Chapter 499: New Year’s greetings (Part 1)

On the 54th year of the Kangxi reign, the first day of the first lunar month.

According to the annual practice, Kangxi first led everyone, Beile, Beizi, Duke, Minister of the Inner Palace, Grand Secretary, Guard, etc. to pay tribute to the Empress Dowager's Palace. Then, the Imperial Lord went to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to hold the first tribute meeting for the New Year.

Civil and military officials, foreign vassal kings and envoys, etc., came to express congratulations and stopped the banquet.

Next, the spring is coming to Shuntian Prefecture.

After a great etiquette came down, it was not until the beginning of Si (9:00 a.m.), when Cao Yin and his son came back from the palace.

Li and Chuyu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have been dressed in new clothes, wearing two pairs of heads, wearing flag clothes, and beads and jade on their heads, looking very energetic.

The two butterfly jade hairpins on Chu Yu's hair bun are very gorgeous. They are jade-colored butterflies on top and jade flowers at the bottom and jade leaves. The butterflies, flowers and leaves are decorated with rubies, which looks very bright.

Echoing the other pomegranate velvet flowers on his head, Cao Yong couldn't help but take a look at him again.

Chu Yu thought her husband was looking at the hairpin on his head and whispered: "It was given by his wife in the morning..."

There was a saying that she swallowed in her stomach and didn't say, that is, this hairpin was also a thing of creation. Gold-inlaid pearls, jade and gemstones were faintly royal.

Seeing that his mother and wife had a harmonious relationship, Cao Yong was very happy and whispered: "Mother really loves you, your wife. Be careful that my sister and third sister know, and blame her for being partial to her."

Chu Yu just laughed, but didn't respond.

Cao Yin sat on the kang and had some gossip with Li. Sometimes he turned around and teased the two grandsons who were playing on the kang.

Li sat upright on the other side, answering with her husband, shaking Tianhui's car with one hand, and glanced at the clock on the ground.

While talking, he heard the maid in the corridor say, "Your Madam, the master, the grandmother of the East Mansion, the girl, and grandma are here!"

When Cao Yin heard this, he coughed and straightened his body, saying, "Come in!"

As he spoke, Cao Song brought his brothers, sisters, daughters-in-law, and his wife into the house and stood halfway.

When everyone saw Cao Yin and Li, they did not rush to greet the New Year. Instead, they called him "uncle" and bowed their heads to stand.

Cao Yin nodded and asked Cao Song: "Why didn't your mother come?"

Cao Song lowered his head and said, "When I went back to my uncle, my mother felt a little uncomfortable. She had just taken medicine and sweated, so she didn't come out."

Cao Yin and Li looked at each other, with a little helpless expression, but they were not surprised.

The couple stood up and lit incense.

The whole family performed a kneeling and three bows to the "ancestor board" worshipped by the west wall. Even the Tianhui in the cradle was held by Chu Yu.

After the ceremony, Cao Yin and his wife sat down again, and Cao Song and others knelt down and kowtowed to pay New Year's greetings.

But there are auspicious words such as "auspiciousness" and "longevity is better than the southern mountain". Li held a long-prepared purse, which contained various gold and silver croakers. He smiled and handed it to his nephew, niece, and niece in turn.

Cao Song and others stood up and wished Cao Yong and his wife a happy New Year.

Because they are among peers, there is no need to kneel down.

Chu Yu also smiled and handed the prepared purse to everyone.

At this time, there is an unwritten etiquette, which means that officials greet each other on New Year's Day. It is just to please their superiors and contact their colleagues.

Basically, they all hold banquets and all officials gather together for a group visit.

Cao Yong and Cao Song both have jobs and have to go out for a "group visit". However, before that, Cao Yong and Chuyu and Chuyu took their children to the East Mansion to pay New Year's greetings to Zhaojia.

After paying New Year's greetings to Zhaojia, Cao Yong wanted to pay New Year's greetings to his father-in-law's house, and then went to the "reunion" between Taipu Temple and the guard office. Other relatives and friends were ranked after the second grade of the lunar month.

Not only Cao Yong and Cao Song were going out, but also Cao Shuo and his younger ones were all dressed up and wanted to go out.

