There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

After Mrs. Wu finished handing out the New Year's money, it was Wu Jun who did it, but this time there was no Wu Youwei. After all, Wu Youwei was a younger brother, not a nephew.

After Wu Jun and Wu Sunshi sent it, it was Wu Mengshi, the second wife's wife.

When Wu Mengshi has sent it, it will be Wu Youwei.

Wu Youwei saw the children standing there, including Wu Ying, all looking at him. Although they were in Xiaozhong, the little ones all grinned, wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh, which made Wu Youwei laugh.

"Come on, this belongs to the eldest nephew, and this belongs to the eldest niece's daughter." Wu Youwei handed out the money one by one: ...This belongs to the nephew Qiong, take it.

In the end, Wu Youwei asked Jasmine to give a pouch to the second wife: "Let's say it's for my unborn nephew. Although I don't know if it's a boy or a girl, but if you give me a pouch, it's like giving it to my little nephew in advance." New Year's Eve."

The second room is rare nowadays, especially during the Chinese New Year and has spent a lot, and is short of money. Although the child's New Year's money can't be moved, but as a mother, she can still embezzle it. In the future, the money will be loose, and then I will give it to the child. That's it.The second wife knew what Wu Youwei had given away, and it was actually called New Year's money, but it was just a change of name to help the second room.

"My little brother is very rich!" The money Wu Youwei took out far exceeded the 200 taels he gave, which shows that this little brother was not really poor at that time.

"The coffin book at the bottom of the box." Wu Youwei said, "You can't have nothing for self-defense.

When Wu Jun choked, he still needed to defend himself in his own home. What he said was enough to choke people.

But what he said was the truth. The Wu family never thought of recovering the belongings of those servants for him. They were too busy at the time, and it was too late to recover them now.

Besides, who wants to get him back?

The old lady was happy to see Maid Wu's embarrassment;

Wu Jun would not have given him 200 taels of silver if it hadn't been for the purpose of searching for the thief.

It's just that he didn't expect Maid Wu to be so shameless that he slapped everyone in the face for giving the lucky money.

Only the second wife was pregnant, and after giving the New Year's money, she said goodbye and took her son back to watch the New Year.

Mrs. Wu agreed. After all, the second daughter-in-law really doesn't look very well, her face is as white as paper. If she insists on keeping her here, what if something good or bad happens?

A funeral in the family is depressing enough.

There was nothing to talk about when these people stayed together to watch the new year. The female relatives at Madam Wu's side were fine. Although they couldn't eat meat and have fun, they could chat and talk about topics that women were interested in, such as clothes, jewelry, fabrics and even cooking skills.

On the men's side are Wu Jun, Wu Maid and Wu Ying.

At first, there was nothing to say, so Wu Ying touched the lucky money she got, only to find that there was an unusual purse inside!

The dyeing at this time is all plant dyeing, the degree of vividness is naturally not as good as chemical dyes, and the problem of fading is also serious. Don't look at the book that says to make clothes all year round, it seems that aristocratic families are very wasteful, old clothes I don’t wear them any more. In fact, if I really want to say it, it’s a last resort!

As long as the clothes are used for a year or so, the color will lose nearly [-]% of the color. In this way, it is not necessary to make new ones every year.

If you don't do it, the master or servants will wear it out, and it will be shameful for the master.

Anyone can tell at a glance that the servants of your family don't change their clothes all year round, and the benefits are poor. If the benefits are poor, it means that the master is not kind, or the family is in decline.

Even if it is for their own face and reputation, each family can only make clothes all year round and replace them with new ones every year.

Only the so-called official forging, satin and other real high-end fabrics can be preserved for a few more years. Those materials that do not change color for more than ten years are definitely rare things and can be regarded as collectibles.

Although the handicraft industry was extremely developed during the Ming Dynasty, the raw materials were still dyed with plants. It was still difficult to achieve bright colors and long-lasting colors.

Although the Wu family is diligent and thrifty in managing the house and also makes new clothes, the Wu family does not have such good things as official satin and tribute satin. Of the plain satin from the Wu family, he had some that were given to him by others, and the natural patterns were different.

This purse turned out to have the same pattern as the plain satin that my grandmother had here, so Wu Ying was overthinking it.

And Wu Youwei also noticed the purse he was looking at, and as soon as he rolled his eyes, he knew that he was thinking too much, so he said "casually", "Ying'er likes the lucky money from my uncle?"

Yinger?

Wu Ying frowned. Maid Wu never called him by his name, but "eldest nephew" and "eldest nephew". Suddenly calling him by his name, and also "Ying'er", made him feel a little nauseous.

Wu Youwei himself was disgusted too!

Kill one thousand enemies and injure eight hundred.

"I just looked at this purse, it's quite special." Wu Ying is a boy who doesn't know anything about needlework, but he recognizes the pattern on the satin that is made of this purse.

He has seen it several times at the old lady's place, satin with swastika pattern, plain white, moon white, and coupled colors.

It's just that I haven't heard that my grandmother gave it to Maid Wu!

"Oh, the maids embroidered it. I think this has a good meaning, so I'll give it to you." Wu Youwei played a trick. He didn't say that a certain maid embroidered it for him, but said that it was embroidered by a maid. No one can do it. Shouldn't it be pursued?

He is a master of Juren, not a boudoir girl who has nothing to do with sewing and purses.

Wu Ying originally wanted to talk about the fabric, after all, his grandmother didn't give him brocade with such a pattern, how could he have it?

But Wu Youwei said that the maid did it, so he thought of daylilies.

As far as the capital is concerned, the number of servants of the Wu family is neither too many nor too few, and Limerocallis is indeed quite beautiful, so it is not surprising for him to remember it.

