Letting a respectable person with status and status sweep the floor in a polite manner, and promoting a high-ranking and unconventional young girl are both very satisfying and fulfilling things, so the second brother who was slapped after passing by Baifeng Tower was yin.
Er Peng's enthusiastic propaganda with a big mouth, the anecdote that Ding Chengye, the second young master of the Ding family, was unable to have sex and contracted a heart disease spread throughout Bazhou City, and there were more and more versions of the legend. The image of the second young master of the Ding family
It is also becoming more and more unbearable.
For this reason, some young women and the popular girls in the Quhua Gallery were nervous for a long time. Even though they were embarrassed to come forward in person, most of them sent their confidants to the drugstore to buy some medicinal materials for cleansing and detoxifying.
Buy expensive ones, but don’t buy the right ones. As the Spring Festival approaches, the business of various pharmacies is booming again.
Young Master Ding left his family to go to Xiongzhou, and Xue Liang and Ding Hao's work became much easier. They fed the mules and horses, chopped fodder, and cleaned the third courtyard every day, so they didn't have anything to worry about.
On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Ding family began to sweep the dust, clean the environment, clean various utensils, remove and wash bedding and curtains, sweep the Liulv courtyard, brush away dust and dirt, cobwebs, and dredge open ditches and gullies. Then prepare new year's goods, chicken, duck, fish, tea, wine, oil and sauce,
Roasted nuts from the north and south, sweets, bait and fruits, and also prepare some gifts for visiting relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year, and buy new clothes and hats.
Spring couplets with yellow characters on red paper and the characters "God of Wealth" and "Fu" began to be posted on the gates of each courtyard of the Ding family. Brightly colored New Year pictures were posted in the house, and beautiful window grilles were posted on the window lattice. These things made the whole family really busy.
A while.
The stewards are also busy. They have to collect the annual calendar, prepare new year's goods, prepare sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and other things, such as three animals and five animals, grains and six fasts, incense candles, rice crackers, guava cannot be served, fish must have scales on their bodies..., miscellaneous things.
There were too many things to pay attention to, and they were busy running around in circles.
In previous years, Yan Jiu, the housekeeper, was responsible for hosting banquets for the tenants and long-term workers on behalf of the Ding family, and giving them New Year gifts, but now he is not at the house. I heard that the second young master took a car from the Ye family car dealership and ran to his uncle's house in Xiongzhou.
The loyal Master Yan Jiu immediately rushed to see Mr. Ding, kowtowed to him and asked him to be sent to Xiongzhou to pick up the young master.
Ding Tingxun was ill at this time. His second son was dishonorable, which made him lose face. Especially since he had such a shameful disease, he had no chance to explain or deny it, so he felt like he was behind him wherever he went.
As a powerful person, he has a lot of connections. During the Chinese New Year, he needs to move around a lot, so he has to go out, so there are more opportunities for him to be embarrassed.
Li Yuchang, an old friend of many years, also had a grudge in his heart. Although he shamelessly apologized to Li Yuchang and finally eased their relationship, Li Yuchang, who was still frightened, always looked a little cold, and the relationship between the two
The relationship between them was much worse than the close relationship before. With so many things mixed together, Ding Tingxun felt depressed and overworked, and finally developed a high fever.
When people are sick, their temperament becomes fragile. This son is not up to par. After all, he is his favorite youngest son. He is really worried about running away hundreds of miles alone. Besides, his eldest son is escorting grain to Guangyuan General's Mansion.
He had gone to deliver military rations, but he didn't know if he would be able to come back during the Chinese New Year. He wanted to offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and he couldn't live without a son by his side to serve him. After thinking about this, although his face turned cold, he agreed.
So Yan Jiu immediately set off for Xiongzhou. The task of entertaining the tenants and long-term workers and distributing New Year's goods fell to Liu Ming, the kitchen manager. Because of Aunt Yang, Manager Liu was very familiar with Ding Hao and Xue Liang, and he was in charge
Fearing that he would be too busy, he asked the steward of the outer courtyard to lend the two of them the kitchen. As a result, the two of them followed Steward Liu and lived a good life with plenty of food and fish for a few days.
It is common practice in the homes of wealthy gentry and landowners to entertain tenants and long-term workers at banquets and give them new year gifts during festivals. It is like the kind of bullying in movies, and one would like to treat the tenant farmers and long-term workers as two envoys and rent collectors.
At that time, servants carried guns and whips, and there were no landlords who would whip out the land as soon as they failed to hand it over. There were indeed rich people who were too mean to the long-term tenant farmers, and they would fall into ruin within a few years.
