[Red Mansion] The happiness of a winner in life

Time passed extremely quickly, and it is now the twelfth lunar month.The most important thing this month is the ancestor worship on New Year's Eve. At that time, the daughter-in-law and newborn who married into Jia's family this year will be included in the family tree.Now all the houses of the Jia family are staring at the royal princess who will marry in October, to see how to arrange it.

If you want to say that since the princess marries into Jia's family, she needs to abide by the etiquette of being a daughter-in-law, but it happens that there are golden branches and jade leaves, and no one dares to treat it as an ordinary daughter-in-law.At that time, I don't know which prince's wife will be holding the meal at the ancestor's altar table!

Jia Daihua ordered people to open the ancestral hall early on to clean up the offerings, invite the gods, and clean the upper room.At this time, Rongning and Ningfu were busy all over the house, and even Shuize, who had never been in charge of the house, was arranged by Jia Mu.At this time, Mrs. Ningguo Mansion was checking with Jia Jing's wife the needlework gifts from Jia's mother, which were all for the ancestors to show the virtue of the housewife.

During the conversation between the two, Jia Daihua came in, and Jia Jing's wife took advantage of the situation to avoid suspicion and withdrew, allowing the parents-in-law to talk.

Jia Daihua made the preparations on the kang and waited for the girl to set the meal, "Have we received the reward for the Spring Festival?"

Madam smiled and said: "Look at my memory, I let Jinger go yesterday, and came back and said that I was not at the Ministry of Rites, and I was replaced by Guanglu Temple. You happened to be in the barracks, and I forgot if you didn't come over at night." gone."

Jia Daihua said: "Our family does not lack those few silver coins, but it is also a great gift from the royal family. Later, we will go to make an offering to our ancestors, so that our ancestors will know."

While the two were talking, Chang Gong replied back and forth, saying: "The uncle is here and waiting outside."Jia Daihua let him in.Jia Jing came in with a yellow cloth bag in his hand, "I've seen the master and wife, I wanted to send it to the study yesterday, but I didn't go when I heard that the master was not there. I heard Shunzi say that the master eats with his wife, so I took the money send it."

"You are clever, but you are lazy and ran to the study to deliver it." Jia Daihua took the yellow cloth bag with both hands and asked to put the offering plate in it.

After the couple had eaten, Jia Daihua changed his clothes, first went to Rongguo Mansion to find Jia Daishan, and the two families went to report to their ancestors together.Jia Jing and Jia Amnesty followed their father to the ancestral hall with the offering plate.The dukes of the two countries personally took out the silver and put it in front of the ancestral tablet, and put the bag in the ancestral hall furnace to give to the ancestors.

On New Year's Eve, the couplets of the door gods had already been changed in the two prefectures, and the old talismans were replaced by the new peaches, giving them a completely new look.The main gate of Ningguo Mansion was wide open all the way from the main gate to the main hall, and a string of red lanterns hung on both sides of the road.The women's family members are led by Mrs. Ning Guogong, and the married women of Jia's family are all dressed up according to their grades, and they lead everyone into the palace to congratulate them in eight large sedan chairs.The men were led by Ning Guogong, and all the children who entered the court followed into the palace to receive the banquet.

After coming out of the palace, the group went to the Nuan Pavilion in Ning Mansion to get off the sedan chair.The men are divided into Zhaomu and stand in a row, and everyone has a place.After the sacrifice was over, everyone surrounded Jia Daihua and went to the main hall.In the middle of the main hall hangs the portrait of Rongning Ergong.Ning Guogong and Jia Jing waited outside the threshold, and the rest of the female family members lined up inside the threshold to wait for the meal.

Every time a dish is delivered to Yimen, a child of the Jia family will catch it and pass it on in order.Jia Amnesty ranked fourth, and when the food was delivered, he handed it to Jia Daishan with both hands, Jia Daishan passed it to Jia Daihua, Jia Daihua passed it to Jia Jing, and Jia Jing passed it to his wife.

After the meal was delivered, the male masters were headed by Jia Daihua and Jia Jing, and the female family members were headed by Mrs. Ning Guogong and Mrs. Ning Shizi.After Jia Daihua held incense and bowed down, everyone knelt down together, and the whole hall was packed to the brim, without a single gap.

