Wear ancient times with a house

Chapter 34
Song Nian looked at the old and the young in the whole family, and was afraid that something might happen to him, so he decided to give his family a good nourishment, so he allocated money to Uncle Li to go to the market every now and then to buy some mutton and mutton bones.

Mrs. Song was reluctant to eat sesame paste and mashed garlic, and she was also reluctant to eat good broth to boil vegetables. Mrs. Li continued to make yokan for a while.

It's not bad to eat like this.After autumn is the time when the mutton is fat, and when you buy bones, you will also bring some minced meat. After cooking, it is still white and delicious, with a strong aroma.

When the Song family eats meat soup, they can't let their servants carry it. After all, typhoid fever is contagious, so the servants of the Song family can also drink a bowl of mutton soup every once in a while to get rid of the cold.

In order to prevent it from being overdone, Shen asked Mrs. Li to match it with white radish that was about to be marinated.From the old lady to Song Yun, the Song family didn't care about money, and they ate mutton for a while.

In this way, the twelfth lunar month is also here. In ancient times, the importance of the Spring Festival cannot be ignored. Even the Song family, whose life is relatively easy, is looking forward to a good year and seeing their relatives.

Therefore, as soon as Mrs. Shen finished her work on winter clothes, she started looking for new year's goods.

Song Yun has been ill since the beginning of winter, so she is not allowed to go out by her family, but being hugged in the yard every day to let the air out, it really makes her very uncomfortable, when she heard that Mrs. Get up, want to go with Shen.

Mrs. Song was soft-hearted, seeing her granddaughter staring eagerly, she also spoke for her:
"Sister Yun hasn't been sick these days, and she's stayed at home for a long time. Wear thicker clothes for her and take her out to have a look."

Tian Man was still living in the Song family, and Shen took her daughter out, so naturally she couldn't let Tian Man stay at home, not to mention that it was almost Chinese New Year, and Tian Man was going home soon, so she had to go out for a stroll.

So, Shen took the two girls out. Song Zhen originally wanted to go out with her, but because she didn't take classes seriously at school, Song Nian kept her practicing calligraphy at home. Ask Shen:
"Mom, buy me more candy."

Song Ce also rarely maintained his high-cold image of a "scholar", and offered to ask for a box of buttered abalone.Shen's naturally complied with everything, for Chinese New Year, how could children not be allowed to eat snacks.

Sure enough, the market is full of Chinese New Year atmosphere. The shopkeeper, who used to never allow hawkers to set up stalls in front of his shop, is now a lot more tolerant, and even picks out some low-priced and discounted goods, and sets up a stall at the door.

During the slack season, farmers with some crafts and peddlers who walk the streets all year round all gathered in the market. There are stalls on both sides of the street, selling hair ropes, purses, wooden carved hairpin bracelets, and even writing couplets on the street. A down-and-out scholar who writes letters home.

Of course, if you want to talk about the technical content, you still have to look at each shop:

It must be said that the ancients played limited editions for festivals, and they were not inferior to modern people.The price of incense powder, hair oil, rouge, etc., is higher out of thin air if you change it to a festive box; cakes and fruits were originally packed in lotus leaves and bamboo boxes, but now they are also changed into ceramic jars and wooden boxes, and the Chinese zodiac signs are printed or engraved. picture of.

Shen is very calm and absolutely unwilling to be fooled by the merchant's gimmicks.Song Yun was excited, this is simply a work of art, this kind of simple, poetic, and historical connotation...

Even after traveling for several years, Song Yun still likes these handmade products, especially since the zodiac signs are different every year, so you have to get a set together.

Tian Man stayed in the village all year round and had never seen these before. He was more interested than Song Yun. He kept holding Song Yun's hand and asking her what this was and what that was.

Shen thought that the family was not short of the money, so buying a few boxes for the children would be a way to make them happy, so she bought several boxes of buttered abalones and candies engraved with auspicious patterns, and then bought more Commonly packaged cakes for entertaining guests.

The busiest stalls are those selling snacks, sugar, and bamboo toys, all of which are cheap and appealing to children.These New Year's stalls are surrounded by children, and they continue to attract more children.

Toys, for many people, are completely unnecessary things to buy.If I have some craftsmanship, I will make one out of wood with my own ideas. If I don’t have it, I will run around wildly with the children to have fun.

But this is the Chinese New Year after all, no matter how frugal the parents are, they can’t help their children’s begging. Therefore, in front of the toy booth, there is a circle of children and a circle of adults, and there are constant exclamations or cries. come out.

Song Yun was not very interested, especially when she saw a few children with runny noses, wiped them with their hands, and were about to grab toys or food, she couldn't help but feel a chill.

Tian Man was a little older, and he was even less interested, so Shen took the two children to wander around the shop selling New Year's goods:
I bought some red paper, and went back to make red envelopes or write couplets; I also bought some New Year pictures of door gods, and tried to make sure that every house had them; the most important thing was firecrackers.

Ling Ling always bought a lot, Shen asked Bai Sui to go back to deliver things, she took the two girls to find a restaurant, ordered three bowls of thick mutton soup, and waited for Bai Sui to come over while drinking .

After Baisui came back after delivering the things, the shopping trip of Shen and the others entered the highlight of the day: buying meat.

Pork in this era does have a stronger fishy smell, and more condiments are needed to make it delicious.To be honest, with the seasonings needed to remove the fishy smell, it is enough to buy some mutton.Therefore, pork is very useless in people with medium conditions like the Song family. That is to say, poor people have no conditions to pay attention to taste and want to supplement nutrition, so they buy some.

What the Song family wanted to buy were chickens, ducks, geese, fish, sheep, and vegetables grown in greenhouses by wealthy households in some counties.If they can't eat it, they will sell some of it in their own shop. The Song family is not willing to buy it at other times. It is too expensive. In the words of Mrs. Song, the money for buying a catty of vegetables is enough to eat a meal of mutton.

The old lady sent a message, and the others did not disobey, and ate cabbage and carrots every day.Before the new year, Shen dared to decide to buy some fresh vegetables.

For all these foods, the meat needs to be bought for a month or two. Anyway, in the north in winter, there are natural fresh-keeping freezers, and the meat will not go bad.

As for vegetables, at least buy enough to last for half a month - after the New Year's Eve, you can't buy vegetables with money.According to the old habit, from the first day of the new year to the end of the month, it is time to visit relatives and friends. It is too perfunctory for guests to come and treat them with cabbage and radishes.

The Song family bought a lot of chicken, duck and goose meat, which were marinated, marinated or fried. The aroma of the food in the kitchen and the smoke from the fire, together with the aroma and smoke from every household in Liyang County, rose into the air, as if to dispel the evil spirits. All the chills of winter.

The Zhuzi family also had laughter again, not because the Wang family was cold-blooded, but because in this era, it is too common for children to die young.Not to mention serious diseases such as smallpox, chicken pox, malaria, and tuberculosis, even if it is typhoid fever, choking them all at once may kill them.

It can be said that children before real adulthood are like guests in a sojourn home.Parents, grandparents, don't know when they will come, don't know when they will go.It's sad when the child is gone, but when there are other children making noises under their knees, they also come out.

Although cruel, this is the only way to cope with the pain of losing loved ones again and again in an environment with low medical standards.

(End of this chapter)