[Strategy of Yanxi Palace] Another year of spring

The deep winter of the sixth year of Qianlong.

Near the end of the new year, all the prefectures in the capital are busy and lively. The population of Nalan Mansion is simple, but now four girls have been married off, and there are only four masters left in the mansion. The Guerjia family is inevitably a little lonely. Ladies and gentlemen, I feel a little sad that there has not been a male added to the Nalan clan to inherit the title of Yongshou in the past many years.

Shichun knew that this was Guerjia's heart disease, and he couldn't get rid of it easily. He knew that he couldn't persuade her, so he didn't bother Erniang, and the number of times he went out was reduced.

Counting the days, this is probably the first time she has gone out since January.

Originally, I was in good spirits, but as soon as I entered the gate of the Douwan Chess Club, I saw a lot of lively red people in my field of vision.The Chess Club's main name is elegant, and the decoration has always been quiet and elegant, but it will inevitably look cold in the cold winter.The play chess club is covered with earth dragons, and in winter, heavy curtains are hung at the gate to block the wind and snow outside. The scattered seats are even covered with thick tablecloths made of satin and trimmed with raw edges. The preserved melons and fruits Xia sent up were filled with fried sunflower seeds, which swept away the cold air in the building and looked warm.

Naturally, the private room can only be decorated more properly, with good mahogany furniture, and a gold wire charcoal stove in each room, using the best charcoal that folks can find, covered with a gold wire mesh, and emitting "cracking" sparks from time to time sound.When guests come, first serve a bowl of ginger soup, prepared with rose syrup, to cover the fishy smell of ginger.Then there are a few baskets lined up, sunflower seeds and other nuts in one basket, hand towels dripping with rose water in another basket, and Lu'an melon slices from a good place of production are even more surprising. Hand stoves are provided to prevent cold hands, and blankets can be used to cover the legs, so as to prevent guests from having cold legs due to sitting on the kang for a long time.

Therefore, in this cold winter day when the snow began to fall in Beijing, many restaurants and teahouses lost a lot of customers due to the cold weather, but the Toy Chess Club was still prosperous, and the guests were warm and naturally felt comfortable.Because everyone sits lively and lively in winter, they feel closer to each other. Talking together, setting up a table to play chess, is also very enjoyable, not losing anything to those flower houses and chess and card halls.

After entering the door, I looked up and saw that the Chess Club was completely decorated with red lanterns instead of the elegance it used to pursue. There were two red giant couplets outside the building. It looked so festive.

"Miss, you said this building is really getting more and more lively." Ruyi walked upstairs with Shichun, while looking around, happy in her heart, couldn't help laughing and said.

"Yeah, I feel warm when I come in. After looking at the decoration, I don't think I'd be too lazy to move my feet all afternoon. This store is really thoughtful." Que Ning echoed.

The two girls followed Shi Chun with excited faces, Shi Chun pursed his lips and smiled, stretched out his hand and pushed open the door of the private room: "It should be said that this store is rich, but this kind of thinking is burning money everywhere. .”

Ruyi boldly approached: "Miss is the most elegant person, how come she is more vulgar than slaves and Que Ning now, why are you thinking about money? If you can reward slaves more like usual money lovers during Chinese New Year this year, miss Copper coins are the right thing to do."

Que Ning covered her mouth and snickered, and couldn't help but smile at each other with the little maids behind her.

"You girl is getting more and more courageous." Shi Chunjiao glared at Ruyi, walked to the kang table, picked up the nut basket on the table and stuffed it into Ruyi's arms: "It's done, that's all the rewards for you this year. "

Ruyi hugged the basket in her arms, and backed away with aggrieved face, Que Ning giggled at her, and suddenly Shi Chun pointed at her angrily, "Don't laugh at her! Aren't you the one who holds the key? This year, the little girl in the courtyard People reward five taels of silver, big girls seven taels, as for the two of you, you don't have a single coin."

Que Ning's smile stuck in his throat, and he couldn't utter a word.

When she came back to her senses, she began to grab the basket in Ruyi's hand.

"Did you hear that? We don't have any rewards this year, so I share the sunflower seeds. How can I just let you eat a basket!"

The little girls behind them seemed to be deliberately cooperating with the master to make them angry, and they all smiled happily: "Thank you for the reward, miss."

Ruyi turned her head and pointed: "Good guys, what if I treat you badly on weekdays? Everyone is in the eyes of money, not to mention offering a little money to honor me and your sister Que Ning."

