On the afternoon of the 25th day of the lunar month, the second son Lin Wenbin and the second daughter Lin Yuxian, who went to college in the provincial capital, came back for the New Year with the eldest daughter Lin Yuzhao, who participated in the work, and the eldest daughter not only brought back a lot of gifts, but also brought back an 18-inch Panda brand color TV. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This can stunned the people who live nearby, color TV is a rarity, many people have not seen it, so the night after returning to the courtyard is lively again.

After dinner, the big guys sat in a row at the door of their uncle's house with a bench and watched TV, but they consumed a lot of their uncle's stock of melon seeds and peanuts.

Lin Wenshan's fried dry goods business is also doing well, only for less than two months. After removing the cost, there are more than 2,300, but this is the end of the year, and every household has to prepare more to eat and entertain guests, which is usually not such a good market.

Lin Wenshan gave 800 to the third brother's family, and the rest was not given to his wife, he was happy in his heart, and planned to buy some New Year's goods, "Thanks to the idea of my daughter, I should buy her a new set of clothes!" ”

The next day, a family of four went to the street to buy New Year's goods, and there were many people walking on the road.

On the street these days, it is the time when there are the most people, because there are many shops in the ancient town, there are many things, and the price is also fair, not only the people who live in the ancient town, but also many people in the neighboring township come here to buy.

The streets are full of people, usually even if it is a market street with more people, now people are crowded, this end can't see that end, and there are few empty-handed, all big bags and small bags to buy, and there are even people who take wheelbarrows out to do goods.

Lin Wenshan had a vegetable basket hanging on his arm, and he was still holding Lin Ziqing, and led a family of four to squeeze in from the crowd, planning to go to the clothing store in the middle of the market street to buy a few sets of clothes first.

"So many people, I knew that I should have gone to the clothing store in the city to buy a few sets of clothes last time, and I was afraid that what I bought would not fit too well, thinking that the town would not be more expensive than the city!" Lin Wenshan put Lin Ziqing, who was in his arms, on the ground, and said with a big breath.

"It's also said that next year, when we buy New Year's goods, we will go to the city to buy some and come back, the streets in the town are just like this, and the crowds are uncomfortable." Mom also agrees, mainly because she has made some money selling dry goods this year, and she has a little confidence in speaking.

"Look, there's a big new clothing store here!" Tan Liyun saw a new 3-room store open opposite the store where she usually sells clothes, so she walked there.

"Lin Ziqing." As soon as she entered the clothing store, a girl came out and called out to her

Lin Ziqing glanced at the two girls holding hands from the direction where the voice came, she glanced at it, one of them turned out to be Xie Weiwei, and the other girl was wearing a high ponytail and a red plaid skirt of wool.

"You're going to buy clothes, too." Lin Ziqing greeted Xie Weiwei

"Hey, no, this is a shop opened by my classmate, I came to play with her, oh, it's the one next to me." Xie Weiwei took the hand of the girl next to him and introduced her to her

"Hehe, hello, my name is Lai Minmo, I've heard of you, I heard that you are very smart, you learn so many things at such a young age!" After speaking, the girl also stretched out a hand and directly held Lin Ziqing's hand, looking familiar.

"Hmm, how can it be so exaggerated, hehe!" Lin Ziqing smiled awkwardly, she turned her head and saw her family choosing clothes on the other side,

"I'm going to my mom's, we'll talk when we have time!"

"Hey, this is my family's store, you want to buy clothes, what kind of do you want, I'll introduce it to you! Come on, come here, this is the children's clothing area, let me tell you I have a good eye! Lai Minli didn't let go of Lin Ziqing's hand, and pulled her to the place where children's clothes were stored

Lin Ziqing smiled embarrassedly at Lai Minli and said, "No, I'd better go to my mother, I listen to my mother, she will buy whatever she buys me!" After Lin Ziqing finished speaking, she turned around and walked to her family

"Hey, don't go!" Lai Minli shouted a little unwillingly

"Don't call her, maybe her mother won't buy her such high-end clothes, this new children's clothes are not cheap, I'm afraid I can't afford it!" Xie whispered to Lai Minli

"Oh, let's go out shopping, it's not fun to be in our own store all the time." As he spoke, he took Xie Weiwei's hand and walked out of the clothing store, Xie Weiwei walked to the door and turned his head to look at Lin Ziqing and them.

Lin Ziqing's family bought clothes, and then went to the farmers' market at the end of the street to buy vegetables for the New Year, fish and meat do not need to be bought, grandparents kept a few when they started the fish pond, and the meat was also available at home, which was enough. There is no need to buy chickens, Lin Yumei sent a rooster to follow a few big winter bamboo shoots.

So Lin Wenshan generously weighed a few catties of beef brisket, and he hadn't eaten braised beef brisket for many years. Later, Lin Wenshan saw a goat seller again, Lin Wenshan likes to eat mutton very much, but he usually can't afford to eat it, and he always wants to buy some mutton and come back to eat. Especially the carrot stew, he walked over and told the boss to ask for a goat leg.

Tan Liyun saw it and felt that the mutton was a little expensive, so she snatched the leg of mutton and handed it back to the boss, "Boss, we don't want this." ”

The boss was a little unhappy, "Look at you, I didn't say hello to the others, so I talked to this young man for a long time, and they all negotiated a good price, so you just said no, so it's unreasonable." During the Chinese New Year, everyone wanted to be happy. ”

Tan Liyun said, "I can't smell this smell, I don't like to eat this." ”

Lin Wenshan was a little unhappy, holding back and not speaking.

