Mu Chun was miserable enough, fighting desperately with the elephants outside, killing one person every ten steps, leaving no trace, and leaving after the mission was completed, hiding his achievements and fame, and went home to find his wife, but his wife was rehired and went to work...
Fortunately, his wife is not an ordinary retired cadre who is re-employed. His wife is a mature cadre who knows how to fight for rest, vacation and various benefits. She also got a luxury house on the First Ring Road to solve the problem of the couple living apart.
Mu Chun was like a lazy snake about to hibernate, swaying back and forth, resting her head on Hu Shanwei's thigh, and even leaning into her arms and acting coquettishly, "Rub it for me."
After not seeing him for a long time, Hu Shanwei decided to pamper him for a few days. He would settle the score with him later. He asked, "Rubbing that?"
Mu Chun hit the snake with the stick: "My whole body aches, so rub it all over, and pinch the soles of my feet too."
After saying that, Mu Chun spread out his ten toes. He could control each toe freely, just like two five-clawed octopuses. Hu Shanwei could only move his big toes at most. Like Mu Chun, A Lei had five-clawed octopus-like sensitive toes that could be extended and retracted at will.
However, they are an old couple, and although Mu Chun's toes are cute, Hu Shanwei does not intend to touch them. She touches Mu Chun's face. In order to keep it secret, Mu Chun always keeps a beard when fighting. The beard grows wildly and hangs down to his chest. If his pretty face is painted red, he can directly cosplay as Guan Yu.
As soon as Mu Chun got home, he shaved his face, knowing that his appearance would scare his wife and daughter. His newly shaved face felt like sandpaper, and he rubbed it slowly in his palms. Mu Chun hummed with comfort like a pig. The awning was covered with mosquito-proof gauze, and it was cool outside. He slept on the lap of a beautiful woman. Tired from the journey, Mu Chun fell asleep quickly.
Hu Shanwei wanted to chat with her husband for a while, but before she opened her mouth, she heard a slight snoring sound in her arms. Through the thin sleeveless jacket, she could see with the naked eye that Mu Chun had several new scars on her body, needless to say, they were left from the Annan expedition.
Hu Shanwei picked up the Sichuan gold fan that Mu Chun had just waved. It was the poem she had written that year, "On July 20, I ate crabs and drank chrysanthemum wine with Jingchun at a Hangzhou restaurant":
"The Gutless Young Master should be very charming, wearing a helmet and dancing with a spear and Yumen flute. He fought for 8,000 miles outside the Great Wall, and when he saw the cooking, he took off his armor and visited the chrysanthemums."
I thought that seeing her take off her armor to visit the chrysanthemums and retiring to the mountains was the ending, but I didn't expect it was just the beginning. Alas, fate.
Hu Shanwei carefully put away the Sichuan gold fan, which was their family heirloom, and replaced it with a round fan to fan Mu Chun. His legs, which were resting his big head on, felt a little sore, but she was reluctant to push his head away for fear of disturbing him. She waited until he fell asleep before gently moving the fan away and replacing it with a pillow.
Hu Shanwei's right thigh had been lacking blood supply for a long time (Mu Chun, your head is so heavy), it felt like it was broken, and he had to rub it for a long time before he could walk. He went to the bedroom and got a thin quilt to cover Mu Chun. It was really like the ancient Emperor Shuai of the Han Dynasty who broke his sleeve for Qi Xian, and now Hu Shanwei broke his leg for Mu Chun.
By the way, where is Are
Arei is already ten years old. She is a mature Arei. Her brother-in-law is waiting for her sister to come home from get off work in the pergola in the courtyard. How can she go over to him without disturbing the atmosphere? As well-behaved as she is, she will go to bed early.
I was tired for too long and slept too deeply. It seemed like I had just closed my eyes and opened them, but I felt refreshed and the aches and pains were gone.
When Muchun opened his eyes, he was covered with a thin blanket. Breakfast was placed on the awning. Alei was biting into a steamed dumpling. Seeing that Muchun was awake, he quickly put down his chopsticks and said, "Good morning, sister."
Mu Chun didn't bother to wash his face, he ran over and pinched A Lei's chin, "Second round of teeth replacement? You can't even speak clearly."
A Lei said: "Little Ji Ge also lost weight. Queen Renxiao passed away and he had to mourn for her. I guess he lost weight again in the past few days."
Mu Chun looked around, "Where's your sister?"
A Lei said, "My sister gets up before 4 a.m. every day to work in the palace. She used to have one day off every 15 days, but during the national mourning, the palace was very busy and there were no days off. She often didn't go home at night."
A Lei became a left-behind child. Mu Chun felt distressed and touched her head. "Eat well. Your brother-in-law will take you to a place later."
Mu Chun brought A Lei to the Mu family's ancestral tomb at Guanyin Mountain in Jiangning County, carrying incense, candles, and other offerings to pay tribute to their parents - mainly to pay tribute to their mother Feng. This is the joint tomb of Mu Ying and Feng, and they forced a buy one get one free promotion.
Mu Chun said: "Alei, kneel down and kowtow three times with your brother-in-law."
