Chapter 177: The Long Night

It's the New Year, and the streets are bustling, and you can't see the chill brought by the cold weather at all. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 It is no wonder that the ancient language "jiāo basically relies on walking, communication basically relies on roaring, heating basically relies on shaking, and public security basically depends on dogs", which was applicable in the early Tang Dynasty, but the Chinese New Year fully illustrates the feasibility of "heating is also reliable and squeezing".

The Chun Festival can be said to be the oldest and most solemn festival in the land of China, which began as Shun took over as the Son of Heaven. After Shun took over as the Son of Heaven, his mood was extraordinary, since he was the "Son of Heaven", then he sacrificed himself to Lao Tzu - God! So Shun took his Xiǎo disciples to create the history of the Chun Festival. Before the Han Dynasty, the days of the Chun Festival were not fixed, and each dynasty had its own anniversary, such as the birthday of a certain elder or the day of the unification of the Central Plains, etc., which was not fixed until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. When Liu Che sat on the throne, he felt that the calendar was too luàn, and the holidays were not easy to arrange, and the annoyed people had a headache, so he asked Sima Qian as the team leader to drum up the "solar calendar", and all the holiday times were subject to the "solar calendar", and the day of the Chun Festival was also set.

In ancient times, the Chinese New Year was not called "Chun Festival", Chun Festival simply referred to "Li Chun", the ancient New Year's name was more luàn, but the title basically retained the words "Yuan", "Dan", "Zheng" and "Year", which was called "New Year's Day" in the early Tang Dynasty.

As the saying goes: xiǎo child xiǎo child you don't be greedy, after Laba is the year; Laba porridge, drink it for a few days, and it will be twenty-three; Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky; Twenty-four sweep the house; Twenty-five, frozen tofu; Twenty-six, go buy rou; Twenty-seven, Zai Gong Ji; Twenty-eighth, put the face hair; Twenty-nine, steamed steamed buns; Thirty nights to stay up for one night; The first and second days of junior high school are full of streets. However, the activities of the Tang Dynasty were not quite the same as those mentioned above.

Twenty-three is the Xie Zao Festival, which is also the last "immortal" in the sky in the year, at that time, pay attention to "the official three people, four boats and five", that is, there are official positions, knighthoods can be sacrificed in the twenty-third month of the twelfth month, the common people can only be in the twenty-fourth of the twelfth month, as for the boatman's status is lower, as long as the twenty-fifth of the lunar month. There is also a saying in Guanzhong now, "cars, boats, shops, feet, teeth, innocent should be killed", from here it may be seen that the ancient hierarchy was strict, don't look at the common people who can't eat enough, but also divided into three, six, nine and so on. (Looking deeper, we can also see the existence of class antagonism, hatred of the rich, and so on from this sentence.) To say that Xie Zao Festival, the happiest thing is to worship, a few days ago, he was still a boatman, only the twenty-fifth day of the month to sacrifice the stove, this identity has changed, can be in the twenty-fourth month of the month!

The Lord of the Stove may be the first immortal in recorded China, although the official position is not high, but the victory is in the wide management, from the emperor to the commoners, he can report to the heavenly court on everyone's affairs, so this sacrificial stove festival is very grand. It was the first time for Jin Yu to celebrate the Stove King Festival in the Tang Dynasty, which could be regarded as an eye-opener.

Jin Yu originally thought that it would be enough to worship some "beast candy" (the sugar cube of the Tang Dynasty, artificially nong into the shape of a beast), but he knew that Yang Ying said well, "The last immortal in heaven a year ago, it's hard enough for a year, so I should be more respectful." ”

Jin Yu nodded very modestly, let Yang Ying do it, follow the customs, don't be ashamed, it should be an entertainment activity for the New Year.

