Volume 1 Chapter 31 Chinese New Year
Qiao Xi woke up in a state of talking, his whole head was still in a daze, and he listened to the voice as if it was Uncle Hua's, and he didn't know what he was doing so early?
After getting dressed neatly, he came to the hall, and when he saw the people in the hall, he greeted him with a smile on his face, "Uncle Hua, it's so early." ”
"Xiaoxi is up." Hua Zeming said kindly.
"Uncle Hua, do you have something to do on such a cold day?" It's so cold that every family doesn't want to go out, unless they have to go out.
"Hey~~~" After Hua Zeming sighed, he said slowly!
It turned out that Qiao Beishan heard that there was a movement in the vegetable garden at home yesterday, and he was worried that the snow was too thick, crushing the livestock shed, and worried that the pig would be crushed to death, so the husband and wife hurriedly put on their clothes and ran out, and the door of the house was not closed tightly when they left.
When the two heard the child's crying, they just saw a pair of green eyes, and ran away with their one-year-old son in their mouths, which scared the two of them into silly, after reacting, it was a burst of crying, and this matter started like this, Li Zheng immediately shouted the strong man in the village, and chased after him with a torch, people and animals themselves are not comparable, coupled with the familiarity of animals with the mountains and forests, after they chased into the mountains, there was no wolf shadow for a long time, and there were blood stains left in the snow.
When Qiao Beishan and his wife saw that the helpers in the village had returned in vain, they knew that his youngest son would definitely not come back and would be buried in the wolf's belly. And his daughter-in-law couldn't bear the blow directly, and immediately fainted, and it was a rush for a while, so she got Qiao Beishan's daughter-in-law back into the house, and let the barefoot doctor in the village take a look, and the doctor said that it was nothing serious, but she was angry and angry, and she would be fine after a rest.
After the helpers dispersed, Li Zheng explained a few words and went home.
Qiao Siye was the only one in the entire Qiaojia Village who felt extremely lucky, if he hadn't met the Qiao brothers and sisters yesterday and hadn't heard their remarks, he wouldn't have prepared more food, who would have thought, but one night, something like this happened.
When something like this happens, the people in the village are panicked, everyone is in danger, and the people who don't build the courtyard wall are even more worried, for fear that the wolves who can't find anything to eat on the mountain will enter the village again, then they are the first to bear the brunt.
Uncle Hua came to inform them to go to the ancestral hall in the village for a meeting, and there was something to say.
It turned out that the wolf took the child away last night, no wonder the cry was so loud that it could be heard even here with them.
"Big brother, such a difficult task is entrusted to you, and you represent our whole family."
"I'll leave with Uncle Hua, you can get some food yourself."
"Go ahead, slow down on the road, the snow is too deep." If it goes on like this, something will definitely happen. The wolves have all run down the mountain to forage for food, and I am afraid that it will be more dangerous later.
Qiao Song went for a while and came back, the most important thing is to focus on what happened last night, let everyone be sure to close the doors and windows at night, and clean up the snow on the roof of the house during the day, so as not to cause the incident of house oppression, and try not to go out easily at night.
Li Zheng did not open for a few days, there was an accident in the village again, every time the accident was in the dead of night when everyone was sleeping dimly, two thatched houses in the village collapsed, fortunately it was the village, surrounded by houses, the moment of movement, it woke up the surrounding neighbors, and everyone could rescue people in time. The house was destroyed, and the family had no place to go at all, so Li Zheng could only make the decision to let them live in the empty house on the side of the ancestral hall temporarily, as long as the people were okay, everything was fine.
Approaching the end of the year, a series of accidents occurred one after another, and the atmosphere in the village became more and more depressing, which was a little breathless. Qiao Xi's ancient martial arts have gone up to another level, even if he is sitting at home, he still knows what is happening in the village.
The events in the village did not affect their family, and they lived their little life quite nourishingly behind closed doors.
They themselves are not very familiar with the people in the village, and they can't help each other a lot, so they simply don't make trouble, but they don't fall behind when they can help, and there are only two families in Qiaojia Village who are affected, and the place where they live is being provided, and they just took out a little food for the two families, so much that they don't have it.
Even if it was just such a thing, it would be life-saving in the eyes of others, and one of the families would be even more ashamed. The relationship between their family and the Qiao family was okay, but it was because their father and mother went that they broke off contact, and now that they have an accident at home, they are still willing to give food to help, thinking of their previous things, can they not be ashamed. The human heart is made of meat, no matter how bad a person is, can you say that the essence is bad?
In many cases, it is forced by life.
The people in the village also reacted at this time, and rushed to the town one after another, not knowing if they didn't go out, and they were startled when they went out, because the heavy snowfall in the past few days had sealed the road to the outside.
