The sea and the sun are full of purple smoke, and the door is full of red notes.

Dove car bamboo horse children's market, pepper wine spicy plate sister feast.

Sideburns are inserted plum blossom people bow, and the swing of the pile yard is set up.

Looking up to heaven wishes my emperor a birthday, a common man borrows for a year.

——Tang Yin, "The Year of the Dynasty"

"Is that so?" Aunt Lan exclaimed, "How long has it been? Why is this kid so bold?"

"It's been about half a month, not to mention bold, it's just lawless." Shen Jiayou said hatefully.

Suddenly, Aunt Lan sneered: "Your family has a reputation, status, and stinky money, what is it to be swaggering outside?" Hum! I don't know where I poured eight lifetimes of moldy foolish worms, thinking that I had succeeded, and in the future, I would have to lower my eyebrows and be pleasing to my eyes, look at my wife's face, and be angry with others. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Shen Jiayou frowned, "How long did my wife bully you?"

"She's a wife, a slave is a concubine, isn't that enough?" Aunt Lan snorted coldly, "Back then, the matchmaker blew your house in the sky and not in the ground, what a thousand-year-old family in Suzhou, full of knowledgeable people, but the old lady met and said that I broke the rules of the Shen family, made a bad start, and has never given a good face so far." In the past few years, my wife's nose was not a nose, and her face was not a face, but she pretended to be affectionate in front of people, and everyone flattered her and was not jealous, but in fact, there is still that flying vinegar now! Look at every time you come to my house, the second **** that pie? I can be regarded as seeing through your Shen family, for my own selfish desires, I asked me to come, and I put others in a dilemma, now that your son is with you, why are you angry? Zhenzhen only allowed the state officials to set fires, and did not allow the people to light lamps. ”

"Are you mad at me?" Shen Jiayou not only didn't get angry, but asked with a smile.

It is said that Aunt Lan is indeed the only aunt in the big house.

In fact, Shen Jiayou didn't want to take a concubine back then, but his thoughts were not so strong, and they were dispensable. However, in order to avoid outsiders saying that she was not virtuous, Zhou took the initiative to take a concubine for her husband.

Therefore, Aunt Lan can be said to be under one person in this courtyard, above everyone, plus she can speak, is good at stammering, cautious everywhere, and her appearance is ordinary, which does not arouse the vigilance of his wife, and her life is quite comfortable.

Shen Jiayou likes her for this, she has no quarrel with the world, and she is often proud of the harmony between wives and concubines in the house, the question is that two women live under the same roof, can they really be harmonious?

Aunt Lan inadvertently confided in her heart just now, who is willing to be a dwarf for the rest of her life? Everything depends on people's faces?

Shen Jiayou smiled and said: "Strange, you are so angry for no reason, the one with the gun and the stick will count me first." Go ahead! What do you mean?"

"Why did I get a gun with a stick? Am I not telling the truth?"

Aunt Lan sat on his lap and sneered, "Okay, even if I have a gun and a stick." Do you want to be a father who is not doing right, but come to discipline your son? It's funny. If I were a Shi'er, if you want to question me, I will say that I learned it from my father, what do you think?"

"Gotcha! Needless to say. Shen Jiayou was even more convinced at this time, and patted the concubine's thigh, "It must be Shi'er's thing, I'm afraid that I will be angry, so I begged you, right?" How can you hide that little trick from me? You say, don't you?"

Aunt Lan saw that she was broken, so she grinned: "Don't spray people with blood, Shi'er didn't come out of my stomach, why should I say good things to him?"

"Alright, alright." Shen Jiayou was so stirred by her, and felt helpless, "I know that you have been wronged, this time I will look at you and spare that beast, otherwise I will not sue my parents and have to be expelled from the house." Alas, in fact, the matter has come to this point, he is also big, even if you don't intercede, I can't do it, you're right, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, can I still ask him to return the person? Now he wants to calm his fiancée, and only asks his daughter-in-law not to speak, and everyone can live with peace and quiet. ”

"Yo!" Aunt Lan was very surprised and asked, "Is it really just that?"

Shen Jiayou smiled bitterly: "The old man is acting more and more peacefully, how can I, as a son, not learn?" Young people are confused, even if I am a connoisseur of the law, he will still be how he will be in the future, and it is better to be sparse. ”

"What about the women out there? When Shi'er becomes a parent, will it be possible to let her live outside when she is old?"

"Naturally, I don't want to bring people in so quickly, but it's inconvenient for me to come out of this matter, so let his mother decide."

