"Childe, how about you take a look at my dumplings?" Tan Yun took the dumplings he wrapped to Cao Yi as if offering a treasure.

"Well, it's cute, just like Tan Yun." Cao Yi held the book, raised his head and glanced at the "extra-large dumplings" or "buns" in Tan Yun's hand, which was more suitable, and said casually.

"Tan Yun, come back, don't disturb Childe!" Musk Moon spoke on the other side. Among these people, except for the red sleeves, Tan Yun listened to Musk Yue's words the most, and before they came, they had the last relationship in the Jinfeng Building, and after entering the Cao Mansion, they slept in the same room, and the work they were arranged was also in the Cultivating Heart Hall together. So at this time, as soon as Musk Yue screamed, Tan Yun jumped up and went back obediently.

The winter solstice is also known as the sub-year or long solstice festival, there has always been a saying that the winter solstice is as big as the year, in the era before Cao Yi crossed in later generations, the winter solstice is just a solar term, and the only thing that impresses people is whether to eat dumplings or eat glutinous rice balls The dispute between the north and the south. But in ancient times, the winter solstice has always been a separate festival, and one of the most important festivals of the year. Since the Western Han Dynasty, through the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the winter solstice as a festival has been continuously improved and developed in the official and non-governmental circles, reaching its peak in the Tang Dynasty and continuing to later generations.

In the Tang Dynasty, on the day of the winter solstice, the emperor had to personally sacrifice to the sky, and then the winter solstice court meeting, rewarding the ministers, and the whole country had a holiday, and the world was amnesty. As for the people, they have to worship and feast and drink, and occupy the number of nine. However, in the Song Dynasty, both official and non-governmental influence were declining, but the customs of winter solstice holidays and eating dumplings were retained.

At this time, Cao Yi was asking several maids from Qingyun Pavilion to get together to wrap dumplings. In his previous life, Cao Yi had always spent the winter solstice in Hangzhou, so he ate rice cakes and glutinous rice balls, but at this time, he traveled to Jiangning, so he naturally had to follow the customs of the locals, prepare a meal of dumplings today, and also let the dining room prepare a soup to dispel the cold and delicate ears.

Speaking of this dumpling and dispelling cold and Jiao'er soup, there is really an allusion. Cao Yi originally thought that the natives of Qingyun Pavilion knew this allusion, so he asked casually, who knew that no one knew, even the oldest red sleeve, did not know about the allusion.

As soon as I asked, I found out that Red Sleeves was still very young when she entered Cao's Mansion, and she couldn't remember anything at all, and when she grew up, she had been with Mrs. Gao, busy learning how to be a qualified maid, and no one would come to tell her about the source of festivals and solar terms.

As for the other few people, they were all sold to Ya Po since they were children, and then sold to Jinfeng Lou as an oiran and a top brand to cultivate, piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine and tea, all kinds of dances and music have not had time to learn all, and no one will deliberately tell them about the inconsequential common sense of the winter solstice, so naturally there is no way to know.

However, Cao Yi, a modern person, knows better than the ancients the source of the solar terms and customs handed down from ancient times, and it is a little funny to think about it. "Don't you think this dumpling is very similar to your ears?" Cao Yi asked.

"Yes, Childe, when you say that, it does look like an ear......

"Yes, yes, it really seems!" …… Others said.

"At the earliest, this dumpling was called Jiao'er, which was used to treat the ears, and it was created by the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing."

Tan Yun picked up a dumpling, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, and asked coquettishly, "Can eating this dumpling really cure your ears?" Make your ears more sensitive? ”

"Hehe, it is said that Zhang Zhongjing was an official in Changsha at the time, and when he returned to his hometown to retire, he was just in time for that winter, the cold wind was biting, and the snow was flying. On the edge of the White River, Zhang Zhongjing saw many homeless poor families begging for food outside against the wind and snow, all of them were yellow and thin, and their clothes were not covered, and what was even more distressing was that in the heavy snow, those poor people were still wearing thin clothes, and their ears were frozen and bleeding because of the cold. ”

"Huh!?" The crowd let out a cry of sympathy.

