New Year's money! The children clapped their hands and lined up to collect money according to the table, although the patriarch said that only one penny was put in a red envelope, but it couldn't stop the crowd, there were too many elders, and there was no place to hide the red envelope!

Firecrackers were lit, and firecrackers were set off one by one, and the crackling sound of firecrackers continued. When the dumplings are put into the pot, each family wakes up the sleepy children, and they must eat the dumplings before they can sleep.

"When the New Year and the Old Year are handed over, eat dumplings!" The patriarch shouted, and the dumplings were served.

Fang Yue seemed to have discovered a new world, "I just ate leek egg filling, and now I eat pork and celery filling, brother, what are you eating?" ”

Chang An thought about it: "Carrot filling, a large piece of sugar filling, a red date filling, and mushroom and mutton filling." ”

"Mother, my brother ate a mouthful of sugar filling, and also ate red date filling." Fang Yue clapped his hands and shouted.

Dong Xiaoying sighed, spit out a copper plate, and complained in her heart, how dirty! It's not as good as red dates!

After eating the dumplings, Dong Xiaoying was about to take the child home to sleep, the patriarch stood up and took the sandalwood box from Aunt Zhao'er's hand, "This is the New Year's gift from the villagers to Mingyuan, Mingyuan's daughter-in-law, we must accept it, without you, we can't eat, this is what we should be thankful for." ”

In the box is a string of round pearl Buddha beads, each bead is the size of a finger, and in the firelight, the pearls exude a lustrous light.

Chang An whispered: "This should be a freshwater pearl!" ”

Qian String came over and took a look, a string of pearls made of Buddha beads, separated by agate in the middle, and the Buddha's head was carved from ivory.

"This string of Buddha beads is in good condition, but it is a river mussel bead, which is still worse than the sea beads, and it is not as good as the original string of Miss and has a delicate feel."

Qian Chuanzi thought to himself, and he wanted to repay the favor when he took out a string of Buddhist beads? You owe a lot to the young lady, just the pastry craftsmanship, you can't eat it for the rest of your life.

Dong Xiaoying had tears in her eyes, she used a string of artificially cultivated pearls bought by tourist attractions in exchange for a string of pure natural, antique Buddha beads, she made a lot of money!

"Thank you, thank you, I love it, I like it so much!" Dong Xiaoying took out the Buddha beads and held them up to look at them, "I will keep it forever, keep it all the time, and make it an heirloom." ”

Dong Xiaoying was really moved, when she saved people, she was purely confused, she didn't think too much about it, and she didn't have time to think about it. After thinking about it, I feel that there is no loss, mainly because the input cost is not high.

I didn't expect everyone to give her such a surprise, I was so moved!

"Dad, Mingyuan! Are you impressed? Dong Xiaoying said with tears in her eyes.

Fang Mingyuan stared at the Buddha beads, "Don't dare to move, I'm afraid of breaking it, I want to be an heirloom!" Put it away, no one will be able to touch it in the future. ”

Raised his hand to wipe his daughter-in-law's tears, "Why did you return the golden beans!" Put it away, our family heirloom! ”

Dong Xiaoying cried and laughed, she couldn't see enough Buddha beads, good things, you can take back absolute antiques!

Mrs. Niu muttered in a low voice: "The fourth daughter-in-law is soft-hearted, so coaxing!" I can't bear a few good words, you see, after the New Year, I don't know what good things I want to take out, maybe there are precious recipes to take out. ”

Hua Pozi patted her mother, "Don't pantothenic, your daughter-in-law is good, you also have light on your face, how good, you don't have to worry about no one being filial in the future." ”

Mrs. Niu snorted a few times and didn't speak, she was the same as Qian Chuanzi, she was just unhappy in her heart, she couldn't tell what was sour, she just felt weird and awkward.

On this day, many people did not sleep, and many people gathered together to reminisce about the past and imagine the future.

The children made a fuss all night, and they were sleepy and found a kang to sleep. Fang Mingyuan doesn't sleep at night, chatting about things without shadows, and it is serious to take his wife and children home to sleep on the hot kang. He found that he was there, and after sitting for a long time, his feet were cold and his legs were cold.

Then it was the first day of the new year to worship the ancestors, Dong Xiaoying's sleepy eyes couldn't open, and she told Fang Mingyuan to take care of Chang'an, wear thicker, and don't freeze. Rolled over and fell asleep again.

Ancestor women don't have to go, their main duty is to wipe the ancestral hall spotlessly before the year.

