Chapter 44: Keeping the New Year
The sound of firecrackers, the most important Chinese New Year's Eve of the year, the Xu family kept vigil around the old lady in Fushouju, the problem was that the old lady was not very happy because several sons and grandchildren were not around.
After the banquet was withdrawn, there was a fire tree and silver flowers outside the window, red leaves and green bamboo with a group of little girls to set off all kinds of fireworks, Xu Hao played with him for a while, and then walked around with his father Xu Qingtang with a group of family members, at this time he was most afraid of accidentally walking away from the water.
After returning from the entrance of the village, Xu Qingtang told his son to go back to Chenghuan's knees quickly, and he himself led people to continue to guard the outer house.
After Xu Hao came back, he sat honestly, watching the fireworks outside the window gradually become confused, he was used to going to bed early and getting up early, and it was not midnight at the moment, and the upper eyelids and lower eyelids had already fought.
The third wife, Liu, annoyed the old lady the day before yesterday, even if she came over early the next day to ask for sin, the old lady didn't give her a good face, and she didn't dare to say more at the moment, and sat aside with her eyelids lowered.
Seeing that Xu Hao was about to fall asleep, Xiao came over and gently touched his son, and smiled at the old lady: "It's weird and boring, why don't you call a few mothers who can speak well to come in and tell us a few stories?" β
The old lady leaning on the Taishi's chair was wearing a satin jacket embroidered with a longevity pattern, wearing a longevity red forehead, and waved his hand with a smile: "I'm tired of listening to it, I said that these years are still those old jokes, either talented and beautiful or weird, and people have to reunite with the whole family." β
"Mothers are reunited every day, and it's not bad for this night. And in order to make you smile, who is not happy? If the daughter-in-law offers a reward of fifty taels of silver, we will give it to whoever says it. The eldest lady Wang smiled and laughed.
The old lady became interested at this time, and said with a smile: "It's rare that you have such a big hand, and you have to listen to it with your old body here." Hehe, that's what you said, don't regret it then. β
Wang said with a smile: "My daughter-in-law doesn't dare to lie in front of your old man, I just ask you to be happy, no matter how much money you spend, it's worth it." The Liu family on the side was also busy saying: "I also give fifty taels of silver." β
The old lady smiled, and the Xiao family in front of her pursed her lips and smiled: "First of all, I don't have any money, and if you don't have it, blame me for being stingy." β
"You're just an iron rooster, that's it, the old body is out for you, shameless." The old lady waved her hand angrily.
"Oh, my ancestor." Xiao Shi wrapped his hands around, stepped forward and hugged the old lady's waist, and put his face against his face, "Your boss said that I have the thickest skin, why is it that my son will say that it is gone?" Didn't you old man beat himself in the mouth? β
The old lady slapped Xiao's cheek with her hand lightly and gently, and scolded with a smile: "Such a big person, I am not ashamed, I am too lazy to scold you for the New Year." β
Seeing Xiao and the old lady laughing and scolding each other one by one, the whole family laughed, and when he heard that there was a silver reward, Xu Hao suddenly sobered up and shouted: "You don't need to call the mothers to come, I'll tell you." β
"The old body agrees." The old lady nodded with a smile, and explained with a smile: "In the past few days, Brother Hao has been talking with me to relieve my boredom, and every time I am amused, we will listen to him tell a novel and interesting story." Well, there is grandma to call the shots for you, and your reward will be indispensable when the time comes. β
Hearing this, Wang chuckled and said, "Brother Hao has grown his skills outside, so let's talk about one for the eldest lady." β
"No wonder men like to stay outside, what new things can't be heard? Just don't spend money on women who don't care. Liu couldn't help but say sourly.
The old lady suddenly frowned, and Chinese New Year's Eve was not heard. But Xiao's eyelids didn't rub a little sand, and he said lightly when he saw this: "The child is sensible, he hasn't opened his mouth to ask for a penny outside for half a year, and I am afraid that he will climb up to someone, so I send someone to watch it every day, only to know that he either consults the old man in the village about farming in the field, or helps the village to harvest grain, and he is busy all day long." Either it was to teach the children in the village to read and write, so it was unanimously recommended by the whole village to make sacrificial wine, which made me a great relief as a mother, and complained that I couldn't even trust my own children. β
It was the first time for the whole family to hear this, and they couldn't help but be surprised, and they all looked at Xu Hao. The old lady said with relief: "Well done, rich and noble without forgetting your duty, that sacrificial wine has always been the most virtuous and respected person to serve, it seems that what your mother said is not false at all, you make grandma very happy tonight." β
The son got a big fortune from the old lady herself, Xiao Shi's excited eyes flowed, and the whole person became radiant, Xu Qinglian and Xu Hongye both looked happy, and their hearts were very happy. And Liu's face was red, and he couldn't speak, who in the whole family didn't know that his son was spending money lavishly, and he was causing trouble outside for no reason.
Xu Hao was also very happy in his heart, with a smile on his face, he didn't deliberately hide his emotions, and inadvertently, he became more and more integrated into the Xu family.
Glancing at the third daughter-in-law, the old lady immediately snorted coldly: "The son doesn't teach his mother, and you, even the two sons dare not go home during the festival." β
was taught by the old lady in public, Wang was embarrassed and hurriedly got up and admitted his mistake in public, and couldn't help but hate it in his heart.
