Chapter 66: The Aspirations of the People (12)
Chinese New Year's Eve has finally arrived.
Rouge got up early in the morning and changed into the new clothes Rong Yin had made for her, and she was very happy.
After getting dressed, I ran to the yard to play in the snow, and last night there was a heavy snowfall. The snow that had been stored a few days ago has almost melted, and the snow from last night has piled up again.
The child was not afraid of the cold, so he picked up a handful of snow and threw it into the sky.
Snowflakes fell from the sky again.
"Oh, it's snowing, Ika, Aunt Magnolia. Come and see, it's snowing again. ”
The two people who were cleaning up in the house thought it was really snowing again.
I ran to the yard and saw that it was Rouge playing there.
"Miss, come back quickly, the road is slippery in the cold and snowy outside, don't fall."
"I'm not going to fall, I'll pay attention. Yixiang, you are becoming more and more like Aunt Yulan now, really wordy. ”
"Miss, today is Chinese New Year's Eve. You just have to play for a while, don't catch the cold. We're going to say hello to the old man and the old lady in a moment. ”
"I see, Aunt Magnolia."
After Yulan and Yixiang cleaned up, they took all the people in the courtyard to the hall.
Rouge walked into the hall with Magnolia and Ika, while the others waited in the courtyard.
After a while, all the people had arrived, and all the subordinates were standing in unison in the courtyard.
Zhao Changqing and Liu are sitting on the main seat.
Zhao Yunchen and Rong Yin knelt down.
"I wish my father and mother (grandfather and grandmother, grandfather and grandmother) good health and all the best in the new year."
"Okay, let's get up quickly."
Liu pulled them up.
This Chinese New Year's Eve morning worships the elders because of the gratitude for the elders' teaching to the juniors in the past year.
Worshipping the elders on the morning of the first day of the new year is the part of asking for red envelopes.
When the people inside the house had finished worshipping, the people outside the house knelt down together.
"Thank you for taking care of us in the past year, and I wish you good luck and good luck."
Unlike the rouge, this group of subordinates is worshipping, and they will be rewarded after them.
Because of this group of subordinates, they have been busy for a year, just on the last day of the year. They were to express their gratitude for the loyalty of this group of people.
The best way to give thanks is undoubtedly to give money to money.
Rong Yin instructed the personal maid to give them the money she had prepared earlier.
One by one, they received the money. There was a collective prostration. Thanks to the master's reward, this money is not their wages, but the master's recognition of their work for a year.
After getting the bounty. The subordinates have each returned to his place and began to perform his own duties and be busy with his own affairs.
And the most important thing is to paste the couplet.
The whole family was in a hurry and gathered in front of the gate.
And Liu took the ladies and pasted the cut window grilles in the house.
Of course, the lively and active Rouge ran to the gate.
The subordinates brought a staircase, and Zhao Yunchen and the other subordinates held the ladder.
And Zhao Changqing climbed the ladder and began to paste couplets.
Unfolding the couplet, Zhao Changqing looked at the words on the couplet.
"Yes, yes, this couplet is very well written."
"Grandfather, is the couplet better in words or in content?"
"This is naturally good content, but this word is not bad."
Listening to his grandfather praising the content of the couplet, Rouge couldn't help but tell Zhao Changqing what happened on the day he bought the couplet.
"Grandfather, let me tell you that there was another incident that happened to buy the couplet."
"What's going on, you say."
"I don't say it, my uncle knows, let my uncle say it."
"Yunchen, you say what happened."
Zhao Yunchen looked at Rouge holding such a grudge, and thought in his heart that he must not provoke Rouge in the future.
"Dad is like this, that day I went to the street with Rouge to buy couplets, there was a stall with too many people, Rouge and I didn't stand together, Rouge saw a couplet is very good, so he called me to go over and see, even this couplet in your hand, I also think it is very good, so I paid for it. A person next to me said that Rouge was a couplet that a girl thought was good, so I didn't think about it carefully, so I bought it, and I didn't think about it. ”
"Grandfather, this person clearly looks down on me, and says that I am a girl's family, and I need to carefully consider things when I look at them. He looks down on the girl's family, why is the girl's family not good at what they see, and it is not as good as what their big men see. ”
Zhao Changqing heard the anger in Rouge's words.
While pasting couplets, he talked to Rouge.
"Rouge, you don't have to take this kind of person to heart. The person who said such a thing, he must not have much knowledge. Otherwise, they wouldn't think that men are amazing, and women would have no vision. How many heroines have been there throughout the ages, although they are daughters, where can they be inferior to men? Let's not talk about it, let's just talk about General Hua of the previous dynasty, isn't she just a daughter? Don't go to the battlefield and kill the enemy. ”
"I'll just say, it's better to have my grandfather, they're really shallow."
