In this way, he was busy until the end of the year, until the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, when the financial meeting for the coming year was completed, and the work of the year was over.

But it would be a big mistake to think that you can spend a few days free during the Chinese New Year. The clouds of Beijing are shrouded, and officialdom rarely interacts with each other even if they are of the same clan and ordinary relatives in the same year, except for their closest relatives and relatives. coincides with the Spring Festival, of course, we should take the opportunity of New Year's greetings to contact feelings and inquire about news.

In the officialdom of the New Year, for the boss, the earlier the more respectful, is to the first morning of the new year, the chessboard alley is full of neatly dressed, holding a large Meihong business card of the middle and lower-level officials, the business card is printed with black names, surnames, aliases, and stamped with vermilion seals, and a small square stamp, for example, eight characters: "special trip to pay respects, not for other purposes,." Everyone still carried some red satin purses in their sleeves, which contained more than three or five taels of gold ingots, and as few as two or three taels of silver keys, which were prepared for Shen Mo's son and the servants of the Shen Mansion............ For the unwealthy Jingguan, this gift is heavy enough.

Shen Mo knew that these were all pretenses, and the real purpose of coming to pay New Year's greetings was actually to inquire about the truth and seek protection, so he could only deal with it with his spirit......... In previous years, most of the New Year's greetings generally only asked the porter to pay respects, so that they could leave without seeing them, and only those who had a special relationship would be led in by the messenger to speak. But this year is a special year, if you don't let him in and give him a gift, you just don't treat him as your own and force people to change the court.

Therefore, Shen Mo can only invite in one by one, the guests and hosts meet, say to each other, and Geely "sit down in order." The slave saluted a bowl of red dates, longan, meat and white sugar water, and must drink it anyway, because legend has it that the guests cannot sit empty on this day, otherwise the guests and hosts will be disadvantaged. On the occasion of the greetings, "there is Aji leading the very, usual, going to the hall to greet the guests, which is really an opportunity to let people send money"... In fact, the young masters of the Shen family really don't look down on these blockages, and they have no choice but to sacrifice their hue again and again for the sake of their father's career, and shouted sweetly: , Uncle and uncle, Happy New Year, little nephew has a .........New Year's greeting for you, and then bow, take the money, and retreat. The guests sat down for a while, listened to Shen Mo say a few words of relief, and then got up and took their leave.

So persisted through the third year of junior high school, the talent for the New Year's greetings is gradually gone, the silence is okay, but his three boys are tired enough to choke "crooked on the kang and shouted:, the neck is going to be broken, the waist is also broken, and the good words in this life are gone......", Shen Mo couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "I got so much New Year's money, I can't even bear a little hardship?" ”

"Who is rare...... only Aji jumped up from the bed and said: "I didn't go out to play during the New Year, I just recognized the uncle at home." ”

"Okay, if you perform well, I'll reward you........." Shen Mo smiled and groaned, "I'll take you out tomorrow, okay?" ”

"Great...... Ajihe cheered very much, although he was not usually a bandit like the two brothers, but his face also shone with excitement...... In the past six months, he has been studying with the prince in the palace all day, and Li Niangniang has been very strict in discipline, which really suffocates him.

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The next day, the children got up early and urged their father to eat quickly, so that they could take them out to play after eating. Shen Mo ate slowly, and asked with a smile, "Where do you want to play?" ”

"Front door!" Aji immediately proposed that it was close to home, and it was to go out and sell all kinds of strange things, which was deeply liked by the eldest son of the Shen family.

"Stupid, it's the New Year, and the shops are closed." Very disdainful: "At this time, I have to go to the light market.!" ”

"You're not smart either." Shen Mo smiled and scolded: "I only put the lights on the eighth day of the first month, and now I go to see people set up lamp shelves?" ”

"Oh......... Scratching his head very much, he said, "It's all too confused." ”

"Little*usual" where do you want to go? Shen Mo looked at the quiet little son.

"I'll go wherever my brother goes......... Usually whispered.

