In Fengxian, the rules and customs of the New Year were not cumbersome, but in recent years, under the influence of the Susong area, the etiquette has become more and more numerous. Since the beginning of the lunar month, there is a rule every few days, and there are many things that need to be prepared. In the New Year, this is more exquisite, what to eat, what to drink, what to wear, what to do, what to say when meeting people, what to do, what taboos, etc., have said, all walks of life are not the same, different villages and towns, and even derive their own customs, all kinds of banquets, temple fairs are also one after another, so the county has not been quiet since the beginning of the lunar month.

But this qiē has nothing to do with the second room of the Zhao family.

The second room of the Zhao family is mourning, and there is no celebration ceremony for the New Year, but thinking that it is the New Year, so the Zhang family ordered the family to clean the house thoroughly, and then prepared a rich offering for the tablet on the northeast corner of the main house in the front yard, and added a few pots of flowers and trees in the hall and courtyard, and wrote the Spring Festival couplets on blue paper and pasted them on the door, which is considered to add some joy to the New Year.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhao Jing of the sect room came over and took Zhao Wei, the only male in the small second room, to worship the ancestors in the ancestral hall next door. Zhang's family is a female dependent, according to the rules, she can't enter the ancestral hall, she can only kowtow outside the ancestral hall, but she is now the most noble elder in the whole clan, and she has filial piety, so the clan didn't dare to work her, so she stayed at home. Zhao Xiu is a daughter, and she is too young to participate. The grandparents and grandchildren sat at home, chatting while watching Lu Ma and Qiu Ye talk and laugh and bring the dishes of the Chinese New Year's Eve meal to the table one by one, and when Zhao Wei returned with the sacrificial dishes distributed by the clan, they could start the meal immediately.

This is probably the loneliest New Year that the Zhang family has ever lived since marrying into the Zhao family, but she is not in a bad mood. With only two grandchildren and the most loyal maiden mother-in-law, she doesn't have to face the concubines and concubines who are ill-intentioned, you don't have to guess the careful thoughts of those cheap grandchildren, and you don't have to wait for her husband who will make trouble when she drinks, she is really much more relaxed, the only regret is that her son and daughter-in-law have passed away, and she can't let her enjoy the joy of family.

Thinking like this, Zhang's eyes overflowed with tears again, and Zhao Xiu first discovered: "Grandmother? She tugged at Zhang's sleeve, her eyes full of worry. Zhang's heart warmed, he lowered his head and wiped his tears without a trace, and showed a gentle smile to his granddaughter: "It's okay, let's eat." ”

Zhao Wei also discovered her grandmother's abnormality, and obediently coerced her with her favorite dishes on weekdays: "Grandmother eats." ”

Zhang smiled and agreed, picked up the chopsticks and tasted it, only to feel that tonight's dish was more delicious than before.

After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Qiu Ye and Bilian served tea, and the Zhang family drove Bilian and Lu's mother back and reunited them with their families: "On Chinese New Year's Eve, you can't live in peace, hurry home and watch the New Year, naturally you should do it with your family." Lu's mother hesitated, and finally couldn't rest assured that her husband was not in good health, so she agreed, and left with her daughter, leaving only Qiu Ye waiting in the house.

Zhang asked Qiu Ye again: "Is the wine and food over there all right?" Let the people in his room be careful, and don't be lazy. ”

Qiu Ye lowered his head, his face flushed slightly: "Don't worry, old lady, I have ordered to go down, and I will never neglect Mr. Lu." She glanced at Zhao Wei quietly, and plucked up the courage to say: "Brother Wei also told me before that my husband was at home for the first time this year, and he was uprooted from his hometown, and there was no caring person around him to take care of him, and he wore old winter clothes, and he didn't know how to make new ones, so I made him two new cotton jackets." I thought about how two padded jackets were enough. So he asked the needle and thread man to make four sets of new clothes, including shoes, jackets, hats, and cloaks. ”

Zhang praised: "You think thoughtfully, that's how it should be." I had long thought that I would give him two hundred taels of silver a year and two sets of clothes for each season according to the rules of the former Hou Mansion to invite Xixi, but I thought that he was ordered by the king of Guangping to stay and protect our ancestors and grandchildren. It's just that he politely refused, and I can't force it. Now that Brother Wei proposed it, he wanted to honor Mr. and Mr. Lu accepted it, so it couldn't be better. Let's follow this example in the future, Brother Wei did a good job this time, and he will continue to respect the teacher like this in the future. ”

Zhao Wei saw his grandmother praising him, his face was red with joy, his eyes were crooked with a smile, and he promised loudly: "Yes, grandmother!" ”

Akiba stood respectfully on the side, the crimson on her face darkening. Although the four sets of clothes were nominally the responsibility of the needle and thread man, half of them were actually made by her own hands and sent by her personally. Lu Yunpeng also refused at first, but she said it, looked at her for a while, and then accepted it, and then asked someone to send him something, but he still didn't accept it, but if she sent it, he accepted it. What does this mean, she didn't dare to think about it, but she was afraid that the Zhang family would know and blame.

She knew that the identities of the two were different, and she didn't dare to have extravagant thoughts, as long as she could make him two more clothes when he was in the Zhao family, and take care of his daily life and diet, she would be satisfied.