It is said that Shen Shi is very smart, deliberately chose the month of Layue, from the day of the winter solstice, Suzhou has entered the festive atmosphere of the New Year, and the year will last until the fifteenth Lantern Festival of the first month, as long as one and a half months.

During the Chinese New Year, everything has to be put down first, and everything is premised on making parents happy.

As the New Year approaches, Shen Kan will inevitably get busy, but fortunately, he is still young, so he can make arrangements for his own affairs.

On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, the Wu people call it the twenty-fourth night, and today is a big day to send the stove. Early in the morning, following the winter solstice, all the families in the Shen family and the Shen family village, the south of the Yangtze River, and even the entire land of China, were all busy.

In the kitchen, the women giggled and made ingots with caramel candy, that is, sugar ingots, as well as snacks such as Xie Zaotuan and enshrined in front of the portrait of the Stove King God.

This is to sweeten the mouth of the Stove God, and prevent his old man from making a small report in front of the Jade Emperor and his old man when he goes to heaven to report on his work.

Check the yellow calendar, the whole family mobilized to dust the eaves, anyway, the god of the stove is in the sky, there is no taboo today, and the inside and outside of the house will be swept away and abandoned, so that the poor will go to the rich in the coming year, which is the meaning of removing the old and clothing the new.

The whole family here is cleaning, the kitchen is busy cooking porridge, and Suzhou people pay attention to "a bowl of confusion and a full meal, and the idea of eliminating the plague and eliminating the remnants".

Suzhou customs, the mouth of the porridge is a bowl of red bean porridge, not only people drink, even the family cats and dogs also have, it is said that eating red bean porridge can get rid of the epidemic.

At this moment, Shen Kan is in charge of "welcoming the Jade Emperor" in the village, according to the saying, today the God of the Stove will report to the heavens, and the Jade Emperor will personally go down to inspect the good and evil in the world tomorrow.

On the offering table, there are three burnt red roast pigs, bowls of osmanthus sugar rice cakes and lard rice cakes, which are full of aroma.

The cook cut the snow-white rice cake into thin slices, wrapped it in egg liquid and fried it in the oil pan, this sound, this taste, the children in the village looked at it with their eyes, and their saliva slipped all over the ground.

"Give it to them to eat." Shen Kan was also greedy, and waved his empathetic hand.

"This is an offering to the Jade Emperor." Shen An reminded.

"What's wrong with the Jade Emperor?" Shen Kanman didn't care, "It is precisely because of the food for the children that it can reflect that God celebrates with the people, listen to me." ”

In fact, rice cakes are for people to eat, and worshipping the Jade Emperor is just a ritual. It's not like the big guy is taking advantage of the supervision to not pay attention, you and I steal and eat one by one.

The children cheered, and in their minds, Shen Kan immediately became a big "hero".

A little fat man of the Shen clan had a runny nose, licked the rice cakes, and asked, "Fifth uncle, why are there mice blowing and beating on the New Year's paintings?"

Shen Kan smiled: "That's called a mouse marrying a girl."

"Why did the rat marry a girl?" A little girl asked.

This is not difficult for Shen Kan, so he simply sat down and told them a story, "This is a custom handed down from ancient times, let's congratulate the mouse on marrying a daughter, the first rat is not a good thing, stealing food also spreads diseases, unlucky, so the New Year, we must find a way to marry the mouse girl in the family as soon as possible, to ensure peace and auspiciousness in the coming year."

Second, I want the mouse to marry a daughter-in-law and go to bed early, otherwise we can disturb it for a day, and it can disturb us for a year. ”

The children laughed, it turned out that adults were afraid of small mice, which was funny.

In fact, Shen Kan did not tell the truth, although the "mouse marrying a girl" on the New Year painting belongs to a custom of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and it is a kind of belief in the child rat god in the culture of the year, but the real purpose of the ancestors has been cleverly concealed.

The period from February to March in the south is the peak season for rat breeding, and the actual action is that adults quietly hunt and kill rats that eat bait at night, in order to eliminate rodent infestation.

Shen Kan simply explained the legends of other New Year paintings, the "silkworm cat picture" that blesses the silkworm, and the "golden rooster announces the dawn" that ward off evil spirits, these stories are very popular among Suzhou people.

In the distance, Shen Peiwen had a hard time going out for a walk, and happened to see a young man sitting on the ground on the valley field, surrounded by children, and laughter drifted in the wind......