The sacrificial table was full, and the most striking thing was a whole sheep and two grass carp. Before going to the sacrificial table, Yang Ying also stuffed two pieces of gold into the belly of the fish with her own hands, and Jin Yu, who was watching, was dumbfounded, pointed to the fish and asked, "What is the saying about this?" ”

Yang Ying saw that there was no one left and right, and quietly explained to Jin Yu: "The travel fee for the Lord of the Stove has collected the benefits we have given, and it has also made the Lord of the Stove say more good things after going to heaven." ”

After listening to that sweat, Jin Yu didn't burn paper these days, it turned out that he was giving the gods a benefit fee like this! But it's okay, I sent away the king of the stove, this gold is still my own, and I can't lose it.

"Husband, I'm going to take it with my own hands, Uncle Chen is waiting for you, don't forget to bring it back later." Yang Ying frowned, feeling a very fishy smell on her hands, and she was about to wash her hands.

"Lady not going?" Jin Yu obediently picked up the big plate, good guy, it's not light, how can these two fish have five or six catties.

"What stupid thing is my husband talking about!" Yang Ying glanced at Jin Yu, "How can this stove prince come forward?" ”

"Why?" Jin Woo still didn't understand, everything was new to him.

"Husband's question is strange, the king of the stove is a man, and there is a difference between male NV!" Yang Ying said as a matter of course, "Husband, don't rub it off, the Lord of the Stove is also going to celebrate the New Year, don't let his old man wait in a hurry." Yang Ying waved her fishy paws and drove people out. ,

Jin Yu nodded modestly, it seems that the statement of "dirty Tang" is only limited to the royal family, and the common people are still very simple, very good, at least they don't worry about being cuckolded.

Jin Yu served the fish, and the sacrifice was all over. Chen Rui asked Jin Yu to put on three sticks of incense, and Jin Yu thought it was over, who knew that Chen Rui said: "Young master, I have to serve dessert to the king of the stove." ”

Jin Yu looked at the table, there was beast candy? "Isn't that there?"

Chen Rui looked at his main family, very helpless, and attached to Jin Yu's ear and said: "I want to spread honey on the mouth of the Lord of the Stove, so that his old man can say more sweet words for our family in front of God." ”

Jin Yu nodded, it seems that he pays a lot of attention to it, so he still follows the customs of the locals and does it! Speaking of cold days, what kind of sugar is still liquid? Chen Rui prepared huā honey, Jin Yu dipped it with his hand, and wiped it on the mouth of the stove prince, just like lipstick, shining in the firelight. Huā honey is a good thing, and his orchard can't produce much in a year, so he can't làng fee, Jin Yu put his finger in his mouth again, and Chen Rui, who had prepared a hot máo towel to let Jin Yu wipe his hands, was sweating profusely.

The hush money was also given, and the sweets were also eaten, and the king of the stove set off satisfied. Chen Rui also prepared a straw horse, which was well made and tied vividly. "What are you doing with all this grass?" Jin Woo asked, pointing to the hay next to the straw horse.

"Back to the young master, the rations for the mount of the Lord of the Stove." Chen Rui is still very quiet, for fear of being heard by others.

"Oh." Jin Yu nodded, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, it seems that Chen Rui is very thoughtful. "What's next?"

"It's time to send the Lord of the Stove to heaven." Chen Ruishen said to Jin Yu mysteriously: "Young master, you still have to recite words." ”

"Words? What word? "In later generations, this Stove King Festival was hosted by Grandpa Tang, Jin Yuguang followed in the fun, only to see Grandpa Tang burn some paper money, didn't pay attention to what else to say? Is it possible to compose poetry? The reason why Tang poetry became popular began here? Jin Woo discovers that he has Hye-geun who investigates the historical causes.