Shi Chun coughed lightly, Ruyi hurriedly turned her head, approached with a flattering smile and poured her a cup of steaming Lu'an Guapian tea.

"Master calm down, the slave is wrong."

Shi Chun glared at her: "Look at this prospect, after all, he is from Shangsanqi's Baoyi background, with a name and surname, and he is greedy for the little girl's money."

Que Ning also took the opportunity to squeeze forward: "This servant was not born in Shangsanqi. He was a pitiful person, so Miss will be a pitiful servant. Don't cut down the age of this servant."

Shi Chun curled his lips, and then showed mercy: "Look at these pitiful little faces, they make me look like a villain. Forget it, this year your master is rich, so let's spread the money to gather blessings for Mr. Shu. Give each of you another three taels. Wrap yourself a red envelope of ten taels, and buy more sweets. I don’t know where the house is starving you, so I like to buy some dirty snacks on the street eat."

The two big girls didn't care about her complaints, they were so happy that they complimented each other in unison, each of them was full of tongues, and they were very active in flattering.

"It's done, don't bother me anymore, the shopkeeper will come to ask later, the chess club should be quieter."

Shi Chun waved his hand, and after hearing two good words, he didn't bother to listen any more.

It's just those few words repeated over and over for more than ten years, which is meaningless, and the maids in the palace will praise people more.

When the room was quiet, the only sound in the air was the maids walking softly to add tea and the sound of charcoal "cracking" from time to time. Nalan Shichun rested his elbows on the table and rubbed his sleepy head because of the warmth of the room. I finally remembered something and asked.

"The guards of Fucha probably won't be here today?"

It's not surprising, after all, the end of the year is approaching, and many children of other families don't go out anymore, and there are many things to prepare for staying in the mansion.The Fucha family is a large family with a prosperous population. The whole main branch clan always celebrates New Year's Day together. When all the branches are gathered together, there are naturally many things that need to be ordered by the children.

"Maybe," Ruyi, who had been holding her breath and not daring to disturb her, said, "The Fucha family has been buying supplies in Beijing since last month. His family has always been a headache for the wealthy families in Beijing every New Year's Eve. People from all the government offices have to rush ahead of Fucha’s house when purchasing New Year’s gifts. Otherwise, when his family comes out to buy, large sums of banknotes will be scattered all over the capital, and the quality of the things left behind will not be of high quality, and there will be nothing left. About This year, Lord Li Rongbao is in charge, and Fucha's house is full of activity every day, and some side branches have come to Beijing one after another, and this slave has never felt that there are so many Fucha family members."

"Perhaps it is because of this that the family is so prosperous. With many children, there will naturally be a large number of talents, and others will not be envious of them." Shi Chun said.

The Nalan family has never gathered like these huge families. To be honest, even the families of the uncles who are closer in blood do not have a large population.In the Kangxi Dynasty, people were enviable because of their small number of people. After all, the Tongjia, Niuhulu, and Hesheli clans, let alone the Ulanala clan, had a large population and countless children.However, almost every family has an overlord. Tong Guogang's eldest son, Elundai, even dared to "lift his clothes and defecate" in the Qianqing Palace. It can be seen that there were too many children in the clan at that time, which was a headache.However, in Nalan Mingzhu's family, the three sons lined up in a row, none of them were mediocre, each of them was magnificent and imposing, and the eldest son Nalan Chengde didn't know how many Han people he helped Mingzhu win over during the phase period, and how much good reputation he gained. The children of Nalan are jealous of even Lord Kangxi, everyone knows this well.

However, this disadvantage has emerged. There are few children, and it will only get worse and worse when it is passed on to the later generations. The Youfucha family is still as powerful as the Overlord.The lineage of Yongshou seems to have lost his son, even if he adopts Ning Xiu as an heir, it can't offset the fact that this lineage is actually extinct. I'm afraid that if this development trend continues, the surname Nalan will eventually become Slowly lost in history.

Perhaps it was because of this reason that Yongshou wanted his daughter to enter the palace so anxiously. He felt that he was sorry for his ancestors because he had no children, so he wanted to atone for his sins. Made a little contribution.

After all, the Ulanala family is a famous family in the Eight Banners, which was raised by women.

