As mentioned above, Wu Taijun's birthday celebration was completed, Zhang Wang and others turned their hands and took care of the next few major events one by one: one is Zhang Shumei's marriage, one is the second room to return to the province, one is Lin Hai's father and daughter go to Beijing, and the other is Zhang Yanzhang and Zhang Huizhang will take the test. and the usual age. Since October, the family's manors and mountain farms have gradually paid their money and grain with interest, and the shops in the city have also sorted out their accounts, compiled a book, and sent them to Gu Tang. Many things come together, and the inside and outside of the chapter house are busy. The light is like flying, and suddenly it's November.

On this day, the Hong family got up and was talking to Fan Shuwen about the needlework gifts for each relative, when a girl came in with a big tea plate. Fan Shuwen saw that there were more than a dozen porcelain plates on the plate, the saucer was only the size of a tea cup, holding a handful of mixed rice and bean grains, and there were seven or eight two-inch-long jade bamboo plates, and the leaves were carved like simple patterns of fruits, vegetables, melons and vegetables, and the words "taro," "sweet potato," "sweet melon," "sweet potato," "sweet potato," "radish," "yam," and so on were mentioned on the head. Here, Bai Wei hurriedly took it and showed it to the Hong family. Fan Shuwen asked Hong's family: "What is this? Does the fine grains and fruits that Zhuangzi come in look like this? ”

Hong said with a smile: "This is the porridge to be dispersed after the winter festival on the winter solstice." Then he ordered the maid: "Wait for the uncle's family to come and decide." Things are prepared according to last year's number plus 40%. The maid agreed.

For a while, Zhang Wang came in to eat, but Fan Shuwen avoided it. Zhang Wangyin asked Hong's family: "Last year, a pair of plum vases and four screens in the New Year of the Marquis of Enping's mansion, what color and pattern were they?"

Hong said: "The plum bottle remembers as if it was the rain that opened the piece. The screen is a multicolored jade inlaid fisherman ploughing reading, who can't remember the original painting. Then he called Bai Wei: "Take the notebook in the luodian box on the east cabinet in my room." "I brought it for a while and showed it to Zhang Wang. Hong pointed to the booklet and said, "Both of them are now in the wife's place. Is this the fifth brother asking? What did the uncle say?"

Zhang Wang said: "The fifth child also suddenly remembered. Since he has the heart to accompany the eyebrows, he has to take the same to fill it. You can also set up an ambush on your wife's side first, so that it will be convenient to talk when the time comes. Hong answered.

Zhang Wang nodded, and only then did he see the tea tray next to him. Because asked: "This is the kitchen sent all the ingredients for the winter solstice porridge? And these sweet potatoes are also added to it, whose idea was it?"

Hong Shi smiled: "Who else can it be? It's all because Brother Yu'er spoils his brother, and he knows that he likes those few things from outside, so he just makes a medium Zhuangzi to grow it." The first two or three years were fine, and the seedlings lived less and had a limited number of knots. Just get a few packets of dry slivers and just treat them as snacks. Who would have thought that this year would be ripe. Zhuangzi built two warehouses for dried vegetable strips. If you want to let Brother Ying eat alone, I'm afraid it will be enough to eat for ten lifetimes. Tianguo's father-in-law was helpless and came to ask me. I said that I would send it directly to the dealer, but he blindly refused, so I had to ask Brother Ying'er to deal with it. As a result, it is not just a mouth to add to this year's winter solstice porridge. said that when they tasted it inside and outside the city, they knew their likes and dislikes, and they had a number of plans for next year. ”

