The firecrackers here are made of red rice paper wrapped in charcoal ash as a lead, and the content of old gunpowder is low, and the core will burn slowly when it is long.

If it is wrapped in white rice paper, it is burned in the grave. It must be used for both purposes in order to sell goods throughout the year, otherwise the firecracker workshop will lose money.

In fact, in some modern places that pay more attention to tradition, this kind of firecracker is still used to go to the grave.

And the last time the Xu family went to Fucheng, they bought two 1,000 rings for the New Year and the fifth day of the Lunar New Year to welcome the God of Wealth, and one for the shops with 3,000 rings. But today's Chinese New Year really didn't use the ones I bought at home, so they resold them to the old family.

Because this is not Lu Yan brought Xu Tianxin another cart full of firecrackers.

The least people give is tens of thousands of rings, is it true...... Rich people really don't pay attention to spending money, it's a bit unnecessary to ask the truth in your heart, or is it that our Xu family is not rich enough to understand? Anyway, the biggest plate has tens of thousands of rings.

If it weren't for the fact that the New Year's gift from others was not good and then turned over, the old Xu family almost cut off tens of thousands of rings and continued to sell.

In fact, if you want the old lady to say that she can be willing to spend money to buy those thousands of rings, it would be a shame.

Where was it before.

In the past, the countryside was really firecrackers, every household would go to the mountain to cut two bamboos and crack them with fire, the local bamboo is still different from other places, some thin, and it is not so brittle when it cracks, and it is the New Year when it is a muffled sound. That's how the word firecrackers came from.

So when the old lady first heard that she wanted to buy real firecrackers at home, she couldn't accept it psychologically, and felt that the money was crackling and gone, wouldn't that be a bad practice of hard-earned money?

She relied on persuading herself to do business at home and change her concept, so when her grandchildren rushed out the firecrackers, she smiled and said, jump a few more cannons, and spend these two every day.

But I didn't expect that before I used it, I turned my hand and lit tens of thousands of rings, so that the old lady deliberately went out to watch the cannon before dinner, and it was not unusual to watch it for a while.

In the past few months, the old lady feels that her life is very fresh.

At this time, accompanied by firecrackers that would only sound in a second or two, the lively sound of talking in the Xu family's big house spread to the courtyard.

The table was full of joy and looked at Xu Tianxin and said, "Sister Emma, take a look, in the future, your family's treasure will be able to marry high." It's no wonder she's capable of it, guess what? With that rich and noble look, others can't eat meat, she picks potatoes to eat. You say this kid is full of luxury. I've heard people say that young ladies from big families don't like to eat meat. ”

Xu Tianxin eats the potatoes in the stewed potatoes with chicken wings, mixed with rice, and then sandwiched with chopsticks and refreshing shredded cabbage and cold vegetables, which are delicious, what does it have to do with wealth.

But everybody loved to hear it.

Yu Qinniang was so happy that she hurriedly sandwiched a pot of meat on the table: "Auntie, you can eat it too." Don't talk patronizingly. After speaking, he glanced at Xu Tianxin with a rare smile.

Xu Tianxin: What's the matter with "......", you've already found someone to marry her? Alas, for a while, it can't change everyone's definition of women's wealth, and people here always think that women are better than anything else.

The old lady finally understood why her daughter-in-law was willing to pull this godsister.

The background of the matchmaker is indeed different, otherwise she will also go out to practice, after a long time, her mouth will be dessert, and her daughter-in-law can give her a little more smile.

Mrs. Xu and Xu Tianxin sat opposite, and there was no way to broadcast live.

Xu Zhaozhao and the old lady sitting next to her.

Wen Yan put a piece of meat in Zhaozhao's bowl, and said happily: "Tian Xin'er has loved potatoes since he was a child, and this year he lost his children, so he didn't do anything." The merchant ordered the goose to be stewed in an iron pot, and we had to serve it with potatoes, and then make some vermicelli for people to stew chicken, and sell it for money. Last year's potato and sweet potato harvest was also not good, and half of the savings had to be left for spring breeding, so I still had to buy some. ”

The old lady hurriedly said: "I see that our leeks are rooted, and the celery is not sold for two more crops, so I will use these vegetable shelves to plant sweet potato seedlings, and make a few more pools on the kang in each house to pick up some sand and come back to plant seedlings." I'm familiar with this life. "In the past, everyone in the old people used to do it for that side.

