Major General Through the Upper Gate

"Gu Xicheng and I are going out to listen to the opera. You and Rong Qian can't go. I warmed him a bowl of porridge in the pot. You can bring it to him when he's hungry. You can eat other things. But you can’t give him food, unless we come back, you are not allowed to open the door.” Before going out, Cheng Wei gave Lan Huo a careful warning, for fear that the New Year’s Eve would be seen by others and make another fuss .

After talking to Lan Huo, Cheng Wei and Gu Xijiao went out with lights.You can hear the official theater troupe starting to sing here, and he and Gu Xijiao are also going to join in the fun.

It didn't rain tonight, but it's been wet all day and everything is still wet.The weather was very cold, and Cheng Wei sneezed twice as soon as he came out of the warm room and was blown head-on.

"So cold?" Gu Xicheng turned his head to look at him and said with a smile.

"No, it's just that the wind is too strong." Cheng Wei rubbed his nose and decisively walked to the other side of Gu Xizheng to avoid the wind.

Gu Xizheng smiled slightly, he switched the lamp to the other side, took Cheng Wei with his free hand and walked slowly towards the banyan tree at the head of the village.

The stage was already full of people, and the chirping of children from various families could be heard before they arrived.Fortunately, Cheng Wei carried two strings of copper coins on his body, lest he would not be able to give the new year's money when he saw the children who paid New Year's greetings.

The benches under the stage were all brought by the family, because Cheng Wei didn't plan to leave them when the show was over, so he and Gu Xijiao stood a little far away, holding hands together and watching the gong above the sky roaring loudly.

"What is sung above?" Gu Xijiao looked at it for a while, and couldn't help asking Cheng Wei.This babbling singing style is too far from the singing style of popular songs on Blue Star, and the pronunciation is also far from the usual accent.

"It's an opera," Cheng Wei, who was watching it engrossed, came to his ear and pointed to the stage, "Now it's "Longevity". See that one in red? She's in charge of this world. About women God."

According to legend, a long time ago, a water monster appeared in this continent, and several gods who went to subdue it died.The water monster got the magic weapon of the immortal, and its mana was greatly increased, and it slaughtered wantonly in the two worlds of humans and immortals. It named the most beautiful god in the world as a sacrifice before it would spare the rest of the living beings.

In desperation, the immortals had no choice but to ask her to sacrifice herself to save the world's living beings, but she didn't refute a word and went away dressed up.Because of the fall of the gods, the woman slowly disappeared in this continent.

After hearing this, Gu Xicheng carefully distinguished. No wonder everyone on the stage was dressed in black except for her in red.

"But this girl on stage is not a real woman, she's a brother." The opera came to an end, and Cheng Wei explained to Gu Xicheng while clapping his hands.

The two of them watched for a while, during which there was a shadow puppet show that made Gu Xicheng feel particularly amazing.The story tells the journey of a boy and his brother from getting to know each other and loving each other until they stay together. It is still a myth, but there are many fighting scenes interspersed in the middle, which makes Gu Xizhen, who has never seen a shadow play, especially amazed.

In the middle, someone from the official family brought a bucket of hot tea over, and gave everyone a copper plate tied with a red string.

The patterns on the copper plate are quite different from those used in ordinary times. The four characters engraved on it are very auspicious. Cheng Wei also dragged Gu Xijiao over to line up, and the two of them each received one.

"Okay, I got it, let's go back." Cheng Wei touched the copper plate in his hand, with an unconcealable smile on his face, and he was quite satisfied tonight.

"Okay, I'll light the lamp first." Without Cheng Wei's explanation, Gu Xizhen couldn't understand what was sung above, and besides the shadow puppet, he might have to spend some time to understand the essence of other operas.

It was already late for the two of them to return home, because of the cold wind that blew most of the night in the windy field, Cheng boiled the water before he came back, and he and Gu Xijiao burned their feet again before climbing into bed.

On the other bed, Lan Huo lay down early holding Rong Qian.Before dawn the next day, he wrapped Rong Qian in a blanket and quietly left Tonghua Village.

Hearing the sound, Cheng Wei didn't make a sound, and he took a nap again, and didn't get up until dawn.

Going to visit relatives today, Cheng Wei took out a newly woven pannier, spread a piece of red cloth underneath, and put the bacon and sausages in it.He wrapped ten tubes of rice cakes in white silk cloth and put them in. After breakfast, he went out with Gu Xiying.

"What else should I bring?" Gu Xizheng asked with his backpack in his hand. He was ignorant of various customs due to staying in the military camp all year round, and he didn't even know if it was on the Blue Star or not.

