After the Feng Shui master finished speaking, he just left, the eldest aunt and the girls couldn’t even pull them, carrying the cloth bag and just disappeared on the village path.
“Sister-in-law, you heard what the Heavenly Master said, wherever my son is is an auspicious house!”Mother Chen lifted her chin and snorted at her great-uncle’s nose.
The eldest aunt couldn’t hold her head up in front of her mother, and returned resentfully; the grandmother also found an excuse to say that there was still a fire burning on the stove at home, and followed the eldest aunt back to the old mansion; the youngest four aunts and the third aunts talked to the mother Chen for a while, and followed to the old mansion as well.
“Tianshi Zhang said that wherever my Ping’an Lang is, it’s an auspicious house. This Zhang Tianshi is a great man, and the former magistrate has invited him.”Grandfather back hand smoking a tobacco pouch while walking, while talking to an old man of similar age, tone with pride, grandfather’s face under the setting sun are flashing red.
“Then why did you make a mistake in the first place to divide the Ping’an Lang family out, or your old house also followed the light ……” Listened to the grandfather’s words, the old man next to him came to a sentence.
At these words, grandfather was silent, only the scarlet burning point of the tobacco pouch in the setting sun flickered, after a long time before a sigh, the sunset grandfather’s silhouette seems to have aged ……
After the feng shui matter, the mother Chen and a few neighbouring aunts nagged for a while, every sentence is not away from the Zhang Tianshi how how, how my son how. When the aunts praised Zhu Pingan, Chen’s mother waved her hand and said that Zhu Pingan was not that “good”, Chen’s mother proudly picked out a few of Zhu Pingan’s embarrassing childhood stories:
“When this silly boy was three years old, his master gave him ten pennies to sell tobacco at the entrance of the village, and the extra pennies were given to him to buy candies.”
“Not a moment later, this silly boy chewed a piece of sugar in his mouth and came back upside down, gave his grandfather nine pennies and said, ‘The tobacco is sold out at the entrance to the village’.”
“Let me give me a good beating ……”
“And ah, when he was a child with a few small friends to go to the ground to pull people’s woolly beans to eat, in order to hide from people hid in the crop field, and then fell asleep ……”
I’m sure it’s a real mother ah, childhood things like a family treasure, fortunately Zhu Pingan was not at the scene, or hear a quasi bashful have the urge to hit the wall.
Behind the door of the new mansion, the buns little maid and Li Shu cats behind the door listening to listen, can not help but cover the mouth, eyes are smiling curved.
Dinner Zhu Pingan was eaten in the new mansion, because Zhu Pingan is about to leave for the capital, in order to let the two spend more time alone, mother Chen will want to rely on the home to rub dinner Zhu Pingan drove back to the new mansion.
The reason why so soon to leave for the capital, or because Zhu Pingan left the capital that impeachment of the matter, the afternoon when the governor of Huai Ning sent a few packets of tribute noodles and an expedited letter. Wyoming Tribute Noodles from the Song Dynasty is the Palace of the tribute noodles, Wyoming County will use the tribute noodles every year to do favours to send people; expedited letter from the capital side of the fast horse over the Ministry of Justice out of the letter to Zhu Ping An as soon as possible to go to the Ministry of Justice to Chen.
The Ministry of Justice had already sent two such letters.
Although there is still some time left in the holiday, but in this situation, Zhu Pingan can only leave for the capital as soon as possible.
I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to do this, but I’m going to be able to do it!
Oh, hurrying me back to the capital in such a hurry, I hope you won’t regret it!
“Auntie is back.”When the maids saw Zhu Pingan, they owed their waists and saluted, and Zhu Pingan nodded in response.
Inside the room, two maids were waiting for Li Shu to wash her hands, one maid was holding a small wash basin with both hands, the other held a towel in her hand, standing respectfully in front of Li Shu to serve.
The little bun maid first put her little hand into the small wash basin, tried the temperature, then puffed up her bun face and said, “More and more careless, I just emphasised to you guys to add more hot water, this time ah forget again?”
“Good sister, we just added hot water, maybe it’s cold. Sister Bird, pour some hot water with sister.”The little girl who was carrying the water gave an apology, then begged the girl who was making tea next to her to add some more hot water to the washbasin.
After mixing the hot water, Li Shu washed her hands, when Zhu Ping An came in, Li Shu had just finished washing her hands, when she saw Zhu Ping An come in, Li Shu put the towel that she had wiped in the little girl’s hand again, and instructed the girl to bring Zhu Ping An some more hand washing water.
“No need to bother.”
Zhu Pingan shook his hand, then walked over and washed himself with the water that Li Shu had washed, the water was clean and there was no need to make another basin.
The little girl next to her covered her little mouth and laughed.
Li Shu see this pretty face can not help but fly on a touch of red, red candle illumination adds a few points of shyness, watery eyes white Zhu Pingan a glance, angrily, “really do not know how to do good ~ ~”.
While Zhu Pingan was washing his hands, the maids came in and brought in the meals made in the back kitchen, and set them on the dining table in a sharp manner. The dishes were sumptuous, full of colour and flavour, Phoenix Tail Shark’s Fin, Red Plum Pearl Fragrance, Kung Pao Hare, Blessed Melon Roasted Tenderloin, Sesame Rolls and a few veggie dishes, setting up a table full of them.
Finally, there is no jellyfish, leeks, lamb and pork loin and so on.
There was also a casserole of simmering soup in the centre, presumably chicken soup, radiating a rich aroma that made me hungry just by looking at it.
“Next time, we can make less, we can’t finish this much.”
Zhu Pingan looked at the table full of rice, thought about it and said, almost ten dishes, it always felt a bit wasteful for two people to eat. In fact, four dishes and one soup is already very sumptuous, before in the old mansion a meal was just one or two dishes.
“If you can’t eat it, reward the maid and the old mum, they’ve been serving for a long time and haven’t eaten yet.”Li Shu glanced at Zhu Pingan, the corner of her mouth raised in an elegant arc, accustomed to setting a table of food.
“Thank you for the reward, Miss.”The maids serving in the room were all happy and smiling.
Well, he was a bit of a bumpkin, Zhu Pingan remembered the episode in the Dream of the Red Chamber, it seemed that this was a common practice for the big families. The big families have less than ten or more dozens of dishes per meal, and there are only a few masters who eat, so there are a lot of leftovers from each meal. The rest of the meal, the master of the family will be dispersed to the maid mother.
The big families have a lot of rules, there are rules for eating, if the master didn’t eat dinner, the underlings can’t start the meal. So, the masters of the remaining meals will not be wasted. It was rewarded to the maid and the old mum, and the people who were rewarded were all proud of themselves. Moreover, not everyone can be rewarded with this kind of reward, it’s all the maids and old mums who have the status to have this kind of treatment, it’s a symbol of status.
Baozi small maids wait for Li Shu to eat, cloth dishes ah soup ah, there is also a small girl wants to come over to serve Zhu Pingan to eat, Zhu Pingan waved his hand and politely refused, his own hands and feet, do not need to wait for others.
