Chapter Seventy-Seven: Monsters
"Miss, come out and light firecrackers." Jiang Chun held the incense in his hand, and happily waved to Jiang Quinoa.
Jiang Quinoa set the plates on the table, pursed her lips and looked at Aunt Rong, her eyes showing longing.
"Go, go, beware of being crushed." Aunt Rong shouted at the top of her voice, looking at the two little girls who ran out happily, and shook her head with a smile.
"It's better to be a little girl." Wang Li also had some feelings.
When Jiang Quinoa and the others arrived outside the door, Jiang Tiezhu had already tied the firecracker to the bamboo pole and leaned against the wall obliquely.
"Miss, I'll do it." Jiang Tiezhu hurriedly stepped forward to take the incense from Jiang Quinoa's hand and said, "It's a lot of smoke and ash outside, and it's noisy, so Miss hurry back to the house." ”
Here, Jiang Chun has already found an introduction with the help of Shunzi, just waiting for Jiang Quinoa to prepare the two of them to light firecrackers together, and the two hexagram firecrackers will be released together, which is also a lively year. After waiting for a long time, I didn't hear Jiang Quinoa's voice, so I stomped my feet and urged: "My eldest miss, hurry up, you see that these little hairy children are in a hurry." ”
Every year during the Chinese New Year, there will be some squibs, and the children in the village have nothing to play with, so they will go around looking for squibs, and then play with them, and sometimes they will privately pick up more squibs than who picks them up.
Jiang Quinoa looked over, and there were indeed seven or eight children guarding the door, staring at the two hexagram long firecrackers in his yard.
"Brother Zhuzi, tell me where the lead is." Jiang Quinoa asked as he pulled Jiang Tiezhu's sleeve, his eyes looking for a lead on the firecracker.
Jiang Tiezhu thought about his mother and said that when the eldest lady came back from the capital, she should marry her, and then she would definitely have to live in seclusion, and she couldn't play around like this. This little girl was also watched and raised by him since he was a child. has been too well-behaved since childhood, which makes people feel distressed.
Finding the lead, Jiang Tiezhu said uneasily: "You can put the incense here later." As long as you see smoke, run away, do you hear? ”
Haven't eaten pork and never seen a pig run? Although Jiang Quinoa has never lit firecrackers when she is so big, she has also seen people light firecrackers during the New Year's festivals, and she thinks that she is still very experienced.
Jiang Quinoa and Jiang Chun glanced at each other, and saw each other's reflections in their bright eyes, and the two of them were eager to try, and shouted in unison: "Three." Two, one! As soon as the voice fell, the incense was put under the lead. The two of them held their ears and laughed and ran quickly into the house, and the deafening sound of firecrackers rang out behind them.
Covering his ears tightly, the sound of firecrackers still rang in his ears, and the sound shook his heart.
Qingbo said that there were too many things to experience in the past year. The New Year should be lively. Drive away all bad luck, and the whole family will be safe and happy, and everything will go well. Even the firecrackers for the New Year are the longest bought, and the firecrackers outside rang for a long time before they stopped, and then there was the sound of children cheering, thinking that they had picked up a lot of squibs.
"This is fruit wine, it's sweet and doesn't have much wine, you little girls can drink a little." Qing Bo took a small wine jug and put it on the table.
Aunt Rong glared at him before she spoke. Jiang Chun's happy voice had already come: "Ah, we can also drink." Qingbo. Pour me a full cup. As he spoke, his hand was already raising the cup high.
"Good!" Qing Bo responded boldly, stood up with the wine jug in his arms and poured wine for Jiang Chun.
Jiang Quinoa patted the table and shouted happily: "Uncle Qing, Uncle Qing, I want it too." After pouring the wine, he took Wang Li's wine glass again: "Pour a glass for the master too." ”
"I don't drink, I don't drink." Wang Li blushed and waved his hand repeatedly.
Jiang Quinoa is going to the capital after the New Year, and she doesn't know when she will come back, but this time she decided to sit at a table and have fun together. Wang Li has a shy temperament, and has never sat at a table with a foreign man to eat, Aunt Rong doesn't want to come out, but Jiang Quinoa and Jiang Chun pulled her out, but she was very restrained when she came out.
"The master is not afraid, this is fruit wine, not intoxicating." Jiang Qu persuaded.
Jiang Chun took a small sip and narrowed his eyes happily: "Really, master, this wine is sweet, and there is no taste of wine at all." ”
Aunt Rong also persuaded: "During the New Year, everyone is happy, and drinking a little is not in the way." ”
Everyone persuaded Wang Li to excuse himself again, so he poured half a glass of wine.
"Nagashi has a drink, too?" Walking next to Liao Changzhi, Qingbo asked.
