A Thousand Gold Order: Inheritance

Chapter 343
Concubine Sheng Xian couldn't hear Ye Xunyi's name, but she had to cheer up and gave Sang Yan a wink.

Sang Yan turned around and opened the door of the palace, asked the palace man a few words, and then came in with a post.

Knowing that Concubine Sheng Xian didn't want to talk to Ye Xunyi now, she directly put the post aside and didn't hand it to the other party, but just passed on a message: "It is said that I heard that Your Majesty's dragon body violated peace, and I am very worried, and I am afraid that your mother will be worried." , asking if you need her to accompany you into the palace."

"Accompanying you? It's true that you want to come into the palace again to stir things up." Concubine Sheng Xian said coldly, with a disgusted expression on her face, but she still thought about it seriously and ordered, "Tell her that the year is approaching and the emperor is not in the capital. The relationship between the people in the mansion can't be neglected, so tell her to take Manager Liu to make things easy, so don't worry about the affairs of the palace for the time being."

Her tone of voice was not kind, and when Sang Yan sent a message to Ye Xunyi, she would definitely polish her words and make them more beautiful.

"I understand." Sang Yan agreed.

But Concubine Sheng Xian had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly thought of something, she couldn't help sitting up straight, and pondered: "Speaking of... Lian Yu, you go and prepare some new year gifts or something, and wait for this palace to meet the saint Afterwards, if His Majesty still doesn't allow the emperor to return to Beijing for the New Year, you can make a trip for me."

Use your own confidant to go there, at least you can safely send a message to Yunzheng, reminding him to beware of the people around him.

Concubine Sheng Xian's plan was set in this way, and after Sang Yan passed the message to Prince Ning's mansion on her behalf, she made a lot of hype about what she said. The other party trusted and relied on her, even though there must be an element of taking advantage of it, but at least she didn't suspect it, and even started to move around at the end of the year, and by the way, she was very busy trying to win connections for herself.

And at the end of the year, not only the yamen are busy, but also every household is preparing for the New Year, and the mistresses are also busy without touching the ground...

Even those who are rolling in the green forest are rushing towards the end of the year and planning to have a good year, which leads to the more frequent the cases of house robbery and rampant banditry as the year approaches.

It is not easy to move generals with fixed positions in the capital at will. Gu Zhan was arrested and barely stayed in the capital for more than half a month. He was either suppressing bandits or assisting in the investigation of murders involving burning, killing and looting in nearby jurisdictions.

On Qi Huan's side, she was also turning around every day, following Yang's to help her deal with the human relations in the Nianguan Mansion, and by the way, she also had to take care of these for Yang Qingyun. She was so tired that she went back to sleep every night, and she didn't see Gu Zhan for a few days. No time to think about him.

In a blink of an eye, it was the twenty-third eve of the twelfth lunar month.

According to the customs in the Great Hajj Dynasty, officials began to take their annual leave on this day. The emperor stopped the court, and the major yamen also began to rest until the sixteenth day of the first lunar month of the next year. It will also be reopened.

However, according to the superstitious tradition of the ancients, Xiaonian is considered to be a day when there is no taboo on the matter of marriage. Many people who want to rush to get married before the end of the year for various reasons will choose this day to hold their wedding.

Therefore, although the imperial government closed the yamen for a rest, almost everyone in the Qi family had a wedding feast to eat this day.

Even Yang Qingyun had a colleague who married a girl, and asked her to go to the banquet to join her.

Early in the morning, Guiyue came over and called Qi Huan: "Miss, Madam asked why you haven't packed it up yet. Didn't she tell you yesterday that Shang Shuhai, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, married his granddaughter-in-law and was going to have a wedding?"

Qi Huan hid in the bed and stayed on the bed. He hadn't woken up yet, so he yelled through the door: "I checked the gift list yesterday until midnight, and I was so sleepy. I told my mother that I won't go. I'll catch up on sleep at home. Save a meal for Mr. Hai and his family."

