It's getting late, and the New Year's meal is served much earlier than usual. The servants in various departments and courtyards have finished their work early and are waiting for the arrival of the New Year with bulging red envelopes.

The kang table is filled with all kinds of dried fruit snacks. According to Ying's instructions, the kang is heated and the tea is boiled. Strong tea is made. This year, I have to wait until dawn to make up for the explosive scene that I missed last year. Ying is happy tonight

, Lanling brought a souvenir, and the fourth child was recognized at the banquet. In view of his love for the fourth child, Lanling invited her to go back to his house to celebrate the New Year, and did not send it back in the evening to reassure Ying.

"It's a good thing, a great thing." Ying sent someone to report the news to her parents and arranged a vigil. The second daughter took her pet and went to the garden for training. Small dogs need to be carefully trained to become good at catching rabbits. Every day

All must be arranged to run to improve speed and flexibility.

I grabbed a book that I didn't know what it was, and leaned on the soft chair to indulge in a daze. Being in a daze is enjoyment, and it is something that most people have no time to do but yearn for. My mind is blank, there is no distracting thoughts, and there is no time.

Still, entering cerebral palsy

The state of mind is far beyond the realm of meditation, reaching directly to the colorless and formless state advocated by Buddhism. It seems that people who are enlightened, those with six impure roots, have the potential to become Buddhas, especially if they have enough food and drink, a happy home, and no shortage of money.

That is the Buddha, such as the Buddha who comes to visit the Buddha to change the Buddha.

At this time, Ying never interferes with me and always puts the tea at just the right temperature in my hand. She knows that I can't tell the difference between hot and cold at this time.

Done! Yes, after every daze, I feel energetic and full of energy. "Bring me my fur coat!"

"It's so late, my husband is going out?" Ying took the big cloak and put it on me in confusion.

"Yes, let's go out!" He nodded firmly, walked like a god of gambling, and wearing a fur coat. With his sleeves hanging free, he opened the door of the house, entered the depths of the winter night, and went straight to the toilet.

The two girls have gained something. In the cold winter, they can catch prey in their own garden. I admire them.

Ying angrily slapped the two girls on the buttocks a few times, and shouted: "Throw them out quickly!" I grinned and nodded in agreement. The weather has been nice and warm recently, and the mice go out to do some New Year's goods and they mess with whoever they want.

Well, the prohibition of killing after the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month has completely fallen on deaf ears. The most important thing is that you shouldn’t take it back to show off, because it will be troublesome if there is an infectious disease.

The two girls and pets were forced to be disinfected once by me. I soaked the linen cloth with strong alcohol and put it on their hands. I wiped the dog's mouth and paws three times. The thin dog has the potential to be an alcoholic. He kept sticking out his tongue to lick, and after a while he became excited.

I ran around the yard and then went to bed. The wine was good.

"Stay away from me, you dirty boy, and sit far away." Ying frowned and pushed the two girls away from her, and then concentrated on playing backgammon with me.

"Okay. Okay, here you go." The two girls tried to pester me to no avail, so they ran over and snuggled up to me. Anyway, there was no way to save the situation, and I just missed the chance. I gave up my position to the two girls and started to watch the battle.

"With the beginning of spring, our family will be very busy." I leaned on the edge of the kang, watching chess and chatting, "I can't rest on that big slope alone, and I will have to work hard for at least half a year."

"Slopes are all trivial. The key is the cotton on the Fenghe River." Ever since she changed opponents, Ying's chess style has not gone smoothly. The few coppers she just won from me were soon piled up in front of the two girls, and she had already begun to withdraw money from her own money box.

Withdrew the money. "The planning was good, but when I got there I was very nervous. After all, it is my first time to plant this kind of thing, and it will be sowing in the spring as soon as this year is over. I don't have enough confidence at all."

"What are you afraid of?" He took a few walnuts, cracked them open and peeled the kernels. He put them in the mouths of the two ladies, one on the left and one on the right. "Even if the crops are gone, it's not our family's money. The imperial court is fat. Don't worry."

"After all, it's our family's thing, and we still hope to make quilts." Ying chewed walnut kernels, lost another game, and reluctantly gave three copper coins to the two girls. She said dissatisfied: "Thief, thief, thief, thief, thief, thief.

If you win again, I’ll let you go there to look at cotton next year.”

The two girls happily gathered the coins into a pile and counted them from time to time.

"The fourth child stayed with Lan Ling today. Does my father-in-law have any objections?" The Chinese New Year is a day of reunion. Although I am happy to have someone accompany Lan Ling, I am afraid that Ying's family will complain, which is not very humane.

"How can you have an opinion?" Ying Shu was anxious and messed up the chessboard, "Do it again, do it again!"

