Chapter 171: Looking at the flowers in the coming year, the scenery in front of you is very different

The fifth time came, and the family immediately became busy. Cheng Azhu was anxious to dry the steamed buns, steamed buns and pastries that had been steamed in the New Year, and placed them neatly like pyramids in a striking place at home, and only ate them during the New Year. People call this place "pile ingots", symbolizing the new year and the New Year's wealth and treasure.

Zhao Xing put on an incense table and led his students to burn incense to the Jade Emperor and welcomed the New Kitchen Lord to the land. Then he put sesame straw on the door eaves and windowsills, which was called hidden ghost straw and was not allowed to be released.

Liao Xiaoxiao was busy posting red paper gourds on the doors and windows, which was called "plague-receiving ghosts", praying that they would not be sick or disasters in a year. Chen Yiyi led two or three Vietnamese maids to light pine and cypress branches in the yard, and surround them with pine smoke at the door one by one. This is called pine pots and pine branches, which is also a year of cherry blossoms.

After everyone was busy, Cheng Azhu hung up the statue of his first death, worshiping the lion fairy fighting candy and mohua, which was called "worshiping the shadow". After the worshiping the shadow, everyone gathered at the door and witnessed Zhao Xing sticking the door god and peach talisman, which was mainly to exorcise evil spirits and avoid disasters and pray for good luck in the New Year.

The door god originally used Zhong Kui, who was able to fight ghosts and drive away evil spirits in ancient legends. In the Song Dynasty, he was replaced by Qin Qiong and Yuchi Jingde, a famous general in the Tang Dynasty. Due to the advancement of printing technology, woodblock New Year pictures also appeared in the Song Dynasty, which facilitated people to buy and post to add a festive atmosphere.

Then I entered the "Come to stay up to the New Year" procedure, "The family of scholars and common people sits around the fire and stays asleep until the morning is called stay up to the New Year. Although the matter of staying up to children's play, the father and son reunite with wine, laugh and sing together, and they can't sleep at night, which is what the other family enjoys."

The children lit firecrackers in front of the door. Amid the sound of firecrackers, Cheng Azhu took his wives and concubines to salute the man in charge, congratulating the New Year, and said some words of "Keep the New Year": "Congratulations to the New Year, all the spring flowers are all, the spring banners are beautiful, and the spring is bright and bright..."

It was Liao Xiaoxiao's turn. She held up her wine glass and sang the poem she wrote: "The brocade of the Beihu clouds is covered with 30,000 hectares of glass.

The fairy of the Fengyue Poetry, when the flowers are available, comes out of the cave.

Red lotus roots are full of red and green lotus roots. I will give you a cup of a thousand years of life.

When I see flowers in the next year, the scenery in front of me is very different."

This sentence is explained in modern terms, and I will just say a few words: This year is a good day, and I look forward to better next year.

Zhao Xing swept the sweep, but Hu Ji Kasli was not seen in the hall. He listened to the noise outside and said kindly: "Go and call Kaslilai. She is alone in a foreign country. On this festival, she is so deserted that she is alone. I call her to come and have fun together."

Cheng Azhu is a man who says whatever he says. After paying New Year's greetings, Chen Yiyi only rubbed Zhao Xing with his fingers and whispered: "Brother Xing, after New Year's Eve, I'm already seventeen, I'm already seventeen."

After Zhao Xing finished his order, neither of the two genuine wives nor concubines expressed their opposition. Cheng Shuang quickly ordered his brothers to come and greet Kasli. Liao Xiaoxiao rattled and slapped, "That little maid is so delicate, she leans against the railings. She blows lightly, cherry, free picking, bamboo shoots, and figuratively. She loves some aura, pretends to be pink, and is angry that people are not allowed to put the red curtain. She is very happy, but suddenly the wind blows, and she specially sends a swing. Looking at the pond in the morning, the rain is over, and the green green should be added."

This is making fun of Zhao Xing for being too merciful and having an ambiguous intention.

