The paper money in the shop was sold until the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, and the trade of the previous year was completely over. The shop was closed, and the little couple still wanted to go to the town to exchange for silver tickets, taking advantage of the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the shops in the town were still open, leading Chu Xiuxiu and Chu Li, who had been on holiday, to purchase another wave.

said that it was to purchase, but in fact, there really wasn't much to buy, but it wasn't prepared by Grandma Chu, it was all sent by each family in the first few days!

As soon as the work of copper coins and paper money stopped, Zhao Chengcheng and his younger brother went to the town to buy New Year's goods the next day.

The Zhao brothers really bought a lot of things, and the ox cart passed by the Zhao family first when they returned to the village, and the two unloaded more than half of the car, and then Zhao Cheng got on the ox cart and followed the Chu family, and sent a lot of tea, wine and food!

"Thinking that the two of you don't have time to do New Year's goods, I just went to the town with my brother today, so I brought some back together!"

As soon as Zhao Cheng was sent away on the front foot, the two brothers of the Shen family came to the door on the back foot, bringing a lot of bacon made by the Shen family themselves, as well as four round big carp!

"A-Niang asked the two of us to send the New Year's gift first, and you can save yourself from preparing the bacon and fish!"

It's really early to give New Year's gifts now, usually when you visit the door around the Spring Festival, and: "My mother-in-law has prepared too much for this New Year's gift." ”

Shen Songjie shook his head: "What's a lot, A-Niang also said that when she killed the New Year pig on the twenty-sixth day, she would send a pork leg over!" ”

Shen Luzhu and Chu Yi talked so badly that the two brothers agreed to go back to help persuade Shen's mother, but don't let them be sent again, the New Year's goods must be prepared at home, how can you eat so much!

The Shen family's pork leg was finally persuaded to stop, but who knew that the next day, someone directly carried half a head of pork into the hospital! It's Uncle Jiang and Jiang Quan's father and son!

"Uncle, what is this doing, how can the elder kill the pig and send half a head to the junior?" It was convenient for Shen Luzhu to go back to the courtyard, and he happened to catch up, but he was really a little confused, why did he send things to his house one or two, and so much as he could!

"You have done my Jiang family so much, what is half a pig! Besides, your aunt is worried about you, and she knows that you are busy, so I am afraid that I don't have time to prepare for this! ”

Jiang Jiayuan also wanted to invite Chu Yi and a few people to go over to eat a pig-killing dish, but the business of the paper money shop was really inseparable from people, so he gave up: "Okay, okay, your shop is also busy, and the family is still going to eat pig-killing vegetables, so I won't stay long, go back!" ”

There is also Chu Ping, he had to go to the mountains to try his luck in previous years, this year is no exception, as soon as the work of burning paper with copper coins stopped, he took the hunting guy into the mountain, and sure enough, the pheasants and hares in the mountains did not enter his back basket, and on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, a lot of them were stuffed into the courtyard of the Chu family.

If you want to talk about these things, the happiest thing is Grandma Chu, so much meat and wine, how can you prepare any New Year's goods, buy some Spring Festival couplets and blessing words, this is not complete, and save a lot of money!

If you want to say that the old man is right, the Shen family is a soft and not hard, they didn't agree to this deal at the beginning, and now it's impossible to meddle, and his grandson only listens to his daughter-in-law since he became a parent, and he can't get anything in the end instead of making a fuss, so he doesn't have to worry about taking thirty or forty taels a year, isn't it okay?

Meat and wine are no longer necessary, but after the New Year, new clothes and new shoes and socks are naturally indispensable, ordinary people in the countryside are mostly aunts and daughters-in-law do their own, and the whole family makes one on the looser hand, and the less spacious ones are only made for the elderly and children, and some people dismantle the old jackets, wash the fabric inside and out, and deal with it for another year.

Chu Yi and his family are more affluent than most families in the village, so they should buy some fabrics and new cotton to make themselves, but the business of the paper money shop is really busy, let alone making new clothes, and even the fabric has no time to buy.

Fortunately, there are ready-to-wear shops in the town, and there is a wide variety of clothes for men, women and children, so you can always buy them if you want.

