When Liu Guiyuan arrived home, her nose was no longer bleeding, but there was still a trace of blood on her hands, she scooped a scoop of water from the water tank, stood with her legs apart, poured the scoop down, and quickly washed it with her two hands in turn.

"Come back, why is there blood on your nose, it can't be that our milk beat you, right?" Liu Huahua picked two tender eggplants and a handful of small peppers from the vegetable field, and prepared to fry them at noon, and when he got home, he saw Liu Guiyuan's embarrassed appearance, and his nostrils were stained with blood.

"Hey, don't mention it, I'm at the second uncle's house......" Liu Guiyuan put down the water scoop, moved a bench into the hall, sat down and began to tell the story of how she sent ice powder to the second and third uncle's house.

"The second aunt won't be sick, why is she so polite to you all of a sudden?" Liu Huahua slapped the table and laughed.

"Who knows, maybe the conscience has found out and wants to be nice to us." Liu Guiyuan shrugged, indicating that she didn't care, took a handful of sharp peppers from the basket, and said while pulling the sharp pepper stalks: "By the way, today is Brother Bolt's birthday, has anyone in our family celebrated his birthday recently?" ”

There are six people in the family, except for knowing that Liu Lianzi's birthday is in April, she doesn't know anything else, and she doesn't even know when she was born, so she can only ask her second sister.

Liu Huaanhua lowered his head and counted his fingers: "Our father is the first day of the seventh month, our mother is the eighth day of the third month, the eldest sister is the fifteenth day of August, you and I are in December, and the lotus seed is April 17, well, that's all, the nearest is our father's birthday, but he will definitely not come back that day." ”

Liu Guiyuan nodded, thinking that no one had a birthday, so forget it, I thought that during this time, there was nothing to do, and the sisters found something to be happy, since there was none, then forget it, but she thought about it again, no one can still be happy on her birthday, so she blinked and looked at her second sister: "Second sister, since no one has a birthday, let's make up for a Dragon Boat Festival at home, last time we didn't even eat zongzi, there is no festival taste at all." ”

Last time after the Dragon Boat Festival, just in time for the two days of wheat harvest, her family was busy with wheat harvesting and dry racks, and there was no time to eat zongzi and drink realgar wine, let alone watch people race dragon boats and jump Zhong Kui and other activities.

Liu Huaan's eyes lit up, and he immediately agreed, just as the eldest sister Liu Hongzao carried two buckets of water back from outside, the two sisters hurried to greet them, one to take the burden, the other to carry the bucket, and by the way, the idea of making up for the Dragon Boat Festival was told to the eldest sister.

"Make up for the Dragon Boat Festival? You two really think, in previous years, there were eight times out of ten times in our Dragon Boat Festival, and sometimes even the Mid-Autumn Festival, do you two want to make up for each of them? Liu Hongzao looked at the two of them in front of her and felt funny, she thought carefully about the birthdays of adults and children in the family, and suddenly her eyes lit up, and said to the two of them: "I remember that our grandmother's birthday seems to be June 11, and it will be in three days, I don't know if she can pass this year?" ”

Grandma Luo is sixty-three years old this year, and she will be sixty-four this year, but there are very few people in their rural families who are celebrating their birthdays for the elderly, unless they are from those families with solid backgrounds.

"Really! That's great, why don't we go to the town to buy something, go see my grandmother together, and celebrate her birthday? Liu Guiyuan slapped her little hand, and her eyes narrowed into a crescent moon, why didn't she think of her grandmother's birthday, this time her sister has spare money in her hands, so it is better to take advantage of the rainy season to go to her grandmother's house to play, not only to visit relatives, but also to pay tribute to her father's birthday.

Liu Guiyuan's proposal was quickly approved by the two sisters, and the three of them muttered while cooking, and soon made a travel plan to go to relatives, Lianzi must be brought, she is almost three months old, as long as she takes care of it, it is okay to go out with her. There is no one at home, so the pigs and chickens can ask the eldest aunt Gu to help them take a look, and when the time comes, they will prepare the wheat bran to feed the pigs and chickens, and then go to East Lake to gather more pigweed to prepare.

As for the business of ice powder, don't worry about it, the town has not been busy recently, and Brother Dog Baby can handle it alone, and their sister can come back in three days at the grandmother's house at most, so nothing can be done. The last one is to borrow a car to travel, Liu Guiyuan proposed to rent a donkey cart in the town, the one that walked fast, not to mention, it was not so bumpy, but the eldest sister said that it was better to save the money to buy a birthday gift, they still borrowed the ox cart of the uncle's mother's house, and it was a big deal to go out early.

The three of them talked a little, lunch was quickly done, Liu Guiyuan's fire, the second sister's fried vegetables, a plate of fried tender eggplant, a plate of scrambled eggs with sharp peppers, the eldest sister's noodles, white noodles mixed with maize noodles, pasted on the edge of the pot, the water was boiled and then slightly angry, and the dead noodles were fully cooked. Dead dough cakes are cakes made from unfermented noodles, which are thick and chewy to eat, faster and easier than Hefa noodles, and are generally loved by farmers.

The dead dough cake was baked brown on the pot, and Liu Guiyuan took the lead in picking up one and ate it with eggplant vegetables and chili vegetables. The dishes are all meals, and each of the three of them can eat a second one, which is fragrant.

