Chapter 155: The Smell of the New Year
Today is the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the day of the resignation of the king of the stove, and it is also a small year in the north.
Today, the Lord of the Stove has to go back to Heaven to report on his work and report on the assessment of each family, which is related to the family's fortune in the coming year, so everyone has to offer some sugar melons to the Lord of the Stove today, let him have a sweet mouth, and go back to say a few more good words for the family.
My sister's family had to rush back to their hometown in Mengxian County today, so they said goodbye to everyone early in the morning.
After Shi Lei and the others found out what was going on, they began to get busy according to their respective division of labor, today's task is still quite heavy, and they can't be lazy.
In the morning, you have to clean up everything in the house, whether it is the floor that is often cleaned, or the windows that have been dusted for a long time.
As the tallest person in the family, Shi Lei also has the longest arm and the strongest body in the family, so there are more tasks. He is usually treated as a combination of cranes, forklifts, etc., and basically all the cleaning work in high places belongs to him, and it is also his job to organize the items in high places.
After a morning of unremitting efforts, the home finally became bright and clean, and everywhere was cleaned with brilliance, and there was a feeling of refreshment.
After a hasty lunch, my mother and they all stayed at home to rest, Shi Lei had to drive his father back to his hometown, and the six bungalows at home had to be cleaned up today.
Shi/Lei asked his anxious father to give the command to run, helping to clean the yard for a while, and climbing to the roof of the house for a while, helping his father tidy up the flowers in the flower shed, and he was very busy.
After tidying up the six bungalows in detail, Shi Lei and his father brought all the straw paper, gathered the three uncles waiting at the door, and got in the car together and went straight to the ancestral grave at home.
Shi Lei, as the eldest grandson of the family, is also the only one among the brothers of the same generation who participates in the work, and the only junior who goes to the grave with the elders.
In front of the graves of the old grandfather, grandmother and grandmother, all the paper was burned, and after the filial piety. Shi Lei and several elders went back to their hometown to drink tea.
After sending off a few uncles, Shi Lei and his father went to the kitchen to set up the sugar melons, pasted the portrait of the brand new stove prince, and went out to put a hanging whip, which ended today's task.
When Shi Lei and his father rushed home, their mother had already boiled a pot of dumpling water, and they were waiting for Shi Lei and them to come back, and they could make dumplings.
Shi Lei looked at the wrapped dumplings on the table, and there were dumplings of all kinds of patterns.
Some are wrapped in the shape of a crescent, looking at the thin skin and big filling. I know that it must be from the hands of my mother, she wrapped this kind of dumpling, which is called a handy, fold the dumpling skin with the filling, pinch it together with both hands in the middle, and a complete dumpling will be wrapped, and the filling is more, the skin is also strong, and the speed is fast, which is also the most.
And then there are the ones that are wrapped in the shape of ingots. Wrapped in a lace handbag-shaped, there are also wrapped in the shape of a Nemo fish, Shi Lei likes to call this bean worm-shaped.
There are also two kinds of triangles and quadrilaterals, which look a little clumsy. If nothing else, it should be the work of Laura, the new daughter-in-law who is not very good at kitchen skills.
Although both of these should be relatively simple wrapping methods, they are still not very neat, and the filling is exposed in some places. It's very likely that you will break away after getting out of the pot.
Shi Lei smiled cheaply, then gestured to Laura for the dumplings with the filling, and deliberately ran back to the bedroom to change clothes.
Really. Soon Laura ran in and waged a protracted war against the soft flesh on Shi Lei's waist. Shi Lei laughed for a long time, and Laura finally let him go. This was completely recruited by Shi Lei himself, and he could only smile helplessly.
On the 25th day of the lunar month, the big market of the flower city is still open as usual, and it is close to the end of the year, and there are many more flavors here, many snacks and all kinds of couplets and lanterns are sold, so that this side is more like a temple fair, rather than a simple flower market.
The Chinese New Year is over, everyone wants to be festive, and now everyone has a rich material life, and they all like to buy two pots of gorgeous flowers to put at home to decorate the festive atmosphere.
This makes the flow of people here very dense, and the car is even far away from it, so after Shi Lei put everyone down, he parked the car far away and came back to meet everyone.
Couplets are not needed, my father went directly to the cultural and sports market to buy some red paper, and wrote the blessing characters and a few couplets on each door, for the level of these people, my father is not very eye-catching.
Dad's goal is very clear, and he went directly to the flower stall that he was familiar with, knowing that Shi Lei's understanding of flowers and trees was very limited, so calling Shi Lei was purely to let him be a laborer and be responsible for moving flowers.
Shi Lei is also very self-aware, and he didn't plan to go to the flower and tree area to join in the fun, but came to the area of the stall at the gate of the flower city with Laura.
The two foodies don't care whether it is so-called junk food or not, they buy some snacks they are interested in and try them, and they browse various stalls while eating.
In addition to all kinds of snacks in this area, the most of them are all kinds of cultural toys, most of which are all kinds of Bodhi such as King Kong, Xingyue, and Thousand Eyes, which have become popular in recent years.
