Husband and wife are hot on the kang

Chapter 325 Streamlining the guard of honor

The yellow watermelon grown by Yu Liangji, who has the means of sweetening, opened the eyes of the emperor and ministers, and not one, but five or six watermelons paid tribute, all of which were grown on melon seedlings. Put it in the greenhouse, when you want to eat, pick one off and eat it, it's still fresh!

Hearing this, even His Majesty the Emperor became curious. The next morning, he went to the conservatory with the Empress and his four children. What he saw was a big pottery vat filled with soil and planted with a A large watermelon seedling, and two or three wooden boxes next to it, filled with grown watermelons.

The wooden box still has small holes, which seems to be carved and hollowed out.

Yu Liangji didn't know that he had won a big reward for that watermelon, so after waking up in the morning, Yu Baobao wished the two of them New Year's greetings as usual.

"This year is different from previous years. This time, I will give you two small gold ingots. Keep them away as private money." Yu Liangji smiled and gave a red envelope, which contained two small gold ingots.

"Yes, private money, you have to hide it well in the future!" Shi Hongda also gave a red envelope, which also contained two small gold ingots of pen ingots for the baby.

Yu Baobao accepted it happily. This was his first red envelope this year.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, they had nowhere to go, so they stayed in the Hou's Mansion and fought decadently with the landlords who had been fighting all day.

Poor Master Yu Hou, who can't count cards, almost lost his pants!

But the little fox who can count cards failed to beat the big fox after all.

The biggest winner is Shi Hongda, the second is Yu Baobao, and Yu Liangji is the loser...

The next day, Yu Liangji stopped playing with the two of them, and took care of the gift list drawn up by the housekeeper, because he was going to the baby's grandparents' house in the third year of junior high school.

"A pair of gold and jade?" Yu Liangji exclaimed, "You want to give this?"

"The other party is the young master's ancestral home..." Butler He reminded.

In his impression, no matter what, he had to give something with the temperament of the Houfu. There were at least a hundred pairs of the Jinyu Ruyi Houfu, all of which were used as gifts for the Houfu, so that he could have a say.

"Change, change it to a pair of roe deer!" Yu Liangji immediately changed it.

He Demiao and Butler He: "...!!"

"Twenty pairs of pen ingots and wishful silver ingots?" Yu Liangji looked down again, and the second one also screamed.

"The other party is the young master's ancestral home..." Butler He reminded.

In his opinion, this is for rewarding people. Twenty pairs are too small for him, but he doesn't know much about the young master's maternal ancestral home. On the one hand, he still used twenty pairs cautiously instead of forty pairs.

"Change it to twenty catties of strawberries!" Yu Liangji changed it with a wave of his little paw.

There are plenty of strawberries at home, not to mention twenty catties, two hundred catties can be taken out!

He Demiao and Butler He: "...!!!"

"Two fat pigs?" Yu Liangji rejected it immediately after seeing it: "Change it to half-pocket pork."

"The other party is the young master's ancestral home..." Butler He reminded aloud, how can half a piece of pork be sold in the majestic Marquis' mansion?

"You don't understand. The more I give, the bigger the gift they will give back. If it's too much, they won't be able to return the gift." Yu Liangji told He Demiao: "In the future, when relatives get along, don't always think about using power. People, the Marquis's mansion is also later, they are the baby's maternal ancestral home first."

Don't look at the rich New Year's gifts given by my family in the past two years, but Zhang's family has given them a lot, even if they are not expensive, but with care, I and the baby also have huge cloaks, and several of them are made by the old lady and two aunts. Yes, there are also all kinds of hats that the baby brought up from childhood, all made by the old lady.

Compared with the painstaking efforts of other people who sewed it stitch by stitch, no matter how expensive the gift from them is, it will be compared.

And in the past few years, although Zhang's family has had such a thing about their family, they rarely make any demands on weekdays. Even when Shibalipu's vegetable sales are booming, Zhangjia Village puts pressure on their family. At that time, Mr. Zhang insisted on not opening his mouth.

