Tao Zhenkun's heart was sad for a while, and he sighed almost up to the sky: "Let's talk about it!" In this life, there is nothing to be sick with, nothing to be without money! In the future, let's go out less, in case Dad can't do it, we have to stay in front of him, watch him swallow his last breath, or others will inevitably regard us as unfilial. Let others poke the backbone, we can't afford to lose this person!"

Tears quickly welled up in his eyes.

"That's what you said."

Therefore, people should know how to cherish when they have it, and don't know how to regret it after they have lost it. Tears can never save lives, so pray for God's favor and grace! ”

The two of them walked into the village after talking, and there was no one on the street, probably because they were all cats in the house on this snowy day. After a while, I heard the laughter of a group of children, sounding like they were coming from the center of the village.

Tao Zhenkun shook his head, and while shaking off the two tears that were already freezing on his face, as if he wanted to shake off the suppressed emotions in his heartache, he asked, "Do you say that there are still people gambling?"

Liu Xingmei stood still, looked at him, sighed, stretched out her hand to wipe the tears off his face, and said lightly: "Whoever dares to disobey Old Lady Wu's words, then he must be looking for bad luck."

"I know one thing."

"What's the matter?"

"Jiao Heng can't take a gamble, Hua Rui can sell his body to make money, and Old Lady Wu didn't order a ban on prostitution."

"Even if there is a prostitute, it is also sneaky to touch, but I forgot to talk about it that day!"

"That's right if you didn't say it, otherwise how many prostitutes you will offend!"

"If you are afraid of offending people, you can't stop this unhealthy trend!"

"Gambling and prostitution show that people have a good way to make money. Wear clothes and hats, each has its own advantages. If you think about it carefully, people will be in a hurry for decades in this life, and when they are happy, they will be right when they love it, otherwise they will not regret it until they are going to die!"

"You have a negative and depraved mind, and if everyone has this kind of thought, then isn't the world in chaos? No matter what time it is, it has to be on the right path, and that's right. ”

"'The right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life'!"

"Don't be emotional, worrying about the sky!"

"You see that Hua Rui is dressed like a fairy, full of noise, and you can tell that it is not a good thing at a glance!"

"Whatever, people are young and not beautiful and old!"

"You're right, a woman has to be like a woman."

"What do you mean by that?"

"No—nothing else."

"Do you want me to dress up and show you?"

"Don't, don't, I'm afraid you've got a bunch of flies buzzing behind your ass, I can't beat it that way!"

"Look at you! If you're tired, find a place to rest and won't let me serve it for a while?"

"No, let's come, it's quite heavy, this wolf is equivalent to our two families divided equally, it is estimated that you will have to be tired and lie down if you are not far away, this is more than the panic of carrying a tired person."

"It's not serious again, you're really a dog's eye! What kind of martial arts did you learn from Miao Yunchang?"

"You don't understand."

"When will you practice for me? Show your hands and see what kind of toad fist it is? At best, I'm afraid it's just a fist embroidered leg! ”

"You are insulting the two of us, I have the ability to bear it, but you have shown your disrespect for Brother Yunchang!"

Liu Xingmei grinned and said, "Is this martial arts useful?" Do you still want to kill the Japanese devils? Besides, in so many days, I haven't seen you dancing with a knife or stick? ”

"Even if you don't kill devils, you can also strengthen your body. I know martial arts, and Brother Yun Chang didn't let me tell others, this is what I can't hide. I don't leave my fists, and I steal them when I want to practice, so no one else knows about them now. If others knew that I knew martial arts, they wouldn't dare to ridicule me, and would they still call me a fool? At least they're more or less afraid of me. ”

"Others look down on you, but you can't look down on yourself. You say they don't have the surname Miao, so what is the surname? ”

"How do I know this, he won't say, I'm not a roundworm in his stomach."

As they spoke, they were about to pass by the door of the Chu family, Liu Xingmei looked into the courtyard, and saw Mei Xiang wearing a goose-yellow headscarf on her head, she was standing on the snow with a branch in her hand, writing and drawing something on the snow. So, she shouted: "Mei Xiang, come out!"

