Han family
Han Zhen also came home exhausted. He knocked on the door of the yard. After a while, he didn't hear Yang Dahua's voice. Han Zhen was anxious, worried about Yang Dahua's accident, he hurried jump over the wall to enter.
As soon as he arrived at the door of the room, because he was in a hurry, he didn't notice that the door was locked.
He kicked the door directly: "Dahua, are you there?"
There was no echo in the room, not even a breath.
Han Zhen quickly took out a flint. Without even lighting a lamp, he could see if anyone was inside. Suddenly, a chill washed over him. Could something have happened to Dahua? He was completely panicked.
Just then, Huang Huzi's voice came from outside: "Han Baifu... Is Han Baifu here?"
Han Zhen came back to his senses: "Yes." His voice was hoarse and his whole body seemed to have been drained of air.
Huang Huzi didn't pay attention to his situation. He said, "Mrs. Han..Mrs. Han is at our house. I see that you're back. Mrs. Han will be worried if she doesn't see you. I was asked by the mistress to inform you."
Han Zhen suddenly ran out of the house: "What are you talking about? Dahua is at your house? Is she okay?"
Huang Huzi then realized that something was wrong with Han Zhen. He explained, "Yes, a few days ago, my Lord came home to tell me about the incident with Manzi in the county town. My mistress was worried that Manzi would come to the family quarters, so she took Mrs. Han to live with us. Mrs. Han has been staying with us these past few days. She's doing well, don't worry."
Han Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and felt at ease. "In that case, I won't go pick her up, so as not to wake her up. I'll pick her up tomorrow. Thank your Madam, for taking care of Dahua."
Huang Huzi: "Then I'll take my leave first."
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Seeing that Qin Fang was sleeping soundly, Yang Haiyan did not call him to take a shower or eat and let him sleep until dawn.
By the time Qin Fang woke up, the sun was already high in the sky. Yang Haiyan and Yang Dahua had breakfast and were basking in the sun, while they did some embroidery. Yang Dahua made children's clothes, while Yang Haiyan, a young woman, embroidered handkerchiefs and made socks.
From the nearby kitchen, you could hear the squeals of pigs. The squeals were a bit scary, but soon died down. Because the squeals were so terrifying, some people in the nearby Qianhu Mansion heard them and came to inquire. They learned that pigs were being slaughtered. A few were so tempted that they ordered a few pounds of fresh pork to take home.
Yang Haiyan bought the pig from Uncle Hong in the countryside. It was already the 29th of the lunar year, and tomorrow was the 30th. She planned to have a roast pig banquet, which would be much more lively than just her and Qin Fang eating alone.
Qin Fang stretched himself and came out of the house, only to see Aunt Yu guarding the yard: "Where's Madam? I think I heard the squealing of a pig."
Aunt Yu hurriedly said, "They're slaughtering a pig in the kitchen. Madam will prepared a roasted pig feast tomorrow. I'll go get some hot water for you to wash up."
Qin Fang: "No, I'll go by myself."
Privately, he still liked to do things by himself.
Aunt Yu: "Then this servant will serve the adults some food."
Qin Fang didn't refuse now: "Well."
After Qin Fang washed and ate breakfast, he went to the kitchen to have a look. Aunt Lian, Aunt Fan and Aunt Hong are all in the kitchen, some are washing pigs, some are plucking pig hairs. Pulling pig hair is not one by one, but directly scraping the pig hair with a knife.
In the yard next to the kitchen, Yang Haiyan and Yang Dahua were working as female celebrities.
Kun Shi drew water from the well, looked up and saw Qin Fang: "Sir is here."
When everyone saw it, they hurriedly saluted: "I have seen adults."
Qin Fang said, "Don't be too polite."
Yang Haiyan also heard his voice: "Master, are you up?"
Qin Fang walked to her side, nodded to Yang Dahua and said to Yang Haiyan, "I'm up late."
Yang Haiyan: "I know you're exhausted these days, why don't you take a break?"
Qin Fang pointed to the pig over there.
Yang Haiyan understood the tragic pig cry just now.
Although Yang Haiyan was there, after all, Yang Dahua was a female family member, so she couldn't stay there too much, so she simply went to the kitchen and watched everyone busy.
After a while, Han Zhen came: "Is this killing pigs?"
Qin Fang hummed.
Seeing him coming, Yang Dahua got up and came over: "Xianggong."
Han Zhen hasn't seen her for several days and he misses her a lot. She was two months pregnant. Although her belly was not visible, the pregnancy was not stable at this time, which was the most worrying thing.
Yang Haiyan also got up and came over: "Tomorrow will be a roast pig banquet. It's New Year's Eve, everyone is happy and tomorrow's dinner, Yang Baifu and Sister Dahua will come over to eat together and we will spend the New Year's Eve together."
The reason why she invited them was not because because of Yang Dahua, if it was only based on her relationship with Yang Dahua, she would naturally not invite people to come to their house for the New Year, mainly because of the relationship between Qin Fang and Han Zhen. Both are in the same place and have a good relationship. Qin Fang will be happier if he has a company during Chinese New Year.
