Li Xiaoqi is idle, it should be regarded as a leisure, she is the only idler on this mountain who doesn't do any work, Li Xiaoqi is idle, directing a few people to build the roofs of a few more rooms, and make a door and window out of her own room, and see that there is a little bit of a house.

After this practice robbery, and Li Xiaoqi poured a piece of gold, this group of Zhuanghu mountain bandits finally followed Li Zongliang and a few people, no matter whether the road ahead is good or bad, since it is clear, this heart is also determined, not to mention that now it seems that the road ahead is bright.

Li Xiaoqi looked at it coldly for two days, and put down eighty or ninety percent of his heart, and began to think about it with Sister Zhang, thinking about what to eat, what to buy and use it back, and how to spend the first New Year on the West Mountain, but unfortunately Sister Zhang is a very thrifty and unknowledged, most of the time it is Li Xiaoqi who said, Sister Zhang listened in a daze, only Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Gouzi were two people, following Li Xiaoqi and flattering blindly.

Since that day, after grabbing the first two statements, Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Gouzi have regarded themselves as the people of the fifth master, the people next to the mountain are all the people of the five masters, but the two of them are the people of the fifth master, they are the people of the fifth master, and the people who have followed the fifth master to do espionage, this identity is not ordinary, as long as the two of them are not sent out by Li Xiaoyi, they will always follow Li Xiaoyi, wherever they go, Li Xiaoqi is not polite, simply treat the two as small servants, there is no girl, first make up and call the little guy.

In a blink of an eye, it was Chinese New Year's Eve, before dawn, the mountain was shouting and shouting, the noisy Li Xiaoxiao couldn't sleep, got up and dressed, opened the door and came out, Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Gouzi had already rushed over, one brought a large copper pot of hot water that had been boiled long ago, the other brought a bucket of mountain spring water, poured most of the hot water into the brass basin in the house, and added some mountain spring water, this water, Zhang Gouzi adjusted it for two days, and then felt the amount, just like that, the mixed water was just hot, Jiang Shuncai carried the pot and poured hot water into the white porcelain teacup, Li Xiaoqi took the newly bought bristle toothbrush, put green salt, slowly brushed his teeth, washed his face, changed the water and washed it again, Zhang Gouzi went out with the water and poured it, washed the basin and put it back, Jiang Shuncai had already made tea with a covered bowl, Li Xiaoqi took the covered bowl and shook it out of the house, Li Zongliang stood not far from the door, his eyes were full of helplessness, he looked at her with a crossed waist and a straight face, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly took two steps forward, and handed over the covered bowl in his hand extremely doggedly: "Big brother, you drink tea, it is made for you." ”

Wei Shuisheng, who was standing next to the wooden case writing Spring Festival couplets, laughed, the pen in his hand shook and fell a large piece of ink, and the paper under the pen was wasted, Zhang Tiemu hurriedly took away the broken paper, and laid a new one, Wei Shuisheng straightened up, looked at Li Zongliang and said with a smile: "On our mountain, we have the most stunt of the five masters, it is really hard to know what to say." ”

"That is, the fifth master is a nobleman, that is, he has to have a faction, and he has been an official in our village last time, so the faction is called the faction!" Zhang Tiemu looked at Li Xiaoqi flatteringly and said, Li Zongliang was even more crying and laughing by Zhang Tiemu, sighed helplessly, and reached out to take the bowl, this sister, every time he just wants to put up his face and discipline, she is such a pitiful and timid look, his face is more than a moment, she began to tear up, let him bear it, this discipline, every time it is so bad, fortunately, although he is talking nonsense, he has never been out of the way, let's talk about it later.

Seeing that Li Zongliang had taken the tea, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly turned around and instructed Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Gouzi: "Hurry up and make tea for your second, third, and fourth masters, and by the way, make a cup for the fifth master." ”

Wei Shuisheng smiled so much that he simply put down the pen in his hand, walked in front of Li Zongliang, raised his chin at Li Xiaoyi, and persuaded in a low voice: "Big brother, don't worry about this in the future, Xiaoqi is tired and lazy like this, it's not a day or two, you and I have made tea and served her rice in the past?" Now it's just a different person, forget it, save more dowry for her in the future. ”

Li Zongliang sighed heavily, opened his mouth, and sighed again, he had nothing to say, Shui Sheng said well, Xiao Mi is so lazy, it is really what their brothers are used to. Li Xiaoyi's smiling eyes were crooked, and he stepped forward to hold Wei Shuisheng, and praised him affectionately: "Brother Shui Sheng is just able to speak, Brother Shui Sheng hurry up and write Spring Festival couplets, I haven't posted it at the door of the house yet, Brother Shui Sheng will write the best one for me." ”

Wei Shuisheng wrote the Spring Festival couplets, Zhang Tiemu and Jiang Shuncai were a few, holding bowls of paste, pasting the Spring Festival couplets everywhere, pasting the entire courtyard wall with a piece of emerald green, full of spring.

The sun shines warmly and brilliantly, the yard has set up a spacious shed, surrounded by reed mats on three sides, and the four corners are placed with burning charcoal basins, Sister Zhang is busy sweating, like a spinning top, first adjust the dumpling filling, arrange five or six people to make dumplings in the reed shed, this is Chinese New Year's Eve night, the first time to eat.