"Don't worry, you will lose tonight. I guess you won't be able to keep your box of money tomorrow morning." I gloated at the sidelines. The two girls' IQs are a little higher than Ying's, and maybe a little higher than mine, so...

"Don't underestimate our second daughter. If you play this trick, the fourth child may not be your opponent."

Ying poked the two girls with a finger bitterly, "I don't know how I came up with this idea." After saying that, she hugged the two girls and looked at them for a while, "The second girl just followed me, and I was almost killed by her.

I was deceived by pretending to be stupid," he joked, pinching the two girls' faces, "How did the little fox's tail get caught, hmm?"

The two girls felt embarrassed at being told that they closed their eyes and didn't move.

"How did you catch them?" I suddenly became more gossipy and leaned over to inquire about the two women's privacy.

"In those days, she was beaten by my concubine all the time because of her stupidity. Unlike other girls, she would not cry no matter how many times she was beaten, and the more she looked stupid." Ying probably remembered the incident of torturing the two girls back then,

He held her close with an apologetic look, "I practice calligraphy every day, so she stands beside me to serve me and study my calligraphy."

Mo, please wash your pen. Many smart maids are clumsy at this time, but Ernu is the only one who is easy to use. As for how to use it well, I couldn’t tell you at the time. If she lost her temper, she would call her Ernu.

I came here to vent my anger and practice calligraphy, so I asked her to wait by my side, and I came here day by day."

"Oh, those two girls suffered a lot back then," I lovingly touched their heads and said softly, "I have to treat them better in the future and make up for it."

"I thought so too. I was young and ignorant at the time, and my family kept me locked up at home all year round. It was inevitable that I would lose my temper and get angry. I often complained that I was not well-educated, but I couldn't control my actions when I got angry.

So at that time, I regarded the two girls as different from other maids and kept them with me at all times." Ying casually picked up a sweet almond and stuffed it into the mouths of the two girls.

"Do you know how I found out something was wrong with the two girls?" He patted the two girls' cheeks and said with a smile: "Writing and painting, when to use which pen, what kind of paper and what kind of ink, thick or thin, thick or thick.

They all need to be carefully selected. These things are usually under my control, but since the second daughter followed me, I have gradually discovered that I

When the time came, a suitable pen and ink would be handed over to me, but I never paid attention to it. It wasn't until the second daughter contracted an illness that she temporarily changed to a maid. The maid was usually much smarter than the second daughter. But as soon as she entered the study, she

I changed into a silly eldest sister. For a while, the paintings didn’t look like paintings and the words didn’t look like words, so I started to think about the benefits of the two girls. I started talking about it.

The more I think about it, the more wrong I become. A girl under ten years old, no matter how well-behaved she is, is not capable of this. She must have been good at it before, but her family only bought children from poor families. She has never had the opportunity to see these things since she was a child."

He licked the two girls' hair and said, "How could you do that? I don't even think about it now. If I beat you several times and don't say anything, forget it."

Of course Ying doesn't know how the second daughter can do this, but I do. Fang Xuanling is a famous painter who likes painting, and his grandfather paints. The four or five-year-old granddaughter is studying ink and handing over pens. It's a happy family. It's a pity for the second daughter. If

If Princess Gaoyang is not in the way, the status of the second daughter is not something that a declining noble like me can reach, let alone a concubine.

"If you don't tell me, don't tell me. No one has anything to worry about." I took the second daughter from Ying's arms and let her crawl into my arms. I vaguely saw the second daughter's eyes red and knew that something was on her mind, "From now on

Let this matter go and never be mentioned again. Living this life peacefully is better than anything else."

"That's right." Ying clapped her hands, poured a glass of wine and started drinking. "I often wonder, and have been wary of it, but this time, looking at what happened after the abolition of the queen and the establishment of a queen, the fate of the Liu family became clear. 2.

The girl's background..." She shook her head sympathetically, "My husband is right not to participate in court affairs. No matter how big the family fortune is, it cannot afford such trouble."

"Okay, I know it in my heart and there's no need to say it out loud." He hinted at Ying with his eyes. "Now we are all a family. The only thing that makes everything prosperous is working together. In this year, my wife has managed the household well, and the second daughter has done a good job.

The business is well managed, and the full granaries, full cash cabinets, and new houses on the village are all due to the two ladies."

"That's what my husband said." Ying smiled and leaned over, "Without you as the pillar of support, I wouldn't have so much money and food. Now that I have gone out, I have benefited from my husband, and I will see the scenery wherever I go. Chang'an has become small.

Now my husband is famous all over the country."

"It's over. There's a limit to complimenting each other. Stop." It seemed a bit disgusting for the couple to say this. Ying probably had a revenge mentality, but when she saw that I hugged the second daughter, she didn't care about her. She deliberately looked around carefully and lowered her head.

He said with a hoarse voice: "Do you want to hear ghost stories?"

