When only the couple was left, they both refused to sit still.
The kang table has been pushed to the edge of the kang, and the kang pillows next to it have also been pulled over.
Brother Jiu murmured: "It's been a year before my eyes, it's gone by so fast!"
Shu Shu felt slow.
The days before getting married were fine, but after getting married, it was like a spinning top, one thing connected to the other, and there was no idle time at all.
Half a year has passed, and it feels like several years have passed.
When she turned her head and saw Brother Jiu, she felt that it would be better to go slower.
Brother Jiu turned around and said, "Why don't you say anything? What are you thinking about? How about we play animal chess..."
Shu Shu pinched him.
The lights in the upper room will stay on tonight...
Brother Jiu hummed softly: "Aren't you going to lose your temper right now? You can go out to play, but just leave me at home..."
Shu Shu shook her head and said: "No matter how good Jiangnan is, I don't think it will be any better without me accompanying you. But the grassland is quite good. We can just go there again sometime."
Going out has a different feeling than being in the palace.
Riding a car is a bit harder, but it gets better once you get used to it.
At that time, I was looking forward to returning to the palace and lying down, but living in such a frame of one day at a time can easily make people bored.
Moreover, the relationship in the palace is too complicated.
A palace concubine like Yi Fei feels that there is no difference between the palace and the outside, because she is a part of the palace.
For Shu Shu, he is just a bystander.
She missed the past few months a little.
I'm always on the road, but I'm relatively free, and I have my ninth brother.
Although she was looking forward to the trip to Jiangnan in the next year, her joy was halved when she thought that without her ninth elder brother, she could only act like an obedient granddaughter-in-law.
Brother Ninth heard his heartbeat and said: "Khan Amma patrols the north almost every year, but it may not be our turn to follow. If we find an opportunity, we can go to Khalkha alone..."
Shu Shu was also moved after hearing this.
If you want to go to other places to work and mobilize people, it would be quite good to go to such an inaccessible place.
And if you exit the customs at Zhangjiakou, the grassland over there is not far from the capital.
Shu Shu said: "Don't worry, we will move over there in two years and want to go out to play, then go over there..."
Brother Jiu thought for a while and said: "There is the Abahai tribe over there. Then we can go with Lao Shi and his wife. If we go northwest, there will be sister Kejing..."
"This star really wants to retire"
Princess Heshuo Kejing was born to Guo Guiren and raised by Concubine Yi. She is the eldest sister of the Yikun Palace family, half a year older than the fifth elder brother.
She was fostered last year, and she was the daughter of the emperor who was married to Khalkha Nei.
At present, this princess is not well-known, but in a few years she will stand out and become the "Ocean Princess".
But because of Guo Guiren, Shu Shu could not get close to her.
After Brother Jiu finished speaking, he also thought of Guo Guiren and said in a low voice: "Why is this so?"
Shu Shu interrupted and said: "Isn't it said that the royal family respects nursing mothers? Then why didn't Cao Yin's mother have the title?"
Brother Jiu said: "I have already been granted a first-grade imperial title by virtue of my husband's rank. I guess I will have to wait for a follow-up to be granted another title in the future..."
He added: "A nanny is different from a wet nurse after all. Most of the wives enshrined by Khan Amma were posthumous titles, with the exception of Lady Feng Sheng. Although she was Khan Amma's nanny, she was the wet nurse of Emperor Shizu. Emperor Shizu mentioned it before
The one who wants to be sealed died before the decree could be issued."
This consecrated lady passed away long before Shu Shu and Jiu Age were born. During her lifetime, she was granted the title of First-grade Madam, and she was the highest-ranking person in the Imperial Palace.
After his death, he was given a blessed land near the imperial mausoleum and was buried according to the rites of a princess.
Before returning to Beijing in early November, Shu Shu heard someone mention it when he stopped at Xiaoling.
The couple chatted and the time was not so difficult.
When the drum sounded at midnight, Xiaotang came over and asked when the dumplings would be cooked.
