Chun Fangniang chiseled the fish and meat paste on the jade ring surface for a day, and kept beating her arms with her hands to speed up her steps towards home, while thinking in her heart that she should hurry home to wash the quilt cover and wipe the kang mat.

Everything has passed, and the new year is a new day.

When Chun Fangniang pushed open the door, she saw that the courtyard was already full of rope quilt sheets.

Chunfang had already taken her sisters to clean the house, and was brushing the pots and pans in the stove room, and even her youngest brother was wiping the water tank with a loofah.

Chun Fangniang's heart was very hot all of a sudden, and she pushed the door and said loudly with a smile: "It has to be my daughters who can help the family work, intimate." ”

Chunfang turned her head and said: "Mother, come back, it's not that we are intimate, it's our little owner who is better than your host, and we will have a holiday from now on." Tian Xin said that we will not start work until she is on duty normally. ”

Chun Fangniang followed the music, but she understood why Xu Tianxin arranged it like this.

There is no place to work, and the two side houses in the village are rented, plus a total of four rooms with two warehouses, and those two families have foreign marriage girls, and they have to go back to their parents' homes if they are not in the second and third years of junior high school.

During the Chinese New Year, so many people are working back and forth, and it is inconvenient for people to marry their daughters and come back with their aunts. And to work these girls, some of them have to go to their grandmother's house in other villages, so it is better to give them a holiday.

Of course, even if there is no reason for this, Xu Tianxin has always been the most generous one in the owner's family. On weekdays, I am engaged in strings of rest and stay up late to work, and I will give subsidized meals, and I heard the girls talk about it, and let the two old ladies who rented the house help to survive many times millet porridge and eggs.

Sure enough, Xu Tianxin's New Year's gift arrived late.

The second daughter, Chunxing, happily used a dustpan to pretend to be two New Year's gifts and said:

"Mother, there are two happy events, this morning the little owner promoted the eldest sister, and ten of us were selected to do other work. Not only did the clothes, shoes and socks be distributed in the spring, but the eldest sister's salary in the future will be 800 copper plates per month. ”

"Huh? Eight hundred. "The eldest girl can earn ten taels a year alone.

That's right, Chunxing Sensei is proud, she has already planned to work as hard as her eldest sister in the future. The two sisters laid a good foundation, which made people feel that it was not in vain, and they would strive to complete the construction of the new workshop next year, so that the little sister would also be selected to the little owner. Then their sisters earn money, and they have to provide for the younger brother to go to school.

"This second happy event is a New Year's gift for my eldest sister and me.

Mother, you see, headband. The eldest sister is pink, mine is green, and the two of us will cut off a piece of the little sister, and when the time comes, the younger sister will wear pink and green at the same time.

There are two catties of jujubes, my eldest sister and I are four catties, two catties of brown sugar, the same is also four catties, and I will drink water for my mother and younger brother.

There are two other options, one is either to choose face oil, soap and shampoo, and they heard that there is also a tooth cleaning in it. Another kind ......"

Chunfang looked at the second sister funny and dragged her mother out of the door to continue to show off: "Mother, you see, the little owner sent us a chicken, one for each person, it was so frozen, but it was fat, our family has thirty-one, and we eat one for fifteen!" ”

It is conceivable that Xu Tianxin and Liu Jingdong are not popular when they go out to sell goods?

Not only do they sell, but they also shop "one-stop" themselves.

As soon as I walked all the way, I pulled back all the domestic chickens from ten remote villages.

A win-win situation, one party can earn money to buy things from Erdaohe without going out of the house in the cold, and the other party is short of chickens at home.

Xu Tianxin initially thought that if the girls wanted skin care products, he would put the chickens in the shop and sell them. The Xu family is short of agricultural and sideline products no matter what time it is.

Unexpectedly, most of the girls chose to take the chicken home. If you don't want to get the chicken, you also have to pack more sugar, for example, red dates, saying that you want to leave some sugar for her father, and when she is hungry, she can make a cup of sugar water to drink, and let Tian Xin give her cooperation, if the family asks, they will say that the chicken is finished, and half a pound of sugar is more.

There are five or six people like red dates who need to be covered, thanks to Xu Tianxin's good memory, if Liu Jingdong is the owner of the girls, first of all, Liu Jingdong will make a mistake and say that he is exposed.

But at this time, Chun Fangniang was a little silent when she saw the two chickens.

The two girls were obviously able to divide two sets of face oil, but they didn't keep one of them, and they all replaced them with chickens.

Chunfangniang entered the house only to find that the red dates and wheat seedlings were also at her house.

