The moon comes to take pictures

"Let's not talk about New Year's Eve, you can turn your back on your back when you run around like this usually, and just now I was so anxious," the eldest brother chattered endlessly when we were almost at the Cardamom Pavilion, "I still know you well, I will go to Lanquan Temple to ask, you Sure enough, there... I will go back later, and you can say something nice."

Ning Ruichen hung his head and remained silent.

Ning Yuquan was most afraid of his younger brother's appearance, so he softened his tone: "What's the matter, this is..."

"Brother," Ning Ruichen said softly, "I was wrong."

Looking at it like this, I feel a little downcast and a little sad. Ning Yuquan has seen all those cats and dogs looking for food on the street, they all look like this timidly wanting to get close. "What's your matter, elder brother will take care of it for you." He tucked the car curtain and made a gesture of listening, "tell me."

Ning Ruichen stammered: "It's nothing, I just had a nightmare."

Ning Yuquan took it for granted, and tentatively said, "Did you dream about our mother?"

Ning Ruichen didn't say anything, the eldest brother took him as acquiescence, sighed, and said: "Don't mention this in front of father, after the next year it will be Jingcha, everyone is worried."

Before Ning Ruichen could answer, the sedan chair came to a steady stop. The eldest brother greeted the people, blocked the cold wind from all directions, and grabbed Ning Ruichen and walked out.In front of the gate was bright red, and under the lantern stood a gentle woman with a neat bun, a thick cloak on her shoulders, and a slightly protruding belly, supported by two maids, looking nervously at this side.

As soon as Ning Yuquan saw it, he left his brother behind: "My friend, go back to the house and have a rest!"

The woman took a look and said, "I'll take a look at Rui'er."

"Sister-in-law." Ning Ruichen called out.It is said that the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, and Ning Ruichen is more or less close to her sister-in-law. When he saw her, he forgot how unhappy he was: "When did sister-in-law arrive?"

"The waterway I took, I just came back half an hour ago." Rong Yinghua smiled, and touched the top of Ning Ruichen's head, "I brought the siu mai from Yangzhou, it's warm in the pot, try it."

The two of them forgot about Ning Yuquan while they were talking. Ning Ruichen followed the two servant girls and walked into the garden, "Are your uncles and aunts okay?" He lowered his head and smiled like a child, "Little nephew Did you bother me?"

"Four months, how can there be trouble?" Ning Yuquan made a sound, seeing Rong Yinghua covering his lips and chuckling, he put Ning Ruichen on his arm: "Okay, the family is reunited, let's go to the New Year's Eve dinner."

He waved his hands, with a bit of a family attitude: "Ask the kitchen to warm some wine and send it to the stone platform." He turned his head and told the servant girl: "Have the screens been set up? The flower-and-bird mother-of-pearl screens I brought back from Suzhou, It's auspicious, and there is a charcoal basin, don't be reluctant to celebrate the Chinese New Year."

Rong Yinghua jokingly said: "Look at your brother, he's nagging, it's endless."

Ning Yuquan coughed, and in a blink of an eye, they arrived at the octagonal pavilion on the stone platform of the rockery, and the whole family sat down neatly. Not long after, his father also arrived.Melon, fruit, wine and food are all ready, so there is no regret on New Year's Eve.

Before taking a few bites, the watch clock exploded outside, pinging, pinging, pinging, and when the hour came, it was like fulfilling a promise. The dragon-shaped lamp slowly rises, and the colorful light suddenly shines brightly, and the city of Nanjing is brightly lit.

The tassels of the lantern trembled slightly, Ning Ruichen bypassed the screen and climbed up to a high place. On a strange fake rock, there was a blazing stream of light shining through the water.

After a moment of distraction, he already folded his palms together and said in his heart: New Year wishes...

Halfway through the prayer, a loud shout suddenly came from under the stone platform: "Commander Ning!"

That voice, like a sudden tearing silk, was sharp and piercing, and the people who came were flustered and climbed up the rockery regardless of dissuasion.

Ning Ji stood up abruptly, and walked out of the screen surrounded by flowers and birds. The man was wearing a tattered official robe, as if he had been torn by someone, with a messy military officer's chest, he was from the Ministry of War.

"It's broken, it's broken!" Regardless of the presence of other people, he snotted and cried, trembling, "The families of those detained businessmen in Zhejiang recruited private soldiers and beat Shang Shu to death!"

On the first day of the new year, before dawn, there were footsteps outside.

Yuan Junyu put on the coat with one hand, and pinched Liu Jiao's ear with the other, without using any force, Liu Jiao grinned and screamed away.

"Master! Master!" Liu Jiao's cinnabar mole jumped up and down, begging for mercy.

Yuan Junyu raised the tips of his ears: "What's the wind in the early morning."

Liu Jiao arched her hands in a serious manner: "Happy New Year! It's a good thing to get money!"

Yuan Junyu let go of his hand, glanced at it, and said nothing.

Liu Jiao suddenly understood, opened his robe, plopped on the ground, and kowtowed to Master: "Master is auspicious for the New Year!" With a crisp voice, he turned around like singing a song, and followed those beautiful eyes to stare at him, fawning on him. bent over.

"Take it." Shi Shiran dropped a piece of red paper, Liu Jiao was not polite, opened it and took a look, there were a few staggering silver bills.

"Master loves me the most!" Liu Jiao jumped up, he still had a plan in his stomach, and walked to the door, "There are still guests coming today."

Yuan Junyu gave a faint "hmm".

"That young master is stupid, maybe at this moment..." Liu Jiao said, shaking his head, pulled the latch and stretched out his hand like a girl, "Still outside!"

With a "snap", the door opened, and there were actually a few people standing outside.It's not Ning Ruichen, nor is it a monk in the temple. He is dressed in casual clothes, white and clean, with a smile on his face, and a feminine air.

Liu Jiao was stunned, he knew these people... they were eunuchs from Chang Xi's family.He glanced at those people, wondering if the visitors were unkind, so he blocked his hands first, leaning against the door frame and grinning: "Ah, it's the first day of the first lunar month, Duke Du took us home for the New Year?"

No one would embarrass a child, those eunuchs looked at each other and pushed out the one who was in charge: "It's not going home." His eyes passed over Liu Jiao, and fixed on Yuan Junyu, "Let's live in another place."

"Live in another place", this word has more meanings.Eunuchs are unscrupulous, Liu Jiao knows best, he thought of the worst kind, all of his blood faded away, his pale face turned to Yuan Junyu stiffly.

Yuan Junyu stood up, her peach blossom eyes didn't blink, her usual calm expression: "Duke wants to see me?"

The little eunuch was quite polite, he didn't come hard, and his demeanor was not soft: "The Duke Du will come to see you naturally after he has been busy for a while."

What is busy right now, of course, is not the Chinese New Year, Yuan Junyu thought about it, only the Jingcha in the next year, every Si and Hai, storms sweep through the official circles of the two capitals like a storm.

What can happen to Jingcha?Chang Xi has been in Nanjing for two years, and the foundation is indeed unstable, and it is not impossible to have side effects.But the little eunuch couldn't figure out what the eunuch said... Yuan Junyu lowered his eyes, and said after a while: "Don't go, my child, follow me, it's weird."

The little eunuch leaned over: "It's all up to Mr. to decide."