It was drizzling in Kaifeng City, the boats coming and going on the wharf were still busy, and there were more and more pedestrians coming and going on the street.

In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival is coming, and the time is about to be drawn to the second year of Jianlong.

This is what the people who have experienced five generations of war have ever seen, the best times, the benevolent acts of the Zhao and Song official families one after another, not only increased the rations for the river workers, but also reduced taxes from all walks of life a lot, the city is thriving, the countryside is also busy sowing, and the whole country is rich and happy.

This year was actually not peaceful, Li Yun and Li Chongjin rebelled one after another, and the new official family drove the expedition in person, but it can be said that the fight was crisp and neat, and the flowers fell smoothly.

Li Yun's official army in April was gone in June, Li Chongjin's army in September was gone in November, and the common people had not had time to fight the same enemy, the battle was over, and the imperial court did not even charge a penny more in taxes from the people.

The common people naturally recognized Zhao Kuangyin's new court more, and the people's hearts of the new official family are now as stable as Mount Tai, so they can fight and are such a good official family to the people, and the stepmother does not support it, and has long forgotten what the Hou Zhou is.

With the news of Li Chongjin's defeat and death came back, the hearts of the people of Kaifeng City were also put into their stomachs steadily.

Don't say that it is ordinary people, even princes and ministers have to work hard for the New Year, Sun Yue and his family are naturally no exception, this is the first year that their grandfather spent in the Great Song Dynasty.

At this time last year, because of the funeral for Chai Rong, most of the celebrations were stopped, and before he could turn around, he caught up with Zhao Kuangyin to change the dynasty, and he really hadn't seen what the New Year was like.

In the past year, the changes in their family's life have also been earth-shaking, last year this time they just crossed over, and they still can't eat enough, and this year, relying on Zhao Guangyi's help, their family has already put half of the street down, the business is booming, and they can have an income of hundreds of yuan every day with their eyes closed, and they are already the richest people in Nancheng.

Changing into newly made Shu brocade clothes, Sun Yue and Cao Jun, Cao Nier and others gave Cao's mother a New Year's greeting together, Cao's mother took out a few broken cakes with a smile, and the baby seemed to have to give them a few children, and they had to kowtow and thank you.

Over the years, Cao's mother's Alzheimer's disease has become more and more serious, more and more confused, less and less sober, obviously dressed in silk and satin, sometimes holding a broken bowl to ask for food everywhere, and from time to time Lao Cao and Sun Chunming will admit mistakes, in terms of medical technology in the Song Dynasty, there are not a few years to live, and the whole family is trying to coax her to be happy.

went to Sun Chunming's New Year's greetings and took the official New Year's money, and everyone had a full amount of silver, which was definitely a big deal for a child, and Cao Jun was so happy that the snot bubbles came out.

Now the relationship between the two of them is more like the proprietor and the shopkeeper, and Sun Chunming almost doesn't ask about business matters, and it is all Lao Cao in Zhang Luo.

After the expansion of the store, more than 20 people have been hired one after another, storytelling, singing, juggling, and all kinds of food, and it has become the most willing place for people in Nancheng to come when they are idle, Cao Nier and Cao Jun naturally stopped helping, but the real big thing is that Sun Chunming is in charge.

Of course, there are generally no major events in the store, so generally Sun Chunming doesn't care about anything, and the old party is the same.

Sun Yue is rare and does not stay at home to study, the Chinese New Year, why don't you let people relax, it is easy to be myopic if you don't understand the combination of work and rest, and the Northern Song Dynasty can't find a place to wear glasses, so he simply let go of himself and played crazy with a group of bear children.

The New Year of the Northern Song Dynasty, for children, is not much different from the economic difficulties of later generations, new clothes, new shoes, eating delicious, these are the three major hopes, in addition to some New Year's customs and the like, there was gunpowder in the early Song Dynasty, that is to say, most of the people will light firecrackers during the New Year, and the bamboo charms have also begun to be made of paper, which is similar to the Spring Festival couplets in later generations.

It's just one thing, a project that the bear children played very happily for, which scared Sun Yue's face green, but it was a bad habit that was no longer in later generations, called begging for wishes.

It is said that this wish-fulfillment is a handmaiden with high mana, who can fulfill people's wishes, and the ghost knows why she is a god but a handmaiden, the so-called begging wish, is to make a little cotton man with cotton cloth, tied with a rope, on behalf of the handmaiden called wish-fulfilling.

Then, throw this little cotton man into the dung heap to beat her, saying that this wish-fulfillment goddess is more shy, and she will only come out if she needs to beat her hard, so that she can fulfill your New Year's wish (this is not the original intention of begging for wishes, but it is rumored that the folk have become like this).

Therefore, the Chinese really do not have any tradition of respecting the gods, and the ancients would actually think that if the gods are beaten, the gods can fulfill their wishes, and if they can't beat them, they will hit the.

What the hell is this new clothes that I just put on, and I go to with a wooden stick, how brain-dead does it have to be? Even if it doesn't stink in winter, it's still! struggled and wanted to run, but was held down by Cao Nier, and had to ask him to fight.

The child is a female baby's body, and Cao Nier is several years older than him physically, he can't break free for a while, and the two of them are in a stalemate on the edge of the dung heap, but they see Cao Jun running crazy and holding a cannon in his hand.

This kind of artillery battle with gunpowder twist was only just emerging in the Northern Song Dynasty, so only the rich and noble could afford to play, and it was the first time for Commander Cao to play so big, so he was extremely excited, only to see him light a cannon battle, and ran over with a big grin: "Sister and Brother Yue dodge, I'll blow her up." ”

Sun Yue was so frightened that he shouted: "Brother, don't be impulsive! ”

It's a pity that it was too late, Cao Jun was extremely accurate, and just threw the cannon into the pile of dung, and the frightened Sun Yue and Cao Nier's faces completely changed on the spot, and they ran away.

Cao Jun didn't run, but laughed at his sister and Sun Yue for being timid, while sticking his waist and grinning loudly.

After a while, I heard a muffled sound: "Poof~~"

During the Chinese New Year, Cao Jun cried miserably. In the morning, he was collapsed by feces, and in the afternoon, he was beaten by Lao Cao.

But this is still what children play, and what adults play with is very different from what they will do in later generations.

Sun Yue waited, looked forward to, and finally waited for the old party to come over to pay New Year's greetings, and when Sun Chunming was not paying attention, a fierce man rushed into his arms and said: "Uncle Fang, hurry up, take it to play." ”

Among the three adults in the family, only this one is the most unsix, the so-called no six, that is to say, only he will take Sun Yue to those places that are not suitable for children, to be honest, Sun Yue is really not interested in a cannon fight and kicking a shuttlecock or something, but this is not suitable for children, he really wants to see and understand.