Song Yuanhuanzhi

Chapter 170 mài lǎn
Not surprisingly, on the day Gao Dalang arrived home, Uncle Gao chased Gao Dalang for an hour after knowing the situation.

Hearing the screams, Ah Di unconsciously moved away.

Afterwards, Uncle Gao came to the house with more than six taels of silver in his savings.

"I heard from Da Lang that this matter is thanks to Xiao Fu's help, otherwise we may not know what the result will be."

"The money must be paid back. You can live in this house for as long as you want, and you don't have to pay the rent. Without Xiaofu, our family will go bankrupt!"

"No, no, let's talk about the facts! Is Dalang's life not worth the rent?! If you ask you to keep it, just keep it! You are the benefactors of our Gao family! Noble people! Now that I think about it, I am afraid!"

In the end, Fu Yuanzhi accepted six taels plus one hundred Wen, which was the jade bracelet that Song Huan went to buy.

Uncle Gao and the Kang family rejoiced more than once after the incident. Fortunately, they entrusted Song Huan and Fu Yuanzhi to go to the city and rescued Gao Dalang.

30 How many denarii would that cost? !

They have never seen 30 taels in their entire life!
If the Gao family pays this sum of money, it will be bankrupt and nothing will be left.

After this incident, Uncle Gao's attitude towards Song Huan and the others changed slightly.

At the beginning, I just wanted to earn some rent money, and the relationship between the two parties was just a little bit better between the tenant and the landlord.

But after what happened to Gao Dalang, the relationship between the tenants turned into that of benefactors, and the relationship became closer. Even if the Gao family fried some dishes with meat, they had to give some to Song Huan and the others.

Fortunately, Song Huan and the others won't stay forever, otherwise, it would be a lot of expense to send it on like this!
The Gao family is even more determined to provide a scholar in the future.

After getting along for a period of time, Uncle Gao can't tell what it feels like, but he thinks it's nice to be a scholar!
After worshiping the Kitchen God on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the people will choose an auspicious day for the reunion year, that is, the whole family gathers together for a reunion dinner.

In fact, which meal in this era is not a reunion dinner?

Just because the day is special, so this meal is more important.

The so-called auspicious days are usually determined according to the calendar. If the calendar says that the day is "auspicious", then everything is suitable, and it is natural to be a group year.

If it says "fierce", it will be unfavorable to do anything, and naturally you can't do a reunion year on this day.

"Medium" is between "auspicious" and "bad". If there are other better choices, don't use this day. If you can't make another choice, you can choose this day.

According to the local customs, as long as it is an auspicious day, any day after the 24th of the twelfth lunar month can be celebrated as the reunion year, and it does not have to wait until the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month, which is the last day of the old year, but most people still choose the old one. The last day of the year is New Year's Eve.

On New Year's Eve, every household has to clean the house, change the shrine and the mahogany plaques engraved everywhere.

With the experience of celebrating the New Year in Lu County, everyone is out for the New Year this time and adapted well.

During this period of time, besides recording the various growth conditions of Panmai and reading and literacy time, Adi spends most of his time dealing with his peers in the village.

Those who have a good relationship will take my younger brother to the mountains to pick chestnuts and so on.

On New Year's Eve, the four of Song Huan celebrated the New Year together.

After the New Year's Eve dinner last year, Fu Yuanzhi and Yan Liu went to Liang's house, so this is the first year the four of them have spent together.

New Year's Day
It was not long before dawn.

There was a burst of excitement outside the house, and the word "mài lǎn" was vaguely heard.

After a while, there was a knock on the door at home.

Adi pushed open the door, yawned, and saw someone calling, "Sanlang."

Gao Sanlang said, "Song Yi, hurry up and go be lazy with us!"

Brother didn't understand what two words "mài lǎn" were for a while.

Gao Sanlang didn't care about the confused brother, he dragged him into the house together, just in time to see Song Huan coming out of the courtyard, he enthusiastically shouted, "Sister Song, Happy New Year!"

Song Huan replied to him with a smile, Happy New Year, and then looked at him holding a stick of incense and an egg in his hand, and asked suspiciously, "What are you doing?"

Gao Sanlang didn't know that Song Huan and others didn't have the custom of being lazy on the first day of the Lunar New Year, so he just said, "Sister Song, hurry up and cook some incense for Song Yi, we're going to be lazy together."

Early in the morning, Song Huan didn't know what kind of event it was. He only guessed that it was a custom here. Hearing Sanlang's words, he quickly lit incense and boiled eggs for brother.

Then I watched Gao Sanlang teach my younger brother to hold incense in one hand and eggs in the other. After they ran out of the house together, they kept shouting and being lazy outside.

Song Huan took a closer look, and found that all the "mài lǎn" activities were boys, and none of the girls he usually saw came out.

It is not clear whether it is because boys are easy to be lazy, so we have to sell them, or it is a manifestation of a patriarchal society.

Song Huan asked Aunt Kang only to find out that "selling laziness" means selling laziness as the name suggests.

This activity is only for boys aged [-] and under, and of course the participation of adults is indispensable.

The general method is that shortly after dawn on the first day of the new year, parents or grandparents light a stick of incense for the children, boil an egg, let them hold it in their hands, and run outside the house shouting to be lazy, while walking to the social altar outside the village , Put the incense on the censer in the social altar, eat the eggs and go home.

It is usually done by several children from the neighbors.

This activity also allows the children to remember this promise from an early age. They have already been lazy, and they will not be lazy from now on.

Song Huan thought, if this is the case, it is also a kind of inspiration.

After asking the reason clearly, Song Huan also gave Fu Yuanzhi and Yan Liu an egg each, and took it out to sell.

The good name is "Do as the Romans do as the Romans do."

Fu Yuanzhi stood at the door dumbfounded, looked at Yan Liu who was stunned, and said, "Let's go together."

Fu Yuanzhi thought, finish the work early and return early.

Fortunately, there is Yan Liu by my side.

He is not alone.

Yan Liu nodded dully.

He feels that he is very hardworking, and he no longer needs to be lazy.

However, since the atmosphere has been enhanced to this point, there is no point in not doing it.

The Spring Festival here is very lively.

The sound of gongs and drums and the dancing of lions and unicorns created a festive and auspicious atmosphere.

There are many routines of lion dance, such as waking up to get out of the cave, crossing the bridge, picking greens, etc.

The unicorn dance is accompanied by a phoenix, and the name is Qilin Yinfeng.

They flip up and down, sometimes jump, sometimes cross, sometimes overlook, sometimes stand tall, just like a majestic lion, invincible.

During the Spring Festival, it is lively, but it is not just about having fun, there are still many things to do.

The parents or grandparents in the family have already started to cut weeds, take them to the fields and use mud to fertilize them, or throw them in the "ancestral" pits beside the fields to fertilize.

In this way, plowing and farming in March and April can be used as fertilizer, and there is no need to wait for it to ferment.

Retting after use, retting after retting, and so on.

Twenty of the first month
On this day, Changliu Village will hold sacrificial activities.

Because they think that this day is the birthday of the land lord, and they pray to the land lord for good weather and good weather for the year.

The venue of the activity is the open space in front of the ancestral hall of Changliu Village.

Nearly a thousand people from the whole village, men, women and children, gathered together, which was very grand.

(End of this chapter)