Chapter 214 Zhenghong flag (4)

The eldest sister not only cares about her mother, but is also willing to participate in the little brother's baptism ceremony.Besides, as soon as she returned to her natal family, she was an aunt and was respected: in everyone's eyes, she was a promising little daughter-in-law who did not embarrass her natal family. ——Anyway, the mother-in-law will be in the coffin one day.She longs to go home.Yes, even if she only stays in her natal house for half a day, she feels comfortable in her heart, and even feels that only by undergoing more training now, can she become a fairy in the future, and she can also sit on the edge of the kang and suck two bags like her aunt. Orchid smoke.Yes, she doesn't dare to smoke orchid cigarettes now, but she has learned to chew betel nuts—this is probably not too far away from smoking orchid cigarettes.

With these things in her mind, she couldn't sleep well, and woke up very early.She didn't bother to see where Samsung was, so she went to the street to buy deep-fried dough sticks and biscuits for her mother-in-law.In those years and months, the porridge shop started frying fried dough sticks and making sesame seed cakes at around three o'clock at night.It is said that even the princes and ministers in the early dynasty often used sesame seed cakes and deep-fried dough sticks as breakfast.I don't know whether the elder sister's mother-in-law's father, the Viscount, is in court or not.The viscount's daughter has indeed inherited the tradition of eating pancakes and deep-fried dough sticks, and she wakes up very early, eats after washing up, and goes to sleep when she feels sleepy after eating.So, this tradition seems designed for torturing my eldest sister.

The northwest wind is not strong, but it is very sharp, and it blows the tip of the eldest sister's nose, ears and lips red in a short while.She couldn't help saying: "Drink! Dry cold!" This kind of dry cold unique to Beijing is often very cold.Even though the elder sister had a lot of complaints in her heart, she couldn't help but say so.After all, she stepped up her pace.Her body started to heat up, but instead she shivered, trembling from her heart to her limbs. It was very comfortable, as comfortable as swallowing a small piece of ice.She looked at the sky, and each star was so bright, so cool, and quivering, that it reminded her of the pure, shining eyes of children.She smiled and muttered: As long as the wind doesn't get too strong, today will be a beautiful day!The little brother has a bit of history, Xisan encountered such a good weather!

Thinking of this, she wished she could go to her mother's house immediately and give her little brother a hug! No matter how much she wanted to go back to her natal family, she didn't dare to ask her mother-in-law for leave.If she boldly asks for leave, she knows that her mother-in-law will nod her head and say repeatedly: "Come on!"Grab it! ("ke" means "go") She is the daughter of a viscount, and she cannot refuse her daughter-in-law to return to her natal family without reason.However, the eldest sister knows that if she "restrains" it faithfully, hum, the mother-in-law's poison gas bag will hang down to her chest.No, she had to wait for her mother-in-law's order.

The order never came down.First of all: don't say that the mother only gave birth to a baby, or she gave birth to twins. As long as the elder sister and mother-in-law think that she has suffered from gas, then she must have suffered from gas, and there is nothing else to say!The second is: Although her family philosophy is: to borrow money boldly, without thinking about how to repay the debt; however, there are too many debts collected at the door, after all, it will hurt the dignity of the Viscount's daughter and Mrs. Zuo Ling.She was not very happy.So, after she finished her japonica rice porridge, sesame seed cakes and deep-fried dough sticks, she planned to have a fight with the old man first.However, Zuo Ling moved ahead of time for the bird walk and went out already.The old lady rushed to nothing, and her anger increased several times. She quickly turned the horse's head and wanted to capture Xiao Riding School alive.However, Xiao Qi School stole two new red notes from the eldest sister, and went to the street early to eat two plates of pot cakes with many beans and sweet dates, and drank a bowl of almond tea.The old lady couldn't find a male official school, so she had to challenge the female general.She didn't give orders, but sat on the edge of the kang and chattered: This, this is not like living a life!Do I have to worry about it?Don't you see the ready-made things, the things that are in front of your eyelids?Don't have eyes?Are you blind?Are there pearls but no gods?Don't wait on me, I don't need anyone to wait on me!Buddha, doesn't even Buddha serve you?The Chinese New Year is just around the corner, have you wiped off the five offerings on the Buddha table?

