Saying that Ziqing's family came to the bazaar, the lively crowd quickly swept away the unhappiness in everyone's hearts, Zeng Ruixiang hugged Zixi, Zixi's saliva could always rub on his face, making everyone laugh, Zixi saw everyone laughing, rubbing more happily.

Shen bought some dried mushrooms and dried bamboo shoots, Ziqing saw a lamb seller, thought about it, but still didn't buy it, first, it is not easy to raise in winter and there is no grass cutting, and second, the mountain at home has not been bought, it is not good to stock, and it has to be guarded by a special person, so it is really impossible to free up manpower.

Seeing that there were more meat sellers, Zeng Ruixiang said to buy a piece of pork and go back to make bacon, Ziqing felt that bacon was not as delicious as ham, and hurriedly said: "Dad, mother, I want to eat ham, and the ham smells fragrant." ”

Shen smiled when he heard this, and said, "You can eat it, ham is a lot of trouble, and our family will only make it for your second uncle." ”

"Mother, then buy more meat, make some bacon and ham, I still ate ham at my uncle's house." Zifu said.

Shen sighed when he heard it, and finally bought the equivalent of a quarter of a pig, a whole fan of good pork belly, a whole pig retreated, and it cost eight hundred Wen, Shen looked at the two large baskets of pork, and said with a smile: "It's really like a dream, at this time last year, I was worried about the children's lack of food and warm clothes, where did I think that after a year's hard work, we will live in such a spacious new house, and buy as much meat as we want." No more loss to the child. ”

Ziqing still didn't find sweet potatoes, but found a few peach trees and orange trees, and bought them all home, but Shen found someone from her mother's village in the bazaar, and just sent a letter to her second brother.

However, after a large purchase, everyone was happy and forgot the unhappiness they had just encountered in the old house. Especially Zishou, who ran behind Zeng Ruixiang, looked at the basket of pork and shouted that there was meat to eat. provoked Ziqing to laugh non-stop.

As soon as the weather was good, Ziqing went to see if the green garlic in the vegetable field was drawn, Shen saw that she always ran to the vegetable field, asked the reason, and after listening to it, he touched Ziqing's head and smiled: "Silly child, the green garlic can only be smoked when it is old, and it has just grown up now, and it usually takes a year to draw it." ”

It seems that the garlic sprouts can't be sold, Ziqing asked how long it will take for the rape strips to come out, and Ziqing breathed a sigh of relief when she learned that it would take half a month, and there was finally one to catch up.

Since then, Ziqing has been at home every day to do housework, student words, bookkeeping, learning to make purses, tired to call Zishou and himself to catch vegetables and insects to feed the chickens, this year Shen tasted the sweetness of raising chickens, this home chicken woman hugged the nest of Shen to hatch the chicks, Shen said that you can hatch as much as you want, than buying chickens. Zeng Ruixiang was busy writing couplets, and Shen laughed at him for his diligence as if he was rushing for the exam. He said that he would earn back the six taels of silver. The silver given to Xia Yu had been sent the next day, and Shen said that it would be sent early to reassure Tian.

Since the fifteenth day of the lunar month, Master Xu and Master Li have not come, Master Xu still has a lot of things to do, said that when he comes again on the sixteenth day of the first month, Zeng Ruixiang prepaid him one hundred taels of silver, and settled the wages, Master Li's account was also settled, Ziqing settled the account, the family was less than fifty taels of silver, and it should be Master Xu's fifty taels of silver.

Zifu and Zilu and Ziqing started the business of selling couplets from the fifteenth day of the lunar month, Zifu proposed that the big market be sold in the town, and the rest of the days would go to the city.

Although this year's couplet is not the only one, but in the end it is a familiar face, and there are many repeat customers. And this time the red paper was bought from the city, and the cost was reduced, and the three of them went to change the red paper when they had more copper plates, and when they had something to do, life passed quickly and fully, and life was full of hope.

Zhou's shopkeeper is the twentieth month of the month to pull the gelding chicken and green garlic parsley, I heard Zhou's shopkeeper said to send it to the capital quickly, and the price given is also appropriate, green garlic five wen a catty, parsley four wen a catty. The Shen family kept some of his own food, and let the shopkeeper Zhou take the rest away. The gelding grows quite big, basically about five catties, eighteen wen a catty,

The Shen family left five, and originally planned to keep ten, but depending on the situation at home, five is enough to eat.

After settling the accounts, the gelding chicken was sold for four taels of silver, and the vegetables were less than six taels of silver. Shen still sent fifty eggs to the shopkeeper Zhou, and sent a few bundles of extremely tender rape strips to take back to taste.

After the shopkeeper Zhou left, Ziqing saw that the rape strips in the field could be pinched out, and discussed with Zifu, selling couplets and selling rape strips at the same time, but it was only sold for five days and it couldn't be pinched, it was still easier to sell. Ziqing saw a business opportunity from this, and estimated that it might be more popular to go out to sell rape sticks a few days after the year.

This year's Chinese New Year's Eve is the twenty-nineth, and on the twenty-eighth day, the whole family entered the city, Zifu took Zilu and Ziqing to sell the last batch of couplets, and Zeng Ruixiang said that he would take the Shen family around. Shen first went to sell two screen embroideries and got eight taels of silver. Zeng Ruixiang didn't allow her to rush to work anymore, it took too much effort, so if she wanted to do it, she would embroider her own screen and embroider it slowly.

Ziqing wanted to go to the street to see if there was anything worth buying, but unfortunately the money at home was still relatively tight, and she was still too young, and Zifu was not worried that she would act alone.

The Shen family's New Year's gift was brought over last time when Shen Jianshui came to make ham, and the Zeng family was left, and the Shen family had already bought two pieces of fabric and various snacks to send over. So this time, the Shen family bought some melon seeds and candies for the New Year's Eve and all kinds of dried fruit snacks, and when Ziqing finished selling the couplet, the family went home, because there were too many people in the city, Zeng Ruixiang said that he had many and small children, and he was afraid that he would get lost.

Because it was the first time to celebrate the New Year in a new house, when he returned home, Zeng Ruixiang directly invited everyone in the old house to come over for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, which is called warm house in the local custom.

Ziqing and Zifu they didn't even pack up the New Year's goods when they entered the house, so they couldn't wait to start counting the silver, the silver was good, just ten taels, the copper plate was more troublesome, and the number had to be strung together, this year's income was higher than last year, deducting the initial investment of 800 Wen to buy paper, the net income was thirteen taels and 0 points, Ziqing's rape strips were also sold for eight or nine hundred Wen, but they all bought New Year's goods. Now the family's inventory is almost seventy taels, and Shen Shi breathed a sigh of relief when she heard it, and it is estimated that she was also pressed by the fifty taels of silver.

Ziqing regretted that the three acres of rape land did not meet the expected income. I haven't pulled out much yet, and I can't sell it if I want to, so I can only hope for the new year.

I had dinner early in the evening, Shen prepared a pot of flour, a pot of glutinous rice flour, and said that he wanted to make some snacks by himself, Zeng Ruixiang put his hands down, the flour said that it was to make twist flowers, glutinous rice flour fried orchid roots and fried fruits, Zifu burned the fire, Shen brought out a large dustpan of fried peanuts, Zilu and Ziqing were responsible for peeling peanuts, this one should be made of peanut candy, and sesame candy, Zishou took Zixi to play, a good rich and peaceful farmhouse.