"It's January 4th, yes."

Shen Du nodded and explained with a smile: "Actually, since I was a child, I usually celebrate my birthday on the day of the Lunar New Year.

"When I was in school, I either had a final exam on my birthday or was in the preparation stage, so in order not to affect my studies, Lao Shen and my mother didn't give me a birthday.

"However, they chose to make it up to me on the day of the new year!"

Liu Qingli was stunned, revealing a look of amazement and admiration: "Can you still spend your birthday like this?" ”

Shen Du tilted his head very stinkily and said in a didactic tone: "You can't stick to the rules of being a man, as long as you want, you can celebrate your birthday every day." ”

Liu Qingli glanced at him, even if she agreed with this point of view, but she was unhappy with her attitude towards that goods.

But she soon thought again, the sudden birthday, and in this poor and remote place, where to get a birthday gift?

"What are you thinking?"

"Shen Dui, I didn't prepare, will I give you a birthday gift when I return to the Demon Capital?"

"What kind of gift is not a gift, didn't you give me the best gift, it's really not good, I can stay up all night with you tonight."

"You...... Rogue! ”

The two of them quarreled for a while and quickly went downstairs.

Lao Shen's absence from home is expected, and he has been busy stocking up for the upcoming supermarket for the past few days.

The problem is that Cheng Yuzhen is not there either.

"Where's Auntie?"

"Let's have breakfast first, I'll take you to her!"

Needless to say, breakfast is still chicken soup, but since this time, Shen Duan's treatment has gradually improved, and he can finally get a chicken leg.

A quarter of an hour later, the two found Cheng Yuzhen in a dilapidated hall.

For Shen Dui, this is an ancestral house, which originally belonged to his grandparents, and after the death of the second elder, it was almost in a semi-deserted state.

On one side of the hall, Cheng Yuzhen was pushing and pulling a large stone pier hard.

"Mom, let me come!"

Shen Duan hurriedly stepped forward, this kind of stone mill is very large, and it is difficult for non-adults to push it, but I have to admit that the soybean milk ground with it is better than many soymilk machines.

The soy milk processed by the ordinary soybean milk machine is subjected to high temperatures, which destroys the fragrance of the soybeans and even has a burnt taste. The soybean milk made by handmade stone grinding is original, rich in bean aroma, fresh and tastes good.

"It's okay, I'm not tired, you guys rest!"

Cheng Yuzhen paused slightly, raised her sleeve to wipe the sweat stains on her forehead, turned her head to look at her son and daughter-in-law, and the smile on her face was particularly comfortable.

"No, you'll rest when I'm here."

Shen Du couldn't help but pull his mother away, and pushed the stone mill with ease.

"I'll let me try."

Liu Qingli watched it for a while, both fresh and interesting, she had only seen the original production tools on TV.

"Are you sure you want to try?"

Shen Du had a wicked smile on his face.

"You can do it, I can't push it if it doesn't make sense."

Liu Qingli rolled up her two sleeves and helped her pink little hands up, but she worked hard for a long time, and the stone mill only turned half a circle, and she couldn't pull it back when she reached the farthest position.

"Although grinding soy milk is manual work, you have to use ingenuity and use inertia to push it to save effort."

Shen Du laughed and pushed the beautiful rich woman to the stone mill: "It's more appropriate for you to help add beans." ”

Liu Qingli suddenly felt embarrassed, mainly because she was embarrassed in front of her mother-in-law.

In fact, Cheng Yuzhen doesn't have so many ideas, but thinks that her daughter-in-law is sensible, obviously from the city, and she has not disliked rural life, nor is she as delicate as she imagined the rich lady.

Looking at one of them grinding and adding beans, and they cooperated very tacitly, Cheng Yuzhen got up: "I'll go drink saliva first and then come." ”

Seeing her mother-in-law leave, Liu Qingli was no longer so restrained, and after adding a spoonful of beans, she asked, "When did you learn to grind?" ”

"When?"

Shen Du thought for a while: "Very early, I learned to push in elementary school, of course, at that time, I couldn't push with a little strength, so I pushed with my mother."

"When I was in middle school, I was once criticized by my English teacher, and when I learned about it, Lao Shen told me that if I didn't study hard, I would have to do this kind of work for the rest of my life."

