Children in the countryside are looking forward to the holidays.

Because you can eat delicious food during the holidays.

Especially in those festivals around the New Year, dumplings will be eaten.

Isn't the old saying that "it's better to sit upside down, and it's better to eat dumplings." ”

In fact, at this time, there were not as many tricks as dumplings in later generations, and that family was not willing to make pure meat.

If you want to wrap pure meat, how much do so many people in the family get! If you don't have enough bread, you won't have enough to eat!

Therefore, every family that makes dumplings will put more vegetables in it, anyway, it is either radish or cabbage.

If the family population is small, such as Zhou Shujie's house, put a little less cabbage heart.

There are so many people like Aunt Guo's family next door, even if her family has a good life, she has to put two Chinese cabbages in the 3 catties of meat, otherwise she won't have enough to eat.

Let's not talk about others, just talk about Zhou Shujie's family.

Yesterday her aunt asked her sister-in-law to send her a few pieces of pork, and last night she melted a piece of meat about three catties.

Zhou Shujie got up early in the morning, and when he got up, he cut off the lean meat on the pork, chopped it thinly, put some millet, and boiled it in a cauldron first.

With his free hands, he chopped the meat filling, put a little cabbage heart, and a piece of noodles, and wrapped the dumplings early in the morning.

When the child and mother-in-law woke up, the dumplings were finished and the porridge was ready.

After a war of dishes and chopsticks, and paying the price of all the faces, this meal is finally finished.

Especially the two children, who boiled meat porridge this morning, she didn't dare to give the children the dry goods in it directly. I only gave them some meaty rice soup to drink, and this bit of rice soup was still drunk all over their faces.

After eating, I washed the faces of the two children and changed into clean clothes.

When the two children fell asleep again, nothing happened.

Zhou Shujie took out a pen and a piece of paper, and made a list there.

This is a shopping list.

There are a lot of bits and pieces listed on it, which are the items to be bought in the big market the day after tomorrow.

Yes, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, piano, chess, poetry, painting, poetry, hops. Haha, it's not all true!

At least a few things are not true.

Okay, no kidding, let's write it well.

This year's Chinese New Year, Zhou Shujie only bought some necessary items, and some things that were not very useful did not plan to buy.

Mainly because when Zhou Shujie couldn't sleep, he lay on the kang and calculated an account.

Since she came back to the present, the whole family has made more than 2,600 yuan. She has less than 1,500 yuan left at home now, and there is 1,000 yuan in this issue that the pillar just mailed back in the last two days.

Zhou Shujie found that she brought back the problem of spending money lavishly from later generations.

From now on, she will save some flowers, and if she doesn't need them, she won't buy them anymore.

I saw that the list in Zhou Shujie's hand read, a casserole, two bottles of wine, two boxes of trough cakes, and two handfuls of sugar balls.

Oh, by the way, I have to go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy two pieces of red paper, and bring them back to ask grandpa to write a few couplets.

These are all small expenses, the biggest one is to buy some sea fish from the two brothers Wang Qi and Wang Chao, who are selling seafood, as well as the jujube and frozen persimmons that Zhou Shujie asked them to bring last time.

After I finished writing, I stopped writing and calculated with my head, and it was enough to buy these things with fifty yuan.

Zhou Shujie plans to go to the market the day after tomorrow, and she will go with 60 yuan in her pocket, and she won't take any more, and she is afraid that she will not be able to control herself and spend it if she takes more.

After this calculation, the day of catching up with the big set was ushered in.

This market is the largest market a year ago, and even if people have a bad time, they have to buy something for the New Year.

The ox carts, the wagons, all of them were dispatched.

Because today not only people are going to the market, but also to sell the game they have saved up from the mountains this winter.

Even if the ox-carts and wagons were driven out, only the women could sit in the carts, and the young and strong would have to follow them underground, on their legs.

Zhou Shujie sat in the ox cart driven by Brother Tuesday, and in the same car, there were also aunts and sisters-in-law Zhou, plus sister-in-law Guo and sister-in-law Guo of Aunt Guo's family.

Aunt Guo and Guo San's sister-in-law stayed at home to help Zhou Shujie take care of the children and mother-in-law. So I didn't come to the market this time.

Originally, the eldest aunt wanted to stay at home to take care of Zhou Shujie's children and take care of her mother-in-law, but because of the words passed by Zhou Shujie two days ago, the eldest aunt not only went to the market this time, but also went to see the little girl from the supply and marketing cooperative.