It's just that they all went to his yard, so why give him this kind of thing?

Almost misunderstood him.

Originally, he wanted to use it as a satire, but now he can't find the reason. After all, since the beginning of filial piety, this one is like a younger sister.

There is no excuse for wanting to clutter.

Wu Youwei watched Wu Ying deflate happily.

On the other hand, Wu Jun, although he doesn't understand why his son is so picky about his purse, but he is his own son, and he knows that he has always looked down on this little uncle who is a concubine, but he is not in good health, and this little uncle is also in poor health , but he was admitted to Juren.

He could understand that his son was upset, so he opened his mouth and changed the subject. He asked about his son's homework.

As for Maid Wu?

He won't ask!

The only person in the family with a reputation, who can say that his knowledge surpasses him?

Wu Youwei himself is also happy to be idle, eat some sunflower seeds, and some good candies that he can't find at his place, but at this time... I really can't compliment him.

Wu Youwei had no choice but to drink tea, and went to put water twice.

With nothing to do, he just thought about giving a New Year's gift to a few classmates.

Of course, he needs to go out of Wu's house for his ceremony, because the family hasn't been separated yet, but if he keeps his filial piety, who will go out?

The few close ones were sent by the housekeeper, and the rest of the family knew that their family kept filial piety, it was inconvenient to go out, and they didn't care about the ceremony.

Just wait for Xiaoxiao to get in touch again.

However, here at Wu Youwei, his classmates and teachers sent New Year's gifts over after the New Year's Eve, and Wu Youwei had already returned the gifts. , don't bother people to be busy after next year

As an annual gift for classmates, besides a pen holder made by him himself, there is also a set of official Four Books and Five Classics from the mansion, a pen holder carved from iron and wood, and a brush washer from an official kiln, which are similar to his. The pen holder is complete.

The gift is very heavy.

It's just that the one given to me by my classmates is still a little thinner. The only advantage, or the highlight, is the pen holder I made myself.

On each pen holder, there is a sentence taken from "The Analects of Confucius", which is very elegant.

Wu Xu also said when he came back that the masters liked it very much, knowing that he made it by himself, and asked him to come back and tell himself not to overwork, for fear that he would be exhausted after making a few pen holders.

In fact, such a comparison, people at home are not as close as outside!

The family was clearly in the same room, but they didn't care about family members at all. After the end of the day, they started to burn firecrackers, hand out ghost papers, and everyone in the house gave Mrs. Wu a farewell, passed food, and had a New Year's Eve dinner.

In fact, they are almost all the dishes at night, except that there is an extra crispy fish made with tofu, which means that there is more than enough every year.

After the "reunion dinner", I started to boil again. To keep up with the new year, I have to boil all night.

It was not until the first day of the second day, early in the morning, after a simple wash, to greet the old lady again, and then to have breakfast, before leaving the backyard to go to the room.

Back in his small courtyard, Wu Youwei took off his clothes and lay down on the kang: "I'll sleep for a while, and someone will come to me and wake me up."

"Understood." Xiaoxiao covered him with a quilt, rolled herself on the other side of the kang, and fell asleep.

He played with Chang Feng and Chang Yu all night last night, and now he is very sleepy.

The master and the servant slept on a kang, one sleeping on the north side and the other sleeping on the south side, with a kang table in between.

It was almost noon, and a branch of the Wu family came to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors. The New Year's ancestor worship is also very grand, which is equivalent to the reenactment of the ancestor worship years ago. Wu Youwei was dug out of the bed and washed. After that, I cleaned up and rushed over

Worshiping ancestors lasted until the first lights came on.

Then all the visitors had dinner at the Wu Mansion.

Because the capital was locked at night, before the city was closed, these people hurriedly left the Wu Mansion and rushed to their homes outside the city.

The second day of junior high school is the day when a married woman returns home, but the Wu family is in mourning, neither Mrs. Wu nor the Wu Sun family can go back.

The day passed smoothly.

Wu Youwei discovered that keeping filial piety also has its benefits, at least he was given a relatively quiet space to slowly integrate into this era.

Chinese New Year is the busiest period of time, but the Wu family keeps filial piety, and even relatives rarely visit, after all, we need to avoid it.

In addition, Mr. Wu's hundred days are in the first month.

He went there on October [-]th, and he had to burn for a hundred days before the [-]th of the first lunar month.

It was set on the tenth day of the first lunar month, and the whole family, including people from the clan, burned a lot of things in the ancestral hall, such as paper people, paper horses, paper cars and paper sedan chairs, etc.

After this day, the white flags and filial cloths of the Wu family were all removed, and the white lanterns were replaced with plain yarn lanterns.

The family still needs to observe filial piety, but it is not so dull anymore. After all, one old man is gone, and another old man is still alive.

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the families of the two masters sent people to deliver things to Wu Youwei, so they could visit him by the way.

The two tutors were very interesting, one gave a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and the other gave the Four Books and Five Classics, and then it was as if they had made an appointment, and everything else was exactly the same!

They each gave two bolts of blue muslin cloth, four bolts of navy blue cotton cloth, plain dots from the Eight Treasures Box, and 100 taels of silver ingots and "lucky money" in Ruyi patterns.

This time it wasn't sent in at the bottom of the box, but sent in aboveboard, which let Wu Jun know, and his face was very exciting.

What he gave to his younger brother was only 200 taels, and the purpose of giving it was not pure.

Now that the teacher gave such a number, he was afraid that he knew something.

But every time my brother-in-law meets people, he actually knows it, and he asks the housekeeper to put people in, and every time he returns, he says it's safe...

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there were festive lanterns outside, and the sky was full of fireworks. Wu Youwei looked up at the fireworks in the small courtyard of the Wu Mansion, and his eyes flashed again and again.