Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 855 New Jubilee
After Laba, there will be more trivial matters.New Year's goods from Zhuangzi outside the city, game outside the customs, all kinds of greetings and gifts.

When they were young, the children's homework also stopped.Adults and children are all preparing for the New Year.

There are also old relatives in-laws and old friends among colleagues who give New Year gifts.Cao Yong was inconvenient with filial piety, and Tianyou was young, so Cao Yuan, the big housekeeper, came forward to go everywhere.

In the twelfth lunar month, there are also many families who marry their daughters-in-law and daughters, and they also sprinkle out the money for the gifts like water.

Among them, Yi Duli also invited a guest once, the joy of "accepting a concubine".In fact, it was just a banner to invite colleagues and friends from the Yamen of Taipu Temple and the Yamen of the House of Internal Affairs to have a drink.

The two concubines of Idurina were either others, or the two oriental beauties from the Thirteenth Prince's Mansion.

Thirteenth Brother's original intention was to send someone to send the two sisters back to Guangzhou. It happened that Yiduli's wife was visiting Thirteenth Brother's mansion. Hearing Thirteenth Fujin talk about this matter, she felt strange and curious. Called up to have a look.

Unexpectedly, there are indeed two beauties, one sixteen and one fourteen, with thin skin and tender flesh, and charming eyebrows and eyes. What is especially commendable is that the two sisters are submissive, and they can barely understand Chinese, and they are not good at speaking. search.

Dazhaojia looked at it in amazement.

If it were someone else, how could they let go of these two beauties.

Thirteen Fujin saw that her sister was joking, and said with a smile: "Am I not forgiving? It's just that the master said that there are enough people serving in the mansion, so there is no need to add more people, so as not to increase the grievances of my girlfriend."

Dazhaojia has nothing but envy for his sister.

Although the thirteenth brother's branch office has been depressed all these years, but the husband and wife share hardships, and their relationship is getting better and better.While in the palace, there were other concubine concubines who were pregnant; in the ten years since the branch office, the thirteen Fujin had children one after another.

Thinking that I am only a few years older than my sister, and now I am regarded as a "housekeeper" by my husband, how can I be the opponent of those beautiful concubines.

When Dazhaojia thought of her second-bedroom aunt at home, she felt tired.

Mrs. Yang is smart and behaves well in front of the old lady, and obedient in front of her husband.At the end of the year, people bought incense burners to honor the old lady. They bought people's hearts inside and out, and they were like ducks in water in the house.

Dazhaojia is the grandmother of the main house. If she wants to be "virtuous" and "not jealous", she can only endure it.Fortunately, he held Yang's two daughters in his hands, and this alone made Yang's jealous.

It's just that in my own home, it's really difficult to endure like this.

Dazhaojia had other plans for the sister flower, and said to her sister: "If my sister wants to send it out of the house, you can give it to me! It happens that there are not enough waiters in our inner house, so I am looking for people to buy some. .”

Thirteen Fujin knew the sixth brother-in-law's flirtatious temperament, and frowned, "Sixth sister, you are... These two were taught to serve men when they were young... Why bother..."

When Dazhaojia heard this, he smiled wryly and said, "Instead of letting that foxy son win over my master, it would be better to add two newcomers. After thinking about it, I understand that a man is that kind of virtue. It is normal to be greedy for flowers and lust, and to love the new and dislike the old. "

"It's just a concubine. I heard that she was born in a merchant, or remarried. How dare she be so frivolous?" Thirteen Fujin felt sorry for her sister, and complained a little: "Has the sixth brother-in-law passed away?"

Dazhaojia saw his younger sister was worried, shook his head, and said: "Don't worry, I'm fine. There is an old lady on the top, and three sons on the bottom. No one dares to think about my position, but it's just an eyesore. When she first entered the door, Showing others to be weak, and the two daughters are not in front of them, so they are used to pretending to be pitiful. But if I say the last sentence, our master will treat me as a jealous woman. I want to see if she can be favored forever? Human. As long as a man is tired of it, let's see how she behaves."