Yu Liangji admired this very much, so Yu Liangji decided to give their family some potato seeds when they started planting in spring this year.

Replace all the flashy things on the gift list, and finally replace all brocades with muslin and Songjiang cloth.

For ordinary people, brocade can only be worn on special days. Who do you think wears brocade for normal work?

Even Yu Liangji's usual clothes are made of muslin, and silk and satin are worn when meeting guests, and they are replaced as soon as he returns.

The clothes he wears the most are fine cotton cloth as the inner lining and coarse cotton cloth as the outer layer of unlined clothing.

After sorting out, the gift list was completely changed. The most valuable items were ten silver ingots, or plum blossom silver ingots. Yu Liangji said that this was to be put in the red purse as lucky money for the children.

The remaining things are really worthless. The most delicate thing is a forehead embroidered for the old lady. The stamen in the middle is made of white pearls, which are the size of a grain of rice. It is extremely delicate.

The second is the two golden hairpins with magpies on the branches. They are quite ordinary and not too big. They are gifts for the two aunts.

This is considered expensive. The one for Mr. Zhang is a set of purple sand teapots, which are very elegant. I don’t want to give the old man a dry pipe, because he thinks smoking is unhealthy.

During the Chinese New Year, he gave the old village head a small pot of tea as a gift. It was said to be tribute tea. The old village head was very rare. If it wasn't for the tea leaves that couldn't be kept for a long time, he would have offered them up as a family heirloom!

The two uncles were given velvet vests, which only need a rough figure, and don't really need a size.

"Just these things?" Steward He sighed as he looked at the changed beyond recognition gift list: "At least add some laying decorations and the like?"

"You'll know when you get there, laying things like decorations is useless to them, so let's do something real!" Yu Liangji closed the gift list and handed it to him: "Just do it."

"Yes." After Master Hou said so, Steward He had no choice but to find someone to prepare quickly.

In the early morning of the next day, after the family of three got dressed, Steward He put on the full etiquette of a marquis, which was simplified according to Yu Liangji's usual style.

Yu Liangji is a marquis of the first grade, and it is also the first time he has seen the simplified version of himself as a marquis, not the normal version.

At the beginning, it was against flags, gongs, cards, umbrellas, fans, gourds, moon axes, and stirrups.

Flag gongs are used to clear the way. In fact, there are street watchers in front of them, using whips to drive away idlers.

It's symbolic, if you don't really fight, if you really fight, it's a cruel official!Anyone who really dares to strike will be close to death. It is said that the eunuchs of the previous dynasty really beat people when they went on tour, and the previous dynasty was finished.

The triangular flag of that flag, with dragon and phoenix embroidered on it, is made according to the official rank, and the name of the official rank, "avoidance", "quietness" and so on are written on the corresponding board.

The pair of fans are two meters high and the handle is one meter long. There are small mirrors embedded in the fans, shining brightly.

The pair of umbrellas are more than one foot high, which means that there are nobles here, and they are graded by color. Yellow is for the emperor, and Yu Liangji's is red because he is a marquis.

The pumpkins, moon axes, and stirrups are also in pairs, more than ten feet long, and the pumpkin on top is similar to the current muskmelon.

An upturned stirrup is just a stirrup, but turned upside down at the top of the pole.

A moon ax is an axe, and some are crescent moons.

There is also a fist at the top, holding a drill bit in the fist, which is also a kind of ceremonial guard.

In addition, there are left and right infantry teams led by two generals in front, which are divided into two square formations, front and rear, with a flag as the forerunner.

Soldiers all wear pockets on their heads, wear armor, and hold bows, knives, and shields. The attire of each team is the same color and arranged alternately.In the middle are the left and right chambers, which are divided into twelve rows, holding bows, knives, halberds, shields, goose-feather cloaks, and chicken-feather cloaks respectively.

Yu Liangji's carriage is in the middle of the line, two carts of presents, three carts of attendants, and Yu Liangji's Marquis carriage, which is so big!

