Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Busy New Year
On the third day of the first lunar month, the dog was delayed by a strange old woman for a morning, and many things were delayed.
After eating at noon, he called Dasha to help him carry the basket and hurriedly went out, from the distant to the close, from far to near, he went to the house of a few soldiers guarding the gate in the southern city, sent congratulatory stickers and salutes to several brothers, and then went to Zhao Zhutou's house.
Listening to his little servant, the people had not returned home in the yamen, and the dog guessed that it was estimated that he was left by Liu County Lieutenant to eat and drink, so he gave him a special gift prepared for him, a pair of rabbit skin gloves.
When the little maid remembered his name, the dog turned and went to the next house.
As the saying goes, if you win a grain of rice, you will leave a piece of grace, not to mention that people give a big bag of brown rice!
This Li Zhangshi was very busy, and hurriedly ran out of the yamen, and saw that the dog only had time to say "good boy", so he hurriedly returned to the yamen, and he didn't even take the apron that the dog prepared for him!
The dog had no choice but to ask a familiar catcher and let the family carry it.
originally wanted to pay a New Year's greeting to Liu Sanlang, but later thought that he estimated that he would have to compensate Liu County Lieutenant, and he would not have time to take care of himself, so he left his name and congratulatory gifts at the gatehouse.
In the white eyes of Li Tiangu, he turned around and walked out.
"It costs five copper coins to enter the door! What kind of preferential price, five dollars I keep for Dasha to buy meat steamed buns to eat, can it not be fragrant? The master is stupid to give you the money! ”
After a hard discussion, he took Dasha to the last stop of today's mission, Liu Tou's house.
Liu Tou's family lives in the third house of Kuanxiangzi, and there are a few mulberry trees planted in front of the door, and the hard-working sister-in-law Liu relies on these mulberry trees to feed the six children in the family.
There are many children in the family, and the days are tight, and the big New Year is still weaving at home, and the dog arrives at the door of the house, and says to a few babies who are playing with stones: "Goro, is your father at home?" ”
Gorou was only five or six years old, and said with his teeth open, "Here!" ”
The dog nodded, took three candy cubes out of Dasha's pocket and handed them to him.
Maybe it's because the children of poor families are sensible early, or maybe it's Liu's sister-in-law's strict family education, this Wulang took the candy and thanked the dog, and he didn't swallow it alone, and gave one to San Lang and Liu Lang next to him, and then peeled the candy paper and stuffed it into his mouth.
The dog rubbed his hair in praise, then led Dasha into the courtyard, and shouted into the middle hall: "Is Master Liu at home?" ”
It was shouted three times before the sound of the loom in the house stopped.
The curtain was lifted, and Sister-in-law Liu, who was wrapped in her hair with a handkerchief, walked out, and saw that there were two dogs in the courtyard, so she said enthusiastically: "Little dog, yell, and Dasha, why did you two come over?" ”
The dog hurriedly hugged his fists and said, "Let's come to pay New Year's greetings to Liu Ye!" ”
Sister-in-law Liu led the two dogs into the house, and said, "Good sensible baby, come into the house and rest!" ”
When the two dogs entered the house, they asked Dasha to unload the basket and put it aside, looked around and didn't see Liu Tou, so he asked Liu's sister-in-law, "Where is Liu?" ”
Sister-in-law Liu said to Dongwu Nunu: "I ate a big sin in the morning, I was sent back, I lay on the kang and started to sleep, didn't I wake up yet!" ”
The dog laughed and said: "The New Year's is also happy, and you can sleep well when you are drunk!" ”
"By the way, sister-in-law, there are two fat rabbits in this basket, and a bottle of good wine, I was going to have two glasses of wine with Liu Ye, since he hasn't woken up yet, let's talk about it another day!"
After speaking, he took out two live rabbits from the basket and handed them over.
Sister-in-law Liu hurriedly said: "Just let the people come, what else do you bring, and you are not an outsider, this fat rabbit, you can quickly take it back and keep it for you to eat!" ”
The dog waved his hand and said: "Sister-in-law, who is not in the way, I bought two pairs the day before yesterday, and this pair is reserved for Liu Ye to drink!" ”
A bottle of old soju was also taken out, placed it safely in front of the table, and said to her: "Sister-in-law, then I'll leave first, there are just a few more." ”
Sister-in-law Liu stopped and said: "Don't leave Xiaolang, stay here for a while, sister-in-law will go to clean up some wine and food, and you two will drink two cups in a while!" ”
The dog hurriedly shook his head and said, "Really sister-in-law, I really have some things." ”
After saying that, he ignored her and walked out with a basket and a big fool.
When they went out and turned over and chased out, Sister-in-law Liu arched her hand, and the two of them strode away.
After walking far away, Dasha asked, "Brother Lang, whose house are we going to in a while?" ”
The dog shook his head and said, "I won't go to anyone's house, just go home." ”
Dasha "Ao" followed the dog to go home, walked not long before seeing a group of little beggars hula ran from the front, Dasha saw that there was a lively play, a take off the back basket and shouted "wait for me" and chased over.
The dog sighed, put on his back and walked slowly home.
As soon as I walked to Granny Cao's house, I saw Cao Abao holding a stick at the door, dancing wildly.
Standing next to him and watching for a while, I saw that he was not pounding, splitting was not splitting, the stick was slow and leisurely, and there was no strength at all, and it was not as good as the street juggling artist's dance.
