Reborn under the White Mountain

Chapter 171 Another Year

Boss Yue asked Yunhua to bring a message back, saying that since 25 years ago, he has been delivering four pots of vegetables every day.It's Chinese New Year, everyone wants to eat some fresh dishes, from 25 to 29, four tanks a day for five days.It's fine to wait until the sixteenth year after the year to give it away. After the year, first one tank per day, half of the two.After hearing this, Mrs. Fang soaked the beans from years ago, counting the days.

It's New Year's Eve, and every family goes to the town to do New Year's goods, and Tong's family is no exception.On this day, Yun Song led his family to the town.Still go to Jishitang first, Fang made clothes and shoes for Fang Yun, and gave them to Fang Yun.Then everyone went to the market to buy new year goods.

There is no need to buy the fabric, as Yuxian brought it back from the capital much older, and much better than the ones in the town.What I want to buy are firecrackers, pairs, candies and other things for Chinese New Year.Yuxian found fireworks in the place where she bought firecrackers, and she had to ask Fang to buy some.

"It's said that girls want flowers and boys want cannons, but you're good enough to get these flowers. Okay, let's buy more. This year Haoyu will celebrate the New Year at our house, so buy more cannons. You can just play with it when you have nothing to do." So I bought a lot of firecrackers and fireworks.

Dalang saw a seller of frozen pears in front of him, so he went to ask the price, and then moved a large basket and put it on the car.Now that Da Lang has some money in his hands, he doesn't need to ask Fang for money to buy some small things.This frozen pear is something from the north. There is a kind of pear that is not delicious at all in autumn, it is sour and astringent.It has to be frozen, frozen through.Wait until it melts again, and when you eat it, your mouth is full of sweetness.The pear meat is white and delicate, making people want to eat it.When Yuxian saw this big basket of frozen pears, her saliva almost flowed out.When I was young in my previous life, I was looking forward to eating some frozen pears during Chinese New Year.Later, when I grew up, there were no such delicious frozen pears. They were all frozen with apple pears, which were not delicious.

The family was shopping while shopping, and when they met a peanut seller, they also bought a bag.Peanuts are not produced here, they are all shipped from other places, so it is a bit expensive, a catty of peanuts costs more than 30 Wen.A bag weighed less than 500 catties and cost more than [-] Wen.Yuxian sticks out her tongue, no wonder people say that the New Year is a waste of money, it's true.Peanuts, jujubes, chestnuts, these are not locally available, so I bought some.After shopping in the market, everyone will look again. The sledge is already full of things. "Thanks to the rush of two sledges, otherwise it really wouldn't be able to hold it." Yu Xian laughed.

Seeing that the things were almost bought, everyone walked back. When they got home, Chunmei had just cooked the meal and was waiting for them to come back to eat.Everyone laughed and moved things into the house. Ever since Yuan Qingyun led the children to live in the East Kua Courtyard, Fang has used the two north rooms of the East Wing as warehouses.Now things are generally put here, of course, especially valuable ones are still put in the east room suite.Put things away, and everyone washes their hands and eats.

As the new year draws nearer, every household becomes busy.The Tong family has Chunmei and Chunxing to help this year, and Yuxian can also do some work, so they are not too busy.The only thing is that when I wash the bean sprouts in the morning, I am really tired.Zhuzi's daughter-in-law still comes to wash the bean sprouts in the morning, but she doesn't have to pick soybeans during the day, and she can just go home and do her own homework.

Yun Song and Yuan Qingyun took the boys into the mountains to hunt when they had time, and sometimes they could bring back a lot of prey.What Yuxian is most happy about is that she can get live animals back every time, including foxes, raccoons, and deer. Fortunately, she bought a lot of feed a while ago. "Mother, let's build a large cattle nest on the mountain in the spring. Otherwise, these things will stink to death in summer, and even the pigs will go there." Yuxian doesn't want to live in a smelly environment. .

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Fang said with a smile.

After the new year, Yun Song led the boys to clean all the rooms, and then pasted them with snow-white window paper.And Fang took the maids to steam steamed buns, steamed buns, and meat, and beat the back of the head with their busy feet.

On the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, Yuxian asked Dalang and the others to break off all the thorn buds on the thorn bud sticks.These water-borne thorn buds can grow less than two inches long, and are bright green in color. In winter, people like it when they look at them.There are five large tanks of thorny shoots sticks, and a total of [-] catties of thorny shoots have been broken.There are not many things, so Yuxian said that each family will share two catties, and everyone will try something new.

Therefore, for those families who are good with Yunsong, each family has two catties of thorn sprouts, five catties of mung bean sprouts, and five catties of soybean sprouts.Dalang and the others sent them from house to house, and they were all surprised when they received them.In the winter, there are fresh thorny shoots.They all asked Da Lang to bring those things back.Yun Song also sent some things to Boss Yue and Boss Zhou in the town.Boss Yue was stunned when he saw the thorn buds, and kept asking if there were any more.Yun Song told him that the children made it and gave it to others, but the family didn't have it anymore.It's a pity for Boss Yue, this is a rare good thing, mainly because it is impossible to have it in winter.

