Great Zhou customs, Chinese New Year's Eve is not enough, only the beginning of the spring and New Year's Day.

There was no sign on this first day, and early in the morning of New Year's Day, Baoyu went out and saw countless palace lamps hanging inside and outside.

Paper-covered, gauze-covered, and silk-cloth-covered, swaying in the wind, like a winding cockroach. When it is ignited, it is like an ocean of fire.

In an instant, Baoyu seemed to see his own Wenshan, a splendid simmering ......

[According to the etiquette specifications of the Guogong Mansion, a New Year will cost thousands of taels of silver. The memorial hall is even worse, I am afraid that it will cost more than 10,000 taels of silver. The merchants of the Great Zhou Dynasty despised it, and there were not many merchants in Jiafu, only relying on that fiefdom, I am afraid that it will be finished in a few years. 】

Baoyu sighed, looking at the bustling eyes, unconsciously, feeling a little tired.

It's just a rich scenery, and a hard charge of scenery without money has to knock out the front teeth and swallow blood.

According to the rules, the annual regulations are levied first.

The so-called collection year is to send a housekeeper to collect the household goods for the New Year on the fiefdom Zhuangzi. Of course, it is not for the farmers to celebrate the New Year, but to prepare rice, noodles, meat and other things for Jiafu, and there must be a little rare, such as wild things in the mountains and forests.

Wild things can't be simple, the hares and tender bamboo shoots that the maids and servants give to Baoyu are not counted, but jackals, tigers and leopards, those rare and valuable good things in the middle capital.

This year, it was Zhou Rui's housekeeper who was sent to go, and he went two days early, so he had to come back early this morning.

Baoyu thought for a moment, went to the east corner gate to wait, and saw Zhou Run leading people to drive three carriages, the carriages were very shallow, and obviously didn't get too many things.

The plague god disaster, which also permeated the vicinity of Jinling, was the fiefdom of Jiafu.

[This is interesting, our daughter-in-law, Feng Lazi, will not do much good this year, I'm afraid it's going to hit my idea. In fact, she was also wronged, how much thought did she have to spend on the scenery of Jiafu for many years?

Baoyu is not the kind of person who beats people to death with a stick, and he is cautious. He knew that Feng Lazi was greedy for a lot of money, but when it came to being greedy for ink, Feng Lazi had spent a lot of effort in maintaining the scenery of Jiafu.

This is one of the reasons why he didn't bother to deal with Feng Lazi, and the other reason is -

He didn't want to fight in the nest.

It's as if he doesn't want to have a good time with Jia Huan.

The so-called true dragon leaps thousands of miles in the sky, crisscrossing beyond the eight wildernesses. He won't put too much thought into the internal strife in Jiafu, he just needs to maintain stability so that he doesn't have any troubles.

"Please, Second Master Bao. ”

Zhou Rui saw him and hurriedly turned over and dismounted.

The movements are neat, and he is a practitioner. Baoyu knew that Zhou Rui was also a slave of the family, and like Li Gui, he was also a wolf clan.

It's just that Zhou Rui has long lost his wolf nature, only the parents are short, and there is an abacus jingling.

Baoyu asked about the New Year, and sure enough, Zhou Rui didn't get too much. Rongguo Mansion is different from Ning Guofu, there are still Jia Zheng and Jia Amnesty, as well as Jia Lian, a recently promoted real power thousand households, who have a reputation and will not force Zhuang to be too ruthless, but Ning Guofu is afraid that something will happen.

He can't take care of the affairs of Ning Guofu, even if he is in charge of the daughter-in-law Qin Keqing, he can't take care of the affairs of the year.

Jia Zhen was in charge of it herself, and Qin Keqing wanted to intervene, which was to strip the tender little lamb and give it to the big bad wolf.

He asked Qin Keqing to get rid of his position as the daughter-in-law of the family, and he also had the intention of pulling Qin Keqing along.

He is not cold-blooded, and he will pity the jade.

After that, it was to remove the old and welcome the new, and there was nothing to say, that is, the maids and servants replaced everything that should be replaced, and all of them became new...... The bulk of the cost is here, at least five thousand taels of silver.

