In the blink of an eye, it is the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, and it is the time of the new year.

Xiao New Year is also regarded as the beginning of a busy year, and from this time on, people will start to prepare for the New Year, sweep the dust at home, and worship the god of the stove in preparation for the upcoming New Year.

In Yangmei Town, every household is starting to get busy.

The women stayed at home and began to sweep up the dirt from the house. The children who like to play reluctantly follow the cleaning under the instruction of the elders in the family.

But they were playful by nature, so they just worked seriously for a while, and soon found fun in it and began to frolic and play.

The men went to the town's market and began to buy New Year's goods.

Although Yangmei Town is only a remote town, there are still more than a dozen small villages near the town.

Now that the New Year is approaching, the residents of these nearby villages and towns have gathered in the market and began to use their hard-earned savings to buy the New Year's goods they want.

Merchants from all over the country came to the town with all kinds of goods, and set up a market in the town.

Because there were so many people attending the rally that there were not enough street markets in the town, some merchants simply set up simple sheds on a flat lot outside the town and started open-air business.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lu Yuan also carried his big back basket, which was filled with smoked bacon, and began to set up a stall in the bazaar.

The bustling bazaar covered the open space outside the town, and countless people gathered inside, and the noise shook people's ears.

Walking in the lively market, he found a variety of stalls here, snacks and tea, sewing and fabrics, preserved fruits, wine and meat, and couplets and flowers......

All the New Year's goods that can be used for the New Year can be seen here.

Lu Yuan turned around and found that most of the seats in the market were already occupied, only a few corners on the edges were still a little vacant.

But even if it is these vacant seats, there are those who are shrewd and set up empty stalls in advance, and people do not sell goods, so they rent and sell these places.

You can rent it, but there is no empty space in the market, and there is no place for you to put your goods at all.

As for the hands-on robbery?

These people can do this business, of course, there are people behind them, and the biggest proprietor is the mayor, can you beat them?

In this regard, in addition to secretly scolding "pickpocketing ghost" in his heart, Lu Yuan could only pinch his nose, pay a booth fee of fifty yuan, and start a business.

This year, he has achieved a lot of hunting results, not counting those hares and pheasants, but only jackals, tigers and leopards and other large prey, no less than dozens.

In addition to their fur, these prey also contributed more than 2,000 catties of bacon.

With so much bacon, close to Lu Yuan himself, naturally he can't finish it, and it will be bad if he stays for a long time, so of course he has to take this opportunity to exchange it for money.

"Bacon, cheap and delicious bacon!"

After putting the meat in the basket and setting it up on the stall, he began to shout.

Soon, some customers were attracted to it: "How do you sell this meat?" ”

Lu Yuan glanced at the customer, this is a simplely dressed peasant, he should rarely eat meat, at this time, looking at the bacon drooling, he smiled in his heart, and said: "This is cured tiger meat, fifty wen a catty." ”

Hearing the price, the man was startled, and hurriedly pointed to the next target: "It's too expensive, what about this?" ”

"This is wild boar, thirty wen a catty."

"Is there a cheaper one?"

"Yes, this is wild yellow dog meat, ten cents a catty."

"Okay, that's it, give me two catties."

Looking at the customer who left with a hanging of meat, Lu Yuan's first business was completed.

Perhaps because of the cheap sales, people kept coming to the butcher shop in the following time.

After a while, those cheap fox meat, wild yellow dog meat, wolf meat, leopard meat, etc., were quickly sold out.

Even the expensive tiger meat was heard about by several big families in the town, and they sent people to buy it.

This forced him to go back to his home again, take out another batch of his family's inventory, and continue to sell.

It took half a day to go back and forth like this, and the two thousand catties of bacon were finally sold out.

As for the remaining two hundred catties of meat at home, Lu Yuan didn't sell it, and planned to keep it for himself.

After all, the consumption of martial arts training on the body is still very large, and sufficient meat supplements are needed.

One day's business made Lu Yuan earn another forty-three taels of silver, and the deposit in his hand suddenly became one-fifth.

With a large sum of money, he was full of pride.

After handing over the stall, he did not rush back, but walked around the market.

The Spring Festival is approaching, and I will soon usher in the second New Year after crossing into this world.

Last year, Lu Yuan was shy in his pocket, and in order to save money to practice martial arts, a year passed in a hurry, which can be said to be extremely shabby.

