Guangxin Mansion customs, the evening of the New Year to send the stove to the sky, great-mother Zhou prepared gum tooth candy, glutinous rice candy and small sugar cakes for the kitchen stove in front of the statue, and bought Fulu, tiger head and other prints to paste on the door or wall, these prints are carved in red, green, and green are quite clumsy, a penny a piece, better than cheap, every household can afford it, paste it up and look festive.

On this day, a total of three groups of beggars came to the house to dance and beg for money, which makes people sigh that there are really many beggars in Shangrao City, in fact, some are not beggars, some idlers on the outskirts of the city are smeared and dressed as ghosts and sentenced to walk the streets and alleys to mix a few pocket money, anyway, they are idle and idle, blind and lively, and sometimes they can see beautiful women in people's houses, and they are full of eyes.

Before dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve, Zeng's mother Zhou took Zeng Yu, Niu Niu and Sixi to burn the stove horse in front of the kitchen stove and send the stove monarch to heaven, and chanted some words "spicy and spicy, stove monarch Mo Yan", and then Zeng Yu set off a small firecracker to send the stove king to heaven to report his duties.

After the New Year, the flute and drum outside the city are continuous, the atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger, this is the first time that Zeng Yu's family celebrates the New Year in a new house, and it is also the first time to celebrate the New Year in a place other than Ishida, when Zeng Yu's father was alive, the New Year is more reunion and beauty, since the great-father and mother-in-law passed away successively, because the eldest brother is cowardly, the eldest sister-in-law is not virtuous, Zeng Yu's mother and son are not very happy in Shitian, and there is not much joy during the New Year, and now it is like a bird out of the cage, even the little girl Sixi also feels inexplicably happy, and is excited all day long-

The day after the new year, Ishida's Zeng Yu asked someone to bring a letter and a basket of New Year's goods to his younger brother Zeng Yu, and invited Zeng Yu's family to return to Shitian for the New Year, and said some words to worship ancestors and reunite.

Zeng Yu asked people to bring two Songjiang flower cloth to his sister-in-law and niece, there are really a lot of satin cloth in the house, the two big boxes sent by the old guest Yuan Zhong have more than a dozen various Suzhou and Hangzhou silk cloths, the day before yesterday, Jierlang of Goose Lake sent six silk cloths, as well as a few horses sent by Yan Shaoqing's mother, Zeng Yu's family of four where can they use these many silk silk cloths, so in addition to giving them to the eldest brother Zeng Qian, they also sent two horses of Suzhou silk to Zhu Jiajia's sister Zeng Ruolan, Zeng Ruolan took her two daughters and servants to send twenty catties of brown sugar and a lot of New Year's goods, Zeng Yu's kitchen storage room was full.

From the small year to the big year, the rain has hardly stopped, the air is humid and cold, it is not appropriate to go out, the white snow on the roof has been drenched by the rain, the children are a little disappointed, Zeng Yu is very happy with such a day, few guests visit, the matchmakers no longer come to harass these days, he gets up early every day in the front yard patio to practice all the way to Zeng's house, dance a sword, to the study for half an hour, then Niuniu will come to call: "Brother has breakfast." ”

Breakfast is porridge and steamed buns or steamed buns, great-mother Zhou didn't know how to make steamed buns, steamed buns and these pastries, she learned from the chef Yu, Zeng Yu likes the pastries made by his mother very much, his mother is actually very smart, he has been a little depressed in Ishida over the years, and now he is on his own, and his mother is of course in a happy mood -

In the morning, Zeng Yu generally reads a book and writes an eight-strand essay, after lunch, meditates and practices a Baduan brocade, and then begins to paint, since observing Xu Wei's painting, Zeng Yu has a lot of understanding of the techniques of painting with a brush, and now it is the stage of slowly becoming familiar with and mastering——

When painting, Niuniu stood aside and watched, holding a small stove in her hand, Zeng Yu would stop painting for a while, and Niuniu would hold the small stove high: "Brother, warm your hands." ”

Zeng Yu smiled slightly, put down the pen, took the small stove, covered it in his hand and continued to figure out how to write, and returned the stove to the little sister if he had any intentions, and took the pen to dye it, and the small paintings below three feet were completed in one afternoon, and the two afternoons above three feet, a few paintings were painted, and he felt that he had made obvious progress, which was really not for the sake of painting and selling money in the future, but for fun.

At dinner, my mother allowed me to drink two glasses, drink warm wine, eat hot dishes, and sit around the small square table, which was warm and comfortable.

At night, Zeng Yu read Wang Ao's "Zhenze Collection" bought from Huwan last time, hugged the stove to read, slept late at night, and the day passed like this.

Sometimes Zeng Yu thinks that it is very good to accompany his mother and little sister to live like this for the rest of his life, but he also knows that he is only twenty years old this year, and there is still a long way to go, and the Ming Dynasty is also brewing an officialdom upheaval.

Shangrao Fuxue of the students are not willing to be lonely, not afraid of the winter rain and cold, on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, they also organized a literary meeting, chartered a teahouse in the north of the city, recited their own work, commented on the gains and losses, exchanged experiences, Zeng Yu also participated, although he was modest and low-key, not sharp, but most of the talents respected him, Zeng Yu was the leader of the Shangrao Zhusheng.

