"Why bother? It's New Year's Eve, so why not just make everyone happy? Aunt Jiang and Grandma Yun and Grandma Lan, you should also walk around more." Seeing the repressed desire in her husband's eyes, Su Nuannuan could also Feeling his sadness, she also sighed in her heart, but she couldn't get over this hurdle in her heart anyway, so she had to settle for the next best thing. Since she couldn't give Duan Tingxuan the pleasure of fish and water, she had no reason to let him live a life of abstinence like a monk for herself. Life, even if you use love as an excuse, shouldn't be.
The next day was New Year's Eve. Although Su Nuannuan really wanted to sleep a little longer, but couldn't hold back the yearning for the ancient Spring Festival with a strong flavor of the New Year, she got up early in the morning and went to greet Mrs. Fang first. Outside the door, I saw the two little girls who were pulling the curtain a little flustered, and the voice of the notification was too loud. Su Nuannuan entered the door in doubt, and sure enough, she saw that the old lady Fang's mouth was still moving there, and she couldn't help but Angry and funny, she shook her head and said, "Old lady, I don't allow you to eat more snacks, because eating too much of this food is not good. Now you are stealing it behind my back. No harm anymore?"
Mrs. Fang complained: "Isn't this too greedy? Although the pastries made during the Chinese New Year are beautiful, they are mostly just for the sake of the occasion. It's really not very interesting to eat. Only the lotus flowers you made this year Crispy sweet-scented osmanthus crystal cake or something, ouch, it looks beautiful and tastes better when you eat it. I heard that you have several sets of molds in your kitchen, all of which are in the shape of flowers. It’s strange that your desserts are so beautiful. I The more you look at it, the more you love it. If you are not careful, you can't help but eat it? If you just look at me, you can't spend every day with my old woman, but now you have even won Qiu Ling, so what? It's a girl I can't live without for a moment. She has become your eyeliner. Isn't my wife's life difficult? It's so easy to send her out. I think it's enough to eat two or three yuan. Who knows you will come Is it true that you two have discussed it? But this tooth is not up to par. If it was a good tooth when I was young, let alone two or three, it would be eight or nine. At this time, I have swallowed it in my stomach... "
Before the old lady Fang could finish speaking, the girls in the room couldn't bear it any longer, and all of them turned their heads and blushed and held back their laughter. Almost choked out internal injuries.
After a while, Mrs. Yang and Liu Min also rushed over. Seeing Shi Yurou's dark circles, Mrs. Fang smiled and said, "What's wrong with Ye's daughter-in-law? Your sister-in-law was busy all day yesterday. She hasn't asked you yet." It’s so sluggish, but did you play cards late last night?”
Shi Yurou hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "My good ancestor. This year has not yet passed, how could grandson-in-law open the poker table so early? You only know that sister-in-law has worked hard, but you don't know that I have to deal with the affairs of the next two days in the morning, and in the afternoon I'm going to work in the kitchen of Chunfengyuan. I'm so tired that my back hurts."
Su Nuannuan smiled and said: "My younger brother and sister are showing merit for me, old ancestor, did you hear that? The second younger brother and sister only came to help for two and a half days. Even if my waist is sore and my back hurts, I am even more exhausted. Now It’s just holding on.”
Shi Yurou was indeed busy in the small kitchen of Chunfengyuan for two afternoons, but she didn't really want to help, but she just wanted to see the designs of these new dim sum, and supervise Xue's daughter-in-law and others by the way. A "traitor", just who is Su Nuannuan? Can the labor who takes the initiative to deliver it to your door be let go? Poor Second Grandma has always been well-clothed and well-fed, but now she was caught for two afternoons just because she followed her husband into the eyes of money, and was so tired that she could barely lift her waist.
Immediately he smiled wryly and said: "Sister-in-law is too, so what if I show you how hard I work? Your hard work is in the eyes of the big guy. Don't tell me, the old lady can wipe out your credit? This will If you still want to fight with me, why can't you leave me a way out? Anyway, I have helped you for two days."
The whole room laughed again, and talked about the menu for the reunion dinner in the evening and what kind of dumplings to make, and they dispersed at noon.
Su Nuannuan was really excited about this busy and fulfilling year. Just a few days later, she couldn't take it anymore, not for anything else, just because there were too many guests visiting the house during the Chinese New Year, and all the snacks that were originally prepared for the Chinese New Year at home disappeared like water, and the unfamiliar guests were more reserved. While talking, he took some snacks, and after a few compliments, he left. But there are also some who have a good relationship with the Anping Hou Mansion on weekdays, such as the princes of the royal family, and the Rongguo Gong Mansion of the Changping Marquis Mansion, etc. When they come, they not only want to eat, but also have the cheek to ask for some leave after eating. In order to entertain the guests, in the end even the little Hou Ye was given a gag order, not to mention others, which made the masters and servants in the Hou's mansion very depressed.
