On Sunday morning, Li Guocheng got up early, completed the daily homework, finished washing, and came to the courtyard.

It wasn't too cold, the breeze was light, and the distant horizon hung with sparse gold threads, which seemed to indicate that today was a good day.

Li Guocheng looked at his watch, it was less than 6 o'clock. Pick up the broom, quickly gather the leaves that blew down in the yard last night, sweep into the dustpan, open the courtyard door and prepare to dump it into the garbage heap.

"Brother, I'll come", there was a person walking next to him, it was Yan Jiefang, his face was red from the cold.

"Didn't you get there before 8 o'clock so early?" , said let go of the dustpan and let it be liberated by Yan Lai.

"Come early, help with some work", said and ran away with a dustpan.

Looking at Yan Jiefang's back, Li Guocheng shook his head with a smile, opened the door, and turned back to the kitchen.

Replace the stove with honeycomb coals, fill the kettle and place it on the stove. opened the cotton curtain at the kitchen door and found that Yan Jiefang had not returned. Puzzled, he walked out of the courtyard gate.

I saw Yan Jiefang cleaning the alley, "Jiefang, let's go into the house and drink hot water."

"Wait a while, brother, it'll be fine for a while", Yan Jiefang's movements became faster.

Li Guocheng didn't care about Yan Jiefang anymore, returned to the kitchen, and as soon as the thermos was filled, Aunt Liu came into the kitchen.

"Xiao Li, get up so early, you can entertain your friends, you don't have to worry about it here."

"It's okay, let's do it quickly, you're busy today, let's prepare the vegetables at noon first, and then stir-fry the vegetables at noon."

Aunt Liu didn't say anything more, and was busy cleaning up the kitchen.

Li Guocheng poured a cup of the remaining boiling water in the kettle, handed it to Aunt Liu, and then filled it with water again and put it on the stove.

"Brother, what should I do?" Yan Jiefang finished sweeping the alley, looked at the people in the kitchen, opened the curtain and stretched out his head and said.

"Come in and bake the fire for a while", Li Guocheng said, put a bench next to the stove, pulled Yan Jiefang to sit down, and then poured an enamel cup of boiling water and put it next to the kettle.

picked up the 2 heads of garlic next to him, handed them to Yan Jiefang with a plate, and then began to peel the potatoes, almost more than 10 of them, after washing, they were all cut into slices and soaked in a basin of water.

Everyone was busy, and before 8 o'clock, the onions, carrots and Chinese cabbage had been washed, the kelp was also soaking in a basin of water, and the amount of green onions, ginger and garlic was prepared.

Aunt Liu has already started to prepare breakfast, millet porridge, large stewed vegetables and corn wotou, which is prepared for 10 people.

Li Guocheng and Yan Jiefang washed the prepared plates, bowls, spoons and chopsticks with boiling water, and put them on the round table to control the water.

After the three of them finished breakfast, the time also came to half past eight.

When he went back to the house, he put on a gray tunic, his lower body was a slightly slim black tube pants modified by himself, a pair of shiny big scalp shoes, and looked in the mirror to arrange his collar, "so handsome", Li Guocheng was very satisfied with himself today.

Aunt Liu took out the big red flower tied with red silk cloth and helped the handlebars of the two bicycles, looked at Li Guocheng who went out, stuffed a red envelope into his hand, and after instructing the precautions again, the two guys rode out on bicycles.

Facing the rising sun, the two pedaled their bicycles quickly, which made the little daughter-in-law and eldest girl along the way exclaim, and every time at this time, Yan Jiefang was divided into hard work.

When he came to the gate, Zhao Jie was already waiting at the door, and he kept stomping his feet in the frozen place, and Li Guocheng, who couldn't help it, immediately sent a red envelope.

"You have a conscience", Zhao Jie happily opened the red envelope and said such a thunderous sentence.

Li Guocheng gave a few candy to the doorman on duty, turned around and saw Yan Jiefang peeking at Zhao Jie with a red face, and smiled, "Let's go, go into the hospital to pick up my daughter-in-law."

