Chapter 10 Chapter Ten Spring Begins Tonight

Letting a decent person with status and status sweep the floor, and pushing down a big girl who is high above and unworldly, are things that can give people a sense of pleasure and accomplishment, so Yin Er, the younger brother who was slapped after passing by Baifeng Building With the enthusiastic propaganda of Peng's big mouth, the anecdote that Ding Chengye, the second young master of the Ding family, did not have sex and contracted a dirty disease spread throughout Bazhou City, and there were more and more versions of legends, and the image of the second young master of the Ding family became more and more serious. Unbearable.

For this reason, some young women and red girls in the music and painting hall were nervous for a long time. Even if they were embarrassed to show up in person, most of them sent their confidant maids to the pharmacy to buy some medicinal materials for body cleansing and detoxification. Expensive ones, not the right ones, the season of the Spring Festival, the business of various pharmacies is booming again. Ding Er Shao moved his family to Xiongzhou, and the work of Xue Liang and Ding Hao became much easier. They fed the mules and horses, cut hay, and cleaned the third yard every day, so there was nothing for them.

On the twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month, Ding's house began to sweep the dust, clean the environment, clean all kinds of utensils, unpick and wash bedding, curtains, sweep the courtyard six Lu, Shan whisk dirt and cobwebs, and dredge the nullah and underground drains.Then prepare new year's goods, chicken, duck and fish, tea wine oil sauce, north and south roasted seeds and nuts, sugar bait and fruit, and also prepare some gifts for visiting relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year, and buy new clothes and hats. On the gates of the courtyards of Ding’s house, red paper and yellow characters of Spring Festival couplets, God of Wealth and blessings began to be pasted, brightly colored New Year pictures were posted in the house, and beautiful window grilles were pasted on the window lattices. These things made the whole family very busy. for a while.

The stewards are also busy. They have to collect annual records, prepare new year's goods, prepare sacrifices to gods and ancestors, such as three animals and five animals, five grains and six fastings, incense and rice crackers, guavas cannot be served on the table, and fish must be scaled and miscellaneous. There are too many children, and they are busy running around. Internal steward Yanjiu used to represent Ding's mansion to entertain tenants and long-term workers, and give them New Year's gifts, but now he is not at the mansion. I heard that the second young master took a car from Ye's car dealership and ran to Uncle Xiongzhou's house , the loyal and loyal Yan Jiuye immediately rushed to see Master Ding, kowtowed to him and asked to send himself to Xiongzhou to pick up the young master.

Ding Tingxun fell ill at this time.The second son is unworthy, which made him lose face, especially with such a contemptible disease, he has no chance to explain it, and it is impossible to deny it, so wherever he goes, he feels that others are pointing at his back, as a party He is powerful, has a lot of connections, and there are many places where he needs to go around during the New Year's Eve, so he has to go out, so there are more opportunities for him to lose face. Li Yuchang, an old friend for many years, also had a grudge in his heart. Although he apologized and apologized to Li Yuchang with a cheeky old face, and finally eased the relationship with each other, Li Yuchang, who was regretful, always looked a little cold. The relationship between them is much worse than the intimacy before.With so many things mixed together, Ding Tingxun was depressed and overworked, and finally developed a high fever.

Once a person is sick, his heart becomes fragile. This son is not up to date. After all, he is his favorite little son. He is really worried about running hundreds of miles alone.Besides, the elder son escorted the food and rushed to the Guangyuan General's Mansion to deliver the military food. He didn't know if he would be able to come back during the Chinese New Year. He wanted to worship the gods and ancestors, so he couldn't be without his son waiting for him. Thinking about it this way, although his face was cold , but also agreed. So Yanjiu immediately set off for Xiongzhou, and the task of entertaining tenants and long-term workers and distributing the New Year's goods fell to Liu Ming, the kitchen steward.Guanshi Liu knew Ding Hao and Xue Liang very well because of Mrs. Yang. He was in charge of the kitchen, but he was afraid that he would be too busy, so he borrowed these two people from the steward of the outer courtyard. The steward has had a good day with big fish and big meat for a few days.

Feasting tenants and long-term workers during festivals and giving them New Year’s gifts is a common practice in the gentry and landlord’s family. It’s like the kind of bullying in the movie, wishing to treat the tenants and long-term workers as two envoys to collect rent. At that time, the servants carried guns and whips, and there were no landlords who whipped their whips when they could not pay. There were really rich landlords who were too mean to long-term tenants, and they would be defeated in a few years. After all, the gentry and landlords are not government officials. If they are not powerful and powerful families, the tenants will have more room to play games and bargain with them.When encountering tricky tenants, defaulting, begging for concessions, stealing private divisions, suppressing production, retiring tenants, resigning tenants, dismissing seeds, evading rent, or transferring tenants, bullying, filing lawsuits, handing over wet valleys, and flattened grains, what will happen? The boss is also troublesome enough.