In Liu Qingli's eyes, Shen Duan's grades can only be regarded as average, otherwise she would not have only been admitted to a normal university, but she pretended to be puzzled: "Did you have bad grades before?" ”

Shen Du will not admit it when he is killed: "Who said that?" I remember when I was in middle school, I was the first in my class to get even the worst English! ”

Liu Qingli blinked, obviously unconvinced: "Oh, you still won the first place?" ”

"I can't lie to you!"

Shen Du said solemnly: "When I went to school, I was tall, sitting in the last row, there was an English test, and when the test paper was sent to me, there was an extra one, I looked around, and saw that the whole class had test papers, so I directly tore up the extra test papers."

"Seeing this, the classmates imitated one after another, and the buddies at the table next to me still said 'personality' while tearing up.

After the whole class tore up the test paper, I silently picked up another one and began to answer...... You didn't see the expressions of my classmates, and you wanted to tear me apart. ”

When Liu Qingli first started, she was still listening carefully, but in the end, she found out that this guy had told a joke again.

She feigned anger and wanted to yell at him a few times, but she couldn't help but laugh.

Shen Dui's face was serious: "Actually, I don't like to read, if I have a choice, I'd rather be a quiet salted duck egg." ”

Liu Qingli was immediately attracted and couldn't help asking, "Why?" ”

Shen Du sighed: "I'm so idle, I'm so rich!" ”

"You're dreaming, but it's a good analogy...... Giggles! ”

Liu Qingli secretly remembered the day of Xiao Nian in her heart, thinking about whether she would have to celebrate Shen Dui's birthday at this time in the future, or would she say: Have two birthdays?

At lunchtime, Lao Shen came back.

He also brought back a sentence: he received news that his aunt would come back for New Year's dinner before Chinese New Year's Eve.

Shen Du was a little surprised by this, her aunt married far away, and in another small city in Bashu that was hundreds of kilometers away, if there was nothing special, it would be difficult to see each other for a year.

And in my hometown, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve is eaten with my own family, and in the past few days, I eat it with relatives and friends, which is also called "New Year's Dinner".

Cheng Yuzhen asked: "When will I come back one day, I will prepare the dishes?" ”

Lao Shen shook his head: "I can't be sure which day it is, it's estimated that it's twenty-six or seven." ”

In the evening, Liu Qingli sat in the small patio after dinner, looking up at the sky in a daze.

"What are you looking at?"

"I wonder why there hasn't been snow this year. If it's snowing, I'll build you a snowman as a birthday present. ”

"Bashu is a basin, there are not many opportunities for snow, and I haven't seen a few snows when I've grown so big."

……

Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and on the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, my aunt arrived.

But along with my aunt, there were also the third uncle, the third aunt, and Shen Duan's cousin Shen Fu.

Among the three Shen Zhongshun sisters and brothers, her aunt is the oldest, but she has to admit that just looking at her face, she looks younger than Cheng Yuzhen.

Even life in the city is not easy, compared to the rural people facing the loess with their backs to the sky, there are still many benefits, no wonder so many people yearn for the city.

The faces of the aunt and the third uncle are somewhat similar to Shen Zhongshun, after all, they are brothers and sisters, but the aunt has a round face, and the third uncle has a Chinese face.

"Auntie has worked hard all the way back." Shen Du called enthusiastically, hesitated slightly, and shouted again, "Third uncle, third aunt, come into the house and sit." ”

As for Shen Fu, who was dragging like twenty-five or eighty-thousand, he just glanced at it.

"What's the hard work, this is also my home, I haven't been back for two years, I have to see everyone before I feel sure."

My aunt had an apologetic look on her face: "It's a pity that your uncle and cousin are afraid of being tired, and they don't think Lu Yuan will come back with me." ”

Her explanation was more far-fetched, because everyone in the audience knew that it was the father and daughter who disliked the poverty in the countryside and did not want to come back to suffer.

In Shen Dui's memory, the only time he saw his cousin was that he was only 13 years old, almost ten years ago, and now, maybe the cousin who had no memory was married.

"Ahem!" valley

The third aunt cleared her throat: "The eldest sister came to us as soon as she arrived in the town, and she had to bring our family with her." ”

My aunt frowned on the side, and she couldn't bear to tear it down.

