After burying the ancestors, and being busy for a few days, it was the twenty-third Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar month, the day of worshipping the god of the stove and making sugar melons, and the small courtyard that had been silent for a winter, finally had the laughter of the children again. Loved ones have been buried and have a home. All the saved people swept away the previous dullness and gave this cold winter day such a taste of the New Year.

This day is the day to send the god vesta out, until Chinese New Year's Eve and then receive the gods to welcome Jinafu, which can be regarded as the official start of the New Year. Although they are still trapped in this small courtyard, the Chinese New Year is the biggest event of the year, so everyone is willing to follow suit.

After breakfast, Situ Yan and her two aunts started to make sugar melons together, and as for the crispy Kanto candy, because the materials could not be taken out of the ring, they had to make it.

"Xiao Wu, I wanted to ask before, I heard people say before that you are also from a big family, but I look better than those of us who are from military families! It's hard to do anything, everything can be done? ”

"Aunt Wang laughed, I was also forced! My aunts should have heard about it, I was forced to leave home at the age of six, can someone help me if I don't do it? Situ Yan smiled and chatted with the two, but she didn't have the same life as when they first met.

"I don't know which kid will be so blessed in the future to be able to marry such a good daughter-in-law as Xiao Wu!"

"Aunt Liu, I'm still young!" Situ Yan couldn't adapt to the precocious maturity of the ancients.

The two aunts thought that Situ Yan was mentioned as a family matter, so they were embarrassed, smiled a little, and didn't mention it again.

In order to sacrifice to the gods at night, Wu Jin also took people to tie paper horses in the hall at this time, and these materials were in the warehouse, although there were not many, but it was still rich to tie two paper horses.

Before noon, this melon-shaped sugar melon was ready, and the two aunts were also making sugar melons for the first time. Or to satisfy the children's cravings, or to make it by hand for the first time, the children are even more noisy around the sugar melons hanging under the edge of the house, all looking forward to arriving early in the evening. I can eat sugar melons.

Here, Wu Jin's paper horse tied with a Shu millet knot (sorghum knot) is also ready, except for Wu Jin, these people are not doing this for the first time, and it is not so unusual to look at. Instead, the children scrambled and made a fuss all over the house with paper horses.

"You stinky boys, if you fall. Don't break the paper horse, that's disrespectful to the gods! Lu Ming smiled and patted He Dazhuang's youngest son, seeing that this kid finally regained his previous cheerfulness, his heart was also happy.

"Uncle Lu, don't worry, let's be careful." The adults in the room hadn't heard such laughter for a long time, and although they were scolding, they were very happy in their hearts, and they let the children mess around.

At night, because 'men do not worship the moon. Women don't sacrifice to the stove', so Situ Yan, her aunts, and the girls could only stand aside and watch. Wu Jin first put the sugar melon, paper horse, and forage on the stove, bowed to the stove god painting, and then smeared the boiled sugar on the stove god's mouth, and asked him to say more good things when he ascended to heaven. There are strong horses. There was fodder, and the journey was safe and windy. The sugar melon offered is sweet and sweet, please say good words to the Jade Emperor. It's the same as what Situ Yan taught Li Dalang at the beginning.

After the sacrificial stove is sent to the gods, it is the time when the children are happiest. Wu Jin found a kitchen knife to cut the remaining sugar melon. This frozen sugar melon is extremely hard, it can't be broken, it can't be broken, it can only be cut with a knife when eating, and the taste is still a little sour, for Wu Jin and Situ Yan. This stuff isn't as delicious as Kanto candy. But the people in this room ate happily, especially the children, biting in their mouths and reaching out to grab the table, which made the adults feel happy.

In fact, these people are really easy to satisfy, unlike modern young people, who want to pursue their ideals, be mavericks, and feel that they can make a big difference. And the ancients wanted to be down-to-earth, a family reunion, and a harmonious and beautiful life, which was more comfortable than the imagination of modern people.

There is nothing else to do for dinner, it is still mushy, with sugar melons, at least there will be no regrets in this small year, and everyone can understand, after all, these people will continue to suffer here at this time, and the grain and grass for disaster relief are still far away, and no one wants to waste food.

Situ Yan's little year was happy, but Duanmu Xuan's side had a resurgence.

In the general's mansion, Duanmu Xuan just took people to sacrifice the stove, and heard his subordinates report that dozens of people had died on the edge of the Guanyin Temple in the city.