After returning home, because Zhang Zhongjing's reputation was already famous all over the world, many people came to seek medical treatment. Zhang Zhongjing is responsive and very busy all day long, although there are many people who come to seek medical treatment, Zhang Zhongjing still misses those who have frozen ears. So he often researched, and finally he developed a dietary prescription that can keep out the cold, called dispelling cold Jiao'er soup. He asked his apprentice to build a shed in a vacant lot in Dongguan, Nanyang, and put a cauldron on it to give medicine for the poor to cure diseases. Zhang Zhongjing asked his apprentice to give each poor person a bowl of soup and two Jiao'er, and after people ate Jiao'er and drank the soup, their whole body was warm, and their ears were hot, and no one got frostbite on their ears anymore. ”

Cao Yi also walked to the table next to him to make dumplings, took a thin skin himself, and said with a smile: "Because Zhang Zhongjing saved those poor people on the day of the winter solstice, and he later died on the day of the winter solstice." So later, in order to commemorate him, people followed the habit of eating Jiao'er on the day of the winter solstice. It's just that at that time, those delicate ears were made of Chinese herbs and mutton chopped, so they had the effect of nourishing the body and dispelling cold and warming up. Then I also let the dining room boil this cold Jiao'er soup, and then you can bring it over and eat it when your dumplings are wrapped and steamed, in fact, it is mutton soup, and you can warm up your body when you drink it in winter. ”

Cao Yi took out a very clean coin from his arms, put it into the dumplings he had just wrapped, and mixed it with the filling. Because everyone stopped to listen to Cao Yi talk about the origin of dumplings, they naturally noticed Cao Yi's movements at this time and looked at Cao Yi in puzzlement.

Red Sleeves asked suspiciously, "Childe, what are you doing here?" ”

"It's just a good meaning, I now wrap this coin in dumplings, and whoever eats this coin after steaming will have good luck next year and make a fortune. But this is just a meaning, I don't know if I will make a fortune next year, but whoever eats it tonight will get rich, and then the son will be rewarded! Cao Yi said with a grin.

"But you are not allowed to cheat and make marks on the dumplings or anything, and whoever can eat them will depend on luck

And you should also be careful when eating, don't bite your teeth or accidentally swallow it in your stomach, that's ......"

Cao Yi didn't say anything more after saying half of it, but everyone understood what Cao Yi meant. At the end, Cao Yi followed up and added, "Also, you don't have to eat the dumplings in Tanyun Bao later, well, the dumplings she wrapped are so recognizable, they must not be the dumplings I just stuffed with coins...... Ha ha! ”

Everyone also laughed out loud when they heard this, it is true that the shape of the dumplings in Tanyun Bao is so peculiar and weird, it can be distinguished from the dumplings made by everyone else at a glance, and just now everyone witnessed Cao Yi put the dumplings into a normal shape of dumplings, and naturally those dumplings in Tanyun Bao will definitely not win the prize.

In the evening, the soup made in the dining room has been ready, and the dumplings made by everyone in the afternoon have been steamed out of the pot, everyone drinks the delicious soup and eats the dumplings made by themselves, and the nine people eat and laugh together, and the atmosphere is also happy.

During the banquet, the red sleeves also informed everyone of what Cao Yi said in the drunken immortal building in the morning, and everyone increased the monthly money to two times since the beginning of the lunar month, which caused everyone's cheers, naturally Tanyun was the loudest and most piercing, and the little face was red.

"Then everyone can go home in batches in the month of Lunar or January, and each person has three days, when the house will arrange a carriage to send everyone home, and on the afternoon of the third day, they will be picked up from home. And the son is kind-hearted, and said that everyone will send a piece of flower soap when they go home, two small jars are too white and drunk, twenty rich eggs, and finally ...... Five-run money! Redsleeves said with a grin.

Naturally, these words were cheered by everyone again, especially when it came to everyone giving something, and every time Red Sleeves said the same, the cheers rang out once, and they became louder and louder in the back. Everyone naturally remembered that these were all gifts from the son, and they all stood up and bowed to Cao Yi. To meet such a good host, everyone felt that they were lucky and grateful, and a few even had tears of happiness rolling in their excited eyes.

Since being sold to others by the family, they never thought that they could go home, and now they are riding in a carriage, taking the master's reward and a lot of money home, which can be said to let them go home in style, and they are naturally grateful to Cao Yi.

After that, everyone was talking and laughing, eating and making trouble, but they didn't expect that the dumplings wrapped in coins in the end were actually eaten by Cao Yi himself, and Cao Yi had no choice but to distribute the reward to everyone. Originally, I was thinking that each of the eight maids would have a consistent amount of money, and whoever ate the coin would be rewarded with an additional two dollars. Now that Cao Yi has eaten it, he scattered the two pieces of money, and everyone shared a little.

At this time, the whole Jiangning City melted into the dark night of the university, the lights of thousands of homes in the city flickered, and there was a smell of fireworks in the world in the quiet and serene, which had a unique flavor, and in the Qingyun Pavilion in the backyard of Caofu, which occupied dozens of acres of land in the eastern part of the city, there were bursts of cheers......

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