Xian Sun of the Ning Mansion of the Red Chamber

Chapter 49 The first snow coincides with the festival

Early this morning, Jia Ying had just left the room, and the bitter cold made him shiver, and when he looked up, it was already a vast expanse of whiteness outside.

Xi'er and the old servant were clearing the snow in the yard. The first snow this winter finally arrived as the year was approaching.

"Master, it's snowing! It's so white!" At this age, Xi'er saw Beiguo's silver outfit for the first time, but she couldn't help feeling excited. Looking at the footprints all over the yard, she knew that the child had gone crazy.

Joy will be passed on, seeing Xi'er's face full of glory, Jia Ying's mood also became joyful.

This is also the first time he has seen snow in his life. Snow in southern Xinjiang is rare after all, and it is divided into places. He has never seen it in these years!
"Thinking about it, the younger sisters in the West Mansion should also be having fun, but I don't know the difference between the snow scene in Yangzhou and the one in the capital."

Jia Ying took Qi Sixian to the West Mansion together, before going to the Rongqing Hall to greet Jiamu, she met Daiyu Baoyu and the others outside the flower hall.

"Brother Yinger, sister Sixian, we are discussing going to the West Mansion to visit you!" This winter snow really brought a little joy to Daiyu. Normally she was dressed in plain clothes, but today she wore extra A crane cloak with a red feather veil and a white fox fur lining makes people feel warm when they see it.

Daiyu was dressed in red, and when it was snowing slightly, she stood gracefully like a plum blossom in the twelfth lunar month.

Jia Ying praised aloud: "What a charming fairy descended to earth!"

When Daiyu heard this, she nodded sweetly.

After hearing this, several of her younger sisters gathered around one after another, wanting to hear a compliment.

The three sisters are also like Daiyu, all dressed in gorilla felt and feather cloaks.

Jia Ying asked curiously, "Did you discuss it today?"

Tanchun said: "Sister Lin's clothes were chosen by the old lady, but we don't have that blessing. We chose them ourselves. How about red plums and white snow?"

Jia Ying thought to herself: "That's right, compared with two concubines and girls from the East Mansion, the old lady still prefers to kiss her grandson."

Second Master Bao was not far behind: "Second Brother Ying, why don't you look at me?"

Baoyu is still the golden white butterfly wearing flowers and red arrow sleeves, with a collar, precious jade, and a name lock. He loves red more than anyone else, including red rouge.

Jia Ying thought to herself, "Do you still use people to praise you?"

It has to be said that Jia Ying is jealous of Baoyu's skin. So far, among the people Jia Ying has met, only Shui Rong can compare with him.

Immediately teasingly said: "Yo, the stubborn stone is wearing a red dress, why does he look like a big girl?"

Who knows that Baoyu would not be angry but smiled and said, "Second brother Ying, you are a vulgar person. What's wrong with being a girl?"

Jia Ying didn't refute it either, Second Master Bao's world view was quite different from his!
Then he asked everyone, "Why are you all here? I'll go and say hello to the old lady."

Tanchun said: "A few old wives from old families came into the room just now, and now they are talking to the old lady in the room. We are young and can't get in the conversation, so we come out."

Tomorrow is the Spring Festival, and all relatives and friends have started to move around.

When Jia Ying heard this, she stopped and chatted with the sisters again.

"What are the arrangements for the first month?"

It was also the first time for Daiyu to celebrate the Spring Festival in Jia's mansion, so she had to learn the rules of the Hou Men's mansion in advance.

I only heard Tan Chun say: "In the past, the Spring Festival was celebrated in a normal way. The few of us kept the New Year's Eve together. On the first day of the first day of the new year, we had to go to the old lady and the wife to say hello, and then go to the front yard to say hello to the old man and father, and then Worshiping the ancestral hall, the family gathers together to be lively, and at most invite a few sets of troupes, which is nothing new."

After changing the subject, he looked at Daiyu and Jia Ying again and said, "This year, there are more people. With the addition of Brother Ying, Sister Lin, and Sister Sixian, it should be more lively than in previous years, but there is nothing good at the moment. Arrangement! Brother Ying, do you have any good ideas?"

Everyone looked over again.

Jia Ying lowered her head and thought for a while, "How about this, let's play poker on New Year's Eve and set off fireworks. Let alone the first and second grades, I will teach you a new way of playing chess and cards on the third grade, and tell you stories on the fourth grade. Listen to the opera on the fifth and sixth day, and I will be the host on the seventh day. How about we go to the street to watch the lanterns until the Lantern Festival?"

Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this, and they asked one by one: "Second brother Ying, what's the new way to play chess and cards, and what are poker cards?"

"Also, are we going to set off the fireworks ourselves? I watched fireworks in previous years, but I haven't tried it myself."

"Yes, there is also watching lanterns. The old lady said that on the day of Lantern Festival, it was very chaotic outside. We are young, so we are only allowed to watch our own house in the mansion. It is better, but it is strange."

For the two festivals of Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, poor families have their own way of living, and rich families have their own way of living, but the girls in the deep house compound can hardly see the lively scene outside, while those of poor families all gather in Together, or the father led the daughter to the street to catch the temple fair, and tasted the warmth of family affection.

But like Jia's family, the courtyard is deep and well-regulated, and the gentlemen have a lot of entertainment. It is destined that the girls will not be able to appreciate the intimacy of the low-level people's family.Especially since they were still young, the mansion did not dare to let them watch the lanterns easily. Didn't Zhen Shiyin's family experience the tragic situation, did it start from watching the lanterns for the Lantern Festival?
At this time, Jia Ying proposed to show them the lanterns, but it was actually just her own idea. Whether the trip can be made or not depends on whether the old lady agrees, and whether Jia Zheng agrees.

As for playing cards, Jia Ying wanted to make a pair of mahjong in Japan, to see what kind of scene a few sisters gathered together and shouted yao***wan. Unfortunately, the craftsman said that this is a delicate job, and it will be done in a short time. not come out.

Jia Ying was disappointed, but thought of poker again.

Playing cards are easy to make, just replace the Arabic numerals with capitalized ones, twos and threes, hearts and spades can also be drawn, just use ink to color them.

The key is the material. The wooden cards are too thick to hold more than a dozen cards in one palm. Jia Ying thought about whether it is possible to soak rice paper and fold it up, but it is also troublesome to make. Row?Moreover, the paper after soaking and air drying is crumpled and not easy to use at all.

In the end, Jia Ying thought of a way to cut out some scraps of fabric, stick them together with paste, then compact them and dry them, then apply a layer of white paint, and that's it!

It's still thicker than the paper version of playing cards, but it will work!
Jia Ying doesn't really know how to play poker, but he knows how to fight the landlord!

Jia Ying looked at the girls in front of her and counted silently in her heart: "One for Daiyu, three for Sanchun, one for Qi Sixian, and a few more daughters-in-law of the same generation, enough to form two or three rounds. Barely count Baoyu as well."

At that time, the whole family will sit on the top of the hot kang, with their legs crossed, playing cards, kneading melon seeds and eating candied fruit.

Seeing a few girls asking him, Jia Ying made a fool of himself and said, "You will find out on New Year's Eve!"

Having said that, Daiyu suggested again: "Every family has been writing Spring Festival couplets for the past two days. It's still early, why don't we write couplets and hang new peaches?"

Everyone was moved, and immediately they discussed going to Li Wan's courtyard.

How could the girls in Jia's mansion hold literary conferences without this Li Gongcai!

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