It's going to be the New Year, and Wanshan Village is also lively.

Today this family kills pigs, tomorrow that family makes delicious food, and the whole village is filled with a smell of food from time to time.

The twenty-eighth day of the lunar month

Today the Ding family began to clean up, and tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve.

Ding's family has a large population, wears a lot of clothes, and has many places that need to be cleaned, so the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are afraid that they won't be able to get it the next day, so they start cleaning a day in advance.

In fact, there is nothing wrong, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are not lazy, and the house is still very clean, but some Kaka corners need to be cleaned, and some unwanted things that are not used are also sorted out.

On this day, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were busy, and Xin'er also asked Erlin to take them out to play.

Today, the weather is very good, the sun on the body gives people a warm feeling, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have removed the sheets and covers at home and washed them.

Because they were afraid that they would not dry in the afternoon, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went to the river to wash their clothes together.

There is a larger river in Wanshan Village, which is formed by the convergence of several ravines in the mountain, and the river is slowly widening from the foot of the mountain, and the section that passes through the village is even wider because it is often visited.

In the lower reaches of the river, the people of Wanshan Village also dug a deep pond and built a dam like a ridge with stones below, and formed a deep water depression by enclosing it.

I heard that there was a great drought in the village before, and the water in the river was about to dry up, and even the water level of the village well had dropped a lot, which was only enough for the people in the village to drink, and the grain in the fields was dried up.

After two years of hardship in the village, the village chief led the villagers to dig the current pond in the lower reaches of the river.

Now, the original pool is getting bigger and deeper.

Of course, the dam ridge of the pool is not particularly high, just a little higher than on both sides of the river, and once the pool is full, it is no different from before.

These are the conditions below the river, and the situation above is no different from the ordinary river, and the people in the village do laundry and so on by the river.

Zheng's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law washed together quickly, and when they went back, they hung the washed sheets and quilts on the bamboo poles used to dry clothes in the courtyard.

Because I had to wash so many things, I was afraid that the bamboo poles would not be able to dry, so I deliberately built two more bamboo poles.

But even if this is the case, it is only a situation where it can be dried, and no more clothes can be dried.

Washing the sheets and quilts is hard work, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law don't want to move after washing, and the clothes are almost finished, so the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law sit together in the open space of the courtyard dam to make clothes.

The last time Zhang went to the county seat, she was not willing to buy all the fine cotton, and the coarse cotton she bought like the Zheng family, she only bought two zhang of fine cotton, and she was ready to make a body for her in-laws.

Later, after knowing that the Wang family was also going to make clothes for her in-laws, she discussed with the Wang family and said that she would give her some money, and the two of them would use the fine cotton she bought to make clothes for the two elders.

Wang originally planned to make it for his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and he also knew that the coarse cloth that his sister-in-law bought understood her mind and agreed.

At first, the Wang family did not agree to accept Zhang's money, and she was still a little guilty in her heart.

But Zhang's is also real, he has to give it to her, saying that if she doesn't accept it, she doesn't want to do anything with her.

In the end, the Wang family still received Zhang's money in the end.

It's just that from the previous half, the cloth money was half and charged some less money from Zhang's family, and those who said less were considered manual fees.

Both of them made too many clothes, and they knew how much cloth it would take to make a dress for each of the two elders, and in the end, Wang received 100 Wen from Zhang's family.

And the remaining fine cotton Zhang is going to make clothes for the two children, and she and Yimu are still making coarse cotton.

Later, after Zhang learned that the Wang family also wanted to make a dress for his mother-in-law, he took over the work of making clothes for his in-laws, which was regarded as for the thirty yuan that was undercharged.

In this way, Zhang has more clothes to make, two sets of in-laws, one set for her own man, two sets for children, one set for herself, and six sets of clothes, and she can't be busy for a while.

And Wang's work is less, his parents' parents, Erlin's, righteous and heart-to-heart, five sets, and two sets of children, which are a lot less than Zhang's.

Zheng knew that they were going to make clothes, and seeing that they had been making clothes when they were fine, he took over the laundry work of making clothes for a few children.

Now, the pressure on both of them is a lot lighter.

As of today, Zheng's clothes for several children have been completed, and Zhang's has one more, and Wang is not ready to make it for himself, so there is only a little left.

Zheng saw it and helped Zhang to do the rest together, and finally Wang finished the work in hand and helped together.

Twenty-nine, Chinese New Year's Eve!

Because of yesterday's busyness, there is no work today, and the family is preparing for dinner in the afternoon.

In the morning, after pasting the couplets at home, Ding Dashan and his son went to the deep pool in the river to see if they could catch two fish and come back.

Therefore, after breakfast, the father and son of the Ding family went to the river.

There are a lot of people by the river today, all of whom want to catch fish and go home for the New Year, and the father and son are also busy joining in.

Yimu and Erlin didn't worry about their father going to the deep pool, so they asked him to catch it in the upper and lower reaches of the river, and they went to the deep pool to see if there was any.

There were many people catching fish in the deep pool, and Ichiki and Erlin didn't catch any fish, but they caught two crucian carp two fingers wide.

The two of them came out of the deep pool when they couldn't catch a big fish, intending to look elsewhere.

But just because the two of them didn't catch it doesn't mean that others didn't catch it, and right now, there are children by the river who exclaim: "Wow, Daddy caught a big fish, there are fish to eat."

When the two brothers heard this, they looked over, and one of them took a carp of more than a pound from the deep pool and swam to the river.

Glancing at each other, knowing that it was their luck, the two brothers went somewhere else.

In the afternoon, the father and son were still harvested, in addition to the two small crucian carp they had caught before, they caught two crucian carp three fingers wide and two carp about one catty.

Carrying the fish he caught, he wandered all the way back to see that he was already cooking dinner, and Erlin hurriedly packed up a few fish and took them to the kitchen.

"Mother, we caught two small fish, you can watch them and make them."

"Well, I see, let's put it there."

After Erlin went out, Zheng came closer to see.

"Sure enough, it's a small fish, so big." After reading it, Zheng couldn't help but say.

The Zhang family and the Wang family couldn't help but want to take a look when they heard it, and they came over to see when the work in hand was almost over.

Both laughed after reading it.

"Mother, what do you think this fish does?"

After laughing, Zhang asked his mother-in-law.

"Let's boil it in a pot, put some sauerkraut and some chili peppers."

"I think it's okay, just listen to my mother."

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After a lot of work, the last dinner of the year was finally made.

Stewed chicken with mushrooms, sauerkraut fish, back to the pot meat, crispy peanuts ......, there are nine dishes in total.

After eating, it's time for the family to take a shower, and today is the last day of the year, and everyone is washing up to welcome the arrival of the new year.

Wait until the next day, the new year has arrived.

In the new year, Zheng's got up early and boiled eggs, boiled ten, and even had one heart, but the heart was steamed egg custard.

After breakfast, the children gave New Year's greetings to the adults in the family, and all the way down, Cheng and their four brothers and sisters each got six Wen New Year's money.

However, none of the money ended up in their hands, and in the end each of them got only a penny, and their mother took the rest, saying that she was afraid that they would lose it, so she saved it for them and gave it to them later.

Youcheng is the most unhappy about the big event at his age, but there is no way, he can't resist his mother, so he can only take a penny and take his younger brothers out with snacks and candy to go out for New Year's greetings.

The rest of the Ding family waited until the other children came to pay their respects, and I went out one after another, and today everyone has a rare day off to do nothing, and naturally they will not stay at home all day.