When Zhang Wang heard this, he knew the reason: it turned out that this Zhang's family cultivated and studied for a business, and he was given an additional thousand hectares of fertile land, which was not only a gift for students, but also a foundation for agricultural governance. Therefore, since the generation of Zhang Rong, there have been several experimental agricultural things specially set up. or all kinds of newly created things, from small instruments, vehicles, and ships, to ditches and water conservancy, for a period of three years, to check their effectiveness; or all kinds of newly bred seeds, not limited to grains, melons, fruits, vegetables, grasses and trees, limited to four crops, to calculate the income and expenditure. This former item, because Rong Gong is well-informed, miscellaneous side of the collection, literature is also proficient in engineering and manufacturing skills, brought Huang Xing since childhood and himself is also cool at this way, decades of tradition endlessly, during which the new improvement can be a lot of users. It is the latter item, after all, the scholars and gentlemen, the brown-clothed mango clogs are just a momentary demeanor, and it is really embarrassing to bend over and work in the fields, but it is just a proverb for the peasants and scholars of the past dynasties, according to the map, teaching the tenant farmers to plough and rotate year by year, intercropping and intercropping, and work the four words of "intensive cultivation". In the past 20 years, new varieties have been coming from overseas, and there are just four or five of them that have the right appetite for Zhang Hui, so he tried his best to get seeds and seedlings to cultivate at home - in fact, it is a little selfishness of his parents. However, this ripening provoked him to think about other things, because he asked Hong: "There are still booklets from Zhuangzi over there, how many acres of land are planted each year, how many grains are used per mu, how much harvest is in a season, how many seasons are harvested, and how much manpower and animal power should be needed in a year. Even this year's number. ”

Hong said with a smile: "This year's number is ready-made, Tianguo Gonggong came up the day before yesterday to pay for the money, and when it comes to this, I listen to it strangely, and I specially called for a note, and I immediately turned it out." The number of previous years, there must also be a booklet. I have to go to the treasury of the account office to find it. So he called the maid Baixing and said, "Go and tell Brother You'er to come here with the booklet of Maojiatang Dongzhuang over the years." ”

Bai Xing responded, and his feet did not move for the time being, only looking at the Hong family and Zhang Wang, and looking at the orders from the side. Sure enough, Hong thought for a while and said, "Tell him to go to the eldest master's study by the way, and see if the eldest master's account books have been read." If you've finished reading it, take it here and copy it into storage. If not, ask how many days it will take. Seeing that there was nothing else to say, Bai Xing walked outside.

But he said that Zhang Youzheng was watching more than a dozen gentlemen in the account room with the chief steward Yin Chun, and when he heard Bai Xing's words, he hurriedly stood and lowered his hand and said that he knew. Call a small guy at the door at the moment, and ask where Zhang Pei is first. Zhan came back and reported: "The eldest master is sitting alone in Deyi Shanju. Zhang You said to Yin Chun: "Uncle Labor Chun went to the warehouse." I went to the old man. So they went their separate ways.

I didn't want Zhang Youcai to walk outside Zhang Pei's study, and I saw Lin Ruhai coming over. Zhang You hurriedly stood and saluted. Lin Ruhai asked where he came from and what was the matter. Zhang You only said that he was not busy, and asked Lin Ruhai to go first. Lin Ruhai said with a smile: "Why should the family be polite? and go in with me, and speak your word. ”

Zhang Pei couldn't help but be surprised when he saw the two of them together. However, he didn't think much about it, and when he had done the salute, he called: "Sit down like the sea." Xiang Zhangyou said: "You came just in time." I was looking for you. I have only flipped through the general ledgers of each family this year, and there is nothing wrong with it, but how can this Heng Runchang still use the previous bookkeeping method? I said a few years ago that in addition to the old management and new revenue and expulsion, there is also a separate general book, and there is a total amount of income and income every day every month. Why didn't he see it? Besides, the amount of each deduction was kept as a percentage of the public middle school Peiyuan, and the total number of losses reported could not be verified. Call them all back and redo them. ”

Chapter by the busy response is. Zhang Pei asked: "What is his family's statement? Reasoning is also a two-generation, decades-long business for a living. It's not like this. ”

Zhang You replied: "Tang Dingsheng went out to see the goods for the first time in early October, and the carriage he was riding overturned and broke his leg. The current person is not in the way, but in the end it will be raised for half a year. He just resigned from his deputy, and if there was another accident, he couldn't resist it for a while. This trip was the general account sent by his son. ”

Zhang Pei nodded and said, "Since he can't parry, and his son and his subordinates can't get along, you know, you should send someone who can make it over." These are our own industries, decades of signboards, a careless will make a crooked way, life and cripples, what is the matter?"