Shichun thought about it, and gradually lost interest, and then thought about it, what's the use of thinking so much, I don't know if there will be Nalan's family in the future, at least it's not bad now, she is a daughter who is going to get married sooner or later, It's not her turn to worry.

She twirled a sunflower seed, and as soon as she peeled off the husk, she heard a knock on the door, and the voice of the boy named Bulong from Fucha's house came.

It's rare that Fu Heng still has time to come to the chess club.

With a glance in her eyes, Que Ning opened the door knowingly. Fu Heng was wearing a big cloak, and walked in with a gust of wind and snow.

Que Ning thought about taking advantage of the situation to help him put away the cloak, Fu Heng said no to her, stretched out his hand to untie the strap, and handed it to Bulong, the young man went out and handed the cloak to a passing man, asking him to take it. Go clean the snow water on it, and then take it to the stove to dry.

"I thought you weren't here anymore. Two alleys away, everyone in our house knows how busy Fucha's house is recently." Shi Chun said.

Fu Heng walked to the side first, stood by the stove, dried his body, and drove off the air-conditioning around him, and said, "Take a break from the busy schedule. Actually, I have nothing to do at all. The boys on the side are already diligent enough. Rushed to help the mansion to do everything."

Shi Chun knew very well that it must be the children of Fucha's branch who tried their best to express themselves during the new year in order to win Li Rongbao's favor, but rushed to finish the work of the young master of this branch.

Fu Heng sat across from her, but he was a little restless.

How could he be sneaking around, the people in the mansion were almost swayed by Er Niang's command, after a large number of rewards from the emperor and empress in the palace came down, even Fu Qian, who was powerless, was sent to work, he found A trip to another courtyard in the outskirts of the city to pick up wool was exchanged for this afternoon's free time.

If he has something, he has to ask her personally.

"How are you preparing for the festival? Is there anything I need to help with? There are quite a lot of Zhuangzi in the suburbs of our home, and they are rich in everything. I don't have enough preparations for the ceremony, so I don't know how the Nalan family is doing?"

Shi Chun raised his eyebrows: "Our family is only a few people. If a few people are satisfied, the whole family will be satisfied. There is no question of whether it is enough or not. Besides, the Guerjia family and the Niu Hulu family are rushing to stockpile goods. That's my fault. Mother’s family, it’s okay to ask for some from them.”

"That's good." Fu Heng looked down at her entertaining herself playing chess alone: ​​"I... have something to ask you this time."

Shi Chun raised his eyes, looked at him with a little surprise, then showed an expression asking him to speak bluntly, stopped playing chess, sat up and listened seriously.

"I'm ashamed to say that I always felt that the previous incident was over, and I even dared to communicate with you as if nothing had happened, but I didn't expect that my thinking was too simple. The last time Mr. Shu Gui told me in the palace, The imperial concubine humiliated you by retiring the engagement. I was ashamed when I heard it. I never thought that this incident would bring you so much harm. You are perfect in my heart, but I never thought that you The only stain is that I poured it on you."

Shi Chun secretly scolded the ignorant younger sister in his heart, thinking about it, he knew that the impulsive younger sister must have done some superfluous things in the palace that she didn't know about.But now is not the time to think about Chunxue, she straightened her face and looked at Fu Heng seriously.

"Actually, I also used some unspeakable means at the beginning. This year is the second time I was selected into the draft list. Three years ago, I was unable to participate because of a serious illness. I have been thinking about this for the past three years, and then I found that I did not want to enter the palace. , so in order to avoid it, I was too eager for quick success. It was the result of calculations that I fell into Mrs. Fucha's eyes. I did not do this properly. I lost my wife's love, and even more so, you who were innocent at the time The calculation was only to satisfy my own selfish desires. Afterwards, I was ashamed of what I did. You rejected this marriage, and I broke free from the guilt. In the final analysis, I used you, Taking advantage of my wife and the power of the Fucha family, most of what the concubine said is actually true. This is what I did on my own, and the consequences should be borne by myself. This is what I deserve."

The room fell into silence, the maids of Nalan Mansion held their breath, Ruyi and Que Ning nervously looked at Fu Heng's face, even Bu Long couldn't help being startled, and cast his inconceivable eyes on Shi On Chun, thinking of Fu Heng's forty whips, he couldn't help frowning slightly.

The fire was burning, and suddenly there was a "crack", and there was a burst of sparks.

In silence, someone said: "I know."

Shi Chun couldn't help but fix his eyes firmly on the face of the person in front of him.

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