Chapter 4 The Pan Family's New Year's Greetings

Pan Kee Grocery Store is located on the central avenue of Dongcheng, opposite the county office, and next to the county office is the county school. The pattern of the pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info Wei County is like a chessboard, with a horizontal road and a vertical street.

The façade of the ten rooms is atmospheric, and even in the most difficult time for the Pan family, there is no intention of selling or renting it to others. The plaque of Pan Ji grocery store was mentioned by the first parent of Pan Jialai Wei, which is vigorous and powerful, and the black wood is purple. The row of glass doors and windows under the plaque is very eye-catching, which was changed by Mr. Pan 3 years ago, and the people who watched the excitement talked about it for a long time. Today's Pan Ji is still the favorite grocery store of Lao Wei County, with complete things and fresh materials. Because the shop was closed for the New Year, the mule cart stopped at the corner door behind the shop, Shu Lao Er paid the money, and the family of three went inside.

Before entering the door, the laughter of Pan Yuanniang's eldest son Gao Jinhua was heard, and Shu Er's family was also smiling on their faces, and they went inside to pay New Year's greetings.

Today's Pan family only has two houses that originally relied on the pavement, the main courtyard is five main houses, each with an east and west compartment, connected with a hand-copying verandah, a courtyard planted with pines and cypresses and camellias, and the courtyard is just placed with an octagonal stone table and a stone bench. There are cross-courtyards on the left and right sides of the main courtyard, and peach and cherry trees are planted in the courtyard.

The year before last, Mr. Pan's mother and eldest brother and sister-in-law died one after another, and the nephew who became a relative also moved out, and the outer room led the children she gave birth to back to the south, of course, Mr. Pan also gave them a lot of money. With the marriage of his aunt, niece, and daughter, the Pan family's house seems a little empty.

Maybe it's because Pan Li is from everyone's family, Old Man Pan and her have their own bedrooms. Pan Li lived in the main room of the second entrance, and the old man Pan lived in the main room of the first entrance, the hall was the dining room and reception room, the east wing was the study, and the west wing was the guest room.

Uncle Pan's family lived in the east courtyard of Yijin, there was no wing room in the courtyard, and his two sons were still young, so they slept in the west house next door to them. The west cross courtyard was converted into a storeroom, and a small door was opened from the front shop. Pan San, Pan Si and Pan Wuniang, who have not yet left the cabinet, live in the West Cross Courtyard next door to the Li family. Now the female dependents of the family are all in the main room of the second entrance, and Uncle Pan's wife Pan Fan came out to welcome the three members of the Shu family, took Qinglan, and had a good meal of kissing incense (Qinglan: rubbing), and hugged into the main room.

As soon as the curtain was lifted, a wave of heat rushed up, and Aunt Fan carried her to the kang and untied her cloak.

Fan is a person with a very low sense of presence in this family, and he looks ordinary, like a background wall. She gave birth to two sons, both of whom were like little old men, and rarely came to her, so Qinglan's smiling and well-behaved appearance made her very loved.

Li sat on the kang and received the salute from the juniors, and Qinglan also kowtowed to her on the kang, and accidentally rolled forward. The family was overjoyed, Qinglan was embarrassed, and the Li family was so happy that they couldn't open their eyes, so they hung the purse of the silver naked child prepared for Qinglan around her neck and said, "Come, quickly tie up this God of Wealth Boy!" The women of the family laughed again, and Qinglan's head was full of black lines.

The girls of the Pan family were all loud, and Qinglan felt that the quarrel was nothing more than that, but they were indeed talking, talking about Pan Sanniang Pan Dehui's marriage, and the prospective son-in-law also came today, and he was a lawyer. After a while, Chen Ling's family, the only one in the Pan family, came to invite dinner, saying that the banquet in front had been arranged, and in the living room in the front yard, the adults paced away and began to take their seats.

Qinglan was carried into a bamboo chair similar to a modern baby chair, on which several cousins had also sit, and a few fried small yellow croakers were placed on the tray in front of her. Yes, one day Pan Erniang was surprised to find that her daughter would eat fish by herself and pick out all kinds of small spines that would not get stuck, so every time an adult ate and no one cared about her, she gave her a few fish. Qinglan ate by herself, and when she finished eating, the banquet was only halfway through. Qinglan vigorously flipped the small tray to the ground, indicating that she had finished eating.

Chen Ling's family hurriedly came up to clean up, and Shu Lao Er also left the table. The careful Shu Lao Er has been paying attention to his little girl while eating, he is not Pan Erniang, he is afraid that the child is too young and stuck, and he has always opposed Qinglan eating by herself. Seeing that his daughter had knocked over the tray, he walked over and picked up his daughter back to the dining table, took Qinglan in his arms, and drove the brazier next to him away with his feet. Old Man Pan, who was sitting next to him, sandwiched a piece of fish for Qinglan, and Qinglan continued to eat without raising her head. The men laughed and complimented her, and then went back drinking.

Qinglan, who was full of food and drink, was put back on the chair again, looking at the cousins running around the dining table, the women chatting and the men drinking and chatting, Qinglan's consciousness began to blur: This is the New Year...

