After half a month of busy washing, washing and drying, people finally ushered in the sound of firecrackers, the charming aroma in the kitchen, and the laughter of children showing off their new clothes.

Like last year, the Zheng family's New Year's dinner is still rich, and the table is full of cold and hot dishes. is that there are more Zheng Shan Qingma and his wife at the dinner table, and there is less Zheng Rin, who should have sat next to Old Man Zheng and poured wine and dishes for Old Man Zheng.

Zheng Shan Qingma and his wife returned on the 28th day of the last month, and last year it was the couple who were on duty in Yizhuang, so they changed to another couple.

In this year, the performance of the couple made people look at each other differently, so Guo Mianmian confirmed that they had really improved, so they let them live at home, and the family had a New Year's dinner together.

At this time, there is one less person who should be sitting here to eat the New Year's dinner together, and the air of the New Year has become a little fresher. Fortunately, there are three sisters and brothers, and there is one more babbling rice ball, so I didn't stay too calm.

Old man Zheng drank a few glasses of wine, looked at his grandchildren, then at his son and wife, and suddenly sighed: "If the boss is also here, our family will be reunited." ”

There is another Zheng Shuiqing, but Zheng Shuiqing was expelled from Taoyuan Town and has not returned for more than half a year, and the unaware old man Zheng has a grudge against this little son, and he also knows that the rest of the people are not waiting to see him, so he did not mention him.

As soon as he heard this, Meng Shi, who was serving vegetables to the tiger's head, put down his chopsticks, wiped his tears and said, "I don't know where Ah Rin has gone, whether he has eaten hot rice during the New Year." ”

Guo Mianmian, who had no appetite, thought that the food in the bowl was boring and boring, but he had to pretend to smile and comfort the second elder: "Father, mother, Brother Rin is not a three-year-old child, he will take care of himself." Besides, when a large group of them go out, they must be guarding a big table of dishes like us, and eating the New Year's dinner enthusiastically! ”

Ma Shi also immediately swallowed the food in his mouth, and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, last year, we were the two of us in Yizhuang, and we also blocked a large table of dishes for a good year, and the boss will definitely not treat himself badly, so my father and mother will feel at ease!" ”

As she spoke, she glared at her husband, who was sitting stupidly, indicating that he was hurrying to speak.

Zheng Shanqing is a person who can do things, absorbing Ma's eyes, and immediately lifted the wine jug and poured wine into Old Man Zheng and Meng's feathers: "Father, mother, the boss has said that he will return after the year, don't worry!" When the boss has practiced his family, we can still sit together and have a reunion dinner. ”

"Grandpa, grandma, Huahua also respects you, I wish you good health and a hundred years old!"

Spending a few more small ones is also sensible, and they have put vegetables in the bowls of their grandparents, and they also picked up their own cups of rice wine, and toasted them in a similar way, saying good wishes and pleasing words.

Under such comfort, the second elder gradually put away his previous sadness, raised his glass and drank it, with a new smile on his face.

Just as the air was getting better, a dusty pigeon landed at the door. It jumped and stood on the threshold, its little skull poking into the room, and "cooing" at the people who were eating.

It was very hot in the house, and I didn't notice a little elf in the doorway, and I didn't hear its cry. It wasn't until Guo Mianmian's eyes inadvertently swept the living creature that she clearly saw a handful of gray hairs on the top of its head, and she stood up suddenly, not even noticing that the chopsticks in her hand had fallen on the dining table.

"Ahem...... Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you? Ma, who was sitting beside him, was choked with fright, and asked with concern while coughing violently.

Guo Mianmian's attention is all on that pigeon, where can he hear Ma's words. She shoved the soup balls into Ma's arms and got off the table, rushed to the door in three steps and two steps, squatted down and grabbed the bouncing bird, and skillfully opened the letter on its lap.

Seeing that there was indeed a tight creed in it, she was overjoyed in her heart, and quickly pulled out the creed and opened it to smooth it out. When I saw the familiar handwriting on it, tears burst out of my eyes uncontrollably.