"Yes, yes," just like last year, Ying excitedly hugged the quilt and sat down, ready to dive in at any time.

The two girls in my arms also became alive, struggled out and leaned on my back. Being held by me, listening to ghost stories was not exciting, but created the atmosphere.

After blowing out the lamps and pulling out the wax, the Spring Festival ghost story gala with Wang family characteristics began. In the darkness, Wangcai’s stinging sounds catalyzed the atmosphere of terror. Even I was scared this time, so Wangcai was beaten to a pulp.

Unfortunately, the ghost story still failed to overwhelm the sleepiness of the three of them. The annual New Year's Eve event ended successfully with the sound of Guanjia Qian's popping of the pole. All the high-spirited ambitions of watching the popping of the pole beforehand were wiped out.

Falling asleep with a crisp sound.

When I was dying, I felt that the sound of the blasting rod this year was different from last year. Butler Qian had made improvements again. It was not easy. Looking at the second daughter sleeping in her arms, she didn't know when she came back...

Lan Ling must be sleeping now...

Dr. Zhou was the first person to come to protest against Butler Qian for setting off the blasting rod. Although I was still in a dream at the time and missed the protest, Butler Qian cunningly complained to Dr. Zhou in front of me afterwards, saying that Dr. Zhou

He was dissatisfied with the gunpowder I invented and thought that a group of explosives led by me disturbed the animals' sleep.

"No matter how valuable the livestock is, how can it be compared with the festive occasion of our family?" Butler Qian curled his lips disdainfully, "Dr. Zhou is a good person, but he always doesn't know the priorities, as if the livestock belongs to him alone."

"Haha," I looked at Butler Qian. The old man was a little excited after receiving a lot of bonuses during the Chinese New Year. He probably kept firing off the blasting rods endlessly. "This is just for the two of us to talk about. Don't ask Dr. Zhou to listen to it.

Go. Be careful if I prescribe veterinary medicine for you next time."

"Yes, yes." The housekeeper realized the seriousness of the matter, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Dr. Zhou is a good person, how could he prescribe veterinary medicine to the old man? He is well-known for his high medical ethics, and he also said that he would give Dr. Zhou a New Year's gift. Why?

I forgot about it. I have to send it to you quickly." The butler patted his head, cupped his hands towards me, and left.

Old sly man, complaining to me has no effect. It's really fast to go down the steps. Anyway, I have nothing to do during the New Year. I stopped by the livestock shed to see Dr. Zhou. Ever since he brought the livestock back from home, he has devoted himself to it. He rarely goes there.

I showed up at home. I even sent someone to get my annual report. I didn’t expect the housekeeper Qian and shopkeeper Hu to wait happily for a long time early in the morning.

The livestock shed is a grand building, a very large courtyard building. The three sides facing the sun are for livestock, and the backlit side is stacked with fodder and farm tools. There are also several large stone troughs that have not been dug out for feeding fodder scattered in the middle of the yard. Doctor Zhou lives in isolation on the backlit side.

In the small gatehouse that came out, six handymen had been cutting hay with large guillotines early in the morning. Steam was coming from the pots and stoves beside the wall. The smell of hot bran spread in the courtyard, and the smell of the fragrant livestock was spreading.

The shed was roaring with excitement.

Dr. Zhou was squatting in front of a donkey and playing with it. The donkey was very cooperative. It had no usual stubborn temper at all and snorted docilely. When it saw me approaching, it barked a few times arrogantly. It was very sensitive to strangers.

"Little Marquis is here." Dr. Zhou saw me only after being reminded by the donkey. He gave me a casual greeting and continued his work.

A doctor is a doctor. In his eyes, the patient is the first priority. Even if the head of the family comes in person, he has to wait until the treatment is completed. I absolutely admire Dr. Zhou for this. This is dedication. Back then, when I was lying in the hospital with a fracture

, the nurse came over early in the morning to change the dressing. Halfway through removing the clips, she came for a ward round

Leader, the nurse just left me and ran to chat with the leader, completely regardless of my life or death. Compared with Dr. Zhou, the nurse should be sent to a labor camp. For medical practitioners, dereliction of duty means murder.

The hospital is like entering a murderer's club. It doesn't matter whether you are sick or not. Kill for a while first and then talk about it.

I stood in a safe position and waited for Dr. Zhou to kill the donkey. The donkey is the most terrifying creature among all the animals. Although it is small, it has a bad temper. It will get angry when it doesn't like people, and it can't be pulled, so I will

I was once chased by a raging donkey. It was a nightmare in my childhood. Be careful.

"Lao Qian set off a blaster this morning and frightened the animals. The donkey was so frightened that it kicked the trough and injured its leg." Dr. Zhou finished his work and pulled the donkey to lie down on a pile of hay before running to receive me without saying a word of greeting.
To be continued...