Chapter 251: Happy New Year (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
He Xinyin's words after the snowflakes fell in the gloomy sky, the first half of the sentence was finally fulfilled.
Ruixue Trillion Year.
This is not a heavy snowfall that will last a long time and eventually lead to disaster. The snow only accumulated a thin layer on the roofs and in the fields, satisfying people's demand for snow for the New Year, but it did not cause much damage at all. Except for some poor people whose roofs are too shabby, and who deeply understand the helplessness of leaking water after the snow turns into water, the rest are harmless. And Wang Fulin nested in the West Garden for more than a month, and the first thing he did when he came back after this heavy snow day was to go to various families, including the Xu family on Doosan Street, and then he took out a sum of money, put it together, and set up a shed and dumplings from the twenty-third day of the lunar month.
The reason why it is dumplings, not porridge, is that he was inspired by the source of dumplings. Legend has it that dumplings were made into the dough by Zhang Zhongjing in the late Han Dynasty, adding mutton, pepper and various cold-dispelling herbs to make Jiao'er alms to people to prevent and treat chilblains, but in the future, they gradually evolved into a kind of food that everyone loves to eat. Northerners will definitely make dumplings every New Year, but this may not be the case in the south, especially ordinary poor, if they want to eat a meal of mutton dumplings during the New Year, it is not so easy, so even if there are only two dumplings per person, there is still a long queue, and there are even many of them who are still well-off but greedy for small and cheap things.
However, from the first day, the people who received the mutton dumplings and happily ate them on the spot found that this was really the delicate ear that Zhang Zhongjing used to dispel the cold back then, and it was definitely not the dumplings they usually ate!
Because it's so spicy, let alone eating two, I started sweating on my forehead after eating half of it. After eating two, it was sweating!
Thereupon. At first, it was just the poor and those who were greedy for money who came to line up to get two dumplings to eat. Some people say that ginseng is added to the dumpling, some people say that deer antler velvet is added to the dumpling, and some people mysteriously say that the dumpling is added with XX whip that promotes certain functions of the human body...... For a while, the long queue in front of the dumpling stall doubled! Even if Wang Fulin personally stood up to refute the rumors and told everyone in person, in addition to Sichuan pepper and a few Chinese medicinal materials to dispel cold, the dumplings filled with mutton also added a chili pepper that repels cold and dampness. There are some things that are not rumored to be false, and it is still inevitable that some people will come to try them.
After all, although Huizhou in later generations is not as good as Sichuan, Hunan, and Hubei, it is also quite spicy, just like Sichuan pepper can be found in local rice shops and many mountain goods shops, people's curiosity about chili pepper in this cold day is naturally at its peak. Therefore, when Wang Fulin reluctantly announced, the mutton dumplings were too late to be supplied, such as if he wanted to taste the taste of chili peppers. You can choose the same free mutton soup, and the flow of people in line has finally diverted a little. Those villagers who were temporarily hired by Wang Fulin from Songmingshan Village to do things, and were so tired and sweating profusely that they breathed a long sigh of relief.
Even doing good deeds can make a sensation, worthy of being a small official Wang!
Because of one thing after another in the past few months, and he also participated in an annual examination, even if Cheng Naixuan still remembers the dishes cooked by Wang Fulin himself, and also said that he would open a restaurant, but he is lacking in skills, where can he be busy? Therefore, as soon as he heard that Wang Fulin's dumplings had evolved into mutton soup this time, and the chili peppers had been promoted, he was startled, and learned that Wang Fulin had returned to Wang's house in the back street of the county, so he ran over directly, and asked bluntly as soon as he hit his head: "Hey, you are such a generous gift to others to try it for nothing, how can that basket of chili peppers withstand your defeat, I am not afraid of eating up and running out of stock!" ”
"It's better to be happy alone than to be happy, if it weren't for the fact that Brother Wang Qi had already planted it on Songming Mountain, you think I would give people something to eat like this?" Wang Fulin asked with a smile, and then said, "It's okay to come to the house more during the New Year, the sister-in-law of the Liu family is now better than the blue, and she will cook a lot of good dishes to eat." Now that you know how to grow it, the peppers can be supplied in a steady stream, so in order to familiarize everyone, what is it to give away a few days to eat? This is the same as the previous walnut buy and get it away...... It's a pity that the chili pepper this time is not the kind of wild pepper, otherwise the wild pepper fried shredded beef ......"
Seeing Wang Fulin's leisurely appearance as he spoke, Cheng Naixuan almost didn't drool, and finally could only interrupt angrily: "Hey, don't hook my gluttony." The question is that you arouse everyone's interest in eating spicy food, what should you do next? I'll do the math for you, now Lin Muxuan has important people, Yidian important people, and although the West Garden Yashe and Lvye Book Garden are still being renovated, they are not going to be people immediately, but there will be a big gap in the future. If you want to open a restaurant or restaurant, where can you find people? I don't have anyone in my family. ”
"You don't have to do everything yourself, you can cooperate." Wang Fulin looked at the somewhat angry Cheng Dagongzi with a smile, and said slowly, "Have you forgotten, Hong Renwu, the owner of the Zhuangyuan Building? He used to make room for our She County celebrity conference, and how much did he only charge us? This time, let's take some money to invest in his champion building and let him launch a new dish, isn't it great? His cooks there are well-known throughout Huizhou. Not to mention anything else, the stinky mandarin fish is the most famous of the champion building, if you add a handful of chili peppers......"