Chen Yiyi was still saying "Seventeen" there, not caring about other people's actions at all. Liao Xiaoxiao didn't notice her words, and her eyes turned and laughed at Chen Yiyi's overly anxious: "Dongjun is here to stay. A fragrant snow is left."

Now Zhao Xing understood. He pulled Liao Xiaoxiao over and slapped his palm and slapped his round butt. So the whole world became quiet.

Zhao Xing didn't beat him hard, but Liao Xiaoxiao shouted loudly, which made Chen Yiyi unable to continue talking. His students were lying in the corridor and laughed strangely. As a result, although Liao Xiaoxiao no longer laughed, it seemed that she had not learned a lesson, and her eyes were full of teasing.

Kasli walked into the room with dance steps and congratulated Zhao Xing in a strange tone: "I congratulate you on the New Year..." This sentence was for everyone to listen to. After saying this sentence, she turned into Huyu and chatted with Zhao Xing with a big chat. She was complaining to Zhao Xing that the sisters had all gone south. She was really lonely staying alone in the house. She couldn't speak with others, and she was extremely depressed.

No one else expressed his opinion. Chen Yiyi was interrupted halfway through his words. She was full of anger. She raised her eyebrows and scolded: "How to speak, don't speak birds, but Song verbs."

Kasli pretended not to understand, stared at Chen Yiyi blankly. Chen Yiyi jumped up, but immediately sat down in disappointment: "Don't think I dare not hit you, it's New Year's Eve, I'll bear it!"

Zhao Xing slapped at the farce and persuaded Chen Yiyi: "Come on, these wives have been trained in professional favor competition, "Fragrant Garden", "Rules of Love", "Detailed Description of Sexual Methods", "Book of Sexual Belt", "On Temperament", "Sutra of Desire"... There are thousands of textbooks in their set, and many of them have been written for hundreds of years, thousands of years, and have been constantly improving and supplementing! Yiyi, don't mess with her, you are not her opponent."

Originally, Kasli had only a few provocations, which made Chen Yiyi furious and disturbed the New Year's Eve dinner. She swallowed her anger and would win sympathy. But the Arabian dancer knew that it was enough to stop. She knew that Zhao Xing attached great importance to the first New Year's Eve in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty. Kasli was the first to give in. She twisted her waist and bowed, saying, "I offended my wife, please deal with her."

Chen Yiyi was furious when she was choked, but she had no choice but to ask Zhao Xing for help: "Brother Xing, I feel so upset."

Zhao Xing quickly picked her up, patted her shoulder and said, "It's all a group of children, why are you making a fuss - it's New Year, it's more festive."

Chen Yiyi was in Zhao Xing's arms and whispered, "It's seventeenth, it's seventeenth," at this time, the students finished setting off firecrackers and began to greet Zhao Xing. The banquet in the room had already begun. Cheng Azhu sat on Zhao Xing's right shoulder, Liao Xiaoxiao's left shoulder, Kasli sat opposite him, and a round table was divided up, Yiyi was still sitting on Zhao Xing's lap.

The banquet began and the students began to call for wine.

There are several vegetarian dishes that are essential for the big dishes. One is pea seedlings, which was also called antou in the Song Dynasty. Fried with a plate of antou seedlings, meaning "peaceful and safe". The second is water celery. The stems of the water celery are tubular, and the roads can be "opened" in the next year's life. The third is tofu. With tofu, you can be "rich" or "blessed" in the next year. These are all derived from homophonics and image comprehensions in dialects. After the reasonable imagination of the people, you will be accompanied by beautiful wishes.

There was no entertainment in the Song Dynasty, but it was just a small gambling. Each of the students received a "full gift" and used the money to gamble. Some were throwing dice, some were throwing pots, and some were betting.