Five or six people huddled in the warm reed shed, while talking and laughing loudly, while clumsily busy making dumplings, next to the stove in front of the reed shed, several people who had previously helped the cook at the red and white wedding events of the neighbors, busy burning the fire, washing vegetables, cutting vegetables, and giving Sister Zhang a hand, Sister Zhang wants to make the most sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve meal in her life today, at least seven plates and eight bowls, the task is arduous.

Next to the reed shed, Zhao Erqing, Sun Qidi and a few other slightly older, understand the rules, are silently and seriously bundling and preparing for the rooster, pig's head and pig's feet and other things for the ancestors to worship tomorrow morning, not far away, Zhang Jiwang took a few people to set up the offering table one by one, and invited the ancestral tablets of each family to the offering table to put it away, twenty people on the mountain, a total of seven surnames, a total of seven offering tables.

Li Xiaoqi stood by the stove, biting a chicken claw, commanding Sister Zhang to roast duck, stewed mutton, stewed beef tendon, and make braised pork according to her method, poor Sister Zhang, who has eaten and done, that is, pork and chicken, the things next to it, not to mention doing, I haven't even eaten it, Li Xiaoqi took someone into Zhengcheng to buy those things, more than half of them she simply didn't even see them, Li Xiaoqi had to stand in front of the stove in person, pointing and teaching her to cook, fortunately, Sister Zhang can understand it at one point, under Li Xiaoyi's plausible command, make things, It's not bad.

In the evening, the wrapped dumplings were set up layer by layer and placed on the case outside, Jiang Shuncai took a few people to clean up the long wooden case newly made for the Chinese New Year's Eve meal, wiped it again with hot water, arranged the dishes and chopsticks wine glasses one by one, and brought the dishes one by one, on the long case, whole chicken, whole duck, large pieces of pork, lamb, beef, and bubbling thick mutton soup, chicken soup, fish soup, set the table, Zhang Gouzi carried the wine jug, and poured the hot rice wine into the cup one by one.

Including Sister Zhang, the table was full of people seated, Li Zongliang stood up, raised his glass, and said solemnly: "This glass of wine, first salute our parents and brothers." As he spoke, he raised the cup above his head and slowly poured it on the ground, and the people standing upright around the table also solemnly saluted the first glass of wine, Li Xiaoqi poured another glass of wine for Li Zongliang, Li Zongliang raised his glass, and said with a smile: "These two glasses of wine, I respect everyone, the big guy has worked hard these days, and in the future, I also look forward to our days getting better and better!" ”

Everyone gossiped, each saying their own promises, and as Li Zongliang drank all the wine in the cup, he sat down and picked up his chopsticks.

Li Xiaoqi sat between Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng, slowly drinking a bowl of mutton soup, and smiling at the people who were excitedly drinking wine and eating meat.

This Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was eaten until midnight, Wangwang's charcoal basin was burning, Sister Zhang ate half full, drank two glasses of wine, and then busy in front of the stove, full of lively and festive overflow from the shed to the outside of the shed, Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng drank until they were half drunk, quietly came out, leaned side by side on the mountain rocks, looked at the starry sky flashing overhead, and didn't know whether to be sad or happy to gossip, Li Xiaoxiao loves to drink wine, first, she is not used to drinking such rice wine, second, she has no interest in drinking, drank half a bowl of mutton soup, watched the excitement for a while, yawned for a long time, said a word to Li Zongliang, and simply went back to the house to sleep, saying that the longevity of the winter master and the longevity of the old mother, they are a group of people who have no father and no mother, and they don't have to pay attention to it.

No one restrained Li Erhuai tonight, everyone took turns to toast him, let go of Li Erhuai, and soon fell under the table, Zhang Tiemu and Li Zonggui carried him up and dragged him to the bed, Sister Zhang hurriedly took a bowl of sobering soup and followed in, Li Zonggui simply came out, stood in the courtyard with Zhang Tiemu, and looked at Zhao Wuge and Wang Mudun, who had drunk too much, with a smile and took off their shirts, and wrestled in a short coat amid the cheers of a group of people.

Accustomed to keeping the New Year's Eve, the crowd has been lively until the dawn of the next day, Li Xiaoqi was called up by Li Zongliang, washed up in a daze, and came out behind Li Zongliang, outside, the courtyard has been burned in the middle of the bucket incense more than one person high, the whole yard is filled with a strong and choking smell of incense, the first of the courtyard, there are seven offering tables in a row, for the tablet of the god, in front of the tablet there are whole chickens, whole fish, pig heads, sheep heads, lit bright red candles, in the middle of the candles, there is a copper incense burner.

Li Xiaoyi, Li Erhuai, and Li Zonggui respectfully followed behind the eldest brother, bowing three times and bowing six times, worshipping the ancestors of the Li family, next to the four of them, Wei Shuisheng knelt alone in front of the offering table, bowing up and down, Li Xiaoqi looked at Wei Shuisheng, somehow, an unspeakable sourness suddenly surged in his heart, and tears burst out of his eyes, their group of people are actually poor people who are desperate to survive in this troubled world.