Tong Jia anecdote

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As they are about to arrive in the capital, the official roads have become very spacious and easy to walk, but Tong Jiu and his party can enter the capital after a half-day drive.

Before leaving, Ji Lan specially asked Fu Chaqin to bring a short mandarin jacket and a cotton robe inside and outside to Hong Xiao, and asked her to wait for Tong Jiu to put them on.

Hongxiao shook off the short mandarin jacket in her hand, and saw that it was nothing more than a simple double-breasted round-neck jacket.

But if you take a closer look, the face is made of mink fur, and the whole body is inlaid with ermine and smoked mink fur to form the word "囍". The font is neat and the craftsmanship is exquisite.The fur is smooth and smooth, just like nature.

Unfasten the five gold-plated copper and chiseled buttons on the front, and the lining of the clothes is made of river silk, and the workmanship is quite delicate.The skirt and sleeve ends are inlaid with mink fur and the blue lining. The leather board is as thin as silk, and the workmanship is exquisite.

"Wearing this ocher red robe, and wearing such a mandarin jacket with '囍' all over the body, I don't know, which family's groom official is I?" Tong Jiu looked at the ocher red pomegranate with a high collar on her body. In the tufted flower cotton gown, she raised her head unaccustomed to avoid the fur on the collar, and Ren Hongxiao tied the collar button for her.Bored, he raised his eyes and counted the number of "囍" on his sleeves.

"You usually wear blue or green gowns, which look smart and steady, but this ocher red gown makes you look good. You are newlyweds, so you should wear festive colors to suit the occasion. Outsiders will not be surprised when they see you." It makes me more convinced and less suspicious." Hong Xiao straightened the front of the mandarin jacket for her, looked up and down, and said, "It looks good."

When she got out, Ji Lan was helped into the car by the Fucha sisters. When Tong Jiu got into the car, she saw that Ji Lan was wearing a scarlet satin and colorful embroidered gown with a purple silk vest with dark patterns on it.It can be said to complement each other with my own.

Ji Lan pulled the folds of the shoulders of her mandarin jacket, smiled lightly, and said with satisfaction, "The few pieces of material I saved last year were too bright to be used. A few days ago, Sister Qin found them out and said, It’s the New Year’s Eve, let’s make a suit for each of us, and dress up festively. Well, it’s so good.”

Tong Jiu stroked the fake beard on his face, and said with some concern, "It's nothing else, I'm afraid that sister Ling will find out something and ruin our plan."

"Don't worry too much about it. Although you are her brother-in-law, you are still a strange man." Ji Lan took out a flat gourd-shaped golden silk fire scythe and tied it to Tong Jiu's belt, saying, "I saw those Mongolians' waist These are still hanging on the top, and after all of us enter the customs, we will not be happy, look at this small one, hanging it is just a plaything."

Tong Jiu lowered his head and leaned over his head to take a closer look. Both sides of the gourd-shaped gourd were inlaid with small turquoise flowers, and a red coral bead was tied on the yellow ribbon.

Ji Lan shook the finger box in his hand to show Tong Jiu, and said, "This is a set, thinking that your finger ring is with me, so I kept it for myself."

Tong Jiu took it and played with it in his hand, and saw that it was a red gold hollowed-out finger box, with chiseled and hollowed-out twig flowers engraved on the box, and turquoise embedded in the flower core.Like my own, it was worn lengthwise with a yellow ribbon, with a red coral bead tied at each end.

"I'll tie it for you." Tong Jiu bent down, Ji Lan straightened her upper body, and supported Tong Jiu's shoulders. Tong Jiu pinched the yellow ribbon and tied it on the belt for Ji Lan as carefully as Ji Lan did just now. girdle.

Suddenly the carriage shook, and Tong Jiu was caught off guard, bumping headfirst into Ji Lan's chest, and fell to the ground on his back.But she was still holding Ji Lan's belt in her hand, and Ji Lan was also supporting her back. When she fell down, Ji Lan was pulled like this, and Ji Lan was also pulled sideways. body.

The warm hat on Tong Jiu's head was knocked to the ground. Subconsciously, he hugged Ji Lan with both hands, his heart was startled and happy, and he jumped into a ball, but he just stared at Ji Lan in his arms with a dull face. orchid.

Ji Lan leaned on Tong Jiu's arm, and sat up slowly, Tong Jiu "hissed" in pain, and quickly let go of Ji Lan's arm as if waking up from a dream, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes.He patted the robe on his body, picked up the warm hat on the ground, and sat across from him.

That night I hugged Jilan and refused to let go, but she twisted the flesh on my arm fiercely. Now that I lifted up my sleeve, the bruise and swelling from that day are still there, and when I touch it occasionally, it still hurts.

"Are you a little afraid of me?" Ji Lan straightened his clothes after he sat down, rubbed his index finger against the ring on his thumb, and asked thoughtfully.

"What am I afraid of? It's obviously the driver's negligence." Tong Jiu dusted off the warm hat, put it back on her head again, and sat upright, pounding her stiff waist, and stroking the fake beard on her face , said to himself, "Finally, it's almost here. When I get home, I can clean up the dust of the past few days and send a nimble boy to the front door to buy some cakes."

Mentioning the snacks on the streets of Beijing, Tong Jiu regained his energy and asked Ji Lan, "Have you ever eaten red cakes?"

Seeing Ji Lan shaking his head, smiling and gesticulating with his hands in the air, he said, "It's just one person who carried a load. There are several bamboo molds as thick as a cup. Fill them with a few spoonfuls of glutinous rice flour in advance, and put a little bit of different colors on them." Jam. When people come to eat it, put it on the steam hole on the stove, and it will be ready in a while. After that, it will be snapped on the small plate and sprinkled with sugar and sesame seeds."

