The Blessing of the Qi Nv of Transmigration

Chapter 53 New Year's Eve ([-])

The rest is for the juniors to toast to the elders in turn, and say auspicious words such as Donghai Shoubi Nanshan Caiyuan Guangjin four seasons and so on.After a few rounds, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Shen went to Mrs. Wang's bedroom and brought out two bamboo plaques, inside which were more than a dozen strings of copper coins tied with red strings, a string of one hundred, with coiled knots hanging on them. They and the apprentices are treated equally, impartial and unbiased, one person and one group.

The children, big and small, had almost eaten their New Year's money. They couldn't help themselves, and each went to serve a bowl of rice to eat. No matter how full the food is for this meal, the rice must be eaten, because this A meal is called a New Year's meal.

Several elders had already switched to strong wine and were still pushing glasses and glasses. The children pleaded guilty, ate first and left the table, and ran to their respective rooms to change new clothes and shoes. I bought the fabric early and came back with a lot of pure cotton cloth in various colors. Let the children and apprentices choose the style and color by themselves, and each of them made a new suit from head to toe. In the past few years, I have basically never worn such good clothes, so I can't wait.

Yang Feier has always had new clothes and jackets made for her by Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Chen, so she was not in this mood, but she also changed into new clothes for the occasion.

On the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, the highlight was going to the grave to pay respects to the ancestors, but Hu and Chen’s family were far away from the ancestral house, so it was difficult to make the trip. Fortunately, their respective ancestral tablets were still there, so they led their children and grandchildren to kowtow three times to the tablets. .

Yang Feier and Hu Yongqiang took the time to calculate the accounts of the family in the past two and a half months. From the day of opening on October 1000th, the total gross income of the shop was about 650 taels of silver, excluding various costs and expenses, including raw materials, Rent, buyer, wages, firewood, rice, oil, salt, taxes, etc., totaled 350 taels, and a net profit of [-] taels.

Ruifuxian still has two months of dividends, a total of 280 taels.

Among the emperor's rewards given by Mrs. Zhang, only 5000 taels of silver were taken out of the 800 taels of silver to buy this courtyard house and housewares. There is no need to wear those silks and satins, except to leave a few feet of brightly colored clothes for Yang Feier. They were all sold for about 3000 taels of silver.

Originally, the total amount of silver for selling shrimp, chicken, rice, and fish in the family was 430 taels. After subtracting the 100 taels of silver used to open the shop, there were 330 taels of silver left.

Calculated in this way, the family has a total of about 500 taels of silver in deposits, and the 1000 taels of gold have not been moved, and are kept in the room of Hu Yongqiang and his wife together with jewelry and jade.

If calculated according to modern prices, the Hu family can now be regarded as a very different multi-millionaire.

Hu Yongqiang himself knows in his heart how big the gap is between his life today and last year or any other year in the past.There are so many people who can't save so much money and can't see it in their lifetime, and this is nothing more than what my daughter has accomplished in just one year.

It's astounding to those who know!
During the Chinese New Year, the women’s families are the busiest. This has been the case since ancient times. When the men eat and drink well, they are busy removing the mats, cleaning and cleaning. After everything is neat, they will start making dumplings with noodles Now, the boys carried it back to the long table and back to the kitchen. With this long table, no matter how many dumplings are made, there is no need to worry about no place to put them. Calculated as ten dumplings per person, a total of two hundred dumplings will be made. Dumplings, in order to be prepared, three hundred dumplings are needed, warm before the frost and cold after the snow, even if you can't eat them, you can store them.

Three hundred dumplings with three kinds of stuffing, Chinese cabbage and mutton stuffing, leek and bacon glutinous rice stuffing, and celery and fresh meat stuffing are about [-] each.Everything is busy, it is almost dark, and there are red lanterns hanging on the corridors of each room in the yard, including the two at the gate and the two at the hanging flower gate. The morning of the second day of the new year.

Among the [-] dumplings to be eaten at night, one of them is wrapped with a copper coin. The person who eats this copper coin represents the best luck in the coming year. In the end, it is Hu Kang who is lucky. When he eats the second dumpling, He bit it on it, and everyone around him congratulated him in unison. Hu Kang was also very happy. After dinner, he cleaned the copper coin and hid it under his pillow. Wear it with a red thread, hoping it will really bring you good luck for a year.

In the afternoon, Yang Feier brought a group of children and apprentices, made a few decks of playing cards, and taught them "Fight the Landlord" and "Fight the Egg". Including the four old people, everyone soon fell in love with this game. When the female relatives made dumplings, they had already played all afternoon, and now watching the new year after dinner is a good pastime to pass the time.

After everyone finished eating the dumplings, while the female relatives were washing the dishes and tidying up the kitchen, Yang Feier led a few boys to clean up all the rooms from front to back. Starting from the beginning of tomorrow, the floor should not be swept for three days in a row, otherwise they would be swept away. No one wants to sweep away wealth, so the house must be thoroughly cleaned on New Year's Eve in order to hope to have a clean and good year.

After cleaning, Hu Yongqiang and Shen Fangrui led his sons and disciples to set off a bag of various fireworks outside the door. For a while, the entrance of the Hu family's new house was full of fireworks, and it was very lively, attracting children from the neighbors to watch. There were endless cheers and exclamations, and the uproar did not end until after ten o'clock in the evening.

