Chapter 21: Boxing Gifts (1)
After Li Zhu returned home, he told Min'er that Li Zheng promised to help find the mountain, and also told Uncle Yu and Uncle Zhang, Min'er also thought that this matter was made up by her own family, and was happy to help, so she asked Li Zhu to take out the pen and paper from her dowry cabinet, and immediately wrote a letter, and the ink on the paper was not dry, and Old Man Yu arrived. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
As soon as Old Man Yu entered the wing, he complained to Li Zhu: "Look, look, what is going on with that old man Zhang, the hundreds of little chickens in the chicken coop in your house, where to raise them in such a small place." The sheep in the yard, it's better to raise that thing than to come back with a piglet. Knowing that you have just divided the family, you don't teach anything to the juniors. It's not confusing. Li Zhu's face blushed after hearing this, Deng smiled secretly, and Li Zhu said embarrassedly: "Uncle Yu, you are here." I bought the sheep. The chicken, it's not Uncle Zhang's fault, I don't know how much money a chicken needs, so I gave more than one or two silver coins, didn't say an accurate number, and asked Uncle Zhang to buy chickens. This is still Uncle Zhang saved 300 yuan. ”
When Old Man Yu heard this, his face turned dark, his heart was uncomfortable, and he said, "Come on, he is unreliable, you don't have to carry it for him." As soon as he finished speaking, he smiled and said to Deng: "Min'er, I heard my family's surplus money say that you want me to send a letter to your father." After speaking, Old Man Yu grimaced, stretched his neck, and stared at the paper on the kang table, for fear that the Deng family would not let him do it. Deng smiled, folded the paper and said, "It's not important, I'm tired of you running this trip." ”
Old man Yu said: "Don't be tired, don't be tired at all, I will also put the ox cart here, and stop at your door, I will send it to you immediately." "Don't wait, grab the paper and run out.
Li Zhu followed Old Man Yu out of the door, watched Old Man Yu get into the car, and drove the car into the house.
Deng said to Li Zhu with a smile: "I didn't go out much before, I really don't know this pair of living treasures in your village. Today is a long day of insight. Li Zhu smiled.
Li Zhu saw that there was nothing he needed to help do, so he took another bucket and went to the sheep shed to milk the sheep. Brother Li Hai followed Li Zhu out to help. Deng put Binbin to sleep, so he picked up the "Ming Jing" and read it, deliberately so that Li Zhu could hear it. After Li Zhu's independent action yesterday, the situation has improved today, and the milked goat milk can be kept in the bucket. Li Zhu taught Brother Li Hai to milk goats in the courtyard, while listening to Deng's voice with his ears pricked up. A harmonious and harmonious faction.
Not long after, Li Zhu milked more than half of the bucket of goat's milk, although this time he also spilled a lot, but compared with yesterday, it was obviously more than half better. Li Zhu pulled Li Hai with goat's milk, Li Bo looked at Li Tao in the back, and followed into the room, Li Zhu put the bucket on the kang table, Li Hai said to Deng: "Mother, let's learn to milk goats, let's milk it in the future." Deng nodded with satisfaction. Li Tao came in with a few small wooden bowls, and Li Zhu divided the goat's milk, which happened to be one bowl per person. Li Zhu went to the kitchen, took a small spoon and handed it to Deng.
Deng used a small spoon to feed Hamahama a spoonful by spoon. Hamahama thought that this goat's milk is a luxury in modern times, as long as it is linked to money, Hamahama is very nervous, and she is very happy to drink it all. Li Zhu was happier than anyone else after seeing it, at least the sheep he bought was not spent in vain.
Li Tao saw Binbin drinking little by little, and took a small sip, he didn't dare to drink it in a big gulp like his second sister-in-law and Mama Li. A fishy smell poured in from the entrance, Li Tao almost wanted to vomit, rolled in his throat, looked at his little sister, drank very sweetly, swallowed it with difficulty, and drank it little by little with a tangled face. Li Hai and Li Bo looked at Binbin and Li Tao, the two looked at each other, then narrowed their eyes and drank them in one gulp. Deng Shi and Li Zhu also narrowed their eyes, held their breath, and drank with a gurgling mouth. After drinking, except for Hamahama, the family rinsed their mouths with water three or five times.
At the time of the unitary, Old Man Zhang and Old Man Yu both came back in ox carts, and the two went hand in hand, and no one obeyed anyone. Both of them were piled up with stuff in their cars.
The two stopped at the door of Li's house at the same time, Uncle Zhang's ox cart stopped next to the door, and he drove the ox cart into Li's house first, stopped next to the sheep shed, and was about to rush into Li Zhu's wing when he got out of the car, and the action was done in one go. Uncle Yu was taken a step ahead, with a black face, and drove the ox cart to the door of Li Zhu's wing, the tail of the car just stopped next to Chrysanthemum Pu, and the ox body was horizontal in front of Li Zhu's wing. Uncle Yu got off his ox cart from the right.
Uncle Zhang saw that if he wanted to enter Li Zhu's wing, he still needed to step over Old Man Yu's ox cart, and immediately lowered his face and said, "You old man, is the car parked like this?" You've never driven a car in your life. You go and see, see, who parked like this, the car parked like this, you are looking for a draw? You just don't make people feel good. ”
Uncle Yu entered the wing room and said to Li Zhu and his wife: "Min'er, I have already brought your letter to your father, and I have also brought back the gifts prepared by your mother and your sister-in-law. Zhu'er, you come out, let's put that gift together. ”
Uncle Zhang carried things at this time, stepped over Old Man Yu's ox cart and entered the wing, and said, "Hmph, to do such a little thing, we are still in a hurry to invite merit, and we need people to help move things, we can't afford to lose this person." ”
Uncle Yu looked at Uncle Zhang, probably thinking that there was indeed less work to do at home, his face flushed, and he stood aside and stopped talking.
