A month passed by unknowingly, the first month of the year was over, and the New Year was completely over.
The second day of the second month, when the dragon raises its head, arrives unknowingly.
Xing Nong took out a pair of scissors early in the morning and said, "Shaving the dragon's head on the second day of the second month will bring you a good spirit for the whole year! Xing Qing and Xing Hui, come here, I will shave your heads for you."
Get a haircut on the second day of the second month to have a good time for the whole year! Every household will give their children a haircut. Gu wanted to say that only children would get a haircut today, but forget it, they are still children before getting married, so just let them be!
Xing Qing was the first to shout, "I'll go first!"
Every time she saw Xingnong washing her hair so easily and conveniently, and her hair becoming black, shiny, smooth, clean, fresh and flowing after being cut short, she was extremely envious!
"Sister, please help me cut it!" She had asked her sister last night to help her cut her hair shorter.
"Okay!" Xing Nong took the scissors and cut very neatly, "Snap" Xing Qing's waist-length hair was shortened by half.
Gu's mouth twitched: "It's too short! Just cut it a little bit, just for the sake of showing your appreciation."
Why doesn't this child take care of his hair at all
Xing Nong said as a matter of course: "Cut it shorter, cut off all the bad luck of the past ten years, and everything will be fine in the future! Grandma, Mom, do you want to cut it?"
Soon, Xing Nong finished cutting Xing Qing's hair. Xing Qing looked at herself in the mirror and was very satisfied: "Sister is right! After cutting off my three thousand strands of troubles, I will have no worries in the future!"
Gu: What is the three thousand strands of worry? Isn't that something only monks say
Xinghui quickly sat down: "Sister, help me cut it!"
I’m afraid that Gu won’t let me cut it!
God knows how troublesome it is to wash your hair in the academy.
The King of Jin came to Xingnong's house early in the morning to report. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "That's right. After a haircut, you will live a happy, healthy, wealthy and prosperous life!"
Shen Ruoxi originally wanted to cut such long hair, which was too difficult to manage, so she immediately said, "Then I'll cut it too! Mom, you should cut it too!"
Xing Qing: "Aunt, I'll help you!"
Gu thought Xingnong's words made sense, so she said, "Okay, then let's cut the hair of the whole family!"
Seeing this, Shen Ruoxi said, “Then Xingqing, you help grandma cut it first.”
She was worried that Xingqing’s haircut was not good enough and would ruin her hair, but it didn’t matter since her mother was old.
She still trusts her daughter more.
Xing Qing didn't know she was being disliked, and thought her aunt was worried that her grandmother would regret it, so she said, "Okay."
The King of Jin was moved when he heard this, and looked at Shen Ruoxi and said, “Then I’ll help you cut it.”
Gu is not stupid. She has guessed who the king of Jin is these days, but she pretends not to know. Just look at this man's character.
Shen Ruoxi glanced at him, full of doubt: "Will you?"
The King of Jin: "I am a professional hair cutter."
Beheading with a dog-head guillotine also counts as cutting the head!
Shen Ruoxi still didn't trust him, "I'll just wait for Xing Nong!"
The King of Jin sighed inwardly; he still hadn't gained her trust!
Keep up the good work.
At this time, the wife of the village head and several other ladies from the village came in, each holding a food box. Seeing people in the yard getting their hair cut, they said with a smile, "Hey, aunt is also getting a haircut? Aunt is really good at it! Getting a haircut on the second day of the second month will keep you energetic for the whole year! After having your hair cut like this, aunt will definitely be healthy and live a long life!"
Gu smiled sheepishly: "Xing Nong said that he wanted to shave his head to get rid of all the bad luck of the past ten years!"
Upon hearing this, Matchmaker Zhang immediately said, "Hey, Miss Xingnong is right! Then I will go back and shave my head too!"
Aunt Lei also said, "I want a haircut too! My whole family wants a haircut too!"
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Xingnong's words were more effective than an imperial edict, and the women in the village expressed their desire to go back and cut their hair.
The village head's wife put down the food box and the Qing Nang: "Aunt, I made some dumplings and braised pork head, you guys can try them! And this is the Qing Nang, I put it here! I have to go back and get my hair cut, and then ask the kid's father to come back and get his hair cut!"
Then the village chief's wife said to the king of Jin, who treated Jiang Xingnong's house as her own, reporting in early every morning and leaving only after dark, "Master Shen, I'll leave dumplings and Qingnang at your house! Go back and taste them."
"I made some dumplings, too. Aunt Gu, please enjoy them. I'm going back to get my hair cut! After that I have to go back to the workshop!"
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The other women also put down the food boxes and green bags in their hands, which were filled with dumplings, braised pork heads and other festive foods for the Dragon Raising its Head.
In the past, every household was poor and could not afford pig heads and dumplings. The whole village would pool their money to buy a pound of meat and a few pounds of flour, as well as a pig head. After they were cooked, everyone would take a bite and it was considered a festival.
This year, every household will have one or two pig heads, and there will be enough dumplings. We can even send a plate to every household in the village.
Gu had used a green sac to store some seeds of various grains and fruits last night. She said hurriedly, "There are green sacs in the basket over there. Each of you can take one back."
On the second day of the second lunar month, people give each other green bags, which contain grains, melon and fruit seeds, symbolizing "offering a child". Some people also brew "Yichun wine" to worship the god Ju Mang, and also worship the god of land to pray for peace and health and a good harvest in the golden autumn.
Good weather and peace in the world are what people from generation to generation hope for most!
Everyone put their things down and hurried home. They still had a lot of things to do, and after they were done they had to go to the workshop to help!
The workshop was already in operation on the 16th day. But the villagers were diligent. It can be said that they started buying beans from various villages on the second day of the New Year while they were away visiting relatives.
Although Taohua Village is a refugee village, over the years many women have married out and many wives from outside have come in, so there are still relatives visiting. Therefore, when everyone visits relatives, they buy up all the beans from various villages.
He also recruited many honest, hardworking, and neat people from his relatives to work in the workshop. They were all doing simple heavy work. As for the work involving leaking the recipe, the villagers took the initiative to take it without Xing Nong's reminder, and did not let people from other villages know. Even if his own daughter asked about it, he would not let the other party know.
After all, this is not the business of one person in my family, but the business of the whole village. If it is leaked, it will damage the interests of everyone and also the interests of my family.
Therefore, the villagers would rather subsidize their daughter's family from their own son than tell their daughter the recipe.
Xingnong had no objection to this. It didn’t matter if Fangzi knew it. Some of her recipes were learned from the Internet and improved by herself.
On the second day of the second month, Chu Tiankuo also returned to the capital with an army of 50,000.
People from the entire capital, including those living near the capital, came to the city gate to welcome them.
Outside the city gate, the emperor brought all the civil and military officials to personally welcome the army. The emperor also personally toasted the 50,000 troops, and set up a buffet in the palace for the whole day, rewarding the army with lamb and fine wine.
In the court, the emperor happily rewarded the soldiers according to their merits. He promoted the officers and soldiers who had made contributions and gave them generous rewards.
The promoted officers and soldiers were all Chu Tiankuo's men. Prime Minister Liang and the Second Prince felt extremely aggrieved, but had no place to vent. They were even more worried that some of their men would be brought down.
The emperor was in a good mood and did not want to settle accounts on this auspicious day. After rewarding the soldiers, he said: "The prince has made great contributions this time, proving that the prince is capable of important tasks, can govern the country with civil skills, and can maintain peace with military skills. The Imperial Astronomical Observatory should choose a day to hold the ceremony of enthroning the prince!"