The housewife in this big family in ancient times is really not a job done by human beings. Not to mention the exhausting work, when encountering a family in such a downturn as the Changning Hou Mansion, not only do people contribute, but they still have to spend money to take care of it...

Social animals are paid some wages when they go to work. What is the purpose of marrying a person in ancient times?

However, it's not good if you don't marry!
Qi Huan has been really tired lately to the point of doubting life.

Xingluo and Guiyue heard her crying, and the two girls snickered through the door.

Guiyue didn't force it, but then turned up the volume and shouted again: "Oh, that's good, the servant girl will go back to the madam. But miss, it's a small New Year's Eve, and the house will start to dust and clean, and the madam is not at home ...You just have to work harder. Madam said she left Mama Jin for you, if you don’t understand anything, just ask her.”

After Guiyue shouted, she ran away quickly, and heard her own eldest lady's inhuman wailing in the room behind her.

After all, Qi Huan didn't get up to go to the banquet with Mrs. Yang in order to avoid labor, covered his head with a quilt and rolled around a few times in self-pity, and got up listlessly after he had done enough ideological struggle.

The reason why she is so active in helping with the housework is because Yang's health is not good, and she can't bear her to work hard, and Yang asked her to do it, so she naturally has Yang's plan...

Seeing that my daughter is about to get married, I always ask her to learn how to manage the family by herself, so as not to get married and go to her in-law's house without knowing anything.

Therefore, she guessed that Qi Huan would not go out to dinner with her today, so she arranged to leave all the homework to her.

Qi Huan got up, went to Anxuetang to deal with it and ate two bites of food, and then accompanied by mother Jin, he started to work hard.

Mother Jin saw that she was doing things in an orderly manner, which seemed to be the case, and she was quite relieved, so she asked her again: "My future son-in-law has been running around on business recently, didn't their house ask you to help with some things? "

"Their family didn't need him to deal with these matters by himself. The housekeeper and several stewards in the house are capable, and it is said that every year, the empress will personally check and send her confidants to watch over and help." Qi Huan is now Hearing these things gives me a headache: "Furthermore, even if the people in his family can't do a good job, I'm in a hurry to get in and figure out what's going on. Those who overstep their authority and have a bad name should not be given The joke is dead."

Mother Jin's original intention was not to ask her to jump on the bright side and preside over the overall situation for the Duke's Mansion, but to say that Gu Zhan was busy outside, and it would not be a bad thing for her to take the initiative to care or lend a helping hand.

At least--

In the future, my uncle will miss her more.

But when she saw her evade, she knew she was just being lazy.

Anyway, it's not something that must be done, so Mother Jin just laughed it off and didn't expose it.

During the day, the home is mainly arranged for dust removal and cleaning, commonly known as general cleaning. Qi Huan mainly orders and orders the work, but this is such a big Marquis mansion, just cleaning is a difficult task. Except for Fulin Garden and the yard of the second room, they are responsible for each other. Yang is in charge of everything.

Qi Huan started from Anxue Hall in Qixia Garden, and after the inspection and arrangement of this large circle, the sun was already rising.

Just as she was about to go back to the backyard to rest for a while, the concierge's mother-in-law happily came to report: "Miss, the second uncle and the second miss have sent someone to deliver the New Year's goods back."

It has been more than half a year since Qi Changge and his wife left, and they wrote two or three letters to report their safety.

"Is it Yu Wulang and Changge?" Qi Huan hadn't heard from them for a while, and Qi Huan almost couldn't remember them when he was so busy.

"Yes." The woman presented the gift list, "It was escorted by the steward surnamed Ping of the second uncle's family and a young man who was married to the second girl at that time. This is the gift list. I want to call people in. Do you see?" ?”

"Then how can we not see it?" Qi Huan was not very interested in the gift list and New Year's goods, but he opened it and glanced around.

It's nothing more than some good tea, good fabrics, furs, etc., and the good porcelain that Yu Huaijin took office as their local specialty, and brought back some carefully selected ones.

All in all, the gift list was transcribed thickly by a dozen, and these things would have to be loaded into two large carts.