When did the two little girls come?

It's been a day, and I haven't even returned home since the casual worker holiday.

Red dates and wheat seedlings first helped sweep the house, and then, Chunfang and her sisters and brothers worked to warm the kang, and they sat cross-legged on the kang to sew bedding.

The red dates were wrinkling cotton and sewing quilts, and said with a smile: "Auntie, I'm causing trouble to your family, I can only hang the clothes outside to freeze after washing, and wait for me to finish sewing this quilt." ”

"What's the trouble, peeing in the middle of the night, and then it's too late to pick it up and dry it on the kang. Who are you doing this for, I see all new cotton and cotton cloth, for your father? ”

"How can it, give it to my father, and my aunt will also find out that the noisy chicken dog will ascend to heaven for the New Year."

Mai Miao scratched her head with the other end of the needle and said, "We are helping Tian Xin'er make bedding for Guan Langzhong, and my aunt wants to help keep it secret, we specially came to your house to do the work just to prevent Grandpa Guan from knowing." ”

Chun Fangniang took a sip, looked at the face oil on the windowsill, a large set, and guessed that it was Mai Miao's New Year's gift.

Among these girls, don't look at Mai Miao's family is also poor, but they have many sons, and they are not bad for Mai Miao.

This time it would be more appropriate to have work in the village, even Mai Miao's grandfather was also in the bathhouse to make money, and Mai Miao took home a chicken. But he boasted everywhere that his granddaughter was out of luck, followed Tian Xinming, ate three meals a day, and the meal was money, and he helped the family a lot.

Chunfang entered the house and poured a cup of bud rice noodle porridge for her mother, "Mother, you first warm your stomach, and I will steam dry food...... Mother? ”

Chun Fang Niang suddenly put on her hat made of indigo grass again, and said as she walked out, "I remember one thing, I want to go out." ”

The girls looked at each other.

Chunfang Niang walked on the way to Xu's house with a frozen chicken in her hand.

At least there must be a set of face oil, the girls are older, who doesn't love a pretty one?

If you wait for the family to save a lot of money and then buy these for the daughter, the big girl's face will be damaged, and it will not be far from getting married.

Chunfangniang was sad when she thought that her eldest daughter had not been married for a long time, and she had not lived a good life in her mother's house for a few days, and she was even more determined not to treat her children too badly.

So she plans to be happy and don't think about it for the future, she will change her face oil to a set, and buy another chicken, so that the children will still have meat to eat at fifteen.

You have to ask her why she didn't buy a set of skin care products, because Chun Fangniang understands Xu Tianxin's kindness, can the face oil sold by others be the price of a chicken? Inquire about how much money you sell to those people in Qinglou, and it is all with subsidies.

Again, the Xu family will always lack chicken and meat storage, if she wants to buy another chicken for the family, she can't secretly detain it.

I'd rather spend an extra ten or eight dollars to let the Xu family have a help piggybacking one.

And there are a lot of people who have the same idea as Chunfangniang.

At this hour, Chun Fangniang didn't expect Lao Xu's family to be surrounded by so many people.

Mrs. Xu asked her three sons to go home as soon as possible to catch up on sleep, and she had to set off before dawn, and she tried to arrive as soon as the city gate opened.

As a result, I didn't sleep.

Grandma Song grabbed Xu Laoer's sleeve: "Grain, you go to the town tomorrow to help your aunt bring three chickens, and you want more than 100 yuan a piece, you look at it and buy it." ”

Xu Youliang said honestly: "Actually, I have a shop, if there are three or five of them, I can buy them in the shop." ”

"That's not good, I've heard people say that the market doesn't open until the sixth town. And what if there are several groups of guests on our side, and you can't buy them if you want to, what is the little meat you have in your house? ”

Zhang Erman's daughter-in-law said: "Yes, your fourth grandfather said, our main purpose is not to think about the price difference, the guests can't eat enough, everyone will delay earning money and cry." That's not a matter of words. Therefore, let's take a long-term view, and for the time being, we would rather pull from the outside first, don't empty the car, and don't touch the inventory in the village. ”

Xu Youyin looked at his second brother, and when he heard this, he cocked his thumb and said, "Grandma, look at this enlightenment." It's got to be you! ”

"Then it must be, hurry up, old sister, who else wants to buy chicken and meat? Let's make some frozen dumplings ourselves, store them and cook them when we are hungry, so as not to delay our work. ”

Chun Fangniang hurriedly reported: "My family, my family, one, a hundred words of chicken." ”

"Did you buy eggs? Make four baskets. ”

I don't know when it started, but it has become a habit for Erdaohe to go out and not empty the car.

