After dinner, Zifu suddenly asked Shen, "Mother, are there pine oil branches at home?" ”

"Oh no, I forgot about it. If you're confused, go to your third uncle's house to ask for it, and tell your third uncle that there will be guests at home tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow you will go to find the osmanthus tree. ”

Zifu and Zilu went out, and Ziqing didn't dare to ask them what they wanted the pine oil branch for, for fear of revealing the stuffing. After a while, they came back with a basket of pine branches, and Ziqing realized that the so-called pine oil branches were the kind with a large piece of dark pine oil on the pine branches.

As soon as it was dark, Zifu lit a pine oil branch with flint and steel, and then surrounded the outer wall of his new house with Zilu, almost two meters to put a pine branch, the pine branches were almost a foot long, all of them were lit, a circle of bright flames burned, Ziqing had a little trembling, this in case the house was going to burn, ahh

No wonder Ziqing went out and saw that the corners of some houses were always dark, and it was very regular every other time when it was dark, and the people here had no money to make lanterns, so they lit the fire and played by themselves, Shen said, the fire at night at thirty nights, and the lights at night fifteen nights should be lit.

"Mother, this is not a lamp, it's a fire?" Ziqing asked.

"It's so bright, why isn't it a lamp? You think it's the kind of lantern in the city? Not all the people in the countryside are like this, you go out and have a look, it's bright outside. Shen said.

It was bright enough, Zifu took Ziqing, Zilu, and Zishou out to walk around the village, and found that the corners of the houses were lit with lights. Ziqing asked, "Big brother, why don't you make lanterns?" Isn't it just a matter of tying a shape with a thin bamboo strip, pasting it with paper, and lighting a candle? ”

Zifu touched Ziqing's head and said, "Qing'er is talking about the kind of lanterns in the city, which is very lively." We don't have it here in the countryside, and next year, the eldest brother will definitely put a lantern on Qing'er. Zifu promised.

Ziqing thought that she could tie a red lantern and sell it next year, and the red lantern was hung at the door, how festive.

When I got home, the fire was still burning, and several people were around the fire, and I didn't know what time it was, Zeng Ruixiang said to Zifu: "Put the firecrackers." ”

In the open space of the hall, Zifu prepared a small hanging firecracker, Zeng Ruixiang prepared a wooden basin to stand next to him, and when Zifu was a little, he covered the wooden basin, saying that this is called a stuffy cannon, exorcism, Ziqing felt fun, in the hall stuffy but also to the east and west wings and gatehouse, Ziqing followed all the way, if there is a not stuffy, not loud, not only to be heavy, Zeng Ruixiang also to the four corners of the house, chanting what "I'm sorry, I don't know which way the gods collided, the year is over, send the gods home, Gotta find your way back ... "Wait. Ziqing didn't dare to laugh this time, but she was injured internally.

Today is really funny, Ziqing secretly enjoyed herself for a long time, thinking that if she went to worship her ancestors, there might be something funny. "Ah, no, ancestors, the little girl is abrupt, you shouldn't make fun of the ancestors." Ziqing chattered by herself, for fear that the ancestors would blame. Suddenly, she laughed again, and only when she saw a room of suspicious eyes did she become embarrassed.

What Ziqing didn't know was that she was laughing in her dreams, which made Zifu feel a little panicked.

The next day, not long after breakfast, the He family led a group of people to come, and Shen Jianren's family was also there, Shen Jianren still had some knowledge, and saw at a glance that the furniture in the hall was not bad, and said with a smile: "The little sister is now more generous than the little brother, and I actually use such good furniture, and after a year's hard work, I should be impressed." ”

Everyone visited the house, some people came for the first time, all surprised, the highest votes were the stove room and the clean room, Shen explained that there are still a lot of furniture to be done, originally the carpenter should enter the door today, change tomorrow. Even Xiao said that he would go back and rebuild the house.

Dinner was eaten early, the He family stayed for a few days, Shen Jianren's family went to the Xiao family, and the little sister-in-law Xiao wanted to go back to accompany the old aunt, as if she heard that the Xiao family was going to move away, but she didn't listen to it. Everyone else went back, He and Ziqing lived in the West House, Zifu took his two younger brothers to live in the East Wing North House, which was the bed used by the Shen family before, and it was repainted, and the South House was a house where carpenters worked. Shen specially boiled hot water for He to take a bath, and the mother and daughter talked carefully for a long time.

Then Shen began to make some ideas for Zifu to go out to bring things, clothes, books, shoes and socks, Shen also specially bought a sheepskin for her husband and eldest son to make two pairs of boots, the corner made a pair for Zilu, Ziqing's is the pair that Ziqing strongly asked Shen to buy after making money. The camphor wood box that was played a year ago was full of a box, and when he left, Shen was very reluctant, holding his eldest son's hand and not letting go, Zifu also leaned on Shen's body, leaving his mother for the first time, leaving his own home, he was always reluctant, and he was not even eleven years old.

When Zifu left, he patted Zilu on the shoulder and said, "Big brother is gone, you must take care of your younger brothers and sisters, don't delay on the way home from school, go home early and help your mother do more things." Zilu's eyes were red, and he would only bow his head and agree.

Sending Zifu away, Zilu is also going to private school, Ziqing made a schoolbag, practiced, originally wanted to make a backpack, or the technology is not up to par, come to a simpler, using the coarsest cloth woven by himself in the bazaar.

"Second brother, how is it? Do you like it? It took me a day to get it done. ”

"I like it, as long as it's Qing'er, I like it." Zilu has always talked little, but Ziqing saw it, and he was going to the school with his schoolbag on his back, Zilu's mood was still very excited, and he turned around several times in front of Ziqing and Zishou before going out of the door, and ran back after going out of the gate and said: "Qing'er, what strength do you have to do when I come back from school." After saying that, he ran away again.

Ziqing began to be busy raising watermelon seedlings, the cucumber seedlings last time have grown two small leaves, this time there is Master Xu at home, Master Li will also come in a few days, Ziqing does not want to be discovered, found a few jars, soaked seeds in the wooden house, took straw to keep warm at night, secretly dried for two days, fortunately was not found, this time can not be buried in the small yard, can only be buried in the old vegetable field, there is now an open space, outsiders generally do not go over, it is not easy to be discovered. Ziqing waited for Zilu to come back from school and secretly picked up a few bundles of straw to cover them, and came together in the morning to uncover them.

The rape strips in the yard are almost the same, and they were sold for eight or nine taels of silver, Ziqing asked her mother if she could smoke them again? The key is that Ziqing doesn't know how long it will take for rape to turn into fertilizer when it is turned into the ground, and the old man has not come over much recently because He is here.

Ziqing was worried about who to ask, Zeng Ruiyu came, and he said that it had been almost ten days. looked at the rape in the field and said that he could pinch a few batches. Zeng Ruiyu came this time because the rape and wheat in the field were about to be fertilized, and it took six or seven days to finish.

The chicken manure that Ziqing had saved was poured into the empty vegetable field, and the blood water from washing chickens, fish, and meat during the New Year was all poured into the fertilizer. After another seven or eight days, Ziqing saw that the rape strips couldn't pinch anything more, so she asked her third uncle to turn over the rape field, and the open space over there was also leveled, and gave her third uncle ten days of work, and the third uncle took three strings of money and left happily, which made Ziqing's heart a little sour. It seems that you still have to have land and brains, and it's really worth it to buy this wasteland, everyone thinks it's too sandy, not fat, Ziqing is just right to grow watermelons and potatoes. Fifteen taels of silver has multiplied more than tenfold in a year.