The lucky star of rebirth

Chapter 161
In a blink of an eye, it was the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. A few days earlier, the yamen of the imperial court would start to seal the pens. Emperor Qingfeng wrote many blessings and distributed them to the homes of the ministers. After writing the blessings, they also sealed the pens for the New Year.

At this time, the people in Jinling City were rich and their lives were easier. There was not much theft at the end of the year, and there were fewer cases than in other times. In addition, it was the Chinese New Year, and the Jinyiwei wanted to investigate the officials. Will go to investigate at this time, Cheng Huaijin is rare to have some leisure.

What other people's masters do in their free time, Ji Songxian, Ji Yi, and Cheng Ping'an and Cheng Guogong in the early years also know a little bit.

It is about reading a few books, chatting with the Qing customers, and then going out to visit friends, inviting friends to play and write poems in groups of three or four, and some even go to brothels.

In Ji Songxian's perception, most court officials are like this.

However, she never thought that Cheng Huaijin would not study or practice martial arts when she was free, let alone make friends and go out to play. It would be even more impossible to go to a brothel.

Cheng Huaijin took Ji Songxian back and forth between the kitchen and the bedroom every day. In his words, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, so he should prepare more New Year's goods.

So, Ji Songxian began to follow Cheng Huaijin to steam pastries, croquettes, made small blood sausages, stuffed sausages, made sauced meat, and made braised meat. After all, it was the time of the New Year's Eve, and I don't know how many ingredients I got. , just stewed a lot of fat chicken and duck, just waiting for the New Year's Eve.

Ji Songxian also learned a lot of cooking skills from Cheng Huaijin. She cooks with Cheng Huaijin for a while, and sometimes it's funny. She thinks that if she tells others that President Jin Yiwei often cooks in the kitchen when he is at home, no one will believe it. .

Ji Songxian thought this way, and he also said this to Cheng Huaijin.

After she finished speaking, Cheng Huaijin was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "If others don't believe it belongs to others, let's live our own lives."

Speaking of this, he said: "When I was with the master, the master didn't like to go into the kitchen. During the Chinese New Year, I had to prepare all the meals. After so many years, I got used to it."

When he said this, Cheng Huaijin had just made some fish balls and was cooking fish ball soup with a spoon.

Ji Songxian poked her head out from behind him, looked at the white and tender fish balls floating in the pot, and smelled the aroma, her saliva almost flowed out. She looked at the fish balls and pinched her arm together: "Since you In the past few days, I have gained several catties, and there are all kinds of delicious food every day. After this year, I am afraid that I will become fat."

"It's better to be fatter." Cheng Huaijin smiled back and gave Ji Songxian a bowl of soup: "It's so beautiful to be fat and fat, that is, those rich and powerful families are willing to marry a thin wife, and ordinary people are not willing to marry a white and fat wife Chinese New Year."

Ji Songxian took the bowl and took a sip: "It's a pity that you didn't marry a white and fat wife, but married me, a skinny one. Therefore, you tried every means to make me fat."

Cheng Huaijin nodded seriously: "I look good no matter what you do, and if you are fatter, many people will not worry about it, but it makes me feel more at ease."

Ji Songxian had already punched Cheng Huaijin with his fist at this time: "Don't worry about good intentions, bad things."

Cheng Huaijin poured out the soup neatly, embraced Ji Songxian with one hand, and took a sip on her face, then slammed into her mouth, snatching the fish balls from her mouth: "That's it, I'm going to be so bad with you." look."

When the two of them came out of the kitchen, they saw that Cheng Huaijin looked satisfied, but Ji Songxian was shy and full of spring.

This day happened to be New Year's Eve, Cheng Huaijin cooked fish ball soup in the middle of the morning, and in the afternoon, he took his servants and began to paste Spring Festival couplets everywhere, and hung horn lanterns and bright red palace lanterns in the verandahs and other places. Waiting for the lanterns, as soon as it was dark, they lit the lanterns everywhere. For a while, the whole mansion was brightly lit, as if it were daytime.

Ji Songxian also told the big kitchen to prepare a lot of tables, and asked the servants to take turns eating the New Year's Eve dinner. She brought a few maids to cook and prepared a table for herself. Waiting for Cheng Huaijin to finish posting the Spring Festival couplets, the two of them sat down. Talking and eating vegetables in the warm room.

Cheng Huaijin drank a glass of wine and sighed: "The Empress Dowager just passed away this year, and people with titles and official positions are not allowed to have fun, which has lost some fun. If not, our family will invite a group of small plays to make it more lively."

Ji Songxian added wine to him and said: "I think this is good. Others are in trouble, but our house is just the two of us. It's rare to be quiet. In previous years, when I was at home, there were too many people. On New Year's Eve There are all kinds of sounds in my ears at night, and I feel uncomfortable when I go to sleep."

Why didn't Cheng Huaijin understand that Ji Songxian said this on purpose, just to comfort him, so he drank another glass of wine and told Ji Songxian: "Except for going back to your mother's house during the first month, you'd better stop being a guest and drink. Quiet at home for a first month."