The rain continued until the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and suddenly the clouds opened and the fog dispersed, and the long-lost winter sun showed its face, and the sky was blue and sunny, it was a good year.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Zeng Yu and Sixi set up tall pine wood in the open space in front of the house and set it on fire, the flames were blazing, the rosin fragrance was overflowing, and the sound of firecrackers was heard from far and near.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Zeng Yu cooked tea, and then taught Niu Niu Go, Niu Niu used to watch her brother play chess with friends, and knew how to live both eyes, real eyes and false eyes, Zeng Yu let eighteen children play against her, for Zeng Yu this chess game is not interesting, mainly to teach Niu Niu to play, it is very interesting to see Niu Niu's eyes open wide and condensed thinking, Niu Niu's forehead hair was originally shaved off, and she has not shaved it since she came out of Ishida, and now her front hair is almost up to her eyebrows, and there is some charm of a little beauty——

When this scene, Zeng Yuyou remembered the wooden house in the maple forest outside Fenyijieqiao Village, that night he was playing chess with Miss Yingzi, Lu Miaoxiang sat on the side and watched quietly, outside the window, the rain hit the plantains, this is a vivid and beautiful picture, Zeng Yuxin said: "I don't know what Lu Miaoxiang and Yingzi are doing at this time, the two of them live alone, is there only two people together for the New Year?" He thought again: "Ten years ago, Lu Miaoxiang took the infant posture to live in a single-door courtyard outside Qingtian Village in Lufang, which is equivalent to seclusion, Lu Miaoxiang must be resentful of her uncle Lu Yuanwai who pushed her sister into the fire pit, presumably they will not be together during the New Year, lonely and lonely, Lu Miaoxiang has come over like this all these years, she has adapted to it, this is equivalent to a cultivation process." ”

I thought again: "If I don't go to teach in Yanfu next year, then there will be no chance to meet Lu Miaoxiang and Ying Zi, do you really have to wait until Yan Shifan kills her head before helping the two of them, the world is unpredictable, how many variables will there be during this period, I can't break my trust in Lu Miaoxiang——"

"Brother, play chess."

Niuniu waited for her brother's next move for a while, and finally couldn't help but remind her.

Zeng Yu said "oh", glanced at the chess game, picked up a cold sunspot and landed on the chessboard, making a crisp sound of "pop".

During the short period of firecrackers and occasional interludes in propaganda, the night of Chinese New Year's Eve was extremely quiet, and Zeng Yu heard the sound of his mother still frying broad beans, pumpkin seeds, and sunflower seeds in the kitchen, stir-frying beans and melon seeds with fine sand, the sound of the spatula "rubbing", the "rustling" sound of sand flowing in the iron pot, and the aroma of fried goods wafting to his nose, which was the taste of the New Year's farmhouse that made Zeng Yu intoxicated.

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I don't know when, the squire and scribes only handed a New Year's greeting post to indicate that they have come, people do not enter the door, of course, the owner is often not there, because the owner of the broad exchange is also busy handing over the post, which is like sending a text message during the New Year in later generations, indicating that there is still a friend of you, but the group sending it seems that the world style is too ancient, and the people in the Jiajing period also went to the door of the house to go through it-

Jiajing forty years, the age is in Xinyou, the first day of the new year, the weather is fine, Zeng Yu got up early to kowtow to his mother, and he was busy going out to pay New Year's greetings, in Shangrao City, he except for his sister Zeng Ruolan's family and Wu Chunze, who has a good relationship, there is no other person who needs to go to the New Year's greetings, so he went to Wu Chunze's house early in the morning, last year he was in Fenyi, Wu Chunze took a lot of care of his family-

Because he wanted to leave Sixi at home to answer the door, Zeng Yu went to Wu Village alone, and met Wu Chunze at the entrance of the village riding a little donkey to go out to send a post, Wu Chunze hurriedly got off the donkey, and immediately accompanied Zeng Yu back to the house to see his father, and after giving up the salute and saying a blessing and festive words, Wu Chunze and Zeng Yu went to Zeng's house to congratulate the New Year, and sat for a while, Wu Chunze rode a donkey to the city to visit relatives and friends.

Zeng Yu took the Mongolian horse black bean out and rode up to wish the family, and met his sister Zeng Ruolan halfway, a family of four, and a maid and a servant of six people were about to go to Zeng's house to pay New Year's greetings, and Zeng Ruolan should come here to pay New Year's greetings first.

Zeng Yu said: "Sister and brother-in-law will go to the house and sit first, and I will go and kowtow to Daddy Zhu and come back." ”

The two nieces, Ah Tong and Ah Wei, shouted: "Uncle Carp is auspicious for the New Year, Uncle Carp is the champion and first, Uncle Carp is delicate and beautiful concubine - New Year's money, New Year's money, Uncle Carp gives New Year's money." ”

Zeng Yu said with a smile: "Go and wait in the house, my uncle will be back soon." ”

Zeng Yu went to the Zhu family mansion to meet Zhu Jurong, Zhu Jurong insisted on leaving him to drink tea and talk, since last year Zeng Qian treated Zhu Jurong with acupuncture, Zhu Jurong's paralysis has improved a lot, and now he can walk with a cane, but his speech is vague, but his spirit is good, and Zeng Yu chattered for a long time-

Zhu Dedong's two elder brothers are also flattering to Zeng Yu now, drinking tea and talking together, and when Zeng Yu returns to the house outside the north gate, it will be noon, Zeng Ruolan's family is of course going to have lunch here, Zeng's mother Zhou and Zeng Ruolan are busy in the kitchen, Sixi handed over a stack of worship posts, there are more than 20 letters, all of which are those Xiucai who gathered last time-

Zeng Yu said: "If you want me to go back and worship one by one, won't you break my legs, no, run and break the legs of black beans." "It's not interesting to think about this kind of New Year's greeting, and I'm too lazy to go back to worship, so I went to discuss with Wu Chunze early the next morning, and invited all the students to a banquet in a restaurant.

Outside the north gate, Zeng Yu said goodbye to Wu Chunze, and when he returned to his house, he saw two sedan chairs parked outside the gate.