"Don't listen to those two living bandits." Shen Mo smiled: "I'll listen to you today." ”

"That......... Usually whispered: "Can I go to Xicheng?" I heard that the book market in the temple is very lively. ”

Shen Mo smiled and said: "This is a good idea, there are all kinds of martial arts there" Let's go to the city to wander the temple." Saying that, he looked at Aji and Shishi: "On the fifth day of the first day of the new year, there is still a temple fair............

The two broken children have no love for the book market", but as soon as they heard Tang Hui, they immediately jumped up again.

After silently finishing his meal and rinsing his mouth, he got up and said, "After changing your clothes, you will leave." The three children hurried back to the east room, let the nurse and maid tie up, and Shen Mo also entered the back room, and saw Bao'er standing in the stroller, staring at herself with bright eyes, for a moment.

Shen Mo leaned down, kissed his daughter's cheeks and said, "Bao'er also wants to go?" ”

Although Bao'er didn't speak, the excitement in her eyes became stronger.

"Okay, call Daddy, and I'll take you there." Shen Mo smiled cheaply.

Bao'er suddenly looked frustrated and wanted to cry.

"I've never seen a father like this." Ruohan picked up her daughter and hurriedly coaxed: "We don't hesitate to go, catch up with Ming'er Bao'er when she grows up, and my mother will wait for you to go to Baiyun Temple to "......"

Shen Mo said with a smile: "This girl is amazing, she can understand everything, why don't you open it." This? ”

"It's not that I can't, it's that I'm too lazy to pay attention to you." Ruohan glanced at him, hugged his daughter and giggled.

Before he could laugh a few words, the kid outside urged him again, so Shen Mo had to dress tightly, make a grimace at the girl, and go out with his son.

The carriage stopped outside the Xidan archway, and further on it was crowded with people, so you could only come down and walk. This is the book market in the capital, the fifth, fifteenth, and twenty-fifth of the first month of each month, as well as the temple fair, and the whole city around the temple is full of shops............ The endless painting sheds, the countless large and small bookstalls, the antique stalls one after another, the bizarre and dazzling jewelry and jade stalls, the countless gadget stalls inside and outside, the various food stalls that shout throats, the crowding and laughing and noisy tide-like tourists, the big sugar gourds with intricate flags, the dozens of big windmills linked together and the colored paper rattling around, and the sound of firecrackers from time to time, let the father and son suddenly integrate into this happy and noisy New Year event.

Seeing this scene, Aji and Shi immediately became excited, like a wild horse off the leash, immediately rushed into the crowd, Hu Yong and others hurriedly followed, "lest the master be lost." The two wild boys disappeared in a blink of an eye, and Shen Mo couldn't help scratching his cheeks, looking at the ordinary people who were clinging to him, and said, "Fortunately, there is a good one." He usually has a shy smile on his face.

So he held his usual little hand tightly, and the two of them began to visit the book market, "first visit the book shed, then visit the painting studio, and after the painting studio is finished, it will be another another, and wait for one by one to see that it is almost noon." The two of them are still empty-handed, not that they are silent and stingy, but that usually this child is too sensible, and he doesn't want anything" just stared at a pair of big eyes, which made the old man embarrassed.

As soon as I came out of the calligraphy and painting market, I saw a big kite stall with his back against the City God Temple, and the tall walls were full of colorful kites.

I usually say that I don't want it. Shen Mo also came to the end, so he had to buy it for him, so he thought about it and said, "Then I have to buy it for my brothers." ”

"I said why don't you want it, I'm worried about this." Shen Mo smiled and patted the top of his son's head and said, "At a young age, my heart is heavy enough." He waved his hand and said, "Okay, buy it for them, I don't know if they can think of buying it for you." ”

"I want to buy two more," he whispered again: "The prince hasn't seen a kite yet, and Bao'er ......"

"Hehe, it's comprehensive enough, like me......" Shen Mo smiled and nodded, "I paid for five kites, threw them to the guards behind me, and led my son forward." The kite stall passed, it was sold, Aiwowo, "donkey rolling, eating stalls, looking at those tempting snacks, the two of them were a little hungry, seeing that it was almost noon, so they thought about solving the lunch. It's just that so many stalls are picking and picking, picking and choosing, "Finally, I went to a monopoly store, and sat down at a stall with a full stomach."

