dhibooks Chapter 160
Chapter 160
He is also a general subject teacher, if he can't even educate his little nephew well, how can he have the face to say that he is a master of all things?After taking back his little nephew, Wu Youwei, Maodong, didn't even go out of Wu's Village, but just sent people out to deliver things.I didn't move at all.
On Jiachen in December, the imperial court promulgated a decree: exempting Beijing officials from miscellaneous crimes. !
The day before Laba, Wu Youwei sent people to give Laba rice to everyone he knew. He lived too far away. If he gave Laba porridge, it would be frozen Laba.So what he sent was Laba rice.
But on the day of Laba, he received several groups of people sent Laba porridge: they were real porridge.
"Our young master said that you don't have any female relatives here. If you can't cook porridge, I will send you ready-made porridge. Don't worry, they are all sent over with small stoves. They are not cold at all. You can eat them now. Hot Laba porridge!" "Our adults..." Our master said...
Basically, everyone who delivered Laba porridge said so. When Wu Youwei sent Laba rice, everyone thought that the child could not cook porridge. Also, there is no mistress at home, so the porridge can’t be given to the servants to cook, right?
Generally, the Laba porridge given away must be at least under the guidance of the hostess, or two spoonfuls must be mixed in person, so that it can be regarded as his own Laba porridge. Wu Youwei has no daughter-in-law, and it is impossible to cook.I could only send rice, and then felt distressed, and gave Wu Youwei Laba porridge one by one.The two mistresses even gave him a jar of Laba porridge, one sweet and one salty.
Wu Youwei looked at a table full of Laba porridge in front of him, and swallowed: "I can eat this until Chinese New Year." Then he suddenly thought: Wantong doesn't even have a wife!As a result, Wantong also sent Laba porridge!
"Doesn't your family have no daughter-in-law?" Wu Youwei was unbalanced: "He cooked this Laba porridge himself?"
"Where!" Wan Dafu smiled apologetically, "It was my lord's elder brother who asked my lord to go to his house for Laba. Madam heard that lord has a good friend, but he didn't give Laba porridge to him, but took his Laba rice. Ma'am Let the little one come and bring you Laba porridge, which was fished in the kitchen of our elder brother's house...."
Wu Youwei...! ! "
Although they don't have a daughter-in-law, they have a good sister-in-law.
He is different from the second room, although he also has a sister-in-law, but this sister-in-law is a widow, and he has to avoid suspicion of the plums in the melon field.
depressed.
But Wantong also asked someone to send Laba garlic over, which Wu Youwei liked, and he could eat it with porridge as a pickle.
There are also wild game, wild rabbits and wild roe deer, which are said to be hunted by him in the mountains, and two pieces of high-quality fox skins, both of which are black in color, but ink fox skins.
Xu Niang made a small leather robe for Wu Youwei, so that it can be wrapped tighter and warmer.
Wu Youwei wears this when he goes in and out of his warming house, and goes in to have a look at his watermelon seedlings. They have already bloomed, and now they are fruiting, but they haven't grown up yet.
There is natural astigmatism in the house every day, but Wu Youwei is afraid that they will not grow up, so he pours a little spiritual water on each of them, hoping that they will be more prosperous, and that the spiritual water can be used as a universal fertilizer.
After Laba, Wu Youwei taught little Wu Qiong to count.
Count from one to one hundred, and after ten days, from one hundred to one thousand.
When he was young, little Wu Qiong was already able to count from one to one thousand, and then grasped the pattern, and spontaneously counted to ten thousand, one million, one million, one hundred million.
They all say, "Children, don't be greedy, after Laba is the new year", and sure enough, when the new year is approaching, I feel that the days go by so fast.
One year has passed.
The watermelon at home is also growing well. Wu Youwei also found a well-ripe one and cut it open. The inside is really red, and the fragrance of watermelon is especially obvious in winter.
The whole family looked surprised.
"Wait next year, let everyone plant watermelons and muskmelons!" Wu Youwei said with bright eyes, "Then sell them at this time!
Absolutely earn a fortune!