When she woke up again, she was already on the mule cart home, and Qinglan wiped her mouth and fell asleep again.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, and Shu Laosan went out early to find Wang Yufen. Shu Lao Er took Qinglan to pick up Pan Erniang and went to see the lanterns together. Before going out, Erlang and San Lang rolled on the ground, and they had to follow, Shu Lao Er said that he couldn't see it, Qin lowered his eyes and was silent, Shu Lao Da yelled twice, and one of them gave a kick before detaining his sons at home.

The restaurant where Pan Erniang works is on the riverside, called Sujiang Pavilion, the five-storey building is still rising, and it is the largest and most expensive restaurant in the county. Today, the boxes of the restaurant are set out, the lights are bright, and the lantern set by the river is even more lively, and the red reflects the red on both sides of the bridge.

Weixian County is divided into two by the Bailang River from south to north, the river channel is not wide, the river water is frozen in winter, the ice is very thick, the boys love to slip and step on the ice, there are three bridges on the river, connecting the east and west. Every morning on the fifteenth day of the new year, before dawn, there are many people who come to catch up with the big market, and tonight this bridge is selling lanterns and snacks and toys.

Shu Lao Er held his daughter in one hand and his daughter-in-law in the other, and told them lantern riddles and Gu'er as he walked. Qinglan is like a curious baby, looking east and west, although her cheeks are hurt by the north wind, she still tries to guess the riddles on the lamp, unfortunately, she didn't guess any of them, secretly unhappy, and the second child is still teasing her. The three of them talked and laughed and bought while walking, Shu Lao Er carefully protected his wife and daughter, and Xiao Qinglan was very happy eating the sugar fried chestnuts peeled by Pan Erniang.

But this good mood was maintained until the moment she went home with the rabbit lantern, as soon as she entered the gate, the rabbit lantern was snatched away by Erlang Saburo, and Dalang pounced on it and snatched all the snacks that Qinglan had brought back to others.

Qinglan was shocked: This is the whirlwind trio.

The fourth one came was Qin, she didn't apologize for her sons' behavior, and asked Qinglan a half-year-old child to let two four-year-old children lose her breath, and it was natural to ask Qinglan not to recover the lanterns, but promised to return the lanterns when she had played enough. Shu Lao Er hugged his daughter expressionlessly, and pulled Pan Erniang, who had a black face, back to the West Cross Courtyard.

The lantern was indeed returned, and a month later, the bamboo skin of the lamp handle was blackened, and the rabbit was pinched to tatters. Qinglan didn't know what to say, but Qin said to Pan Erniang with a smile: "I said no, how can Qinglan remember this with more toys." "It's cheap and good!

As soon as February, Shu Dalang Shu Minglang went to the county to study, and the big mischief was not there, and the two little mischiefs were well-behaved. Mrs. Shu found a neighbor to get together twenty chicks to raise in the East Cross Courtyard, and the focus of these two babies every day became to feed the chickens and turn around Pan Erniang in the afternoon shift, and Qinglan's auxiliary snacks had to be divided into three parts, but this actually did not prevent her from rubbing the rhythm of long meat, and by the way, Erlang Sanlang also gained a lot of weight.

The wind in Weixian County is very strong in all seasons, and the wind in spring is particularly stretched, and Qinglan fell in love with going out to play.

Every day, Mrs. Shu takes Mazha and carries Qinglan outside to bask in the sun, although she can already walk, but she doesn't like to walk, Mrs. Shu is also afraid that she will bump into it, and carries it back every day, such days are really not too comfortable~~~

Except for Aunt Shu, who often comes to eat, and says some sour things that are not four-six or six, Qinglan's life is still quite comfortable.

On the day Pan Erniang gave birth, it was the morning of July 15, and as soon as the sky was bright, Qinglan heard her mother's painful moans. Shu Lao Er was only wearing underwear, and he ran out to find Wen Po when he got on his shoes, and Mrs. Shu picked him up and handed him his coat, and Shu Lao Er wore it while running.

Qinglan sometimes really admires Pan Erniang, for example, in terms of giving birth, fast! In less than half an hour, she had her first younger brother in two lifetimes: Shu Mingyu.

It was a memorable day, she finally spoke, and the first word that others said was daddy or mother, and she said: "Adult". Adult, two words, was held by her father and mother for a long time and laughed.

At this time, Qinglan has a new toy, no, a new task: to see her brother. Such a small child (you're only a little over a year old), soft, Qinglan likes to give him all kinds of sleeping poses (does your father know that you are so good at playing with children?). )。

On the day when Shu Mingyu washed the three, Qinglan saw the beauty that Shu Laosan talked about every day: Wang Yufen.

Wang Yufen came to discuss the dowry with Mrs. Shu, and she didn't know that it was Mingyu's wash that day. Shu Laosan took out a dagger that he secretly hid and loved very much, and handed it to her, and asked her to give it to Pan Erniang as a gift. Pan Erniang took it with a smile and didn't break it, but called Qinglan over, gave her a handkerchief, and told her to hand it to Wang Yufen later when Wang Yufen talked to Mrs. Shu.

