Chapter 146: The belated Chinese New Year's Eve dinner
When I went out in the morning, there was a reward after the Zhengdan Dynasty meeting, and Wang Yiren also told the Hun family, and Wang Zhou's family saw these things at this time and thought they were royal rewards.
Facing the Hun family's inquiry, Wang Yiren smiled and said, "Yes and no." ”
Wang Zhou's very much hated Wang Yiren's behavior of often dropping his bookbag to make a fool of himself, although Wang Zhou's family was born in a small landlord's family, he only knew a few words, and he hated Wang Yiren's rotten temperament.
A few years ago, Wang Yiren was still a showman, and he was an old showman, and he was a joke about the appearance of an old pedant in Jiaozhou Township.
Wang Zhou's family business has been in charge of the family business for many years, and he is no longer the delicate landlord's lady, but at this time, when he saw Wang Yiren's sourness coming up again, he wanted to get started.
Seeing that his mother was going to teach his father a lesson, Brother Run was already sensible, and his son didn't say anything about his father, so he quickly turned his head and prepared to go back to the house.
But the youngest daughter was still young, and she smiled and pulled the corner of Wang Yiren's clothes: "Daddy, say it quickly, say it quickly, is it the snowflake cake that the emperor gave to Sister Chen?" ”
Wang Yiren laughed when he heard this, reached out and touched his daughter's little puff and said, "How can the emperor buy you snowflake crisp, my father bought it for you." ”
Wang Yiren didn't dare to play dumb riddles with the Hun family anymore, and hurriedly said: "Brother Run, Brother Run." ”
Then he hurriedly reached into his pocket and took out the remaining silver: "What do you think this is?" ”
"Why is all this silver, and where did it come from?"
As soon as Wang Zhoushi saw the large and small silver ingots in Wang Yiren's hand, his eyes immediately lit up, but they soon dimmed.
"Tell me, where did you get this money, did someone else give it to you, and you took it?"
"How many times have I told you, our family is not rich, but we can't ask for this hot silver, we have all come over such difficult days, and now the days are much better, don't you know how to cherish it."
"Have you forgotten the heads that were cut off outside the Xuanwu Gate a few days ago, even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about our mother, if you are not there, how can my mother live."
After a while, Wang Zhou's mouth did not stop, and while counting down Wang Yiren, tears fell from his eyes.
"Whoever gave it to you, send it back quickly, how can other people's silver be good with each other, this silver is hot, we can't ask for it."
As he spoke, he pushed Wang Yiren out.
Then the two children saw their mother's work for a while, and they turned from joy to excellence, and one by one they also stood on Wang Zhou's side.
"Dad, the son said: virtuous, go back, eat and drink, in the alleys, people are unbearable, and they don't change their pleasures, virtuous, go back! You might as well return the money. ”
Brother Run is learning the Analects, and the story of Confucius praising Yan Hui has been used to advise his father.
"Daddy, Sister Chen won't eat snowflake cakes, and she won't eat them in the future."
The youngest daughter seemed to understand something, pulling the corner of Wang Yiren's clothes, and tears were about to fall.
Looking at the virtuous wife and filial son, Wang Yiren was a little moved in his heart, but where is this, and it hasn't happened yet, why did he think that he had gone to the vegetable market.
"Oh, where did you all think of going, this is a reward from His Majesty after the Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting, a total of twenty taels of snowflake silver."
The family for the New Year all pulled their faces like a funeral, and Wang Yiren, who couldn't smile bitterly, hurriedly explained.
"What, what do you say, the emperor not only entertained him, but also rewarded twenty taels at once?"
Wang Zhou's family didn't care about his children in front of him, grabbed the silver with one hand, and looked at it carefully.
"Twenty taels, is it everyone?"
Wang Zhou still couldn't believe it.
"No, I heard that a petty official like me is twenty taels, and the old scholars seem to be fifty taels, and the others are not the same according to their ranks, but it seems that the minimum is twenty taels."
Wang Yiren told the Hun family what he had heard.
"Huh? So much, this emperor is really generous, now the emperor can amplify the blood. ”
"Mother!"
Brother Run already knew the etiquette, and he knew that his mother had lost his words, so he hurriedly reminded him.
After being reminded by his son, Wang Zhou's family was also startled, and instantly covered his mouth with his hand, and then hurriedly bowed in the direction of the imperial city.
"The emperor atoned for his sins, the emperor atonemented, your old man lived a hundred years and lived a long life."
Seeing that the Hun family looked really funny, Wang Yiren grinned, but he couldn't laugh for a while.
"Isn't it twenty taels? Why are there seventeen taels left? This cloth, this meat, and this ink are not worth two taels of silver, so where did the rest of the one or two pieces of silver go? ”
When Wang Yiren heard this, he immediately didn't dare to laugh, and then whispered in a fly-like voice.
"At noon, I went to eat and drink with Zhengming."
"What, it cost a tael of silver to eat wine, what kind of wine did you eat, say, did you go to that kind of place?"
Saying that, Wang Zhou's really got started.
"No, no, no, oh, I invited it this time, so I spent a little more, oh let it go, the child is still here."
Wang Yiren didn't dare to say that he spent more than five taels of silver on a meal of wine, so he couldn't explain it clearly, so he had to say that he was a treat, and then he hid while talking, which made his little daughter laugh.
Brother Run is already old, and he knows what his mother is talking about, and he is also pursed his lips and steals fun.
For a while, the laughter in the courtyard shook the sparrows above through the tall locust tree, and the same laughter resounded in the big and small corners of the capital.
In the evening, Wang Zhou's stewed pork and mutton, and in order to stew meat, she also went to the spice shop to buy a little pepper from the West, cut some cooked meat, and then fried a few side dishes, and asked Brother Run to go out to make a pot of wine, and the family sat around the hall.
Although it was the first day of the new year, tonight's food was better than Chinese New Year's Eve, and Wang Zhoushi brought the flat food again, and then sat down.
"Eat, eat."
Seeing that Brother Run and Sister Chen were about to drool, Wang Yiren put the meat in front of the two children, and then poured himself a glass of wine.
In the evening, both children ate some pastries, but when they saw a large piece of pork and mutton, they couldn't help but feast on it.
"Eat slowly."
Wang Zhou looked at the two children with affection, and then took a piece of lean meat with some firewood and put it in his mouth, and then remembered something.
"Why did Your Majesty give so much silver this time, didn't you say before that it was only two or three taels?"
"Haha, Your Majesty's power is unpredictable, maybe it is because there is plenty of money in the treasury this year."
As for why so much silver was distributed after this court meeting, a petty official like Wang Yiren couldn't understand Zhu Youzhen's intentions.
"Your Majesty is benevolent, let's not speculate."
As he spoke, Wang Yiren dried the glass of wine in front of him, and said in his heart: Zhang Laosan, this dog's day, is adding water to it again, and I won't go to his house next time.