68 New Year's greetings (2nd watch)
Before four o'clock, the firecrackers outside were so loud that it was impossible for people to sleep at all.
Lu Qinghe didn't wait for the eldest sister to come over to help her get dressed, she had already got up from the bed to take care of herself and went downstairs. When Dad saw her, he praised her for getting up early today, but Lu Qinghe naturally didn't dare to say that she didn't sleep all night.
"Happy New Year, Dad! I wish you good health and all the best, well, and the longer you get, the more handsome you get. ”
I'm so excited, this is the first New Year after Lu Qinghe's rebirth.
In her previous life, after she was in the sixth grade of primary school, she rarely got up early in the morning to pay New Year's greetings like she did today. At that time, her relationship with her grandparents was even more stiff, how stiff was it?
Seeing that grandparents won't call people at all, unless their parents happen to be on the side, Lu Qinghe will shout.
"Go brush your teeth first, Dad will pour the water for you. Have your sisters woken up? Lu Qiang touched Qinghe's head, and casually took out a red envelope for her: "This is the first red envelope to say Happy New Year to Dad today." ”
Their custom here is like this, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, adults must give each other red envelopes if they are the first to say blessings to themselves. As long as the other party is not married, it must be given no matter what age the other party is. Therefore, at this time, many children will get up very early and carry a cloth bag to the whole village to pay New Year's greetings.
Luckily, it was the first time to say blessings for the New Year, and the red envelope was there, and there was a lot of money in it. Even if it's not the first one, candy, oranges, melon seeds, whatever you put on the table, you can take whatever you want.
No matter how stingy people are, they will be very generous on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
"Uncle Qiang, happy new year, I wish you all the best in the new year, raise big pigs and make a lot of money." The fourth and fifth brothers knocked on the door of Qinghe's house, and the blessings they shouted were quite neat.
"Okay, I also wish you to grow more and more handsome, be healthy, study hard every day, and eat some oranges to roast first." Lu Qiang smiled on his paralyzed face, poured a cup of hot tea for each of the five brothers, and gave each of them a red envelope.
"Wow, Uncle Qiang, you are so good, you actually gave each of our five brothers one." The fifth child was the first to run over to receive the red envelope. followed by the eldest brother, the second brother, the third brother and the fourth brother, all of whom felt that the fifth brother was too ashamed.
"Little four, happy new year, my body is getting better and better, this is the New Year's money I gave you." The fourth squeezed out the fifth, took Uncle Qiang's red envelope, took out the red envelope that had been prepared last night in his pocket and handed it to Lu Qinghe.
"Little four, you are getting smarter and smarter, healthy and healthy, this is the New Year's money that the eldest brother, the second brother, and the third brother will give you together." Lu Wenjian, as the eldest in the family, sent a red envelope to Lu Qinghe.
Lu Baozhi and Lu Yunzhi and their three sisters heard it upstairs, and quickly sealed a red envelope, checked it separately, no problem, put on new leather shoes and came down, said New Year's greetings to each other to the five brothers, and gave the fifth child New Year's money.
The four brothers and the four sisters of the four younger families, each carrying a bag, began to go out to greet the people in the village. There are also a lot of children on the road, all walking together, the sky is slightly bright, there are about 30 children in the New Year's greeting team, each family consciously queues up, saying blessings, saying New Year's greetings.
But everyone is also very conscious, meaningfully take some candy or melon seeds, and resolutely will not scratch and pretend to be like knocking on the door by yourself to pay New Year's greetings.
After worshipping more than 100 people in Lingu Village, it was almost eight o'clock. When Lu Qinghe and his four sisters went to their grandfather's house with the army to worship the New Year, they still saw a few cousins and cousins there, but this year, they will not feel sad at all.
"Hurry up and get some soup and some food. Pack up and go to your grandmother's house. "Lu Qiang has already fed the pigs, heated the soup, and fried the rice. also mixed another sour radish for Zhang Yimei: "Yimei, it's too sour to eat less, my stomach can't stand it, right?" ”
During this time, as long as he paid more attention, Lu Qiang saw Zhang Yimei gnawing on the sour radish head. Just by looking at it, I smell the sourness, and the saliva in my mouth comes out. It's not greedy, it's just sour.
"Sour girl, what do you know. You didn't miss something, my parents, my four younger brothers. Ali's side should also bring it with them, they will come down from the county seat today. Zhang Yimei didn't eat any rice, so he ate all the sour radishes mixed with chili peppers.
"Five ducks, five grapefruits, five portions of lean meat of 2 catties, and five portions of firecrackers." Lu Qiang counted it to her in front of Zhang Yimei. Only then did I show a few daughters in the kitchen, and they were all finished. So early, Lu Qiang was worried that Qinghe would catch a cold, so he touched his forehead with his hand, sighed, and had a low-grade fever again.
"Dad, I'm fine. We're all ready, let's go now? Lu Qinghe knew that she had a fever again, but she didn't feel tired at all and was still very excited. She and her three sisters had backpacks full of candy, melon seeds, and a bottle or two of milk.
I don't have time to count these now, so I have to come back from my grandmother's house and count them again, which is so fun!
"No, take out all the money you have first, I'll help you collect it, and I'll give it to you when I come back." Lu Baozhi has been thinking about this since last night. I'm afraid, what if my sister takes the red envelopes that she finally got for New Year's greetings, and is deceived by those shrewd cousins?
Lu Qiang nodded at his eldest daughter, this kind of thing between children, it's really hard for adults to say. My own children are honest, and they have a little money or food in their pockets, as long as they go to Qingyuan Village and meet the children of the brothers-in-law. Basically everything will be emptied and robbed.
As parents, they really don't say anything about each other's children, they can only blame their own children for being too honest and stupid.
After a few years, the eldest daughter wrote down this habit, and she still can't prevent it.
The three little ones obediently took out the red envelopes on their bodies, and obediently cleared all the candy and food in their pockets. Here, they all put on raincoats and braved the snow to go to their grandmother's house to pay New Year's greetings.
Lu Qiang carried the New Year's gift with a flat shoulder, Lu Baozhi walked slowly with his mother, and Lu Qinghe was sandwiched between Lu Yunzhi and Lu Mei. The road was not easy to walk, and in addition to the snow, the road usually took more than an hour, and the family walked for two and a half hours.
"Why did you come? It's almost lunch, and I thought you were going to come over for breakfast. I got you camellia fruit early this morning and made hot tea. Zhang Lan was washing pigweed by the well at the entrance of the village, and saw her daughter grabbing the clothes of Lu Qiang, who was carrying the burden, and walked very slowly; The money-losing goods Lu Qinghe was treated as a treasure and let Lu Baozhi carry it, and his brows furrowed.
I didn't say that I was going to hug the small ones, but I just walked in front of them with the unwashed pigweed. When I entered the house, I took a bowl and prepared the fried glutinous rice, fried rice, and peanuts: "What are you still standing at the door, come in quickly." "It's really uneasy, Zhang Lan finally couldn't see it, and went up to help Lu Qinghe and the four sisters take off their raincoats.