The so-called, "water belly" is a very unique flavor of the Beijing snack. The material used is lamb tripe, "Lamb tripe, except for simmering soup, there is only one way to explode." The explosion is divided into oil explosion and water explosion. Oil explosion is the practice of restaurants and restaurants, and water explosion is the specialty of market vendors.

This stall is specialized in water belly, the so-called water explosion, is to use high temperature and fire to get up, take its crisp and tender, is to use only lamb belly. Because the tripe is too thick and tough, it is not suitable for water explosion. And the lamb belly is not only fine and soft, but also white and smooth after the water bursts, and it is Jiang people, not like the black and gray of the tripe.

The stall also divides the lamb belly according to the parts, according to its fat and tenderness, the price is also different, the most expensive is the belly, followed by the shutters, mushrooms, and the belly board is the cheapest. Shen Mo ordered a few things casually, and the stall owner went into the boiling water to ripen them, and in a blink of an eye, he scooped them up, put them in a white porcelain bowl, and brought them to the father and son. The amount in that bowl was very small, only half a small bowl, about two taels. Because the belly is good to keep it crispy and tender, it must be eaten in time, and it will come back to life when it is slightly cold, and it will be old and unchewable after a long time. That's why restaurants of all sizes don't have this flavor. Only taverns and food stalls are sold.

&nbā pepper, so the stomach itself is tasteless, and it all depends on the back dipping seasoning. The ingredients are mainly sesame paste, and each person adds soy sauce, coriander, green onion, milk curd and the like according to the taste, and a chopstick is used to burst the belly, dipped in the sauce and eats, the taste is smooth and crispy, and it is the best thing to accompany the wine.

The stall does not sell wine, but there is a big wine vat on the side to sell wine, and the store silently let the store sift half a catty of sorghum wine, of course, you can't usually drink it, but it doesn't matter, there are also knives and noodles sold on the side. The noodle shaving master is extremely skilled, holding a knife in his right hand and a large dough in his arms in his left hand. When the master brought the noodles up, he saw that the noodles were of the same length, uniform thickness, and the soup was clear but not muddy, without stagnation, which was an art in itself.

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The two of them were eating noodles at this stall. The noon sun shines on his body, warm and not like winter, Shen Mo squinted at the bustling crowd in front of him with a wine bowl, and felt comfortable in every pore of his body.

Just about to deliver the wine, he suddenly looked at a familiar figure in the crowd, and couldn't help but be stunned, and said in his heart: , I actually met a tall beard here, ""

Gao Gong also saw Shen Mo, and was also a little surprised, but he was still very happy, waved his hand to signal him not to get up, and squeezed into the back of the stall, and sat with him and said: "Shen Xianggong took the child out to play, this is the third child in the family, right?" What's it called? ”

"It's the youngest son Yongqing" silently arched his hand towards Gao Gong, and commanded Ping: "Quick, call Uncle Gao." "It's enough to call grandpa in terms of age, but since everyone is a cabinet colleague, they naturally want to be called equals, but let the usual take advantage, usually get up very politely, and say like a little adult: "The little nephew meets Uncle Gao, Uncle Gao is happy for the New Year, "..."

"Oh, good boy, it's so good......" Gao Gong only has a girl, so he likes the boy very much, and he touched it all over his body, only a few coins and broken silver, and he really couldn't take it" He took off the jade pendant on his waist and said: "Take this to play, the old man will give you a new year." ”

Usually he didn't dare to pick it up, and looked at his father. He smiled silently: "Thank you Uncle Gao yet." "He knows a lot about the tall beard, and he has to ask for what he gives you, otherwise he will show you his face. Although he saw that it was given by the emperor today, he smiled silently.

Usually this is a formal thanks, both hands took the jade pendant "carefully in the arms, and then thank you again, although only such a small child, but very well-behaved and polite, provoked Gao Gong and a good envy."

At this time, the stall owner gave Gao Gong a burst of belly, and Gao Gong smiled: "How do you know that I love this.?" ”

"There's just one dish." Silent said.

