(Bitter Reading) "Ahh Liu Meibao seemed to be frightened by something, and shouted violently.

"Hey." Zhou Liangyu hurriedly stretched out his hand to protect her, glaring at the person who caused the trouble.

It was a skinny child, who heard the shouting, slipped into the crowd and ran.

"Are you alright?" Zhou Liangyu hurriedly comforted Liu Meibao, seeing that her face was wrong, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's okay.. It's okay.." Liu Meibao held the other hand in one hand and smiled at Zhou Liangyu a little unnaturally.

"Is it really okay?" Zhou Liangyu was suspicious, and suddenly patted his head and remembered something, "Could it be a thief!" Let's see what's missing..."

Liu Meibao was taken aback.

"No, no." She hurriedly said, lowering her hand, "It's just startled." ”

Zhou Liangyu sighed, seeing that her expression was slightly pale and slightly red, she might have been really frightened.

"Then let's go." He said.

Liu Meibao nodded, quickened her pace, and held the folded square paper in her left hand covered by her sleeve, like coals.

Shen Liumei's first Spring Festival after coming to ancient times came with a snowfall.

Two days ago, Song Sanniang went to the street to buy a few rice cakes, and now they have been placed on the table to worship the ancestors, and what is being cooked on the stove is the few knives of pork, and the smell of meat wafts over the small courtyard, and Zhou Liangyu is in the house with a peach charm, holding a pen and frowning.

"It's made of peach?" Liu Meibao asked curiously some questions that seemed ridiculous to Zhou Liangyu.

"Of course." Zhou Liangyu nodded and said, and then thought about the couplet.

"What's on this?" Liu Meibao took the peach charm in her hand and looked at it,

On this small wooden board, two majestic figures are sketched with a rough knife and brush.

"This is Shen Tu, this is Yu Lei..."Zhou Liangyu simply put down the pen and explained to her.

"What's that?" Liu Meibao didn't know at all. Asked more curiously.

Zhou Liangyu was also surprised.

"Why doesn't my sister know?" He said, "It's the door god." ”

Isn't the door god Qin Shubao or something? Liu Meibao almost blurted out, but fortunately swallowed it back in time, smiled hehe, and dealt with it vaguely.

"Is it ready?" Song Sanniang asked outside.

"It's coming." Zhou Liangyu answered, picked up the pen again, and pretended to be sad.

"Write couplets?" Liu Meibao asked.

Zhou Liangyu nodded, "I don't know what to write." ”

Spring Festival couplets, Liu Meibao smiled.

"I'll think of one, brother, don't you think so." She laughed.

"Okay." Zhou Liangyu was very happy. "I forgot, you read a lot of books, so it's not difficult."

It wasn't in the book she was reading, but Shunhetang had always hung one, and she remembered it very well.

"Heshun has a hundred blessings. The word "peace" is worth a thousand gold. She said slowly.

"Okay." Zhou Liangyu praised, read it in his mouth a few times, and felt better and better. Compared with the auspicious prayers that are used to being written on those peach symbols, this is a bit straightforward, but it is close to the heart.

The relationship between my mother and sister is getting better and better, and the family is safe. They're finally coming out of their doom.

"Sister, your handwriting is good. You write. Zhou Liangyu picked up the pen to write, and when he thought of something, he hurriedly gave it to Liu Meibao.

"My handwriting is still too delicate to write this." Liu Meibao shook her head, "It's better for my brother to write, my brother's words are strong and imposing." ”

Listening to her praise, Zhou Liangyu smiled a little embarrassed.

"What are you doing, haven't you written it yet?" Song Sanniang walked in, saw the two of them look at each other and smiled. I didn't even notice her walking in, so I coughed and said.

Zhou Liangyu hurriedly picked up a pen and wrote it down.

"Alright, alright." He said, "Hang it out as soon as you dry it." ”

"I'm going to put up window grilles." Liu Meibao also said busily. picked up the window grille that Song Sanniang had already hinged on the table on the side, and picked up a bowl of pulp.

Hang up the peach charm. After pasting the window flowers, Zhou Liangyu cleaned the yard, boiled hot water, freshened up and changed into clean clothes, and began to worship his ancestors.

The offering table was placed in Song Sanniang's house, and the offerings were very simple, a plate of meat, a plate of white bread, rice cakes, and wine, candles were lit, paper money was laid, and red chopsticks were inserted.

Song Sanniang took the two of them to stand in front of the offering table, and after chanting some auspicious words to ask the ancestors to bless the descendants, they inserted incense and kowtowed together, even if the ceremony was completed, the meat steamed buns and wine on the table could also be served down for them to enjoy.

There was already the sound of crackling firecrackers outside, which was somewhat similar to Shen Liumei's familiar modernity, Song Sanniang re-fried the boiled meat in the kitchen, and Liu Meibao stood at the gate, watching the children in the alley laughing with interest.

