As the long winter lasts until the third month, the wax moon, which is the last month of the year, gradually fills all the spaces in people's daily life, and at this time, people everywhere unknowingly revolve almost everything around the life of the wax month.

Xia is a country of young immigrants, and even among the Han people who migrated from their families, there are only a small number of old people, so there are still a few old people here, and there is nothing to say.

But with the advent of the wax moon, the children of the counties and counties of the entire Xia Kingdom were the first to take the lead in making a scene, and as the people's lives became better and better, even the children of ordinary families gradually increased their pocket money, and they began to light firecrackers recklessly.

Yes, firecrackers, as a new new gadget in the Xia Kingdom, have become one of the most popular New Year's goods in the entire Xia Kingdom, especially the children's love.

And with the popularity of firecrackers among the people of Xia Kingdom, some other countries that are becoming more and more closely related to the Xia Kingdom have also begun to quickly introduce this new way of playing, even if the relationship with Xia Kingdom is not as good as the previous Nan Chen, there are also a large number of merchants to buy.

As the first wave of the main force to welcome the arrival of the New Year, the children quickly rendered a New Year's flavor to everyone with the firecrackers in their hands, especially in recent years, there are more and more newborns, these children have not only brought excitement, but even seem a little noisy.

While the children were making a big noise of joy, the young men and women who held the financial power of the family began to be busy preparing for the upcoming New Year.

These adults were born and raised in the interior of the Central Plains such as Sanqi, and they were affected by the poverty of their families since childhood, and they were used to living a poor life, and their families were not rich when they first came to the East China Sea, and some of them had to pay back the cattle and horses money allocated by the government at the beginning, so they lived a relatively frugal life in the past few years.

Nowadays, with the rapid economic development of the Xia Kingdom, especially after the Xia Kingdom fully controlled the shipping routes of the Eastern and Western maritime trade, the overseas trade between the Xia Kingdom and the South Sea, the Western Ocean and Persia alone has made many people of the Xia Kingdom fattened, not to mention those big businessmen who participated in the sea trade.

The prosperity of maritime trade has not only brought about the prosperity of industries such as industry and commerce, shipbuilding, silk, porcelain, glaze, and iron smelting, but also the grain and livestock products in farms and pastures around the country have been sold at an excellent price, which has made the people of the East China Sea more and more prosperous.

The life of the people around the country is rich, and the wallet is bulging and they dare to spend money, and now it has just entered the wax month, and there are more and more people buying New Year's goods in the county markets around the country, basically mainly workers in the city, and you can also give your children food better if you buy some New Year's goods early.

There is a lot of food in the market, the meat market alone sells pigs, cattle, sheep, horses, and even donkey meat, the meat tables connected to the end are lined up in a long line, all kinds of fresh meat are piled up, and the other street is a market selling chickens, ducks, geese, and even quails, turtledoves and other kinds of poultry, and the fishing ports near the sea are crowded with people.

Due to the extreme shortage of food when Wang Ze first came to the East China Sea, seafood accounted for a large part of the recipes of the people of the Xia Kingdom, and was once regarded as a staple food.

Groups of young men and women who are ready to buy meat New Year's goods are wandering on the streets, anyway, each family is not short of money now, as long as the young men and women who work in the factories in the county towns are married, especially those who have been married in Xia for more than five years, basically each family already has more than three children.

Although these children are not short of food in the school on weekdays, but the big pot of rice is not as delicious as the food made at home, and the food, meat, poultry and eggs promised by Wang Ze in order to ensure that children go to school are no longer as attractive to the appetite of the new generation of children as in the past.

Most of these wealthy Han people breed chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, and there is a lot of meat to eat on weekdays, and at this time, they see that they have entered the wax moon, and they buy two or three hundred catties of various meat in one go, and other fish, shrimp, sea vegetables and other seafood do not know how much, enough for a family of seven or eight people to eat and chew until the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month.

Unlike in the past, when meat was popular, the most popular food in Donghae, Zhenhai and other counties is not meat and seafood, but all kinds of tropical fruits and fresh vegetables delivered from Nanyang, Yizhou and other places.

Although it is convenient to ship by sea, because of the difficulty of preservation, these fruits are sold at more than 10 times the price of Yizhou and Nanyang after being transported to various places in the East China Sea and Zhenhai, but they still attract large groups of people to buy them.

Of course, there are some low-income people everywhere, although there is no shortage of food and drink, but it is not easy to taste these tropical fruits in winter, and this is when the locally produced canned fruits in Nanyang attract their attention.

The citizens in the city were so open to buying New Year's goods, and the people outside the city who owned large tracts of land were even more exalted, especially those who exchanged large tracts of land after their families had gained military merits through their family members' participation in the war.

These people's families, almost every household has hundreds of acres of land, breeding a large herd of cattle, sheep, pigs and horses, chickens, ducks and geese and other poultry I don't know how much, in the Xia country is also considered the middle class, they will never lack meat on weekdays, and now they are more generous when they see that the New Year is going to be. happy

At this time, walking around the farms and pastures around Zhenhai City, you can hear the mournful howls of waiting to slaughter pigs, cattle and sheep before death at any time, and the people who rushed to the farms and pastures from Zhenhai City are endless, and the seven or eight roads nearly 20 zhang wide leading from Zhenhai to the surrounding areas are all blocked.

