On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the cold wind and heavy snow meet in the northern town of dripping ice, adding not only the cold, but also the beautiful scenery covered in silver.

Every household in Happy Village is shrouded in dim lights outside the window, even if the night is more than halfway, the thrifty people have no intention of turning off the lights, the places outside the house are all silvery white, and from time to time there will be men in the family to sweep the snow at the door, otherwise they will not be able to go out the next day. The sound of firecrackers came and went, and finally returned to calm.

When the whole world was about to be quiet, a scream sounded in the small earthen house of Qi Laosi's family, and then a child's cry was heard.

There were a few muffled thunders in the distance, and the Qi family didn't care, who bought so many firecrackers in the loser again, and they were still putting them off.

Old Mrs. Qi wiped the sweat from her head and finally gave birth.

Qi Laosi hugged the big fat girl and smiled without seeing her teeth, my girl is really handsome.

Old man Qi knocked the cigarette pouch and pot outside the door, stood on tiptoe and looked at his newborn granddaughter, his face was full of folds with a straight face smiling all day long, and he finally had a granddaughter.

The daughters-in-law of the Qi family, who had not lived a good year, sighed in unison when they saw the child being born, and they could finally go home for dinner.

Qi Laosi's brothers, when they heard the child's cry, also laughed, Emma, frozen to death, can finally go home. (Lao Qitou thinks that the most important thing in a family is unity, so the old daughter-in-law must come when she has children, the eldest brother can't enter the back room, and there is no place in the kitchen, except for the child's father and grandfather, who are shivering and smoking lonely in the summer.) ）

Qi Laosi's mother-in-law, Mrs. Wang cried with joy, her own girl was more nervous than her giving birth。。。。。。 Fortunately, there is a family plan.

"Okay, let's go home for the New Year, haha, pack up, our old Qi family's daughter is looking for a time for herself, mother and daughter are safe, my mother-in-law should go home and report safety to my in-laws, I'll take care of it for a night." Mrs. Qi arranged for everyone to go home for the New Year despite her exhaustion.

Everyone was tired in the middle of the night, so they didn't say anything, and told the mothers to rest well and dispersed.

Teacher Wang, who is a first-time mother, looked at the infant child, her eyes were full of maternal love, and she died for a lifetime。。。。。。

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Qi Laosi happily opened the door, followed the pace of the whole village, and hurriedly lit firecrackers.

"Mom, let's eat." went back to the house to greet his wife for dinner, his daughter-in-law was still sleeping, and her daughter was also sleeping soundly, and the old lady Qi could finally rest and rest after being tired all night.

"Why don't you put on your padded jacket when you go out, how hard the wind is." As he spoke, he walked a few steps and dragged his stupid son into the house.

"You make do with it yourself, I have to give your dad a whole bite to eat when I go back, you come over to eat at noon, my mother must come over today, I lit the stove, the millet porridge I made above, you watch it diligently, don't paste the pot, put a few eggs in it, I put the eggs stored before under the bowl shelf, don't let her get off the kang when your daughter-in-law gets up, you can't blow the wind in the confinement, don't come to the kitchen in the back room." Old Mrs. Qi chattered to her son, and her feet didn't stop, and she had already gone out after speaking.

"Mom, don't worry, go out slowly, my mother-in-law will come in a while, and I'll go over." Qi Laosi said and squatted on the edge of the stove and roasted his hands.

Mrs. Qi has a total of four sons, all four sons have already married, and the youngest son also gave birth to a granddaughter to herself today, and the most important tasks in her life have been completed, and she is a little excited to think about it.

His eldest son has three sons, the eldest grandson Qi Baichuan is twelve or thirteen, not to mention that he is good at studying, and he is a good student every year, he must be able to glorify his ancestors, and the second grandson Qi Baifeng is very small-eyed, and he is also the most pleasing to people, and the third grandson is good, and the third grandson is next to the second grandson, and the old lady is excited to be a grandmother, but the third grandson is a premature baby, and the old lady is afraid that she will not be able to support herself.

To the second son, the fourth grandson Qi Baiyu and Qi Baijun were born in the same year, a full-term fat boy, two months older than Qi Baijun, didn't let her worry about anything, helped serve the confinement, and didn't interfere again, this child who personally took the eldest son's family can't ignore the second son, and the subsidy will be subsidized if it's okay, the second daughter-in-law has no mother's family, and the poor second daughter-in-law is a capable one, and after giving birth to a grandson every two years, the old lady saw that her daughter-in-law was too busy to do so, and raised the fifth grandson Qi Baizhang herself.

The third daughter-in-law is also quite able to give birth to three grandchildren one after another, but fortunately, the mother-in-law often helps to take care of the children, or it is really enough for the old lady to drink a pot. The third son's Qi Baiyi, Qi Baiyue, Qi Baiyu, can't be said to be naughty, grandparents are used to grandparents, parents are used to it, parents are used to it, and Tuo'er has become three little devils.