Guo Mianmian's abnormal appearance made the rest of the people nervous, and they put down the dishes and chopsticks one after another. When he saw the words written on the creed, Old Man Zheng thought of something, and asked excitedly: "Boss's wife, did you write it by Rin?" Is Rin coming back soon? ”

Meng Shi also said anxiously: "Mianmian, read it quickly, read it quickly, read what is written on the letter!" ”

Guo Mianmian nodded heavily, and said with tears in his smile: "Yes, it's Brother Rin's letter!" After that, she read the contents of the creed roughly, thinking that there was nothing to cover, so she skipped the words that the man had specially written to her, and read the rest of the content to her parents-in-law word by word.

When he thought that he would be able to get home at the end of the middle spring very late, not only Guo Mianmian cried again excitedly, but the old man Zheng and Meng also shed tears of joy, wishing that the New Year would pass and the next day at the end of the middle spring would come.

This letter to the family made the Zheng family's New Year's dinner out of touch and calm, and became warm.

The big stone that had been pressing on Guo Mianmian's heart for several days also completely fell back to its original place. The familiar handwriting on the creed made her sure that the man had walked away dangerously, and at least he was able to write this long letter home when his injuries had healed.

After the meal, Ma took over the work of washing and scrubbing alone. Guo Mianmian thanked him, handed over the soup balls to Meng's, and came to the study to polish the ink and write a reply to the man who was thousands of miles away.

Compared to the previous letter, the style of this letter is much lighter. Guo Mianmian didn't ask about the man's injury, and he didn't report it to her, and he waited for the people to return and gradually settle the account, so he only wrote down the common things in a casual manner, and there was no place to even write the title at the end.

If it weren't for the fact that the letterhead was too small to fit too many pages, she would have been able to write continuously into the night.

Watching the pigeon gradually fly away, causing a small dot in the sky, it finally disappeared under the blue sky and clouds, Guo Mianmian's mouth smiled, and gradually retracted his gaze, sorrowful for most of the month, his heart was unprecedentedly relaxed.

Big thoughts, as a rule, it is a big day for the Zheng family to worship their ancestors. The Zheng family planned the sacrifices as in previous years, and Zheng Shanqing carried them, and the family went to the ancestral hall early in the morning.

Last year, there was a-stirring stick like a cow, so that a good memorial led to a criticism meeting, and no similar farce was found. Now the Zheng clan is relying on tiger head shoes, and the waist bag is gradually rising, and many chickens and dogs in the past are gone, so the memorial air is harmonized, and the whole process will soon come to an end.

didn't see Zheng Rin, and many people asked Guo Mianmian. Guo Mianmian explained the reason clearly, and mentioned the man's return date, so no one inquired anymore, but someone heard that Zheng Shuiqing, who had not come forward for almost a year, suddenly gossiped.

"Oh, mention the third child, yesterday my little grandson also told me that when he was in the hot weather, he saw a dervish man who was very similar to him, he looked at it and felt very pitiful, so he took two steamed buns and hoped to give it to the dervish, who knew that the dervish man looked at him and ran away, and then he never met again."

The person who spoke was a woman over half a hundred years old, she was a former Zheng villager, and she was talking about her little grandson, who worked as a partner in a restaurant in a neighboring county.

"Dervishes? It shouldn't be Zheng Laosan, just his nature, return to kowtow and beg for mercy, I don't believe it if you want to say that he fell into the dervish. Some people questioned it, and they were very inquired about Zheng Shuiqing's life and hit the nail on the head.

"It looks similar, this third child is too, he hasn't returned for more than half a year, and I don't know where he went, and the two old ones are not there, just like they don't have this son." The old lady snorted, not very understanding how the Zheng family could be indifferent.

