Unconsciously on the winter solstice in November, according to the "Han Book" cloud winter solstice yang qi, the monarch is long, so the hundred officials want to hand over the congratulatory table, and the emperor wants to go to the suburbs to worship the sky. The pen is fun and the pavilion is www.biquge.info, ↗ but in the folk, it is just a festival, eating a bowl of wontons.

Northern proverbs: winter solstice ravioli, summer solstice noodles. The ancients believed that the summer solstice represented the rise of yin qi, so there was no official celebration ceremony.

On this day, Zhu Mingzhi returned to Beijing from the south and lived in the princess's mansion.

In the past few months, in order to prepare for Xu Yu's wedding, the Xu Mansion has been very busy, even Mu Caichun and Mu Lingxia sisters have also helped sew mandarin duck pillowcases, etc., Xu Yu, the prospective groom, is also ashamed, embarrassed to go out and visit the door, and stay at home with Qingyan and other maids all day long.

When the lights were on, the brothers Xu Yu and Xu Xuan accompanied their parents to dinner, and Zhulan hurriedly came in and said, "Miss Mingzhi's nurse is gone, and the girl is crying to death."

Mu Ningxue knew that the family in the royal family was indifferent, and the status of the nurse was no less than that of the biological mother, so she hurriedly said: "Quickly call Ye'er and his wife over to help take care of it."

"I'm going too." Xu Yu shouted.

The wedding date is April, and it is not suitable for men and women to meet, but without waiting for Mu Ningxue to speak, Xu Hao said: "There are not so many taboos, his fiancée has no relatives, how can he not rush to visit?" Go ahead. ”

"Yes." Xu Yufei ran away.

At that moment, Xu Ye, Zhang Lianyi, and Ye Qin rushed to the princess's mansion with Xu Yu and the two housekeepers, and as soon as they arrived at the door, Xu Ye instructed the housekeeper to help take care of the funeral.

The house was crowded with many eunuchs in white clothes and white hats, and the group walked to the main hall, and saw an empty coffin parked in the center, smoked sandalwood all over the courtyard, lit more than a dozen tree lamps, and there were already ten royal monks chanting in it.

There was a commotion in the courtyard, and the little eunuch ran in and out from time to time, Xu Ye said to his wife: "Go in, I'll watch here."

"Okay." Zhang Lianyi and Ye Qin went inside, but Xu Yu could only stand with his eyes blank and couldn't go in.

I don't want the main gate of the inner house to be locked, and there is a big red plaque hanging on it, ask Gong E, it turns out that the house is full of dowries from the royal gift, and the palace people are worried about losing it, so the door is closed.

Called a little palace maid, led them to the small wall door on the west side, and passed through the pavilions, and heard the cry from afar.

When I went in, the room on the right was crowded with women, and Zhu Mingzhi's nurse was lying on the kang. And the crying was mainly in the room on the left, and when I walked over, I saw Zhu Mingzhi crying and fainting on the ground.

Seeing her so sad, Zhang Lianyi hurriedly gestured to her own people, and then she covered her mouth and cried loudly, and others also cried and wiped their tears.

After such a contrived effort, she really cried back from the heartbroken Zhu Mingzhi, she opened her eyes suspiciously, and found that it was Zhang Lianyi and Ye Qin, the two sisters-in-law, as if they had seen their loved ones, and suddenly threw themselves into the arms of Lianyi and cried loudly.

"Don't cry, don't cry." Zhang Lianyi persuaded.

After persuading the two for a long time, Zhu Mingzhi finally stopped crying. Zhang Lianyi breathed a sigh of relief and asked Ye Qin to accompany her and look up at the environment in the house.

After going out and taking a look, Zhang Lianyi returned to the house, and suddenly saw a girl who looked like Mu Lingxia among the palace maids, wearing a different plain Hunan skirt, and was whispering to persuade Zhu Mingzhi.

"Who is she?"

Zhang Lianyi was puzzled, and after a closer look, she and Ling Xia were like twin sisters, but this girl's two curved eyebrows were thicker and longer than Mu Lingxia's, and her eyes were adorned with crystal teardrops, which really looked like a pair of autumn waves.