Sister-in-law Zhou also joined in the fun because of this.

Brother Zhou and the three elder brothers of the Guo family followed behind the car and chatted as they walked.

Several of them can catch the car, so they will take turns to rush to the county seat after a while.

Before entering the county seat, you can feel the liveliness of this big market that is different from usual.

Even the stalls selling things are set up out of the county seat, and some are scattered on both sides of the avenue near the county seat.

The people who sell things inside are getting denser and denser, and there are more and more people.

It was not easy to find the vacant seat that the villagers had given them in advance, and set up the prey on the car and began to sell.

Zhou Shujie: They watched there for a while.

Uncle Zhou didn't feel like she needed their help.

dragged Zhou Shujie and asked her to take her to the supply and marketing cooperatives to see the little girl.

When Sister-in-law Zhou heard this, she hurriedly said that she was going too.

The three of them walked together and walked into the market.

From the crowd there were constant voices shouting at their own children.

"Erya, you can follow, you can't find your lost mother. ”

"Well, I'll follow, mother!"

"Dog, dog...... You dead kid don't follow, where are you going? After saying that, there was a snapping sound, which was the sound of slapping on the child's back.

Zhou Shujie looked at the young man next to him, who was slapped twice by his father, and he didn't feel any pain, but he just smiled with joy on his face.

Infected by his happy smile, Zhou Shujie's face also brought out some smiles.

Sister-in-law Zhou walking behind Zhou Shujie. poked Zhou Shujie and said, "What are you laughing at! Do you know?" After speaking, he glanced at the two of them.

Zhou Shujie shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't know, I just think that kid is very funny." ”

As soon as Zhou Shujie finished speaking, she was touched by Zhou's sister-in-law with a look of "you are really rare and weird", and she was a little embarrassed.

"Ahem" coughed and changed the topic and said: "Auntie, sister-in-law, I will take you two to the supply and marketing cooperative, let's go and see the girl in my second brother's photo." ”

This topic shifted, and it was good.

Sister-in-law Zhou's eyes lit up, and the eldest aunt nodded at Zhou Shujie and said, "Okay, let's take a look while your second brother is not here, or your second brother will definitely have to stop me and not let me go to see it." ”

finally squeezed to the door of the supply and marketing cooperative.

Uncle Zhou slapped the dirty shoe with her hand and said: "It seems that the life of the common people is really good, there are not so many people who come to catch up with the big market every year, and this makes my shoes dirty." ”

After the eldest aunt cleaned up, Zhou Shujie took the lead in pushing open the door of the supply and marketing cooperatives and walked in.

As soon as I walked in, I found that it was also full of people.

The supply and marketing cooperatives were all standing, and the women dressed in fresher clothes, one said they wanted to buy this, the other said they wanted to buy that, and three waiters at the counter ran back and forth to hold the goods for people.

When Zhou Shujie led the eldest aunt and sister-in-law Zhou to the counter, one of the three little girls who was busy sweating glanced up, and when she saw that it was Zhou Shujie, she grinned first and said: "Sister, you also come to buy something, you first see what you want to buy, look at it, you just say I'll pick it for you." ”

Seeing that this girl took the initiative to talk to Zhou Shujie, the eyes of the eldest aunt and sister-in-law Zhou glanced at Zhou Shujie brightly, and asked if this was the case?

Zhou Shujie nodded quietly.

The eldest aunt and sister-in-law Zhou brushed their heads and turned their heads, staring at the girl.

At this time, Zhou Shujie answered: "Thank you so much, I thought about it at home, I want to buy, two bottles of wine, two boxes of trough cakes, two pieces of red paper, and buy a casserole." After that, he asked, "Do you have a casserole here?"

As Zhou Shujie said what he wanted to buy.

The girl put wine and pastries on the counter for her, and listened to Zhou Shujie ask.

The girl smiled and said, "Eldest sister, you really asked the right person, if you want to ask others, they may have to say no." If you want to ask me, there must be a wow, haha! Sister, you wait, the casserole is in the warehouse, I'll find it for you. After speaking, he walked out and beckoned a girl next to him: "Xiaofang, you come and find two pieces of red paper for this eldest sister, the one with a better uniform color." ”

"Hey" The girl named Xiaofang agreed, and started to rummage through Zhou Shujie in a pile of red paper.

After looking for a while, he took out a few and compared them, picked out two of them with the reddest color and the most uniform and handed them to Zhou Shujie, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen Sister Xiaoling so enthusiastic about anyone, are you her relatives?"

