There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

Chapter 162

Looking at all kinds of fresh and original vegetables that could not be more original, Emperor Xianzong was in a good mood, and thought these things were very interesting.

For this reason, all the watermelons of Wantong's family entered the palace except the ten that were distributed to the elder brother's family. Wantong couldn't help it. Wu Youwei gave him twenty watermelons, which was already a lot.

He had inquired, and there were only twenty of the two masters.

Master Kong has twenty, and the others have only ten.

I had no choice but to go to my elder brother's house for the New Year, and I came back with two watermelons by the way.

At the age of 29, Wu Youwei wrote a lot of couplets after he came back, and asked his little nephew to write a lot of blessing characters. The couplets and blessing characters of the uncle and nephew were distributed to his family and people in Wujia Village.

It was all posted in the morning of the thirties.

On New Year's Eve, after sending off the people in the second room, everyone came back to have dinner, Wu Youwei sacrificed his big weapon: mahjong!

After asking, I found out that not only men can touch two hands, but women can also play. Now, the front and back yards are brightly lit, and they set up their battles and started playing mahjong.

Wu Youwei showed his arms and rolled up his sleeves: "Today I must win you!

"Come on! Come on!" Xiaoxiao yelled: "Let's join forces to win the master!"

Playing mahjong is time-consuming. On New Year’s Eve when there is no Spring Festival Gala, it becomes everyone’s entertainment, and because you win money while playing, everyone is very excited.

Until very late, Wu Youwei lost at their table, and the other tables won and lost, but they were all happy. Then Chef Fang's table broke up first. They went to the kitchen to cook the New Year's Eve dinner, but they couldn't Their family, Xu Niang and the others went to help.

The New Year's Eve dinner was eaten here in the hall. The square tables were put together to form a long table with many chairs. Wu Youwei didn't plan to eat by himself, so what's the matter?New Year's Eve dinner alone?He's never been this miserable before.

So he put everyone on the table, and they made one big table.

Soon, the meals came in wave after wave, such as braised elbow, braised pork, braised fish, braised chicken, braised ribs...the kitchen was on par with braised pork.

But there are also green vegetables, fried pork with garlic, scrambled eggs with leeks, spinach with nuts, cold pig ears...

A large table is filled with delicacies, and firecrackers are set off outside. Midnight is coming, and it is another year...

When the meal was ready, Wu Youwei led everyone to sit on the table, and he was the first to stand up and raise a glass: "First cup, to heaven!"

lift up.

Everyone followed him, and the room was instantly filled with the sweetness of rice wine.

"The second cup, respectfully!" Wu Youwei poured another cup to the ground.

Everyone also followed him.

"The third cup, to gods and ghosts." Wu Youwei still poured the third cup of wine on the ground.

Because it was the first year to celebrate the New Year with the master, they would do what Wu Youwei did.

After the fourth cup, Wu Youwei raised his cup and said, "This cup is a toast to everyone, thank you for taking care of me this year.

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, and then they blushed excitedly, as did their eyes.

Being a servant, if you want to say that you are tired, it is indeed very tiring, but the master actually does not have a lot of work here, and he is not tired, and there is no beating or scolding, not even a serious sentence.

Especially those who have served in the mansion, feel that although it is not a mansion, it is better than a mansion. The basic necessities of life are very good, and the master is even more so.

They don't know what to say from the bottom of their hearts, because they are stupid and can't speak, but when they drink, they are very happy.

After the fourth glass of wine, everyone raised their glasses and said in unison: "Fifth glass, toast!"

"Okay, I'll drink!" Wu Youwei generously drank the fifth glass of wine.

In fact, the practical cups are those small wine cups, which can be drank dry in one sip, and the drink is rice wine, homemade wine, Wu Youwei also has too strong wine, and you can share it with everyone, just because you are afraid of getting drunk. Let's start drinking tomorrow after the dinner.At that time, they could get together as they wanted, drink as they wanted, and drink as they wanted.

After five glasses of wine, Wu Youwei was the first to start. He ate a piece of braised chicken, and everyone picked up their chopsticks and enjoyed the delicious food with him.

