Chapter 59: The Year of the Tiger Has Arrived

Since the Plum Blossom Poetry Club, Zhong Hao has been thinking about tea and dinner all day long......

After Xu Feng came to see Zhong Hao once, he concluded that he was sick with lovesickness. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

Xu Feng was very interested in this matter, and asked with a smile at the moment, "Come on, tell me, which little lady does Wen Xuan fall in love with?" The third brother will help you with the staff officer! ”

Zhong Hao said with a bitter face: "Alas, the little brother doesn't know which little lady it is, if only he knew, it would be a glimpse of it during the Runyuan Poetry Club!" ”

"Runyuan Poetry Club? Then go and ask Shouqian, maybe he knows! ”

Xu Feng pulled Zhong Hao to ask Cui Ye, but the result of asking Cui Ye was not satisfactory.

Zhong Hao just glanced at it that day, remembering the face and clothes of the beautiful woman, but there was no photo equipment at this time, and based on his pale description, Cui Ye couldn't tell who the beautiful woman was, after all, there were too many handsome men and beautiful women in Runyuan that day.

Zhong Hao's state of mourning lasted until the end of the year, only to be diluted by the joyful atmosphere of the New Year.

From the twenty-third year of the lunar month, Feng's snack shop was closed. The people of the Great Song Dynasty generally began to prepare for the New Year after the New Year.

Since childhood, Zhong Hao's family has been busy for the New Year, preparing New Year goods, steaming rice cakes, and cutting new clothes, and the three of them have been busy until Chinese New Year's Eve.

The taste of the year in the future seems to be very light, and Zhong Hao's family only has him and his little sister, there is no elder to operate, the taste of the year is even lighter, he and the little sister generally eat something good on Chinese New Year's Eve, this year is over.

Coming to this world, with Feng's control, Zhong Hao fully felt the original ancient New Year customs.

Both the natural residence and the cloud gate study have sent year-end dividends, and at the same time, there are also Wang blacksmiths from the blacksmith shop on Xieliu Street.

The stove with a chimney made by Blacksmith Wang this winter sold well, and as for this stove and chimney, Zhong Hao naturally taught him.

The wealthy people of the Great Song Dynasty generally built a ground dragon at home, which was burned in winter and naturally warm. But poor families don't have this condition, and they usually just get a charcoal basin.

At the beginning of winter, when Feng added a charcoal basin to Zhong Hao's house, Zhong Hao stopped him. Not to mention the smoke and fire in the house made by this thing of the charcoal basin, it is easy to be poisoned by charcoal gas when you fall asleep at night. So Zhong Hao moved out the furnace of the later generations, which was originally built by Wang Blacksmith, but he didn't expect to be seen by Wang Blacksmith as a business opportunity. Nowadays, the stove of Wang's blacksmith's house is selling well in Qingzhou City, this thing is much warmer than a charcoal pot, and it can also cook and boil water, which is very practical.

Speaking of the poor families at this time, the winter is really difficult. Nowadays, cotton is far from being popularized, and ordinary people in the Great Song Dynasty still mainly use linen clothes. Poor people, in winter, most of them can only put layers of linen single clothes on their bodies, ten layers of single is not as good as a layer of cotton, and it is still difficult to endure in the cold winter. Of course, at this time, there are also so-called winter clothes, which are generally filled with catkins, reed flowers or broken hemp wool in the middle of two layers of linen, although not as warm as cotton, but somewhat warmer than wearing single clothes. There are also people who will get some leather to wear, this is still relatively warm, of course, there are not many poor people who can wear skin.

Of course, wealthy families are better off, and generally wear fur coats, or satin winter coats filled with silk wool, which are very warm. Zhong Hao is now also a wealthy man with a small amount of money, so he naturally has a fur to wear, and he will not freeze in winter.

In any case, Zhong Hao made the furnace in advance, which made the poor people of the Great Song Dynasty much better in winter.

