Chapter 119: Comparison

Sorry, it's too late. But this chapter is very fat, more than 6,000 words, so please pink.

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There was a crackling sound in the courtyard of the Lin family next door, and they finally celebrated the New Year.

The sound of firecrackers also sounded in the distance, and the ancient village began to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

The cuckoo and the yellow finch quickly washed the dishes, cleaned them up, brought up all kinds of fruits and other things, and freshly brewed the tea, so they gathered around the elders, and listened to their idle chatter in the heavens and the earth, and ate tea to keep the year.

Feng and Feng Mingying crushed the money and gave it to the three sisters.

Each person is ten copper plates, and Feng Mingying also gave it according to this number.

Huang Li pinched two red paper bags, his little face was red, and he ran into the room with a smoke.

Huang Que'er hurriedly shouted, "Wait for me to light the lamp." Don't bump your head. He followed in.

The cuckoo smiled and told Feng Mingying, "Send it and hide it." She won't let anyone touch that little box. I moved out and counted them every once in a while. ”

Feng Mingying was amused when she heard it, "Really? ”

Feng Shi glanced at her and said, "Your box is for people to touch?" Mother doesn't know what's in your box, it's locked all day. People who don't know still think I'm a stepmother, and you prevent me from stealing your private room. ”

Everyone laughed in unison, and the cuckoo giggled awkwardly.

At this moment, I suddenly heard the sound of drums, coming from next door, gradually moving this way, and then entered the courtyard of the Huang family, attracting everyone to look out together.

The closer I got, the faster the drums became.

The cuckoo hurriedly said, "Quickly clean up the table." ”

Quickly move and sweep with the yellow finch. Before the table was cleaned, two little lions rolled in the doorway: copper-eyed and huge mouths, full of fangs. It is covered with long brown and yellow hair, and a strip of red cloth is wrapped around its neck.

The cuckoo exclaimed: this lion is not only dressed up vividly. I can't see the people inside showing their hands and feet, and even their skills and movements are very similar. Leaping and moving, all with wild and animal nature.

No wonder Lin Chun and Jiu'er are asked to act, and others don't have this kung fu.

Qiusheng and the others followed, beating the cowhide drum vigorously.

The cuckoo laughed and shouted, "Why did you come to my house first?" ”

Xia Sheng also shouted loudly: "Our family hasn't eaten well yet!" Still drinking! ”

And they all laughed.

Qiusheng and Fusheng seemed to be deliberate, beating the drum without stopping.

The crowd was almost deaf in both ears, and could not speak to each other, and they saw all of them smiling; The heart jumped with the beat of the drum, and the blood was boiling and the emotions were inexplicably boiling.

Feng Shi was overjoyed, and hurriedly called the teenagers to sit. He also beckoned to eat tea fruit.

Where the people heard, they answered haphazardly; Besides, they had just eaten, and they were not hungry at all, so they only stared at the two little lions and laughed.

Huang Li and Dongsheng were very excited, and eagerly approached the lion.

As a result, as soon as a lion cub flicked its paws, they were so frightened that they turned their faces colored.

Dong Sheng had the courage to shout to Huang Li: "That's my third brother." ”

It's just that the smile is a little reluctant, and there is a taste of forced calmness. Because he felt that the third brother was wearing this lion skin, he didn't look like the third brother at all. It's so fierce.

At that moment, everyone stood against the wall, out of the middle of the main hall, and let the two lions play. They climbed the bench first. Then flip over the large square table. Then, one lion jumps onto the shoulders of the other and stacks them on top of each other. Shake your head and tail and look at the Quartet!

Only Ren Sanhe sat at the table and didn't move.

Then. He suddenly stood up, and out of nowhere, he found a dagger with a simple pattern. Dangled in front of the two lions.

The two lions stared at the dagger for a moment, and they did not move.

The funniest thing is that Fusheng and Qiusheng, who were beating the drum, also stopped the drum in order to see what Ren Sanhe was holding.

The hall fell silent, and several pairs of eyes looked at the two little lions.

Both lions tilted their heads and stared at the dagger with great greed.

Ren Sanhe grabbed the coarse twist rope that was hung from the beam of the houseβ€”this was what the cuckoo had asked him to hang before, just for the lion danceβ€”and turned over, easily reaching the girder in the middle of the roof, and placing the dagger on it.