"Say no more!"
Cheng Naixuan immediately decided, he must not listen to Wang Fulin anymore, turned around and walked out of the house without saying a word, and left the only sentence before leaving: "I'm going to find Hong Renwu!" ”
So, just before the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Cheng Naixuan Cheng Dagongzi talked about his and Wang Fulin's last business of the year. The price of 2,000 silver was invested in the champion building, plus the unlimited supply of fresh chili peppers, and 40% of the shares of the champion building were eaten. The reason why it is forty percent is not that it is two and one to add five, not that Hong Renwu is reluctant to give up his family business, but that Wang Cheng and Wang Cheng both feel that they can't go too far. When this business was announced on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Wang Fulin's reputation as the God of Wealth overshadowed the disaster star for the first time.
Although the Cheng family of Huangjiawu, Ye Xianzun, and even the old lady Xu of Doosan Street, Mrs. Fang, invited him to spend Chinese New Year's Eve together, but thinking that his own family has a large population, this big festival, Wang Fulin did not even stay in the county back street lent to him by Wang Daoguan in this two-and-a-half-sized small mansion, but chose to return to Songming Mountain one day earlier, on the twenty-ninth of the month. Of course, he had to invite Mr. Ke and Mr. Fang, but Mr. Ke and Mr. Fang did not stop during the New Year, and they were found by several leading figures of the generation of Xin'an Science to debate, and He Xinyin was already gone, so he was happy to live by himself.
As for the old soldiers of Qi Liang and Qi Jiajun, because many of them took over their family members, such a large group of people were enjoying themselves in the spacious old mansion lent to them by Wang Fulin.
Although Wang Fulin has not come back recently, he sent a letter earlier saying that he would return to his hometown for the New Year, but the tenants did not say it, and the villagers also sent all kinds of festival food, from all kinds of cakes, to waxed New Year's goods, to fresh vegetables, and then Wang Qi had to represent the master and go out to inform everyone that the family could not eat it for a month or two, and everyone died down. When Wang Fulin and the others came back, what they saw was the New Year's things piled up like a hill in the yard. The first two times I came back to live in a small house, it was the same, but now that the New Year is over, everyone's hearts are naturally extra warm. Wang Fulin rubbed his hands that were a little frozen on the road, and said with a smile.
"Fortunately, we also brought a lot of things from the city, otherwise how would we repay the favor of the villagers?"
The house is still an old house, which has not yet had time to be renovated, and the living room is even more cramped than before in the city. The number of people who eat is not as lively and crowded as in the city in the past, but even Wang Fulin feels that Songming Mountain is the root. This point was more deeply realized when he followed the Wang clan to worship his ancestors in the ancestral hall. In the cold wind of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the ancestral hall of the Wang clan of Songming Mountain was opened, the patriarch Wang Daohan took the lead, and the clansmen carried various tributes in, kowtowed to worship the ancestors, and then each dispersed to eat a reunion dinner, and each family returned to its own family, and it was not until the morning of the first day of the new year that it was the time to officially leave the relatives.
This Chinese New Year's Eve meal without his parents, Wang Fulin did not have the slightest psychological burden. It's not that he's not filial, he really hasn't seen it, and he hasn't even had the opportunity to cultivate his feelings, and he doesn't know how to face the two old men at first glance...... Although both of them are not yet forty, they are not old at all. Wang Qi's sister-in-law tried her best to make a table full of dishes, which not only satisfied Wang Fulin, who was not spicy or happy, but also took care of the tastes of other people, even Jinbao and Wang Fulin also gave a small glass of wine, and Qiu Feng also got a little drunk. As for Wang Fulin himself, after the self-brewed rice wine went to a big pot, he even knocked on the rice bowl and came up with a song "Congratulations".
One night of vigil, bursts of firecrackers, Wang Wujing even came out on behalf of Wang Daokun to set off a fireworks, when the brilliant fireworks bloomed in the night sky, the children who came out to watch after the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner forgot to cheer, and Xixinan Village across the Fengle River also set off fireworks on the empty fields. The two places face each other across the river, and it is a sleepless day where everyone laughs.
This lively New Year's atmosphere lasted in Songmingshan Village until the Lantern Festival approached, which came to an end slightly, but most of the conditions were preparing to enter the city to watch the lanterns. For the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, Ye Junyao, who has been in office for almost a year, personally visited all the wealthy households, in order to put the lights on the matter, Fucheng County is full of lanterns, and the scale is grander than in previous years, and Wang Fulin, who went to the countryside to spend a big year comfortably, is rarely able to take the whole family back to the city, first, it is rare not to have a curfew during the Lantern Festival, he has to be responsible for taking a bunch of children at home to have a good stroll, and secondly, to ...... There are so many families in the city, and he hasn't celebrated the New Year yet.
So, when the New Year of Longqing was over, Wang Fulin, who had rested and had been idle enough, was finally carried in front of Ye Junyao again.
Although there has been a gap between the lunar month and the New Year, this year's autumn grain has been converted into silver, and eighty percent has been received. In previous years, this is naturally a good achievement, but after all, this year's summer tax is collected, and Ye Junyao certainly hopes that he will hand over an excellent tax answer sheet in his first year in office. Now that the deadline for autumn grain is approaching, he certainly has to play the most important card.
Let Wang Fulin out! (To be continued......)