The Red House of the Concubine of the Jia Family

The moment she saw Jia Xuan's head full of emeralds and beautiful clothes, Jia's mother was taken aback for a moment, but after all, she had experienced some storms, so she quickly realized that she smiled and waved for Jia Xuan's mother and son to come forward.

Although Jia Xuan was worried about the long nails on Mother Jia's hands, she still pulled Qi An to bow to Mother Jia, "Greetings to Mother, is Mother still in good health?"

"Kang Jian, Kang Jian, this is Qi An, right? Quick, come and show grandma..."

Mother Jia beckoned, but Jia Xuan had to let go and sent Qi An to Mother Jia.

Fortunately, this child, Qi An, is not born. When he saw Mother Jia, he knew that this was the old lady Mother had mentioned, so he hurriedly called out sweetly, "Grandmother!"

"Oh, what a pain." Seeing Mother Jia touching Qi An's face with her fingertips, Jia Xuan almost tensed up and rushed forward.

"Old lady, son-in-law Lu Yan greets you..." Lu Yan saluted outside at the right time, and while Jia Mu was answering, Jia Xuan quickly dragged Qi An to her. hurt.

After greeting each other, greeting each other, and talking for a while, Mother Jia finally left food.

The second sister-in-law, Mrs. Wang, served Jia Mu's meals standing up, which made Jia Xuan, who was sitting and eating, very uncomfortable.After finally coming out of Jia Mu's yard after being unable to eat, the second sister-in-law Wang Shi came to her before she had time to catch her breath.

"Three Sisters"

Speaking of "Second Sister-in-law", Mrs. Wang has also been married to Jia's family for more than ten years, but the chances of the two of them getting along is almost zero, so there is no friendship at all.Jia Xuan also couldn't figure out why the Wang family came together?

The doubts on Jia Xuan's face can be said to be undisguised, and Wang naturally understood it. Originally, she thought that Lu Yan was just asking him to point out her pearl. Seeing Jia Xuan like this, she didn't want to speak. Well, anyway, Pearl has a nice gentleman around now

In the end, Mrs. Wang just came over to say hello, and left without saying anything, which made Jia Xuan and Lu Yan confused, and the stepmother just put her hands away.

The next day, Jia Xuan and Lu Yan took Xiao Qi'an to visit the Lin Mansion again, and Lin Ruhai took Lu Yan to the study outside. Jia Min treated Jia Xuan indifferently, and the two talked for a long time in a neutral manner. Fortunately, I could tease Xiao Qi'an from time to time, so Jia Xuan didn't suffocate to death.

After visiting the Lin Mansion, Jia Xuan stayed in the Kuayuan and did not go out for business.

Lu Yan reads and writes articles every day, and occasionally visits Lin's mansion.

At first, Jia Zheng also sent someone to invite Lu Yan, but after two visits, Lu Yan didn't want to go anymore.

The days are like running water, fleeting, and in a blink of an eye, it will be the Chinese New Year.

In previous years, she had already returned to Lujia Village by this time, and started frying various fruits with her mother-in-law and two sister-in-laws. This year, because it was in Jia's mansion, the kitchen was inconvenient to use, so Jia Xuan did not do this.I just rushed to work with Zhouer and Chuaner to make new clothes for my family.

Jia Xuan also sent letters for the proceeds from the Zhuangzi and the shop to wait for them to return after the next year, but the rewards and new clothes for the New Year were sent in advance.

On New Year's Eve, Jia Xuan and the others did not go to join in the fun with Jia's mansion, but spent money to order two tables of noodles from the big kitchen, one table for the three of them together, and the other table for Zhouer, Chuan Son.

"Third brother, if you pass the entrance examination in Chunwei next year, can you stay in the capital?"

"Let's not talk about whether you can pass the exam. If you pass the exam, those with the highest rankings will stay in the capital and enter the Imperial Academy. The rest will depend on whether they are officials in the capital or sent out." If his grades can keep up by then, Lin Ruhai should let him stay in the capital.In this way, if there is any trouble in the capital, he can help him watch it.Of course, it must be a small official like the seventh or eighth rank at the beginning.

"It's all good. It doesn't matter whether you stay in the capital or go out. Anyway, you're still young and you can make troubles." Jia Xuan didn't care where to go, as long as the whole family was together.

"Well, it's too early to say this. Let's eat."

After the New Year's Eve dinner, Jia Xuan made a pot of tea and asked Zhou'er to prepare a few dishes of snacks. They talked and laughed and kept vigil.

In ancient times, there was no Spring Festival Gala to pass the time. After talking for a while, Jia Xuan became sleepy. When the clock struck, Jia Xuan was so sleepy that she couldn't keep her eyes open.

"Happy New Year, Happy New Year..." Everyone said some auspicious words to each other, and then hurriedly packed up and went to sleep. They had to go to greet Jiamu tomorrow morning.

During the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, it was rare for Lu Yan to put down his books and go out for a stroll with his wife and children.

The Lantern Festival in Beijing is very lively. Before the sky gets dark, all kinds of Lantern Festival lanterns are already hung on both sides of the street, including rabbit lanterns, lion lanterns, lotus lanterns, goldfish lanterns, etc. There are so many beautiful things in eyes that people can’t see them all.

It was the first time Qi An saw such a scene, his big eyes rolled around, as if he couldn't see it.

"There is a stall selling glutinous rice balls over there, first go there to eat a bowl of glutinous rice balls and rest your feet."

The glutinous rice balls are sold by three generations of mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparents and grandchildren. The daughter-in-law makes the dumplings, the mother-in-law cooks them, and the grandson watches the fire, and helps collect the dishes and chopsticks by the way.

"The boss brought two bowls of glutinous rice balls, one with black sesame filling, and one with red bean paste..."

The family of three sat down, and after a while, the mother-in-law, grandson and grandson who sold the glutinous rice balls brought over two bowls of glutinous rice balls. "Guest officer, your glutinous rice balls, this bowl is made of sesame seeds, that bowl is made of red bean paste..."

The glutinous rice balls are medium in size, there are six in a bowl, the portion is not bad.Bite open, the fragrant sesame smell hits the nostrils. "Well, the sesame smells very fragrant. It tastes good. Qi An, come, I'll give you a taste..." Qi An was still young, and Jia Xuan only gave him a small bite of the filling, "How is it? Is it delicious?" ? Is it fragrant?"

“Delicious and fragrant”

"Then let's try the ones in dad's bowl..." As he said that, Lu Yan also fed Qi An a sip of bean paste stuffing, and the sweet little guy squinted his eyes.

"Still eating..."

"This is made of glutinous rice. It's not easy to digest. Let's eat it next time, okay? Look, there are a lot of lights over there. Didn't you want it just now? Let's ask Daddy to win one for me, okay?"

Of the two bowls of glutinous rice balls, Jia Xuan only ate two of each flavor, and stopped eating, and the rest went into Lu Yan's stomach.

After eating glutinous rice balls, the sky was getting dark, and lanterns were lit everywhere. It was rare for Jia Xuan to see bright lights in this ancient time...

After paying the money, the couple, Lu Yan hugged Xiao Qi'an with one hand and Jia Xuan with the other, and walked along the crowd, stopping in front of the stall selling lanterns from time to time.

Lantern riddles are prepared at most of the stalls. Guess ten copper coins once, and the corresponding lantern can be given to customers if you guess correctly.

"Father, that, that..." Looking along the little guy's little finger, he saw a vivid lamb lamp.The three lambs on the lantern circle around the lantern, but they are vivid and lovely.

"I want that too..."