If you can't pay the rent, just fight?Then who will plant your land next year?Hit someone?If you get hurt, it's a lawsuit. Even if you make it fair, if you don't spend money, who will you have trouble with?Therefore, for the familiar tenants, every major festival, the host will have a banquet, and then distribute some festive gifts such as bacon and shochu. Usually, the long-term tenant workers have some serious illnesses and minor disasters, and the rich man should try his best to donate some medicines to help them.The same is true for long-term workers, who live in their hands. If the boss and the long-term workers are fighting against each other, the long-term workers will not dare to resist, but there are many ways to passively sabotage the work.Therefore, holding tooth-beating festivals on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, giving some food during the New Year’s festival, and giving a red envelope at the end of the year are all means by the long-sighted gentry and landlords to retain those long-term workers who are honest and willing to work.

The real sufferers are domestic slaves, one is the domestic slaves who have signed a contract of sale, like Aunt Yang.The other is the family-born servants, that is, the children of domestic slaves. They serve the family from birth. Although these people are free in person, due to the relationship between their parents and elders, and the fact that they have never left this life since childhood The circle has no self-reliance at all, so it has become a domestic slave in disguise. If this kind of domestic slave meets a kind master, it's okay, otherwise, it's really free to beat and scold, and its status is a hundred times worse than that of tenants and long-term workers who come and go freely.Ding Hao didn't realize that his status was even lower than that of tenant farmers and long-term workers.Tenants and long-term workers are people, and they are slaves. This is a world of difference.

Knowing this, Ding Hao is even more unwilling to stay in Ding's house.Here, he would never see his future, and if he wanted to change his way of life, he had to leave here.But, in his heart, his mother, Yang Shi, who is not his real mother but treats him with deep affection, can he really bear to leave it behind?After leaving here, he was empty-handed, what else could he do? Far and near, there will be a few firecrackers from time to time. Today is New Year's Eve.At this time, everyone in the house was on vacation, only the maids and servants in the inner courtyard were busy with some sporadic things.Ding Hao relaxed and lay down on the high pile of straw in the courtyard, looking up at the blue sky and basking in the sun.Dig a hole in the straw pile, lie in it softly, with the sun shining above your head, and the wind around you can't blow it, so it's very warm.

Dumb, what are you thinking?From a nearby straw pit, Xue Liang's voice came. Ding Hao looked at the blue sky with his arms resting on his pillow, and said quietly: I was thinking, how can I get out of this big courtyard of Ding's family. What are you going to do, where can you go at this time, today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and tonight's New Year's Eve, we can have a teeth-beating festival again today.Xue Liang rubbed his stomach and sighed contentedly: If only he could eat so well all year round, how wonderful it would be Ding Hao was silent for a while, and said softly: I was thinking, how can I walk out of this Ding family's compound forever, straighten my waist, and live the life I want to live. ah?What are you talking about, what happened to your waist, did it flash when you were carrying pork?I said don't carry such a big piece of fat pork, you are still brave Xue Liang crawled out of the grass pit, put a fat black face like a pig's head on the edge of the straw pile, and looked at Ding Hao with concern: "If your waist flashes, don't be careless. If you don't make mistakes, you won't be able to do it in this life." It's hard work, how about I go get some medicinal wine and give you a massage? Ding Hao felt a warm feeling in his heart, he stretched out his hand to pick off the grass stalk stuck to Xue Liang's chin, and said softly: "Zhuer, if one day, your brother and I are capable, I will definitely let you eat and drink every day." , live comfortably for the rest of my life. Then I don't want to.Xue Liang's embarrassment came up: Dumb, if one day you really have great skills, you can help your brother find a daughter-in-law. He held up his fat chin with two fat hands, and said thoughtfully: People say that if you have never slept with a woman in your life, you are not considered a man. After this year, I will be twenty, but I have not Touched a woman's finger. Ding Hao chuckled: "Look at your prospects, yes, if I have money, I'll help you find a wife, no, I'll tell you two." I am happy.Xue Liang giggled, he rolled his eyes to look at a cloud in the sky, smacked his lips, and said with infinite yearning: Dumb, what do you think this sleeping woman is like?I saw Guanshi Liu beaming when he mentioned having sex, but I couldn't figure it out. Could it be that sleeping with a woman tastes better than eating fatty pork?I really don't understand