The rice grain shop in the town is also because the grain can not be transported in, the price is rising gradually, the original rice is only eight wen a catty, now it has risen to twelve wen a catty, a whole increase of four wen, compared with the past these four wen can buy half a catty.
Rice, millet, white flour, charcoal, firewood, etc. are all necessary things for winter, so that people who are not rich in the first place will really be hollowed out and miserable.
Now the town is very chaotic, everything is used to rob, how much is grabbed, I don't care about money or not, I only want to live!
Fortunately, Qiao Xi had the foresight before and had already stockpiled food for a month, and in this month's time, they didn't have to worry about food and clothing, even if they were sick, they were not afraid, with her, the former miracle doctor of the Celestial Empire, and there was still a breath of air, they would definitely be able to snatch people from the hands of the king of Hades.
The pace of the New Year is getting closer and closer, but this snow seems to be deliberately unable to get along with people, and there is no sign of stopping.
No matter how cold and difficult it is, many families in the village still go out, and they have to have a New Year's appearance.
Qiao Xi's family was the same, this time they decided to go out together with the three of them.
The chaos in the town has improved considerably, and many shops are still open as usual.
When they went out this time, Qiao Xi and the others bought ingredients and snacks for the New Year, and also bought red paper to paste couplets, and went home directly after buying.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, Qiao Bai wrote a couplet, although the regular practice of writing, written on the sand table and on the paper is different, the word is a word, that is, it is a little unsightly, but this heart is praiseworthy.
Even so, Qiao Song and Qiao Xi still praised him a lot and asked him to continue to work hard.
"Little brother, don't have that pen, ink, paper and inkstone left in the future, let's use it when we need it." Qiao Xi is not stingy with those papers, although they are very expensive, but she can afford them now, so there is no need to save so much.
"I can't write well, it's too wasteful." Qiao Bai shook his head vigorously, his words were still not enough to read.
"It's just that it's not good to practice more on paper, and never write on paper, can your words be strong and powerful?" Words are like people, a person's words can reflect a person's character, if you participate in the imperial examination in the future, you must always give the person who reads the paper a pleasing feeling, which is also a plus.
"...... "Sister, I haven't even enlightened yet, how can I do it."
"Okay, okay, I'll write the rest." Qiao Song stood up and became a peacemaker.
Pick up the pen and paper, brush the brush brush a pair of couplets written, and a few blessing characters.
"Little brother, come, go and paste couplets and blessing words with the eldest brother, don't pay attention to your sister's words, you are still young."
"Little sister, don't you plan to make a delicious treat for us?"
"Do it, do it."
Qiao's family is full of joy.
I originally thought that the snow would continue to fall, but I didn't think about it, but on Chinese New Year's Eve, the snow stopped, and the haze of the past few days was also swept away on this day.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, every household smoked and the air was filled with the aroma of food, and every family was lively.
On this day, Qiao Xi didn't stop much, she was busy in the kitchen, and Qiao Song and Qiao Bai would also follow to help in and out.
The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is the most sumptuous meal of the year, but it is also the first year after the three of them lost their father, regardless of the previous sadness, their hearts are hot at this moment.
Although the continuous snowfall has changed the flavor of the year, but overall it is still good, God is still open, and the snow stopped on this day. Other families don't know, just Qiao's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is a whole table, these days to make some money, except for the courtyard wall, there is still a lot of left, Qiao Xi tried to buy this meal more luxurious, chicken, duck, fish, all put on the table.
Such a large table full of dishes, except for two vegetables, is all meat dishes, and the meat is fragrant, and the three of them are very satisfied.
After setting off a firecracker in the yard, they quickly came to the dining table, said Happy New Year to each other, and moved their index fingers.
After the sound of firecrackers in their house sounded, the sound of firecrackers in the village also came one after another, and in general, the entire Qiaojia Village was okay this year.
Chinese New Year's Eve has the saying that there is a year of observance, so after eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, after the three of them cleaned up together, they sat in the hall, while snorting melon seeds, while waiting for the middle of the night to come, after midnight, everyone can go back to their rooms to sleep, but not everyone can persevere, adults have no problem, children definitely can't do it, time passes little by little, Qiao Song and Qiao Xi are still insisting, Qiao Bai can no longer hold on, his head began to shake, he has long been sleepy.
"Big brother, you take the little brother to sleep, I'm not sleepy." Every year during the Chinese New Year, it is also the day when she misses the Celestial Empire family the most, and I wonder if they are healthy and happy.
But she is worried that her family will see that although this family is poor, she has never treated her harshly, she is still like a princess who has been spoiled and raised like in the Celestial Empire.