "It's New Year's Eve now, my husband hastened to write the spirit tablet, and I'll ask Mrs. Wen to arrange the tribute."

After Lu Xiu finished speaking, she pulled the thin rope next to her a few times, the bell rang outside, and Yu Lian walked into the inner room quickly, and Lu Xiu ordered: "Go and invite Mrs. Wen here!"

Mrs. Wen is the housekeeper, and Yu Lian flew away.

Seeing that his wife attached great importance to sacrifices, Chen Qing felt helpless, so he stood up and said, "Okay! I'm going to write the spirit tablet now."

He gently kissed his son's delicate little face, and then walked out quickly.

Only an hour later, the sacrificial halls in Chen Qing's mansion were all arranged, and they were arranged in a small courtyard at the far end of the back house. The altar of the deceased was wrapped in red silk, and there were only two spiritual tablets. One was Chen Qing's father, Chen Dayun, and the other was Chen Qing's mother, Zhou Hui.

Chen Qing took three sticks of incense, bowed to the spirit seat, and inserted the incense into the incense burner.

At this time, Yu Lian also picked up the three incense sticks and bowed, blushing and explained: "Madam asked me to offer three incense sticks for her!"

Not to be outdone, Yu Ying also picked up three sticks of incense and said brazenly, "I will also offer three sticks of incense to grandfather and grandmother on behalf of the young master!"

"Okay, don't make excuses, you can burn incense if you want! Just remember not to let the incense candle go out."

Chen Qing shook his head, turned around and left.

Chen Qing had to inspect the barracks in the afternoon, so he took his soldiers out and rode slowly towards the barracks.

At this time, most of the shops were closed, and every household was busy with the New Year’s Eve feast. There were bursts of firecrackers in the city from time to time. There were only children playing on the street, and the air was filled with a faint smell of gunpowder.

Running out of the city gate, the outside of the city was completely covered with ice and snow, and there was endless white snow in the distance. Chen Qing raised his head and took a deep breath of the cold breath, the new year is finally coming.

After the New Year, time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, in late January, there was already a hint of warmth in the air, and the Weihe River also showed signs of thawing. Chengji County was indeed much warmer than Ganquan Fort, and Ganquan Fort was still The world of ice and snow does not have the slightest breath of spring, but Chengji County already has a sense of spring, the most obvious is that the willow branches have turned green.

At noon, Yang Qi came to Xuechuan Restaurant again, his heart was like a mirror, and this was probably the last time he would do such a thing.

"Hey! Master Yang hasn't been here for a long time, please go upstairs!"

Ever since he told Dou Qing about Xiao Heda's top-secret information, Yang Qi didn't come here many times. He explained to Dou Qing that it's been relatively flat recently, and there is no Grade A information.

But today, he brought an extremely important piece of information. As soon as he sat down, Dou Qing hurried over.

"I heard that the Jiedu Mansion held an important meeting this morning, and several governors rushed to the Jiedu Mansion. What's the matter?"

"It's what you care about most!"

Yang Qi handed the two documents to Dou Qing, "This is the original signed and stamped by the Jiedu envoy, and copying is not allowed. I smuggled it out while everyone is out for dinner at noon, and you copy a copy quickly."

Dou Qing was overjoyed, he didn't have time to take a closer look, so he quickly asked two of his men to come in and copy. He stood by and looked at it, secretly surprised. All the troops in the state were withdrawn to Longxi County, and Jiang Yanxian led [-] troops to stay in Chengji County.

Today is January [-]th, that is to say, Cao Baozong only has ten days left to prepare.

Not long after, the two subordinates finished copying the document, and Dou Qing checked it carefully again to confirm that it was correct. Then he took out ten taels of silver and handed it to Yang Qi together with the two documents, and said with a smile: "I have waited for these two pieces of information. It's been a long time, thank you!"

Yang Qi nodded, "The shopkeeper will send it out as soon as possible, there are only ten days left."

"I know, I will send someone to send it away today!"

Yang Qi left in a hurry, and Dou Qing hurriedly copied another copy, stamped his seal on it, and handed it to one of his subordinates.

"You rush to Lanzhou immediately and give this information to General Cao. It is very important!"

The content of the two resolutions was too much for Eagle Letter to write, so he could only send someone to send the original to Lanzhou.

The subordinates put away the letters, got on their horses and left.

Dou Qing wrote another Yingxin short message, "On the fifth day of February, Chen Qing officially sent troops to Longxi County. '

At the same time, he sent people to send Xinying to the north bank of the Weihe River outside the city.

In the internal affairs camp, Yang Qi handed over ten taels of silver to Wang Hao, and Wang Hao said with a smile: "The general praised you for your performance in the past few months, and these ten taels of silver will be used as an extra reward, and I will give it to you later Arrange a one-acre official courtyard, and promote you to be in charge!"

Yang Qi had a sore nose, and quickly got up to salute, "Thank you General for taking care of me and protecting my family these past few months!"

Wang Hao smiled slightly and said: "The mission is officially over. We will close the net today and catch all the Xixia spies, but for the sake of safety, you and your whole family will go to Qingshui County to live in seclusion for a month. After the Xixia war is over, you will come back to take office, Qingshui A courtyard has been arranged in the county, and someone will send your family there, so that you won't be afraid of the Xixia people's revenge on you."

Yang Qi was moved in his heart, and saluted again: "The general is considerate, and I am grateful for my humble position!"

"Go back to Jiedu Mansion first! Someone will contact you later."

Yang Qi saluted and left happily.

Wang Hao ordered: "Order all the internal guards to assemble!"

(End of this chapter)