Chapter Seventy-Eight: The New Year
In the early morning of the first day of the new year, before the sky was clear, Uncle Tian was called by Tian, and set off six long firecrackers in the courtyard, which is rare in the village, when the second firecracker was lit, the courtyard gate was slammed, Tian smiled and walked to open the courtyard door, and welcomed in a group of boys ranging from five to ten years old, the boys were usually very skinny, and they were also taught during the New Year, and they would shout Wishing you prosperity or something when they entered the door, and then they ran noisily to grab the firecrackers.
On the first day of the new year, the wealth is not scattered, that is, it does not spend money and does not send things out, but when you come to celebrate the New Year, you have to entertain well, Tian also gives candy to the children like other people, but her way is more tyrant: take out a big dustpan full of candy, melon seeds and red dates and put it on the stone table in the yard, let the children catch it casually, the children come with fun, return with a full load, and they are all happy.
At the beginning of the morning, Guan Gu came, and gave Tian a gift to celebrate the New Year, Guan Gu was not a child who couldn't just take candy to send away, Tian gave him a red envelope.
Seeing Guan Gu receiving the red envelope, Jinxiu didn't think about it, Jinyu and Jinyun suddenly woke up, and went up together to grab Tian's arm left and right and shake it, Tian giggled, took out a few red envelopes, and distributed them to the three sisters of Jinxiu, even Uncle Tian has one, and Uncle Tian is so happy that he can't see his teeth, saying that this is the first red envelope in his life, so he won't shirk it, he has to keep it well!
A few people get a red envelope and open it together, it's all the same, it's all two coins of silver, which is also Tian's generosity, usually the village people give red envelopes to children up to five or six copper money, and only those people who have a little better life will have.
Guan Gu came to the door to celebrate the New Year, Tian asked the three Jinxiu sisters to also go to the Guan family to Wishing you prosperity, Guan Mu and his wife had prepared sugar water and praline melon seeds, the three little girls each drank half a bowl of sugar water, grabbed a handful of melon seeds, Guan Jie smiled and sent a red envelope to each of them, feeling heavy in the hand, came back and opened it, it was actually a few silver nudes that were beaten into flowers, Jinyu and Jinyun couldn't let go, Jinxiu secretly said in his heart that this Guan Jie knew a little more than Tian.
On the first day of the new year, after breakfast, you can go out for a stroll or run around at will, but the snow has been falling non-stop, and it is getting thicker and thicker after dawn, and the weather is also very cold.
On the second day of junior high school, Tian Zhai hung an iron general on the door early in the morning, Tian Xiaoshu drove the carriage, took Tian and the three girls to Tianjiazhuang to pay New Year's greetings, and did not return home until the evening, and sent the steamed buns from her mother's house to the Guan family, Yu pulled Tian and said for a long time: it turned out that their mother had not been gone long in the morning, and the Feng family came a few people, this time Feng Lianhua and her husband came with the child, Liu and Feng Taohua and Feng Liuhua accompanied a few aside, saying that the aunt and grandmother returned to the door, and specially prepared a New Year's gift to be sent to the sister-in-law and nieces! As a result, I stood at the door for a long time and couldn't wait for anyone to come back, so I had to leave!
Tian recited a few words of Amitabha, and was glad that the mother and daughter walked fast and saved a lot of trouble!
The eldest daughter of the Guan family who has been married also returned to her parents' house with her aunt with two children to pay New Year's greetings, the Guan family slaughtered chickens and ducks and steamed buns today is very lively, Guan Mu and his wife invited Tian's mother and daughter to go over to eat together, Tian smiled and thanked and declined.
On the third day of the next day, Aunt Tian's family came, followed by two aunts and grandmothers of the Tian family, aunts and children, for a time the courtyard was full of laughter and excitement, and Aunt Tian and his uncle went back to watch the house at night, and everyone else lived, Fang Daniu had taken leave with the owner, and could only drag it back to the state city on the seventh day of the new year, but the cousins and sisters were really happy to get together, and they had been living in the Tian house until the sixth day of the first month.