Cao Shuo was going to go to his father-in-law's house. Cao Xiang and Cao leaned over to his grandfather's house, uncle's house, Zhaojia's mansion and Shilang's mansion, and other relatives and friends could be placed after the second grade of junior high school.

Cao Song and Cao Shuo are new son-in-laws. This year, the first time I received a greeting to my father-in-law's house, Li's side had to give me a few words of advice, and then asked how the gifts were prepared and what was going on.

After Cao Yin accepted the New Year's greetings from his nephews, someone from the second party passed a message, and the prince of Ping County, Neersu and the third aunt Seshtu came to greet Cao Yin and his wife.

Cao Yin and Li went to the front yard together and accepted the New Year greetings from their sons-in-law.

Because there was a lot of things happening in the royal palace and the public palace, Nersu and Seshtu did not stay for a long time. After leaving for a formality, Nersu hurriedly left. Nersu went to the family home of his mother's family, and Seshtu had to go to the East Mansion to fight for a formality before leaving.

After the sons-in-law left, Cao Yin changed into auspicious clothes and went out of the mansion to attend a banquet. There were people from the Ministry of Rites, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Guild Hall, and Zhengbai Banner.

In a day, I have to run several floors, and time is tight.

After a while, Cao Yin and his nephews went out first, and Cao Yong and Chuyu took their children to the East Mansion to pay New Year's greetings. Jinghui and Ruhui sister-in-law were left by Li to speak.

Li was worried about Zhao Jia, afraid that she would be angry, so she said something ugly when Cao Yong and his wife went to pay New Year's greetings.

Even if it is younger generations, there is no reason to contradict the elders, if they speak in front of the new wife, they are afraid that Cao Yong and Chu Yu will not be able to hold on their faces, and the more they make trouble, the more they become, the more they become.

There are fewer people, even if there is a quarrel, they will not be considered a big deal and will make the new wife laugh at it.

Li asked the two to sit down, and asked the maid to bring snacks and food. He smiled and said to them: "Those who are in the New Year cannot go out. They are so bored that they come here to sit in the yard if they have time. It is not easy for a new wife. When I first married the master in the early years, I was a little nervous. After these years, I was here."

The custom of the New Year is to pay attention to "no gates". It is during the New Year, from the first to the fifth day of the lunar month, if a woman or a girl comes to the family, it will be a festive event, and it will be unlucky for a year.

During the Chinese New Year, although men pay New Year's greetings everywhere, women have to be bound to the end of the "noble gate" of the sixth day of the lunar month. Only then can they visit relatives and friends. Therefore, Li said to his two niece-in-laws with boredom.

Like Jinghui and Ruhui came to the mansion here, Chu Yu took his children to the East Mansion. This is still his own home, not a visitor, so there are no taboos.

Jinghui just smiled and listened. Ruhui raised her head and looked at Li's face. She looked at her fair right hand on the kang table and praised: "It's not that her niece-in-law flatters. The eldest lady is so young. I think it's worry-free, no more than my aunt..." Speaking of this, she stuck out her tongue mischievously, smiled twice, and continued: "It's not as bad as our wife. It looks like it looks."

Less than ten days after entering the door, Ruhui changed her mouth and was inconvenient.

Although Ruhui said it bluntly, she was really thinking.

Li sighed and said, "You are still young and don't know the difficulties of being a parent. After two years, you will know that you have to worry about your children. You will have endless troubles. Your wife is blessed with more children than me. So you think more and need to worry more. As a wife, even if you enter the door, you must abide by filial piety." At the end of the day, the words were already a little serious.

Jinghui and Ruhui stood up quickly and responded with their hands.

Here, Li's family was taught me sincerely that Zhao Jia from the East Mansion could even scrape off white frost from her face when she looked at Cao Yong and Chu Yu's family.

It's just a ceremony, and the left and right are just to be polite.

Cao Yong and Chu Yu only did not see each other. Cao Yong held Tianyou and Hang Seng, and Chu Yu hugged Tianhui and greeted New Year together.

Tianyou and Hengsheng were still a little uncomfortable, but when they came, Cao Yong and Chu Yu had already coaxed them all the way and were willing to be obedient.

