green bamboo dream

Chapter 23

As the new year approaches, every household in the city is busy making pickled cabbage, storing radishes, buying various winter food and supplies, and preparing red paper to make window grilles and blessing characters. Girls and young wives forget to eat and sleep to make A purse for giving away. 【26nbsp;】In addition, Qingzhou had just escaped from a catastrophe, and the city was filled with an atmosphere of survivors, and the bustle in front of them seemed more precious than before.

Most of the people are simple and kind. When the disaster has passed and the simple life can continue, they will no longer hate the cold-blooded and cruel intentions of the imperial court when they closed the city. They are still humble but happy to live, no matter what How the hardships of life will torture their bodies and spirits.

The "common people" are such a group of people with vague faces and a strong life. As long as they can live, they don't mind being exploited or oppressed.

Yuzhu looked at Cui's sorting out the "hearts" sent by the people of Qingzhou. Most of them were grown in the ground, including cabbage, baby vegetables, lettuce, and some bacon, pickled fish, smoked chicken, etc. Some people also sent some fabrics. .Cui also had nothing to tidy up, because when these things were delivered, they were all clean and tidy, there was no dirt on the dishes, and the meat was also neat and tidy, so they could be sent to the kitchen directly.

Repeatedly ordering the movers to be more careful, Cui Shi had a happy smile on her face, and her face was slightly flushed. She, a woman in the inner house, was also proud that her master and official could be so loved by the people.

A married woman spends the rest of her life pointing at her husband and son. Whether your husband is competent or not directly determines what kind of life you live. Cui's social circle in Beijing is not small, so I know that many of them are married. A noble family, but her husband and son-in-law are helpless, they only know how to hang out in the back house all day long, can't earn money and can't be an official, belong to the kind of second-generation ancestor who can't even support himself without the family.But he still ignored the rules, pulling all the dirty and smelly things into the house, and the backyard was full of smoke and smog.Those days were so smooth that it didn't matter how high the family was, it was just dawdling.

Cui thought about it very much, secretly thinking that her daughter should not marry high in the future, otherwise the family will not be able to support her if something happens, thinking of the kind of suffering that the little girl who grew up as a baby, Cui gritted her teeth with hatred I can't wait to grab that son-in-law who doesn't know what's good and who doesn't know where he is. I think that before I got married, my father, Pingyuanhou Cui Hai, had "educated" me like this: "Girl, don't be afraid, if that kid dares If you bully you, come back and ask your father to make decisions for you. If you dare to bully my daughter, I will not break his dog legs."

On December 24th, according to the custom, the Stove Lord is going to be sent to heaven. The kitchen bought a stove horse and incinerated it in front of the stove. It also prepared gum teeth, glutinous rice candy, bean flour balls and small sugar cakes to worship the Stove Lord. .Lin Yuanzhi also became the head of the family, and summoned the whole family to worship the Stove Lord, and said: "Sweet and sweet, the Stove Lord can't say anything."

Cui led his servants to exchange peach charms, door gods, spring stickers, Zhongkui, Fulu, tiger head, and Hehe pictures, which were pasted on the walls of the house.It wasn't until seeing the small and old house in Cui's eyes that it was completely new, with the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year, that he stopped with satisfaction.

The only thing that Lin Zhiyuan needed to bother with was the New Year gift back to the capital. Mrs. Cui also led the servants over, first put the utensils into boxes, and carefully plugged the gaps in the box with high-quality cotton. Then wrap the box with a bright red satin bag.Then I asked Cuiwei, who is good at knotting, to tie the silver curly with a thick red silk thread and tie a blessing knot. There are twelve in a box, three boxes of small ingots, two boxes of Qingzhou specialty melons, fruits and vegetables, and then There are six large boxes of silver ingots.All the boxes were fully packed, together with the fine cloth that had been prepared for wrapping, plus twenty smoked chickens and two large jars of wine, it filled three large carts.Cui hated the old house deeply because of what happened last time, but she had to carefully prepare a good gift to send back. Guan and Mama Liu rushed to Beijing with the safety letters that Lin Yuanzhi had written long ago.

On New Year's Eve, Cui got up early in the morning and took Yuzhu to make dumplings.Lin Yuanzhi had nothing to do, and he didn't want to stay in the study alone, so he ran into the kitchen regardless of Cui's coquettishness, and watched his wife and daughter rolling the skin and adjusting the stuffing with relish, and even passed a meal with relish. morning.Mrs. Cui secretly wondered, the gentleman is far away from the kitchen, the master used to be full of sour words, why has he changed his temper today, running into the kitchen is not counted, and handing a bowl or something in vain, stretched out his head to look outside, the sun is still from the sky East rises.

As soon as it got dark, the whole house was lit up. The red lanterns hung on the poles in the front yard were not allowed to be extinguished. Cui specially told people to keep an eye on the candles at all times.The noise of bells and drums could be heard faintly in the distance, adding a bit of excitement to the courtyard.

The altar had already been set up in the front yard, and when the hour came, it was time to worship the ancestors.

The family of three sat down around the table in a three-legged posture and ate some festive snacks.

After eating, Lin Yuanzhi sat and laughed with his wife and daughter on the pit with a smile.After a while, Yuzhu, who was used to going to bed early, felt a little overwhelmed. Lin Yuanzhi noticed that her daughter was dozing off little by little, and smiled: "This girl is sleepy now, take her to the yard quickly. I don’t want to go to bed so early today.” After all, Cui felt sorry for her daughter, and advised: “There is still a vigil at night, let Zhu Yaer go to sleep first, it’s time for children to sleep " Lin Yuanzhi looked at his daughter's cute, sleepy and naive look, and felt that she was so cute and soft in his heart. If there was any disagreement, he asked Cuiwei to help the limp Yuzhu back to the room. Shi followed up to look again, and saw that Cuiwei had already covered her with a small quilt, her pink face was sleeping soundly in the quilt, and she put the corners of the quilt under her armpits, so she was relieved gone.

Yuzhu was in a daze, and didn't know how long she had slept, when suddenly she heard the sound of "boom" and "pop" outside, followed by the sound of "cracking" firecrackers, she was woken up by fright, turned over and crawled stand up.

It turned out that it was already midnight, and fireworks were lit to tell the time in the government office, and when the whole city got the letter, fireworks and firecrackers were set off.Seeing that Yuzhu had woken up, Mrs. Cui hurried forward to help her straighten her clothes and hair, and then smiled and touched her cheeks that were still red when she just woke up, and then she was satisfied with the warmth of the tentacles and took her to the front yard to pay homage to the ancestors.Lin Yuanzhi bowed first, and then Mrs. Cui brought Yuzhu to follow.After the rules were over, Cui took Yuzhu to the kitchen to make dumplings.

The whole family was eating hot dumplings, and Cui babbled about how poor Yan Geer and Ji Geer were not here, and wondered if they had eaten well. Zhu also rejoiced in his heart.

It would be great if it could be like this forever

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