Liao Changzhi has a shy personality and an honest personality, probably because he has a bad family background since he was a child, and often helps his mother, he still has a decisive side in his temperament, and he picked up the wine glass and said, "Thank you, Uncle Qing." ”
Qing Bo was suddenly even happier.
Liao Xiucai's wife said on the side: "It's good for the child to taste a little, and it's good to drink a little." ”
"Mother, don't worry you won't get him drunk." On the contrary, Liao Xiucai, the one who is the father, is not worried at all.
When everyone at the table was full of cups, Qing Bo stood up and raised his glass: "We have experienced a lot of things in the past year, and it is all because everyone helps each other that we can sit here and eat and drink together. ”
"Cheers!" Jiang Quinoa shouted loudly, with the excitement of drinking for the first time in his voice.
I drank it in a hurry, and I choked on a sip of wine, and the wine juice that flowed back also had a little bit of wine, which made Jiang Quinoa burp.
Jiang Chun pointed at her with a wine glass and laughed, laughing so much that she almost sat on the ground and fell, Jiang Qu was annoyed and ashamed, and rushed over to beat her, and the two chased around the table twice before they were stopped by Aunt Rong and Jiang Chun and her mother.
Aunt Rong grabbed Jiang Quinoa's arm with one hand, and calmly held the chopsticks with the other, and muttered in her mouth: "How old are you, you still don't have a good time eating." ”
Jiang Quinoa was dumbfounded, Jiang Chun began to hold his stomach and laugh again, and they didn't eat much during the whole Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, either smirking or holding the fruit wine jug to grab wine and drink.
After eating, Aunt Rong complained to Uncle Qing while packing up her things: "It's all your fault, it's just an old drunkard at home, and even brought out a little drunkard." ”
Qing Bo looked at Jiang Quinoa who was walking around the room and insisted that the room was spinning, and said with a smug smile: "It is said that the girl is the intimate little padded jacket of my father, but unfortunately you did not give me a small padded jacket." Both of our sons are like wood, and they are still sweet little girls like flowers, and they can even get together with me when they drink. ”
Aunt Rong glanced at him. I went to the kitchen with the basket of plates.
"Jiang Quinoa, why do you have four eyes, haha, a lot of eyes, do you see things more clearly than me, I only have one eye." Jiang Chun stretched out a hand and said with a five.
Jiang Quinoa walks crookedly. took her hand and smiled while counting: "Chun'er, you have the wrong hand." You see I have four fingers, but you have six, and you have two more. Monsters have more fingers, and you're a monster. A very affirmative tone.
Jiang Chun suddenly cried anxiously: "Huh? So what to do? I grew two more fingers. I'm a monster. Don't tell anyone, if they knew, they would hack me to death. ”
"Okay, I won't tell anyone, let's just cut off our fingers secretly later, if you cut off two and there are four left, then it's the same as me, then it's not a monster." Jiang Quinoa said.
Jiang Chun was very grateful: "Miss." You're so nice, except for my mother. Only you are so good to me. ”
"That's, I'm a good person, a big good person. Let's go and find a knife, and we're going to cut off the extra fingers. Jiang Quinoa took her hand and stumbled out.
Jiang Chun let her pull her out like this, looking grateful. met Aunt Rong in the corridor, and the two rushed over majestically, and they didn't even hear Aunt Rong's question.
"What are you going to do with those two crazy girls?" Aunt Rong asked casually while wiping the table.
Qingbo drank wine, his eyes were red, and he half-leaned on the stool and said with a smile: "They are going to cut monsters." Chun'er's hand grew two more fingers, and the young lady said that monsters are like that, so she said that she would cut off the extra fingers, so that Chun'er would not be a monster. They went to look for a knife. ”
Aunt Rong always felt that something was wrong, so she wiped the table and turned around, and suddenly said, "It's broken." After speaking, he ran to the kitchen, shouting as he ran: "Zhuzi, Chun'er, her mother, hurry up and stop them, they want to use the knife." ”
Jiang Tiezhu had just come out of the thatched house, and after hearing this, he ran to the kitchen without saying a word.
In the kitchen, Jiang Chun's mother and Wang Li looked at them curiously and asked, "What's wrong?" What's wrong with Chun'er and the eldest lady? ”
Aunt Rong went into the kitchen and looked around inside and out but didn't see the two of them, and asked, "Did Miss come here with Chun'er?" Did you come to get a knife? ”
Jiang Chun's mother shook her head: "No, I'm washing the dishes with the Li family's sister." Chun'er, they didn't come. What's wrong? What's wrong? ”
Don't you know how to use a sickle or a hoe? Aunt Rong chuckled in her heart, and hurriedly said: "Quick, quick, go find Miss and Chun'er, they are so drunk that they don't know where they went." ”
It was freezing on this day, and the two of them were still drunk, and if they were filled with the wind, they would suffer from the cold. Wang Li and the others did not dare to delay, and scattered around the house to find people.