Hearing Miss Xiaofang's question, Zhou Shujie shook her head with a smile and didn't say anything.

Miss Xiaofang looked at Zhou Shujie and them suspiciously, maybe she didn't believe it, and at this time, someone asked her to sell goods, so she didn't continue to ask.

When the little girl left, Zhou Shujie and the eldest aunt and sister-in-law Zhou glanced at each other with a smile, as if to say, "Even if it's not now, it may not be in the future." ”

Sister-in-law Zhou also whispered: "Mother, did you hear, the one named Xiaofang just now said that the girl in my second brother's picture is called Xiaoling, how good you listen to this name, and it is also very compatible with people." ”

Uncle Zhou also nodded with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "She looks quite fair, and she is also a hundred tips and spirits when you listen to her, and it is quite compatible with the name, your second brother's vision is still okay, this girl is good." ”

The girl was muttering quietly.

The girl over there has returned.

In his hand, which was red from the cold, he carried a casserole tied with a straw rope.

smiled and handed it to Zhou Shujie: "Sister, I found it for you, this is the best one in it, and the pattern is also good-looking and has no cracks." ”

Uncle Zhou saw that the girl's hands were red from freezing, and she could still talk to Zhou Shujie with a smile on her face. Just in my heart, I nodded, "Well, this is not a hypocritical girl." ”

After Zhou Shujie finished settling the account, Aunt Zhou and Sister-in-law Zhou were embarrassed to watch for a long time and didn't buy anything, so they took out a few cents and bought a small thing.

From the moment she left the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, the smile on the corner of Uncle Zhou's mouth did not break.

It seems that she is quite satisfied with the choice of this daughter-in-law.

Aunt Zhou was happy there, sighed again, "Hey......" said to the eldest daughter-in-law and Zhou Shujie: "You said that the conditions of other girls are so good, can you fall in love with our family?"

Hearing her mother-in-law ask like this, the smile on Sister-in-law Zhou's face also faded a lot.

I really don't know how to answer for a while.

If you want to say that people can get along, then our personal conditions are not a little worse.

If you want to say that people don't get along, I'm afraid of hitting my mother-in-law.

Thinking that he might say something wrong, he cleverly turned his gaze to Zhou Shujie, as if he was begging for help with his eyes.

Looking at such a smart sister-in-law, Zhou Shujie couldn't help but be happy.

stepped forward and grabbed the eldest uncle's arm and said, "Oh, auntie, if you want to compare your family with others, then we will definitely not be able to compare." Let's compare ourselves with him, just call me my second brother, that long, how handsome that guy is! How eloquent that is! Yes! Not to mention the girls in our village, how many people from other villages are in love with my second brother. Isn't it because my second brother is too high-minded that I don't like it? If you want me to say that my second brother looks the most like my eldest mother, right, sister-in-law. After speaking, he winked at Sister-in-law Zhou.

Sister-in-law Zhou looked at it, and quickly nodded along the steps and said, "Isn't it! ”

Uncle Zhou was amused by these two juniors, and pointed at the two of them with her hand and said, "You two are okay to take me here, right?"

Zhou Shujie and sister-in-law Zhou smiled.

It can be regarded as a clever divertation of this topic.

After that, the mothers walked to the innermost part of the market.

They are going to buy sea fish from the two brothers Wang Qi and Wang Chao, and after they finish buying, they have to hurry back to see if the game sold at home is gone?

As the crowd crowded forward.

I also saw the colorful goods on both sides.

Aunt Zhou smiled and said to Zhou Shujie and Sister-in-law Zhou: "Your generation is a good time to catch up." You see how good the color of the things sold here is, how could we have this when we were young. You said that he can be sold now, and we are old, and we can't cover (wear) in freshness. It's a pity to look at it (jiao read two tones) (liao read two tones). ”

Sister-in-law Zhou said with a smile: "Who said you can't wear it on your body, this summer, mother, I will make you a pair of single shoes with big red flowers, and then you will wear them out so that the old ladies in our village will look red." ”

Aunt Zhou patted Sister-in-law Zhou's arm and scolded: "You can pull it down! If you want to do it, you can wear it yourself, I don't wear it." What do you wear, I'm not an old goblin. Hahaha!" After saying that, he laughed straight away.

The three mothers, talking and laughing, walked through the crowd.

Zhou Shujie led them to the booth of the two brothers, Wang Qi and Wang Chao.