Chapter 12 Plan the future

But Yang Momo can't slowly hide her grief like the Yang family, because this is the first time she has experienced the cruel side of ancient society and the tragic fate of ancient women for the first time since she traveled to the Northern Song Dynasty.

Perhaps for Yang Qiniang, although the child daughter-in-law of the Wang family must be separated from her family since childhood, but after going to the Wang family, Yang Qiniang can at least eat and wear warmly and suffer less from now on. Therefore, if judged according to the standards of the ancients, it is not a bad thing for Yang Qiniang to be a child daughter-in-law of the Wang family...

But if this matter is put on Yang Momo, Yang Momo will be difficult to accept anyway. After all, Yang Momo comes from a democratic society where men and women are equal in marriage. How can she tolerate becoming a child daughter-in-law at a young age?

Yang Momo's bones are deeply engraved with modern concepts. She only advocates a free, equal and loving marriage. Yang Momo can't accept this kind of blind marriage arranged or business in the Northern Song Dynasty!

So after experiencing the incident of Yang Qiniang, Yang Momo began to reflect deeply and began to force herself to look at the general environment he was in. Yang Qiniang's fate taught Yang Momo a heavy lesson, which made her decide to plan her future path from an early age, and let her decide to change her fate from an early age!

Yang Momo knew that her strength alone could not change the customs and social system at that time, but she could at least not embark on the same or similar road as Yang Qiniang through her own efforts...

Yang Momo thought about it for several days, and finally realized a very simple and realistic truth from the difficulties of the Yang family this time - money, you can eat and wear enough, and if you have money, you can be less at the mercy of fate.

Modern people often say that "money is not omnipotent, but it is absolutely impossible without money". Yang Momo believes that this sentence can be used in ancient times. At the same time, she also realizes that money plays a key and decisive role in many things, whether in ancient and modern times...

Take the disaster of the Yang family as an example. If the Yang family is very rich and the family has enough money to live a stable life for a year and a half without working, then there will be no such thing as being forced to send a daughter because of not eating, and Yang Qiniang will not be forced to become the daughter-in-law of the Wang family. She can wait for a little longer. I just talked to my family.

After figured this out, Yang Momo was determined to learn the lesson of Yang Qiniang. She began to be self-reliant and self-reliant since she was a child, and worked hard to learn some skills that could be around in ancient times to make herself feel safe. At the same time, she also made up her mind to help the Yang family think of some money-making ideas in the future and help improve the Yang family's family as much as possible.

If Yang Momo can't do this due to environmental restrictions, she should at least be able to support herself without dragging down her family, so as not to be forced to be a child daughter-in-law like Yang Qiniang, or take any other tragic road.

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More than two months have passed since the tide rises and the sun rises and the moon sets. Yang Momo has slowly adapted to his new identity. He has practiced the role of playing a little doll, and often brings laughter to the Yang family.

For more than two months, the southern Fujian area has been smooth, and the Yang family's affairs are also very satisfactory. Not only did Yang Dazhu go to sea to fish, but also the rice in the field has grown very well, so that people can know at a glance that there will be a good harvest this year.

What can make the Yang family smile again is that in the past three months, Yang Qiniang can go back to the Yang family for a few days every month to talk about her situation in the Wang family and how she gets along with the Wang family.

Fortunately, Yang Qiniang said that the Wang family treated her like a daughter, and Liu's mother-in-law did not make it difficult for her at all. Yang Qiniang's words finally made Yang Dazhu and his wife smile for the first time in these three months. Seeing that Yang Qiniang's life in the Wang family was indeed better than before and did not suffer in the Wang family, they felt anything to Yang Qi Niang's guilt has also been reduced a little.

At this time, Yang Momo happened to be about to reach his first birthday. Liu began to discuss with Yang Dazhu a few days ago and proposed to hold this "grabbing Zhouer" ceremony and invite a few relatives and friends to the house to be lively and lively. After all, at present, Yang Momo is the only daughter left in the Yang family, and the situation at home is also better than before. It was much better, so Yang Dazhu agreed to Liu's proposal and decided that the family would hold a lively ceremony for Yang Momo, who was about to turn one year old.

Yang Momo has heard before that in ancient times, in addition to holding a full moon wine, a very interesting "grabbing Zhou'er" ceremony will be held, and this custom is still preserved in many places in modern society. However, with the progress and development of society, modern society will only put things that symbolize the "four treasures of the study", so that the one-year-old child can grab it by itself. The whole process is much simpler than in ancient times.

Yang Momo felt that the ancient catching Zhou Erli must be much more interesting than in modern times. At least the things that let children grasp must be real materials, so Yang Momo has been looking forward to the coming of the day of Zhou Erli, and wants to witness how people in ancient times held Zhou Erli for babies.

In Yang Momo's expectation, it soon came her first birthday. Liu got up early in the morning to do all kinds of things and went through the streets and alleys to the village to borrow such things. It was not until the things were almost ready for Yang Momo to catch Zhouer. Liu Shi got off the boat and went to the kitchen to cook for everyone. Shoumian, and relatives and friends who received invitations early in the morning also came to the Yang family one after another to congratulate them.

