Li saw Chen Zifu pushing out a flat cart in the pot house, which was full of meat, vegetables, and fruits, and knew that he was going to give Wen Yan a New Year's gift.

In the past, the New Year's gifts given by Li's mother's family and Chen Xiucai's students were all looted by Mrs. Chen, and most of them were poured into Wen Yan, and she had to force Li to add silver to the ruler.

Every time, Li held back his red face and begged his mother's family for it.

The Li family has a good heart, and now that they have separated from each other, they don't care about the suffering they suffered before. Knowing that he was going to give Wen Yan a New Year's gift, he prepared two pairs of embroidered cotton shoes early, pink lining, stuffed with thick cotton, embroidered with five-colored silk threads on the outside, and handed it to Chen Zifu in front of Mrs. Chen, saying that it was her New Year's gift to her nieces Sister Chun and Sister Qiu.

Mrs. Chen accepted it, and coldly turned over the old accounts to the Li family: "You have cloth to make clothes for the daughters of the Han family, sew small jackets for the children of the Zhao family, and be stingy with your own nieces like this, and you are not afraid that people will say that you are mean to be a big concubine." ”

Lee's heart was as cold as ice and snow outside.

Zhao gave a piece of spring shirt and silk, and Cai added a pair of embroidered shoes // novel. pad, when it was Zhang's turn, he couldn't take anything, and was applied by Mrs. Chen.

"Milk really hurts my sister-in-law." Chen Xuejiao quietly bit her ears with Xuewa.

The two of them just pierced their ears and eyes, and they didn't feel it at first, but as soon as the numbness passed, they began to hurt.

"That's not, you didn't look at the New Year's gift from my sister-in-law to my grandmother, I came from the town with you last time, two packets of brown sugar and a bag of fruit, and my sister-in-law's New Year's gift to my sister-in-law can't wait to hollow out the whole family." Xuewa couldn't bear the earache, and always wanted to twist her head and rub her neck with her ears, but it hurt even more, and she couldn't pull her mouth, and she bared her teeth to speak.

"That's a New Year's gift?" Chen Xuejiao was taken aback, Wen Yan was stingy and she knew. But I didn't expect to be so stingy that it was my own father and mother, who actually used two packets of sugar and one bag of fruit to pass the time. The earlobe hurt when she spoke, Chen Xuejiao couldn't help but stroke her earlobe with her hand, only to feel that the flesh was thicker than before.

"It's not a New Year's gift, my aunt said. No matter how many things you bring, you can fill them in the stomachs of several of our children, so it's better not to bring anything at all. Dad goes to give New Year's gifts every year, and he doesn't say that he will leave my dad to eat, last year my uncle insisted on keeping my dad to eat, she quarreled with my uncle, crying and talking in front of my grandmother, do you forget jì? Chen Xuewa was indignant when she talked about the past.

Xue Jiao's eyebrows were crooked, and she tried her best to hide it: "You remembered what you said." ”

Cai saw two girls standing under the eaves and biting their ears from the house. The two frozen red hands pinched the earlobes from time to time, pursed their lips and smiled, and said, "Carefully put your hands on the ears and get inflamed." ”

In a word, the frightened Xue Jiao and Xue Wa quickly put down their hands honestly, glanced at each other, pulled their hands and went to the pot house to watch the Li family cook.

My mother's brother personally came to give the New Year's gift, prepared a large table of dishes, and the stove was full of scraped fish. Put the deformed chicken on the cutting board, and stack the chopped onions, garlic and ginger shreds. Lee wears an apron. Stir-fry with a smiling chop of vegetables and side dishes.

Seeing Xue Jiao and Xue Wa coming in, they each gave two pieces of fried fish to satisfy their hunger.

Lunch with its hearty, delicious fish soup, crispy chicken, fragrant pork chops, and a variety of vegetables. A table full of people. Chen Xiucai personally served the table, and together with Chen Qi'an, he also poured wine, and raised a glass to Li Yuntian together.

After lunch, Li Yuntian went back to Lijiazhuang. The Li family had already moved out the New Year's goods prepared for the Li family, chicken, duck and fish. Four-color fruit cakes, salted duck eggs, rulers, shoes and socks, loaded with half a carriage.

Zhang stood at the door of the south wing, glanced through the curtain, a gust of wind seemed to blow into the upper room to inform Mrs. Chen, and another gust of wind spun out to the door of the north wing, eager to go in and untie the sack to see what the big room had for her mother's family. But there were Chen Xuejiao and Chen Qi'an standing at the door, guarding the door to death, let alone going in and untying the sack, even a fly couldn't fly over. Zhang had to stretch his neck and try to look inside, wanting to take a step further, Chen Xuejiao and Chen Qi'an were like two door gods, treating her as a demon and a monster.