I picked out new clothes, chose a lot of good fabrics, went out of the garment store and went to Zhendong to catch up with the big set, dried fruits and fried goods, sugar cubes and snacks were full of hands, and there was nothing else to buy, so I ate lunch and went home.

When the four of them got on the ox cart, they happened to meet Chu Ren and Li with their son Chu Mingxuan, who also returned to the village.

Bored on the road, Shen Luzhu rummaged through some snacks and came out to relieve the boredom of a few children.

Chu Ren looked at the big bags and small wraps at the feet of the four people, and said seemingly casually: "I heard that it didn't go well during the Dragon Boat Festival, and I didn't see you out of the stall during the Mid-Autumn Festival, so I really worried about my cousin for a while, and now I see that my cousin has bought so many things, it seems that the business is doing well!" ”

"It's all Azhu's work!"

"Brother and sister are really amazing!"

"My cousin has won the prize." For some reason, Shen Luzhu has never had a good impression of this lobby brother, and when he saw that the topic came to him, he didn't want to say more, so he learned Chu Yifu to sing with his wife, and came to a concise and concise manner.

But it was really embarrassing to sit like this, so Shen Luzhu had no choice but to shift the target and chat tepidly with his sister-in-law Li.

The New Year of the Chu family is no different from when Shen Luzhu was in the Shen family, he got up early in the morning and began to sweep the house and remove the dust, and then posted the blessing character Spring Festival, and then prepared Chinese New Year's Eve rice dumplings, most people in the north celebrate the Spring Festival like this, but for the first time in twenty years, they did not celebrate the New Year in the Shen family, and there was always something strange in their hearts.

The stove room is still the world of Grandma Chu, Shen Luzhu and Xiuxiu were commanded to turn around, until it was almost noon, Uncle Chu's family came, and the aunt and sister-in-law also entered the stove room, which was a sigh of relief.

I don't know why, as long as my cousin-in-law Li is here, Grandma Chu always likes to let her work with her cousin-in-law, this time in order to avoid being questioned for being lazy, Shen Luzhu worked in a muffled voice throughout the whole process, vowing to clear the trumped-up charges.

Xu was chatting with Shen Luzhu on the ox cart all the way on the first day, and became familiar with a lot, but now a sister-in-law in the lobby took the initiative to talk to Shen Luzhu: "The style of this hairpin on my brother and sister's head is quite unique, I saw you wearing it yesterday, but it was customized in the town?" ”

"This is made by Chu Yi himself!"

"Chu Yi?"

The Li family was a little surprised, Shen Luzhu was about to praise it, how about their family's Chu Yi! I saw my sister-in-law pursing her lips, and asked in a hesitant and disgusted whisper: "Should this be made of wood for coffins......?"

What kind of expression and tone is this, Shen Luzhu was a little speechless! Don't say that Chu Yi is useless, even if she uses it, they didn't steal it or rob it, and they didn't dig someone's grave and dig someone's coffin to do it, she is so precious, why should the Li family dislike it!

"Sister-in-law in the lobby, sister-in-law's hairpin is peach." It was Chu Xiuxiu, seeing that Shen Luzhu didn't squeak, so he replied instead.

"What's wrong with Momoki?"

The disgust and disdain on Li's face stimulated Shen Luzhu again, and she saw that she didn't have the usual smile on her face, and her tone was unconsciously a little cold: "The family supports the family by making coffins, and my sister-in-law is married to the eldest grandson of the coffin shop, how can I not even know that peach wood can't make coffins?" ”

The two things that the eldest aunt is usually most proud of, one is that the eldest son was admitted to Xiucai in his twenties, and the other is the background of this daughter-in-law, the daughter-in-law is from a good background and can help her son, not to mention, it also proves that his son will have a great future in the future! Therefore, she has always respected her in-laws very much, and she is also very conniving with the Li family.

This Shen family not only climbed the Li family, but also dared to mention that the eldest son was the grandson of the coffin shop, and the original separation was not just to break this broken background, it was simply stepping on her reverse scales!

"How many times have you said it, don't get involved with Chu Ren! Besides, I don't know what's wrong? Qinghe grew up in the town, and his father is a Xiucai and teaches in a private school, so how can he know these things that can't be put on the table! ”

"Why can't you look down on things that can't be put on the table?" The kitchen knife in Grandma Chu's hand slapped on the vegetable pier, obviously angered by Wang's words.