"There is no front yard, I asked Jiang Cheng, and he said that he didn't see the young lady and them go out, he had already gone to the village to help find it." Jiang Tiezhu Road.
"There is no backyard either."
"There's nothing in the room either."
"There is no study or sewing room either."
As soon as the four of them met, they all said that they had not found it, and Aunt Rong was angry and anxious.
"Whatever wine you drink during the New Year is a good thing done by your unsuccessful father." Aunt Rong pointed at Jiang Tiezhu with some anger and said.
Jiang Tiezhu was silent, his mother had been talking about his father's drinking for almost a lifetime. He can't control his father, he can't appease his mother, he can only let himself not drink, let her mother talk about one less, but he doesn't want the eldest lady to get drunk with fruit wine, this amount of alcohol can be regarded as immeasurable.
Soon Jiang Chengcheng came over: "I asked in the village, and they all said that they hadn't seen the eldest lady since the firecrackers were set off, and she shouldn't have gone out." ”
Aunt Rong was relieved when she heard this, and commanded everyone: "It's good to be at home, you can look for it again, and I will find all the horns and horns, maybe where they are drunk and falling." ”
Aunt Rong just guessed randomly, but she didn't want to say anything, and when she found Jiang Quinoa and them, Aunt Rong was left crying and laughing.
When she woke up in the morning, Jiang Quinoa only felt a dull pain in her head, Jiang Chun was not much better than her, and the two rubbed their heads bitterly and said good New Year to each other.
"Yes, let you be greedy." Aunt Rong said angrily, but she still took two frozen pears to boil water for them to relieve their hangover.
Jiang Quinoa took small sips of pear juice and listened to Jiang Cheng tell them about what happened after they got drunk last night.
“…… I just picked up the squib and came back, and I saw Brother Zhuzi looking for something at the door, and when I asked, I realized that you and Sister Chun'er were missing, so I helped find it. I ran around the village and outside the village, and they all said that I didn't see you. ”
"Go and go back to the village and outside the village, you must have found those boys who picked up squibs everywhere and asked them if they saw us, and what did they say about running around the village and outside the village, who are you bluffing." Jiang Chun pouted.
Jiang Cheng was exposed, glared at her, and said, "Drink your water." The two disagreed and began to fight again.
Jiang Qu hurriedly pulled the two apart and asked, "Then where did you find us in the end?" After getting drunk last night, Jiang Quinoa didn't remember anything, only remembered that the stars in the dream were very bright, and they circled around her, and later said that they were going to pull Jiang Chun to find something, and vaguely felt that it was a big deal, but he forgot everything.
"Of course I found you two later, and you two were drunk in the cowshed, snoring and snoring." Jiang Cheng said, glared at Jiang Chun, and said, "It's Sister Chun'er who is snoring, so the eldest lady doesn't snore." ”
Jiang Quan was stunned: "You said we slept in the cowshed last night?" "There was a narrow path from the hall to the cowshed, and the smell was not good, and she had not been to the cowshed many times when she had grown so old, and she had gone there last night when she was drunk, and slept in the cowshed.
Thinking about the cowshed, Jiang Quinoa felt itchy on his body.
Here, Jiang Chun was still chasing after Jiang Cheng because she said that she was sleeping and snoring.
When he went out to pay New Year's greetings, when he saw Qingbo's playful gaze, Jiang Qu's face turned red.
"Chun'er, you have the wrong hand, you see I have four fingers, but you have six, you have two more. Monsters have more fingers, and you're a monster. Qingbo said in a Jiang Quinoa tone.
Jiang Quino's eyes widened, his face was red and almost dripping blood, and he ran quickly into the room, shouting in his mouth: "I don't have the face to see people." Behind him came Qingbo's joyful laughter.
and Jiang Chun's voice: "Where is someone who has four fingers, obviously she is too young, and she even says that I am a monster." When you get drunk, you don't make sense, and you lie to me like this. Said that he was even more dissatisfied: "Miss said that if she wanted to cut off my finger, I would follow her, so I am not so stupid." said this in his mouth, but he had no confidence in his heart, and secretly went to ask Liao Changzhi, who was present at the time, and got the same answer, and immediately exclaimed: "It's too embarrassing, it's just too embarrassing." ”
The first time I drank, I got drunk. The first time he got drunk, he made a joke, and Jiang Quinoa was very depressed. What's even more depressing is that this joke has been with her for a long time, and every time it comes to the New Year, it will be taken out to make fun of her, so that she will not dare to drink during the New Year for many years, for fear of making jokes again. (To be continued......)
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