On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, it is said that the Kitchen God went to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor the harvest and hardships of the people over the past year.
It has evolved to this day and has become a day for people to clean up before New Year's Eve. At the same time, schools have begun to take annual holidays, and businessmen and wanderers who have gone out have returned home one after another. Regardless of whether they are rich or poor, high or low, every household has begun to prepare New Year's goods to prepare for the New Year. Shops and markets
Fully booked every day...
In such a busy and fulfilling day, she could only lie in front of the study window with her chin in her hands, watching the wintersweet blooming on the branches outside.
Alas! After sighing for an unknown number of times, Jinxi stretched out her hand and closed the window with a "click" sound. It felt cold after looking at it for a long time. She didn't want to sit here stupidly for half a day and then catch a cold that night.
.
Although after nearly four months of exercise, my physical fitness has improved more than a little. At least from the mouths of Baian Niang and Mo'er, I learned how easy it was for the original owner of this body to get sick, especially when winter came.
It can be said that minor ailments such as wind and cold are constant. I am afraid it is because I have eaten too many sweets and am not used to exercise.
There are only six days left until the New Year. Six days later, she will usher in her first New Year in the Qing Dynasty.
There is no expectation, only longing.
She misses her family and friends who are far away in another time and space, and her warm and exquisite small apartment. Even my mother's nagging and Wen Wansheng's calculations... Now that she thinks about it, she misses her so much.
Lying with her head up on the canopy bed that had a strong boudoir feel, her feet in embroidered shoes were hanging off the edge of the bed, dangling one after another. She closed her eyes and the scenes echoing in front of her were exactly what she had experienced before she came to the Qing Dynasty.
remember.
If she hadn't been convinced that she had truly lived in the twenty-first century, she would have almost thought that it was just a dream, a dream that almost seemed real to her. In the dream, she was in a different time and space far away from the Qing Dynasty.
She lived for twenty-nine years. After waking up from the dream, she realized that she was the five-year-old daughter of a high-ranking official in the Qing Dynasty...
Alas! She sighed silently again. She opened her eyes and stared at the pink and purple gauze tent with silver embroidered butterflies above the bed. Butterfly... Mengdie... Zhuang Zhou... She turned out to be just like Zhuang Zhou who dreamed of butterfly.
The philosophical system of this world has given rise to a deep suspicion. It turns out that there are really countless alien spaces in this unknown world...
I turned over weakly and seemed to hear the sound of the little maid coming upstairs. I thought it was the cheap lady who sent someone to deliver a message.
Yesterday I heard that there will be a large-scale lion dance competition at the Tianqiao entrance of Qianmen Street today. The winning team will have the honor to enter the palace to hold the Lantern Festival for the royal banquet on the Lantern Festival. The cheap lady has seen Jinxi feeling a little depressed these days.
, and said that she was suffocating in the small building all day long, so he took the initiative to take her to the street to watch the excitement. Jinxi was naturally happy to agree. Although she was unhappy, it was actually because she was homesick and wanted to be home in another time and space.
"Gege, the second young master is already waiting in the main room." When Mo'er saw Jinxi lying on the bed, he thought she was uncomfortable, so he stretched out his hand to explore his master's forehead. Fortunately, there was no fever. "Gege, are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?
"
"No." Jin Xi shook his head, got up from the bed with Mo'er's help, and fiddled with his somewhat messy clothes, "Let's go, don't make my brother impatient with waiting." Qi Chen was impatient.
He would rush up to the second floor without saying a word, and rush downstairs with her in his arms. She didn't want to be carried away like a human sandbag.
"Gege... if you feel uncomfortable, don't go out." Mo'er couldn't help but suggested worriedly. If you catch a cold, it will be the master who suffers. The medicine for treating wind-cold is extremely painful.
"I'm fine." Jin Xi waved her arms and smiled, "Look, it's not an exaggeration to say that my body is as strong as a calf."
Mo'er was amused by Jin Xi's metaphor. He carefully took off the cloak from the hanger and put it on his master's shoulders carefully.
It's not because it's ugly. On the contrary, using words such as beautiful to describe the clothes coming out of the "Golden Thread Clothes" embroidery workshop feels insulting. It's just that Xu is small, and when tailoring, Fujin also
I was told to make it a little bigger, because I'm afraid that Gege's body will move around quickly, and it will be too wasteful if I can't wear it a few times once it's ready.
It is true that the clothes in "Golden Thread Clothes" are extremely expensive. A cloak for a five-year-old baby costs five taels of silver. If you put it in other clothing shops, you can make more than three or five sets. It's very special.
He actually felt dissatisfied. He kept saying that "Golden Thread Clothes" was a money-grabbing shop.
"What? Your family's beauty makes you dumbfounded?!" Jinxi patted the little maid's cheek in a funny way and said coquettishly.
"Gege is very beautiful. She looks even more charming when she puts on this cloak." After six months of contact, Mo'er has long been accustomed to her master teasing her when he is naughty, and has gradually put aside the initial shock and embarrassment.
Occasionally, he will come back to be naughty on his own initiative.
After all, she was only nine years old, before she was truly determined. It was easy for Jinxi to bring back her original lively and cheerful personality, except for the occasional stubbornness and rigidity.
"Charming? Mo'er, am I, the master in front of you, really only five years old? Could it be that I'm already old enough to get married?" Jin Xi smiled and blinked, and sure enough, the little girl's rigid side emerged.
