Today is the 28th day of the lunar month, and Liu Wen's family is engaged in a cleaning activity in the morning.

Liu Wen's father cleaned the pigsty and chicken coop, and after the manure was piled up together and sealed and fermented, it was an excellent farm fertilizer in the beginning of spring. Liu Jiachong's family is fed with livestock, and all the land is planted with soil fertilizer, and no one uses chemical fertilizer.

My mother was tidying up the house, cleaning the windows, cleaning the door frames, cleaning the kitchen and all kinds of furniture. Liu Wen cleaned up all kinds of weeds in the yard by himself, some dead branches and fallen leaves, and cleaned the yard clean.

In the afternoon, the family first fried tofu dumplings, beef balls and fish balls, among which the tofu dumplings should be explained, after frying, they look like fried tofu on the outside but are coated with pork filling inside.

Then there is a kind of white sweet potato in Liujia Village, which contains more sugar, crisp and sweet when eaten raw, and is soft and glutinous and sweet after cooking, which is a good material for making potatoes. To make potatoes, the white sweet potatoes are peeled and cooked, then pounded into a paste, and then scraped with a spatula into a thin, square shape, and dried to become potatoes. The hard, soft and soft potatoes become sweeter the more you chew, and after frying, it is a sweet delicacy, which Liu Wen loved to eat when he was a child.

To make pickled mushrooms, you first beat glutinous rice into rice milk, mix sesame seeds and put them in a pot to mature into thin round cakes, which become hard after drying. When eating, put it in the oil pan and fry it, and it quickly becomes fluffy and expands, just like a big white mushroom, from which the name of pickled mushrooms comes from. The fried mushrooms are fragrant, crispy, and sweet, and are very popular with children.

In the afternoon, taro slices and potato chips were fried, and the thinly shaved taro slices and potato slices were fried and crispy, which was a delicious snack whether it was a dish or a snack. Today, the whole Liujiachong family is frying all kinds of ingredients, the aroma of various foods is intertwined and mixed together, the whole Liujia Village is shrouded in a thick sweet fragrance, the children in the village are crazy, one by one they eat with a bulging belly, but they are not willing to stop, and even the cats and dogs at home are stained with a lot of light.

After the Chinese New Year was over, Liu Wen pasted the couplet in the morning and hung up the red lantern, and the whole yard was immediately full of joy and a new look.

In the evening, Liu Wen's mother cooked a large table of sumptuous meals, and the family enjoyed watching TV while eating delicious meals. After the meal, Liu Wen gave New Year's greetings to his colleagues in the second sales group of the magic capital one by one, not only to connect his feelings but also to pass the time for keeping the New Year.

At zero o'clock, Liu Wen lit a 10,000-year-old firecracker, and a crackling sound suddenly sounded outside the door, and the rest of the villagers responded, and the sound of firecrackers came and went, and they were unwilling to stop for a long time.

Liu Wen's family eats dumplings on the morning of the first day of the new year, rice and fish must be eaten on the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and eating dumplings on the morning of the first day of the new year is the local custom of Liu Jiachong.

Liu Wen's mother filled the table with apples, oranges, candies, melon seeds, peanuts and some other delicious snacks. Not long after, the adjacent bangs and the two people led the two children, the puppy and the flower girl, came to pay New Year's greetings. In Liujia Village, the size is ranked by generation rather than age, Tong, Xing, Quan, Hai, and Fu are the order of generation in Liujia Village.

Liu Wen's father is a Xingzi generation, Liu Wen is a full-character generation, and Liu Wen was called Liu Quanquan before the college entrance examination. However, Liu Wen didn't like this name, and later needed an ID card to enter the examination room for the college entrance examination.

Liu Wen set off a string of short firecrackers outside the door to welcome. As soon as the flower girl entered the house, she sweetly rushed to greet the New Year, "Grandpa, I wish your whole family good health and all the best in the New Year!"

Liu Wen's father said with a smile: "Your whole family will be safe and sound in the New Year, you two will study hard and be admitted to a good university in the future." ”

Liu Wen's mother beckoned Liu Hai and the family to eat the food on the table, and Liu Wen took out two red envelopes and handed them to the two little babies. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the elders give red envelopes to the younger generations, which is called New Year's money. The little dog took the time to open the red envelope, and when he saw that it was ten yuan, he was so happy. When he left Liu Liu's house, he held the red envelope tightly in his hand, for fear that his parents would snatch it away.

After Liu Hai and his family left, more villagers came to visit the New Year one after another, it was an endless stream, first, Liu Wen donated 100,000 yuan to repair the road by the village accountant revealed, the whole village knows, everyone came to pay New Year's greetings to express gratitude, and secondly, maybe adults can't bear their children's begging, because as long as you go to the New Year, there are ten yuan red envelopes to take, and the largest red envelope that can be received in the past is three yuan.

Anyone who comes to pay New Year's greetings will be warmly received by Liu Wen's family, and those who come will not refuse, and the more the merrier. In the second and third years of junior high school, Liu Wen went to all relatives' homes on behalf of his parents to pay New Year's greetings, and when he chatted, his relatives expressed their happiness that Liu Wen had made a fortune and bought a new car, but at the same time, Liu Wen was puzzled by Liu Wen not seeking development in the city and returning to the countryside to reclaim wasteland.

