On the day of the New Year's Eve, Xiao Qiao got up early, not only because Hu Li was persevering in the courtyard early in the morning to let the red halberd learn to speak on the last day of the year, but also because he couldn't sleep lazily on this day.

Because he was going to worship his ancestors today, as the eldest son of the Xiao family, Xiao Qiao followed Xiao's father to the ancestral hall early in the morning. Hu Li, who still couldn't teach the red halberd to speak, went to the kitchen in discouragement, and followed the master back and forth in the kitchen, and the greedy hara was about to flow down.

The master Fu Fu's hair and eyebrows are about to fall out, this little boy follows behind him, he is afraid that a little boy with this small body will be bumped into by accident, and he has to be careful and careful when he walks.

Or a grandmother in the kitchen took a few plates of snacks from the hot cage drawer and gave them to Hu Li, saying that he would help send them to the old lady, and Hu Li reluctantly left the fragrant kitchen.

After Hu Li delivered the snacks to the old lady, he stayed, eating with the old lady, and talking to the old lady while nesting beside the old lady.

Xiao Qiao and Xiao's father are writing the Spring Festival couplets that are about to be used in the study, although Xiao's father is a little old-fashioned, but the words are good. Xiao Qiao finished writing the last stroke, put the pen down, and rubbed his somewhat tired wrist.

"Father, the child is done."

Father Xiao put down the pen, poked his head over to look at it, and said with a smile: "Not bad." ”

Xiao Qiao shook his head with a smile, thinking of Hu Li's painful expression every time he practiced calligraphy, and laughed directly.

Xiao's father looked at Xiao Qiao suspiciously, Xiao Qiao pointed to the Spring Festival couplets that were still drying, "The child asked Xiaoli to practice calligraphy before, don't you know, Xiaoli's words are really ...... As a result, he fished for three days and dried nets for two days, and there has been no improvement in this word so far. ”

Father Xiao thought of the little boy in Xiao Qiao's yard, and laughed along, "A few days ago, I met him in Tianxianglou, and he was still a child who didn't grow up. ”

Xiao Qiao nodded, "The child wants him to be so simple, after all, it's rare." In this Xiao Mansion, the child has never seen anyone else who can make the child talk so carelessly. ”

Father Xiao didn't know what he thought, he was silent, and the smile on his face was put away.

"Okay, go to your grandmother. I heard that the kid was there, too. Father Xiao called someone in, took out the dried Spring Festival couplets and pasted them, and took Xiao Qiao to the old lady's place.

happened to meet Xiao's mother and An's on the way, Xiao Qiao gave Xiao's mother a salute, "Mother is better, I'm going to greet you this morning, Mama Liu said that your body is not very good." ”

Xiao's mother waved her hand, "It's okay, it's just that I can't sleep at night." Master, are you going to my mother's? ”

"Exactly, you should come along." Father Xiao nodded, "For the first two years, you were in charge of the New Year. This year, you are not in good health, so you have worked your mother. Now that you're fine, help your mother do something. ”

"Yes."

Xiao's father and Xiao's mother were talking, An was playing on the side, and Xiao Qiao was walking to the side and listening silently.

In fact, since Xiao Jingshu was married to the Qi family, he has been dispensable for revenge on Xiao's mother. If Xiao's mother knew that Xiao Qiao was not having a good time in the Qi family today, he asked Ying'e to tease her secretly, and she must have wanted to kill herself.

Oh no, he already wanted to kill himself.

If it weren't for Xia Yi's ability to poison, if it weren't for the last time Xiaoli was suddenly poisoned and the chronic poison appeared in front of people, I am afraid that Xiao's mother would continue to send him those "good things".

When the four of them arrived, they heard Hu Li and Xiao Jinghao laughing happily with the old lady, and the maid at the door saw them coming, and hurriedly opened the curtain, "Old lady, the old man is here with his wife, the eldest young master and Aunt An." ”

Mama Yu walked quickly to the door, welcomed the four of them in, squinted her eyes and smiled: "The old man and the eldest young master are here, the old lady just said, saying that the old man and the eldest young master wrote a lot of words, I was afraid that my hands would hurt, so I specially instructed my subordinates to find some mugwort and soak them in water, so that the muscles and veins can be dredged and the pain can be relieved." ”

The old lady's voice came from the inner room, "As for your broken mouth, you don't let anyone in, and you are all blocked at the door." ”

Mama Yu smiled, "Look at my short-sighted one, master, write it in quickly." ”

Mother Xiao almost gritted her teeth when she looked at Mama Yu's smile, every time this old woman saw him, she longed for her eyes to grow to the sky, she really thought she was the person next to the old thing, couldn't she help it?

Thinking of Xiao Jingshu, who was still in the Qi family, Xiao's mother finally suppressed the fire in her stomach, at this time, the old lady was still a deterrent to the Qi family. Although she didn't know what the Qi family was afraid of that old thing from the day she married to Xiao Mansion, could it be that her father and brother had any handle in the hands of that old thing?

Whether the Qi family has a handle in the hands of the old lady, Mama Yu can be responsible for suing Xiao's mother, and there really is. But even so, the Qi family has never dared to come to the trouble of the old lady.

Of course, Mama Yu will not sue Xiao's mother for these things, she actually wants to see what the poisonous woman of the Qi family dares to do.

There are a lot of things to do on this day, and after lunch, the kitchen begins to cook Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and wrap flat food. Originally, Hu Li didn't know about the old lady, but the red halberd ran out vigorously, and even the old lady looked at the red halberd in surprise.