Then, under the gaze of the crowd, he ripped the rope off.

The cuckoo opens its mouth wide - how is this going to be taken?

Everyone was dumbfounded, thinking that this was too embarrassing.

But the two lions became excited, and no longer superimposed, and roared and scattered, and one pounced on the wooden ladder erected in front of the attic, and slashed on all fours, and went up to the attic on the left; The other pounced directly on the tall Fusheng, and before he could react, he monkeyed him on the shoulder, used him as a human ladder, and climbed up to the attic on the right.

Then the two lions climbed the wooden beam at the top of the attic and climbed to the girder in the center.

"Ouch-"

Everyone exclaimed.

Ren Sanhe stood in the center of the hall, looking up at the roof.

His expression was grim and unfazed.

Suddenly, the drumming stopped, and he hurriedly shouted, "Beat the drum!" ”

Fusheng and Qiusheng hurriedly slammed it.

As a result, the lion cub who climbed from the attic on the right moved more quickly and got the dagger first. Seeing the lion on the other side coming to grab it, he didn't look back, just jumped down like this-

That direction is where Ren Sanhe stands.

In an exclamation, Ren Sanhe lifted up with one hand, and the lion flipped to the table with his strength, standing steadily, his head shaking, obviously extremely proud.

Only then did everyone breathe a sigh of relief and cheered together.

Suddenly, I remembered that there was another lion on the beam of the house, and I was busy looking up again.

The lion didn't grab the lottery, and seemed to be very annoyed, so he threw himself at the lion on the table.

Ren Sanhe held it again and let him fall smoothly before retreating.

The crowd shouted so loudly that they almost didn't overturn the roof.

Then, Xia Sheng pushed a big ball and played with the lion rolling hydrangea.

The cuckoo also followed suit, using the dim sum he made to make colorful heads, luring the lion to eat it and making various movements.

Now it was fun, and I saw the two lions sometimes standing upright, sometimes jumping, shaking their heads and tails around the smiling little girl, contrary to the fierce and domineering just now. It becomes lively and gentle, just like a game of Beauty and the Beast.

The cuckoo is playing. pinched the snack and showed off: "This is my new ......"

Before he could finish speaking, a lion cub suddenly stood upright. Put your two front paws on her shoulders and open your mouth wide to her cheeks.

Although he knew that the Dao was fake, the lion's eyes like copper bells and the fangs in the mouth of the huge pot suddenly attacked in front of him, and the cuckoo was still frightened.

When she saw Lin Chunle's row of white teeth exposed in the wide open lion's mouth, she breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly stuffed the snack into the lion's mouth, and pinched his cheeks mischievously.

Play around for a while. Lin Chun and Jiu'er were tired, so they took off the lion's head.

Only then did everyone see who played the two lions: the dagger was snatched by Jiu'er, and the dim sum was eaten by Lin Chun, and the corners of his mouth were stained with crumbs.

Du Juan saw Jiu'er Zhao Lin Chun punch and said, "You grab everything!" Hurriedly stuffed the snack plate to him and comforted: "This is all for you." Let you eat it with you. ”

Jiu'er smiled at this time.

Lin Chun was sweating profusely, just panting.

Then, after the Lin family finished the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, they went to the lion dance next door. Then go to Jiu'er's house......

The little babies were all coaxed away. Run after them.

The daughters-in-law clean up in the kitchen as usual, or make dumplings and roll noodles, which are delicious tomorrow morning.

Lin Datou came to Huang's house and drank tea and chatted with Huang Laoshi Ren Sanhe.

Speaking of the sauerkraut fish sent by the cuckoo at noon. He didn't have the mouth to praise, "I ate all the pots cleanly, and even drank all the soup." ”

Huang was very proud when he heard it.

And what about the cuckoo. Taking advantage of the opportunity to watch the lion dance, I carried two dishes. and a few boxes of self-made snacks and sent them to my godmother's family.

Night. The three sisters played until midnight before coming back with the Lin brothers.

Who knew that Mrs. Huang saw that her eldest son did not send vegetables as in previous years on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and she was already unhappy, and when she heard Xiaobao say that the cuckoo made snacks and gave them to the old lady of the godmother's family, and also sent vegetables to Lin Datou's family, she was immediately half angry.

She couldn't figure out her granddaughter's intentions, could it be that she was going to bring it again tomorrow morning when she greeted the New Year?