"The snow is heavy, and I see that my clothes are wet." Zhou Liangyu held her up with an umbrella and asked, "What are you looking at, so happy?" ”

Liu Meibao was about to speak, when she saw a person walking out of the next door.

"Brother and sister, have a good New Year." The sixth aunt said with a smile.

Seeing her, Liu Meibao's face was slightly uncomfortable, these days, although this person did not hand over the letter again, but the letter was not broken, the way to come is varied, that day on the street was suspected of being a thief-like child stuffed into the hand, a few days ago there was a letter swept out when she cleaned the snow outside the door, which made her nervous as if she was facing a big enemy, I am afraid that if the letter does not fall safely in her own hands, but is seen, what will be the result, dip the pig cage as a nun and lock it up for a lifetime....

Thankfully, none of her fears have happened so far.

"Aunt Six, it's good." She said with Zhou Liangyu.

The sixth aunt smiled and nodded, stood at the door, shouted a few words of joking little grandson, and tilted her head to see that there was a peach charm hanging outside her door.

Song Sanniang shouted to Zhou Liangyu to lift the table, and Zhou Liangyu went in.

Zhou Liangyu walked on the front foot, and Liu Meibao saw the sixth aunt come over with her feet raised.

"I'll see what my sister's peach charm says." She said in her mouth, as if she was afraid that Liu Meibao would leave immediately, and she hurriedly arrived at her.

Liu Meibao was so frightened by her that she took a step back.

"Sister, what do you want me to give?" The sixth aunt said in a low voice.

This means.

Liu Meibao's face turned red, not because of this sentence, but because she seemed to understand the meaning of her sentence, and immediately replied that she was not embarrassed. She couldn't pretend to be stupid if she didn't reply, so she was stunned for a while.

"There is a saying." Seeing her expression, the sixth aunt hurriedly said.

After saying this, seeing the girl turn around and go in suddenly, the sixth aunt stood in place awkwardly.

"Aunt Six, are you done?" Song Sanniang saw her from the house and greeted her.

"Yes." The sixth aunt replied, her eyes fell on Liu Meibao again, and when she saw the girl's footsteps quickly entering the house, she couldn't see clearly.

"The handwriting of this peach charm is really good." The sixth aunt said with a smile. While looking for something to say.

Song Sanniang came out to talk to her, and after a while, seeing that it was dark, Liu Meibao showed no signs of coming out.

It seemed that she didn't believe it and couldn't say anything, and the sixth aunt sighed a little disappointed. Say goodbye and go.

"What's the matter with her?" Zhou Liangyu said with a little displeasure, and helped Song Sanniang copy the snowflakes on her body, "I didn't see that we were waiting for dinner." The cooked dish is cold again. ”

"I think she has something to say, but it's just inconvenient to say it." Song Sanniang said, while picking up the dishes to heat up, she saw Liu Meibao sitting at the table at some point. Looking at the dishes on the table, I was uneasy.

"What do you do? I don't know how to heat the dish. Song Sanniang frowned.

Liu Meibao sighed and stood up to serve the plate. Went into the kitchen with her and came out with the hot dishes.

After this episode, the family finally sat down at the table, and Zhou Liangyu poured wine for the three of them.

"How can your sister eat?" Song Sanniang said.

Liu Meibao was a little curious and sniffed the ancient wine with a wine glass, and said with a smile: "New Year's Day, just drink a glass." Saying that, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to drink it, so he hurriedly raised it up to Song Sanniang and said with plastic surgery, "Auntie, you have worked hard these days." ”

This sentence is simple though. But it made Song Sanniang's heart warm, and she didn't blame her, and watched Liu Meibao raise her head and eat.

"Oops. It's terrible. Liu Meibao immediately turned her head sideways and took two mouthfuls.

The wine was sour and astringent, except for the spicy one. There was not a trace of the smell of alcohol she was familiar with.

Song Sanniang and Zhou Liangyu only thought that she couldn't eat and drink, and they couldn't help but smile when they saw her like this.

"Yes, I said I wouldn't let you eat it, but I didn't listen." Song Sanniang got up and poured water for her and said.

"What a pity." Liu Meibao took a sip of water and ate a mouthful of food to relieve the discomfort, and shook her head while looking at the wine glass.

"What a pity?" Zhou Liangyu said with a smile, while raising his head and eating his own wine, he looked like he was hungry, and he reached out to pour it again, but was taken away by Song Sanniang.

Seeing Zhou Liangyu showing a coquettish demeanor for the first time, begging her mother to let her eat another glass, Liu Meibao couldn't help but sigh again, this kind of taste of wine is still worth so rare, if you bring modern wine, you won't be crazy.

It's a pity that she doesn't know how wine is made at all, and she can't make a fortune by making wine.

