"Well, Liu Shou, you can help me put this knife in the warehouse on the second floor, and by the way, put three sticks of incense on those ghosts in the warehouse" The master handed me the long-handled machete in his hand and instructed me.

"I know, Master," I nodded, answered Master, and then took the long-handled machete in Master's hand and walked to the second floor.

When I opened the door of the warehouse on the second floor, a gust of wind blew through it, and I couldn't help but shiver at the jar where the ghosts were sealed.

I first placed the machete in my hand on the side of the wall and placed it, then I took out two bundles of incense from the shelf and lit them, and I did as Master said, and inserted the incense in my hand in front of the jars that sealed the ghosts.

"Thank you, young man," the sealed ghosts thanked me politely.

"Young man, if you can let me out, I thank you for your eight ancestors," said the ghost in a wine jar on the right side of a row of shelves behind me.

"If I release you, my master can scold my eight-generation ancestors, you better stay here, and when the resentment on your body is gone, my master will naturally let you out" I said this to the wine jar and walked outside.

"Okay, Master, let's go over and eat dumplings!" I walked down from the second floor and said to my master.

"You can't eat dumplings without wine during the New Year," Master said to me with a smile, and after saying this, he took two bottles of Wuliangye from the small cabinet under his desk and walked towards the Hongshan Hall opposite. When we came to Hongshan Hall, Uncle He and Aunt He were already sitting on the stool waiting for us!

"Liu Shou, open the wine and pour it for your little aunt and your uncle," Master handed me the two bottles of Wuliangye in his hand and said happily.

"Okay Master" After I took the wine from Master's hand and answered, I opened the wine and poured it for Aunt Xiao, Uncle He, and Master to fill up.

"I know you kid can't drink baijiu, but today is a special day, so you should drink less," Master said to me, pointing to the empty wine glass in front of me.

"Okay" In order not to disappoint Master's excitement, I also poured myself a glass of white wine.

"Today, we all ate this dumpling, this year is over, because of the incident on the ancient battlefield, this year we are not too peaceful, for this I say sorry to everyone, the most happy thing is that the four of us sit here intact to eat dumplings and drink, for today's victory, let's toast" Master raised his glass and stood up and said to the three of us with a smile on his face, I have known Master for so long, I have never seen Master He smiled from the bottom of his heart, today is the first time.

"Cheers to victory," the little aunt also stood up with a smile on her face, holding her glass and said.

"Cheers," Uncle He and I also stood up and said happily.

We ate this dumpling for more than two hours before it ended, and when we finished eating the dumplings and put the whip, all four of us came out.

"You kid is the youngest, you can set off the firecrackers for the New Year today," Uncle He said as he handed me the burning incense in his hand.

"Okay," I took the incense from Uncle He's hand and lit the firecrackers on the ground.

Although this year has been a worrying year, but we are all very happy, Master and Uncle He just said two words at the dinner table, seeing that the grievances between Master and Uncle He are slowly dissolving, I can't express the joy in my heart, of course, my little aunt is also very happy.

After sending the New Year back to a hall, I didn't take off my clothes and fell asleep on the master's bed, today we are all too tired, the master he played two fights and the landlord also felt tired, so he lay on the sofa and closed his eyes and fell asleep.

"Who" Master opened his eyes and jumped down from the sofa to look out of the hall, through the glass of the windows of the hall, Master saw a pair of eyes shining green staring at the hall, and when those eyes shining green saw Master, it disappeared without a trace in an instant.

When I woke up at six o'clock the next morning, I saw that Master and his old man were still sleeping on the sofa, and I found that Master had become lazy recently, and Master would get up on time at six o'clock in the morning, but since I came to this hall during the winter vacation, he got up later, more often at eight o'clock in the morning, and also when he got up at ten o'clock.

