Chapter 59: Chinese New Year
"Peel it clean and wash it white." Tian Runsheng continued to look sad, but his tone was much softer.
"Okay, some more fruit puree, it will definitely be more delicious." Hao Hao held his cheeks, and there were many ways to make shrimp in his mind, including steaming, oil stewing, spicy, sweet, matcha, etc., but he pretended not to understand the meaning of Tian Runsheng's words.
"Okay, let's have a child, when she is born, I will help you take her, and when she is older, I will take her to dig birds' eggs, fish, be a big horse for her, take her to the provincial capital, and take the train." Tian Runsheng is looking forward to and rejoicing about the children of the two, and with the child, his life will be more complete.
"Okay, as long as you're in charge of the living, I think I'll be happy to do it." Hao Hao suddenly thought of the dialogue between Bai Qian and Yehua in the peach blossoms of the three lives and three worlds, and he used to think it was funny, but now he looks at it, it is warm and joyful.
"I'll help you." Tian Runsheng is full of confidence in the coming days, and he wants to work hard tonight to let Hao Hao conceive a child as soon as possible.
After Hao Hao heard this, he just smiled.
An hour later, the two stopped their car in a village.
However, there were more children at this point, and they saw jeeps parked in the village, swarming over, looking at them with longing and curiosity.
"Did you put candy on it?" Hao Hao looked back and asked.
"No, do you have one?" Tian Runsheng is not too familiar with children, since he left here at the age of five and comes back once or twice a year, he is not familiar with them. However, the kindness in his bones made his heart soft.
"I have." Hao Hao smiled and took out a lot of candy, all of which she made herself, so just now she just wanted to see how Tian Runsheng coped with the emergency.
"You're so naughty, let's get out of the car, I'll go home to worship my ancestors, and then we'll go to the cemetery." Tian Runsheng took Hao Hao's hand and got out of the car, and the two handed out the candy to the children, watching them carefully put the candy into their arms, and then circled around the car.
"You see this is my house, I haven't lived in it for many years, although the yard is better, but the house is not very good, and we can't stay for long." Tian Runsheng took Hao Hao's hand on a stone step, turned another corner, and finally saw the whole picture of the courtyard clearly.
A ten-year-old jujube tree stands on the east side of the yard, and there are a few dried jujubes hanging on the jujube tree.
There are several nests at the top of the jujube tree, but there are no more birds for a long time.
"The yard is very large, but it is a little monotonous, there is only one jujube tree. But it's clean, is anyone cleaning? Hao Hao let go of Tian Runsheng's hand, walked a few steps quickly, and turned back and forth on the empty ground many times.
When she looked back, she saw Tian Runsheng looking doting, and she was very embarrassed to see it.
"Runsheng open the door and go inside to have a look." Hao Hao said as he ran to his lover, how lucky and happy he was to meet him in this time and space.
"I'll hold you." As Tian Runsheng spoke, he picked up Hao Hao, and Hao Hao was so frightened that he used his legs to clamp Tian Runsheng's sturdy waist without preparation.
"You're inviting me to do something bad?" Tian Runsheng leaned back, pulled Hao Hao up, and then whispered in her ear.
"You've got something in your head, so don't open the door and go in. Look at the kids in the back. Hao Hao patted his head, struggled hard, and finally found a chance to go down, who knew that she felt an indescribable thing, Hao Hao blushed and immediately didn't dare to move.
"Okay, let me calm down for a while, you are in my way, I'll open the door." Tian Runsheng's voice was a little hoarse, and Hao Hao vaguely saw the green tendons on his neck bulging, looking very uncomfortable.
"Go up a little more, I'm going to fall." Hao Hao secretly kissed Tian Runsheng's neck, looked at him with goosebumps, and then looked at the curious child behind him with great satisfaction, and threw a lot of candy casually.
"Let's all go back, we're going home."
"Ahhh
The two finally entered the courtyard, and Hao Hao jumped down.
Tian Runsheng gasped a few more times, and then walked to a cave in front of him. Hao Hao started a new round of inspections.
The yard is about three or four acres in size, half of which is used as a vegetable garden, and half is reserved for ordinary use. It's just that it's been abandoned over the years, and there are too few things in the yard.
Scattered firewood, scattered trees, one-man tall weeds. It's a shame to waste it.
Tian Runsheng sacrificed to his ancestors, took out the tribute, and after the sacrifice, he went out of the courtyard.
Hao Hao didn't ask much, followed him out of the yard, got in the car and went to the ancestral grave of Tian Runsheng's family.
On the way, he occasionally met one or two old men who were picking up dung, and Tian Runsheng just looked at them in confusion.
Then drive forward to the sound of their chatter.
"It's a pity that Runsheng's yard is so barren, can you use it for me in the future?" Hao Hao leaned on Tian Runsheng's shoulder, looking at the mountains in the distance, withered yellow mixed with a little dark green, although it was the middle of winter, it was still lovely.
"I'm all yours, let alone a yard." Tian Runsheng smiled with his eyebrows, raised his eyebrows lightly, and moved his mouth slightly, what he could say made people blush.
"Your face is so thick." Hao Hao glanced at him, didn't he say that people in the eighties were very reserved and conservative, so Tian Runsheng in front of him was a fake?
"Shao Ming said that this is close to Zhu Zhechi." Tian Runsheng said proudly.
"It's as small as the hair, the skin is as thick, by the way, the year is coming to an end, what about the cows you bought me?" Hao Hao's backhand was pinched, and Tian Runsheng bared his teeth and begged for mercy in pain.
"Come on, you see we're getting off." Tian Runsheng parked the car and pecked Hao Hao's ruddy lips lightly.
