On Chinese New Year's Eve, the thirtieth day of the lunar month, it is appropriate to marry, sacrifice, crown, purchase property, and the weather is sunny.

Mu Yunxue deliberately got up early today, because it was the first Chinese New Year's Eve after the separation, so Mu Jing and Mu Jing both attached great importance to it, and with the Chu family and the Xu family, two women who were well-mannered, naturally the preparations for the Chinese New Year's Eve were sufficient.

Cutting window flowers, pasting couplets, the two families were busy early in the morning.

Mu Yunxue was very enthusiastic about the activity of cutting window flowers, and the scissors in her hand were flying, and she followed Chu Shi step by step to learn how to cut window flowers, but the things she cut out were a little disappointing, but Mu Yunxue was not discouraged at all, and cut the red paper in her hand one after another, without feeling wasted at all.

This is also good luck this year, the family where Mu Jing works is going to marry his son because of the New Year, not only gives everyone who works a red envelope of 100 yuan, but also gives no one a roll of thick red paper, saying that the New Year is coming soon, and these papers will be taken back to make window flowers or something, which is considered a festive picture, so the Chu family will tolerate Mu Yunxue's waste of paper.

Finally, Mu Yunxue finally cut out a decent window flower after failing for the tenth time, so she proudly took it to the Chu family to ask for praise.

"Good cut." Chu Shi looked at the cut window flower in Mu Yunxue's hand and praised.

"Really," Mu Yunxue smiled, and then got up happily and said, "Then I'll stick this window flower on my eldest brother's window, I hope that my laughing doll window flower can make my eldest brother happy every day." ”

"Oh, what kind of laughing doll window flowers?" At this time, Mu Zhijin came in in a wheelchair.

"Big brother," Mu Yunxue saw Mu Zhijin come in, and immediately showed the window flower in her hand to Mu Zhijin like a treasure, "It's this laughing doll window flower, which I cut ten times before I succeeded, and gave it to my eldest brother to make window flowers." ”

Mu Zhijin took the window flower in Mu Yunxue's hand, and looked at a doll with a round face cut out of the palm-sized window flower, curved eyes and eyebrows, a smiling mouth, two purse heads, and a circle of circular patterns outside.

"It's so well cut!" Mu Zhijin looked at the window flower in his hand, and the corners of his mouth actually laughed with the laughing doll on the window flower.

"Big brother smiled, and my laughing doll window flower was successful." Mu Yunxue smiled proudly, looked at the smile on the corner of Mu Zhijin's mouth, and said happily.

Cutting curtains is a women's activity, while men are writing and pasting couplets.

Mu Jingze studied when he was a child, so it is not a problem to write couplets or anything, and Mu Jinglei is also literate and writeable, and it is not a problem to write couplets, Mu Zhiyi and Mu Zhixu both secretly have their own reading and calligraphy, and it is naturally not a problem to write couplets, so several men in the Mu family also wrote a couplet by hand, of course, except for Mu Zhijin, Mu Zhijin directly asked Mu Zhiyi to help him write a couplet and paste it on his door.

Cut the window flowers, wrote couplets, pasted Fuzi, one morning Mu Jingze and Mu Jinglei these two and for the family to do it happily together, at noon the two families also made dumplings together, although each person's dumplings are different, but the fun is endless, especially when finally eating the dumplings that everyone made together, the two families showed a satisfied smile on their faces, such a Chinese New Year's Eve was unimaginable to the two families before.

Eating the dumplings in their bowls one by one, but in their minds, they remembered the Chinese New Year's Eve spent in the Mu family when there was no separation in the past, no new clothes, no window flowers, no couplets, no dumplings, and no joy.

There are only patches of old clothes, endless things to do, laughter from others, and endless envy.

Happy to have a lunch, in the afternoon Mu Jingze and Mu Jinglei and the two families began to prepare to go to Anyang Town, the two families also unified into the old clothes, said that the old clothes are only changed by Xu and Chu's two skillful hands, before all the people's new clothes were made, Chu and Xu changed the original old clothes, the newly bought cotton into the outside although shabby but very warm winter clothes, and then everyone had new clothes, However, when you need to do heavy physical work, you will still wear the original old clothes.

It's just that these old clothes have been washed very clean by Xu and Chu, and some small adjustments have been made when loading cotton, which looks old, but it looks a little special and good-looking.

Mu Yunxue was wearing a patched padded jacket, looking at her little padded jacket, the corners of her mouth were hooked, this dress had a sense of art.

"Mother, these are the gifts you prepared?" Mu Yunxue looked at the things in the oxcart in the yard, this oxcart was borrowed by Mu Jing from Han Qi, and after loading some gifts for the big house, the two families were barely enough to sit when they squeezed in.

"Well, don't you have to give your grandmother five taels of filial piety silver, so there is nothing left at home, my father and I discussed making some rough cakes for your uncle's family, I think they haven't eaten this thing for a long time, they should like it." Chu Shi said very understandingly, hearing that Mu Yunxue really secretly sweated in his heart, it turned out that his third brother's black belly was not born, and his daring was genetic!