Zhang You bowed and said: "This spring, Heng Runchang reported two shortages of manpower. My wife ordered me to pay attention to the stewards of talents and qualifications, and I selected and dispatched people from several places, and sent them over for a while, but they were all reported that they were not worthy of the deputies. Tang Dingsheng's urging was also relieved, so he put it aside for the time being. ”

Speaking of which, there is something Zhang Pei doesn't understand. It's just that since he understands, he is even more annoyed, and he slapped the book case heavily, and said angrily: "He went out in the name of his wife, isn't he more of his own family, and shouldn't he take care of it according to the rules of the family? But you received this poor, how can you say that you put it down, put it down, take it off and look at it on the side?"

When Zhang You heard this, he hurriedly knelt down and said, "What the master taught me." The grandson didn't dare anymore. Lin Ruhai next to him also stood up and said with a smile: "Uncle only looks at what is going on behind him." ”

When Zhang Pei heard this, his face turned pale, he asked Zhang You to get up, and instructed: "I went through the other accounts roughly, and I only picked up a few copies casually, but they were some small mistakes that were not very important, and I didn't bother to read them again." This is taken, you do it again, and when it is approved, it is copied into the warehouse. Zhang You hurriedly agreed "yes", seeing that Zhang Pei was speechless, Fang asked the little guy to come in and hug the account book, and slowly withdrew.

Here, Lin Ruhai looked at Zhang Pei's expression for a while, and said with a smile: "This time I have always only looked at the two of them and their husbands and wives, and I didn't expect my uncle to worry about this." ”

Zhang Pei shook his head and said: "You don't know, your brother knows it in his stomach, and he doesn't want to care about everything." Although his daughter-in-law is a capable and capable housekeeper, she is powerful on the outside, but her heart is soft-hearted, and some people really pull their cheeks and beg for a few words of pleading, but they have never been able to pass, but they have to cover up in front of the elders for the people below. Brother You'er is a junior, and he can use some of it, but he is also vague, and he can't be the master for three moments. As he spoke, he shook his head and went up to the bowl with his hand.

Seeing this, Lin Ruhai hurriedly brought a teapot out of the cage next to him and continued to pour hot water with Zhang Pei. Zhang Pei ate the tea, and Fang continued the previous words and said: "The family of CUHK is a Huier, don't look at the usual lazy and fun, the family doesn't ask anything about the short and long, if you really encounter something, you can make a decision and dare to take action - although the disaster is not old and young, in the end, it is the same lineage, and the temper that cannot be resisted." He laughed as he spoke.

Lin Ruhai also smiled: "Isn't it? Jianxing has always said that Hui'er is most similar to CUHK, in my opinion, in fact, there are many people who have learned a lot, and they are just imperceptibly close to Zhu Zhechi." When it comes to sexual endowment, he is still like an uncle in his bones. ”

Zhang Pei laughed when he heard this, and said, "I'm happy to hear this." It's just that CUHK is afraid that it won't be able to let you go anymore, so let's not talk about arguing for a night. He took a big sip of tea like a teacup and laughed again, then shook his head and sighed: "It's just that he shouldn't worry about these things if he dies." No matter how similar his temperament is, no matter how capable he is, I will not allow anyone in my family to bring these things to him. So after thinking about it like this, I won't help stop it anymore and close it, I'm afraid that when someone steps on my face, I just think that the Zhang family has read rotten books, and I don't know anything and don't calculate. ”

