Although the generation of that era was very important, if someone was sick and wanted to celebrate the New Year, they would use this method to let the children of the whole village kowtow, which not only had face, but also wanted to be full of good fortune.

Kowtow to the landlord Zhao Fugui not only has sugar to eat but also red envelopes to take, and the villagers have no one to take care of the above, and the adults are urging their children to kowtow and beg for money.

The old landlord Zhao Fuxi sat on the upper seat of his house, and the table of eight immortals in front of him was full of candy and red envelopes, and Zhao Fugui and Shen A-Niang were also happy sitting on both sides. The children stood next to them after kowtowing, Zhao Dahai gave everyone candy one by one, he grabbed a small handful of candy if he played well, grabbed a large handful of candy if he played well, and the children went to Shen A-Niang to receive the red envelope after receiving the sugar, and Shen A-Niang, a child who could say happy words, grabbed another handful of candy for him.

Everyone doesn't have a piece of candy to eat all year round, and it's enough to be happy enough to eat a piece of candy for a few days, let alone a handful of sugar.

I went with Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu had a sweet mouth, and said while kowtowing: "I wish Old Master Zhao Fuxi a speedy recovery and a long life, I wish my uncle and aunt a hundred years of good together, Wishing you prosperity and giving birth to a noble son early." ”

When Xiao Wu said this, I noticed that Shen A-Niang's belly was unusually big, and I was afraid that she was pregnant.

Most of the children in the countryside are wooden, there are few people like Xiao Wu with sweet mouths, Zhao Fuxi was happy to hear this auspicious words, and gave Xiao Wu two red envelopes, Xiao Wu stepped aside happily, and when it was my turn, I couldn't speak anymore.

When Shen A-Niang sent me the red envelope, she asked, "Jiang Rong, where is your brother?" ”

I shook my head and said, "I don't know, he just came with us." ”

After Zhao Fuxi was busy with the matter of gathering blessings, Shen A-Niang hurriedly went out, at that time, Xiao Wu and I couldn't find Jiang Sheng anywhere, I didn't know where Jiang Sheng went, so we played the game of eagle catching chickens at the door of Zhao Fugui's house.

Shen A-Niang quietly walked to the bridge behind Tunzi alone, walked along the other side of the bridge to the north slope, and really saw Jiang Sheng sitting in the pond sheltered from the wind.

"Jiang Sheng." Shen A-Niang called Jiang Sheng's name.

Jiang Sheng raised his head and saw that it was Shen A-Niang, so he asked, "A-Niang Shen, why did you come here?" ”

Shen A-Niang said: "I saw you come here a few times in the autumn, and the children in the tunzi couldn't find you, I guess you came to see it here, go back and play with the sea and Xiaowu, they are all waiting for you." ”

Jiang Sheng snorted and said, "I'll go back in a while." ”

Shen A-Niang took out a red envelope from her pocket and said, "This is the New Year's money that A-Niang gave you, you keep it." ”

"I don't want it." Jiang Sheng said.

"Take it, be polite to me, everyone else has it, you hide the money and don't give it to your parents, and don't tell your sister, when you're hungry, secretly buy something delicious on the street, don't starve yourself, it's the time to grow your body, you see you've lost so much weight." Shen A-Niang stuffed the red envelope into Jiang Sheng's hand, and then turned to leave. "After a while, I'll go back to Tunzi to find the sea to play."

After Shen A-Niang left, Jiang Sheng opened the red envelope, and inside were two genuine silver dollars, enough for the expenses of an ordinary peasant family for several months.

Jiang Sheng was twelve years old that year, and Xiao Wu and I were both ten years old.

Jiang Sheng used to hope that one day he would leave this poor and remote place in Sanlitun, but after Chen Gongbo's death, everything in Shanghai was cut off from him, the original housekeeper and nanny no one contacted him, Chen Gongbo's line of people died and fled, and even Chen Gongbo's original wife didn't care about him, an illegitimate child.

Jiang Sheng sometimes lives a very contradictory life, his father Chen Gongbo died in the contradictory choice of being at a loss all his life, and he is the same, as a young master from Shanghai, he lives a poor life that is incompatible with his identity, and now everything before is broken, he has to adapt to his living environment again, break his previous living habits, and start over.

The spring of that year came very early, during the winter vacation, Jiang Sheng had an illness, coughing all day long, Lao Jiang boiled medicine for Jiang Sheng to drink, he found that Jiang Sheng's body was a little weak, so he boiled some physical tonic for Jiang Sheng to drink every day, once he dug a wild ginseng on the mountain in the distance and was not willing to sell, for his father and Jiang Sheng to boil and drink.

At that time, I also wanted to drink it, but Lao Jiang didn't let me, saying that girls would have nosebleeds if they drank such a strong tonic.

My father seemed to be terminally ill at that time, and Lao Jiang had nothing to do, and I saw my mother often crying when she was washing clothes, and sometimes crying when she was talking to Lao Jiang outside the yard.

One day in April, the sun was just right and the breeze was gentle, and my father's spirit suddenly improved a lot, and he walked alone on crutches to the middle of the road in Tunzi to greet the villagers of Sanlitun.

Everyone saw that the father who had always been gloomy suddenly looked so good and was much more enthusiastic, so they chatted with my father, Jiang Sheng and I were in class at that time, and later I heard that my father also went to Zhao Fugui's house to find Zhao Fugui to sit for a while.