Gao Gong was not polite to him, took a chopstick and put it in his mouth, and said with an intoxicated face: "The world is delicious." "Take another sip of sorghum wine" smacked his lips again and again: "You are so good at enjoying it, this is much stronger than the cannon wing mat in that big restaurant." ”

"Then I'd rather go and eat a full wing mat." Shen Mo smiled: "I didn't expect to meet a high-ranking person here, and I didn't expect that you also like to visit the temple fair." ”

"Hehe........." Hearing him call himself a member, Gao Gong laughed and said: "It's better to meet by chance, I invited this meal, you and I will go around together in the afternoon, how about it?" ”

"Why?" Shen Mo looked at Gao Gong and there was a cowhide schoolbag in his hand, and said curiously: "It doesn't look like shopping." ”

"It's also a shopping ......" Gao Gong whispered: "It's just a little more dim sum, these days of the New Year" I closed the door and walked the street all day. He said with a low smile and said: "Jiangnan" You also have to go shopping, we usually hug everywhere we go, what you see and hear is often arranged by others. The common people are worried about settling accounts after the autumn, and they don't dare to say a word, so it is too difficult to know the true feelings of the people. ”

Shen Mo suddenly realized, it turned out that Gao Ge was always in Weifu for a private visit, and after thinking about it, it was indeed only when the people below were celebrating the New Year that they could see some of the truth. He was also curious about what kind of research Gao Gong would do, so he asked.

"The goal of my private visit these days is very clear." While feasting, Gao Gong said to Shen Mo: "It is to find out the current situation of industry and commerce in the capital." ”

"You care about this?" Shen Mo said with some surprise.

"I have a different view on the national policy of emphasizing the foundation and suppressing the last," Gao Gong said in a deep voice: "Your ancestor said: The four people have different karma and the same way. I appreciate that. Well, the Southern Song Dynasty, the internal and external troubles are far greater than my Ming Dynasty, but because of the prosperity of industry and commerce, there has never been financial worries. For example, today's finance and taxation, Suzhou, which has developed industry and commerce, accounts for one-tenth, which can be described as the richest in the world. The same is true of Hangzhou, Jinling, Wuhu, Fuzhou, and Guangzhou, all of which are rich in commerce. He sighed and said: "If you insist on the ancestors' heavy foundation and suppression of the end, you are really stubborn and ask for hardship.........

He actually wanted to find out about the industry and commerce in the capital, and no matter what the result was, this objective grits and enthusiasm for work alone deserved to be silent and respectful.

So after eating, let him usually go back with the guards first, and follow Gao Gong around by himself.

&nbā City, it's quieter and easier to talk to.

&nbā has always been a favorite thing of Beijingers. Maybe it's because the capital pool is located in the north, all those who have lived in the capital for a long time, all have bitter cold, more bitter wind and sand, so the hope for spring, pinned on the fresh huā that opens at the beginning of the year, regardless of the poor and rich, the family is small, there are fresh huā to see all year round, and there are green leaves to see in spring, summer, autumn and winter.

&nbā Market, the temple of the city is considered to be very large.

There are many types of &nbā, and there are many types of &nbā in front of you. There are cheap "can't die,,,cactus,swallow palm," etc.: there are moderately priced narcissus, rhododendron, bergamot, spring plum, etc., and there are also more expensive camellia, peony, plum, junzi orchid, etc.: there are more expensive bonsai, not only the single plum huā bonsai, but also the pine, bamboo, and plum planted in one pot of "Suihan Sanyou" There are magnolia, yingchun, and peony planted in one pot of "Yutang Chun Fugui" is prepared for rich people at a glance.

&nbā Township 18 villages transported, where the unique endowment, water and soil are particularly suitable for raising huā, as early as the Yuan Dynasty, there were a lot of huā farmers, huā wood industry after hundreds of years, has been very prosperous. For the industry and commerce of the capital, it is very representative.

“……”… One......... Separate the "......" ...... One..."

It's a little early today...... Hopefully sooner tomorrow...... In addition, the high arch in this chapter is a historical fact, not a fabrication by me. （！ ),,Sudden mouth Liao Qiao,Old and mouth B B