After the dumplings are wrapped and cooked on the 30th night, they are first offered to the deceased family members before the living can eat them.

A family of five gathered around a small table, a few plates of pork dumplings, scrambled eggs with green onions, and fried pork slices with cabbage.

A few children looked at the dishes in front of them, and they were so hungry that they were about to drool, and it was not until Zhang Yurong spoke that they dared to stretch out their chopsticks to eat something.

Qin Xiaohe was young, and he didn't use chopsticks well, so he grabbed a dumpling and fell to the ground tremblingly.

In this day and age, no one dares to waste food, not even children.

Qin Xiaohe jumped down from the stool with his little short legs, squatted on the ground, picked up the dumplings, and swallowed them in one bite.

"Mother, I'm a little choked and panicked...... Qin Xiaohe's little face changed slightly, and he said to Zhang Yurong.

Zhang Yurong looked at his youngest son, smiled and fed him a mouthful of dumpling soup: "The original soup turns into the original food, drink the dumpling soup, grow up, and be as tall as your eldest brother in the future." ”

Qin Xiaohe drank the dumpling soup deliciously: "If only I could eat dumplings every day." ”

He folded his little hands and said his imagination, which was very cute.

Qin Hongxing, who was still stuffing dumplings in his mouth, interjected: "How can you eat dumplings every day, my mother still has to save money for our eldest brother to marry a daughter-in-law." ”

Li Fang heard this, how could he still have his own business, he hurriedly coughed a few times: "Okay, okay, eat quickly, there are so many delicious foods, if you don't eat them again, I'll finish eating." ”

He sandwiched two dumplings into Zhang Yurong's bowl, just now Zhang Yurong has been eating Erhe noodle steamed buns, and the dumplings are reluctant to eat, so they are left to the child.

"Mother, eat quickly, if we have the conditions in the future, like Xiaohe said, eat dumplings every day." Li Fang said with a smile.

Zhang Yurong smiled and nodded: "Okay, that mother will wait." ”

The meat that Li Fang brought back, in addition to wrapping these plates of dumplings, was also a little richer, and Zhang Yurong asked Li Fang to send it to Qin Jianjun's family.

After eating dumplings and hanging firecrackers, the New Year came.

At night, several children were making a fuss about the New Year, but soon they got tired of running and fell asleep in bed.

As soon as he went out, he saw Qin Jingru also hanging around at the door of his house.

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"Brother Fangzi, have a good New Year." Qin Jingru put on her red cotton jacket, and the girl's skin became fairer.

Li Fang waved his hand: "Happy New Year, Happy New Year." I didn't receive New Year's money this year. ”

Qin Jingru's cheeks flushed slightly when she heard Li Fang's words: "I've grown up, I'm not a child anymore, how can I have New Year's money." Besides, it's not the first year of junior high school yet......"

Li Fang looked at Qin Jingru in front of him, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly.

He suddenly conjured a handful of red, green and green fruit hard candy from his hand.

"If you don't have any New Year's money, then it's okay for adults to eat some sugar." Li Fang looked at her with a smile.

The girl looked at the candy in surprise and reached out to take a piece of candy.

The little hand that was red from the cold peeled off the candy paper and put the sugar in his mouth, not to mention how sweet it was in Qin Jingru's heart.

"It's delicious, it's so sweet." Qin Jingru said excitedly.

Li Fang looked at the girl's surprise and smiled, sure enough, she was still a child.

However, he himself is only sixteen years old, and it can only be said that they are in their youth.

The sound of firecrackers makes the Chinese New Year's Eve more lively, but the cold of winter can't drive firecrackers away.

After a while, the two of them were frozen and stiff outside.

"I'll go back first, it's too cold." Li Fang stuffed a handful of sugar into Qin Jingru's hand.

Before Qin Jingru came back to his senses, he ran back with a smoke.

Qin Jingru returned home with the candy in a beautiful way, and the family was surprised when they saw the candy in her hand.

"Sister, I want to eat candy too." It was Qin Jingru's younger brother who spoke, a little boy in open crotch pants.