The courtyard was filled with starry nights of "moonlight", and several Japanese women were still in the courtyard. They were wearing the most popular spiral skirts of women of this era, lifting the skirts to reveal their pink and white legs, and kicking Cuju happily. The spiral skirts are also called "slit skirts" in modern times. They are slit front, back, left and right, so that women can stretch their legs out of the skirt when playing football. The Japanese are particularly resistant to freezing. Some Japanese women simply tuck the hem of the skirt around their waists, revealing their two slim pink and white thighs. They were sweating profusely. The beautiful scenery made the students who were drinking in the room distracted.

From time to time, students came to toast Zhao Xing and asked for some knowledge. Some students did not return to their seats after asking for advice. They carried a glass of wine and pretended to walk to the door. Seeing the Japanese women kicking happily, unknowingly, several students also got into the crowd.

Zhao Xing's wives and concubines were whispering to each other's views on clothing, jewelry, etc. In this case, Liao Xiaoxiao is the authoritative. The face flowers she pasted had a popular fashion in Dengzhou. While Cheng Azhu and Chen Yiyi didn't understand, she showed off the costumes of the capitalists on the first day of the first lunar month to the two women. Under her mouth, the dresses of those women were vivid and very vivid.

After chatting for a while, Liao Xiaoxiao turned to Zhao Xing and said with a smile: "Honey, I heard that you are the largest pearl merchant in the Song Dynasty, right? I heard that someone used 9,999 pearls to make a pearl shirt. It is warm in winter and cool in summer. It is better for officials to give their sisters some pearls. If you have nothing to do, they will make a pearl shirt to make fun of it."

Pearl shirts, this thing is not scary now. No one used to do the pearl business, and the pearls were born with very high yields, so the price of each pearl was over ten thousand yuan. In recent years, Zhao Xing has begun to guide Japanese people to breed pearls manually, and the method is also very primitive. Capture living pearls, sprinkle a handful of sand into the shell, or stab a grain of sand with a needle as thin as hair, resulting in a sharp drop in the value of Japanese pearls.

Nowadays, the unformed Japanese pearls are only a few hundred citrus each, and the good pearls are only about a hundred citrus, and the top-quality ones are close to a thousand citrus. In the past few years, the price of pearls has dropped fifty times. Of course, the same situation include Song products such as silk, which have also dropped significantly in Japan.

This also made Zhao Xing learn the skills of South African diamond companies after monopolizing the business of Nanzhu and Dongzhu (Arabic Pearls), to control the supply of goods and gradually shipped in equal quantities. This technique is currently being further promoted to the African ivory and Myanmar gem industry. Under this effective control, the price of Nanzhu and Dongzhu did not drop much, and the price of Japanese pearls is so sad that it is reminiscent of.

The pearl shirt that Liao Xiaoxiao mentioned is made of Japanese pearls. Since the price of Japanese pearls has dropped so badly, the locals came up with a method of deep processing, and the pearl shirt is just a gimmick.

"That thing is definitely cool in summer, but warm in winter. This thing is the saying "hole shirt". Do you think that the clothes woven by stringing round beads can be without holes?" Zhao Xing explained with a smile: "This pearl shirt is of no use except for the more expensive price. I see, the only purpose of this thing wearing it is to let people know that you are very rich."

Cheng Azhu is relatively simple and is not interested in this luxurious show-off; Chen Yiyi is knowledgeable and full of contempt for this peasant-like outburst, so after Zhao Xing said that, the two nodded together, which made Liao Xiaoxiao very unwilling. She stumbled: "My husband is biased. The two sisters wear pearls and jade, but I don't have many good jewelry. It's New Year's Eve, so my husband will also give me some of them."

Zhao Xing drank Xunran, and he readily agreed: "Yes, it's time to give the children some gifts during the New Year, and carry my box."

The "New Year's Ceremony" that had been prepared was brought up. The children like to play. In addition to pen, ink, paper and inkstone, one person got a bone dagger carved from seal teeth. Seal teeth are dense bones similar to ivory. They divide seal teeth into several layers along the arc surface. One end is very sharply polished, and the other end is a shield ridge. The outside of this bone dagger is still made of seals with seals. It can't do anything, it can only be used to cut paper or cut off the seal of the letter.