Xu Hao had the intention to ease the atmosphere, and in view of the characteristics of all women in the house now, he said, "Grandson can talk about it." Well, tonight I'll tell you a story about Zhu Gege. β
Everyone turned their heads in attraction, and the old lady asked with great interest, "What is Gege?" β
Xu Hao explained unhurriedly: "The so-called Daqian Shijie is not strange, this is the name of a princess in a country in other overseas provinces, probably because the Central Plains Zhengshuo was invaded by a small clan in the north, and even the title of princess was replaced by Gege and others. β
The old lady nodded understandingly, and said to the full house of women, "I see, this place has a place of customs, and there is an old saying in Fengyang's hometown that it is only thirty miles apart, and each village even has a different dialect." It is said that the previous dynasty used to call their daughters young lady, but I don't know that in the Song Dynasty, it was used to call those prostitutes, and the people have become accustomed to it over time. β
And this file thing? Xu Hao was a little dumbfounded, isn't this a fucking reincarnation? In the future, you dare to say hello to any girl, Miss, let alone give you a big white eye.
It seems that no matter how many years have passed, the problems of this lustful man are the same, Xu Hao immediately told the Huanzhu Gege in his memory, trying to say it vividly and interestingly, many details were replaced by other allusions because he had forgotten, which was naturally much more discolored than the original work, but it also made the whole family who heard it for the first time listen to it with relish.
When it came to Xiaoyanzi being mistaken for the king's legacy of Gege among the people, Xu Hao didn't dare to replace it with the emperor and the prince, and the whole family was happy and sighed.
The old lady commented: "In the end, it is a small overseas country, and there is not even a eunuch with a living record around the prince, and the flesh and blood of the heavenly family have fallen into the people in such an unknown way, which is really ridiculous." β
"A small country with a shame and a small people." Wang's expression was very disdainful, "It's the lord of a country, and he doesn't dare to admit it if he steals it, which is contemptible." β
Xu Hao explained: "Because it was an alien invasion, women of the original ethnic group were not allowed to enter the palace after the founding of the country. β
Lao Taijun recalled his early years and sighed: "This reminds the old man of the brutal and unkind previous dynasties, those Mongols are no longer a heroic people on the steppe, they have become narrow-minded, greedy, blindly oppressing the Han people, and they have been driven back to the north in just a hundred years." In my opinion, the court of this small country will have to be expelled sooner or later. β
"That's what you said, grandma." Xu Hao gave a thumbs up with affection to express his admiration.
Then he told his story, and when he talked about the girls who were bullied by the queen and Mama Yung, the whole family was angry; When it was said that the crape myrtle girl was blind, everyone sighed; When it comes to the adversity between lovers, everyone is moved; When it came to Mama Rong being beaten and punished, everyone smiled, and finally there was a happy ending for a lover to finally become a family, and everyone was happy.
In addition, there are the Queen Mother's reasonableness, Qing'er's kindness and generosity, Concubine Xiang's unyielding loyalty, Meng Dan's deep love, etc., these characters are very moving.
"The mountains are edgeless, the heaven and the earth are combined, and only then can you dare to be with you!" The eldest girl Yuelan kept muttering this sentence, and she had a long aftertaste.
Xu Qinglian glanced at her younger brother and said with a smile: "Strange, this is obviously taken from the evil in the Han Le Mansion, it seems that that the small country has also come to Middle-earth to pay tribute, and has brought back a lot of books." β
Yuelan hurriedly asked, Hongye shook her little head, and said in a coquettish voice: "Evil, I want to know you and live a long life." There are no tombs in the mountains, the rivers are exhausted, the thunder and earthquakes in winter, the rain and snow in summer, the heaven and the earth are combined, and you dare to be with you! Hum! The literati of this small country changed the word mausoleum to a ridge, but they didn't know the difference between this word. β
Xu Hao smiled hesitantly, and he didn't argue, he only had the first part in his stomach, at that time, as soon as the TV series was broadcast, it was really an empty alley, and he watched all the episodes without falling, and he was quite moved at the time. It's a pity that it's been so long, I only remember a small part of the plot, as for the second part, I saw it, but I didn't have much impression compared to the first part, and the third part was not interested at all because of the change of the leading role.
As for the new version of "Returning the Pig Gege", it needs to be said!
I didn't want Hongye's words to be accidentally heard by the old lady, and she feigned anger and said: "What kind of poetry does a girl learn, she doesn't suffer and suffer like that Xia Ziwei because she is too talented and arrogant, on the other hand, Xiaoyanzi is virtuous without talent, and she is very blessed." β
Hongye hurriedly pretended to be a well-behaved look with low eyebrows, and when he turned his back, he immediately spit out his little tongue and made a grimace, Xu Hao smiled when he saw this,
In fact, although the story is interesting, it still inevitably falls into clichΓ©s, it is just the comedy version of the Song Dynasty Tanuki for the Prince, there are many similar stories in ancient times, and the ending is inevitably a vulgar happy reunion, plus Xu Hao's eloquence is far less vivid than on TV, everyone laughs and laughs, fortunately, this festival is just the right time, and the whole family has given high praise.
Xu Hao received a hundred taels of silver for the New Year, and it seems that in the future, when he is poor, he can still be an alternative storyteller to make a living.
When the whole family asked Xu Hao to tell another good story, Xu Hao, who knew how to accept it when he saw it, said playfully, let's zaijian in the coming year, which made the big guys laugh and scold him for slipping his head.
Such a Chinese New Year's Eve unconsciously passed safely and smoothly, and the Nian Beast once again fled in ashes, and when the sun also rose again, the whole family came to kowtow to the old lady.
It's a lively start to the new year, huh! It's going to be a very, very "lively" year.