Lao Tzu turned around, did not feel that the new year was added, the children clapped their hands, and they were happy to meet the New Year.

For the Chinese nation, the chūn festival is the most important festival of the year, regardless of the dynasty.

Although Emperor Taizu strictly required his courtiers not to take a holiday until the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve. But in a county like Fuyang, after a small year, the yamen is in a state of herding sheep, and only one person is on duty every day. The rest of the people were busy for different years, and basically stopped coming to the yamen.

However, with Wei Zhixian's law-abiding, the government still needs to be arranged. It was Wang Xianzhi who lived in the Yamen until the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and after listening to the county's most reprimanded speech of the year, he was able to return home for the New Year.

On the street, children chase each other with firecrackers, and from time to time they run into the sky with a crisp sound. The shops are all closed, and the floors are covered with festive chūn couplets, and there are red firecracker skins on the floor. Families are preparing New Year's dinner, and the aroma of all kinds of bacon and candied fruit wafts into the street, mixed with the smell of gunpowder smoke, creating a kind of smell called Chinese New Year's Eve.

In the past, every chūn festival was Wang Xian's saddest rìzi, because he had no relatives and nowhere to reunite, so he could only spend the New Year at a friend's house. feels the atmosphere of reunion, but it is impossible to integrate into it, because he is always an outsider.

But this year is different, because he has a father, a mother, a brother, a sister and a sister, and he has a home! The lonely self-pity that gnawed at his soul was gone, replaced by a kind of eagerness and excitement—the involvement of that soul made him involuntarily quicken his pace and walk in the direction of home!

"I'm back!" When I entered the alley, I pushed open the door and saw that the walls of the house, on the door, and even on the water tank, there were conspicuous inverted 'blessings', and my father was pasting chūn couplets on the door frame with the help of Yinling. The old lady was frying fish, Lin Qing'er and Hou were kneading rice balls, and Wang Gui was cleaning the hall.

Feeling the strong smell of the New Year at home, Wang Xiansheng shouted: "I love you! ”

Startled, the old father and mother opened their mouths, the little sister glared, and Sister Lin blushed......

"Full of nonsense!" The old lady picked up the broom that had fallen on the ground, threw it on his head and said, "Hurry up and sweep the hall!" ”

"Yes, dear old lady!" Wang Xian caught the broom and waved it like a naughty boy: "Sweep the house and sweep the house, how can you sweep the world if the house is not swept!" ”

"This kid, you won't get sick again, will you?" Daddy looked at him blankly, his face worried.

"Phew!" The old lady said angrily: "New Year's Day, say something auspicious!" ”。

When the house is cleaned up, it's past lunchtime. But how can there be a lack of food at the end of the year? What's more, the old Wang family is not what it used to be......

Eat some fried fish and bacon to fill your stomach, and someone from Wangjia Village will come to pick you up. On Chinese New Year's Eve, if you want to worship your ancestors, you have to keep the New Year for your ancestors, so naturally you have to go back to Wangjia Village in the countryside.

The Wang family's father and son are now hot in the county. The relatives of the Wang family are still competing with each other, and now they are coming to take them home for the New Year, and you are even more scrambling. The most powerful men and women in the clan grabbed this glorious task.

Only then did Wang Xian understand why the old lady asked him to put on the New Year's scarf, silver lake silk straight jacket, black mouse leather jacket, and foundation warm boots in advance...... When I look at my father and mother again, I am also new inside and out, mink fur upper body, and I am too rich and wealthy. Xiao Yinling is wearing a Zhaojun hat, a jade flower headband, a pink skirt, a velvet cloak, a small face is blown quite a lot, the eyebrows are smiling, and she is full of beautiful embryos.

Ahem, it turned out to be to return home......

Wang Gui and the Hou family naturally changed into new clothes, only Lin Qing'er was still mourning, and it was not appropriate to wear red and green, but the white skirt was covered with a silver sè cloak, although the person was plain, but it was more refined, and the little silver bell stood side by side, like a white chrysanthemum in the sky, and the eyes of the Wang family were straight.

"Ahem." Dad coughed and kicked the young man in a Confucian shirt and a square scarf: "Do you think of your aunt like this?" ”

"Alas, it turned out to be a new aunt, grandpa said it earlier, why did I say that I was so face-to-face......" The young man was obviously older than Wang Xian, and smiled at Wang Xian with a shy face: "Second uncle, you are so blessed." ”

"Let's play." A burly young man behind him pulled him away, then pushed the gold mountain to pour the jade pillar, kowtowed to Wang Xingye and his son: "Grandpa, uncle, the child will take you back for the New Year!" ”

Several women also knelt down, but the young man just put on a show and said with a hippie smile: "Grandson's clothes that have just been changed......

He is a scholar, Wang Xingye will not bother with him, and he twisted his beard and said: "Well, it's not too early, let's go." ”

The family went out with a small bag of gifts, greeted the neighbors, and went straight to the dock.

On the wharf, no longer busy a while ago, only a few canopy boats were parked, and the family got on their boats, and the people untied the cables that year, and Wang Gui held the penny, and slowly sailed away from the county seat.

