Chapter 62: The Year (1)

The New Year is approaching, and the winter in the capital this year is not cold. There were only two light snowfalls, and there was a ground movement just a year ago, perhaps in order to eliminate bad luck, from the princes and nobles to the common people, the atmosphere of the New Year was much stronger than in previous years.

At the same time, in order to ensure that there is no chaos during the New Year, the official yamen of the capital has also entered the busiest period of the year, inside and outside the capital, the number of patrols has doubled, countless thieves and robbers, it is very unfortunate to be imprisoned by the conscientious officials, of course, in order to avoid bad luck, generally will not see blood during the New Year, however, this time there is a small thing, which makes the capital boiling.

It is reported that Ying Tianfu caught a heinous thief who picked flowers, and the saint heard about it. was so angry that he couldn't wait for the next year, and personally approved the decision.

As soon as this matter came out, the common people in the capital not only sang the praises of today's saints for their wisdom and virtue and love the people like sons, but also some filthy villains who looked down on people, and speculated wildly with their minds, and even - 'The reason why the emperor is angry, That's because the royal nobles were also insulted', this kind of rumor appeared, however, although the Great Xia Dynasty couldn't help talking, but such insulting gossip about the royal family was not something that anyone dared to say, not to mention, the nobles of the Great Xia Dynasty lived in the boudoir, and the door did not go out of the second door, and there were not many people who believed in this kind of rumor, and it disappeared in a few days.

However, the uproar in shock has not spread to the Lou family, and at this time, Xiaoru is also anxious to prepare for the New Year, not to mention anything else. A lot of New Year's gifts that must be paid attention to, let the new Xiaoru in Beijing have a big headache, Lou Yi's colleagues and bosses, etc., compared with previous years, prepared by a steady housekeeper, but this year is different from the past, Lou Yi is married, as his wife, for these gift lists, Xiaoru always has to look at it.

Xiao Ru just watched these things, so it didn't cost her much effort, but for the elders who were close to Gongsun Zhi, Doctor Tang, and a group of doctors from the Compassion Medical Association, their gifts didn't have to be expensive, but they had to be able to show their hearts.

So, when Lou Yi just drank a glass of mellow monkey wine and returned to the house satisfied, he saw Xiaoru sitting next to the bookcase. Holding the pen and scribbling around, it looks annoying.

"What's the matter, lady?"

"Xianggong, what did you give the old man in previous years?"

"New Year's gift?" Lou Yi was stunned and smiled, "Red envelopes, but it's not me who gives it to the old man, but the old man gives me and Ding Feng, it's usually a red envelope of fifty taels, we go shopping with it, and it usually happens to be spent clean after the New Year." ”

Xiao Ru was stunned, almost didn't smash the hot tea on the table, glanced at Lou Yi, speechless, is this person really an adult? There is no problem for elders to give red envelopes, but you can't be like a child, don't think about giving gifts to your elders!

"Just kidding." Lou Yi sat down next to Xiaoru, took her hot tea and drank it, before he smiled, "Don't have a headache, Ding Feng and I used to send books or tea or something in previous years, and sometimes we spent the New Year outside, so we picked up local fresh specialties, and the old man didn't care about these." ”

Xiaoru shook her head, Lou Yi can be casual, anyway, the old man raised him as a son, and he will be very happy regardless of what he sends. But for the first time as an apprentice's daughter-in-law, she gave a New Year's gift to the old man, and she couldn't be too sloppy.

After thinking about it, it's better to send more supplements, first, Xiaoru is familiar with it, and secondly, medicinal materials and leather are more expensive at home. Get a jar of monkey wine soaked in wild ginseng, a jar of snake gall wine, pick two boxes of good medicinal materials that are some years old, add five pieces of pure wool shoulders woven by yourself, and add a mattress made of green wolf skin, the old man has a good body, but after all, he is getting older and older year by year, and he can't compare with the young man.

As for the doctors, including Donald, just like in previous years, they sent medical cases and medical books. The notes made by the Quartet of Medicine over the years, as well as some secret recipes that have been tested and have been collected, are more effective.

In the following days, Xiaoru was busy preparing gifts all day long, and waited until there was less than half a month before the New Year, only to suddenly realize that she had forgotten the welfare of the people in the house, and hurriedly took the account book, hurriedly allocated the money, gave all the subordinates two monthly salaries, and then divided the cloth. Give the close-fitting big girls purses and high-quality rouge gouache, brighter new clothes, the rough girls below, and the servants of the family must also have a reward, in addition, I also read the credit of Jiang Yu's careful teaching of Fu'er, and wrapped him with a rich red envelope.

As for Meng Nier Xiaoyan and Fu'er, Xiao Ru was even more attentive, and prepared a gift early, and gave Fu'er a complete set of 'blue cat' comic strips, Xiao Ru painted it for more than three months before it was completed, and gave Meng Nier a new medicine box and prepared surgical props, Xiaoyan is a thick hardcover new cookbook, which was copied by Xiao Ru herself, sent to the bookstore for printing, and wrapped in thick cowhide, with a gift written on it, which looks precious and beautiful.

Get these gifts, I want to be enough for a few girls to be happy for a year.

By the time all the cumbersome affairs were handled, it was already the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and it was the year of the year.

On the same day, the weather was good, the sun was bright, Lou Yi was made up by his daughter-in-law and his own mother early in the morning, let him wear a new dress, prepare candy, water, beans, straw, and worship the king of the stove.

Lou Yi had never done this kind of work before, but he stiffened his hands and feet, and the etiquette was not the same, and he also let Mrs. Lou give a count, and later the old lady held Lou Yi. personally smeared sugar juice on the mouth of the stove prince, and watched him apologize, so he let him go.

On the twenty-fourth, Xiaoru took Meng Nier, Xiaoyan Fu'er and other girls in the family to start cleaning the room, all kinds of cups, plates, dishes and chopsticks, valuable antiques, all scrubbed and cleaned, and the bedding and curtains were also replaced with new ones.

Lou Yi listened to his wife's orders, ran to Gongsun Zhi's old man's house, and pestered the old man to write Spring Festival couplets for him, not to mention, Gongsun Zhi was willing to do this job, no matter who came to ask, he agreed, even if the court did not deal with it very much, and officials with different political views were no exception, and there was quite a bit of refusal to come.

However, Gongsun Zhi is a generation of cloth cloth national teachers, famous and prosperous, his words, one is worth a thousand gold, except for Lou Yi and Ding Feng, the two apprentices, grabbed a lot of Spring Festival couplets, and the door of the house was pasted, and the others were eager to give it up, worship every year, where to be willing to put it on.

The candles in the room were bright, and the young girl's cheeks were red, and it was very cute.

"Young lady, you see that I cut 'more than every year'...... What do you think? Fu'er smiled and held up the two crooked 'big fish', with a look of smugness.

Xiao Ru smiled and nodded, touching Xiao Ru's head, "Yes, it's much better than last year." ”

In a word, the little girl jumped high, and she didn't remember that during the Chinese New Year last year, she cut a fish, and was recognized as a loach by her own young lady, and praised her for her novel loach cutting, fatter than others, and delicious at first glance.

-- Split --

…… Xiaoru hasn't gotten a red envelope yet, don't want anything else, bring the pink ticket!