I do fortune-telling in ancient astrology

Chapter 11

After the autumnal equinox, the two cousins ​​returned to Yanshan Academy. Lin Xingwei suddenly felt that life became a little boring. He locked himself in his room to study every day. Not only did he memorize "Shi Zhen", he also copied it three times , Finally, I can almost recognize the Xiaozhuan script, and I have practiced it a lot.

Mrs. Hou was not only surprised by her daughter's change, she was a little surprised.

Lin Xingwei not only loves to read and write, but also takes care of the family affairs. Compared with Lin Xingwei who was indifferent to the family before, now Lin Xingwei can be said to be completely transformed.

At the beginning, Mrs. Hou thought her daughter was just putting on a show, and it was the same after two or three months. Only then could Mrs. Hou believe that her daughter had really changed.

Mrs. Hou took the initiative to hand over the general affairs to Lin Xingwei, and Lin Xingwei personally took care of every detail of the farm and store.

Lin Xingwei was already extremely busy, and still had to spare some time to learn how to be a cook and a female celebrity.

Lin Xingwei, who was sleep deprived, woke up early with two dark circles under his eyes and did not forget to go to his second uncle's courtyard to pay his respects to his grandfather and grandmother. Mrs. Lin complained to Su Ziyao in front of Lin Xingwei, disliked her for pushing her daughter too hard.

Tired is tired, but Lin Xingwei is full of energy, quite a sense of oppression and fulfillment that he had when he was in the third year of high school and was desperate for his future.

In her previous life, she liked such a sense of oppression and fulfillment, which compromised her health. She never thought that she would still enjoy it through time travel and rebirth.

Mrs. Hou thought that her daughter would retreat because she was too tired, but she didn't expect her daughter to do well in everything, her cooking skills were praised by the elders of the whole family, and the female celebrity's work was exquisite, and even the complicated accounts were clear and checkable. In front of Madam Hou, the shopkeeper and the housekeeper praised Lin Xingwei so much that there is nothing in the sky and nothing on earth.

Mrs. Hou couldn't bear her daughter's hard work, so she was allowed to go back to the farm and the store three times a month, and let Lin Xingwei prepare the evening snacks, and let her not be busy with the rest.When going out for a banquet, I will also bring my daughter to socialize, just as a pastime.

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, it was Lin Taigong's birthday, and the Lin family's house was cleaned and decorated with lanterns and festoons.

In the past, Taigong Lin did not look straight at his eldest daughter-in-law, but today he greeted him with a smile, because the Taiwei Mansion and the Queen brought him birthday presents—a jade statue of a birthday star and a plate of palace birthday cakes

Mrs. Lin was full of energy, and changed into a dark brown brocade gown, with a cloak of green pine and green embroidered cranes on her outside. Her silver hair was neatly combed, and she put on Mrs. Lin's sweet-scented osmanthus hair oil, and neatly tied it with a white jade crown hairpin. , curled up on top of his head.

Mrs. Lin wore a long purple iris dress and sat next to Mrs. Lin. The old couple sat in the banquet hall happily and waited for the guests to come in to greet them.

Mrs. Lin is usually plain, and her dresses are mainly in plain colors. Today's gorgeous long dress was chosen by Mrs. Lin.The birthday person is the oldest. In order to make her husband happy, Mrs. Lin listened to him in everything today.

Although the two cousins ​​did not come back, they prepared presents for their grandfather. What Lin Tingyu presented was a picture of a boy celebrating his birthday marked "Fortune is like the East China Sea". What I gave was a pair of purple jade engraved with the "filial piety son" engraved with double dragons playing with pearls.

The second cousin had a lot of tricks, and the gifts he gave were ingenious. Lin Xingwei saw that Lin Taigong's bed could not scratch less than three, and now there is another purple jade one.

Mrs. Lin disliked Mrs. Lin for putting things on the bed indiscriminately. She hit Mrs. Lin several times and threw away Mrs. Lin's many things, including tickles.Now it is given by my grandson, even if I dislike it, I dare not throw it away.

Lin Xingwei embroidered a climbing arm with two deer foraging for Taigong Lin. When Taigong Lin practiced calligraphy, his long sleeves were often stained with ink, but he disliked the climbing arm that Mrs. Lin gave him was too gaudy and vulgar. The shoulders are blue and black, and embroidered with double deer, which is not vulgar, and Mrs. Lin immediately smiled from ear to ear.

The brothers were not there, Lin Xingwei accompanied the two uncles to greet the guests at the door, the mother and aunts took care of the female relatives, and the third uncle took the male guests to the male guest seats.

After preparing a big banquet, it was revealed that the Lin family was not enough.

Lin Xingwei felt very strange, wasn't it very common for ancient people to take concubines? Why didn't any of the three brothers of the Lin family take concubines, and the woman gave birth to only one son or one daughter, and the mother was injured and unable to have another child, but the two aunts Why not give birth to a few more?

Later, Mrs. He explained that there was a training in the ancestors of the Lin family that men could divorce their wives and renew their marriage but not take concubines.Even Lin Taigong has never taken a concubine.As for why the two aunts had fewer children, it wasn't that they didn't have children, but that they died young.

After the Yingchuan Rebellion 15 years ago, the plague was rampant. The plague only spread among children, but it was not harmful to adults.

Mrs. Hou's eldest son, a son and a daughter born to her second aunt, and a second son and two daughters born to her third aunt all died of the epidemic.

Why were the three brothers and sisters saved? At that time, Taigong Lin went to his hometown to worship the ancestors and took Lin Tingyu and Lin Chengan away. Lin Xingwei was born late, which allowed them to avoid this disaster.