"Okay." Ji Songxian agreed with a smile. After thinking for a while, he said, "How about we go to Zhuangzi outside the city after the second day of the first lunar month? I want to soak in hot springs. There are fewer people in Zhuangzi and it is quieter than the city. .”

This is also a good idea, Cheng Huaijin also thought it was good and agreed.

After eating the food and wine, they distributed the rest to the girls. Ji Songxian and Cheng Huaijin packed up and read around the stove, which was a rare comfort.

However, it didn't take long for this to be comfortable and quiet, and there was a burst of laughter outside, and then, Yuanliang and Luqi opened the curtain and came in, both of them had smiles on their faces, Ji Songxian looked at them and asked: "Mian Ma I've eaten?"

"It's good to eat." Zhou Liang approached with a smile, took off the gold bracelet on his wrist, wrapped it in a handkerchief, and came to serve Ji Songxian: "Nu and sister Xue Ye won a lot of money with a few punches, Xue Ye Sister Yu and Sister Xueying made a bet on drinking, and they both got drunk."

Ji Songxian shook his head and said with a smile: "In a while, you take the eyebrow pencil and paint flowers on their faces."

"Exactly." Lu Qi clapped her hands: "I was thinking about it, but my wife was talking."

Looking at Ji Songxian around the beam: "It's too quiet, Mrs. and Mrs. It's not like the New Year's Eve, why don't you bring some dried fruits, let's eat and talk together, it will be a bit lively, otherwise, How can we survive this night?"

"You go and get it." Ji Songxian replied with a smile, and then warned: "Put on big clothes, it's cold outside, be careful of freezing."

"Forget it." After walking around the beam for a while, he brought in a fruit box, which was divided into several compartments, and each compartment contained a kind of dried fruit, including melon seeds, almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, candied fruit, etc.

Lu Qi took two walnuts in a nutcracker and handed them to Ji Songxian and Cheng Huaijin.

The two of them took it and ate it, and Ruoliang brewed another pot of good tea and brought it over. The four of them sat around the stove drinking tea, eating dried fruit, and gossiping.

After about half an hour, Luqi was still young, and she couldn't stand it anymore, and yawned.

Ruo Liang pushed her, wiped her face with a cold towel, and told her to wake up, Lu Qimi stared and opened her mouth, then patted her face: "But it's still the middle of the night, how can I survive this? "

Smiling around the beam: "My wife is always the best at telling stories, why don't you tell a story to my slave, and stay up all night if you can't tell."

Cheng Huaijin also agreed, and said to Ji Songxian: "There is nothing left and right, so just tell me one."

Ji Songxian thought for a while: "It's boring for me to tell it alone, why don't we tell one story, no matter what the story is, just to hear something fresh and refreshing."

Lu Qi immediately clapped her hands and applauded, Ji Songxian smiled: "That's it, I'll start."

She thought for a while, and then said: "I have a story in my heart, but no one dares to tell it, and no one dares to write it out. This story is a bit scary. You have the right to listen to it. If you feel scared, I won't tell it. .”

What Ji Songxian wants to tell is the story of the last days. She thinks this kind of story is very interesting, and in the last days, father and son kill each other, husband and wife kill each other, and anything can happen. It can alert the world, but, this After all, the story was scary, but she dared not write it.

"Madam, just say, I'm not afraid of slaves following my wife." Wao Liang smiled.

Luqi looked at Cheng Huaijin: "The master is amazing, and the slave is not afraid."

Seeing that the two girls said they would not be afraid, Ji Songxian began to talk: "You have all seen the future game I wrote before. This story happened many years later in later generations. I only said that at that time people beat you. A well that goes deep into the ground can take out the oil in it, and it can go up to the sky and into the earth, and it is almost omnipotent, but this is against the law of heaven. When a certain time comes, God will show its power..."

Ji Songxian narrates slowly, but only at the beginning, when he talked about the protagonist's neighbor's father's sudden change, and when he ate his own son, he was scared, so that Rao Liang and Lu Qi hugged each other and shivered.

She stopped as soon as she saw this, but she hurriedly urged: "Madam, tell me quickly, what happened later? Where is the red lady? How is it?"

Not to mention the two of them, even Cheng Huaijin heard of such a miracle for the first time, and he listened very much, with eyes full of seriousness and anticipation, Ji Songxian smiled, ate a few melon seeds and continued: "The red lady is me I rented a house to live in, and she was the only one in the whole house. She had a fever all night and no one took care of her. Fortunately, the door was very solid, and she locked it well, but no one or a corpse broke in. When she woke up Afterwards, I just felt hungry and uncomfortable, and it happened that there was still food in the house, and Hong Niangzi cooked all the food, but when she finished eating, a strange thing happened."

"What strange thing?" Cheng Huaijin asked.

Zhou Liang and Lu Qi also stared and waited to listen, but at this time, they heard a sound outside the window, and it was the voices of Xue Yu and the others: "Okay, you two just sneaked back because you couldn't drink enough, I'm going to Why, it turned out that I went to my wife's room to eat alone, and asked my wife to tell you a story, so I caught you."

As soon as the words fell, Xueyu opened the curtain in front of her head and came in. Immediately afterwards, sisters Xue Ye also entered the room, and the originally cold room became noisy.

(End of this chapter)