The eldest sister hurried to sieve the ashes, and the sieve was very fine, and she was going to wipe the five offerings.Holding the ashes of the fine stove, when she arrived at the Buddha table, the mother-in-law had already passed from the gods and Buddhas to the world: ah!Shouldn't you use your hands on the copper work on boxes, cabinets, and even threes?When I was young, I didn't need my mother-in-law to ask me about everything, I just did what I had to do! The eldest sister dared not answer.No matter how nice the words are, if you say them at this moment, you will become against your mother-in-law and disobedient.However, if you keep your head down and work without saying anything, it will become: yes!Take the wax skewer to murder, but in my heart I can curse the old man, the old shameless!Well, that should be a thunderbolt!

With tears in her eyes, the eldest sister was wiping and thinking of an idea: at the most appropriate time, she should ask her mother-in-law how to do this or how to do that.She put aside the idea of ​​returning to her natal family completely.After staying for a while, she put away her tears and tried her best to bring a smile to her face: "Grandma, look, do I still look good when I wipe it?"The mother-in-law just snorted and didn't give any instructions, the reason is very simple, she didn't clean the five offerings herself. Sure enough, the weather was fine, and it seemed to be quite warm just after nine o'clock.The sky is so high, so blue, and the sun is so bright, even the dilapidated old raven's nest on the big tree looks a bit picturesque.The playful magpies are in the east for a while, and for a while in the west, chirping and praising the winter sunshine in Beijing.

The eldest sister and mother-in-law chattered to a certain stage, and when they came to the courtyard, they seemed to question the sun and the blue sky, why they were so sunny and beautiful, but when they came out, they saw the pigeons raised by Duofu, so they condemned Ziwu and Heiyuchi: What are you doing supporting me?will eat!Just wait, as soon as you are happy, I will kill you all! The elder sister didn't dare to vent her anger in the room.She doesn't even have the right to sigh! On our side, the mother wanted the eldest sister to come.The night before, she nearly died.Since God didn't take her back, she looked forward to the family reunion today, even with her married daughter beside her.However, she also guessed that the eldest daughter might not be able to come.Who told someone to be a leader, but his own status is low!It's not convenient for my mother to say anything, but there are not many smiles on her face.

My aunt seemed to have planned it in the middle of the night: if I don't lose my temper when other people hold weddings, it will make the weddings so ordinary and lacking in waves.At nine o'clock, the elder sister hadn't come yet. She looked at the sun and felt that she must be sorry for such a sunny day if she didn't gossip. "I said," she said to the sun, "the sun is so high, why doesn't my aunt show her face? Sure, it must be that old clapper with big jujube eyes who won't let her come! I'll go find her and talk to her! If she's unreasonable, I'll dig out her jujube pit!"

Mother was in a hurry.Ask the second sister to ask the second brother to comfort the aunt: "Don't make a sound, ask the second brother to tell her." The second brother was pouring water into the wine with Xiao Liu'er.In order to save money, he drank very little wine, so he had to try to make this drink inexhaustible.The second sister tugged on his sleeve and pointed out.He came out with the wine jug, and approached his aunt very affectionately: "Old lady, smell it, does it smell like wine?" "Wine, how can there be no smell of wine, what are you holding back?"

