Chinese New Year's Eve, Night, Guo Mansion.

The timely return of Guo Ye and Wu Xiuxiu added a bit of excitement to Guo Fu's Chinese New Year's Eve this year.

The old lady of the Guo family has not seen Guo Ye for a long time, and this goodbye is naturally because the old lady feels sorry for her old son, and almost all night she drags Guo Ye by her side, not letting Guo Ye leave her half a step away.

All night, the old lady had a honey-like smile on her face.

At the Chinese New Year's Eve reunion dinner, Kang Yueshan and Wu Maocai, two cheap fathers-in-law, came to Guo Mansion in person, and the family sat around the table, talking and laughing, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

As the sound of firecrackers outside Fushun Lane gradually subsided, a * reunion dinner came to an end.

Time passed, Chinese New Year's Eve was coming to an end, and the first day of the first lunar month was approaching, Wu Maocai and Kang Yueshan, two old men, got up to say goodbye and returned home. Guo Ye naturally got up to send him off, and the two sent them to the door of Guo's mansion.

According to the old folk rules, after Chinese New Year's Eve, you can't sleep in the early morning of the first day of the new year, but you have to stay up late to keep watch until morning.

Guarding until the early morning of the new year, the door is opened, and the firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door and opening the firecracker", which means that the new year is auspicious. After the sound of firecrackers, the broken red is all over the ground, bright like cloud brocade, called "full of red", meaning that the beginning of the year is red to the end of the year.

The old lady was too old to stay up late, and Zhenniang was sleepy because she was pregnant with Liujia, and Kang Zhiru was drinking high because of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner table*, so the three of them went back to their respective houses to sleep with the support of the maids in the mansion.

Then, the arduous task of keeping the year until dawn and then letting go of the cannon battle was naturally handed over to Guo Ye and Wu Xiuxiu.

The night was long, and I didn't want to sleep, but I also stayed up uncomfortable.

In this era, there is no CCTV Spring Festival Gala to watch, and there are no New Year's Eve concerts of various satellite TVs to kill time, so Guo Ye has to stay up late to watch the New Year.

He pondered that the day after tomorrow would definitely have someone in the mansion to come to pay New Year's greetings, and he couldn't drag the people in the mansion to stay up all night, so he immediately sent them all back to the house and let them rest and sleep early.

As the mansion gradually quieted down, and the sound of firecrackers in the city slowly disappeared, he and Wu Xiuxiu had nothing to do.

He took Wu Xiuxiu's little hand and came to the courtyard, looked at the dazzling stars twinkling in the sky, and suddenly thought: "Xiuxiu, I'll move a bamboo ladder, let's go up to the roof?" ”

Guo Ye covered his mouth and asked, "Huh? Husband, what are you doing on the roof? ”

Guo Ye smiled mysteriously: "I'll take you up to the roof to count the stars, you and I have been married for some years, it seems that I haven't been romantic with you yet." You stand here and wait for me, I'll carry the ladder. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the man had already slid towards the courtyard where the ladder was stored.

Wu Xiuxiu obviously didn't understand what romance was, but she also understood that Guo Ye wanted to go to the roof with him to count the stars in the sky.

She is a beautiful girl, and she has never done such an outrageous thing as climbing walls and ladders to the roof, Guo Ye's suggestion is really imaginative, if it is seen and spread, Mrs. Hou of Yizhou climbs the ladder to the roof, it is really shocking.

Wu Xiuxiu instinctively wanted to refuse, but for some reason she had some expectations in her heart, and there were some scenes of looking forward to Yi and Guo Ye going to the roof to count the stars. Suddenly, a touch of sweetness rose inexplicably in my heart.

After a while, Guo Ye brought a bamboo ladder to erect on the wall, and helped Wu Xiuxiu to carefully go up to the roof of the Guofu Flower Hall.

The two sat on the roof tiles, leaning against each other, feeling the tranquility of the quiet silence as the night fell.

And above the head, the stars are twinkling, not wonderful.

Guo Ye held Wu Xiuxiu's shoulder with one hand, pointed to the stars and stars in the sky with the other, and kept telling Wu Xiuxiu about the legends of the stars and stars, from the freedom of the gods in the sky, to the poignant love between the heavenly fairies and the underground mortals, the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, the Seven Fairies and Dong Yong......

Wu Xiuxiu listened to it, and she was a little stupid.

Gradually, she slowly became calm from her fear of heights at the beginning, and finally raised her head and raised her face, counting the stars in the sky excitedly.

A gust of night wind hit the faces of the two of them, Wu Xiuxiu's temples and green silk swayed with the wind, and the steps on the bun were even more crisp and crisp by the cold wind at night.

The cold wind at night, through the clothes, is cold to the bone.

