On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Little New Year for official families like the Yun family arrives. On this day, the main sacrificial activity is to send the Stove Lord to heaven.
This kind of thing must be done by Yunchu, the head of the family. The main thing he does is to place the offerings in front of the Kitchen God in the kitchen and invite others to enjoy them. After enjoying them (actually, people eat them), Yunchu pastes maltose in them.
I hope the Stove Lord can keep his mouth full of honey and only talk about the good things about the Yun family, but not the fact that Yun Chu likes to kill people indiscriminately.
Therefore, Yunchu felt that maltose was not safe, so he used honey to smear the Kitchen God's mouth tightly.
There are actually quite a lot of gods in the Yun family, including the Kitchen God, the Door God, the Well God, the Toilet God, and the Zhongliu God that Yunchu still hasn't figured out until now. After asking Yu Xiurong, I found out that the Zhongliu God is the Window God.
It can be seen that it is not without origin that the ancients often said that there is a god three feet above the head.
Yun Chu always felt that the Kitchen God would eat secretly, the Door God would take a nap, the Well God would come out in the middle of the night to scare people, the Toilet God would spy on people, and the Zhongliu God would even see all the details of the relationship between him and Yu Xiurong... because their house had no curtains.
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In the Tang Dynasty, even the Kitchen Gods were ranked in three, six or nine grades. For example, the Kitchen God of the Yunchu family would go to heaven to report his duties on the 23rd and return on the 30th. The Kitchen Gods of ordinary people's families would be ranked behind, and the Kitchen Gods of the 24th would be ranked behind.
Go to heaven and come back at thirty. As for those who live on the boat, the Kitchen God can only go to heaven at twenty-five and come back at thirty. This may have a lot to do with the level of wealth.
After the 23rd, Jinchangfang stopped doing business, and the craftsmen no longer went out to work. Except for those who were responsible for environmental sanitation in Jinchangfang, they were basically completely idle.
Liu Yi's son brought a lot of live pigs, as well as chickens, ducks and geese from Weinan, and killed more than a hundred pigs in one go and divided them among the people in the city.
Chickens, ducks and geese are basically distributed according to household registration, so that every family can have a good year.
Liu Yi sent people to break the ice on the lotus pond in Jinchangfang, and found some people from outside the village who were desperate for money and life, and jumped into the mud pond to dig lotus roots in the cold winter.
This year, the lotus roots will be dug up so that none of the roots are left, because next year, he plans to plant them all with water lilies.
The lotus root, which has been sleeping in the mud for half the winter, tastes just right now, as crisp and sweet as an autumn pear.
Mrs. Cui asked Liu Yi to take several thousand kilograms of lotus root powder home and grind it into a juice. After continuous washing, filtering and sedimentation, several hundred kilograms of lotus root powder was obtained.
This thing is paired with dried fruits from the Western Regions. It tastes sweet and is a good tonic in winter.
The Yun family’s gifts for Chinese New Year this year are lotus root powder and quilts.
Yunchu asked Naha to take a lot of it and went to the Daci'en Temple to give it to Xuanzang. He felt that Xuanzang could get such a bowl of warm and sweet lotus root starch on a cold night when he was translating scriptures, and he should be able to miss this world a little more.
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After the child Li Hong received a huge portion of lotus root powder, he was moved to tears because Yun Chu was the only good person who gave him a gift.
He was really poor this year. He always thought that there were only about 20 flower bears, but he never expected that those flower bears were so edible.
He was a prince without a fief, and all his money came from rewards from his father and mother. He originally lived a very comfortable life.
Since Hua Xiong came, he has never had any extra money in his hands. Even the money given to wet nurses, palace servants, and eunuchs during the New Year was borrowed from his mother.
That's right, it was borrowed. According to his mother's words, when he becomes king next year and has a fief, he will have to pay back double the amount he borrowed.
He also told him that it was not that the royal family had no money, but that the royal family had to consider the consequences whenever it made any decision.
Since he wants to raise flower bears out of kindness, he must take on this responsibility and use his own strength to raise and fatten up the flower bears, so that one of them cannot die in vain.
Only in this way, when he needs to feed the people in the fiefdom in the future, can he be consistent and not give up halfway.
Fortunately, his panda Dafu can make money, especially a lot of money from his father, which can be regarded as saving Li Hong's life.
The gift sent to Li Ji was accepted by Li Ji, and there were gifts in return. However, they were just some dried fruits and ordinary items, and their value was basically the same as the gift sent by Yun Chu.
Among a group of veterans, only Liang Jianfang's return gift was the same as in previous years. Therefore, Yun Chu prepared to go to Liang Jianfang's house to pay New Year's greetings to this old guy in person.
As for others, forget it.
Yu Xiurong looked at the names on the list, and crossed out one name after another. Until she saw that the last one was Liu Rengui, she felt very embarrassed.
