In the past, Zhuang Rui's family was three people during the New Year, and later Zhuang Min got married, only Zhuang Rui and his mother celebrated the New Year, although Liu Chuan's parents would invite their mother and son to the house to celebrate the New Year together, but Zhuang's mother's character did not like to trouble others, and always declined, so many years, Zhuang Rui was also used to it.

Since the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhuang Rui has been busy, first cleaning the house, and then pasting "Fu" on the door, as well as Spring Festival, window flowers, New Year paintings, etc., although only he and his mother celebrate the New Year, but also the home is full of New Year's flavor, and the stereo at home also plays the Cantonese version of "Wishing you prosperity", full of festive atmosphere.

At six o'clock in the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhuang Rui first burned incense to his deceased grandparents and father, and then ate early with Zhuang's mother, sat next to the TV, while waiting for the Spring Festival Gala to play, while wrapping dumplings, according to custom, the next morning, to put the dumplings in the pot, mother and son one pressed the dumpling skin, one person wrapped, the action is very skillful.

When I was a child, I was greedy to play, I took the dumpling skin and put the stuffing and began to pinch it up, and the package was not like four, and it was immediately scattered when it went down to the pot, but Zhuang's mother didn't say anything about him, just let him eat the dumplings he wrapped every time, and Zhuang Rui's dumplings were also decently wrapped, and they all said that the children of the poor were in charge early, which was not false at all, Zhuang Rui often saw Liu Chuan's dumplings wrapped like a steamed bun.

"Xiao Rui, you see that Liu Chuan has found a girlfriend, Lei Lei's personality is still so good, you and Liu Chuan are born in a year, and they are also twenty-five, when will you bring a daughter-in-law to your mother." ”

The rolling pin in Zhuang's mother did not pause, and she asked her son casually and seemingly unintentionally, in fact, she was already anxious in her heart, although she did not want to interfere too much in the child's marriage due to some reasons that could not be explained to the child, and she was very open-minded and democratic at home, but after all, she was older, and she naturally became more concerned about her son's lifelong events.

However, Zhuang's mother did not mention Qin Xuanbing, she could see that the girl must have been born in a family with a better environment, in the old saying before, she is a celebrity, although she is very polite, but she always gives people a sense of distance, such a woman is not suitable for her son.

"Mom, I'm still young, don't worry, look for it slowly, I must find a daughter-in-law who is filial to you, cook for you every day and beat your back, if you are disobedient, we will divorce her and change her ......."

Zhuang Rui joked with his mother, although he worked in a pawnshop in Shanghai, he often came into contact with some women, but those women were either rich or expensive, he had never seen Zhuang Rui with a straight eye, he was an ordinary little white-collar worker with no money and no power, and it was really not easy to find a satisfactory girlfriend in Shanghai, Zhuang Rui was also a normal man, well, it should be said that he was a normal little virgin, otherwise the scene he saw in the hospital would not have shocked him so much.

"Beat my back and cook for me every day, do you think you are looking for a maid, my mother is old, I can be satisfied to see you get married peacefully, and I can still bring you a few years of children when the time comes, if you drag it out, my mother will not have the strength to help you take care of the children in the future......."

Zhuang Mu seemed to remember something, and her voice gradually deepened, tears seemed to flicker in her eyes, and she stood up and walked to her room.

"Mom, how old are you, you see you don't even have wrinkles on your face, okay, the Spring Festival Gala has begun, come out and watch TV, this will make enough dumplings to eat." Zhuang Rui saw that his mother was a little sad, so he quickly diverted the topic and got up to amplify the volume of the TV.

In fact, Zhuang Rui and his sister have always had some doubts in their hearts for so many years, when their mother was young, they spoke Mandarin, and slowly became the current Pengcheng dialect, and the mother never mentioned her mother's family, when she was young, when Zhuang Rui saw that others had uncles, aunts, grandparents, and grandmothers, she also asked her mother this question once with her sister, and the result was that Zhuang's mother, who had never touched a finger of the two children, beat the two children that time.

Since then, the sensible Zhuang Rui and Zhuang Min have never mentioned this matter, but every time it is time for the New Year's holiday, the sister and brother will find that their mother is very depressed, and they will go to their room to stay alone for a while, and Zhuang Rui always thinks of ways to make his mother happy.