People from all over the world are busy preparing for the New Year, and the palace of Zhenhai Wangze is of course no exception!

At this time, the inside and outside of the palace were cleaned cleanly, even the snow in the garden near the passage was extremely white, without any garbage, with the trees and pines and cypresses in the yard, it looked extremely elegant and clean, a group of palace maids were busy decorating under the leadership of Da Changqiu, and from time to time some guards on duty were called to help, and there was a burst of laughter from time to time.

After Wang Ze was busy with all the things, he felt that he was idle and came to the dormitory, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Zhu Qingqing and Cheng Xueyan busy with each other, and he opened his mouth and asked, "Qingqing!" Sanqi's father and mother still don't want to come here for the New Year? ”

Zhu Qingqing was holding a thick account book, and was counting the New Year's gifts to be given to the families of the parents, ministers, and generals with Cheng Xueyan.

Although Wang Ze established the country and became the king, he was more inclined to the Zhao and Song royal families as a whole, and he was also relatively close to the people on weekdays, although some ministers would act according to the law and would not indulge after breaking the law, but the vast majority of ministers and the people felt that such a king was the best.

Zhu Qingqing glanced at him charmingly when he heard Wang Ze's words and said: "In the autumn, I went to Qingzhou City with Sister Xueyan, and my mother said that Zhenhai was much colder than Sanqi after all, and they didn't adapt to coming, so they didn't come this year." A few days ago, I sent someone to ask for this statement again, but my father said that I would let my third brother Wang Yu come to Zhenhai for the New Year!

Although my mother was a little reluctant to give up the third brother, my father said that the second brother spends more time with you on weekdays, and the third brother is with them most of the time, so it is inevitable that you will have to share with you after a long time! Not good for your brotherly feelings in the future! ”

"Alas!" Wang Ze sighed and said, "I'm afraid that my father and mother have too many things to worry about, I don't know when they will be able to let go!" Since they don't want to come, let's prepare more New Year's goods to send over, which can be regarded as a piece of heart! By the way, there are also second and third uncles, don't make mistakes! ”

"If everything is waiting for you to arrange, the daylily will be cold!" Cheng Xueyan, who was crackling with an abacus in her hand, also covered her mouth and smiled, "I have done these things with Qingqing girls all these years, when was there anything wrong?" ”

"Uh!!" Wang Ze was speechless, indeed, all these interpersonal interactions over the years were prepared by Cheng Xueyan and Zhu Qingqing there, and he really didn't pay attention to these things, it seems that there is really a 'good wife in the family'!

Looking at Wang Zena, who didn't know what to say, Zhu Qingqing pushed him out of the door, and muttered in his mouth: "Okay, okay, it's okay to have me and Sister Xue Yan here, not only Mr. Liu and Mr. Yang are ready for their gifts, but even Mr. Bingchang and Jiang Chuan, the generals who can't come back with their troops, Sister Xue Yan and I have also taken it into consideration!" Hurry up and get going! ”

"What's wrong? Big brother? Wang Ze had just been pushed out of the door by Zhu Qingqing, but he was seen by his second brother Wang Hui, who was shaking his head and coming back from outside the palace, and when he saw Wang Ze being withdrawn, he immediately gossiped curiously, "Are you disgusted by Sister Qingqing?" ”

Wang Ze looked at Wang Hui, who looked curious about the burning appearance of the soul of gossip, and suddenly had a black line, this kid didn't open which pot to mention, he suddenly said angrily: "Aren't you studying with Mr. Liu and Mr. Yang during this time?" Why did you come back so soon? ”

Wang Hui was not angry when Wang Ze said this, he smiled and said: "Big brother, I see that you are really confused, now it is already Layue, Mr. Liu has so many things there, and I can't help there to add to the chaos, he said that I can learn to use soldiers with the staff officers of the Central Protector Army during this time!" ”

"By the way, San Lang may have to come to Zhenhai in the next few days!" Wang Ze hurriedly changed the topic and said, "When the time comes, you can go with me to greet you!" I haven't seen him a few times in years, and I don't know how he's doing now! ”

"Roar?" Wang Hui's eyes suddenly widened and said, "Daddy is relieved to let him come to Zhenhai?" In Wang Hui's view, the third brother Wang Yu is the treasure in their hearts, and they are not willing to let go at all on weekdays, which is like the eldest brother Wang Ze, who began to work hard and start a business by himself at the age of eight, and he began to follow the eldest brother Wang Ze to study in the East China Sea at the age of eight or nine.

When he was a child, Wang Hui was really jealous of the status of his third brother Wang Yu in the eyes of his parents, but now he is also a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young man, and now he thinks that when the third brother comes, he should take him to those places to see the world, after all, many places in the East China Sea are far different from Sanqi.

As he was talking, Cheng Hu, who was on duty, ran over panting and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" The ship is coming! ”

"I really mean that Cao Cao Cao is here, second brother, let's go to the port quickly!" Since Wang Ze became the queen, Cheng Hu and Zhu Bofu are also in Liu Xin's lesson, no longer shouting in front of people all day long, of course, they still shout how they should shout in private!