Chapter 62 New Year's Money
In a blink of an eye, it was the day of the New Year, Xu Deshan was supposed to get up and run in the morning on this day, but he didn't expect that he got up on the fifth watch, and the two housewives got up earlier, I heard that Xu Deshan was going to run today, so he pulled Xu Deshan alive and didn't let him go, dragged Xu Deshan to the house, took out a new dress from top to bottom for Xu Deshan, and asked Xu Deshan to change in.
Xu Deshan took the clothes in his hand and felt a little embarrassed, because since Xu Deshan opened a school to teach, he got up early and was greedy for darkness, so he moved out from Zhang's place and had his own independent room, and now in front of the two housewives, he asked Xu Deshan to take off and change his clothes, and he was really embarrassed to fight first.
Xu Deshan was more entangled, peeking at the two housewives, Zhang's Wang was a little strange at first, and then he saw that Xu Deshan's eyes were wrong, and then he reacted, Wang smiled: "You little thing, just moved out for a few months, you know that you are shy, you took a bath and wore clothes when you were a child, and we didn't wash it for you, what do you have, don't we know yet." ”
Zhang's Wang said, but he didn't feel sorry for Xu Deshan anymore, he gave Xu Deshan the clothes and asked him to go back to his house to wear them, Xu Deshan touched his nose, quickly ran away with his clothes, and returned to his own house, Xu Deshan didn't change his heart, but looking at the meaning of the two housewives, it seemed that if he didn't wear them, the two of them would start to pick them up, and Xu Deshan still obediently changed them.
The New Year's clothes are a little different from the usual, usually Xu Deshan likes to wear plain and simple clothes, but when it comes to the New Year, it is not enough to wear such clothes, you see Xu Deshan's current body, red and green, just like the boy on the New Year's painting, Xu Deshan feels that after wearing it, he doesn't know which leg to take first.
When I went out again, the Xu Mansion had already gotten up, seeing that the sky was not yet dawn, so the red lanterns were hung up and down the Xu Mansion, and the atmosphere of the New Year was brought out at once, Xu Deshan counted it roughly, and couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, the whole house must not ask for dozens of lanterns, and the candles consumed alone are not a small amount of money, when did the Xu Mansion become so rich.
Soon, Xu Deshan knew why the whole house was so excited about the New Year this year, and he was happy, not long after the Xu Mansion opened the door, there were people outside who came to pay New Year's greetings, which is also normal, the New Year, it is normal etiquette to greet each other, and there were many people who came to Xu Mansion to pay New Year's greetings during the New Year in previous years, but at the beginning, the people who came were all relatives of the Xu family or villagers in Fuping Township, but how many of these people were there, after they left, the people who came to Xu Mansion did not decrease at all, look carefully, They are all students from those schools, and they still hold some gifts in their hands, which is also normal, Chinese pay attention to three festivals and two birthdays, and going to the teacher's house to see it during the New Year is also a manifestation of respecting the teacher, which is worth advocating.
And after these people left, it was not over, led by Ma Changqing, as long as there were some famous merchants and scholars in Gaoyang County, they all sent people, and it was even more amazing later, and Li Ding, the judge of Liu Xian of Yanzhou Zhizhou, also sent people, with these two adults taking the lead, the officials at the state level in Yanzhou also sent people to pay New Year's greetings.
It was only now that Xu Deshan began to admire the wise actions made by the two housewives before, if it wasn't for the full preparation before, otherwise it would be difficult for even the people who came to drink a bowl of tea on average today, there were too many people coming, Xu Caizheng couldn't entertain alone, so Xu Deshan thought of an idea, so Ma Changqing was detained here by Xu Deshan since he came here, from a guest to a welcomer, helping Xu Caizheng take care of the front and back, even so, this day almost made Xu Caizheng run and break his leg and bend his waist.
In fact, the most tired person on this day should be Xu Deshan, everyone who comes here knows why there can be such a big movement in the Xu Mansion this year, not because the Xu family has a Xu Deshan, this little guy, but with the appeasement of Jia Changchao sat opposite the adult, the character who talked at night and candlelight, in the future, the future is limitless, but Xu Deshan is good at everything, he just doesn't like trouble, there are too many people at a glance, and they are all running for themselves, at this juncture of the New Year, although he has some reputation, but the biggest shortcoming is that he is too young, Seeing that everyone has to pretend to be a grandson, if someone bows at this time, wouldn't he have to break his waist at the end of the day, so Xu Deshan simply found an opportunity and hid it, no one could find it, so he spent the day in this way.
