Villager of Daming

Chapter 82
Twelfth lunar month 29, New Year's Eve, this year there is still no such day as Thirty.

The red lanterns were hung up, the good charcoal provided by the palace was burning, and the tables were full of food in the place where the big pot was eaten.

The head of the village brought a group of people to the sacrificial hall, just like last year, knelt there and cried, telling the ancestors about the current life in the village.

Just hearing the crying and wiping the tears, people who don't know the situation thought he was complaining to the ancestors!
"Ancestors, it is not easy for me to be the head of the village. There are a lot of people to manage and a lot of livestock to look after. There are more than [-] large animals in the village!
This year the village has planted [-] mu of wheat, and next year it has to be harvested.The village is now too rich to dare to sell things outside.

Eating meat every day, eating meat... Uh!It smells so good!The house will be built next year, every family has two floors.

The village has its own pharmacy, and there is no shortage of medicines available in the Tai Hospital.

The dolls study hard, and the rest of the village learns to read and do arithmetic..."

After hearing this, the villagers were obviously happy about the matter, but their noses became sore, and they wiped away their tears.

Recalling the hard work after the autumn harvest last year, and the joy of harvesting rapeseed and ramie this year, the money I earned was piled up in the treasury, and there was no way I could use it up.

Once the [-] mu of wheat is harvested next year, the grain has to be sold out, otherwise it will be troublesome to store.

After the village chief finished crying, Zhu Wentian went up to kowtow and offer incense, and the other villagers followed.

After some tossing, the Li Chang gave an order, and everyone began to eat and drink.

Zhu Wentian drank wine today, and it was the first time he drank rice wine after coming to Daming, and the other friends drank rice wine.

There is a copper hot pot on a table, the kind with a chimney, which is different from the silver hot pot in the Ming Dynasty, more like the hot pot in the Qing Dynasty.

The kind used by Dong Lai Shun used to be available in every family in the Northeast, but later they found it troublesome to burn charcoal and were prone to poisoning, so they didn't use it much.

In the village, the copper coins are melted and cast by themselves, and the bad copper coins are thrown into the kiln for burning glass.

Glass can be burned, but it is too easy to melt copper. Generally, copper coins contain a certain percentage of tin, but the tin does not matter, as long as it contains lead.

When tin is removed, dilute hydrochloric acid is used to react. At this time, lead sinks and copper floats, and copper can be obtained.

As a result, Xiaqiu Village has a relatively clean copper hot pot. After the villagers follow Hanhan's instructions, they are no longer surprised.

Mutton is indispensable for eating hot pot. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang eats Fengyang hot pot and eats fresh ones in the village.

Without a greenhouse, there would be no green vegetables, only dried vegetables, sauerkraut, dried seafood, tofu, chicken, and pork.

There is no beef, how can you bear to kill the well-raised ones, even if the village's current status is used to kill cattle, no one will be held accountable.

"The food in the palace is similar to ours, right?" Li Zhang helped Hanhan cook a slice of meat, regardless of whether the chopsticks were hygienic.

"Eat, hehehehe!" Zhu Wentian didn't care that the chief didn't use the serving chopsticks, and didn't prepare extra chopsticks at all.

He grew up eating hundreds of meals in the village and lived well.

Naturally, the palace sent copper hot pots, as well as sheep, chickens, and thousands of sheets raised in the village.

There are words on the thousand sheets: the house is full of children and grandchildren, and there are magpies with eyebrows down.

"Brother Hanhan, drink!" The little girl brought over her fermented rice.

"Drink!" Zhu Wentian picked it up and drank it together. After drinking, the two said at the same time: "Hey hey!"

The little girl ran back happily, lowered her head and ate hard.

Zhu Wentian looked at the other friends. After the new year, two of them became Ding, who were sixteen years old.

At the beginning, there were adults in the family, and the villagers were both happy and sad. They could work when they were teenagers, and they could also work when they were 16. They had to pay land taxes and do hard labor.

Now I'm not afraid, it doesn't matter whether I'm a grown-up or not, I'll pay all that should be paid, and the labor will be covered by food, so I don't have to do too much hard work, just study.

Don't worry about preparing the bride price, and consider getting married when you grow up. Some girls have to choose, talented and rich, and you are afraid that you won't find a daughter-in-law?
The seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl who originally wanted to talk about kissing stopped, and said it after twenty. There is no such thing as an old girl. There are countless people who want to marry.

Some people's daughter is getting older, and the adults are thinking about recruiting a son-in-law, fearing that the daughter will be bullied outside.

Find a door-to-door son-in-law, good character is the first, build a two-story house for him, and give the other party a lot of money.

If you have two boys, you can allow one to take the man's surname, but not girls, for fear that the other party will favor boys over girls.

A meal lasted until almost midnight. Regardless of the amount of food, the people in the village eat a lot, and they have almost eaten it all. Keep the easy-to-keep ones and eat them tomorrow.

'Crackling' started to burn firecrackers and throw large grains of salt on it.

In addition, there are fireworks sent by the palace, which can fly into the sky and explode amidst the crackling sound, but the color is not very good, and the explosion is not beautiful.

"It's better to get to know His Highness the Crown Prince! I'll send you firecrackers and fireworks."

The chief shouted loudly, expressing the excitement and emotion in his heart.

"Ming, yes, I, do it, hehe, cough cough..."

Zhu Wentian shouted hey no hey okay, coughed, this word seems not suitable for loud.

"Can the village do it by itself next year? Hanhan, you will?" The village chief understood.

"En! Cough cough cough!" Zhu Wentian nodded, isn't it just fireworks and firecrackers.

This year, the palace gave it away, but I felt troublesome, so I didn't get it, it was dangerous.

But the fireworks in the palace are not good-looking. Next year, oh, it’s already this year, and I will make them in various colors by myself.

"Okay! We are the most stupid! Hehehe! Cough cough cough..." The head of the village helped Hei out, coughing too.

……

On the first day of the first lunar month, adults and children all slept at home, too sleepy.

On the contrary, the daughter-in-law who married into Xiaqiu Village prepared things with her family, and the village guard explained that she should go back to her mother's house for New Year's greetings the day after tomorrow.

There is no such custom at present, and it is okay if the distance is close, especially in the same village.

Those who are far away will have to walk for many days to return to their mother's house, and they will open a way to guide them.

There is no problem in the villages near Xiaqiu Village. There are large animals pulling carts, and they drive back to deliver things to their natal families.

The in-laws in the village are the most caring. They let the in-laws see if the daughter is doing well in the village, and don't care how much the gifts are worth.

Fang Lan's mother-in-law was worried again. The in-law's boy was due to grow up this year, so he couldn't go out to serve in the army. If he died outside, the daughter-in-law would be sad when he heard the news.

If the in-laws are unreasonable, then don't worry about it, or even cut off contact.

The in-laws have a good heart, so naturally they have to help out, send more things, and send out food when they need to serve.

Fang Lan watched her mother-in-law packing there, but failed to stop her several times, giving too much.

There are three thousand coins for copper coins alone, plus bacon, sausages, rapeseed oil, soybeans, dried seafood, sugar, refined salt made by the village, and glassware.

"Lan! The food will not be delivered for now. This year, the in-laws collected rapeseed oil and ramie, and brought them with them when they use the animals.

I bought a goat with milk from the head of the village and gave it to me. I drink goat’s milk every day, and this goat can also help carry some things. "Zhu Cheng's mother took her daughter-in-law's hand and said.

　I wish the students of the college entrance examination a good score, and don't read novels these two days.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)