After all, the gentry and landlords are not the government. If they are not a powerful family with life and death, and the tenants are dealing with them, there will be more room for bargaining. When encountering tricky tenants, they default on arrears, ask for concessions, secretly carve out private shares, suppress production, refuse to withdraw from the tenants, and resign.
Tenants, stop farming, evade rent, or transfer to tenants, rely on force, file lawsuits, and hand over "wet valleys" and "deflated valleys". That will be troublesome for the owner.
If you can't collect the rent, start fighting? Then who will be willing to farm your land next year? If you hit someone? If you hit someone, it will be a lawsuit. Even if you can settle the matter, don't you spend money? Who will you be in trouble with? So for
On major festivals, the masters of the tenants would treat them to a banquet and give them seasonal gifts such as bacon and liquor.
Usually, when the tenant farmers are suffering from serious illness or minor calamity, the rich man should try his best to give some medicine to help. The same is true for the permanent laborers, "living is in their hands". If the boss and the permanent laborers are at odds, the permanent laborers will obviously not dare to resist, and will be passive and slow down the work.
However, there are many ways to do something about the farm work. The boss will still suffer during the autumn harvest. So on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, we give some food as a gift, and at the end of the year we give a red envelope. These are the long-sighted gentry and landlords who want to retain those people.
Some methods of long-term workers who are honest and willing to work hard.
The ones who really suffer are the domestic slaves. One type is the domestic slaves who have signed a contract of sale, like Aunt Yang. The other type is the domestic slaves, that is, the children born of the domestic slaves. They serve the family since they are born. These
Although the human body is free, due to the relationship between parents and elders, and the fact that he has never left this life circle since he was a child, he has no ability to stand on his own, so he becomes a domestic slave in disguise.
It would be okay if this kind of domestic slave met a kind-hearted master, otherwise he would really be beaten and scolded at will. Compared with tenants who can come and go freely, their status is a hundred times worse than that of long-term workers. It was not until this moment that Ding Hao understood that his status was actually
They are even more humble than tenant farmers and long-term workers. Tenants and long-term workers are citizens and they are slaves. This is a world of difference.
Understanding this, Ding Hao is even more unwilling to stay in the Ding family. Here, he will never be able to make a difference. If he wants to change his life, he will not be able to leave here. However, the person in his heart is not his biological mother.
But could he really have the heart to leave his mother Yang, who was so kind to him? After leaving here, what could he do with nothing in his hands?
From far to near, there will be a few firecrackers from time to time. Today is the New Year's Eve. At this time, everyone in the house is on vacation. Only the maids and servants in the inner courtyard are busy with some sporadic things. Ding Hao is leisurely.
Come down and lie down on the tall straw pile in the courtyard, looking up at the blue sky and basking in the sun. Make a hole in the straw pile and lie down softly inside. The sun is shining on your head and the wind around you is not blowing.
Very warm.
"Dumb, what are you thinking about?" Xue Liang's voice came from a straw pit nearby.
Ding Hao leaned on his arms and looked at the blue sky, and said quietly: "I'm thinking about how to get out of the Ding family compound."
"What are you going out for? Where can you go at this time? Today is the New Year's Eve. It's New Year's Eve tonight. We can have a tooth ceremony again today." Xue Liang touched his belly and sighed with satisfaction: "If only I could eat like this all year round.
Okay, that would be great..."
Ding Hao was silent for a while and said softly: "I'm thinking about how I can get out of the Ding family compound forever, straighten my back, and live the life I want."
"Ah? What are you talking about? What happened to your waist? Did it flash when you were carrying pork? I told you not to carry such a big piece of fat pork, but you still show off..."
Xue Liang crawled out of the hay pit, put his 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 a mistake, you'll do this for the rest of your life."
I can’t do my heavy work anymore, how about I go get some medicinal wine and give you a massage?”
Ding Hao felt a warmth in his heart. He stretched out his hand to pick off a piece of grass stick to Xue Liang's chin, and said softly: "Zhu'er, if one day, your brother and I have the ability, I will let you fish big every day."
With big meat, you will live comfortably for the rest of your life."
"Then I don't want it." Xue Liang became angry and said, "Ah-Dai, if one day you become really capable, help me find a wife."
He held up his fat chin with his two fat hands and said with a daydream expression: "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 am still
I’ve never touched a woman’s finger.”
Ding Hao smiled: "Look at your potential, if I have money, I will help you find a wife, no, I will give you two."
"I'm happy with this."
What does it taste like? I see Manager Liu gets very excited when he talks about having sex, and I just can’t figure it out. Could it be that the taste of sleeping with a woman is better than eating fat pork? I just don’t understand..."
