Cub Nursery

The year in the capital is the most important thing.

You have to start preparing one or two months in advance, prepare the best beans at home, borrow the stone mill from the neighbors, and make a pot of tofu; prepare a lot of polished rice and noodles, and steam some steamed buns to prepare for family visits before and after the Chinese New Year When visiting friends, bring some; if you are more particular, you will also want to fry noodles. The golden noodles are wrapped in a layer of caramel, which is the favorite of children.

You need to buy more meat, and prepare some vegetables, so you must not let your relatives look down on you.

But these are all ordinary families, big families don't need to worry about these things, they are all busy walking around to see if they can take the opportunity to find a good family for their brothers and sisters, and if they can promote the pillars of the family.

This year is a little different, many people have received invitations.

"Brother Zhen, what does this mean?" When the head of the Wang family saw the invitation card, he knew all the words on it. Those short and fat figures should be cubs, and they all knew them, but when the words were combined, they couldn't understand it. I don't know what it means.

Wang Zhen'er was holding a palm-sized small glass mirror, winking, "I want you to go to the show."

"Just like singing in a theater?" The Patriarch of the Wang Family responded.

"It's not that simple." Wang Zhen'er said with a smile, "Father, you can go. I can't say more about the specifics, but there are quite a few people who want to perform on stage. If you don't go, you will regret it for a year. "

Over there at Pei's house, Pei Yu'er was hiding in the room, also holding a small mirror the size of a palm.

Hearing that the head of the family came to ask, he said: "Listen to me, you must go that day, don't say that you want to have a drink with others, you can push it away."

The men in Sunjia Village stopped working ten days before the Chinese New Year with their families. They pushed and pulled them back to the village full of stuff, and cleaned them carefully for ten days. Two days before the Chinese New Year, they dragged their families back mouth into the city.

Someone asked curiously, "The Chinese New Year is coming, and you are not celebrating in the village? What happened?"

"Hey, it's nothing." Sun Yuanbao smiled honestly, "We all have something to do."

A group of people went up to the Danxin Bridge in a mighty way, and they didn't need to pay the bridge fee.

Because Yan Xun found the deputy general who defended the city in advance, and gave 500 taels of silver at once, so that everyone crossing the bridge before and after the Chinese New Year does not need to pay the bridge toll.

The fire wall was burning in the room, and the cubs were all busy working nervously.

Yan Xun came in with the baby egg in his arms. Seeing that the cubs were all nervous, he hurriedly said, "Relax and send. There are still several opportunities for rehearsals. You have performed very well."

"My lord." The snake-body cub curled up the water cup with the tip of its tail, gulping down water, "What if I'm nervous and want to go to the toilet?"

"It's okay, relax." Yan Xun pinched the snake cub's face.

When the other cubs saw it, they all ran over and let Yan Xun pinch their cheeks one by one.

A lot of work, until the day before the Chinese New Year.

Early in the morning, Qin San rode an iron donkey to the capital, first went to Zhou Guang's mansion, and then went to other scholars' mansions, all the important officials of the court went there.

Qin Liu stopped delivering hot pot a few days earlier, and has been busy working on the construction of the Nursery Hall for the past few days without touching the ground.

Qin Shisan sent another batch of silver, which was military pay.

Not long after it was built, there were eleven concrete cub statues erected on the huge concrete square.

The person who came back for the first time counted carefully, and found that the number of cubs was eleven. Aren't there ten cubs sent as hostages by the Yao Kingdom?

"The extra end is our patron saint. As long as he is there, the seaside defense line will never be broken."

"really?"

"Master Yan said, do you really mean it?"

"That should really be true."

Although the war rabbit cub has no name, what he has done is worthy of the name. He is the god of war who guards the Great Qin. Now Yan Xun not only helps him build the same cement statue as the other cubs, but also asks him to do it in the future The truth is revealed to the world.

The honor that Daqin owed him will definitely be given, and he will not be owed.

At the farthest point, there is a shelf built with steel bars, covered with steel plates.

Before it was dark and not many people came, someone had already stepped onto the stage and sang a long song.

"it is good!"

"Nice!"