Brother Jiu was still thinking about taking Shu Shu to watch the fireworks and said, "Let's cook it now!"
Shu Shu's family also makes dumplings with vegetarian fillings on New Year's Eve, but they are not stuffed with longevity vegetables, but with assorted vegetarian ingredients.
She was also quite curious about this longevity vegetable filling.
They are all dried vegetables, mainly longevity vegetables, supplemented by fungus, xianggu, daylily, bamboo shoots, and gluten. They also use sesame oil, and add salt, sauce, pepper and other seasonings.
In the dining room, the dumplings have been made and ready.
There are forty-eight dumplings in total.
Eight of them are marked to be cooked in separate small pots.
This was Shu Shu's private order to add a few auspicious dumplings.
Four were filled with gold walnuts, and four were wrapped with pine nut candies.
It turns out that the custom at this time was that there was no such thing as wrapping money in dumplings.
Shu Shu started this tradition at home two years ago.
This year she was celebrating the New Year in the palace, and she also wanted to get a good fortune, so she gave Xiaotang this order.
Not only were the couple’s dumplings filled with auspicious dumplings, but Xiaotang and his wife’s dumplings were also filled with silver ingots, pine nut candies, and the like.
Within a quarter of an hour, the dumplings were on the table.
There were two whole foot plates filled with white and fat dumplings.
Shu Shu took a closer look and noticed the difference.
Some dumplings have bulging bellies, but the edges are slightly wider than other dumplings.
She knew it in her mind and moved the direction of the plate.
Brother Jiu is making a dipping dish, using soybean paste and minced garlic.
Here at Shu Shu, we use balsamic vinegar and chili oil.
Seeing this, Brother Jiu shook his head and said, "Where did this way of eating come from? This is the first time I heard that eating dumplings must be dipped in vinegar..."
Shu Shu handed over the dipping plate and said, "Please try it, it will be more refreshing."
In fact, this is more suitable for dipping meat dumplings. Shu Shu is used to eating it this way, so she also chose this for vegetarian dumplings.
Brother Jiu was quite willing to try new things, so he picked up a dumpling and dipped it in it.
The taste of balsamic vinegar is not as strong as that of mature vinegar, the acidity is relatively mild, and the chili pepper is slightly spicy, not the dry and spicy kind.
Brother Jiu nodded. Just as he was about to praise him, he felt something was wrong and spit out half a dumpling from his mouth.
Inside is a hollow gold ingot.
"ha?"
Brother Jiu was a little overjoyed: "Did you find an ingot? Why is there an ingot in the dumpling?"
Shu Shu smiled and said: "Congratulations, you are going to get rich!"
Brother Jiu smiled and said: "The sign is good, what else besides wealth?"
Shu Shu said: "There is also sugar. Eating it means a year of sweetness..."
I have this intention, and the main reason is to sweeten Brother Jiu so that he can talk more in the future.
Brother Jiu straightened up and said, "Then let's eat quickly!"
Although he didn't think the balsamic vinegar condiment tasted bad, he was still used to the sauce. He handed the condiment plate back to Shu Shu, and the two of them immersed themselves in eating.
Shu Shu thinks the filling is quite delicious, and the longevity dish doesn't have any peculiar smell, just like the vegetarian assortment.
If you don't use macrobiotics and replace it with dried cabbage or something, there shouldn't be any difference.
Keeping this filling is probably a good metaphor for longevity dishes.
Forty-eight dumplings.
Fortunately, the dumplings were not big in size and had vegetarian fillings, so the two of them ate a full plate.
After Shu Shu inadvertently moved and folded the plate several times, Brother Jiu ate three pieces stuffed with gold ingots and one piece stuffed with pine nut candy.
Shu Shu ate the remaining four.
Brother Jiu was elated, smiling from ear to ear, and said: "This is just right, each of us will get half, I will make money for you to spend, and you will be good, and we will have a sweet life..."
Shu Shu placed a cup of hawthorn water in Brother Jiu's hand.
