As soon as the firecrackers ended, the mobile phone rang, Zhang Taiping's mobile phone didn't store a few people, and few people knew his number, so he could call at this time, and he didn't have to guess who it was. took the phone, and sure enough, it was Yang Wanli.

"Haha, Happy New Year, Brother Zhang, I called just after twelve o'clock, the first person to speak in the New Year is not a big beauty, disappointed, haha." Yang Wanli's cheerful laughter came from there, obviously in a good mood now.

"Hehe, it's okay to have no beautiful women and beautiful men, are you ready to be a little sufferer?" Zhang Taiping made a rare joke.

Yang Wanli, who was with his friend on the other end of the phone, heard this, and then thought of Zhang Taiping's rough and strong body, Ji Lingling shivered, and said with a smile: "This, I can't bear it, Brother Zhang should find another little white face." ”

Zhang Taiping and Yang Wanli chatted a few more words, said some words of blessing to each other and hung up the phone, just hung up the phone, it rang again, Zhang Taiping was a little surprised when he saw it, it turned out to be Yang Ning's.

"Hey, Happy New Year!" Zhang Taiping answered the phone and first blessed him.

"Hehe, Happy New Year, I just called a few times, I've been on the phone, I just finished talking to a beautiful woman, right?"

Zhang Taiping said: "A friend. "I didn't explain much.

The two of them said some words of blessing to each other, and Yang Ning simply hung up the phone, as if he was calling to say a few words of blessing. Zhang Taiping looked at the phone and felt a little inexplicable, shook his head and just wanted to put the mobile phone in his pocket, the ringtone of the mobile phone rang again, this time it was not a call, but a text message, one after another, and it didn't stop until five or six.

When the bell stopped ringing, Zhang Taiping began to browse one by one, and Niu Junfeng, He Cheng, and Ye Qing each sent a text message. From these little things, you can slightly see a person's surname, He Cheng's text message was obviously sent in a group, Niu Junfeng wrote it himself, and Ye Qing also wrote it himself, a few simple sentences. It has long been seen that Niu Junfeng is a Zhang Fei-like character, who seems to have a rough appearance, but he has a slender heart and can think through things. Ye Qing is doing clerical work, and he will definitely do everything without leakage, and he will definitely write it himself. What made Zhang Taiping a little small was that Huang Jun, a fat man who had a one-sided relationship, also sent a text message of blessings.

Zhang Taiping stood at the door next to the number, returning a word of blessing one by one.

After letting go of the firecrackers, Fan Ming, who was still clamoring for the New Year, couldn't support it anymore, and kept yawning. In the end, it was really a big fight between the upper and lower eyelids, and he went back to his room to sleep. Zhang Taiping asked Cai Yazhi and the sisters to go back to the room to rest, they have to get up early tomorrow to make dumplings, and they have to prepare lunch meals during the day, it is really not good not to rest, they don't have Zhang Taiping's perverted physical fitness. After everyone else went to sleep, Zhang Taiping came to the back room alone to replace the old man to keep vigil.

Before dawn the next day, the two parrots hanging from the wreaths in the air began to shout, "It's the New Year, it's the New Year," which woke up everyone in the yard.

Cai Yazhi got up early and started making dumplings, and it was fine at six o'clock. First, on the table in front of the ancestral god card, a few dishes were offered, and two incense sticks were put to make chopsticks. Contribute two to the stove master who was invited back from heaven last night, and then everyone eats it.

There were seven people in total, and there were seven dumplings with coins in them. As she ate, she screamed, but she ate a coin and hit her teeth.

After a while, Yaya ate another coin, Cai Yazhi also ate one, and Fan Ming said enviously that the two of them were so blessed.

Zhang Taiping directly ate two in a row, and only two were left and never appeared. Fan Ming himself also wanted to eat a coin, but today it has been a long time and still hasn't seen a shadow, looking at the last three dumplings in the bowl I really can't eat it, lying on my back on the kang and patting my bulging little belly and saying: "Don't eat, don't eat, I'm dead, it seems that I'm not blessed." The tone was rather regrettable.

The faces of the other people were a little strange, the dumplings had basically been eaten, and there were still two coins that had not yet appeared, leaving only three dumplings that Fan Ming couldn't eat, so the hiding place of the two coins was self-evident. It's just ridiculous that Fan Ming wanted to get a cup of coins so much, and he didn't eat the last three.

Zhang Taiping couldn't help but smile and asked, "Are you sure you won't eat it?" ”

Seeing a few people with strange faces, they sat up and looked at the empty bowls that everyone should have passed, Fan Ming suddenly came to his senses, got up and came to the bowl on the lid of the cabinet, and poked the three remaining dumplings one by one with chopsticks, and sure enough, there were two coins.

Fan Ming was overjoyed, and he didn't care about hygiene, so he directly pinched out the two coins with his fingers and raised them in front of everyone, and said proudly: "Look, it's still two, I am also a person with great blessings." ”

Everyone looked at Fan Ming, who was as proud as a little swan at this time, and felt funny, and they didn't know who didn't move those three dumplings just now.