"Be serious." Hao Hao stretched out his hand and pushed it, and then the two of them carried their things to the ancestral tomb.
The ancestral graves of rural Chinese people are generally in their own fields, or in the middle of the fields, where the ancestors of the last few generations of their families are buried, and Tian Runsheng's family is no exception.
The two of them were dressed in black and carried things in their hands.
After walking a few paths and passing through a ploughed field, we reached the grave. The mound was overgrown with artemisia grass, but it had long since dried up.
"It's windy today, don't burn paper." Hao Hao's hair was blown all over the sky by the wind, and she was afraid that if she didn't ignite the dead grass behind her, she would be in trouble.
"Listen to you." Tian Runsheng felt that what Hao Hao said made sense, Hao Hao took the yellow paper, found a mouse hole and stuffed it in, and Tian Runsheng pulled out a piece of land, sprinkled some of the tribute casually, and put the rest back.
Then he knelt down in front of the grave, slammed his head three times, and then folded his hands together and said silently in his heart.
Seeing this, Hao Hao also knelt next to Tian Runsheng and prayed sincerely.
Thirty ancestors worshipped, tossed back and forth for three hours, and when they went home, it was already past one o'clock in the afternoon.
"You posted the Spring Festival so early, now you have nothing to do, help me cook the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and I will go to the village with my father to give it to a few people who are familiar with each other, and also send some to those lonely and widowed old people." Hao Hao took a sip of water and looked back at Tian Runsheng, who was lying down and resting.
"Okay, what do you want to say?" As soon as Tian Runsheng heard that he could go up to the village to walk around, he sat up suddenly, staring at Hao Hao with fiery eyes.
"I'm going to fry the fish, you chop some fish on the side, knead it into balls, and then a pot will be cooked, I'll mix the ingredients, and you and your father will send it." There are also people in the village who have poor living conditions, especially those who are lonely and widowed. Hao Hao had already made a lot of fish as he spoke, and the first two were not enough at all.
Tian Runsheng has always known how kind Hao Hao is in his heart. When I met an injured bird, I was reluctant to leave it to fend for myself, and when I saw the little ants, I didn't want to step on it, but chose to take a detour, and even more, I was very concerned about the uncle who swept the street.
In Hao Hao's village, there are actually a lot of rich people, but there are few like Hao Hao.
It's not that people are hard-hearted, but everyone's opinions and actions are different.
"Okay, I'll help you." Tian Runsheng jumped off the kang, happily carried the fish to deal with it, and before leaving, he turned around and said to Hao Hao.
"Try to have a baby tonight."
"The beauty of thought." Hao Hao replied angrily, causing Tian Runsheng to go out with a smile.
On the fly, I naturally needed more things.
Fortunately, she is used to doing work, and she can handle it as much as she wants.
Since he has been favored by God, he naturally wants to give one or two back.
The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner has several more dishes, grilled lamb chops, steak, stewed pork bones, braised fish, steamed pork, stewed duck, called flower chicken, modern Xinjiang famous pulled strips, Hui special snacks, steamed dumplings.
By the time this was done, it was already dark.
The sunset in the west spreads out like a blanket. A cold wind with a strong smell of sulfur filled the entire village.
Xu Laohan and Tian Runsheng entered the courtyard with empty plates, talking and laughing.
"What's so happy?" Hao Hao had a hard time to spare, standing on the steps, enjoying the sunset on the horizon, and the black clouds hanging in the sky, although not festive but lovely.
"Everyone praises Uncle for having a good daughter-in-law, and the food he cooks spoils the children in the village." Tian Runsheng glanced at Old Man Xu with a smile in the corner of his eyes, and smiled and relayed a number of words of praise into condensed golden sentences to Hao Haoting.
"You also helped out, didn't praise you?" Hao Hao was very useful, and then teased.
"Praise, Uncle Kua's good eye." Tian Runsheng is worthy of looking at his eyes, and he does not forget Xu Laohan when he laughs.
"No one sets off the firecrackers, you hurry up and help put a bunch of them, and I'll serve the dishes." Hao Hao was not soft at all when he evoked Tian Runsheng, and her partner was always on call.
"Okay." Tian Runsheng took the empty plate and slipped into the old man's house.
It didn't take long for him to have a string of red firecrackers in his hand, after all, he was a child, and when he picked up the firecrackers, excitement and excitement surged into his heart.
Hao Hao took the first course, braised fish, out of the house, and went straight to the main house next door.
"Crackling"
Just as she was leaving, Rao was already prepared, or was scared.
The fish in his hand almost flew out of his hand.
When the fish was served again, she helplessly scolded herself in her heart for a while.
"Dad, set the table." Carrying the fish into the house, Hao looked at Xu Laohan who was still smoking dry cigarettes, but his face was ruddy, because of his smile, the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes were densely covered on both sides.
"Okay." Xu Laohan knocked the head of the dry smoke pot on the kang a few times.
After a few clicks, he set up a large table.
Because the family had to keep watch until twelve o'clock, the table was to be the largest.
Sun Laohan was holding Tian Tian in his arms, and Tian Tian had already changed into a festive red cotton jacket, and the whole person was like the fat doll holding a carp in the house.
Sun Laohan has no children and no daughters, and when people get old, they inevitably like children. Although he hurt his leg, he still smiled happily.
When the first course was served, the sound of firecrackers in the courtyard gradually died down.
Hao Hao smiled and walked out of the house and met Tian Runsheng with duck meat.
"So fast." When Hao Hao leaned sideways, he stood on tiptoe and kissed again.
"I'm hungry." Tian Runsheng's excited face turned red, he used to either follow his second father or sister during the New Year, but with Hao Hao this year, he followed Hao Hao wholeheartedly for the New Year.
It's also the best place for a bachelor.