Although it is cold at this time, it still can't hide the atmosphere of the New Year, and the New Year is approaching, and the villagers are busy buying New Year's goods to prepare for the New Year.

The mountains were dyed snow-white, and the wind blew, and the snow fell from the branches and eaves of the trees, making a squeaking sound.

On the way to the mountain road, pedestrians stand or walk, accompanied by two or three.

There is a plaque hanging in front of the main gate of Dayan Temple, on which the ancient seal characters are written, and under the dark brown plaque, pilgrims have entered since then.

In front of the main hall of the Taoist temple, the incense burner has already been filled with incense pillars, the wind blows, you can see the incense ash falling from above, now in December, the New Year Festival is approaching, it is the season when the cold winter of Sanjiu drips water into ice, the incense is still in an endless stream when you come to Dayan Temple, it can be seen that the incense is in full bloom.

In the side hall, Lu Ren was standing with Lu Ye, and there was an eight-year-old girl behind her, quietly grabbing the corner of Lu Ye's clothes and hiding in her body, Lu Ye patted her daughter and said, "Lan Lan is not afraid, this is Miss Xie, you have to call Miss!"

When the little girl heard this, she timidly called out to Miss, and hid behind her, refusing to come out again.

When Lu Ren saw it, he smiled at Xie Xiang with some embarrassment, and said, "She's afraid of people, don't be surprised!"

Xie Xiang was wearing a cyan dress, a few traces of green silk hung down, with a smile, with a kind of lazy charm in his eyes, seeing Lu Ren say this, he smiled faintly: "It's okay, most little girls are like this, and I was the same when I was young!"

Yesterday, Lu Ren came back with Lu Ye's family, this is his newly married wife, but he didn't see the ceremony a little late, and when he got up this morning, he hurriedly rushed over to see the ceremony.

At this time, Lu Ye's stepped forward, made a cup of tea, and saluted Xie Xiang: "Lu Ye's has seen Miss." ”

This is the number of courtesies.

Xie Xiang nodded, took a sip of tea, counted the etiquette, put down the cup, and said: "Uncle Lu, when you come back, everything in the view will be handed over to you, and there is nothing else, that is, the New Year is approaching, and we have to prepare New Year's goods, which is what the senior brother ordered." ”

As soon as Wang Cunye came back, he basically disappeared and kept cultivating on the cliff rock.

"After a while, I'll go and gather tenants to help carry the New Year's goods!" Lu Ren responded, paused, and asked, "Then how do you send the New Year's goods?"

Xie Xiang smiled silently and said: "Each tenant takes ten catties of meat back, and the wine will be given to the household for two catties, and the window flowers and Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers will be purchased from the county town." ”

After a pause, he said, "The meat is already there, and the pigs purchased from the village are slaughtered, and a total of five are killed, which is enough to be distributed." ”

Ten catties of meat is very rich, don't look at these mountain people living in the mountains, it is quite difficult to eat meat.

In this world, there are indeed all kinds of birds and beasts in the mountains, but because of the aura, these animals are also very clever, and some are even ferocious, and it is very difficult to hunt.

Therefore, a complete tiger skin can be sold for fifty taels of silver, a tiger bone and a tiger whip can also be sold for thirty taels, and a body of tiger meat can be eaten.

The mountain bear almost got fifty taels of money in exchange for fur and flesh, and thirty taels for wild boars!

Unless there is a super high force, you can directly kill the beasts, is the way to get rich, the hunters in the mountain people know these beasts, especially a little old, it is very difficult to hunt, hunters have been passed down from generation to generation, the chance of successful hunting is less than one in seven, and the hunters have many losses, the difficulty can be seen!

Wang Cunye was swept away by a half-step tiger in his early years, and he had to give up.

Unless it is a large family, you can directly buy cattle, sheep and pork, and ordinary mountain people want to eat meat is difficult, so they can only try their luck.

When Lu Ren heard this, he was slightly startled, and asked with some hesitation: "Miss, is it a little too rich?"

Xie Xiang listened to it and smiled: "New Year, new atmosphere, New Year is a good thing, the tenant is now celebrating the New Year in my house for the first time, it doesn't hurt to be richer!"

Lu Ren listened to it and said with a smile: "This is the benevolence of the Lord and the young lady, by the way, the sky is cloudy, just now I came over, there was a little snow falling on my face, it seems that it is going to snow again, I want to send New Year's goods I have to hurry up." ”

Xie Xiang pursed his lips and smiled: "This is a good thing, if you go down more, there will be a good year next year, but Xiaohe Village is the foundation of our view, and the people in the village who are out of cooking, we all know that you go down to help some food, not for nothing, and when the snow stops, you will shovel snow and sweep the ground and chop firewood, and it will be regarded as wages." ”

This is still what Wang Cunye ordered, Lu Ren looked through the window, and there were snowflakes falling sporadically, so he pulled Lu Ye's family and said goodbye.

After Lu Ren went out, he said to Lu Ye's family: "You two go back first, continue to settle the house, you will be more familiar with the situation in the future, Miss said, you will be in charge of the inner courtyard in the future." ”

"Also, the young lady also said, our family has a double portion of meat, you pick a twenty catties and go back to make dumplings, and I will go out to find someone to call the tenants for help. ”

"Well, Lan Lan and I went back first. Lu Ye listened, and pulled her daughter back to the room, this is a set of wings, clean and spacious, she is very satisfied.

