The heavy bell sounded layer by layer in the dark night, which represented the arrival of the new year, Lin Qingwan lifted her eyelids and pulled herself out of her sleepiness, "The New Year is here, ah......"

Lin Yubin also rubbed his eyes and woke up, there was already a "crackling" sound of firecrackers outside, and Uncle Zhong bowed down and walked in quickly, "Miss, sister, we should also set off firecrackers." ”

"Then let it go."

Lin Qingwan led Lin Yubin out, lit a string of firecrackers with her own hands, and then handed the incense to Lin Yubin, "You can also order a string." ”

Lin Yubin's eyes were shining, and she stepped forward both excitedly and cautiously, she lit firecrackers for the first time, so she tried back and forth three times before lighting them.

When the firecrackers exploded, she jumped back, covered her ears and laughed loudly.

The aunt and nephew covered their ears and watched them burn the cannon side by side, and their hearts were greatly relieved.

New year, new atmosphere, everything will be fine in the coming year!

This night, the aunt and nephew slept soundly in a quilt, and the next day they were sounded by the noise of "wow" outside.

Lin Qingwan struggled to get up, Bai Mei came in to serve, and laughed in a low voice: "Grandma, the children outside have come here three times." ”

Lin Qingwan asked in a daze, "What are you doing?" ”

"I'm here to pay New Year's greetings, but I only took snacks and candy, and I haven't kowtowed to my aunt and eldest lady yet."

Lin Qingwan had a headache, "It's too early." ”

Bai Mei couldn't help but smile, "It's not early, it's time for lunch in another hour." ”

Lin Qingwan found that the sun was shining outside, and the sun had climbed into the sky.

She sighed, turned around and pushed Lin Yubin and said, "Don't sleep, you won't be able to sleep at night if you sleep again." ”

Lin Yubin rarely stayed in bed, so he simply hugged the quilt and rolled himself into a chrysalis, and his whole head shrank in the quilt and did not move.

Lin Qingwan twitched the corners of her mouth, and resigned herself to getting out of bed to dress and wash, "Let people prepare the red envelopes, put the children in, and I'll send them to them." ”

Lin Qingwan's seniority is quite high, but there are still people who are taller than her, and they are younger than her.

For example, a boy of only four years old, dressed in white-washed clothes, was secretly hiding behind a pillar and looking at her.

Lin Qingwan was handing out red envelopes to the last row of children kowtowing to her, and when she looked up, she saw him, and couldn't help beckoning and laughing: "Come here, why are you hiding there?" ”

Uncle Lao Zhong glanced at it, and then whispered in her ear: "Miss, that's the child of the side branch, and it's not ranked, but he is the same generation as the master, you should call him uncle." ”

Like the sixth uncle, although they have five suits with their concubines, the boys are still ranked together, and the blood relationship that is not ranked is even farther away.

It's just that they live in Linjiazhuang, and their ancestors are the same ancestors, and they don't have much to do with each other, and the generations can only look at the characters of the row.

This four-year-old child is obviously quite tall.

But only the younger generation kowtows to the seniors to press the New Year's money, no wonder this child hides behind the pillar and does not come forward.

Lin Qingwan got up to pull him and said with a smile: "My niece asked my little uncle to say goodbye." She took the thickest red envelope from Bai Mei, stuffed it in his hand and said with a smile: "This is my niece honoring you, take it and play with it." ”

The child shrank his hand and said timidly: "Don't, my mother will beat me." ”

Lin Qingwan was stunned for a moment, then hugged him and smiled: "You just tell your mother that this is your niece's filial piety, and she won't fight." ”

Then he touched his head and said, "Go back quickly, it's time for lunch in a while." ”

The child hesitated with the red envelope, but ran away with it.

Uncle Lao Zhong sighed and said: "It's also a pitiful, his father died of illness two years ago, because he sold all the fields for treatment, and now he lives on his mother's pulp and laundry." He has a high seniority, and every year during the Chinese New Year, a naughty child runs to his house to kowtow to his mother, and it is difficult for his mother to prepare a red envelope, which is a two-penny penny, and it is not a small expense to pay so much. In the case of his family, he can't get in and out......"

Old Uncle Zhong shook his head and said, "People in the clan who are as poor as them make money during the New Year, except for his family. Last year, the child was only three years old, young and ignorant, and went to kowtow to people behind the child, and a daughter-in-law in the third room ridiculed his mother for wanting money and going crazy, and asked the uncle to kowtow to his nephew for the New Year...... He was so angry that he beat the child in front of everyone, and he should have been specially told this year, so he ......"