One person takes the lead, and the others clap their hands and applaud.

Only Cao San didn't like it very much, so he hurried up to the stage and said, "Song Feiliang is only capable at this point. Today I will play a tune for you all. If it sounds good, please give me a round of applause!"

Someone couldn't understand and asked quietly, "What is applause?"

"It's just clapping your hands and making a noise." Someone hastily explained.

When it was dark, colorful glass oil lamps suddenly lit up around the table, and a circle of huge lanterns was lit along the huge square, hanging high.

The head of the Wang family sat in the carriage, crossed Danxin Bridge, and arrived at the square.

A man had been waiting for a long time, leading the head of the Wang family to come forward.

"Old Zhou." Seeing Zhou Guang, the Patriarch of the Wang family hastily bowed his hands.

"Come and sit down." Zhou Guang said cheerfully.

Although Zhou Guang has withdrawn from the cabinet, he is now helping Yan Xun to manage all the workshops, even Yang Shuning has to listen to his opinions, and he belongs to the royalist faction, and his status is now higher than when he was in the cabinet a cut.

Today, the other four grand scholars of the cabinet have come. They first came to see Zhou Guang, and took the initiative to sit in the subordinate position.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that Zhou Guang's status is very high, and Yan Xun is still the young minister of Honglu Temple, and he has not jumped out of Daqin and become something else.

The boys brought the hot charcoal stove and the iron pan.

When everyone saw it, they knew that it must be a hot pot. Sure enough, the servants quickly brought fresh meat and vegetables, as well as clean chopsticks, dishes and so on.

Roasting the stove and eating hot pot, it is warm and lively.

Suddenly, with a bang, a huge firework exploded above the stage, instantly illuminating all kinds of faces under the stage.

"Does the hot pot smell delicious?" Yan Xun led the cubs to the stage and said with a smile.

He was holding a strange tube with a big end and a small end in his hand, his voice was not loud, and there was a hint of a smile. The people present could hear it clearly, and they subconsciously sniffed. The smell of hot pot was really delicious.

"I am very grateful that everyone came to join us today, let's not talk nonsense, let's invite everyone to watch the show." Yan Xun said again, and left the stage.

On the stage, only Huashu Cub was left standing alone. He cleared his throat and said loudly: "Then the first program: Jinsong. Please enjoy it."

The little cub was small, neither humble nor overbearing, and his appearance was completely different from ordinary children, but the people who saw him didn't think he was a monster and special, but looked at the flower tree cub in awe.

The servant of the official department, Xianping, was at the table, and the person next to him whispered, "Is that Doctor Xiaohua?"

"Yeah, he healed my leg." Xianping smiled, "Don't underestimate him, don't forget that his master is Mr. Huo, and Mr. Huo is famous for protecting his weaknesses. If you offend him If you leave Doctor Xiaohua, Mr. Huo will come and beat you to death."

"How dare you, I always feel uncomfortable in my shoulders these days, and I want to ask Doctor Xiao Hua to help me see a doctor." The man hurriedly said.

"Oh, Jinsong is such a performance." Xianping looked up and was immediately attracted.

The performance was very mysterious, even Wang Zhen'er and Pei Yu'er's family didn't know about it, they thought it was an ordinary stage performance, but now when Zi Jinsong performed, everyone knew it was completely different from singing.

Dozens of good-looking, tall and extremely capable Taoist soldiers stacked Arhats on the platform, jumped around, and flew in the air for a long time before falling down.

When everyone was watching in a daze, Li Gouzi on the stage suddenly shouted: "How many bloodthirsty fish monsters have we killed by the sea!"

All Taoist soldiers immediately shouted a huge number.

"How many people have we died!" Li Gouzi hoarse.

"Zero!" Everyone shouted together.

"I am for the people, and I have no regrets in dying." Li Gouzi shouted again, and all the Taoist soldiers shouted together.

The scene was silent for a moment, and everyone trembled slightly. Perhaps they hadn't realized the cruelty of the seaside before, but at this moment, when monsters invaded the border in the past, the dead Taoist soldiers and the surviving Taoist soldiers all came out from the depths of their memories. .

