After Laba, the year is approaching, and Lin Daiyu is responsible for managing the affairs of the Lu and Lin mansions.

Lu Jing was worried that Daiyu was tired, and wanted Zhiyu, Li Wen, and Li Qi to have more contact with the housekeeper's affairs, so he asked the three of them to help.

Daiyu asked Lu Jing for the list of the Lu family's world friends to move around, and sorted out the list of the Lin family's relatives and old friends, so she began to buy New Year's goods and prepare New Year's gifts.

He also handed over the work of preparing purses and sachets, creating gold and silver nudes for the New Year, supervising the cleaning of the courtyard, and wiping several cases of gold and silver utensils.

On the sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the things sent by the two granges outside the city arrived, and when Lu Jing saw it, he asked Lu Dong to entertain the two heads of the village and the households, and asked people to show the accounts and lists to Daiyu for inspection.

Daiyu opened the list and saw that the front was written in the post, and the list behind was a list: sixteen big deer, sixteen roe deer, sixteen roe deer, six soup pigs, eight domestic pigs, eight waxed pigs, eight wild boars, eight wild sheep, eight green sheep, eight domestic sheep, eight family style sheep, forty-eight sturgeon, sixty catties of miscellaneous fish, eighty live chickens, eighty ducks and geese, eighty wind chickens, ducks and geese, sixty pairs of wild ducks, and two pockets ......of hazelnut olives and apricots.

After reading this one, I opened the other one, and after reading both of them, Daiyu couldn't help but sigh in her heart, the harvest of the two Zhuangzi this year was not good, and compared with last year's list, there were fewer things sent.

Then put the accounts of the two Zhuangzi and the accounts of each shop together, and prepared to collect them together in two days, and then distributed the list of dates for inviting people to eat wine for the New Year that had been drawn up and distributed them to Lin Ruhai and Lu Jing, so that the two of them could see if there were any strings or omissions or weights.

After Lu Jing and Lin Ruhai received the list, they each deleted it, Lin Ruhai removed Jia and Wang, and Lu Jing removed the few that came and went, and asked people to take it to Daiyu.

Lu Jing also wrote a letter to the clan elders in Suzhou, asking them to arrange the New Year affairs in the clan, and arranged for the stewards who stayed in Suzhou to distribute New Year's goods to the families in the clan.

In the next few days, under the control of Daiyu, the Lu and Lin families were full of hanging lanterns, and prepared yarn paste plaques everywhere, as well as fruits, vegetables, fireworks and other categories.

I didn't realize that the time was fast, and it was the end of winter, and on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Lu Jing opened the ancestral hall, packed up the offerings, and prepared to worship the ancestors.

On the thirtieth day of the lunar month, the Lu Mansion is full of colors, the door god has been changed, the couplet, the listing has been listed, and the peach charm has been newly painted, and the whole house has a new look.

The people in the mansion all changed into new clothes, dressed up with flowers, and their faces were full of smiles.

At night, the big red sheep's horn palace lamp is hung on the gate, the second gate, the inner and outer halls, the main hall and so on are all hung with colorful tassels, palace lamps, there are street lamps everywhere in the corridor and the courtyard, the two slips are high, and the lights are brilliant.

Lu Jing led everyone in the Lu Mansion to worship their ancestors in the ancestral hall, and Lin Daiyu and Lu Zhiyu all sacrificed together.

After kneeling and worshipping, everyone withdrew solemnly, and Lu Jing arranged for someone to take care of the sacrifices and incense in the ancestral hall.

After the ancestor worship ceremony, Lu Jing led everyone to the main hall, the main hall is also a brocade embroidered screen, a new look, the charcoal basin is burned with pine and cedar incense, lily grass, Lu Jing and Lin Daiyu each sat down, Lu Zhiyu saluted the brother and sister-in-law and sat down next to them.

Lu Bei and Lu Zheng took the male servants in the house to salute according to the errands, and then the servants such as Aunt Luo, Zijuan, and Youxia came up to resign and kowtow.

After the men and women had finished saluting, Lu Jing asked Yinglian to take out the gold and silver bills, scattered the New Year's rewards and New Year's money, and then ordered Lu Bei to put a feast on the corridor.

Lu Jing and Lin Daiyu went to salute Aunt Luo again, and then invited Aunt Luo, Li Wen, and Li Qi out.

A quarter of an hour later, the banquet was arranged, and Lu Jing ordered the artillery to be fired.

The sound stopped, the men and women sat down, and there was an inverted lotus leaf lampstand erected on each table, and there were candles and colored candles on the leaves, and all kinds of delicacies were already placed on the table.

Lu Jing sat in the middle, accompanied by Lin Daiyu, Lu Zhiyu, and Zhen Yinglian.

