Chapter 010: Spring Begins Tonight Letting a decent person with status and status sweep the floor, and pushing a big girl who is high up and does not eat fireworks in the world, are things that can give people a sense of pleasure and achievement, so after the enthusiastic publicity of Yin Erpeng, the little second brother who was slapped in Baifeng Building, the second young master of the Ding family, Ding Chengye, who did not have sex and contracted a dirty disease, spread throughout Bazhou City, and there are more and more versions of various legends, and the image of the second young man of the Ding family is becoming more and more unbearable.
For this reason, it made some young women and the red girls of the Quhua Gallery nervous for a long time, even if they were embarrassed to come forward in person, most of them sent their henchmen to buy some medicinal materials to cleanse the body and remove poison to go back, only buy the expensive ones, not the right ones, and the Spring Festival season, the business of the pharmacies has been greatly booming.
Ding Ershao's family went to Xiongzhou, and Xue Liang and Ding Hao's work was much easier, feeding mules and horses every day, cutting forage, and cleaning the third courtyard, so there was nothing for them.
On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the Ding family began to sweep the dust, clean the environment, clean all kinds of utensils, dismantle and wash the bedding and curtains, sprinkle and sweep the courtyard of Liulu, dust and dirt cobwebs, and dredge the nullah culvert.
Then prepare New Year's goods, chicken, duck and fish, tea, wine, oil sauce, north and south roasted goods, sugar bait and fruits, and prepare some gifts when visiting relatives and friends during the New Year, and buy new clothes and hats.
The doors of the courtyards of the Ding family began to post the Spring Festival couplets in red paper and yellow characters, the God of Wealth and the word Fu, the house posted brightly colored New Year's pictures, and the window lattices were pasted with beautiful window flowers, which made the family really busy for a while.
The stewards are also busy, to collect the New Year's examples, prepare New Year's goods, prepare sacrifices to the gods, worship ancestors, what three animals and five animals, five grains and six fasts, incense candles, rice crackers, guava can not be served, fish should be with scales, there are too many miscellaneous things, and they are busy in a mess.
In previous years, Yan Jiu, the internal manager, was responsible for representing the Ding Mansion to banquet tenants and long-term workers, and giving them New Year's gifts, but now he is not in the house, I heard that the second young master took the car of the Ye family car dealer and ran to Uncle Xiongzhou's house, and the loyal Yan Jiuye immediately rushed to see Master Ding, kowtowed to him and asked him to send himself to Xiongzhou to pick up the young master.
Ding Tingxun fell ill at this time.
The second son is not good, so he has lost face, especially with such a shameful problem, he has no chance to explain, and it is impossible to deny it, so he feels that people are pointing behind his back wherever he goes.
Li Yuchang, an old friend for many years, also had a mustard in his heart, although he apologized to Li Yuchang with a thick old face and apologized, and finally eased the relationship between them, but Li Yuchang, who was afraid, always looked a little cold, and the relationship between the two was much worse than the previous intimacy.
With so many things mixed together, Ding Tingxun was depressed and overworked, and finally launched a high fever.
As soon as a person is sick, his heart is fragile, this son is not angry, after all, he is his favorite youngest son, and he is really not at ease when he runs hundreds of miles alone.
Besides, the eldest son escorted the grain to the Guangyuan General's Mansion to deliver the military rations, and he didn't know if he could come back during the New Year, he wanted to sacrifice to the gods and ancestors, and he couldn't have a son waiting by his side.
So Yan Jiu immediately set off for Xiongzhou, and the banquet invited tenants and long-term workers, and the messenger who distributed the New Year's goods fell on Liu Ming, the kitchen steward.
Steward Liu is very familiar with Ding Hao and Xue Liang because of Aunt Yang, he is in charge of the kitchen, and he is afraid that he will not be busy, so he borrowed these two people from the steward of the outer courtyard.
Banquets for New Year's holidays to invite tenants and long-term workers, and give them New Year's gifts, which are common practices in the homes of the gentry landlords, like the kind of bullying men and women staged in the movie, eager to treat the tenants and long-term workers as two envoys, when collecting rent, the family carries guns and whips, and there are no landlords who can not hand in the whip and smoke the whip at all, and there are really rich people who are too mean to the long-term tenants, and they have to fall down in a few years.
After all, the gentry landlords are not government officials, and if they are not powerful families who are killed and killed, the tenants will have more room for bargaining and bargaining.
If you encounter a tricky tenant, default, begging for concessions, stealing private dividends, pressing property, retiring tenants, resigning tenants, striking crops, evading rent, or then transferring tenants, coercing, framing lawsuits, and handing over "wet valleys" and "deflated valleys", then the proprietors are troublesome enough.