Han Zhen didn't refuse: "Then we are welcome."
After the pigs are slaughtered in the morning, they naturally want to eat fresh meat at noon, so Qin Fang and Yang Dahua also dined there.
After lunch, they went back.
After they went back, Yang Haiyan pestered Qin Fang to ask about the past few days.
Qin Fang told her one by one: "...Fortunately, the barbarian was on his way when it was dark. Otherwise, even if Han Zhen was disguised at that time, he might not have been able to deceive the barbarian's eyes."
Manzi's clothes touched the sand and dust on his face again. Plus, Manzi was under a lot of pressure at the time. When he saw his own people coming, he believed it without asking for confirmation. He could only say that he was lucky.
When Yang Haiyan heard this, she didn't think so. Even though some of the plots had changed, Han Zhen was still the male lead, so she felt that Han Zhen could meet the barbarian and rescue the young master and some of the hero's halo existed. .
Moreover, Qin Fang gave Han Zhen the chance to gain face in front of the prince by showing up this time. Therefore, the male protagonist is the male protagonist. Although the opportunity comes too late, it will still come.
But no matter what, this time, it was Qin Fang who was really powerful this time and the one who made the prince grateful. Things wouldn't have worked out that way without his plan. Yang Haiyan praised: "My husband is really good, I can think of such a plan and I don't understand what psychological pressure is there."
Qin Fang was a little embarrassed to be praised by her, his ears were slightly red, but he didn't take credit for himself, he said truthfully: "This is not what I thought, but it was mentioned in the military book, about the use of psychological tactics to fight the plan. , I took advantage of it and came up with this plan."
Yang Haiyan: "That's why my husband is very good."
Qin Fang was praised and prepared to escape: "...then I...I will continue to read the military book."
Yang Haiyan: "Okay, let's go together. By the way, Xianggong, it's New Year's Eve, you can write couplets."
Qin Fang hurriedly refused: "No, my handwriting is not good." Although he spends a lot of time reading books, after all, he can read when the barracks is free, but he has less time to practice calligraphy, because he also spends a lot of time in the barracks. Inconvenient to practice spelling.
Yang Haiyan: "Then, if you write more, you will naturally be able to write beautiful calligraphy. And there are copybooks, Xianggong can refer to the copybook to write. You must know that Xianggong is the head of the family and the couplet at home is written by the head of the family, that is also very useful. "
Seeing Yang Haiyan say this, Qin Fang reluctantly agreed.
The couple went back to the study, one grinding and the other writing. Qin Fang's handwriting is naturally not good. If you insist on saying it, it is like a novice who has just learned to write, but it is much better than a novice. Most of the novice writers in ancient times were just enlightened children. Children's wrist strength was limited and their writing was soft. But Qin Fang is not. He is strong, and his words are much harder when he writes.
Qin Fang wrote a few words and was a little discouraged: "My words are really ugly. It will make people laugh when you read them. You should write them."
Yang Haiyan: "No, I wrote it this year and I will write it again next year. Year after year, everyone can see that Xianggong's words are getting better every year."
Qin Fang was helpless and with the encouragement of Yang Haiyan, he had to write all the couplets with a blushing face.
The couple was writing couplets in the study and the servants were not idle either. In the kitchen, Aunt Lian, Aunt Fan, Aunt Hong and Aunt Yu, four women are making buns and making steamed buns. There are so many that people are surprised to see it. There are several kinds of stuffing for buns, meat and vegetables. The four of them packed around 2,000 steamed buns from the afternoon to midnight and made another 2,000 steamed buns without filling.
In the afternoon, Uncle Hong took the convoy to send the 4,000 steamed buns to the military camp.
When the soldiers in the 18th district got the news, more than a thousand people came to the back door of the barracks.
The soldiers said, "Uncle Hong, is this what Mrs. Qin asked you to bring to us?"
Uncle Hong: "Yes, each person has a meat bun, a vegetable bun and two steamed buns. The wife said, this is for you all for the New Year."
The soldier said gratefully, "Uncle Hong, come over again tomorrow, let's go pick up firewood and send it to the chief's house. Thanking for giving us the buns, also thanks the mistress."
Uncle Hong hurriedly said: "No need, no need. My wife said that the more than a thousand bundles of firewood you sent before can be exchanged for more than ten taels of silver, so these steamed buns are actually bought with the firewood money you picked up yourself.
Yes, you don't owe our mistress, so don't have any burdens. If you send more firewood, my mistress will be embarrassed to accept it."
How could Yang Haiyan take advantage of them? If this word spreads out, it will have a bad impact on Qin Fang.
Soon, the family room found out about it again. Those who originally wanted to take advantage of this kind of thing suddenly dispelled their thoughts. If they can't make money, why would they bother to make things and send them?
Uncle Hong returned to Qianfu's house to catch up with the New Year's Eve dinner.
The highlight of the New Year's Eve dinner is the roasted pig, which is roasted in the fire, so it is not eaten in the house, but outside. In this way, it is a bit like a bonfire party.
