After the panic and busy work of the year, since the 30th of the year, people have all bought all the New Year's goods, the market is not there, the store is temporarily closed, Sister Qiu followed Jia's nest in the warm pavilion to learn to sew some small objects, the clothes of the Zhuang family are not so particular, but the basic needlework still has to know, otherwise it costs a lot of money to go to the tailor's shop to make a dress, it is too costly.

Chinese New Year's Eve rice is prepared by Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu, the main dish is braised river fish and kohlrabi boiled pork ribs, side dishes have sour and spicy cabbage, cold salad kohlrabi shreds, almond water tofu, dried cowpea roast meat, the main food has two kinds, generally the classic grass pork cabbage stuffed dumplings necessary for Chinese New Year's Eve, the other is fresher than it, Sister Qiu tried to make water tofu skin, fried shredded meat with Beijing sauce, cut thin shredded green onions, and rolled shredded meat with Beijing sauce and shredded green onions into the water tofu skin to eat.

"It's delicious!" Anzi instantly fell in love with the shredded pork in the Beijing sauce of the bean skin roll, and pointed to the burrito that he took a big bite of with a smile and said: "It tastes crisper and chewy than the tofu in water!" ”

Sister Qiu smiled and said, "This is what we are going to sell after the Chinese New Year, called water tofu skin!" ”

There were two carbon braziers in the room, warm and dry, the family gathered together, hot and noisy to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Anzi and Zhang Ruoyu sometimes told a joke or two, and the tears of the people at the table were all laughing.

In the past six months, Sister Qiu's family has eaten meat and fine noodles, after opening the store, the meat and fine noodles have not been broken every day, and the water tofu is also eaten every day, the family is obviously whiter and better than in the past, and the body is stronger and stronger than before, these changes are most obvious in Jia and Sister Qiu.

At the dinner table, the most popular is naturally the shredded pork with water tofu skin and Beijing sauce, which turned out to be shredded kohlrabi poured with sesame oil and vinegar, and there are a lot of river fish and pork ribs left, but the crisp and refreshing kohlrabi shredded is eaten cleanly.

By the time Jia Shi and Li Ailian brought the boiled dumplings, Sister Qiu's children had already eaten enough, and they didn't have the stomach to eat dumplings anymore. Jia Shi resolutely disagreed, smiled and filled three or four dumplings in a bowl for Sister Qiu and a few of them, and said: "No, where is there a Chinese New Year's Eve meal that does not eat dumplings?" Come on, eat a little. ”

The shape of the dumplings is very beautiful, and there is water light on the top, which reflects the beautiful light under the light of the oil lamp, and diffuses the steaming fragrance.

Sister Qiu barely finished eating the dumplings in the bowl, then sat aside with her belly in her arms, and sighed with satisfaction, "But you can kill me!" ”

Li Ailian, who was eating dumplings with a big porcelain bowl on the side, listened, hurriedly put down the bowl, spat on the ground, and clasped her palms together and said: "Children don't understand things, and children are unscrupulous!" After speaking, he smiled and clicked on Sister Xiaqiu's head, and said angrily: "What are you saying unlucky things about the New Year!" ”

It took a long time for Sister Qiu to react to the fact that she was wrong, she couldn't cry or laugh, and the whole family looked at her and laughed.

After eating, Anzi accompanied Jia Shi to talk to Li Ailian, and then went back to his own house, although he was Zhang Yuxiu's fiancé, it was still inconvenient to stay overnight

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Sister Qiu is still the first time to celebrate the New Year in ancient times, and it is the rule that Chinese New Year's Eve is to keep the New Year, but there is no Spring Festival Gala to watch at this time, except for chatting with melon seeds, in her memories, when she was in the Mei family before, after eating Chinese New Year's Eve, the family sat and waited for the cannon to be fired, except for the old Xiucai's father could say a few words, she and the Jia family could only shrink quietly behind the old Xiucai's father.

Now it's different, they are in charge of their own lives, and they can live their lives as they like. Not long after eating, Sister Qiu listened to Jia's and Li Ailian's chatter about the past, and listened to the upper and lower eyelids and began to fight.

Jia Shi was talking, then he looked at Li Ailian with a smile and glanced at her, turned his face to look, Sister Qiu's little head behind her was a little lower, and she was about to fall asleep immediately, Jia Shi also laughed, and the whole family hurriedly lowered their voices, for fear of waking up Sister Qiu, Jia Shi hurriedly took Sister Qiu to their house and rested on the kang, and took off Sister Qiu's cotton jacket and pants and covered the quilt.