Qi Huan led him to the small flower hall in Yanyuxuan.

"I've seen the list of gifts. They have traveled thousands of miles to deliver New Year's goods. The second sister and brother-in-law have a heart, and you have worked so hard along the way." This year's gift is a heartfelt one, and Qi Huan naturally showed joy.

"Everything should be done, but it's just a car, the younger ones don't dare to say it's hard work." Steward Ping's attitude was neither humble nor overbearing.

As he spoke, he took out a letter from his pocket and presented it with both hands.

Qi Huan took it, and saw that the envelope was written in Qi Changge's handwriting, which was signed by her parents, so she didn't open it, and asked casually, "So, the second sister and brother-in-law won't come back to Beijing for the New Year. yes?"

"I wanted to go back." Seeing that she had received the letter, Steward Ping said cheerfully: "But the fifth lady was just diagnosed a few days ago to be pregnant, because it is less than two months old and the fetus has not yet sat firmly. The doctor told you to pay attention to recuperation, so the fifth master discussed with the fifth lady that he would not return this year."

Qi Changge has been married for more than half a year, and it is normal to be pregnant at this time.

Although Qi Huan had mentioned something to her before she got married, telling her to try to have children two years later if possible, but the general environment is such that the primary purpose of men getting married at this time is to carry on the family line, and women, if they don't have children early As a female, it is difficult to secure her position in her husband's family.

Qi Huan is powerless to change the concept of the whole world. Apart from being alone, he can only do as the Romans do when it comes to other people's affairs.

From Qi Changge's point of view, it is a good thing for her to be pregnant, so Qi Huan smiled sincerely: "This is a happy event. The second sister is pregnant, so it is important to raise a baby. It is really not suitable to rush. Father and Mother and the others will be very happy when they know the news."

After thinking for a while, she asked the two people in charge: "When are you going to go back? Do you want to go back before the end of the year, or stay in the capital after the New Year?"

Guan Shi said: "The journey back and forth is not short. On the way back, there was a snowstorm in the south, and the road was not easy to walk. So we might as well wait until the New Year is over before leaving."

"That's just right." Qi Huan nodded, and looked at the boy who was standing next to him as a dowry, "When I tell my father and mother about this, they should prepare some tonic gifts for the second sister. Come here and take it back on the way."

A woman is married and follows her husband. Although this young man came out of the Marquis of Changning, he entered the Yu family, and now he should follow the Yu family's steward.

Naturally, Qi Huan was right about this measure.

She then signaled Xingluo to take out the silver rewards to the two of them. After the two thanked them, Steward Ping bowed and said, "You guys have to go back to the Earl's Mansion to report to the Earl's Mansion, so I won't wait here for the son and his wife to come back, please. The eldest lady apologizes for the younger ones, and next time I have a chance to greet you face to face."

"Okay." Qi Huan agreed, collected the gift list and Qi Changge's letter, asked Mother Jin to go out to see off the guests, and moved the things Qi Changge sent back into the house by the way.

Qi Zhengyu and Qi Wenjing came back one after another after noon, full of wine and food.

Qi Wenjing got a little drunk, so he went straight to his room to sleep when he returned home.

Qi Huan first showed Qi Changge's annual gift list and letters to Mrs. Yang for review.

She is not her own daughter anyway, Yang's reaction to this matter was flat, after reading the letter at a glance, she handed it to Qi Huan: "I will give this to your father later."

While talking, he rolled up his sleeves, picked up a pen and drew circles on the gift list, ordered about a third of the items, and gave the gift list to Mama Jin: "Take out the ones I circled and send them to Aunt Lu, and the rest The booklet has been put into storage, and it will be collected first."

She is not short of Qi Changge's things, so she could have given them all to Aunt Lu, but this is a matter of etiquette and face, and outsiders and servants can't make outsiders and servants think that her aunt looks down on concubine daughters, especially son-in-law.

and so--

She still collected most of the gift into her account with Qi Wenjing.

Then, without Qi Huan's reminder, when Yang learned that Qi Changge was pregnant, she asked Mother Jin to prepare some supplements and gifts.

