Fang Dahu on the side also poured a bowl, raised his hand on his shoulder, and said happily: "It's still this little brother who has an appetite for me." ”

Everyone laughed and ridiculed him, and everyone had a lot of meat and meat in their stomachs, Qu Xiaomo laughed and listened, and he was not as angry with them as usual.

Xiao Muzi on the opposite side took a bite of the dish that Qu Xiao Mo had packed from elsewhere, and thought it was good, so he asked, "Xiao Mo, where is this dish?" It tastes good! ”

Qu Xiaomo didn't drink, held a bowl of rice and sandwiched a pair of chopsticks, and then said: "I also bought it from that Liu Da Wine Shop, he is a small restaurant, I smelled greedy at the time, so I ordered a few, which is not bad." ”

Xiao Liu took a big chopstick and said, "Next time, let's go and take a look together, Lao Tzu also thinks it's delicious." ”

Seeing that both of them said that it was delicious, everyone who drank wine raised their chopsticks to taste it, and after entering the mouth, they all said that it was really good, and even the chef nodded and said: "This skill is at least thirty years." ”

Seeing that everyone was eating happily and drinking happily, Qu Xiaomo, who was full, touched the silver in his arms that he only had two taels of silver left this month, and his heart was not sore, although he teased her from time to time on weekdays and knocked on her head, but these people are good to her, but two taels of silver for a meal, it is worth it!

There is an old shopkeeper on the side from time to time to remind you to work tomorrow not to drink too much, everyone also drank to their heart's content, none of them were drunk, and after the wine jar was empty, they consciously packed up and went back to sleep.

The day is getting colder and colder, Qu Xiaomo often wears moisturizer, and the wounds on his hands are gradually improving, and soon the New Year is approaching, and the business of the restaurant is also lighter, many people are going home to prepare for the New Year with their relatives, and the old shopkeeper is also arranging the New Year's rest of the young people in the store.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner here is not used as in the previous life, but everyone goes back to their homes, the family eats neatly, and then celebrates the New Year.

Qu Xiaomo's original parents died early, she had nowhere to go, so she took the initiative to stay in the building to watch the business, and Xiaoliu and Xiaomuzi also took the initiative to stay, they are also fatherless and motherless like her, relatives are also irrelevant, go back to follow them to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is not as good as being comfortable in the restaurant, and the kitchen also left a chef and a washed aunt.

With Qu Xiaomo, the old shopkeeper can go back to reunite with his wife and children with peace of mind this year, and by the way, tease the eldest grandson who he talks about every day.

During the day on Chinese New Year's Eve, Qu Xiaomo and Xiaoliu, Xiaomuzi and three other young men who passed the dishes opened the door of the restaurant as usual, and the chef who stayed behind personally went to buy the dishes they ate at night, and there were no guests after opening the door all day.

Qu Xiaomo held a small hand warmer that he bought for a silver or two, lifted the curtain and shrunk his neck to look outside, a few pedestrians on the road were walking in a hurry, looking at which family's slaves came out to run errands, and couldn't help but say to Xiao Liu beside him: "Little Sixth Brother, is it so cool on Chinese New Year's Eve in previous years?" There was no one to eat. ”

"It's no surprise that you've been doing it for two years." Xiao Liu, who was sitting on a chair with two legs on the side, knocked on the melon seeds and glanced at her, and said leisurely

Looking carefully at the pedestrians on the side of the road, I saw a cart selling baked sweet potatoes not far away, too far to see clearly, the stall owner is like an old woman, at such an age and Chinese New Year's Eve and pushing the cart out to sell sweet potatoes Thinking that life must be difficult, so he turned his head and asked a few people sitting in a pile of roasting fires, "Do you want to eat sweet potatoes?" Lao Tzu treats. ”

Everyone looked at her and smiled at Xiao Muzi, who was roasting the fire, and said, "On a cold day, you are like a girl holding the stove and going out to buy sweet potatoes?" Freezing doesn't kill you. ”

"How do you talk about the Chinese New Year." Qu Xiaomo glared at him, lifted the curtain and went out

Xiao Liu and Xiao Muzi got up and lifted the curtain to look out, and saw her heading towards the old woman's sweet potato cart, so they followed him and came back to continue to eat melon seeds.

It was really cold outside, Qu Xiaomo walked over with her shoulders shrunk with a hand warmer, and the old woman who was almost seventy with gray hair saw her walking towards her, so she shook her squatting legs and got up to greet: "Little brother wants to buy sweet potatoes?" ”

"Hey~ I don't know how to sell this sweet potato, Auntie?" Qu Xiaomo looked at the sweet potatoes on the iron stove and asked with a smile

"Oh, these big ones are one penny, and the little ones are two."

As he spoke, he picked up a small one, handed her half of it, and said, "Little brother, you taste it, it's all home-grown, but it's sweet." ”

Qu Xiaomo took the steaming sweet potato, peeled it and tasted it, it was indeed fluffy and sweet, looking at the iron furnace There were about twenty sweet potatoes of different sizes, took a bite of the delicious sweet potato in his hand, and said, "It's delicious, I want these sweet potatoes for my aunt." ”

The old woman, who originally thought that she could earn a penny or two, immediately widened her eyes in surprise when she heard that she wanted everything, and then shook her head again and again: "There are about twenty of them, and you are afraid that you will not be able to eat them all, if you buy two or three delicious food, you will be wasted." ”

"No, no, no." Qu Xiaomo smiled and waved his hand at her, and said, "Auntie, did you see the big restaurant over there?" I'm the shopkeeper there, and there are seven or eight people here, and these twenty can be eaten. ”

The old woman's eyes were not very good, she squinted and looked in the direction she was pointing, and when she saw that there was a building, she said, "Oh... That's poured. ”

Then he continued: "Why don't my wife push the cart over, you won't be able to take it with both hands, and it will be easy for me to push it to the door." ”

Qu Xiaomo nodded and said, "Cheng, then it will be troublesome for the aunt." ”

"The little second brother is polite."

