After the prosperous Tang Dynasty

On the day of Chinese New Year, the Xiao family's old house in Shanhai Town is also covered with red lanterns.

The maids and servants everywhere are busy with the New Year's affairs, even though there are only two masters in the house, Xiao Song and Xiao Yansui, it still looks extremely lively.

It was also a coincidence that on the day of New Year's Eve, it was fluttering outside the window, and another burst of snow fell. After a while, the ground was covered with a layer of white snow.

Xiao Song's room here is heated by floor heating, especially in the winter in the south of the Yangtze River, the chill and humidity seem to be baked away, and several pots of flowers and plants are specially placed in the room, with bright green branches and leaves, embellishing the room beautifully. Vibrant.

——Since the renovated house was repaired, it was winter again, Xiao Song lived here, and finally realized what his granddaughter said before, how the floor heating makes people feel more comfortable.

Xiao Yansui stayed in the room talking with her grandfather, and she was still fiddling with the jade ring she just received.

The quality of this jade ring is good, but the Xiao family has a lot of wealth, Xiao Song just took a look at it, and didn't think much about it at all. He just thought it was Xiao Hua or Pei's who sent it to Xiao Yansui, so naturally he wouldn't think of it. Li Tan et al.

Did the sound of firecrackers come from outside the window, Xiao Song said with a smile: "When it gets dark, there will probably be a sound of firecrackers."

Xiao Yansui also immediately became interested, "I can do this!" The principle of fireworks is mainly the luminous effect, aerodynamic effect and flame color reaction in the chemical process!Moreover, gunpowder is one of the four great inventions in ancient China, which is very meaningful.

Xiao Song: "..." Facing his granddaughter, he suddenly found that he often didn't know how to answer the conversation.

Even during the Chinese New Year, the sound of fireworks and firecrackers outside the window is actually not too noisy.After all, as fireworks and firecrackers are consumables, most ordinary people just buy a little bit for their children to join in the fun, and it is impossible to set them off on a large scale.

The Xiao family is not short of this money, but the Xiao family's old house covers an area here, Xiao Yansui and Xiao Song did not say to set off firecrackers, the servants at home will definitely not move, wait until the neighbors around make some fun The sound, because of the distance, reached Xiao Song and Xiao Yansui's ears, so naturally it seemed not so loud.

"Eat first." Facing his granddaughter's shining eyes, Xiao Song said calmly, "After the New Year's Eve dinner, we have to pay homage to our ancestors and keep the year old."

"Okay." Xiao Yansui nodded, although she didn't actually have this habit, but she sat and chatted with her elders, took a nap when she was sleepy, or just read those two books, and stayed up all night to cultivate a fairy That's all, minutes passed!

By the way, which dynasty invented mahjong?But the Tang Dynasty should have a substitute similar to the predecessor of mahjong at this moment, right?

In the end, Xiao Song himself changed the subject, and said with a smile: "The Chinese New Year is a big event. Over there in Chang'an City, you, Aye, Auntie, and the others must be ready to worship the ancestors. Our side is for grandparents and grandchildren. Two people, don't argue with them, when the ancestors in the family use some offerings, you will know that it is more lively over there."

"..." This time, Xiao Yansui became speechless.

Even though she is a materialist who doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, she can't help but want to say something, Xiao Song's words are very reasonable, if the ancestors of the Xiao family really have spirits, it is better to go to a place with more worship... …

While speaking, the maid had already started to worship the New Year's Eve dinner, but Xiao Yansui's attention had already shifted to mahjong.

In fact, to be honest, she herself is not very addicted to playing mahjong, but she suddenly felt that it seemed too boring to have nothing to play during the Chinese New Year, especially since the Tang Dynasty had no computers or TVs at the moment, so she could have fun. There are too few things.

As a man of action, Xiao Yansui beckoned directly at Axiu, asking her to bring him some pens and paper.

Seeing Xiao Yansui's actions, Xiao Song couldn't help asking curiously: "What are you going to do?"

"Draw something to play with, but unfortunately it may be too late tonight." Xiao Yansui replied.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, the agreed-upon keeping the new year became Xiao Song sitting on the left and playing with chess pieces in front of the chess record, and Xiao Yansui sitting on the right drawing mahjong tiles. Make mahjong.

Xiao Song couldn't help being curious, and looked at Xiao Yansui from time to time, interjecting a few sentences and asking: "The numbers of the four patterns are the same?"

Xiao Yansui chatted with his grandfather Xiao Song while drawing, but neither was wasted.

Unknowingly, the lights in the room flickered slightly, and Xiao Yansui raised her head subconsciously, and found that, as an old man, her grandfather still had bright eyes and was quite energetic, frowning slightly thinking about the chessboard, He didn't seem to be sleepy at all, probably because he was born with extraordinary energy.

Xiao Yansui stood up, moved her fingers casually, then handed the atlas in her hand to Axiu, and said in a low voice: "Let the carpenter polish some small squares tomorrow, and then engrave these words on them! The small squares must all be of the same size. Yes, I marked the dimensions on the drawing."

Axiu took the drawing and nodded in response.

Xiao Song also raised his head when he heard the sound, temporarily put down the two chess pieces in his hands, stroked his white beard and said, "After the new year, many people from the family will come to pay New Year's greetings."

After all, it is the hometown of the Xiao family in Lanling. Although Xiao Song is currently the only one living in his hometown with his granddaughter, there are many other distant relatives of the Xiao family in the entire Xiao family village. Here, including Xiao Nianru's parents and elders, it is actually the same.

Thinking of Xiao Yansui, Xiao Yansui blinked. She didn't know enough about these customs, so she simply asked directly: "This is the first year that Xiao Nianru and Du Wulang got married. Will they return to their hometown to worship their ancestors after the next year?"

Xiao Song was taken aback when he heard this, and then he realized that the "returning to the hometown to worship the ancestors" mentioned by Xiao Yansui referred to Du Wulang accompanying Xiao Nianru back to Xiao's house in Lanling, not Jingzhao. Dushi...

Xiao Song's eyes seemed to flicker for a moment, and then with a somewhat complicated smile, he replied softly: "It's the ancestor worship, and Xiao Nianru accompanied Du Wulang back to Jingzhao Du's old house..."

Xiao Yansui frowned, wanted to say something, but felt that it was boring to say anything, so she simply shut up and stopped talking.

At this moment in the Tang Dynasty, the status of aristocratic women was actually very high. However, if you really want to study it carefully, it’s funny. When talking about marriage, women from aristocratic families are naturally highly respected. However, after you really want to marry someone into the family, It's just a marriage certificate, and it's obviously still bearing a foreign surname, but it seems that it really belongs to someone else's family.Unless it's time to reconcile and leave, my original surname will have meaning again.

On the other hand, Xiao Song thought carefully about the words that his granddaughter just said with a straight face, and after a long while, he said with some vague emotion: "Get married, marry, recruit... just from 'out', 'welcome' ', 'Zhao', the three words have exhausted the subtleties of the world."