On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, Yun Song took Mrs. Wu home. Fang Xin will not come back this year, and sent someone back with a New Year's gift.Along with the annual gift, there are also several thick stacks of questions from the imperial examinations over the years, including questions from the provincial and general examinations.The most amazing thing is that there are the answer sheets of the best people in each test, as well as the answer sheets of the top three over the years. I don't know how Fang Xin got them.Yuan Qingyun saw it and couldn't put it down. These are all good things that people who take the imperial examination can't get.Put it in a box with preciousness, study it slowly, and then teach it to Erlang and Bowen.

This year is the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month. Since there is a leap in May this year, by the time of the new year, it is already very warm outside. [-] On this day, Fang Yun came from the town, and this year he will also celebrate the New Year at Tong's house.Jishitang was closed until the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, and it happened that most of the doctors and staff had gone home for the New Year.There were only two guys who were orphans taken in by Fang Yun, and they had nowhere to go, so they spent the New Year in Jishitang.

On the afternoon of the 29th, Shunzi and Chunlan also came back.Tongrentang in Beijing is closed until February [-]nd. Anyway, it only sells medicine, so there is no need to open the door too early.As soon as Shunzi saw Fang, she told Fang that she wanted to marry Chunlan.When Fang heard this, she was naturally very happy. The marriage of these two girls has been settled.Fang Yun said that if these two people get married at home and then go to the capital, there is no need to prepare too much dowry or anything.Just give some more money, and when the time comes, just go back to the capital and buy it again.Finally, they discussed and decided to set their marriage to the sixth day of February.

Fortunately, there were everything at home, so it would be good to pick some out of them as a dowry for Chunlan, so Fang didn't have to worry too much.Just said that after the year, they will prepare for the marriage of the two.

This time, Shunzi brought back Tongrentang's profit this year.Because the scale will be expanded in the coming year, Shunzi brought back 5000 taels.Among them, 2000% belonged to Yuxian, [-]% belonged to Shunzi, and the rest belonged to Fang Yun.The three of them shared the silver, and Yuxian took the [-] taels and handed it over to Fang.Fang doesn't want it, "Yuxian, this is the money earned by your Fangzi, mother doesn't want it. It's convenient to keep it for yourself and save it for yourself. Besides, if you have leftovers, you can keep it as a dowry .”

"Mother, you are laughing at me." Yuxian quit, and stepped forward to scratch Fang's itch.Everyone in the room laughed, and Wu smiled and said, "Yuxian, you will be seven years old after the new year. If you get married at 16, you can save a dowry for ten years. At that time, you will become a Little rich woman." Everyone laughed even more happily.

"Hmph, I don't want to marry so early, I have to wait until I'm 20 years old. Master, our Tongrentang must do a good job, and when the time comes, I want to marry out with red makeup." Yuxian is thick-skinned and doesn't care Everyone laughed at her and directly expressed their wishes.

Yuan Qingyun stroked his beard and said, "Don't worry, this request will be fulfilled for you in due time. I have already said that your rich and noble days will come later."

"Thank you Uncle Yuan, I hope it's like what you said." Yu Xian was not shy, and thanked directly.Everyone laughed again.

At thirty, put up pairs, window grilles, and hang lanterns.Yun Song led the boy to the grave, while Wu Shi and Fang Shi led the girls to cook the New Year's Eve dinner.There are many people this year, and two tables of dishes have to be cooked. For a while, the frying and frying in the kitchen are very busy.

At the end of the afternoon, when Yun Song and the others came back, the food here was almost done.Let's work together to bring the dishes into the house.The kang table was too small to fit so many dishes, so two tables were placed on the ground.As soon as the dishes were put on the table, Yuxian fainted. How many dishes are there?How can I finish eating.However, this is the focus of Chinese New Year, and having extra money means that next year's life will be easier.When the dishes are served, there are already plates on the table.

"Come on, sit down, let's eat." Fang greeted there.

Yun Song brought three jars of wine, one jar of white wine for the men, and two jars of fruit wine for the women and children.Today made an exception, allowing Da Lang and the others to drink too. Yu Xian held a small wine glass, drank fruit wine, and savored the taste of the wine.When Fang saw it, she laughed at her as a little drunk.

Yun Song picked up the wine glass, "Come on, brother Yuan, younger brother Yun, and Shunzi, let's have a drink, and wish us better days." Everyone had a drink together.Fang Shi also drank some fruit wine with Wu Shi there, and Wu Shi praised the taste of the wine. "Don't tell me, our Yuxian can really poke, this wine tastes good."

After the meal was finished, it was already midnight, and the men drank too much, so they ran to Yuan Qingyun's room to sleep soundly.The women are chopping stuffing and preparing to make dumplings.Da Lang went to fry the melon seeds, and the children were there holding the melon seeds and knocking them to play.Yuxian served frozen pears with water and boiled some pear dumplings. Everyone enjoyed eating.

The dumpling stuffing is ready, Fang, Wu, and three maids make dumplings together.There are too many people this year, so there is no need for Dalang and the others to help.When it was midnight, Yun Song and the others got up to hand out papers and light firecrackers.Fang's cooking dumplings, when the firecrackers sounded, Yuxian carried a bunch of firewood into the house, which is called Baocai.

The dumplings were cooked, and everyone gathered around the table, eating dumplings while talking and laughing.Suddenly, Yuxian bit a hard object.

(End of this chapter)