Chapter Twenty-Eight: New Year's Greetings
Sending Princess Runan to the palace, Princess Runan said goodbye to Ye Wen and walked towards her residence. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
On the way back, Princess Runan thought: This Ye Wen's family is really strange, there is no atmosphere at all after the New Year, what kind of oily noodles do you eat on the first day of the new year, but the taste is not bad, presumably this is their family's custom, but today's experience is really surprising, although it surprised the horse, but got a good baby.
Princess Runan looked at the pen she had been holding in her hand, and the laughter like a silver bell filled the surroundings, and when she saw someone coming, she remembered that she was a princess and had to follow etiquette. However, today's experience is enough to stay in the palace for a long time, and Princess Runan thinks about it for several days.
After Ye Wen sent Princess Runan to the palace, Ye Wen didn't go anywhere else, after all, the New Year's Day was also closed, and Ye Wen went home directly. Ye Wen also knew that it was a big New Year, but there was no New Year's flavor in his own home.
Since he was a child, his parents have been preparing for the New Year's goods, Ye Wen also knows very little about this, and when he grows up, he feels no different from usual, and he doesn't pay attention to these things. And this Tang Dynasty New Year is not the same as that of later generations, Ye Wen checked the information, and on the first day of the Tang Dynasty's New Year, he wanted to drink Tusu wine and eat Wuxin plate.
"Tusu" is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which is made by mixing seven kinds of medicinal herbs, including rhubarb, atractylodes, bellflower, Shu pepper, cinnamon, aconitum and sarsaparilla. It is said that drinking these two kinds of wine can drive away evil spirits, detoxify and prolong life. The people of the Tang Dynasty had a very interesting habit of drinking these two kinds of wine, that is, they had to start with the youngest child in the family. The reason is said to be that "the younger one gets the old age, and the old one loses the old age, so he drinks later".
When drinking, there is a "five-spice plate" on the table: the plate is green and spicy, and there are five kinds of vegetables, namely garlic, small garlic, leeks, brassica, and coriander. Eating "Wuxin Pan" is to diffuse the depression of the five internal organs and prevent the epidemic from making trouble.
The people of the Tang Dynasty also loved to eat sweets during the New Year: the more famous ones were "glue tooth dumplings". "Ao" is roughly what is called "maltose" today, the ancients used barley, wheat or glutinous rice to make desserts, more viscous and soft, the sweetness is not as good as honey, and not as good as the commonly used sucrose. But in the Tang Dynasty, sucrose was transmitted back to the Tang Dynasty from India by Xuanzang, and now Xuanzang has not returned, and there is no sucrose yet, so maltose is now considered a valuable and delicious food.
Ye Wen used to be bored at home for the New Year, and he didn't have a retro mind here. Unless he marries his daughter-in-law and has a child, maybe Ye Wen has the mind to spend the New Year of the Tang Dynasty.
Now it's for Ye Wen to eat dumplings, but Ye Wen has tasted all the dumpling fillings before, and he is tired of eating them, and he doesn't have the excitement of eating dumplings only once during the New Year's holidays when he was a child.
It's just that this time for the Chinese New Year, Ye Wen remembered that he came to the Tang Dynasty, and he didn't know how his parents were now, Ye Wen used to go back once a year when he was away, and he didn't feel anything, but now once he really left his parents, Ye Wen also missed it in his heart, and he didn't realize that there were two lines of tears.
Ye Wen returned to his residence, replaced the peach talisman with a new one, and came to his underground villa, took out the VR he had just bought not long ago, and began to play his own game to relieve his pain of missing his family.
Ye Wen asked Xiaokong before, since Xiaokong is so advanced, it should be possible to realize virtual reality technology without borrowing VR. And Xiaokong told Ye Wen that if you want to directly use Xiaokong to experience virtual reality, then upgrade well, and now if you want to experience virtual reality, you can only use VR.
