There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

The noodles were baked on 28, and the steamed buns were steamed on the 29th. The staple food in the first month is basically steamed buns.

It just so happened that in the past two days, Wu Youwei finished the things, and asked Wu Xu to take Xiaoxiao and presents to the homes of the two seat teachers.

After returning, Wu Xu specially reported: "The two adults really like the things you made, young master, and they especially commented on the young one, and asked about your recent situation." The first time I saw such a big official, Wu Xu didn't even have a head Dare to lift! "As long as they like it." The effect was good, and Wu Youwei was relieved now.

In addition to the two masters, Wu Youwei also made a pen holder for several classmates. It doesn't matter whether the things are high or low, they are all from his heart.

At the age of 29, I withdrew the gift prepared by the mansion in advance, and sent it along with it.

When I was thirty, I didn't set off firecrackers at home, but burned a lot of firecrackers. The "firecrackers" of this era are really "firecrackers"!It is the bamboo that makes a sound when it burns.

The sound is not loud, a little stuffy, and it burned once in the morning before eating breakfast.

Because it is Chinese New Year, the breakfast is steamed buns, stewed Sibai, vegetarian fried tofu, braised dried eggplant, salted duck eggs, and the soup is spinach and egg soup!

"Is there any green vegetables?" Wu Youwei was taken aback when he saw the soup.

"Yes, there are some green vegetables in the kitchen. I heard they bought them at a huge price!" Xiaoxiao told Wu Youwei what he saw in the kitchen while preparing the meal: "One cucumber will cost me a month." Where's the monthly money!"

Wu Youwei knew that as early as the Han Dynasty, there were warm sheds, and in the Ming Dynasty, there were many warm sheds everywhere. However, such warm sheds were only owned by wealthy families. It's similar to a cave dwelling, dig a hole in the earth half a person's height, burn firewood for warmth, and plant some vegetables.

The most common ones are small green vegetables such as spinach and rapeseed, and fruits such as cucumbers are relatively rare, because the ancients did not know the relationship between pollination, and the fruit vegetables such as cucumbers were grown. The income is less and the price is relatively low. expensive.So basically they are all plants, as long as they grow, they can be pulled out and sold for money.

"That's right!" Wu Youwei suddenly realized after hearing this, so he said, what did he forget during this time, so it turned out that he forgot this.

I used to read novels that said that in ancient times, greenhouses were used to make money, but in fact, ancient people were not fools, okay?

Rich families have their own Zhuangzi to make this, and it is only for their own family use.

Small households can't afford high-priced vegetables in winter. Restaurants and restaurants all have their own special food supply channels, and naturally they also have their own channels to buy fresh vegetables in winter.

It's just that the ancients were not as advanced as the moderns after all, so the amount of green vegetables is small, but the price is definitely high.

The Wu family is not a big family, it is only a middle-level family in Beijing, and because they are military generals, they have to bow down to civil servants.

This is also the reason why Wu Jun wanted to take the imperial examination.

People with all-round talents in civil and military affairs, with literature first and martial arts second, at least they don't have to bow down to literati.

"Master, can I have vegetables at night?" Eating vegetables in winter is a very novel experience for Xiaoxiao.

"Yes, I can definitely eat it." Wu Youwei picked out the spinach from the spinach egg soup and gave it to Xiao Xiao: "Eat it."

"Yeah!" Xiao Xiao smiled.

Now the child is enjoying the blessings. Although meat is not allowed during the filial piety period, he no longer needs to be hungry.

There are two meals a day, and there are all kinds of snacks to eat casually. Wu Youwei doesn't need him to do heavy work here, and there is no beating or scolding.

With enough food and warm clothes, the child's face was no longer greasy, and he had the vigor that a young boy should have.

Because of having two meals in winter, after breakfast, the butler came to invite him: "Please young master go to the backyard to go to the house and worship the ancestors."

Mrs. Wu, behind the upper house in the backyard is a separate house, which is like an ancestral hall where the ancestral tablets are placed. During the festivals, it is not convenient to go out for long distances, so the whole family worships there.