In the end, Hu Li tied a wrist guard around his arm, and let the red halberd stand on it, carrying it majesticly and high-spirited...... Went to the kitchen.

The red halberd black bean's eyes were full of coveting meat, and he stood at the door of the kitchen with his eyes blank with his master, his expression was the same, and he deserved to be the main favorite.

The two of them here are about to become a big trouble for the chef, and Xiao Qiao followed Xiao's father and others to open the ancestral hall and prepare for the worship of the ancestors.

Ancestor worship is not so cumbersome for the Xiao family, the Xiao family started in the generation of Xiao Qiao's great-grandfather, Xiao's great-grandfather was an orphan, and there was no ancestor to sacrifice. Although Xiao Qiao's grandfather achieved Cheng Dù as a first-class member in the end, the Xiao family at that time was also a first-class family in the imperial city.

But Grandfather Xiao's affection for the old lady was the envy of all the ladies in the imperial city back then, because Grandfather Xiao only had the old lady as his companion from beginning to end, whether it was a concubine or a room. And the old lady only got one child from Xiao's father, so now the Xiao family's ancestor worship is really very simple.

Of course, simplicity does not mean disrespect, at least now the Xiao family can live better than most people in the world, or the efforts of the ancestors.

Xiao Qiao knelt on the cushion and lowered his eyes at the tablet of the ancestor of the Xiao family. After he died in the previous life, I don't know how the Xiao family is doing, but in this life, even if the net is broken in the end, he will protect the Xiao family.

After worshipping his ancestors, Xiao Qiao was taken by Hu Li to the roof, as for how to sit on it. Xia Yi, who was on the other roof, silently rolled his eyes and continued to nibble on the roast chicken in his hand.

Xiao Qiao felt the tingling sensation of the cold wind on the roof on his face, and didn't understand why he agreed to Hu Li's strange request to go up to the roof to watch the fireworks. Father Xiao wanted to enter the palace to participate in the palace banquet in the evening, so Xiao's mansion had dinner early, after all, the palace banquet could not fill the stomach.

The consequence of having breakfast early was to sit on the roof and accompany Hu Li to blow the cold wind, Xiao Qiao rolled up his sleeves and looked at Hu Li and Chi Ji with an excited face, "You can see it when you stand below, why bother to come up to the roof?" ”

Hu Li was holding the red halberd, and he was not honest on the roof, "How could it be, didn't you say that you could stand high and look far away?" There are so many palace buildings in this imperial city, and I won't be able to see the fireworks from a distance. ”

Xiao Qiao was stunned when he heard Hu Li's words, there are indeed many palace buildings in the imperial city, and many of them make people feel a little depressed.

"Take you to another place where you can see even further. Go? ”

Hu Li's eyes lit up, "Go, go." ”

In the end, Xiao Qiao took Hu and left to a restaurant that had just opened in the imperial city a few years ago, and there was still a store there today. When this restaurant first opened a few years ago, it caused a lot of discussion in the imperial city, because this restaurant is the tallest building in the imperial city except for the imperial palace, which is five stories high.

The top floor of the restaurant is a place where guests are not received, of course, Hu Li doesn't know this, he only knows that Xiao Qiao took him up to the fifth floor of this restaurant called Gluttonous Banquet.

There were only three rooms on the fifth floor of the gluttonous feast, and Xiao Qiao took Hu Li over to one of them, standing at the window and just seeing the direction of the palace. If you want to see fireworks, it is natural to watch the fireworks in the palace, and the civilians cannot afford to pay for the fireworks.

Hu Li sat by the window and talked to Xiao Qiao, "I used to live in the mountains with my grandfather, and there were no people there, and every time it was the Chinese New Year, I would take my grandfather to take me to nearby villages and towns, sometimes I could see fireworks, but most of the time I could only see firecrackers. ”

Hu Li remembered that there was a very small village at the bottom of the mountain, and it was very cold there, and the small village became smaller and smaller, and finally there were only a dozen families left.

When he was just transformed, he met a child in the village, who was the head of the village at that time, and he was almost bullied by him when he first followed his grandfather. But later, when he went down the mountain and was bullied by others, it was the same kid who came out every time and beat those people with a blue nose and swollen face.

Xiao Qiao listened to Hu Li's babbling about the past, and looked at his cheeks that became more and more delicate under the reflection of the fireworks, "You can see fireworks every year in the future." ”

Hu Li suddenly looked back at Xiao Qiao, and suddenly laughed, "Grandpa said that he came back to me, and when the time comes, I will buy a yard here and live with my grandfather at that time." So, Brother Xiao, do you know where I can earn money? ”

When Xiao Qiao heard this, the discomfort that flashed in his heart was amused by Hu Li's next sentence, "You eat me, live with me, and drink me now." The first thing you do when you make money is that you should give me your room and board during this time? ”

Hu Li was stunned for a moment, and suddenly reacted, he originally stayed in Xiao Mansion because he smashed Brother Xiao to stay and see how to compensate. Hu Li thought about his daily life for half a year, and suddenly felt ashamed.

In addition to eating, playing, and then teaching the red halberd to speak, except for the last thing, he was almost all wasting time.

Hu Li's expression stiffened, and he looked at Xiao Qiao with a sneer, "Brother Xiao, how much should I compensate you?" ”

Xiao Qiao smiled in a low voice, looking at the red glow on Hu Li's face, "I don't lack money, so let's do it, you stay by my side and be a little maid for me for a year, and I'll pay it off when you pay it off, how about it?" ”