Aunt Feng's eyes flashed, and she shook her head and said, "I'm afraid that my father said that day, 'No matter how capable my granddaughter is, it's useless, and she is also a member of others." The oriole went home and told them, and their hearts were ......."

Aunt Huang suddenly became angry, "What's wrong with this?" They're not going to get married? It's a good thing to do, it's the other way around! ”

Daddy Huang also had a gloomy face.

What kind of girl is this, it's just this big, just like their mother......

The next day is the first day of the new year.

Huang Li, who sleeps like a piglet every morning and can't wake up when he screams, is the first to wake up today.

"Second sister, get up! The sun is out. As soon as she woke up, she was energetically pushing the cuckoo. Pushing the cuckoo in his hand, but his foot kicked the yellow finch in the quilt, "Big sister, get up!" The mother shouted that it was time to eat. ”

God knows that Feng and Huang are still dreaming.

The yellow finch and the cuckoo were tired from the day yesterday, so they slept very deeply.

Huang Li finally tasted the taste of calling people to get up, and shouted and shouted, and even shouted and kicked, calling out the fathers and mothers in the east room, and the two sisters still fell asleep with their eyes closed.

She shouted loudly, "If the young man doesn't work hard, the boss will be sad and ......sad."

The cuckoo sat up abruptly with his eyes closed and shouted "Stop! ”

Huang Li suddenly shut up.

The cuckoo still closed her eyes and said softly: "Huang Li, has the second sister taught you: First of all, when others are sleeping, you must not wake her up; Secondly, never make people sleep. ”

Huang Li paused before saying, "I haven't taught." The second sister called me to get up. ”

With a "flutter", Huang Que'er finally couldn't help laughing, "Retribution!" ”

She sat up and looked out the window, it was just getting dark.

"Get up. Sleep is also restless. She said to the cuckoo, "It's better to get up." After eating, I went to play with Sister Shuixiu. ”

The cuckoo got out of bed and got out of bed, so he got up and dressed resignedly.

All three sisters were dressed in new clothes and shoes.

It's not a good material, but it's all chic.

Du Juan remembered the lesson when he was a child, and did not let Feng buy good fabrics, and he didn't have the money to buy good fabrics, so he only made some coarse cloth clothes to wear. But no matter how bad the coarse cloth was, she would take the trouble to make some small embellishments on it to highlight the characteristics of their sisters.

She herself has lived two lives, and she has seen some of the world; But the young lady and sister have been in the mountains since they were born, and of course she has to take some trouble to help them dress up.

Today, Huang Que is wearing a narrow cotton jacket with a blue background and a pink and white cotton skirt, and the cuffs and neckline are decorated with a thin layer of silver gray mouse hair. It's not the big, thick and fluffy kind, only a shallow circle. Plays a decorative role.

Head: Because I don't have to work today, I don't have a neat double bun. The cuckoo helped her tie a delicate hanging bun on the top of her head, and her hair was not tied underneath, so it naturally hung down on the back of her head and shoulders.

After combing her hair, Du Juan took a step back and looked at the young lady, feeling that she was particularly quiet and beautiful in this dress, smiling lightly, and light and cute, so she was very satisfied.

It was her turn to comb her hair in the same style as Huang Que'er. On her body, she wore a small jacket with white flowers on a rose red background and a pink skirt, and the neckline and cuffs were decorated with white fox fur, which made her face as white as jade, her black eyes shining, and her lips were delicate. Ying Ying smiled, the brightness that could not be concealed, and the brilliance was dazzling.

As for the little yellow bird, he wore a red shirt and trousers, a red fox fur collar, and a lively little squirrel embroidered on his chest, which was decorated with real fur; His hair was combed on his head. The face is red and gorgeous, and she is a cute doll.

The sisters all wore red and blue colors, not in the cuckoo cheesy, but in the green mountains and green waters. If a person is dressed too plainly, he will look gray. So, like the people of the savannah. Or the ethnic minorities in the mountains, who like bright colors and decorations. Not for nothing.

After dressing up, the three sisters left the room.

Huang Laoshi saw three daughters like flowers and jade. Rubbing his hands together and squinting.

Feng swept the three sisters away, and told Huang Li with a smile on his face: "Be careful when playing, don't get the oil and ash on your body." I can't wash it off, I'll see you cry. ”

Huang Li nodded obediently, and his actions were much more restrained.