After all, he is a young man with a strong desire to win and lose.
For these few ingots, I ate about twenty dumplings, twice the usual amount.
Shu Shu felt a little regretful.
If I had known this, I should have asked the kitchen to cook less.
In fact, she knew in her heart that Xiaotang specially prepared it for her when she saw that she had little dinner.
But who is it that Brother Jiu has such a damn desire to win?
As soon as Brother Jiu took a sip of tea, the sound of "cracking" firecrackers was heard in the distance.
On the second day of the lunar month, firecrackers began to be set off outside the Qianqing Palace.
Even though they were half a mile away, the sound seemed to be in my ears.
Brother Jiu quickly got off the kang and said, "Let's go out and set off fireworks..."
Shu Shu's family also sets off firecrackers every year.
However, the fireworks in the palace were all tribute from local places, and some were made in-house. She was also very curious.
After exiting the second door, I saw many people already in the corridor.
After everyone finished eating the dumplings, they came out to watch the fireworks.
At this moment, Wei Zhu also arrived.
He was accompanied by a young eunuch of similar age.
On weekdays, eunuchs lived in dormitories in the imperial city and only entered the palace when they were on duty.
However, the closing and opening times of the palace door are fixed. After they go off duty, they will sleep in the small duty room in front of the Qianqing Palace and cannot go out until the palace door opens tomorrow morning.
Brother Jiu had already asked He Yuzhu and the others to bring out two full baskets of fireworks.
They chose the entrance of the corridor as the place to set off the cannons.
The masters refused to let me go, but the eunuchs around me didn't interfere.
He Yuzhu called some familiar eunuchs from other places to set off fireworks with Wei Zhu.
When Ninth Brother asked people to stay, he also paid attention to the sense of propriety. They were all small and quiet firecrackers sitting on the ground. They were not the colorful bead tubes or the eye-catching ones like the sky monkeys. They were mostly spraying flowers, popping flowers, and playing.
Rotating.
The first one is the Taiping flower, a firecracker the size of a small basin.
After lighting it, there will be a scene of fiery trees and silver flowers.
Accompanied by the "cracking" sound of firecrackers in the distance, it looked very lively.
Before the Taiping flowers have fallen here, He Yuzhu has already led people to light two swirling fireworks.
Sparks were sprayed horizontally towards everyone, and everyone quickly retreated. There was another excitement.
Xiaosong was naughty and couldn't help but go up to look at the fireworks. He picked up a familiar one and said happily: "This is Fujin's favorite..."
Brother Jiu looked over curiously and saw a handful of flowers.
He laughed and said: "Haha, you look like a coward and don't dare to let it go. That's why you play such children's things! Click on them all..."
He had played this before when he was a child, but he hadn't played like this since he went to study.
The other brothers couldn't help but laugh at my sister-in-law, so they all looked in other directions.
Xiaosong responded and went to find the incense stick.
Shu Shu grinded his teeth next to Brother Jiu.
It seems that the sugar dumpling I just ate was in vain and I still can’t speak.
Well, Brother Jiu is not wrong either.
She was really timid, so she didn't dare to let it go.
When setting off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year outside, the main thing is to listen to the sound, mainly the big firecrackers with one thousand or five hundred rings, and the rest are the two kickers, marlezi and so on!
Every movement makes people's ears hurt, and it's particularly dangerous to watch.
After lighting the fuse, you have to run away, otherwise it always seems like you are going to be blown up.
It would be even more disastrous if the firecrackers were not set up firmly, changed direction, and hit people.
Shu Shu watched with trepidation. She was also afraid that her younger brothers would be naughty. Sometimes she couldn't help it, so every year before the firecrackers were held, she would ask her family to buy flowers.
It is safe and more stable when playing with a bunch of children.
Xiaosong had already lit up a handful of flowers, brought them over and said, "Look, Fujin..."
Shu Shu smiled and looked at the stars, feeling sad and a little homesick...