Wear ancient times with a house

Chapter 36 It's New Year's Eve

After the servants cook the food, clean the house, and put up Spring Festival couplets, it's New Year's Eve.

A family of seven, although not as lively as a big family, is still warm enough.The food that has been prepared for nearly a month has been carefully selected to form the banquet for the New Year's Eve dinner.

It's just that the dishes are served, but we can't put down the chopsticks. We need to listen to the elders to summarize the harvest of the past year, and then look forward to the expectations for the next year.

Song Yun has experienced this routine for four years, but he is used to it.

While holding the chopsticks, she listened to the old lady:
"This year, the whole family is safe and sound. It's very good. That is to say, sister Yun and her mother and daughter got sick a few times in winter. Fortunately, nothing happened. It can be seen that we should pay more attention to our health and eat more good food in the future. Especially mutton, it's delicious and nourishing, isn't it better than those drinks you kids bought in summer?"

Song Zhen and Song Jun snickered, the old lady's resentment is too deep, this summer is hot, the three of them took the change to buy sour plum soup and fruit drinks every now and then, which made the old lady feel bad about the money, and kept talking about it until winter I passed them, and on New Year's Eve, I actually said it again.

Seeing the virtues of the two children, Mrs. Song knew that they would not listen to them. She gave them a blank look, and was too lazy to care about it, and then talked about her daughter's marriage.

However, after she thought about Song Ru's married life for more than ten minutes and the development of the Song family after her son was admitted to Jinshi, Song Jun still couldn't sit still. Seeing that the meat dishes gradually stopped steaming, If you wait any longer, you won't be able to eat.

Song Jun glanced at Shen Shi, who was smiling and listening intently, and then at Song Nian, who was nodding his head all the way, and chose to poke Song Zhen's side with his hand.

As the old lady's favorite little grandson, Song Zhen did many things more conveniently than Song Yun, and she was also used to coercing and luring him to order rare snacks from the old lady for herself.

Now it is up to him to interrupt the rambling conversation of the old grandmother.

Sure enough, Song Zhen reacted quickly, and was shaken by the poke. He subconsciously wanted to look at Song Yun, but held back, and showed a bright smile to Mrs. Song:
"Grandma, the dishes are getting cold, let's talk while eating."

Song Ce was keenly aware of the small movements of his younger brother and sister. He has a square temper, but fortunately he is not rigid. Knowing that it was because his sister was hungry, he turned a blind eye and let it go.

Mrs. Song was having a good time talking, and when she was interrupted by her grandson, before she had time to be unhappy, she felt a sense of hunger in her belly:
On New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve dinner was prepared from morning to night, not only the servants were troubled, but the master's family only ate some cakes and pads. It was not until evening that the Song family sat at the dinner table seriously.

So, no matter how much she wanted to say, Mrs. Song felt that she should eat first and then talk.

She picked up the chopsticks and stretched them towards the roast mutton in the center of the dining table, and the others followed her movements. When she took the first bite, Song Nian, Shen Shi, and Song Ru also raised their chopsticks.

When the elders move their chopsticks, there is nothing to be particular about between brothers and sisters. They aim at what they want to eat and pick it up.

The most eye-catching thing on the table is by no means big meat such as "steamed lamb, steamed bear's paw, steamed deer tail", nor poultry meat such as "roasted duck, roasted chick, roasted goose", but vegetables.

The crispy bean sprouts and the green vegetables that are slightly smaller than in summer, but very tender, have drawn out the gluttony of the Song family who have eaten cabbage and radishes all winter.

The Song family has a good diet. Cabbage and radishes are often eaten with meat, or boiled, boiled or fried, but even if these two things are made into flowers, isn’t it still cabbage and radishes? Song Yun didn't know if she could bear it or not, but she was tired of it.

During the Chinese New Year, I bought a lot of vegetables for the greenhouse, and this kind of food is expensive, and it will be spoiled if I don't finish it early.Song Yun lost all scruples this time, and frequently ate vegetables with chopsticks.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, Uncle Li lit a brazier in the yard. The aroma of pines and cypresses came in bursts, and the blue smoke evaporated and gradually faded. The sound of firecrackers was already heard in the alley, and there were children chasing The sound of screaming.

Song Nian also took the three children and lit firecrackers outside the gate.

Song Ce and Song Zhen tried to light the fire with great interest, but Song Yun stayed away from the whole process:
This ancient firecracker can be said to be half a weapon. When it is ignited, the bamboo pole explodes and splashes, which sets off the atmosphere well, but the ground is covered with debris.

After lighting the firecrackers, Mrs. Song thought that there was no use for her servants, so she asked them to fix a few dishes and go back to their yard for the New Year's Eve dinner.

There were only a few members of the Song family left in the yard, sitting on chairs leaning or leaning on the ground, chatting indiscriminately.

There are still teacups and fruit plates on the small coffee table next to him. In fact, he is not hungry anymore, but he still wants to eat some to fight against the drowsiness that is gradually coming.

The adults are better. Song Yun and Song Zhen started to feel drowsy after only staying up for a while.Especially Song Yun, when he looked at the flames in the yard, he felt sleepy unconsciously.

Song Yun is the first year to keep the old age. A few years ago, she was still young and could not stand the cold or the wind. Basically, she was carried back to sleep after eating.I didn't expect to be able to hold on this year.

Seeing that the two children were sleepy, and seeing that the eldest son was also a little confused, she told her mother-in-law, and together with her husband, they sent the three children back to sleep.

Song Ce and Song Zhen are old and moved out of their parents' yard a few years ago.Song Yun still lives in the yard of her parents, and the maid named Erya, who is now called Bai Zhi, lives with her in the outer room of her boudoir, so that she can take care of her from time to time.

Song Yun is a person who sleeps steadily. After being sent back by Shen Shi, she hugged the quilt and fell into a deep sleep. She slept until the next morning, and then let Bai Zhi help her change the clothes and weave them in a daze. Hair, wash up and go to the elders to pay New Year's greetings.

When she arrived, the two elder brothers had already arrived and were kneeling on the futon, preparing to pay New Year's greetings.

In the first two years of Fang's crossing, Song Yun really couldn't kneel down, but now she is used to it. After all, it is an ancient tradition. Everyone kneels to elders and ancestors, and she doesn't feel humiliated.

She nimbly went to Song Zhen's side and knelt down, and said a few words of New Year's greetings with her two brothers, and then took the auspicious silver handles from her grandmother, parents, and aunt in turn.

After paying homage, the family had a sumptuous breakfast. Song Nian took his two sons to the ancestral hall to kowtow to the ancestors, and Mrs. Song took Shen to prepare the meals that the men in the clan would eat after offering sacrifices to their ancestors.

The remaining aunt and nephew sat idle at home.Song Ru couldn't go because she was an "unlucky" widow; Song Yun couldn't go because she was not old enough.

But this was a blessing in disguise. Although he didn't get any blessing from his ancestors, he didn't work as hard as others.

(End of this chapter)