Mother to the next village to help the landlord planted half an acre of greenhouse vegetables, when back with a few pounds of flour and a handful of vegetable seeds, the villagers who were chatting at the head of the village saw their mother come back, and said: "Xiumei, your Zhengyang spirit is much better, today I chatted with us for a long time, there are talking and laughing, this time you can pay attention to the body and don't have any more accidents, there is something to say that if you don't die, there will be a blessing, Zhengyang is a blessing." ”

When my mother heard what the villagers said, she hurried home, and really saw my father basking in the sun in the yard, he was holding a book in his hand, and he was drowsy, and when he saw his mother coming, he hurriedly got up and said, "Xiumei, you are here." ”

Mother nodded and said, "Why did you go out by yourself, do you feel much better?" ”

The father said: "I don't know what's going on, suddenly my body is much lighter, I also want to eat and drink, I went out for a while, and then I went to the rich family to borrow this three countries and came back to see, anyway, it's okay to be idle." ”

"Can you still read the Three Kingdoms?" Mother laughed.

"Then you'll underestimate me." Father said. "When I was in school, I was a literary youth like Ma Aiguo, and I read Mr. Lu Xun's articles all day long, which was always delayed, otherwise I might have become a writer or something."

"You just brag." With a long-lost smile, my mother walked to Jiang Sheng's room and me, and carried the dirty clothes she had changed into to the well in the courtyard to wash.

When the mother slapped the lard soap on the clothes and washed it, she found the transparent liquid on a pair of dirty pants, hesitated slightly, brought it to her father, and asked, "Zhengyang, what do you think is going on?" ”

"Jiang Sheng's?" Father asked.

The mother nodded and said, "It's Jiang Sheng's, and when I just cleaned up his bed, I still wondered how to hide my dirty pants under the pillow." ”

The father said, "It seems that this kid is developing, in the language of the city people, this is called puberty." ”

The mother said: "My son is just like this, could it be because he drank too much Lao Jiang's tonic and developed ahead of schedule?" ”

The father said: "Jiang Sheng is twelve years old, and this is almost the case when I dreamed at my age, Jiang Rong estimates that there will be some changes in another year or two, don't talk thoroughly, save the child from being shy." ”

The mother said, "I don't have anything to say about this, I just don't find out what I do." ”

The father smiled and said: "You are a monkey spirit, Jiang Sheng's brain melon seeds are so smart, you know that you want to be discovered, as long as you don't point it out, the child also needs to save face, you make something delicious these days, eat wild vegetable dumplings all day and night, look at the children who are thin, the money doesn't have to spend on me, I don't care about this illness." ”

"That's okay, just listen to you, I'll go to the street to weigh three taels of meat in a while, and these eggs we have saved will also boil a pot of egg soup tonight." Mother said while putting Jiang Sheng's dirty pants in the basin to wash.

When he came back from school in the evening, Xiao Wu threw his schoolbag at the door and ran to the wheat field behind Tun with Jiang Sheng to play.

Jiang Sheng ran and chased Xiao Wu and Zhao Dahai along the way, he stuffed my schoolbag to me and asked me to take it home, and told me to finish my homework and come out to play.

My father, who was in the courtyard with his eyes closed, heard me coming back, so he called me over, and my father asked, "Jiang Rong, where is your brother?" ”

"My brother and Xiao Wu went to play in the wheat field." I said, a little afraid of my father, afraid to approach.

The father nodded and said, "Then you can also go play, come back early for dinner, and your mother specially bought some meat to eat today." ”

I was glad to listen to my father's words and did not notice the sudden change in my father today.

On the wheat field, Jiang Sheng and Xiao Wu and a group of children were playing with their children, and then a group of people were tired of playing and had to climb trees to pick birds' nests.

Since Xiao Wu learned the skills from Wu Qingyun, his skills have become much more vigorous, although he is fat, he is not ambiguous when he climbs a tree.

When Xiao Wu slid down from the tree, his face was flushed, and he said in amazement as if he had discovered a new world: "I just slipped down from the tree, and my crotch is so comfortable." ”

A child next to him said, "I've long found out that it's very comfortable when you hold something hard, like this tree." ”

Xiao Wu was curious, walked to a small tree, clamped his legs hard, bent the tree, like riding a big horse, and the other children also imitated it, and Zhao Dahai also imitated it curiously.

Jiang Sheng was stunned by the side, remembering what happened in the middle of the night last night, after all, he was embarrassed to say it.

Xiao Wu's face turned red, looked at Jiang Sheng and said, "Jiang Sheng, you can try it too." ”

"I don't try." Jiang Sheng's face turned red, and he whispered, "You guys are too, too hooligan......"

Xiao Wu stopped his movements and said, "I want to pee." ”

So Xiao Wu took off his pants and peed in public, his body couldn't help shaking, Xiao Wu said: "I went to the toilet that day and saw a child in the senior grade who grew a lot of hair here, it's really ugly and dead, it seems that the boy will grow up at this age, Jiang Sheng, you are two years older than us, have you grown?" ”

"It didn't last." Jiang Sheng said.

"You show me." Xiao Wu said.

"Get out." Jiang Sheng said angrily.