Chapter 123: New Year (3)
"Aunt, if you are biased, you only give it to your sister, and you don't cut it for me."
Rouge looked at the small portrait that looked very similar to the hazy one, and became jealous.
"Okay, my aunt cut it for you, wasn't it because your sister couldn't move the scissors just now? That's why my aunt cut a small look for her to make her happy, why are you so jealous? ”
Rong Yin was amused by Rouge's stinginess.
"They are all elders now, and they are still so stingy."
"Grandmother, even if I want to be an elder, I am still your little granddaughter! You can't like more children in your sister's belly than I do. ”
"A few of your men over there come and listen, you see how stingy our rouge is, they are all so big, and they are still competing for favor. It's still with an unborn little doll, so ashamed. ”
"What's this, Rouge will always be the most beloved granddaughter in my grandfather's place."
Rouge heard this, and Zhao Changqing beat her shoulder on the runway.
"Grandfather, I know that you are the only one who loves rouge the most. When the little doll in my sister's belly came out, my grandmother didn't hurt me anymore, only the little doll. ”
Rouge's words made the audience laugh.
This little year was spent in a lot of laughter.
After the New Year, some of the things that should be prepared for the New Year should be prepared.
Twenty-three sugar melons are sticky, twenty-four write blessing characters, twenty-five sweep the dust, twenty-six cut meat, twenty-seven kill chickens, twenty-eight handfuls of facial hair, twenty-nine couplets stick to the door, stay up for a night on thirty nights, and twist and twist on the first day of the New Year.
This is the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, and you should prepare these things for the Spring Festival couplets.
It's not the woman's turn to worry about these things, but Rouge doesn't want to stay at home.
After breakfast early in the morning, Zhao Yunchen and Rouge went out.
This was very windy and snowy in the north, and the snow on the ground was thick and accumulated.
However, as the year approached, the vendors did not stay at home because of the snowstorm.
One man carried a broom and cleaned the streets.
Every small stall vendor has cleaned up their shops. And this street is far more prosperous than usual, and the people on the street come and go, shoulder to shoulder.
"Uncle, it's really lively today!"
"Of course, it's about to be the New Year, and the New Year is the most important festival of the year for us."
"For the New Year, you can wear new clothes and eat delicious food."
Rouge said happily.
"What? You don't eat well or dress badly on weekdays? ”
To Rouge's words, Zhao Yunchen smiled. This entire Zhao family is the most expensive rouge.
Whatever you wear and what you use is the best, and it's not much better than those ladies in the capital.
"Uncle, that's not what I meant. It's a good day to eat and dress on weekdays, but it's different to celebrate the New Year, and the New Year is only once a year, how worthy of our celebration! ”
"You stupid girl, could it be that there are two more days of the same day a year? Every day is a unique one, and it passes. It's like yesterday, when you're done, there will be no more yesterday's days in the world. ”
"Yes, uncle, but according to what you say, a man's life is only three days."
Zhao Yunchen's original intention was to let Rouge cherish his time and not waste his life, but he couldn't understand what Rouge said.
"Three days, which three days?"
"Uncle, you are so stupid, of course yesterday and tomorrow! Yesterday is gone, today is still going on, tomorrow is the future. You say, don't you? ”
Zhao Yunchen is indeed that no matter how many days have passed, for today, the day before is always yesterday. Today will always be today, and tomorrow will always be unknown.
It's a pretty esoteric topic. For rouge's thinking, Zhao Yunchen has always been extremely appreciative.
Today, the two of them came out to buy couplets to buy blessing words, since it was a market, they didn't bring maids, and the people followed.
Originally, this word of blessing was written by the average large family.
But this Zhao Changqing is a general who only knows how to fight and lead troops, not to mention others.
Zhao Zijun is actually familiar with poetry and books, but he is a grandchild, and it is not like that to write couplets and paste them on the door.
Besides, the couplets sold have been written for decades, and the calligraphy is also extremely good.
"You girl, you always say things so profoundly. If it weren't for my uncle's reading, I'm afraid I wouldn't have understood what you said. ”
"Uncle, you will scold me, where is it difficult to understand what I said? It's just that you put all your mind on leading troops to fight, and you didn't think about these things, besides, this is what it is. Just think about it, don't you just come up with it. ”
"You are saying that your uncle is stupid in disguise, and you can figure it out when you think about it, then uncle, isn't it stupid, you haven't figured it out when you think about it."
The two uncles and nephews were joking.
Not far behind the two of them walked Chu Wushuang, it was almost the New Year. When he had nothing to do, he also went out for a walk in the streets.
Chu Wushuang saw that Rouge originally wanted to come forward to say hello, but when he saw Rouge talking to the person next to him, he looked closely and saw that it was a middle-aged man he didn't know.
can be so close to Rouge, and Rouge still calls him uncle.
This person is the uncle of the Zhao Mansion, Zhao Yunchen, the captain of the Peizhou battalion.
In order to cause unnecessary trouble, Chu Wushuang did not step forward, but just followed behind them with Holly.
When I heard Rouge say that there are only three days in a person's life.
Unlike Zhao Yunchen, Chu Wushuang thought about it all of a sudden.
Although he knew that Rouge was smart and talented, it was a woman who said such a thing.
This made Chu Wushuang a little shocked.
This is the thing. Seeing it so thoroughly, the woman is really a strange woman with a seven-trick exquisite heart.
"Young master, this Miss Rouge is really powerful." Holly, who was following Chu Bushuang, couldn't help but admire this woman when she heard Rouge's words.
"yes, rouge is very powerful."
Chu Wushuang listened to Holly praising Rouge. He also felt very proud, as if Rouge was his.