"No, just bring these. We'll go to these houses in the village today." Cheng Wei closed the door, clapped his hands and went out with him.

The uncle's house must be visited, and the two cousins ​​who made a contract with him first have also moved out to live on their own, so he has to go for a walk this year.

For the rest, one is for Xiaodi Wei's family, one for Lizheng's family, and one for the village head's family.He also had a brother-in-law who married to another village, but that brother-in-law died in the third year of marriage, leaving behind a boy.

He had heard from his father before that the man in that family also married another man later on. Although he hadn't contacted him for many years, Cheng Wei still planned to visit him this year.

But that place is far away, Cheng Wei thought it was better to go after the fifth day.

Their family also had New Year's guests this year, but they were cousins ​​who were separated by several floors. Anyone Cheng Wei didn't know would call his uncle over to help him accompany the guests, and it wasn't a joke.

After eating and drinking like this for half a month, I was finally ready for the new year.

During the Lantern Festival, Cheng Wei deliberately killed a chicken, and then the bowls on the table were all green.

Gu Xizheng didn't seem to be affected very much, Cheng Wei had already gotten angry several times in the past year, but Gu Xizheng had two rice dumplings every day at noon, plus roasted ones, fried ones and deep fried ones, but nothing happened.

Cheng Weihao was envious of this physique.

As soon as the new year came out, Cheng Wei got busy. He brought a basket of eggs and packed a few pennies, and was going to ask Mr. Jing to show him the day.

"Brother Wei, you are welcome, where do you plan to build a new house?" The old man of the Jing family asked him slowly while smoking a pipe.

"I plan to build on the bamboo forest on the other side of the low slope, and it's better to build it spacious enough for three families to live in." Cheng Wei had thought about it a long time ago, except for him, Gu Xizheng, Chu Mo and the sixth prince, One more room should be allocated for the sixth prince's bodyguards.

The sixth prince will definitely not be alone when he goes out, and he has given enough money that even the guards will not be able to entertain him when he comes another day, so don't let people think that he is greedy for the money.

"I'll go to the land with you to have a look." After saying that, Mr. Jing got up and changed his shoes, and took a compass. Even though he was seventy years old, he was still in good health.

"That's troublesome." Cheng Wei hurriedly supported him, and walked slowly with him into the bamboo forest on the low slope.

Gu Xijiao went to Xiahe Village today to ask Qingshi, Cheng Wei and Mr. Jing looked at the site for a long time, and finally delineated a usable place, but it was a little far away from the village.

Gu Xijiao didn't come back until late in the evening, and he had already detoured to another house to ask Qingwa, but it happened that the person was not at home, so he waited for a while, and missed the meal.

"Are you back? Come over for dinner." Cheng Wei didn't see Gu Xijiao when he came back at noon, knowing that he was probably delayed, so he cooked dinner early.

"Come back so late, is there something wrong with Qingshi?" Cheng Wei asked him while serving the dishes.

"There's nothing wrong with the bluestone. I took a detour to see the blue tiles. I just showed it to Uncle Wei. He said that the tiles in his house are too thin, so I'm afraid they won't last." Gu Xizheng was also really hungry. After eating too much for a while, I feel as if my stomach is empty after a cold meal.

"Fortunately, the deposit was not much at that time, and the green tiles were never refunded. When the time comes, they will be taken back to build the hut, at most it should be more tightly built." Cheng Wei thought for a while and said.

"Yeah." Gu Xizhen nodded, the thin blue tiles looked good, but they were too brittle, and could crack under heavy rain.

"I went to Jing's house today and asked Mr. Jing to help him look at the land. He marked out a usable land and said that if it's urgent, construction will start at the end of this month." Cheng Wei also talked about today's events.

"So soon?" Gu Xizhen was a little surprised, he said: "If the day is near, we will have to find someone tomorrow."

Cheng Wei nodded and said: "Yes, otherwise the stones have not been shipped back by then, and spring will begin again, and there will be no time if the farmers are busy."

If it didn't work, he and Gu Xizheng had to go to the town to find someone to do a few days' labor to help them transport the stone, tiles and wood back.

"When will the first season seedlings be bred?" Gu Xizheng put down the bowl and said.

"This year's spring is relatively late, Wei Xiaopai said that it will be after Qingming. After a while, there will be a false sunny day, and after half a month of heat, there will be another cold wave, so the seedlings have to be raised later." This is Wei Xiao Dad reminded him that if the seedlings were raised early, a large number of them would freeze to death later.

Gu Xijiao nodded, April Qingming, now March, they still have a month.