[Comprehensive Hong Kong Zombie] Zombies are coming

After Li Boxuan asked Hu Yaoqing that question, Hu Yaoqing kept thinking about his words, so much so that she didn't see the winking between Aunt Cane and Aunt Li.

Until the two left Li Boxuan's house and went back...

"Yaoqing, have you taken a fancy to that kid from the Li family?" Aunt Cane suddenly asked Hu Yaoqing.

"Hey! Master, there is nothing like this. How could you say that?" Hu Yaoqing asked in surprise.

Aunt Cane blinked and smiled ambiguously: "Actually, that kid from the Li family is pretty good. If you really like him, Master will support you."

"Master, I really don't mean that..." Hu Yaoqing said helplessly, she really doesn't mean that now, since she came to this world, she has been in a state of fear, and now her mind is full of exercises And study, and she still has the idea of ​​being able to wear it home, love or something, she hasn't thought about it yet.

Go home... Hu Yaoqing looked up at the sky full of stars and thought, can she really go back?

In the next few days, everyone in Renjia Town was very busy. There were three fires when new officials took office. The newly appointed Master Zeng in Renjia Town was the most discussed figure among the residents of Renjia Town.

In the past, when the Hu Dynasty had not yet perished, according to the traditional concept of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, the status of merchants was the lowest, and such a position as the head of a town could not be occupied by a merchant.

But times have changed. Judging from Hu Yaoqing’s simple understanding of this place after he came here, since the Hu Dynasty’s demise, the world is undergoing a deformed change. People here blindly use Western systems to reshape In the country, under the background of warlord chaos and separatism, it caused a big collision between the north and the south. When the flames of war have not been extinguished, the system cannot be fully established.

Renjia Town is located on the coast, and the flames of gunpowder and war have not yet spread to this town. In addition, the economic level here is higher than other places, and there are many western missionaries who have come here to preach. People elsewhere are more open.

In Renjia Town, if you pick out anyone at random and ask him "Who is God?", he will always answer you "God is the God of Westerners."

Of course, even if you know God, this god is still unfamiliar to most of the local residents here, and they would rather believe in local gods such as the Jade Emperor and the Taishang Laojun who have worshiped for a long time.

It is because of such local feelings that most residents of Renjia Town actually still have the idea of ​​reading the best books, and they still have some complaints about the newly appointed Master Zeng in private.

Although the previous master Ren was also a businessman, the Ren family used to be a local rich family, and there were also Juren in the family.However, this Grandpa Zeng did not have many scholars in his ancestors. This Grandpa Zeng only made his fortune when he went to the East to do business when he was young. In the eyes of the residents of Renjia Town, Master Zeng is just a nouveau riche.

Mr. Zeng probably knew this too, and personally he was more concerned about being called a nouveau riche, so he organized an event, he invited scholars in the town to write scripts, and whoever wrote the script well would be selected by lottery at the beginning of the new year. Every day, the show is shown to the residents of the town, and there are also rewards.

As soon as this announcement came out, the residents of Renjia Town were overjoyed, and the scholars in Renjia Town were also overjoyed.Residents are happy because there are plays and fun to watch, but scholars are happy because of the silver rewards. After all, the lives of scholars are not so easy these days.

With this lively event, Ren Jiazhen became more and more concerned about the preparations for the New Year. It was almost the end of the year, the year was coming to an end, and it was time to celebrate the New Year.

The traditional Lunar New Year is the most important festival in the eyes of the Chinese people. Even though history has changed, this tradition has continued, so Hu Yaoqing was able to experience the taste of the old age.

There are still more than two months before the Chinese New Year, but every household has already started to prepare, and Hu Yaoqing and Cane Gu are no exception here, and the preparations that should be made are also the same.

Just two days ago, Uncle Nine and the others also came back. They ran all over the nearby villages and towns and dealt with all the zombies that endangered the village. Now they can finally celebrate the New Year with peace of mind.

This year's New Year's Eve, Uncle Jiu and Aunt Cane combined (mainly Aunt Cane's suggestion) and decided that everyone should get together to celebrate the New Year.

So these two days, Hu Yaoqing, Qiu Sheng, Wen Cai, and A Wei, as hard-working apprentices, ran errands to buy things for the New Year.

After running errands, Hu Yaoqing also realized how troublesome it was to celebrate the New Year in the old days. There were so many preparation procedures, and every household had to buy New Year's goods. If you don't follow along, you won't be able to buy anything.

There are a lot of new year's goods that need to be purchased for the New Year, including rice noodles, bacon, etc., so I won't go into details one by one.Next, you need to buy incense candles and ingots for worship. Incense candles and ingots are a must. When it comes to Chinese New Year, you have to start burning incense from New Year's Eve until the [-]th to send off the gods. The ancestral tablet, the god tablet and some jars of wandering ghosts, all of which need to burn incense together, so the amount of incense candles is very large.

Then you have to buy lamps. In the homes of ordinary people in this era, lamp oil and candles are also a big expense. Ordinary people’s household lamps are very simple, and they use as little as possible.But when it comes to Chinese New Year, the lamps must be lit, inside the house, at the door, in the yard, in the aisles, alleys, and before the divine case. It is really a lively time to save all the lamps for the year.

The next step is to buy firecrackers. Firecrackers are also a must. On New Year’s Eve, we bid farewell to the New Year’s Eve, on New Year’s Day to welcome the gods, on the fifth day to drive away evil spirits, and on the sixth day when the market opens, firecrackers will be lit. At that time, every household will be crackling. Woke up.