"That's the thing, if the smell of wine is too strong, you can add some water!" "You, second child, I don't blame your mother for calling you the second devil!" Auntie smiled helplessly. "If you are poor and needy, just ask for peace! Isn't it? Old lady!" Seeing that she didn't offend her aunt, she hurriedly continued: "After dinner, I'm ready. Eat, eat! Dare to come? Old lady!" "My boy, I'll follow you!" When the aunt heard that they were going to play cards, she completely forgot about Suanzao's eyes. Mother sighed in the room, thanking her nephew Fuhai very much. It was past nine o'clock, and the seven grandmas and eight aunts who the second brother expected to congratulate came one after another.No matter who the second sister is, she greets her first and then pours tea, she is very nervous.Her face turned red, and her nose was sweating a little. She didn't say anything, and only smiled when necessary.Therefore, the second brother nicknamed her "Xiao Li Stupid".My aunt urges dinner to be finished playing cards.The second elder brother promised loudly: "It's all here!" The so-called "completely prepared" means that the fried broad beans and pork skin fried in spicy sauce with pickled pimples and tassels have been cooked, and the wine is also mixed with water, so you won't get drunk after a thousand cups. Although the "banquet" is so simple, the courteousness of entering the table is not compromised at all: "Please sit up!" He issued an appeal: "Sit down quickly, the food is cold!" Everyone sat down respectfully rather than obediently.After three rounds of wine (no one was at all drunk), two dishes (broad beans and pork skin sauce), the "banquet" entered a tense stage-hot soup noodles came.Everyone seems to have forgotten to be courteous, and even forgot to speak. There was a sound of swallowing noodles in the room, overwhelming mountains and seas, and tigers roaring and dragons chanting.The second brother's head was sweating: "Xiao Liu'er, according to the way of eating, this little bit of noodles can't hold it!" Xiao Liu'er was quick to get wise: "Put more water!" The second brother gave a soft bah: "Bah The noodles are not wine, can’t they become a paste with water? Hurry up!” The second elder brother took out the money (he didn’t repay the money to my mother): “Hurry up, go to Jin Siba’s place, you can make pancakes , bake five catties of pancakes; if you have to wait too long, bring some sesame paste pancakes, hurry up!” (Most mutton shops at that time sold pancakes, steamed buns, and pancakes for customers.) Xiao Liuer was clever: seeing that pancakes needed time, he brought back a stove of hot sesame seed cakes and two drawers of buns stuffed with mutton and cabbage.The wind blew away and the buns and sesame cakes disappeared in an instant.In the end, it was the second brother's turn to have dinner with Xiao Liu'er.But what to eat?The second elder brother laughed haha ​​for a while, and then instructed Xiao Liuer: "You, young man, go home and eat!" Feel sorry for him!As for whether the second brother ate or not, I'm not worried at all, I know he has a way. Towards noon, the sky became even more beautiful.In the blue sky, one here and one there, there are white and smooth white clouds floating.With a little force from the northwest wind, these light white clouds turned into long gauze ribbons, which became longer and thinner, and gradually turned into some intermittent white smoke, and finally disappeared.The small wind blew all kinds of calls for New Year's goods: those who sold offering flowers, pine and cypress branches, and New Year pictures... There was a sharp sound, a loud sound, and it was far and near, and there were a few firecrackers in the middle, and the barber's "" Calling the head" ② sound.People all over Beijing are preparing for the New Year, and they are all active in this sunny day. Those who buy and sell, those who sell, those who are in a hurry, those who are looking for death, and those who are married a year ago, playing suona and drums all the way.I was the only one lying quietly in the middle of the kang, covered with some torn cotton, not knowing what to think. It is said that in winter our house is ventilated from all directions, the kang is icy cold, and even the residual tea in the cup will freeze at night.Today, I was in the middle of the kang calmly thinking about something, and the situation in the room changed a lot.The room is very warm, the sun shines on the kang, shining on my little red feet.There is also a small white iron stove under the kang.The combined heat from inside and outside makes people feel itchy all over their bodies, especially the backs of their hands and ears and lips.In the sunlight coming in from the window, there are so many tiny, bright floating dust, flying around my head like thousands of uncatchable asteroids. At this time, under the sunny windows of the dignitaries and dignitaries, narcissus brought from Fujian will be drying in the sun.The heat from the big copper stove or the kang in their house will urge the green and red plums on the table.On their mahogany kang tables and various antique kangs, there will be emerald green grasshoppers spreading their wings and chirping softly in the sun.The songbirds hanging on their porch would spread their