Autumn leaves burned a few foot stoves and sent them to the feet of the three grandchildren, so that they could warm up and huddle on the Luohan ** to chat and keep the New Year, and he took a small footstool and sat on the side, looking at the tea on the small stove. The winter days and nights were long, and the two children couldn't stay up, so they slept with pillows one after another, and Zhang covered them with a small quilt, only feeling warm in their hearts.

**In the past, the second day was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the three grandparents got up early in the morning, ate sesame rice according to custom, drank sugar tea boiled with dates, and changed into new clothes. In filial piety, the new clothes they make are not bright colors, and they have to be vegetarian all day. Although she knew that there would be no outsiders coming, Lu's mother still brought her daughter over early in the morning, loaded the nine-son plate with Qiu Ye, and prepared for the relatives who might come to the door in a while.

The Zhang family accepted the kowtow of their grandchildren, gave each of them a New Year's Eve Tin, and the people from the sect over there came to the door.

The eldest son Zhao Yuan is four years older than Zhao Wei, and the daughter Sister Qing is the same year as Zhao Wei. Although Zhang dislikes Zhao Yu, he admires Zhao Jing's nephew, Zhao Jing's wife Shen was born in a famous family in Songjiang, and she has always been virtuous and courteous, and she can enter Zhang's eyes, so Zhang saw them coming, and did not pull down his face, although he was light, his attitude was kind, which made the young couple a little frightened.

They asked the two children to play with Zhao Wei and Zhao Xiu. Zhao Yuan was also studying, his qualifications were passable, and he knew that Zhao Wei had studied his homework well, so he hurriedly pulled him to talk about the things in the books. Zhao Xiu can only talk to Sister Zhao Qing, this little girl has a normal IQ level, and she can't be considered a good communicator, but her temperament is quite likable. Zhao Xiu thought that she should also learn how the ancient little girl spoke and acted, so she played a small game popular in the local young boudoir with her, and Sister Qing said some childish words, and she also listened with a smile. The adults in the hall who were talking looked over and thought that they were getting along very well.

After that, Shen often brought his two children to sit in the second room.

The eldest master of the sect room Yu stood on the wrong team, offended the Zhang family, and lost face in front of the whole clan, the position of the patriarch can be said to be shaky, and the old lady of the third room is waiting to pull him down from this position. Now, with the acquiescence of the Zhang family, the clansmen's respect for Master Yu is long gone. But in the end, the sect is still the sect, and Zhao Jing and his wife never want the position of the sect chief to be left behind, so they can only pay more respect to the Zhang family, hoping that the Zhang family can let the sect house go. Master Yu's mistakes are already difficult to make up, but in the future, clan affairs can be handed over to his eldest son Zhao Jing.

The Zhang family has never expressed a position on this, but she does not hate Zhao Jing and the Shen family, and is willing to let their children come to play at home. The old lady in the third room just hated Zhao Yu, and had no ill feelings towards Zhao Jing, and also acquiesced to this situation. After the New Year, Zhao Yu was faintly set aside, and rarely asked about the affairs of the clan, although he was a little unconvinced, but he didn't dare to say anything. He was calculated by Zhao Jiong and his wife, so he could only consider himself unlucky, but fortunately, the position of patriarch finally fell to his son, so he was considered to be old and enjoyed leisure.

After the first month, as soon as the spring began, Zhang asked Wang Siping to allocate a few people to return to Beijing with Lu Changxiu to deal with the house and property. And Lu Yunpeng, on his side, also received the latest news from Jingli and knew the follow-up of Zhao Jiong's and Jiang's case.

Zhao Jiong did not arrive in the capital alive, and when he took a boat along the canal to the boundary of Shandong, which was near the section of the river where Zhang's mother and son fell into the water, the boat he was on also had an "accident" of capsizing, and according to the results of the investigation by the local government, it was a rare large piece of ice floe. The boat capsized very slowly, and almost everyone on the boat was safely transferred to another boat behind, but Qin Cha found that someone was on a business trip in the chaos, and he actually lost Zhao Jiong - the rough servant who was in charge of taking care of him only cared about his own escape, and when others asked, he also said that he had rescued people, so others could not find it in time, and when he returned to the original ship to check, Zhao Jiong had already been soaked in water.

He was drowned alive, and he couldn't move at all because he was paralyzed.

But Qin Cha felt that something was wrong, Zhao Jiong was a repeat offender, and he had to be strictly guarded, he was not in the bilge, but was placed on this floor where Qin Cha lived, but when he was drowned, he was in the bilge, if it wasn't for the transfer of places, maybe someone would have found out that the servants around him had run away without permission. He tried to arrest the servant and question him, but the man was slashed and died in a remote corner.

What's going on? Does anyone want to kill Zhao Jiong?

The local government had been ordered by King Guangping to investigate the case of Zhao Zhuo's capsizing, and the person responsible for salvaging the shipwreck and the corpse that day reported an important clue: the knife marks on the servant's body were almost exactly the same as those on Chuncao's corpse, and it was very likely that he was killed by the same person.

Qin Cha immediately thought of the escaped nursing home under the Jiang family.

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