"Gege - girls can't say these things...these words are too...too shocking." When Mo'er heard this, he was so frightened that he quickly covered his master's mouth and looked around habitually, for fear of being caught.
Others overheard.
"What words? Charming? Gentle? Or - can I get married?" Haha, the little girl is really cute. She raises her arms and shouts a few words such as "I want to get married", which is classified as shocking.
Tsk tsk, if she knew that her master had decided to be single and never marry in this life, wouldn't it mean that she would look at herself like a "monster" and actively find a doctor to do a physical examination on her?
?
"Gege - Gege is still young, so you must not say these words again. When Gege grows up, you will know. My slave... I can't explain it clearly. In short, Princess just can't combine the two words of 'marrying' anymore."
The words are on my lips. Princess——"
"Okay - got it." Jin Xi sighed feebly. He really couldn't stand her nagging and wanted to compete with her mother.
"Gege... I'm not blaming Princess, it's just..." Seeing Jin Xi suppressing the smile on her face, Mo'er beat her head regretfully, and secretly blamed herself, "It's useless." Princess was finally happy.
My mood was ruined by myself again.
"I'm not blaming you. Let's go. If you don't go down, my second brother will really come upstairs to arrest someone." Jinxi smiled lightly, picked up the little girl and walked towards the stairs. What's to blame is that everything is wrong.
An era of freedom, not a maid who depends on others.
"Eh? Mom, aren't you going?" After being carried into the carriage by Qi Chen, he realized that she and her twin brothers were the only ones on the carriage leaving the house.
"Well, Ama has something to do with Fujin, so..." Qi Ke hesitated to explain, with a strange look on his face and a slight blush of embarrassment.
Oh - Jin Xi suddenly realized in her heart. She must have been tied up in the bedroom by her lecherous father, unable to get off the ground or out. Anyway, it was a rare world between two people, she could completely understand it.
But, Ama, you must take your time and not see that your concubines are staring at Heyuan eagerly. Especially Aunt Qiu, I don’t know where she got the news, saying that it was...
The cheap lady was pregnant with Fei Yanggu's child again. She was so angry that she didn't eat for a whole day. But Fei Yanggu didn't go to her to comfort her. She still went her own way and stayed in Heyuan day and night, which was actually the master bedroom of Liutangyuan. She was angry.
Auntie Qiu couldn't afford to fall ill, and she still lay in bed weeping until dawn.
Alas, I hope I won’t do anything stupid. If someone dares to hurt a cheap girl, she will be the first one not to take mercy on her. It doesn’t matter whether she is an aunt or not. She only has two mothers, one is Fang Yimei and the other is Nalan.
·Minrong. The other cats and dogs have nothing to do with her.
"Sister, should we go directly to the Tianqiao to watch the lion dance performance? Or are there other places we want to go? No matter where we are, brother will accompany you." Qi Ke saw Jin Xi lowering his head in deep thought, and said it was because of Fujin
I felt depressed because I didn't accompany her out of the house, so I couldn't help but give her gentle suggestions.
"Well, Xi'er wants to go to the "Wu Laohan" candied haws shop on East Street. It is said that the candied haws there is the most delicious." She didn't want to eat it, she just wanted to miss it. When she accompanied Mo Yongxu to visit Zhengyangmen East Street,
In that specialty store specializing in caramel candied haws, I learned that the store had its original facade since the early Kangxi years. There is indeed an old portrait from the Kangxi period hanging in the store, and the store door above is called
"Old Man Wu" candied haws.
"Okay, no problem." When Qi Ke heard that it was just such a small wish, he agreed without saying a word. After giving instructions to the groom, the carriage slowly left the house and drove all the way to Zhengyang Gate.
On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is commonly known as the "Little Year", the scene on the street was not as Jinxi imagined. Most people were staying at home to clean up the year before. There were only twos and threes of pedestrians, hurriedly going
Walking down the street.
On the contrary, on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, Zhengyangmen Street was more noisy and lively than in the past. People were walking around in various stores to pick out New Year's goods, bargaining for prices, and chattering.
I don’t feel at all a sense of desolation and panic that becomes increasingly desolate as the New Year approaches.
Could it be that the residents of the Qing Dynasty were actually more open-minded than she was?
"Sister, what kind of candied haws do you want to eat? Brother, go down and buy it for you." Qi Chen's hoarse voice during the voice change phase awakened Jin Xi's distraction.
When they turned around, they discovered that they had arrived at the entrance of "Wu Laohan" Tanghulu Shop. It was actually a simple shop with no inner hall and only a takeout window.
"Come on, come on, the candied haws on a stick that has just been made. Three cents per bunch, a big bag of sweets!" By chance, a straw stick filled with caramel-colored candied haws made of pure kumquats stuck out of the window. A man who was only fifteen or sixteen years old
The young man leaned out of the window and raised his voice, which was also somewhat hoarse, to greet the passers-by loudly.
"Brother, I want two skewers." Since she came to miss her, let her be a little girl for once. One in each hand, she took the two skewers of still warm candied haws that Qi Chen handed over. Jinxi narrowed her eyes and suddenly felt a little nervous.
Sour eyes. Yongxu, I wonder if you at this moment are also choosing your favorite strawberry candied haws in this shop three hundred years later...