Butler Lin Su's mouth twitched, as if his master had always been concerned about making money, but he didn't mention a word about his imperial examination.
Wu Youwei divided the watermelon. There are many people in the family. He cut the watermelon, one piece for each person, just to taste something fresh, and then found another ripe one, cut half of it, and gave it to his second sister-in-law Wu Mengshi alone, and cut the other half That's it, call all the leaders of Wujia Village, especially Wu Da and Wu Er.
Everyone was stunned when they saw the watermelon. Naturally, this thing is a cheap summer treat, but it is absolutely rare in winter.
Wu Youwei told them that next year he will teach them to grow watermelons, cantaloupe and cucumbers, because these three things are the most popular in winter.
"We can also grow ordinary vegetables, but they can't be sold at a high price. There are many vegetable farms and warm houses near the suburbs of Beijing. Only the most suitable things for us can make money." Wu Youwei said: "But next year everyone has to collect good rapeseeds. son, watermelon seeds and so on
The people in Wujia Village are very happy, the master is willing to make them rich together, of course he is happy!
But Wu Da said bluntly: "It's good for everyone to know about this matter, and don't let it out. The master is a man of fame, and he has to take the imperial examination to become an official."
If people know that the master likes to make money so much, and he brings people to make money together, it will be hard to say.
Everyone nodded, Wu Youwei was depressed, this fucking era!
You can't make money blatantly, for fear of being ridiculed by others, can you live comfortably without money!
Everyone kept this matter in their hearts, and discussed it after going back. They planned to transform all the old houses into warm houses next year. Zhong Xiaoqing
Not long after this incident, it was Xiaonian. Wu Youwei worshiped the stove on the day of Xiaonian. When he was in Wu Mansion, it was Wu Jun and Wu Ying's business. He didn't even have the qualifications to go. Now, the whole family he maximum.
There is stove sugar for offering sacrifices to stoves. In ancient times, there was no white sugar for this matter, and there were only honey and rice sugar.
The golden yellow and brown-red candies are made into ingots and small animals. This is stove candy. Wu Youwei looks good and wants to eat one, but Lin Su's butler quickly stopped him: "Master , Candy can only be eaten after offering sacrifices to the Stove Lord.”
The gods didn't eat it first, so you ate it first, what's the matter?
Wu Youwei is embarrassing, honestly offering sacrifices to the Stove Lord, smearing sugar on the portrait,
Although he felt a little silly, he still read those words according to the script: "It is said in ancient times that on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God wants to speak to the sky. There are clouds, cars and horses hanging around, and there are cups and plates in the house. The pig's head is overcooked, the double fish is fresh, and the bean paste is sweet. Pine and powder bait balls, the men give their daughters to avoid, pour wine to burn money, and the stove Junxi. Maids fight, don’t hear it, cats and dogs touch the filth, don’t be angry, send you drunk and full to the gate of heaven, the spoon is long and the spoon is short, don’t return to the cloud, beg Take profit and return points."
What Wu Youwei said was all written for him by Lin Su in advance. It is said that it was a sacrificial speech to Lord Zao, but Wu Youwei added a few sentences later: "Please eat and drink , Drunk to heaven, don't talk about the good and bad of the world, you'd better bring some money to share when you come back, and I will give you good things next year.
Butler Lin Su who stood beside him angrily really wanted to deal with him regardless of his status.Has anyone ever talked to a god like this?The time for offering sacrifices to the kitchen varies from place to place on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month in the north and on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month in the south.There is also a Chinese folk saying that "officials three, civilians four, and families five", that is, the government is on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the common people are on the 24th, and people on the water hold sacrifices on the 25th.
But the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the stove is carried out at night. When the dinner is being made, it is said that the Lord Stove can go to heaven with the smoke from cooking the dinner.
Wu Youwei smeared honey on the mouth of Stove Lord's portrait, and housekeeper Lin Su handed him a big red rooster. Wu Youwei looked at him in a daze: What do you mean?
"This red horse is dedicated to Lord Stove." Butler Lin Su, one head and two big, hated the Wu Mansion to death. Usually, his own father taught his son this kind of thing, instead of letting him be a housekeeper to teach the master. Okay?
