Tibet

Chapter 374 Yuwen Huaide

The New Year is getting closer and closer, and every household is busier. New Year's Day is the most important day for worshiping ancestors. Because everyone is busy with worshiping ancestors during the New Year and has no time to play and celebrate the New Year, the time for celebrating the New Year has been pushed back half an hour. This month, use the Shangyuan Lantern Festival to make everyone laugh and welcome the new year.

This year's ancestor worship was unusual for the Li family. It was the first ancestor worship since Li Linfu's family separated.

In fact, after a series of families stood in their own teams, the situation has gradually become clear, and all family members have signed the division letter, which cannot be changed.

The Li family is divided into Chang'an East Temple and Chang'an West Temple. Chang'an East Temple is headed by his son Li Dai, and Chang'an West Temple is headed by his son Li Xiu.

There are 35 households in the entire family, which are divided into three houses: the concubine and the concubine, and the East Temple consists of one concubine family and twelve concubine houses, and there is no side house.

What does the side house mean? It means that Li Linfu's three brothers, their descendants belong to the side house. Although it is a bit discriminatory, there is no way. The three brothers all live on Li Linfu, and they are not Li Linfu's immediate relatives.

The West Temple is composed of 22 households, including four households of concubine houses, four households of concubine houses, and fourteen households of partial houses. Li Linfu's three brothers all support Li Xiu.

Although the West Temple seems to have a large number of people, in fact, the face is full, and the foundation is weak. It is very simple. If there are more people, the per capita benefits will be less. Therefore, the welfare benefits of the East Temple are obviously good, the salary is high, and every family has it. housing.

The West Temple was not as good. Everyone complained. Li Xiu had no choice but to increase the monthly allowance by two or three yuan. As for the six households still renting houses, he really couldn't solve it. When they buy a house, the concubine's house and the concubine's house will definitely not do it. The only way is to give each of these six families a rent subsidy of [-] yuan per month.

It can barely be explained.

As the new year approaches, Li Xiu is also busy with sacrifices. He is now the right concubine of the Eastern Palace. He is completely an idle official. He goes to the government office every day to show his face, and then he can go home. His son Li Yu has also become a common man. Li Xiu asked him to be in charge of the store and find him something to do, so that he could have a good income in addition to the monthly allowance.

Regardless of whether he is a concubine or a concubine, everyone in the East Temple has the same regular money. Each person has ten guan money per month, and the halving is halved for those under the age of 16. It is the same for men and women. This is actually Li Dai sacrificing his own interests to win everyone's support.

But the West Temple is completely different. The money is 16 guan a month for the legitimate son, [-] guan for the concubine, and [-] guan for the concubine, half for those under the age of [-], and another guan for the young lady.

Therefore, Li Yu has [-] guan of regular money every month. He is the chief manager of the store and has an income of [-] guan per month. Much taller.

Despite his generous income, Li Yu is still depressed and spends most of his days in restaurants and tea shops.

Mingpu means teahouse. There is a Wanji Teahouse in Xuanyangfang, which is one of the top ten teahouses in Chang’an. Teahouses in the Tang Dynasty rose in the Kaiyuan period, and soon became popular in all major cities, especially in Chang’an, although it is far less than that in the Song Dynasty. Prosperous, but already developed, after all, Lu Yu, the tea sage, was from the Tang Dynasty.

In the early Tang Dynasty, tea was mainly boiled, and in the middle Tang Dynasty, fried tea became popular.

The tea is first made into cake tea, and then the cake tea is crushed into powder, and then the tea is roasted over fire, and the tea is stirred all the time to make it evenly heated.

After roasting, it is necessary to use a cloth bag to dust the tea to prevent the aroma of the tea from being lost.

After the tea powder has cooled down, you can make the tea.

When the water boils, add a little salt to adjust the taste.

At the second boil, scoop out a ladle of water first, then start pouring tea powder into the pot, and then boil the water.

When it boils for the third time, add the scoop of water scooped out at the second boiling time, so that you're done, and you must drink it while it's hot.

There are also many teahouses that put milk and adjust milk tea, which is also very popular.

In an elegant room, a tea girl was proficiently roasting tea and decocting water. Li Yu sat silently at the small table, and there was another person sitting opposite him, none other than Yuwen Huaide.

When Yuwen Huaide was still Li Huai, he had the best relationship with Li Yu. This time, if he wants to return to the family, he will naturally open a gap from Li Yu.

