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Volume 4 Spreading Wings Chapter 1303 Winter Solstice

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    Unknowingly, it is the winter solstice in November. According to the "Han Shu", the yang energy of the winter solstice rises, and the emperor is the leader, so all the officials will hand over congratulatory forms, and the emperor will go to the countryside to worship heaven.  But among the people, it is just a festival, just eating a bowl of wontons.  Northern proverb: Wontons on the winter solstice, noodles on the summer solstice.  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 moved into the princess mansion.  In the past few months, in order to prepare for Xu Yu's wedding, everyone in the Xu family has been extremely busy. Even sisters Mu Caichun and Mu Lingxia helped sew mandarin duck pillowcases, etc. Xu Yu, the groom-to-be, was also ashamed.  I was too embarrassed to go out or visit, so I stayed at home with Qingyan and other maids all day long.  When the lights were on, brothers Xu Yu and Xu Xun were having dinner with their parents. Zhulan hurried in and said, "Ms. Mingzhi's wet nurse is gone. She is crying like hell." Mu Ningxue knew that people in the royal family were indifferent to family affection, and the nurse  My mother's status is no less than that of her biological mother, so she hurriedly said: "Quickly ask Ye'er and his wife to help take care of it." "I want to go too." Xu Yu shouted.  The wedding is in April, and it is not appropriate for men and women to meet. But before Mu Ningxue could say anything, Xu Hao said: "There are not so many taboos. His fianc¨¦e has no relatives, so how can he not rush to visit? Go ahead." "Yes." Xu Yufei  Generally ran away.  At that moment, Xu Ye, Zhang Lianyi, and Ye Qin rushed to the princess mansion with Xu Yu and the two housekeepers. As soon as they arrived at the door, Xu Ye ordered the housekeeper to help with the funeral arrangements.  The mansion was crowded with many eunuchs in white clothes and white hats. When the group walked to the main hall, they saw an empty coffin parked in the middle. The yard was filled with sandalwood, and more than a dozen tree lanterns were lit. There were already ten royal monks inside.  Chanting.  The yard was noisy, with young eunuchs running in and out from time to time. Xu Ye said to his wife: "You guys go in, I'll watch from here." "Okay." Zhang Lianyi and Ye Qin went inside, and Xu Yu could only stare helplessly.  You are standing and cannot follow you in.  Unexpectedly, the main door of the inner house was locked, and there was a big red plaque hanging on it. I asked the palace maid, and it turned out that the house was filled with dowries given by the emperor. The palace people were worried about losing them, so they sealed the door.  He called a little palace maid and led them in through the small wall door on the west side. After passing through the pavilions and pavilions, they heard crying in the distance.  When I went in, I saw that the room on the right was crowded with women, and Zhu Mingzhi¡¯s wet nurse was lying on the kang.  The crying was mainly in the room on the left. When I walked over, I saw Zhu Mingzhi fainting from crying.  Seeing that she was so sad, Zhang Lianyi quickly made a gesture to her people, and then she covered her mouth and cried loudly, and the others also followed suit and wiped away their tears.  Such pretentiousness really brought the heartbroken Zhu Mingzhi back to cry. She opened her eyes in confusion and found that it was Zhang Lianyi and Ye Qin, two sisters-in-law. As if they were seeing close relatives, she immediately threw herself into Lianyi's arms and shouted loudly.  Cry loudly.  "Don't cry, don't cry." Zhang Lianyi advised.  After the two persuaded him for a long time, Zhu Mingzhi finally stopped crying.  Zhang Lianyi breathed a sigh of relief, asked Ye Qin to accompany her, and looked up at the environment in the room.  After going out to look around, Zhang Lianyi returned to the room and suddenly saw a girl who looked exactly like Mu Lingxia among the palace maids. She was wearing a distinctive plain Hunan skirt and was whispering to Zhu Mingzhi.  "Who is she?" Zhang Lianyi was puzzled. A closer look revealed that she and Ling Xia looked like twin sisters, but this girl's eyebrows were thicker and longer than Mu Lingxia's, and her eyes were dotted with crystal tears.  , really like a pair of eyes.  "It's so similar! Zhang Lianyi called a little girl, and after asking, she found out that it was Gu Meixian, a talented girl from Jiangnan.  