I traveled through time and space to hunt and support my family in ancient times

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar year, Manager He came to deliver the share of the soap workshop. It had been less than two months since her last visit, and the share was fifteen hundred taels.

Taoxia Pavilion closed its accounts at the end of the year and would reopen on the tenth day of the first lunar month. Manager He gave the money and returned to Beijing to celebrate the New Year. There was no other reason, because the manager's family also worked in the Xiao Mansion.

Cai didn't leave any food for him, but instead loaded her own bacon and fried meatballs into Manager He's carriage, which made Manager He's eyelids twitch.

On New Year's Eve, Jiang Ming was busy sweeping the courtyard, pasting up images of gods, and putting up couplets. Jiang Ming ran into the room to find Jiang Yue and said, "Big sister, what do you think should be hung in the main room?"

Hanging up ancestral portraits, presenting family tree and offering tributes are indispensable customs during the Chinese New Year. From welcoming the new year on New Year's Eve to bidding farewell to the new year on the Lantern Festival, the altar of the ancestral portraits is constantly lit with incense, indicating that the family business is prosperous and there will be successors.

In the past, Liu kept the family tree hanging in the house during the Spring Festival. Jiang Ming also visited the homes of his fellow villagers during the Spring Festival and learned that in addition to the family tree, other families also hung portraits of their ancestors for worship.

"You can hang anything you want, just don't hang Old Man Jiang. Otherwise, I'll feel sick."

Jiang Youshan's mouth twitched: "You are used to talking nonsense. Your grandfather is still alive, of course you can't die."

Jiang Ming said: "If you ask me, after we split up the family, we should hang up the portrait of our dear grandmother."

Jiang Youshan was stunned. He couldn't remember what his biological mother looked like.

Jiang Ming said, "Dad, where are your maternal family? Why don't you see them around?"

With a stepmother like Liu, Jiang Youshan's closeness to his maternal family was a slap in her face. Jiang Youshan had very few memories of his maternal family: "I only remember that when I was seven years old, my second uncle came to see me and said that the whole family had moved away..."

Jiang Ming was silent. Apart from Old Man Jiang, no one else knew what it looked like to kiss a breast?

Jiang Yue said, "I think our father doesn't look like Old Man Jiang at all. He must look like our grandmother. Big brother, draw our grandmother based on our father's appearance."

Jiang Youshan glared at him: "Don't mess around."

Jiang Yue pretended not to hear anything and pulled Jiang Youshan to sit on the chair, not letting him move. Jiang Ming took a pen and paper and began to draw in the same way as Jiang Youshan. Jiang Youshan said that the child was making trouble, but he did not leave after sitting on the chair. What does his mother look like? He also wanted to think about it. How could he not think about it?

Soon Jiang Ming finished the painting, with Jiang Youshan's eyebrows and eyes, Cai's dress, sitting upright in a chair, looking kind.

Jiang Xue said: "Brother's painting is really beautiful, just like my imagination of my grandmother."

Jiang Youshan stood up and leaned over to take a look. Just a moment, his heart felt as soft as if it was melting. He didn't know how to start. Wasn't the portrait similar to the mother in his mind?

After a while, Jiang Youshan said to Jiang Ming: "Just keep this portrait. If you hang it up, won't it make people laugh at you? Just hang it on the case of the clan. Your grandmother is on it..."

After dark, we welcome the gods and have a reunion dinner, and then the highlight of the Chinese New Year begins: setting off firecrackers!

There was a clatter of noise, and Jiang Yue looked at the flames from far and near. This was the real New Year she had experienced in her two lifetimes.

The candles had to be lit all night, and Cai said, "You all go to sleep, your father and I will keep watch."

Jiang Yue did not refuse. She said something vaguely and went back to her room, rolled up in the quilt and fell into a deep sleep.

Jiang Yue could never have imagined that in the same time and space, someone was talking about her. Oh, no, to be precise, someone was talking about the method she had used to treat choking.

Lord Xiao was granted permission by His Majesty to return to Beijing for the New Year. At that time, a servant in the Xiao Mansion covered his throat and stared with wide eyes, pretending to be choked. Lord Xiao's second son, Xiao Yan, calmly hugged the servant from behind and strangled his abdomen again and again.

"Dad, that's how it is. I spit out the date pit." After Xiao Yan finished the demonstration, he did not forget to complain about his elder brother: "Big brother and A Liu are really something. They didn't even let me thank them in person."

After Xiao Yan finished speaking, he sat on the chair angrily.

Xiao Che just smiled: "What's wrong with Big Brother thanking others on your behalf? Isn't it the same?"

"How can they be the same? I want to learn a few more moves from that sister. That sister can even cure me from being unable to breathe. She must have more powerful skills. Once I learn them, I will teach mother so that when father is injured, mother can also cure him..."

A trace of sadness flashed through Lord Xiao's heart. Among the founding generals, the Xiao family seemed to be in great glory, but their family could hardly even reunite. The second son left his parents at a young age...

The situation in the court changed strangely. The Xiao family did not take sides or fight for power. They took the initiative to go to the north to avoid contact with any princes. They took the initiative to leave their two sons in the capital to show their loyalty... Lord Xiao thought he had done everything he could. The future power struggle among the princes had nothing to do with him. He just hoped that his family would not be involved.

Su caressed Xiao Yan lovingly: "Dear Yan'er, Daddy has a military doctor with him, and the trauma doctor can treat it. The method Yan'er learned to treat choking is good. If ordinary people master it, it can save many people. Next time you go to Muchuan County, ask them if this method can be spread out?"

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On the first day of the new year, Cai and Jiang Youshan took their four children to walk around the village. Apart from the head of the village and the head of the clan, there were the elders' homes. Jiang Youshan had long since let go of what the children said, and he didn't care no matter what the other villagers who didn't interact with him said.

At the end of the day, you greet me and I greet you, and there is warmth and affection wherever we go, and the whole family is happy.

Naturally, no one said they wanted to go to the Jiang family to pay New Year's greetings, and Jiang Youshan was too embarrassed to ask. On the way, they met Han Pozi, who pulled Cai Shi and laughed, "My good neighbor, you really made me proud. With this share, your life is getting better and better. Hehe, you don't know, that family quarreled again during the New Year!"

Cai looked calm, said hello to Mrs. Han and walked away. Anyway, what was happening over there had nothing to do with her, so they could quarrel as much as they wanted.

Jiang Xue blinked. Mrs. Han usually talked to her about that family's gossip, so why did she talk to the wrong person today?

Jiang Xue went to ask Jiang Zhi.

It turns out that the price of grain has skyrocketed in the disaster year, and it is three times more expensive than before! Except for Jiang Youshan's family, every household in the village has grain, and they don't think the rise in grain prices is harmful. But the people in the county are different. Many families can only exchange one day's food for the money they earn from working for a day. Now the wages have not increased, but the price of grain has increased three times. They can only eat one meal instead of three meals.

The imperial court law stipulates that grain prices cannot be raised in years of disaster. If the price exceeds three times, it is considered raising the price. However, those grain merchants colluded with each other and set the price at three times, not a penny more.

Liu emptied the family's savings to prepare a dowry for Jiang Youfang, and Jiang Youguang couldn't get the money to bribe the chief accountant. He couldn't trick Jiang Youshan into giving him money, so he set his sights on the family's grain. It must be said that Jiang Youguang was smart and quick-witted, and now was indeed a good time to sell grain.