I saw that the master was sleeping, I didn't dare to disturb him, I gently pushed open the door of a hall and walked to the opposite Hongshan Hall, through the glass of the Hongshan Hall door, I saw that Uncle He was diligently wiping the table with a rag, I looked again, I didn't see the figure of the little aunt in the room, it is estimated that the little aunt she is still sleeping, the little aunt she was really tired yesterday, and she was alone in the enemy formation, and the killing was also three in and three out.

"Uncle He, I'm here," I pushed open the door of Hongshantang and walked in with a smile on my face to greet Uncle He.

"I'm busy with work, I don't have time to take care of you, you go and help me make a pot of tea first" Master raised his head and looked at me and said, I didn't treat myself as an outsider when I came to Uncle He's Hongshan Hall, and Uncle He didn't treat me as an outsider.

"Okay, Uncle He" I smiled and nodded to Uncle He, then went to boil water to make tea, since I learned from Master, I think my tea-making skills are getting higher and higher, I can make at least two pots of tea a day in a hall, more than four pots of tea, to five pots of tea.

After making tea, I sat leisurely on Uncle He's sofa and sipped melon seeds and tea, and after a while, Uncle He sat on the sofa opposite me after finishing his work.

"Uncle He, I'll pour you tea" I picked up the teapot and poured a cup for Uncle He.

"Where's your master?" Uncle He took a sip of tea and asked me.

"My master is still sleeping in the hall, he may have been tired yesterday," I replied to Uncle He.

"Your little aunt, she is also sleeping upstairs" Uncle He pointed to the second floor and said to me, as soon as Uncle He finished saying this, the little aunt walked downstairs wearing pajamas and yawning.

"Senior nephew, fourth senior brother, why did you two get up so early," the little aunt asked the two of us, grabbing her unkempt hair.

"I'm used to it," Uncle He and I replied to Aunt Xiao in unison.

"Senior nephew, today is the third day of the Lunar New Year, don't you go to your relatives' house?" My little aunt sat next to me and asked me.

"Little Auntie, I forgot if you didn't mention it, I want to go and see my second uncle," I got up from the sofa and said.

"I'll drive you there," said the little aunt, looking up at me.

"No need, I'll just take a taxi by myself, little aunt, Uncle He, I'm going to see my second uncle, I'll come back to you in the evening" After I said this to my little aunt, I walked out of Hongshan Hall and walked towards the opposite hall.

When I returned to the first hall, Master had already gotten up, and Master was sitting on the sofa with blank eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Master, I want to go to my second uncle's house, and I can come back before the evening," I whispered to Master sitting on the sofa.

"Go ahead," Master replied to me lightly.

"En" After I answered the master, I went upstairs and put on a cotton coat, and then I took the red envelope that Uncle He gave me and put 6,000 yuan in my pocket, and walked out of the hall.

Even on the third day of the Lunar New Year, business in Hutong No. 88 was still as hot as usual, with people coming and going to buy things in the alley, trucks and cars parked at the entrance of the alley, and I saw seven or eight strong men carrying a coffin to the truck.

"It's so heavy" The strong men who carried the coffin gritted their teeth and said, I heard this and raised my head to look at the coffin, I saw a gray-haired, old lady wearing a red shroud sitting on the lid of the coffin, the old lady looked at the strong men who carried the coffin with a naughty face, I just laughed and left, this kind of thing is no surprise to me.

Because Hutong No. 88 was still some way from the city, I first took a bus to the city, then I went to a gift shop and bought six gifts for 400 yuan, and then I took a taxi to my second uncle's house.

My second uncle is my grandmother's second son, he got married earlier than my father, because the conditions of my grandmother's house are not good, my second uncle went to someone else's house to be a son-in-law. Actually, my second uncle didn't like my second aunt, and it was my second aunt who chased my second uncle at that time. At the beginning, it was also my grandmother who made the decision to let the second uncle go to the second aunt's house to be a door-to-door son-in-law, because at that time, my grandmother's family was too poor, and my father was not married, and my grandmother felt that it was very good for someone to like the second uncle, and she was afraid that the second uncle would become a single, so she let the second uncle marry the second aunt.