Chapter 99: Chinese New Year (for Lingchatan and Clan)
The letter was written by Jiang Peimo, and on the three pages it was written what he was busy with and what he had encountered, and he even wrote down what he ate in bits and pieces, and at the end he regretted telling Xia Li that he might come back to see her in the next year. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Xia Li felt a little inexplicable, what is this, if you don't come back, you won't come back, what to say to yourself.
Xia Li threw the letter into the space and left it alone, and spent the New Year at home with peace of mind.
Since the old lady made the decision, her whole mentality has changed, she wants to open it, and secretly went to buy hair dye and asked Xia Li to dye her hair, Xia Li is not at ease with the hair dye for a few dollars, so she sent people to the barber shop.
Xia Li found that the old lady's physiognomy had changed, and the originally high cheekbones seemed to be set off by the flesh growing next to the cheeks.
When she was twenty-six years old, Xia Li began to accompany the old lady to buy things for the New Year on the street.
Wuming County belongs to the central and southern regions, the locals especially love to eat wax products, wax fish, wax duck, wax rabbit, wax pork, sausage, all kinds of cured meat, Xia Li pushed a cart to follow the old lady, and there were seven or eight plastic bags hanging on the handlebar.
Back at home, Xia He looked at his sister's bicycle and her already messy hair and laughed unkindly.
The angry Xia Li grabbed the little girl's ears and ravaged her for a long time before she was angry.
The women in the family are old and young, and the old lady went shopping in the morning and came home tired and paralyzed.
Xia Li had no choice but to wash her hands, put on an apron, sort all the fish and meat dishes, and make the lunch first, and then pack up the ingredients.
Xia Li, on the other hand, still likes to eat noodles, but rolling noodles is too troublesome, so she directly steamed a large pot of rice in a rice cooker, and then took out a strip of pork belly, and neatly cut it into thin slices of large meat under her hand.
One onion, five green chili peppers, two catties of fat and lean meat slices, and a spicy little fried meat came out.
After a few stir-fries, I stir-fried scrambled eggs with green onions, and finally mixed a spinach and tender tofu and beckoned my sister to serve the dishes to eat.
The old lady rested on the kang and planned to go down to cook, but she heard her eldest granddaughter call for dinner, thinking that it would be okay to eat some clear water noodles and make some good in the afternoon.
As a result, the little granddaughter brought in a few good dishes one after another, and they were all very fresh, especially the aroma of the fried meat.
An hour later, the old lady looked at the empty vegetable basin and the empty rice cooker, rubbed her belly that was a little supportive, and sighed: "I don't have to say anything about the craftsmanship of the big pear, how can this meat slice be so thin, if this was put in the past, this craft can be used to make meat cases in the big restaurant!"
Xia He on the side also ate comfortably, and when he heard his grandmother say that his sister could make meat cases, he laughed again, and when he turned his head and saw Xia Li's stiff face, he laughed even more.
Xia Li was too lazy to pay attention to the two old and the young, and cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and Xia He also sensibly got off the kang to help her sister wash the dishes.
Xia Li didn't stop her, Xia He is getting older, and she has to learn to do some housework.
And he cut all the fish, washed it, salted it, dried it in a basin, and hung it up when the water came out.
After washing the fish, Xia Li sorted and packed some meat and dry goods, and when the old lady went down to the kang to pickle the fish, she found that there was no work left, and she couldn't help but feel that her granddaughter had grown up.
The old lady made dinner, Xia Li continued to practice outside the hut, while Xia He wrote her winter vacation homework inside.
It wasn't until after Chinese New Year's Eve that the small courtyard became lively again.
On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the old lady and Xia Li got up early to cook a few dishes, cooked dumplings, fried glutinous rice cakes in oil, and sprinkled soybean flour with hot brown sugar syrup.
Da Li and Xia He had already paid New Year's greetings to their grandmother and Xia Zhongguo at twelve o'clock last night, and the two little ones worshiped the New Year after Xia Zhongguo set off firecrackers.
The old lady gave each of her two granddaughters a big red envelope, and then took the other one to look at her son.
Xia Zhongguo was a little embarrassed, touched his nose and stood up, and seriously gave his wife a New Year's greeting.
The old lady touched her son's head and smiled, "Good boy!"
Xia Li and Xia He laughed.
Xia Zhongguo also wrapped a big red envelope for each of the two children, their family experienced a lot of wind and rain in the previous year, first the eldest daughter fell into the mud and almost couldn't be saved, God blessed the child to wake up.
The children were kidnapped and narrowly escaped, and then they owed a huge amount of money, resulting in the loss and divorce of the couple, and a year to experience all the things that others might only experience in a lifetime.
Xia Zhongguo is also glad that although such an incident happened, fortunately, his family is safe and healthy.
After a meal in the morning, Xia Zhongguo drank too much, and was picked up by Xia Li to settle down to sleep.
The old lady happily set up a large table of melon seeds, candy and fresh fruits, and as soon as she put them on the table, she saw the eldest daughter with her grandson and great-grandson, and everyone came to the door.
Xia Lingling originally went back to her parents' house in the second year of junior high school, thinking about the incident that happened a while ago, so she came a day in advance, and explained a lot to her son and daughter-in-law before coming, and she must make the old lady happy.
Xia Lingling's grandson is more than half a year old, and he is a little fat man who loves to laugh, even if it is just humming and chirping nonsense, it makes everyone happy.
Xia Lingling's son and daughter-in-law went back in the third year of junior high school, and she herself stayed with her mother until the sixth year of junior high school before being forcibly driven away by the old lady.
After the people left, the house was clean, and early in the morning of the seventh day of the new year, Xia Zhongguo drove back to the countryside with the old lady, Xia Li, and Xia He.
The old lady wore Xia Li to the provincial capital to buy the jujube red down jacket, black woolen pants, short black boots, and her originally gray hair was cut short and dyed into small black rolls, and she looked younger and more fashionable than the old lady in the city.
The old house of the Xia family is behind the primary school in the village, it is a large courtyard covering an area of more than 600 square meters, some people in the village live in the old-fashioned stilted building, some are brick houses, and the Xia family house is a new brick house built a few years ago.
There is a row of three halls facing north and south, and two rooms on the east side, a utility room and a kitchen.
Opening the door, the old lady hurriedly took out all the burning paper, sent her son to burn the paper on the grave of the Xia family's grandparents, and she commanded her two granddaughters to clean the house simply.
As a result, not long after Xia Zhongguo went, his face turned black and he came back, and the old lady hurriedly asked what was wrong.
Xia Zhongguo looked at the good-looking old lady, and after thinking about it, he said what he saw and heard.
That man came back to visit his father's grave in the third year of junior high school, and went to see his uncle and met with several elders of the clan.