Mrs. Lin originally wanted to bring a boy among the three grandchildren back to her hometown, but she was afraid of the eldest daughter-in-law's face, so she didn't take Lin Xingwei's elder brother with her, but only brought two cousins.

All the children died young, and the Lin family suffered from such a catastrophe, and the whole family was heartbroken. In order to protect the only remaining grandchildren of the Lin family, Grandpa Lin hid in the countryside until the plague was over.

For this reason, the eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Su, complained to Taigong Lin for not taking her child away, which made the relationship between the husband and wife end.

However, Mrs. Hou complained, and when she figured it out later, she would not complain. No one in this world knew about it. If he had known about such a disaster, Mrs. Lin would definitely take away all the grandchildren in the house to avoid the disaster. of.

Lin Xingwei was in charge of everything from the decoration of the banquet hall to the delicacies today, and the list of invited guests was drawn up by Lin Xingwei with the help of his mother and second uncle. It can be described as meticulous.

The guests have arrived one after another, most of them are relatives of the Lin family, as well as some friends and colleagues.In addition to presenting presents at Taiwei's Mansion, Uncle Su's eldest son, Su Ge, and second son, Su Mao, also came.

It was the first time for Lin Xingwei to meet the two cousins, she was still a little unfamiliar, but the two cousins ​​were very familiar with each other, and when they came up, they greeted Lin Xingwei with a smile, and asked Lin Xingwei that she was being detained like this, but she was reprimanded by her aunt.

The two cousins ​​seem to be about twenty years old, with handsome looks and extraordinary appearance.

Speaking of which, Lin Xingwei has never seen an ugly man since he traveled here. He is as handsome as the ceiling of Wei Mingji, and a little bit less like his big cousin with deep eye sockets. In Lin Xingwei's opinion, he also has a somewhat exotic appearance.

Lin Xingwei's dignified and reserved way of welcoming guests made the two cousins ​​laugh. In their eyes, this cousin was always showing off her teeth and claws, but now they are not used to it.

Su Ge came up and flicked Lin Xingwei's forehead: "Father said, our cousin is flashy and ostentatious, and now I think your uncle is wrong, not only your uncle is wrong, even we are wrong."

Lin Xingwei frowned, for a moment she couldn't tell whether her eldest cousin was praising her or belittling her.In my heart, I felt that this cousin's words were too frivolous, even if my uncle had said bad things about her, how could he convey these bad things to her one by one?

The second uncle also felt embarrassed when he was listening, but he still put on a smiling face and said: "People are not static. Our Lin family has strict family education. Under the etiquette, how can Ran Ran be so bad? Please come in and sit down, two young masters." Bar."

Su Ge smiled modestly and stepped in. Su Mao was looking left and right, and suddenly leaned in front of Lin Xingwei: "Ran Ran, why don't you see people from Shangdu Mansion? Brother Mingji isn't here?"

"Didn't you come to celebrate my grandfather's birthday today? Ask him why?" Lin Xingwei asked.

According to the etiquette, she sent an invitation card to Wei Mingji, but she didn't know if he would come or not.

Since the last time I accompanied the two cousins ​​to the Lu residence to meet Wei Mingji and was humiliated by him, the two had no contact with each other in the past three months.

There has been no progress in the marriage between the two families, and the queen is extremely anxious.This Wei Mingji is like paste made from buckwheat skin, it doesn't stick to the board.To put it bluntly, Wei Mingji only had one excuse: he was busy and couldn't take care of it.

Later, the emperor persuaded the queen a few words, saying that General Wei was really busy.The marriage between the two families was shelved for a while when the sage came out.

Madam Hou's thinking is that there must be a time limit for procrastination, and if Wei Mingji still ignores it like this after the new year, she will go to His Majesty to ask for an explanation.

Su Mao smiled and said: "Of course I came to celebrate Lin Taigong's birthday, but my father only let my elder brother come alone, and let me study at home. I guessed that Ming Ji's elder brother would definitely come to the Hou's mansion, so I begged my father to let me go with him." here."

He said again: "You know, brother Mingji is too busy on weekdays, it is very difficult to meet him, only on such occasions can we see brother Mingji's demeanor."

Oh, so it's Wei Mingji's fan!After chasing the stars to his own door, Lin Xingwei's expression was not as good as before, and he said, "General Wei is busy, so he probably won't come. My cousin is already here. Why don't you go in and have a sip of tea before going home to study."

"Why didn't he come? He was negotiating marriage with the Lin family. On such an important occasion, even if he couldn't come in person, he would send someone to give gifts, right?"

Su Mao shouted loudly, he couldn't accept that Wei Mingji couldn't attend today's birthday banquet, it was an opportunity he had worked so hard to get in front of his father, and he also gave his brother Su Ge two gilt emblems and begged him to bring himself , if he couldn't see elder brother Mingji, then wouldn't all his painstaking efforts be in vain.

The second uncle looked at the young master of the Su family with a bitter look on his face, and felt that the big day would bring bad luck, so he approached him and advised, "General Wei's birthday gift was delivered two days ago, and young master Su might not be able to wait for General Wei." gone."

Su Ge turned around, seeing that his younger brother didn't follow, he shouted: "What are you doing at the door? You are so impolite, don't lose the face of our Taiwei Mansion!"

After being yelled at by his elder brother, Su Mao twitched and followed.

Lin Xingwei and his second uncle looked at each other, feeling unhappy with the two brothers.

The guests were almost here, Lin Huaifeng asked Lin Xingwei to go in and take care of them, instead of waiting at the door, only two butlers were left at the door to take care of them.

There were so many guests, Lin Xingwei had never seen many of them, let alone knew them. The only person he knew was Chen Xinan, the youngest daughter of King Chen Rui of Yingchuan, and the county lord of Xinan.

(End of this chapter)