On the other side, Chef Fang explained to Wu Youwei in a low voice: It is said that the chicken is the horse on which Lord Stove ascended to heaven, so the chicken is not called a chicken, but a horse.If it is a red rooster, it is commonly known as "red horse", and if it is a white rooster, it is commonly known as "white horse".
Only then did Wu Youwei understand that there is such a saying!
After burning the portrait of Lord Stove Lord, the house was filled with smoke, and Wu Youwei suddenly felt that the place was full of mystery.
He used to be an atheist, but after he died, he went to the underworld to see Lord Hades, and he believed it.
After crossing, he is even more respectful to all kinds of gods and ghosts, including Buddhists. When he goes to Fahai Temple, he will pay homage to the Buddha there.
So he sacrificed very sincerely.
Maybe it was really sincere to move the sky?Or moved the Stove Lord?
After Wu Youwei poured wine and kowtowed, he muttered something in his mouth: "Please have a glass of wine, and God will say good things; Stove Lord eats honey, and there will be no disasters and worries in the four seasons...
After reading, shout out: "Lead"!
Then he poured wine on the chicken head.
It is said that if the chicken head flutters loudly, it means that the kitchen master has appreciated it.
If the chicken head does not move at all, it needs to be watered again.
Can you not be loud?That's a live chicken!
After the stove sacrifice ceremony, people began to eat stove candy and fire and other sacrifice food, mainly to distribute stove candy to the children. The children were drooling. Wu Youwei wanted to distribute stove candy to them, but the housekeeper saw that Strictly, don't allow him to give...
Well now, he finally took the candy plate and distributed the candies to the children one by one!
Happy to see teeth but not eyes.
Butler Lin Su looked sad, the master obviously liked children very much.
I also thought that when buying people, I bought all the old ones, big and small, and I like children more, right?
I can't bear them to be separated...
"Eat the sacrificial stove fruit, the bones of the feet will be healthy!" Xiao Xiao muttered while taking out two stove candies from Wu Youwei's plate and eating them by himself.
After distributing the stove sugar, Wu Youwei asked Chef Fang: "When will you get it back?"
"On the eve of the New Year's Eve, I will take the Kitchen God back home. When I go out to buy new year's goods, I will bring back a new statue of the Kitchen God and stick it on the stove. Because the Kitchen God has to count the roster first in the lower realm, so People have to go home to celebrate the New Year, to pray for good luck to the whole family." Chef Fang said with a smile: "No one in our family is outside, we are all at home."
Wu Youwei nodded. In the past, no matter how hard it was to be away from home, he always wanted to go home during the Chinese New Year. The word "Spring Festival Transport" let the world know that Chinese people attach great importance to "New Year's Eve".
After sacrificing the stove, before the end of the year, we have to pick a good day to do the cleaning, commonly known as "sweeping the year".
The custom of sweeping the year also has a long history.
I won't say much here.
After cleaning, I started to prepare for the New Year. New clothes and shoes are all necessary. The New Year is new from the inside to the outside, from the top to the bottom.
Because there is no needlework during the Chinese New Year, it is necessary to make all kinds of clothes and make up all kinds of patches in advance.
Everyone in the family is busy, and Wu Youwei is also busy. What he is busy with is how to give New Year gifts to relatives and friends.
Chinese New Year is not a usual holiday, this year's ceremony is the best way to reflect the closeness of the relationship, so Wu Youwei scratched his head and held back for two days before sorting out the gifts for these people, everything else needs to be made up by Butler Lin Su In the morning, the main gift he gave to Butler Lin Su added some more popular gifts such as silk, chicken, duck and fish. If you have children at home, you must also have some children's toys such as Luban locks and nine chains.
Wu Youwei has always given people the impression that he is an ordinary person who doesn't have much money, so the annual gifts he prepares for people are also very ordinary. The only thing is that his watermelon is not ordinary.
He used beet pulp as fertilizer and watered it with spiritual water, so even though his watermelon didn't see much sunlight, and it was an out-of-season fruit specially cultivated in winter, all of them were...sweet!