Here, these farms will be made after the New Year.

In the south, you can grow sweet potato seedlings outside, but here there is still snow outside in March and April, and even snow. And it is not as good as modern plastic greenhouses.

In fact, you can also make an oilcloth shed, and those wealthy families will not delay to keep the fruit trees warm, but you have to think about the cost. Let's plant potatoes and sweet potatoes one by one.

There is no way, the weather is too cold, you can only use the heat of the kang to build a pool, and then put soil and fertilizer, and use the temperature of the kang to ensure the temperature of the seedlings.

Mrs. Xu gave the old lady the fattest part of the fish belly, and she found that the old lady was quite willing to eat oily food.

Don't say that the elderly should be persuaded to eat more vegetables, they will lose a lifetime in their stomachs, eat it, and said: "Then the spring will be hard for the child's grandmother." ”

One sentence made the old lady blush with excitement: "It's not hard, I can do it." ”

The Xu family looked at their grandmother and couldn't help laughing.

Speaking of spring farming, Mrs. Xu often asked again: "Table, I asked you to buy a few more acres of wasteland, did you go to Liu Laozhu to ask?" You see that the government doesn't care, as long as the wasteland silver is paid, how many families in the village have added one or two acres. You can buy it as soon as possible, and you can pick a good place, and you don't have no money in your hand. ”

The table was full of thoughts: This is true, I heard that not long ago, even Lao Zhai Tou's house added an acre of wasteland next to her sister's house. That old man is sharp, don't worry about what to plant, don't you know how to look at the Xu family. Not to mention the old Wanjia and Lao Wang's families, who really earned money this year, are all five acres and ten acres of additions. The Sun family caught up with the old Bai family through her elder sister, and the pine nuts sold well this year, and they directly added 30 acres of wasteland.

The table was full and said: "Three acres of wasteland is enough, and I won't add a few people to my family." She didn't want to say it, but seeing the old lady's disapproval, she could only tell the truth: "Next year, your family will hire so many people to work, all in time to hire people when farming, and to build houses and open up wasteland, I have to cook." I don't feel at ease if someone else makes a big pot of rice. ”

Her family's focus next year will no longer be on clearing the wasteland and farming, but will she have to farm when the old lady's house wants to build a house and open up the wasteland when there is a shortage of people? It's not bad this year, so that the old lady's family can buy seeds in any year if she can do it.

Yu Qinniang sat next to the full table, and when she heard this, she once again sandwiched a piece of pot wrapped meat on the full table.

She had already seen that even a small bite was rare on the table, and she was reluctant to swallow it, so she had to swallow it for a while: "Auntie, you eat." ”

"Emma, good boy, my aunt is not going to eat, she is well fed."

Where are you full? Mrs. Xu knew that the table was full, and she specified that she felt that a family of five came to her house for the New Year, and one person would have half a plate of meat wrapped in two pots, and she was reluctant to eat more.

She personally picked up the dishes and said: "A table of dishes, our family must eat more for the New Year, you don't have to worry about the shop, there is Liu Laozhu there." ”

Liu Laozhu led people to build a public shed for the guests.

It is not good for the guests to worship their ancestors here for the New Year, and they also want to worship something, and the buyers and sellers all worship Guan Gong, which is also a surprise prepared by Erdaohe Village for the merchants.

Speaking of this, I really put my heart into it, and I deliberately went to find Guan Gong who pinched the craftsman who pinched the mud buttocks. There was no bargaining for spending a silver or two for the New Year. Because people stayed up all night, they sent it this morning.

Mrs. Xu thought for a while and said to the full table: "You should buy your own land or buy it, and you don't need to do the work of these people in your family." Besides, as soon as Chinese New Year's Eve is over tonight, I will announce to everyone that my family will hire those men in the village who marry girls in the spring. ”

It was also the first time Xu Jiayou had heard of it, and Xu Youyin was a little surprised: "Ah? That can't move the aunts and grandmothers enough. ”

"It doesn't matter if you are moved or not, but the aunts and uncles of each family come here to work, and our family will directly pay two more wages, regardless of food and housing, and let them live in the father-in-law's house."

It just so happens that the daughters of the family can also go back to their parents' house for half a year, and I can't do any other work here, so I hire them to do it.