She walked forward and said, "The burial is here, let's sit in a yard elsewhere." Zhu Mingzhi refused to leave, so Ye Qin hugged her and took her out, and a group of people went to Zhu Mingzhi's yard.  Gu Meixian stepped forward to salute gracefully, and they exchanged polite words for a while.  Xu Ye and his wife were busy all night. After the nanny was buried in the coffin early the next morning, everyone relaxed and dozed off inevitably.  Ye Qin asked Zhu Mingzhi to go sleep for a while, but Zhu Mingzhi complied and asked her friend Gu Meixian to sleep with her, and gave Meixian's bedroom to her two sisters-in-law.  In the bedroom, Gu Meixian was lying down and only slept for a short while. When she woke up, she saw Zhu Mingzhi with her eyes closed and her face softly pressed against the pillow. Her cheeks were as red as rouge. She put her face on  He pressed it against it, felt the temperature, and then exclaimed: "Are you getting sick again? I wonder why your body is so warm." Zhu Mingzhi woke up, opened his eyes and saw the eyebrow fairy with an anxious face, frowned and asked: "What?  ?" Gu Meixian said with concern: "You are feeling hot, do you want me to call the imperial doctor? Do you want some water?" Zhu Mingzhi shook his head slightly on the pillow, slowly closed his eyes, but threw an arm to press on Meixian  on the body.  Gu Meixian raised her hand and held it, her palms were hot. She knew her hands were sore, so she kneaded them gently.  After a while, Zhu Mingzhi smiled brightly at her. Gu Meixian thought she had woken up, but when he looked again, he found that she was still asleep, not knowing where she was.I met something funny here.  Gu Meixian naturally had no intention of falling asleep. He just looked at her and guarded her. Suddenly, he noticed that Zhu Mingzhi frowned and looked like he was about to cry. After a while, he burst into tears.  "Wake up quickly." Gu Meixian hurriedly leaned over and called in her ear.  Zhu Mingzhi woke up leisurely, his voice still choked with sobs.  Gu Meixian asked: "What's wrong?" Zhu Mingzhi said vaguely: "I know your heart!" "Ah!" Gu Meixian blushed immediately and called out a few more times. Zhu Mingzhi opened his eyes and saw beside him  The girl was the eyebrow fairy, and her face turned red.  "Hee hee!" Gu Meixian blushed when she saw her, knowing that she thought she was Xu Yu, so she smiled and said: "To be honest, what did you dream about?" A smile appeared on the embarrassed Zhu Mingzhi's face, and then  She became sad again, obviously thinking of the funeral, and she shed tears again in a daze.  I wanted to sit up, but I didn't want to have any strength in my body and fell down.  Mei Xian hurriedly said: "You keep it! It's not fun to have a fever. If you have anything to do, I'll get up and take care of it for you." Before moving into the Xu Mansion, Zhu Mingzhi didn't have many friends, and his only close friend was  It was Gu Meixian who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River. She had heard from her constantly over the years, so she nodded slightly, closed her eyes in relief and fell asleep again.  Gu Meixian then gently got out of bed, put on her clothes, turned around and covered her with a brocade quilt, walked to the dressing table and sat down, calling Yun'er.  Yun'er was her personal maid, and she walked in very quickly. Gu Meixian said, "Go get a basin of water." "I know." Yun'er turned around and went out.  Gu Meixian raised her hand to take off the cover of the mirror stand, looked at the bright mirror, and used her fingertips to twist her scattered hair behind her ears. After looking at it for a while, she felt that her eyebrows seemed to be thicker, like a cage.  Like smoking.  She has had a pair of unique eyebrows since she was a child, so her father named her Eyebrow Fairy.  Habitually adjusting the center of her brows with her fingers, Yun'er came in with a copper basin and placed it on the table.  Gu Meixian first soaked the sweat towel in it, twisted it and spread it on her face. She closed her eyes and applied it for a while, then wrung the sweat towel dry.  I used scented soap, washed my face carefully, and wiped it with a handkerchief. The beauty's skin in the mirror was as white as grease.  Yun'er handed over the tea clock for gargling, took it, drank some water, rinsed her mouth, lowered her head and spit into the tea clock in Yun'er's hand.  She didn't want to disturb others, so she rinsed her mouth again and then put it on her lips with a handkerchief, like a big red cherry. She habitually adjusted her eyebrows with her fingertips and raised her eyebrows.  