Chapter 40: Chinese New Year (2-in-1)
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On the contrary, because Chinese New Year's Eve is approaching, the people and townspeople who have been busy for a year are happy to buy New Year's goods and prepare for the New Year.
The Inspection Department also gave the archers of the Inspection Department a seven-day vacation on the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, while Zhang Shihua could not go home because of the particularity of his official position, so he could only write a few letters to his family and exchange letters to Guo Weier to ease the thoughts in his heart.
Seeing that the previously lively inspection department was suddenly empty, and on the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, no one could help but miss the family members who had not been seen for a long time, Zhang Shihua looked at the originally active Zhang Shihui and the donkey brothers, and they knew that they also missed their families in the past few days.
And the other people who stayed in the inspection department were in a similar state to them, yes, the archers of the inspection department did not all leave, or less than ten people remained in the inspection department, including Yang Er, whose parents died early, were injured and disabled, Xu Gan, who was a single person without a family, etc., and several archers who were similar to them.
Seeing these people in low spirits, Zhang Shihua also became emotional.
Zhang Shihua obviously didn't want his last peaceful Chinese New Year's Eve to pass like this, so Zhang Shihua went to the front yard and asked Brother Donkey to gather all the rest of the inspection department.
Because there were not many people, the speed of the assembly was very fast, Zhang Shihua stood in front of the lobby and looked at the dozen or so people in the courtyard, cleared his throat and said to everyone: Brothers, I know that you are all homesick, some people want to go home, and some want to have a home. Speaking of this, Zhang Shihua paused, looked at the donkey brothers below and said: Those brothers who can't go back to their homes, I, Zhang Shihua, say sorry to you, I have worked hard for you this year.
Then Zhang Shihua said to the other archers; And those brothers who do not have a home, our inspection department is your home, and I, Zhang Shihua, am your eldest brother, and my eldest brother is very happy to be able to keep vigil with you this year for Chinese New Year's Eve.
Speaking of this, Zhang Shihua walked up to the archers, patted them on the shoulder from the injured Yang Er, and said their names.
Second son, after the injury is healed, don't forget to promise the eldest brother, the eldest brother will still wait for you to be an instructor next year; Liu Wu, good boy, you and Erniu were the first people to stay in our inspection department, and they were weak like bean sprouts at the beginning, but now they are also good men; Wang Qi, the most fatal thing you Shili to fight in the war is your kid, said and hammered his chest, this year with the eldest brother to keep vigil for Chinese New Year's Eve.
In this way, Zhang Shihua patted the shoulders of the archers and walked by, and he also said the names, nicknames and stories of the archers.
When he walked in front of the four of them, Zhang Shihua looked at the four of them, Brother Donkey, Brother Lu, Thirteen, and Zhao Er, hugged them one by one, and said to them: Good brother, thank you for your hard work.
After letting go of the four of them, Zhang Shihua looked at Zhang Shihui who was standing next to him, the brothers looked at each other, the two suddenly laughed, Zhang Shihua hammered Zhang Shihui's chest and said: He is worthy of being the man of our Zhang family.
Then Zhang Shihua walked in front of everyone again, looking at the red circles in his eyes and everyone: What expressions do you all have, why don't you want to spend Chinese New Year's Eve with your eldest brother.
When everyone heard Zhang Shihua's words, they wiped the tears from their eyes one by one, and said to Zhang Shihua: Yes.
Okay, Zhang Shihua's eyes also turned red as he spoke, and he said to the archer in front of him: Then let's not be stunned here, we haven't prepared anything, and we don't want to buy New Year's goods.
After speaking, he asked Brother Donkey to take a few people to the town to buy New Year's goods.
After a while, Brother Donkey and the others bought things, and the vegetables were not available at this time, but they bought a lot of wine and meat.
After shopping, they set up two tables in the courtyard and drank happily in the courtyard.
The wine and food in front of them made the archers of the Inspection Division forget their homesickness for a while, and they drank, ate, and sang together, as if they had forgotten all the unhappiness in the world.
Everyone drank for a long time, and everyone was drunk, even Zhang Shihua was no exception.
In a drunken dream, Zhang Shihua dreamed of many things, and the lives that he could never go back to in his previous life, including relatives, lovers, and friends in this life.
In a drunken dream, he dreamed of a wedding with Guo Weier, Guo Weier was so beautiful that day, like an angel, they were very happy after marriage, and it didn't take long for Guo Weier to be pregnant with his child, that day he touched Guo Weier's belly and smiled like a child.