Although virtual reality cannot be realized through Xiaokong, in later generations, I have long heard how real VR is, and Ye Wen has long wanted to experience it, Ye Wen bought VR and played a zombie game on a whim.
Usually, Ye Wen feels thrilled just watching zombie movies, not to mention this virtual reality zombie game, Ye Wen just feels a little more excited, and when the excitement passes, Ye Wen also plays other games. When I was in my twenties, I wasn't very fascinated by games, but if I didn't play them, I usually felt bored.
Ye Wen stayed in his underground villa for a day or two, and when he had had all his sex, Ye Wen came out to see the sun.
Although Ye Wen didn't know how to celebrate the New Year, he also knew that after the first day of the Lunar New Year, he began to visit relatives and friends and invite each other to feast, which was called Chuanza. Although Ye Wen doesn't have any relatives here, it's okay to visit his friends.
Ye Wen was also familiar with Cheng Chumo in this Tang Dynasty, and the disciples of other families were also nodding friends. decided to visit Cheng Chumo, and then began to think about how to give gifts, Ye Wen went to pay New Year's greetings in person for the first time, and he didn't know what to give.
Cheng Chumo's father is Cheng Biting Jin, Cheng Biting Jin is a military general, and it must be unlucky to send weapons during the New Year, so the only way to do this is to send wine, after all, it is also popular to send cigarettes and alcohol in later generations.
It's not enough to just give wine, but also to give some gifts to their female dependents, so as not to treat them badly for the first time, what is the best gift for this? Ye Wen was stumped for a while, and after thinking about it, Ye Wen decided to send some perfumes, as well as some decent jewelry and other girls' supplies.
After thinking about what to send, Ye Wen saw that it was getting late, and Cheng Yanjin was the founder of the country, there must be a lot of people to visit, and if he went now, it was estimated that it would be rare to see him. Ye Wen had no choice but to go to bed early and visit again tomorrow.
On the second day, Ye Wen got up early in the morning, bought large bags and small bags, and made sure that the preparations were appropriate. Ye Wen rode a bicycle full of gifts towards Cheng Yanjin's mansion.
When I arrived at Cheng Yanjin's mansion, just looking at the gate of this Cheng Mansion was much taller and more brilliant than Ye Wen's small mansion, and the clothes of the family were also bright, Ye Wen stepped forward to say hello to the family, asked for the New Year's greetings, and explained the intention.
Seeing that although Ye Wen was a petty official's official uniform, he rode something novel enough when he came, and he came to visit Cheng Chumo, so Jia Ding asked Ye Wen to wait for a while, and then took the New Year's greeting card and went in to report.
Ye Wen knew that this New Year's greeting card began in the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty, and this New Year's greeting post was not used in this way. But if Ye Wen let the family go in to spread the word and let Cheng Chumo come out to greet him, it would be too rude, and Ye Wen also had an idea and used this New Year's card equivalent to later generations.
After a while, the door of the mansion opened, and Cheng Chumo came out and said to Ye Wen: "When I saw this post, I knew that Brother Ye was here, and I originally thought that I would visit Brother Ye today, but I didn't want Brother Ye to take the lead." ”
"Brother Cheng, naturally, I came to visit Brother Cheng first. Brother Cheng, Happy New Year! Ye Wen couldn't say the words of their ancient people, and he could only use the words of later generations.
"Brother Ye is the same brother!" Accustomed to Ye Wen's words, Cheng Chumo followed.
"Brother Ye, I'll help you hold it." Cheng Chu silently saw that Ye Wen had taken so many things, and stepped forward to help.
"No, no, I'll distribute them one by one." Ye Wen didn't know how to give it, so he bought many gifts of different ages.
"It's okay, I've been telling them how many rare treasures there are in Brother Ye's family, but they don't believe it, and I'll let them see it today." Cheng Chu silently saw that Ye Wen had mentioned a lot of big bags and small bags, and he had seen Ye Wen's things, so he must have a lot of good things.