The second is the so-called Hetian jade of various materials such as Russian materials, Korean materials, Xinjiang materials, etc. There is no shortage of all kinds of small-leaved red sandalwood, yellow pear and cypress.
For cultural play, Shi Lei still has a little bit of research, mainly focusing on Donkey Kong Bodhi and Xingyue Bodhi, and there are some related accessories such as lapis lazuli or something, and I also know something.
When he first went to college, Shi Lei also thought about making some living expenses by flipping these two things, and he did have some successful experience.
Shi Lei selected a string of Donkey Kong from these practice stalls, and only spent a total of 40 yuan, snickering at Shi Lei, who he had missed, and put this string of Donkey Kong on the Internet at a price of 400 yuan, and easily earned 9 times the difference.
With such an experience, Shi Lei is still very interested in pulling various cultural and entertainment stalls, but he still maintains the original habit of watching more and buying less, after all, what Shi Lei wants is the fun of picking up leaks.
There are still some people selling copper coins and bronze statues next to them, antiques that are difficult to distinguish between real and fake, for these, Shi Lei is not interested, and when he sees such a stall, he jumps over directly.
Laura followed Shi Lei's side. I was very curious to watch Shi Lei pick and choose from various stalls, but he never started.
Laura only knew that those stone-like things that were not so uniform in color should be jade, of course, the kind of low quality, and she didn't know much about anything else.
After all, Laura had been in contact with those high-end jewelry before, and those who saw jade and jade were all high-end finished products, and it was normal for her not to know about these things.
"Hey, Stone, I think this bunch of seeds is beautiful. Why don't you like it? Laura felt that it was better to keep a low profile and save both buyers and sellers embarrassment, so she asked Shi Lei directly in Spanish.
Bodhi is such a thing, it is still very reliable in a certain sense to say that it is a seed, so Shi Lei did not deliberately correct Laura's statement.
"Well, this beautiful string of bodhi in your hand is actually a resinous thing, artificial, not natural.
I love beautiful natural things. Because I think the charm of Bodhi is that if you put in your efforts, it will change accordingly, and tell you that your investment is not in vain. ”
Shi Lei looked helplessly at the string of Donkey Kong in Laura's hand, although the appearance of this string looked very much like the color brushed out of vegetable oil. But as soon as I got started, the texture let Shi Lei know that this was definitely a resin thing.
"Oh." Laura was a little depressed, looking a little embarrassed.
"If you're interested in these, I recommend you to have a string of stars and moons. It can be used as a sweater chain. It can also be used as a bracelet, and after a long time, it will also have cute changes.
Clamour. Show you the change chart of the stages of the stars and the moon, isn't it beautiful? Shi Lei used his mobile phone to call up the beautiful pictures of various Bodhi that he had collected before and showed them to Laura.
"Moreover, how to match the stars and moon with accessories should be easy for you to get it done. What do you think? Shi Lei instigated Laura.
"Well, I'm confident I can match it beautifully, but I don't know what kind of thing is real." Laura said with some hesitation.
"It's okay, you just find what you think is suitable, and I'll be responsible for identifying the authenticity and price of things. With me, don't worry. Shi Lei saw that Laura was moved, and quickly patted his chest to make a guarantee.
With Shi Lei's purposeful help, Laura quickly selected a string of 8*6 mm A+ grade Xingyue Bodhi, which actually didn't take much time, of course, it took a lot of effort to bargain.
If you let Shi Lei get it himself, the most laborious thing is actually how to match a beautiful set of accessories. Not only should the match look good, but also consider factors such as the color and price of the accessories themselves, especially if you are helping your colleagues choose them.
Shi Lei once matched a female colleague before, got up early and changed accessories greedily, and it took a week to make it enough to satisfy his colleague.
However, these have become simpler for Laura, she quickly chose the top beads, two waist beads, and accessories for the position of the Buddha's head, Shi Lei only needs to find the right authentic accessories according to Laura's ideas.
Produced by Laura, absolutely boutique. After Laura's matching, the entire star and moon became smart. Whether it is a bracelet that circles around the hand or a sweater chain, it has an appropriate but unique beauty.
Of course, according to Shi Lei's words, it also depends on who wears it, what can we look good on a woman like Laura, who is as beautiful as a fairy.
In addition to choosing things for Laura, Shi Lei also took the opportunity to pick out a string of Donkey Kong for himself, Shi Lei used his superhuman memory to pick out a string of Donkey Kong with similar lines and basically the same diameter from several piles of bulk goods in several stalls, which just formed a string of bracelets.
Dad finally finished picking flowers, Shi Lei, as the main laborer, of course had to help, Dad and Laura were carrying a basket of very beautiful but very light phalaenopsis orchids, but Shi Lei had to carry a pot of azaleas in one hand, which was not a heavyweight at all.
Put two pots of rhododendrons trimmed into willow eyebrows in the trunk, and the two pots of charming phalaenopsis can only be placed on the rear seat.
Dad Shi Yi unceremoniously sat in the driver's seat, let Laura become the co-pilot, leaving only Shi Lei in the middle of the back seat, responsible for holding the two baskets of phalaenopsis. (To be continued......) R1292