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Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Firecrackers were crackling outside, Yao Jing yawned and looked at the people in the room.Sitting at the top is her cheap mother, and standing with two wild goose wings is the maidservant and auntie. There is a little boy on the left and right of the cheap mother, and the one on the left is older, about ten years old (cheap mother calls him rich) Dali), the one on the right is two or three years younger than him (called Qingde).She has seen these two many times in the cheap mother's house, and they are both her brothers.

Today is New Year's Eve, Yao Jing finally met her sister, whom she has never met, a pretty little girl who looked like a kindergarten class and was led by her mother to sit on the seat, Yao Jing took a double look at her , is a beautiful woman with bright eyes, maybe because of recovering from a serious illness, she seems a bit thin.Because Yao Jing was still a toddler, she was hugged by the nanny, and she saluted first when entering the door, which was also done in the arms of the nanny, and then introduced by the cheap mother, and the nanny led: "This is the big girl, this is the little girl." .” Let them get to know each other, and then they were carried to the cheap mother’s side.

These are not a problem, the problem is that her two elder brothers originally wore small melon caps, and they felt hot when they entered the room, so they took off the caps after getting permission, and Yao Jing realized that their foreheads were bare, which was fine, The problem is that they are not the kind of half-monk heads, but they can't say what kind of hair style.Only a handful of hair on the scalp about the size of a teacup survived and was braided into small braids hanging down, a bit like Liaojin men's hair style, except that Liaojin men's braids seem to be on the side of the head Yes, the part of the hair of these two is on the crown of the head.

Is the hair of men or boys in Qing Dynasty like this?At first when they were wearing hats, Yao Jing wondered if the braids were thin because the children had less hair. How could they know that the braids were shaved.When Yao Jing was a child, she glanced at a TV series about Li Shutong, a handsome monk, and just happened to see the handsome uncle go to Japan to study. The local lolita said his hairstyle was "half a monk", so she asked for a braid to be cut.Because it's so vivid, I remember it clearly... Could it be that she was cheated by the TV series?
Then something even more shocking happened that her sister had the same hairstyle!your sister!Didn't the history textbooks say that those who keep their hair down are men? !Yao Jing couldn't help but struggled with her small arms and tried to touch her head. She passed through and was not old enough to dress up by herself. She hasn't looked in the mirror, and she doesn't know if her head is bald!

This little wish didn't come true either, and Mammy held her firmly, fearing that it would disturb everyone's interest during this good time of Chinese New Year.Yao Jing turned her face away in pain, and unfortunately saw a little girl with a bald head standing at the bottom of the wall, and she became more and more sure that her hair would not be able to keep.Fortunately... her mother's hair is still full, and her family's Chunxi Xiaxi and the nuns also have all their hair. Maybe it can be considered that they can be allowed to keep their hair in the future?

After the cheap mother announced the start of the annual banquet, she turned around to tease Yao Jing and asked her to call her "Er Niang" [1].That's right, Yao Jing learned to be called "Er Niang" when she didn't know how old she was (fortunately, she knew what this word meant).The teeth are not fully grown, so they should be very small, right?Otherwise, everyone I met would not say 'smart', which does not rule out the suspicion of deliberately saying this in order to please the cheap mother.

Yao Jing is not very happy to be too close to these people, she still can't get used to it, as a baby, there is no urgent need to integrate into society, she can still shrink in her turtle shell and miss the past.It's just that I can't stand the noise of the adults.The cheap mother called her "Er Niang" many times at first, and the nanny and maid also repeated it at the same time. If they didn't speak, they would be nagged to death.

It's easy for her to call her mom, mother, but it's a bit difficult for her vocal cords to pronounce two different syllables consecutively.It took me several days of repeated practice before I could pronounce the correct syllables.If she were to suddenly call a stranger Mom, she really couldn't open the mouth. Mom can't be called casually, the weight of this word is too heavy.On the contrary, it is the psychological relationship of "Er Niang", which is more eloquent.

Yao Jing called out "Er Niang", and was let go after being kissed on the tender cheek by the happy cheap mother.

