Chapter 250: Keeping the Year
The fireworks were set off for a long time, and everyone's faces were filled with joyful smiles.
The fireworks bloom in a variety of patterns, colorful, and really beautiful to look at.
Only the Honghou Mansion can release such beautiful fireworks, and the people outside the Honghou Mansion can also see it.
Next, they play with all kinds of small fireworks, which are very dangerous.
They had a lot of fun and there were fireworks for the next few days.
Just now Zheng Ying said that Zhang Tuo's marriage proposal made her a little annoyed.
Zhang Tuo is not the person she likes, and she can refuse the other party's marriage proposal.
But she was afraid that the other party would take revenge on her son by other means, and then there would be another enemy.
And Liu Zhang used some methods to make everyone happy and forget about the unhappy things for the time being.
Zheng Ying saw everyone smiling happily, and everyone had a good time.
After the fireworks, the next step is a wonderful shadow puppet show.
Perform some less sensitive stories, knowing that this is the feudal era.
Even if it is what happened in the previous dynasty, it depends on whether it is sensitive.
Liu Zhang plans to control the shadow puppets with Chen Yun and perform some witty and humorous stories.
Let everyone have fun, and it won't involve sensitive matters.
After thinking about it, Liu Zhang first performed a foolish man moving mountains for everyone.
This is also a more classic story, and this story is also very inspirational.
Liu Zhang held a shadow puppet painted with Yugong, and Chen Yun cooperated with his performance.
She had also heard the story of Yugong moving mountains, accompanied by the sound of some musical instruments.
The story is even more vivid, with lights and candles around the large curtain.
Liu Zhang: They performed behind the curtain, and everyone saw a mountain appear on the curtain.
There is an old man next to the mountain, and this is Yugong.
Yu Gong looked at the overlapping mountains, which blocked the way.
Liu Zhang dubbed Yugong in a deep voice, and the mountain in front of him made it very inconvenient for people in the mountains to travel.
Liu Zhang and their performances of the story of Yugong moving mountains were very wonderful, and they also won a round of applause from everyone.
Next, the stories of Jingwei reclamation and Nuwa mending the sky were performed.
The story is equally exciting, and Liu Zhang's sisters also want to play shadow puppetry.
Liu Zhang gave them the shadow puppet and let them play casually.
Tonight is the New Year's Eve to be observed, and it is cold around the square.
The wind was not strong tonight, and most of the people gathered in the square.
Some of the guards patrolled the Honghou Mansion to prevent some people from assassinating Liu Zhang and them while it was hot.
Liu Zhang asked the maidservant to send them some fruits and pastries, and they were hungry and could eat a little.
Liu Zhang took his family to the living room, and he really couldn't stay outside for a long time.
It was snowing in the sky, and they sat on the living room couch.
On the table is Tusu wine, as well as a variety of fruits, nuts, and sweets.
After tonight, the elders will give the younger ones New Year's money.
Liu Zhang's younger sisters sat on the couch playing with toys, and they couldn't sleep tonight.
This is a custom that has been passed down for an unknown number of years, and no matter how sleepy you are, you can't sleep.
"Sister, they are still young. If they're really sleepy, let them sleep first. The customs passed down from our ancestors can also be appropriately changed. ”
Liu Zhang wanted his mother to allow them to rest, and the children could not stay up late.
"Isn't it like this in previous years, when it is dawn, they can rest."
Zheng Ying feels that customs cannot be changed casually, and the customs passed down from ancestors must have meanings.
I only stay up one night in a year, and I survive every year.
After breakfast after dawn, they can go to bed.
"If you can't hold on, just lie down on the couch and sleep for a while."
Zheng Ying will keep the New Year for them, she can survive it, and she also knows that the children have played for a day.
It's really tired and sleepy, and she, as an elder, can understand it.
Concubine Liu They are full of energy at the moment, and it is no problem to stay up late.
Liu Zhang also prepared a refreshing functional drink, which was prepared by Zhao Ci and could be drunk by adults and children.
Drinking such a functional drink does not have much effect on the body.
Liu Zhang peeled peanuts and chatted with his family while eating, and everyone was really happy at the moment.
It's a pity that there is no TV in this era, otherwise you can talk while watching TV.
Originally, I wanted to perform a few more shows today, but the snow was getting heavier and heavier outside.
"It's snowing heavily outside, and it's snowing early this year."
Liu Rao saw through the window that it was snowing outside, and in previous years, it snowed in mid-to-late October.
