32, Laba (the eighth day of December)

Su Chenrui returned to the Su family in despair, Su Rui glanced at it and asked lightly, "Are you back?" ”

Su Chenrui nodded weakly, "Hmm"

"Alas... Chenrui! You'll encounter more distinctions in the future, and this is just the first time..."

"Oh"

Looking at Su Chenrui's soulless appearance, Su Rui was really helpless, and ignored him, only let him figure it out by himself, otherwise it would be useless for anyone to say...

said to the three younger sisters, "Let's see what Second Uncle Song gave." With that, he opened the box.

After opening it, the Su sisters were stunned.

Su Ying stumbled and said, "This, this, this is too precious, right?" ”

No wonder Su Ying was surprised, even Su Rui was a little dazed when she saw it, only to see two small boxes in the box, dozens of gold ingots around the small boxes, all of them were five taels, one of the small boxes had two jade pendants, and one of them had four strings of pearl bracelets.

Su Rui gave Su Chenrui a piece of the jade pendant, and the pearl bracelet was divided with the sisters.

Su Chennan is reluctant, why do brothers and sisters have gifts? He didn't? "Sister, I want it too."

Su Rui touched his little head and comforted: "Go back and let your second sister tie up and hang it around your neck." ”

After counting the gold ingots, there are fifty of them, think about one tael of gold, ten taels of silver, these two hundred and fifty taels of gold ingots are equivalent to two thousand five hundred taels of silver.

Su Rui thought to herself, "Then what kind of food do I sell?" How much grain do I have to sell to earn so much silver? ”

Su Qiao thought a lot, and asked uneasily: "Eldest sister, Second Uncle Song gave us so much gold, is it okay?" ”

Su Rui shook her head, she believed Song Er, "It should be fine, you have to remember that Second Uncle Song is not an idle person." ”

Su Rui did not tell her younger siblings that Second Uncle Song asked her to go to Jurong Money Village in Qinghe Prefecture if she had difficulties, and Su Rui believed that with Second Uncle Song's net worth, there must be more than one money bank.

After thinking about it, Su Rui instructed her younger siblings: "This is given to us by Second Uncle Song, don't talk nonsense outside." Today, Second Uncle Song and the others drove the carriage out of the village, and someone will definitely see it. If you ask, just say... Well, let's just say that I went to the county seat some time ago to help people, and I came to thank you. ”

Su Rui looked at her younger siblings and said coldly, "Did you hear that?" ”

When the younger siblings of the Su family heard the voice of the eldest sister, they immediately came back to their senses: "Eldest sister, we heard it." There's absolutely no nonsense out there..."

"Well, you guys go out, these gold sisters will hide." Su Rui waved her hand and motioned for her younger siblings to go out.

Su Chenrui and the others hurriedly went out, what to do, what to do.

Su Rui entered the space and put the gold together with the silver money that used to sell ginseng, and now the family has three or four thousand taels of silver. There are thousands of catties of food, and it has really been done, and the family has surplus food.

The next day is the Laba Festival, and the Su Rui sisters will prepare the ingredients needed to make Laba porridge on the seventh day of the new year.

Laba porridge, also known as "Qibao Five-Flavor Porridge", "Buddha Porridge", "Everyone's Rice", etc., is a kind of porridge made from a variety of ingredients. "Drinking Laba porridge" is the custom of Laba Festival.

In the palace of the Yun Dynasty, it was not only necessary to cook Laba porridge, but also to distribute it to hundreds of officials, and it became a common practice. Due to the emperor's advocacy and attention, the people also rushed to follow suit and cook Laba porridge, the whole family gathered to eat, and gave gifts to relatives.

The last time Su Rui went to the county seat, she bought several kinds of beans and red dates, soaked them today, and cooked them early tomorrow.

Before dawn the next day, Su Rui and Su Qiao got up to cook porridge, first use a strong fire when cooking porridge, and when the beans are about to bloom, when they add rice, they should be boiled over a simmer when the rice is almost ripe. Stir while cooking, be careful to paste the pot, once the pot is pasted, the whole pot of porridge will be full of mushy flavor and will be completely ruined.

It took more than two hours to cook the laba porridge before it was ready.