Lin Ruhai said with a smile: "Uncle is full of loving kindness, CUHK and them, as well as Brother You and Brother Hui, naturally know about it." Even I know. This trip is to ask my uncle to help, and also to help my nephew take a look at some accounts. ”

Zhang Pei snorted and said, "Am I the bookkeeper?" and asked where the account was. Lin Ruhai then handed over the two account books caged in his sleeve. Zhang Pei flipped through it casually, looked at it twice, and saw that it was a record of the transfer of several kinds of wood raw materials, and there were also those who went to Beijing from Sichuan, Shu, Hunan and Jiangxi to Changzhou and Yangzhou to the canal, and there were also those who took the Jiangnan Canal from Guangzhou, Fujian and Zhejiang and then went to Beijing. One is the flowing water of Taihu Lake stone produced in Suzhou and Changxing, which are transshipped to Beijing in Yangzhou. The time is from September last year to the present, and there are daily accounts in September and October last year and September and October this year. Zhang Peiyin said with a smile: "This thing, where did you get it from! I just don't know what kind of numbers you want." ”

Lin Ruhai said: "Ruhai wants to annoy my uncle to check the total number of people since the beginning of the year, and the number after September this year accounts for the share of the year. And then these things add up, accounting for a rough proportion of the Caohe River capacity. ”

When Zhang Pei heard this, his brows furrowed. After thinking about it for a while, he walked around the house twice with his hands behind his back, and stood still and asked Lin Ruhai: "What do you want?"

Lin Ruhai said: "It's urgent." ”

Zhang Pei nodded, turned around to the temporary sleeping compartment behind the bookshelf, opened the cupboard, took out the two twenty-four ebony abacus hanging behind the wall panel of the cabinet door, put them side by side on the bookcase, and took a wooden booklet and put it in front. instructed Lin Ruhai: "You help turn the page." ”

Lin Ruhai hurriedly stopped in front of the bookcase and rolled up his sleeves to wait. Zhang Pei sat down behind the bookcase, looked at the account book with his eyes, used an abacus in each hand, hit the number of the Yangtze River waterway with his left hand, and hit the number of the Jiangnan Canal waterway with his right hand. After turning such a booklet from beginning to end, Zhang Pei ordered Lin Ruhai to turn forward from the last page, and his hands changed from accumulation to decrease, and subtracted item by item from tail to end. After this turnover, the counts on the two abacus will also be zero.

Zhang Pei withdrew his hand, caged it in his sleeve, silently calculated two sentences in his mouth, and then allocated a few numbers on the abacus, pushed it to Lin Ruhai, and said: "In this book, the total number of each of them accounts for the whole year in these two months. Seeing Lin Ruhai's head, he brushed it away, dialed a few more numbers, and said: "The number of September and October this year, and the number of September and October last year." This year's increase is more than last year's. Nodding his head, he said: "It's a pity that there are no numbers from a few years earlier, if there is, I will know how much difference it is from previous years." ”

Lin Ruhai said with a smile: "The numbers of these two years are enough to use." Just to say one thing. A few more years of numbers, and more people are afraid of being alarmed, which is not good. ”

Zhang Pei said: "Even so, there is no need to say more." I don't ask you what you're doing with this. Say all the numbers you want. It just so happens that I don't have anything else to do at this time, so I'll help you figure it out, and I'll also find Mr. Qu and them to gossip. ”

Lin Ruhai hurriedly smiled and said that he didn't dare to be tired, but when he was glared at by Zhang Pei, he stopped politely saying words, and took the account book and asked how many numbers he expected to want one by one. Zhang Pei also gave a few other numbers, Lin Ruhai may not understand, and he also carefully asked about the origin and intention. At the end, Lin Ruhai checked the numbers with Zhang Pei again to confirm the accuracy, and silently remembered it in his heart, so he solemnly thanked Zhang Pei and bowed and withdrew. Zhang Pei went to the Chengzheng Courtyard to find the West Master to speak.