Chen Rui was helpless, his master didn't look very good at drumming, he was really white in this regard, "It's the twenty-third this year, and I salute the stove to the west." There are strong horses, there is forage, and the road is safe and windy. The sugar melon offered is sweet and sweet, please say good words to Yu Huangjin. ”

Jin Yu followed and repeated it twice, until Chen Rui confirmed that it was correct, and then invited the Lord of the Stove to the horse and started to light the fire. Jin Yu had words in his mouth, but he was thinking in his heart: It seems that it is not easy for the ancients to sacrifice to the gods, not only to have sacrifices or something, but also to have lines to match! It seems that it is not easy to be a qualified ancient!

"It's time to kowtow, right?" Looking at the pile of ashes in front of him, Jin Yu finally guessed a process correctly.

Chen Rui nodded, Jin Yu gave the Lord of the Stove three kowtows on the blanket that the subordinates had prepared a long time ago, and now it was finally over.

Coming to the house with the fish, Yang Ying had already washed her hands and waited for Jin Yu to come back after finishing her business. "It's time for the husband to dig out the gold this time." Yang Ying slyly flashed her eyelashes a few times, and refused to do it again, just now she was also doing it for the first time, but she didn't expect the fishy smell to be so difficult to remove, Yang Ying refused to do it herself.

Jin Yu scratched Yang Ying's nose and complied with his wishes. Grass carp is a good thing, and it is the best fish to make hot pot fish. "Why don't you use carp? How beautiful the carp is! It also has face on the sacrificial table. Jin Yu looked at the grass carp in his hand, and always felt that it was not as good as the carp, and those stickers and paper cuts in later generations were basically two fat dolls holding a carp, and I didn't see the New Year's picture of the grass carp, right?

"The surname of the heavenly family is Li, you have to avoid it." Yang Ying watched her husband deftly take out the gold from the fish belly and make up for her "idiot" husband.

"Oh." Jin Yu nodded, it seems that the Lord of the Stove has been stained with Li Er's light, and the grass carp is much more delicious than the carp! "It's enough to use one, and two làng fees can't be eaten."

Yang Ying glanced at Jin Yu, "There are more than every year, good things come in pairs, and two auspicious ones." ”

Jin Yu greeted Yang Ying with fishy hands, "How dare you look down on your husband?" Look at the moves! I can't kill you mermaid! ”

"Ahh Husband, spare your life! Yang Ying was pushed to the corner by Jin Yu, covering her face with her hands, not daring to look at Jin Yu, like an ostrich, she couldn't take care of it'''''' but Jin Yu didn't use her hands, it was indeed too fishy, and she rubbed her wrist against it, "Don't fight for three days, go to the house and uncover the tiles!" Wait, don't sleep until you finish eating tonight! ”

The seasonings are all ready-made, and the peppers have been taken out of the seeds, so you can use them with confidence, and it will be enough for the peppers to open a restaurant next year. Jin Yu was not polite, processed the two fish, cut them into slices, and threw them into the pot. When it came out of the pot, the container stumped Jin Yu, eating hot pot, it was not elegant enough to use a fried scoop. Jin Yu looked around the kitchen, and the yellow, orange and orange washing basin attracted Jin Yu's attention. Made of pure copper, the big xiǎo is just right, and it is perfect to take it to the intersection of squatting! ,

"Husband uses this to hold fish?" Yang Ying's eyes widened in disbelief, as if she saw UFO's expression.

"Big surprise! Quickly put the lid off the stove. "The thermal conductivity of copper is excellent, although Jin Yu has a layer of white cloth under his hands, but the distance from the kitchen to the bedroom, the white cloth can no longer play a role in heat insulation.

"If the concubine doesn't eat, it's dirty!" Yang Ying frowned, looking at the white, white, red and red pieces in the pot, she had no appetite at all.

"Don't regret not eating." Jin Yu stirred the spoon twice, and the fragrance came to his nose, and for those who had not eaten, youhuo was extraordinarily big.

