094 Celebrate the New Year and make pressure on the New Year's money
"Mother, you have wronged me, I brought it, but it is not as good as this one of Qianlan's sisters, so I didn't dare to take it out. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info "Mu Qi spoke, and took out a pair of head flowers wrapped in hemp paper like a trick.
A pair of light red head flowers, not dazzling to look at, but very delicate, made of silk, and goose yellow stamens, the color of the support is more and more handsome, this pattern is also fashionable in the county, let alone in this village. It can be seen that Mu Qi also put a lot of thought into it, and he didn't buy it casually.
Xiuyu is a teenage girl's house, and when she saw this thing, she took it happily, and thanked her brother with a sweet smile, so she carefully put it on her head, and shook her head left and right to show her mother and grandmother.
"Our Xiuyu is beautiful, and this dress is even more beautiful, I can't see it, Mu Qi is very smug on weekdays, and he is really careful." The fourth grandmother was full of joy and nodded again and again.
"No, I didn't even find this good thing, I went back to the county seat, and I bought a few too." Mu Qianlan also said with a funny smile.
Hearing this, Mu Qi was a little embarrassed, and said sneeringly: "I was afraid that you wouldn't look down on Sister Qianlan, so I didn't dare to buy ......."
In an instant, Mu Qianlan understood the meaning of Mu Qi's words, so he hurriedly smiled and opened the topic, and then pulled the topic back to Xiuyu.
Everyone also began to praise Xiuyu along this topic, and several old people said that Xiuyu was not young anymore, and she should be married, which made Xiuyu a little embarrassed, and turned around and pulled Luo'er to hide.
Just right. Luo'er also brought some good ones, and planned to share them with a few good sisters and sisters in the village, so she followed her obediently.
Mu Qi went out with Mu, saying that he was looking for other people in the village.
Several women were still talking in one place, and Zhou Qiangwen saw that he couldn't help at home, so he said that he was going to take someone to clean up the house of the fourth grandmother's house.
He is a simple person, thinking that he must always roast the house first, or what if this family is old and young, and he is frostbitten?
The fourth grandmother wanted to follow, but was stopped by the eldest grandmother. Let her talk to herself. The affairs of the family will be handed over to Qiangwen.
The fourth grandmother is also up to Zhou Qiangwen, left and right, and the people of the Huang family help him, and she is not afraid of tiring him.
Talked for a while. The fourth grandmother is also idle when she sees that she is idle. simply proposed to start making clothes for Zhou Qiangwen's family. There are still two or three days to go before the New Year, and if you don't hurry up for thirty nights, you won't be able to wear it.
Because Uncle Zhou was in the main house, it was inconvenient to open the field to work. Several women simply went to Xiuyu's house in the west wing.
"If you want to talk about ingenuity in the village, it must be the fourth aunt. With your help, we can do it faster. Li Guihua was not polite, so she hurriedly took a few rulers and asked the fourth grandmother to help cut them.
"In the past few years, I have always felt old, my eyes are a little spent, and the needlework I made is not as good as it was in the first few years." The fourth grandmother was smiling, and she had already brought the powder and scissors over and began to draw on them.
She did these jobs very neatly.
"I can't help with these things, I can only look at them." Mu Qianlan smiled.
"You just rest and rest, this year, it will not make you tired, this New Year's Day, why should you rest and rest." Li Guihua said hurriedly.
This baby, at such an age, thinks about making money all year round, but it's not too hard. Now that she's back, she should be allowed to rest more.
Mu Qianlan smiled and said, "I'm tired there, don't you rely on the help of the big guys?" If I were alone, I wouldn't be what it is today. ”
"If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have such a day, I look at it today, it's the Wenchang family and the Changchuan family, and this day is also getting better."
"Speaking of which, I do have something to discuss with you and uncle, I bought a Zhuangzi in front of the county seat, there are 100 acres of land, this year's land is tenant out, next year I plan to take it back and plant it myself, and I plan to buy some more after the New Year, you know, I have a lot of things at hand, and I have to help worry about it at that time. I want to think about it, I want my uncle and you to help me, if someone else I don't worry, but I don't know what you mean? Mu Qianlan has been thinking about this matter for a long time, and he just opened his mouth at this time.
