Winter has arrived, and the thick white snow, covering the roof, shimmers with a cold silver light.

"Huahua, it's time to get up, today you Guizhi's aunt's beautiful marriage, we have to go early." Wang Xiuyun shouted into the house.

"Good!" After speaking, Meng Xiaohua turned over and buried his head on the pillow, didn't want to get up at all when it was cold, took a deep breath, and quickly got dressed and went out.

After eating, the two of them packed up and set off for Shangwa Village.

After walking for more than half an hour, the two walked to the door of the village chief's house, Meng Xiaohua raised his hand and looked at his watch, seven o'clock.

There is no festive decoration outside the house, and after entering the door, there are many men, women and children gathered in the courtyard, which is still quite lively.

Wang Xiuyun greeted a few women who were familiar with her, and Meng Xiaohua obediently followed behind to call people, mainly because she was introverted in the past, and she didn't have any friends in the village.

Meng Xiaohua followed her mother into the back room and saw Wang Meili sitting on the edge of the bed, wearing a brand-new army-green thick cotton jacket, her hair tied with a red rope coiled, and her face was flushed.

"Sister Xiuyun is here! Xiaohua is here too! Come and sit, come and eat sugar" He Guizhi saw Wang Xiuyun's mother and daughter, and immediately stood up, picked up the candy and peanuts in the tray and handed them to them.

"This candy can be eaten, and it is full of joy." After Wang Xiuyun finished speaking, she took two pieces of candy, after all, this thing is expensive and not easy to buy.

"Thank you, auntie! I wish Sister Meili a happy marriage, a hundred years of good marriage, and an early birth of a precious son! Meng Xiaohua picked up a piece of candy and peeled it open and put it in his mouth.

He Guizhi said with a smile: "Borrow your auspicious words and take more." After saying that, he grabbed the candy and put it in her hand.

Wang Meili smiled shyly at her, and then chatted with the little sister beside her.

Seeing her react like this, Meng Xiaohua didn't feel anything, probably embarrassed. After her brother became a soldier, Wang Meili came to her house two times in three days, and later asked her to inquire about her brother's address, and often wrote letters to her brother, after her brother politely rejected her last time, she was engaged and married in just over a month, and she was also a witness to the matter between Wang Meili and her brother, and it was normal to feel embarrassed to see her.

It didn't take long for the groom to pick up the bride by bicycle, and she heard her mother say that the man was an employee of the factory, and there was the second eldest in the family, with a brother who had already married and three sisters below.

At this time, bicycles are still very rare, there are several young people in the courtyard around the bicycle to look around, Wang Meili brother is afraid that others will not touch it lightly, so he stood there and watched, and said to everyone: Just look, don't touch.

Under the blessing of relatives and friends, Wang Meili shyly got on the bicycle that came to pick her up, followed by a donkey cart that picked up her relatives, which was also loaded with Wang Meimei's dowry, and the group left Shangwa Village.

He Guizhi watched her daughter go away, her eyes were sour, her daughter who had been pampered for 18 years left her home like this, she knew the hard work of being a daughter-in-law, so she prepared a thick dowry for her daughter, hoping that her daughter could be happy in her in-law's house.

Wang Xiuyun looked at He Guizhi with tears in her eyes, and walked over to comfort her in a low voice.

Meng Xiaohua and the others stayed in He Guizhi's strong and returned to the county seat after lunch.

On the way, Wang Xiuyun looked at the dealer who was covered with thick snow and said with a smile: "Ruixue is a good year, it seems that there will be a bumper harvest in the coming year!" ”

Meng Xiaohua sighed invisibly, I hope it will be!

As soon as they entered the courtyard, they were stopped by Aunt Fang, saying that there was a letter from their family, and they knew that they were going to go to relatives and collected it on their behalf.

After thanking Aunt Fang, Meng Xiaohua took the letter and glanced at it and stuffed it into his pocket.

Wang Xiuyun looked at her daughter and asked, "Huahua, why have you been so many letters recently?" "My son had just sent a letter that day, and the next day there was another letter from my daughter.

"Huh? Oh, that... Recently, a classmate's family moved to a provincial capital, and we often write to contact us. Meng Xiaohua pretended to answer casually.

Wang Xiuyun glanced at her daughter suspiciously, and saw that her face was calm and didn't look like she was lying, so she didn't ask anything.

Went back to the room and plugged in the door, sat in front of the desk and opened the letter, pouting while reading, this Chu Chengfeng really has perseverance, although she didn't reply to the letter, he still couldn't write to her, the whole paper was to report some trivial things in life, there was no nutrition, and every time he wrote a letter, he would write a sentence at the back of the letter: Looking forward to your reply.

Seeing him so persevering, Meng Xiaohua picked up a piece of letter paper and wrote with a red pen: The letter has been read, continue to work hard! After writing, I took an envelope and put it in, got up and went out to send the letter.

After Chu Chengfeng, who was thousands of miles away, received the letter, he was in a happy mood all day, and he could be regarded as a small improvement.

Chinese New Year's Eve

After preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the mother and daughter sat at the table, Wang Xiuyun looked at the stewed chicken, braised fish, and braised pork ribs on the table, thought of his son who was a soldier outside, and said: "Your brother doesn't know if he can eat such a meal." ”

"Mother, don't worry! During the Chinese New Year, they have the same fish and meat, as well as literary performances, I think it is much more lively than the two of us, my brother. Seeing her mother in a daze, she put chopsticks and pork ribs in her bowl and said, "Mother, eat quickly, it will be cold in a while." ”

And Meng Xiaolei, who was thousands of miles away, did not do what his little sister said, but was in the hospital bed, eating the dumplings given by his comrades-in-arms, looking satisfied.

In the middle of the night, crackling firecrackers rang out, ushering in the New Year of 1957.