This table is full of men, and the ladies are sitting in the backyard, hosted by the housekeeper and Xu Niang. In fact, there are not many women in the backyard, but there are plenty of meals.

Everyone ate and drank, talked about some topics they were interested in, and the housekeeper told Wu Youwei some plans for next year, looking forward to a good harvest next year and so on.

That night, everyone ate happily, drank happily, and chatted happily, and they went to rest very late.

Because it was eating in the middle of the night, and he couldn't go out for a walk to digest food, Chef Fang prepared hawthorn water for everyone, and asked them to drink it before going to rest.

So as not to accumulate food.

Wu Youwei was woken up by the sound of firecrackers early in the morning. He slept late yesterday, but he had to set off firecrackers before he could eat on the first day of the new year. So even though the master didn’t wake up, he couldn’t eat without setting off firecrackers. It’s been a long time. , I'm sorry, I'm too lazy.

After Xiaoxiao came in, he dragged Wu Youwei out of the bed: "Master, wake up, it's time to eat, hurry up!"

Wu Youwei yawned and said slowly: "Got it, got it, I slept so late yesterday and got up so early today?"

"Get up and have breakfast, and then go out to pay New Year's greetings!" Xiaoxiao took clothes and shoes for Wu Youwei: "After the New Year's greetings are over, I can come back to catch up on sleep."

New Year's greetings are usually in the morning, and the people who go there on the first day of the new year are close relatives, and Wu Youwei is the only one who can go to the second room.

He can catch up on sleep in the afternoon.

After getting up, she put on new clothes, and as soon as she went out, Xiao Xiao followed with a cloth bag.

"What is this?" Wu Youwei became curious seeing that he had quite a lot.

"Master, Happy New Year." Xiaoxiao smiled and bent over for him, made a bow, and then took out...the red purse embroidered with the word "Fu", and put it in her arms.

"The purse you took?" Wu Youwei was overjoyed. He opened it and saw that there were several large purses inside, and everything else was the same.

"The big one is for the young master and the young lady, and the others are for everyone. One has a tael of silver in it, and they are all new silver ingots prepared by the housekeeper. The purses were embroidered by Xu Niang and the sisters." Xiaoxiao said : "Because they said that the embroidery is not complicated, Lian Er and the others also embroidered along with it!"

So this is the result of everyone's hard work.

"I'll take it myself!" Wu Youwei carried the red envelope by himself: "Let's go eat!

The little thief laughed and followed behind him, with both hands empty and relaxed.

After Wu Youwei got dressed, he took the red envelope and went out for a walk. Even Xiaolian and the other little girls all smiled when they saw him.

Wu Youwei is generous, he will send red envelopes to anyone who pays him New Year's greetings, and he has been a money-spreading boy all morning,

The staple food for breakfast is of course dumplings, or stuffed with pork and chives. After Wu Youwei was full, he frowned at the overnight fish in the middle: "This, is it just like this?"

"No!" Chef Fang said, "Steam it at night and it will be fully cooked."

The fish for the Chinese New Year cannot be eaten, and it is cooked very raw, which means "every year is more than enough", so everyone didn't eat the braised fish yesterday, so they left it as it is.

Today's breakfast is actually the leftovers from last night, which also represents prosperity every year.

After breakfast, Butler Lin Su took the gift, went to the second room with Wu Youwei, and gave the second room New Year's greetings.

The presents he brought were very rich, and the Second Household also gave him New Year gifts a few years ago, and Wu Youwei returned even more presents. He was a man who could make money, but the Second Household could not.

Pointing to the future of the shop and the fields, there are still two children to raise. When they grow up, the man will pay a dowry to marry his wife, and the daughter will also have a generous dowry to marry.

Therefore, Wu Youwei's presents during the New Year's and holidays were particularly generous for the second wife, and Wu Mengshi had to accept things for the little nephew and daughter.

When they arrived at the second room, Wu Mengshi had already made preparations. They paid New Year's greetings to each other, and Wu Youwei went to pay homage to his second brother Wu Pang who died young.