wings to the sun and sing a set song.Their cooks and servants will bring in Gazelle from Inner Mongolia and Golden Pheasant from Northeast China to prepare as New Year’s dishes.The sun shines on the feathers of the golden pheasant, emitting five-color flashes. We love flowers and trees the most, but we can't afford plum blossoms and narcissus.There are only two crooked jujube trees in our courtyard, one behind the screen wall and the other at the root of the south wall.We also love small animals, but we can't afford thrushes and indigos, and we don't have time to raise green grasshoppers for the winter.Only a few sparrows landed on the jujube tree for a while, and flew to the window sill for a while, looking into the house.Perhaps these sparrows can see: I am not waiting for plum blossoms and narcissus to spit out their pistils, nor for grasshoppers and indigos to sing, but in a small piece of sunshine, I am waiting to be washed and accepted by a few poor people. bless. On the small iron stove in the outer room, the water with locust branches and mugwort leaves for me to wash three times was boiling.The strong aroma of mugwort is mixed with the smell of orchid smoke smoked by the old ladies. The fragrance is warm and slightly spicy, which seems quite auspicious.Everyone is looking forward to "grandmother" coming soon, so that I may soon become a great person who will not suffer from hunger or cold. The aunt walked around the room, glanced at the kang, organized a game of cards with the second brother and others, and went to her room to fight fiercely.Whether she is blessing me or cursing me in her heart, no one knows. At exactly twelve o'clock, the beautiful sunshine and sharp wind brought Grandma Bai and her auspicious words into our house.This is Grandma Bai, a short, white and fat man in her fifties.Her back is straight and neat, making people believe that she must be able to take care of ten or eight male and female dolls a day.She is quite kind, but she has her own majesty - young men and women in our area who are in their twenties dare not make a little joke with her, for fear that she will mention: Don't forget who washed you three!She was dressed quietly and generously, except for a bright red silk pomegranate flower inserted obliquely behind the pretty satin "hat strip". The day before yesterday, it was Grandma Xiaobai, the daughter-in-law of Grandma Bai, who delivered the baby.Grandma Xiaobai is also clean and neat, but she has less experience.According to her own explanation, what went wrong the night before was not her fault, but my mother's malnutrition and frailty.It's not convenient for her to come and tell my mother, so Grandma Bai came out to do the cleaning in person.Grandma Bai is now a famous person. Wherever she comes from, people can conclude that another hereditary official or noble daughter of a few ranks will come to the world.Then, because of her prestige, she is willing to wash me three times, which naturally implies an apology.Everyone can see this, so she doesn't have to say anything.As for my mother, I wanted to say a few words at first, but then I thought, if it makes the old white grandma unhappy and says a few auspicious words to the old son, it will be very disadvantageous.So the mother didn't say a word. My aunt was holding a good hand of cards, and she sent a message: the washing ceremony can start, and there is no need to wait for her. Mother dare not follow the truth.After a while, the second sister was sent to invite the aunt, and the words the second sister brought back were: "I said don't wait for me, so don't wait for me!" The ceremony began. Grandma Bai sat cross-legged on the kang, and poured bitter water made from locust trees and mugwort leaves into the large copper basin with a wide edge (brought by the second elder brother), and it was steaming.The old ladies and daughters-in-law who participated in the ceremony all "replenish the basin" first, put some copper coins into the basin, and say auspicious words.A few peanuts, a few red and white eggs were also put into the water along with congratulatory words such as "Liansheng Takako".In the end, all these money and things belonged to the "grandmother".Although I didn't count them, I knew that there were not many copper coins that fell into the water.Because of this, we have to thank Grandma Bai for her downgrading and stepping out in person. At the same time, it also proves that Grandma Xiaobai probably caused a lot of trouble. While washing and talking, Grandma Bai repeated the congratulatory speech that she had said countless times: "Wash your hair first and become a prince; wash your waist after that, and one generation will be taller than one generation; wash and wash your eggs, and become a county magistrate; Wash the ditches and become the magistrate!" After hearing this, everyone admired Grandma Bai even more - she knew that there were not many copper coins in the basin, but she still told the auspicious words completely, and she didn't cut corners, which is really hard to get!Although I was neither magistrate nor magistrate, I can't help but thank her for washing my whole body, which may be cleaner than magistrate and magistrate. After washing, Grandma Bai used ginger moxa moxibustion to moxibustion my forehead and