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Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one. In ancient times, every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, people would take off the old peach charm hanging on the door and replace it with a new peach charm to pray for a safe and prosperous new year. In the Great Song Dynasty, the peach charm had actually been gradually replaced by Spring Festival couplets. But Feng still likes the peach talisman very much, saying that it can ward off evil spirits, so in addition to a pair of Spring Festival couplets on the door of Zhong Hao's house, there are two more peach talismans engraved with the pattern of the door god.

Next year is the Year of the Tiger, this Spring Festival couplet was written by Zhong Hao himself, and he originally wrote several pairs, but Feng felt that this "Spring Breeze Magnificent Exhibition" was the best, and she hoped that next year Zhong Hao would be able to study hard and show his ambitions, and he arranged for Zhong Hao and Wan'er to paste this Spring Festival couplet.

Last night's heavy snowfall, white everywhere, but the red Spring Festival couplets pasted on the doors of every household on Chinese New Year's Eve today are more festiveβ€”β€”

The sound of firecrackers to remove the old year.

As soon as the time came, I remembered the crisp sound of firecrackers everywhere, and the new year came.

Zhong Hao, who was guarding the New Year, heard the sound of firecrackers everywhere, and also took incense sticks with great interest and went to the courtyard to light his own firecrackers. The so-called firecrackers, the Great Song Dynasty used to put the bamboo into the charcoal pot to make it burst and make a sound. When it came to the firecrackers of the Great Song Dynasty at this time, the folk began to generally use paper tubes and hemp stems wrapped in gunpowder to make strings to make "woven cannons", which were already very similar to the firecrackers of later generations.

Zhong Hao lit the "cannon", covered his ears and ran at the door of the north house, and the "cannon" made a crackling sound.

When Wan'er and Feng heard the sound of firecrackers, they both covered their ears vigorously, but they didn't enter the house, they still stood at the door of the north room, looking at the bursting "cannons" one by one, with happy smiles on their faces.

When they got up early in the morning, Zhong Hao and Wan'er both stepped forward to pay New Year's greetings to Feng's family, Feng smiled and accepted the salute of the two, took out two heavy red envelopes from his sleeves, and gave Zhong Hao and Wan'er a big New Year's red envelope.

Although Zhong Hao is not short of money now, he still happily took it, since his grandfather died, Zhong Hao received New Year's money for the first time.

Zhong Hao and Wan'er both wore Feng's new clothes today, and both of them were wearing fox furs with excellent coat colors.

Zhong Hao's fox fur is covered with a woven satin shirt, this year Zhong Hao's body is long, he is already quite strong, in Feng's opinion, this time Zhong Hao looks quite personable, like a good son in the wind of a jade tree.

Wan'er's shirt is not covered, her fox fur is sewn on the opposite side of several high-quality fox skins, both sides are soft fur, and the placket is lined with a collar made of fire fox tails, Wan'er's pink and tender face is even more delicate against the fiery red collar.

Feng passed on a satin winter coat lined with silk wool today, and people also looked glorious.

Feng Shi looked at Zhong Hao and the cute and lovely Wan'er in the Yushu, smiled very relieved, and was a little sad, she thought of her husband and her own husband.

But the sadness is only for a moment, and when I think about it, my husband will know that he and his daughter are living happily, and he will definitely be very relieved.

Thinking of this, Feng's eyes looking at Zhong Hao were full of gratitude and tenderness, if there was no Zhong Hao, I am afraid that she and Wan'er would still be lonely and helpless now-

Feng took Zhong Hao and Wan'er to the neighborhood to pay New Year's greetings.

After the neighbors finished worshipping the New Year, Feng and Wan'er went to the neighborhood to visit them.

Zhong Hao first went to Songlin Academy to pay New Year's greetings to Xu Shanchang, then went to Cui's Mansion, and then went to Guanfang's house after coming back. Zhong Hao didn't know many people in Qingzhou, but today he is very provincial.

Soon after Zhong Hao returned home, the Gao Deli brothers brought Xiaohuzi to pay New Year's greetings.

Zhong Hao was a little complacent, hehe, at least there are juniors who have come to pay New Year's greetings to him.

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ps: Zhong Hao sighed: "Alas, this is the New Year, I haven't received a few recommended tickets!" ”