Chapter Twenty-Nine: The New Year
After the New Year, Du Xiaoxi was already drowsy.
However, after taking the heavy pocket handed over by Du Zhiyi, Du Xiaoxi instantly kicked Zhou Gong to 108,000 miles away.
Stretching out his arm to pour out the red envelope in his small pocket, Du Xiaoxi began to count how much money he earned today.
There are many little dolls born in Dujia Village every year, and the wedding banquets and funerals of various families are also a lot of expenses every year. For Du Xiaoxi, a little big doll is usually only given one or two copper plates, of course, there will be a lot more intimate relationships.
Du Xiaoxi got several times more money this year than other little dolls, because Du Xiaoxi was accepted as an apprentice by Master Xile, and every family wanted to please a good fortune, and the red envelopes for Du Xiaoxi were naturally much richer than other dolls.
Du Xiaoxi opened the simple wrapped red paper, shook off the copper coins inside, and counted how many there were with a smile. Of course, the brothers didn't think that Du Xiaoxi could count, they simply thought that she was just unpacking the paper bags and playing.
One, two, three......
Du Xiaoxi's round eyes narrowed into crescent moons.
349 pcs!
"You beat it up!" Du Xiaoxi slapped away Du Ba's claws that stretched out to his little money, and giggled while holding a bunch of copper coins, a lot of money.
Du Xiaoxi smiled, and Du Niang also smiled.
Du Niang saw that her daughter had sorted out the New Year's money, took out a red rope from the sewing basket next to her, and found the most shiny copper plate from a pile of copper coins in front of Du Xiaoxi, and strung the copper plate on the red rope. "This is for you to play with, don't lose it."
Shanshui County has many unique customs, and giving a child a copper talisman money is one of them. Talisman money is given by the elders of the same clan, which means wealth and longevity, and is the best blessing of parents and elders to their children.
Du Niang finished tying the talisman money for her daughter, and by the way, taking advantage of her daughter's curiosity about the copper plate on her wrist, she received a bunch of scattered copper coins on the bed into the money box, Du Xiaoxi saw the decisive transfer target, do you think I am a three-year-old child? Even the New Year's money for a two-year-old child must be confiscated, and adults in the world are so capricious!
We are not allowed to make trouble unreasonably!
"Mother! It's mine! Du Xiaoxi howled decisively.
Du Niang didn't lift her eyelids, and sent it back to Grandma Du's house after collecting the money box.
Du Xiaoxi watched his pile of small money fly away, and shouted, "Mine!" Mother! It's mine! Tried to let Du Niang stay, but he wanted to wear the slender back when Du Niang left.
"Daddy?" Du Xiaoxi turned his head to look at Daddy Du, who was killing with his sons, and his soft little voice was matched with two packs of tears that could not be thrown away, and he instantly conquered this man who had killed countless pigs.
"Oops! What's going on? Daddy Du threw the cards in his hand on the table and flew to Du Xiaoxi's side.
"Daddy?" Another voice containing grievances sounded, and I saw that the card in Du Sange's hand was clearly only a king left, which was the rhythm of the landlord who was about to win Daddy Du!
Daddy Du didn't have the slightest sense of blushing, and cared about his little girl wholeheartedly.
"Dad, my money!"
Your mother took away your little money?
I can't take care of it!
Or! Daddy make it up!
Daddy Du poured out all his private money from Du Niang's rusty purse, stuffed it into the big pocket of his daughter's jacket, and said reluctantly: "Girl, is it enough?" ”
Du Xiaoxi glanced at Daddy Du's deflated purse and nodded with satisfaction, "Dad, you are so good!" ”
The sound of the milk bag instantly made Daddy Du's face bloody, and he couldn't wait to snatch all the silver back from the old lady's house and give it to his daughter.
With the talisman, Qian Du Xiaoxi's highlight on the first day of the New Year can be regarded as a successful end.
The New Year is the most anticipated festival of the year in the hearts of the children of the farmer's family, not only with rare New Year's money and new clothes, but also with a sumptuous meal that lasts for half a month.
Du Liu's two families are married, of course, they don't just wait for Du Xiaoxi to marry directly. When you become a relative, you naturally have to move around.
Although I didn't see my five-year-old aunt, the New Year's gift from the Liu family definitely had weight.
Liu Zi'an is a person who can live with himself, the Liu family is rich, but the gift to the Du family is definitely not a flashy thing for the Du family, eating cloth accounts for most of the car, and there are even a few boxes of fresh fruits such as tangerines with high prices in winter.
Todu Xiaoxi's blessing, this year, everyone in the Du family has a new look inside and out, and the food is much more relaxed than before. Finally, the butcher's table was not meat scraps, but large meat.
Braised pork, stewed chicken with mushrooms, sauerkraut fish, braised pig's trotters, stewed pork ribs, scrambled eggs with shallots, more than a dozen kinds of meat dishes with cold fungus, cold pork ears, fried peanuts and rice, plus cabbage and tofu ball soup, each dish has two large pots, two tables are full, and the constant smell of meat makes people drool for 3,000 feet.
Du Xiaoxi also fought for a mouthful of beautiful millet teeth, and didn't eat anything that was too hard, Du Niang scooped the meatballs soaked in the soup with a small spoon for Du Xiaoxi to eat, ate a few meatballs and stuffed a few pieces of stewed rotten elbow meat by the way, and then drank half a bowl of cabbage soup, Du Xiaoxi said goodbye to Zhenghuan's family who ate it, and was pressed to bed by Du Niang to sleep. Du Xiaoxi met with the Zhou Guild in the praise of his brothers, "Grandma's pig's trotters are the best" and "Niang's sauerkraut fish is so fragrant".
When Du Xiaoxi woke up, there was no one in the house, and the well-slept buns usually had to shout, and Du Xiaoxi was no exception, but the soil kang was too high to go down at all, so she could only shout at her throat.
Du Niang and her two daughters-in-law were cleaning up the mess of lunch, and when they heard the shouts of their daughters, they wiped their hands and entered the house, "Xi'er wants to pee?" Du Niang asked softly, and took out the small urine bucket that Fourth Brother Du made for his sister from under the bed. sighed a few words in my heart, my daughter is really my father's little padded jacket, my daughter never pees in bed when she wakes up, unlike the new stinky boy of the old third family who is not considerate of his mother's pain in washing bedding in winter.
The men in the family all went to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors, although women could not enter the ancestral hall, Grandma Du still took Zhang Qiaoer, the eldest granddaughter-in-law, to burn incense in the square in front of the ancestral hall, and only Du Niang was left at home with her daughter and two daughters-in-law to work.
Du Niang took her daughter to her mother-in-law's room, washed her hands, took a meatball that was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and stuffed it into Du Xiaoxi's hand to let her sit on the bed and grind her teeth, then sat on the edge of the bed and then prepared dumplings for dinner with her two daughters-in-law.
The meatballs are fried in lard, and they are a little soft when they are cold, and the greasy Du Xiaoxi doesn't like it, so he stuffed the meatballs into the dough that Du Niang was awake on the bed, and secretly dragged a piece of noodles to play.
Du Niang sat across the bed, caught a glimpse of Du Xiaoxi's movements, and whispered, "Just play with that, don't drag it anymore." Du Xiaoxi responded to Du Niang twice.
There are also dry lands in Shanshui County, but most of them are in the middle of the mountain and there are few fertile fields, and the price of wheat is a few cents more expensive than rice. If Du Xiaoxi is older, it will be a proper rhythm of ass flowering.
When Daddy Du and the others came back, it was already dark, and the family ate a steaming meal of pork and cabbage dumplings and slept peacefully.