Second Uncle Qin has just separated this year, and the dumplings on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve will be eaten at the Qin family's old mansion, so he only needs to wrap dumplings for tomorrow morning and the morning after tomorrow. The dumpling filling is also only made of pork, cabbage, leek, and egg.

"When my mother saw me bring leeks over, although she didn't say anything, the corners of her mouth turned up." The leeks were grown in the conservatory of Xiaonuan's house, and the Qin family took two catties, and the Li family took more than half of it and sent it to the old house. Although she didn't say where it came from, the old mansion didn't know that leeks were expensive in winter, and this must be something from the eldest sister's family.

Of course, some of them won't push it out, but while wrapping the dumplings with the leeks sent by the girl's family, they are talking about how Xiao Nuan is not a thing, which makes the Chen family have an uneasy life.

Of course, Li will not learn these words from her eldest sister and husband, so she pretends not to hear anything, but quietly thinks that her eldest sister is not worth it, and she also thinks that she will treat her daughter better in the future. Not only should you be kind to your daughter, but you should also be kind to Xiaonuan and Xiaocao.

Qin Shi took a bag of fried chestnuts and handed it to Xiao Nuan, "You eat snacks, and your mother and I will make it." ”

looked at Xiaocao and Qin Ernier, who were eating snacks next to her, Xiao Nuan, who thought she was a big girl, took the initiative to take on the task of rolling the skin, and listened to the chatter between her mother and the second aunt while rolling the skin.

After a while, Cuiqiao's mother-in-law Zheng also came and joined the dumpling-making team, and Xiao Nuan sped up the speed of rolling the skin.

"A donor can be in charge", she runs five or six shops, and the daily flow in her hands is more than 1,000 taels, how can she not be a home! The speed of Xiao Nuan's rolling is constantly accelerating.

Qin picked up the dog tongue-shaped dumpling skin rolled by his own girl, distressed and angry, "Green butterfly rolling skin, Xiao Nuan goes to make noodles." ”

Chen Xiaonuan, the proprietor of the silk dress, handed the rolling pin to Green Butterfly and kneading the noodles that no longer needed to be kneaded.

Watching the green butterfly roll out the skin as fast as a fly, Xiao Nuan shook her sore wrist bitterly, comforting herself that she has a specialization in the art industry, she is a high-level leader, not a grassroots all-rounder......

Xiaocao sat beside her sister, holding her sister's wrist with her oily little hand, and pinching her one by one. pinched Xiao Nuan into a mess, and the confidence that was shattered was also pinched by my sister little by little.

"The grass is so nice." Xiao Nuan sincerely thanks.

Xiaocao smiled sweetly, raised her little face and begged for praise, "Because I was afraid that my sister would be scolded, Xiaocao didn't even make dumplings." “

Little Warm ......

"Xiaocao, we are sisters, be merciful."

"Okay—" Xiaocao responded sweetly, pursed her little mouth and kissed her sister the face. Xiao Nuan was instantly smoothed out, and then floated away......

After Second Uncle Qin and Qin Erlang came back, Second Uncle Qin went to the big well in the village to carry water, and Qin Erlang cleaned the courtyard.

Qin said to Li, "You can dig a well in the courtyard in the spring next year, and it is convenient to use water." ”

"I'll talk to his dad about it." Li responded meekly, but in his heart he felt that it was too expensive to make a well.

It doesn't take much effort to carry a few buckets of water a day, and you can have four dollars left. With four dollars, you can almost buy an acre of land......

Qin asked Zheng again, "Xiao Huan is back, is he back?" ”

Zheng smiled, "I can come back before dark." ”

Xiao Nuan looked at the worried appearance of Zheng and his mother, and couldn't help but sigh. Yu Xiaohuan got up early and went back to the mountain village where she used to live to worship her ancestors, and she asked Cui Qiao to lead the horse over for Xiao Huan to ride, Cui Qiao also felt that she was too much and didn't dare to lead it.