There was a ring six turtles (cicada chrysalis that I knew) wrapped in the veil, and the mud on the tongs was still fresh, Qinglan finished peeking, folded the veil again, and walked towards the hall.

Wang Yufen was talking to Mrs. Shu in a low voice, her voice was very gentle, but the meaning was very arrogant, asking Mrs. Shu to make clothes for her and her mother, and her wedding dress would be embroidered by Shu Er.

Mrs. Shu thought that today was her grandson's washing, and when she made a noise, her youngest son's face was not good-looking, so she swallowed her anger and said that the phoenix embroidered by Shu Lao Er was not to be counted on. Wang Yufen immediately changed her words, she didn't want the phoenix to buy Jinshangxiu's wedding clothes, Mrs. Shu thought about it for a long time, and finally swallowed her anger and agreed, and the dowry of eighty taels of silver was given, and she couldn't get married because of a few taels of silver? I remembered more and more the good things of the Pan family and the Pan family.

Qinglan leaned on the root of the door and listened for a while, before she entered the hall with her little short legs, smiled sweetly at Wang Yufen, who had drawn her eyebrows, and handed her the veil.

Not as good-looking as me, Qinglan is very happy.

Wang Yufen thought that Qinglan handed her a handkerchief to tell her to wipe her sweat, and took the handkerchief with a smile, as if she suddenly felt a tingling pain in her palm (Quit Liugui: I'm not a wasp, but I'm scratching hard), her face turned white all of a sudden, but she still reluctantly smiled at Qinglan and thanked her, and then quickly got up and twisted her waist to say goodbye. Mrs. Shu scolded her with a smile: "Little slippery head! Carrying her to the back room, he took out a paper bag from the chest of drawers, peeled off several layers of paper and peeled it off, it was a piece of golden maltose, smashed it on the edge of the kang through the paper bag, turned it into a few small pieces, picked up a piece and put it into Qinglan's mouth.

Qinglan's eyes widened, this was the first time she had eaten sugar in so long since she had been here, and the maltose was very sweet and fragrant.

Shu Mingyu's treatment is obviously not as good as Qinglan's, at least Pan Li didn't give him a reserve gold lock, let alone Jin Liushi. Pan Li's reason is also very legitimate, the grandson's longevity lock and the like should be prepared by the Shu family. Mrs. Shu didn't have this consciousness at all, and she was a little embarrassed immediately, only when the eldest grandson was born, Mr. Shu went to the market and bought a long-life lock, which was still copper.

Qinglan felt that her brother was very pitiful, so she dragged her golden lock out, intending to give it to Mingyu, Pan Li grabbed her hand and put the golden lock back into the collar, and said: "This is your longevity lock, with your name and birth date engraved on it, how can you give it to others, your brother naturally has his own." After finishing speaking, he looked at Mrs. Shu with a smile.

Old Mrs. Shu was even more cramped, and Second Aunt Shu muttered in a low voice: "Our family doesn't have such rules. ”

Pan Yuanniang took over the conversation and said with a smile: "Your Ji family doesn't have Aunt Weng, so naturally you don't know the rules. ”

Aunt Shu pressed the second aunt Shu, who was about to jump up, and said, "My mother prepared it, but she wanted to take it out when the child was 100 years old." Pan Li nodded after hearing this, but did not mention it.

At Mingyu's 100th birthday banquet, Mrs. Shu really took out a pair of longevity locks, which were smaller than Qinglan's golden locks, and they were still silver, with Mingyu's name and birthday engraved on them. Erlang Sanlang's eyes were straight, and he chased after Mrs. Shu for a silver lock, and Mrs. Shu gave her a broom pimple before she quieted down. But Qin's eyebrows turned purple the next day, and Qinglan knew that her uncle had beaten her daughter-in-law again. Yes, Boss Shu beat his daughter-in-law, he was a doctor with facial paralysis outside, and he was a grumpy father and husband when he came home, and the number of times Qin was beaten coincided with the number of times her mother's family came to her to ask for money, and this time it was obviously an accident.

Mingyu grows very fast, his eyebrows and eyes are very similar to Pan Erniang, phoenix eyes and eyebrows, but his nose is a tall nose with Shu Er's, his lips are slightly thick, he has inherited the characteristics of the Pan family, his complexion is fair, and he is a quiet little beautiful man. Qinglan seems to have found the joy of life all of a sudden: taking care of her younger brother.

Pan Erniang was even more proud, and said to Shu Lao Er shyly: "My mother said that it is the most blessed to bloom first and then bear fruit, really, you see how intimate Qingqing is, I know how to take care of my younger brother." Shu Lao Er laughed at her: "Who's daughter praises, don't be partial in the future!" Pan Erniang pouted: "I'm biased!" I'm biased! I'm partial to my eldest girl~~~" Shu Lao Er also laughed and said: "I also like my eldest daughter~~~" The family laughed.

Qin, who had just stepped into the moon gate to borrow a needle and thread, stopped, stood for a while, listened to the laughter in the room, glanced at the main room jealously, turned around and walked away.