You must know how big the Jia Mansion is, and the amount of what is replaced adds up to a lot, which is not a small number.

Baoyu walked on the path through the hall, and saw that the walls in the corners were painted with new powder, and he felt comfortable visually, but in his heart, it was really not a taste.

It seems to have changed to a new home, but,

Missing that flavor.

Qingwen ran from the side, saw him, shouted happily, pricked up her eyes again, and said angrily: "I said that our good treasure second master, this is going to worship the ancestors, you are still stubborn outside, the big guys are looking for you, come with me!"

Come and pull Baoyu, and Baoyu will go with her.

Ning Guogong of Taizu's generation was the eldest son, and the ancestral hall was naturally located in Ning Guofu. Baoyu walked all the way and saw many faces that he had never seen on weekdays, as if they were running outside, all of them were side branches of Jiafu.

Everyone stepped forward one by one to salute, some called uncle, and some only called him Bao Erye.

The one who calls his uncle is a generation younger than him, and the one who calls Bao Erye is higher than him, and there are also those who are equal, so they don't dare to take the big one.

Baoyu returned the salute one by one, until he arrived at the ancestral hall of Ningguo Mansion.

The ancestral hall is on the west side of Ningguo Mansion, next to the west wall, and the Rongguo Mansion is separated by two courtyard walls. Between the two courtyard walls is a private alley, which can only be walked by people from Jiafu, showing the majesty of the Guogong Mansion.

There are two doors in the middle, and you can't go on weekdays, and you can only pass through the ancestral hall when you pay respects. Baoyu followed everyone to Ning Guofu, and when he saw Jia Yu and Jia Zheng, he couldn't speak.

When Jia Mu saw him, she asked the golden mandarin duck to send a steamed bun with meat.

Baoyu hid it, took two bites, and handed the rest to Lin Daiyu.

According to the rules, from early morning until the end of the festival, no one can eat. His second master Bao was to please the pain of the ancestor and secretly made an exception.

Entering the ancestral hall, you will see a tall and wide black oil fence, which is very atmospheric. And they were to pass through the black oil fence, and pass through five gates. Of these five gates, the center is for Jia Yu, Jia Jing, and Jia Zheng, and Baoyu is a direct junior, and he wants to go to the second side with this Jia mother and other female dependents.

The ones on the side are about to go to the very edge, and their status is clear at a glance.

Then cross the white jade road, to the summer platform, there are five main halls. The door of the temple opened with a bang, and I immediately saw the god seat stacked into a hill, with a mahogany base and bright gold characters, which looked particularly spiritual.

Hundreds of incense figurines jumped out from behind the shrine, bouncing back and forth on the descendants who entered the door, and after that, the piles separated.

These villains are no more than the size of a palm, living in the ancestral halls of large families with more than 100 ancestral tablets, living on incense, and having a naughty personality but can shelter their descendants.

Baoyu saw hundreds of incense villains, all wearing splendid official robes, which were particularly aura. Hundreds of villains leaned on his shoulders and grabbed his trouser legs, and he teased him with his fingers, but he was not angry.

Whoever the incense villain surrounds means that this person is important to the house. Jia Zheng looked at the few on Jia Rong's body, and then looked at Jia Huan and Jia Lan, there were more than ten on his body, stroking his long hair and laughing smugly.

Jia Jing's face was not very good-looking, he glared at Jia Zhen, and then at Jia Rong.

Then put on a smiling face and said, "It seems that Brother Bao, Brother Huan, and Brother Lan are all capable, especially Brother Bao......

The future of our house depends on the three of them. ”

Jia Zheng shook his head and said modestly: "Don't boast. What's there to be proud of?"

Suddenly sighed, and said: "If you want to say that in the past, we followed Taizu to pay tribute to the ancestors, there were thousands of incense villains, and now they ......."

Jia Jing also forgot to compare and be angry, closed his eyes, and his face was full of embarrassment.

Incense, delicacies, treasures, and other items were offered in turn, and the memorial service was announced. Baoyu took the lead, leading a direct line and guarding outside the ancestral hall, which is the third step of the New Year's Pass, and the family guards the New Year.