After eating, feeding lotus seeds and eating a bowl of rice cereal, she changed a new diaper and handed it to the fourth grandmother to take care of, and the three sisters rushed to the town with great interest, of course, she did not forget to sit in the Sun snail foot shop and send some snails that were fished in advance.

When he arrived at Sun Luo's shop, Liu Guiyuan handed over the snails to the counter, Sun Jingxuan took the snails to weigh when he saw them, Liu Guiyuan waved his hand, and said the words he had thought in advance: "Brother Sun, in the future, we will send you snails for free, no need to give money, during this time, I sell ice powder here, and I rely on your help in all aspects, I want to collect money again, and the eldest sister and second sister have to talk about me." ”

Brother Dog Wa has to pull several buckets of ice powder every time he goes to the town, this thing can't be put outside when it doesn't start to be sold, and it won't ice when the sun is shining, so it's stored in Sun Jingxuan's house every time, in addition to this, when selling ice powder at the beginning, Sun Jingxuan didn't help sell it to diners, she has to remember this feeling, and she can't calculate it on a little money.

Sun Jingxuan didn't want to take advantage of them, but the three sisters insisted on not accepting it, so he had no choice but to agree generously. He thought to himself, you don't collect the money from the snails, so when the dividends are distributed at the end of the year, I will give you some more.

The three sisters went out of the Sun Luo shop, and soon walked into the store with a list of all kinds of goods, Liu Guiyuan thought about the old man to give a birthday peach or a birthday cake for his birthday, but asked a few stores, there was no ready-made longevity peach, Liu Hongzao proposed that the sisters go home and make one by themselves, not to mention saving money.

Then there is to send longevity curtains or longevity screens, longevity banners are paved with a red silk as big as a middle hall, on which are written or embroidered with auspicious words such as blessings such as the East China Sea and Shoubi Nanshan, looking really joyful, it is the most ordinary longevity banners are two and a half silver, and the sisters thought for a long time, or decided to look at something else.

"Why don't we buy a smaller vertical screen, the kind that is easy to hold and put away, you see that the word Shou is quite good-looking, and the word is surrounded by five bats to worship Shou, how good is the meaning?" Liu Guiyuan pointed to a log-colored screen erected on the table, with a circular longevity character in the middle, surrounded by five bats and auspicious clouds, looking generous and exquisite.

The three sisters liked it, and asked the seller, because it was a carved ornament of rosewood, only the last one was left, and it only took one or two silver to buy, Liu Guiyuan knew that this was the routine of the store, and was cheeky to bargain and intercede in front of the shopkeeper, and finally the shopkeeper did not loosen his mouth, and his wife spoke: "I read that you juniors are filial, and you still know how to give your grandmother's birthday gift, okay, I will be cheaper, eight hundred dollars to sell to you, this is the lowest price, you can patronize my small shop more in the future." ”

The three sisters went out happily, Shouping was too big, and the three of them first went to the ready-to-wear store to buy clothes that Grandma Luo could wear, and then came back to get Shouping. When they arrived at the boudoir clothing store they frequented, the female shopkeeper had really good eyesight, and even recognized the three sisters, and listened to their appeals, and the female shopkeeper quickly selected three clothes of different colors, patterns and styles for them, which were a gold-like cardigan, a lilac-colored sleeve jacket and a glazed blue longevity lace skirt.

"The gold everywhere is too flowery, the lilac is too thick, it is better to take the glass blue dress, this color is suitable for our grandmother's age, and there is a small embroidered lace on the skirt, not only to wear it when you have a birthday, but also to wear it cheaply.

Liu Guiyuan thought for a while and said his opinion, the eldest sister and the second sister agreed, asked the price and paid, and asked the store to wrap it up, and wait for it to come back and get it. Out of the garment shop, next door is the cloth shop, although the garment shop also sells fabrics, but most of them are high-quality products, they can't afford to buy and don't need such good materials.

Thanks to the popularity of cotton, half a cotton cloth is only one hundred and fifty Wen, this fabric is soft and sweat-absorbent, and it is the most suitable for making underwear in summer.

"How about buying a melon skin hat for lotus seeds?" Liu Huahua found a parrot green melon skin hat on the shelves of the cloth clothing workshop, the hat was made of flannel, which was very soft to the touch, and this color looked cool in summer, so he had to buy a lotus seed out of his own pocket.

The melon skin hat is the most popular hat style from the elderly to the children, and it is sewn together with a fabric of the same size of six petals when it is made, sharp at the top and wide at the bottom, and it does look like a watermelon upside down on the head from a distance.

"Okay, let's Lianzi wearing this green hat, it's quite suitable." Liu Guiyuan leaned his head on the second sister's shoulder, leaning against the second sister's ear and muttering.

"What are you talking about, you dead girl." Liu Huahua naturally knew the special meaning of the green hat, and was so angry that he wanted to twist her ears.

The three sisters laughed and laughed out of the cloth workshop, and bought a few cheap gadgets along the street: Liu Hongjube bought pink silk flowers, osmanthus head oil, orange-sized soap balls, etc., the second sister took a fancy to a hollow bamboo folding fan, which was only three pennies, and the three sisters each bought a handful, and they could fan it when it was hot at night.

When he went home, Liu Guiyuan went to the meat stall to cut meat, the eldest sister and the second sister went separately to get things, and when they arrived at the bridge, the three sisters walked back with their things and laughing.