Why do you want me to bring you here?

I didn't go to your house, I didn't pull anyone, obviously you were waiting at the station, so I had to come with you to see the new house, okay?

My aunt still doesn't know what kind of virtue the third brother's family is, just like her husband, she typically hates the poor and loves the rich.

In the past, they had not seen the second brother's family seriously, for fear that others would know that the two sides were related, but since they heard that Shen Zhongshun had built a small house in Shunheyan, they had long wanted to come back to take a look, but they had never found an excuse.

"Don't stand, wash your hands and serve the table, it's about to start!"

Cheng Yuzhen stepped forward and took the eldest sister's hand, crossed the small courtyard and walked into the house.

The third uncle's family in the back didn't need to be greeted, and they ran fast.

The third aunt kept looking around, secretly frightened, and secretly said to her son: "This house is better than the three-bedroom houses in our town, and it is estimated that it cost a lot of money." ”

Shen Fu, whose nostrils were facing the sky, glanced at Shen Dui.

Even if they never came back, they heard acquaintances mention that the small bungalows of the second uncle's family were built by the cousin in the magic capital.

And today, the family is here, of course, not just to look at the house, but to find Shen Dui to explore the way and see if there is still a job suitable for picking up money in the magic capital.

In the past, Shen Fu heard others say that the magic capital can pick up money everywhere, and he never believed it, but he believed it after seeing the small bungalow today.

Shen Du can pick up the money, why can't I?

However, he has always been above the top, from meeting to entering the door, let alone calling his cousin, he didn't even greet his elders.

"Hey, this girl is good-looking?"

When several people came to the restaurant, they suddenly saw Liu Qingli placing the dishes and chopsticks, and they were all stunned, and they all looked at Cheng Yuzhen with doubtful eyes.

The matter of Shen Du's family building a new house has been rumored for several months, and everyone naturally knows it.

But the beautiful rich woman went home with Shen Dusk, and it was only ten days, and the news did not spread so quickly.

"Her name is Qingli, and she is the daughter-in-law that Shen Dui brought back from the Demon Capital."

Cheng Yuzhen immediately grabbed Liu Qingli and introduced: "Come to Qingli, this is my aunt, this is the third uncle, the third aunt, and my cousin Shen Fu!" ”

Liu Qingli blushed shyly, but she was not rude, and shouted in turn: "Auntie, third uncle......"

Shen Fu's eyes flashed with stars, he had never heard of a beautiful woman in the magic capital, if the girls over there were all good-looking, should he also pick one up?

He made a calculation in his heart, if he let Shen Dui take him to the magic capital; Looking for something to do in the magic capital full of money is probably more beautiful than driving a truck, right?

If you can pick up a girl of this level, no matter how you look at it, it won't be a loss, it's much better than the ones you met on a blind date!

"Qingli, the first time we met, my aunt didn't prepare a gift, so I gave some red envelopes to buy a dress...... Buy something to eat. ”

My aunt's eyes lit up, and she quickly took out 200 yuan from her pocket.

After all, she has lived in the city for many years, and she can guess a few points from Liu Qingli's temperament and dress, this nephew and daughter-in-law have a good family background.

It is a tradition in my hometown to give red envelopes to newlyweds who meet for the first time, and my aunt did not hesitate to pay for it.

"Auntie is too polite, no need!"

With her aunt's experience, Liu Qingli reacted very quickly and secretly looked at Shen Dui.

"Auntie's heart, you can take it."

Shen Du opened his mouth and bowed slightly to the beautiful rich woman.

"Thank you, aunt!"

Liu Qingli took it happily and thanked her aunt sweetly, since her parents passed away, she almost forgot how many years she hadn't received a red envelope from her elders.

Seeing her excited expression, Shen Du felt a little distressed.

He knows better than anyone else, let alone 200 yuan, even if 2 million is placed in front of a beautiful rich woman, she will not be moved. This is not a question of more money and less money, what is represented behind it is her sustenance.

It's a pity that with her own situation, even if she takes all her relatives to visit, I'm afraid that no one is willing to give red envelopes except for aunts and aunts.

Shen Du thought about it and looked at the third uncle's family with an inexplicable smile.