Tong Jiu squinted his eyes and pondered, "It's fragrant, sweet, soft and delicious. I don't know if that person still sells it at the front door, but it's easy to find. When he walks in the streets, he will probably knock on the bamboo tube and yell 'Chong Cake It’s white, with red in the middle—’. Sister Yun and I heard—”

Speaking of this, Tong Jiu touched the back of his head, frowned and stopped talking.The other hand clenched into a fist on the skirt of the lap.

Ji Lan smiled lightly, and said comfortingly, "There's no need to go to the front door for such dim sum. The Wang Ma in the dining room of our house in Beijing is the best. She mostly mixes japonica rice with sweet-scented osmanthus and sugar. Let's There are quite a few small wooden pots in the shape of lotus pods, all of which can be steamed in a drawer, when do you want to eat it?"

Tong Jiu remembered that Ji Lan told her that pinching the center of her eyebrows could relieve her headache, so while pinching the center of her eyebrows, she leaned against the car and closed her eyes to rest her mind.

At noon, everyone finally entered the capital and arrived at the Yangzheng Hall in the capital safe and sound.

Without exception, the storefronts are located in the bustling market and Fusheng, and behind it is the large area of ​​Fucha Mansion.The shopkeepers lined up to greet them.

Surrounded by Yimen, ear rooms, halls and corridors in the mansion, it is solemn and solemn.Going inside, there is a hanging flower door, connected to the corridor on both sides, and at the end of the corridor is a hall with marble screens, which is magnificent and dignified.

The courtyard of the main house is not as crowded as outside the customs. Five bright and large main rooms stand side by side, showing the grandeur of the aristocratic family.

"Son, please greet Ama." As soon as Tong Jiu and Ji Lan entered the door, they heard a few "slaps" and the sound of horseshoes swinging sleeves. A half-teen-year-old boy knelt down in front of Tong Jiu.

Tong Jiu was slightly stunned, Ji Lan stretched out her hand, leading her to the main seat in the hall, and said, "This is my son, Fucha Sule, who is ten years old this year."

"My son greets my father." Su Le was still kneeling on the ground. Seeing that Tong Jiu didn't respond, his wet nurse reminded him that Tong Jiu was from Han, and asked him to say it again in Chinese.

"Oh, Su Le, get up quickly." Tong Jiu pulled a jade pendant from the other side of the belt, and handed it to Hong Xiao as a gift for the first meeting of 'father and son', and Hong Xiao handed it to Su Le who stood up.Su Le kowtowed to Ji Lan again and greeted him.

Tong Jiu looked at Su Le who was standing with his head bowed in front of the hall, and saw that he was so serious at a young age, and saw Ji Lan, the so-called adoptive mother, come back, on the surface he was respectful and affectionate, but in fact he was very alienated.

It's just a ten-year-old child. After thinking about it, he took a sip of tea, waved to him, and said with a gentle smile, "Su Le, come here."

Su Le walked up to Tong Jiu, Tong Jiu took his hand, took the jade pendant in his hand and tied it on his belt, patted his shoulder, and spoke in Manchu with an elder's earnest expression, Encouraged, "Eat more, you are not strong enough."

When she said these words, the reactions of several people present were different.Ji Lan looked at Tong Jiu's own child, who was only [-] years old, sitting there pretending, trying to bear it on the surface, but felt it was funny in his heart.

Hong Xiao, who was standing beside Tong Jiu, had red eyes. In her memory, every month on the [-]th day of the Lunar New Year, when Tong Jia's family greeted him, the old master would say these words to several young masters in this tone to show his elders of love.

"Okay, you two, the future will be long." Ji Lan got up and said to Tong Jiu respectfully and gently, "Didn't you say that you have to take a shower and wash your hands when you come back? How about going now?"

Both Tong Jiu and Hong Xiao were sensitive to the change in Ji Lan's tone, and they met their eyes.Tong Jiu stood up calmly, cleared her throat and said, "Aren't you together?"

The corner of Ji Lan's mouth twitched slightly, looked at Tong Jiu, and said with a charming smile, "I just came back, and I still have some urgent work to arrange, so I won't wait for my husband to take a bath. I will have lunch later." During the meal, I will personally prepare vegetables for my husband, okay?"

"Well, that's very good, then I'll go ahead." After speaking, the butler took Tong Jiu, Hong Xiao, Hua Jingfu and others to him.

Soon, several people walked out of the Nuan Pavilion behind the main hall.

"Sister, how are you?" Ji Lanchao gave a light salute to the visitors headed by him, smiling dignifiedly and softly, "Why did you come so early, I was thinking of waiting for us to pack up and go to the palace to pay a visit."

"Hehe, how are you?" Tuya sneered, asked the nanny to take Su Le down, looked at the beams in the main hall, and said, "The surname here is Fucha, not Han. When I want to go back to my mother's house, it depends on the time." ! Go to the palace, and bring that apprentice?"

Ji Lan was pouring tea in her hand, but kept silent, not answering her words at all.

Tuya looked at the Fucha sisters who were kneeling on the ground, and asked, "You two hoofs, that's how you serve your master? Let her run outside the pass for no reason, and be bullied by that apprentice, ruining our Fucha!" The family style of several generations of the family!" After speaking angrily, the Buddhist beads in his hand hit the coffee table and made a "pop" sound.

"Do you know what the Guan family said about you?" Tuya patted the table heartbroken, and said, "You said that you delivered it to the door by yourself-it's unbearable! You said that you lived in Beijing and ran outside the Great Wall What are you going to do in the barren land?"

"Then they are right, I delivered it to the door myself, how?" Ji Lan said frankly, a little cynically.