the important joints of my body.Therefore, I did not suffer from arthritis until my sixtieth birthday.She also used a new green cloth, dipped it in some green tea, and rubbed my gums vigorously.It was at this time that I began to cry; by mistake, this cry was a sign of great auspiciousness!In the dictionary of old mothers, this is called "sound basin".I don't know if there are children who always insist on not crying and giving up auspiciousness.In the end, Grandma Bai picked up a scallion and hit me three times, muttering: "One dozen is smart, two dozen are smart!" This also came true later, sometimes I am indeed as smart as a scallion. The onion should be thrown onto the house by the father.At this critical juncture, my father came back.The liveliness in the house is indescribable!As soon as he came in, everyone congratulated him together.He didn't know how many greetings, how many times he said "Thank you!" But his eyes kept on the middle of the kang.I can stand the identification of my father, I am spotless, full of the bitter taste and aroma of locust tree branches and mugwort leaves, although my hair is not long or long, but it has just been combed.My cry is also very majestic.Father was very satisfied, so he also gave Grandma Bai the money in the bag. It is not difficult to imagine the joy of the father.My mother had given birth to two male dolls, but they didn't raise them. Although the first one was named "Black Girl" and had her ears and eyes pierced, women are cheap and men are expensive, and the cheap are easy to live, but he didn't live for long.The second one is my mother. When eating dumplings on New Year's Eve, she goes outside the door and calls: "Boy Hei, boy Bai, go to the kang to eat dumplings!" Then the boy Bai called.But such an extraordinary boy "go back" without having eaten many dumplings. The reason is unknown, but it is a fact.Later, whenever I didn't sleep well, my mother would tell me how to go outside the door and call Black Boy and White Boy, and I quickly covered my head and pretended to sleep, lest Black and White Boys would see me! I can't say what my father looked like, because he passed away before I could remember his appearance clearly.This is a later story, so there is no need to say more here.I can only say that he is a banner soldier with a "yellow face and no beard", because when I was eight or nine years old, I accidentally found the waist card he used to enter and leave the imperial city, with the four characters "yellow face and beard" burned on it. Although the eldest sister didn't come, the little six didn't eat, and my aunt didn't give me "more pots", but won a lot of money, all of which were flaws in the ointment, but overall, my third washing ceremony was passable, both No one picked eyes, and no one got drunk and quarreled—thanks to the second brother and his "water and wine"!If you must ask me, what is worth writing in history, I have to mention the shopkeeper Lao Wang of Bianyifang.He also came and gave us a pair of pig's trotters. Lao Wang, a native of Jiaodong, came to Beijing at the age of eight or nine to learn techniques such as tidying pig's trotters and stuffing ducks.By the time I was in third grade, he had already lived in Beijing for 60 years, and he had been promoted step by step from a young man to a big apprentice, all the way to Paowai's shopkeeper.Ever since he celebrated his 30th birthday, he wanted to open a small butcher shop by himself, run it independently, and make a big splash.However, after careful observation, he found that the small butcher shop that started up was always open and close from time to time, so it was untenable.Even his bosses canceled the private seats in Bianyifang, and no longer sold wine, rice and roast duck.He noticed that the regular customers, especially the banner people, are buying less and less meat, and the meat cutting technology on the meat table has to be innovated-the raw meat must be cut into large slices and very thin, like The paper is so thin, so that it looks not small and the weight is very light, because most of the buyers only buy one or two hundred yuan each time (Beijing uses ten big coins as a hanging, and one hundred yuan is really a big coin) ). The shopkeeper Lao Wang often uses his Jiaodong-style Beijing accent to say angrily and lingeringly: Where is the money going?Where are you angry! In those days, people like shopkeeper Wang didn't dare to wear clothes indiscriminately.It wasn't until the time when he was celebrating Huajia that he bought a satin-faced sheepskin gown, but when he wore it out, he was covered with an overcoat of earth blue cloth that was as hard as iron after washing.He loves this earth blue cloth.However, after going back and forth, this kind of cloth is almost nowhere to be found.He had to wear the rustling bamboo cloth.The first time he put on this colorful bamboo shirt, even the domestic and wild dogs barked at him in protest.Later, men and women all over Beijing wore this kind of foreign cloth, and almost regarded the bamboo cloth shirt as a casual dress, and the domestic dogs and wild dogs gradually got used to it and stopped barking.When Lao Wang, the shopkeeper, was carrying his money bag to collect the bill, he watched carefully, hum, almost all the newly opened shops