Lin Ziqing glanced at her father and pulled the corner of Tan Liyun's clothes, "Mom, the leg of mutton is delicious, ask Dad to follow the recipe and make a dish that doesn't taste good, and eating mutton in winter is very nourishing!" Mom bought it. ”

Tan Liyun saw that her daughter was asking for it, so she nodded and agreed, a big goat's leg was more than four catties, and it cost more than 20 yuan, Tan Liyun was a little painful again.

But after thinking about it, since both of them liked it, they paid for it.

Then they bought some vermicelli, fish balls, duck eggs and some condiments, bought a few packets of preserved fruits, and bought a hanging firecracker and incense candles. After buying it, the family went home happily.

When I got home, the Li family came over in the yard, and Xiulian, the daughter of the Li family, said loudly, "Oh, Wenshan, it seems that the family is doing well this year, selling melon seeds, making a lot of money, buying so many good things." ”

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Li family looked at the basket and said, "Yes, these are very good things you bought." ”

"Hey, they're all worthless things, like you, they're all expensive to buy." Tan Liyun coped, and after speaking, she took her family to the courtyard where she lived.

In the past few days of the New Year, adults are also a lot more tolerant of children, rarely scolded, and will not fight, if the child cries at home during the New Year, the omen is also unlucky, so these days, children are the happiest, eat and drink and have fun, and parents will not scold if they do something wrong.

Unknowingly, it was Chinese New Year's Eve, in Lin Ziqing's memory, Chinese New Year's Eve, when she was a teenager, she was lonely and desolate, she and her father were in the house, how there was no New Year's atmosphere, and her brother ran away many times.

But now it's different, Lin Ziqing just woke up, and was hugged by her mother's big hand and helped her put on new clothes and new pants. Then take her by the hand and go to breakfast.

This morning, I ate ordinary porridge and side dishes, and the main meal was usually eaten at noon, and after breakfast, Lin Wenshan began to kill chickens and fish.

The bones and radish taro stewed in the pot over low heat are emitting a fragrance, which is a dish that must be made in the ancient town for the New Year.

The pigs raised by myself, all kinds of big bones taken out, local winter radish, and red bud taro, the stewed soup is mellow and delicious, which is incomparable to the materials bought in the supermarket later!

As the old saying goes, "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, no need for a doctor to prescribe medicine," so almost everyone in the ancient town will plant some radish, after the taro is cooked, it is soft and glutinous and sweet, and the taste is very good, and the elderly and children like it. Twenty years later, Lin Ziqing has eaten more than what she has done at this time.

Lin Ziqing couldn't help much in the kitchen, so when it was time to post couplets, she went to see her uncle write couplets.

Because the current couplets are bought on some red paper by their own families and written by themselves, and Uncle Lin Dewang writes a good hand, so every year the couplet Uncle writes several pieces.

After my uncle finished writing, he dried the ink and gave it to Lin Ziqing's house.

Lin Ziqing looked at it, Shanglian: Spring returns to the earth and the world is warm,

Downlink: Blessing to Shenzhou is coming to the door

Horizontal batch: Fuxi Yingmen.

The writing is really good, this is all decades of skill, if I also write for more than ten or twenty years, I hope the words can be so good.

Finally finished being busy, Lin Wenshan invited his parents, uncles and aunts, and then called the third brother's family. Dinner will be eaten at the third brother's house.

Lin Ziqing's grandfather Lin Desen and her grandmother Liang Limei sat on the upper seat, looking at so many bowls of dishes on the table, Lin Ziqing's grandmother's mouth couldn't close when she smiled, seeing that the life of her son's family was getting better and better, and it was not as tight as before, speaking of which, this year is the most surplus year, and several daughters-in-law have bought them new clothes, thinking of this, the smile on her face is even brighter.

I was very happy to eat a meal, because I had to continue to eat at the third uncle's house in the evening, and everyone didn't drink too much wine at noon.

In the evening, the third uncle's family and the uncle's family ate together, and there were many people in the evening, and it was even more lively, and the crackling firecrackers sounded outside the courtyard. Adults drink and fight.

The children are full of food and get off the table early, and the boys like to go to the front of the yard to put a few firecrackers, all of which are one by one, lit with long incense, and have a lot of fun. A few girls sat on a bench and watched TV at the door of their uncle's house.

The Spring Festival Gala has begun, Lin Ziqing has almost no impression of this, although she didn't watch this show much before, but now there is no other entertainment, she is quite interested.

Tonight, everyone basically won't sleep, although there is no custom of vigil here in the ancient town, but at twelve o'clock in the evening, adults will set off a long list of firecrackers outside, and after the release, it is time to give the children New Year's money.

Of course, there are also those who can't stay up and are sleepy, and those who have gone to bed early, and adults will put the New Year's money under the children's pillows.

This year, Lin Ziqing actually received ten yuan of New Year's money. In the previous life, when Lin Ziqing was less than ten years old, the New Year's money was basically five yuan, and the younger brother only gave two yuan.

Lin Ziqing smiled, thinking to herself, it seems that the family is a little better now than in the previous life, maybe it will be better in the future, and the painful past that buried herself deeply in her heart may not happen.