Lin Qingwan was sad to hear, she remembered that she was taken to her father's house by her grandfather for the New Year when she was a child, and the people who came to pay New Year's greetings were looking at her vaguely and excitedly, but no one dared to talk to her, she was sitting in the corner of the sofa, obviously the opposite side was so lively, but she seemed to be locked in a small corner alone and couldn't get out, and the people inside couldn't get in.

Seeing that Lin Qingwan's face was calm and his expression was a little wrong, Uncle Zhong hurriedly shouted, "Miss? ”

Lin Qingwan came back to her senses, forced a smile and asked, "Isn't there any help in that clan?" ”

"Naturally, his family has a share of the food given to the poor and widows every year, and they also got the food before the Chinese New Year, but their mother and son don't even have acres of land, orphans and widows, those things are also a drop in the bucket."

"What's his name?"

Old Uncle Zhong frowned and thought for a while, "His grandfather's family seems to be surnamed Lu?" Everyone calls her Eryun and his mother, but they forgot what her surname is. ”

Lin Qingwan nodded, "Isn't our Changfang also going to allocate some things to support the poor and widowed in the clan?" Thicken up their home's stuff. ”

"But the thing has already been sent."

"Just send it again." Uncle Lao Zhong is in charge of the affairs of the main house, and also manages the small farm of more than 300 acres here, and the output is used to manage and repair the main house, so the annual income is not recorded in the account books.

The old man was loyal, and he never embezzled those things, except for a part of the repairs of the main house every year, the rest was saved, and the old grain was sold for new grain at the autumn harvest of the next year.

Therefore, there is also a lot of grain in the granary of the main house, and since she has made up her mind to make friends with the clansmen, she will naturally not spare this bit of food.

Uncle Zhong also understood, and turned around to go down to arrange.

Only when the relationship between the master and the clan is more harmonious, the master will often come back to live.

Lao Zhongbo led his son to move the grain out and divide it, and sent it with his daughter-in-law one by one, "We don't expect them to repay the master's goodness, but we also know the kindness." ”

His daughter-in-law answered and asked in a low voice, "When will the eldest lady book to stay?" ”

Old Uncle Zhong smiled happily and said in a low voice: "I should live until the seventh day of the first month." ”

Lin Qingwan and Lin Yubin want to keep filial piety, even if they go to the door to greet people during the New Year, at most, they will let people send the prepared gifts.

In addition to the elders of the clan, there are also the Shang family in the city, the Lu family and the Zhou Thorn History, and even Zhao Sheng, who is still in Suzhou City, has a New Year's gift.

No matter how everyone fights, the two families are still in-laws, and they can't fall out with the Shang family holding them.

Of course, these people also have gifts in return.

Because Lin Qingwan and Lin Yubin celebrated the New Year in the old house, the New Year's gifts sent by each family were also sent to the old house.

In addition, people in the clan come to kowtow to their aunts and nephews every day, and the main house is endless, and it is lively for a while.

has been busy until the fifth day of the new year, the people who should come to kowtow have come, and the gifts that should be sent out and taken back have also passed back and forth.

Lin Qingwan watched the account room put things into the account, and then she felt relaxed, she turned her head to Lin Yubin and said: "When the weather warms up, we will go to live in the western suburbs for a while, go to the green, and see how the spring rain and green shoots are?" ”

"I listen to my sister-in-law."

"Grandma, Steward Zhong is here," Bai Feng came over with tea, and reported: "There is also the third wife in the second room, she came with two children, saying that she wanted to ask for peace for her aunt, but I don't think she looks like she wants to ask for peace, but like she is here to collect debts, and Uncle Zhong has blocked people out." ”

"Isn't Steward Lin at home, let him deal with it, don't let Uncle Zhong be angry, invite Steward Zhong in."

Steward Zhong came to report on the affairs of Juetian, "It has been negotiated with the original tenants, the land is still leased to them, the rent remains unchanged, and the taxes are paid by us." The notice of recruiting tenants has been posted at the West City Gate, and it has also been publicized everywhere, but so far only 22 households have been recruited, and there are still many fertile fields that have not been settled. Spring ploughing is just two or three months, and the fields are going to start preparing, and no one can be recruited......

Lin Qingwan said: "If you can't rent out, you can recruit long-term and short-term workers, aren't there many idle laborers in the city?" This matter is not in a hurry, how did you ask Lin Quan? ”

Steward Zhong paused before saying: "I have probed his tone, that kid is not honest, he can't endure hardship, and he is not willing to stay in the old mansion for a long time." I want to go to the bookstore, but now we only have a few bookstores left, so we can't let him run the bookstore, right? ”

It's not that the big steward Zhong looks down on Lin Quan, the other party is really high-eyed and low-handed, and he is not suitable for being a steward at all, if the master wants to promote him to repay the old Zhongbo, it will be wrong.