People are getting together more and more.

The second old lazy daughter-in-law was tugging on Xu Youcang's sleeve: "Little San, my aunt's family wants to buy four pig paws, and your uncle is willing to gnaw on that, don't forget it." ”

crooked pears coaxed: "Oh, you still have to buy pig's feet, it's not bad to steam some sticky fire roast seeds, think about the hard days a few months ago, what kind of family?" So used to old men. ”

"Then you see, during the New Year, donkeys have to eat something good, not to mention my old men. Besides, I'll ask him to gnaw on the pig's paws and scratch more, and next year I will scratch back more money to give our mother a few flowers, and you will settle the account. ”

It can be seen that Liu Jingdong's long-awaited New Year's flavor has finally come, but distress has also followed.

When they come back tomorrow, more than a dozen of them will help the village committee and the Xu family buy back more than a dozen truckloads of grain. If you don't even carry it, the cow can't wait to hang a few pig's paws on its head to drive it back.

On the night of the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Mrs. Xu never expected that at this time, the fourteenth group of people would come to give the general a New Year's gift.

She wields a shovel to earn money while cooking, but her ears are too hot.

Who is muttering about her behind her back?

Thanks to her granddaughter's New Year's gift, the mother-in-law in the village didn't dare to complain in person, but she couldn't help but sour water behind her back and said:

"Look at the New Year's gifts that my eldest granddaughter brought back.

If I could be thirty years younger, really, I would not be afraid of gossip reaching the chief manager, and I would also go to work at the small owner's house.

couldn't stop the real eyes, and the eldest granddaughter asked me, grandma, what do you get? I said that your grandmother Xu is afraid that we are tired, as well as the Lizheng family, the Lao Wang family, the Wanjia family, and the Meizhuang family, these are all afraid that we will be tired, and our New Year's gift is two arms and two hands. ”

The other wives laughed, "That's right. It would have been nice to be able to pay the salary in time, but people are afraid of comparison. The granddaughters are doing clean and decent work, some time ago, they sent clothes and shoes, and this time they even sent flowers, let's do it well, can you not worry about anything, it seems that you are not as capable as a child. ”

"Ahh Mrs. Xu rubbed her nose, she was sure that she didn't catch a cold.

Who is speaking ill of her, Gu Sufen is not you?!

In the Xu family stove room, the old lady made alkaline noodles with a light movement, for fear that it would affect the grandchildren's sleep, and the grandchildren would get up in the middle of the night. She was muttering and scolding because her ears burned badly tonight.

Gu Sufen, isn't it you?

It was the eldest daughter-in-law who scolded her.

It's not good that during the New Year, she will cut the villain's shoes and step on her.

But this time, the old lady really wronged Gu Sufen.

Tomorrow, Wang Di will say that her father and mother are afraid that Xu Youshu's relatives will be yellow, and they are afraid that they will be beaten completely, so they went early to send the gift money to write a wedding letter for the fixed date, and even hired the official media and spent a total of 35 taels of gifts. Although it was set to marry in May, so that the new daughter-in-law could help the family farm, Gu Sufen emptied her pockets and fell ill in a hurry.

There is no time to prepare New Year's goods here, and Mr. Xu has no heart to prepare New Year's goods, and they have not prepared anything.

So there are other people who scold the old lady.

It was the people who rushed to Xujiazhuang to ride together.

The old lady of the Xu family said it very well, but where is it, Erdaohe will come to sell New Year's goods, and will come to pick them up to take a bath? It never came.

The key is that these people go back to the village to publicize it, and it is okay to delay their own washing, at most they don't want to be auspicious, but also delay other people's homes. Especially waiting for red paper couplets and oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, there are also children and daughters in the family who want to see each other in the second and third years of junior high school. The neck mud is not rubbed once all year round, and it is not clean at all if it is not soaked well.

Human?

Even Baijiazhuang was delayed, and someone asked Aunt Bai: "Isn't Erdaohe coming to sell goods?" ”

"Oh, the first dial has long been sold out, didn't you come to our Zhuangzi to hang out?"

"Then you say, do they still have any goods there?"

"The couplet is gone, and the meat, grain, and wine are also designated as not being sold, and I heard that I don't have enough for myself. As for the rest, there is a bit of a leftover. But now it's this time, and people like needles and threads are not in a hurry to sell, I'm afraid they can't come. ”

Some villages are active in their minds.

I heard that the villagers were stupidly waiting for Erdaohe, but they didn't wait to be deceived.

