Two days before the New Year, the snow that had stopped for a day began to fall again, the cold wind was blowing, Yan Hagi nested in the warm pavilion and didn't come out, last night, she sneezed, and Fu Zhixing was so scared that she almost had to invite Imperial Doctor Qiao into the house overnight. Or did she repeatedly assure that it was only the itchy nose and the fact that he didn't suffer from the cold that dispelled his thoughts.

Yan Hagi was drinking steaming brown sugar ginger jujube tea, looking at the script, Yaya led her little cousin Yan Raid in, and as soon as she came in, the two sisters climbed onto the kang neatly and came to Yan Hagi's side.

"Mother, what is the year?" Yaya asked.

"Year!" Yan Hagi was worried, did he want to tell his daughter the legend that Nian was a vicious beast that would appear on Chinese New Year's Eve and attack the people to eat people? "Go ask your eldest brother and your younger brother."

This legendary story, let's let Zhuo'er and Jun'er tell it. Yaya and Yan attacked the kang, and the sisters held hands and jumped to find Jun'er in the East Cross Courtyard; Zhuo'er was taken out by her great-grandfather to meet guests, and Lao Guogong's education for this great-grandson was all-round.

In the afternoon, Zhuo'er came back from outside and came to greet Yan Hagi as usual, "Mother, my son bought you fried chestnuts with sugar." ”

Yan Hagi likes to eat fried chestnuts with sugar, and the whole family knows about it; Yan Hagi ate a chestnut, which was sweet and sweet, and said with a smile: "You robbed your father of his job, your father will be angry." ”

Zhuo'er smiled, his father is fine with other things, but in terms of spoiling his mother, he is very naïve, as long as he is at home, he will occupy his mother and not let others get close.

"Mother, I just saw a joke on the street." Zhuo'er sat down at the kang table, picked up a piece of pastry and took a bite, her eyes lit up, "It's pork cake." ”

"What joke?" Yan Hao asked with a smile.

"One of the carriages collided with another, clamoring for the other to pay money, and saying that he was the younger brother of the crown princess; Mother, guess who is sitting in the other carriage? Zhuo'er asked with a smile.

Yan Hao thought for a while, "It can't be Li Yanchun, right?" ”

"Mother is smart." Zhuo'er smiled and praised.

"Even if Li Yanchun has been studying abroad for four or five years, the change won't be too big, so don't you know him?" Yan Hagi frowned, what is this, did the water wash away the Dragon King Temple?

"That gentleman should not be from the Li family's branch, knowing Li Yanchun's identity, his face was white, and then he ran away." Zhuoer laughed.

"The temperament of the Li family is also uneven." Yan Hagi sighed. The Fu family and the Yan family are all good, and there is no such person who bullies others and acts falsely. Of course, it is not without the kind of people who do not want to make progress and live by their descendants.

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, the side branch entered the house to receive rice grain and New Year's silver. Yan Hagi didn't care about this, there was a housekeeper watching there. Each household has 20 catties of rice, 5 catties of flour, 3 catties of meat, half a catty of frosting, and 30 taels to 5 taels of silver.

"That's a lot of money." Han looked at the account books and said. There were twenty or thirty households, and after calculating it, a few thousand taels of silver were spent.

"Those who have a livelihood don't expect this little thing in the house, and the Qingbai family didn't come to receive it this year." Yan Hagi smiled. Fu Qingbai is in the clan, and Fu Zhixing is the same generation, and he entered the Xihua Pavilion at the beginning of this year to buy.

"He's kind of a competitive." Han said with a smile, relying on the Guogong Mansion, many people in the clan are too proud of themselves and refuse to do these "lowly" jobs, preferring to sit at home and wait for death.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law talked for a while, and Yan Hagi wrapped herself tightly, carried the hand warmer, and returned to Pupanyuan in a soft sedan chair. Yan Tong led his younger brothers and sisters to have a snowball fight.

The three brothers Yan Xun, Yan Tong, Yan Bo, and Yan Wei, as well as Min Zeting and Min Zege of the Min family, and Tang Jiatong and Tang Jialing of the Rongwang Mansion all came over, and Yue'er also dragged Jun'er out, and the ten children were about to go crazy.

"Mother, together!" Yaya, this crazy girl, ran so much that her bag and head were about to fall apart, and her little face was red from the cold, and she rushed over and ran over to catch Yan Hao's legs.

"It's too cold, my mother doesn't play." Yan Hao refused, stood under the porch and watched for a while, and then went to the pavilion.

When the little ones had fun, the ginger syrup was also boiled, and there was a big bowl for each person, and a few little guys stuck out their tongues when they drank, "Auntie, this water is not sweet, it's so spicy." ”

"This is to dispel the cold, and it is not for you to make your mouth sweet, when you finish drinking, go inside and change all your wet clothes, and if you are sick, pour bitter medicine for you to drink." Yan Hagi said as he took the small silver and pounded the walnuts to eat.

The girl stretched out her little paw and grabbed a handful of them in the bowl. Yan Hagi glared at her, "Have you washed your hands?" ”

"Wash!" Yaya grinned at her mother, stuffed a piece of walnut for Yan Xian to eat, gave Yan Wei and Tang Jialing a piece each, and then stuffed a piece into her mouth.

The children changed into clean clothes, and the small pastries prepared by the water purser were brought in, and Yan Hagi asked, "Did the eldest young master send it over there?" Zhuo'er, Yan Xun, Min Zeting and Tang Jiatong are in the study of the outer courtyard, the four of them are not much different in age, they are all the eldest sons in the family, their personalities are relatively calm, and they can play together, so that they continue the friendship of their parents.

"Poof" Yue'er spit out a tooth from her mouth, "Mother, I lost another tooth." "Yue'er has reached the age of changing her teeth.

"Above or below?" Yan Hagi asked while carrying the pot and pouring water.

Yue'er poked her tongue out, "The one above." ”

"Let's rinse my mouth first." Yan Hagi called.

Yue'er rinsed her mouth and threw his little baby tooth under the bed.

In the evening, Yan Tongzhu, Min Zichang and Tang Jiang came to pick up their children and go back, and the children had a good time in the Anguo Mansion, and they all said, "I will come to play tomorrow." ”

"You're so beautiful, if you want to come again, wait until after the Chinese New Year." The three fathers all said the same thing.

Although it was a sunny day on the first day of the first lunar month, it was not warm at all, Yan Hagi made up according to the product, and Fu Zhixing accompanied An Guogong and Han into the palace to congratulate. Every year, the pilgrimage is almost the same, and most of the people I see are old faces, and during the New Year, everyone speaks politely, even if there is discord, this day, pretending to be harmonious.

On the second, third, fourth, and fifth days of the first month, I visited relatives and friends, paid New Year's greetings, and ate and drank.

On the sixth day of the new year, take a day off.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, according to legend, it is the birth day of people, so it is called the day of the people, and this day is also a festival to commemorate the ancestors, also known as the "festival of human victory". On this day, there is a custom of "cutting the ribbon for people". Han greeted Yaya and Yan with great interest, "Come on, come on, grandmother will teach you to cut the little people." ”

Take the five-color silk and cut out the human shape, after cutting, Yaya and Yan Xian gave it to Yan Hagi, Yan Hagi rewarded the two of them with a hairpin for each person, inserted it on their bag heads, and jumped happily on the two little girls.

On the eighth day of the first month, after the annual leave is over, those who should go to the yamen on an errand go to the yamen on an errand, and those who should go into the study to study.