Chapter 293 There is a beam of light(1/2)
Erdaohe Village Committee has no office space.
The group's first stop was straight to Liu's house.
The villagers saw them, Li Zhenghe, making the decision. They were all smiles early in the morning and were busy working for them. They heard that they were given twenty taels of silver as gifts and entertained their guests with enthusiasm.
Mrs. Xu left in a hurry, looking for someone to temporarily pull a cloth to make a flag.
Liu Laozhu led everyone towards his home, while pointing at Bai Muyan and introducing to Shopkeeper Lu and Shopkeeper Guo with a smile, he was a well-known scholar here.
Therefore, with Mr. Bai Xiucai as a witness, please believe that his village will definitely donate twenty taels of silver from the two big shopkeepers to the village for special use, which will be used to rescue caravans coming from the east, west, north and south on the road.
In the future, no matter whether it is windy, rainy or snowy, as long as a caravan falls into a ditch or something happens to someone, their village will send manpower to rescue them faster than the government officials arrive.
Every time after a rescue, they would definitely say no thanks for the wages. If they needed to be thanked, just write down that it was funded by shopkeepers Lu and Guo, the same businessmen as them.
The two big shopkeepers quickly waved their hands and said there was no need for this.
The more sincere Liu Laozhu was, the more emotional the two big shopkeepers became.
In fact, this outing was an unforgettable experience for each of their caravans.
I thought that this New Year would be lonely when people are traveling. Unexpectedly, yesterday Guan Gong provided pig meat and incense offerings, a very rich New Year's Eve dinner, and even watched a fireworks show at night.
I heard that during last night's show, shops like Xu Dongjia paid for themselves to distribute chickens, ducks and eggs to the villagers, and prepared them very carefully to let them have fun here.
They saw everything.
When an elderly villager performed the Yangko dance to make them laugh in order to stop them from being too homesick, no one knew how warm their hearts were at that moment.
"I don't think there is anywhere in the village where we can gather everyone to talk." It should be that the village with mixed surnames does not have a serious ancestral hall: "Liu Lizheng, use this to build a warm house for everyone. This way the next time we meet, we won't just be in the shop.
I can come to the village and talk to the fellow villagers."
"That's not possible, it's two different things."
Shopkeeper Guo did not force it, but suggested with a smile: "Liu Lizheng, you can also subsidize the Yangko team. Is it called Yangko dance?"
"Yes, the dance of planting rice seedlings and twisting them."
"I see that there is a little less colorful paper on the fan, and I can add some more clothes to make it more lively. Hahaha, next year some businesses will open a branch here in Dadi, Zhenbei, and our village's Yangko team can go there and make it more lively."
By doing business, fellow villagers can still make some money.
Bai Muyan accompanied him, and everyone talked and laughed a lot along the way.
Bai Muyan could feel it through just a short contact. As out-of-town businessmen, the two big shopkeepers particularly hoped that the Northland could develop well. The people here lived in the harsh weather and could have enough food and clothing. They also hoped that the Zhenbei Army would be better.
Able to guard the north gate.
He suddenly wanted to write an article about how people from all walks of life, including scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, did their best in places that others could not see, so that the imperial court could prosper and develop.
Before leaving Liu's house, there is an episode that I must mention. Shopkeeper Lu and Shopkeeper Guo gave Mr. Liu and the old lady two taels of silver in red envelopes.
This is considered a personal relationship and has nothing to do with giving it to the village.
I went to Xu's house to see the old lady and gave her a red envelope worth two taels of silver.
The old lady was found home from the well.
Many village women said jealously: Old lady, please stop showing off. This morning, I finally saw that you are serious about eating and not nagging, so I started nagging you about your earrings.
Go home quickly, you have to use your daughter-in-law to be looked at by others again, and you can come out to show off together after receiving the guests.
Really, the same people are too big-hearted, either they don’t go out, or they attract envy, jealousy and hatred on the first day of the new year. I’m not even talking about you. I forgot about pinching my waist and jumping high to fight with your daughter-in-law.
?Why do you show off your stink?
When the old lady heard this, she thought, ah? A noble person came to visit so early to pay New Year greetings and take Xiao Run home.
When I got home, I crept into Xu Tianxin's room, picked up the bronze mirror and looked at myself.
"I'm pretty good-looking." Who said she was ugly and not worthy of her handsome old man?
After talking to herself, the old lady carefully put down the bronze mirror, closed the door, and then went to the big house to wait for the guests.
When the two top shopkeepers arrived at Xu's house, they spoke in a very sincere tone and must accept it, because they should have prepared gifts, not simple annual gifts.
This is not something they expected before coming here, that customers and merchants would become friends.
In fact, many of their friends really knew each other this way. Unexpectedly, they came to the North and exchanged identities. This shows that everything is fate.
I spent more time sitting at Xu's house than at Liu's house.
When Xu Youyin served tea and water to Shopkeeper Guo, he also took the opportunity to chat about what kind of trees he wanted. Shopkeeper Guo was very polite and realized instantly: "Yes, if you have good ones, I will accept them. Although I heard that they are extremely rare,
It takes thousands of trees to get just one or two, but let the villagers help me keep an eye on them, and I will check on you first when I come next time."