After the students finished the division, there were still more than a dozen left in the box. Cheng Azhu and Chen Yiyi were not interested in this substitute because they had ivory bone daggers. Liao Xiaoxiao immediately divided it up with Hu Ji Kasili. Liao Xiaoxiao tossed and looked at the bone daggers happily and said happily: "Okay, if this kind of bone knife is inlaid with a few broken gems, it will be decent and can be given to people. My husband, I will inlaid with a few pearls and gems for my former sisters, and it will be a waste of time to meet."

"Gems, pearls... go, take two buckets of those unsorted pearls, whoever wants to grab a handful of them, give the rest to Xiaoxiao, Yiyi, your gems, pick up the fine pieces and divide them with her," Zhao Xing said to Chen Yiyi in his arms.

Chen Yiyi looked at Kasli with his eyes squinted: "I don't want to have that fox girl, Xiaoxiao wants me to give it! She is a female slave, and letting her sit on the table is already a smug..."

Kasli suddenly said in a clear Song language: "I ask myself the master!"

Zhao Xing laughed loudly, and in a laugh, he persuaded him: "Yi, don't treat maids as concubines!"

Chen Yiyi was speechless.

"Concubines and maids" were common in the Song Dynasty, and the difference was the service period. Kasli was a "maid", and her service period was ten years, and the treatment she enjoyed was slightly lower than that of "concubines", so she should get a piece of jewelry. And not treating "maids" as "concubines", that was done by people from the Ming and Qing dynasties. We are the Song people, and we must have the awareness of the Song people - don't treating maids as concubines!

"Okay, okay, just protect her, this fox charming boy!" Chen Yiyi replied hatefully: "Since you are willing, why should I feel sorry for your money? Okay, go back and choose with me."

Recognizing the identity of Kasli's maid cannot threaten Chen Yiyi, but it can threaten Liao Xiaoxiao. Because Chen Yiyi's status in Zhao Xing's family is actually equivalent to a fair wife. But in ancient China, ordinary people were not qualified to say "a fair wife", and even the royal princes dared not say that, unless he wanted to rebel. Local officials were most willing to report such incidents. For example, Zhan Miao promoted the "two wives, emperor and daughter", and was "selectively forgotten" by the entire Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Chen Yiyi, as the princess, dared not publicly promote himself as a "balanced wife". However, everyone in Zhao Xing's family understood this point, and they just kept it secret from the outside world in a tacit understanding.

Liao Xiaoxiao knew about this subtle status difference, but Kasili didn't know. However, Kasili was used to obedience and knew how to see the eyes. Liao Xiaoxiao was ahead and thanked her, and she couldn't thank her. Then, Liao Xiaoxiao was afraid that she would not be enthusiastic, which made Kasili also increase her enthusiasm. She was still wondering: "Isn't it just some gold, silver and jewelry? I haven't seen anything in the palace, as for it, isn't Miss Xiaoxiao's money?"

On the other side, Zhao Xing looked at the happy look in the room with satisfaction. At this time, the joyful and laughter in the yard kept floating in, and the faint sound of firecrackers in the street made the world full of joy. He looked at everything in front of him and was drunk.

What happened in 1087?

This year, Cheng Yi, who was expelled, and Lu Dazhong, deputy envoy of Shaanxi Transportation, one of the four Lu Lu of Lantian, created the "Pinlin" in Xi'an. At the same time, the world's first university, the University of Boronia in Italy, was founded. This university is the base of the Renaissance and the germination of early capitalist ideas. Since then, capitalism has begun to knock on the gate of the earth.

It was also in 1087 that Shen Kuohua compiled the "Tianxia Prefectures and Counties" for twenty years. He was allowed to choose a place for retirement, and he chose Mengxi Garden in Runzhou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu) and began to write the immortal scientific classic "Mengxi Bitan".