Now it's okay, the family is worried. Xiao Nuan looked at the sky that was getting dark, and ordered, "Green Butterfly, go back and talk to Sister-in-law Ling, and let her ride a horse with Rhubarb to greet Xiao Huan." ”

The Zheng family immediately stood up and thanked him, and the Qin family immediately smiled when he saw that his daughter would take the initiative to care about Yu Xiaohuan.

Little Warm ......

Second Uncle Qin went back to the house to take over the work of rolling dumpling skins, and said while rolling the skins, "The Chen family almost fought on the ancestral grave, I heard that it was burning paper and couldn't light it, otherwise it would be lit and destroyed." ”

The eyes of the women in the room were wide open, it was a dry day, and the wind was not particularly strong, so how could the paper not be lit.

Isn't it......

"Which grave?" Qin asked in a low voice.

"There are Chen Zumo's grandparents."

After Second Uncle Qin finished speaking, he looked at his sister and did not speak again.

What does this mean? Xiao Nuan looked left and right, and it was really uncomfortable.

After finally coming out of her uncle's house, Xiao Nuan asked her mother in a low voice, "Mother, what's wrong?" ”

Qin Shi looked at the grass jumping in front of him, and said in a low voice, "As the old saying in the village goes, it is not a good sign that the paper on the grave is not lit during the Chinese New Year, and I am afraid that something will happen to the family." ”

As for what was going to happen, Qin didn't say it explicitly. But after returning home, she first took Green Butterfly and Xiao Nuan to cover the curtain dumplings placed in the wing room with straw paper engraved with copper coin seals, and pressed them with a few grains of broken silver, and told Green Butterfly and Cui Qiao to take a good look.

Xiao Nuan couldn't understand it, and she didn't dare to talk too much during the New Year, so she held back and didn't speak.

The Chen clan, every family carefully guards the dumplings that they press with paper, most of them use copper coins to press, and there are two families with silver: Xiao Nuan's family and Chen Zumo's family.

After Pi Shi pressed the dumplings, he told Qingliu and Mrs. Liu to be optimistic, and get up at five watch tomorrow morning to set off firecrackers to cook dumplings and make offerings.

After Pi followed the black-faced old man Chen back to the city in the carriage, Mrs. Liu and Qingliu, who had been busy all day, sat on the stool, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to say.

Of course, the two of them were not happy to get a penny for the New Year, but they were lucky to survive this thrilling day, not to be trampled by a car, to knock out their teeth and break their legs, right?

After the two ate the hot soup dumplings, the tired Mrs. Liu went back to the house to sleep first, and asked Aoyagi to stay and guard the dumplings in the hall.

Aoyagi is also tired, but who makes her not as high as Mrs. Liu's. Aoyagi curled up in a chair with an oil lamp and snoozed, and when he opened his eyes again, he suddenly found that there were a few fewer dumplings on the table!

I don't know if the dumplings were stolen by ghosts or rats, Aoyagi stood up tremblingly and moved the position of the dumplings on the curtain, and he couldn't see the lack of a queen at all, so he simply brought the dumplings to his own room, wrapped in the quilt and gritted his teeth and stared at it.

The sound of firecrackers in the village gradually became quieter, and it was time for the families to have a New Year's dinner.

The dishes in Xiao Nuan's house have been fried, and the steamed dumplings can also be cooked, but the Qin family has no intention of opening the meal, because Sister-in-law Ling and Xiao Huan have not come back yet.

At this time, it was already dark, and Zheng and Cui Qiao were restless. Xiao Nuan smiled, "Don't worry, uncle, Rhubarb will definitely be able to bring Xiao Huan back." ”

Rhubarb is very good, but as long as you know the general whereabouts of the people around you, take it to find it, there is nothing it can't find.

Zheng forced a smile and said, "The girl is right, they must be almost there." Let's start the meal, and the food should be cold after a while. ”

"Don't worry, wait for them to come back and eat." Where can the Qin family eat?