Su Rui added rock sugar to the porridge, and seeing the greedy looks of her younger siblings, Su Rui served a bowl by herself.

It stands to reason that you shouldn't eat it first, you should give it to your friends first, and then eat it after mixing the laba porridge that you send back.

However, how can someone else's family be willing to put away materials? Anyway, she is not a pure ancient person, and she doesn't care about these customs.

After eating, Su Rui took two bowls of Laba porridge and put it in the basket, handed it to Su Chenrui and said, "You are the eldest son of our family, and if you give a gift to the old house in the future, you will have to send it yourself." There are two bowls here, and one bowl is going to be delivered to the village chief's house, understand? ”

Su Chenrui looked at the eldest sister and hesitated to catch it: "Eldest sister, I know." I'm going to send it..."

"Hmm"

He also motioned to Su Ying and Su Qiao: "These two bowls, you give them to Uncle Chang Le and Uncle Chang Ying." ”

After a while, Lin Lijun also came to deliver Laba porridge: "Sister Su Rui, this is Laba porridge cooked by my grandfather, don't dislike it." ”

Su Rui hurriedly took it: "How can you dislike it?" You wait. ”

Su Rui poured the laba porridge into the empty basin next to her, put a bowl of her own laba porridge, handed it to her and said, "Lijun, this is what I cooked." You also taste different flavors. ”

"By the way, Lijun, how are your rabbits?"

When Lin Lijun heard the little rabbits, she said happily: "They are very good, and they are very lively every day." Grandpa said that he could breed around February of the new year, and then give birth to a bunny..."

"Well, that's good, be careful on your way."

"Goodbye, Sister Surui." Lin Lijun carefully carried the bamboo basket and walked back slowly.

Su Rui didn't ask if the hay had been eaten, it must have been finished, it had been so long.

But Old Man Lin didn't let Lin Lijun ask, which means that they are poor, but they have their own ambitions.

The second one came with Su Qin and Su Ying, and the Su Chenyuan brothers and sisters came behind.

Su Rui greeted and drank laba porridge.

They didn't want to stay, and before going out, their parents had explained that today was Laba Festival and they couldn't stay at other people's houses to eat.

When Su Rui saw this, she took out ten apples from the space, and the family gave five.

When Su Rui put the gold yesterday, she found that the apples were ripe, and the red ones were particularly beautiful.

After waiting for a long time, Su Chenrui came back.

Su Rui took the basket that Su Chenrui was carrying, and found that there was only a bowl of laba porridge in it, "Why did you come back so late?" Who gave this bowl of porridge? ”

Su Chenrui replied, "It was given by the village chief's uncle." ”

Su Rui asked strangely: "Why didn't the old mansion return to the porridge?" ”

This is not Su Rui's covetousness for this bowl of porridge, this is a custom, and it is good to give them to each other.

Su Chenrui said with a tangled face: "Eldest sister, when I went, the old mansion was always in trouble. ”

Su Rui is strange, why did she start making trouble again? "How?"

"Well, grandma said... Grandma said that the eldest aunt did not respect her, and wanted to marry the eldest uncle a flat wife..."

Su Ying's mouth opened wide...

"Oh my God! Is this to marry a concubine for the uncle? ”

Su Rui thought to herself, this old lady is too capable of doing something, right? Can't live a good life?

"And then?"

Su Chenrui said awkwardly: "The eldest aunt must not be happy, grandma fed the eldest aunt some drugs last night." Uncle and the man ........."

Su Rui understood, this is raw rice cooked and matured.

"The eldest aunt woke up before dawn, and when she found out what her grandmother had done, she ran back to her parents' house......"

Su Rui answered: "Then the eldest uncle's maiden family is here, right?" ”

Su Chenrui nodded and shook his head again.

Su Ying was anxious, and hurriedly asked, "You said it." ”

"Not only the eldest uncle's mother's family came, but even Su Yi's sister and brother-in-law from the county town also came over and reported to the official."

Now all the sisters of the Su family are "............"

Su Ying asked, "What about now?" ”

Su Chenrui: "When I came back, the official was about to take my grandmother and uncle. ”

Su Rui "..............."