In the candlelight swaying in the wind in Bai Lingjun's small courtyard, Xiao Ruan used both hands to open the closed courtyard door with a few "squeaks". A gust of night wind blew in from outside the courtyard.
Bo Lingjun came to the entrance of the small courtyard to greet Jian Jia with a quick smile, and the two entered the small courtyard hand in hand, "What kind of wind blew the eldest lady to Lingjun's small courtyard tonight?
Why don't you see Lin'er, that naughty and clingy kid, coming with the eldest lady? In the past, didn't he just go wherever the eldest lady went?"
Jian Jia smiled and said softly: "Sister, I'll tell you the truth. I came to you to discuss something that we women can do to help our husbands.
But the sister can't make up her mind what she wants to do to help her husband. If the sister does it without thinking,
It's also possible that she did bad things with good intentions and missed her husband's big event. My sister has always been a knowledgeable person. I just thought about it for a while and came to discuss with my sister.
I hope my sister will not hesitate to teach me. As for Lin'er, he is happily playing with dove carts, bamboo horses and other children's toys in my sister's courtyard tonight. He has nothing to keep me occupied!"
The two of them entered the small courtyard while talking. Bo Lingjun said with a smile: "Sister, please, if Lin'er doesn't come tonight, then he won't come. It will save me some fun and delicious food to coax him.
It’s just me and my sister tonight. If my sister has anything to do, just tell me. If she can help, she will do her best!”
Just as they entered the courtyard holding hands and talking, Xiao Ruan and Wen Qin had already worked together to close the courtyard door with a few more creaks.
The two of them looked outside the door for a moment before closing the door. They saw that there was no one outside the courtyard. Only the leaves on the roadside rustled in the night wind, and the banquet hall not far away was brightly lit and filled with laughter.
Just then, he safely closed the door of the courtyard and turned around to go under the ginkgo tree. Standing behind the two mistresses of the mansion, Bai Lingjun also said softly: "Sister, please sit down."
The two of them sat down one after another, and Xiao Ruan poured another cup of tea for Jian Jia in a celadon tea cup, "Madam, please drink tea."
In the Han Dynasty and even before the Han Dynasty, there were no special tea drinking utensils, and they were all used together with eating and drinking utensils.
A pot for cooking rice is used to make tea, and a bowl for drinking water and wine is used for drinking tea.
In the current era of disputes between the Three Kingdoms, it has become a ritual for guests to offer tea. At this time, tea sets began to gradually separate from drinking and drinking utensils.
There is a description in "Poetry of a Beautiful Girl" that "the heart is full of tea, and the bragging is about the tripod." It means that there is a special tripod for making tea. The bowl for drinking tea is also a wide-mouthed bowl with a cake foot and an exposed bottom.
The development of glazed pottery promoted the separation of tea sets from eating and drinking utensils. At this time, green-glazed tea cups with supports appeared. The cups and supports were adhered with glaze, and the whole body was covered with green glaze, which became a special tea cup.
cup.
This is the first time that special tea sets for drinking tea appear. Tonight, Bai Lingjun uses such a set of green-glazed tea cups, and the teapot placed on the stone table is a chicken head soup bottle.
It was also during this period that a soup bottle for holding water and filling it with water appeared. It has a unique shape, the spout is a standard parabolic shape, the water outlet is round and small, the water is powerful, and the water is accurate. There is a chicken head on one side of the pot, which is
The decoration is also called the chicken head soup bottle because of the chicken head.
However, among the people, there are still a large number of bowls and cups made of pottery for drinking tea.
The difference between a bowl and a cup is: the bowl is big and the cup is small; the bowl can be used for eating and drinking, while the cup can only be used for drinking tea. The cup has an open mouth and a shallow belly, a slanted straight wall and a jade-shaped foot, and is equipped with a shallow saucer.
Jian Jia took a symbolic sip, and Bai Lingjun said with a smile: "Sister, I think the women behind our husbands, if we want to do something for our husbands and be good wives,
The first step is to start with my husband's great victory in Jingzhou and his position as Prime Minister of Jin. We can organize a banquet exclusively for our women and invite the wives of the ministers to come to the house to get together and further connect with each other.
Reward the female relatives of their families, and also reward the female relatives of the soldiers who have made meritorious service in this campaign with some cloth, jewelry, etc.
I believe they will also like it very much, and will be very willing to talk to their husbands on their pillows after returning home!"
Jian Jia picked up the exquisite celadon tea cup and took a sip. She thought about it and said with a smile: "My sister has a good idea. Without further ado, let's take action tomorrow!"
Bai Lingjun said: "You can also call sister Lu Ban and give her something to do. I think she has been coming to see her sister every day these days.
Even if I take a few maids for a stroll in the garden of the mansion, even though the garden is full of greenery and there are many flowers and birds at this time of year, it would be boring to stay there for a long time."
"My sister is right. One more person means more power. The banquet can be better organized and Sister Lu Ban can also have something to do like us. It's very good. Without further ado, I will go find Sister Lu Ban tomorrow.
Let's do this,
I also want my husband and the world to see that we women are not just vases and can only be pampered by our husbands, but we can also do some good things for our husbands!"
Jian Jia said with confidence, although she could only point out the singers and dancers in the mansion to make them perform more wonderfully at the dinner party,
She is not very proficient in other things such as organizing banquets and managing the affairs of the back house. After all, she was just from an ordinary family before, and she only learned some female workers before entering the palace.
The more I can do, the more I can sing some songs and dance a few dances. After being selected by the late emperor to enter the palace, life is not as hard as in my hometown, and I can have good food and clothing.
However, he was regarded as a canary by the late emperor. He only learned some dancing and singing skills all day long, and had no chance to learn some management methods. After all, in the late emperor's palace, the person in charge was the Queen Mother Guo.
Although I haven't learned much skills and techniques in the process of managing Cao Rui's harem, my ability to manage things is still better than Jian Jia.
After all, it is extremely difficult to manage the harem of the Wei Dynasty with so many people. Cao Rui’s reign was also short and he did not learn the essence of management.
As for Jianjia, she was taken out of the palace by Cao Zhaobo only a few years ago, and she became the mistress of Cao Mansion only a few years ago, and she doesn’t have much experience in management.
It just so happened that Jian Jia, known as the female Zhuge, came to help her, and Sun Luban, the princess of Wu Kingdom, she believed that she could help her husband do this with the help of the two of them no matter what!
"Sister, we can start preparations tomorrow, but the date must be postponed for a few days. Prepare for a few more days and invite more female relatives of the meritorious soldiers to come.
Invite the generals like the King of Luoyang who have made many military exploits in the husband's southern campaign, even those who live around Luoyang!" Bai Lingjun thought again and said,
"Wen Qin has written down everything Sister Lingjun said. Tomorrow we will do something for my husband and ourselves, so that the world can see it.
We beautiful women are not just vases. My husband has helped me so much before, and now I finally have the opportunity to do something for him!”………………