Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Feast
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This is a custom of the Great Liang Empire during the Chinese New Year.
Some are like Luo Chuan's combination of New Year's money and year-end bonuses in another world, generally speaking, the New Year's coins are wrapped by the elders to the younger generations, or the superior packs a subordinate.
The money is not much, mainly to ask for good luck.
In the past four years, Luo Chuan would issue red beans every Chinese New Year's Eve, with dozens of star stones at the most and only a few taels of silver at the time.
In Luo Chuan's words, this can be regarded as saving a dowry for red beans.
But this year is clearly different.
Because in addition to red beans, Luo Chuan also has to give New Year's coins to others.
For example, Xie Changjing, for example, Murong Xiaoqing, and then Li Dazhuang, Nie Xuanyu and other disciples of the hall......
It stands to reason that Baicaotang's New Year's coins should be issued by Li Hong, because he is the senior brother of the hall, but Luo Chuan felt that he should mean it, after all, Xie Changjing and they are all their own people.
But Hongdou is thrifty by nature, and when he heard that Luo Chuan was going to send so many star stones out, he suddenly felt a little distressed, and he hugged the bed board and refused to let go.
The star stones that Luo Chuan earned during this time were all hidden by her underneath.
In desperation, Luo Chuan could only smile bitterly: "Red Bean, the young master will earn it again without the star stone, and we don't mean to take out all the net worth, just take a hundred or so yuan out of it." ”
Hongdou pouted, looking pitiful, and after a long time, he reluctantly took out a small baggage.
"Young master, it can't be more. ”
Luo Chuan opened the baggage and found that there were a hundred star stones lying neatly inside, and said with a tentative smile: "Again...... Let's take some out, I counted carefully yesterday, and there are more than a hundred of our Shoutang disciples alone......"
The resentment in Hongdou's heart deepened, tears rolled in his eyes, and after a long time, he knew that he couldn't resist Luo Chuan, so he could only stretch his little arm under the bed again, and took out a much bigger burden.
Luo Chuan hurriedly opened it and looked at it, and then finally breathed a long sigh of relief, rubbed the little head of the red bean with a smile, and comforted again and again: "It's okay, no matter how you say that your young master is out of luck now, don't say anything else, Senior Sister will definitely have to give me a New Year's coin this year, and Wang Yaoshi and them, maybe Senior Brother Feng and Senior Brother Cai will also do it, so ah, let's go out with our left hand, and take it back with our right hand!"
Hearing this, Hongdou raised his hand to wipe his tears, his face turned amorous, and he said in a low voice: "Young master, don't lie to me......"
"No!" Luo Chuan's face was full of righteousness: "When did the young master lie to you!" Well, it's not too early now, everyone is still waiting for us, you clean up, dress up beautifully later, and the young master will take you to eat delicious food." ”
"Hmm!" Red Bean nodded vigorously, and then hopped around looking for new clothes.
It just so happened that yesterday Huang Zhao sent a set of snow-red cotton jackets, this guy is clever, Dongxue Xiaobi presented a big favor to Luochuan, but returned the favor to the red bean.
Obviously, he found out where Luo Chuan's lifeblood was.
Seeing Hongdou leaving, Luo Chuan stood in place and struggled for a long time, but finally gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and carefully put his hand under the bed again.
looks like an unlucky husband who steals private money......
After a while, Hongdou put on a new cotton jacket and a pair of fluffy ear bags on her ears, which Luo Chuan made for her, which looked very cute, and hid her thin little body.
Da Bai's interest today is also very high, and he has been circling around the feet of the red beans, and the ears that have always hung down on both sides of his head are excitedly erected, maybe this guy knows that there will be good things to eat later, so he is trying to please the red beans.
In contrast, Luo Chuan is a little thinly dressed, after all, he has already become a white flame now, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is not invasive in the cold and heat.
The family of three went out happily and headed for Baicaotang.
At the same time, Xie Changjing had already been busy in Baicaotang.
Since early in the morning, he has not known how many auspicious words such as "Happy New Year, Wishing you prosperity" have been said, and he almost didn't wear out his mouth.
There is no doubt that although today's Baicaotang is still respected by Li Hong and centered on Luochuan, it is Xie Changjing who really looks at the overall situation.
He's the one who really takes care of things.
So this year's Chinese New Year's Eve, can make Xie Changjing busy, the most troublesome thing is of course to prepare the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, although he does not understand the matter of cooking, but everything has to worry about him, such as counting the number of people, choosing dishes, buying materials, inviting chefs and so on.
In addition, there are a lot of people who come to Baicaotang to celebrate the New Year this year, almost all of them come to Sanfeng and Wutang, although they are not big people, after all, the real New Year's greetings have to wait until the first day of the Lunar New Year, but if you want to entertain all these people, it is enough to make Xie Changjing haggard.
The only good news is that Li Hong will not come today.
Xie Changjing naturally knew the reason, and it also made him breathe a long sigh of relief.
Otherwise, Xie Changjing was really afraid that something would happen to today's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
When the lights came on and the night fell, Luo Chuan finally showed up with red beans.
And so there was an uproar.
"Happy New Year, Senior Brother Luo! Happy New Year, Senior Sister Hongdou!"