No one knew about the conversation between the two sisters.Afterwards, Thirteen Fujin mentioned to Brother Thirteen that if the two sisters were not kept, he wanted to give the two sisters to Sixth Sister.

As my beloved wife said, how could the thirteenth elder brother not respond.

Therefore, when Dazhaojia left the Thirteenth Prince's Mansion, he brought back the "handmaiden" given by his two younger sisters.

A few days later, Yi Duli was happy to accept a concubine.

As for the Hesheli family, when they heard that their daughter-in-law was going to take a concubine for their son, they just gave her a bottle of secret medicine and didn't say anything else.

It is nothing to add a few maids and concubines, but the family lineage cannot be confused.Tolerating her son to conceive a Han concubine is already the limit of the old lady. She is not sensitive to this Oriental bastard.

It was inconvenient to go to Cao Yong's side, so people prepared "congratulatory gifts" and sent them over.

For Little Japan, Cao Yong can be regarded as abhorrent, but he will not vent his anger on the two little girls.Although I have never seen the two sisters, but since they were sold around, their backgrounds are also bad.Abandoned by the thirteenth elder brother, sent back to Guangzhou, waiting for what is not known.

Even if it is someone whom Thirteenth Brother doesn't want, the stewards who go out of Thirteenth Brother's house don't dare to touch their hands.

That is, Yi Duli, who is brother-in-law with the thirteenth elder brother, and the two have a good relationship, and they don't have so many taboos, so they accept this pair of sisters calmly.

In a blink of an eye, it was the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month.

After the sacrifices were over, people from the eastern and western prefectures watched the New Year's Eve here after eating the New Year's Eve dinner in the upper room of the Orchid Court.

On the ground, there is a table, and Li Shi, Zhaojia Shi, Tian Shi and Su Xin are wiping leaf cards.Chuyu, Jinghui and Chunhua were sitting on the edge of the kang, talking and taking care of several young children.

Cao Xiang's concubine, Tianyang, and Cao Song's two daughters were both at the age of babbling, and they were full of excitement on the kang.

Two sisters, Lianqiu and Xiqiu, took Niuniu and several girls to tie silk flowers in the warm pavilion.

The boys are all in the East House.

When he was in Zhuangzi earlier, the sky was always boring, so Cao Yong made people sit on two sets of wooden checkers.Carved chess pieces out of wood and dyed six-colored chess pieces.There are many children in the left and right families, so it is suitable to play this game.

No, among the boys, two of the younger Chang Sheng and Tian Hu did not play, and the remaining four were fighting with Cao Yong and Cao Xiang.

The two Changsheng and Tianhu were not idle, they were listening to Cao Fu telling the story of Monkey King making troubles in the sky.

The room was full of children's laughter.

Both the Li family and the Zhaojia family have smiles on their faces, and their descendants are prosperous, which is also a sign of the prosperity of the family.Although of these two, one is thinking about her dead husband, the other is thinking about her eldest son, but it's just a big deal, and it's not good to show them all on their faces.

"I'm confused..." Mrs. Zhao Jia continued to be a dealer, and even looked at the money box in Mrs. Li's hand proudly, and said, "Sister-in-law, pay for it..."

Mrs. Li smiled and picked up a bunch of copper coins, and brought them to Mrs. Zhao Jia, saying: "Your brother and sister are really lucky. It only takes a while, and they will win my consistent money..."

Zhao Jia leaned forward and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, don't feel sorry for her. I've earned some money. I'll buy some fruit tomorrow and invite my sister-in-law to drink." While speaking, the corners of her eyes swept over the kang.

Tianyang was still young after all, tired from playing, he fell asleep in the arms of his aunt Chunhua.

Zhao Jia looked at Chunhua, then at the other two daughters-in-law, and became a little careless.In good conscience, she had a good impression of this concubine and daughter-in-law.

After all, she also has two daughters, so she would not treat her own daughter as a treasure and someone else's daughter as grass.But this daughter-in-law is unworldly, limp, and doesn't have the slightest air of clan dignity, so I really don't know what to say.