A Lei looked at the words on the tombstone and said, "Isn't this the ancestral tomb of our neighbor, the Mu family? Why are you kowtowing to others?"
Mu Chun lied: "The concubine Feng, who is buried here, gave my brother-in-law this life. Without her, there would be no brother-in-law."
In fact, it was not a deception. Feng gave birth to him and gave him life.
A Lei thought that Mu Chun meant that Feng had saved his life and was his brother-in-law's savior, so he kowtowed along with Mu Chun.
Mu Chun prayed in her heart: Mother, I brought my daughter to see you. She is not at all like the heartless members of the Mu family. She is beautiful, kind, brave, caring and lovely... Mu Chun used all the positive words to describe her daughter.
Mom, she is the most perfect child.
Dad, after I became a father, I realized how good a father can be to his children. Whether a man loves his children or not has nothing to do with whether the children are sensible or naughty. Some people just don't love their children, and it's not the children's fault.
Accepting this fact is a very difficult process. Lucky people are healed by their childhood all their lives, while unlucky people spend their whole lives healing their childhood. I am one of them. I found a life partner who is willing to tolerate all my strengths and weaknesses, and I also have a daughter.
I love Arei and try my best to give her a perfect childhood. I love my family as well. I am also very good to my younger generations, Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Zhanhe. I hope there will be fewer unfortunate people like me and they can have a happier childhood.
Childhood is so short, they will grow up soon, and my daughter has even got a second set of teeth.
Mu Chun sighed in her heart, and led A Lei down Guanyin Mountain. "Your sister won't be able to accompany you until the 49th day after the death of Empress Renxiao. During the national mourning period, there can be no music in the capital. Why don't your brother-in-law take you to Hangzhou Qiantang River to watch the tide? Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles."
"Let's go see the spring river tide reach the sea level, and the bright moon rises with the tide?" A Lei clapped his hands excitedly, "Okay, my brother-in-law is still the best to me."
Just like that, Mu Chun took A Lei on a spontaneous trip.
In the morning, someone gave a jar of good wine to the tomb keeper of Guanyin Mountain. The keeper drank it happily. While stumbling around the mountain, he found new incense and candles as offerings at the tomb of King Zhaojing and his wife.
The tomb keeper didn't remember who he had let in, and was afraid that the owner of the tomb would find out about his drinking, so he didn't say anything.
However, Lady Cheng, the wife of Duke Qian of the Mu Mansion, was grateful when she saw that her own lady was picked up and dropped off every day, and there was also an ice basin, which was ostensibly given by Concubine Zhang Shufei but was actually the work of her neighbor, Concubine Hu.
Cheng didn't want to owe Hu Shanwei a favor. She thought that Hu Shanwei was busy in the palace and had a ten-year-old sister at home. It was a national mourning and the lotus viewing party of the Mu sisters was cancelled. They couldn't play together. However, the Mu family had a villa in the mountains to cool off. It would be nice to invite Miss Hu to stay in the villa for a while. It would be nice for the girls to go fishing and talk together to relieve their boredom.
Cheng asked the housekeeper to take gifts to the Hu residence to thank Lady Hu for taking care of the Madam, and to invite Miss Hu. The housekeeper came back and said, "The people in the Hu family said that Miss Hu went to Hangzhou and is expected to be back on August 15th."
Cheng was puzzled: Who took Miss Hu out of the courtyard? It must be someone that Consort Hu trusted very much. Now that the people in Hu's house were all official slaves granted by the emperor, they were definitely not among them.
Cheng asked, "Did any relatives from the Hu family come?"
It is said that Hu Shanggong's mother died early, and her father also died in recent years. She only has a half-brother, but they are not close. It is said that Hu Shanggong entered the palace barefoot and was abused by her stepmother. She wore a straw hairpin and cloth clothes, and did not even have a pair of shoes. Her hands were covered with frostbite, and the maids in the house were more decent than her.
Now, this half-sister was almost raised by Concubine Hu because both her biological mother and father passed away, so they have a close relationship, like mother and daughter.
The housekeeper said, "If the Hu family won't tell me, I won't be able to ask. I'll go and find out right away."
Cheng raised her hand to stop him, "No need, don't interfere with other people's private affairs. The thank you gift has been sent, we just need to be polite."
Cheng felt that there was something odd about the Hu family. Logically, Lady Hu was distant from her brother's family and had no contact with them, so there should be no such thing as visiting relatives. However, Lady Hu boldly handed her sister over to someone else to take her away on a long journey, and the Hu family was vague about who it was.
There is an elderly person and six children in the family. Cheng has no one to discuss things with, so she has to ask her fourth uncle and the son-in-law Mu Xin for advice.
Mu Xin didn't know who took Miss Hu away, so she said, "I heard that after leaving the palace, Concubine Hu settled in Yunnan, set up a female household, and raised her younger sister. Who knows Yunnan better than my second brother? My second sister-in-law should write a letter and ask my second brother."
That's right, I still have a husband. Cheng lived like a widow for a long time and almost forgot that her husband was still alive. She picked up her pen and wrote a letter to ask about the family affairs of Hu Shanggong.