Guo Ye tightened his arms and took Wu Xiuxiu in his arms to keep her warm; Wu Xiuxiu put her little face on Guo Ye's chest, and her little hands kept stroking and rubbing the back of Guo Ye's hand to ward him off the cold.

At this moment, love each other, rely on each other, you and me, you have me, and I have you......

The two quietly enjoyed the silent love given to each other, and after about half an hour, Wu Xiuxiu reluctantly got out of Guo Ye's arms and asked softly: "Husband, how long are we going to stay in Longxi?" ”

Guo Ye continued to hold her fragrant shoulder, and replied after a little thought: "I originally planned to leave for Yangzhou after the fourth day of the first lunar month." After all, Chen Juncheng is taking care of all kinds of affairs over there, and I don't feel at ease. However, now there is a small episode, so why don't you leave for the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. ”

What is this little episode, he didn't say it to Wu Xiuxiu, because he felt that it was too bad to talk to Wu Xiuxiu about Zhao Feixuan on such an occasion.

However, after Wu Xiuxiu heard Guo Ye's reply, she was a little more excited, and clapped her hands happily: "Can you stay until the fifteenth day of the first month?" Great, it's too idle to do in Yangzhou, it's better to have our own hometown. Although Longxi is small, it is full of neighbors within a hundred steps. ”

Guo Ye smiled, stroked her head lovingly, and said apologetically: "I really wronged you for letting you endure this loneliness with me in Yangzhou, Xiuxiu." ”

Wu Xiuxiu shook her head and said softly: "Don't be wronged, marry a chicken and follow a chicken, if you can follow your husband, wherever you go is home." However, the husband has to accompany his mother-in-law more in Longxi, Zhenniang and Zhiru more these days, after all, they can't be like me, accompany you all day long, do you say? ”

Guo Ye's heart was full of warmth when he heard this, and he secretly said in his heart, don't look at Wu Xiuxiu and them fighting for this and that, but when it comes to the bones, they always understand the overall situation, and if they have a wife like this, what more can a husband ask for?

Immediately, he nodded heavily and said, "Yes, I will accompany them well while I am at home." I want to think about how to arrange the next few days, I can't eat and sleep every day, sleep and eat, right? I'm going to make something interesting and let everyone out of boredom. Hey, there you have it! ”

Guo Ye suddenly had an idea in his heart, snapped his fingers, and shouted excitedly: "Horse crane, I will ask Wang Bajin and Zhang Jiujin to help me make a pair of horse cranes tomorrow, and I will teach you to play horse cranes, right?" I learned to play horse hanging, even if I am not at home in the future, my mother, Zhiru, and Zhenniang can also use this to relieve their boredom. yes, you can also invite both of my fathers-in-law to play with me. ”

"Horse crane?"

Wu Xiuxiu asked suspiciously, "What is this?" How come I have never heard of it? ”

Guo Ye patted his head, and secretly said in his heart, yes, the word horse hanging first appeared in a card game during the Ming Dynasty's apocalypse, otherwise there would be no Ming Dynasty died in horse hanging.

As for how it evolved into mahjong in later generations, it is impossible to study.

However, all political factors aside, it is undeniable that mahjong is a national sport that is beneficial to the body and mind.

If you let Lao Niang, Xiuxiu, Zhenniang, and Zhiru teach them to play mahjong, it will be really fun.

So he said mysteriously: "I won't tell you now, wait until I make mahjong, oh no, horse hanging, wait until I make a horse tag, and I'll tell you how to play." ”

Wu Xiuxiu was also whetted by Guo Ye, and nodded expectantly: "Okay, then you will teach us to play horse hanging." ”

"Of course, tomorrow I can ask Zhang Jiujin and Wang Bajin to help and make a horse tag. Xiuxiu, you just see. ”

As time passed slowly, the sky was already hazy, the fish belly in the east was white, and the morning sun could not wait to emerge from the east.

The two of them actually sat on the roof for a full night, and their faces were not depressed, but a little more energetic.

Guo Ye looked up at the sky, then stood up and shouted to Wu Xiuxiu: "Xiuxiu, come, let's go down, hurry up and open the door to welcome the New Year." ”

Wu Xiuxiu held Guo Ye's arm, stood up cautiously, nodded with joy and said, "Well, the New Year is auspicious, I wish my husband good health and everything goes smoothly." ”

Guo Ye pinched her red puffy little face, and said with a smile: "The little mouth is sweet and cute, hurry up and go down, and then sit on it and freeze, it is estimated that your little face will not be as simple as a red puff tomorrow." ”

Subsequently, the two of them slowly descended the bamboo ladder and landed safely.

Guo Ye carried the firecracker to the gate of Guo's mansion and blew the fire, a little ......

Bang...... Rumble......

Precisely:

The sound of firecrackers in the year old,

The spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu.

Thousands of households,

Always replace the new peach with the old charm.