One is that Mu Qianlan plans to plant something new, no one can help him, Zhou Qiangwen happens to be a good farmer, and he is a sincere and willing to endure hardships, and he can help himself the best; The second is that although the life of Zhou Qiangwen's family is better than before, it is still not as good as Wang Changchuan and Liu Wenchang's two families after all.
"Qianlan, you also know that our family is old and young, if I and your uncle are gone, what can we do at home?" Li Guihua said with some embarrassment.
"You don't have to worry about this, I've already thought about it, after the New Year, take Xiuyu and grandpa and grandma, and let's go to the county seat." Everyone is still living together, and this life is better, isn't it? As for the land at home, there is not much in the first place, and we will go out to plant it for others, and when we come back, we will plant it ourselves. Mu Qianlan had thought about this matter carefully, and naturally she had also considered everything that should be considered for them.
Li Guihua was still a little hesitant, leaving her family and business to go outside, this is a big deal, why can't she decide so casually, right?
"Mother, let's go!" Xiuyu had a longing expression on her face, talking to Luo'er at this time, she felt that although Luo'er was still young, she had seen more than her sister, who was several years older.
"I will discuss this matter with your father, and your grandfather and your grandmother may not be able to agree." Although Li Guihua is the person who has a big idea in the family, she didn't dare to make up her mind easily, so she said it again.
The fourth grandmother nodded approvingly and said, "This is what it should be, and the family should always discuss it." However, I think it can be done, you see, we used to be in the village, how much silver can we have all year round? Outside this year. I earn more than I can in the village. Even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about the two babies, right? ”
When she left, the fourth grandmother was actually very entangled, but now she is glad that she can take that step, otherwise, how can she know what the world outside is like? People, you have to take a walk and see more, so that your horizons can be broadened. If Qiangwen's family continues to stay in the village, they won't be able to earn a few dollars all year round, and they see that Mu Qi is about to say goodbye. It's time for Xiuyu to get married. It all costs money.
"Auntie, you and Uncle discuss it, if you go, you and Uncle will help me do the work. I will not do you any wrong. One month and Uncle Nagagawa, they are all the same. It's a tael of silver, and it's counted separately under the first quarter of the year. It's Xiuyu, who can also help at home. How about giving 800 yuan a month? This is also because you help me, I plan to do more next year, but there are fewer people who can help me. "Mu Qianlan first opened his own conditions, and he still looked like he had to be you.
Li Guihua was busy and calculated from her heart, if this is the case, the family will need almost four taels of silver a month. There is also a year of money, and the family has almost fifty taels of silver a year, even if it is a big flower outside, but Qianlan's baby is in charge of food and housing, that is, spending money to buy some others, ten taels of silver a year is enough.
In this way, after a year, the family can save forty taels of silver, and Mu Qi will earn it in two years after marrying and Xiuyu getting married, and it is still decent, isn't it much better than working hard at home?
"In China, what you say, I'll tell your uncle when I turn around." Li Guihua responded happily.
Actually, I saw Li Cuilan and Liu Yuniang just now, and she also saw the changes in these two people, and secretly regretted that she couldn't go, I don't want to, Qianlan's baby just opened her mouth, isn't it a good thing that fell from the sky? Therefore, she actually agreed in her heart
In the evening, Mu Qianlan and the fourth grandmother and others returned to their own house, the Huang family had already cleaned the inside and out, and the brazier in the house had been lit early, which was charcoal pulled from the county seat.
Because of the extra family, the fourth grandmother lived with Luo'er, Luo'er's house let the Huang family and their daughter Huang Xiaohua live, and a small room with sundries was vacated and a bed was placed for the Huang family's son Huang Dazhu to live.
Futon or something, Mu Qianlan brought a lot of it when she came this time, and the whole family used it enough. And there are a lot of food and things that are brought back from the county, and there is no shortage of anything at home at this time.
The Huang family also learned a lot of cooking skills during this time, and soon made simple and delicious meals, and everyone ate them and went back to their rooms to rest.