It's so similar! Zhang Lianyi called a little girl, and when she asked, she knew that it was Gu Meixian, a talented girl in Jiangnan.

She stepped forward and said, "It's going to be a small burial here, let's go sit in the courtyard elsewhere."

Zhu Mingzhi refused to leave, and was taken out by Ye Qin with her in her arms, and the others waited for Zhu Mingzhi's yard. Gu Meixian stepped forward generously and saluted, and said polite words to each other for a while.

In this way, Xu Ye and his wife were busy all night, and after burying the nurse into the coffin in the early morning of the next day, everyone relaxed and couldn't help but doze off one by one.

Ye Qin asked Zhu Mingzhi to sleep for a while, Zhu Mingzhi agreed, asked his friend Gu Meixian to sleep with her, and gave Meixian's bedroom to the two sisters-in-law.

In the bedroom, Gu Meixian, who was lying down, only slept for a short while, and when she woke up, she saw Zhu Mingzhi with her eyes closed, her face soft on the pillow, her cheeks red as if she had been coated with rouge, she pasted her face to it, felt the temperature, and then exclaimed: "Afraid that you are sick again?" I said why are you so warm. ”

Zhu Mingzhi woke up, opened his eyes and saw Meixian looking anxious, frowned and asked, "What?"

Gu Meixian said with concern: "Your body is hot, do you want me to call the imperial doctor?" Do you want to drink water?"

Zhu Mingzhi shook his head slightly on the pillow, slowly closed his eyes, but threw an arm and pressed it on Meixian's body. Gu Meixian raised her hand to hold it, her palms were hot, knowing that her hands were sore, so she kneaded them gently.

After a while, Zhu Mingzhi smiled at her, Gu Meixian woke up, and when she looked again, she found that the person was still asleep, and she didn't know what funny she met in her dream.

Gu Meixian naturally had no intention of sleeping, just watching her guard her, and suddenly found that Zhu Mingzhi frowned and looked like he was about to cry, and after a while, he really cried.

"Wake up." Gu Meixian hurriedly leaned over and called in his ear.

Zhu Mingzhi woke up slowly, his voice still choking. Gu Meixian asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhu Mingzhi said in a daze: "I know your heart!"

"Ahh Gu Meixian blushed suddenly, and hurriedly called a few more times, Zhu Mingzhi opened his eyes, and when he saw that it was Meixian beside him, his face was also flushed.

"Hee-hee!"

Gu Meixian also blushed when she saw her, knowing that she was thinking of Xu Yu, and said with a smile: "From the truth, what did you dream of?"

The embarrassed Zhu Mingzhi showed a smile on his face, and then he became sad again, obviously remembering the funeral, and he was stunned and shed tears. I wanted to sit up, but I didn't want to have no strength in my body, so I fell down.

Meixian hurriedly said, "You keep it!" Having a fever is not fun. If you have any business, I will get up and do it for you. ”

Before living in Xu's Mansion, Zhu Mingzhi had few friends, and his only best friend was Gu Meixian, who was far away in Jiangnan, and she had been heard from all these years, so she nodded slightly, closed her eyes and fell asleep again.

Gu Meixian got out of bed gently, got dressed, turned around to cover her with a brocade quilt, walked to the dressing table and sat down, and called a rhyme.

Yun'er was her personal maid, and she quickly walked in lightly, and Gu Meixian ordered, "Go and scoop a basin of water."

"Got it." Yun'er turned around and went out.

Gu Meixian raised his hand to remove the cover of the mirror table, took a picture of the mirror, and wrapped the scattered sideburns behind his ears with his fingertips, and looked at it for a while, feeling that his eyebrows seemed to be thicker, like a smoke.

Since she was a child, she has had a unique pair of eyebrows, so her father named her Meixian.

habitually straightened his eyebrows with his fingers, and then Yun'er came in with a copper basin and put it on the table. Gu Meixian first soaked the sweat towel into it, twisted it and spread it on his face, closed his eyes for a while, and wrangled the sweat towel dry.