Seeing Yang Ying sniffing and swallowing saliva, Jin Yu smiled, and the thief felt satisfied. Beautiful wine, it would be nice if there was another bottle of Wuliangye or something, but fortunately, a few days ago, Cheng Huaimo sent some wine and was locked in the cellar by Yang Ying. "Bring the keys! You are only allowed to see but not eat, and wait for your husband to come back. "Jin Yu robbed Yang Ying's key, Yang Ying, the housekeeper, is now in charge, not only chaining the key to the treasury to her waist, but also the key to the cellar.

Yang Ying looked at Jin Yu with disdain, as if she didn't care about the hot pot fish, but her saliva swallowing expression betrayed her. When Jin Yu came back with the wine, Yang Ying couldn't help but eat, "It's delicious, right?" Jin Yu asked with a smile.

"So-so!" Yang Ying learned Jin Yu's tone and said, "Don't use this pot next time, how dirty it is!" If you want to eat, let's order a basin again. ”

"Done!" Jin Yu was also hungry, so he grabbed a piece of fish and threw it in his mouth, and sucked it hot, but the fish rou with egg whites was fragrant and tender. "Come, lady have a drink too!" Jin Yu poured two glasses of wine, and the porcelain cup could only be said to be okay, if there were a pair of tall glasses.

Yang Ying didn't refuse her husband's proposal, but she took the wine jar, how could she let a big man pour wine for herself? She's very fu-like. Yang Ying likes to drink this wine very much, it is sweet, the taste of the wine is a little light, and after drinking, her head is dizzy after drinking, just like lying on the cotton huā, very comfortable.

"Don't just eat rou, eat some bean sprouts, meat and vegetarian combinations, it tastes more fragrant." Jin Yu gave Yang Ying two chopsticks and bean sprouts, it would be better if there was celery, but unfortunately there were no greenhouse vegetables at this time. The tea house only grows a limited number of vegetables, but there is no shortage of bean sprouts, and Jin Yu has some at home, which is a beautiful scenery on the dinner table in winter.

Yang Ying is left to swallow her tongue, Jin Yu's exclusive formula, coupled with pure natural materials, is very fragrant! If it weren't for Jin Yu not picking out the fish bones, Yang Ying would have eaten a few points faster.

The two of them eat hot pot around a stove in winter, and drink wine from time to time, which is very warm. After a while, the two of them were already eating with a big belly, and there was nothing left of the two fish except the tail and head. Jin Yu's unproductive loose belt pulled the fish head with chopsticks, "As the saying goes, 'fish are treasures all over the body, and fish heads are nutritious and lead the way', this thing replenishes the brain, one for each person." ”

Yang Ying is not like Jin Yu's loose belt that he doesn't care about, but he still glanced at Jin Yu, raised his head and took a deep breath, but he didn't refuse Jin Yu's suggestion to eat fish heads.

"Let's clean it up tomorrow! The concubine even ate tomorrow's meal, and she really couldn't move. Yang Ying mossed her stomach after eating, as if there was a baby in it, she looked very uneducated, did she get to her intestines so quickly after eating? I'm sure I'm still lingering in my stomach.

"Done." Jin Yu was like a stream, he also ate a lot, raised his hand and picked up a pot lid and lid it, regardless of whether it was a match or not. "Drink some hawthorn water to Kehua Kehua, xiǎo heart in the middle of the night stomach ache." Hawthorn can not only be made into sugar gourd, it is also good to boil some hawthorn water, add more sugar, sweet and sour is particularly delicious.

Yang Ying obediently poured a cup for Jin Yu first, "Don't be busy sleeping, the husband will accompany the concubine to talk." ”

Jin Yu nodded, waved his hand and drove Yang Ying aside, this copper pot is very hot, how can you let your own daughter-in-law suffer this crime? It's better to have thicker skin, even if it's hot, you can find a way to ask for some comfort from Yang Ying, hehe.

"How did the lady think of stuffing gold into the belly of the fish?" Jin Yu is very curious, this is nothing if it is placed in the future generations, after all, in the era of hollowing out the heart to give gifts, there are all kinds of huā, but in ancient times, it was different, is there such an "elegant" way to bribe now?