Before leaving, Fang Daniu did not forget to remind Tian that she would go to the Yuan Festival with his mother to take his cousins to the state city to enjoy the lanterns, and he rented a house in the state city, so he didn't have to worry about having no place to live.
Tian has never been far away, and she rarely even goes to the town market, and she wants to go to the state city all of a sudden, but she has no bottom in her heart, so she just smiled and nodded first and agreed.
After a day break, at the beginning of the eighth day of the new year, Jiutian began to walk around with Aunt Liu, Huang Po and others who usually have contacts in the village to say hello, send a few snacks from their respective parents, and gossip about the new things in the village by the way.
Jinxiu and Jinyu did not go out to pay New Year's greetings because there were guests at home, and several little girls such as Ye Shuiling in the village came to the field house several times one after another. On the ninth day of the first month, Jinxiu and Jinyu took the New Year's gift to Yang's house, sat with Yang Dongmei for a short half a day, and saw that the Yang family had a guest at the door, so they left early.
Jin Yun is young and has another playmate, in the Feng family in previous years, she still has to do housework during the New Year, either for the aunts to wash clothes and clean up the house or under the stove, not allowed to go out at all, this year is the first time to taste the joy of the New Year, and the friends are like the wind running around, having a lot of fun.
Tian heard the gossip from the women's pile, and when she went home, she also told the children, although she didn't want to mention the Feng family and the Zhang family again, but she didn't say that they were all there, so it was better to tell the Jinxiu sisters.
In fact, Jinxiu also learned a news from Ye Shuiling: Zhang Ruiwen didn't know which stubborn he was guilty of, so he identified Dongshan Village, and after Jinxiu ran into a wall here, he actually persuaded Zhang's parents to send a matchmaker to the Lin family in Dongshan Village to propose marriage, and wanted to marry Lin Chunman, Lin Yourong's sister-in-law Lin Chunman, who was admitted to Tongsheng in the same year as him! On the sixth day of the new year, the two families have agreed on a family affair!
Ye Shuiling said that he deliberately wanted to block Jinxiu, Tian also looked at Jinxiu carefully when he talked about it, and Jinxiu laughed and said that Zhang Ruiwen wanted to do it, it really had nothing to do with him!
Then there is the Feng family, the Feng family's New Year festival this year is simply terrible, the Chinese New Year's Eve ran to the field house to make a fuss about that back, one by one without intention to make food, at night a few girls and children were hungry, Feng Liang pressed the Liu family and Xiao Liang to make some meals out to share, even the ancestors did not offer! The Liu family and the Feng family are only separated by a courtyard wall, and in the middle of the night, I heard the old man Feng roaring and scolding over there, Feng Liang talked back, and was beaten by the old man Feng with a stick and screamed, this is the first time that the old man Feng beat Feng Liang's, Aunt Liu listened carefully, as if she was injured and lying on the bed, and she didn't hear Feng Liang's voice over there at the beginning!
On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, Tian Zhai received an invitation that the landlord of Qiao in Xishan Village would hold a New Year's banquet on the eleventh day of the first month, and Mrs. Qiao invited Tian's mother and daughter to the banquet.
Tian was a little embarrassed with the invitation, she was not used to getting along with the landlord's daughters, the last time the Qiao family came uninvited, which made her a little panicked, and then thought that there would be any happy events in the future, and she quietly followed the gift to be, but Miss Qiao and the young grandmother loved to eat the Tian family's preserved fruit and preserves, and asked where to buy it? As the owner, of course, it is impossible to tell the people to buy it from the county seat, Tian had to load a basket of preserved fruits and candied fruits and send them to Qiao's carriage, as a result, Qiao's house chiseled ice in his own pond to catch fish a few years ago, and asked the family to send two fresh carp, this kind of living creature is very rare, and some wealthy people can't buy it with silver!
In addition to thanking the basket of preserved fruits, the Qiao family sent fish to thank them, and they also sincerely wanted to continue to associate with the Tian family.
Tian raised his eyes and looked at his three daughters, and finally gritted his teeth: Go and go, don't you go to the landlord's house? You can even eat yourself!