When all these things were prepared, Hu Yaoqing thought it was over. When she walked back to the yard with her sore legs, before she could take a breath, Aunt Cane threw the broom, mop, and rag at her feet.

"Master?" Hu Yaoqing looked at Aunt Cane suspiciously and asked.

"Get up and wipe the tables, chairs, doors and windows for me, sweep and mop the floor," said Aunt Cane.

"Master, what about you?" Hu Yaoqing blinked and asked.

Cane Gu pointed behind her, and Hu Yaoqing saw a pile of lantern racks.

The end of the year is approaching, and many people come to ask Aunt Cane to help paste paper lanterns. Aunt Cane is so busy that she has no time to find Uncle Jiu, and because of this, she whispers how she misses Uncle Jiu in Hu Yaoqing's ear every day, making Hu Yaoqing all over the place. The thought collapsed.

In contrast, Uncle Jiu is quite leisurely during this time, the Chinese New Year is approaching, and there are no ghosts or moths coming out to make trouble. Uncle Jiu is finally relieved. Master Zeng has gone to be a judge.

Didn't you say that Mr. Zeng asked all the scholars in the town to write the script, so if someone writes the script, someone will comment on it.No, Master Zeng invited some famous people in the town to criticize the script, including Uncle Jiu.

Sometimes, when Uncle Jiu was in a good mood, he would take Qiusheng Wencai Awei with him. After going there once, Qiusheng came to complain to Hu Yaoqing.

According to Qiu Sheng, in just a few days, someone has already handed in the scripts, and there are quite a few of them.

The reason is that these scholars can't take the imperial examination now, so they usually write stories and so on in their spare time, and they have written a lot of stories in this writing. Now when they heard that Master Zeng was going to choose a script, they all came to give the script.

However, these scholars obviously overestimated the cultural level of the elders of Renjia Town. The scripts they wrote basically had no vernacular, but all classical Chinese. The elders were very painful to listen to, but they still had to pretend to be indifferent. Comments, just like this, a large number of scripts were eliminated by the masters who didn't understand and pretended to understand.

After hearing Qiu Sheng's words, Hu Yaoqing was speechless. It seems that vernacular propaganda is also needed here.

After the script was eliminated many times, the scholars also got their hands on this door. They went back to revise the script, trying to make it as level as possible and easy to understand.

Now the elders can understand, and it is easier to express their opinions, but according to Qiu Sheng, what the elders like the most now is a script written by Zhang Xian.

Because Qiusheng also went to comment on Zhang Xian's script, Qiusheng told Hu Yaoqing the story written by Zhang Xian.The content of the story is very old-fashioned. It tells the story of a businessman who rescued a fox when he went out to do business. Then the fox turned into a beautiful woman and came back to repay the favor. After the businessman knew the truth about the vixen, he still married the vixen.

Then a monk in the town discovered the true nature of the vixen, forcibly separated the businessman and the fox, sealed the vixen in a bowl and buried it under the bridge, making the vixen suffer from being trampled by thousands of people, and the businessman went there every day. Apart from sighing by the bridge, I did nothing.

It is such a vulgar story, but it has won the favor of the elders. They all like this story very much and think it is well written.

After hearing this story, Hu Yaoqing felt that the person who wrote this story was not a big deal. The businessman married the vixen only after he knew her real body. The vixen was also his wife, but when his wife was about to be arrested, he Coming to Dayi to kill relatives, and after the killing, she still pretended to be a lover, which really made her disdain.

"Qiusheng, do you like this story?" Hu Yaoqing asked after listening.

"Me? I don't like it very much. After all, we deal with ghosts every day in this line of work. How could we like our enemies?" Qiu Sheng said indifferently.

"..." Hu Yaoqing.

This guy definitely forgot about his affair with that female ghost named Dong Xiaoyu a long time ago!

It was in such trivial and busy days that troubles came, and Aunt Li came again, and she said that Li Boxuan was missing.

"Aunt Cane, I have asked Captain Cao of the security team to help me find my son, but they have been searching for three days and still haven't found my son, my poor Boxuan..." Aunt Li grabbed Aunt Cane's sleeve and cried loudly explain.

After hearing Captain Cao's name, Hu Yaoqing couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth. This Captain Cao was a distant relative who was brought up by Master Zeng. He did a series of oolong things shortly after he took office, and he was also accused by the residents of Renjia Town in private. Known as "the idiot captain".

Ahem, in fact, when Awei was the captain, he often did some embarrassing things, and was often complained by the residents of Renjia Town as "Confused Wei", but he still has a bit of bravery anyway.But Captain Cao is a complete covetous person who fears death, he slips faster than anyone else every time he encounters a problem. In comparison, "Confused Wei" is much cuter than "Captain Idiot".

"Aunt Li, don't worry, do you remember the last time you saw your son?" Aunt Cane asked patiently while supporting Aunt Li.

"Remember, three days ago, Boxuan said that he went out to buy pens and inks, because the Chinese New Year was approaching, and many people came to ask him to write Spring Festival couplets, and the ink was not enough..." Aunt Li began to talk in a rambling manner.

Here, Hu Yaoqing felt a little strange. Li Boxuan also encountered ghosts a few times ago. Aunt Li was also anxious at that time, but she was not as confused as this time. Is there any hidden secret in this?