Qin Jingru reluctantly gave a piece of sugar to the family, but the sugar was given by Brother Fangzi, and she was reluctant to eat it herself.

Who wants to give more points to others?

Fortunately, the other children were also sensible, and they were satisfied with eating a piece of candy, and they no longer pestered her to ask for it, and ran and jumped up in the house again.

"Li put that kid to give it?" Taking advantage of Qin Jingru's return to the house, her mother and husband muttered quietly.

Qin Daping smoked a dry cigarette: "Accurately, Fangzi is now a worker, besides him, who is still so atmospheric, giving our daughter so much sugar ......"

Women always think more, Qin's mother's eyes lit up, and she said: "If only Li Fang could marry Jingru, Jingru can also go to the city to live a good life." ”

Qin Daping shook his head, he was not very optimistic about the two of them: "Li Fang is a worker, the city hukou eats commercial grain, married Jingru, not only the daughter-in-law is an agricultural hukou, but also the child is still an agricultural hukou in the future, and it is difficult to support the family by him alone...... Unless this kid has the ability to feed a family. ”

It's not that he doesn't look down on Li Fang, on the contrary, he feels that his daughter is not worthy of Li Fang, after all, in this era, the gap between urban and rural hukou is really too big.

It's never an empty talk

Mother Qin sighed: "Jingru, this child, alas...... I'm going to talk about her. ”

Qin Daping grabbed Qin's mother and said, "At Jingru's age, she can't listen to it, and if it's the New Year, don't make the child uncomfortable." Let's talk about it when we have a chance later, don't worry. ”

They all came from this age, and they all know that teenagers and girls at this age are the most prone to extremes.

In that year, there were young people in the village who couldn't think of it and went to extremes.

They don't want their daughters to be like this.

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On the first day of the new year this year, because Qin Dashun was gone, the family was afraid that others would be taboo, so they didn't go to pay New Year's greetings.

A few small ones couldn't receive the New Year's money, and they looked uncomfortable. Although the New Year's money is at most a penny, the mosquito is not meat.

Li Fang looked at the children's sullen appearance, so he gave two cents each.

"Why do children want so much money, my mother will take it for you, and I will give it to you in the future."

As soon as the money was issued, Zhang Yurong pushed the door in and took all the money away, leaving only five cents for each person.

Qin Xiaomei looked at Li Fang, her little eyes pitiful.

Li Fang spread his hand and said that he couldn't help.

Seeing that the eldest brother didn't work, the children reluctantly ran out and played with their friends.

Zhang Yurong filled each of them with chestnuts and melon seeds that Li Fang brought back, and let them share them with their friends.

Li Fang hid in the house by himself to make up for sleep, he slept late last night, and now he is sleepy.

It's just that as soon as I closed my eyes, the uninvited guest came again.

"Why did you kid sleep again, get up." Qin Jianjun ran into the house in the dust.

There was still an air conditioner on his body.

Li Fang sighed, he was now smoothed out by Qin Jianjun when he got up.

"What bad idea did you think of again......" Li Fang hugged the quilt and looked at Qin Jianjun.

Qin Jianjun took out a long earthen gun from his back.

"Look what good stuff I've brought you." Qin Jianjun ostentatiously held the earthen gun.

This earthen gun was homemade at first glance, and Li Fang felt as if he had seen this gun somewhere.

"Did the fifth uncle hunt with this thing?" Li Fang thought about it for a long time, and then remembered that the year before last he followed Qin Dashun up the mountain and saw Qin Darong take it.

Qin Jianjun nodded.

"I took it secretly, let's go, let's go hunting." He used to use a slingshot to hit birds at most, and the slingshot thing could hit sparrows and other birds at most, and the rabbits couldn't hit it, so Qin Jianjun turned his attention to Qin Darong's earthen gun.

Qin Darong never let him touch this earthen gun, and he also took it out of his house secretly because Qin Darong didn't stay at home during the New Year.

Li Fang looked at the bold Qin Jianjun and had a strange premonition.

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