In the Chinese New Year's Eve, after lunch, Huang Delei and Huang Deyi began to write couplets. The couplet of the gate was written by Huang Delei, and the small couplet of the stove house, livestock shed, and chicken nest and sheepfold was written by Huang Deyi.

Huang Sanniang was busy rolling dough and preparing dumplings in the stove room, and Huang Tao was chopping vegetables and chopping meat and stuffing. Only Huang Dou, wearing a thick dress, followed Huang Laosan into the mountain.

In winter, the mountain breeze passes through the forest, and it is unusually deserted. The chickens, ducks, geese, sheep and calves of the mountains all drove back to the barn in the backyard.

There is nothing to do during the New Year, and after lunch, most people find a place where the leeward can bask in the sun. Huang Laosan didn't have this hobby, he was not interested after a few glances, and he wanted to go into the mountains to have a look.

Hearing Huang Laosan say in the yard that he would go to the mountains to have a look, Huang Dou immediately put down the paste he had just washed and ran out: "Dad, I'll go too." ”

"Don't go, it's cold and cold in the mountains. Dad just went to see it, and he was in a hurry to do nothing at home. Huang Laosan saw that Huang Dou was going, and hurriedly stopped him.

"It's okay, I'll put another scarf around it." In this way, Huang Dou, who was wearing a big scarf, panted and followed Huang Laosan into the mountain.

In the mountains, some of the trees have lost their leaves, leaving only bare branches. There are also some evergreen trees that are still standing proudly in the cold wind with snow on their heads.

Huang Laosan is an idle person, during the New Year, Huang Sanniang put away his carpentry tools, knives and axes, and he couldn't take them out until the fifteenth day of the New Year.

He had nothing to chop wood, so he gathered the dead branches that fell on the ground, and after a while he gathered them in a pile, ready to go back and bring them back, and there was also an extra handful of firewood in the stove.

Passing by a fence, some places were already crumbling, Huang Laosan also held the stake and pressed it down, reminding himself in his heart that he would remember to repair it after the New Year.

As the soybeans walked, they deliberately stepped on the yellow fallen leaves with their feet. She stepped on a bulging thing and slipped under her feet, she screamed in fright, and scratched her hands in mid-air for a long time before she could barely hold her body steady and not fall.

Looking back, it turned out to be a wild walnut under his feet. When the soybeans saw it, they became interested and began to use branches to pluck the fallen leaves and look for them carefully.

"Doudou, are you alright?" Huang Laosan heard Huang Dou screaming, and hurriedly stood up straight and looked over.

"Dad, I'm fine, I stepped on a wild walnut just now, and I almost slipped it."

Huang Laosan heard Huang Dou say that it was okay, and put his mind at ease: "Oh, walk slowly, the ground is slippery, be careful of falling." As he spoke, he lowered his head and leaned against the railings that were already starting to skew.

The Huang family deliberately knocked on a guardrail near the edge of the village, in order to prevent people from entering the mountain casually. The guardrail knocked on the mountainside, and at the foot of the mountain, there were branches and miscellaneous trees, and it was okay for the people in the surrounding villages to cut them down and use them, or to pick them up and burn the fire.

Those in the mountains cannot let anyone in. , Huang Laohan has led his children and grandchildren to plant a wild walnut tree in it, and the pine trees are also connected. When these autumns arrive, it's an income.

Those who are greedy will sneak up the mountain, and most people will not do this. After all, the mountains of Nanshan are very long, and there are many small slopes, so if you want to make a little money, you can go to those ownerless mountains.

Zhao Dashan tidied up the vegetable garden behind the house, and he carefully dug up the frozen soil and smashed it, so that his mother and sister could only grow vegetables in the winter and not dig the soil.

He saw Huang Dou follow Huang Laosan to the back mountain, and he also wanted to throw down the shovel and go over to take a look, but Huang Laosan was there, so he thought about it and forgot it, but the speed of digging the ground accelerated.