He took off the mirror cover with his hand.  At this time, Chunyan walked in quietly and picked up the comb. Gu Meixian turned around and sat down, letting Chunyan spread her long hair.  The hair quality is excellent, and it spreads smoothly as soon as you open it, like brocade.  It is said that no one in the world can wash their hair as frequently as the Xu family. Of course, when the weather is cold, even the women of the Xu family will wash their hair every few days. After all, they have long hair.  Chunyan combed her hair slowly, combing it gently with a comb, and found that her hair was already black and shiny, and the hair was thin and soft, so there was no need for an oily comb.  I just used a long skewer to separate it, pierced the roots, pulled the tail end up, and then combed it with a hairpin.  She was born with good hair quality and did not need to be modified. Chunyan took away the long skewers, and the hair on both sides of her temples hung down like dark clouds. The hair was shiny and lustrous, which made Chunyan envious.  Meixian sat upright, looked at the mirror, plucked down a row of hair on her forehead, and chopped it all off with a comb, then picked up a hand and looked in the mirror, backhand, and reflected her back in the big mirror.  , very satisfied, he put down the mirror and stood up.  Yun'er had already been waiting with a white satin jacket with silver and red trim. Chunyan took it and shook it open, waiting for Gu Meixian to put it on. Yun'er stepped forward and buttoned it for her, tugging at the four corners.  Chunyan walked over to get the white fox scarf, and Yun'er took it and wrapped it around Mei Xian's neck and fastened it.  All the processes are meticulous, which shows that the Gu family is also one of the leading prominent families in the local area.  Gu Meixian looked at the mirror front and back, until there was nothing wrong with her body, then she walked away.  In fact, except for the hairpin, she has no decorations on her body, and she is not painted with makeup.  The maid Haitang brought over a bowl of eight-treasure porridge. Gu Meixian ate it and walked over to see that Zhu Mingzhi was already asleep.  She went to the room opposite to greet Zhang Lianyi and Ye Qin. She didn't want anyone to go to the upper room to deal with trivial matters, so she hurried to the upper room and saw the two ladies sitting in the room talking.  Walking in and saying hello, Mei Xian gently sat down beside him.  Zhang Lianyi turned around and said with a smile: "Girl, you got up early, why don't you sleep more." "Sister-in-law, thank you for your hard work." Gu Meixian said with a smile, but did not mention Zhu Mingzhi's illness. She was worried that the two ladies were anxious, because the government  There is a royal doctor inside, so there is no need to alarm.  Just as he was talking, it was reported outside that the third young master of the Xu family was here, and Gu Meixian stood up to avoid it.  When Xu Xuan walked in, he only looked atLooking at her pretty back, he went in and asked: "Sister-in-law, who is the princess who just came in?" Ye Qin said: "No, she is a young lady from the Gu family in Jiangnan, the daughter of the famous celebrity Gu Xiang." "  Don't tell me, she looks very similar to Ling Xia." Zhang Lianyi said with a smile, "It will be interesting to meet Ling Xia when we bring him to our house." Xu Xuan didn't pay attention and said, "Mrs. sent me.  Come, let me ask my second brother whether the wedding date is right? I would say that a wet nurse is still a wet nurse, and she only needs to stay in plain clothes for two months, and there is no custom of keeping filial piety to the wet nurse, so no one will discuss this matter. " " This matter must be asked.  It's up to Mingzhi's own opinion." Zhang Lianyi said, after all, she is the princess. Even if she no longer has the title of princess, the Xu family must not make the decision without permission. "She was still asleep. I didn't ask her last night, and I probably won't ask her anymore.  What are you willing to say?" Xu Xuan said disapprovingly: "The Queen Mother entrusted her to our old lady, so the old lady will naturally make the decision." "It doesn't matter to others." Zhang Lianyi shook her head, "Her temperament is not easy to predict.  The eyebrow fairy seems to have the same temperament as hers, so I¡¯ll ask her later.¡± (To be continued)
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