I thought of the Lizheng meeting held by Zhao Zhenting again.

Zhenting said that in the future, there will be a meeting every month and a half, and everyone will report on what good things they have done for the villagers during this period. Even those who are far away will not let go, let the letters come, and will also check whether the report is true.

Zhenting looks like they can do it, and if they can't do it, they will pull it down, this is going to be true. And the meeting moved angrily, asking them why they didn't do practical things with Lizheng Yulu, a village has lived dozens of relatives who have been with relatives for hundreds of years, if they don't do any practical things, they will be ashamed to panic when they worship their ancestors.

This thing is not a matter of a dozen taels of money, and it's a shame to take it down.

Therefore, on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, when everyone came back after burning the paper, the organization shouted to everyone: "If you want to take a bath, you want to go to Erdaohe to buy New Year's goods, take this car, Erdaohe will not come to pick it up, let's go by ourselves." Those who want to go into the city to buy Spring Festival couplets and Tusu wine take that car. ”

If you do this, you will report back at least a month.

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, there is still one day in the countdown to usher in the new year.

It's past three o'clock in the morning.

Mrs. Xu pulled the guests: "Honorable guests, are you going to give a New Year's gift to the general?" My sons are going to town, will you follow? ”

Mrs. Xu was low-key, and she never told these people that the army ordered at her house, and they were also in contact with the general.

She was afraid that if she said it, it would be difficult to collect money.

"Huh? Follow along. ”

In front of the Xu family, Liu Laozhu's two ox carts, Liu Laozhu's younger brother put the two cows sold here, the Wang family's, the Wanjia's, the Sun family's and the Cao family's, even the beautiful donkeys were used, plus the Xu family's total of twelve cars full of goods.

Buckwheat somen noodles, white somen noodles, sausages, mules were loaded high in ten carts.

This is still when all the inventory is emptied, the warehouse is empty, and only one-eighth of the goods are paid.

Mrs. Xu's three sons are still very heavy, carrying more than 700 taels of broken silver earned during this period, and they want to buy more than 700 taels of grain on the return trip.

It can be seen how much the camp consumes a day, and the general can't afford to subsidize welfare without a private treasury or digging gold mines.

Liu Jingdong was carrying the money of the village committee, and the village committee also wanted to buy grain.

Liu Laozhu held the torch and looked at his son, and then looked at it, a little uneasy, and asked for half of the silver from Liu Jingdong's hand to hand it over to Wang Yusheng, who would go with the car today.

In addition, two cars were also vacated for New Year's gifts.

Xu Tianxin sent Lu Yan a car of 60 jars of high liquor, the wine had just been moved to the car, and the cow almost didn't want to pull it, it was too heavy, and he didn't give a holiday during the New Year.

There are also two jars of Tusu wine each for Lu Yan, Sui Feng and Sui He, and two jars of canned peach and canned flower red. She made a new rice soap, beeswax lipstick and cream, a kind of rice balls made by Mrs. Xu, and a cookie made by Xu Tianxin herself.

The amount of wine and canned food for Jallai was as above, as well as a set of men's shampoos and showers, and a cookie.

After the two cars were filled, the New Year's gift box of the general Huo Yunqian was placed on the top, and a delicate bamboo box was also equipped, which was very similar to the modern hand-carried suitcase, and the chain head was all plated flowers.

The box was opened, and two small white porcelain bottles of Tusu wine were satin-wrapped on the left and the right. No other New Year's gifts.

and a red letterhead from Xu Tianxin, which I thought was a wedding invitation if I didn't look closely.

The content of the letter first answered Shangguan's question and said that he had only read half of the previous book, and he was a little dull and had no experience.

But he was very excited about the new books sent by the general, and he was indescribably flattered.

Finally, a word wishing the general a prosperous New Year.

When Xu Tianxin wrote, he was still thinking regretfully with his cheeks, if Bai Muyan knew how good it would be for her to know the general, Bai Muyan could help her write a letter, so as not to worry about the wording.

No, we don't have that friendship. It's not okay to say shallow, it doesn't seem respectful enough. It's not enough to say too much, and there is a suspicion that men and women spread letters and give them to each other privately.

Alas, she actually sometimes envies Liu Jingdong, she doesn't pretend to be a cultural person, can she say many times: "I am the same", more worry-free.

At half past five in the morning, the city gate had just opened, and Zhao Dashan was already waiting here, almost slipping when he saw the goods.

This is called helping to pick up some goods?

His aunt's family is in charge of twelve high-end trucks, and the goods are called a little. (End of chapter)