Zhao Dachuan also took a hoe to help, and when his brother dug the ground, he smashed the hard clods. Aunt Zhao and Zhao Xiaoyu were preparing dumplings in the house and kept them for the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Here in Nanshan Town, the custom of the New Year is to make dumplings on the 30th night, eat dumplings on the first day of the New Year, and the dumplings are also called bend (Wanwan) Shun, which means that everything goes smoothly all year round.

There are many rules on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and on this day, you can't spill anything at home, including a glass of water, for fear of spilling out the year's fortune. You can't eat raw, noon is the steamed dry rice of the Chinese New Year's Eve. There are also dishes, which are also made in the Chinese New Year's Eve, and they are hot at noon.

At night, most of them are soup and rice, and you can do it casually after the second year of junior high school, and you don't mind if it's cooked.

Zhao Dashan quickly finished digging the small vegetable garden behind the house, saw that the soybeans had not yet gone down the mountain, held the shovel in his hand, and instructed Zhao Dachuan: "You knock it and enter the house, it's cold outside, and you freeze your hands carefully." ”

Zhao Dachuan loved to fish and touch shrimp when he was a child, and then his father died, and when he went to fish in winter, he got frostbite on his hands, and he got chilblains in winter, and he couldn't be cured.

"It's okay, brother, my mother has shown you my daughter-in-law." Zhao Dachuan came over embarrassedly: "It's the peach blossom that set up a stall on the dock in the town." ”

Hearing the word peach blossom, Zhao Dashan was stunned, this name seemed a little familiar. frowned: "You tell your mother, give someone back, don't delay other people's good girls." ”

"What's wrong?" It just so happened that Aunt Zhao walked to the back of the house to pinch the green onions, and heard Zhao Dashan's words.

"Mother, I'll tell you the truth, I want to marry Huang Sanshu's soybeans, and after the New Year, when Leizi's family affairs are decided, you go and ask for me."

Zhao Dashan felt that it was better to make it clear to his mother, and he couldn't hide it anymore, otherwise maybe his mother would pick a daughter-in-law and pick a dazzle, and she would give him a casual order.

Zhao Dachuan opened his mouth wide and looked at his eldest brother Zhao Dashan, soybeans, the yellow beans that haven't been as big as the light rain?

"Don't talk nonsense, Dashan. Doudou is still young, you are twenty-two years old. Aunt Zhao was also very surprised, she liked soybeans, but she never thought of telling soybeans to her eldest son to be a daughter-in-law.

In the past, she also thought about the age of soybeans and Dachuan was quite suitable, and later saw that the Huang family was developing so well, so she stopped thinking and treated soybeans as a girl wholeheartedly.

"Mother, I've thought about it, I can wait for soybeans for a few years, if you are in a hurry to hold your grandson, let Dachuan get married first." Zhao Dachuan is already eighteen, and he will be nineteen after the New Year, if it weren't for Zhao Dashan blocking him, he would have been able to get married.

"Brother, I'm not in a hurry." Zhao Dachuan's face turned red.

"It's none of your business." Aunt Zhao saw her youngest son's blushing and thick neck, and slapped him angrily: "Your brother is not in a hurry, you are in a hurry, don't worry about Xiaohuangdou, she estimates that she will marry Qian Duoduo of the Qian family after the Spring Festival." ”

Although Aunt Zhao is widowed, she is also a good person, and the Qian family can't hide it from the Huang family, and most of the people in the village know about it within two days. Aunt Zhao was happy for the soybeans after hearing this, and felt that it was really good to marry into the Qian family, and the soybeans were also good people with good rewards.

Who would have thought that his own bastard old cow still wanted to eat tender grass, the Huang family would not let go of the money even if they were blind, they wanted their own son like a rough man.

Aunt Zhao looked at her eldest son, then at her younger son, and couldn't help but sigh from her heart. The eldest son is too tall and burly, although his face is like his father, and his eyebrows and eyes are handsome, but he is more angular, and he looks like a tough guy at first glance.

