It was already half past one in the afternoon, and Xiao Jian was already hungry, so Xiao Ru gave him a dime and a half cent, and asked him to buy a sweet biscuit to eat.

There are fewer pedestrians on the street, and many people have begun to eat New Year's dinner on the 29th day of the lunar month, even those who have not eaten New Year's dinner are cleaning and frying balls at home, fried lotus root clips or something, so there are not many people shopping.

Xiao Ru thought that even if he kept it any longer, it would take time, and he might not be able to sell the remaining two clothes, so he smiled and said to the customer while closing the stall: "You are too old to pay back, I can't afford to sell all my capital, I will take these two clothes back and wear them myself." ”

The customer saw that Xiao Rudu had started to close the stall, and wondered if she had really paid back the capital of others, but she wanted this set of clothes very much, so she said, "How about I add another dollar?" ”

Xiaoru smiled and shook his head: "I can only afford to add at least three yuan for you." ”

The customer was not very old, only twenty-three or four, but he was a fine person, his eyes rolled a few times, and he stretched out two fingers: "Then I'll add two more yuan, okay, I really don't have any money in my pocket, only so much money, all for you." ”

She only believed what she said!

It's okay to earn a total of five dollars for the last two clothes.

However, Xiao Ru would not agree, pretending to be embarrassed, and let the customer beg for a while, before she gritted her teeth and stomped her feet and agreed to sell it to her.

The last two clothes were finally sold out, and the customer happily walked away with the padded jacket and the jeans, and Xiaoru put the money in his pocket, took the dismantled shelves and folded plastic sheeting, and led Xiaojian away.

The purchase price of jeans is fifteen yuan a piece, and the purchase price of that padded jacket is not cheap, the purchase price is twenty-five yuan.

The two sisters and brothers left on the front foot, and two young people with five big and three thick feet came on the back foot, all with fierce faces.

The two young men looked all over the street and did not see the sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl with a child described by Jiang Yueming, so they had to return in vain.

When I returned home, I had to kill fish and cook fish offal, which delayed the time, so Xiao Ruo made lunch, and it happened that Xiao Chu also sold chickens and ducks and came back, and the five sisters and brothers had a reunion dinner.

After lunch, Xiao Ruo showed them the new clothes for the Chinese New Year made for Xiao Ru's four sisters and brothers in the tailor shop.

Xiao Ru looked at her new clothes, a small lapel smock and a pair of corduroy pants printed with thick foreign cloth, Xiao Ru's fabric was not as good as hers, Xiao Ruo didn't make new clothes for herself at all.

Xiaoru said angrily: "Sister, I've told you several times to ask you to make yourself a new set of clothes, why didn't you do it?" ”

Xiao Ruo lowered her head, with a faint smile on her face, like an orchid in early spring, gentle and demure: "Sisters are all married people, what do you wear, what new clothes do you make?" “

It's already the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, and it's too late to make new clothes for Xiaoruo.

Xiao Ru gave the flower coat to Xiao Ruo: "Sister, I have this yellow cotton jacket on my body as a new dress for the New Year, and this flower coat will be a new dress for you for the New Year." ”

Xiao Ruo excused herself for a long time, and Xiao Ru had to give it to her: "Sister, if you don't want it, throw it away, I won't want this dress anyway." ”

The words have already been said about this, and Xiao Ruo had no choice but to accept the flower coat.

Then, the five siblings thoroughly cleaned the humble home, and it was past five o'clock in the afternoon.

After dinner, in addition to Xiao Jian, Xiao Ru's sisters and brothers continued to be busy, killing the big rooster that Xiao Chu deliberately kept for the New Year's dinner, and had to fry fish pieces, fried peanuts and melon seeds, marinated dried fragrant, vegetarian chicken, thousands of pieces or something, enough to be busy.

Xiao Jian was happy to die, running around the house, eating a handful of peanuts when the peanuts were fried, and he wanted a handful of melon seeds when they were fried.

But he was too young to eat melon seeds, so he chewed and ate them with the shell, and when he saw it, he took out the chewed melon seeds from his mouth and took a hot egg that had just been marinated for him to eat.

Xiao Jian was so hot that he kept pouring the boiled eggs with his two hands, and finally simply held the boiled eggs with cotton sleeves, sat on the small bench and waited for the eggs to cool down a little, and then broke and peeled the shells to eat.

The cold wind howled outside the window, and it was still very warm inside the house because of the stove.

The first pot of fish pieces was fried, and Xiao Jian hurriedly walked over, standing straight beside Xiao Ru, staring at the fried fish pieces that were fished out of the oil pot with a colander with a colander in disgust.

Xiao Ru picked a piece of fish belly meat, pulled the fish bones clean, and stuffed the fish meat into Xiao Jian's small mouth.

Komi's cheeks bulged high, happily chewing on the fragrant fish meat that had just come out of the oil pot.

By the time he was done, it was already after nine o'clock in the evening, and Xiao Jian also had a round stomach, so Xiao Ruo washed his feet and sent him to bed to sleep.

I bought new cotton wool today, so the two beds are padded with new cotton wool, and sleeping on the new cotton wool is fluffy and warm more comfortable than before, Xiao Jian excitedly turned his head in the quilt and arched the quilt into a big bag.

Xiaoru went in after washing and saw it, walked over, and slapped the bulging bag: "Don't toss around, beware of tossing the quilt." ”

The big bag immediately collapsed, and Xiao Mi's head poked out of the quilt and grinned at Xiao Ru.

Xiao Ruo got up at six o'clock the next day, and drove all the younger brothers and sisters to get up, taking advantage of the good sun today, she wanted to wash all the two beds, the cotton cloth was particularly thick, Xiao Ruo was afraid that she would not be able to wash after she went back, so she wanted to wash it for her.

The cotton cloth faded as soon as it was soaked in water, and Xiao Ru saw it, scooped a few spoonfuls of salt into the water, and asked Xiao Ruo to soak these sheets in salt water for half an hour before washing.

For breakfast, the noodles are boiled in the brine of yesterday's marinated dried eggs, sprinkled with a little chopped green onion, and the fragrance is so fragrant that people's mouths water.

Generally, the brine sold in braised vegetables will be kept to continue the braised vegetables, and it is said that the older the brine, the better the brine will be.

However, in this era, ordinary people rarely marinate a dish, and it is impossible to leave the brine, of course, boil the brine and eat it!

Xiao Ru deliberately gave Xiao Jian a poached egg in the green onion lo mein, Xiao Jian ate happily, sweating profusely, Xiao Ruo took off the small padded jacket on his body.

Xiao saw that he still had to eat a large bowl of noodles after eating, but Xiao Ruo didn't give it, only left some noodle soup with chopped green onions for him to drink: "Don't eat so much in the morning, our family will have New Year's dinner at noon, keep your stomach for New Year's dinner." ”

Xiao Jian was very well-behaved, and after drinking half a bowl of noodle soup, he didn't make any more trouble and eat.

Xiaoru's rented house is in the urban village, the conditions of the children in the urban village in that era are much better than the rural children, and it is not yet the time to release the whip, many boys have a lot of firecrackers in their hands and start playing early in the morning, Xiaoru heard a firecracker after a while at home, and heard a firecracker after a while.

Xiao Jian leaned on the window and watched others set off firecrackers downstairs, so he turned his head to Xiao Ru and said, "Second sister, I want to go down and find someone to play." ”

Xiao Ru stretched out his head and glanced out the window, the boys who set off the firecrackers downstairs were all seven or eight years old, much more than Xiao Jian, Xiao Ru was afraid that Xiao Jian would be bullied, so he asked Xiao Chu to follow.

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