Liu Zhang listened to his sister say that the snow was a little early this year, and he wondered if it was because of Xiaoice River.
In their time, whether it was the Gregorian calendar or the ninth lunar month.
The temperature is not too cold, it just feels a little cooler.
And the September of this era was bitterly cold, and there were also a few snowfalls.
"It's good, I heard from the older generation of our Zheng family. They've seen snow in June before, and it's weird. ”
June is summer, and it snows in summer, and their Zheng family ancestors have really seen snow in June.
"Sister, I believe what you said. Sometimes the weather is unusual, and even a year can be very cold. ”
This would not be surprising if they lived during the Ice Age.
Liu Zhang speculated that the Han and Han dynasties may have been in the Xiaoice period, and the cold time was relatively long.
The extreme and prolonged cold has had a great impact on the growth of crops.
"It's normal for it to snow in September, but in previous years, it snowed at the end of July on the Monan grassland."
Xu Jian felt that the snow here was still relatively late, and the nomads living in the grassland were even more difficult.
Thinking about the military attack of the Han army on the Xiongnu this year, the life of the Xiongnu this year is not easy.
Although the Xiongnu robbed the border several times in the summer and autumn, the materials they could grab were snatched by the Han army.
Xu Jian feels that he is really happy now, and he can stay in a warm house in winter.
Eating delicious food and chatting with the family.
Like now, they're drinking delicious drinks.
Eating delicious nuts, the room was especially warm.
And the herdsmen on the grasslands, they are worried about food.
Sometimes they go out hunting in the cold wind and snow, and the tents they live in are not so warm.
The nobles of the Xiongnu will definitely live well, and next year the Han army will carry out a military attack on the Xiongnu.
The Xiongnu provoked a strong opponent, and Xu Mian only hated those Xiongnu nobles.
"Some people in Dahan may be hungry and cold this year, and some people may not survive."
Xu Mian sympathizes with them and hopes that they will have a better life next year.
It is also hoped that the war between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu will end as soon as possible, and those Xiongnu nobles will be punished as they deserve.
"It's snowing so hard outside."
Liu Rao looked at the snow outside, thinking that there must be many children her age who were suffering from hunger and cold.
"Eldest brother, when will the people in the world be able to afford to live in a big house like ours? This year they have to endure hunger and cold, and children my age are pitiful. ”
Liu Rao has also seen many people who came to Honghou from other places, and they were in rags.
They look very thin, without the help of the Honghou Mansion.
They may not survive this year, but the situation is even worse elsewhere.
The thought of those people huddling together for warmth made them shiver with the cold.
They were starved to the core, although the topic was a bit heavy.
"By the time the harvest is harvested next fall, they will have a better life. Next year, cotton will be promoted nationwide, and at the same time, cotton yarn textile technology will be passed on, and they can make cotton clothes. ”
High-yielding crop seeds have been sold all over the country, and by spring and March, they will be ready to plant.
If it is not a major natural disaster, if the local government does not increase taxes.
They are doing better than this year, and Liu Zhang is also providing high-yield cotton seeds.
Through the imperial court, the technology of spinning cotton yarn was promoted, and the rest depended on whether they were willing to believe it or not.
"There are so many suffering people in the world, let's not talk about this topic, okay?"
Zheng Ying didn't want everyone to talk about such a successful topic, and the Honghou Mansion did everything it should do.
Tens of millions of people, the Honghou Mansion can't help if they want to.
This required the imperial court to ask the local government to do its best to help the local people, rather than counting on the Honghou Mansion to contribute money and efforts.
The capacity of the Honghou Mansion is also limited, and Zheng Ying does not want the financial and material resources of the Honghou Mansion to be consumed.
"Just wait for the news from all over the country next year, and let's talk about some light words."
"Lang Jun, it's snowing heavily tonight, why don't you make a poem to cheer up."
Xu Mian looked at the heavy snow outside, and the snow scene was beautiful.
The ground was covered with snow, but the inside of the house was as warm as spring.
Liu Zhang thought about it, in this situation, it is also good to make a poem related to snow.
Just to add fun to everyone, there are no other traversers in the house anyway.
Instead, he could borrow the poems of later generations, and he felt that he made the poems himself.
It's a little bit of a point, and I don't want to ruin everyone's fun.
There was silence in the room, waiting for Liu Zhang to make poems.
Chen Yun and the others knew that he was a traverser, and they also knew a lot of things in the afterlife.
It's not difficult for him, and they don't expose it, so they keep him a mystery.
Although those poems were made by later generations, from now on, they are his poems.