At a young age, the teeth haven't grown much, and the baby under one year old can't eat much. After being breastfed, she just looks at the table and smells the aroma of the food. Yao Jing misses the family making dumplings together. New Year's Eve.On New Year's Eve, at the crowded reunion banquet, Yao Jing silently thought of her home again, and remembered the real mother who had been called mother for more than 20 years.Close your eyes, it would be too shameful to cry out in public, even if you shrink.

She was too young to do anything, and the room was quite warm, and she felt her energy rise as soon as she was warmed by the heat. Yao Jing's first New Year in the Qing Dynasty passed in such a muddled way.The next day, wearing red new clothes and a heavy outfit with a shining collar, bracelets and anklets, Yao Jing's brow was marked with a small red mole by the nurse with rouge.The children are like powder balls, and Yuxue is cute, but few people look at it, and the whole house is empty.

Another big problem is that Yao Jing has never met the male owner of this house, let alone a male relative.I haven't seen any male relatives, and I can say it's because of my young age and strict etiquette, but I haven't seen my father, and I'm so busy that I don't even go home for the Chinese New Year... San Francisco, I will lose in the end, but unfortunately I am not interested in Qing history. She doesn't know the middle process at all, and even if she knows the process completely, she still doesn't know her father's name, so it doesn't make sense. These days, no one is okay to call the host's name with his last name at home .

Yao Jing has a new worry. This is the first time for her to travel through time. She doesn't know what to do. When will she know what the name of this 'Ama' is? ?

And the strange thing is that she has never seen anyone like grandmother, aunt, aunt, or aunt in this house, which is so strange!Don't people live together in groups these days?Yao Jing bit her finger.She has little understanding of daily life in the Qing Dynasty. She was lucky enough to read "Dream of Red Mansions" because it was one of the four great classics. Compared with this "fossil book", she found that her environment was completely out of step with this famous book. Son.

They have an old lady, but hers doesn't; they have many relatives, but hers doesn't; they have many sisters, but hers only has one; their servants pick and quarrel when they leave their masters, but hers don't; they have troublesome ones. Little wife, her family, er, there seem to be two or three little wives, but they are very honest, at least in the eyes of Yao Jing now, these aunts are very well-behaved; it is useless for them to learn Manchu and Mongolian, but her family has... Yao Jing wanted to break her head, but she couldn't think of a reason.Is this a crazy situation? ! !
At this moment, the originally silent mansion suddenly moved.A woman in charge came over in a hurry and said, "Madam has returned from the palace, get ready soon."

Palace?Yao Jing was stunned.

Of course, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhengdan, it is natural to enter the palace to congratulate.Yao Jing took three slow beats to think of this point, thinking that the rules of the past dynasties are similar.I was carried to the main room, and I saw the mother-in-law who was changing clothes, she was covered in golden light, and the hat was held by the girl, with a ruby ​​jade on the top, two big pearls on the bottom, and a golden seat with carved flowers on the bottom, gorgeous very.There are three long strings of beads of different colors hanging around the neck, and the clothes on the body are also embroidered with gold rims around the azurite forging and fancy patterns. There are various pendants and patterns.Shaking makes people's eyes hurt.

For a while, the older sister also came, and the two lived in the same courtyard with their mother, and the nanny quickly hugged them. After a while, after the wife took the court beads hanging around her neck and changed into a cheongsam, the two little boys The baby is here too.The wife changed her clothes, and unexpectedly led the four children to another courtyard. The main house was also solemn and solemn, and kowtowed to two empty chairs.After it was over, I went to the yard and kowtowed to the south again.

Yao Jing was hugged by the nanny, and it was the nanny who was kneeling. She looked around curiously, and found that the decoration here was not worse than the wife's main room, or even better, and she felt suspicious.It was finally over, and through everyone's conversations, she knew that it was her cheap grandfather who lived here.Fu Dali asked Cheap Mom: "Emiang, Mafa and Ama haven't come back this year, when will we see them?" "Soon."