The first seat on the west side is Aunt Luo sitting, accompanied by Li Wen and Li Qi, and the next seat is Mama Qi sitting, accompanied by Mama Li and Aunt Luo, and Zijuan, Qingwen, Youxia and others are seated in turn.

The first seat on the east side is the big housekeeper Lu Dong, accompanied by Lu Bei and Lu Zheng, the next seat is Chen Ji sitting, Lu Lian and Wu Ze are accompanied, and Lu Wu, Yao Li and others are seated in turn.

Everyone sat down, Lu Jing announced the start of the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, and then raised a glass to celebrate, after drinking, everyone sat again.

Then everyone raised their glasses, and for a while there was a noisy voice, laughter and laughter, and there was an endless stream of toasters.

After the banquet, Lu Jing ordered someone to clean up the remnants of the banquet, and Daiyu proposed that everyone go to the inner hall to sit together and talk about the New Year.

Lu Jing said with a smile: "Instead of sitting and talking about keeping the New Year, it is better to prepare some wine and fruits, and conduct a wine order." ”

After hearing this, Daiyu, Li Wen, Li Qi and others all readily agreed.

Aunt Luo said: "Brother Jing take them to play, I'll go back to the room first, don't play too late!" ”

Lu Jing, Daiyu, Li Wen and others hurriedly responded, and then sent Aunt Luo back.

Zijuan and Youxia cleaned up a table in the warm jade hall, put fruit cakes on the table, soaked warm water in the wine glasses to be replaced, and poured new wine.

Lu Jing sat on the front seat, Daiyu and Zhiyu sat on both sides, Li Wen and Li Qi were next to Daiyu, and Yinglian was next to Zhiyu, leaving only Zijuan and Qingwen to serve.

Daiyu smiled and asked a few people: "What kind of wine should we play?" Otherwise, let's use Chinese New Year's Eve as the title of the scene couplet, right? ”

Lu Jing smiled: "Although the coupling is elegant, it is not too lively, I have more fun here." ”

As he spoke, he got up and took a dice back, threw it on the table, and continued: "I made a dice a few days ago, how about you take a look at this wine order?" ”

Daiyu and Yinglian looked at it, only to see that the dice were not red and green points, and two words were engraved on each side.

Daiyu picked it up and looked at it, and saw that it was: guessing boxing, couplets, riddles, jokes, flying buds, and twelve words of instructions.

Lu Jing explained: "When this order is made, everyone takes turns to roll the dice, and if they throw a guess box, they will choose a punch from the table, and the loser will drink; If a couplet is thrown, a pair of pairs will be selected at the same table, and the loser will be punished; If there is a riddle, one person from the same table will be selected to make a riddle, and those who can't guess will be punished for drinking, and those who guess will be punished. ”

"If there is a joke, tell a joke, and everyone will be exempt from punishment if they laugh, and if they don't laugh, they will be punished; If you fly to the table, you can fly at will to drink with the people at the same table; Command, you can order the person at the table to do some specific actions, such as staying still, laughing, beating the back, pouring wine, etc. ”

Daiyu smiled: "This order is lively and interesting. As he spoke, he glanced at Lu Zhiyu and Li Wen.

Lu Zhiyu, Li Wen, Li Qi, and Yinglian all knew it, and they all said that this order was very good, so they played this.

Lu Jing watched the non-stop eye contact of several people, and they all covered their mouths and snickered, and hurriedly put away the dice and said, "How do I feel that you guys are going to look for me no matter what you throw, or do other drinking orders." ”

Daiyu hurriedly snatched the dice and said with a smile: "How can you regret what the husband proposed, just play this, and start with the husband first!" As he spoke, he put the dice in Lu Jing's hand, shook his hand, and threw it into the dice basin, only to see the dice roll a few times, and finally stopped at the word 'riddle'.

Daiyu and a few people saw it, and they were busy urging Lu Jing to come up with the question and choose a guesser.

Lu Jing saw that Daiyu and the others were smiling very happily, so he pretended to smile helplessly, and then said to Daiyu: "Since it was our husband and wife who threw it together, then we don't have to do anything, and this riddle will be guessed by Mrs." ”

Dai Yuqiao's face was full of smiles, and she made an ancient salute mischievously, and said, "I respectfully ask my husband to ask for the question!" ”

Lu Jing was instantly amused by her playful actions, and returned the salute with a smile: "Madam, please listen to the question: The first emperor is young and thinks about the luck, and the carriage and horses are traveling in front of the small door." The sound of waves at the summit was heard from afar, and the water flowed cold to the edge of the rock. Four poems to guess the names of the four ancients, madam, please! ”