Wu Youwei wore plain white clothes, a plain white headband, and a plain white cloak, and just passed by in white.

It's like wearing filial piety.

Madam Wu became angry when she saw it: she is not dead yet!

Helplessly, this bastard is wearing mourning for the master, so there is nothing wrong with him wearing this outfit.

Although Wu Jun and the others also wore plain colors, they didn't have pure white. On the contrary, Wu Youwei was very filial.

It's just that things have come to this point, and I can't change it if I want to, so I can only go on like this.

When worshiping ancestors, women can only pass on dishes, and men enter the ancestral hall to set meals.

Wu Youwei had seen ancestor worship on New Year's Eve in the memory of the original owner. It was a bit like the ancestor worship in "Dream of Red Mansions", but it was not so grand.

Vegetarian dim sum, vegetarian meat, vegetarian chicken, vegetarian duck and other items are also used for ancestor worship, without any meaty smell.

The Wu family has only been in office for three or four generations, and will be regarded as a "official family". However, the population is small, and when the ancestors were worshipped, the offshoots also came. , white rice and white noodles, vegetarian chicken and duck.

There is no division of meat, because the direct branch keeps filial piety.

In previous years, some chicken, duck and fish were distributed, but this year there are no more, but a lot of soy products are distributed, and a little vegetable for the family.

Among them, spinach and leeks account for a lot of weight.

Especially leeks, which can be chopped and mixed with eggs to make dumplings.

When the clansmen went back, Wu Youwei also went back. He didn't like to stay with Mrs. Wu who lived in the backyard, so he might as well go back to his own small courtyard to guard.

Because of the Chinese New Year, the servants in the family rarely relaxed, Wu Youwei went back to his yard, and Wu Xu came.

"My little master, Chinese New Year is a big day. Do you think people are giving some rewards?" Wu Xu came here to remind Wu Youwei that it's already thirty, and other yards have given money, but the little master here Not moving at all.

It was only then that Wu Youwei suddenly realized that he forgot about it!

"All the other yards are rewarded?" Wu Youwei became very interested when he suddenly realized that this was an opportunity to buy people's hearts.

The servants are not born lowly, who is not forced to sell themselves as slaves?

If you save enough money to leave and become a good man, who would like to be a slave to serve others?

"Yes, the old lady's yard is the earliest and the most rewarded, and it's on 29; the master's yard is also 29, but it's only in the afternoon; the madam is about the same time as the master, it's evening; the young master and the ladies are there This morning.... "Now the servants are looking at their yard.

The amount of reward has a lot of meanings in it, Wu Xu is really afraid that if the little master doesn't give a penny, then the people in their yard will really lose face.

"Has the whole house been rewarded?" Wu Youwei asked Wu Xu, "I mean everyone?"

"The big reward was awarded on the day of the young year. All the servants are given one tael of silver, the manager is two taels of silver, and the housekeeper is five taels of silver." Wu Xu said: "Including the servants of Zhuangzi."

This is the money from the account of Wufu Gongzhong, and then the rewards from the masters of the courtyards, this is the big one.

The masters rewarded their own people, of course they gave more, and whoever received more could prove the weight in the master's heart, the more the more, the more weight.

Although the butler is in the front yard, he can receive 50 taels of silver from the master every year. His wife also has 50 taels of silver and a pair of gold bracelets, jade earrings, etc. to gain face in front of the old lady.

How many servants in the mansion are envious and jealous?

Wu Youwei thought for a while, but he was looking at the memories of the original owner. The old man used to take care of the original owner's yard, and he only cared about reading.

No wonder, the old man was gone, and once he fell, those servants were not loyal to him at all, so they just abandoned him and went their separate ways.

After a while, Wu Youwei asked: "We can't compare with the old lady, what kind of regulations are there with the master?"

"The master rewards the steward 50 taels of silver, and a gold nude that weighs one tael; rewards the steward 30 taels of silver; the first-class maid 20 taels; the second-class maid ten taels; the third-class maid five taels; the little maid One tael. Twenty taels for the lady in charge; ten taels for the maid in charge, five taels each for the maid, maidservant, and servant. Chang Sui 20 taels, and the book boy ten taels."

