Xiao Yao's group, no more than eight, no more than eight, and they were all of the same age, they followed the direction of the houses in the village, from west to east, and greeted the New Year one by one.

When he came to the door of his uncle's house to the east, the door of his house was still closed, and he was killed from the inside.

Just when everyone proposed to go first and come back to pay New Year's greetings, Xiao Yao remembered the firecrackers in his pocket and were ready to be released after the New Year's greetings.

He took out the * and hung firecrackers on the knockers of the two doors, and tied the pull rings on the other.

After the decoration was completed, Xiao Yao came to the window and shouted a few uncle's New Year's greetings. The uncle was awakened and hurriedly got up to open the door, but Xiao Yao hurriedly led everyone and ran behind the haystack to hide.

The uncle opened the door and looked around to see no one. I saw a replica* smoking, and before he could react, there was an explosion, which scared him to sit on the ground.

The laughter behind the haystack angered Xiao Yao's uncle.

"Second son, you bastard, I'm sure you did it. Don't think it's hidden, I won't know it's you, I'll settle accounts with you in a while. ”

Xiao Yao was very depressed, there were so many people, none of them showed up, and his uncle insisted that he did it himself. It seemed that he couldn't hide, so he had to come out and say:

"Happy New Year, uncle, nephew has given you a New Year's greeting. I'm here to celebrate your opening and fortune, and the ingots are rolling. You're going to sue me? Isn't that a waste of your nephew's kindness?"

"Good, good, that's right. Who can open the door and ring? I'm the only one in the New Year. Fast into the house, fast into the house. ”

Although the uncle was frightened, Xiao Yao's words made him happy. He wasn't really angry, he just bluffed, but he didn't expect to be right. He saw that a group of young men were there, so he hurried to invite them home.

The three easternmost households were built next to each other by three of his brothers. At this point, this row is finished.

"Xiao Yao, are we going to Xincun, or are we going to go back after paying homage to a few houses in the south?"

Xiao Yao's village was originally a relatively large village, and the number of households in this brigade was also relatively large.

But later, many families went to the side of the road to build houses, and a new village was formed there.

This is impossible not to go without paying New Year's greetings, not to mention, as long as you talk about the New Year, you can get melon seeds, cigarettes and other things. In this way, you can not only get benefits, but also be praised by adults for being polite, why not do it?

Xiao Yao waved his hand to the new village, about a kilometer or so, and took the lead. At this time, the two sons of the uncle's family also joined in, and the number reached ten. They lined up on a narrow ridge and walked towards the new village.

"There is a stray dog over there Xiao Yao, go and call the fox, catch it, and we will have dog meat to eat at night." ”

In the snowy fields in the distance, a soil dog looks around vigilantly. It may have been frightened by the New Year's firecrackers, and the four legs, every time they heard the sound of firecrackers, they couldn't help but go weak and stand unsteadily.

"Forget it, look at it like that, it's not a stray dog. If it was really a stray dog, it would have run away long ago, and it would have run away from people's homes. Look at it, it's so scared that it doesn't run far. This is a very homely dog, the New Year's Day, let it live. ”

Compassion is shared by all. Hearing Xiao Yao say this, no one said that he wanted to eat dog meat. Although Xiao Yao said that he let it live, he didn't forget to scare it into being happy. He took another * out of his pocket and threw it at the dog in the distance.

Because it was far away, * landed and didn't scare the dog away, but the explosion that followed scared the earth dog into a panic and ran into the snow nest. Xiao Yao didn't move, and the others rushed to the front, and the dog didn't struggle out.

A group of people lifted the bricks and slag on the ground, and they smashed them together, and when Xiao Yao came over to stop them, the earth dog was already smashed. The two sons of Uncle Xiao Yao's family have already caught it in their hands.

"Let's let it go, you won't be allowed to sweep the floor on the first day of the new year, how can you kill?"

"We will take it home, and we will not kill it for three days, but we will be able to kill it after the fifth day of the new year. ”

The two cousins were reluctant, and the skin was a delicious meal. This local dog is very fat, very timid, at first glance it is a dog raised back then, and has never heard the sound of firecrackers during the New Year, so it was frightened.

When they were talking, the terrified eyes of the earth dog always looked at Xiao Yao pitifully.

"You let it go, and after the New Year, I will let the fox catch a hare for you. ”

"Don't you, you think we're stupid? A rabbit doesn't have as much meat as half a dog. ”

The two cousins said that they were about to take the dog away, and Xiao Yao stepped forward and blocked their way.

"I'll let you two go, and you'll let me go, and if you're verbose, don't blame me for being rude to you two. ”

Xiao Yao, who has always been very tolerant of his friends in the village, suddenly felt very irritable at this time.

It's not like he hasn't killed a dog, not even one or two. But today, Xiao Yao was awakened by the pleading eyes of the puppy, and he would rather offend his brother than save the puppy's life.

In his mind, the dog was frightened into the snow den by himself with firecrackers, and if he was killed, he would not be able to get out of it.