Four horses were pulling a big cart, and Yu Liangji shook his head after seeing it: "This cart can't enter Zhangjia Village!"

It's too big, Zhangjia Village doesn't have such a wide road.

He Demiao frowned: "Change the little one!"

After a while, another one was replaced. This frame was slightly smaller, and it was also pulled by four horses. It was not as magnificent and gorgeous as before, and it was slightly inferior.

"What kind of car is this?" Why do you have two sets of this car?

"This is used when going on tour on weekdays." He Demiao sighed: "I wanted you to ride your Marquis's frame once."

The coachman who was in charge of driving the car was amused just now, but he was sent back, and he almost cried at that time!

"It depends on the situation!" The size of the frame doesn't matter, but it must be able to get in, even if you can't get in the village, should you go in?

That way, let alone ostentation, the price will drop even more!

Behind the frame is the Shu battle, holding ancient ritual and guard weapons such as Shu, spears, and guns.

Finally, there is the flag array composed of the left and right cavalry of the guard cavalry and the flag team.

The same legendary gods and monsters are painted on the flags held by each flag team, such as evil spirits, jade horses, triangle beasts, basalt, and golden bulls.After the flag formation, there is another red-coated squadron composed of infantry soldiers and guarded by cavalry.

Although there are only [-] people of each kind, but they can't stand together and look at it together, it's a mess!

Master Yu was a little dizzy looking at the people: "Why are there so many people?"

"I transferred a hundred of my 200 people here." Shi Hongda put a cloak on him: "It looks so majestic!"

Counting the cart drivers, as well as the maids, aunts and mothers who followed, there are more than 200 people in Xiaoliuer!

"There are too many people!" Yu Liangji felt that it was more like a demonstration than last year.

"Not much more, Marquis, this has already been simplified. You know, when His Majesty the Emperor went on tour, there was never a population of over 4000, and each prince had a few thousand people, and the Duke also had three to four thousand people. How can you do this?" There are around two hundred, if it weren't for the small size of this place, the guard of honor would not be so simple."

As soon as the guard of honor of the Marquis Mansion was put out, everyone in the village came to watch the excitement, and there was a baby who wanted to be touched. Yu Liangji smiled and hugged and petted him. He could touch anything, and some people touched the hat of the guard of honor.

By the time the noise was about to leave, it was already nine o'clock.

There were two hundred people, at least 150 of them rode horses. In the end, Shi Hongda simply asked everyone to ride on horses, so that no one walked, and they walked faster.

As a result, a large group of people cheered, horses stepped on the road, smoke burst out, and flags covered the sun, and they really had the posture of a marquis traveling.

In the big carriage, Yu Liangji and Yu Baobao looked at each other. The carriage was as big as a small house that was always moving.

Don't talk about uncle and nephew, even if they come again, there will be no problem!

"Let Uncle Shi come in too, it's so cold outside?" Yu Baobao looked at Yu Liangji.

"Okay, let him come in!" Yu Liangji didn't care, the place was too big, let alone one Shi Hongda, even if there were ten Shi Hongdas, it was just a bit crowded.

Yu Baobao showed his small head, and beckoned Shi Hongda to come in and take a ride together. Shi Hongda waved his hands: "You two sit down, I'll just ride a horse!"

"You really don't want to come in? It's so cold outside!" Yu Liangji also huddled with Yu Baobao at the window and asked Shi Hongda.

"It looks okay from the outside, and we'll be there in a while." Shi Hongda closed the window: "Sit down honestly."

One big and one small had no choice but to sit back and stare wide-eyed.

"We'll be like this this year. After all, we just became marquises. It shouldn't be too easy to go to your grandfather's house. Next year, we'll go simply." Yu Liangji patted Yu Baobao's head: "You've grown up too. "

Yu Baobao didn't say anything, just hugged Yu Liangji's waist with his head sullen, and put his head on his uncle's chest just like when he was a child.