Sister Qiu also didn't know how long she had been asleep by herself, and in a daze, she listened to the sound of artillery outside and began to come one after another, and Jia Shi shouted loudly outside: "Eh, it's time, if you are empty, hurry, go and put our artillery battle on the other!" "There is a boy in the family, and the matter of the artillery battle is not what he wants, and the sound of the artillery battle is resounding from side to side, which is deafening. Sister Qiu shrank into the quilt, covered her ears, and still couldn't sleep, so she simply picked up from the nest and pushed the window open a small crack.

When Tian took the things, a smile on his face became a flower, not only because of the generous gift from Jia's family, but also because the two boys in the family also came back from Huyang. Sister Qiu only knows that the two cousins are apprentices in the Huyang shop, but they don't know what kind of craft they are learning.

Changguo and the Chang family are ten or sixteen years old, the other is 14 years old, and they rarely meet Sister Qiu before, although they are cousins and sisters, they are actually not very familiar with each other, and they can't talk to Zhang Yuxiu as a girl, only Zhang Ruoxu, who can have a common language with them, is a scholar, so there is no common topic to talk about.

Fortunately, the two cousins all followed Li Changjiao's eagerness and kindness, and kept asking a few cousins and cousins to eat and tea, and asked some family things, and the scene was not cold.

"Second sister, your store didn't make less money in the past few days?" Tian asked with great interest as he swallowed the melon seeds, and compared it to a five-hand palm gesture, "How about earning this amount a day?" I've seen all those people in Xu Township lining up for a few days to buy your water, tofu, and soybean sprouts! ”

Jia smiled, "I don't know how much I earned, and all the money is in the hands of Sister Qiu." "It's kind of avoiding the topic of Lada's.

Li Changjie was not very happy, frowned and said, "What are you doing here?" People earn more

Less, all of them are not short of your feast! ”

Tian Shiheng was stunned, and he didn't dare to choke on Li Changjiao, so he only muttered: "I just asked, and I didn't think about it, look at your urgency!" ”

"The ...... of the Chinese New Year" Jia Shi said with a smile, "What's the big brother angry about?" My sister-in-law also cares about us! ”

It can be regarded as giving Li Changjie and his wife a step down, and the family has a noisy lunch. No, don't say it, Tian's uncle and mother are not very kind, but the cooking rice is still good, boiled river fish, kneading noodles river fish, big meat boiled water tofu, kohlrabi grass pork stuffed dumplings are also good. A bowl of dumplings and a bowl of stewed meatball soup for one person, after eating, the stomach is full, and the mixed body is all warm, and the taste is also good.

Lack of vegetarian vegetables in winter, in addition to cabbage and kohlrabi rarely have fresh vegetables to eat, most of the people are all boiling cabbage with big meat during the New Year, like the previous Mei family, the big cow and the two cows and the plum canal eat meat, and the rest of the people eat cabbage.

Thinking back on the hard days of the past, Sister Qiu took a look at the present, a wooden table dish she and Jia Shi could eat wherever they wanted, and there was a difference in comparison, compared to the past, now it is really as if living in heaven.

After eating, Li Chang's brothers and sisters began to chatter, and when they were about to eat dinner, Li Chang kept them for dinner before leaving, Jia and Li Ailian excused themselves and took the children home.

As soon as the Jia family left, Li Changjiao couldn't help but get angry at the Tian family, "What's the matter with you?" My sister came to the house to eat more, look at you, the nose is not the nose and the eyes are not the eyes! Did they come empty-handed or how? I gave a few things before and after the year, not enough for these two meals? They came empty-handed, so what's wrong with me giving them a meal? ”

Tian also pouted and sat on the kang in the inner room and simmered, "Which family doesn't leave until the evening?" You don't care about everything when you see the sky, be the boss of the hand, your sister is busy with my preparations, and I am busy cooking all morning......

The more Li Changjie listened, the more angry he became, and he simply quarreled, "If you mean that, my sister-in-law should give a gift and leave, and you don't even have to entertain any meals for your gift, right?" ”

When Tian heard the smell of gunpowder from Li Chang's voice, he was also a little frightened, and muttered, "Do I mean that!" It's not that I'm too busy with lunch today, I'm dizzy, and I didn't prepare dinner in the afternoon, so you choked on me. Besides, I don't have to see them send gifts...... At that time, they borrowed our location, borrowed our pots, and stoves, and didn't count the money with them......"

Changguo and Changjia listened to their parents arguing, you push me, I push you, I don't know if you should go forward to persuade you, both of them are clear, it is the old problem of the mother's bitterness again, in the afternoon, I saw that I should eat dinner, but my mother is pretending to be dizzy, and I don't want to cook when I sit there, the two aunts are all smart people, and they left after a while, and they didn't want to stay anymore.

