Zuo Ran Jiaqiao hummed with a delicate face, and asked carefully who was in their family, what their preferences were, and so on. "Liang family, let's prepare two bottles of original brew, two cigarettes, two boxes of green tea, two milk, two boxes of ejiao and some candies and pastries, how about it?" When she bought things and put them in the box, she also filled in several kinds of good-tasting and high-end tobacco, wine and tea.

Du Xuze looked at the unfamiliar packaging and raised his eyebrows: "Is it new this year?" I haven't seen it. ”

Zuo Ranjia shook her head with a smile and explained to him: "Today I went shopping for New Year's goods with Aunt Wang and them, and when I came back, I went into the friendship store to see if I could pick out some gifts that I could handle." Unexpectedly, the salesman had a batch of seized imported goods, and before he had time to register, he quietly sold us at the market price without tickets.

That's all for a hundred! ”

Du Xuze did not doubt that the state would often seize private imports and exports at airports and ports, and most of these were distributed to various friendship stores for sale, and a small part was distributed to high-ranking leaders as benefits.

"My daughter-in-law is Fuxing," he kissed her on the cheek rarely, and the loud voice made Zuo Ranjia pat him on the shoulder in shame.

"Brother Xu Ze, the children are here, you, you can't wait, wait for the evening?" She said in a lower and lower voice.

Du Xuze put his arm around her and buried his head in her shoulder, smiling: "It turns out that my daughter-in-law is also looking forward to it, okay, my lord will save up until the evening to hurt you well." ”

Zuo Ranjia was speechless, she couldn't say anything about him, she could only hum twice, "The Lu family and the Duan family should also come according to this standard, it's not good to favor one over the other." Anyway, there are many people in their family, and all kinds of gifts have their own support. ”

"Okay, I'll get some more firecrackers and fireworks," Du Xuze said approvingly.

Zuo Ranjia suddenly patted his head, pushed him away and walked towards the bedroom, "You wait for me." ”

Du Xuze followed behind her curiously, watching Zuo Ranjia flip through the couplets and red paper he bought today.

The red paper has long been replaced by her with the paper produced by the soft red plane mall, and the window grilles cut out of such paper only need to be wiped with a moist cloth on the clean glass, and they can be very tightly attached to the window or furniture, without affecting their original beauty at all.

Zuo Ranjia spread out the red paper, found scissors and sat at the desk, and cut the red paper into squares of different sizes with a click in the warm winter sun. She picked out twelve large, medium and small ones, held the slightly sharp scissors, and after a little contemplation, her slender and flexible hands moved.

Du Xuze sat beside her with a stool in surprise, and secretly sighed What else would his daughter-in-law not do? He is going to be compared to a woman, and it seems that he has to work harder to become a man who can't be compared to anyone. He really likes to enjoy his daughter-in-law's adoring gaze.

In the past, she liked to cut paper very much, and watched the bright red paper gradually turn into exquisite and beautiful window flowers in her rough hands, and the depression in her heart found an outlet and crowded out. Even if she later became a cook and had the direction of her own life, she never put this craft on hold, and studied the art of paper-cutting on the Internet whenever she had time. She also likes to combine paper-cutting and clothing-making, and cut out the clothes she designed and paste them in the book, but rarely make ready-to-wear clothes.

Once, a waitress girl saw her notebook and suggested that she use it to make proofs, so that people can make metal bookmarks and other artworks and hang them on the Internet, which must be popular.

She just smiled, she couldn't spend so much money by herself, so why should she be stupid and take on another job?

However, this reminds her that art has always been very sought after by Chinese people, and she doesn't know if the window grilles she cuts, or the artwork made based on them, can be sold on Taobao software.

Touching the familiar red paper again, many emotions surged in her heart, and in an instant, only the calm breathing sound and warm warmth of the man next to her faded away. She hooked the corners of her lips, and the movement of her hands did not stop, but in three minutes, a goldfish wrapped around the willow and hugged the window flower was cut.

"Hey," Du Xuze carefully took it and looked at it, and sighed these three words for a long time, he had seen a lot of window flowers, the store was decent, and his colleagues queued up for a few days to get it from the old man who inherited the craft, although there was some spirituality, but it was not amazing, and it was just so much, every year.

Zuo Ranjia's cut is fine, most of the fish scales are hollowed out, and the flourishing willow leaves are layered and hung on the branches that are not thick, lifelike. The word Fu in the line has some casual and free and easy, which adds to the fun.

He had just finished studying here, and the square circles were overlapped, connected by the staggered horizontal elements of the Hundred Treasure Pavilion, and the simple and atmospheric Fu characters had been cut, and this was completely hollowed out, only connected by two or three centimeters of paper. He only stared, and he didn't dare to touch his hands, for fear of tearing it off and causing his daughter-in-law to cry.

The diameter of the red paper is 50 centimeters, but Zuo Ranjia cut it very quickly, there are round window flowers such as congratulating the New Year, more than every year, seeking auspiciousness in the harvest year, and precious flowers and auspicious birds, and there are also diamond-shaped blessings written with Chinese knots as elements, and there are directly cut into hundreds of flowers and inserted in the luxurious bottles engraved with the word Fu, lantern-shaped Fu, with a good meaning of the couplet horizontal batch of Fu, fan-shaped fish Fu with a pendant and an apple-shaped auspicious cloud surrounding the dragon Fu!