It took more than half a day just to worship the ancestors. After the ancestor worship was completed, the Ningguo Mansion began to hold banquets again, and the masters and daughters of each house began to catch up with each other.

At the end of the day, Mizusawa's back hurts from exhaustion.Although the royal ancestor worship was quite grand in previous years, as an unmarried princess, she couldn't go there.This is the first time Mizusawa participated in ancestor worship.He didn't deliberately compete with the wife of the eldest son of the Ningguo Mansion for the position. Jia Jing and Jia She have a very good relationship, and there is no reason to be provoked by some villains to ruin their brotherhood.

After entering the twelfth lunar month, the step-mother called him to inquire from time to time, mostly around the place where the rice was held.Mizusawa didn't care much at all, because he didn't dare to deal with it casually when it involved the Jia family, so he told Jia Amnesty to let him make up his mind.After Jia Amnesty thought about it, he decided to let Shui Ze refuse, and just follow the rules of the clan.After all, Mizusawa is not the wife of the clan, and she is usually respected by Mizusawa, and she still follows the clan's rules when worshiping her ancestors.

Sure enough, three or four days before the ancestor worship, someone from Ningguo Mansion came to ask Mrs. Shizi how to arrange it.Shui Ze replied according to Jia Amnesty's intention, and the wife of Shi Zi over there specially sent some flower dew.Nanny Wang is very happy for Shui Ze, Jia She is so considerate of Shui Ze that he doesn't need to worry about Shui Ze's future.

Ever since Shuize got married, Nanny Wang helped manage the yard, and Nanny Wang took Yingge to help Shuize look at the accounts of the Princess Mansion.In addition, Jia Amnesty gradually handed over all his property to Shui Ze, and Nanny Wang and the others were also very busy.When the housewife said that she was the housekeeper, she just arranged things in general, and she would not hold everything in one hand.Otherwise, the housekeeper would really be a housekeeper!

Jia Amnesty returned to his room later than Shui Ze, and he wanted to bring the children of Jia's family to socialize together.When he returned to the room, he didn't ask Yingge to report, and quietly warmed himself by the fire in the outer room before going in.Shui Ze held a book of pictures under the lamp and looked at it. Jia She admired it from a distance and couldn't bear to make a sound.

There is a saying, "Looking at a beautiful woman under the lamp." The candlelight is a bit dim, and the face becomes more gentle and hazy when it shines on people's faces.There was some redness on the surface of the water, and the roots of the ears were very hot.When leaving today, the sister-in-law gave Mizusawa the secret of maintaining the relationship between husband and wife in order to thank him for helping her preserve her face as a clan wife.

Mizusawa didn't know what it was at first, and he was still a little confused, but seeing the narrow smile on the sister-in-law's face, he understood it all at once.Reluctance to calmly put the book away, maintain a dignified posture and get on the sedan chair to return home.After entering the house, the more I didn't want to look at it, the more itchy my heart became. I still drove people out and sat under the lamp to watch.

Afraid of guilty conscience at this moment, Shui Ze keenly sensed that someone was looking at him, raised his head like a thief, and met Jia Amnesty's gaze.Standing up suddenly, Shui Ze closed the book, went to greet Jia She graciously, and helped him take off his cloak.Jia Amnesty looked at Shui Ze with a half-smile, grabbed his hand and put it to his lips and kissed it, then hugged Shui Ze and sat down on the position where Shui Ze was sitting just now.

Mizusawa hugged Jia She's neck with some guilty conscience, "Enhou, it's late, let's get some rest ~ Enhou~"

"Let my husband see what Qingyuan is looking at. Is it so hot?" Jia Amnesty teased and hugged Shui Ze tightly with one hand, while flipping through the book with the other.

Mizusawa didn't intend to stop him at all, he just let him go if he wanted to stop him.While flipping through the book, Jia Shen commented in his ear, sentence by sentence, making Shuize almost boiled.

"Avalokitesvara sitting on the lotus?" Shui Ze felt Jia She poking him, and hugged him tightly, not daring to move...