When he arrived in his own room, Mu Qianlan simply went into the space, the space is now full of aura, which is very good for people, sleeping in the space is much more comfortable than outside, sleeping a little, the whole body is full of energy. Moreover, there is no waste of time, the space is full of sleep, and it is only a little time outside.
Therefore, Mu Qianlan is now spending most of her time in the space at night, in addition to helping Xiaoxiao take care of the crops in the space, she is developing her own medicine, which saves much more time than outside.
According to the rules of Liushu Village, on the thirtieth day of the lunar month, we must prepare to worship our ancestors, in Liushu Village, the Zhou family is not a big family, and there is no ancestral hall of its own.
If you want to say that in other people's families, there is such a saying that women are more sacrificing than sacrifices, but in the four rooms of the Zhou family, there is only one grandmother, and there is no such thing as a woman who cannot be sacrificed.
But this year, a few people have been added to the family, and the fourth grandmother simply waved her hand and said, everyone in the family went to worship. Naturally, if he dared to say this, he had already consulted Mu Qianlan's opinion.
After all, Mu Qianlan has nothing to do with the Zhou family, and she should not sacrifice the ancestors of the Zhou family. But I didn't want to, the fourth grandmother just mentioned it, but she agreed.
She is also alone now, even if she wants to sacrifice her father, she doesn't know how to sacrifice, and a stick of incense here can be regarded as a expression of her heart.
In order to sacrifice, Mu Qianlan prepared the five animal sacrifices early, which was much more decent than the simple sacrifice of the fourth grandmother in previous years, and even the incense candles and paper, Mu Qianlan had bought good ones from the county town early and brought them back.
The fourth grandmother looked at the complete ironing prepared by Mu Qianlan, and her heart was also warm and slightly sour. It's been so many years, and during the New Year, my own house was deserted, how could there have been such a time.
In the morning, the whole village was quiet and quiet, and there was the sound of cannonballs and the joyful laughter of the little dolls, and Luo Er and Mu had to go outside for a while.
The sacrifice generally starts in the afternoon, after lunch, and after a little wait, the fourth grandmother will bring three dolls to sacrifice.
By the time they finished their sacrifice, the Huang family had already prepared a sumptuous meal. According to the custom, the fourth grandmother personally breaded dumplings filled with pork and leeks. After waiting for the steaming dumplings to come out of the pot, the family began to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
Looking at the family sitting together, the fourth grandmother looked at it with tears in her eyes, since the old man of her own family went, that is, there are many people in the family this year, where are you unhappy? The fourth grandmother even made an exception and drank two glasses of wine, muttering that this day was finally over, and she was no longer alone. If the old man of his own family knows something, he should be at ease.
After a while, the fourth grandmother took out a few bulging red envelopes and gave her three grandchildren and daughters as New Year's money. Everyone pinched the hard inside, and they all knew that this red envelope was not copper coins, but silver.
When I opened it, it was a few delicate small silver bills, with auspicious words cast on them, and I don't know when the fourth grandmother prepared it.
Mu Qianlan looked at the two silver bills for one person, and knew that the fourth grandmother had prepared it early in the morning, and it was also the old man's thoughts, so he was not polite, and thanked the fourth grandmother with a smile to accept it. Mu and Luo Er also learned to accept and thank them.
Mu Qianlan also has an account in her heart, she gives the fourth grandmother a lot of silver every month, and the fourth grandmother can't spend this silver to eat, drink, wear and wear, and most of them are saved. Now there are at least more than 30 taels of silver in her hand, and these silver bills are estimated to be eight dollars each, and it is not difficult for the fourth grandmother to take them out, so she naturally will not brush the old man's heart for this.
And Mu Tou and Luo'er are not very short of silver now, as long as they help to do something, Mu Qianlan will give them some money. Although the savings of the two people are not as much as those of the four grandmothers, they are not good. However, the two have not received the New Year's money for many years, that is, in the past, the mother could give them when they were still there, that is, a penny or two penny red envelopes, where they saw this glittering silver bill, and now they are about to jump up with joy. (To be continued.) )