This time a bloodthirsty fish demon appeared on the beach, and no one has died so far, and suddenly tears filled everyone's eyes.

Among those Dao soldiers, some were their classmates, some were their relatives and friends. They went to the most dangerous places with their cultivation bases in order to protect the people and their families behind them.

Finally, Song Feiliang slowly rose from under the platform, reciting a poem called 'Jin Song'.

After getting off the stage, Li Gouzi hurriedly wiped the sweat off his face, took a sip of hot water and said, "My lord, is my performance okay? So many people are watching, I'm too nervous."

"General Yang also took a look just now, and he just left now." Yan Xun smiled, "General said, it's cheap for you, take a day off today, and tomorrow I will go to guard the promotion."

"Hey, that's what it should be." Li Gouzi said honestly.

"Okay, change your clothes quickly, go eat hot pot, your table has already been reserved." Yan Xun smiled.

These Taoist soldiers were all wearing thin clothes for the show, and they didn't feel cold in the concrete room behind the stage, anyway, they had to change clothes if they wanted to go out.

"My lord." The snake cub was swimming around in the room, very nervous.

Yan Xun grabbed the snake cub and squeezed his face, "Don't be nervous. I'll just touch the egg baby for you, here..."

The little cub poked Baby Egg with the tip of its tail, took a deep breath and said, "Well, it's really much better."

When it was finally time to play, Yan Xun solemnly nodded to the cubs, encouraging him: "Everyone is the best, don't worry, I will be on the court too, I can solve anything, don't worry."

"I'm here too." Jing Fengye also stood up.

"En." The cubs all nodded.

A huge stencil, with a mountain drawn on it, was invited to splash ink by famous landscape masters in the capital.There are two mountains in total, one for Yan Xun and one for Jing Fengye. The task of the two is to perform the mountain.

The first one to appear is the war rabbit cub, lying on the ground, wearing clothes that look thin, but in fact there are thick fur inside, but from a distance, the little cub is naked and freezing shivering.

There was a stone made of flour fruit on the ground. The little cub picked it up and ate it hungrily.

Not far away is a piece of green noodle fruit, which is a lifelike leaf. The little cub hurriedly crawled over it, looked at it with joy, and then chewed it happily.

The Huashu cub took the lead and appeared behind the two mountains with other cubs, looking curiously at the war rabbit cub lying on the ground in the distance picking up 'stones' and 'leaves' to eat.

"Roar!" A hideous monster appeared on the other side.

The jacket made of cloth looks like a real monster, with sharp fangs, powerful fins, and a blasted tail fin that is as sharp as a blade.

Everyone in the audience tensed up instantly.

Suddenly, the war rabbit cub jumped up, grabbed the monster, cut off its head neatly, and fell steadily to the ground.

The ferocious fish demon lost its head, and its body quickly turned into a white skeleton, standing on the table exuding a chill.

The little cubs behind the mountain saw it and ran out quickly.

"It was you who killed the fish demon." The flower tree cub said, stretching out its paw at the war rabbit cub, with a piece of sweet and delicious caramel in the center of the paw.

The war rabbit cub picked up the caramel, slowly opened it and ate it, followed the cubs slowly towards the rockery, and went back behind Yan Xun and Jing Fengye.Yan Xun and Jing Fengye looked at each other, moved quickly with the rockery, and stepped off the stage.

The adults in the audience all looked awe-inspiring, but the children were all happy.

Brother Han imitated the appearance of fighting the cubs, twisting on Lu Chengcai's body and shouting, "Fish demon, take your life!"

"Father, I can tell. That kind of monster is not a good thing at first glance, and should be killed." Brother Han twisted his body and got off Lu Chengcai, and ran over to find Zhou Ruizhi, Brother Dan, and Xiaoyou. Son, Sun Chener.

Several children got together and quickly assigned tasks.

Zhou Ruizhi plays the war rabbit cubs, Dan Ge and Sun Chener play the cubs, and little Youer takes a wooden board and pretends to be a monster.

When the other children saw it, they all watched it quietly, while carefully remembering in their hearts that when they went back, they would also ask their friends to play the role of killing monsters, which sounded majestic.