Xu Youyin and his brothers were very happy.
At this moment, Cai Baozi delivered the newly pulled flag to the Xu family. The two big shopkeepers were invited by Mrs. Xu to mention the characters.
The first firecracker of the new year.
After Liu Laozhu listened, he quietly gave Mrs. Xu a thumbs up from behind.
When it comes to being able to organize a scene, no one is better than the one who always calls the shots.
Bai Muyan did not expect that today he would witness a flag-raising ceremony at Erdaohe.
Bai Muyan didn't expect such a lively scene. Xu Tianxin kept sleeping in the hut, and she didn't know anything at all.
In front of the shop, under the watchful eyes of "Second Master Guan" and a group of young and old men in the village, flagpoles were erected amidst the sound of firecrackers and the cheers of children, and the two big flags fluttered in the wind.
The two shopkeepers even blushed rarely and clapped in the presence of everyone.
It will definitely make people feel proud when giving away money.
To use the exact words of Wangjiagou Village who talked about Erdaohe everywhere after the New Year: This guy keeps making noises one after another.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In fact, there are three modern words that best suit the outside villages’ views of Erdaohe, that is, the pure and conspicuous package of Erdaohe.
After Bai Muyan participated in the flag raising, he returned to the village and went to Liu's house.
He also brought New Year's gifts to Liu Laozhu's parents, and ordered the boy to bring two boxes of cakes and two jars of wine to the Liu family.
This was such an unexpected surprise, Liu Jingdong was stunned.
Did the scholar-gong personally give gifts to his family?
Not only Liu Lizheng's parents, Bai Muyan also prepared new year gifts for Erdaohe's fourth prince, seventh prince, and even Guan Ertu.
For the same reason, Aunt Bai's shop was opened here, thanks to the care of the elders.
And when Bai Muyan looked at the sun outside, he very much suspected that Xu Tianxin hadn't woken up yet. He needed to give Tian Xin'er some time to freshen up.
He was also attentive, and when chatting with the Xu family, he learned that the Xu family had not had time to eat all morning.
In order not to cause any inconvenience to the Xu family, Bai Muyan simply gave a special class to the children of Erdaohe in the main room of the Fourth Master's house.
This is a lecture given by a scholar.
In order to get more children to come to his house, the Fourth Master took out a bag of candies and distributed them.
Even Liu Jingdong was given a piece of candy. He was asked by his biological father to attend.
The famous scholar ignored the adult Liu Jingdong and looked at the children sitting in the hall who were sniffling their noses. He decided to tell how the peach symbols were transformed into Spring Festival couplets and teach the young children how to write through stories.
Bai Muyan's voice was like the sound of a piano.
Wearing a long gown at this moment, he is like the light in the hearts of five or six-year-old children:
"...There is a book that specifically writes that there are two great gods on the sacred mountain, one is called Shen Tu and the other is Yu Lei. They live under the peach trees and use reeds to make nets to trap ghosts. That's why we use two gods.
Write their names on a piece of peach board, or draw these two immortals, and hang it outside the door during the New Year. This is the peach charm. Your sister Tian Xin has this book. When you learn how to read, you can borrow it from her.
Read books.”
"Later, there was an emperor who began to write couplets on peach symbols: New Year's Day, Yuqing, Jiajie, Changchun. This was the first couplet, and the peach symbols were replaced by Spring Festival couplets."
Bai Muyan continued speaking and then wrote: "This is the word spring, do you remember it?"
The children said with sugar in their mouths: "Remember!"
"Then let me teach you how to make dumplings. In fact, your sister Tian Xin told me this story.
There was a medical sage named Zhang Zhongjing. On the day of the winter solstice, he saw that many people’s ears were rotten by the cold, so he used pepper and anti-cold medicinal materials to make fillings..."
Today, when Bai Muyan was describing what kind of person the far-off medical sage was, he deliberately used Guan Langzhong, who was right in front of him, as an analogy.
Bai Muyan described Guan Langzhong as someone who was as passionate about medicine as the medical sage, and would recall repeatedly in his mind that the children in thin clothes were covered with chilblains all over their bodies. If he had the ability, he would spend his own money to help them resist the severe cold.
Bai Muyan told the children that if they want a good harvest, enough food, and good weather, it depends on God.
But if you want to be healthy, you rely on good doctors like your Grandpa Guan.
A good doctor should have both medical books and herbal medicines, and he has studied no less books than Brother Bubai, which will take up most of their teenage years.
Good doctors can also see the countless sufferings hidden in ordinary people's homes.
One day, the plague struck, and the village was deserted. The war struck, and the battlefield was littered with corpses. These doctors were more capable than Brother Bai.
Because doctors with loving hearts like you, Grandpa Guan, will stand up and appear there. They will search through all the medical techniques on the market to find a way to treat you.
In fact, after Bai Muyan finished talking about doctors, he also said that if you want the country to be peaceful and peaceful, you must not only have good generals, good officials, and good doctors, but also have good villagers who love and help each other. Those good villagers are your parents.
To be continued...