Chapter 604

When the New Year is approaching, Ah Gong, Uncle Jiabao, and Jiang Junlin don't go up the mountain, and stay at home to do some housework and tidy up the medicinal herb warehouse in the small bag yam garden.

Xiao Man, Gu Shaoqin, and Dazhi went to the mountain to see Zheng Shaoyao's half-mountain villa, and found that the plantation had been expanded a lot, and the medicinal seedlings were moved from the small mountain bag garden, and the spring water on the mountain was brought to irradiate, and the growth was very good. The workers' dormitory and garage were built at the foot of the mountain, and there was a lookout pavilion on the mountain, and there were people on duty, with four wolf dogs, all of them as tall and strong as calves, and the dragons and tigers were alert and fierce, and ordinary people would never dare to come to steal medicinal materials, that is, it was not ordinary, and if you wanted to take this risk, you had to weigh it.

Vegetables are planted on the mountain, chickens are raised, and when the pigs are killed, they will send some fresh pork, mutton, ducks and geese to celebrate the festival.

When Ah Gong was a little free, he began to mutter, "Will anyone come back for the holidays?" If it weren't for Grandma's fear of affecting his work and preventing him from making phone calls, he was afraid that he would really have to call one by one to ask.

Xiao Man also wanted to call Gu Shaojun, but she still couldn't help but call, she went back to the south for the holiday Gu Shaojun knew, at that time he said on the phone that he was very busy and couldn't take a break, but it seemed to be hinted at, Xiao Man calmed down and looked forward silently, hoping that the wish would not be disappointed.

From the 26th to the 29th of the Lunar New Year, the festive atmosphere is particularly strong, almost every household in the village kills New Year's pigs, relatives and neighbors treat each other and give gifts, lively and festive laughter continues.

In this kind of day, in addition to eating and drinking, the men get together to chat, from the national events on the TV news to the parents, or they talk about the past and the present, and tell all kinds of jokes, which is a rare leisure; the women are busy, and the meat that cannot be eaten by the pigs must be smoked into bacon, and they also have to steam glutinous rice, make glutinous rice and glutinous rice cakes, wrap zongzi and boil red eggs, fried tea fruits, fried button meat and meatballs, slaughter chickens and ducks to prepare sacrifices to the ancestors...... There are too many things to do, such as cleaning the house, asking the door god to post couplets, buying firecrackers, and handing them over to the children at home.

Xiao Man and Xinghua were also busy for two days, making a lot of delicious food, and later were kicked out of the kitchen by Grandma and Yu Wumei, saying that on the New Year's Day, the girl's family should not always be bored in the kitchen, and should dress up beautifully and go out to play.

Xinghua really put on new clothes and played happily, she and Jiang Junlin were in pairs, of course Xiao Man couldn't rush to make a light bulb, Gu Shaoqin was taken by Dazhi, Mo Zhiyuan and others to play wild these days, I don't know which mountain to go to drill a cave, Xiao Man had to still be her child king, carrying girls such as Qiu Yan and Jiang Xuehua, and walking around the village to take a look.

can only walk and watch like this, because no one has time to greet her to play with her, Ai Lan and Mo Shuixia are the eldest daughters in the family, they have to work in the kitchen, they are so busy that they can't stop, Mo Linghui doesn't have to work, people are knitting sweaters for their lovers wholeheartedly, saying that they can wear new vests when they promise to start school, and they can't be greedy to delay time!

Xiao Man watched Mo Linghui knit carefully with stitches and threads, and was shocked: I also have a boyfriend, should I also weave something?

In her previous life, when she was young, she would only do hard work and could not do any handiwork, and then she went to the city, and after the nineties, there were not too many machine knitwear, which were beautiful and strong, and the handmade fabrics took time and were slow, and they were basically eliminated. But it's still the 80s, and hand-knitted sweaters are known as "warm cards", and a man in love can get a sweater or scarf carefully knitted by the woman, which is worth showing off!

Xiao Man secretly thought that he had to learn and knit a sweater or vest for Gu Shaojun, even if it was a scarf.

Chinese New Year's Eve night, after Ah Gong led Mo Jiabao and the children to worship their ancestors in the incense hall, Dapeng lit two of the countless long firecrackers hanging down from the upper floor, and the rest, listening to Gu Shaoqin's suggestion, stayed until midnight and then lit them, Xiao Man watched a few boys have nothing to do, jumping upstairs and downstairs to tinker with these, and felt that they were really stupid: the firecrackers were exposed to the air for a long time and were damp, and the power of the sound was greatly reduced, in case of another snow and rain......

Don't look at the strings of fiery red firecrackers hanging down from the roof of the building, it's very beautiful and festive, Xiao Man is too lazy to talk, let them toss, and let everyone watch a lively.

At seven o'clock, the sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was placed in the hall, everyone sat around, all full of joy and smile, ready to share the feast, the big color TV was on, although it was not yet the time of the Spring Festival Gala, it was also a festive and peaceful group of singing and dancing.

Ah Gong asked Dapeng Qiuyan to pour all the cups and cups on the table with wine and drinks, and also learned from Grandpa Gu and Grandpa Tang in the capital, to speak before the banquet, and Jiang Junlin led everyone to applaud in a serious manner, like a decent, Ah Gong and Grandma blossomed, and Xiao Man smiled and squinted.

After drinking the first glass of wine, everyone raised their chopsticks to eat, Xiao Man took a piece of chicken in the bowl, paused slightly, released his sense of consciousness again to scan it in all directions, suddenly threw down the chopsticks, and shouted happily to Ah Gong: "Ah Gong, someone is back! Listen, a car is coming!"

After speaking, he jumped up and ran out, Gu Shaoqin followed, everyone also left their seats and ran out of the door, grandma said to the fifth sister: "It is estimated that Shaojun is back." On this very cold day, driving back from the provincial capital, the young man must be in a hurry to drive all the way, and he will freeze to see if there is any hot water.

"Yes, yes, yes! This big stove that boiled water all day has not been burned, everyone washes their hair and bathes apricot blossoms and washes clothes with hot water, just now I added a big pot, I'm afraid it's about to boil!" Yu Wumei replied while hurriedly running to the kitchen, you have to mix the hot water, and you can wash it as soon as you come in.

Grandma didn't expect it badly, and it was Gu Shaojun in the car that came at a gallop.

Xiao Man opened the iron door and ran to the door, jumping and jumping with joy, the weather was sunny at this time, but the wind was very cold, whirring straight away, a large group of people who followed out did not care about putting on their coats, they all shrank their necks, and the apricot blossoms were taken into Jiang Junlin's arms, she looked at the other side of the road shining by the headlights, and sighed in her heart: Sure enough, Ah Gong didn't deceive people, the longer she practiced kung fu, her hearing was stronger than others! It seems that Xiao Man's sister has practiced kung fu at home, so far away, she can hear the sound of cars in the house!

The car approached quickly, the door opened, and the first person to get down was Gu Shaozheng, this Xiaoman knew, everyone was surprised, Ah Gong was happy to step forward and pat Gu Shaozheng on the shoulder, he thought that there was only Gu Shaojun, and one more person came back, he was so happy.