In the cement room behind the table, the war rabbit cubs drank water from a wooden bowl, sweating profusely on their foreheads.Yan Xun hurriedly took a handkerchief to wipe the sweat of Zhantu Cub, "You acted very well, I have seen it all."

"So nervous!" The snake cub also ran over to wrap its own wooden bowl with the tip of its tail, and gulped water.

He hid behind the rockery with the little cubs, and then swam around on the stage without saying a word, so he was so nervous that he poured a lot of water, let alone the war rabbit cubs.

"My lord." The war rabbit cub puffed out his chest and burped.

The noodles on the table are made exactly the same as stones and leaves for the sake of realism, and for the people below to see clearly, the 'stones' and 'leaves' are both very large, and the cubs of the war rabbits gobbled them up, and now there are still some Little support.

"Very good, we all put on thick jackets, let's go out to watch the performance." Yan Xun took the egg baby, led the cubs out of the cement room, and went to the front to watch the performance with everyone.

The fiery red coals were placed under the table, just enough to warm the legs, and there was an iron basin on it, and the soup inside was gurgling and steaming.

Yan Xun held the egg baby in one hand, and picked up slices of meat with chopsticks in the other.

Jing Fengye sat next to him, and stretched out his hand to cover Dan Baobao and Yan Xun's hands, "My lord, they are all very happy."

The hot pot was steaming, and everyone was eating the hot pot with chopsticks while watching the performance on the stage. Some of them were too absorbed in watching, and the meat slices they put in the hot pot were gone, so they had to put vegetables in it with beard and stare.

The servant shuttled back and forth carrying vegetables and meat without stopping.

Yan Xun saw the young servant coming out with the wine jar, so he yelled: "The wine is here, everyone will not go home today if they are not drunk!"

"Don't get drunk, don't go home!"

"Don't get drunk, don't go home!"

Yan Xun also poured some wine for himself, the cub with the snake body saw it, and his round face immediately wrinkled like a steamed stuffed bun, and whispered: "The wine is not good at all, it is very spicy."

"We have juice, drink juice." The war rabbit cub brought a large glass bottle, which contained very beautifully colored juice.

"My lord, I respect you." Jing Fengye raised his wine glass and drank it with his head raised.

Yan Xun also picked up his wine glass and finished.

After drinking a glass of wine, Yan Xun became dizzy, clutching the warm egg baby, squinting at Jing Fengye, then suddenly fell into his arms, muttering: "Sleep, sleep for a while."

"My lord." Jing Fengye hurriedly hugged Yan Xun, took off the cloak on his body, and covered him.

At some point, Yan Xun opened his eyes in a daze, and found himself in the room.

The oil lamp was bright and dazzling, and it became very quiet outside. Yan Xun stretched out his hand to touch it, but found no baby egg, and there were no cubs on the kang, "What time is it?"

Jing Fengye came in with a basin of hot water, and helped Yan Xun wipe his hands and face, "It's all scattered outside."

"Send all the flower and wine to the beach?" Yan Xun rubbed his forehead, feeling a little headache.

"Sent it off, the beach is very quiet." Jing Feng said at night.

When the outside was about to end, fireworks rose into the sky one after another, and the sound went off for half an hour.In the past, setting off a single firework could scare away the bloodthirsty fish demon, but this time it was set off for half an hour, and the bloodthirsty fish demon would definitely not dare to go ashore at night.

Except for the night watchmen, the Taoist soldiers at the seaside all got full-fledged flower wine, which would prevent hangovers and headaches, and keep them healthy. Yan Xun approved them alone.

"Are they all asleep?" Yan Xun glanced at the small room opposite.

"They're all asleep." Jing Fengye said, "Baby Dan is over there too."

The cubs like to sleep with their egg babies very much. For this reason, they have specially cleaned up their own nests. During the day, the sun is warm and exudes a fragrance, and at night they shrink to In the nest, sleeping with the egg baby in his arms.

Jing Fengye took out the hot water and came back with a glass bottle and a bottle of medicinal wine.

"Push your back?" Yan Xun stiffened under the quilt.