She may not have a real mother-daughter relationship with Qi Changge, but the marriage between big families is like this, and the face of each other can't be bad.

On New Year's Eve, there is another most important program, which is to worship the Kitchen God after nightfall.

This ceremony is rather grand, requiring Qi Zhengyu, the head of the family, to sprinkle wine in person and bring the whole family to worship together.

People from both rooms arrived early, a rare gathering, everyone went through a cutscene, and then dispersed separately.

Qi Huan gave Qi Changge's letter to Qi Wenjing, and Qi Wenjing heard that her daughter and son-in-law had sent a New Year's gift back, and read Qi Changge's letter again, knowing that she was pregnant, she was very happy, and said yes repeatedly.

On the second room side, Qi Xin almost stays at home now, and rarely shows up in front of people. Today, she also followed Cen's side closely when she came out today, with a low-browed and pleasing appearance, no longer the lofty posture that Qi Huan had when he first saw her.

The three members of their family couldn't empathize with Dafang's happy event, both Qi Wenang and Cen said congratulations insincerely, and then hurried away like burning their buttocks.

Qi Zhengyu and his wife had nothing to do with them, they broke up without even saying a word.

Admittedly, this was just a trivial episode, after which the family was still busy preparing for the New Year.

On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, Gu Zhan just returned to the capital, and he prepared a very rich New Year's gift on the same day to visit him personally.

Qi Wenjing and his wife left him at home for dinner and sent him away after dark.

In a blink of an eye, it is New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve.

According to the practice of the Great Hajj Dynasty, the emperor led all the officials and wives to hold a state banquet at the Chengtian Hall to spend New Year's Eve together and bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

The state banquet this time is bigger than the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, both in terms of ostentation and specifications, because there will be envoys from foreign countries and small countries, and there may be envoys from friendly countries to congratulate, so the card of the personnel attending the banquet Also stricter.

Officials are still the old rules, except for the patriarchs and heirs of the old and powerful families, all Beijing officials above the fifth rank are eligible to attend.

As for the female guests, they must have imperial orders, or be the wives of officials above the third rank.

Well, it is still allowed to entrain private goods, the direct descendants of the lord's family, and the direct descendants of officials above the third rank.

On the [-]th day, both Qi Zhengyu and Mrs. Yu didn't dare to take Joe, so after lunch they honestly went with Dafang's family of three and went to wait outside the palace gate early.

On the carriage, Qi Wenjing was quite emotional, and asked Qi Huan: "Is it true that Chen Yi won't be able to make it back this time?"

Qi Huan sat in a corner with a hand stove wrapped in a cloak, and said with a smile: "If you get a temporary order to leave on the afternoon of the [-]th, you will definitely not be able to come back."

Qi Wenjing sighed: "It was said that he came back to Beijing to recuperate, but in the end he even got an errand to travel around during the Chinese New Year..."

"I didn't even sigh, father, don't you want to be so resentful?" Qi Huan laughed and couldn't help teasing.

Qi Wenjing glared at her: "I just said it casually, it's New Year's Eve, how can there be any resentment!"

The family talked and laughed, and the atmosphere was really good.

It's just that today's palace inspection is more stringent. They went out after noon, and when they finally got rid of all difficulties and sat on the banquet with the crowd, it was already the scene when the lights were first lit.

After concubine Sheng Xian begged, the emperor still didn't bring Yun Zheng back.

But on today's occasion, Ye Xunyi, as Prince Ning's side concubine, has her place at the banquet, and there is no need for her to crowd at Concubine Sheng Xian's table to serve.

It's just that she still took advantage of Yun Zheng's relationship to enter the palace in the afternoon, and now she came from Yonghe Palace with Concubine Sheng Xian.

They came later, above the main hall, Qi Huan clearly felt Ye Xunyi glance at her with a malicious expression when he walked past her.

She didn't show weakness at the time, she raised her eyebrows coldly and stared back.

　Well, this chapter is too much, and things will continue in the next chapter!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)