Jiang Haiyang and others went to Jiang Xiaoji's house to brand bean skin, and only Wang Xiuju and Jiang Xiaobai were left in the house.

"Mom, do you need to prepare anything for the New Year?" Jiang Xiaobai asked.

Wang Xiuju said: "I have bought everything that should be bought, I have done everything that should be done, and there is nothing to prepare." ”

Jiang Xiaobai said with a smile: "Then I will take a day off today, and tomorrow will be a lively New Year." ”

Wang Xiuju smiled: "What are you resting, I have to clean all the houses today." ”

Jiang Xiaobai almost stumbled, just asked you what else you need to prepare, you said you didn't need to, and in a blink of an eye said that you would clean all the houses. God, do you know how many houses there are in the house?

Dozens of houses have been cleaned, and you can't tire yourself to death!

However, he also knows that in the countryside there is a custom of cleaning houses before the 30th of the Chinese New Year's Eve, saying that the Chinese New Year's Eve does not sweep the floor and cannot take the garbage out of the door.

Otherwise, "luck" will be swept away.

This is of course a ridiculous statement, but in the countryside in the eighties and nineties, people believed it.

Jiang Xiaobai said: "Okay, I'll clean up." ”

Wang Xiuju said: "What do you want you to clean?" You don't have to worry about it, I'll clean up with Xiaoqing and Xiaolei later. ”

Jiang Xiaobai was slightly stunned, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile.

Mom, I still feel sorry for myself.

I'd rather ask Jiang Xiaoqing and Jiang Xiaolei's two younger siblings to clean up than call him.

"Mom, Xiaoqing and Xiaolei both participated in the cleaning, I, who is my brother, don't participate, it's not like that, I'll clean up!" Jiang Xiaobai said.

Wang Xiuju said: "This family, you are the hardest, you are doing big things, you don't need to do these small things, Xiaoqing and Xiaolei want to exercise more, you don't care." ”

Jiang Xiaobai said with a smile: "There are so many houses, where did the two of them clean them?" ”

Wang Xiuju said: "Your father and I usually clean up the house, and there is not much to clean, but we have to do it before the Chinese New Year, so the two of them can do it casually." ”

After speaking, he snorted: "I really expect the two of them to sweep the house clean!" ”

Jiang Xiaobai couldn't help laughing, her mother is a person who understands, and she understands everything in her heart, and the so-called cleaning is just a way to educate her younger brothers and sisters.

"Okay, listen to you!"

Jiang Xiaobai said with a smile.

Wang Xiuju nodded with satisfaction: "If you're okay, I'll go to your Uncle Tan later, and ask him to help write a few couplets." ”

In the countryside for the New Year, sticking Spring Festival couplets is an important thing for every household. The red Spring Festival couplets are pasted at the gate, festive and auspicious.

Paste the Spring Festival couplets to have the atmosphere of the New Year.

And the Spring Festival couplets of Jiangwan people for the New Year are basically written by Tan Carpenter.

There's no way, his good words are really good-looking.

The villagers don't need to pay for Tan Carpenter to write couplets, most of the villagers buy red paper by themselves, and then take it to Tan Carpenter's house and let Tan Carpenter cut it and write it.

Of course, it is not uncommon to take some home-grown vegetables, or make glutinous rice cakes and mashes.

Although these things are not worth much, the family will not take too much. But there are many people who can't stand looking for Carpenter Tan to write Spring Festival couplets, and in general, Carpenter Tan's family usually receives a lot of various "New Year's goods", and his family doesn't have to make glutinous rice cakes and mash like other people's homes, and they have the same food.

Jiang Xiaobai's family used to find Tan Carpenter to write Spring Festival couplets.

Hearing his mother say this, Jiang Xiaobai was in a trance for a while.

"Mom, I know, I'll go to Uncle Tan to write Spring Festival couplets in a while."

Although after being reborn, his handwriting is not bad, but it is still much inferior to Carpenter Tan's handwriting.

Wang Xiuju said: "This year is not more than in previous years, there are more doors at home, your Uncle Tan is estimated to have to write for a while, when you go, take a good cigarette and a bottle of wine." ”

In the countryside, if the Spring Festival couplets are pasted for the New Year, if the family conditions are poor, you can put one on the door, but if the family is well-off, basically all the doors and pillars in the house will be pasted with a picture.

There are a lot of doors and column heads in Jiang Xiaobai's house.

The last time Jiang Xiaoqing was learning to drink, the couplets on all the doors were written by Carpenter Tan, and his arms were sore.

Jiang Xiaobai nodded, my mother was always so careful and thoughtful, and said with a smile: "I know." ”

While the mother and son were talking, Ye Guangdou, Jiang Xiaoqing and Jiang Xiaolei came into the house.

"Xiao Ye, thank you for your hard work!"

"Sit down and take a break!"

Wang Xiuju immediately greeted warmly, and said to Jiang Xiaoqing after speaking: "Quickly pour you a cup of tea for Brother Ye." ”

Jiang Xiaoqing looked at Wang Xiuju speechless for a while, I was also cleaning, I was also very tired, why did I want to serve him?

She is a little skeptical, is she still her mother's daughter?

Why is it better to treat an outsider than to yourself?

However, complaining can only be expressed in her heart, as the host, she still has to follow the way of hospitality, and she can only obediently pour tea for Ye Guangdou.

Ye Guangdou hurriedly said: "Auntie, I came by myself, Xiaoqing and Xiaolei have also been busy for a long time, and it is also very hard." ”

said that he made tea by himself, and he didn't treat himself as an outsider at all.

Jiang Xiaobai saw that the corners of his mouth twitched.

Wang Xiuju was smiling, and she praised Ye Guangdou for being diligent and sensible.

Jiang Xiaolei really couldn't listen to it anymore.

"Mom, the garbage is all gone, I'll go back to my homework!"

It's uncomfortable to stay here, so it's better to study.

Wang Xiuju glanced at him and said, "What homework are you writing today, tomorrow will be thirty, you and Xiaoqing will go and clean up all the houses." ”

"Huh?"

"Ahh

Jiang Xiaoqing and Jiang Xiaolei exclaimed at the same time.

"Mom, don't you know how many houses there are in the house? Do you want to exhaust me and my second sister to death by cleaning it all? Jiang Xiaolei looked at Wang Xiuju in disbelief and said dissatisfied.

Wang Xiuju glared angrily: "Where did you get so much nonsense, I know that there are many houses at home, so why don't you hurry up and do it!" ”

Jiang Xiaolei was just choked, and looked at Jiang Xiaobai as if asking for help: "Big brother, you give a comment, you say that Mom's request is too much?" ”

Jiang Xiaobai smiled: "Mom asked you to do it, you just do it!" ”

My mother had been angry with him before.

He was naturally on his mother's side.

Jiang Xiaolei was counting on his eldest brother to call the shots for him, but he didn't expect his eldest brother to abandon him directly.

The eldest brother and the old mother are in the same group.

Heart-piercing!

"Sweep and clean!"

Jiang Xiaolei gritted his teeth and said, and turned around and left without love.

Take a broom and a rag and go to work.

When Ye Guangdou heard that he was going to do a big cleaning, he hurriedly said: "Auntie, your house is too much, Xiaoqing and Xiaolei can't clean it in a day, I'll also go and help!" ”

There was a little excitement in his expression.

There is another reason to stay and stay by her side in the bright light.

Without waiting for Wang Xiuju to speak, Jiang Xiaobai said: "Guangdou, you better go back first!" ”

"Assistant Jiang, I'm ......"

Jiang Xiaobai raised his hand to stop him, and said in a resolute tone: "Go back, have a good New Year!" ”