Huang Laoshi and Feng Shi also changed into new clothes, and they looked a lot more energetic.

Huang Que'er asked, "Mother, eat dumplings in the morning?" ”

Feng asked rhetorically, "What do you want to eat?" There are dumplings, noodles, and tea eggs. Whatever you want to eat, your mother will do it. If you don't want to eat that, there's leftovers. Scrambled egg fried rice, heat up two leftovers from last night, and eat well. ”

She won't let her daughter into the kitchen today, and there's not much going on in the kitchen.

During the Chinese New Year, the little baby wore new clothes, just eating, drinking and having fun, while the daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law cooked rice and burned the fire, and even the men were idle.

The three sisters listened to their mother's words and laughed happily together.

After discussing for a while, Huang Que'er said to her mother: "Let's eat dumplings." It's good to eat dumplings on the first day of junior high school. The pot is easy to wash, too. Fried rice is too much work. ”

So, Feng went to get busy.

The three sisters joked and laughed with their honest father.

At this time, Huang Laoshi was the happiest.

After breakfast, the three cuckoo sisters first went to pay New Year's greetings to their grandparents.

In the courtyard of the Huang family, Aunt Huang accompanied the two old wives to sit in the sun and gossip, and the eldest girl was also sitting next to her and eating melon seeds; Daddy Huang drank tea with the two old men in the house. These people are neighbors.

Xiaobao and Xiaoshun are not there, so they should go out to pay New Year's greetings.

Aunt Huang saw several granddaughters dressed up refreshingly, and she couldn't open her eyes when she saw it, and she should have been happy in her heart. Seeing them empty-handed, he remembered the events of last night, and he was angry again.

In front of people, she didn't ask their sisters to sit, but said in a strange voice: "Yo, do you remember my grandmother? Do you know that there is a grandfather? ”

The smiles on the three sisters' faces froze.

The cuckoo quickly reacted and asked with a smile, "Grandma, why don't we remember grandparents?" Grandma doesn't explain the point, we are stupid and can't understand it. ”

Aunt Huang mocked: "Are you stupid? You are so stupid that you remember others and deliver food and snacks, but you forget your grandparents? So smart, you know how to pick up the thick bottom and stick it up, grandparents are poor, of course you can't look down on ......"

She said hatefully, without any emotion.

It depends on what this granddaughter who has always been a good person and praised by others says.

The two old women on the side also looked at the cuckoo in surprise, and they also felt that this was not something she could do.

The cuckoo smiled: "Grandma is talking about this!" What should I do? ”

Aunt Huang was very suspicious when she saw her calm appearance.

Du Juan said with a smile: "No matter how poor we are, we don't dare not be filial to our grandparents." I heard my father say that when the family was separated, it was good to say: our family gives 300 catties of rations to grandparents a year, and if there are eggs or something during the Dragon Boat Festival and August Festival, we will send a little bit, and we will kill pigs for the New Year to give ten catties of meat and two catties of oil. We've given them all away. In addition to this. I usually get something, whether it's the salt that my grandfather brought. It's still the meat sent by my aunt, or it's something sent by my mother's family. As long as we get it, we will send some to our grandparents. A year ago, we also gave rabbit, chicken, venison, mutton, roe deer, fried goods, and a carp. Grandma said, why don't we be filial to our grandparents? ”

Crisp and shengsheng said something, and Aunt Huang was stunned.

Another one who will settle accounts!

These words made her stare at her, but she didn't stop there, and still held on to the matter: "Then you send food to others to eat, why don't you know how to give it to grandparents?" ”

The cuckoo was surprised: "Didn't you already send meat?" In previous years, because there was no meat. only brought the bowl of vegetables; This year, the meat was directly delivered, and the vegetables were delivered? ”

Aunt Huang was very annoyed when she saw her so unpopular: "If you send meat, you won't send vegetables?" You can send food to others, but you can't send it to grandparents? ”

The cuckoo innocently said, "We didn't give them meat." ”

Aunt Huang was almost mad: "Can people compare with your grandparents?" ”

The cuckoo said: "I didn't compare them to my grandparents!" All the game and fish in my family were given by others, and we just returned the favor, and we didn't give them anything else. ”

Aunt Huang said: "If you cook and give it away, it's not right if you don't send it to your grandparents!" ”

Du Juan said: "According to this calculation, when my mother gave birth to a yellow bird, many people in the village gave a confinement gift. I remember that this Grandma Li caught a chicken. Grandma Li's daughter-in-law is about to give birth. My mother will definitely send a chicken and eggs when the time comes. Are we going to give a chicken and eggs to our grandparents? All the other gifts have to be prepared separately for grandparents? Grandma, if that's the case, that's a big deal. My family can't live, we can't live! ”

Aunt Huang opened her mouth wide, she was really confused.