"It's almost time again." It was the second brother Qingde who muttered in a low voice. Yao Jing snickered for a long time at this 'second' brother, and looked at Qingde full of sympathy. Yao Jing secretly smiled.

Back in the main room, it was the wife's turn to sit upright. Put up the first two chairs. The wife sat on the one on the right, and the one on the left was vacant. The children kowtowed and said auspicious words.Yao Jing also said "Congratulations" that she had practiced for a long time, and she got a pair of purses filled with golden lockets, with exquisitely embroidered rich and noble cloud patterns on them.Other things during the Chinese New Year basically have nothing to do with her, who told her that she is still young.

There are quite a few people who pay New Year's greetings, and Er Niang also goes out to do New Year's greetings, but Yao Jing basically sees no one, and even her brothers and sisters rarely see each other. The two older brothers should be at school age, and they are basically not very good at ordinary times. When they met, the two of them wouldn't laugh with their sister who didn't have all her teeth during the annual leave. It's true that they occasionally come to pinch Dudu's cheeks when they have time.The elder sister recovered from a serious illness and was restricted in activities, so she continued to take care of her health.

As the new year passed, the two elder brothers continued to go to class, and Yao Jing saw fewer people, but she became busy.What can little babies do?
The answer is: study.

Learn to walk, learn to speak.Fortunately, Yao Jing is still "learning" Chinese now, with some Manchu and Mongolian vocabulary mixed in occasionally.Aunt Wu Ya insisted on learning Manchu, and Aunt He thought that Chinese should be learned first, but in the end it was his wife who said: "We all need to learn, but our home is in the Han army banner, and there are many people who speak Chinese now, so we should learn Chinese first." Just speak Chinese, and learn Mandarin and Mongolian when you are older, or you will not be able to learn it if you get confused," and comforted Aunt Wu Ya, "Little Niuniu speaks fast, let her learn to speak with Aunt after the New Year. Mandarin[2], I also talk to her a little bit on weekdays and listen to her. Children learn things quickly, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

Aunt Wu Ya thought she was a respectable old servant, so she insisted: "Although it is a Han army flag, it is also a Manchuria." Until his wife said: "I thought so too, but her brothers and sisters all came here like this. At that time, Li was learning together, and the children's tongues were all tied up. The master told them to come one by one, and now it's just as usual at that time. Xiao Niuniu still needs Mammy to worry about it." Aunt Wu Ya reluctantly agreed.

Since then, Yao Jing's study life has begun, and there are no teaching materials. She just took some gadgets to teach her to recognize. Yin Yin took an apple and said "apple" more than 20 times, so that Yao Jing followed suit.

Yao Jing: ...

After all, it is a pseudo-baby, as long as the physical hardware allows, the current 'learning' is still very fast.Yao Jing quickly "learned" a lot of Chinese vocabulary, and received a lot of compliments from Eniang's yard.Aunt Wuya even secretly taught her a few Manchu words, and even Er Niang occasionally said two Mongolian words for her to memorize. No, it's not too difficult to learn.

Yao Jing evaluated it like this in her heart: There is no system at all!You belong to stocking!stocking!

The days are very fulfilling.In a twinkling of an eye, two months have passed, spring blossoms on February 3, and the dragon rises on February [-]. It is said that it is a good day, because the day is good, and it is suitable for many things, such as shaving your head.Yao Jing finally knows what kind of hairstyle she is. On this day, she was shaved... No matter what it was like before, at least from this day on, her forehead is bald! [[-]]

[1] After checking a lot of information, it is said that the big Manchu family called their mother "Grandma" and their grandmother "Mrs."I really couldn't make sense of it, so I had to follow the crowd and call her Er Niang. Anyway, is it a transliteration? It sounds quite similar.A certain meat always feels that grandma and wife seem to be... a professional title?

[2] That is Manchu.

［3］The Manchu people, both men and women, wear the money rattail hair style when they are young, and the girls will start to grow all their hair when they grow up.It's just that it was shaved when it was born or it was shaved after a while. I didn't find any information, so let's write it like this.

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