Not to mention that the youngest son got married late, and others gave birth late, this family planning has also become stricter, both of them are teachers, and it is estimated that they will not be able to regenerate, this girl is expensive.

Mrs. Qi is quite strong in her fifties, all the tasks in her life have been overfulfilled, and she is happy in her old age, thinking about the small days in the future is worth looking forward to.

The fifth day of the first lunar month is a sunny day, and the unreliable Qi Lao and his wife finally remembered that the baby girl has not yet been named.

Qi Laosi got up early and cleaned up and went to the village secretary, that is, his uncle's house, the most educated person in the village, although Qi Laosi and his family are teachers, but the village secretary is like a mysterious cultural predator in the village, and the messy inscriptions and names of red and white ceremonies will basically think of him.

Uncle Qi also just got up, set up a posture in the yard to chop firewood, the stove just lit, there are three little grandsons in the house, shouting that it is too cold, this winter is indeed surprisingly cold, Uncle Qi is usually reluctant to burn firewood at home, and in autumn in the woods to cut good firewood are waiting for the grandson to come on vacation and then use, usually the family is to take the bud rice pole, hot fast, cool fast, throw down the dry smoke in his hand, pick up the axe and start chopping wood, Qi Laosi entered the door and saw that his uncle was chopping firewood, picked up the wood on the ground and put it on the stake, said: "It's a cold day, I'll come."

Uncle Qi was not polite to him: "Why did you come so early, the child is very good, I heard your aunt say that a fat girl of seven or eight pounds is rare."

"That's right, my daughter is good-looking, haha."

"Come by my name, and I'll say you're supposed to come."

"It's not good, I've been so happy in the past two days that I've forgotten all the big things."

"Our old Qi family has only produced such an aunt in two lifetimes, and this name has to be good."

"Uncle, how fast do you say this generation catches up with another generation, I have a daughter."

"What's the life, aren't they all over, look at you are all fathers, last year you were still fighting with your third brother and them (sparrows), they are all fathers, but you can't be messing around, you have to live a good life."

"Oh, I know uncle, if there is nothing to do in school after the New Year, I will go out again to find some work to do, my third brother will go with me if he has nothing to do, and there will be no money in the field, that is, he will not die of hunger."

"You went out to rush to your eldest sister, what's the matter with your brother, besides, I asked a friend to find something for your second brother and third brother to do after the New Year."

"Okay, then it's not the bottom line, our brothers are studying."

The two of them said that the firewood was almost chopped, and Qi Laosi gathered up the chopped firewood and put it on the burden, and brought it to the side of the stove in the house, so that it would be convenient to add fire for a while.

"Fourth, what name do you think of?"

"It has to be different, catchy,"

"Come into the house and say."

There is no hall in the small house of half brick and half earth, the kitchen is in the middle, there are two houses on the left and right, Uncle Qi brought Qi Laosi into the east house, there are three grandsons of Uncle Qi lying side by side on the kang, two of Uncle Qi's three sons are government workers, because of family planning, they are all a family of one child, and the old family will give birth to one without family planning, and the three Tao boys saw Qi Laosi come in and shouted in unison, "Fourth Uncle Happy New Year!" ”

"Happy New Year." As he spoke, he took out a handful of fried soybeans from his pocket, and the three children happily took the soybeans and sat on the edge of the kang and divided the beans. Take the soybeans fried with soybeans, put some salty salt, the more you eat, the more fragrant, but you can't eat more, Mrs. Qi's fried soybeans don't know why they are better than others, and they are more popular than melon seeds during the Chinese New Year.

"Hurry up and get into the bed, it's cold outside." Uncle Qi watched the three grandsons with their bare buttocks and divided the beans there for fear of freezing, so he ran over and pulled the three boys to the quilt, and did not forget to tuck the quilt.

There are two large cabinets in the east room, there is a mirror on the cabinet, the portrait of a great man is engraved on it, there is a painting hanging next to the mirror, it is a landscape painting, I don't know where Uncle Qi got it, it is estimated that the old house is a little leaky, so it is pasted on a painting, strange and good-looking, the painting also mentions two lines of words on the side, the light in the room is not good, in a line or traditional Chinese characters, Qi Laosi does not recognize the complete, so he asked, "Uncle, when did you paste it, I haven't seen it before, what is written on it." ”

"You said that you are still a teacher, you have nothing to recognize a few more words, this is the commune two days ago, it is written 'Tianxingjian, the gentleman should be self-improving, the terrain is kun, the gentleman should be virtuous', talk about the truth of being a man, and when your daughter grows up, she knows that her illiterate father will not laugh at you when she is a teacher."