Xu Deshan is hiding, but the guests who come can't see the protagonist, where can they not be in a hurry, so how to solve this problem fell on Xu Caizheng's body, Xu Caizheng secretly scolded Xu Deshan in his heart, and at the same time he had to prevaricate for Xu Deshan, and Xu Caizheng, who also lost his brain, claimed that Xu Deshan went out to pay New Year's greetings, and he didn't know where he went, and he didn't know when he would come back.
This excuse is very lame, but it makes a lot of sense, the people who come here are also mixed in the system, where I don't know what it means behind it, this is Xu Deshan doesn't want to see himself, this is to be put in the officialdom, it is definitely a taboo, or not, but who called Xu Caizheng to find a good reason, so everyone said goodbye, please Xu Caizheng conveyed his family's admiration for Xu Deshan.
Of course, there are more guests coming, the house is chaotic, so many people come together, who came and who didn't come, and no one remembers, in order to prevent this from happening, people have already had rules, that is, to hand over the stickers, so that when the host counts in the future, it can be classified, and the calculation of whose good or bad is not.
You see the big New Year, if it is a huge post, how ugly it is to write a name on it, so under the post, you have to write some more. The content is full, what is good to write, it is naturally the best to write a gift list, so that it seems more sincere, for this reason, Xu Fuli specially found four strong people from the door to carry things to the backyard, a huge backyard, it was occupied by all kinds of things, there was no gap.
This is nothing, the things sent for the New Year, always have to be in response to the situation, otherwise people will be said to have ulterior motives, so most of these gifts are rice noodles and meat and other food, but people say that they came to Xu Deshan, Xu Deshan is only four years old, according to the customs of the Chinese, if you see a child, the New Year is to give the New Year money, although I did not see Xu Deshan's face, but the money that should be given, everyone did not leave a penny, the county, the state, and even the red envelopes in the government were piled up on the table like snowflakes, the least inside, It also started with one or two silver, and the two ladies helped Xu Deshan to sum up, and this red envelope alone received no less than 1,000 taels of silver on this day.
When the guests finished leaving in the evening, when Xu Deshan came out, he saw the earth-shaking changes in Xu's mansion in one day, his eyes were round, and then he saw the red envelopes that had been placed in his house like a hill, Xu Deshan finally truly realized the prosperity and wealth of the Great Song Dynasty.
Xu Deshan grew up in Xu Mansion before, even if he is not a rich family, he should be regarded as the middle class, Xu Caizheng has a monthly pension, and his family still has dozens of acres of land, and he lives a leisurely life every year, without worrying about food and clothing, Xu Deshan thinks that this is very good, the Great Song Dynasty can have such a productive force, which is unimaginable in the previous dynasty, but until today, Xu Deshan knows that he is wrong, and he is completely wrong, he sits in the well and watches the sky, and underestimates the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty, what Xu Mansion, What kind of middle class, compared with these people who come today, Xu Fu can be regarded as a poor peasant who can't starve to death at most.
Look at other people's handwritings, Xu Deshan found the red envelopes of several large local households in Gaoyang County, took them out and looked at them, there are six or seven copies, all wrapped in twenty taels of silver, it should be sent together with the negotiated amount, it seems that if it is not discussed in advance, I am afraid that it is possible for someone to send a hundred taels of silver.
In contrast, when Xu Cai admired Fan Zhongyan so much and asked Xu Deshan to worship Fan Zhongyan, he only gave one or two pieces of silver, so he knew how generous and cool the real big family was, how good it was, and how much money was not appropriate.
People are sometimes like this, when they have no money in their hands, they always think about what will happen when they have money, but when they really have money, they find that they don't know what to do, Xu Deshan is like this, after pouring out all the silver and piling it on the bed and sleeping for three days, Xu Deshan began to dislike the silver burp ass, and handed it over to the Zhang Wang family for safekeeping, and then he went to prepare for the new year's course.
The start of the new year is set on the sixteenth day of the first month, since the Spring Festival has passed, then it is not far from spring, and these people can stay in the school for a long time.
After another half a month, it was almost time to sow seeds, and I couldn't eat when I went to school, and everyone had their own life at home, so under the auspices of Xu Deshan, Gaoyang School conducted the final exam of the first batch of students, and then, everyone went back to their respective homes, and each looked for their own mothers.
There are fewer students, Xu Deshan is naturally relaxed, he has more time to stay at home, or read, or think about things, or do nothing, sit there quietly in a daze, of course, Xu Deshan will occasionally play with Xu Jing, the world seems to have suddenly returned to the previous calm, but suddenly one day, Xu Deshan found that the original crisis, unconsciously, has come.