Here, Lin Ruhai returned to the courtyard where he temporarily lived, and he listened to the little maid on the door and said that Zhang Wang was waiting in the house. Lin Ruhai hurriedly walked in and asked, "Yang Zhi is looking for me, but you have been waiting for a long time, and you won't send anyone to call me." ”

Zhang Wang smiled: "Just work for a while." It doesn't matter to me left or right, I go shopping and sit wherever I go. ”

Lin Ruhai smiled: "This is not true. Two days is the winter solstice, the outside of the inventory to settle the bill, the family sacrifice winter reward, this will not matter, when is there something important? While asking the maid to change the tea, let Zhang Wang.

Zhang Wang took the tea and ate it, and Fang smiled: "See it as the sea." Sure enough, there was a matter to rely on my cousin. He took out a booklet from his sleeve, handed it to Lin Ruhai, and said: "This is a few foreign crops planted in Dongzhuang, land harvest, water and fertilizer working hours, storage and production, and the number of four or five years is probably recorded in it." ”

When Lin Ruhai saw it, he immediately laughed: "This is really a brother." I just went to my uncle's place, and that's what he said. Then he told Zhang Wang about his words and deeds at Zhang Pei, and said: "That is, uncle, once you come down, you will get all the amount you deserve." If you want to change the people on the side, not to mention the accounts at home, that is, I used to do old things in the Yanzheng Yamen, and the three or five people may not be able to figure it out after thinking about it all day. It's a pity that I haven't been able to learn a thing or two since I was a child, and now I have to bother again. ”

Zhang Wang smiled: "You still talk about you." Isn't it longer that I've been with me? Besides, it's not just you and me, there are so many brothers and sisters in the family, who will? On the contrary, Yu'er and her aunt have watched the flow of water in her pharmacy since she was a child, and after coming here, she only read a few books and grasped the key trick. When I told the master, the master was so happy that he kept me in the account room for an hour every day, and learned to go home to teach her. I taught it seriously for half a year, but it turned out that I couldn't make accounts and do it, and I didn't learn to dial the abacus in the end. The old man also counted me down, saying that I must be stupid and couldn't teach me. The two brothers laughed at each other.

Lin Ruhai then took the account book in his hand and looked at it. Turning the first page, he was stunned for a moment, and said, "Is it my brother's handwriting?"

Zhang Wang said with a smile: "Zhuangzi asked his brother to give it to him, so naturally he came to get this account." ”

Lin Ruhai nodded, flipped through the account book slightly, and said with a smile: "I don't think it's bad." It is organized and clear, and there are many explanations and explanations, and there is a meaning of commentary and criticism. But I know much more than what I showed to my uncle, and I can show it directly to adults. ”

Zhang Wang said: "In this case, it is annoying to show it to the adults." You don't have to take it out alone, just hand it over with other wood, stones, and other quantities. ”

When Lin Ruhai heard this, he was bored at first, thinking that he wanted to be an old man, so he planned for his son's future, and wanted to give a solid credit, so that he would not act like this. But in the latter sentence, I understood his intentions, and knew that even the meaning of his own style and politics was also included in it. So he smiled and said, "It must be so good." As he spoke, he took the teapot and teacup at home, filled them with both of them, and then took the teacup in his hand. Zhang Wang understood, also picked up the teacup, touched him, and then drank the tea in one go. Lin Ruhai nodded again and said, "It's a pity that I can't get into the office, it's a pity, it's a pity." ”

Zhang Wang didn't answer him, and said, "The booklet is handed over, and I have finished everything in the past few years." Ruhai is also busy this time, so I won't bother much. After two days of the winter solstice, the big festival was over, and our brothers made another appointment to eat and drink. Lin Ruhai has no objection. Zhang Wang quit and went out.

