The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 106 What a Big Family
Jingning 36 New Year's Day.

It has been a full year since the empress passed away, and the capital is extremely lively in this new year, as if it is going to make up for last year's excitement.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Mrs. Liang, as the wife of the second rank, got up early in the morning and put on a lot of make-up, and wanted to enter the palace to pay her respects.

She got up at the beginning of Yin, took a shower and washed her hair.It takes a long time to dry the two-foot-long hair, and it is only when it is slightly bright that the hair is combed. After a simple breakfast with Mr. Song, we will go to the palace gate.

In order not to go to the latrine in the palace, he dared not drink more than one sip of water.

Without the empress, this year's New Year's Day banquet will be co-hosted by two first-rank concubines, Concubine Chen Gui and Concubine Meng Shu. Although Concubine Hui, who has just been promoted to concubine, is now considered a high-ranking concubine, her background is so poor that the emperor cannot use her. Put down the faces of those veterans and heroes.

Song Qingyue hadn't married Li Zhao yet, so she wasn't qualified to participate in such a palace banquet, so she was spared all the fuss. When she got up, she heard Nanny Bai talking excitedly about Liang's big make-up.

"Hey, girl, you haven't seen the majesty of the madam! The blessings cultivated in several lifetimes can be exchanged for such a body!"

Song Qingyue yawned, and said with a smile: "Maybe Nanny will have such a blessing in the future!"

"Girl, don't talk nonsense, where does this old slave get such a blessing? In the next life!"

"Not necessarily."

Song Qingyue heard that some old mothers in the palace were eligible to wear phoenix coronets and Xiapei after they were appointed high-ranking female officials. She thought, it is not impossible for Bai mothers to have opportunities in the future.Maybe there is a chance to show Mammy some Shangsi, Shangyi, and Shanggong.

Early in the morning, the big kitchen was extremely lively, and the screams of pigs could be heard from a long distance away. Song Qingyue put on her clothes and didn't go anywhere else, so she went to the kitchen to see the heat.

Cooks in the north must cook pig dishes during the Chinese New Year. Pork bones, head meat, shredded meat, pork belly, freshly made pig blood sausage, and a whole set of pig offal stewed in a pot with sauerkraut, gurgling, standing You can smell the aroma of the yard from the entrance of the kitchen yard.

It's a pity that there is no vermicelli right now, and it's too late to make it today. Song Qingyue thought that she would make sweet potato vermicelli if she had the opportunity in the future, and it would be delicious if stewed together.

The cook from the south felt that it was not rich enough, so he had to put more fish balls, tofu skin and new bean sprouts into the pot of butchered vegetables. The cooks on both sides fought, and the fat duck in the yard followed suit. Quacking and screaming, he was bloodletted and plucked in a short time.

The Song Mansion invited the theater troupe to sing for three consecutive days starting from New Year's Day.

They are all Yuan Zaju, which is not difficult to understand.

Song Qingyue's favorite is "The Story of the Sword", which tells the story of how Gao Qi and Tong Guan bullied Lin Chong's family, how Lin Chong resisted in the end, and how he was forced to go to war.

Although Song Qingyue herself is timid and cowardly, she loves to watch martial arts students play with guns and sticks. In the era without special effects and editing, they are all really good at fighting, which is so good to watch.

Song Yaxin loves to watch "The Story of the Pipa", and Song Yuxi loves to watch "The Story of the Hairpin". They are both romantic dramas of this era, and Song Qingyue is most impatient to watch this.

But this does not prevent her from eating melon seeds and chatting on the side.

Mrs. Song passed away on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year last year, so the Song Mansion over there was still deserted, but a few aunts and sister-in-laws led the children to the Song Mansion to have fun together.

Because Song Jianming never arranged the order of the children in the family with the children of his two younger brothers, the order of the sons and girls of the Song family here is relatively simple.

But the Song family's direct branch is complicated. Until the old man Song passed away last year, the eight families of the old man Song's lineage were separated, and the four families who were unofficial, unemployed and financially distressed had already returned to their ancestral home in Jiangling. The remaining four There are more than a dozen sons, and there are five or six sons. There are 34 cousins ​​who are of the same generation as Song Jianming, not counting the cousins ​​and cousins ​​of married cousins. The cousins' children add up to more than 34!

If you add those young ladies and gentlemen, there will be nearly 400 people!
Song Qingyue thinks that Old Master Song is also aggrieved. Counting the return to Jiangling, there are a total of eight sons and more than 50 grandchildren. All of them were stepped on by their father. Being suppressed and buried because the emperor wanted to reuse his father was indeed enough to make him depressed to death.

This year's Song Jianming's mansion can be said to be full of flowers and brocades, and the fire is cooking oil. From the two young and promising sons to the three girls who are going to marry high families, everyone wants to come to this mansion to brush their faces and recognize people.

Of course, hundreds of people can't all come, basically only the descendants of the concubine, or the more outstanding boys of the concubine, so there are nearly a hundred people.

From New Year's Day to the third day of the new year, the three sisters Song Yaxin, Song Yuxi, and Song Qingyue are already dizzy enough just to recognize people. Most of them are surnamed Song. Their names are like tongue twisters, and they can't remember at all. .

Mrs. Liang is the hardest one. Except for the early morning of New Year's Day when she has to go to the palace with Mr. Song to congratulate her, she is the mistress of the house. There are so many people in the house at once, not to mention how brilliant the banquet can be, but just to avoid trouble. He was already so busy that he didn't touch the ground, his head was burnt out, and there were not enough servants in the family, so he even borrowed a hundred servants from the Dizhi Song Mansion to help.

Fortunately, the aunts at home are also capable. Even if they have some minor grievances with each other on weekdays, at this time, they know that they must work together to do things in a comprehensive manner, and they must not lose the face of their elders.

Song Yaxin and Song Yuxi still knew some sisters of the same generation, and the two sides of the Song House were quite frequent on weekdays.But Song Qingyue was always busy with her own affairs. Throughout last year, she was busy with the wool workshop in the north.

However, Song Qingyue, who had recited the royal genealogy, knew that she had a cousin and a cousin who also married into the clan.But that aunt was more miserable. Not long after she married more than [-] years ago, the county king was cut off because of a mistake.

And that cousin, who is also the eldest daughter of Uncle Song Jianshuo in the lobby, is married to Taizu's great-great-grandson, the third son of the third generation Kangjun King, and she is a generation older than herself.

But it's nothing, the second sister is also a generation higher than herself after marrying Jiang Yuanchao. Seriously, Jiang Yuanchao is the aunt and brother of His Royal Highness King Su, that is, Li Zhao's aunt and uncle.

People in the palace had a harder New Year than they did, because the clan's population was even larger than that of the Song family, so she definitely had no chance to see that cousin during the New Year.

Apart from these two, the rest that really need to be remembered are actually a few aunts and aunts who are destined to marry, and a few cousins ​​who married into high families.

But no matter how high the family status is, it can't be as high as Song Qingyue and Song Yaxin. One is married to the son of the prince's mansion, the other is married to the son of the duke's mansion, and the Jiang family has a eldest princess, who is also the mansion of Marquis of Wucheng. When my sister married, she was a fourth-rank imperial order, and the three-layer buff was stacked high. Even if it was a continuation, it would be enviable, so it was only for others to curry favor with them.

There are three sisters in the Song family, as long as they have enough etiquette and a polite attitude, they really can't remember people, and no one will blame them.

(End of this chapter)