"Children, children, don't be greedy, after Laba, the New Year will be celebrated!

Children, children, don't cry, slaughter pigs after Laba!

Children, children, don't make trouble, set off firecrackers after Laba!

Children, children, don't shout, eat pastries after Laba! ”

The New Year, the streets and alleys are filled with the smell of gunpowder of firecrackers, the ground is full of confetti, the big girl and the little daughter-in-law are strolling on the street in bright colored clothes, the white-bearded father who sells sugar gourds is also smiling ruddy, the adults cut the pork and wrap it in the dried lotus leaves, together with the porcelain bottle that has just been filled with wine, swaying left and right at hand. My older and younger children sang nursery rhymes aloud, happily looking forward to eating a New Year's meal and getting the annual New Year's money wrapped in red envelopes.

Daddy and mother are busy making dumplings, with mushrooms, ham, dried shrimp, chicken, green onions chopped into fine powder, add sesame oil, broth, fine salt, lard finely adjusted, smeared on the vegetable juice out of the various colors of dumpling skin, simmered in chicken soup in a casserole, and then accompanied by ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil balsamic vinegar with dipping sauce, it is best to add Laba garlic soaked in old vinegar as early as Laba, which is the well-known fragrant dumplings in my shop.

Northerners all say that it is comfortable but lying down, delicious but dumplings, I think it does make sense, this fragrant dumpling is as thin as the skin of cicada wings, green is celery juice, yellow is pumpkin juice, it looks like it is full of appetite, bite on the soft and strong filling with the broth juice spread out in the lips and teeth, immediately diffuse a unique fragrance, with dipping sauce and fresh and sweet laba garlic, it is really only the New Year with the delicacy of the table.

Yanyu Pavilion's New Year's business is more prosperous, the guests are extraordinarily generous, and my sister has also received red envelopes from guests, even I am a little girl who sends supper, and I can often earn a little change enough to spend a period of time, so I like all children the most!

Grandpa went home for the New Year, my father asked me and my mother to send the festival gift over, looking at the gift box tied with big red silk flowers, it was really full of strong festive colors, I was busy and took dumplings and Dad's new osmanthus film candy to Longjing and melon slices and sent it to the Dragon God Temple, I don't know how the Dragon God and his monsters celebrate the New Year?

The Dragon God Shrine is actually full of incense, many sisters wear festive clothes, comb popular hair buns, and carry a basket of offerings to burn incense for peace, fortune, and marriage, so lively.

I walked through the crowd into the main hall, Longjing and the human-shaped melon slices were munching, the melon slices have gained a lot of weight since entering the Dragon God Temple, and the round face is more cute, while Longjing is still skinny and hungry for a long time.

I sent dumplings and sugar, but the melon slices seemed to be inedible, and I stared at them, with a regretful expression of lack of energy, only complaining that I didn't send them earlier.

Long Jing quickly poured it into his mouth, and shouted that it was delicious.

I couldn't help but ask him, "Why can I eat so much?"

Without raising his head, he continued to stuff chicken, duck and fish meat into his mouth, chewing and saying, "I'm hungry!" Not full, not full! ”

If Longjing was the son of an ordinary person, he would probably have eaten up the family long ago.

"You eat these offerings and do things for others, right?"

"Look at the mood! Belch! ”

"People are so devout that they have prayed and offered offerings, and you have ......"

"Give them their wishes every day, where will I have time to eat!" As he spoke, he stuffed a whole piece of bacon into his mouth like an entertainer performing sword-swallowing.

I walked out of the Dragon God Temple, and saw a sister in a red shirt drawing water from the well, as if she didn't have so much strength, the bucket seemed to fall into the well, I was busy to help, but I saw that the sister was actually stepping on the edge of the well, as if giggling at the bottom of the well, I was about to ask what was going on, but the sister jumped straight down.

I was stunned, and then hurriedly let go of my voice and shouted, "Oh no! A sister jumped into a well! Come on, come on~"

A few sisters rushed to hear the sound, and called the little girl to call Mr. Mo, I hurriedly ran to the well, looked down, the bucket was dangling in the middle of the well, the clear water under the well was rippling, and I could see my face, but there was no one at all.

My heart sank, and the people who were called over were all stunned.

Mr. Mo said, "Mei Cai, did you really see it?" ”

"Really!" I said loudly, "There really is a sister in a red shirt who jumped straight down!" She's still smiling at the bottom of the well! ”

Mr. Mo called the servant to bring up the bucket, and he suspected that the sister was bent on seeking death, tied a stone and sank, and hurriedly called someone to go into the water with good water to see.

When the man climbed down the rope, he replied in the well for a long time: "Mr. Mo, there is indeed no one underwater, isn't it wrong!" ”

Mr. Mo looked at me: "Mei Cai, it's the New Year, why bother to do this kind of prank?" "Waved his sleeves and left.

Everyone looked at me with a complicated expression, and they didn't dare to say anything because of the prestige of the dragon god, but the expressions on everyone's faces clearly told me that I had lied and deceived everyone.

I hurriedly stopped them: "Wait a minute, is there a sister in a red shirt today?" ”

Everyone didn't squeak, only Qiu'er said: "Today's New Year, there are too many sisters in red shirts." ”

I bit my lower lip, am I really mistaken?