The dog knew that he couldn't stay any longer, so he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Bao'er is a good kung fu, don't disturb your practice" and quickly left with the basket on his back.
On the road, I was still lamenting that Grandma Cao was a lot old and had to be harassed by the unconscious Cao Abao all day long, and then, when I arrived at the gate of my yard, I saw that on both sides of the fence wall, two groups of people and horses were holding wooden sticks and shouting at the throat.
The dog is a headache, these idiots are playing the game of officers and soldiers catching bandits, you say you can play, one by one they are still holding sticks where to make random comparisons, not to mention whether anyone will be hurt, just looking at the long stick that acts as a fence wall, and being plucked by this group of babies, this heart is a sense of irritability.
As soon as he stretched out his hand, he pointed at them and scolded: "Dog leftover, Hu Dakang, Wang Xiaoyi, you guys get out of the game for me!" ”
The three of them hurriedly led a group of babies out hula-la-la.
"Stick me in and go!" The dog scolded again.
A group of people obediently inserted the sticks back, and then hurried away with their heads down.
"Fools who don't worry about it, it's not reassuring to celebrate the New Year," pouted, and cleaned up the mess thrown on the ground in the courtyard one by one.
The third day of the first lunar month passed so heavily.
The fourth day of the first lunar month is also a vague past.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, it is said that this day is a bit exquisite.
There are poor and rich people, and the same is true for ghosts.
The poor ghost, rumored to have two pairs of sharp fangs, a large beard, two large black holes in his stubbed cheeks, and a faint green glow in the two big black holes on his dry cheeks, and his short body was hidden in the eaves and corners of the house in tattered clothes all day.
Therefore, on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, every household of the common people has to sweep away the poor ghosts, so the streets are full of poor ghosts who are anxious to find a place to stay, because after dark, the ghosts and ghosts will arrest them all, therefore, on this day, each family is not allowed to go outside to visit relatives, let alone stay outside for the night, everyone must stay at home to get rid of bad luck and drive out the poor ghosts.
This is just a folk story, and it can't be taken seriously, but in order to be auspicious, the dog warned everyone not to go to people's houses to play, and not to hold a broken bowl and hug the thighs of passers-by to ask for money.
The beggars, who were temporarily unemployed, lay in the beggars' nests one by one to chat and joke, and the clever plum wood used the dice made of hands and feet to play with the crowd, and then the New Year's money of these fools went into his pocket.
Then he said in front of everyone that he was responsible for buying food for everyone in the following New Year, which won the unanimous favor of everyone, and then he came to the dog to ask for a bag of brown rice, and went back to cook gruel for the beggars to drink.
In this way, this guy's position surpassed Liu Hong and became the second-in-command in the beggar's den.
Later, when the dog heard about this, he sent Dasha to ask him for money to buy brown rice, and Li Zimu, who couldn't beat Dasha, happily handed over the money.
These little beggars actually took the money to gamble, so there was no need to send it to them again, so the dog happily spent the fifth day of the new year.
On the sixth day of the first lunar month, those who need to go to distant relatives begin to go out, and they will probably rush home on the tenth day of the first lunar month.
Then the family waited for the grand Shangyuan Festival.
The cheerful days lasted until the end of the first month, when the yamen opened, the officials tried the case, and the officials urged the tax and then...
This is the life of ordinary people, and the little beggars who have no one to care about will have to live a different life.
No matter what kind of life, all the purpose of everyone, is to fill the stomach to be busy and non-stop, this busy is spring, summer, autumn and winter, if the wind and rain are smooth, the political communication and this day will be happier, if there is a natural disaster or man-made disaster, that day will be worse, one by one miserable, tighten the belt and stiffen.
So at the end of the year, the only days that can be relaxed are the first month.
When the adults are happy, the children are happy, but the children in Yukawa Castle can't play happily anymore this year, including the dogs.
"Brother Lang, there is another wave of people outside!"
The dog sighed and said, "Tell them to come back on the eighth day of the new year, well, go to the tea shop, don't come here!" ”
Gou Yu nodded and ran out.
After a while, he slowly walked in and said, "Brother Lang, they asked you what else you need to prepare?" ”
The dog covered his head and said: "You don't need to prepare anything, I just teach a few words randomly, if they really want to learn, they can learn from the appearance of Yue Dashuai, and each of them will prepare a sand table." ”
The dog ran out with a da, and before he could breathe, he walked back again, and saw him touching the back of his head, and said with a depressed face: "Brother Da Lang, there are still two people who are not leaving, saying that they will not leave until they remember their names!" ”
The dog got up from the rocking chair with a snap, and walked out angrily with the curse "The straight lady thief is still over".
Seeing that there was an old woman outside, the dog held back his anger and said, "Grandma, I don't need to remember my name here, you let your Xiaolang come earlier!" ”
The old woman said respectfully: "Xiao Langjun, what time is it in the morning?" ”
The dog coughed and said, "That, just come over after lunch!" ”
"Hey, it's so late, I can't learn a few words at the end of the day!" The old woman replied with a frown.
Dogs: ......
"Grandma, I'll teach a few words here, if you want the baby to learn more, then it's best to find an old pedant!"
The old woman shook her head and said, "If you find a gentleman to learn calligraphy, you have to pay a lot of money, and I can pay there!" ”
The dog pouted and said, "Then you let the baby come earlier!" ”
The old woman sighed, thanked her, and dragged the seven or eight-year-old baby next to her.