Everyone saw that Xiao Yao was really angry, and hurriedly persuaded the pair of brothers to let the dog go. Under Xiao Yao's obscenity, although the cousins were not convinced, they had to put the earth dog on the ridge.

Although the earth dog was put down, he could no longer leave alone, his weak limbs could not support his scarred body, and his yellow eyes were almost full of tears. Xiao Yao looked at it, and he couldn't bear it, and he said to his partners:

"Go and pay your respects, I'll send it home. ”

"Xiao Yao, goosebumps, dog bones, there is Saturn, you just need to put it on the ground, you can leave in a while, you know that it is the dog of that family, how to send it home?"

Meng Lang's words are also reasonable, the chicken eats medicinal rice, as long as the chicken's stomach is broken open and the poisonous food inside is removed, without sewing the chicken's stomach, it can heal itself. The dog has a broken bone, and as long as it is not too badly injured, it can basically heal itself.

"I'm not sending it back to its own home, I'm sending it back to my house, and if it is caught by others, it won't be a dead end?"

Xiao Yao said, no matter what everyone discussed, he bent down and picked up the earth dog and turned around. In this way, others do not know whether to go or not to pay New Year's greetings.

"Otherwise, you wait for me, I'll send it back, and let the fox watch it and come back." ”

When Xiao Yao picked up the earth dog, the earth dog rubbed the back of Xiao Yao's hand twice with his weak head. The dog is very popular, it doesn't know that Xiao Yao scared it with firecrackers, but it now knows that Xiao Yao is saving it.

Xiao Yao hugged the earth dog, ran home quickly, put him in his room, called the fox to take care of it, and strictly ordered the fox not to hurt it. The fox looked at Xiao Yao's serious face, it understood, knowing that this little kind, the owner attached great importance to it, and it could not take it lightly.

Foxes are descendants of military dogs. After the strict training of Xiao Yao's third uncle, he is very clear about the passwords issued by people.

"Fox, up. "This password can only be intimidated, not rude.

"Fox, bite. "It's an order to use your own weapons, but only in moderation.

"Fox, bite it. "This is the ultimate command, and it can be played at will, without dying.

As for the daily commands such as lying down, sitting, running, and kneeling, the fox will not listen to the wrong explanation at all.

Xiao Yao put down the earth dog and hurried back to accompany everyone to pay New Year's greetings. By the time he returned, the fox had already licked the dirt on the dog's body, and the dog's eyes had a glow, and he could move his body and approach the fox.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Yao was arranged by his father to go out to a relative's house to pay New Year's greetings. is not a relative, and her sister Xiao Yu never goes with Xiao Yao.

Xiao's father's reason is that you are a boy, and you will have to support the gatehouse of the family in the future, and these things must be done by Xiao Yao. I also said that these distant relatives can't go to visit, so that others will say that our family has a little money, so they look down on poor relatives and fall into the mouth.

In this way, Xiao Yu took a big advantage. Because here, an uncle closest to Xiao Yao's family lives in the neighboring village to the west of Xiao Yao's family, which is closer than the new village where another station was built.

On the west side of Xiao Yao's house, across the river, is the field of his uncle's family, do you say it's close?

And those distant cousins, second uncles, third aunts, and relatives who are thousands of miles away, Xiao Yao had to embark on a long New Year's greeting road alone.

What makes Xiao Yao even more angry is that during the Chinese New Year, there is a lot of rain and snow, even if the weather is sunny and beautiful, as long as it snowed a year ago, the snow has not melted clean, and there is no possibility of riding a bicycle, so you can only walk.

If you are closer, Xiao Yao can go out early and return late, and if you are farther, you can only return the next day. However, fortunately, Xiao Yao's uncle's family is in the city. There are only a handful of relatives here in my hometown, and it will be over in a few days.

And one day when Xiao Yao came back from the New Year's greeting, he disappeared the dog, and Xiao's mother said that the owner of the dog heard that the dog was adopted by Xiao Yao, so he came to take it back.

A life was protected, and this incident also touched Xiao Yao a lot, and the pair of dog eyes with pleading eyes often flashed in his mind. It was also from then on that Xiao Yao decided not to kill again in his life.

After the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, there are not a few people in the local countryside who get married during the New Year. It is not uncommon to see two teams colliding with each other. At this time, one side must give way, but often no one wants to admit to giving way.

Xiao Yao had nothing to do at home that day, and remembered that he had promised Zhu Xihuan to go to his house to play during the New Year.

He is at home, every day to accompany the elders who come to pay New Year's greetings to toast politely, a table of banquets, he is a junior, from the opening of the banquet to the end of the banquet, he has to stand up and sit down dozens of times to toast, accompany the wine, so that he is very annoyed.

In the local area, this custom of the younger generation to stand up and drink in the face of the elders has a long history. Many people have developed the habit of standing respectfully as long as they toast, and dare not overstep.

Thinking that he could get rid of the embarrassing environment of accompanying guests and go out to play chic, he immediately took action, found a reason to resign to his parents, and hurriedly rushed to Zhu Xihuan's house.