"Let's leave this alone, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, who knows if the two old ones have any troubles...... When they are old, they have to rely on the eldest son, and this younger son is an unthinkable person, and they can live for one day less. How can you care so much? ”

"It's also said that their eldest son and wife can do business outside, it must be a dazzling eye-catcher, I'm afraid they can't tolerate the little brother-in-law sucking blood......"

The two people who were talking energetically didn't know that Guo Mianmian was behind them, and they listened to what they said.

Guo Mianmian listened to it for a while, and thought that he was bored, so he didn't bother the two and quietly retreated, not paying attention to their malicious measurements.

The truth is also the truth of what these two people say, if Zheng Shuiqing really dares to return to bloodsucking, she will definitely teach him to be a good man.

, she didn't expect Zheng Shuiqing to end up so miserable, and sure enough, she ended up in a neighboring county and became a dervishes - if the dervishes were not Zheng Shuiqing, the person with the steamed bun in his hand would not run away in a hurry, so he should run because he couldn't afford to lose his talent!

If you don't die, you won't die, it's about a true portrayal of Zheng Shuiqing, as long as he can wake up in real time like Zheng Shanqing, instead of gambling, and is still obsessed with gambling, how could he fall into such a field!

In this regard, Guo Mianmian did not have any sympathy, and did not want to mention this matter to his family, so he treated it as if he had never heard it......

On the second day of the first lunar month, Kun Kun went to his grandfather's house alone to pay New Year's greetings to his grandparents, maternal uncles and aunts under the pinch that he had grown up.

When he returned, the gifts he brought with him were gone, but there was an unobtrusive cloth bag. There were seven or eight New Year's purses in the cloth bag, which aroused the admiration of the Duohua sisters and brothers.

Today, the three sisters and brothers also went to visit the New Year, and the premise of the Ma family is not very good, and they don't take Ma's daughter seriously, so they don't have so much New Year's money.

Kunkun, as in previous years, stuffed the New Year's purse to Guo Mianmian. Guo Mianmian opened the purse and counted it, and found that the amount was not small, adding up to ten taels of silver, so he put everything in one purse and returned it to Kunkun.

Kunkun held the purse and looked at his mother suspiciously.

"Didn't you say that you are an adult, since you are an adult, you have to take care of all this New Year's money." Guo Mianmian said with a smile, not worrying about the little guy at all.

In the past, every time he took a monthly vacation, Guo Mianmian would give Guo Yu a sum of silver as Kunkun's expenses, and in addition, he would give Kunkun another one to two taels of silver. Therefore, let him manage his own New Year's money, Guo Mianmian is very relieved.

In addition, Kunkun often reminds people that he is no longer a child when he grows up, Guo Mianmian thinks that he should respect him, no longer treat him as a child, and gradually let him go in the test to let him be self-reliant.

Kun Kun didn't expect this to be the reason, he was a little happy in his heart, and he was a little missing, he always felt that something was wrong, and couldn't help but say: "Mother, what if I don't hold back the mess?" Or you can hold it for me, and I'll get it from you when I need it. ”

Guo Mianmian waved his hand and said carelessly: "It's okay, if you spend it, you can spend it, you can report where your mother's money is spent." ”

After hearing this, Kun Kun lost the entanglement in his heart, and automatically hugged his mother: "Thank you, mother!" ”

The next day was the day when Guo Mianmian returned to her parents' home.

She wanted to wait for Chunxiang's sister-in-law to come and say hello before leaving, so she was persuaded by the Meng family to leave, and also bombed the Ma family to the Ma family, only saying that she could entertain her daughter and grandson who went home.

Guo Mianmian thought that Chunxiang would stay at home for a few days, so she didn't insist on holding Tangyuan'er and went to Guo's house. Kunkun stayed at home and fed the bears at both ends of the yard for her.

"Yo, I haven't seen you for two months, this Nizi has changed a lot, what a handsome girl!" Guo Zhi's family came earlier, and when they saw Guo Mianmian, they greeted her, freshly holding Tangyuan'er in their arms and putting them on her face one by one.