The happiest thing for children during the Chinese New Year is that in addition to eating, they can also have new clothes to wear, and no matter what, they have to add a new dress to their child and buy a pair of new shoes for the New Year.

There are many brothers and sisters in the Zhou family, Xiaobao picked up Dabao's old clothes to wear, Erya wore Zhou Xiaoyun's former padded jacket, and Zhou Xiaoyun wore Zhou Xiaoxia's old clothes. The padded jacket she wore was left over from Zhou Xiaoxia the year before last, Zhou Xiaoyun was taller than her age, and she was already a little small this year.

Zhao Yuzhen bought some flower cloth and weighed a few catties of cotton and came back, ready to make clothes for the child.

There is a tailor shop in the village that makes clothes for adults, and as for the padded jackets for children, they are all made by the mothers. Zhao Yuzhen's craftsmanship is very good, one afternoon the tailor made a new cotton jacket and cotton pants for Dabao, and in the evening made a new one for Zhou Xiaoyun.

Originally, Zhou Xiaoyun rarely had new clothes in his childhood, but now Zhou Xiaoyun is considerate, well-behaved and sensible, and is very popular with his parents, so Zhao Yuzhen took advantage of the money he had in hand to think about making a new dress for Zhou Xiaoyun.

Zhou Xiaoyun's cotton jacket and cotton pants are made of cotton stuffed with pink flower cloth, the color of the pink is very attractive, Zhou Xiaoyun is very happy to see it, who doesn't like to wear new clothes. It's a pity that this new dress can only be worn on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and now I can only look at it and have to wait a few more days.

Dabao's padded jacket is made of blue cloth, and if Dabao likes it, he has to wear it now.

Zhao Yuzhen definitely disagreed: "The new padded jacket has to be worn in the New Year, how can you wear it at this time." You look like a monkey and you can't hold it up for two days and you'll get dirty, and you won't have any new clothes to wear on the first day of the new year. When the time comes, the children's New Year's greetings will be new, so you wear dirty clothes to visit the New Year, how ugly! ”

With that, he put away all his clothes.

Zhou Xiaoyun comforted Dabao: "Dabao, there are still three or four days before the New Year, it's almost over." ”

Dabao thought about it, so he didn't make a fuss.

Xiaobao and Erya did not have new clothes, and each got a new pair of cotton shoes and new socks.

The pace of the year is getting closer and closer, and the crowd in the market is crowded. Zhao Yuzhen has to squeeze every morning, and when she comes back, she comes back with her hands full. You must know that the new year will not start until after the fifteenth day of the first month! Most of the month's food and drink have to be prepared now, which is really enough for her to be busy.

Zhou's father caught two roosters and ducks that had been raised at home for more than half a year, and prepared to slaughter them to entertain relatives in the New Year.

The duck is more tame and can catch one, but it took a lot of effort for the two and a half roosters to run around the yard. The hens were absolutely reluctant to kill and eat the eggs they kept, and the two roosters were not so lucky, and they were wiped by sharp knives and stumbled for a while before they were blinded.

Zhou Xiaoyun has never dared to watch the scene of killing chickens, and she only dared to step forward when the chickens were dead and motionless. While Zhou's father was busy plucking chicken feathers to disembowel the chicken, Zhou Xiaoyun carefully looked for the beautiful feathers on the rooster and collected a large handful.

"What are you doing with chicken feathers?" Dabao asked strangely.

Zhou Xiaoyun pretended to be mysterious and didn't tell Dabao. When Zhou Xiaoyun found the front cloth head and copper ring, Dabao finally understood, it turned out that he was going to make shuttlecocks!

Wrap the copper ring in a small piece of cloth and sew it up, and then pick out five or six long dark red rooster feathers and sew them onto the cloth. Sewing chicken feathers is a technical job, and if you don't sew well, you will tilt your center of gravity to the side.

The rapid movement of Zhou Xiaoyun's dexterous hands made Dabao dumbfounded, and after a while, a beautiful chicken feather shuttlecock was ready.

Dabao took out the shuttlecock made by Zhou Xiaoyun with a cheeky face and went to offer treasure.

Zhou Xiaoyun thought about it and made a few more, buckled one of them with a long woolen thread, and let Xiaobao carry it in his hand and kick it, Xiaobao got a new toy and had a lot of fun.

Although Er Ya can't play at all, he wants to hold one in his hand and fiddle with the rooster feathers on it, not to mention how happy he is.

After a while, Zhou Xiaoxia came over. She saw that the shuttlecock in Dabao's hand didn't like it, but unfortunately she didn't give it to Dabao. Hearing Dabao say that Zhou Xiaoyun did it, he came to ask for one.

Seeing that the shuttlecock he made casually became such a sought-after "best-seller", Zhou Xiaoyun smiled dumbly. I was busy making another one for Zhou Xiaoxia.

Zhou Xiaoxia's shuttlecock has brown feathers and a fluffy bottom. Zhou Xiaoxia was satisfied with the achievement of her goals, and kicked the shuttlecock with Zhou Xiaoyun in the courtyard.

Zhou Xiaoxia is tall and long-legged, and she kicked more than a dozen in one go, proudly.

Zhou Xiaoyun became competitive, and kicked steadily thirty times before stopping. Xiaobao and Erya watched the shuttlecock fly up and down next to them, dazzled, and saw that their sister kicked more and steadily, and applauded their sister next to them.

Zhou Xiaoyun was stimulated by his younger brothers and sisters to show interest, his left foot and right foot took turns to kick, kicking with his toes, and occasionally his left foot went around behind him to jump the shuttlecock and caught it with his right foot in a blink of an eye.

Zhou Xiaoxia was stunned and couldn't get up to win anymore, and the five bodies of admiration threw themselves to the ground, clapping their hands next to her.

Waiting for Wang Jingjing, the fat girl, and a few people to come to Zhou Xiaoyun's house to play, they all rushed to kick the shuttlecock.

In desperation, Zhou Xiaoyun had no choice but to find some rooster feathers to make shuttlecocks. The beautiful feathers on the tails of the two roosters that were killed were used up, and there was nothing to look at. Dabao volunteered to catch a live rooster to pluck chicken feathers, and the rooster ran around the yard. There was still one of the children watching from the side who could bear it, and they all went down to help.

For a while, a bunch of children ran around to catch the lively rooster, and when the rooster was tired of running and was caught, they were all panting and speechless.

Zhou Xiaoyun watched the smile leaning forward and closing on the side.

The little friends took the shuttlecock home and showed off in the children's pile, and many adults were pestered by the children to pluck the chicken feathers of the big rooster at home to make shuttlecocks. This year, kicking shuttlecock has become the most popular game for children in the village this year.