Buddhist palace maids want to be rich

Chapter 56
"Children, children, don't be greedy, after Laba is the new year.

Laba porridge, in a few days, Lili Lala 23.

23, Tanggua sticky, 24, house sweeping,
25, make tofu, 26, cut the meat,
27, slaughter the chicken, 28, hair the face,
29. Steam steamed buns, stay up all night at thirty,
New Year's Eve twists and turns. "

The crisp voices of the children outside the gate sang the nursery rhymes that Jiang Zhixia was familiar with.

When Jiang Zhixia heard this nursery rhyme, he felt both kind and sad.Familiar songs, but no familiar relatives by my side.

During the past two years, every year during the Chinese New Year, Zhixia would think of the past life and feel sad for a while.

Fortunately, during the Chinese New Year in the palace, Zhixia, as a court lady, cannot be idle, so this sad mood will not last forever.

This year is Jiang Zhixia's first year living freely, so it's not a year where she has been busy as a court lady.

After entering the twelfth lunar month, it is considered to have crossed the threshold of the Chinese New Year.

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Jiang Zhixia and Aunt Zhang picked up all kinds of round beans, rice grains, etc. After adding maltose, they boiled a pot of hot and glutinous Laba porridge.Xiaoman was so happy that he drank three bowls straight.

On the sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Wei family next door had a great event——Wei Zhuxian finally got married.

Wei Zhuxian married his classmate's younger sister.

The woman is six years younger than Wei Zhuxian and is nineteen years old this year.The woman made the marriage agreement when she was Jiji.However, the woman's family loved the child very much, so they agreed to remarry when they were 17 years old.

As a result, before getting married, the man passed away.

Later, the woman's family searched and searched, wanting to find a good family.The classmate thought that Wei Zhuxian hadn't talked about marriage yet.

Although Wei Zhuxian is a bit older, but he can't help being selected as a scholar at a young age.In particular, there are reasons for the two times Qiuwei failed the rankings.The first time it was because Wei Zhuxian was ill, but this time it was because there were too many yin students and supervising students, which resulted in fewer places for common people's children.

Therefore, when Wei Zhuxian's classmate came to Wei Zhuxian's house as a guest, they made indirect remarks.

Listen to the gongs and drums, and listen to the sounds when you speak.

After hearing what Wei Zhuxian's classmate said, Aunt Li discussed with her son, and asked Matchmaker Zhu to inquire about the girl's situation.

After understanding all aspects, Aunt Li was satisfied and invited Matchmaker Zhu to the woman's house to propose marriage.

The woman's family agreed after only thinking about it for a day.

Therefore, both parties wanted to hurry up and get married before the Chinese New Year, so the marriage was arranged very quickly.

Jiang Zhixia didn't go to the wedding banquet, but asked Uncle He to give the gift money on his behalf.

Aunt Li did not strongly invite her to participate.

After all, the two families talked about their marriage before, although it didn't work out and only Matchmaker Zhu knew about it, but it was still a bit embarrassing.It's convenient to communicate with other things, but it's better to avoid suspicion at the wedding banquet.

After the lively banquet in the alley, every family's preparations for the New Year speeded up.

Buy various ingredients such as chicken, duck and fish, buy new clothes to wear during the New Year, and choose various lanterns and couplets.

Jiang Zhixia didn't receive all kinds of game from Zhuangzi like the Duke's Mansion in Dream of Red Mansions, after all, her Zhuangzi was too small.

However, she just sighed a little, then took out the money, and asked Uncle He to start buying all kinds of things for the New Year.

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Tanggua sticks.

As soon as the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, Aunt Zhang began to make candied melons according to the custom.

Use good maltose——Jiang Zhixia has seen it, and it is actually the maltose from the previous life.Boil it into juice, let it cool slightly, and after the temperature has dropped a little, start to rub and pull vigorously, and wait for the sugar to turn white, then start to make long, round, square and various shapes of sugar melons.

What Jiang Zhixia misses the most is the swollen pumpkin-shaped sugar melon in his previous life.So she made many pumpkin-shaped sugar melons by herself.

Unexpectedly, this pattern has won unanimous praise from everyone.

After all, it's not easy for ordinary people to eat candy, so how can they expect so many kinds of pictures.

Only big families have time to toss so much.

So excited, Jiang Zhixia made a lot of pumpkin-shaped candied melons and distributed them to the children in the alley.It made those children cheer in the alley.

On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, sweep the house.

On this day, Uncle He, Aunt Zhang, and Xiaoman took the broom and started sweeping the house with the broom.Although the house was cleaned every day and there was not much dust, they still cleaned it according to the custom.

Zhixia also wanted to participate - after all, she was used to this kind of work when she was in the palace.However, it was blocked by Uncle He's family.

In their words, when there is no new year, let the master clean the house by himself.What's more, this job is not tiring.

Jiang Zhixia couldn't hold them back, so he had to change one house to another and wait for them to finish cleaning.

On the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, make tofu.

Jiang Zhixia would actually do things like making tofu.

In the previous life, every Chinese New Year, my mother would make tofu at home.Zhixia will help her mother.On that day, Zhixia will start with drinking soy milk, eat tofu nao, and then finish with a piece of warm old tofu.

Zhixia has never made tofu since her mother passed away.

In this life, although Zhixia can do it, she feels sad when she thinks of her mother, so she gave it all to Uncle He and Aunt Zhang's family.He himself was drawing pictures on the couch table.

26, cut the meat, 27, slaughter the chicken, 28, make the noodles, 29, steam the buns.

Before knowing Xia, he asked Uncle He to buy some chicken, duck and fish meat and put them away.However, in the past few days, according to the custom, Uncle He was still asked to go to the street to buy some meat, chickens and ducks, and even a piece of venison.

Zhixia regrets not being able to buy beef.Today's cattle are protected by the law and cannot be slaughtered easily.There are really old and dead cows, and those meats are difficult to sell in the market, and they will be ordered early by some well-informed wealthy families.

Of course, if those rich and powerful really want to eat beef, they have a lot of ways.

This law is just a formality, and what really restricts are ordinary people.

After Uncle He disemboweled the chickens, ducks, fish, etc., he cleaned them up.

The meat that is going to be eaten recently is wrapped in oiled paper and hung on a rope in a cool place outside the kitchen wall where the sun does not shine.The temperature of the weather outside is a natural refrigerator.

The meat that I didn’t eat for the time being was put in Zhixia’s self-made freezer—at the coldest time, some ice cubes were taken and poured together with water, and covered with a thick fur felt to form a simple freezer .

When the weather is hot, the ice cubes will naturally melt a little, but now it is basically below zero, even if it melts a little during the day, it will freeze again as soon as the temperature cools down at night.

On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Aunt Zhang also steamed a pot of soft buns according to the custom.

In a blink of an eye, New Year's Eve is here.

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