The next day is the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, Zilu wants to take Zishou, Zixi and Ziyu to Anzhou City to sell couplets, the three of them said to earn some pocket money to play mahjong, with Ziyu here, it will definitely be able to sell faster. Zifu was going to Liu's house to give a New Year's gift, Zeng Ruixiang accompanied Shen to buy New Year's goods, Kang Ping rushed to the car, pulled Ziqing out together, and carefully put a fox fur scarf on Ziqing.

After Lin Kangping saw everyone off, he left the carriage at the grocery store of the shopkeeper of Zhou. Accompanied by Shen's they buy New Year's goods, Ziqing has not come out to shop for a long time, this time with Lin Kangping's company, like the wind, along the way, I want to touch some novel small things when I see them, wood carving, bamboo weaving, and some white jade small animals with average color and good carving, but I didn't want to buy it, mainly to see a lively, the ancient street market is no less lively than the modern one, because there are few ancient cities, and the goods are more concentrated, so basically the entire Anzhou capital city and nearby villages are crowded here, Naturally, Lin Kangping has been carefully protecting Ziqing, originally he wanted to hold Ziqing's hand habitually, but Ziqing looked for someone who didn't hold hands all over the street, so he threw it away.

"You're still a child, people will only think I'm your brother, I'm afraid that you will be squeezed away by others before leading you, maybe you have to praise me for being a brother's sister, you think too much, what if you really break up?" Lin Kang asked narrowly.

"Aren't you right next to you? It's fine to follow a little closer, huh, what kind of stone is that? Ziqing found seven or eight small stones, which were used to engrave seals, Ziqing wanted to buy them back for Zishou, but who knew that the other party asked for one or two pieces of silver.

Ziqing was naturally too expensive, so she pulled Lin Kangping to squat in front of a few stones, and looked at the red stones over and over again in her hands. Bright as clouds, Ziqing likes it very much. The other party was an older old man and said, "Little girl, look at this stone, it is not an ordinary stone, its color is red." Like chicken blood. It was from the local residents when I traveled from Zhejiang in the early years, and the local residents called it chicken blood red, which is the best thing to use to engrave seals, and you must know that Jiangsu and Zhejiang have produced talents since ancient times. The local literati Yashiduo used this to engrave the seal. If it weren't for the hardships of my family now, I wouldn't have exchanged it for a few silver coins. ”

Ziqing heard the red blood, and her heart suddenly moved. I have seen it on the TV program of Jianbao, but it is really a good thing, and I remember that a piece of the best seems to be able to sell for hundreds of thousands or even millions. Someone took a house and exchanged it for a piece. However, Ziqing felt that he could not have such good luck, he went to the provincial capital to meet the jade, and went shopping in Anzhou City, and he could come across bloodstone, Ziqing took the stone and looked at it, and the Shen family saw that they were much behind in front of him, and he was urging them.

"Little girl. Don't worry, buy it, this thing is not easy to find here. If I hadn't waited for the money to give the old woman a doctor and medicine, I wouldn't have said anything. Seeing that the wrinkles on his face seemed to be full of sadness, Ziqing's heart moved, and he bought those stones with a tentative attitude, and gave the other party ten taels of silver.

The old man hurriedly said, "It's too much, it's too much, I don't have any loose silver to look for you." ”

"Husband, no need, hurry home and grab medicine for the old woman, don't delay the New Year, I wish you good health in the new year." After Ziqing finished speaking, she pulled Lin Kangping and left.

"Poor couples mourn everything, this old woman is lucky, at least this old man is willing to give up his beloved things for her." Ziqing sighed.

"That's because in my husband's heart, nothing is as important as the old woman, the old woman is the treasure of the old man's heart, how can a few stones be compared?" Lin Kangping stood still, looked into Ziqing's eyes and said.

Ziqing lowered her head when he saw it, and suddenly heard Shen's shouting in front, her face turned red, and she hurriedly ran over.

"What are you doing all the time? Why don't you hurry over and pick up something. Shen looked at Lin Kangping and Ziqing and asked, the relationship between these two children is too good, and she is also anxious, Ziqing is still young, she doesn't want her daughter to go the wrong way. But Lin Kangping is a fatherless and motherless, so he can't open his mouth to let him go back, and besides, the two children are finally able to meet, and they have just experienced something like that, Lin Kangping's performance is very satisfactory to her, and she can't bear to break them up, Qing'er is still young, I'm afraid I don't understand these things, so I have to watch it more closely.

Ziqing was just about to speak, Lin Kangping took the things in Shen's hand and spoke first, "Mother, Qing'er is difficult to come out, I want her to buy something she likes, so I watched it for a while." ”

"You are less accustomed to her, she dares to spend money, dozens of taels of silver are spent without blinking, your little silver should be kept for business, what do you want to buy, take a few strings of money from me." Shen said with a smile.

"Look at what my mother said, I can't even afford to support my own daughter-in-law?"

"Daughter-in-law? You don't even have a son, where is the daughter-in-law? Shen asked with a skeptical expression.

"Mother, I said it wrong, I forgot that this place is different, in our northern side, my wife is called a daughter-in-law, and my son's wife should be called a daughter-in-law."

"Scared me, this isn't bad, what a mess." Shen muttered, forgetting what had just happened.

