Next, the family picked some light-hearted things and said that the wine was also drunk, and the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was to be eaten until three days, and then the New Year was celebrated. But the Zuo family didn't have the money to buy charcoal fire, and it was easy to get cold when they sat dry, so after the third watch, the meal was dispersed, and they didn't keep vigil, and they went back to their rooms to rest.

This is the first Spring Festival Chinese New Year's Eve that Zuo Shaoyang has spent in the crossing, the first time he talked about his marriage, before the crossing Zuo Shaoyang is not a self-respecting person, the concept of marriage in modern society affects the entire generation, naturally also affects Zuo Shaoyang, so he does not attach great importance to marriage, and there are no clear requirements for future wives, as long as the appearance is not too ugly, the surname is temperamental. In modern urban society, the average family life is also good, so the family background is good or bad, and the income is not included in his first consideration.

I didn't expect to travel to the Tang Dynasty, the parents of marriage are in charge, and the right person is the first consideration, Zuo Gui's father is proud of the eight-grade official of Taizu, and he prides himself on being an official eunuch family, and a scholarly family, but in the current situation of the family, the four walls of the family still owe a lot of debts, and which official eunuch family is willing to marry his daughter to himself to suffer? Therefore, the marriage grand plan designed by my father for himself is only afraid that it is a castle in the air. It seems that you have to rely on yourself for the major events of your life. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that after the pharmacy is in operation, the family is well-off, and the parents ask the media to say that it is possible for them to become a family.

Zuo Shaoyang thought about it for a long time through the wine, and suddenly remembered Miao Peilan again, and felt out the half of the steamed bun wrapped in the handkerchief, and the black light blinded him couldn't see it, so he came to his nose and smelled it, and smelled the faint grass fragrance in a trance, which was a special fragrance only on Miao Peilan's body, and couldn't help but feel a wave in his heart, wrapped the half of the steamed bun and put it under the pillow, this steamed bun was as hard as a stone, some of them shook their heads, moved to the bed, and couldn't sleep.

Because the next day was the first day of the Lunar New Year, the pharmacy didn't have to open the door, and there was no need to do housework, Zuo Shaoyang wanted to sleep lazily, but before dawn, he heard the sound of firecrackers one after another. I can't stop it even if I cover my head with the quilt. I was about to find something to plug my ears and eyes, when I heard my mother Liang downstairs shouting: "Zhong'er, it's time, come down and set off firecrackers!" ”

Zuo Shaoyang muttered: How old are you and you still set off firecrackers! However, yesterday my mother solemnly bought firecrackers, and before dawn she asked herself to go down and put them, definitely not for fun, but should be a ritual for the New Year. Then he agreed, got up, rubbed his eyes and went down the stairs.

The firecrackers that Liang bought were the cheapest of the cannons, which had already been put at the door, with a stick of incense in his hand, and Zuo Gui's father also got up, standing there with his hands in his hands and smiling.

Zuo Shaoyang took the incense from his mother's hand, went out to the door of the pharmacy, and looked up, before dawn, the snow on the ground was glowing with a terrible white light, and the sky began to slowly fall snowflakes again.

There are already shops on the street setting off fireworks, the gunpowder technology of the Tang Dynasty is naturally not as good as the modern one, so the quality of the firecrackers is not as good as the modern one, the sound sounds cloudy, not brittle, and there are not many fireworks flying into the sky.

He crouched down, lit the firecrackers in front of the door one by one, and then retreated into the house, where he heard several explosions in succession, and the cannon exploded.

Liang and Zuo Gui said in unison: "No disease and no disaster, good luck!" Zuo Shaoyang also said a few auspicious words.

Liang smiled and said to Zuo Shaoyang: "Zhong'er, why don't you give your father a New Year's greeting?" Your father's New Year's money is ready for you. ”

"New Year's money?" Zuo Shaoyang was a little funny, "I'm in my twenties, what do you want for New Year's money." ”

"As long as you don't have a family, you have to give New Year's money, this is the rule. Alright, let's say New Year's greetings. ”

"And this rule?" Zuo Shaoyang smiled and muttered, "Kowtow or do you want to kowtow?" ”

Liang said angrily: "This child, New Year's greetings, of course, kowtow." ”

"Oh." Zuo Shaoyang looked around, "What about the futon?" He who is blind in the black light cannot see......"