When I came to the door of Zhao's house, I just happened to have a bicycle, and a few men and women ran out of Hulala, and Zhao Jie also ran over, and several people stopped at the door, smiling and begging for red envelopes.

Looking at the elated Zhao Jie, this is not about martial arts, and just gave a red envelope.

Li Guocheng and Yan Jiefang glanced at each other and signaled to cover him, but seeing Yan Jiefang who had become cautious, he could only choose to rush the level by himself.

Li Guocheng pretended to pull the young man who blocked the door hard, but was blocked by them together. At this time, Zhao Jie took the lead in shouting the slogan:

"A couple of newcomers will last a long time, do I want red envelopes?"

"Thousands of rivers and mountains are always love, it's okay to give a red envelope"

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After several failed charges, Li Guocheng reluctantly sent a red envelope. They weren't over yet, asking Lee to perform the movements of the ballet Red Detachment of Women.

Aunt Liu missed the question in advance, and Li Guocheng practiced the singing segment of "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" at home, which was prepared in vain.

At this time, there were already many children around the house watching the excitement, and they were constantly coaxing. Li Guocheng also saw several adults in the room standing in front of the window and looking at it happily.

In order to meet Zhao Ting quickly, Li Guocheng had to learn the moves with Zhao Jie and make them laugh all over the place. After a few minutes, it is considered to be clear.

came to the door, raised his hand and knocked on the door, and Zhao Jie's voice came from the door, "Who is knocking on the door?" “

Li Guocheng didn't notice how this Zhao Jie ran into the house.

"I'm Li Guocheng, come to pick up my daughter-in-law", these are the coping methods that Aunt Liu told before.

"The bride has married the door, and the red envelope is knocking on the door!" , Li Guocheng had to stuff the red envelope again.

In fact, the red envelopes are not big or small, each is 1 cent.

The house was full of people, in addition to the common grandparents and Zhao Ting's parents, I saw 8 adults and a few children.

Zhao Ting told him before that he had an older brother named Zhao Xiangdong, who worked at the Xizhimen Police Station, and his sister-in-law worked in Xizhimen Street. They are busy with work, so every time it is not a coincidence, they have not seen each other.

The second uncle has 3 men and 2 women, the eldest Zhao Revolution is a soldier and does not go home all the year round, the second Zhao Hongjun works in the Material Bureau, and the third Zhao Jiefang is a Tsinghua teacher. The fourth child, Zhao Hui, also works in the Material Bureau, and the fifth is Zhao Jie.

Zhao Jie introduced them one by one, and finally met Zhao Xiangdong and his sister-in-law, Zhao Hongjun and his wife, looking for a liberated couple and Zhao Hui, Zhao Hui only came with his son today.

After some politeness, Li Guocheng finally saw Zhao Ting, wearing a red floral cotton jacket on her upper body, red cotton pants on her lower body, and a light makeup, which looked extremely beautiful.

Under the farewell of the family, Li Guocheng picked up his daughter-in-law and rushed back, followed by two people, and the extra one was Zhao Ting's eldest brother Zhao Xiangdong, the only mother's family, with a sewing machine on the bicycle. Behind Yan Jiefang's car was a large box.

Before arriving at the door, Yan Jiefang pedaled his bicycle and rushed to the courtyard to inform.

Li Guocheng deliberately slowed down. Thinking of the excitement when he greeted his relatives, he regretted it a little now, and he should have called a few more young people.

At this time, Yan Jiefang and Zhao Zhijing ran out and lit two 100-ring whips.

In the midst of the debris, Li Guocheng was blocked at the door with Zhao Ting in his arms, and Zhao Xiangdong hurriedly sent a red envelope. I thought that Zhao Zhijing would embarrass Zhao Ting today, but I didn't expect that she happily withdrew when she got the red envelope.

There was an uncle, Aunt Liu, Zhang Tou, and Zhang Lao in the courtyard, and they actually saw the senior brother and Li Huaide, and everyone was happy to say festive words.

Li Guocheng hugged Zhao Ting and sent her to bed, and the agenda of welcoming her was over.

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