When the night is late, you have to take many people to kneel and worship Jia Mu, Jia Yu, Jia Zheng, and Jia Jing, which is to pray for your birthday. Of course, the higher generation naturally has to meet Jia's mother's ancestors.

It should have been carried by Jia Lian, but unfortunately there were not as many incense villains on him as Baoyu, so Baoyu could only take the lead. Wang Xifeng's pair of Danfeng eyes were about to burn, and he glared at Jia Lian with hatred that iron could not become steel.

Jia Lian just smiled-

It's all a family, what are the differences?

He is now the Zhenfu of Beichengwei, with thousands of real powers, all of which are good for Baoyu. For this younger brother, I really like it to the bottom of my heart.

...

Late at night, Baoyu put on a three-eyed bow and went to practice archery.

said that he was given a day off, but in his heart, he really didn't want to be locked in this small situation in Jiafu, he had to study and work harder.

didn't go out, and the woman who came to him with a golden hairpin swaggering almost collided with him.

The attacker followed behind, and said worriedly: "Master, Grandma Feng won't let it be passed on, so she has to come in......"

Baoyu raised his hand and stopped the attacker from speaking. He saw that Feng Lazi's palm was burning with tender yellow flames, and it was this kind of flame that prevented the sound of the attack from reaching the house, and also made him arrested.

smiled at the moment: "Sister-in-law is coming, just come in directly, what do you want to pass on? ”

Feng Lazi has looked for him many times, he is practicing archery, but he can't pounce. Now that the New Year has passed, he has finally been blocked.

Baoyu kicked everyone out and smiled at Feng Lazi: "I know what my sister-in-law is going to do, I have already been ready." ”

As he spoke, he took out a piece of bamboo paper, which was clearly written in black and white, and wanted to divide half of the business of the East City Gate to Feng Lazi.

That's right, it's Feng Lazi who is in charge, it's Jia Lian, not Wang Xifeng.

Baoyu smiled: "You are my sister-in-law, sister-in-law and brother-in-law do business, what is the reason? I have written this clearly, as long as my sister-in-law participates in 500 taels of silver, and the workshop is done well, all profits will be divided into half of the chain brother." ”

Feng Lazi seemed to smash a piece of pie on the head, about to stun her.

I wanted to tell Baoyu about the account book of the year and the cost of the whole year, but I had to cry bitterly and cry tired. He knew that Baoyu's ears were soft and he should divide her into three or two, but he didn't think that he only needed 500 taels of silver to make a workshop, so he directly distributed half of it.

Although it was given to Jia Lian, but given to Jia Lian, wouldn't it be the same as giving it to herself?

For a while, Feng Lazi had mixed feelings and really cried.

"Brother Bao, you still know your sister-in-law's suffering. ”

Thinking of the hard work to maintain the scenery of Jiafu, she is really greedy for ink and silver, and that is also for her to have a way out in the future, and it is spread in the house, saying that she moved silver to her mother's house, which really wronged her.

How much money is there in this house, and how much can she deal with?

Baoyu handed over the handkerchief, which Qingwen embroidered for him, and said, "Sister-in-law, you have to collect the money you earn, and other things, such as putting money on profits......

You also took Qin Keqing's hand, you have to take care of Ning Guofu, remember to do good deeds, don't do things that shouldn't be done. Our entire Jia Mansion can no longer be stained. ”

Feng Lazi nodded, but he didn't know how many words he heard in his ears.

Baoyu shook her head and went to practice archery.

Feng Lazi listened to it for a few minutes, he didn't care, just laid out a small game a little to make his rear more stable.

If it is best to be obedient, Feng Lazi is still the daughter-in-law of Rongguo Mansion, if she is not obedient, then the silver should be given to whom. When the time comes, Jia Lian, who has silver, may not be the current Jia Lian.

When a man is rich, he becomes bad, and Jia Lian is exactly such a man when it comes to women.

In the Confucian Great Zhou, there was still a custom of male superiority and female inferiority.