Uncle Zhang saw that this old man was suffocated, his heart was happy, he put the things wrapped in red paper in his hand on the table, and said to Li Zhu with a smile: "Zhu'er, I bought some pot of chrysanthemum wine for your father-in-law's house, one hundred yuan, five kinds of cakes, each bought one catty, a total of two hundred and fifty yuan, two fish, a total of four hundred yuan, a piece of cloth, five hundred yuan, and told them that it was the Double Ninth Festival gift from your family and the bride price of Min'er's eldest brother He Deng Caixuan." I also prepared ten catties of cakes for you, including jujube cakes, rough cakes, chrysanthemum cakes, flower cakes, and five-color cakes, each of which is the same price, a total of 500 yuan. I confessed to the store, and every two catties of cakes were wrapped into a pack, a total of five servings. Thinking that you were all literate in the room, I asked the people in the shop to write the name of the cake on a small piece of paper, and did not waste the red paper. ”
After hearing this, Li Zhu said: "Thank you, Uncle Zhang, you see that you are so careful." Then Li Zhu went to the dowry cabinet of the Deng family and took out 300 yuan and 20 yuan, and said, "Uncle Zhang, you do things for us, there is no reason for you to pay." This is the money you paid in advance, and the wages you paid for the two things you did for our family. ”
Uncle Zhang smiled and waved his hand: "You don't need so much wages." I've given you a Boxing gift, and I've done other things. ”
Deng said: "You are not outside with us anymore, you collect this money, if there is anything in the future, we need your help, we will not be embarrassed." Uncle Zhang thought about it, this is the reason, counted thirty-five coins and handed it to Li Zhudao: "Okay, if there is anything in the future, you go directly to my house, and when I am not there, I will tell you that Aunt Zhang is also good." This salary is calculated at my usual price, which is three hundred dollars for one thing. A total of fifteen cents" Li Zhu took the money, and also knew that this was a rule, so he hurriedly responded: "Hey." Uncle Zhang glared at Old Man Yu proudly.
Old man Yu saw that they were going back and forth, and the matter was quickly explained clearly, and what Old Man Zhang did was a little glutinous. Li Zhu stuffed twenty yuan to Uncle Yu, and then said: "Uncle Yu, it's not easy for you to make this trip, thank you, this is your salary." ”
Old man Yu hurriedly excused himself and said, "No, I really don't need so much, I'm just running away, and I haven't done anything for your family." How can you ask for your family's money. Quickly put it away, you have just divided the family, the money for the festival, the money for medicine, the money for confinement, and some self-defense money, put it away quickly. Li Zhu directly stuffed the money into Uncle Yu's hand, and Deng also said: "It's not a matter if you ask someone to do things and don't give you the wages for doing things." After hearing this, Uncle Yu accepted Li Zhu's salary, Li Zhu immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and Uncle Yu counted seventeen yuan to Li Zhu and said, "Let's collect it at the usual price." Li Zhu and the Deng family both nodded, and no longer shirked, and accepted the money, after all, their family was indeed in a hurry now.
Uncle Zhang and Uncle Yu are both enthusiastic people. Helping Li Zhu move the Boxing Rites prepared by Deng Ju's family from Uncle Yu's car into the house, then the benefits of Uncle Yu's Niu family parking close to the wing room were reflected.
The Deng family prepared a package of jujube cakes, two old hens, a pig's front foot, and a piece of fat pork for Li Zhu's family.
Uncle Zhang and Uncle Yu refused to stay for dinner, so they unloaded their things and left.
Deng divided the cakes that Uncle Zhang bought on his behalf, and took out some of each cake so that the family could eat it tomorrow, and took a little bit for Li Hai and his wife to eat now to satisfy their hunger. Deng divided the cake into five parts, which were Li Zhu's father's, uncle's, eldest brother's, second brother's, Li Zheng's, Uncle Zhang's family and Uncle Yu's family, Daddy's, Uncle's family, Li Zheng's family, eldest brother's family, and the second uncle's family were all wrapped in red paper, and Uncle Zhang and Uncle Yu's were wrapped in bamboo leaves, after all, both of them knew about the red paper for buying cakes.
Li Zhu took the pastries that Deng had divided and started to deliver them from far away from home. went to Li Zheng's house first, and Li Zheng's family gave Li Zhu a packet of brown sugar. Then there was Uncle Zhang and Uncle Yu's family, and the two families gave Li Zhu some thumb-sized small fish and shrimp, which were caught by the river together by the grandsons of the two families today. The uncle's family returned thickly, there was a crockpot of sugar, and the uncle said that their family didn't like sugar very much, so he asked Li Zhu to take it home and give Li Hai a snack. After Li Zhu went home, he placed everyone's return gifts in the room one by one. Brought to the eldest brother's house, the Li family wanted to keep the meal, but Li Zhu was unwilling, saying that he would also give a festival gift. Li wrapped a bag of pots and stuffed them to Li Zhu, saying that there would be no need to cook another meal tonight. Li Zhu said that he couldn't help the Li family, so he accepted it.
Li Zhu went back to his small kitchen, heated the water with small water, put a small plate in the pot, filled the pot, and put Deng's soup on the small stove, and tonight's meal was ready. Li Zhu brought the cake for his father, took another fish, and went to his father's hall.