It's another year and the New Year has arrived.

Li Wei stood in the house and looked at the heavy snow outside, and said, "It's finally snowing." ”

Yuyan said with a smile: "A few days ago, the fifth elder brother also said that he wanted to build a snowman and have a snowball fight, which is good." ”

That's not what Li Wei said. This thing is too torturous, since the winter solstice, the fourth master is looking forward to snowing, and he is afraid of heavy snow. As a result, it was past the middle of November, and there was still no snow, so he was afraid of drought every day, so he asked people to send 400 miles to Henan, Shandong, Northeast and other places, so that they could prepare to dig wells now.

In winter, when the soil freezes hard, it will be difficult to fight, so she listened to him write an excerpt and said worriedly: "It's too late this year, next year I want them to start preparing for water storage as soon as possible, and we can't see that the drought is about to reappear and dig wells to find water, and if we miss the farming time, it will be bad!" ”

The matter of water storage varies from place to place. Hongyu's homework is all about water storage, some places can dig reservoirs, reservoirs, but some places can't do it. or because of the limited talent of Shangguan, or because of the terrain, or because of the quality of the soil, or because of customs, such as digging a big reservoir in the air and bad feng shui or something.

Most of the places are limited to the wisdom of the people, and they rely on God to reward them for food.

Even the fourth master said that opening the people's wisdom is the foundation of a strong country. But that's just talk. This is not a one-time effort, nor is it a one-lifetime achievement, it is not difficult for him to get started, and if he doesn't follow up, he will waste his hard work. Therefore, the work of a hundred generations is put aside first, and there are many things that are not clear at the moment.

It made the fourth master eat nothing fragrant for several days, and he was only lazy to pick noodles when the noodles were put on the table.

He can't eat it, of course, he has to make others taste it.

So when it came to the New Year's banquet, he told everyone that he had set out the Duanjing of the fifth child and the Duanyi of the seventh child.

Then he said that the princess's mansion should also be built in Beijing for the princess to return to Beijing for her relatives.

Zuihou said that he paid half of the money for the princess's mansion, and half of the money for the prince's mansion.

'To comfort the love of father and daughter'.

The fourth master said that even he himself was moved to tears, and the third, fifth, seventh, and ninth masters came out of the ranks and knelt down to point to the heavens and cursed the earth, saying that the emperor must not fight with them for the silver of the palace, the emperor has just ascended the throne, and the treasury is not abundant......

The ninth master scolded in his heart: P! The money in the household department is almost out of stock!

But I turned around and said that please let them do their best.

The fourth master was moved and said that we have a deep brotherly relationship, and we really deserve to be my good brothers!

I don't know what the good brothers felt like after leaving the palace, and the fourth master happily ate the pizza made by Li Wei in Yongshou Palace.

There is also cheese in Mongolia, although it may not be the same as in Europe. But do you think the general truth is the same?

So Li Wei asked Eunuch Liu to try to sprinkle cheese on top of the crust, and the cake was baked in the oven until the cheese melted. Of course, theoretically, there should be some more bacon meat, sausages, vegetables, etc., and she handed over these professional issues to Eunuch Liu to shiyan.

It doesn't have to be exactly the same as pizza, as long as it's delicious.

Although she used to bake pizza in the oven at home, the flour was bought from the pastry house, and the only thing she knew was that the noodles were made with milk, and everything else was ready-made.

Eunuch Liu did it for two months, and it wasn't until the New Year that it was made, and Li Wei tasted it and thought it was good. Because there are no fresh vegetables in the palace in winter, although there are carrots and corn, most of them are pickled vegetables, so the sour taste is enough, and the hawthorn black plum sauce does not dare to use too much, and the salad dressing is also brought up for the fourth master to look at.

At first glance, when he saw this new-style cake, the fourth master smiled and said: "I have long heard that you tossed Liu Baoquan again, he only came out to cook a few big dishes at this year's New Year's banquet, and handed over the rest to the apprentices." "If you put this elsewhere, that is, to despise the grace of God, but Liu Baoquan is quite knowledgeable, and he plans to take a back seat after finishing this gang, he is old and can't do it anymore, so he doesn't have to pay attention to those mundane things anymore, just serve the master wholeheartedly, so he is more comfortable than not returning.

Helplessly, the fourth master was not at ease to hand over the imperial dining room to others, and earlier I heard that Su Su was still in the elder brother's house when there was a eunuch who was waiting there for her, and now she is waiting in the imperial dining room of the elder brother's house. The fourth master asked him to check him first, and if he was loyal, let him take Liu Baoquan's class.

