Chapter 70: Concerto for the Thirtieth Year of the Chinese New Year's Eve (2)
When Li Youyi's daughter-in-law heard this, her face changed instantly, and she unconsciously showed a vicious appearance and scared Li Xiaojun: "You are a white-eyed wolf who can't be raised, and you owe it to your grandmother to be so good to you." β
Li Xiaojun is a child, where can he distinguish between good and bad, right and wrong, looking at his grandmother's vicious appearance, he cried in fright: "Wow, wow, grandma scolded." He ran out crying, looking for his grandfather, shouting as he ran: "Grandpa, grandpa, grandma scolding." β
Li Sheng's daughter-in-law reluctantly pushed out, chased Li Xiaojun and said: "Grandma didn't scold you, grandma scared you, it doesn't hurt, how can I scold you?" The child's legs were upside down fast, Li Sheng's daughter-in-law naturally couldn't catch up, and ran into Li Youyi's house with a smoke, Li Youyi looked at his grandson and cried, listening to the words in Li Xiaojun's mouth, of course he understood that his grandmother was joking, and the child didn't understand, so he took out a red envelope from his arms and said to Xiaojun: "Don't cry, don't cry, give grandpa a New Year's greeting." β
When the child saw the red envelope, he forgot about his grandmother's fierceness just now, wiped his tears and said: "Grandpa has a good New Year, grandpa has an auspicious New Year." β
Li Youyi was happy to hear this, happily handed the wallet to Li Xiaojun, and then said: "Go, go to your grandmother's house to pay New Year's greetings, find your mother, remember to come back in the afternoon, and celebrate the New Year with grandpa in the evening." Grandpa bought a lot of fireworks waiting for you to come back and put them. β
Li Xiaojun responded happily after hearing this: "Grandpa, remember that the biggest firecracker will wait for Ne to come back and release it." As he spoke, he ran out to find his mother, whom he hadn't seen for a few days, and Guo Yufen went to .......
Yesterday afternoon, Jiang Ping sent away the sheep exchange for the New Year in Yangyuan, originally the sheep exchange wanted to stay at Jiang Ping's house for the New Year, but the honest Zhao Shouqian said to the sheep change: "Girl, this may be the last big year with your father, you have to think about the idea of the old couple, otherwise you will regret it in the future." Yang Changchang understood what his future father-in-law said, and let Jiang Ping send him to the station and leave by himself.
The Chinese New Year's Eve was originally Jiang Ping on duty, but the head of the security team, taking care of this new worker who did not know what relationship he had with Zhou Mine, let Jiang Ping and the old workers shift shifts, Jiang Ping was unprecedented, the sun had not yet risen, so he went with Zhao Shouqian to the well in the ditch to worship God, Zhao Shouqian carried the bucket burden, led Jiang Ping to the well, there were already several black and black gray paper marks at the well, it seems that there are more than Zhao Shouqian's diligent Lord who has paid homage to God in advance, Zhao Shouqian took out the yellow paper from his arms, lit it with a foreign fire, settled Jiang Ping to go to the artillery battle, Jiang Ping sounded three cannons not far from the well, Zhao Shouqian waited for the yellow paper to burn out, With the axe brought from home, he shaved a few times on the ice ballast at the mouth of the well, and a large piece of ice fell into the well, Zhao Shouqian began to hook the bucket with a burden, threw the bucket into the well, swayed left and right filled with a bucket of water, pulled it up, poured it into another empty bucket, threw down a load, pulled it up, and the bucket floated with the broken ice ballast that had just been scraped down, Zhao Shouqian signaled Jiang Ping to come over, paddled it in the bucket with his hand, and found a small piece of ice and stuffed it into Jiang Ping's mouth, and he also found a piece of it, and put it in his mouth, the two of them didn't speak with the ice in their mouths, and they quietly carried the burden home when it was darkγ
The well carries the blessings of the whole village for a year, and at the root of the year, it is necessary to carry people behind their backs to "steal" this blessing. This probably means that the leftovers in other people's bowls are Fugener, and you can't let people eat it all by yourself.
