Chapter 8: Celebrating the New Year
Qin Xiaoyu didn't want it originally, but thinking about the Qin family's current predicament, he lowered his head and took the cloth bag with some embarrassment. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Luo Zhan took out another twenty yuan and handed it to Qin Xiaoyu: "This is the money for writing couplets today, take it." ”
Qin Xiaoyu thought that he had already received so many things from other people, and the lunch money was also from Luo Zhan, and now it was inappropriate to ask for so much money, so he hurriedly raised his head and said eagerly: "Uncle Luo, this money is too much, I can't ask for it." ”
Luo Zhan didn't say much, and pulled her hand and stuffed it into his palm. Qin Xiaoyu felt that the place where he was pulled by Luo Zhan was hot for a while, and he quickly lowered his head.
Luo Zhan looked at Qin Xiaoyu who lowered his head, afraid of scaring her, and said in a gentle voice as much as possible: "You take the money, have a good New Year, and don't come out to sell Spring Festival couplets again." You are still focused on learning. If you have any difficulties at home in the future, you can come to me. ”
After Luo Zhan finished speaking, he was surprised, Luo Fei kept saying that his brother's blood was cold, why did he meet Qin Xiaoyu now and keep pouring out his warm heart? .
Qin Xiaoyu held the money tightly in the palm of her hand, the edges and corners of the money were pierced in the flesh of the palm, stinging and painful, and she lowered her head, she knew that this was very bad, she shouldn't accept Luo Zhan's things and money, and she couldn't lose the bottom line because of poverty, but she didn't know how to refuse, so she could only have the opportunity to repay Luo Zhan well in the future.
"I won't send you out, I'm going to have a meeting later, pay attention on your own way." Luo Zhan admonished.
Qin Xiaoyu nodded: "Uncle Luo, you are busy, I can go by myself." ”
Qin Xiaoyu walked out of the gate of the army, only then did he look down and carefully look at the cloth bag in his arms, with an address written in black calligraphy on it, the recipient was Luo Zhan, and the sending address was a certain district in the capital.
Qin Xiaoyu looked at the address on the cloth bag, his eyes turned red, in a certain district of the capital, where did his grandmother's family live in his previous life, he snorted violently when he thought about it, blinked his eyes twice, and held back his tears again.
met Qin Lang who came to pick her up halfway, as well as Liu Karwei. Qin Lang took the cloth bag she was holding, "Ah, what's it, it's so heavy." ”
"Peanuts and sugar from Camp Commander Luo." Qin Xiaoyu whispered.
"Battalion Commander Luo is really a good person." Luo Zhan is now Qin Lang's idol.
"Xiaoyu, you write really well with a brush, and you can cut paper? That's amazing! Liu Kar-wai looked at Qin Li appreciatively.
In the afternoon, he came to play with the Qin family brothers and sisters, and Qin Lang praised his sister proudly.
Qin Xiaoyu smiled, didn't speak, and asked Qin Lang instead: "Brother, I asked you to buy red paper, did you buy it?" ”
"Bought it, bought it" Qin Lang was busy pulling out the candy from the bag. "Oops, it's cellophane sugar." Qin Lang was pleasantly surprised and grabbed a handful of sugar, colorful candy wrappers, unlike the paper wrappers that his family buys every year.
Qin Lang grabbed a few for Liu Karwei, and stuffed another one for Qin Xiaoyu, and then couldn't wait to peel one off and stuff it into his mouth, with a satisfied look.
Lau Kar-wai is also a big boy after all, and it is very rare to stuff the candy in his pocket, take out one and peel it and eat it in his mouth. Milky and delicious.
Qin Xiaoyu smiled and ate the candy in his mouth, and the three of them walked home together.
"Xiaoyu, why do you say that Battalion Commander Luo is so good to us, do you see me like a soldier and want to train me?" The more Qin Lang thought about it, the more he felt that his analysis was correct, or he could still give himself big-toed shoes and military coats.
Qin Xiaoyu laughed unconsciously, she felt that Luo Zhan must have helped them like this because of the embarrassment of their brother and sister.
