Shangshi female official

Wang Yifu was thinking about Du Jingmo's mother in her heart, and she just poked the pine nuts with her chopsticks in a daze. She didn't know what kind of illness the old man had, whether it was serious or not.

Shen Ci boiled the meat for Yue Hong and Xu Xinyan to eat, but Yue Hong was the only one who drank and ate meat openly, and said with a smile: "You all have sour faces, this is Chinese New Year, you have to have a good laugh."

"Isn't that right." Shen Ci put the boiled mutton into Wang Yifu's bowl, and said, "You ate less today, so much delicious food was for nothing."

After hearing the two of them singing together, Wang Yifu poured wine immediately, and continued, "Let's have another drink."

Although it was a drink, Wang Yifu only took a sip, one sip of the wine and one sip of the meat, and she slowly became happy again.

The four people in the dining room drank and ate meat again. When they were almost finished, they collected their things and put out melon seeds, peanuts, walnuts and other things to watch the new year together.

When it was near childbirth, Xu Xinyan yawned again and again, Shen Ci took out Moxie's recliner and let Xu Xinyan sleep, while she boiled water, and she wanted to eat dumplings at childbirth, to have a festive reunion at the end of the year.

The three gathered around a copper basin, holding a bowl of dumplings, some firewood was burnt in the basin, the fire in the stove on New Year's Eve could not be extinguished, Shen Ci greeted the fire, sat down beside Wang Yifu, suddenly He let out a long sigh.

"What's wrong?" Wang Yifu asked, picking up the dumplings in the bowl, "Why are you doing well, you sighed again."

"To be honest, tonight I feel a little uncomfortable in my heart. We were originally uneven, and we all left one by one. It doesn't look like a good omen."

"Shen Ci, it's just that everyone has something to do, you're thinking too much."

"I hope I think too much..."

Yue Hong fiddled with the firewood in the copper basin, Wang Yifu put some chestnuts in it, and added three or four finger-long sweet potatoes.

He piled up the firewood, and said with a smile: "Why, Shen Ci, you are so superstitious. My godfather is more or less the abbot of a small temple. He also said that if you believe it, you will have it, and if you don't believe it, you will have nothing. The illusion of the heart, you have to find stability in your own heart."

"That's right, Shen Ci, don't worry about hurting your body."

Although Shen Ci listened with a smile, wanting to make them feel at ease, her eyebrows were still locked, Wang Yifu turned to Yue Hong to persuade her from worrying, "Brother Yue, how did you celebrate the New Year when you were young? "

"What can I do to celebrate the New Year in the temple? Mostly I play by myself, picking wild fruits, catching rabbits, and digging bamboo shoots in the mountains. In a few years, the local gentry were superstitious and sent their children to the mountains to bring them home. We just A child throws stones at a time."

"What about New Year's Eve?"

"On New Year's Eve, the godfathers have to pray for the people all night. I can't bear to read the scriptures for one night. It's okay for godfathers to listen to the scriptures occasionally, but they feel bored after listening to them for a long time. He said that I am not enlightened and have no connection with Buddha. .”

"There are a lot of people in this world who have no relationship with Buddha. Who is born with the heart of asceticism?"

"Don't tell me, this heart really has an innate saying. Some people are born thinking that they should enter the Tao, so they enter the Tao. If it's just that life has changed, and they practice to escape the suffering in the world, but they suffer from the attachment to suffering, and still It can't be fixed."

Shen Ci changed a cup of tea for Yue Hong, and finally lost her worried look, and said, "This statement sounds new."

"It's what my godfather said, and I don't really understand it. At that time, I only followed the monk's horse step and practiced the stick technique every day, and I had no interest in Buddhism."

"Everyone has his own aspirations."

In the middle of the night, there can still be a lot of voices persuading people to drink near the dining room. All the palaces and courtyards are watching the new year. It is lively and lively, and it is not lonely.

"Eve, how were you when you were a child?"

Wang Yifu sat by the fire and stretched out her five fingers to keep warm. The light from the fire was also warm on her face. She said with a faint smile: "When I was very young, I ran around with my mother, and I didn't have a few days to live. During the Chinese New Year, my... Er Niang made a bowl of braised pork, and I was often too poor to eat, and the potatoes were buried under the braised pork, but I thought the potatoes were delicious."

Shen Ci said anxiously: "Why didn't you say it earlier, I will at least make a copy for you to try today."

"My mother is gone, what's the use of this dish."

Shen Ci's shoulders slumped slowly, and after a while he said: "It's also a thought."

"No need, I'm not the kind of person who loves bitterness and sweetness. If I say it's better now, I don't need food and don't worry about clothes."

"Then your father..."

As soon as Shen Ci's words came out, she felt that it was inappropriate. Yue Hong was still here, so she brought it up rashly, revealing Wang Yifu's innermost thoughts.

"I'm still looking, maybe I can't find it, it's okay if I can't find it."

Yue Hong had sharp ears, and when he heard this, he recommended himself: "Efu, if you want to find someone, I can also inquire for you."

"No need for now, if necessary, I will tell you, Brother Yue."

"Okay, remember to tell me."

They just chatted like this, gossiping nonsense until morning, Wang Yifu went back to the Sixth Division one step earlier, and it happened to be her turn to serve the meal on the first day of the new year, so she had to change clothes early in the morning to accompany Chen Arrived at the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

As soon as they arrived, they bowed and took a step back. Li Niangniang just came out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, sat in the warm sedan chair, and the group left in the direction of Yongshou Palace.

The Hall of Mental Cultivation is brightly lit, and there is a faint scent of flowers when you enter the room. The room is filled with fresh potted plants and flowers, and the earth dragon is burning warmly.

The clothes of everyone in the room are bright, and the head eunuchs of the internal affairs supervisor still have flowers on their heads.

The emperor was wearing an auspicious suit embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon on a jade red background. The emperor looked a little tired, but he still sat up straight and sat upright.

In the morning, all the people who came to serve meals had to kneel down and say auspicious words to the emperor. Only when the emperor was happy did they begin to spread the meals.

There are also various breakfast meals in the imperial dining room. There are white porridge, millet porridge, red bean and barley porridge, salty bone porridge, five-color rice porridge, five kinds of flower rolls, seven kinds of vegetarian stuffed buns, five kinds of meat stuffed buns, and rolls. Cakes, pancakes, and pies are also prepared, but they are placed farther away, probably for display.

The most important thing on the first day of the new year is the red, yellow, white, green and purple dumplings served in golden bowls. The dumplings must be placed on the small table in front of the emperor. After the meal is set, the sky is gradually getting brighter.

Don't eat at this time, in front of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the eunuchs will first set off paper cannons, and after that, Eunuch Chou throws the door latch on the ground three times, calling it "drop a thousand pieces of gold". After hearing three beeps, the emperor starts to eat dumplings.

"Chen Shangshi, is there any allusion to this dumpling?"

When Mother Chen heard the emperor's question, she put down her silver chopsticks, bowed to the emperor, and said, "Go back to the emperor, this dumpling is in the kitchen, there is really something to say."