After dinner, Ziqing took out the stone, Zishou was really happy to see it, and he didn't even play mahjong anymore, so he took it aside and pondered it himself. Ziqing said with a smile: "Engrave a seal for Daddy first, Daddy will pick first, one of you will each of you, and I will keep the rest for myself, you can pick first." The stone seller said what kind of bloodstone this is, and the literati in Zhejiang love to use it to engrave seals, and it cost me ten taels of silver. If it weren't for the fact that people were in a hurry to use the money, he wouldn't have sold it. I think I will definitely be able to increase the value in the future, so keep it. Count me as your New Year's gift. ”

"What? You kid, you spent ten taels of silver to buy these little stones? It's not as good as the twenty taels of silver last time, but I bought a few big stones, how big is this? Kangping, too, you can't leave everything to her. Shen complained a few words.

Zeng Ruixiang glanced at Shen and said with a smile: "You are far worse than Qing'er, she knows more than you." ”

After Zeng Ruixiang finished speaking, he took a stone in his hand, and carefully illuminated it under the lamp for a long time, the color was bright red, and the pictures and texts in the stone were like fog in the clouds, entwined, and he was not happy, and put it back, compared it for a long time, and saw that several sons were looking at him with a blank eye, so he picked a piece of the brightest color, and told Zishou to carve it well, not to waste it, and after a while, he took the stone back, looked at it carefully for a long time, and said: "Qing'er, this stone is only afraid that there is really any origin, it is a good object." Little San, first of all, they are coming, they are not in a hurry for their father, and they haven't thought about what to carve yet. ”

"Dad, aren't you just afraid that the little third hand will trample the stone? Just say no, and make excuses. Which of you will come first? Ziqing said with a smile.

Zeng Ruixiang coughed twice, glared at Ziqing and said: "What do you know, this good material also has to find a famous carving to complement each other, and it will also be a good story in the future. ”

After hearing this, everyone hurriedly picked out their favorite stones and put them away, and Ziyu asked Shen to put them away. Zishou waited for a long time, but no one sent it to the door, and said: "No one carves it, I'll carve my own first." If you ask me to engrave it in the future, I won't engrave it. ”

Ziqing still had three pieces left in her hand, picked the most inferior one, handed it over, and said, "It's still my sister, okay?" Take this practice, first give Kang Ping's carving, he always runs outside, and he can use it. ”

Zifu said: "Qing'er, the eldest brother said that you should go out often if you are fine, maybe you can pick up some good things." This shit luck is too good, big brother will accompany you next time. Shen was sitting next to him and took the soles of his shoes, so he knocked his head with his hand.

In the past few days, the old man and the Tian family came over every day to eat and have fun, and the days would soon reach the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the Tian family saw that Lin Kangping stayed in the Zeng family for the New Year, and was a little reluctant, but after all, this was not her own home, and she muttered a few words. It hasn't been long since Da Mao's incident, Zeng Ruixiang and Shen are still holding their breath in their hearts, and Tian doesn't dare to be ruthless, plus Lin Kangping pulled a cart of New Year's gifts, not to mention anything else, this wealthy Da Mao can't catch up even if he takes off his shoes.

When the men in the family came back from worship, Zifu took everyone to paste couplets and hang lanterns, Lin Kangping was very interested, saying that as soon as he cleaned up, he would have the taste of the New Year. Ziqing helped her mother make some Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Because there is Lin Kangping this year, Shen's Chinese New Year's Eve meal is made particularly carefully and extraordinarily rich, Lin Kangping helped to send the abalone sea cucumber well, let Shen put it in the chicken soup and slowly steam, one person, sea cucumber cut let stir-fry with chives, dried cuttlefish shredded pork, dried chili fried shredded squid, there are four more seafood dishes on the table, others are similar to previous years, in addition to chicken soup, there is also a white chopped chicken, poured the white chopped chicken Shui Ziqing poured into the chicken soup, because most of the original chicken soup is used to steam abalone.

The old man ate very happily, saying that he had never seen or heard of it, but now he also ate it, borrowing the light of his grandson-in-law. Tian also smiled and said: "In the past, I felt very content to drink only a bowl of meatloaf soup, but today I can be regarded as drinking a really good soup." It's not by the light of his grandson-in-law. ”

The old man was full of food and drink, and he had to play a few laps before leaving, because it was the New Year, no big or small, rushing to the table, no one let anyone, and finally the old man spoke, except for him, the other three people drew lots. As soon as Ziqing counted the number of people, there were exactly eight people, so she took out the pair of Nanmu mahjong that she had made this year, Zixi jumped up happily, hugged Ziqing and said, "Sister, you are so good, I like you so much." ”

So, two tables of mahjong were opened in the hall, all around were lights, bright as day, Tian and Shen watched a lively, Shen took out some oranges specially left for everyone to relieve their tiredness, but also to relieve hangover. Tian also had a smile on his face when he saw it, and said: "It's really unprecedentedly lively, and the old man is also unprecedentedly happy." ”

It didn't make trouble until eleven o'clock, and the old man left, and he had to go home to seal the fortune door. Lin Kangping said: "There are still fireworks brought from the capital that have not been set off, grandpa and grandma will leave after watching the fireworks." After speaking, he moved a few cardboard boxes from the warehouse, Zixi shouted that he wanted to light the fire himself, and Lin Kangping relied on him.

Under the bright fireworks, Ziqing saw that the family was looking up at the beautiful fireworks, with a happy smile on their faces, at this moment, Ziqing's heart was full of contradictory thoughts and gratitude, missing her relatives in her previous life, grateful for the peace and tranquility of the family together in this life, and the happiness of loving each other, not to mention the lover who guarded her by her side. (To be continued)