Zhao Shouqian took the burden home, scooped up a piece of ice ballast and stuffed it into his wife's mouth, the cold ice ballast sucked Jiang Pingniang's tooth root hurt, but Jiang Pingniang still endured it and didn't spit it out, this year is a good year for herself, not to mention that Jiang Ping came out of prison is a great joy, and Jiang Ping talked about the object, and he will be able to get engaged next year, which is also a great joy. There is also the fact that Jiang Ping has his own job, although it is not a regular job, and it is not an iron rice bowl, but these can be moved correctly, and maybe he can be turned into a regular if he catches up with the policy. Of course, the most important thing is that Jiang Ping changed his temperament and quit the bad habit of playing money in the past.
Jiang Pingniang covered her cheeks, looked at Jiang Ping who followed behind, her face was full of happiness, she was only looking forward to the New Year, the spring, let Jiang Erxing choose a good day, let Jiang Ping and Yang Chang get engaged, it is best to get married before the end of next year, maybe you can hold your grandson in another year.
The more the old man thought about it, the happier he became, and he unconsciously laughed out loud, Jiang Ping looked at his mother staring at him and smiled, and asked, "Mother, why do you look at Ne's smile?" β
Jiang Pingniang said happily: "What are you laughing at? My mother is happy, I am sensible, and I am happy, and my mother is happy." β
Jiang Ping understood that his mother was relieved to see that he had learned well, and he also felt that his previous self was a bastard, and said to his mother with a smile: "Mother, you can be filial to your father and others with peace of mind, in other words, you will have three children in the future, one surnamed Guo, one surnamed Jin, and one surnamed Zhao." β
Zhao Shouqian, who poured water into the urn, listened, his hands trembled slightly, and sprinkled a lot of water outside, a few days ago, his wife said this to himself on the pillow, Zhao Shouqian only regarded it as his wife's words of comfort, in fact, most of his life has passed, life is getting better and better day by day, he has long been accustomed to the life of Waqiao Village, as for what his surname is, it doesn't matter what his surname is, that day he just listened to the sheep exchange and his wife to talk about the child's surname, and pulled up the mustard in his heart for many years, and put it down on the second day, and now he heard this kind of narration from Jiang Ping's mouth, his heart is warm, and he only hopes that the sheep exchange will pass the door as soon as possible, as for giving birth to several children, it doesn't matter what the surname isβ¦β¦γ
As in previous years, Li Qier began to slaughter sheep and sell sheep in the wax moon, leaving only two breeding sheep and one-third of the two lambs (about one year old ewe) waiting for the beginning of spring, relying on these two lambs to breed sheep, people in ten miles and eight towns are envious of Li Qi'er's livelihood in Layue, but they have forgotten Li Qi'er's hard work of trekking through the mountains and rivers all the year round.
There are a lot of half-sized children (children about ten years old) in Hanwanzi, lying at the door or wall of Li Qi'er all day long, waiting for the owner of Li Qi'er to slaughter sheep, leaving a sheep's head and sheep's hooves, Li Qi'er is a happy person, and will throw out a pair of excess sheep's hooves every once in a while to those half-sized children, and these half-sized children will scatter in a hurry, competing to take it to the back mountain to roast and eat.
Lamei is a careful person, always complaining about Li Qier's generosity, occasionally seeing the sheep's hooves thrown out by Li Qi'er, she will say complaints such as changing half a catty of eggs less, but this family is always Li Qi'er's master, Li Qi'er will still "reward" this group of half-grown children who watch the excitement according to their own mood. Every year at this time, Li Fei's son Li Fei will become the child king, and the children around him who often call Li Fei "little sheepherd" also begin to please Li Fei.
Today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Qi'er changed Li Fei into new clothes, put sugar and scattered small firecrackers in his pocket, settled Li Fei to be careful with firecrackers, don't blow up his hands, Li Fei listened and nodded, took a stick of incense from the Buddhist hall offered by his family, lit it along the furnace pit, and ran out to play. Li Qi'er looked at her children, and could always think of her childhood, playing in the riverbed ice rink in front of her current house, Lamei came out of the back room, holding a freshly made paste bowl in her hand, and shouted Li Qi'er to take out the couplets and help herself paste them, Li Qi'er responded and took out a pair of couplets from the house, and compared them on the wall, Lamei brushed the paste on the wall, and Li Qi'er pasted the couplets.