I used fragrant pancreas, washed my face carefully, wiped it with a handkerchief, and the beauty in the mirror had white and greasy skin. Yun'er handed over the tea bell that rinsed her mouth, took it, drank the water, rinsed her mouth, and lowered her head and spit in the bell in Yun'er's hand.

She didn't want to alarm the others, so she rinsed her mouth again, and dotted her lips with a handkerchief, like a big red cherry, and habitually used her fingertips to straighten her eyebrows, and raised her hand to take off the mirror cover.

At this time, Chunyan walked in quietly, picked up the comb, Gu Meixian turned around and sat down, and let Chunyan break her long hair.

The hair is of excellent quality, and as soon as it is opened, it slips and falls out, like brocade. Of course, when the weather is cold, even the women of the Xu family will wash their hair every few days, after all, it is long hair.

Chunyan combed slowly, gently grate it with a grate, and found that her hair was already black and shiny, and her hair was thin and soft, so she didn't need an oily comb at all. Directly with the long skewer goodbye, rooted, hit the tail tip up and pull it up, take the hairpin casually and comb it.

Born with good hair, there is no need to modify, Chunyan took away the long skewers, and the sideburns on both sides hung down like dark clouds, and the hair was faint and shiny, which made Chunyan envious.

Meixian sat upright, pulled down the row of hair on his forehead in front of the mirror, cut it together with a comb, and then picked up a hand to look in the mirror, and looked at it with his backhand in the big mirror, and was very satisfied, so he put down the mirror and stood up.

Yun'er was waiting with a white satin silver-red trimmed jacket, Chunyan took it and shook it open, waiting for Gu Meixian to put it on, Yun'er stepped forward to give her a button, and dragged it at the four corners.

Chunyan walked over and fetched the white fox fur, Yun'er took it and wrapped it around Meixian's neck and buttoned it up. All the processes are meticulous, which shows that the Gu family is also a famous family second to none in the local area.

Gu Meixian looked at the mirror before and after, left and right, until there was no mistake on his body, and then walked away.

In fact, except for the hairpin, she has no decoration on her body, and she has not been greased and powdered. The maid Haitang brought over a bowl of eight-treasure porridge, Gu Meixian ate it, and walked over to see Zhu Mingzhi, who was already asleep.

went to the opposite room to ask Zhang Lianyi Yeqin to say goodbye, she didn't want anyone to go to the upper room to deal with trivial matters, she hurriedly went to the upper room, and saw the two ladies sitting in the room talking.

walked in and said hello, and Meixian sat down lightly. Zhang Lianyi turned her head and said with a smile: "The girl got up early, why don't you sleep more."

"Sister-in-law has worked hard."

Gu Meixian said with a smile, he didn't mention Zhu Ming's illness, and he was worried that the two ladies were in a hurry, because there was an imperial doctor in the house, so there was no need to alarm.

As he was talking, the third young master of the Xu Mansion was reported outside, and Gu Meixian got up to avoid it.

When Xu Xuan walked in, he only saw her delicate back, and went in and asked, "Sister-in-law, which county lord is the one who just entered?"

Ye Qin said: "No, it's the young lady of the Gu family in Jiangnan, the daughter of the famous Gu Xiang."

"Don't say it, she is very similar to Ling Xia." Zhang Lianyi said with a smile, "When we bring people to our house and ask Ling Xia to meet them, it must be interesting at that time." ”

Xu Xuan didn't care, and said, "My wife sent me here to ask if the second brother's wedding date should be over?" If you want me to say that the nurse is always the nurse, it will be done after two months, and there is no custom of filial piety for the nurse, and no one will discuss it. ”

"You have to ask Mingzhi himself for his opinion on this matter."

Zhang Lianyi said, in the final analysis, it is a princess, even if there is no princess title, the Xu family must not make decisions without permission, "People are still asleep, I didn't ask her last night, and I probably didn't want to say anything if I asked." ”

Xu Xuan said disappreciably: "The queen mother entrusted her to our old lady, so naturally the old lady is in charge."

"It doesn't hurt to be someone else." Zhang Lianyi shook her head, "Her temperament is not easy to predict, that eyebrow fairy seems to have the same spleen and stomach as her, I'll ask her when I go back." (To be continued.) )