But suddenly all the scenes changed, there was blood everywhere, there were corpses everywhere, he seemed to be in a battlefield, millions of people were fighting on the battlefield, their blood seemed to dye the sky red, Zhang Shihua looked at this terrible Shura hell, and looked for it like crazy, looking for his lover, children, and relatives, but there were too many people on the battlefield, he couldn't find it for a long time, and suddenly he seemed to hear his father's voice, he turned his head to look and found that a group of people were slaughtering his family, and Guo Weier, who was pregnant, was also among them.
Zhang Shihui held a spear to resist there, but there were too many enemies, Zhang Shihui couldn't resist and was killed by the enemy, and then those people covered in blood began to slaughter his family, Zhang Shihua saw this scene and ran to his family like crazy, but no matter how he ran, he couldn't run to his family's side, he could only watch, watching his father, second uncle, and Aunt Xue be killed by those people one after another.
In the end, only Guo Weier was left among his relatives, but the group of people did not intend to let Guo Weier go, when Zhang Shihua watched the group of people swing a knife at Guo Weier, Zhang Shihua shouted like crazy, no......
When he woke up from the dream, Zhang Shihua was sweating all over his body, and found that he was on the bed in his room, he gasped and told himself that everything just now was a dream and not true.
Then he clenched his fists and secretly swore in his heart: Even if he died, he would never let that scene happen, never.
Whatever the price, he said in a low but firm voice.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it's Chinese New Year's Eve.
On this day, he received a letter from home, as well as a letter from her.
Zhang Shihua first opened the thick family letter with Zhang Shihui, the letter contained the thoughts of relatives at home, among which Aunt Xue and Zhang Qin's family learned the most, and eighty percent of the content of the family letter was written by the two mothers, although it was just some trivial matters, but the words were full of strong warmth.
And after Zhang Shihui saw his mother write a letter of his own, his eyes were even more red, Zhang Shihua also knew that this younger brother looked very big on the surface, but in fact he was very filial.
After Zhang Shihui left, Zhang Shihua opened the letter she wrote to herself alone.
There are many things written in the letter, including interesting things about her happiness these days, words of advice to him, and words of missing him.
Zhang Shihua read this letter for a long time, and then Zhang Shihua carefully put the letter in the envelope and kicked the envelope in his arms.
Today is Chinese New Year's Eve is the New Year, and the archers of the Inspection Division are also busy, and after the couplets are pasted, the lanterns are colorful, and although there are not many people in the Inspection Division, they look very warm.
After the lanterns were lit, it was the most important Chinese New Year's Eve meal Chinese New Year's Eve, and just as Zhang Shihua and the archers were preparing to cook Chinese New Year's Eve meal in the courtyard, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the gate.
Everyone in the courtyard who heard the knock on the door was puzzled, who else would come to inspect the inspection department at this time?
However, he was puzzled, Zhang Shihua hurriedly called someone to open the door.
And when the archer opened the door, he also made a sound of astonishment; Mr. Li and Mr. Zhou, it turned out that you two were here.
Yes, it was Li Chongsan and Thursday Nine who came outside the door.
The two people at the door were carrying wine and meat, and said to the archer with a smile: Your Excellency is inside, right?
Your Excellency is here, two gentlemen, please.
When they heard this, they handed the wine and meat to the archer, and strode into the inspection department.
Zhang Shihua, who was in the courtyard, was also very surprised to see Li Chongsan and Thursday Jiu, and asked the two of them: Chongsan and Sijiu, what are you doing when you are not at home and go to the inspection department this day?
Li Chongsan and Thursday Jiu heard Zhang Shihua's question, and after bowing to Zhang Shihua, they said: "My lord, didn't you say that everyone in our inspection department is a family, we think that we have been at home for so many years, so we will come to this new home for the New Year this year, you won't be welcome, sir?"
When Zhang Shihua heard the two of them say this, he laughed and said to the two: Welcome, the family has a reason for not being welcome, just as I am going to cook a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, let's come together.
When the two heard Zhang Shihua's words, they agreed, washed their hands and made a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with Zhang Shihua and them.
When everyone has prepared the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, it will not be early.
In the evening, Zhang Shihua let the archers carry the table to the courtyard, and everyone ate Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together in the courtyard, although they are not relatives, but they are relatives when everyone is together tonight.
After eating, it was a vigil, but now everyone in the inspection department was not in their own ancestral hall, and the vigil was skipped by everyone.
After everyone drank wine and ate the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, it was already late at night, and several archers burned bamboo, and went back to their houses to sleep.
The next day, the first day of the Lunar New Year, is the day when relatives greet each other.
It was not early in the morning that archers came to the inspection department to give Zhang Shihua a New Year's greeting, and not only the archers of the inspection department gave Zhang Shihua a New Year's greeting, but also those townspeople who were rescued by Zhang Shihua not long ago, as well as some leading figures in the town, etc., Zhang Shihua did nothing else for a whole morning, and has been receiving those who came to pay New Year's greetings.