In this year, the civilization of the Inca Empire rose in South America; at the same time, William I, the first king of the Norman Dynasty, died, and his second son, William II, the Red-haired King, inherited the title of Great Duke (King) of England, and the title of Duke (King) of the Principal of Norman was inherited by his eldest son Robert, which laid the territorial dispute with France.

An interesting story happened this year: "The Holy Roman Emperor, the King of France and Germany, and the Duke of Bavaria" Henry IV (the one who "Canosha repents" and Henry IV who attempted to depose the pope) won his second marriage.

Previously, Henry IV wanted to divorce his wife Berta, but could not provide a sufficient reason. In order to remarry, he vowed that his wife was still a virgin. Just as the princes and bishops were about to compromise with the king and agreed to dissolve their marriage, the pope raised an objection. He believed that the marriage could not be dissolved and that the king could not be an example of such non-Christian behavior. So everyone passed a resolution: Henry must not abandon this wife. In 1087, the poor queen Berta died in depression, and Henry had a second marriage.

This year, the Seljuks captured Edessa, and this incident became the direct fuse for Byzantine's decision to seek help from the West.

This year, the remains of Saint Nicholas were moved to the Italian city of Bari. He was once the bishop of Mira City in Turkey. Today, we are more familiar with his other name - "Santa Claus".

This is a gorgeous era.

It was from this year that China's climate began to undergo major changes. In the Tang Dynasty, the Qinlong area was full of dense forests. The deforestation of the Song Dynasty caused the Qinlong forest to disappear. The consequences of environmental deterioration began to be shown in 1087. Since the second year of Yuanyou, China's climate turned sharply and the bamboo and plum trees that could be seen near the Liaohe River were no longer visible. A distinctive sign is: This year, a large area of ​​bamboo forests were still distributed in Kaifeng Imperial Gardens. The poet once praised it: "The north bank of Qingsi Pavilion, thousands of bamboos are lush and lush... There are Shengyun Temple, Jieyuntai, Xiaoxian Pavilion, Feicenting, no flowers and trees, and bamboos are everywhere."

Starting from this year, the plum trees in the bamboo forests north of the Huai River froze to death one by one. After that, there were no plum trees in Huaibei, and bamboo forests—they gradually retreated to the south.

In the past, there was no ice in the winter in Kaifeng, and it was not even snowing until the leap month of the lunar calendar. However, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhao Xing spent the ice and snow...

In this year, Europe began a "seven-year severe drought" that lasted for seven years...

In 1088, when Zhao Xing opened the door, the first person to thank Yi Ci Leye. This group of people settled in the Song Dynasty for more than 100 years and has become completely like the Song people. They also lived the Spring Festival like the Song people. According to the customs of the Song Dynasty, the first person to pay homage to the employer on the first day of the New Year is the employer.

On the first day of the Chinese New Year, guests at home said to be 'Invite Spring House'; guests at home said to be 'To be a God of Wealth Meeting'. Guests at home said to be 'To be a God of Wealth Meeting'. The wine is a kind of wine container in ancient times. "Invite Spring House" is a modern term, which means treating guests to a party during the New Year. Nowadays, people do not divide it so much. "Invite Spring House" and "Invite Spring House" are all called "Invite Spring House" on New Year's Day."

After the Israelites met, there were endless military officers in the regiment training. At noon, Zhao Xing brought the senior officials in the regiment training, Deng Yufu, Yuan Yeping, and two Jingxia commanders, and followed Zhang Yong to visit the local officials. The meeting on this day was actually an appointment date for the banquet. Zhao Xing's official position was small, and the banquets among the officials in Mizhou were ranked at the twelfth day of the first lunar month, while Gui Suo asked.

After the fourth day of the lunar month, Wang Zishao set off. He hoped to arrive in the capital and celebrate the famous Tokyo Lantern Festival. Li Zhiyi and Wang Zishao walked with him. The two of them took a boat to say goodbye to the person they saw each other. On the Lantern Festival, the night when countless poems were sung, it was almost the legal public date of the Song Dynasty. The two of them were robbing gold and were eagerly preparing to join in. After Zhao Xing sent them away, he wanted to go home and hold his own banquet.