As for coachmen, grooms, etc., they are all servants, and they are all rewards of five taels of silver.

The old lady's is five taels more than the master's, the wife's is one tael less than the master's, the young master's is one tael less than the wife's, and the ladies are one tael less than the young master.

Wu Youwei understood that this was equivalent to the ancient "year-end bonus".

The Wu family is not very rich, and the monthly money given to the servants every month, in this expensive capital area, I really can't do anything.

Therefore, you should give more "year-end bonuses" to avoid being said that you are treating your servants harshly.

Many small and medium-sized mansions in central Beijing do this, and those who don't pay monthly money and just order people around are things that landlords and old rich people will do.

"Oh." Wu Youwei moved his body, paused, and then pretended to be calm and said: "I see, you ask everyone in the yard... to stand in the yard and pay my respects one by one.

He wanted to take out his keys just now, only to realize that he didn't have that much money in his money box, and the money was all in his space.

"Yes!" It was time to distribute reward money, and Wu Xu went out happily.

As soon as they went out, they saw everyone poking their heads. In the past two days, they dared not talk to anyone when they went out, for fear of being asked about the reward.

But everyone in the mansion knows that they haven't got any rewards, and every time someone who doesn't deal with them stabs them with words, don't mention how aggrieved they are.

Seeing the steward come out of the house now, I want to see if there is any hope for this matter?

You must know that they came here for a short time, did they catch up with the good time, the little master had a lot of servants in front of him, and recently even the nursing home was blown away.

The whole family was sent away. This is because their family has no credit and hard work. They didn't sell it directly, but just sent it away.

But sending them out is tantamount to going out of the house, and they can't take away all the belongings they saved. After leaving the Zhuangzi in the mansion, what else can they do besides farming?

They don't have land, so they can only lease other people's land. Being a tenant is hard.

Therefore, the people in the small courtyard were not sure whether the little master could reward them with money, and whether he could give them this face.

What about Wu Youwei?

When he was alone in the room, he entered the bedroom, dodged into the space, and took out the money box.

There are few people in his small courtyard, twenty people, and he can afford to give money as a reward.

But he also knew that he shouldn't be too showy, Wu Jun may know how much money he has, but he certainly doesn't know the money the housekeeper gave him!

So he can't be too showy, but he doesn't want people to underestimate the people in his yard. Now that he has established himself well, he can't fall down.

It is difficult to stand up after falling down.

So Wu Youwei took the money out of the space and began to distribute the money.

Because the family has filial piety, festive colors cannot be seen, so the silver is packed in plain purses.

There were different kinds of purses in ancient times, Wu Youwei deliberately picked out twenty of them, and the biggest one was naturally for Wu Xu.

Wu Xu's management should be No.1 here, and he is a man, which is much more convenient than a woman, so although Wu Youwei seldom uses him, he can't really pretend that he doesn't exist, nor can he He didn't respect him a little, so he gave him 50 taels of silver.

But Wu Youwei also wrapped Xiaoxiao with 50 taels of silver.

The two former book boys and the current door boys, Changfeng and Changyu, each have twelve taels.

The four regular attendants are 30 taels each; the two healthy servants are 25 taels each.

Men should be given more, they are the breadwinners.

As for the maids, Wu Youwei didn't plan to give them more, as he was afraid that these girls would be too quiet to move.

Hemerocallis, hibiscus, and jasmine are each 20 taels; Xiaokui, Xiaofen, Xiaolian, and Xiaomiao are each [-] taels.

The servants of the four rough envoys were five taels, but he added two bolts of plain fine cloth to each of them, and four bolts of plain coarse cloth.

They are all people with families and small children, and they are reluctant to spend money, but they can make two new sets of clothes for cloth. The family members live in Zhuangzi, and although they need to dress plainly, they don't have to be as quiet as the house.

When everything was ready, Wu Youwei called Xiao Xiao in: "I'll move a chair, and you get a small tea table and distribute it. I'll carry a plate and put it on the coffee table outside."