A pig is divided into two halves, one is the servant's side and the other is the master's side.
After all, if the servant and the master eat together, they will be intimidated and unpleasant to eat. And some rules have to be cultivated, otherwise the master and the servants will eat together and they will get used to eating when they eat. In ancient times when there were distinct classes, this was not a good thing for the servants.
Yang Haiyan, Qin Fang, Han Zhen, Yang Dahua and Kun Shi were surrounded by three men who cut the meat and two women who ate it. There is soup next to the roast pig, you can serve it yourself if you want to drink it.
Kun Shi: "I have lived to this age and I am still the happiest today."
Of course, Kun Shi is not too young, only twenty-six years old, a few years older than Qin Fang and Han Zhen.
Han Zhen: "No, I never thought I could live like this before." Fortunately, he walked out of that house and now he has his own.
Qin Fang didn't speak and took a knife to cut the meat for Yang Haiyan. Yang Haiyan likes to eat charred meat and it tastes very delicious, so Qin Fang cut the charred meat for her.
Yang Haiyan took the plate, picked it up with chopsticks and fed Qin Fang: "Xiang Gong."
Qin Fang opened his mouth and ate it.
Yang Dahua sits next to Yang Haiyan. She and Han Zhen have a good relationship. She has never blushed since getting married, but she is a little embarrassed to ask her to feed a man like Yang Haiyan. She glanced at Han Zhen and saw that Han Zhen was cutting the meat. She thought to herself that after the husband cut the meat for herself, would you like to feed him?
She thought so, but after Han Zhen gave her the cut meat, she pulled his clothes and said, "Xianggong, let's eat together." But looking at Yang Haiyan and the others, she was envious.
Of course Han Zhen would not be polite: "Okay."
Not long after the roast pig feast started, the neighbors came to visit, but the people who visited were all the captains and the female family members did not come. Everyone is a thousand commanders under General Ao and they are familiar with Qin Fang. When they smell the fragrance, they come to take a look.
Yang Haiyan asked Aunt Fan to prepare two sets of tableware to entertain the commanders who lived on the family compound. There were too many men, so it was not easy for Yang Haiyan and Yang Dahua to sit here. Fortunately, they had a small appetite and were full, so they sat by the fire where the soup was burning. Now that their men are there, there are no other men next to them, so it won't hurt their reputation if they spread it out.
Yang Dahua suddenly thought of something: "By the way, Haiyan, Xianggong said that he would go to the Yonghe Hou Mansion in the county town on the third day of the first day of the first year?"
Yang Haiyan already knew from Qin Fang's mouth: "Yes, Sister Dahua will come with us at that time. It is convenient for us to have a donkey cart."
Of course Yang Dahua agreed: "That's good. But Haiyan, when the time comes, what are we going to prepare?" She had never been in contact with this aspect before, so she had no idea.
This...if Yang Haiyan could make some snacks by herself, they wouldn't have to prepare rich and expensive things when they went to the Hou's Mansion. But with Yang Dahua, she must consider Yang Dahua's situation. Yang Dahua doesn't know how to make dim sum. If she prepares dim sum, even if she doesn't mean to compare, if Yang Dahua doesn't prepare something suitable at that time, Yang Dahua will be embarrassed. It's like having a wedding banquet at a relative's house and when it's time to send a favor, the sister-in-law will discuss it.
Yang Haiyan thought about it for a while, but she had an idea in her heart: "What is Sister Dahua's best skill?"
After Yang Dahua heard it, she was silent for a while, she didn't have the best thing.
Yang Haiyan seemed to understand what she meant by her silence: "Sister Dahua's current female celebrity is not bad, why don't you make a doll for the son and girl of the Hou Mansion."
Yang Dahua heard it: "What is a doll? How to do it?"
Yang Haiyan said: "Just use cloth or cotton to make a small animal or flower that looks like it. You can embroider the small animal or flower with cloth first. You need both the front and the back and then sew the front and back together. Then put the cotton inside."
When Yang Dahua heard it, he had a bottom line in his heart: "It can be done at that time, but I can't embroider small animals, I can only embroider."
Yang Haiyan: "The eldest son has given birth to a son and a daughter. The girl is eight years old this year and the brother is four years old this year. I embroider small animals for the son and the big flower sister embroiders flowers for the girl. How?"
When Yang Dahua heard it, he felt very good: "Thank you Haiyan for thinking about me." Flowers are suitable for girls and small animals are suitable for brothers. It's really good.
The next day..
Today is the first day of the first lunar month. Thi is not Qin Fang's hometown, nor does it like modern times. You don't have to go everywhere to pay New Year's greetings, so Qin Fang and Yang Haiyan got up a little late. Mainly because the weather is cold, lying in a warm blanket is the most comfortable. Yang Haiyan didn't want him to get up because there was a heater beside him and Qin Fang didn't want to get up because he was holding his delicate daughter-in-law in his arms, so the two of them lay comfortably in the bed. Then kiss this, touch that.