The boat was on the river, the women were talking in the cabins, and the men were chatting on the deck.

The young man in the Confucian shirt is called Wang Jin, and he is also born with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, but his eyes are dripping, and he always gives people the feeling of being a thief. His family is a wealthy family, he has been studying since he was a child, and he is a smart person, and he is the most promising person in the village. entered the field for the first time last year, and turned out to be the first talent, but he was not yet twenty years old, and there was time, so he still jumped out of the sky.

The young man who supported the boat was called Wang Tong, and he was a five-mile long-term household in Wangjia Village, and he should be the chief of the village next year.

Dad panicked for him and scolded: "If you have something to say, let it go!" ”

"Alas, Fourth Grandfather," Wang Tong looked at Wang Xian and whispered, "I have something to ask the second uncle." ”

"What's the matter?" There is no word for the people in Lao Wang's house, and Dad asked directly for Wang Xian.

"The Yellow Book will be recompiled next year," Wang Tong is no more than ten years younger than Wang Xingye, but there is no way, the seniority is there, "Can the second uncle find a way to let his nephew miss this year." ”

"He's from the house, and you're the one in charge of the house." Dad said: "Besides, Lijia is in service, even the Xiang family can't avoid it, he has only been to the yamen for a few days, what can he do?" ”

Wang Xian was secretly moved when he heard this, and his father really knew it clearly and didn't make trouble for his son. Listening to the old man again: "Besides, recompiling the yellow book, what a fat errand, but you want to escape, isn't it stupid?" ”

"It's a fat job, but it's also an errand that offends people!" Wang Tong said depressedly: "Look at the county master's situation, next year is going to come to the real one, we are in charge of two villages here, Wangjia Village is relatives, we can't afford to provoke Yujiazhuang, the errand above can't be completed, I can only jump into the river." ”

"Hehe......" Wang Xingye looked at Wang Xian, the father and son smiled, then turned their heads to talk to Wang Jin, ignoring Wang Tong who dared to get an axe. made Wang Tong's face red, and he had to interject: "Please also ask the second uncle to help, and relax our requirements here when repairing the yellow book." ”

"Next year, the yellow book will be supervised by the master himself, and he can't do anything." Wang Xian shook his head and said. But is there anything in the world that you can't do without moving your hands and feet? The reason why he can't move is because he is not familiar with Wang Tong, so why help him?

"Think of a way, second uncle." Wang Tongyang begged: "Wangjia Village is either your uncle or nephew and grandson, this thing is done, not only the clansmen praise you, but you also have face in front of your ancestors!" ”

mentioned that he had face in front of his ancestors, and Wang Xingye's attitude also changed: "Xiao Er, you will see next year, if you can help, you can help, and the horizontal and vertical fertilizer water will not flow into the fields of outsiders." ”

"Yes." Wang Xian sighed and said, the national cadres are all aware of this, and it is strange that there is no accident in the Ming Dynasty. However, slander is slander, and you still have to help, this is the era of patriarchal law and national law, and it is natural to protect the interests of your own clan. If you are selfless on this matter, you have to be scolded as a pig's head by your uncles, nephews and grandchildren. "Come here next year, you can go to me."

"Okay!" Wang Tongxing grinned......

Wangjia Village is not far from the county seat, but after a meal, the boat is close to the village wharf.

Standing on the boat, Wang Xian and Wang Gui were stunned by the scene in front of them, and they saw that the simple trestle bridge at the head of the village was densely packed with people.

"The whole village has come to greet the fourth grandfather and the two uncles." Wang Tong threw the cable to the shore, and the people on the trestle caught it and pulled the boat to the shore to stabilize it.

"No...... Wang Xian said to Wang Gui dumbfounded: "Even if my father is an official now, he is only a nine-grade sesame official, and if he is a jinshi, it will be almost the same." ”

Wang Gui grinned and said very philosophically: "Rare things are expensive. ”

Wang Xianshen thought that it was said that since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Wangjia Village had never produced a black gauze hat.

Looking at the old man again, he took off the fur hat on his head, revealing a black veil......

'My dear father, can you not be so shallow?' Wang Xian groaned helplessly.

But Dad obviously understood better what the Father and the Villagers were looking at, and when he showed his black veil, it really attracted loud cheers from the shore.

Wang Xingye was the first to step on the trestle and bow down to the third uncle and several elders, but before the action was made, he was supported by seven veterans at the same time, and I don't know how the old people could be so agile?

After the greetings, the relatives followed the Wang family one by one, just like carrying fragile items that were handled lightly, so it was just a pregnant woman for the Hou family, but it was also the same for the old lady, and the old lady couldn't stand it.

"Can we not do this?" Throwing off the hands of the sisters-in-law, the old lady jumped off the boat and said, "I haven't heard that anyone is the wife of a Shangguan and can't walk!" ”

The clansmen naturally knew her temper, and in the past, they had already laughed and scolded with her, but now they are all laughing together, and they don't dare to say more nonsense, which makes the old lady feel so lonely.

What's even more outrageous is still behind, from the dock to the village is half a mile away, and the clansmen actually arranged a sedan chair to carry them back......