It's all wrong with my mother, not to mention that the two aunts gave such a generous gift, which is very interesting to my own family, even if a poor relative comes, it can't be so rude, let alone my mother

My grandfather's relatives are not like that.

However, there is nothing wrong with the two of them not mentioning the matchmaker, the two discussed for a long time, and the clever Changjia opened the curtain of the door, and said with a smile to Li Changjie and Tian in the back room: "Father, mother, what do you eat at night?" My big brother and I are all hungry! ”

When Li Changji saw his son coming, he coughed, then threw his sleeves out, and the rest of the Tian family sat there sobbing and crying, pulling his son to complain, "Look at your father...... Your two aunts are all golden nobles, and if I can't serve any of them, he will hate to eat me......"

The Chang family sighed, and when Tian was almost crying, he scratched his head and said to Tian: "Mother, hurry up and cook, it's all dark, on such a cold day, if my father eats a hot meal to warm his body, he will definitely not be angry." ”

"Whatever he's angry about!" Tian's mouth was stiff, "There are only his two sisters in his eyes, and there is no one for our mother!" The words were so tough, Tian still got off the kang and went to the small kitchen to cook with his lips pouted.

When Sister Qiu and her group returned home, Zhang Yuxiu couldn't help but open her mouth and said: "Uncle is really real, she clearly drove us away and didn't give us face!" ”

"Forget it, let's cook it better when we go home!" Sister Qiu persuaded, "It's good that the lunch is still good, and I think my aunt will boil cabbage to entertain us!" ”

Zhang Yuxiu burst out laughing, Heng fell, and whispered close to Sister Qiu's ear: "If she entertains us with boiled cabbage, my mother will definitely drag me and my brother away!" ”

"What about you?" Sister Qiu asked.

"Me? I'll go with my mother, and take away the New Year's gift we sent! Zhang Yuxiu said with a smile.

Sister Qiu gave a thumbs up and praised with a smile: "The tiger mother has no dog girl!" is so vulgar, Brother Anzi will not dare to sin you in the future! ”

Zhang Yuxiu no longer made fun of Sister Qiu like before, so her face was red, and she couldn't say anything about her shame, so she immediately pinched Sister Qiu's face and said with a smile: "Who is better than you in terms of vulgarity and spicy?" Don't you dare to sin it! ”

"Yes, yes!" Jia couldn't stand it, and said angrily: "No big or villain!" That's your aunt, it's an elder, she's not working hard today, don't talk about people behind her back! ”

In Jia's eyes, the eldest brother Li Changjie is like the eldest sister Li Ailian, all of whom are people who selflessly help her when she is in danger, she is pure and kind-hearted, and she is always unwilling to think of people in a bad way.

Since the fifth day of the new year, Xiao Xu and An Zi have been frequent visitors to Jia's house, and Yan Yuanwai will occasionally come to pick up Xiao Xu, "by the way" in Li Ailian's stay, and stay at Sister Qiu's house for dinner.

Whenever this time, Jia's will always open a table in the front store, and ask Yan Yuanwai to take Anzi and Xiaoxu to eat in the store, Zhang Ruoxu accompanies her, she is with Li Ailian, and the two girls are eating in the hall, basically not meeting with Yan Yuanwai, Yan Yuanwai has not seen Jia's a few times, and also understands that Jia's is specifically avoiding him, so he will not come anymore, and only ask Anzi to take Xiaoxu home after eating. On the contrary, Jia Shi unconsciously had something, and she was very free during the New Year, so she made clothes and shoes for Sister Qiu, and she was not happy to go at all

Thinking about things outside of Yan Yuan, on the contrary, it is impossible to make Li Ailian angry, and he really hates iron and steel.

Early in the morning of the tenth day of the new year, there was a knock on the door of the store, and when Jia opened the door, Rong Deyi was dressed in bright blue brocade clothes and a calfskin hat, standing by the door with a smile, followed by two guys, carrying a large ham and pastries and cane sugar.

"Sister-in-law, Happy New Year!" Rong Deyi smiled and arched his hand, "Wishing you prosperity!" ”

Jia Shi hurriedly returned the salute politely, "Grandpa Rong has a good New Year!" "Huh!" Rong Deyi hurriedly shook his hand and said with a smile: "How many times have you talked about it all, what is the relationship between the two of us?" I have been friends with Lao Xiucai for decades, you can call me Rong Deyi! Come on, move things in. Rong Deyi beckoned the two guys behind him.

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