"Haha, what's wrong with me being a teacher, what else is not as good as mine, the school doesn't pay salaries, I am doing good deeds as a teacher, and it's okay if the physical education teacher knows how to read or not."

"Your God."

Uncle Qi took out the family tree from the cabinet, the family tree wrapped in red paper is some years of yellowed paper, and it is slightly damaged all around, Uncle Qi carefully opened it, hung it on the east wall, and took out three incense sticks from the cabinet, lit the incense and inserted it in the incense bowl, and recited the words in his mouth, "The first girl in the eighth generation of my Qi family is here, the ancestors bless, I will give the child a big name today, I hope she will be smart and healthy all her life, and she will be blessed with good fortune." Ancestors bless. ”

"Fourth, I'll write her into the family tree when I name her today, and I'll come back to recognize the name when he's one year old, don't you see it."

"It's okay, uncle, I don't understand any of this."

"Now it's not about these, when I went to the family tree, your grandfather said that it was not so simple two sentences to finish, all lost, fortunately, our family tree has been handed down, it is a girl, let's take a graceful name, this child is still born in the Spring Festival, we should respond to the situation, and look forward to this year's wind and rain, I want to think about it, good rain knows the season, when spring happens. Dive into the night with the wind, moisturizing things silently. It's called Qi Yurun, what's the matter? ”

"Don't talk about it, think again."

Qi Laosi looked at his uncle with a wistful face, Uncle Qi has been famous too much over the years, there are really few literary talents, no one in the village recognizes it, Qi Laosi and his family are both teachers, Uncle Qi feels that he has to think of a name, it is easy to seize the opportunity, of course, go all out, shake his head and say, "Jasper is made into a tree high, and ten thousand green silk silks hang down." Qi Biyu, what's going on? ”

"It's too vulgar, the village calls it Xiaoyu Xiaohua or something, think about it again."

"What do you think it's called a paper kite?"

"What is a paper kite, it sounds strange and uncomfortable."

"Paper kites are kites, and they all say that you are uneducated."

"Qi Kite?! No, another one. ”

"Think about it yourself, there are so many things, what do you want to get, I really don't understand you."

"A gentleman should be self-improving, called Qi self-improvement!"

"That's the boy's name, you're the girl."

"My daughter is no worse than a boy, and Qi Ziqiang Qi Ziqiang is also domineering when she listens, isn't it, how good, and said that I am not educated, that's all, write it." The unknown ones are all tall, Qi Laosi has never heard the two sentences on the wall, and he thinks it is quite profound, well, good.

"Don't change it, this one, let me tell you, this is not a household registration instinct to change, this can't be changed."

"If you don't change it, my daughter's name will be Qi Ziqiang."

Uncle Qi took out a forked brush and ink from the cabinet again, and wrote Qi Ziqiang's name tremblingly, Qi Laosi looked at it with satisfaction, and praised "Uncle, this word is getting better and better." ”

Uncle Qi glared at Qi Laosi and didn't speak, Qi Laosi touched his head and turned around and left, and went to his daughter-in-law on an errand.

Teacher Wang looked at the baby baby at home alone, the sleeping baby ignored her, went up to pat her if she was fine, and gently slapped her fingers after a while, the sleeping baby frowned and was still sweet, Qi Laosi entered the house like a gust of wind, looked at his daughter-in-law with a smile, and said with a smile, "I'm done with a name, haha, my daughter has a big name." ”

"What's it called?"

"Qi Ziqiang, what's the matter, doesn't it sound very domineering, catchy, a gentleman is self-improving, is it very cultured."

"It's not good, uncle took it, can't it?"

"Don't talk nonsense, Uncle should be unhappy to hear it."

Qi Laosi didn't blow it down, he didn't speak anymore, he didn't go to the child's side when he was cold, he stood there and looked at his daughter, how rare it was, thought about it and said, "The name is over, don't talk nonsense, it's all on the family tree, and it can't be changed, what a beautiful name, and shouting slogans are drops." ”

"I know, it's not like a girl's name, your old Qi family won't dislike me for giving birth to a girl, right?!"

As he spoke, Mr. Wang's two eyebrows raised and he glared at Qi Laosi.

Qi Laosi hurriedly said: "How is it possible, my uncle also said that daughters are rare." ”

"No, I'll tell you, my daughter won't come out until she grows up."

"Our small family and small business don't ask her to make more money, just be healthy and safe."

"Oh, Mr. Qi, you're pretty good at talking."

Qi Laosi smiled proudly, remembering that he hadn't told the old people on both sides about his name, he hurriedly turned around and left, Teacher Wang ignored him, and continued to talk about it.

Qi Ziqiang has a new definition on this day, her life is gradually revealed in the good wishes of her parents, sometimes good and sometimes bad, but please smile at her parents.