"This thing has to be eaten hot." She said, that's why she pulled him to Yongshou Palace, just now it was brought directly from the small kitchen of Yongshou Palace, Liu Baoquan personally did the surgery, and he was waiting in the room next to him, if he ate well, I am afraid I will see him.

The fourth master was really good at eating, he ate all the big ones, wiped his hands and called Liu Baoquan to come in, nodded and said that he was waiting well. Then let people reward him, and then let Su Peisheng personally send people back to the imperial dining room.

After all, Eunuch Liu looks old, and he can be Su Peisheng's grandfather.

Su Peisheng asked people to light lanterns, and reached out to support Liu Baoquan affectionately, "Let's go, Grandpa Liu, be careful with your feet." ”

He made this gesture, Liu Baoquan accepted it calmly, really like a grandson helping his grandfather, and patted Su Peisheng lovingly and gratifyingly: "There is Lao Su's father-in-law." ”

Su Peisheng was so angry with him that he had a toothache, but there was no place for him to discount the errand for Long Life, and he sent Liu Baoquan back to the imperial dining room like a filial son and a virtuous grandson all the way.

There was a warm stove burning in the Yongshou Palace, and the fourth master, who was sweating all over, sat there in only single clothes to make folds. He can now spare a little time to approve the folds. Li Wei is also helping to sort out the gift list on the side, the Chinese New Year is the day of money, and she has to send a lot of money, and everything that can be counted in the entire Qing Dynasty has to be sent.

The fourth master also wants to make a note for famous people in the countryside, such as filial sons and daughters-in-law. In fact, it is the kind that moves China.

Before, he asked them to recommend some on the excerpts of the invitations in various places, and the results of the ten □women who were sent to be commended were all chaste arches. Of course Li Wei doesn't like it, and the recommended officials will also write some reasons for these chastity arches, so as to earn some tears.

Among them, there is an engagement, and then the fiancé dies, and then the girl who did not marry in the past holds the tablet and marries, and has been widowed in her husband's house ever since, supporting her parents for her dead fiancé.

But this family obviously has more than one son, and there is no shortage of people to support this family, but it is just a reputation that ruined this woman's life.

This kind of thing makes people feel bad when they see it.

The fourth master agreed and asked her to give this family a reward. It was not the woman who rewarded her, but the mother-in-law of the family. said that she praised her for raising such a good daughter-in-law.

Is this worth it?

Li Wei didn't want to send it, so she passed this over. The two of them did their own work until almost nine o'clock, and the fourth master put down his pen and said, "It's time to rest, otherwise I won't be able to get up tomorrow." ”

In the palace, I can sleep a little longer than when I am outside the palace, but I also have to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning.

When Li Wei heard him say this, she went to arrange for washing, let people make beds, and asked if there was anything in other palaces. Usually, people have to check the doors and windows before turning off the lights and locking them, and those who have old fathers and mothers have to take a look, and there is no exception in the palace.

When she came back after giving all the orders, sure enough, the fourth master, a fine person, took the gift sheet she had just stamped and checked it one by one.

When he saw her coming, he pulled him to his side and sat down, pointed to the woman who was holding the tablet and married, and said, "Su Su doesn't like to see this kind of thing, right?" He sighed twice, took his little seal and stamped it, and said softly, "I don't like it either." They are all my people, and I hope that they will all be well. ”

The red mark was stamped up, and it was particularly dazzling on the plain white paper.

The fourth master sighed: "One place, one custom." After I ascended the throne, I realized that the world was there, and even if my words were issued, they would be the same place, and there were so many people who didn't listen to them and didn't follow them. ”

Then he told her the story.

There are many archways in the previous dynasty here, whether the woman is engaged or married, whether she has children or not, as long as the husband dies, she cannot remarry.

Then there was a war, and many men died in that place.

"The town is full of women, but not the other place across the water." The fourth master said.

At that time, in order to encourage everyone to have children, the government would even force those women to marry. But many of them committed suicide after getting married, and some committed suicide in order not to marry.

Li Wei shuddered when she heard this, and he hugged her and said, "Su Su is also scared when she hears it, right?" I couldn't believe it when I first found out. There are many women who don't want to die, but their parents and clansmen will quietly kill them and then report their suicide. ”

Whoever dies, all the families and clans rejoice. Whoever marries someone will never recognize each other again.

There are also those who flee out, and the clan will also send people to chase them, all over the world, and the whole country and the north and the south, after years of chasing them back, is to lock them in the bamboo cage that locks the beasts and sink into the river.

"Whether it's a pond or a river, there's no ghost who dies unjustly." The fourth master picked up this book and said, "It's good that this woman is still alive." ”