On Chinese New Year's Eve, Shen got up early in the morning to steam, boil, fry and stew, and was very busy, Zifu took Zilu and Ziqing to do the hygiene of the house again, and then erected the stairs, pasted the couplets of the outer courtyard gate and the small courtyard door and the main house, and hung a pair of red lanterns on the courtyard door, which looked particularly festive.

"Brother, how's it going? It's good-looking, why doesn't anyone praise me? Ziqing looked at Zifu with resentment.

Zifu couldn't help laughing, touched Ziqing's head and rubbed it again, and said, "Oh, whose sister is so smart and capable?" ”

"yes, I also want to ask whose sister this is? Not only is he smart, but he is also beautiful. Zilu also made up a sentence.

Ziqing was about to step forward to pinch them, but the old man came with the people from the old house, so he had to stand in a proper manner, and Zilu was squeezing his eyebrows at Ziqing on the side. A few people stood outside the gate and looked at it, and said, "Hanging a lantern is really more youthful and more joyful, why didn't anyone think of it before?" ”

Zeng Ruiqing and Zeng Ruixiang also nodded yes.

The old man still took the man to worship his ancestors, Zhou went straight to the stove room as soon as he entered the door this time, helping Shen take care of food, Qiuyu because she was going to get married next year, Tian asked her to learn to do some housework, so she has been watching the stove room, learning, and the two sisters-in-law also taught her wholeheartedly.

After returning from the ancestral sacrifice, the old man, his two sons, and the Tian family drank tea in the hall and discussed some housework. In the old year, because of the matter of the succession, the two sons were stiff, but I didn't expect to be able to sit together for a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner this year, and the old man's mood was not ordinarily good.

In the stove room, Shen just took out a carp and handed it to Zhou, Zhou took the plate and smelled it, he was nauseous, and quickly put down the fish plate and retched, Qiu Yu and Ziping saw it and shouted in panic, but Shen smiled happily, and the stone in his heart finally fell to the ground. Ziping was not happy to see it. Asked: "Auntie, why are you uncomfortable when you see my mother, but you are still happy?" ”

Shen was about to explain, Zeng Ruiqing and they came in, and they were busy asking what was going on? When they heard Zhou's retching, Zeng Ruiqing and Tian both asked excitedly: "Really?" Ziping and her mother, do you really have it? ”

"I don't know, but I can't help but feel sick when I smell the fish. It's a pity that it's the New Year today. It's not good to ask for a doctor. Zhou replied weakly.

"That's not far from ten. It's a bodhisattva blessing. "Finished. Tian also clasped his hands together and kept reciting several times in his mouth, "Thank you Bodhisattva, thank you to the Bodhisattva Guanyin who is compassionate and compassionate." Then he asked Zifu to find three sticks of incense and light them, kowtowed three times to the long table in the hall very reverently, and put the incense into the incense burner.

This way. Zeng Ruiqing hurriedly helped Zhou's Shangziqing to lie on the bed, serving tea and pouring water, and greeted him warmly. He was so happy that he didn't know what to do, and Zhou's tears were also wet and dry, dry and wet. Only Ziping was still standing stupidly in the stove room. Qiu Yu teased her: "Ziping, your mother is finally going to give you a little brother, why are you unhappy?" ”

"What's there to be happy about, you see that my aunt has so many children, Zifu and they couldn't eat enough when they were young. I'm still wearing tattered, and Ziqing has picked up all my old clothes. After I have a little brother, I can't wear new clothes. Ziping said as she kept holding the rape stalk with her hand.

"Silly boy, if you have a little brother, you will have something to rely on in the future, so you must cherish him and love him, you know?" Shen stroked Ziping's head and said.

"What to rely on? My aunt is not also my father's sister-in-law, and my father doesn't look down on her and dislikes her. What if my brother does the same to me in the future? Ziping was still pulling at what was in her hand.

This problem is too complicated, and it is really unclear in a few words, and Shen really doesn't know how to explain it to the child.

At this time, Ziqing stepped forward: "Sister Ping, why don't you want to think about the eldest lady treating her leg injury in the city, isn't it your uncle who went to the city to send you rice, noodles, vegetables and vegetables?" And our family, just started to separate, not only rice and noodles to eat, but also the work in the field is also done with the help of my uncles, grandpa and grandma, if it weren't for my father and your father taking those silver taels a year, would my aunt's family be able to eat and live at my grandma's house for so long? How is it not relied upon? The latter words Ziqing said only when she saw Qiu Yu leave.

Ziping still didn't figure it out for a while, but fortunately, at this time, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was set, everyone sat on the chairs in turn, and the old man raised his wine glass and said, "Today is really a great joy, although my old man does not have much alcohol, I must also drink two glasses to my heart's content." Ruiqing, you are not allowed to drink too much, and your daughter-in-law can't take care of you if you drink too much. Zeng Ruiqing happily agreed.

The family ate lively, Shen took a mouthful of fish and put it in his mouth, and suddenly felt disgusted, drank a mouthful of soup, but still didn't press it down, but retched, this old man Zeng was even happier, "I didn't expect the old Zeng family to have happy events this year, good wow, good good, good." The old man said three good things in a row, which shows that he is really happy.

Who knew that Tian's partiality was not happy to find it, and said: "What is good?" Those who don't want to give birth are partial, and those who want to be born can't always get pregnant. ”

Qiu Yu muttered, "Who doesn't want to give birth?" My second sister-in-law is not what it used to be, but now she has silver, a big house, and even a mountain has been bought, and she is afraid that she will not be able to afford it? Besides, doesn't my sister-in-law have it now? What else are you not satisfied with? ”

Tian glared at his youngest daughter and said: "What do you know, just talk nonsense, what I'm talking about is that your eldest sister has it again, so many children in the family can't afford to raise it, and there are those who don't want to give birth, your second sister-in-law now has a lot of people in the family, she has four sons, and she has so many children, and the family is messing around all day long, what's the good?" Now that you marry a daughter-in-law, you know how much silver you have to pay, and Zifu will have to rush to the exam in the future, is it possible to go empty-handed? Your second sister has been married for almost a year now, and she can't get pregnant after taking so much medicine, isn't it because she wants to give birth and can't get pregnant? ”

Ziqing saw that Tian was still worried about his two daughters, and said to Tian with a deliberate smile: "Grandma, my family is not chaotic at all, my eldest brother's silver for the exam has already been prepared, not only my eldest brother, my second brother will also go to the county seat to study in a year, and in the future, the younger brothers will also go out to study one by one, and my mother and I will be left at home, it is too lonely, my mother wants to give birth to a younger sister to accompany us." ”

"That's it, the second family is doing well now, don't worry about your wife, all my grandchildren will have a future in the future." The old man chimed in.

Tian glared at Ziqing and said, "When adults talk, what do children say?" There is no tutor at all. Look at you, look at your brother, why are you a little childlike? ”

At this time, Zhou said slowly: "What is the strength of my mother and a child? How old is Ziqing? Isn't my mother just worried that the second sister's family has no children? Then let the children of the eldest brother-in-law's family give the second brother-in-law one, in the old year, didn't the eldest brother-in-law say that he would give us four cents? Now it's just for the second sister's family, otherwise, it's the same to wait for a five-cent birth. ”

Ziqing listened to the whispering, it seems that the six taels of silver were not given in vain, the Zhou family actually broke the siege for the first time, and today's dinner seems to be not peaceful again, Ziqing made up her mind not to be cannon fodder anymore, and wait to see the excitement. (To be continued)