"Brother, on New Year's Eve, I want to come back and participate in ancestor worship!"

"Worshiping the ancestors?"

Li Yu looked up at him, "Are you joking?"

"At the beginning, I went to the Yuwen family to take care of my mother. Now my mother has remarried. What should I say in the Yuwen family? I am very rejected. After all, my blood is different. After my grandfather was critically ill, I always wanted to visit his old man, but I didn't have the courage."

"Then you don't plan to worship ancestors at Yuwen's house this year?"

Yuwen Huaide shook his head, "I have never worshiped my ancestors in the Yuwen family ancestral hall. To put it nicely, I have not forgotten my roots. To put it bluntly, I am not allowed to enter the ancestral hall at all."

Yuwen Huaide just opened his eyes and told nonsense. He participated in the ancestor worship in Yuwen's ancestral hall last year, and his name plate was also hung in the ancestral hall. He was betting that the Li family didn't know.

Li Yu smiled and said, "Even if I want to help you, I can't help you! You should go to the East Temple to worship your ancestors."

Yuwen Huaide still shook his head, "You don't understand what I mean, I just want the Hui people not to go home, I hope I am still a member of the Li family, but I have become an independent household, I choose the West Temple."

"You still don't recognize your father?"

Yuwen Huaide sneered, "He is too unfeeling to my mother, my mother was forced by him to marry a businessman, how could I recognize him, how could I forgive him?"

"How could it be Uncle Wu who forced you?"

"Why didn't he force it? If he doesn't write a letter to the emperor, will the emperor put pressure on the Yuwen family? My mother will either be kept in a cage forever, or forced to remarry. She has no choice."

Li Yu nodded, "It turns out that's the case, it's understandable, I'll tell my father today and see if he agrees with it!"

Yuwen Huaide took out a counter ticket from his pocket, "This is a thousand coins, which was left to me by my mother, and I will donate it to the ancestral hall!"

At noon, in Li's West Ancestral Hall, Li Xiu and three elders sat at the table to discuss Li Huai's affairs. The daily family affairs of the entire West Ancestral Hall were discussed and decided by the four of them, but the financial power was in Li Xiu's hands. powers cannot be ambiguous.

Of course Li Xiu agreed with Li Huai's return, but he would never let it go if he had the opportunity to disgust his fifth younger brother Li Dai.

Although Li Xiu once humbly begged Li Dai and his son, and Li Ye also helped him solve his son's life-and-death crisis, Li Xiu believed that he paid a huge price and gave Li Ye his father's Lancui Pavilion. The clansmen scolded him bloody, and he himself regretted it. His father had collected all kinds of rare treasures for more than [-] years. It was such a huge fortune that Li Ye took it away.

And Li Ye did a great job, transporting them all to Baoji Cabinet for storage. Only he has the key to the big iron door, and no one in Baoji Cabinet can open it, which means there is no hope of getting it back. .

So when his son Li Yu returned safely, Li Xiu didn't feel grateful to Li Dai and his son at all, and didn't even want to say thank you. It was just a transaction anyway, and he didn't owe anyone any favors.

Second uncle Li Lin'an said slowly: "It's a bit difficult! There is no such precedent, he hasn't married and opened an account yet! How can he join with the qualification of an independent account?"

Li Xiu put the counter ticket on the table, "This is a thousand pennies. It's a kindness from the younger generation. I'll divide it into four parts, and we will take it."

The three of them laughed knowingly, "Since it's the younger generation's wish, it would be bad not to accept it, so let's accept it!"

Li Xiu laughed again: "Let me give a reason. If everyone thinks it makes sense, let's pass it! Don't embarrass the child."

"Patriarch, please speak!"

"Li Huai is not married, and he is not very old, but he and his father have publicly severed the relationship between father and son. In fact, he and his mother have established independent households. This is a special situation. They each formed a household. His mother was the head of the household before, but when his mother remarried, he would be the head of the household. If he bought a house, the government would recognize him as the head of the household. It has nothing to do with his age and whether he is married. Do you think this is the case? "

The benefits of taking 250 pennies, even if it doesn't make sense, will make sense.

"The patriarch is right. The government recognizes it. We should admit it even more, so as not to hurt the sincere heart of the child who longs to recognize his ancestors."

Everyone voted unanimously to accept Li Huai as the No.30 family member of the three families, and classified it as a partial house.

(End of this chapter)