Although this kind of children's "grabbing Zhou'er" ceremony was also prevalent in the southern Fujian area of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was not until Yang Momo saw that there were not many guests who came to congratulate them, and they only found a place to sit and chat on the boat that Yang Momo understood that the locals in Xiaoqi Village did not set up a big banquet when the child was one year old, nor did they make invitations, and would only send people in front of people. Go and have a message and invite a few close relatives and friends to come home to have fun.

Probably because I didn't build a tent for a banquet, my close relatives who came to congratulate the Yang family did not give me any big gifts, let alone gold locks, silver bracelets, etc. like rich families. The invited close relatives only came to congratulate me with some food and gadgets for children and visited the usual. It doesn't make much difference.

However, when Yang Dazhu came to see these close relatives and friends in his arms, according to the custom of local children meeting their elders for the first time, they would use a white thread to tie a few copper coins, saying some auspicious words while putting the white thread tied with copper coins around Yang Momo's neck. Yang Momo listened to the big guys talking for a long time before he knew that the behavior of the close relatives and friends of the Yang family was a local custom. The locals called it a "hanging line" and a kind of blessing to children.

Yang Momo was just covered with white thread, and Yang Erzhu's daughter-in-law * Fang took her away. Because Liu was busy cooking longevity noodles for everyone, the task of bathing Yang Momo, the protagonist of Zhou'er, was entrusted to Fang.

After washing Yang Momo with hot water, Fang also changed her into new clothes, new hats, new shoes and new socks. These new clothes were bright red, which made Yang Momo feel a little uncomfortable to wear. What made her most uncomfortable was that Fang finally got a little vermilion on her forehead...

This makes Yang Momo look like a fat doll held down from the New Year's painting, which makes her so uncomfortable that she wants to go underground. But Fang will not give Yang Momo a chance to hide. Moreover, with Yang Momo's current small body, no one can hold her and move her anywhere!

After Fang finished washing and dressing up, Yang Dazhu set up a small table on the ship, and then arranged the things for worship one by one. Yang Dazhu began to burn incense to worship his ancestors. In this way, he told his ancestors the message that he was one year old and prayed that the ancestors could bless the children. Healthy growth.

After worshipping his ancestors, Yang Momo was carried to a relatively spacious place in the cabin. In the middle of the place, there were two short square tables side by side. The square table was covered with a big red flower cloth that was usually pressed by Liu at the bottom of the box. Yang Momo secretly poked his head out of Yang Dazhu's arms and found that the short cloth was covered with flower cloth. The square table is full of new things that she has never seen before...

On the low square table, there are seals symbolizing "shi", Taoist scriptures, four treasures of the study, etc., as well as abacus, copper money, account books, etc. symbolizing "business". In addition, there are jewelry, flowers, rouge, food, children's play and other sundries, which make Yang Momo dazzling and secretly feel headache- ——There are so many things there, what is she going to catch in a moment?

Yang Momo was looking at the lot of things in trouble. Fang had already held a bunch of things she borrowed from the village for Liu. Fang put the things in her arms on the low table and said to Yang Dazhu, "The things that the old man asked his sister-in-law to prepare are only enough for the boy to catch Zhou. Our eighth mother is a girl, and we have to add more of these things. Go."

Yang Dazhu said gratefully when he heard the words, "My sister-in-law is still thoughtful, which makes my sister-in-law worry more."

"They are all my own family. Brother, why are you polite to me?"

Yang Momo didn't want to listen to Yang Dazhu and Fang's polite words. She just leaned her little head and tried to get a panoramic view of Fang's newly added things. She only saw Fang adding shovels, spoons, scissors, rulers, embroidery threads, flowers and other embroidery tools to the pile of things on the low table. Yang Momo knew at a glance. It is said that these things are needed by girls to catch Zhouer, and it will be enough for boys to catch Zhou's previous things.

After Fang arranged the things on the low table in a semi-arc, Yang Dazhu put Yang Momo on the low table and let her sit in the middle of the pile of things. When Yang Momo sat firmly, Yang Dazhu quietly retreated. The people around Yang Momo immediately closed their mouths and did not give her any guidance. They only held their breath and opened their eyes to look at Yang. Every move of foam.

Yang Momo knew that everyone was waiting for her to reach out and grab a few things in this pile of things, so that she could measure her interests, future and things to do when she grew up. Yang Mo knew that the things she caught today were likely to represent the direction of the Yang family's focus on cultivating her in the future...

Although Yang Momo did not believe that Zhou Erli could predict the future of the child, the ancients believed in these customs and habits and believed that this was a revelation from their ancestors, so Yang Mo did not dare to neglect at all and planned to distinguish the meaning of the things around him first. Chu, then decide what you want to catch.

Yang Momo still knows something about the custom of catching Zhou'er. He knows that if the child grabs the seal first, it means that he will take advantage of the grace and official fortune when he grows up; and if the child grabs the stationery first, it means that he has talent for reading when he grows up, and he must have a beautiful article that can finally reach three yuan and the first place;

If a child grasps the abacus first, it means that he will be good at financial management in the future and will become a Tao Zhu career; if a girl grabs sewing utensils such as scissors and rulers first, or cooking utensils such as shovels and spoons, it means that she is good at housework when she grows up.

The elders naturally hope that children can grasp the first few items and have a promising future when they grow up, but if the children catch food, toys, etc., the elders can't scold them for being "delicious" and "playful" on the spot, but also say some good and auspicious words such as "children will be blessed when they grow up and good at having fun in time"...