Because the gifts from Liu Rengui's family were sent to Yunchu in advance. The gifts were very simple, including a date cake, a dry soup cake, which is also dry noodles, a woodblock door god painting depicting the god Tu Yulei, and a
This is the "Book of Rites" that he annotated himself.
Such a gift is not considered generous, because of the book, so the value of the gift is difficult to estimate.
"As usual, we prepare a gift for others. I think Lao Liu seems to be particularly fond of puff pastry buns, so I might as well prepare some more.
Prepare some more tea leaves and send them along with a set of tea drinking utensils, so that his lunch can be more substantial than usual."
Yu Xiurong muttered: "How can Magistrate Liu live such a miserable life with two salaries as a fifth-rank official?"
Yun Chu smiled and said: "The gap between people is wider than the gap between people and pigs.
For Lao Liu, even if he gnaws Hu cakes, he is already enjoying a blessing, while for others, even if their throats are full of jade grains and golden watermelon, they still feel that they are not satisfied with the food.
I heard that his wife had a bad appetite, so I gave her more lotus root starch. From now on, our two families may have more frequent contacts."
Yu Xiurong is a very smart woman, and she has no signs of mental decline due to pregnancy. A lot of things can be seen from just a list of annual gifts.
For example, in previous years, the Yun family's annual gifts to the veterans were much heavier than this year, and the veterans' gifts in return were even richer.
Only this year, the Yun family's gift was a ceremonial New Year's gift that was neither salty nor bland. Likewise, the veterans' gifts in return were even more casual.
It can be seen from this that our friendship ends here.
Presumably, during next year's New Year, the Yun family's New Year's gift list will no longer include the old generals, just like last year's New Year's gift list no longer included Li Yifu.
Many times, favors fade away over time, and some people are never found again.
There is nothing to regret about this.
Yunchu received a letter from Di Renjie from Bingzhou.
As soon as the letter was opened, Yunchu's face was filled with a warm smile.
Although Di Renjie's letters are full of crazy bragging, the main content of the bragging is that he has lived up to his eight years of waiting, and his wife Wang is completely worth waiting for another eight years... Needless to say about his character, it's just...
There is only one word left behind, and he doesn’t know which part of his wife can completely surpass Gongsun, the God of Desire in his heart.
It must be like this, and it also left a suspense for Yun Chu.
After reading this letter, Yun Chu burned it.
It's not that he doesn't respect Di Renjie's letter, but this guy specifically reminded him to burn it after reading it.
It is estimated that after marrying the Wang family, this guy was filled with ecstasy and had nowhere to vent and no one to talk to. He had no choice but to reveal a little about it in his letter to Yun Chu. After writing it, he regretted it because he felt that what happened in the couple's boudoir
Not enough to treat outsiders.
In the mood of wanting to show off and keep it secret, I had no choice but to write a good letter in this disgusting way.
Yunchu was very happy for Di Renjie. He was able to get a wife of his choice despite a blind marriage. It must be said that this man's luck was really good, even God took care of him.
In the constant busyness, the fifth year of Yonghui is about to pass, and the Tang Dynasty is about to usher in the sixth year of Yonghui.
History books say that this period of time, called the "Reign of Yonghui", was a rare period of peace and prosperity for the country and the people.
Naha and Da Fei and the others put the bamboo into the fire and roasted it, and then the sound of crackling firecrackers came from the fire.
Hearing the sound of firecrackers, Yunchu couldn't help but look at a cabinet he had locked.
In that cabinet, there is a cabinet full of granular gunpowder made with classic gunpowder recipes.
Seriously speaking, what is inside is a real firecracker, and it is a big firecracker with a super loud sound.
At present, this thing is still being raised in the boudoir and no one knows about it. Once it is time for her to leave the court, if no country dies for her, Yunchu will feel that this girl has made a mistake in getting married.
"Brother, brother, come quickly, I'm missing you."
Naha's voice sounded outside the study.
Yunchu blew out the candles fixed on the iron shelf, locked the study door, and took Naha's hand to the back house to participate in the Yun family's annual New Year's Eve gambling competition.
When Yunchu entered, Naha immediately took off her shoes and sat down at the foot of the warm table. Without waiting for Yunchu to sit down, she took a long breath and blew down the large row of copper coins on the table.
This girl may have practiced hard. Five people, each with five copper coins, a total of twenty-five copper coins, were actually knocked over by her eleven times in one breath.
Seeing Naha proudly put eleven copper coins into the purse tied to her waist, she said arrogantly to Yu Xiurong: "It's your turn."
Yu Xiurong didn't dare to use too much force, so he just breathed softly. If he blew the coins like this, it would be impossible to blow them over.
Next it was Cui's turn. The old woman took a deep breath and blew it down hard. The sound was very loud, and the copper coins were bounced by the blow, but no one was willing to turn it over.
No matter how hard the old monkey exerted himself, he blew over all the remaining copper coins in one breath.
The old monkey also proudly packed the copper coins, looked at Yun Chu and said: "Hurry up, put the money out, let's see the Buddha kill everyone today."
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