"What did you tell her to do?"

"Of course there is."

Mei Xiang heard someone calling her, and as soon as she turned around and saw that it was the two of them, she threw away the branches, ran out quickly, and said shyly: "Uncle, aunt, it's you-"

"Are your hands clean?" Liu Xingmei asked.

Mei Xiang was stunned for a moment, then took off a long tube-shaped cotton hand, looked at her two pink and white hands, she said, "I just came out for a while, but it's not dirty, what's the matter?"

Liu Xingmei lifted the silk cloth, picked up two bones with a lot of flesh in the basin and handed them to Mei Xiang.

"Auntie, this is ——?" Mei Xiang hesitated and didn't answer.

"Take it, it's a wolf's."

"Excuse me, I-"

"I'll take it for you, I'm sorry."

Mei Xiang's pink handsome cheeks blushed suddenly, and then she put the cotton hand stuffy in her armpit, and stretched out her hands to take it.

Liu Xingmei picked two more pieces for her and said, "Take them back and eat them."

"Thank you, Auntie! Thank you, uncle!" Mei Xiang looked very moved.

Tao Zhenkun smiled a little embarrassedly at Mei Xiang.

"Will you come in and sit down?"

"No, you can go back to the house."

"Hey!" Mei Xiang answered, happily turned around and ran back.

Tao Zhenkun looked at Liu Xingmei and pursed his lips and said, "The mouth of eating others is short, and the hands of others are short!"

"Why?"

"Didn't you take someone else's flowers?!"

"I like that flower, but it's not enough to make me grateful for the pictorial. To help others, I have a loving heart, not a villain's heart!"

"You can just talk in the vernacular, find a reason!"

"You see how likable, beautiful and cute this little girl is Mei Xiang, if I am a man, I will marry her when she grows up."

Tao Zhenkun thought that Mei Xiang was really beautiful, and she would be even more beautiful when she grew up, so he said, "Don't forget, you promised me that I would take her as a concubine in the future?"

Liu Xingmei glanced at him disdainfully and said, "Phew! Don't be ashamed to die, still eating the bowl and looking at the basin, my life is a bitter life, and I have been ruined in your hands, if she is a concubine for people like you, it will be a tyrannical thing, and heaven will not tolerate it!"

"What's a tyrannical thing?"

"If you're not ashamed to ask, I won't explain it to you."

When he got home, the wolf meat was still hot, so Qiu Lanzhi tore a few small pieces to feed Tao Qisheng, but he only barely swallowed two small lumps.

Liu Xingmei asked: "Mother, everyone else knows that our family has beaten a wolf, you said that this wall and that courtyard live, do you want to send them a few pimples to taste?" It's a neighbor, don't let people say we're stingy. ”

Qiu Lanzhi said: "You can do it!"

Tao Zhenkun didn't stop it, but muttered in a low voice: "A little bit of something!"

Liu Xingmei seemed to hear it, so she pouted at him violently, twisted her nose and said: "You can't pick at this life, like an iron rooster, you won't pull out a hair, so sooner or later you won't have to pass the door of death?" No one has a sign of nothing, and now ask the Buddha to burn incense! Besides, we're not—"

She just didn't say anything about the Tao family's debt to others, and then went to send it to Meng Ruan's family-

Every year, as soon as you enter the Layue Gate, most of the families are around the beginning of the year, and the people who feed the fat pigs in the village should be the time to kill the pigs. The pork is cut into pieces and placed in large vats and sent to the barn to be frozen for the festive season. Whoever kills a pig has to use sauerkraut or dried cabbage, and stew the fat meat and the filled blood sausage in a large pot, which is what people often say "killing pig vegetables", which is a special dish in the Northeast. Pig killing dish was originally a kind of stew eaten in the rural areas of Northeast China every year when the New Year was close to the end of the year.