If the eldest son is like the younger son, a little more handsome, fairer, and a little polite, at least he can fight with Qian Duoduo in appearance.

"Mother, who did you listen to?" Zhao Dashan's heart was set off by Aunt Zhao's words.

"It's that day when the precious daughter-in-law was married, didn't the Qian family come to give gifts, Qian Duoduo and his sister Qian Manman came. It was the chief steward of his family who deliberately prefaced Mr. Huang, meaning that the Huang family had no problem, and they would marry in the spring. If the Huang family is reluctant to Doudou, it is okay to wait for two years. ”

Speaking of this, Aunt Zhao glanced at her son's frowning brows again: "The Qian family's words are really heavy, his family is not rich, Qian Duoduo will be eighteen next year according to reason, and he can get married......"

Before Mrs. Zhao finished speaking, Zhao Dashan inserted the shovel in his hand into the frozen soil, jumped over the bamboo fence and walked to the back mountain. At first, I still walked, and then I ran straight away, and the faster I ran. In the blink of an eye, the person was like a gust of wind, swept into the woods in the back mountain.

"Mother, my brother ......" Zhao Dachuan swallowed and foamed, thinking that his brother might be a little crazy.

"Hey." Aunt Zhao looked at the figure of her eldest son running away, and sighed heavily, she really likes Doudou very much, if she can be her daughter-in-law, it would be a great thing.

But what are the conditions of his own family, what are the conditions of the Huang family, and what are the conditions of the Qian family. Thinking of the eldest son's expression just now, Aunt Zhao couldn't help but feel heavy in her heart, poor mountain, if your father doesn't go early......

"Mother, my eldest brother seems to be serious." Zhao Dachuan touched his chin, looked at Hou Shan, who could no longer see Zhao Dashan's figure, and said seriously.

"Of course I know that your eldest brother is serious, your eldest brother has grown up since he was a child, as long as he wants to do something, he will not do it badly. But this time, he probably hit his head and bleed! Thinking of her eldest son, Aunt Zhao felt uncomfortable.

God, if you are fair, let my son be happy once, how much he has suffered since he was a child, if the marriage is not satisfactory, then in this life, what else can he be comfortable with.

"Mother, don't worry, I think maybe Doudou likes my eldest brother's, that Qian Duoduo looks like a weak chicken, Doudou may not like it."

"Phew." Aunt Zhao snorted her youngest son: "You are blind to your mother, every time that Qian Duoduo comes back from Xiangyang Mansion, who is not a big girl in Nanshan Town." His family is rich and rich, and he has a lot of money and looks good, and he also has eyes to see. ”

"Mother, you are calling yourself to destroy your own prestige and grow the ambition of others." Zhao Dachuan muttered unconvinced.

"You have prestige, you have prestige, why don't you marry Chunya, it's not that the kid from the Zhang family has preempted it."

When Zhao Dashan went to sea and didn't come back, Aunt Zhao saw a daughter-in-law for her youngest son, who was the spring sprout in the village.

Chunya is a girl from the Wang family in Huangjiawan, and the two families were originally a good match. Zhao Dachuan is good-looking again, Wang Chunya saw that Zhao Dachuan was also full of stars, and Aunt Zhao thought that this was a sure thing.

As a result, Wang Chunya, who was still affectionate to Zhao Dachuan the day before, decided on another one in Nanshan Town the next day. This child is still Zhang Xiaohu's own family, and he is really thin and small, and he can't compare with Zhao Dachuan, who is slender and handsome.

However, the family is stronger than the Zhao family, with more than a dozen acres of paddy fields and a fishing boat. Hearing that Wang Chunya was married, Aunt Zhao was so angry that she ate more than usual a bowl of rice. Zhao Dachuan exhaled deeply, he liked Huang Xiaoyu, not Wang Chunya, but he didn't dare to reveal this matter casually.

If the eldest brother can marry Huang Dou, then it should be no problem for him to marry Huang Xiaoyu, Zhao Dachuan couldn't help but fantasize stupidly.