"Mo Feng, you personally took people to take a look, how could so many people die?"

"Yes!" Mo Feng took a dozen or so soldiers out of the general's mansion and rushed all the way to the Guanyin Temple, just in time to see the county commander taking the resent for an autopsy.

"Mo Feng has seen the county commander!"

"It's the ink guard! You are here, how do you say this is good, so many victims died at once, how can this official explain to the imperial court! "This place of resettlement was personally selected by this county order, where would he have thought that such a big thing would be stabbed out at once, if the court is held accountable for this, I am afraid that he will be the leader of the county order. He didn't spend a lot of money for this official position, if he lost it like this, what face would he have to go back to his hometown.

"Don't panic first, and look at the situation before making a decision. A few of you will fence this up first, and no one will leave. Although Mo Feng did not go to the autopsy in person, it can be judged from the foaming at the mouth, purple lips, and black blue eyes that these people died of poisoning. Naturally, we can't let go of the people present, maybe the person who poisoned them is hiding in it right now. Even if the person who poisoned him has already run away, at least one or two witnesses who know about it can be found, so that the investigation can have a direction.

After looking at it for an hour, he got up, "Lord Huixian Ling, these people are poisoned and died." ”

"Do you know what kind of poison it is?" When the county order heard that it was poisoned, he was not angry, who was so ruthless to harm these victims who couldn't even eat enough.

"This lowly position can't be checked, why don't you find some people to ask, the lowly position just saw that there are a lot of people staying here, and you should be able to ask some clues?"

"Come on, go and bring all the victims who are still alive here!" The prefectural magistrate brought all the other people who were temporarily living here and asked them to tell them one by one, only to learn that these dead people had died after eating horse meat.

"Ink guard, do you think this horse meat may poison people?" The prefectural order is still a little unbelievable. After all, on the battlefield, if the generals have no food and grass, they will kill horses, how can they eat horse meat and poison them to death.

"A horse that dies by itself is poisonous and cannot be eaten if its skin and flesh are black. The prefectural magistrate can go to check the horse meat they eat, and if the meat is black, is it possible? Mo Feng still knows about this, so he gave some advice.

According to the county order, these victims had eaten dead horse meat. This will be poisoned and died, but it is not **, and it has nothing to do with his county order, so he is relieved, and the case is closed by carrying the body to Yizhuang. Mo Feng went back and reported the situation to Duanmu Xuan.

"This self-killed horse meat can't be eaten, and only those of us who have been fighting all year round know one or two, and where can these disaster victims know, but it's a pity that these dozens of lives have been lost, just for the sake of meat, they gave their lives in vain!" Duanmu Xuan felt unworthy for these people. But I also know that if it is not a last resort, how can anyone eat the meat that has turned black.

Mo Feng also felt that these people had died a little unjustly, but after all, they were already dead, and it was too late to pursue these now, "My subordinates look at it, these people should have been poisoned last night, but no one reported it, otherwise if you drink some reed soup, you may be able to save it." ”

"At this time, who is not wise to protect himself. How can anyone take care of other people's affairs, everything is fate, it's not up to anyone, forget it! You and Muryu will go through all the places where they are settled. Inform the people of the poisoning of the dead horses, and set fire to all the dead horses in the city, so that no one else will die as a result. We can only do our best to obey the destiny of heaven and be worthy of our hearts. ”

"Yes." Mo Feng felt that what the young master said was very true, and Mo Yu and Mo Yu were ordered to retreat. As long as Duanmu Xuan is alone, he will worry about Little Brother Situ, but this dead horse reminded him. There are a lot of war horses in the military camp, and now the snow is closing the road, if the living people have nothing to eat, they will eat the dead horses, and I don't know if the little brother knows that it is powerful, is there poisoning? But at the moment, he has no way but to move his mind and be anxious. Even the scouts who went to investigate reported more and more simply every day, saying only that "there is no way out!" That is, there was no more follow-up.

Duanmu Xuan's worries didn't take Situ Yan into her heart at all, her horses are still alive and well! Not to mention horse meat, even horse hair she is reluctant to eat a bite. These are the most important things for Wu Jin to be able to make military achievements, that is, she is hungry herself, and she will not let the horse be damaged in the slightest.

