pampering wife

Chapter 76

When I arrived at Deliufangtang, I saw window grilles on the windows and lanterns hanging under the eaves, full of New Year's atmosphere.The laughter in the room came intermittently, Mu Yu'er who was guarding the door opened the curtain with a smile and said: "Second Miss is back, I'm just waiting for you."

Qingmei walks around the newly replaced Songhe screen, and sees candles burning inside, Mrs. Gu sitting in the middle, with Gu Ronghua on one side and a young daughter-in-law on the other side, presumably Gu Changan's wife.Everyone in the room was wearing bright new clothes, even the maids wore red silk flowers and newly made dresses, all smiling.

Seeing Qingmei enter the door, without waiting for Mrs. Gu's introduction, the woman smiled and got up and pulled Qingmei and said: "This is Qingmei sister, right? She really looks good."

With such a warm attitude, Qingmei quickly melted into the festive atmosphere, and also got to know other people in the room one by one, including Gu Changan's two concubines.

In ordinary people's homes, on New Year's Eve, changing peach charms, setting off firecrackers and having a reunion dinner, the whole family can sit around the stove laughing and keeping up with the new year.After all, there are more rules in the Gu Mansion. Although the ancestral hall is not here, the family still has to worship the ancestors together. When all the tedious things are over and the meals are on the table, it is already three o'clock in the morning.

The meals were placed in a large spacious hall that was rarely used. Gu Shangshu and Mrs. Gu were the leaders, followed by Gu Changan and his wife, Gu Changqing, Gu Ronghua, and Qingmei sitting around a table in the innermost warm pavilion.There were also a few tables outside, surrounded by the disgraced butler of the mansion, the nanny of the Gu Changqing brothers and sisters, and others.

Amidst the sound of firecrackers, the family happily had a reunion dinner. The men went out to drink, and the women went to Mrs. Gu's Liufang Hall to chat and laugh.

Qingmei was used to spending New Year's Eve with Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Xu Huaiyuan in the past, so tonight without Mrs. Xu by her side, she is not used to it after all, so she will bid farewell before Haishi.

Arriving at the Liuli Courtyard, Qingmei, Mrs. Xu, and Luzhu were playing with the freshly cut plum blossoms by the stove. When talking about Xu Huaiyuan, Mrs. Xu said: "Erlang said he would take good care of Huaiyuan, so you don't have to worry." Qingmei is also impossible. At this time, if they asked Xu Huaiyuan to come over or go out to look for him, they had no choice but to give up.

It will be fine after this period of time, Qingmei thought, when the tavern opens, her wings will gradually grow, and next year she will be able to call Xu's mother and son to celebrate the New Year!

The next two days were actually not very busy, Gu Chang'an's family rarely came back, the Gu's and his wife's hearts were on them, Qingmei only occasionally went to meet a scene.As for the entertainment in the mansion, Gu Shangshu and his son often go out to dinner, and the inner house is quieter - the Gu family does not have many clan contacts here, and the banquets and visits of the family officials and family members are mostly after the tenth day of the Lunar New Year. It's also comfortable to watch dramas for fun.

On the fourth day of the fourth day, the wine jar can be unsealed, Qingmei and Xu woke up early, and called Xu Huaiyuan to help.

Looking at the weak maids and middle-aged women in the yard, Qingmei missed Changsheng in Wancheng very much. If he was here, she would not worry about those heavy wine jars anymore!In desperation, she could only ask people to scoop out some of the wine with a wooden spoon first, and then let the women carry the jar, after all, it took a lot of work.

Before, Qingmei had bought hundreds of wine gourds and some wine jars for preparation. At this time, she asked the maids to stick to the wooden spoons and put several kinds of wine into the wine gourds one by one - kiwi fruit, wild jujube, golden pear, red jujube, hawthorn The five kinds of wine were placed by category on a wooden shelf against the wall. The wine gourds were piled up to form a mountain, and the aroma of the wine was mixed. Looking at the result, Qing Mei couldn't hold back the smile on her face.

After being busy until dusk, the utensils and waste of fruit wine were cleaned up. Ome took a pen to write down the quantity of each wine in detail, and then roughly calculated the quantity to be sent out.

Naturally, He Zimo's family had to give it away, and then Princess Yongle, Junli, Wei Xin and Wu Boren's family could also send some to the Marquis of Wu'an for a taste.As for the people in the Gu residence, Qingmei plans to send a few altars to Mrs. Gu, and she will distribute them.

With such a rough calculation, even if only three jugs of each type of wine are given away, and each family has fifteen jugs, there will be more than a hundred jugs given out this time.Mrs. Xu next to him heard the number and couldn't help but sighed: "These are not many gifts, how come there are so many in total!"

"It's not too much. Princess Yongle and the others will feel better when this wave is sent over. They will inevitably ask for more fruit wine when they hold banquets in the future. The remaining several hundred pots may not be enough." Qingmei said to herself Very confident in his skills, with a smile on his face.

If her fruit wine can be praised by Princess Yongle and recognized by Wei Xin and other noble ladies, once the tavern opens in the future, there will be no worries about no customers!

She happily finished the calculation, and asked the maids who worked hard today to taste the wine, and won praise from all over the place.Then put each kind of fruit wine into a jar, ask Luzhu, Jinchai, and Yuchai to carry them, and walk to Mrs. Gu for a while.

(End of this chapter)