"Oh Qingli, I'm sorry, we didn't know you were here, and we weren't ready to go out, and now we really don't have a penny on you."

The third aunt didn't feel embarrassed at all, and generously opened her two coat pockets to let everyone know that she didn't have any money.

The third uncle turned his head to light a cigarette, as if he hadn't seen this scene, while Shen Fu fixed his eyes on the Moutai wine on the table, and his throat subconsciously stirred.

Shen Du wanted to laugh a little, if the third aunt said that she only had change and couldn't make up the whole number, it was really possible, but she didn't have a penny, what if she deceived the ghost?

"It's okay, it's okay, everyone serves it first, the winter dishes are cool quickly!"

Before Liu Qingli could speak, Cheng Yuzhen pulled her behind her, as if she was worried that her daughter-in-law would be wronged.

"Good!"

When the third aunt laughed, the meat on her face was piled together, and she was not polite at all, and pulled her son to the table.

"Mom, I'll call Lao Shen."

When Shen Du went upstairs, old Shen was standing by the telephone, holding the receiver in one hand and flipping through the small notebook with the other hand to check one item at a time.

What is recorded above is the supermarket's purchase list, this thing is tedious work, there are many types, large quantities, since the remittance of the advance payment, Lao Shen has been busy for several days.

"Auntie is here, waiting for you to eat."

Shen Du whispered something in his father's ear, and immediately sat aside and waited for him.

After seven or eight minutes, Lao Shen finally hung up the phone and said, "Everything is money, and you can't be sloppy; If it weren't for the supermarket that Qingli helped open, I would have wanted to leave the burden. ”

Shen Du comforted: "The workload of the first purchase is indeed large, and it will be much easier in the future." ”

The two went downstairs and were stunned as soon as they came to the restaurant.

It's normal for the downstairs to be eaten, and you can't let the guests wait, however, how long has it been, and the third uncle, father and son, have already turned over a bottle of Moutai and opened the second bottle.

There was a mess on the table, chicken and fish bones were gnawed everywhere, and there were a lot of them scattered on the floor.

Seeing Shen Dui, Liu Qingli cast a very reluctant smile.

"Second brother, your wine tastes different, come and drink two glasses with me."

From entering the door to the present, the third uncle finally spoke, and to Shen Duan's surprise, this was the first time in several years that he had heard the former called "second brother".

Shen Fu also turned his head, with the smell of wine: "Shen Dui, I have decided, when I go back, my mother will open a supermarket with your mother, and you, just take me to the magic capital to make money!" ”

neither called the second aunt, nor did he call the brother, and in his tone, it seemed that he had come to give him a ride.

Just now Cheng Yuzhen chatted with his aunt, and when he praised his daughter-in-law, he mentioned the supermarket casually, and when this kid heard it, he found that his second uncle's family has changed dramatically, and it's time to gather wool.

"What do you mean by opening a supermarket together?"

Shen Dui's face sank: "That's my supermarket!" And the supermarket is already full, and even the aunt who cleans the toilet has been found, if the third aunt wants to go, let's wait for a year to be short.

"In addition, if you want to go to the magic capital, I won't stop you, but I have no obligation to take you!

"Oh, I almost forgot to tell you, all I do in the magic capital is to help people wash clothes, and I don't even have a place to live of my own, so I can't afford to take you in."

What the third uncle's family did in his previous life made him have a stomach full of resentment, and it was his mercy not to retaliate, and he actually thought of cutting leeks on his head.

Dream!

"Huh?"

The atmosphere in the arena was a little weird, who would have thought that Shen Duan would unceremoniously refuse, without giving any face.

"The baby is not sensible, and he speaks more directly, so don't take it to heart."

Cheng Yuzhen got up and played a round with a smile: "Come, continue to eat!" ”

She seems to be talking about her baby, but when she thinks about it, she doesn't have the slightest sense of blame, especially the sentence "The baby is not sensible" obviously means something.

Now, the atmosphere is even more awkward.

The meal didn't last long, the third uncle and his family left after eating, while the aunt stayed and rushed back to the city the next day.

The flavor of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, and everywhere is filled with the atmosphere of the Spring Festival, with firecrackers exploding from time to time, and there are more children's playful sounds.

In such an atmosphere, the New Year has finally arrived!