The Tian family happily bought the field and ushered in a small year. In modern times, it has been said: "Twenty-three sugar melons sticky, twenty-four sweeping houses, twenty-five fried tofu, twenty-six stewed New Year's meat, twenty-seven killing chickens, twenty-eight handfuls of noodles, twenty-nine steamed steamed buns, thirty nights of staying up for one night, and twisting on the first day of the new year." ”

However, the Dawu Dynasty was not rich in products, and many things were not available, such as tofu; For example, noodles are this kind of ingredient, but this does not affect everyone's enthusiasm for the New Year, almost all households go out, sacrifice stoves, sweep houses, catch up with the market, stew New Year's meat, kill chickens, make food, worship ancestors, paste Spring Festival couplets, set off firecrackers, and boil a lot of everything, people are not without sighing that all these things together are the New Year!

In previous years, the Tian family was poor, and the New Year was a bowl of brown rice for one person in the Chinese New Year's Eve, with pickled vegetables. Or there is a little surplus money at home, Li can't bear to let a few children eat all year round, so he took out part of the family to buy some meat, so that the children can eat meat all year round, and the adults are also stained with meat oil, which is already considered a good thing.

Although the other households in Tianjia Village are not as poor as the Tian family used to be poor and have no food, but after all, they are not rich, but these are also very attractive to children. So in the few days of the Chinese New Year, the children almost rushed from one house to another, and the relatives at home kept coming and going.

Naturally, several granddaughters of the Tian family are no exception, especially this year, the Tian family has a good life, almost everyone has a new set of new clothes and shoes, and the two pigs in the family were also bought by the Li family, leaving two hind legs, and there are chickens, ducks and fish, and there are a lot of vegetables stored in winter.

In the blink of an eye, the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve arrived, and after the reunion dinner, the summer solstice and the sisters of the Tian family went door to door to pay their respects, almost running the Tianjia Village, and of course, the harvest was also very full. Xia Zhi secretly sighed that at this time, it can reflect the benefits of the Tian family's many children, even if each family gives a handful of melon seeds, Xia Zhi believes that the Tian family has earned it back, not to mention that some people in the village have a good life, when there are children in addition to melon seeds, each child will also give a piece of candy. So when they went back on the summer solstice, everyone had a bag of melon seeds and sugar.

The four brothers of the Tian family also took their daughter-in-law to pay New Year's greetings to the village chief and the elders close to the village, they are not like children, every household is trying to be lively, the children are naturally not careful, adults like them run from house to house, and others are allowed to scold you behind your back. The Tian family only left Li and Lao Luo to take the one-year-old Xiao Bailu to guard the door, Bai Lu was still young, and it was inconvenient to wear thick hugs in winter, so Li simply let the Zheng family leave her to take with them, but although only he and Xiao Bailu were left, Li and Lao Luo's hearts were very happy.

In previous years, the family was poor, even melon seeds, sugar were less pitiful, in order not to let other children's children come to visit the New Year, none of the Tian family's children went out to visit the New Year, in addition to the close elders at home, the four brothers and daughter-in-law of the Tian family did not go out, even if they went out, they would go home soon. This year is different, the family is fully prepared for the New Year's goods, and after eating the New Year's dinner, the Li family drove their sons, daughters-in-law and granddaughters out of the house, leaving only the two of them at home.

When the time came, the children in the village also went home one after another to keep the New Year, and they also went home during the summer solstice, and the Tian brothers had already returned, Wang and Lin, Liu and Zheng because of the competition with the sister-in-law of the Xu family, several people came out of Uncle Tian Shutang's house, and then turned into the old Xu family, saying that the current situation of his family is the same as that of the Tian family in previous years, because of the treatment of the old man Xu's legs, the family is poor jingle, but the Wang family They don't mind, in previous years, the sister-in-law of the Xu family took care of their family, and their Tian family is not an ungrateful person.

But on the summer solstice, they entered the door with their front feet, and Wang's back feet also came back, and now Wang, who is seven months pregnant, has already bulged up in her lower abdomen, and after a few months of recuperation, Wang's body has already recovered as before, and she walks like a wind, making people feel that she has endless energy. The Lin family and the Liu family Zheng have also changed more or less this year, of course, it is impossible to say how beautiful they have become, but their faces are not sallow, they look like they are nutritious, and now their faces are ruddy, isn't it like they are several years younger. Originally, the four daughters-in-law of the Tian family were in their twenties, which should be the same age as flowers. At the end of the day, Tianjia Village also fell silent, most of the people have stopped going out, only at home to prepare for the New Year, of course, there are also one or two people who return late, attracting the barking of dogs in the village, at this time the summer solstice they are preparing to give their grandfather and grandmother New Year's greetings, Li and Lao Luotou were arranged on the seat, Xia Zhi held Xiao Bailu and the other seven sisters in order of size and stood in two rows together and knelt down and kowtowed to Lao Luotou and Li's Li New Year's greetings. "Grandpa, grandma, happy new year! I wish Grandpa and Grandma all the best and happiness in the new year! The nine children of the Tian family said in unison. Of course, this scene was rehearsed several times by Xia Zhi, as for the blessings, Xia Zhijue's is enough, what else to say, it is estimated that Grandpa and they still don't understand! "Okay, don't kneel, it's cold in this winter, and it's freezing again. Come on, come on, this is the New Year's money that I and your grandfather gave, but you have to collect it well! Seeing his granddaughter like this, Li only felt that he couldn't help but want to shed tears, and thought that it was cold in winter, so he quickly pulled up a few children. He took out the red envelope that had been prepared from his waist again, "Grandma Zhilu said, you can all earn your own money now, but this money is different, this is New Year's money, and there are no more grandmas, how much is a meaning, you can't shirk it, hurry up and take it, you can buy whatever you want with this money" Li said while handing over the red envelope, and the old Luo Tou sitting on the kang also nodded approvingly, crushing the money must be collected. In previous years, the Tian family also crushed money, but the symbolic one person gave a penny, and after the New Year, several daughters-in-law of the Tian family felt that it was not easy at home, so they collected the child's money and gave it to the Li family, so the Li family had the last sentence of the explanation. Waiting for the New Year to Li and Lao Luotou, Xia Zhi still held Xiao Bailu and other sisters together to Tian Lao and his wife, Tian Lao Er and his wife, Tian Lao San and his wife, Tian Lao Si and his wife in accordance with the order of the eldest and youngest, said a few auspicious words, and got eight red envelopes respectively, the happy Xia Solstice saw the teeth and eyes, said that this red envelope is a good income, if someone sent her a red envelope every day, it would be good, I have to say that at this critical moment, Xia Zhi began to lose money again. After that, Tian Laoda and his wife, Tian Lao's second wife, Tian Lao's third wife and Tian Laosi's husband and wife gave New Year's greetings to Lao Luotou and Li's respectively. Greeting the elders in their old age, the family began to keep the New Year, but for the Tian family's little baby, they couldn't stay up, the summer solstice was sleepy and just wanted to yawn, and then I didn't know when Lu Dao fell asleep, and the other sisters of the Tian family were no exception, sleeping earlier than the summer solstice, and only Lao Luo Tou and Li were left with four sons and daughters-in-law to keep the New Year, and they didn't expect some little babies.