Dad, this seems to be the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 26 Another Spring Comes
There was a continuous drizzle in Kaifeng City, the boats coming and going on the pier were still busy, and there were more and more pedestrians coming and going on the street.

In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival is coming again, and the time seems to be moving towards the second year of Jianlong.

This is what the people who have experienced the wars of the Five Dynasties have seen. In the best era, the benevolent deeds of Zhao Song officials one after another, not only increased the rations for the river workers, but also reduced taxes for all walks of life. The country is thriving, the countryside is busy planting seeds, and the whole country is rich and happy.

In fact, this year was not peaceful. Li Yun and Li Chongjin rebelled one after another, and the new officials fought in person, but the fight can be said to be crisp and smooth.

Li Yun formally raised troops in April and disappeared in June, Li Chongjin raised troops in September and disappeared in November.

The people naturally recognized Zhao Kuangyin's new court more. The new official family's public support is now as stable as Mount Tai. The official family is so good at fighting wars and treating the people so well. Only the stepmother would not support it. She has long forgotten that Hou Zhou is Something.

As the news of Li Chongjin's defeat and death came back, the hearts of the people in Kaifeng City were relieved. Ah, you can rest assured.

Not to mention ordinary people, even princes and ministers have to be busy for the New Year. Naturally, Sun Yue and his family are no exception. This is the first New Year that the two of them have spent in the Song Dynasty.

At this time last year, because of Chai Rong's funeral, most of the celebration activities were stopped, and Zhao Kuangyin's change of dynasty was caught up with Zhao Kuangyin's change of dynasty before he could turn around. He really hadn't seen what the New Year was like.

Over the past year, their family's life has changed drastically. Last year at this time, they had just traveled through time and they still didn't have enough to eat. But this year, with Zhao Guangyi's help, their family has taken over half of the street. , the business is booming, and he can earn hundreds of dollars a day with his eyes closed. He is already the number one rich man in Nancheng.

Putting on the newly made Shu brocade clothes, Sun Yue, Cao Jun, Cao Nier and others paid New Year greetings to Cao's mother. Cao's mother took out some broken pancakes with a smile on her face. I have to kowtow to thank you.

Over the years, Cao's mother's dementia has become more and more serious. She is more and more confused and less and less awake. She is clearly dressed in silk, but sometimes she begs for food with a broken bowl, and from time to time she will beg for food. Lao Cao and Sun Chunming admitted their mistakes. Taking the medical technology of the Song Dynasty as an example, it would take a few years for her to survive. The whole family tried their best to make her happy.

I went to Sun Chunming's place to pay New Year's greetings, and took the official New Year's money. Everyone had a full envelope of silver.

Now the relationship between the two of them is more like a boss and a shopkeeper, and Sun Chunming almost doesn't care about business matters, and it's all about Lao Cao.

After the expansion of the store, more than [-] people have been hired one after another. There are all kinds of storytelling, singing, opera and juggling, and all kinds of food. It has become the place where people in Nancheng are most willing to come. Cao Nier and Cao Jun naturally stopped helping, but Sun Chunming was in charge of the real big deal.

Of course, there are usually no major issues in the store, so generally Sun Chunming doesn't care about anything, and Lao Fang's side is also the same.

It’s rare for Sun Yue to stay at home and study. It’s the Chinese New Year. Why don’t you let people relax. If you don’t know how to combine work and rest, it’s easy to be short-sighted. You can’t find a place to wear glasses in the Northern Song Dynasty, so he simply let it go. Self, followed a group of brats and played wildly.

The New Year in the Northern Song Dynasty, for children, is generally not much different from the economic difficulties of later generations. New clothes, new shoes, and delicious food are the three major hopes. Other than that, there are some New Year customs. Things like that, gunpowder was available in the early Song Dynasty, that is to say, most people would light firecrackers during the Chinese New Year, and bamboo charms began to be replaced by paper ones, which are similar to the Spring Festival couplets of later generations.

There is just one thing, a project that the bear children enjoyed so much that Sun Yue's face turned green from fright, but it is a bad habit that has disappeared in later generations, and it is called begging to fulfill one's wish.

It is said that this wish-fulfilment is a powerful maid who can satisfy people's wishes. Who knows why she is a god but a maid? maidservant.

Then, throw this little cotton man into the dung heap and beat her, saying that the wish-fulfilling goddess is shy, and she will come out only after beating her hard, so that she can fulfill your New Year's wish (begging for wish is not the case, But it has been passed down from generation to generation, and it has become like this).

So, the Chinese really don’t have a tradition of respecting gods. The ancients actually thought that if they beat a god, they would be able to fulfill their wishes.

This f*cking new clothes just put on, holding a wooden stick to beat shit, how stupid is it to do it?Even if it doesn't smell particularly bad in winter, it's still shit after all!Struggling and trying to run, but Cao Nier held her down and forced him to beat her.

The child is a girl who grows first, and Cao Nier is several years older than him physically. He couldn't break free for a while, and the two of them stalemate on the edge of the dung pile, but Cao Jun came running madly Yes, with a firecracker in his hand.

This kind of gunpowder battle with gunpowder twisters was just emerging in the Northern Song Dynasty, so only rich and noble families could afford it. It was the first time for Cao Junchang to play at this age, so he was very excited. I saw him lighting a firecracker and grinning. He ran over and said, "Sister and Brother Yue get out of the way, I'll blast her out."

Sun Yue shouted in fright: "Brother, don't be impulsive!"

It's a pity that it was too late. Cao Jun was so accurate that he just threw the firecracker into the pile of dung. Sun Yue and Cao Nier's expressions changed completely on the spot when they were frightened, and they ran away.

Cao Jun didn't run away. Instead, he laughed at his elder sister and Sun Yue for being timid, with his waist in his arms and a big grin.

After a while, I heard a muffled sound: "噗~~"

During the Chinese New Year, Cao Jun cried terribly.In the morning, he was beaten by manure collapse, and in the afternoon, he was beaten by Lao Cao.

But these are still things that children play, and the things that adults play are very different from those of later generations.

Sun Yue waited, hoped, and finally waited for Lao Fang to come to pay New Year's greetings. When Sun Chunming was not paying attention, a fierce man rushed into his arms and said, "Uncle Fang, hurry up, take it to play."

Among the three grown-ups in the family, only this one is the most ignorant. The so-called ignorant means that only he will take Sun Yue to those places that are not suitable for children. To be honest, Sun Yue is not interested in ordering a firecracker or kicking a shuttlecock. I'm really not interested, but it's not suitable for this kid, he really wants to see and see.

(End of this chapter)