"Knowledge is money." Liu Meibao picked up a piece of fatty white meat with chopsticks, sighed deeply, and ate it.

At this time, white meat is much more valuable than lean meat, which is also a treatment that can only be enjoyed during the Chinese New Year.

The Salt Inspection Division was also lively at this time.

Since three days ago, all the salt dices and the labor servants of the salt works have lined up to receive the New Year's goods on the training ground, watching the pile of New Year's goods like a hill gradually disappear, and the master on the side finished pulling the last beard in distress.

"Silver, it's all silver." Until the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, he was still chanting softly.

Even if it's to buy people's hearts, it's not enough to pay so much money a month, what are you doing with these extra things!

Most of the salters went home for the New Year on vacation, and in addition to the normal patrols, they all gathered in Lu Yan's yard to eat meat and drink a lot, of course, it was those henchmen who sat at the table with Lu Yan in the house.

"It's cold and lonely for the New Year, you can go home with me." Guizi said, while persuading, "My mother is also worried about you." ”

Lu Yan has no father, no mother, no brothers and sisters, he used to spend the New Year at his son's house, and this year he stayed in the Salt Patrol Division and did not plan to return to the village.

"I read that the Di newspaper said that the Tartars have not been living very well recently," Lu Yan said after taking a sip of wine, while glancing at the master who was respectfully sitting at the other table.

It was the first time that the master was qualified to go to the dinner table of these people, his face was red, and he didn't know whether he was excited or ate too much wine, although the people at the table looked at him unpleasantly, and specially poured him wine to eat, and the master did not refuse.

He was always vigilant, and when he heard Lu Yan speak, he immediately stood up.

"When I first entered Layue, the Tartars invaded from Datong, plundered Baode Prefecture all the way, and returned to Qi County." The master had a big tongue, but his thoughts were clear.

The Tartars crossed the border, burned and looted, burned the village and destroyed the city, it was very miserable, and the memory of the disaster in Xie County was still very deep, and the laughter in the house was lowered.

"This damn Tartar, are all the officers and soldiers of our Great Zhou dead?" A big man slammed his bowl on the table and shouted.

The atmosphere in the room was a bit sluggish.

"Although it is a little far away from us, the Tartar men and horses are extremely fast, so the state government issued a document to strictly patrol the city everywhere to warn them." Lu Yan smiled and motioned for everyone to continue eating.

"That's also the errand of the old men of the county soldiers, what is in the way of our salt patrol division." Guizi said that he wanted to persuade him to go home for the New Year.

"Those people..."Lu Yan shook his head slightly, now he understands that it is better to count on no one than to count on himself, waiting for others to protect and rescue, in this troubled world, there is only one way to die, he still depends on himself.

When the noble son saw that he could not move him, he also gave up.

"Erlang," he said after a moment's hesitation, "you should have a family, too." ”

The master was eating and drinking, and he choked and coughed a few times when he heard this.

"I don't think the girl from the Liu family has any hope." Takako ignored it and continued.

Lu Yan's thoughts about the girl of the Liu family, now most of their confidants already know, and when they heard the words, they all looked at it, and said yes, yes, even if you don't get married, you can buy a girl and put it around to serve, and there is not a single woman in this huge mansion, which is really deserted.

Lu Yan just smiled and waved his hand, but they didn't care.

"Let's eat your wine and talk about it." He picked up the wine bowl and touched it with Guizi.

Guizi said that a daughter-in-law, is a widow in the next village, because this family affair Guizi's wife cried for a long time, marrying a widow is really unfortunate in the eyes of the villagers, the noble son's family was poor before, and he didn't say that he was a daughter-in-law when he was so big, but now it's different, who doesn't know that Guizi is Lu Yan's No. 1 henchman, and the money he earns is like water, and he will definitely be an official in the future.

And this widow is also very tough, saying that if she wants to marry, she can only have one of herself, don't want to take a concubine and take a small child, so that the noble son can lie down for three days, but she has never been able to resist her son, so she has to settle on this family.

Lu Yan and the others didn't feel anything, they liked it, their daughter-in-law liked it, but the master said it for a few days, and told the noble son something about the sinking fish and the wild goose, the drunk lying beauty, and the three thousand beautiful things on the knees, in exchange for the noble son's fist, he also gave up.

"Ignorant and reckless, I don't know what enjoyment is." The master shook his head and sighed, quite a taste of high and low.

Guizi's family affair was set on the first day of the third month, and when Lu Yan said this, everyone turned away from the conversation, coaxed Guizi, drunk Guizi, and was carried away before he was held.

Everyone dispersed, their own salt came in to clean up, and the master was also drunk and staggered, but he still didn't leave.

A little salt Ding followed everyone to clean up, and saw Lu Yan sitting on the steps, looking at the brightly lit courtyard and not knowing what to think. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )

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