After cutting thirty-six sheets, she only spent two hours, rubbing her sore neck, looking at a table of beautiful window flowers, and looking at Du Xuze with a great sense of accomplishment: "How?" Wouldn't it be more face-saving to add this to the Boxing Festival? ”

"It's not just more face, daughter-in-law, are you putting gold on me," Du Xuze stood up and rubbed her shoulders and loosened her arms and fingers, and said distressedly: "Tired, right?" ”

"It's a bit tiring, but it's not in the way," she bent her eyebrows, "I like paper-cutting, and I'm glad to be able to give these to my friends and family." ”

"You can cut it, but don't tire yourself like this, or don't cry when you get old and hurt all over your body," he clasped her smooth forehead with his hand angrily.

"I know, I'm in a hurry this year," she squinted and enjoyed the meeting, seeing that the time was not early, she took out a stack of letter paper and carefully sandwiched the window flowers on the table one by one, and handed it to Du Xuze. There were three small stacks of 12 window grilles each, four of which were the same, and the remaining four larger ones needed to be folded into the letterhead.

Du Xuze took it carefully, held it with both hands and followed her back to the cubicle.

The two of them took out the gifts for the Liang family and the Lu family, put them into a large cardboard box, stacked them neatly, and put them into a set of window grilles.

Du Xuze carried the box to the back seat of the bicycle, tied it with hemp rope, and then picked 16 firecrackers and some fireworks on the tricycle and put them into a fertilizer bag, and put them on the basket and slightly fixed them with ropes.

He pushed the car out of the courtyard gate, patted the seat of the car, waved at Zuo Ranjia, and whispered in a voice that the two of them could hear: "Wait for the master to come back at night and spoil you!" He looked at Zuo Ranjia's little face and instantly turned red, stepped into the car with a sullen smile, and kicked out suddenly.

Zuo Ranjia closed the door heavily, and walked into the room angrily, holding the scissors, the corners of his mouth still did not suppress the upward movement, and there was a faint arc of happiness between his eyebrows and eyes.

She continued to cut the red paper, and the gifts of Liang Luduan's three families should be sincere, and she deliberately cut the window flowers with more complex and good meanings. Aunt Wang, Aunt Pan, and Dong Lijia, she prepared a pair of complex and two pairs of simple and generous window flowers.

In addition to Du Xuze's three homes in Liangluduan, several old leaders took good care of him and wanted to go, they were all big people who could talk to the military and political circles, Zuo Ranjia naturally did not dare to despise it, and each prepared two pairs of window flowers and three window flowers with a unique style of 50 cm and a good meaning.

Three rooms, just send three pairs of ordinary ones. And she also used her own family and Liu's family to tailor with heart, and they were all greatly more exquisite. She thought that there were many Liu families, so she deliberately added a few pairs of medium-sized ones, so that a few of her aunts' concubines could also bring one back to their parents' house, after all, she heard her aunt say that those aunts brought things from their parents' house, and they were not stingy with the three babies in the family.

As for Du Jinxi's family, she sighed lightly and prepared a pair of window flowers, hoping that she could divorce as soon as possible and get out of the painful and desperate status quo.

Zuo Ranjia got up every half an hour to stretch her neck, shoulders and waist and hips, and then continued to work, and when it was time for dinner, she used up all the red paper she bought, and just completed all the tasks.

Du Xuze should have been left for dinner by those two families, and they simply ate and stayed in Zuo Ranjia's bedroom. They like to surround her, watch her busy for this home, for as long as they can remember, almost never feel the warmth of home, occasionally come home late through the half-hidden courtyard door of others, see the orange light around the table and sit around the table with smiling faces of the people, the heart is uncomfortable, can only hide in the bed secretly wipe tears.

They didn't feel the love of their father and mother, so they subconsciously pinned their feelings on their brother and sister-in-law.

Finally, they don't have to be frightened under the oppression of the third room, the days of being well fed and clothed are too happy, which seems extremely unreal, making them very afraid that this new sister-in-law is made of fairies, maybe they don't look at it and turn around, and people will turn into a light and fly to the sky.

So they like to stick to her at night, and even if they look at her, they smash their mouths in satisfaction.

Zuo Ranjia took out four boxes of yogurt, handed one to Du Xuze and Du Xuyuan, then inserted the straw into Du Jinqi's little hand, drank two sips of his own, squinted slightly and tasted the fragrant milk, exchanged another wave of red paper with better texture in the mall, and continued to cut with scissors.

She had cut too many window grilles, and for a while she had mental problems so severe that she was suicidal, so she bought a lot of red paper, locked herself in the room, and kept cutting it, and slowly forgot all the unhappiness in reality. After she had cut all the patterns she knew, she stumbled one pattern at a timer, and again and again to break through herself, so to speak, even now, she could quickly complete a complex window flower with her eyes closed.