Chapter 173: New Year's Greetings
Early in the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, the Zhou family worshiped their ancestors, and everyone dressed neatly to the ancestral hall of the Zhou family.
All the men surnamed Zhou wore formal black clothes for the ancestor worship ceremony, while all the women only the old lady and the three daughters-in-law went in to worship, and the other sisters and aunts could only stand outside to worship.
All ancestors worship, daughters-in-law married into the Zhou family are members of the Zhou family, and daughters are to marry into other people's families, so they can enter the ancestral hall on the day they are born on the family tree and on the day of marriage, but not at other times.
If an unmarried woman dies before leaving the cabinet, she can't be buried in the ancestral grave, and even less if she marries.
Zhou Xiaofu finished worshipping with the big stream, and went back together, all the sons and daughters-in-law and grandchildren of the Zhou Mansion have to kowtow to the old lady Zhou and the old woman Zhou, and all the children will also give tea to their parents today, thank the elders for their hard work this year, generally other families have to kowtow to their parents after breakfast on the first day of the new year, and the Zhou family is changed to the second day of the new year because they are all eunuchs, first ministers and then families.
After everyone returned to the courtyard together, they all hurriedly returned to the courtyard and changed into the black clothes worn by the ancestors.
Zhou Xiaofu also went to her yard with Cuihua, changed her clothes, and hurried to the old lady's yard after a simple tidying up.
This eldest sister Zhou Xiaoxi has arrived, and she is standing in the courtyard talking to He, as soon as she saw Zhou Xiaofu leading Cuihua in, she immediately stopped talking, He still looked a little lukewarm, and Zhou Xiaoxi stepped forward with a smile and put her arm around Zhou Xiaofu's arm, and said affectionately: "Fourth sister, a few days ago, my mother misunderstood my sister's maid, and I asked my sister not to be angry, after all, my mother is in charge of this family." If this maid really does something bad, the biggest impact is still our master, so my mother didn't find out at the time and dealt with your maid, and then I took the chrysanthemum maid and asked her carefully only to find out that she deliberately planted it, and when I saw the old lady personally asked, I didn't dare, you look at this matter, we are all victims. ”
As he spoke, his eyes turned red. Zhou Xiaofu glanced at Zhou Xiaoxi, who was full of feelings, lightly. If she hadn't known what had happened, this performance would have deceived her, and Cuihua, who was standing on the side, also had a sympathetic face.
Zhou Xiaofu frowned and glanced at Cuihua. Quietly pulled out his arm, stood up and saluted to He's and said, "Auntie, I don't know who I offended, the food in the room a while ago was either mushy or leftover." If my father hadn't asked, I guess I would have thought that the food of the master in our house was like this. Immediately afterwards, Ziling was framed and said that he was hiding a man's belt, hey, I don't know which god I offended, why did so many things happen. You say I'm unlucky, but I'm not unlucky. ”
He listened to Zhou Xiaofu tear out all the things one after another, and his face suddenly turned pale, and it was not easy to look at. But people didn't name her and said that she framed her, Zhou Xiaoxi glanced at her mother. His eyes narrowed, and he glanced at Zhou Xiaofu again, he originally thought that he was too old to do peace here, so he would give up, why did he still pull everything out and say it again, why did he not know what to do like this.
Zhou Xiaoxi said to Zhou Xiaofu a little coldly: "Fourth sister, although my mother is in the house, but our house is so big, there are always some wilted people, and my mother can't be so meticulous, the cook who made the bad last time has been dealt with by my mother, let's talk about chrysanthemums, who knows that she will frame Ziling for no reason, we don't know the reason for this, eighty percent is angry in the yard." ”
Zhou Xiaofu listened to Zhou Xiaoxi's words, and suddenly smiled, and glanced at her with a smile, what does this mean? Ziling's affairs are all on her head? It means that her yard is not well managed, and she forced a slave to frame her master's maid, thus damaging her master's reputation? Was it her mean subordinates who caused such a thing?
Hehe, I always felt that Zhou Xiaoxi was not an ordinary person, but now I found out that in a few words, the responsibility was put on her, and her mother was left clean, and she looked aggrieved.
Cuihua also looked confused, and He Shi cooperated with a look of grievance.
Zhou Xiaofu didn't say anything but glanced at the mother and daughter, stepped back and stood aside, and soon everyone gathered in the courtyard, this winter, it was not very warm, and when the old lady changed her clothes and came over, everyone hugged the old lady and entered the old lady's hall together.
The old lady's hall was not small, and she had already changed her clothes and sat on the couch on which she sat on the top, and when the old lady arrived, the two of them sat down, and both of them changed into new clothes, and they were full of smiles.
Speaking of which, their descendants are not very prosperous, but they are more brilliant, the three sons are all born in Jinshi, grandchildren, two Xiucai, and two younger ones are still studying in the academy.
The eldest son of Dafang is eighteen years old this year, and he has not participated in the lifting test, and he was originally going to participate with his classmates last year, but when he was close to the exam, he suddenly had a cold and high fever, so he did not participate in the exam, so the third generation grandson of the Zhou family only has two talents, and he has not yet raised his son, and after two years, he will be in accordance with the eldest grandson's usual academic schedule.
And Zhou Xiaoyang in the second room, although he did well in the examination and won the second place, but not everyone can win the test, many people are more than thirty years old, and Zhou Xiaoyang is only sixteen years old two years later, and the middle lift may be too small, so the focus of the family is still on the eldest grandson Zhou Xiaohao.
First of all, the Changfang family kowtowed to the two old people, the old lady was happy to give each person a small red envelope, and the old lady prepared a gift, the male grandchildren are a box of Huzhou wolf, different sizes, all kinds of strokes, the eldest granddaughter is a jade Ruyi.
Zhou Xiaofu stood behind and watched Zhou Xiaoxi take her gift, her eyes were cold, but her face was grateful, in fact, it was already very good to give a handful of jade Ruyi for the New Year, why are you not satisfied, where does Zhou Xiaofu remember this substitute, last year's New Year, Zhou Xiaoxi received a set of head noodles, which is much more valuable than this jade Ruyi, Zhou Xiaoxi's exquisite mind does not know that his grandmother is not optimistic that he can marry the Gongsun family, so the gift is light.
It was the turn of the second room, because there was no man, the two girls got a small gift box, but they didn't open it, it seemed, Ma was a little anxious, and wanted to open it to see what he gave his girl, after all, every year his two daughters' gifts were much lighter than those in the big room, but he saw that the eldest daughter dragged her arm from behind, so she turned her head a little unwillingly.
Immediately after that, the third room stepped forward to kowtow to the New Year. (To be continued)
ps: The second watch, 4,000 in the morning, 2,000 in the afternoon, and 6,000 double shifts every day, don't owe it.
Have a great weekend everyone. R640