Zhao Jia was wearing a blue flag suit. Although she didn't wear velvet flowers, pearls, jadeite and other items on her head, she also had several plain gold hairpins. Although her face was covered with pink, she still showed signs of fatigue. It was because of her lack of rest.

Seshtu left before she was on the kang and was thinking about what grade the title of the Duke's Mansion was passed to her son-in-law. In the future, her grandson would be the young master.

Not to mention, she could not prepare less for this "catch Zhou" ceremony.

Although Cao Yi and Li were treated mediocrely, she was the child's serious grandmother, and no one could change this.

I heard that because of the adoption of her son, she was unwilling to move to the Duke's Mansion to be the old lord, and she still stayed in her old house. Then, if the two families walked around, she would be the serious wife of her family...

Thinking about the awkward relationship with the concubine's daughter, Zhao Jia held her forehead and felt a little confused.

Is he really wrong? Is this a blessing? But then again, if the third girl was recognized as the second wife, she would probably have been married to the south, so how could she go to Beijing to be the Duke's wife?

Speaking of this, her cold love back then could have made her concubine daughter. Thinking of this, Zhao Jia felt a lot more comfortable and felt much more comfortable.

Seeing Cao Yong's family coming to pay New Year's greetings, she held the corner of her mouth and wanted to sarcastically. Speaking of which, the third girl did not kiss the second and the eldest wife, which was also because Cao Yong's brother was instigated.

However, looking at Cao Yong's smile and clear eyes, she swallowed the words she said. She also muttered in her heart, "Is it here to pay New Year's greetings or something?"

Why does it make people feel that the couple is more respectful and not close enough, and they are a little alienated? Could it be that they are really annoyed because of her defeating Hang Seng and blame her, her aunt?

This is really too unreasonable. As a junior, how can this be done?

She coughed twice, cleared the phlegm in her throat, and nodded at the Lu Ju who was standing on the side.

Lu Ju brought the prepared purse forward on a tray. Zhao Jia then reached out and helped Cao Yong and Chu Yu and said, "Everyone get up and sit down. It's hard for you to come and see me!" As he spoke, he glanced at Hengsheng at Cao Yong's feet and frowned.

Cao Yong and Chu Yu had arrived, and they were too lazy to care about Zhao Jia's sarcasm. When Zhao Jia's purse was delivered, they stood up and said goodbye.

Zhao Jia's original intention was to talk about it for nothing, but his words were blocked into his throat and he had no chance to say it.

After they left, Zhao Jia had to ask for a bag of cigarettes and chatted with the two girls around her.

Not to mention the little ones of the Cao family, going to the Yue family's father-in-law's house or the mother's house, Cao Yin was already riding a horse to the restaurant next to Xidan Pailou.

The Ministry of Rites’ “Gourmet” reception is here.

The two ministers, four ministers, and all the officials below were present. In addition to the officials from the Ministry of Rites, there was a big man who came before the meeting.

That is, the third prince of the two princes in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Rites, wearing regular clothes and greeting the people of the Ministry of Rites with a warm face.

By the time of Cao Yin, the third prince seemed particularly enthusiastic and said with a smile: "I still remember that when Lord Cao had not left Beijing in his early years, he taught me to ride and shoot. Compared with other princes, my king lacked arm strength, and Lord Cao even made wristbands specifically for me. Now that I think about it, it has been more than 30 years." At the end, he shook his head with emotion.

Cao Yin laughed with his face, but he also sighed in his heart. Could it be that the third prince did not see the eighth prince’s past lessons, and he still wanted to win people’s hearts?

Outside the restaurant, several figures dispersed one after another...

Outside Andingmen, Prince Yong’s Mansion.

When Dai Jin heard that the Fourth Prince returned home, he was quite surprised and greeted him, and said with some confusion: "Fourth Master, didn't you say that you would come back from Tong's Mansion in the morning and go to the Xidan Pailou?"

The fourth prince waved his hand and said, "I originally thought about the New Year, look at the masters of the Ministry of Revenue. But after getting news on the way, the third prince also went there. It would be better to avoid suspicion. I have nowhere to disturb the emperor again for a meal."

Dai Jin heard the meaning of the Fourth Prince's words. If the princes all went to the officials of the six ministries to have a banquet, it would inevitably attract the attention of those who were interested, making Long Live the Emperor concerned.
Chapter completed!