Thinking about it carefully, he seems to have done nothing during the day, and he seems to have done a lot of things, and now his whole body is sore and sore.It's just that she has been lying down and sleeping, how did Jing Fengye know?

Jing Fengye lit the alcohol lamp and poured some medicinal wine in his hand, "Your Excellency has always been soft, only hard when you are tired. Usually it is like dough, fragrant and soft..."

"No way." Yan Xun couldn't help but raised his arm and smelled it, but there was nothing there.

"Really, the little cubs can also smell it, saying that the scent on the adult is the most fragrant, even more fragrant than the sweet-scented osmanthus tree outside." Jing Fengye said, stretching his hand under the quilt to help Yan Xun massage.

"Little cub..." Yan Xun suddenly thought of his own appearance, he always thought that he should be more ordinary looking, but now he became the prettiest one.

For this reason, Jia Buzhen went crazy.

It made many people in the capital want to take a closer look at what Yan Xun looks like, but they dare not look at it, for fear that they will go crazy, but they are not reconciled if they don’t look at it. It is said that someone outside painted a portrait of Yan Xun, saying that they will definitely not be able to see the portrait Crazy, you can practice your eyes in advance.

"What's the matter?" Yan Xun turned over and said lazily, "Push the front as well."

Jing Fengye's hand was very hot, and it felt very comfortable when it was attached to his body. Yan Xun felt his body relaxed a lot, so he was ready to sleep.

"My lord?" Jing Fengye called out tentatively, seeing that Yan Xun didn't respond, he secretly picked up the oil lamp and moved closer so that he could see more clearly...

Yan Xun thought he would sleep soundly, but as soon as he closed his eyes, he began to dream. In the dream, there was a pair of fiery eyes staring at him. Every time he put on his clothes, those eyes burst into flames. Burn the clothes.

Those eyes are very familiar, but Yan Xun just can't figure out who it is, he is exhausted physically and mentally.

Early the next morning, the cubs got up excitedly, put on the new clothes they found last night, ran to the opposite room one by one, lay down in front of the kang, and stared at Yan Xun.

Dan Baobao's nest was also replaced with a new one, held by the war rabbit cubs, shaking from side to side.

As soon as Yan Xun opened his eyes, he met the eyes of the cubs.

"My lord, Happy New Year." The cubs said in unison, "It's time to wear new clothes."

"En." Yan Xun quickly got up.

Put on new clothes and lead the little cubs out.

The outside has been cleaned up, and the people who came yesterday also went back overnight.The table was still there, Yan Xun led the cubs around and asked with a smile, "Did you have a good time last night?"

"Okay!" The snake cub swam over and looked up at the high platform. "I was very nervous when I went up, but it's much better now. Sir, will we have a chance to go up in the future?"

Although few adults spoke to the cubs last night, the children quickly understood the story they acted out, and even quickly learned to act.

Seeing so many children imitating themselves, the little cubs were proud and happy.

"Of course there is a chance." Yan Xun pinched the snake-bodied cub's face, "Come on, let's go to another place."

Today's Chinese New Year, Xiao Shitou and others all have a decent home, and they still live in a decent cement building. This year can be said to be extremely happy.Sun Yuanbao and others also performed a show last night. After the performance, they left the city and returned to the village after the performance. There were a lot of them, and Yan Xun had already made arrangements at the city guard so that they could travel unimpeded.

The lanterns on the side of the road are still hanging high, and they will be lit again at night.

Those who returned to the capital last night had a rest all night, and when they got up again during the day, thinking about the scene performed by the cubs, they were all in a cold sweat.Last night, I drank wine, ate hot pot, and had a lot of fun. I didn't think too much about it. Today, when I think about it, my brain seems to be about to explode.

But this is the only play performed by the cubs. The children don't understand the songs sung, the piano played, and the learning of the adults, but they are interested in the performances of the cubs. Then other children who had never seen before joined in.

Children can be seen everywhere on the street holding stones and sticks, shouting, "Kill you fish monster!"

The child pretending to be a fish demon hurriedly threw his head in his hands to admit defeat, stood up and ran away laughing and laughing with other children.

No one expected that such a scene would sweep all the children like a plague.