Rough cakes, Mu Yunxue thought of the bag of coarse noodles that Mu Jingze and Mu Jinglei bought back when they went to the town to buy New Year's goods two days ago, although the family is not rich, but now three meals of white rice a day can still be managed, Mu Yunxue is still wondering what these coarse noodles are used for, they were originally used to give away.

"This buy coarse noodles or Zhiyi proposed, originally I thought he didn't want to eat coarse noodles for a long time, but yesterday he told me to let me make it for your uncle's family, I thought that our two families are now dressed like this, and it is reasonable to send coarse noodles and brown cakes." Chu continued to add.

Yes, it was still the idea of the black-bellied third brother of his own family, but the third brother was also clever, and he actually arrived in the long house early in the morning and invited his family to go to the reunion year this year.

So Chu and Xu covered the two baskets of rough cakes with cloth and put them in the middle of the ox cart, and then Mu Jingze and Mu Jinglei sat in the front to drive the ox cart, and the rest of the people sat in a circle behind the ox cart, squeezing enough to sit.

The ox cart moved forward slowly, Mu Yunxue looked around and didn't see the figure of the eldest brother Mu Zhijin, but thinking about it, it was not convenient for the eldest brother to go out now, and he was still going to the Mu family's big house, so it was nothing if he didn't go.

Anyang Town is also full of festive colors on this festive day, Mu Yunxue sat on the ox cart and looked at the red lanterns hanging on the shops on both sides of the street, and the people who came and went were also wearing new clothes, with a festive look on their faces, everything looked so festive.

"Hey, aren't these the third and fourth brothers?" Suddenly, a slightly sharp voice sounded in Mu Yunxue's ears.

The people on the ox cart all looked up at the source of the sound, and saw that there was a carriage at the distance between the two people next to the ox cart, and at this moment the curtain of the carriage was being lifted, revealing a fat face with heavy makeup, this person was Liu.

"Second sister-in-law," Chu glanced at Liu, who was sitting in the carriage, and called with a smile.

"Yo, this is the third brother and sister, it looks even more beautiful than before." Liu said a little sourly, but when he saw the patched clothes worn by the Chu family and his party, he showed a trace of disdain.

The second sister-in-law laughed, and the second sister-in-law looked much more energetic than before. Chu Shi smiled, but the smile in his eyes did not reach the bottom of his eyes.

"Since we've met here, let's go together!" Liu Shi heard that Chu Shi was saying that she was too fat before, but now she is thin, and at the same time, she is also saying that she is not as good as before, but she has been ridiculed by Xu Shi like this yesterday, and she is too lazy to care about it today, no matter how good she was before, she is better than these people in rags, and a large number of people are crowded on an ox cart, and she is not afraid that this cow will be tired.

So the people in the second, third and fourth rooms, one took an ox cart and the other took a horse-drawn carriage to the Mu family's house.

The distribution of Anyang Town is actually very clear, divided into rich streets, civilian streets, poor streets and market streets, Mu Yunxue usually comes to Anyang Town just to walk around the market street.

The ox carts and horse-drawn carts moved slowly, and soon passed through the bazaar towards the rich street of Anyang Town.

The Rich Street does not have to be a market, nor is it any more than the Commoner Street, the Rich Street is almost empty, and at this moment the carriage and ox cart driving on the street seem a little abrupt, but soon the ox cart and the carriage stopped in front of a vermilion courtyard.

Mu Yunxue looked up and saw a plaque with "Mufu" written on the door of the vermilion courtyard, although it was not magnificent, but it looked passable.

Mu Jing got off the ox cart first and knocked on the door, and after a while, the door opened a crack from the inside, and it was a small guy who opened the door, and the little guy saw Mu Jing wearing coarse cloth patch clothes, and his eyes immediately turned from the doubts that opened the door to contempt, and said sharply: "Where is the name of Huazi, hurry up, it's really bad luck to come to beg for food during the New Year." ”

Fluttering, Liu, who had just stepped down from the carriage, smiled very imagelessly after hearing the little guy's words, and then pinched a sharp voice and said: "Blind your dog's eyes, don't you go and inform your master quickly, just say that his younger brother is here." ”

The little guy was still preparing to drive people away because Mu Jingze was not interested in coming immediately, but when he took it, he heard Liu's voice, raised his eyes and glanced at Liu, and then immediately changed his face and said grovelly: "The second lady has not been here for a long time, and the lady is still talking in the morning, saying that you are coming over today, but I didn't expect to come so soon." ”

"You know my second lady, it's your third master in front of you, why don't you open the door and welcome us in." Liu raised his head triumphantly and said.

"Yes, yes," the little guy still didn't look at Mu Jingze, and kept groveling to the Liu family, Mu Yunxue looked surprised, and secretly said that this Liu family is also a capable person, and he can actually make the subordinates of the big house so respectful to her, thinking that the Liu family usually comes here, and there are also bribes for these subordinates, as for why Mu Yunxue thinks so, just Chong Zhou's contempt for the people in the second, third and fourth rooms in the Mu family before you can know that it is definitely not the Zhou family who wants these people to be so polite to the Liu family, Although the two elders of the Mu family are a little partial to the second room, but now they live in the big room, these little servants only need to be respectful to them, as for the Liu family, they are only respectful to the two old men, and it is definitely not within the scope of the two old men's thinking to be respectful to the Liu family.