On the night of the Lantern Festival, Duan Tingxuan took his wives and concubines to the street for a stroll. All kinds of lanterns were shining brightly, as if the Milky Way in the sky came to the world. Su Nuannuan did not expect that the ancient Lantern Festival would have such ingenious and radiant lights All kinds of lanterns, I just enjoyed watching them, and even saw ice lanterns on a street. Because she was afraid of the cold, she had never been to Harbin in modern times, but now she has made up for the regret. Standing on that street, although it is cold, but she has a hand-stove sable fur, it is not very cold. The brilliance of colors and crystal ice cubes complement each other, just like being in the crystal kingdom.
In a blink of an eye, it will be February 2, and the custom on this day is to eat pancakes. Su Nuannuan was ingenious. She fried leeks, shredded pork, vermicelli, and bean sprouts together in a large pan, and baked oily, golden, crispy spring pancakes. Although they were thicker than pancakes, they were two layers together. The two layers can be uncovered, a thin layer of cake, but it is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, wrapped in stir-fried vegetables, no matter the texture or taste, it is an unparalleled enjoyment, and everyone is hooked on eating it.
In a blink of an eye, it was the end of February, and Honglian Xiangyun and Su Nuannuan were looking at the grass that had just sprouted in the backyard on this day. Onion grabbed the bare wicker and said with a smile: "In a few days this will It will germinate, and when the time comes, break it off, remove the wooden core, and use the skin to blow out the tune." Before the words fell, someone in the front yard called Su Nuannuan, it was Duan Tingxuan's voice.
"What's the matter? Master seems to be in a hurry."
Everyone came to the house in a hurry, and sure enough they saw Duan Tingxuan in the room and Su Nuannuan coming in, so he paid out all the girls, then took his wife to the Nuan Pavilion to sit down, and said in a deep voice: "The day is set, let's I will leave in three days, and tell my family to go to Niutoushan to visit your parents."
Su Nuannuan was stunned for a moment, and then realized that her husband was talking about going to the south of the Yangtze River, and couldn't help but excitedly said: "Have you asked for leave?"
"Well, it's already been arranged. This time, for unannounced visits, the two of us have to dress up in disguise. I can't bring a girl by my side. I decided to just take Siping and let him pretend to be our brother and go to Jiangnan together." Duan Tingxuan had already put Everything is arranged, and now I just come to inform my wife to prepare.
"Then since it is said to go to Niutoushan, should we go there to confuse those who are interested?" Su Nuannuan was also very excited, and felt that this matter was really exciting, so she hurriedly made suggestions.
"No, just go out of the capital, find an inn to stay, and then dress up and go to the south of the Yangtze River. Does anyone care about it? Anyway, they won't find out. Even if the King of Xiangyang has doubts, he can't find the two of us." There is no way."
"Hey! Jiangnan is his home field, how can he hide it if he knows it? Once he is discovered, he will mobilize soldiers and horses from various prefectures and counties to guard all traffic arteries. Wouldn't we become old turtles in the urn? It’s still the kind that stabs a hornet’s nest.”
Su Nuannuan looked at Duan Tingxuan suspiciously, always felt that her husband's carelessness was unreliable, but seeing the other party smiled proudly: "What do you think of those officials in the south of the Yangtze River? They are officials of my Great Indian Dynasty, how dare they have a relationship with the King of Xiangyang?" If you want to mobilize officials from various prefectures and counties to round up us, then unless the King of Xiangyang raises the anti-flag, what's more, even if he raises the anti-flag, Jiangnan is so big, and he can't occupy it if he says he wants to occupy it. Besides, I still have secret forces , Make sure nothing goes wrong. Nuannuan, don't worry, if there is danger, how can I take you there?"
Secret forces? Su Nuannuan smelled gossip, but immediately remembered the Ming Yulou mentioned by Duan Tingxuan, so she understood where her husband's confidence came from.
"Okay, then I'll listen to your arrangement, and I'll let Honglian Xiangyun prepare things." Su Nuannuan nodded, and then the couple took advantage of these three days to do the ideological work of Mrs. Fang and Mrs. Yang. Not to mention the elders in each house, finally set off as scheduled in three days.
Along the way, only Siping followed. After leaving the capital, they lived in an inn in a small town within less than a hundred miles. Siping probably made the arrangements long ago. A young couple changed rooms, and another piece of luggage was prepared in this room, but it was just three or four bags. It looked like a must-have package for a young couple going out to ask for a living. It was very simple.
Su Nuannuan stared at Duan Tingxuan who was about to "change his appearance", expecting him to come up with something like a thin human skin mask. A human skin mask is only a high-end item in martial arts novels. If you own it, you will have the capital to change your identity in seconds. Can you not be excited? Thinking of this, the image of Chu Liuxiang couldn't help but appear in Su Nuannuan's mind. Isn't Chu Xiangshuai relying on Su Rong'er's mask to walk everywhere
Just as he was thinking about it, Siping opened one of the packages and skillfully put on makeup for Duan Tingxuan. There was no human skin mask, but some simple and fragmented leather. The largest one was only a little bigger than a copper coin, and the smallest one was only It’s like rice grains, but these scraps of leather, after Siping’s hands, pasted one piece here and there on Duan Tingxuan’s face, and finally a pinch of goatee was pasted on, and in a blink of an eye, the young prince who was as handsome as jade It turned into a shrewd, shrewd middle-aged man with a yellowish complexion.