Dong Xiaoying was in a daze when she fell asleep, and heard Mrs. Niu shouting: Don't sweep the cannon skin, it's all wealth, it's broken gold and broken silver in one place!

Then I heard Aunt Zhao shouting: Get up, you can't sleep lazily during the New Year, get up early today, and the good time of the year is accounted for.

Dong Xiaoying wanted to cover her head with a quilt, but the door was slammed: "The fourth daughter-in-law!" Get up quickly, go through each house with your sister-in-law, and go to the New Year! ”

Fang Mingyuan took the door with him when he left, the door was bolted inside, the door was hidden, Mrs. Niu patted it twice, and the door opened by itself.

When Dong Xiaoying closed her eyes and touched her clothes, Mrs. Niu was already standing in the living room and consciously helped Zhang Luo.

"Candy made in the pastry shop? I brought you fried peanuts, where are you left? ”

Dong Xiaoying didn't dare to use skin care products today, she hastily used a layer of cream, and she didn't dare to shoot the water. The eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law waited, and she instructed the old lady to let her daughter sleep more and follow her sister-in-law out to pay New Year's greetings.

At the advanced patriarch's house, the Zhang family shouted: "Auntie, give you a New Year's greeting!" ”

Aunt Zhao replied, "Okay, let's get better and better every year!" ”

That's it? No, Aunt Zhao sat on the kang and ate peanuts and sweets, Zhang waved his hand and said, no, there are other families to go.

Aunt Zhao chased after them, holding a sewing basket containing peanut candy in one hand, and busy stuffing fried peanuts into their arms with the other, "It's all here, take it and eat it on the road!" ”

Dong Xiaoying was dizzy and hugged peanuts, nougat, and candy made by the key pastry house, without wrapping paper, and the sticky ones were sticking to the clothes.

Then go to the aunt's house, shout the same thing, and give the aunt a New Year's greeting! Mrs. Liu replied, okay, this year must be a good year!

Peanuts again, candy stuffed with a bunch.

Out of nowhere, Zhang conjured up a cloth bag and asked Zhao and Dong Xiaoying to pack the things in their arms.

Then go to Zhang's mother's house, Dong Xiaoying kowtows to Grandma Zhang very regularly. Then go to Zhao's mother's house, then the third uncle, the fourth uncle, and the clan uncle's house, and then go to kowtow to Grandma Wang.

The cloth bag was full, and the three of them came back after strolling, gave the cloth bag to Mrs. Niu, and asked her to pour out the peanuts and candy.

After Fang Mingyuan came back, he happily pulled Dong Xiaoying to kowtow to Mrs. Niu for New Year's greetings. Picking up the child and taking Chang'an to various homes to pay New Year's greetings, this time Dong Xiaoying had experience again, prepared backpacks for the two, and instructed them not to let the candy stick to their clothes, it is not easy to wash.

Fang Yue was pulled out of the bed by the children, and she was very reluctant to play with a group of little children, yawning to watch the little children pick up wilted firecrackers, that is, the kind of firecrackers that did not collapse.

"Mother, I really don't know what the picture is? Who doesn't have four hours a night, and there's nothing to play, one by one can still be excited like that, it's so boring! Fang Yue followed her mother to the big canteen, and the New Year was not fun at all.

It was just past nine o'clock in the morning, and I didn't know if this meal was breakfast or lunch. Moreover, according to the rules, today's meal should have the new and the old, and there should be leftovers from yesterday, which means that the family has surplus food, and there must be new vegetables, which means that life is rich.

I still want to eat dumplings, Fang Yue really thinks that the New Year is too torturous, I already know how good it is to eat dumplings and drink hot milk at home!

On the afternoon of the first day of the new year, the old ladies shouted that the New Year had run away, and drove back to the shops in various counties.

The patriarch, Grandma Zhang, Grandma Wang, and the men of the clan were sent to the entrance of the town, and they saw the old ladies driving the carriage and looking back: "Go back!" ”

"Have a safe journey, Mrs. Pingping!" Grandma Zhang replied and waved at the old ladies' carriage with a smile.

The patriarch sighed with emotion: "Who would have thought of it! The old women are so capable, better than all of us, I haven't been to the city shop to see, what kind of shop! ”

Grandma Zhang turned around and went back to the village, "Let's go, go back, after the ninth day of the new year, I want to go into the city for a walk, I want to see what the city is like here!" ”

With money, Grandma Zhang also wants to buy something for the children in the family. Before the Chinese New Year, she still thought that she was an old waste, but now it's different, she doesn't do anything, and she earns more than 70 taels of old birthday stars!