Besides, even if it is not enough, some men from other villages will be hired, and it is relatives like Xujiazhuang, who have a total of more than 30 people, and this meal is easy to make. So don't always worry about me. ”

The table was full of people, but he only planned to add another two acres to plant some corn: "Sister, take a look, as soon as this news comes out, your reputation as a good person will be even louder." The villages where those married girls are located will also know, and you also help those girls to be looked down upon in their in-laws' houses. ”

Mrs. Xu thought to herself: She doesn't want to be a good person.

Isn't there such a saying? Good people have to be good people all the time to become Buddhas, strangely, bad people put down the butcher knife and immediately become Buddhas.

It's hard to be a good person. It can only be said that it is a win-win.

However, when it comes to great good people, it is not her.

Mrs. Xu revealed another piece of news to everyone, and even Xu Tianxin didn't know: "Da Bao'er, guess how many people are eating at your grandfather Guan's house right now?" ”

Xu Tianxin was sandwiching the meat on the gills of the fish, and when he heard this, he wondered: "How much?" I knew that I asked him to come to our house for the New Year, but he didn't come. ”

I didn't mention it a few times, even this morning.

Later, Grandpa Guan muttered:

"I'm a man, I don't have a mother-in-law, and you don't have a milk. You kid, I usually go to your house for something. For the New Year, I'll go too? What happened to that? "He's got to be mindful of the impact.

Xu Tianxin didn't force it, and also muttered back: "You still dislike it, pay attention, it should be my grandmother who is afraid of being affected by you." ”

Yes, the deep discipleship of sending the futon to the New Year this morning dissipated like that, Guan Er's bald eyes were no longer red, and there were no tears of emotion. It seems that the master is too far behind the grandmother.

But after patting a few catties of quilts, even Yingzi and Tiger Support, Guan Erbald still rubbed the soft quilt with that old face when his daughter didn't see it, oops, relieved.

At this time, Mrs. Xu revealed the answer and said: "The three families in the village who have no children and no daughters are the ones who rent a house and work in Tianxin, plus Gao Mantang's old couple, who are now all invited to eat by Guan Erbald." Hehe, this old boy, I estimate that even your fourth uncle and seventh uncle went to the Guan family. These old arms and legs have to discuss big things. ”

"What's the big deal?"

"If you want to raise pigs, you will catch pigs and lambs in the first month, and fattening them will be sold to our family. I didn't see the pig, so I placed an order here. ”

Mrs. Xu couldn't help but think of the pig killing yesterday, in the original words of the village mothers-in-law, in order to catch the pigs, the pigs didn't drive the pigs, and the old men fell crackling, and they were about to catch up with the winter games of these old men.

What should I show to the guests during the Chinese New Year? It should be performed to catch pigs, and it is estimated that it can give the guests a laugh to death, so they have to raise pigs one by one.

Yesterday, the red man in the mountains also said that thanks to her family's Tianxin killing pigs, otherwise they would be afraid that they would not be able to kill the pigs and run away with blood.

Xu Lao Er said with a smile:

"Mother, you don't know, even the fifth aunt of Xujiazhuang said today that she wants to raise chickens. I guess I'm also worried about selling it to our family. Really, if they are raised, we will order it.

Especially my Uncle Guan, he is really good.

Those lonely and widowed old people have no capital, and it is designated that I am Uncle Guan. He didn't do this to make money at all, otherwise why would he bother, he wouldn't be busy tinkering with pills. ”

Xu Tianxin suddenly laughed, she found that the friendship between master and apprentice that had dissipated this morning had returned, and she wanted to go to the master's house as soon as possible.

Xu Tianxin thought to himself: Co-authored with Grandpa Guan, you are busy with the good deeds of "living people" this year.

This year, Guan Erbald didn't burn paper for the old brothers in the grave circle.