But now that he has more than 200 taels of savings, he is no longer short of money, so of course he has to treat himself well, and he is lonely in his heart.

I found a tea stall with a large number of people in the market, and all kinds of cheap and delicious delicacies were served, and while enjoying them, I listened to the moments around me bragging and fartizing, and a noon time passed like this.

After he was full of wine and food, Lu Yuan bought some preserved fruit couplets and fresh New Year's goods, went to the cloth shop in the town, customized a few new clothes, and agreed to pick them up in two days, and then returned home leisurely.

When he arrived at home, he was not idle.

Since you have decided to have a good New Year, the atmosphere and things you should do during the New Year will naturally have to be manipulated well.

Other people's wives and children in the town help clean the dust, so they do a good job of sanitation in the morning, and now in the afternoon, the whole family can make the New Year's goods brought back by their husbands and fathers, and enjoy the festival happily.

But Lu Yuan is a single person, and no one helps with housework.

Therefore, after a busy morning, I had to work hard to clean up in the afternoon.

Fortunately, he is alone, and there is nothing at home, except for a few pieces of furniture, and because he often cooks in the kitchen, there are too many stains, and it is quite easy to clean up.

It took an hour, and as the last basin of sewage arrived in the courtyard, Lu Yuan wiped his sweat and tasted it.

"It's finally done."

Turning his head to look at the renovated room behind him, a smile appeared on his face.

Cleaning the house a year ago, preparing to have a clean and clean New Year, in fact, also represents a beautiful meaning, farewell to the old and welcome the new, welcome auspiciousness, this is the most simple wish in everyone's hearts.

Through such a cleaning, although he was a little tired physically, Lu Yuan did feel that the depression and depression in his heart seemed to be discharged along with the dirt that had been swept out of the house.

"Although I am a soul traveler in a foreign land, I now have a home of my own, I can make money by hunting, I still have martial arts to practice, and I am immortal, so everything doesn't seem so bad."

He laughed and opened the door to look at the sky in the distance, his eyes deep.

……

After the small year, it is the Chinese New Year's Eve.

It's Chinese New Year's Eve.

In order to make himself seem less lonely, Lu Yuan met Sun Siwen, and the two spent this New Year together.

With the wine and meat prepared in advance and two large food boxes, he came to Sun Shusheng's house.

The reason why the New Year was spent at his house was mainly because Sun Siwen's family was big enough.

His family was originally a small landowner in the town, with 100 acres of fertile land, and a large house with 10 rooms. It's a pity that the family business fell in the end, and when it was passed on to his generation, he encountered a pit that couldn't even get the fame of showing off his talent twelve times.

You know, the imperial examination is not a cheap thing, it is very expensive.

Daily need to buy books to learn the classics, spend pen, ink, paper, inkstone to practice calligraphy, before the exam, you have to buy previous years' question books to study the syllabus, and pay a lot of registration fees for the exam.

After all, the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone provided to you by the examination room cannot be scraped out of thin air, and it also requires money to buy it.

Oh yes.

Today's imperial examination also inherits the ancient recommendation system, if you want to register for the exam, you must have at least two talents jointly recommended to get that qualification.

Therefore, this referral fee is another expense.

"Brother Lu, you don't know, I take the imperial examination every year, and before the examination, I buy the imperial examination question book issued by the scholar, and a copy costs at least 200 yuan.

The scholar is in charge of the studies of students in a county, and the examination questions of the county examination every year are all issued by the scholar and the county lord.

The imperial examination question book he issued usually contains some imperial examination questions for the coming year, and he said that all students who are aspiring to fame and fame, which one dares not to buy it?

But the county's edicts are too greedy, and there are three or five books of questions every year. The money for the book alone will cost one or two pieces of silver.

In addition, the consumption of practicing calligraphy, practice question books, pen, ink, paper and inkstone on weekdays will cost two taels of silver a year.

The registration fee for the section is 300 yuan.

And because I repeatedly failed to pass the examination, those classmates in the past were ashamed to be with me, and no one was willing to guarantee my nomination.

In order to qualify for the exam, I had to spend one or two pieces of silver and ask two old shows to vouch for me.

During the annual imperial examination, the cost of accommodation in the county seat, and the assembly and communication of fellow classmates and scholars......"

Approaching late at night, Lu Yuan and Sun Siwen pushed their glasses and changed their glasses, and they were drunk.