Zuo Gui waved his hand and said: "Forget it, you are also older, and you don't have to kneel all the time, just do it." ”

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly arched his hand to the ground: "The child has given his father and mother a New Year's greeting, and I wish the two elders good fortune such as the East China Sea, and longevity than Nanshan!" I wish our Guizhitang a lot of money and make money. ”

Zuo Gui shook his head and said: "We opened a medicine shop, and it is not a good thing to say that we are going to make money, but it is still good for your pair to say: 'I only hope that people in the world will not be sick, even if there is medicine on the shelf.' That's good. With that, he took out a small red envelope from his arms and handed it to Zuo Shaoyang.

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly took it with both hands, touched it, opened a small stack, opened it and counted it, a total of six cents. Take the meaning of six or six great shuns.

Zuo Gui said: "Okay, it's not dawn yet, let's go back to sleep, there's nothing to do today." I've been tired for a year, so take a good rest. With that, he slowly walked back to the house with his hands behind his back. Liang waved his hand to Zuo Shaoyang to let him go back to the house, and then followed Zuo Gui into the house.

Zuo Shaoyang just went out to set off firecrackers and was blown by the cold wind, shivering with cold, and quickly stuffed the New Year's money into his arms, slipped back to the house and closed the door, climbed the stairs and got into the quilt, the little squirrel yellow ball by the pillow had been awakened by the sound of cannonballs, and he poked his little head out of the nest to see. Zuo Shaoyang touched its smooth skin: "Huangqiu, sleep!" It's not dawn yet, there's nothing to eat! ”

The little guy was really obedient, or maybe he was used to the sound of firecrackers outside, and curled up his little body, holding his little head with two front paws, and his big furry tail rolled over, wrapped around his body like a quilt, and fell asleep again.

Zuo Shaoyang slept in a daze until noon, and Liang called him to eat below, and then he went down the stairs with sleepy eyes and the little squirrel's nest. The little squirrel was fed food first, and then washed and ate.

During the meal, Zuo Shaoyang asked Zuo Gui's father, "Shall we start patrolling the hospital tomorrow?" ”

"Nope." Zuo Gui said, "I have to wait for your sister and them to come to pay New Year's greetings, according to the habits of previous years, they have to have dinner together after the New Year's greetings, so I'm afraid it's too late tomorrow, so let's go again on the second day of junior high school." ”

"Oh." Zuo Shaoyang has never met his brother-in-law Hou Pu, who is a yamen scribe, and he really wants to meet him.

After eating, because it snowed overnight last night, the snow outside the door was quite thick, and people had stepped on ice, so Zuo Shaoyang borrowed a shovel from the uncle of the grocery store opposite, shoveled the ice, and then swept the ice and snow aside with a big bamboo broom. The grocery store uncle inevitably praised Zuo Shaoyang for his diligence.

After cleaning the door, Zuo Shaoyang was fine, so he told his parents that he was going out for a walk, and he had been traveling for several days, and he hadn't taken a good look at the ancient town.

With his sleeves cuffed, he first walked around his pharmacy, and found that on the other side of the alley he walked that night was a family, and there was a pair of stone lions at the door, and the vermilion lacquer gate was closed, and he couldn't hear any sound inside. Since there is a stone lion in front of the door, it seems that this family is still good. Although they are neighbors, they are so posturing, and they naturally don't pay attention to what distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. After looking at it closely, I found that the stone lion was very old, one foot was still missing a toe, and the paint of the vermilion lacquer gate was also peeling off a little, so it was estimated that the family background was not much stronger.

He turned to the other side of the pharmacy, it was an oil and salt shop, the keeper of the store was an old man, sitting there like a wood, Zuo Shaoyang talked to him, said a few words, and the people only replied, and there was no smile on his face, which made Zuo Shaoyang uninterested, so he had to go shopping with his sleeves caged.

Walking down the alley behind the kitchen, I walked to the T-junction I had been to last time, only to find that there was a small temple in the mouth of the alley in the black hole. The plaque reads "Seifuji". There was nothing to do left and right, Zuo Shaoyang went in and took a turn, the inside was not big, but it was quite clean, the shoulders of the mud bodhisattva were all stripped, revealing the mud blanks inside, and in addition to the long incense on the table, there were also a few plates of dried fruits. There were no other offerings. There were no pilgrims at the temple. Only two or three old monks were listlessly chanting sutras, and when they saw people coming in, they did not greet them. Zuo Shaoyang didn't have any money to rejoice, so he took a look and came out.