didn't want to go out, Zhang Wang turned around again, and said with a smile: "I was just forked by you, and I almost forgot about something." Her aunt thought that the first time her niece spent the winter solstice here was here, the old lady must have brought it with her. Daily life, sacrifices, and rituals, there should be no obstacle next to it, only one thing - the porridge that is cooked at home on the winter solstice is the custom of going from day to sunset, and nothing else is eaten except it. Therefore, I annoyed my cousin and niece to explain this in advance, and it is good to have a number in my heart. Lin Ruhai hurriedly responded, and thanked Zhangwang again. Zhang Wang just went. There was nothing else to say.

So Lin Ruhai ordered: "Ask the girl where she eats daytime." If you eat with the old lady, when the old lady has rested for the day, she will come to my side when she has time. ”

Chalin Daiyu was not at Wu Taijun's, but was taken to Dongfu by Chen, the wife and second wife of Jiaozhang Li, and the sisters played and laughed. Hearing Lin Hai's words, he hurriedly said goodbye to Chen and the others. Chen smiled: "What are you busy with? At this hour, you should always have dinner and then go over." Just listen to me. I'll send you myself later. ”

Daiyu couldn't resign, so she had to eat in Dongfu according to her words, but repeatedly thanked Chen for sending her in person, and was carried by Yin to the Yimen of Xifu. Daiyu thanked Yin again, got out of the car, and went to Lin Ruhai's house.

For a while, the father and daughter met each other and said some rules and words. Lin Ruhai took Daiyu to sit on the warm couch under the window, and Daiyu also sat next to Lin Ruhai. Lin Ruhai then asked her how she was playing in Dongfu, how the sisters were, what poems and essays she made, and what scriptures and histories she discussed. Daiyu said as carefully. Lin Ruhaiyin asked: "Looking at the winter solstice, do you have any new ideas in your boudoir?"

Daiyu smiled: "I have already made an appointment with the Poetry Society." The sister-in-law said that although it has been sunny in the past two days, I am afraid that there will be heavy snow. When the time comes, the garden picks up a warm pavilion near the water and cleans a place, invites brothers and sisters to come, and everyone eats wine and poems together, and should also congratulate the eldest sister and walk for the brothers. ”

Lin Ruhai nodded and said, "The former is still the affection between your sisters. The latter item, since the Duke of Wen Zhao, no one in the Gu Tangzhang clan has tried to enter the department for decades, and this time in Beijing is indeed extraordinary. This year's winter solstice ancestor worship, just for this one of the shade protection, will be more grand than in previous years. ”

Daiyu said: "I have heard the sisters talk about the porridge, medicine and clothing prepared by each room to help the poor after the winter, which is three times as large as in previous years. On the aunt's side, when I returned to my cousin, I even took out half a year's production of a Zhuangzi - it can be seen that I am sincere. ”

Lin Ruhai said with a smile: "However, Yu'er knows that your cousin's Zhuangzi does not produce rice and wheat, but sweet melons, sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes and the like?"

Daiyu said: "My cousin said that although sweet potatoes and sweet melons are from overseas and are not often eaten locally, the taste is not bad. In addition, compared with rice and wheat, the land is not fat and thin, and the yield is also high. If people can get used to eating it, jade is usually two more dishes in the year, and in the event of floods, droughts and famines, it can live countless lives. So take the opportunity of the winter solstice porridge to let everyone taste it, or more people will be willing to follow and plant. ”

When Lin Ruhai heard this, he couldn't help but snort and said, "Your cousin's mouth is fast, and I will tell you everything about the past two days." As she spoke, Daiyu's face turned red and she wrung her hands without saying a word. Lin Ruhai was helpless, changed his head, and asked: "He told you the ingredients in the porridge, but did he tell the family about the origin of the winter solstice porridge?"

Lin Daiyu was stunned and said: "My cousin only said that rice, wheat, mixed beans and various vegetables are used together in the porridge, which is similar to the Laba porridge on the day of Buddha's enlightenment." According to my father, what other origins do I have?"