After eating, the old man called a few people together, which was about to send New Year's money.

The little girl was shocked to wear a brand new dress, dressed like a little princess, in fact, in Zhang Taiping's house, she was indeed a little princess. After the Chinese New Year, a child will be born, and no matter how poor and miserable the parents are, they will think about making a new dress for their child. The old man gave Yaya a brand-new banknote of fifty yuan as New Year's money, and children always like to get New Year's money from their elders during the New Year, feeling the joy of holding the big money that they can't usually enjoy. Yaya is the youngest in the family, and she receives the most New Year's money, basically everyone gave her a share, only Cai Yazhi saw that Zhang Taiping gave it and didn't give it again, husband and wife are one, one person represents two people.

Several women also wore brand new clothes for a few days, and even Zhang Taiping symbolically wore new custom-made clothes and newly bought shoes. The old man also sent Cai Xiaomei and Fan Ming a New Year's money, which was not much and the same amount as Yaya. Although the two are adults, they are still children in the eyes of the old man. The rest of Zhang Taiping and Cai Yazhi are like water, and there is no more.

Yaya is a sensible child, she stuffed most of the money into her mother's hands for her mother to keep, and only put five or six yuan in her pocket to go out to play with children, five or six yuan is already a good amount of money in the rural area for children of this age.

The custom here in Guanzhong is not to go out on the first day of the new year, to celebrate the New Year in their own home, and only on the second day of the new year do they start to greet guests. At the beginning of the Lunar New Year, the Taiping family did not go out, and ate the most sumptuous lunch of the year at home at noon. Unlike the North, the most hearty meals in the South may be held in the evening, while in the North the most hearty meals tend to be held at noon, with easy to digest and filling foods in the evening.

The next day, from early in the morning, some villagers began to come to Zhang Taiping's house with gifts to greet the old man. The old man basically did not charge medical fees when he practiced medicine in the village, and he had real skills, and there were not a few people who rescued him, and even pulled many people back from the ghost gate. It is famous in several nearby villages, so I don't know the people in this village who came to pay New Year's greetings today, and there are some people from other villages.

Zhang Taiping's family never thought that there would be so many people who would come to pay New Year's greetings, and they didn't prepare meals for guests in advance, and the people who happened to come to pay New Year's greetings just left as soon as they put the gifts away, without the slightest intention of staying here to eat.

Zhang Taiping saw that everyone was open with this attitude, and he didn't care, he didn't care, he didn't refuse, he accepted the gifts, and when he was idle, he sat down to drink a cup of tea with the old man, and if he was not idle, he would go directly.

And he himself did not stay in the house anymore, but took the gifts that had been prepared long ago to the village chief's family to pay New Year's greetings, and the village chief's family was a guest in the second year of junior high school. I wanted to leave after putting the gifts away like those who went to pay New Year's greetings to me, but the village chief didn't let him live or die, so he was allowed to leave only after a meal.

The third year of junior high school is to entertain guests at the old man's house, Zhang Taiping has learned carpentry skills under the old man Qian for a year and a half, and the old man Qian is also half a master, and he got along well with him during this time, so he brought a gift to the door to pay a New Year's greeting, and was also left for a meal before letting people leave.

Zhang Taiping passed the greetings of the old man Zhao in the east of the village to the ears of his old man, and the old man asked Zhang Taiping to back up the gift and go to pay a New Year's greeting as a junior. Zhang Taiping went to the fourth day of junior high school, but he didn't expect that the courtyard of Mr. Zhao, who has always been deserted, has indeed been quite lively and popular these days. Zhang Taiping saw that several fifty or sixty-year-old people in the house were somewhat similar to Old Man Zhao, and guessed that this might be Old Man Zhao's sons, and the people in the house might be Old Man Zhao's branches and leaves.

Zhang Taiping could feel the extraordinary momentum of these people, all of whom had been cultivated in high positions all year round. Zhang Taiping stayed to eat, just sat down with Old Man Zhao and drank a few cups of tea, then got up and left, and Old Man Zhao didn't stop him.

When he went out, Zhang Taiping suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure, and when he looked at it, he was the woman who had been observing Zhang Taiping at the flower and tree fair. Seeing Zhang Taiping looking over, he nodded with a smile and gestured to Zhang Taiping. Zhang Taiping also nodded in response.

After going out, a dusty memory suddenly came out, and Zhang Taiping remembered who this woman was. Old man Zhao's granddaughter, his junior high school classmate, but at that time, this woman was a master who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and she followed Zhang Taiping all day long to do evil, just like a little sister, but then she didn't know that she left suddenly, and then she was never heard from.

Zhang Taiping has almost forgotten her for so many years, and even if she remembers, she is still the arrogant and domineering little sister image behind her, and she can't coincide with the woman who is now angry like a poetry book, no wonder you don't know each other.

Zhang Taiping couldn't help but sigh: "Time is the best adjudicator and can change everything." ”