How can this account not be calculated?

It's a mess!

Mrs. Li and another old woman also shook their heads. I think that's too much.

Huang Que'er stood aside and listened quietly, waiting for an opportunity to interject.

The yellow oriole has a bone-sided eyeball. Look at grandma, and then look at the second sister.

Such a great on-site learning opportunity. Of course she wouldn't let it go.

The second sister said that the little baby needs to watch more, listen more, learn more, and draw inferences from one case to another in order to grow. Therefore, she listened carefully to every word spoken by her second sister and grandmother, and looked at the faces of those present.

Look, the second sister has always been smiling, but the more grandma talks, the more angry she becomes, she first sat still, but now she can't sit still.

Sister Da Niu frowned and thought about things, I was afraid that she was thinking of ideas so that she could help her grandmother.

Hmph, if the eldest sister helps grandma, she can't watch it, and she has to interject. She couldn't wait a little, and thought about a few words in her heart, but she didn't have a chance to say it, for fear of interrupting the second sister's words

Hey, the two grandmothers seem to be biased towards the second sister!

Even Huang Li can see Mrs. Li's thoughts, why can't Aunt Huang see it?

She was furious and said to the cuckoo, "Who wants your chickens and eggs?" I mean you cook! The dish you cooked in the evening of thirty nights!! ”

Du Juan said: "That dish, it's like this: my aunt's family, my godmother's family, and the eldest uncle, they often help us." My family is poor and I don't have anything to give in return, so I have to do it myself and cook some food for them, which can be regarded as a heart. What else can you do? Is it the same as giving meat and fish to grandparents? Those things were originally sent to my house, and it would be too careless to send them back, and they didn't look like them. It's the food I made myself, so it's a little sincere......"

"If you give them food, can't you send a bowl to your grandparents?"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ I understood what my grandmother meant, which meant that the dishes and snacks I made should also be given to my grandfather and grandmother. But grandma, if you don't burn it, you will send it, and if you burn it, you will send it, our family...... It's true...... I can't get it! I can't cook a lot in one pot, and I was busy yesterday. Unlike fried balls, which are fried a lot, we will send them. ”

The cuckoo said as he pulled the corners of his mouth in embarrassment.

Aunt Huang said arrogantly: "You can give it to others, but you can't get it if you give it to your grandparents?" ”

Huang Li listened to it with an itch, and quickly interjected when he saw the opportunity: "Grandma, we didn't send other people's meat balls, nor did we send other people's rabbits, chickens, venison, roe deer meat, mutton, small fried, and fish." I'll give it to my grandparents. ”

Aunt Huang glared and said, "I am your grandmother, of course I am better than others!" ”

That's the point!

In her opinion, the son is her son, and the granddaughter is her granddaughter, and no matter what, they must come first. There are things to give to others, but they don't have to be grandparents, so what's the point?

She had a good idea, and the cuckoo thought it was ridiculous.

"Grandma is my own grandmother, of course she is better than others. I like this Grandma Li so much, but I didn't give meat to Grandma Li! Cooking dishes for my aunt and godmother, that's because the meat we share is given by my godfather and uncle. Otherwise, what can we have in our house? There is no venison pheasant to give to grandparents. My dad doesn't know anything else, he just does some hard work; My mother gave birth to me in the mountains that year, and almost lost half her life, but she didn't recover later, and she fell ill; The three of us sisters are also useless, and we are not very useful. Unlike Uncle Xiao, who can be a carpenter, Brother Xiaobao is capable, Brother Xiaoshun is also smart, and he will be the top door in the future, and he can get a lot of good things to honor his grandparents. My father and my mother planted a few acres of land, and when they earned the end of the year, they just fooled their mouths and made their stomachs round. ”

As she spoke, she smiled reluctantly, as if she was ashamed of her own poverty, and seemed to feel embarrassed and aggrieved by her grandmother's unreasonable demands. (To be continued......)