on the street have the word "foreign", such as foreign goods stores, foreign tobacco shops and so on.Even the small grocery store sells foreign paper and foreign oil, and even the quaint incense and candle shop, which always sells cosmetics and makes its own goose pancreas soap, also displays agar powder, alkaloids, and retting seeds①.Even the women in Chuan Hutong who bought worn-out shoes and paper used to call out "for a fat man" but changed it to "exchange for foreign currency for a lamp"②! As soon as he heard the call of "exchanging foreign goods for lamps", the shopkeeper Lao Wang hit his own fire sickle vigorously and lit the old Kanto smoke.But what's the use?Foreign satin, foreign cloth, foreign powder, foreign lamps, foreign clocks, foreign watches, and foreign guns poured in like a tide, and his scythe could never stop him.He is a businessman, so he should be open to money, but he can't open a foreign pork shop, which sells both smoked chicken sauce and foreign oil and medicine!He is a businessman and should make money for his masters.If he starts his own business, he must make money for himself.However, all the money has flowed overseas with the word "foreign"!What should he do? "Where is the money going?" seems to have the answer.He gave up his ambition of running a butcher shop on his own and making a fortune, and hated the word "foreign" more and more.Although his shirt is made of foreign needles, foreign thread, and foreign cloth, it is irresistible, but he is not willing to give in.He said openly that he hated those foreign things!When he heard that there were several lawsuits in his hometown Jiaodong, where foreigners and Eryang people were riding on the necks of the villagers, he didn't just hate foreign things. -------- ①Teaching plan——refers to the struggle against the aggression of foreign churches launched by our people under the situation of foreign capitalist forces invading the interior of our country at the end of the nineteenth century.This refers to the struggle of the Chudong people against the church and the people in 1899. ②Eryangren—also known as "Ermaozi", is a derogatory term for the national scum who has joined the "foreign religion" and bullied others. When he first entered Beijing, he was not used to seeing or listening to the bannermen's costumes, etiquette, and tone of voice, and was even a little disgusted.He also despises their exquisiteness and style of eating according to orders during festivals and eating on credit, let alone their air and demeanor of birds in cages, swaying around in a ecstasy. attitude.However, at the age of thirty, he himself started to play with larks, and once he exchanged bird-raising experiences with them, he could talk for a long time, and the more they talked, the more profound and intimate they became.When they came, he wanted to both bow and greet, and as a result, he invented a unique style of salute that was half bow and half greet.If they came to buy half a catty of meat, he kindly suggested: take a fat hen!Seeing that they were a little hesitant, he hurriedly added: Take it!Make an account first! When he rushed to him, he had a headache, not to mention the men who carried the cages and birds to see him and sent him Qingwenjiedu pills, and even the women sent their children to comfort him.He is no longer "Little Shandong", but Manager Wang, Brother Wang, and Uncle Wang.He gradually forgot that they were Bannermen and became their friends.Although he was not easy to deal with when it came time to ask for bills in the third quarter, but when someone got married or had a full moon, as long as he heard the news, he would bring something to congratulate him. "Public is public, private is private", he explained clearly to everyone.He seemed to think: How the emperor of the Qing Dynasty treated the Han people was another matter. Since the big guys couldn't do without each other, they might as well be friends.So, not only did he drop by the door casually and talk with everyone, but he also had the right to pull the "camels" of men, women and children.During the heart-to-heart talk, the flag soldiers told him how the higher-ups withheld military pay, ate short money and food, engaged in malpractice for personal gain, and embezzled and sold shortages.He also spoke of the grievances suffered by the Han people, and his dislike of foreign cloth and foreigners.When we get to know each other, we become more intimate. -------- ③Three festivals—Duanyang Festival on the fifth day of May, Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, and New Year’s Eve on Lunar New Year’s Eve. During these three festivals, creditors often come to collect debts. Holding a pair of pig's trotters, he came to celebrate my third wash.No matter how much the second elder brother let him, he refused to come in, the reason is: "It's the end of the year, and the cabinet is busy!" When the second brother heard "The end of the year", he couldn't help saying: "This year, everyone's money is tight, you..." Shopkeeper Wang sighed: "If money is tight, you have to pay for it. Public is public, private is private!" After finishing speaking, he hurried away.Probably because of the smell of sauce on his body, our big yellow dog has been obediently sending him outside the gate of Bianyifang.