Xiao Yu'er played hard all day, Zhou took him to bed early, since the day when he met his relatives at 25, the elders of the Shen family brought Xiao Yu'er to live and eat with him.Originally wanted to ask Shen Jing to come and live with his father Shen Fangrui, but Shen Jing said that he was too old and it was inconvenient, so he didn't want to come, and still lived in the shop with a few other apprentices.

The twins also went to wash up and go to bed under the urging of Shen. Mr. Shen, Mr. Hu, was in good spirits and formed a table with Hu Yongqiang and Shen Fangrui to play "Fighting the Landlord". Whacking eggs in the kitchen, Shen Jing was a little younger, a bit out of date, watched the battle for a while, and then went to bed.

The few female relatives who had finished their work in the kitchen couldn't bear to go back to their rooms to rest.

The sound of firecrackers outside is still far and near, one after another, how many people set off the New Year’s cannons, and how many people set off the door cannons. It will not take long for the door cannons to be let go, so the sound of firecrackers will continue until the New Year’s Eve. The morning of the first grade of junior high school.

This kind of firecracker sound is full of festive joy and peace, but to the wanderers far away from their homeland, it sounds like a spectator that has nothing to do with themselves. It will only make their homesickness even more lonely while envious.

People who have never tasted homesickness can't understand, homesickness is like a pool of spring water, the passage of time will not dry it up, time will turn into distiller's grains, turn it into a pool of wine, the aroma of which is too strong to touch When you touch it, the aroma of wine will overflow, your nose will be sore, and your eyes will fill with tears.But the longer the time, the easier it is to touch it. An object from the homeland, a local accent, a mother, and the festival of family reunion will become the magic hand that stirs the pool of wine, making people suddenly silent in joy. Suddenly stopped in the play, unable to suppress the sore nose and tears, enduring the pain of wanting to see but not seeing.

Yang Feier sat on the bed, hugged his knees with his hands, buried his face in his knees, and silently shed tears happily.

This is also the reason why she insisted not to have Feng Ling and Feng Min as a maid, although Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Chen have mentioned it many times.

A person has too many secrets and is always reluctant to get along with the crowd.

Suddenly I heard someone say in my ears: "Xiu'er, open the door." Yang Feier suddenly raised his head, his eyes widened in horror in the dim light, although he could hear Zhang Fuzhen's voice, but he suddenly heard Zhang Fuzhen's voice in the middle of the night. Seeing someone whispering in one's ear is still inexplicably horrifying.

He heard the door knock twice again, the sound of firecrackers outside was still muffled, and if he didn't pay attention, he wouldn't hear it, but Yang Feier was afraid that he would keep knocking and startling others, especially the ones closest to him. Old man Qiu, although the old man is old, he has good hearing, eyesight and good teeth, and he is not bad at all, so he had to put on his clothes and get out of bed to open the door.

Sure enough, I saw a young man outside the door standing in the cold, wearing a hood, wearing a crane cloak, wrapped in a lonely snow light.

With the help of the lantern at the door, Zhang Fuzhen saw that the tears on Yang Feier's face were still wet, as if he had just cried, so he hurried in, closed the door with his backhand, bringing in a chill, Yang Feier shrank into a ball, and said in a low voice : "It's such a cold day, why are you here?"

In ancient times, there was no large-scale industry that could generate a lot of heat energy, electricity, and low population density. The winter was extremely cold, and after snow, the night temperature was only about minus 20°C.

Zhang Fuzhen said: "Go back to the bed quickly, don't freeze." He dragged her into the room, stuffed her into the quilt, and even knew how to tuck the corners of the quilt.Sitting on the edge of the bed.The brazier was burning in the house, which made it much warmer.

Yang Feier leaned on the bed, looked at Zhang Fuzhen through the light of the snow, and said, "This Chinese New Year's Eve, don't you have to stay at home to watch the New Year's Eve? Why do you have time to come here?"

Zhang Fuzhen said: "My father came back from the capital and stayed with my mother all day long. My mother went to bed early, and my grandparents went to bed early when they were older. Although there were uncles, they were not very close, so I I just wanted to come to you." He said again: "Why did I look at you under the lamp just now, as if you were crying?"

Yang Feier pursed his lips and smiled lightly, and said, "It's nothing."

Zhang Fuzhen looked at her in a daze for a moment, then suddenly leaned over and hugged Yang Feier in his arms together with the quilt, and said, "I know."

Yang Fei'er put his face on his still cold crane-feather cloak, and wondered: "What do you know?"

Zhang Fuzhen let go of Yang Feier, looked at the hazy delicate eyebrows and eyes under the snow light, and said softly: "I know you must miss me, I miss you all the time at home, that's why I came to you late at night Woolen cloth."

Yang Feier...

Yang Feier asked, "How did you get here?"

Zhang Fuzhen said: "Treading the snow all the way is faster than riding a horse, and there is no loud noise."

Zhang Fuzhen reached into the quilt, took out Yang Feier's hand and put it in his hand, his hand was warm and dry, even hotter than Yang Feier's quilt, and said, "Will you come to my house to pay New Year's greetings in the future?"

Yang Feier said: "I'm afraid it's too early to go in the future, and I'll go after the sixth day."

I didn't go out on the first day of the first day, and before the sixth day, my very close relatives walked around each other.As the daughter of the Zhang family's former tenant, Yang Feier is a bit presumptuous to go at this time.

(End of this chapter)