Sun Shusheng seemed to have drunk a little too much, his face was red at this time, and after drinking a glass of wine, he slammed the palm of the cup on the table, and said bitterly: "In a year, I need eight taels of silver just to study for the imperial examination.

If you count the food and drink of the previous year, it is more than ten taels. But I couldn't make any money, so I had to sell my property to support my studies.

I know what people on the outside see me, they call me a loser, they say I'm incompetent.

Those classmates call me brothers and sisters on the surface, but in private they are probably secretly mocking, disdainful, and unwilling to associate with me at all.

Yes, a guy who has taken the exam twelve times and still failed to pass the exam, who can look up to it? ”

Sun Siwen raised his head and looked at Lu Yuan in front of him, with a trace of gratitude in his eyes: "You are the only brother Lu who is willing to have a sincere relationship with me and is willing to learn words from me." In my life, I probably only have one friend like you. ”

Being stared at with sincere eyes, Lu Yuan's face remained unchanged, but he was a little ashamed in his heart.

He wasn't as sincere as the other party said.

The main purpose of making friends with Sun Shusheng is for the high-end information in the other party's hands, and then to learn more from the other party.

Because as the study of the Convective Cloud Palm Method deepened, Lu Yuan found that with his existing knowledge, it was still a little difficult to understand this Heart Method.

The main reason is that the understanding of various ancient texts is insufficient, and there are also some dictionaries in the mental method, which are unique to this world. Relying on the knowledge of his previous life, it is difficult to understand it thoroughly.

In this case, it is also important to find a teacher who has a deep understanding of ancient texts and is very familiar with various allusions.

Therefore, every time Lu Yuan brings wine and meat to drink with Sun Shusheng in the past year, it is not free, but the tuition fee paid.

The relationship between the two, in his opinion, actually belongs to wine and meat friends.

"It's just that I didn't expect Brother Sun to treat me as a close friend."

In this regard, Lu Yuan didn't know what to say.

It may be because the other party suffers too much discrimination and contempt. After a long time, my heart was affected, and I suddenly met such a friend who I didn't dislike and could talk to, so I made friends all of a sudden.

"But it's probably not a bad thing to have a real friend."

Turning his head to look at Sun Siwen, who was already getting drunk, a smile appeared on his face.

Alone in a foreign land as a stranger, every festival is full of relatives.

Traveling alone to this strange world, how could Lu Yuan not feel lonely, not lonely.

It's really not that good for the world to be able to understand how you feel.

At this time, you can have a friend who can be talked about, although you can't tell the real secret in your heart, but just drinking and talking on weekdays can relieve the depression in your heart.

I admit this friend. ’

Lu Yuan whispered in his heart, and he heard Sun Siwen's already somewhat confused drunken words.

"This time, I must pass the test. I want to show those who look down on me that I, Sun Siwen, can also be a showman. I also want to take the exam, take the Jinshi exam, and glorify the ancestors. Father, Mother ......"

In the midst of drunken muttering, the person had already fallen asleep.

At this time.

Under the calm night outside, there were suddenly countless bright lights, followed by a continuous crackling sound.

All the families who have extra money at home have pinched the point at this time and set off firecrackers.

It turned out that unconsciously, Chinese New Year's Eve had passed, and the New Year had arrived.

Lu Yuan walked into the courtyard and looked at the long night sky, the bright moonlight hung high above, and the glue white light sprinkled down, falling on the snow that had just been spread on the clean courtyard tonight, shining a sparkling white light, dazzling.

"Lu Yuan, happy New Year."

He whispered a New Year's greeting to himself, then smiled, picked up a firecracker that had been prepared in the courtyard, and lit it on fire.

A crackling sound suddenly appeared in the courtyard, blending with the thick sound of the outside world.

A peaceful and peaceful town ushering in the new year.

One is renewed, and everything is renewed.

"Has Chinese New Year's Eve passed?"

Looking at the firecrackers in the court, Sun Siwen didn't know if he was woken up by the sound outside, and walked out in a daze at this time, looking at the firecrackers that were being set off, and asked with a little confusion.

"yes, it's New Year." Lu Yuan looked back with a smile.

"Is that so?" Sun Siwen muttered, then looked at him and said with a smile: "Happy New Year, Brother Lu." ”

Lu Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said, "Happy New Year, Brother Sun." ”

This year, after all, I am not alone, and there are still people with me.

I'm not alone.

He thought to himself.