Ning Chen Ling Xiao

It will soon be the end of the new year, the twelfth lunar month will be officially sealed, and the emperors and grandchildren will no longer have to go to the Xinxin Academy. Chu Yifeng is naturally happy to know the news, but after thinking about it, he is depressed again. The emperors and grandchildren do not need to go to the Xinxin Academy. School, the accompanying readers naturally don't have to go anymore.

"Teacher will not come back until the 30th day of the first lunar month. It will be a month..." Chu Yifeng mumbled while nestling in the fluffy and thick quilt, "One month, [-] days."

Ling Xiao chuckled, sat up and took a soft pillow and leaned against his back, gently stroked Chu Yifeng's hair, looked at the young man's delicate eyebrows and eyes under the candlelight and said in a low voice: "I will definitely come back after the New Year to greet my aunt , the crown prince would accompany his aunt back to the Jingguo Mansion on the third day of the lunar new year, and I would naturally take the pheasant to pay New Year's greetings to my uncle on that day, as well as the banquet on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, wouldn't we have to see him three times?"

"There are many people when I see you." Chu Yifeng buried his face in Ling Xiao's palm and murmured, "I can't say anything."

After thinking about it, Ling Xiao knew how boring the child would be this month, so he could only coax him: "I tried to find a way to go to the palace to pay my respects? I went back and found something interesting for you, huh?"

Chu Yifeng nodded slightly better, then remembered something again, and froze his head: "That's right! When I went to pay my respects today, my mother told me not to be sad all the time. If the palace maid dies, she will die, father. I don’t dare to ask in detail there, isn’t it… who died?”

Ling Xiao chuckled, this idiot didn't know that three people died in his yard? Also, Ling Xiao bowed his head and kissed Chu Yifeng's forehead: "It's okay... By the way, is there anything outside you want to eat? Come to pay New Year's greetings I'll come to you later."

As soon as Chu Yifeng mentioned eating, he forgot what happened just now, and said with a smile: "The candied haws you brought last time are not bad. Your house makes them exquisitely. I want to eat that."

Ling Xiao smiled: "It's easy, then I'll get someone to bring it when I go back tomorrow, and say it's for my aunt, remember to get it when the time comes."

"Well, I remember." Chu Yifeng shrank back under the quilt, and said with a smile, "It's getting late, should you go to bed?"

Ling Xiao lowered his eyes, the pupils in the phoenix eyes darkened, and said in a deep voice: "I can't make out for a month, sleep? Hmm..."

On the second day, Ling Xiao invited the Crown Princess to Ann and returned to the mansion. The Shoukanghou Mansion had already become lively. After cleaning up the house and buying things, Ling Xiao also saw that there was a little more Chinese New Year atmosphere. Ling Ruxue invited Ann, and then went to Mrs. Shi's place.

As soon as he entered the inner room, he saw Mrs. Shi leaning on a sandalwood couch with hundreds of sons and grandchildren, a little girl hanging down with a beauty fist, and Ling Zhi on the west side was flipping through an account book and drawing notes with a pen. wearing something.

Mrs. Shi hurriedly let the little girl who was beating her legs go down, got up and asked Ling Xiao to sit beside her, Ling Zhi also put down his pen with a smile and stood up, and ordered to hold the piano and serve tea.

Ling Xiao sat down and looked at the account books on the table, and said with a smile: "How are you learning about housekeeping from your aunt these days?"

"But I'm still learning." Ling Zhi smiled, "If you don't look at it, you don't know. Now I know that there are so many things in the housekeeper's house alone. It's hard for my aunt to spend so much time for us all these years."

"Pheaser is sweet-talking." Mrs. Shi smiled, "I was afraid that she would not be able to do it as a boudoir daughter, but after this teaching, I realized that no matter how cumbersome these things are, as long as I take her to see and do them once, she will learn them all. "

"It's all up to you to teach." Ling Xiao smiled, "I also thought that Pheasant would learn some skills of this housekeeper."

Mrs. Shi nodded and said: "That's right, I'll leave it to her to take care of all the affairs of this year. She refused to do it at first because she was afraid that she would make people laugh if she did something wrong. What's the matter? I'm watching anyway, so I can't leave Big pleats."

Ling Xiao felt more at ease after hearing this. Since Ling Zhi was young, Ling Xiao has been very pampered. He is afraid that the pain will make her feel wronged, and he is afraid that the pain will be too much. Madam is here, although Ling Zhi has grown up delicately, his temperament is not arrogant, and now he has the ability to be a housekeeper, tsk tsk, it is cheaper for this brother-in-law Shi Mingcheng.

While talking, a deacon girl said outside through the screen: "Second Miss, a box of gifts has been sent from Shi's mansion, followed by two nuns, who said they are asking for the blessings of the ladies and ladies in the mansion. The list is here."

Ling Zhi blushed when she heard that, now that she is in charge, it's okay to call in or not, Mrs. Shi and Ling Xiao both laughed in the room, Mrs. Shi smiled and said: "What's the matter, look at the ceremony Shanzi, since there are two nuns here, let's call them in and meet them."

Ling Xiao was even more shy when he saw that Ling Zhi was here, thinking that he would stay at home for a month anyway, so he was not in a hurry at this moment, so he came out after talking to Mrs. Shi.