Li Qi'er is very disgusted with Lamei's careful life on weekdays, but she feels sorry for Lamei in her heart, Lamei is a woman who can stretch out her hand and bend her waist, just take the days of Layue, whoever presses vermicelli and steamed buns has to find a helper, but at home, you have to hire someone to kill sheep by yourself, otherwise there is not enough manpower, but Lamei is alone, and she can take care of all other things, and the whole profit is born. After a busy day, I have to wait for myself and my children to eat and sleep at night.
At this point, Li Qi'er is guilty of Lamei, so even if Lamei throws her face in front of everyone many times, and does not give face to her friends, she can pass it, and the days are originally supporting each other, these two people are sticking to the back of the couplet in the small courtyard, and it looks so harmonious, happy and .......
Chicken wings sent away Erxiu and Huihui a few days ago, and the empty inn was left with only himself, and he locked the door from the inside, and before noon, he set up a pot on the stove in his office, and put washed vegetables, mutton rolls and a bottle of Lao Baifen next to it, ready to eat shabu-shabu alone.
This is the fourth year of chicken wings alone, she wants to take advantage of others are not lively, get drunk, and fall asleep groggily, the longer she sleeps, the better, it is best to sleep until the arrival of the first day of the new year, chicken wings can not see others reunited, let alone other people's blessings to themselves at this time, I feel that kind of blessing is a kind of mockery of myself, even if it is Huihui and Erxiu, the dishes in the pot are not yet cooked, and the chicken wings poured themselves a cup, smiled at themselves in the mirror, and said to themselves:" Here, cheers. At that moment, there was no domineering, only weakness remained, just like the pitiful Erxiu, who was .......
Erxiu of Hetou Village is very busy, only returned to the village a few days ago, carrying a large bag and a small bag, all of which are New Year's goods prepared for the eldest sister and mother, Erxiu handed over the gold needle (yellow flower) money sold out in winter to his mother, and his mother counted the money back and forth, calculating whether it was right or not, in fact, every year Erxiu has to add one hundred and eighty to this gold needle money, in this way, the mother counts a lot, and is happy.
The eldest sister Yao Daxiu is a thrifty woman, but also a woman who can suffer, took a few acres of land in Hetou Village alone, very hard, Erxiu specially bought new clothes for the eldest sister, the clothes are not bright, the eldest sister looks liked, Chinese New Year's Eve changed early on this day, and began to wash the old clothes that he and his mother and Erxiu replaced.
Erxiu was busy pasting couplets and then piling up a fire, then washed his hands, and began to eat at noon and at night, his mother said, Erxiu's cooking is delicious, and it is also a buckle bowl steamed out of the cage drawer, which can eat the taste of the restaurant, not only for the New Year, but also for Erxiu to cook on weekdays, and Erxiu Niang is always satisfied and said: "Hey, I have a restaurant again." β
This year's Erxiu is also in a good mood, because a few days ago, he listened to Qiao Sanye's advice and went to Yunzhou Detention Center to visit Sun Erlong. This visit made me let go of the knot in my heart for three or four years, Sun Erlong was educated very well by the government, and his temper was greatly changed. Although Sun Erlong also took the initiative to divorce three years ago, there is still a lot of anger and unwillingness in words and hearts, this time it is different, Sun Erlong looks at himself with guilt in his eyes, and there is also a sense of relief, feeling that he is not giving himself freedom, but atoning for Sun Erlong. That's why I gave Erxiu the courage to take the initiative to find Jiang Er, but the hateful Jiang Er didn't understand the amorous feelings, not only did not bring hope to himself, but also fell into a stomach full of grievances, fortunately, Jiang Er left a trace of expectations for himself before leaving, alas, now Erxiu can only do the plan of taking one step at a time, as long as the eldest sister and mother are doing well, everything will be fine, as for himself, after so many years, loneliness, loneliness and something have been used to it, are you afraid of waiting a few more years?......