"My sister-in-law is rich, and the return gift to my mother's family is so rich, why hasn't there been any movement in this year's New Year's gift to my father?" Zhang put his hand in the cuff, the tip of his nose was red from the cold, he blew his nose vigorously, a long string of snot came down, wiped it on the soles of his feet, and stepped on the snow hard.

The whole courtyard is such a big idea, and a sentence is echoed three times, and Zhang's voice is so loud that I am afraid that Mrs. Chen will not hear it.

Chen Xuejiao's stomach was sour, she felt nauseous, and said coldly: "You care so much about our return gift to grandma's family, it's better to plan the New Year's gift to grandma Zhang's family." ”

Zhang's maiden family does not give New Year's gifts every year, and Chen Xuejiao deliberately caught this section as a felling.

Sure enough, Zhang's face changed, he blew his nose again, rubbed his hands and went to the upper room.

After a while, Mrs. Chen's voice came out of the crack in the door of the upper room: "...... To his own family stingy, to the outside is generous to think that the carp jumped over the dragon gate when he bought the land, and he didn't know what to do, and he didn't have to count on the big house in the future."

Of course Li Yuntian heard this, but he didn't know it, thinking about the hardships that his sister had lived in the Chen family for so many years, she had broken up the family, and the children didn't look at the present, but also looked at the days to come.

Because Li was worried about Old Man Li's illness, his brother got up the carriage and stuffed a bag of medicinal herbs into it.

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It was already evening when Chen Zifu returned from Wen Yan's house, wearing a fox fur coat covered in mud and his shoes filled with ice slag. Cai's face was distressed, and when he asked if the flat car had slipped into the ditch, he went down to push it, stepped on the thin ice, and the whole person fell into the ice hole.

Fortunately, Li Yuntian drove the carriage to the side, pulled him up, made a fire to dry his clothes, and took off his coat to keep him warm.

Cai's eyes were full of tears, and holding Li's hand was crying.

“…… That's it, my mother still thinks that he has eaten at Wen Yan's house, a brother who is in a hurry, not to mention rushing to give a New Year's gift, but what's wrong with going to take care of a meal empty-handed, it's really ruthless Thanks to the eldest brother of the Li family, if he hadn't met him, Xuewa's father's life might have been left in the water. ”

Because Chen Zifu fell into the cold water, Mrs. Chen didn't say anything about giving a bowl of hot soup and desperately complained that he had caused trouble to Wen Yan, which made Old Man Chen angry, dropped chopsticks on the dinner table, and scolded Mrs. Chen.

Mrs. Chen cried. cried and turned out all the old things from several years ago, and said that since the Chen family had not had a day of peace.

Old Man Chen roared angrily: "The Chen family is not good, let Baozhu take you to the Wang family." ”

When Mrs. Chen heard this, she was about to hang herself with a rope, but was persuaded by Zhao, Zhang, and Cai.

Old Man Chen couldn't be angry, went out to take a few breaths, and walked to the pigsty. Two fat pigs are eating in the pigsty. Old man Chen decided to kill the pig.

Early the next morning, the Chen family all gathered around the yard in order to kill pigs.

Two pigs, one was killed and one was sold, the larger one was sold to Zhao's brother Zhao Butcher, and the remaining one was slaughtered by Zhao Butcher.

Originally, these two pigs were going to be sold according to Mrs. Chen's wishes, but Old Man Chen made the idea to kill one for the New Year this year.

In previous years, the Chen family did not lack pork. The New Year's gift from Li's mother's family has a pork fan, and Chen Xiucai's students will also bring some pork and pig's trotters, which are enough to have a good year and eat until the beginning of the first month.

This year, the family was separated, and the upper house naturally did not have these benefits.

Not only Mr. Chen, but everyone else in the upper room wants to kill pigs, tired and tired for a year, who doesn't want to live a rich year. So. Everyone gathered in the courtyard had smiles on their faces.

A large cauldron of deleting pig hair was set up in the yard, and Chen Qi'an took Da Dan and Qi An to light the fire. The pigs have been tied up and sturdy. Old Man Chen and Chen Zifu grabbed their front legs, Chen Zichang and Chen Zigui pressed their hind legs, and Butcher Zhao sharpened his knife on the whetstone, and his fat face trembled with the rhythm.

Chen Xuejiao, Chen Xueru, and Wang Jinghao hid behind the Li family, not daring to look at the bright knife in Butcher Zhao's hand.

Butcher Zhao sharpened his knife and walked over to the pig. gestured in the air, said okay, the knife fell, and the pig screamed.

Chen Xuejiao closed her eyes in fright, waiting to open them. Seeing that the red knife had come out and the pig could no longer move, Li put a basin next to the knife on the pig's body, and the bright red pig's blood trickled.

Zhao was used to seeing the scene of killing pigs, and looked at his brother with a smile, but Xue Yao and Xue Miao on the side turned their faces in fright.

The pig's blood was finished here, the cauldron had already boiled the water, and the old man Chen and others carried it into the boiling water, and Butcher Zhao took a scraper and quickly shaved his hair.