However, these people also understand that Zhang Shihua is very busy, and usually after paying tribute to Zhang Shihua, they put down the gifts and leave.
In the afternoon, Zhang Shihua did not continue to stay in the inspection department, but took Zhang Shihui and Brother Donkey to visit the New Year.
However, Zhang Shihua's New Year's greeting object was not Li Lizheng's stingy ghost, let alone the so-called leaders in Yangshui Town, but went to three ordinary townspeople's homes.
Yes, these three townspeople are the homes of the three archers who died in the battle of the Patrol Division.
The first place Zhang Shihua went to was Li Shihua's house, and when he arrived at Li Shihua's house, their door was closed, and Zhang Shihua knocked on the door outside.
It was Li Fifteen's brother Li Fourteen who opened the door, Li Shihua opened the door and saw Zhang Shihua and others at the door, and his mouth grew up in surprise, he really didn't expect that it was the inspector in the town who came to pay New Year's greetings.
Zhang Shihua looked at the shocked young man in front of him, and guessed that this young man should be Li Shifteen's brother, so Zhang Shihua smiled and said to Li Shishi: This official is here to pay a New Year's greeting to the second elder today.
When Li Shihua, who was shocked, heard Zhang Shihua's words, he immediately responded and hurriedly welcomed Zhang Shihua into the courtyard.
After entering the courtyard, Li Shifu shouted to his father and mother in the main house: "Father, mother, come out quickly, the inspector has come to see you."
Father Li and Mother Li in the house heard their children's words, and hurriedly went out of the house, and when they saw that the young man in the yard was really the inspector of the town, they wanted to salute Zhang Shihua.
But Zhang Shihua didn't wait for them to salute, so he took the lead in bending down to Li's father and Li's mother and saluting: Boy Zhang Shihua, it's time to greet the second elder.
The second elder was also shocked when he saw that Zhang Shihua actually took the initiative to salute them, and hurriedly bowed his hand to Zhang Shihua and said: I can't help it, I can't help it, you are an adult, how can the old man accept your courtesy.
Seeing the two of them like this, Zhang Shihua raised his head and said to the two: Fifteen, he died in order to protect the people, so that the second elder would suffer from the white-haired man sending the black-haired man at this age, and the kid was also very unhappy in his heart, and he was also my good brother, so the second elder, you should not worship me this year, but the year of the fifteenth worship of the younger generation, speaking of which Zhang Shihua bowed to Li's father and Li's mother again.
When Li's father and mother heard Zhang Shihua's words, they didn't return the salute, but accepted Zhang Shihua's salute with red eyes.
Zhang Shihua stayed in the Li family for almost half an hour, chatted a lot with the second elder of the Li family, asked them if they needed anything, and if they needed to open their mouths, and then put down the gifts he was carrying, and left the Li family under the farewell of the Li family, and went to the other two families.
The situation of these two families is similar to that of the Li family, and because these two families still have children in the inspection department, it is easier to talk to Zhang Shihua.
Similarly, Zhang Shihua stayed in these two families for about half an hour before leaving.
However, the news that Zhang Shihua went to comfort the families of the archers who died in the war during the Chinese New Year was spread, which made Zhang Shihua's reputation of benevolence more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
This year passed quickly, at least in Zhang Shihua's eyes.
There were no robber attacks, no accidents, and I was playing Keju with a group of young men all day long.
That is, in the blink of an eye, it will be the fifteenth day of the first month, that is, the Shangyuan Festival.
However, Yangshui Town is just a small town after all, like those in the poem, "The moonlight lamp mountain is full of imperial capital, and the incense car treasure covers the pass." "You don't want to see the bustling scene.
For the people in the town, the festival is over when hanging a few lanterns at the door, eating a bowl of rice balls, and watching the rich families in the town set off fireworks for a while.
As for guessing lantern riddles or something, in a small town where more than 95% of the people are illiterate, it is obviously impossible to do such a thing.
Of course, the archers of the Inspection Division also started a Keju competition today, and Zhang Shihua estimated that this Keju competition should be the most interesting thing that happened during the Shangyuan Festival in Yangshui Town.
However, Zhang Shihua is obviously not interested in today's Keju at all, after all, for men and women like Zhang Shihua who are in love, how can they not think of their lovers in such a beautiful festival as Shangyuan Festival.
So Zhang Shihua, who was deeply lovesick, wrote a letter to Guo Weier in the lobby, and then asked the messenger to send the letter from TH County to relieve his lovesickness.