Cheng's original intention was not to pry into her neighbor's privacy. She just felt that she wanted to know more about her neighbors so that she would not say the wrong thing or offend people unknowingly when getting along with them in the future. In the capital, you cannot make enemies with anything, especially with Concubine Hu.
Cheng never expected that her husband's reply letter would be sent to the Mu Mansion in an expedited manner over 800 miles. When she opened the letter, she saw the words written on it: "Don't investigate! Don't investigate! Don't investigate!"
Four words, repeated three times, each time like a slap in Cheng's face. Cheng was so frightened that she quickly called her husband Mu Xin over. Mu Xin immediately burned the reply letter, "Even my eldest brother doesn't dare to tell me, it must be related to some shocking secret of the palace. It's normal for a concubine to have so many things happen in three dynasties. If someone asks my second sister-in-law about it, she will just shake her head and say she doesn't know what to say."
Mu Xin is the backbone of the Mu Mansion Master, and Cheng obeys his every word, so she restrained her curiosity and stopped exploring.
After the 49th day after Empress Renxiao's death, the funeral was over and peace returned to the palace. Since Empress Renxiao died in her prime and her burial place was not chosen in advance, Emperor Hongwu sent several teams composed of people from the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Works, the Imperial Observatory, and alchemists familiar with Feng Shui to search for a Feng Shui site. In addition to the areas around Nanjing, some teams went to other places such as Wudang Mountain. Of course, there was also a team that went all the way north to Peking.
Hu Shanwei knew that the previous pairs of people who explored the tomb were all tricks used by Emperor Yongle. Since Emperor Yongle decided to move the capital to Beiping, the resting place of Empress Renxiao must be in Beiping.
However, the country was just beginning to be settled, and many major things had not yet been done. Emperor Yongle did not dare to say directly that he wanted to move the capital, which would inevitably cause strong opposition from ministers and affect the government. So he simply released □□ to let the ministers relax their vigilance. After the burial places proposed by other groups were rejected one by one and Beiping was confirmed, he would then propose moving the capital.
So after the funeral, the coffin of Empress Renxiao was kept in Rouyi Hall in the southeast corner outside the East Six Palaces, and it stayed there for six years...
Of course, this is all a story for later.
It was the 49th day after Empress Renxiao's death, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was just around the corner on August 15th. During the state funeral, all celebrations were kept simple. Hu Shanwei finally had some free time. The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, he handed over matters to the steady female official Huang Wei De, and left the palace to go home to celebrate the festival.
As long as Hu Shanwei was not in the palace, Huang Weide would take over the position of Shang Gong, and Emperor Yongle had approved of this.
Huang Weide has been the female official in charge of seals since the Hongwu Dynasty. She has been in charge of the 24 imperial seals of each emperor, from Jianwen to Yongle. This shows how capable she is.
This was the first time that Concubine Zhang Shu hosted the royal Mid-Autumn family dinner. All the princes and princesses were born to Empress Renxiao. She knew that everyone was too sad to celebrate the festival. Mid-Autumn Festival was a day of mourning for Empress Renxiao, and all kinds of entertainment activities such as music were not allowed. She could only put some effort into the dishes and persuade the emperor, the crown prince, the princes and princesses to eat more and take care of their health.
Concubine Zhang ordered the Imperial Food Bureau to report all the menus, and serve different dishes on each table according to the tastes of each royal family member.
Today, Chen Ermei is the Shang Gong in the Imperial Food Bureau. She is from Guangdong. She and Hu Shanwei were admitted to the palace in the same year and they have a close relationship. People in the palace regard her as the "number one lackey" of Shang Gong Hu.
It's really a case of one mouth above and one leg below running around. In the past, at the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, all the dishes were cooked in one pot, divided into portions, and served one by one in food boxes. Now Concubine Zhang Shu wants to make it more humane. Everyone has different tastes and likes different dishes. There are also the emperor, concubines, princes, princesses, and grandchildren. How can the Shangshi Bureau take care of so many people
The workload of the imperial kitchen will increase at least ten times. How can this be called “keeping everything simple”
Chen Ermei said, "Madam Shufei, there are fixed rules for the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet every year. The palace sends people to buy and deliver the food to the palace in advance according to the list. Some dishes need to be prepared and marinated several days in advance to make them tasty. They are all ready. If the changes are too big, some ingredients for the dishes will not be available. This is like a housewife cannot cook without rice, and the chef can't make it with all his strength."
After hearing this, Concubine Zhang raised her eyebrows and asked, "Chen Shanggong means that it can't be done?"
Chen Ermei had been in the imperial court for three dynasties, so she would not be easily fooled. She said, "At the royal family's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, you can eat anything. It's just that you suddenly want to change the menu. If you tell me three days in advance, I can do it. Tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Festival, it's really too hasty."
Concubine Zhang Shu wrote a new "privately customized" menu that took care of everyone, and handed it to Chen Ermei, "Chen Shanggong, take it down and talk to the kitchen to see which ones can be served directly tomorrow and which ones need to be purchased temporarily. If it's too late, replace them with other similar dishes. If there are problems, we will solve them. If we can't solve them, we will think of other ways."
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