Zhuang Rui often thinks that his mother must be from everyone's background, and then staging a story with his father about Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun eloping in the back garden, because his mother not only knows English, but also is very proficient in Russian, Zhuang Rui is really curious about his mother's life experience, he doesn't know what kind of family can cultivate his mother so independent and strong, and euphemistic temperament, Zhuang Rui saw those rich officials in Shanghai, compared with Zhuang's mother in temperament, that is not half a star.

After a while, when the Spring Festival Gala had begun, Zhuang's mother came out of the room with red eyes, but her mood was much better than just now, she sat in front of the TV and gossiped with Zhuang Rui, and watched the Spring Festival Gala.

Watching the Spring Festival Gala now, it's just a habit during the New Year, I can't find the feeling of the year, Zhuang's mother is older, and she went back to the room to sleep at about 10 o'clock, Zhuang Rui is very boring to watch alone, and he is also sleepy, but he doesn't dare to sleep, because at 12 o'clock, the New Year's call will definitely wake him up.

Staying up until almost 12 o'clock, Zhuang Rui hurriedly pulled the phone line in the living room to his room, and sure enough, after a while, Liu Chuan, the four brothers in the same dormitory in college, and a group of junior high school classmates who just left the phone yesterday, called one after another, after answering the phone, Zhuang Rui wanted to call Uncle De, but when he saw that the time was already a little faster, he didn't call, and he was going to wait until the morning to greet Uncle De.

After getting up early in the morning and eating dumplings, Zhuang Rui called Liu Chuan's parents, Uncle De and some friends from Zhonghai to pay New Year's greetings, and then lay down on the bed to catch up on sleep.

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There is nothing to do in the first and second days of junior high school, Zhuang Rui except for going to his godmother and sister's house to pay New Year's greetings, he is bored at home to read, he bought hundreds of yuan of appreciation and collection books from Xinhua Bookstore at one time, and now he has only read a few, for the antique industry, Zhuang Rui is still a little plausible in his heart, but it is much better than dozing off when he sees such books before, at least he can read it.

I don't know if it's because of the reliance on the eyes or the knowledge that has been made up in the past few days, Zhuang Rui is actually a little impatient in his heart, if it weren't for the opening of the flower and bird market on the fifth day of the first month, I'm afraid he would have to try his hand.

When the third daughter returned to the door, the sister and brother-in-law brought Nan Nan to the house, and naturally it was lively for another day, and Nan Nan was very affectionate to her uncle, who was not often met, but allowed herself to eat White Rabbit milk candy, and was unwilling to go home with her parents at night, Zhuang Min also left her daughter for a few days, anyway, her mother often helped her take care of her children before.

In this way, Zhuang Rui didn't have time to read, so he simply took his niece to play in Pengcheng for a few days, and forgot about what he wanted to go to the flower and bird market.

This time Zhuang Rui in the flower and bird market is not so smooth, the heavy snow has long stopped, at the moment the flower and bird antique market on both sides of the streets, all are scattered stalls, from old books and newspapers to coins, jade and bronzes, and with the antique market those antique buildings, if you don't look at the clothes people wear, I think I have returned to ancient times.

Let Nan Nan sit on his neck, it took a lot of effort, Zhuang Rui squeezed into Liu Chuan's shop, went in to see, good guy, it's only a few days later, the originally empty store, has been full of all kinds of pets, I don't know where Liu Chuan put these animals years ago, two large and one small fish tanks at the door, put some ornamental fish and pet turtles, and the original cages, are large and small pet dogs, from the small Beijing dog, Shih Tzu to German black-backed sheepdogs with cracked teeth and unusual ferocity.

There are also two more clerks in the store, usually Liu Chuan often runs around the country to buy goods, but rarely stays in the store, these two people are taking care of it, Zhuang Rui has been here a few times before, and they are quite familiar, the last time Zhuang Rui came, Liu Chuan gave the two clerks a holiday.

Compared with the leisure of the meeting a year ago, the store is now very busy, and the three of them are busy without touching the ground.

"Shout, now I have a girlfriend, and I know that I am serious about my work. Seeing that Liu Chuan was sweating on a cold day, Zhuang Rui quipped.

"That is, we can't mix with you in the future, hey, our little princess is here, come to kowtow to my uncle, I can give the New Year's money." ”

Liu Chuan saw the little girl, and immediately became happy, since he was a child, he only kowtowed to others, last year when he was still young, this year he has been talking about kowtowing to him since the beginning of the year.