What Grandma Chu asked, Shen Luzhu also wanted to ask, food and clothing, and the lobby brother studying, which didn't use the money from selling coffins, why didn't you see dislike when you spent money! I really picked up the bowl to eat meat, put down the chopsticks and scolded my mother!

The Wang family doesn't really dislike this craft, when she married Uncle Chu, it wasn't the Chu family's craftsmanship and prosperous days that she took a fancy to! It's just that people change, and what I thought was good at the beginning has now become a stumbling block to prevent my son's promotion to make a fortune: "A-Niang, I didn't mean that......"

"For the New Year, pay attention to what you say!"

Shen Luzhu prepared New Year's money for several children in the family and put it in a red envelope made of red paper. When eating Chinese New Year's Eve, Grandpa Chu really took the New Year's money to Chu Li, Chu Zhi, Chu Xiuxiu, and Chu Ren's three-year-old son Chu Mingxuan, and the children gave the elders a New Year's greeting, and said auspicious words before happily accepting it.

was about to wait for the uncle, the third uncle and Chu Ren to give it, and he followed behind. But after waiting for a long time, seeing that the other elders did not move, although I don't know why, I had to silently withdraw my right hand that was about to take out the red envelope!

Later, I asked Chu Yi privately to find out that unlike the Shen family's habits, only grandpa and grandma in the Chu family would give New Year's money: "What the other elders in the family don't give, but the third uncle secretly gave me and Ah Li in private." ”

"It's good that I didn't take it out just now, otherwise it would be embarrassing! Then wait a minute, let's also quietly give Ah Li and Xiuxiu!

"Okay."

Originally, if everyone gave it, Shen Luzhu followed the elders and gave a few children together, but now the Chu family doesn't have this habit, Chu Li and Xiuxiu give it in private, it's nothing to Chu Zhi and Chu Mingxuan, I'm afraid that I don't appreciate it if I give it to others in private, and it won't be beautiful if I think about it more.

The sister-in-law in the lobby has a strange way of thinking, the last time I misunderstood that she was lazy, and in the afternoon I suspected that her hairpin was made of coffin board! The eldest aunt is even more wonderful, in case the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law look back and feel that she is showing off her wealth, and she is looking for trouble, she feels a headache when she thinks about it, so forget it.

The New Year's money has been wrapped, and there is no reason to dismantle it again, so it was directly given to Chu Li and Chu Xiuxiu.

After eating dumplings in the middle of the night in the Chinese New Year's Eve, Uncle Chu's family went home to rest. Shen Luzhu thought that it would be the same as the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, and people would come again the next morning, but on the first day of the new year, they had lunch and didn't see anyone.

Since the division of the family every year, the uncle's family is in the old house for thirty children, and they have to go to the aunt's mother's house on the first day of junior high school, and after the cousin of the uncle's family in the second year of junior high school has returned home, they will come to accompany grandpa and grandma for a few days every day, and when they wait until the sixth and seventh days of junior high school, the cousin's family will go back to the town again.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the married daughters have to go back to their parents' homes to pay New Year's greetings. In the past, Chu Yi would take Chu Li back to his grandfather's house, but this year's marriage naturally can't be the same as in previous years, Grandma Cui also handed a letter to Chu Yi early, and asked the little couple to take Chu Li to her in the third year.

In the morning, the young couple crossed the river with the New Year's gifts, and the shops in the village were still closed, and these New Year's gifts were bought together in the town on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, including clothes for the elders, toys and snacks for the nephews, and fabrics for the sisters-in-law and brothers.

Chu Yi and the others led Chu Li to stay in the Shen family for a whole day, and after dinner, they crossed the river and returned to the Chu family's old house under the reluctant gaze of everyone in the Shen family.

As soon as I entered the door, Xiuxiu, who heard the voice, said something new: "Cousin and sister-in-law, the lobby sister came back this afternoon, it seems that there is something, I have been waiting for you for a long time, I sat in the hall for a while after dinner, and I left when it was dark!" ”

"Did you say something?"

"That's not true, I just keep asking when you will come back, I think maybe I have something to find my cousin and sister-in-law!"