"What's so strange about that? Chen Sheng and Wu Guang all know that if you stuff letters into the belly of the fish, you can't stuff the concubine with gold? Yang Ying still thinks that there is nothing to question this, it is as natural as drinking water and eating. ,

"Oh." Jin Yu nodded, as long as he didn't learn to bribe, although the law is few now, it is very strict, and if he embezzles thirty pieces of cloth, he will take off a layer of skin, which is very terrifying, no wonder there were few embezzlers in the Li Er period, who is not afraid of such a heavy punishment? If he embezzled tens of thousands of yuan and was only sentenced to a labor camp, it is estimated that Li Er would follow in the footsteps of his cousin. "Chen Sheng, Wu Guangchao, stuffed the letter into the fish's stomach, that's, right? What kind of paper is not afraid of getting wet? "Jin Yu likes to check the bugs of these ancients with his daughter-in-law after dinner, which is a very interesting intellectual game.

"People use cloth, of course they are not afraid of getting wet, how can there be paper at the end of Qin?" Yang Ying glanced at Jin Yu weakly, the ignorance that her husband occasionally showed was really a headache, but fortunately, there were no outsiders.

"Cloth doesn't work either, does it? Isn't ink afraid of water? Fish belly biography is! Jin Yu obviously didn't believe Yang Ying's statement, although Chen Sheng and Wu Guang used Mi Xin to achieve their goal of raising troops, but this statement was obviously unreasonable.

"Who said that 'Fish Belly Story' is the use of fish? Haven't you seen a letter sent by someone else? Yang Ying is used to Jin Yu criticizing the "ancients" he said, but this "fish belly biography" Jin Yu is obviously not as clear as he knows.

Jin Yu shook his head, he didn't expect that there was a developed postal system now, and he didn't know if he also had to put stamps or something like that.

"Paper is a precious thing, scholars are reluctant to use paper to seal letters, and bamboo paper has also been seen, brittle very, can not withstand rou folding, so someone uses two bamboo boards to sandwich the letter in the middle to protect the letter. Over time, this bamboo board became the shape of a fish, so there is a saying of 'fish belly biography'. Yang Ying patiently explained to her husband.

"Oh, I see." Jin Yu nodded, he didn't expect the ancients to be so wise, probably because there was no physical unearthed, so most people in later generations mistakenly thought that it was really a fish to pass the family letter, if it was really a fish, it was estimated that a little farther away, and when the letter was received, the fish would stink, right? "Taught for the sake of my husband!" Jin Yu joked with Yang Ying.

Yang Ying shook her head, didn't answer Jin Yu's words, and sighed: "Alas! The concubine regretted it, and the fish head just now should have been given to her husband to eat. ”

"Why? But are you too late? Jin Yu asked worriedly.

"Didn't the husband say what to eat and what to make up? You should make up for your brains, stupid! After Yang Ying finished speaking, she fell on the table and laughed, her shoulders chou and chou, it seemed that she was very happy to win back a game.

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"Bold! How dare you laugh at your husband! Look at the move, the dragon grasps! "Jin Yu has made a move with cooperation, and now the two of them are fighting and fighting, and the relationship is harmonious and tight." Raise your eyebrows"? Whatever you do, you must first be polite, and you must first say "Lady, you want to inherit the family for your husband, and you have to cooperate with the mother." Then the lady lay motionless on the chuáng, and did not dare to make a sound, for fear that her husband would say that she had no virtue. What's the fun of a day like this? Anyway, it's not as happy as Jin Yu's family, as for raising the case and raising eyebrows'''''' shelving it away.

"The concubine's stomach is very strong, and the husband spared the concubine." Yang Ying was puffed up by Jin Yu, and her face was crimson and begged for mercy.

"It's out of the way, it's okay from behind, hehe."

"Husband'''''' '''''' Lamp"

"Husband", "Slow down", "Night", "It's still long''''''"

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