Chapter 33: The New Year

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel annoyed. So why move in in in a hurry? There wasn't even a decent wardrobe in the house. The clothes of the brothers and sisters were brought back by the elder brother who cut wood and made a shelf to put on it!

Thinking of this, she felt a pang of chagrin in her heart.

No, after the New Year, you must find Grandpa Niu to help your family make a few wardrobes, as well as tables, chairs and benches.

In fact, it is not to blame that she is in a hurry to move into a new home, but the original old house is no longer able to shelter from the wind and rain. Moving into a new home became the only exit.

At dinner time, after worshipping the ancestors. After feeding all the livestock, you can have dinner.

This year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the three brothers and sisters, in the past few years, have had the best year. There were chickens, ducks and fish on the table, although the taste was not satisfactory. But I can barely eat it. That fish, Jiang Yu'er said, it was auspicious, and every year there was more than that, Jiang Amao agreed to go down to the river to catch it.

After eating, it is to keep the New Year. After the New Year's Eve is over, the firecrackers are set off, and you can go to sleep. In this era, there is no such thing as a gala, and every family eats and sleeps after keeping vigil. The next day, some superstitious people have to go to the temple early to grab the first stick of incense. There are also people who rush to be the first to carry water.

The first day of the whole Zhangzhuang Village kicked off in such a noisy and noisy manner.

Jiang Yu'er also woke up in such a noisy sound and the barking of dogs. Looking at the ice bars still hanging on the branches of the trees outside, she actually had the illusion that she didn't know where she was born.

"Sister! Sister! Sister! It's almost up. It's time to get up! "The plan of the day lies in the morning, and the plan of the year lies in the spring. For the people, they have to get up early in the morning. Don't be lazy. No, Jiang Ziming, who is usually greedy for lazy sleep, has gotten up, where is her Jiang Yu'er lazy?

The three brothers and sisters had breakfast and were about to go out to pay New Year's greetings. This New Year's greeting is also the custom of the people in the village, and the children are not at home for almost a day, and they wander outside all day long. Say hello to people, if the conditions are better, there are also those who give one or two copper plates. If the conditions are not good, there are still a handful of melon seeds and peanuts.

Although the three brothers and sisters of Jiang Yuer's family have become independent masters, they are still children. Jiang Amao took his younger brothers and sisters all the way from the entrance of the village to the end of the village. Jiang Yuer's small pocket was full of melon seeds and peanuts. When she meets someone younger than herself on the road and says hello to herself, she will also hand them the things in her hand.

Greeting the New Year, the three brothers and sisters returned home. After a while, someone came to the house. They are all children in the village, Jiang Yuer is not stingy, she took a dustpan with a lot of melon seeds and peanuts, and took out the small red envelopes that she had made with red paper one by one. Two or three copper plates were also placed in each red envelope.

During the Chinese New Year, everyone wants to be auspicious. What's more, when the children come to the house to pay New Year's greetings, they will 'Wishing you prosperity' as soon as they open their mouths. According to the memory of his previous life, won't the next sentence become 'take the red envelope'?

The children who came to pay New Year's greetings were full of melon seeds and peanuts in their pockets. I also took a beautiful little red envelope, and I put two coins in it!

Seeing others happy, Jiang Yu'er was also happy in her heart. Is this a gift of roses, and there is a lingering fragrance in your hands? It is said that happiness needs to be shared, and she also feels the happiness they bring her, doesn't she?

It is said that the second and third days of junior high school go back to their parents' house to pay New Year's greetings. Because of the loss of his mother, the Jiang family seems to be almost broken off from his grandmother's house, and there are not so many relatives to leave. On my father's side, there are only the second uncle's family and my father and brothers, and there are no other three aunts and eight uncles. After breakfast, the plug came. Today, my mother was going to take their brother and sister to my grandmother's house. It's just that I've been there a few times, and the relatives at my grandmother's house think they are poor and suffer a lot of cold eyes.

Now, the children don't want to go to their grandmother's house. Today, the second aunt Luo only brought Yaya a child over. The rest, all stay at home.

The children in the village are solid and idle. No, after shouting and drinking, several children nestled together and played again.

It is said that the crops are looking forward to the New Year, and it is good to farm after the New Year. No, just in the third year of the junior high school, you can actually see signs of people moving around in the fields.

Jiang Yu'er thought about it, and after the third year of junior high school, she and her brother had to transport the ashes of the family's plants and trees to the ground first. Then go to the latrine on the other side of the pipe, get some manure and soak the plant ash, otherwise when planting in the middle of the summer, there is really no agricultural fertilizer available.

Jiang Amao is also a diligent person, and when it is time to go to school, he also wants to help his sister do more at home. Even if his abilities are limited. No, catch up with the old ox and carry the plough down to the field.

Jiang Yu'er is not idle, and the six sheep in the family also have to herd the sheep to the mountains. took his younger brother and drove the sheep out of the door.

Her family's field has not been planted for many years, and although it has been turned over years ago, there are still many weeds in it. She had to clean up the grass roots, but the crops hadn't grown yet, and the thatch was taller than the crops. In this era, there were no herbicides, and she had to rely on her hands to get rid of these weeds.

The Jiang family didn't have much land, so Jiang Amao spent a day almost turning over the family's land again. Seeing the pitiful field, Jiang Yu'er thought about where to buy some more fields and come back.

If you can't grow it by yourself, you will hire long-term and short-term workers. In short, in this era of relying on the sky for food, food is the most powerful reliance.

Looking up at the West Mountain, many places have been deserted. She had inspected the soil, it was not fertile, and it was no wonder that no one would come to buy this barren slope to dig a hole.

However, sweet potatoes, potatoes, buckwheat and other crops, they do not require much fertile land, this barren slope can just grow some of these undemanding crops. Moreover, didn't the old people talk about it for a long time? The land is more and more fertile, and if it is not cultivated or tended, no matter how fertile the land is, it can become a barren slope.

At dinner in the evening, Jiang Yuer took a bite of rice and said to her brother: "Brother! Let's buy the barren slope of the West Mountain! ”

Jiang Amao seemed to have something extraordinary: "Niuniu, what did you buy that piece of land for?" Aren't we all planting gastrodia in the back mountains? ”

Jiang Yu'er smiled mysteriously and said, "Brother! I've seen it, there isn't much land in our village, but there are more barren slopes and barren mountains. Although they are not suitable for growing rice, they can also grow buckwheat, sweet potatoes and the like. Moreover, the land is more fertile and more fertile as it is planted, and it is not more and more unproductive. ”

"But! But in our family, I went to school with Ziming, and you were alone at home, why did you buy that barren slope? Hearing his sister say this, he was also very excited, but compared to going to school, he chose the latter.