If it's a daughter-in-law, it's destined to hurt to the bone; if it's a daughter-in-law of a concubine, compared with the two well-behaved mother-son daughters-in-law, such a cuteness is an eyesore.

Mrs. Li sensed something strange about Mrs. Zhao Jia, and asked, "My brother and sister are exhausted, do you want to take a rest?"

Zhao Jia nodded, and said: "My eyes are a bit blurred, and there is still a long time before I can be right, so I have to crooked."

Chuyu and Jinghui had already heard the two talking, got up and came over, asked someone to collect the leaf cards, and helped the two onto the kang.

Seeing this, Chunhua hugged Tianyang to get up.Zhao Jia waved his hands and said, "Sit on the kang, don't scare me."

Because Tianyang is a concubine's grandson, Zhao Jia didn't want to see him, but when this little guy grew up, he started to learn to speak, and he looked cute and clever.He doesn't look like his father Cao Xiang, but he looks like Cao Fu when he was a child.

Seeing Mrs. Zhao Jia, how can she not be rare, the love of her grandson this time far exceeds that of her eldest grandson Tianhu...

When it was midnight, even the boys in the east room couldn't help dozing off.

The sound of firecrackers came from far away, from far to near, the sky outside was set off red.

New year new life.

The children were awakened by the sound of firecrackers, and the younger ones hid in the arms of the elders, with sleepy eyes.The older children have already started to pay New Year's greetings to their elders.

Chu Yu sent people to deliver the prepared blue satin mats, and Cao Yong took three cousins ​​to kowtow to the two elders, Li Shi and Zhao Jia Shi, to pay New Year's greetings.

Mrs. Li and Mrs. Zhaojia have already packed their purses, but they don't have the three of Cao Yong.The three of them have already married and started a business, so there is no need to give lucky money.

After the three of them bowed, it was Chuyu who kowtowed with a few sisters-in-law.

Then, everyone sat around.

The fourth sister and fifth son brought a few girls, and Changsheng brought all the nephews to kowtow to the elders one by one.

In addition to Li Shi and Zhao Jia Shi, Cao Yong and the others also prepared lucky money for their children.But it's also gold curly, silver curly, etc., the children's purses are full, etc., and the income is quite rich.

After being lively for half an hour, the sound of firecrackers outside gradually died down.

Mrs. Li and Mrs. Zhaojia couldn't bear it any longer, so they dispersed.

From the next day until the fifth day of the lunar new year, people came to pay New Year's greetings one after another.Cao Yong didn't have to go out, but he escaped. In addition to entertaining guests at home, he began to prepare for going south.

For fear that Mrs. Li would be worried, Cao Yong didn't say much, but said that he was entrusted by the sixteenth elder brother to go to the south.

After hearing this, Mrs. Li didn't say much, but told him to take the elders with him, for fear that his son would suffer hardships outside.

Although the wife is in charge of the house, there is nothing to worry about, but thinking about going out this time, I am afraid that it will take a year and a half, and there are many trivial things outside, so Cao Yong asked his two cousins ​​again.

He and Cao Song are not here, so it is difficult for servants to be negligent, so we must keep our doors tight to avoid disputes.If you really encounter difficulties, you can go to Cao Jiashi or Cao Yi to discuss.

Cao Xiang agreed one by one, but Cao Fu was moved and begged to go with his cousin.

Although he felt that he should bring his younger brother to see the world, Cao Xiang was the only one left in the capital. If something happened at home, it would be uneasy, how could Cao Yong respond.

Cao Fu stretched out his fingers and counted them one by one: "Brother, look, even if there is something wrong at home, what can the younger brother do? I have the second and third sisters to help me make up my mind. What is wrong with the identity of the sister-in-law? You don't need to ask others Let’s take my younger brother for a walk, even if you don’t go to Guangzhou, you can go to Hangzhou...” At this point, his eyes lit up and he said, “I’ll go pick up my elder sister, and she will come back in February… "

(End of this chapter)