The old woman smiled and waved her hand to hang the rope of the car on her shoulders, and pushed the car forward with great effort, Qu Xiaomo put the small hand warmer in her arms and reached out to help push the car.

This car plus the iron stove is really heavy, Qu Xiaomo can't imagine that this lady can actually pull it to the road alone, and push Qu Xiaomo together and casually ask: "It's Chinese New Year's Eve, why does the lady still come to sell sweet potatoes?" Can you prepare a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at home? ”

The old woman smiled and said, "One person, it's the same for Chinese New Year's Eve." ”

Qu Xiaomo was silent, then stopped continuing on this topic, and asked instead, "Where does the eldest lady live?" ”

"Xingtao Village outside the city is nearly an hour away from here."

"I don't know my aunt's surname?"

"My surname is Wu, where's my little brother?"

"My surname is Qu, the song of the song."

The two chatted and pushed the car to the door of the restaurant, Qu Xiaomo took out twenty yuan from the cuff and gave it to Aunt Wu, and said: "These sweet potatoes taste very good, and it is not easy for you to be the eldest lady of the New Year, and I am just a shopkeeper, these sweet potatoes will be bought with the eldest lady for fifty yuan, and the more bento will be used as an acquaintance with the eldest mother, and you will buy hanging pork for the New Year." ”

"This can't be done, this can't be done." Aunt Wu waved her hand again and again to refuse

When the little six people who heard the sound saw it, they asked suspiciously, "What's the matter?" ”

Mrs. Wu told the little six people about the matter, only to see that everyone was smiling, Xiao Muzi directly picked up a sweet potato from the iron stove, threw it to the little two behind him, and said with a smile: "It's just a few sweet potatoes, if the lady insists on not accepting these fifty wen, then let's have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with us here today, but it's just an extra pair of chopsticks." ”

As he spoke, he took a bite of the broken sweet potato, and said happily: "Well, this sweet potato is delicious and very sweet, you can taste it." ”

Saying that, he raised his hand and threw it to a few people behind, everyone shared the food and said that it was good, Aunt Wu looked at them like their sweet potatoes, and said with satisfaction: "In the past, many people did not dare to go inside, they all set up stalls at the city gate, and today there are few people to pull it, if you like it tomorrow, I will bring some raw ones, and it is better to keep it for a long time. ”

Qu Xiaomo stuffed all the copper plates into her withered old hands that were obviously frostbitten, and said, "Since this is the case, then let's take these fifty articles first." ”

As he spoke, he took the hand of the fifth lady and lifted the curtain into the restaurant, and said as he walked: "Today, a few of us are also making do with the New Year by ourselves, so you can stay, according to what Brother Mu Zi said, it is just more pairs of chopsticks, and there are more people." ”

The people who were eating sweet potatoes behind also echoed, and by the way, they dragged Aunt Wu's iron stove car to the kitchen, and seeing that they were all sincere to keep themselves, Aunt Wu also responded, and everyone ate snacks and sweet potatoes around the brazier.

After another hour of small talk, and the sky outside was getting darker, the chef asked some tall lads to light the lanterns and close the door by the way, and no one would come.

The shops on the whole street were lit with lanterns, Qu Xiaomo leaned in front of the half-open window, looking at the lights, he couldn't help but be in a trance, and the miscellaneous thoughts came up but he didn't catch anything.

Standing with the hand warmer for a while, feeling that his whole body was blown and frozen, he closed the door and turned back to sit back in place to roast the fire, Xiao Liu smiled and teased: "Don't pose, don't pretend to be melancholy?" ”

Qu Xiaomo shook the knife over when he heard this, and said, "As long as you talk a lot, three sweet potatoes can't stop your mouth." ”

Xiao Muzi on the side continued to mend the knife and said: "With his big stomach, the three can only be regarded as stuffing between his teeth, you see that he eats four big bowls on weekdays and licks them clean." ”

The crowd burst into laughter

The damaged Xiaoliu raised his hand and flew towards him with a shoe, gritting his teeth and scolding: "If you don't speak, no one will be dumb for you." ”

Xiao Muzi quickly took the cloth shoes flying towards his façade, raised his hand and twisted his nose and said with a disgusted face: "Take it away, take it away, your shoes smell heavy, how many teenagers haven't washed them!" ”

His expression was quite exaggerated, so angry that Xiao Liu immediately jumped over and beat him, everyone laughed and looked at the excitement, Qu Xiaomo looked at the strength of these two people, and also knew that this was what they wanted everyone to thank for smiling on this reunion day, after all, those who stayed here were left voluntarily, and no one had a scar in their hearts, although they were also taking double the salary, but they didn't have to go to the comfort of the whole family reunion.

Qu Xiaomo himself is used to eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, but in his previous life he was better, and here he looked at the red lanterns turned off by every household outside, and from time to time there was laughter in his heart.