The New Year in the fishing village is very lively, early in the morning on the 30th, every household will put up Spring Festival couplets and hang two red lanterns at the door. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The lanterns are all homemade, made of bamboo strips or wooden strips to make a rack, and the outside is pasted with red paper. The shape varies, square, round, and even bull-shaped or fish-shaped. If there is a skillful person at home, they will cut out various patterns on the red paper like cutting window flowers, and then paste it. Put a piece of wax in it and light it up in the evening, which is not interesting.

After breakfast, the dolls put on new clothes, each took a cloth bag like a blanket, and went from house to house. No matter who you go to, grab a handful of peanuts and melon seeds, or give you a few pieces of home-made candy.

A village came down, and the sacks were full. Three or five good people get together to show how many things they have gotten, and when they see that you have what I don't have, they exchange some with each other.

Most of the begging dolls are male dolls, and the female dolls are rare, all of them are five or six years old to eight or nine years old. People like Mulan and Moon, who are more than ten years old, will not join in the fun.

Shanzi begged for a few rare things from the second master's house, and he was not willing to exchange them with others, so he ran home with a cigarette and handed them to Mulan awkwardly, "This is for you to eat." ”

Mulan was picking up the shrimp line, and she couldn't spare her hand to pick it up, so she stretched out her head to take a look, and saw that he was holding an oiled paper bag in his hand, in which was a piece of pea yellow, a kidney bean roll, and three or four small sugar ears. The fishermen's family can't make such exquisite dim sum, so I think it's a New Year's gift from the daughter of the second master who married into the town.

She is not a child, where can she grab snacks with Shanzi? smiled at him, "I don't like sweets, you can eat by yourself." ”

Shanzi happily gave the food, and she accepted it happily. I didn't think she wanted to, and her shoulders collapsed. Holding the oiled paper bag, it was not to send or receive, and his face was red.

Mulan was a little upset when she saw him like this, and hurriedly pointed to the sugar ears that had a lot of indexes, "Why don't you leave me a here, I've eaten it all on the side, but I haven't eaten this thing." ”

Shanzi let out a sigh of relief, and his face looked much better, "I'll leave you two." ”

"Done. Mulan didn't want to push him anymore, and planned to get money from Shopkeeper Han in the future and buy more for him, "Thank you." ”

Shanzi squirmed again, "No...... No. ”

Tear off a piece of oiled paper and put it on the stove, grab two sugar ears and put them down, and run out of the door as if he were running away.

Xiu Gu hugged a bundle of firewood and stood outside the door, and when she saw her son running past her in a gust of wind, her face was quite ugly. Entering the door and putting down the firewood, he glanced at the sugar ears on the stove, and asked knowingly, "Yo, where did this rarity come from?"

Mulan couldn't hear the sourness in her tone, and smiled quietly: "Shanzi begged for it, and specially sent it back for Aunt Dachun to taste." ”

When Xiu Gu heard her say this, she unceremoniously pinched one and put it in her mouth, chewed it twice and swallowed it, and said with a disgusted face: "Isn't it just a dough pimple coated with sugar? I don't like to eat, so you can eat the rest. ”

Mulan smiled and continued to pick the shrimp line.

Because of her interest, Xiu Gu somewhat rounded her face and calmed down, but she couldn't get over that hurdle in her heart after all. When Da Chun came back from wandering outside, he complained to him: "Stinky boy, he really raised him for nothing." If there is something delicious, I think about my daughter-in-law first, but I forget my mother to the back of my mind. ”

Da Chun listened to her scolding silently for a long time before replying, "Didn't you tell him to be nicer to Mulan?"

"I told him, then he can't have a daughter-in-law and forget his mother. The more Xiu Gu said, the more aggrieved she became, "This is not a marriage yet, but after becoming a parent, is there still a place for me to stay in this house?"

Da Chun knew in her heart that she was not only for the idea in front of her, but she had been angry all the time when she beat Mulan to take over the work for Haizi. I have talked about it several times behind Mulan's back, saying that I am a lucky star and a lucky star, but I don't see any blessings for my own family, just to give someone else to attract wealth and treasure.

She also knew that Da Chun didn't have the same ability as Haizi, her eyes were red, and she was afraid that she would offend Mulan and lose the cheap daughter-in-law who was sent to the door, so she didn't turn her face.

At this time, she was nagging impatiently, and she couldn't help but say the words that had been held in her heart for a long time, "You don't eat dry vinegar with a daughter-in-law, and it's uncertain whether you can become our daughter-in-law." ”

Although he didn't know how Mulan met the shopkeeper Han, he could guess that it was not as simple as she said. As soon as she can help Haizi get such a good job, how can she be an ordinary female doll?

Fang Cai talked with the second donkey and Wangcai together, and when it came to Mulan, Wangcai also said that she was a golden phoenix that fell into the grass nest.

Their Shanzi is still a small house finch, and when she grows up, she is at most an osprey, where is she worthy of the golden phoenix?

Xiu Gu didn't like to hear him say this, "Why can't you say it for sure?" Ask her to look for it in ten miles and eight villages, and see if she can find someone who knows how to hurt people better than our Shanzi?"

"Shanzi is good to Mulan, you scolded him for marrying a daughter-in-law and forgetting his mother, and now he has become a good thing to know that he hurts people? Da Chun was too lazy to fight this donkey's tongue lawsuit with her, so he put down these two sentences, opened the door curtain and came out.

Xiu Gu was stunned for a moment, grabbed the kang broom and threw it over, and scolded with a throat: "You two are virtuous, and they are both white-eyed wolves." ”

Da Chun ignored her and strode out of the door. When I went to the yard, I saw Mulan carrying water from the well, so I hurriedly rushed to help. Filled the water tank in one go, glanced at Mulan who was busy preparing the New Year's dinner, and couldn't help but sigh.

Such a good female doll, who should be well fed and dressed, raised white and pure, and live with them in this poor and remote country, can not be delayed? I hope that she can remember her identity and return to the phoenix nest as soon as possible. But when she thought of leaving, she was reluctant to go.

How good would it be to fight his own daughter from the beginning?

Mulan sighed when she saw Da Chun looking at her, but she didn't take it to heart when Xiu Gu said something she didn't like.

Finely remove the bones from the fish, scrape off the minced meat layer by layer, mix the filling and knead it into fish balls, and throw them into the boiling water one by one. After boiling, take cold water for a while, and it is full of elasticity. Set it aside for a while, and cook a fish ball soup later.

The New Year is still two meals, one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the evening. As soon as noon passed, the families began to feast one after another. The firecrackers crackled endlessly, and in a short time the confetti fell to the ground.

The chicken is stewed in the morning, and it is already crispy by this time; the meat is also steamed thoroughly, and the fat and lean are cut into large slices and put on a plate, and served with a plate of garlic paste, which is a good dish; the bacon is fried with fungus and cabbage, the kelp is roasted with tofu, the fish is poured with sauce, a plate of shrimp is fried, and a squid ring is fried; a plate of shredded radish is mixed with sweet and sour, which is refreshing and oily; and then a dish of dried seaweed with clams is used to make an egg drop soup.

Eight dishes and two soups, all of which were handled by Mulan alone, and Xiu Gu only helped to light a few fires.

The family went to the table, and as soon as they sat down, Da Chun took out two red envelopes, one to Shanzi, and the other to Mulan, "This is the New Year's money for you, so you can collect it." ”

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