Wasn't that when Tian Xin'er "had an accident", he thought that he was going to be in prison and burned in advance? It takes a long time to live, so Guan Erbald plans to burn it again on the fifteenth. Hurry up, first busy with "living people." ”

No, at the same time, the Guan family, there were six dishes on the dinner table, and Guan Erbald was saying:

"The little money I borrowed and earned, everyone knows the roots, remove the use of crossing the river, don't let the rest become dead money and put it there, let's do something together. If we earn it, we will pay as much as we want. If you don't earn it, it's a business, and the older you get, the more you can't be idle, and you can't eat anything good when you are idle, and you should feel that it's even more boring to live. ”

What Xu Tianxin didn't know was that the three lonely old men actually mentioned her:

"We don't have any offspring, in fact, if we make money, in the end, even the house we earn will be left to that girl. She can use it, and she can think of us when she sees the house. Especially in recent days, I have also used our house, and I can remember it. As for the one-third of an acre of land, it will be returned to the village committee, and in case there are people like us who are hard-working, then they will be given the land to be used for farming. ”

The old woman suddenly said, "We think the same way." ”

Guan Erbald raised his glass: "Then how many brothers are we, it's decided to drink the wine made by that girl?" Pig. ”

The fourth uncle and the seventh uncle raised their glasses: "And the two of us also have a part, this is our old guy's business, and it has nothing to do with our two children." ”

The atmosphere of the old Guan family is even warmer than that of the Xu family.

Because the Xu family didn't know how to talk about the New Year, the topic went on a funny route after several turns.

Because everyone always mentions sweet potato seedlings, the table full of grandchildren's milk is called small sweet potato, and he always looks up at everyone while taking care of his father to eat.

Mrs. Xu found out before she remembered: "Table, I didn't say you, what is the name of the child." If you had a granddaughter, what would you call it? ”

"Hehe, there's another one named Mother-in-law."

Unexpectedly, the little sweet potato suddenly said: "Grandma, you really can't be called like that, I've been laughed at." I don't like to talk, no, I didn't talk because I didn't know them well, and the children here used my name to scold me. If you have a sister, it's still called pot meat. "No one laughs at this name.

Wait, "Who bullied you?" Mrs. Xu pulled the child forward, "That joke called diaper bag cloth bag you sweet potato?" ”

"It's okay, big, since Uncle Jingdong finished talking about them, they won't bully me anymore."

Everyone wondered what they were talking about?

Liu Jingdong happened to encounter children bullying his grandchildren all over the table, since he used people's names to talk about things, he told the children about the origin of sweet potatoes:

"That's an old talent who has repeatedly fallen into the ranks, and later became a businessman, just like those merchants who live in the shops in our village, in fact, the businessman is very powerful, and he can carry it to a far, far away place by shoulder.

And there were people living there full of curly-haired people, and when he saw that there were sweet potatoes there, and the people there could eat enough, he awakened his blood. I thought to myself that this was a good thing, and he would have to bring it back from thousands of miles away, so that our people here could have enough to eat.

So after being beaten several times, I had to steal back a sweet potato seedling from someone's house, and then we had sweet potatoes here. What does this mean? ”

The children immediately said that they should be more respectful when they see merchants in the future, so that they can go to far places.

Well, you also have to cherish sweet potatoes, and then they hugged the little sweet potatoes one after another, and those who didn't hug them also sniffed, and looked at the little sweet potatoes in a friendly way.

However, Liu Jingdong also said: "It shows that you should not only respect businessmen and cherish sweet potatoes, but also study!" If you can't read big words, you steal sweet potato seedlings and send a letter to save you, but you can't write a letter. ”

Xu Youyin is different from Mrs. Xu, they laughed out loud, and his New Year's wish is to work hard to learn to read.

And the big bird suddenly turned his head to look at Xu Tianxin, and gestured with his eyes: "Sister, isn't this what you told Uncle Jingdong when we went out to buy and sell goods at one stop." ”

Yes, but from then on, this story belonged to Uncle Jingdong, and Xu Tianxin found that her Uncle Jingdong swished and became much taller. A very pure and handsome guy.

Before the Xu family was about to leave for the shop, they all stood in the courtyard for a meal, Emma, the firecrackers haven't been set off yet.

That's also leaving, there are businessmen who deserve to be respected, and who carry the world on their shoulders.

The merchants still wondered what the two rivers were doing outside in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

When Mrs. Xu said, she prepared Guan Erye for everyone.

Shopkeeper Lu, who sells jewelry, and Shopkeeper Guo, who sells spices, didn't know what to say with their mouths half open for a while.

"Two great treasurers, take the brothers to worship, the incense case has been set." Even the pig's head is prepared alone, and the pig's tail is inserted in the pig's head's mouth.