Ling Xiao went back to his yard, and Liao Ting talked about the important matters of the previous section as before: "The eldest young mistress is in good health, and she doesn't vomit too much, and she will save it every morning and evening without delay. I also often joke with our second lady. By the way, last month when the imperial doctor said it was a happy event, didn’t you, young master, send some things in the palace? On that day, the eldest grandma went to talk to my aunt for a long time. I am very grateful. I am very grateful that the young master can still remember the matter of the eldest young master's heirs in the palace."

Ling Xiao smiled: "I will naturally care about the first child of this generation in our house."

Liao Ting smiled, and finally said: "Also, the grandpa seems to be looking after the young lady, but the master seems to have... these are nothing, but I heard that Aunt Xia is not enough, and the young lady has nothing to say. "

"Do you know who it is?" Ling Xiao said lightly. In fact, he didn't care much about Ling Yi's affairs. Now that Ling Zhi's marriage has been settled, it's no longer a matter of which family Ling Yi will marry.

"I really can't find out about this. I only know that the grandfather got angry with the master a few days ago because of this. It is blamed for the master's high vision and delaying the young lady's good age. I really don't know what happened afterwards." Liao Ting After thinking for a while, he said again, "But it is impossible to do this before the second young lady."

Ling Xiao smiled, although it is not impossible for the youngest sister in the family to marry before her elder sister, but it goes without saying how much Ling Yi will be slapped in the face if this is really the case, Rao has been telling the public that it is because Ling Yi has been married for a year If you are not in good health, you should not discuss relatives, but who in the imperial city didn't know about the mess at home back then?

Even if we don’t talk about the past and only talk about the present, the second lady of Shoukanghou’s Mansion is a daughter of the prostitute, who was brought up by Mrs. Shi, and is favored by the Crown Princess of the Eastern Palace. What about the eldest lady?It came out of the belly of a dowry girl, who would like someone with a higher status?

Tat for tat, Ling Xiao bowed his head and drank tea, let the mother and daughter pay back slowly for the crime of bullying his mother back then.

The next day, Ling Xiao heard Mrs. Shi talk about Ling Yi's marriage. Mrs. Shi said indifferently: "The eldest son of the Master's family has been appointed by the Ministry of Rites. Your grandfather has inquired about it. He is the eldest son. Now his family donated a Tongzhi, I heard that her temperament and appearance are not bad, she is very worthy of Yi girl."

No wonder Xia Lan disagreed. This family is much worse than the Shi family, but everyone knows that Ling Xiao knows it. The choice of this family is all because of Lord Ling's love for Gu Lingyi. Ling Yi Others don't know her temperament, and her family knows it. If such a temperament is married into a big family, it will really ruin her life.

If Ling Yi is smart, she should be grateful to Lord Ling. She is a concubine, and the aunt who gave birth to her is of that background. Marrying into such a family does not humiliate her. On the contrary, after marrying, her husband's family will be afraid that Shoukanghou's mansion will take good care of her and tolerate her. After all, a good family.

"You and grandpa are sure to be right." Ling Xiao smiled, "I just don't know when it will be settled?"

Mrs. Shi ordered someone to bring the dried fruit peeled for Ling Xiao, and said with a smile: "It's not suitable to discuss marriage in the first month. After the first month, you will make a small decision, and then... I'm afraid you won't be able to catch up with the pheasant."

Ling Xiao stopped talking with a smile, and later only heard that Xia Lan had been arguing in the west courtyard for a few days, but it was still nothing. Since ancient times, in-laws have only followed the orders of their parents and the orders of matchmakers, so there is no way for her to speak up. .

It was coming to the New Year's Eve soon, and there was a foot-high snowfall in the imperial city. The auspicious snow heralds a good year, and the old emperor was very happy. He led the royal family to watch the New Year's Eve lively, and when they were all gone, Chu Yifeng returned to the Begonia Courtyard It was already late at night, and when he was about to wash and go to sleep, Eunuch Zhang came in to report: "During the day, the young master sent someone to deliver something, but the master didn't dare to say anything in front of him."

"Hurry up and bring it here!" Chu Yifeng regained his energy immediately, rubbed his hands together and said, "I'll just see it myself, let's all go down."

The first one was a food box, and Chu Yifeng smiled when he opened it: it was the candied haws made in his house that he told Ling Xiao that day that he wanted to eat.

The bright red hawthorn was wrapped in a layer of glistening syrup, and the core inside was pulled out and filled with red bean paste. Chu Yifeng ate it happily, and then took a brocade box that came with him, opened it, and found It is a very fine hand stove made of silver.

The hand stove is not big, engraved with peace, wishful and auspicious clouds. It looks like something Chu Yifeng has never seen before. I think it was painted by Ling Xiao himself. He looked like he was making something, and now he even got something that Ling Xiao personally bought.

Chu Yifeng smiled foolishly and held the stove happily for a long time, then opened it again, and there was a letter inside!

Chu Yifeng took out the letter and unfolded it:

Feng'er, you are one year older, you must be obedient and safe.

—— Ling Xiao

Chu Yifeng read the short letter back and forth several times, and all the longing for many days turned into a deep warmth that filled his heart and lingered for a long time.