The twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month is New Year's Eve. There is still no thirty day this year.
Red lanterns were hung up, the good charcoal provided by the palace was burning, and the tables in the big pot of rice were filled with food.
The village leader took a group of people to the sacrificial hall, and just like last year, they knelt there and cried, telling the ancestors about the current life in the village.
Just by hearing the crying and wiping away tears, people who didn't know the situation thought he was complaining to his ancestors!
"Ancestors, it's not easy for me to be the head of the village. I have a lot of people to take care of and a lot of livestock to look after. There are more than 600 big animals in the village!
The village has planted 20,000 acres of wheat this year and will have to harvest it again next year. The village is so rich now that they don’t dare to sell food outside.
Eat meat every day, eat all the meat...ugh! It smells so good! Next year the house will be built, and every house will have a second floor.
The village has its own pharmacy, and the village has no shortage of the medicines provided by the Tai Hospital.
The children study hard, and the rest of the village follows them to learn literacy and arithmetic..."
After hearing this, the villagers were obviously happy, but their noses were sore and they wiped away tears.
Recalling the hard work after last year's autumn harvest and the joy of harvesting rapeseed and ramie this year, the money earned is piled in the warehouse and cannot be used up.
Once the 20,000 acres of wheat are harvested next year, the grain will have to be sold out, otherwise it will be troublesome to store it.
After the village chief finished crying, Zhu Wentian went up to kowtow incense, and the other villagers followed.
After a lot of fussing, the chief gave an order and everyone started eating and drinking.
Zhu Wentian drank rice wine today, the first time since coming to Daming, and the other friends drank rice wine.
There is a copper hot pot on a table, the kind with a chimney. It is different from the silver hot pot in the Ming Dynasty, and more like the hot pot in the Qing Dynasty.
The kind used by Dong Laishun was once available in every household in the Northeast. Later, it was found to be troublesome and easy to poison when burning charcoal, so it was no longer used.
The village melts copper coins and casts them themselves. Bad copper coins are thrown into the glass kiln.
Glass can be burned, but copper is too easy to melt. Generally, copper coins contain a certain proportion of tin, but the tin doesn't matter. I'm afraid it contains lead.
When the tin is taken out, a dilute hydrochloric acid reaction is used. At this time, the lead sinks and the copper floats, and red copper can be obtained.
So Xiaqiu Village has a relatively clean copper hot pot. After the villagers followed Hanhan's instructions, they were no longer surprised.
Mutton is indispensable for eating hot pot. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang ate wind sheep hot pot, and the fresh ones were eaten in the village.
Without greenhouses, there would be no vegetables, only dried vegetables, sauerkraut, dried seafood, tofu, chicken, and pork.
If there is no beef, how can you bear to kill a well-raised cow? Even with the current status of the village, no one will be held accountable for killing cattle.
"Do the people in the palace eat similar food to us?" The head of the house helped Hanhan to cook the meat, regardless of whether the chopsticks were hygienic.
"Eat, hey hey hey hey!" Zhu Wentian didn't care that the captain didn't use public chopsticks, he didn't prepare extra chopsticks at all.
He grew up eating hundreds of meals in the village and lived a good life.
Naturally, the palace sent a copper hot pot, as well as sheep, chickens and Qianzhang raised in the village.
There are words on the thousand sheets: The house is full of descendants, and there are magpies on their brows.
"Brother Hanhan, drink!" The little girl brought her wine.
"Drink!" Zhu Wentian picked it up and drank together. After drinking, the two of them said at the same time, "Hey hey hey!"
The little girl ran back happily, lowered her head and ate hard.
Zhu Wentian looked at his other friends. After the New Year, two of his friends became adults and were sixteen years old.
When someone in the family matured, the villagers were happy and sad. They were able to work when they were teenagers, but they could still work when they were sixteen, and they had to pay land taxes and perform hard labor.
Now I’m not afraid anymore. It doesn’t matter whether I’m mature or not. I’ll pay everything I need to pay, and I’ll pay for my work and rest. I don’t need to do too heavy physical work or study.
Don't worry about preparing betrothal gifts. When you are older, you will consider getting married. A girl will choose a girl who is talented and wealthy. Are you afraid that you will not be able to find a wife?
The seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl who was originally going to marry her stopped and waited until she was twenty. There was no such thing as an old girl. There were countless people who wanted to marry her.
In some families, the daughter has grown up, and the adults have begun to worry about recruiting a son-in-law, fearing that the daughter will be bullied outside.
Find a son-in-law who comes to your door. His good character is the first priority. He will build a two-story house and give his family a lot of money.
If you give birth to two boys, you can allow one to have the boy's surname, but not girls, for fear that the other party will favor boys over girls.
The meal lasted until almost midnight. Regardless of the large amount of food, people in the village had big appetites, so they almost ate it, so I kept what was easy to preserve and will eat it tomorrow.
"Crackling" began to burn firecrackers and threw large grains of salt on them.
In addition, there are fireworks sent from the palace, which can fly into the sky and explode with a crackling sound, but the color is not very good, and the flowers are not beautiful when they explode.
"It's better to get to know His Highness the Crown Prince! I'll bring you firecrackers and fireworks."
The director shouted loudly, expressing his inner excitement and emotion.
"Ming, you, Ji, do, hehe, cough cough cough..."
Zhu Wentian said loudly, "Hey, hey, okay, hey, he's coughing. This word doesn't seem to fit loudly."
"Next year the village can do it by itself? Hanhan, you can?" the village chief understood.
"Yeah! Ahem!" Zhu Wentian nodded, isn't it just fireworks and firecrackers?
This year, the palace gave it to me as a gift, but I thought it would be troublesome, so I didn’t go get it. It would be dangerous.
But the fireworks in the palace don't look good. Next year, oh, it's already this year, I will make them in various colors.
"Okay! Our Hanhan is the best! Hey, hey, hey! Cough, cough, cough..." The head of the house helped Hey out and also coughed.
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On the first day of the first lunar month, adults and children were all sleeping at home, they were too sleepy.
On the other hand, the daughter-in-law who was married to Xiaqiu Village and her family prepared things. The village guard explained that she should go back to her parents' home the day after tomorrow to pay New Year's greetings.
There is no such custom at the moment, but it’s okay if they are close, especially if they are in the same village.
It takes many days to walk back to my parents' home, and I have to open a road to guide them.
There is no problem in the villages near Xiaqiu Village. There are big animals pulling carts, and they drive back to deliver things to their parents' families.
The husband-in-law's family in the village are the most caring and let them see how their daughter is doing in the village, regardless of how much the gift is worth.
Fang Lan's mother-in-law was worried again. Her in-laws' boy was going to be a man this year, but he couldn't go out to serve. If he died outside, her daughter-in-law would be sad when she got the news.
If the in-laws are unreasonable, then leave them alone or even cut off contact with them.
If the in-laws are kind-hearted, they will naturally help out, send more things, and provide food when they need to serve.
Fang Lan watched her mother-in-law packing, trying to stop her several times without success. She gave too much.
There are three thousand copper coins alone, plus bacon, sausages, rapeseed oil, soybeans, dried seafood, sugar, refined salt made by the village itself, and glassware.
"Lan! I don't want to give away food. This year my family collected rapeseed oil and ramie, and brought it with them when they use the livestock.
The village chief and I bought a goat with milk and gave it to him. He drank the goat's milk every day and the goat could also help carry some things. "Zhu Cheng's mother said, holding her daughter-in-law's hand.