After the brother and sister arrived home, Feng Yuzhen saw that she got back such a big bag of candy and peanuts, she was very happy, she didn't have to buy sugar for the New Year, and she was a little reluctant to see that it was all cellophane good sugar: "Such a good sugar, those monkey children came to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the new year, and one person grabbed a handful, and he had to finish it, let's buy some cheap fruit candy, and then eat it after keeping it at home for relatives." Qin Xiaoyu looked at Feng Yuhua and felt very cute.
Qin Xiaoyu took out the twenty yuan given by Luo Zhan and gave it to Qin Zhenhua, Qin Zhenhua was surprised, he gave forty in the past two days, this Luo Zhan is too generous. "Why did Camp Commander Luo give so much money?"
"Battalion Commander Luo sees me like a soldier, and wants to train me well, that's why he is so good to our family." Qin Lang had sugar in his mouth and said unashamedly.
Qin Zhenhua couldn't think of any other reason, and felt that this reason was justified, so he nodded, "Qin Lang, you have to fight for strength, when you come to recruit in the autumn, you must test it, or the Luo battalion commander will be so good to our family." ”
Qin Lang nodded solemnly.
Feng Yuzhen suddenly remembered something and said: "The twenty-sixth old five families of Layue are married to their daughters, who will take the three of you?" ”
Qin Lang thought for a while and said, "Let my sister go, I've eaten enough meat in the past two days." ”
Qin Zhenhua accosted him and said, "Why don't you take the child, let's go." ”
Feng Yuzhen glanced at Qin Zhenhua and said, "Why don't you bring it, look at it, Zhang Laosan's family has to bring all three daughters, it is estimated that from the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, a family of five will already eat at someone's house." Besides, we're paying three dollars, and we're going to lose money. ”
Qin Xiaoyu understood this, Feng Yuzhen was afraid that she would not be able to eat back the original three yuan, so she said with a smile: "Mom, I'll go with you." ”
After dinner, Qin Xiaoyu cut the window flowers under the light, she felt that the place where she grinded out the blisters was estimated to be even worse, and it always hurt at this time, so she gritted her teeth and endured it quickly.
This is the first time Qin Zhenhua and his family have seen their daughter cut paper, cut one, Feng Yuzhen took it and unfolded it, and said straight in her mouth: "It's so beautiful, this bird is the same as a living one." My daughter's hand is so clever. ”
The next day was the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Xiao Nian, the three brothers and sisters took the window flowers cut the night before, wrote couplets on the spot, the business was very good, it was sold out early, Qin Lang and Qin Xiaoxia counted the money, and there were more than 20 yuan. Although Qin Xiaoyu felt a hot pain in his hands, he was very happy in his heart.
Qin Xiaoyu proposed to celebrate the New Year today, buy some meat and go back, don't wait for twenty-five or six to buy it. Qin Lang and Qin Xiaoxia both felt that they had made money and should cut some meat.
This is an ethnic minority area, and many people believe in Islam, so beef and mutton are expensive in the market, but pork is cheap. Qin Xiaoyu calculated left and right for a long time before he bought two catties of pork, a piece of tofu, and twenty pieces of red paper.
The three of them went home happily. Qin Xiaoyu thought that he would start selling it again tomorrow, so he would buy some more meat, frozen fish or something. Qin Lang walked halfway, and suddenly said: "I forgot to pull the cloth for the two of you, let's go, let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative, pull the cloth, and then go back." ”
Qin Xiaoyu waved his hand: "I don't have to buy it, just wash the clothes and clean them." "No, you can't spend money anymore, and after the New Year, there will be no place to make money.
Qin Xiaoxia also said: "Yes, I don't buy new clothes anymore, I want to buy a pen when I keep the money for school." ”
Qin Lang saw that his sisters insisted, so he didn't say anything, and when the three of them arrived home, it was already past lunch time. Feng Yuzhen saw that the children were all back, and hurriedly said, "Have you eaten?" I don't know if you come back, your dad and I baked a bud rice cake on the stove at noon to eat, what do you want to eat? ”
Qin Lang said: "Mom, don't do it, the three of us can bake a cake and eat it, we bought a lot of meat, let's stew meat and eat it at night." ”
Feng Yuzhen saw that she bought so much meat and said: "Stir-fry, stew meat is too meat-intensive"
Qin Xiaoyu smiled and put his arm around Feng Yuzhen and said, "Mom, let's eat stewed meat today, and we'll buy meat tomorrow." ”