Continuously welcoming and seeing off, Zhao Xing's family held a banquet for more than ten days. He was like this, and everyone in the family of other officials was like this. A bunch of them came roaring, drank a few glasses of wine, and then pulled the owner to the next family. The team grew bigger and bigger, and the banquet was not coming to an end on the Lantern Festival.

During the banquets in the past few days, Zhao Xing must take Liao Xiaoxiao when he goes out. When he encounters poetry and singing, Xiaoxiao comes out to compete with others. When he encounters drinking, he will take all the benefits. Modern stomachs that have been highly edified by alcohol are not something that people in the Song Dynasty can imagine. With Liao Xiaoxiao as a barrier, he seems very ostentatious at this Song Dynasty official banquet.

"On the Lantern Festival last year, the lights in the flower market were as bright as day. The moon rose to the willows, and people made an appointment after dusk.

On the night of the year, the moon and the lanterns were still the same, and the last year's people were gone, and tears filled the sleeves of the spring shirt." - Early in the morning on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhao Xing stood on the steps of the mansion gate, recited this famous Lantern Festival poem, and was immersed in the artistic conception of the poem. After a long time, he shouted like a dream: "Come, light the lantern."

Cheng Azhu did not move. Behind him, a bunch of Song people looked at him with awkward expression. Azhu squatted down, her head lowered and was about to approach the ground, and shed tears and said, "I am not virtuous and have not given any children to the official. As usual, we cannot light the lamps in our house today."

According to the rules of the Song Dynasty, there are rules for hanging a few lanterns at the door of the Lantern Festival. This rule is - to have a few sons and hang a few lanterns. Families without sons can only hang colorful lanterns, and candles cannot be lit in the colorful lanterns. Such families will have dark lanterns in front of the door at night. For example, Li Qingzhao's family is now.

When Cheng Azhu apologized, Liao Xiaoxiao was unwilling to touch his stomach. However, Zhao Xing was a person who could not stand the restraint of etiquette and law. Although he advocated ancient etiquette, he did not abide by this custom that did not make him happy. Before Cheng Azhu was accusing him of guilt, he had already waved his hand and said, "It's okay, when I married you, I once lit the lights all over the yard. I believe that our children would not be missing. This is to support us in advance. Come on, light the lights and make the mansion lively."

The city of Mizhou is not as festive as the Lantern Festival in Bianliang City. After all, a big city with a population of 2 million is not the same as a city with a population of 50,000. That night, the lights in Mizhou City were not considered prosperous. About one-fifth of the portals were not on, but forty thousand lights were enough, and they still illuminated the entire night sky.

On this day, the "medicine-haired puppets" were set up, which are the fireworks of the Song Dynasty. The children continued to set off the remaining firecrackers. Looking at the firecrackers, Zhao Xing understood why the Song people were not afraid of the roaring cannons during the naval battle. It turned out that the Song people grew up wearing crotch-open pants and playing with gunpowder.

The sound of firecrackers at Zhao Xing's family was particularly loud. The sound of firecrackers made with new gunpowder formula shocked the whole country. In the past few days, many owners of firecracker shops have come here to inquire about it quietly and intend to buy gunpowder formula from Zhao Xing, but considering military reasons, Zhao Xing refused them all.

Shortly after the Lantern Festival, another huge festive celebration came to Zhao Xing's mansion. Azhu was so uncomfortable that she could eat in the first few days. Zhao Xing originally thought it was her self-blame, but after the doctor diagnosed it, he found that Cheng Azhu was pregnant. This huge festive celebration made Zhao Xing's mansion feel happy.

In fact, in the Song Dynasty, it was rare to have offspring in his twenties. Li Gefei only had Li Qingzhao in his forties, and Yang Tsing, the successor of the fourth generation of Yang family generals, had a son in his fifties. When his son was dying, he would not call him father... In this era when there were many leftover men and women, Zhao Xing had offspring in his twenties, which made him overjoyed.
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