In a blink of an eye, on the day of the Lantern Festival, Liu Wen's family ate the traditional festival food Lantern Festival.

Making a sky lantern is as simple as a cylinder of six slender bamboo strips, a thin layer of white paper pasted on the outside, and two thin wires at the bottom to form a cross shape, with a ball of cotton wool soaked in kerosene tied in the center. After ignition, using the principle of hot air rising, the sky lantern can fly into the sky.

The young people chased the sky lanterns fluttering in the wind, and they didn't care about eating, because when the kerosene was gradually exhausted, the sky lanterns would slowly fall, and whoever picked them up would be whoever picked them up.

As soon as the Lantern Festival passed, Liu Quanan, the village chief, immediately called a meeting of the leaders of each group to announce the construction of the road tomorrow.

The next day, almost all the men, women and children of the whole village came to the dirt road outside the village with hoes and shovels to gather. This time, the road was built in a simple way, and after laying a layer of gravel on the dirt road and rolling it with a road roller, it became an easy road. In the Bailu River, where the materials are taken nearby, there is not much work for everyone, and after the truck transports the sand and gravel, everyone uses a shovel and hoe to briefly flatten the gravel on the road and wait for the roller to come.

"Grandma Chunhua, have you noticed that you seem to have become much younger?" Liu Haishan's mother-in-law, Xu Cuiping, deliberately approached Liu Wen's mother.

"Is there one? Why don't I think so?" Liu Wen's mother touched her face, "Maybe it's because I'm in a better mood after Wen'er came back!"

"Why didn't you see Uncle Wen Zi bring his girlfriend back this time?" Xu Cuiping asked casually.

"Alas, they broke up, and the girls from the city would marry into our broken mountain village. Liu Wen's mother sighed.

"With Uncle Wenzi's condition, are you afraid that you won't be able to find your mother-in-law?" Xu Cuiping continued: "I'll introduce one in two days, let Uncle Wenzi see it, okay?"

"That's a good feeling!" Liu Wen's mother agreed with a smile.

The noon meal was provided by the village committee, white rice, fried bacon, stir-fried Chinese cabbage, and enough pork ribs and radish soup, and all the villagers, including the workers of the contracted engineering team, ate it in large gulps.

Liu Wen negotiated with Boss Zhang of the engineering team during dinner, and the contract for the renovation of 50 acres of wasteland is actually very simple, digging 1,000 tree holes in the barren slope to facilitate planting trees, and digging a zigzag ditch. Dig a ditch in the barren slope to make it easier to water the orchard during the drought. This amount of work is estimated to be completed in less than two days, and Boss Zhang promised to finish the road and then finish the project on the barren slope.

Three days later, the simple highway was repaired, the traffic conditions in Liujiachong were greatly changed, and Liu Wen's wasteland was successfully renovated two days later.

On this day, Liu Wen couldn't stand his mother's nagging, and promised to go to the town on a blind date, and when he came to the agreed restaurant, Liu Wen saw the visitor, didn't say a word, turned around and left.

"How's it going?" asked my mother as she got home.

"Who said that the ass is good to raise? That girl is only about 1.6 meters and weighs an estimated 160 pounds, who can stand this?" Liu Wen said angrily.

The mother laughed and said, "Fat is fat, but it's nothing! If you insist on not liking, then forget it!"

A few days later, Liu Wen went to the town again, this time or on a blind date, the person he saw this time looked okay, but when he spoke, he changed his taste: "What girl is so beautiful and wants to marry me, she must have a house in the county, and my name must be written on the real estate certificate." The bride price of 100,000 yuan cannot be less, because it is not easy for my parents to raise me so big, and I don't want to live with my in-laws after I get married, because it is inconvenient. I don't touch any of the chores I do with laundry and cooking, because it will rough my beautiful and delicate hands. ”

"Hehe! Congratulations on finding the affectionate Ruyi Langjun as soon as possible!" Liu Wen couldn't listen anymore, turned around and left. From then on, when his mother asked him to go on a blind date, Liu Wen either didn't go, or he just promised to go on the surface, but his mother had no choice but to go for the time being.

"Village chief, I would like to ask a few people to help me plant trees, preferably because my family is a little difficult. Liu Wen came to the village chief's house.

Liu Haifeng's wife Deng Hongxia is not easy, her husband died of illness two years ago, and her in-laws also left early, raising this pair of children alone, life is bitter, and Liu Quanxiang's family two years ago son and daughter-in-law worked outside and accidentally had a car accident and left, and the driver who hit the person ran away and is not found now. The two old guys are also old and in poor health, and it is not easy to raise a grandchild. The village chief thought for a moment and said.

"Now that the village has hired someone to work, how much does it cost a day?" Liu Wen asked.

"The current market is sixty dollars!" replied the village chief without thinking.

"Well, then please ask the village chief to notify them to help me plant trees, and choose two or three more, the adults are eighty, and the baby doesn't have to go to class tomorrow, help with watering, thirty-one days, okay?" Liu Wen said to the village chief after a little thought.

"Okay! Wen Yazi, you are still righteous! I will inform them immediately, and I will help you plant trees tomorrow. The village chief said happily.