"Yes, so you don't have to be angry when you encounter this kind of thing, get angry, and hurt our own bodies. General Hua, what a powerful character! Isn't it worse than those male generals? Didn't she become a marshal in the end, leading those who looked down on her to defeat the enemy army together? ”
"Of course, General Hua is the hero I admire the most, and I want to be like General Hua."
Zhao Yunchen smiled brightly.
"What, we Rouge also want to go to war? Kill the enemy. ”
"Can't you? Just now, my grandfather still said that his daughter is no worse than a man, so where is it difficult to call it, do you think? Are men inherently superior to women? ”
"That's not what I meant, you're so precious. If you go to the barracks, your grandmother will be very worried, if you go to the battlefield, won't your grandmother be worried all day long? ”
"Grandfather, you see how stupid my uncle is, I'm just saying that. Besides, where do grandfathers and uncles need us on the battlefield? ”
Zhao Changqing laughed.
The sound of firecrackers could be heard in the distance.
"Yun Chen, Rouge's mouth is amazing, don't say you can't talk about Rouge. Okay, don't delay any longer, after a while, everyone next to me has pasted the couplet, and we haven't started pasting it yet. ”
A few people also did not delay any longer, pasting couplets of couplets, and escalators of ladders.
After cooperation, it was posted very quickly.
Other families in the city are also pasting couplets, and some of the couplets have already set off firecrackers, and the confetti from the burning firecrackers is scattered all over the ground.
The white snow and the red cannon paper are reflected together, and they look very good.
The couplet is pasted, and the next step is to set off firecrackers.
The housekeeper found a long bamboo pole and tied the firecracker to the bamboo pole.
Zhao Yungun held a lit incense stick and lit the firecracker.
There was a crackling sound, which meant that the old year was over.
After the firecrackers are set off, the confetti is piled on the ground, and there is no need to sweep it, and then clean it together after the New Year.
The curtains in the house have not yet been pasted.
A few people began to help put up the window grilles.
A large family of people, sticking window flowers together, is also very warm.
The people passing by saw it and said secretly.
"Look how nice we are! Paste the tweed together. ”
"yes, I think it's pretty good, too. I have a friend who works as a maid in other people's homes, and they need to do everything. Not long ago, the second son in their house lost his hand and set the house on fire, and their old lady lost his temper and a few little people rescued the young master, but he didn't get anything good, but he was scolded. ”
"Didn't they save the young master? Why are you being scolded? ”
"Because after they rescued the young master from the sea of fire, they put the young master on the floor."
"That's it? It was a sea of fire, and they must have been very tired. ”
"That's right, such a comparison is still better for our Zhao family."
"That's right, but the family you mentioned just now seems to be the Peng Mansion."
"Yes, it's Pang Mansion, this Pang Mansion is amazing, the master is the leader of Pang."
"What's the big deal, our lord is still the emperor's own general Weiyuan, and his wife is still the favorite princess of the emperor and the queen mother."
"That's right, our Zhao family's is even more amazing than the Pang Mansion."
"But look at how good these masters of our family are! Although Mrs. is a princess, she can treat her subordinates with clear rewards and punishments, and she is extremely neat. He never scolds us casually. ”
"Yes! Our reward money is also given a lot every year, our Zhao family is really good, and Pang Mansion is absolutely impossible. ”
The Zhao family simply pasted a window grille, and invisibly compared it with Pang Mansion.
made many people in Pang Mansion want to defect to the Zhao family.
There is great power in numbers, and this sentence really makes sense.
A few more people were added to help, and the window grille was posted quickly. Although the window grille is very trivial, it is not slow to put it up when there are many people.
Seeing that some places in the house are pasted with red windows, the atmosphere of this New Year is really strong.
"Grandmother and aunt, do you think my new clothes look good?"
"It's good-looking, your aunt's eyes are excellent, and she looks tight on you."
After the window was pasted, it was almost noon, and after chatting casually, I started eating.
The rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty has always been to eat the Chinese New Year's Eve meal at night, and eat it well and keep the New Year.
Therefore, noon is not a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but it is also a family gathering and a reunion dinner with Meimei.
This reunion dinner. Yulan, Yuzhu, housekeeper, house doctor and other old people of Zhao Mansion were also added
There were two tables in the dining room,
didn't let the subordinates wait, let them also get together for a reunion dinner.
You don't need to be served, you take care of yourself.
The Zhao family has a table, and those personal maids and housekeepers have a table.
Everyone toasted and thanked each other for taking care of each other over the past year, and the atmosphere at the dinner table was extremely lively.