"Senior Brother Luo's New Year is auspicious!"
"I wish Senior Brother Luo all the best, all his wishes come true, and his cultivation will go further in the coming year, and his martial arts will be prosperous!"
……
Luo Chuan walked all the way, and he was also full of smiles: "Okay, good ......"
While speaking, Luo Chuan's hand did not stop, and he kept pulling out the red envelopes with New Year's coins and stuffing them into everyone's hands again and again.
Hongdou felt distressed, but he also knew that today was a happy day, but he had a smile on his face and frequently bowed his head to everyone.
Seeing Luo Chuan and the others present, Xie Changjing hurriedly greeted him and brought the master and servant to the upper seat.
Li Hong didn't come today, the seating was well arranged, Luo Chuan was of course sitting in the most distinguished position, with red beans on the left and Xie Changjing on the right, and those who were qualified to be at the same table with Luo Chuan were naturally people with great status in Baicaotang.
For example, Xie Changjing's father, such as Wang Yaoshi, and several veteran Dan masters, as well as Nie Xuanyu, now he is already the leader of a group of Shoutang disciples.
In addition, each peak and hall also had a representative sitting at the table where Luo Chuan was.
Huang Zhao came, Meng Chengyu came, and the most surprising thing for Luo Chuan was that Wei Yuansen also came.
The other Luo Chuan were not familiar with it, and it was only under Xie Changjing's introduction that they learned that they were disciples from Yanwu Hall, Xunlu Hall, Torture Hall and Zhongfeng.
Generally speaking, on Chinese New Year's Eve, each peak and each church will send its own disciples to other sects to celebrate the New Year with the peak, which means the reunion of the whole sect.
But in fact, at this time of the year, Baicaotang was the most deserted, and at most, only the people from Xifeng and the Torture Hall would come to take a look, thanks to the reason why Baicaotang fell on Xifeng.
This year's popularity is naturally due to Luochuan.
Now in the entire Ling Sword Sect, who doesn't know the need to win over this son of Tianjiao?
Except for Kumabara, perhaps......
Looking at the hall full of friends, listening to the laughter and chatter of the disciples of the Baicao Hall, Luo Chuan suddenly felt a little emotional, on this day last year, he was not qualified to come here to eat Chinese New Year's Eve, I still remember that day the red bean made a braised fish smaller than a palm, for this reason, she begged the yellow fat man in the room for a long time......
"Senior Brother Luo, Senior Brother Luo......"
Xie Changjing's voice pulled Luo Chuan back from his memories and brought the wine glass on the table to his eyes.
"Senior Brother Luo, say a few words!"
Luo Chuan took the wine glass and slowly stood up, so the audience fell silent.
Everyone focused their eyes on Luo Chuan's body, and everyone's eyes were full of awe and admiration, and even a little nervous.
Luo Chuan looked around the audience and smiled slightly: "Luo is not talented, I accept you as a senior brother, but since you are a senior brother, you naturally have to have a senior brother." Our Baicaotang has not been established for a long time, and it belongs to the bottom of the five major sects, but this is a thing of the past, with me, Baicaotang will no longer be bullied! Everyone has drunk this glass of wine, and in the coming year, we will work together to make Baicaotang go to the next level!"
After speaking, Luo Chuan raised his hand and drank the wine in the cup in one gulp.
All the disciples of the Hundred Grass Hall said in unison, "Obey Senior Brother's teachings!"
Of course, Luo Chuan's words were aimed at other sects, but Meng Chengyu and the others present acted as if they hadn't heard anything, and they picked up the wine glass in their hands as usual, and worked with the people of the Ling Sword Sect.
Next, naturally, there were all kinds of staggering, pushing cups and changing lamps, but Luo Chuan noticed that Xie Changjing's mind didn't seem to be on the banquet, but kept looking up and staring into the distance, and his eyes looked a little nervous.
"What's wrong?"
Xie Changjing rubbed his hands and said in a deep voice: "Calculate the time, it's almost time for the sect to give a banquet." ”
After Xie Changjing's reminder, Luo Chuan suddenly remembered that there was such a stubble!
Feast.
It is also the custom of Ling Jianzong's Chinese New Year's Eve.
It is not difficult to understand from the literal meaning, that is, every Chinese New Year's Eve, the sect will reward each peak and hall with a few delicious dishes, which can be regarded as a reward for the contributions made by the disciples to the sect in the past year.
Of course, rewards are rewards, but how to reward and how much to reward are extremely particular.
To put it simply, Ling Jianzong's banquet has the meaning of rewarding meritorious deeds at the end of the year.
Whichever peak or church has contributed the most in this year, the dishes given will naturally be the best and the most numerous.
In other words, this is actually some kind of competition between the three peaks and five halls.
There is no doubt that in previous years, it was generally the Yanwutang that received the best banquet, and Baicaotang naturally fell to the bottom.
I won't mention it far away, let's just say that last year, Baicaotang only got a panchovy shrimp.
And as the old neighbor of Baicaotang, the torture hall has won seven treasures and delicacies!
Among them, there are many high-end dishes such as the golden branch fish pot!
So, what about this year?
As he was talking, Xie Changjing's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said to Luo Chuan in a deep voice: "It's here!"