Now there are more than a dozen people in the view, and it looks very prosperous.

The flow of people in front of the main hall was passing through, and the incense burner was full of incense, Lu Ren just glanced at it, and saw an acquaintance, so he shouted: "Brother Tian!"

The person who was called was stunned, and when he saw that it was Lu Ren, he hurriedly came over: "Brother Lu, what are you calling me?"

"It's almost the New Year, Guanli is going to send New Year's goods, you go back and call the tenants who planted our fields, this time the young lady is merciful, each household can take ten catties of meat back. Lu Ren said.

When the tenants heard this, they were stunned at first, and then they were overjoyed, and hurriedly responded: "I'll go back and call them!"

With that, the tenants rushed straight to the mountain village.

After a while, a crowd came up, accompanied by a large group of women and children, most of them with disheveled hair and shabby clothes, but with hope in their eyes.

These people are the old tenants of Dayanguan, Xie Cheng followed when he was there, and then Dayanguan was dilapidated, and he had to leave, and when he heard the news of Dayanguan's prosperity a while ago, he rushed back as soon as possible, and was immediately taken in.

Although it was agreed that it would be divided into fifty and fifty shares, and it was not subject to government servitude, the burden was suddenly halved, but it was still shallow at the time, and there was no first harvest, so it was still very poor.

Lu Ren looked up and down at this group of tenants, looked at the sky, thought for a while, and said, "The Lord and Miss Guan are merciful, and for the New Year, each household will be given ten catties of meat." ”

Before the words fell, everyone was overjoyed, and a child hurriedly pulled the corner of his parents' clothes: "Dad, mother, I want to eat meat." ”

Lu Ren's eyes swept around, raised his hand, and suddenly the noise gradually stopped: "There are still some New Year's goods, I write a list, Chai Gate and Peng Tian, you can barely read a few words, just go down and buy according to this, and then move up, it's not early today, even if you buy the goods, you can't come up." ”

Lu Ren paused: "You take the meat first, and then buy it according to my list, I will give the money, you set off from home early tomorrow morning, go to the town to buy things, don't delay." ”

Seeing this, Lu Ren smiled, and Lu Ren was not afraid that these tenants would take the money and run away, because the land was in the hands of Dayanguan, and if they ran away with the money, they didn't have to come back, and no one would do this.

"You go to the stove room and wait, it's cold outside, I'll write a list, Chai Gate and Peng Tian, you come here, follow me with the list!" Lu Ren was unceremonious and immediately ordered.

Turning around and walking towards a room, Chai Damen and Peng Tian suddenly followed with envy!

This is a small room, it is used by Wang Cunye to learn words when he was a child, and now it is the place where Daotong learns, and there are pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, Lu Ren simply copied a list, and explained them to the two of them one by one, although these two people barely knew a few words, but they couldn't understand them completely.

Seeing that the two of them remembered, they sent out the order, Lu Bo took out the broken silver again, weighed it on the spot, and distributed it to the two of them one by one, both of whom saw such a large amount of silver for the first time, and took it carefully.

It wasn't until half an hour before the mess was over.

Lu Ren waved his hand, "Let's go to the stove room! You guys go along, go down to buy goods tomorrow morning, and you can go up to Guanli in the afternoon, and there is another distribution of goods, you can go." ”

Lu Ren sighed and went home.

At this time, the stove room was crowded with people, five pigs' heads had been hung on the beams, twenty hooves were also hanging, and in the middle was a platform where four tables were put together, and the pork was on it, red and white, thin and fat, and people suddenly drooled.

There are five large basins of intestines, stomach, heart, liver, and lungs below.

At this time, the butcher invited by the village glanced at Lu Ren, Lu Ren nodded, and said, "Line up, the head of the household will go first!"

The butcher cut it with a knife, and as soon as he pulled a large piece of pork, he was cut out, jumped up and said: "Ten catties and half a tael!"

Immediately everyone praised, this kung fu is good, the two heads of the household took the meat, and the next, is to distribute the meat to each family, and the person who received the meat immediately rejoiced and went home with his wife and children.

An hour later, the meat was finished, and the crowd was almost dispersed, leaving only two heads of households, and Lu Ren's family, Lu Ren took charge and said: "You add a pig's head to each household, and the butcher does not divide the meat, but also bring a pig's head and liver and lungs back." ”

The head of the household and the butcher were also very grateful, and they went back with their things.

The rest of the pig's head was not offered to the gods, and Lu Ren was not polite, and instructed Lu Ye, who rushed over: "Miss and the master of the temple don't eat the pig's head, nor do they offer it to the gods, you and the cook will cook it and open meat for the girls and boys in the view." ”

"The bones should be boiled in soup, and the viewer likes it, and other things should be slowly put away, and the excess meat should be disposed of, so as not to spoil. ”

Lu Ye's family and the cook both responded, and in a moment the red fire burned in the stove, and the pungent aroma quickly dispersed to the yard, provoking the maid and the Taoist child, all smelling their noses.

At this time, the tenants under the mountain are all cooking smoke, the aroma is diffuse, many years, only this year's New Year, there is this kind of atmosphere!

At this moment, Bai Susu in the statue opened his eyes slightly and smiled.

As a deity, she could see a trace of white qi seeping up, condensing in the view, and turning red, which was a symbol of stable luck.

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