Lin Ruhai nodded and asked, "Yu'er knows about the life of your grandfather, which is the first thing that makes the scholars and the people admire?"

This is Wen Zhaogong. Daiyu hurriedly got up, stood with her hands down, and replied: "My daughter is ignorant, but according to etiquette, she should be upright and stubborn, and she will not submit to Cai's thieves even if she dies." ”

Lin Ruhai bowed his head and said, "Indeed, this matter has won the respect of the world." However, Yu'er knew that Cai Xiang besieged Gu Tang and forbade entry and exit for three months. At that time, the Zhang family had a family of forty or fifty, and what did they rely on to support it in the end?"

Daiyu was stunned when she heard this. She was originally an extremely smart and clever person, although she had never thought about it, Lin Hai asked at this moment, and naturally guessed the relationship. As soon as his mind moved, he asked: "Is it like the folk legend that the origin of Laba porridge is the five grains and beans collected from the bottom of the hoard, the cracks in the walls, and the rat holes?"

Lin Ruhai shook his head and said, "If that's the case, it's still good." At that time, the Cai thieves besieged Gu Tang, and the family didn't say that birds, birds, snakes, rats, beehives and anthills were all eaten by them, where was there any left? At that time, Wen Zhaogong and his family ate rotten rice and vegetables in the swill tank - these were selected to remove the mildew**, washed them repeatedly with snow water, fished out and drained the bones that were not soft, crushed and hammered and then sprinkled back, plus the tender heads of the moon flowers and yam seeds that could be found, as well as the moss scraped off the wall, they were boiled into a big pot, and each person could get a bowl bottom every day...... Relying on this, Gu Tang lasted for another five days, and finally survived until Shizu's rescue came. ”

When Daiyu heard this, she was shocked, and unconsciously reached out to grab Lin Ruhai's shirt, and the tighter she clutched it. Lin Ruhai took his daughter, stroked his back and said warmly: "Wen Zhaogong once said that the Cai thief was besieged with troops on the day after the winter solstice, and if it was a few days later, the swill would be exhausted, and I was afraid that the family would really be poor and at the end of the road, and could only starve to death." So passed down a rule, every year after the frost falls, the swill will no longer come out of the house, and when it comes to the winter solstice, the children of the family should take the food in the jar as the main ingredient, boil porridge soup, as the winter solstice family sacrifice food, is also the only diet on this day. In this way, we will warn our children and grandchildren, never forget the old things, and remember the original intention. ”

Daiyu let out a long sigh and said, "I see. It's just that the porridge that Wen Zhaogong ate back then was extremely embarrassed, so he had no choice but to do this. Later, I want to make the winter solstice family sacrifice, and I have to eat it for the family on the same day, but I am afraid that it will not be able to do it?"

Lin Ruhai said: "What Yu'er said is exact. Gu Tang has always been thrifty, cherishing food and accumulating blessings, and this swill is originally very limited. Therefore, when your maternal great-grandfather, who was Duke Wenhua, the family population gradually increased, so he added some surplus old grain and pickled vegetables to the rules of Duke Wenzhao. Later, the neighbors and even the people in the city knew that Gutang used to eat this porridge on the winter solstice, firstly, they were grateful for the character of Wenzhao Gong, and secondly, they also intended to share a little 'surplus grain' and 'living road', and they all came to beg for porridge to eat, and even officials and teachers from all over the prefecture and county came to ask for it. So he gathered extra rice, grains, beans, etc., added enough ginger and garlic, boiled into a thick porridge, and only added a spoonful of porridge soup for family sacrifice to each pot of porridge to mix, and then distributed it to the people. This is also the practice of the winter solstice porridge that Gu Tang has scattered now. But in the Zhang family's own house, the family sacrifice food and the winter solstice day are still the foundation of Wen Zhaogong back then - in order to remember the wind and bones, and also remember this taste, you must know that the world is poor and poor, and some of them may not be eaten even if they are swill. ”