Presenting gifts, playing with little Wu Qiong for a while, hugging the little niece, and giving each of the two children a big red envelope.

Wu Mengshi returned Wu Youwei's set of Four Treasures of the Study, which looked very new and was the most popular style in Beijing this year.

Stayed in the second room until the afternoon, Wu Youwei was too sleepy to sleep in the second room, so he left, went back to Mo Ling Villa, slept for an hour, and was dug up again by the officials.

"Master, wake up!" Butler Lin Su called Wu Youwei.

"What are you doing?" Wu Youwei was really reluctant to part with his warm quilt.

On the night of the first day of the new year, I was going to pick up Mr. Zao. Butler Lin Su woke him up: "Hurry up, master!" "

Being a master is too miserable!

Wu Youwei felt that his life was not so good.

When he got up and washed his face, he changed into new clothes and went to the kitchen. He couldn't eat until the Stove King Shenjun came back. When he picked up the Stove King Shenjun, it was time to make dinner. Cooking smoke can send the Stove King Shenjun to heaven, and it can also bring him back.

Inviting out the portrait of Stove King that he bought, Wu Youwei sprayed it immediately after seeing it: "Is this the Stove Lord?"

"Master, what are you doing?" Lin Su said with a straight face, "This is the Stove King Shenjun."

"But... why doesn't he have a beard?" Wu Youwei almost posted it to see

"Who said the Stove King has a beard?" Chef Fang said inexplicably, "All the Stove Kings are like this."

Wu Youwei was completely speechless looking at the handsome ancient handsome man on the painting. In his previous life, no matter whether it was the God of Wealth or the Stove Prince, they all looked similar, but the body and clothes were different. It's just that the hats are different. In fact, the faces can almost tell who they are.

As a result, in ancient times, the goddamn Stove Lord's beard is gone, and what kind of trouble is he going to put on the posture of a butter boy?

Years ago, when I sacrificed the stove and burned the portrait of the Stove King Shenjun, because it was covered with dust, I don’t know when it was posted. It was probably pasted after it was built, but the house has been empty for at least four or five years. They are all traces of smoke and fire, and it is impossible to see the face clearly.

Now that he's recovered, he realizes that the Stove King Shenjun is a little boy...

"Master, it's time to take over the Stove King Shenjun." Butler Lin Su pushed Wu Youwei's arm.

"Oh...oh." Wu Youwei rubbed his face, and respectfully wiped a little paste on the portrait of the Kitchen King Shenjun, and pasted it in the shrine.

"My lord, because the God of the Kitchen God is a young man, there is a saying that 'men don't worship the moon, and women don't worship the stove' to show that men and women can't get along with each other. "Chef Fang said: "But if we have a wife in our family, we can sacrifice Lord Stove King and Grandma Stove King together, that would be perfect. "

The corner of Wu Youwei's mouth twitched, is there such a saying?

He only knows that "men don't worship the moon and women don't worship the stove", so that's the reason!

The one who worships the moon is Chang'e. How can a man worship a woman's god?

As for offering sacrifices to the stove, probably...Wu Youwei glanced at the handsome man in the painting, Lord Stove, hehe...

After picking up Mr. Stove, he came back and started making dinner. After a while, everyone gathered for dinner, and the plate of braised fish was finally ready to eat.

The boss has a shark fin plate filled with silver carp and catfish, which is a good omen of "more than one year after year".

Before dinner, a firecracker had to be set off. This is how the excitement of the Chinese New Year is like this. Wu Youwei remembers that the taste of the New Year in later generations is getting weaker and weaker, but the flavor of the New Year here is very strong, and the smiles on everyone's faces are so real .

This made him a lot happier.

After the first day of junior high school, the second day of junior high school is the day when girls go back to their natal family. Wu Youwei gave all the couples in the family a holiday. Whoever wants to go back to her natal family can go back, and those who don't want to go back can go out to play.

It turned out that... none of them returned to their natal family!

On the contrary, the sister-in-law of the second room took her son and daughter back to her mother's house in Tongzhou in five or six carts.

Usually I don’t have the chance to go back, but this time I won’t be able to return until fifteen years later.