If you can't collect the rent, you will fight it, and who will be willing to plant your land next year.
If you hit someone and get injured, it's a lawsuit, even if you settle it evenly, don't you spend money, who can't get along with?
Therefore, for the tenants who have matured, every major festival, the proprietor will have a banquet, and then give some holiday gifts such as bacon and shochu.
Usually the tenants and long-term workers have some serious illnesses and minor disasters, and the rich man should also give some medicine as much as possible to help.
The same is true for long-term workers, "living in the hands", if the owner and the long-term workers are working against each other, the long-term workers do not dare to resist, but the way to passively slack off is to do something in the farm work, and the owner is the one who suffers during the autumn harvest.
Therefore, on the fifteenth day of the new year, they will make a tooth sacrifice, send some food during the New Year's holidays, and give a red envelope at the end of the year, which are some of the means for the long-term gentry landlords with long-term vision to retain those honest and willing to work.
The real bitterness is the domestic slave, one is the domestic slave who has signed the deed of sale, like Aunt Yang.
The other is the family slaves, that is, the children born of the house slaves, they are born to serve the family, although these people are free, but because of the relationship between their parents and elders, and they have not left this circle of life since childhood, they have no ability to stand on their own at all, so they have become house slaves in disguise.
If this kind of domestic slave meets a kind master, it is okay, otherwise it is really a scolding heart, and the status is a hundred times worse than that of tenants and long-term workers who come and go freely.
Ding Hao did not realize until this time that his status was even lower than that of the tenant farmers and long-term laborers.
Tenants and long-term laborers are people, and they are slaves, which is a world of difference.
Knowing this, Ding Hao was even more reluctant to stay in the Ding family.
Here, he will never come out, and if he wants to change his life, he can't do it without leaving here.
However, the Yang family, who was not his biological mother in his heart, but treated him with great affection, could he really bear to leave here, what could he do empty-handed Far and near, from time to time, a few firecrackers will sound, and today is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
At this time, the people in the house were all on vacation, and only the maids and servants in the inner courtyard were still busy with some sporadic things.
Ding Hao was relaxed, lying on the high straw pile in the courtyard, looking up at the blue sky and basking in the sun.
I made a hole in the straw pile, and lay in it soft, with the sun shining overhead, and the wind could not blow around, and it was very warm.
"Dumb, what are you thinking" In a straw pit next to him, Xue Liang's voice came.
Ding Hao looked at the blue sky with his arms on his pillow, and said faintly: "I'm thinking, how can I get out of this Ding family's compound." ” "What are you going out for, where can you go at this hour, today is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, tonight's Chinese New Year's Eve, we can fight the tooth sacrifice again today."
Xue Liang touched his stomach and sighed with satisfaction: "If you can eat so well all year round, how good it would be" Ding Hao was silent for a while, and said softly: "I'm thinking, how can I get out of this Ding family's compound forever, straighten my waist, and live the life I want to live." ” "Ah, what are you talking about, what's wrong with your waist, is it flashing when you carry pork, I said don't carry such a big piece of fat pork, you can still do it" Xue Liang crawled out of the grass pit, put a black fat face like a pig's head on the edge of the straw pile, and looked at Ding Hao with concern: "If your waist flashes, you can't be careless, if you don't get it right, you won't be able to do heavy work in this life, or I'll ask for some medicine and wine, and give you a massage."
Ding Hao felt a warmth in his heart, he reached out and picked off a piece of grass stuck to Xue Liang's chin, and said softly: "Pig, if one day, your brother and I have the ability, I will definitely let you fish and meat every day, and live comfortably for the rest of your life." ” "Then I don't want it", Xue Liang's shame came up: "Dumb, if one day you really have great ability, help my brother say a daughter-in-law." ” He held up his fat chin with two fat hands, and said with reverie on his face: "People say that if you haven't slept with a woman in your life, you won't be a gentleman, and I'll be twenty after this year, but I haven't touched a woman's finger." ” Ding Hao smiled "eating": "Look at your appearance, Cheng, if I have money, I will help you say a daughter-in-law, no, I will tell you two." ” "I'm happy to do this", Xue Liang smiled, he rolled his eyes and looked at a cloud in the sky, smashed his mouth, and said with infinite yearning: "Dumb, what do you say this sleeping woman tastes like, I see that Steward Liu is dancing when he talks about sex, I don't understand, is the taste of sleeping a woman more fragrant than eating fat pork":