Or, is it a goblin?

I grabbed Qiu'er: "In case there is a sister or maid missing, please tell me."

Qiu'er nodded, and everyone dispersed.

I never lie, and I don't want to be wronged for pranking me this time, whether there is a young sister or not, when I count the number of people and pick up customers at night, I will know.

People are gone, I can't help but sit on the well platform, the well platform is made of big bluestone, the well water is sweet and clear, the people of the whole Yanyu Pavilion love to use the water of this well, not to mention that the cold winter is not frozen, the well water is warm in winter and cool in summer, pleasant and delicious, many sisters are dedicated to this well.

Forget it, we'll talk about it in the evening.

Just as I was about to walk away, I had just stepped on the gravel path, when I suddenly heard someone giggle a few times, and when I looked back, there was a little girl wearing a bright red jacket by the well, and she turned around and ran.

I hurriedly chased after the back, and the bright red figure turned a few old trees and disappeared. Could it be that the mysterious little girl in red?

The snow on a big tree fell on me without knowing what, and I couldn't help but shiver.

Strange things happen all the time, especially today.

It wasn't too early to see that it was too early, so I hurried home to help my busy parents.

The next day, I accompanied my mother to my grandmother's house, and my grandmother's house was also full of lights, and the roast goose and duck set a table, and my grandmother also specially mixed a small pot of quail eggs for me, peeled off a thin layer of flower egg shells, which was marinated in soy sauce into brown egg whites, and the small egg yolks were slightly oily, and the mouth was full of fragrance after eating a mouthful.

The eldest cousin is a twenty-two-year-old dragon, the second cousin is a fourteen-year-old Erhu, the eldest cousin has married a wife, but there are no children, the second cousin has been ordered to have a baby since he was a child, and he is the daughter of my neighbor, and Ah Yue, who is the same age as me.

My uncle and aunt inherited my grandfather's tailor shop, and they worked diligently to keep the house, and although it was hard, it was said that life was still passable. I'm going to marry Ah Yue next summer.

But I always look a little sullen when I look at Erhu.

Since I was a child, my father and mother were busy with business, I was in my grandmother's house to the age of five, since I had a deep relationship with my two brothers, after eating, I washed the dishes, my mother gave me a few big money, and asked me and Erhu to buy candy to eat.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, I asked Erhu with a smile: "Brother, what are you unhappy about?" Don't you miss Sister Ah Yue, right? ”

The second tiger seemed to be bluffed, and his face was busy: "What do the children know?"

I laughed, "I'm twelve years old!" You're only two years older than me, what's the point? Hurry up and talk to me to listen, if the two quarrel, my sister-in-law is willing to mediate. ”

Erhu was suddenly slightly stunned, and then said to me hopefully: "Everyone says that you are the messenger of the Dragon God, can this be taken seriously?"

I nodded, "That's the case."

Erhu eagerly grabbed my shoulder: "Mei Cai, then you have to ask the Dragon God to save me!"

I was taken aback: "Brother Erhu, what's wrong with you?"

Erhu took me to a sheltered pavilion to sit down, and said: "A few days ago, my father asked me to go to my father-in-law's house to send a gift a few days ago, I went, after the Yanyu Pavilion, and thought about sending the festival, to see my aunt and uncle and you, on the side of the road I saw a plum tree, yellow and tender is lovely, A Yue Pingsu loves plum blossoms, I climbed over and thought about folding a few to give to her, open the layers of plum blossoms, just can see the back garden of the Yanyu Pavilion, I was choosing to fold down, and suddenly saw a little girl in red clothes running and jumping by the well with her back to me, and giggled, I just thought that you came to send snacks to play for a while, and I was just about to call you, but I saw Ah Yue wearing a honey-colored jacket, a lake blue pleated skirt, and her little feet came slowly, I thought to myself, didn't you and Ah Yue make an appointment to play here, so I hid in the flowers, scaring you for a while, who would have thought 。。。。。。 As he spoke, Erhu's upper and lower teeth suddenly began to fight, and although Erhu was wearing an extremely thick cotton jacket, it could be seen that his thin shoulders were shaking non-stop.

I was uneasy and hurriedly said, "Brother, speak slowly, what's wrong?" ”

Erhu clasped his hands hard, the green tendons on the back of his hands burst out, and he forcibly calmed down his mood, and said: "But see, the girl in red took Ah Yue's hand and pointed to the well, as if asking Ah Yue to look at something, Ah Yue looked down, and also giggled, the more she laughed, the happier she became, almost leaning forward and backward, and then the little girl in red let go of Ah Yue's hand and walked away, Ah Yue continued to laugh at the well alone, I wondered in my heart, so I parted the flowers, wanted to call her, and asked her what to see, at this time, Ah Yue, she actually climbed the edge of the well, laughing, and jumped straight into the well! ”

I stood up suddenly: "What did you say? ”

Erhu rubbed his hands vigorously, and continued: "I was startled, I hurriedly jumped off the tree, and the festival was thrown to the ground, trying to save Ah Yue, just ran to the back door, and suddenly someone grabbed my long shirt, I turned around and looked,"

Erhu's eyes were only staring at me, bloodshot: "It's Ah Yue." ”