Travel through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 138 Lively New Year ([-])

"Husband, are you?"

It was the morning of the 23rd, and when he got up early, Yang Yu started to take off the screen on the window by himself, and pasted white window paper on it.Even if a servant wanted to take over Yang Yu's work, Yang Yu would not allow it, and just asked the servant to help.

As for this matter, only Gao Xiuniang was interested, so she watched Yang Yu work while Yang Yu was clumsily cutting a piece of red paper with scissors.

Only then did Gao Xiuniang ask this question.

"Ha, I want to cut a few auspicious patterns to paste on the window, and now I cut a word of blessing."

"Hee hee, husband, let the concubine come." Finally, Gao Xiuniang finally found something she could do to help Yang Yu.

"Why, it's not right that you know how to cut paper. You haven't touched paper before?"

"Hee hee, my husband, didn't you realize that some of the damaged clothes in our house were mended by me? Look at the patterns on them, don't they fit well?"

"Ah, you did this, I thought the maids did it?" Yang Yu was a little surprised.

In this era, especially under the rule of Yang Yu in Youzhou, there are still very few cloths, silks, etc., and these things are all sold from other places, and Yang Yu's clothes are a bit useless, but he is not good. It is too wasteful to take the lead, so there is a theory of repairing, and Yang Yu has always thought that the beautiful patches on the clothes were made by the maids, but he did not expect that Gao Xiuniang did it, and he has never done it. After discovering this matter, it can be seen that Gao Xiuniang is really not taken seriously in Yang Yu's eyes. Yang Yu feels that he should reflect on it.

"Madam, thank you for your hard work. It's because my husband didn't care about you." Yang Yu said with some guilt.

"It doesn't matter, my husband is a person who does great things, and my sisters and sisters are all capable people. I am just a country girl, and I can only do these things for my husband."

It can be seen from her expression that this is Gao Xiuniang's sincere words, or she is a very good actor, but Yang Yu still fully believes that this is Gao Xiuniang's sincere words.

"Husband, what pattern do you want, I'll cut it out for you." Seeing Yang Yu's attitude, Gao Xiuniang was a little excited.

"Cut a word of blessing, and you can cut some auspicious patterns, such as magpies, roosters, and plum blossoms. Ma'am, can you do it?"

"Here, let me try." As she spoke, Gao Xiuniang deftly used the scissors to cut on a piece of red paper.

"Uh, my husband, it's broken." Although Gao Xiuniang used the scissors very flexibly, and she grasped the pattern very well, it's a pity that she didn't arrange the layout well, so she broke the cut.

"It doesn't matter, you cut it very well, but you need to keep some entanglements. Look, here, here, keep the entanglements. Isn't this a very good window grille?"

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Window grilles are just one aspect, but the main thing is that Yang Yu wants to enliven this Xiaonian. About Xiaonian has been circulated for a long time, but this Xiaonian is not widely lived, and they are all dispensable It looks like, on the contrary, more attention should be paid to the sacrifice stove.

It can only be sacrificed to the stove, but not the young year. Yang Yu always felt that something was missing, so he tried his best to make this young year active.

"Ma'am, cut some more window grilles, so I can give them to some familiar generals." "Okay, husband." Gao Xiuniang replied, but her hands didn't stop, and she felt more and more agile.

"My lord, this is the kind of firecracker you want. My apprentice, I have tried it in the mountains. The sound is very loud. Moreover, I have made thousands of firecrackers."

Finally, another matter that Yang Yu waited for was done, and Liu Si arrived. During this time, he has been leading people in the mountains to make the task that Yang Yu entrusted to him, that is, the task of making firecrackers. , but also need to produce a certain amount.

New Year's Eve, without firecrackers, where can it be so lively?Therefore, once there is gunpowder, this firecracker must be manufactured.

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"Ma'am, the windows of your house are so beautiful. Why don't they look like window screens? Could it be paper?"

At this time, it was almost noon, and Yang Yu invited all the generals in the vicinity to visit his home. Naturally, they were the husband and wife who had been invited, so these women began to split into gangs, and some of them had sex with Shaoyao. Well, there are also friends with Cai Yan. In short, except for Yang Yu's two concubines, these four wives each lead a group of women to visit at home.

"Well, this is pasted on paper. My husband said it is called window paper, and it is pasted with window grilles. If you like it, I will spare a lot, and I will take it away for you soon."

"Ah, what a shame!"

"There is nothing to be embarrassed about. My husband said that this is Chinese New Year. These window grilles are all auspicious patterns. In my husband's words, they are blessings to you, and you are receiving blessings. Therefore, you must Taken away."

"In that case, we are not impolite. We accept this blessing."

"Ma'am, this is you, you still have integrity above, who are these two people?" On the other side, a group of people led by Cai Yan discovered the picture of Zao Jun beside the stove.

"This is the picture of the Stove King drawn by my husband. The solar terms on it are next year's solar terms, and the two above are the Stove King and the Stove King's grandma. My husband said that today is both a small year and a day for worshiping the Stove. If there isn’t a statue of the Stove King to enshrine, it’s fine.”

After explaining Zao Jun, Cai Yan also read the poem at the same time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, my lord has sent a message to say that what will happen next, please don't be afraid, my lord is demonstrating a new kind of firecracker to the generals."

When these ladies were visiting in groups of three or five, a maid came in to pass the word, Yang Yu, it's time to set off firecrackers.

Firecrackers, of course, exist in this era, but this kind of firecrackers are called firecrackers only when the burning bamboo makes a bursting sound. However, the function is the same, which is to drive away evil spirits and monsters.

Crackling, after a burst of noise.

"My lord, this firecracker is good and the sound is loud. The coming year will definitely be better." Come on, what does the coming year have to do with the sound of firecrackers.

"My lord, I don't know this firecracker?" "Well, I don't have many here. In this way, before you leave, I will give you two hanging firecrackers in each house. One is for tonight, for the New Year's Eve, and the other for the New Year's Eve." Let it go, the rest, I want to sell them in this city until they are sold out."

Yang Yu thought about it a lot, and finally adopted this idea. Until they are sold out, each family will also have two firecrackers.

(End of this chapter)