In the past, killing pigs in the countryside is a big deal, no matter which family kills pigs, they must invite relatives and friends to their homes to eat pig-killing dishes, the back of the waist and legs are good things, how to eat the rest of the fat in the water? This is the pig-killing dish: the blood sausage made of home-pickled sauerkraut and the raw materials of fatty meat are all together. To be delicious, the fat meat should not be greasy, it should be cut into slices, put in a pot and boiled in oil, and then stewed with sauerkraut and blood sausage. At that time, people did not have the conditions to pay attention to any ingredients and seasonings, but just cut the freshly killed pork into large pieces and put it in the pot, add water, put salt on it, and then cut the sauerkraut into it while cooking, and wait until the meat and vegetables were cooked, and then pour the filled blood sausage into the pot and cook it. When serving, a plate of meat, a plate of sauerkraut, a plate of blood sausage, and some of the three are combined and served in a large basin. This kind of dish is not delicious just made, but made more, and when it is eaten later, it is the most delicious. But the number of people who can afford to raise pigs is only one-third of the whole village. At that time, the pigs, because there was no surplus grain to feed, mostly fed on bran vegetables, so hundreds of catties were scarce, and they were unwilling to kill in advance. Everyone else's family uses bran vegetables for half a year's grain, and they can't afford to raise pigs at all! In addition, due to the heavy snowfall, it was as if it had been discussed, so the plan was postponed. In the next three days, the Miao family killed pigs, Tao Zhenkun went to help, and Liu Xingmei couldn't go because she had to take care of her father-in-law with her mother-in-law. When Tao Zhenkun came back, he brought back the pig-killing vegetables and the blood sausage and brought back a piece of meat. Then there are the east and west courtyards, which are closer, and in this wall and that courtyard, Tao Zhenkun and Liu Xingmei also went to help, and naturally Tao Qisheng and Qiu Lanzhi can also eat pig-killing dishes at home. In addition, the Tao family has no pigs to kill this year, and the Ruan and Meng families also sent a piece of meat each. Neighbors who are in harmony have come and go.

This neighborly feeling moved Liu Xingmei, who had just arrived-

——-——-——-——

In the middle of the night, when people are still immersed in their dreams, I don't know who crackled and set off a cannonball, waking people up from their dreams, and some people were just about to curse, but they would suddenly remember that it was the New Year.

So, some men and some boys climbed out of the bed, went outside the black-lit fire, and began to set off firecrackers.

The sound of firecrackers one after another made everyone in the village deeply feel the breath of the New Year becoming rich in their hearts-

In the early morning, smoke from the chimneys of every house in the village seems to come sooner than usual to welcome the new year.

Tao Zhenkun and Liu Xingmei got up together, Tao Zhenkun wanted to feed the donkey, and Liu Xingmei had to cook. The two of them first went to the East House and asked their father and mother to say goodbye. Since Liu Xingmei married into the Tao family, she has developed this habit, which is also a traditional virtue of the Chinese.

Before I could eat, I heard the sound of a woman croaking a chicken in the east and west courtyards, as if a chicken had been lost.

Liu Xingmei went out of the house to hear what was going on, and she asked the East Courtyard in a loud voice: "Sister-in-law Yanping, have you lost your chicken?" ”

Li Yanping said in the east courtyard: "Yes, there is one less reed hen in the nest." Big sister, did you see that you went to your house? ”

Liu Xingmei looked around the yard, but there was no shadow of a chicken, so she replied, "No, I didn't hear that a wolf is coming again!" ”

Tao Zhenkun also came out.

"I have a chicken that was bitten to death by something, and it looks like a weasel!" The voice from the West Courtyard was Ruan Qingfang.

Tao Zhenkun didn't speak, so he rushed to the chicken coop.

Liu Xingmei said: "Don't look at it, those two chickens are here." ”

"It seems to be recruiting Lao Huang!" Tao Zhenkun said.

After breakfast, Tao Zhenkun picked up a bucket and went to the well in the village to carry water.

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