At this time, Chu Wushuang thought silently in his heart. If you have the chance, you must marry Rouge back home.
Later, he reversed his decision, the opportunity was fought for by himself, and he must marry Rouge back home.
At this moment, he and Zhao Yunchen were discussing what kind of couplet rouge to buy, and they didn't know that someone had already targeted her.
"Uncle, what couplet should we buy this year?"
"Just buy a pair of big couplets, and then buy a few blessing characters to stick at the door."
"Isn't there a need to post it elsewhere?"
"Elsewhere your aunt said that he and your grandmother cut the window grilles and cut a lot. It seems that sticking window grilles looks better than sticking blessing words. ”
"I also cut those window grilles, haha, I cut them very beautifully, and when the time comes, I must paste the window grilles I cut in the most conspicuous place."
"You girl, you don't know how to be humble at all. This is nothing in front of our own family, but in front of others, you show your edge like this, but you will cause a lot of trouble. ”
Rouge waved his hand nonchalantly.
"Uncle, my grandmother and aunt have already told me all these truths, and even my brothers and sisters often nag in my ear. I know. Aren't you my uncle? Do I still need to be humble in front of you?
It was the chrysanthemum banquet prepared by Mrs. Pang last time, there was a part of the competition car ride, in fact, I really thought that link was quite simple, his question was not difficult, and the poems I made could be better than them, but in order not to steal the limelight, I was eliminated in the first round. ”
"You are right to do this, you are a daughter, as the family saying goes, a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, and your grandfather invited so many people to teach you. Although I hope you will become a talent, but now this world. Although it is said that it is a bad thing for women to be talented, it is not a good thing. ”
"I see, didn't we come out to buy couplets? Why are you starting to teach me a lesson again? ”
"How dare I teach you? You're a ghost. ”
In fact, the family once discussed the issue of Rouge's education together.
Except for Zhao Changqing, they all felt that Rouge should learn what his daughter's family should learn.
However, Zhao Changqing repeatedly insisted that Rouge was indeed talented and intelligent, and he was extremely interested in poetry, calligraphy, and the art of war.
The family did not object anymore, but followed Zhao Changqing to invite a good teacher to educate Rouge.
But now in this world, the Great Zhou Dynasty has obviously reached the time to linger.
Not long ago, I received a report that it was the Xiongnu, and it was actually colluding with an official in the capital.
This year's military salary has not been delivered for a long time, and this has reached the end of the year, and I am afraid that it will not come again.
In previous years, it was also procrastinating, urging again and again, and constantly decreasing.
From this point of view, the end times are not far off.
Rouge's talent may allow her to be in the last days. Be alone and protect yourself.
Rouge walked in front of a stall first, and the stall was doing a brisk business, and many people gathered around the stall to pick out couplets.
Rouge found a place where there were few people, and stood there picking out the couplets that were placed on the ground and hung on the shelves.
"The door welcomes the blessings of the stars, and the doors are open to thousands of auspicious clouds."
Rouge looked at the couplet on the shelf, and groaned in his mouth, thinking that it was very good.
"Uncle, what do you think of this?"
Zhao Yunchen walked to her side and followed Rouge's gaze to see the couplet.
He looked at it for a while, and thought it was very good.
"Well, it's a good couplet, and you've chosen it well. Then let's buy this couplet. ”
Most of the people who come here to choose couplets are men.
They heard that Rouge was pointing something that was not good, and the middle-aged man who followed him actually wanted to pay for the couplet.
"This brother, this couplet was chosen by the little girl next to you, so you won't look at it a few more times."
Although the words were said politely, the meaning in the words was not polite at all. Doesn't this mean that Rouge didn't choose well, so Zhao Yunchen was cautious?
"I think it's very good, so I don't have to worry about it."
The Zhao family is all about protecting their shortcomings, not to mention that this person is nosy.
When the boss came to settle the bill, Rouge found that this boss was not the one he had used the big lantern on his stall before.
Quietly said to Zhao Yunchen.
"Uncle, this boss is the stall where I welcomed the lanterns on August 15 before."
"That's a coincidence."
The man was clearly trying to persuade him.
However, Zhao Yunchen's anger made him dare not say another word.
After settling the bill, the two went to other stalls to choose a few lucky characters.
On the way home, Rouge couldn't help but complain about the man.
"Uncle, what does that man mean, what I choose is to be considered. It's really underestimated. ”
Rouge was puffing up, but Zhao Yunchen smiled.
"Didn't I just say that you shouldn't be so showy? It's not as good as the capital, and the people here are still a little backward in terms of thinking, you don't see those big families cultivating their daughters, they all train their daughters to be good at singing and dancing, and they don't invest much in poetry and books. ”
"Didn't I notice?"
"If you have time, you can take a closer look, in this Peizhou, men are women's heaven."
"Cut, what about uncle, at our house?"
"Is this what you kid should be asking about?"
"Uncle, I seem to have discovered the problem you just mentioned, when I was composing poetry in the last competition, there were so many women, more than 20 young ladies, and only a few people participated in composing poetry, which is indeed a little different."
"You grew up in Peizhou City since you were a child, and in the capital, those young ladies will hold poetry meetings every once in a while, and they will be familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics since they were young."
"Those ladies in the capital are so good, so compared to them..."
"You've learned more than they did, and they'll be ashamed of themselves."
Indeed, this rouge has a wide range of things to learn, and her wealth is slightly no less than that of the strategists in the army, although those young ladies are full of poetry and books, but they are also books that should be read by their daughter's family, and their horizons are naturally not rouge, so broad.
"It's really fake, uncle, don't lie to me."