What's more, in her dictionary, the only meat that can be eaten is pigs, chickens, ducks, etc., and does not include the most heartfelt military horses at all.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Duanmu Xuan sat alone in the study, spending time with worry. But Situ Yan and Wu Jin sat on the kang and chatted for half a night.

"Yan'er, I forgot to ask you today, where did you learn to make grain melons and paper horses?" The longer Wu Jin stayed with Situ Yan, the more he found that Xiaomei was different, three years could change a person so much, even if he no longer doubted it, he was somewhat shaken.

Every time Wu Jin asked about this, Situ Yan felt that one head and two were big, for the original owner's brother, she was careful and careful, beware and beware, but he could still find flaws everywhere, and when she was asked again, she thought about it carefully, and then replied, "When I was in Lijia Village, my aunts taught me!" ”

"The porridge you cooked that day, I looked at the longan and red dates in it, why haven't I seen these things before?"

"When I went to the city before, I grabbed some medicines, these were caught according to the medicine, and they were originally kept for supplementation, but they were all made into food!"

Wu Jin is pressing step by step, Situ Yan is seeing the move, and the two of them have passed two rounds, but they are not up or down.

"Hey! Or the little sister thought thoughtfully, for the brother for more than ten years, now I know that the people are so difficult, if I can be fortunate to be a parent official, although I can't do not only kiss his parents, not only his son, but at least let the old have the end, the strong have use, the young have grown up to benefit the people, and it is not in vain to read the four books and five classics over the years. ”

"'It is the same as scheming to close up and not prosper, to steal and thieves not to do it, and to help outsiders but not to close up.'" The elder brother's ambition, the little sister is willing to help the elder brother. ”

"Yan'er, you don't even have this "Book of Rites? Have you already read the "Rites and Fortunes" chapter? It seems that in the past three years, you have grown a lot, but you have been disappointed by your brother's lack of progress. ”

"'The old man is in the bush, his ambition is thousands of miles, and the martyr is in his twilight years, and his heart is strong.'" Now that my brother is in the prime of life, how can he lose his self-confidence. ”

"What Yan'er said is very true, it is for the fault of the brother, you can rest assured, although the brother still has doubts about the road ahead, but at least he knows that he must go on unswervingly, and he will not give up on himself. At least for my brother, I have to hold up a piece of the sky for Yan'er. Wu Jin has said this sentence more than once, and Situ Yan also knows that most of the reasons why my brother can persist are for her.

"Good. Na Yan'er is waiting to rely on her brother's towering tree to be the one who lives and steals idleness. She felt that there was nothing wrong with Wu Jin like this, as long as he was willing to go on firmly, whether he was for himself or for others, Situ Yan didn't care. As long as there is still hope in people's hearts, just like Li Erzhu's daughter-in-law at the beginning, it was without the hope of Li Zhaocai that the medicine stone was soulless and went early.

The topic was shifted to this, and Wu Jin no longer had the heart to inquire about the little sister. The two of them talked softly at night, of course, not hiding the bolt sitting next to them. Bolt originally thought that only the eldest young master was full of poetry and books, but he didn't want the eldest lady to be more knowledgeable and talented, and even decisive and resolute to win the eldest young master, which made him, a minion, also see the future and hope. At the beginning, he followed the eldest young master, but also because of the love between the two, although he really didn't regret it in his heart, but he would have some regrets, after all, his father and mother have become good people, if he wants to, he can naturally become a good family, and his children will no longer be inferior to people in the future. Now looking at the eldest young master and eldest lady, he felt hope from the bottom of his heart. The three of them have their own thoughts, and when the time is over, they will each rest, and this small year will be over.

And the Chinese New Year's Eve in the northwest border pass is a matter of heart, and the four brothers of the Li family in Fuxiang Village, Henan County, although they also ate Kanto candy at the stove, but they are not as interesting as when they fled last year, the four of them read books, and went back to sleep in each house early, always thinking that maybe in a dream, they will meet their little sister.

And in the Situ Mansion in the capital, Li Youzhu and Cui Ping are recuperating, both of them are looking in the direction of the northwest, they are worried about the masters, I don't know what happened to the northwest border pass at this time? Fortunately, the two didn't know that the northwest had suffered a snowstorm, otherwise the disease would not have been cured so easily.

Under the same sky, each spent their own Chinese New Year's Eve with concern for the other. (To be continued.) )

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