Speaking of this, seeing Daiyu showing a look of doubt and disbelief, knowing that she was still young, and she had been rich and noble since she was a child, and she grew up in the pile of gold and jade splendor, it was natural that she couldn't imagine such a situation. Lin Ruhai didn't say anything more, only stroked her head, and said with a smile: "Although my father and daughter live in the guest house, in the end, they are in the same vein as Gutang, and they sacrifice food at home, no matter how much they want, they always have to contribute." I thought about it, and when the snow came down in two days, I went to all parts of the garden and collected two jars of snow with my own hands. Yu'er can prepare early. ”

Lin Daiyu hurriedly got up and respectfully responded "yes". The father and daughter said a few more words, and Wu Taijun sent someone to find Daiyu, and Daiyu said goodbye to her father and went to Chenghui Hall.

The words are divided into two ends. In this compartment, Lin Ruhai instructed Daiyu, and in that compartment, the Hong family also told Fan Shuwen about the winter solstice porridge. Although Fan Shuwen is a bride, she is the granddaughter-in-law of the mound, and the family sacrifice and food, others may not move, but Fan Shuwen must go into the kitchen in person, wash the meals with Wu Taijun, Li, and Hong, and cook porridge. Hong thought that this case was not owned by ordinary people, and he was afraid that it would not be something that ordinary boudoirs could bear, so he deliberately went to Fan Shuwen's room, withdrew the maid's subordinates, and told slowly.

Sure enough, when Fan Shuwen heard about the real porridge ingredients, her face turned three points white, and when she heard that she only used this food before sunset and didn't need anything else, she felt vomiting in her heart. After enduring it again and again, I couldn't bear it anymore, and I poured out a lot of sour water in front of Hong. Although Hong had expected it, he was unhappy in the end, but seeing that Fan Shuwen was so frightened that his color was gone, his heart softened again, and he hurriedly called for the maid to come in and pour tea, watched Fan Shuwen rinse his mouth, and said a few words of gentle reassurance, and then took Bai Wei back to the upper courtyard.

When I got to the room, the daughter-in-law of the housekeeper of the fourth room sent Zhang Zhan and Yun's newly drafted Zhang Shumei dowry list over. Hong took it, sent someone with a few words, sat for a while, and saw the hundreds of sons and thousands of grandchildren on the list of various materials and fabrics, and suddenly touched something in his heart, and hurriedly called Bai Wei and ordered: "The girl who is close to the grandmother will quietly call one over." He also asked Bai Xing to send a message to the steward Lai Yu: "Immediately set up a car to go to Xiaodongmen, please come here immediately after Grandpa Guan." He also ordered someone to find the reason: "Come here immediately, I have something to say." ”

So when it came to dinner on this day, everyone in Gu Tang's mansion knew that Fan Shuwen was happy. In Chenghui Hall, Wu Taijun only smiled from ear to ear, pulling Fan Shuwen to sit beside him, and a pair of eyes couldn't help but look back and forth. Everyone didn't want to trouble Fan Shuwen, so they only said hello to Wu Taijun and Hong again and again. The people outside congratulated Zhang Pei and Zhang Wang. Zhang You had already been drunk by a dry brother, and he couldn't stop laughing when he stood there. Zhang Hui next to him really couldn't see it, one on the side of the same Zhang Yan, he left after setting up the chapter, and he didn't dare to send him back to his yard, he went to Zhang Wang's study, fed him with sobering soup, and watched him fall asleep. The next day, Zhang woke up from the wine, knowing that he had forgotten his form, but in the end, although he was happy in the end, although the winter solstice sacrifice and other things were annoying, he just opened his mouth and smiled, beaming with joy, even Zhang Pei could only laugh and scold the "stupid boy".