The pig hair was scraped clean, and Butcher Zhao chopped the pork, and the pork ribs were piled up and the meat was a ball.

Xue Jiao stood aside and stared at which ones belonged to her, and when she first separated, she said that she would have a big house for this pork. What's more, these two pigs are fed by the Li family every day.

"Master, which ones are from our family?" Chen Xuejiao opened her mouth to ask.

Old Man Chen turned over the lard after an inch, and was proud of his pig, listening to Xue Jiao's words, he turned his head and said: "Thirty catties of ribs, twenty catties of hind leg meat, ten catties of lard, twenty catties of tenderloin, and ten catties of pig's blood, these are all yours." ”

Li Shi stretched his brows when he heard this, it was fair to divide it like this.

Chen Xuejiao nodded.

"What's the matter, there are only a few people in the big house, how can you eat so much, and there are not enough people in the upper room to eat." Zhang was the first to retort. Chen Xuejiao glanced at Zhang's and sneered in her heart.

Mrs. Chen sat under the eaves, the sun was shining, and the chair was covered with a cotton mattress, how comfortable and comfortable it was, when she heard that Old Man Chen was going to give so much pork to the big house, she was about to vomit blood on the spot, squinted her eyes and raised her voice: "You are generous, I bought this pig seedling, I bothered to raise two pigs, they didn't come out with anything, so much meat for nothing?" ”

Mrs. Chen was not afraid to flash her waist when she said this, the pig seedlings were indeed Mrs. Chen's money. At that time, there was no separation, and the money was naturally in her hands, but the work of feeding the pigs was watched by the Li family.

"Milk, this pig is fed by my mother every day, we should share a share, and we all said it was good when we split the family." Chen Xuejiao was not to be outdone.

"What? You hairy girl dare to talk to me, you can't be light! Mrs. Chen raised her eyes, pointed to the north wing, and said, "Look at a big fan of pork hanging under your eaves, don't be greedy to support you, and still think about my things." ”

Mrs. Chen began to be unreasonable.

"Yes." Zhang's pleases the general birth help.

Zhao stood beside Zhao Butcher with a smile, and Xue Yao and Xue Miao had irrepressible laughter in their eyes.

"Niece, what you said is not right, the bunch of meat under your roof does not say filial piety to grandma, but grabs things with grandma, your family is now rich, do you still care about this bit of meat?" Butcher Zhao stuck the knife in the hind leg of the pig, which was a bit of a demonstration.

Chen Xuejiao knew that he was helping the second room.

"I salute you before I call you uncle, according to what my uncle said, this pork, the second aunt's family doesn't need to eat it, it's good to eat it all to your grandmother." Whether you want pork or not is our family's business, and you have a foreign surname meddling in the Chen family's affairs, whether you do business is so black and white. Chen Xuejiao was not afraid of Zhao Butcher at all, pulled out the knife from the pig's hind leg and carried it in her hand.

Everyone was shocked.

"What are you doing here?" Old Man Chen was anxious, he was afraid that Xue Jiao would hurt himself.

"Master, Uncle Zhao doesn't want to help cut meat, I'll come by myself." Saying that, the knife fell, and a piece of fat hind leg meat was cut off.

Mrs. Chen was frightened, and scolded in her heart, the cheap embryo has learned to hold a knife.

Zhao and Zhang turned pale with fright.

After a long while, Zhao Butcher came to his senses and said to Xue Jiao flatteringly: "Niece, I'm playing with you, you give me the knife." ”

Chen Xuejiao smiled brightly, her snow-white teeth were hard and the blade shone coldly, and she said slowly: "Uncle Zhao, I'm also playing with you, who in the town doesn't say that Uncle Zhao's meat cutting hand is slippery, and a pound of meat is only eight taels to take home, I don't know if Uncle Zhao's hand will be slippery today, how many catties of meat is missing from my family?" ”

A few families came in to see the excitement, and when they heard this, they all started to talk about it, they all suffered losses in Zhao Butcher's meat stall, and they had long despised his behavior.

The accusation got into the ears of Zhao Butcher, and he was sweating profusely, and he was making trouble, whether he wanted to do business.

The Zhao family pulled the veil tightly, hating Xue Jiao in her heart, such a young girl, why is she so vicious, and she has ruined the Zhao family's business.

Chen Xuejiao handed the knife to the Zhao butcher, the Zhao butcher wiped his sweat, and cut the meat meticulously.

A few children in the big house stepped forward and picked up the basin and sent it back to their house.

Chen Xuejiao only felt that beside Zhao's side, her cousin Chen Xueyao's two cold spring-like eyes swept from the bridge of her nose to her temples, and the cold scrutiny and weighing in that sight made her feel uncomfortable for a while.

She adjusted her breathing, hid her impatience, and threw an innocent smile at Xue Yao. (To be continued......)