"Thanks to my brother-in-law, you have chosen the right person!"

In the afternoon, the families talked again, and the children's train went back and forth, and it was not long before everyone was leaving.

As the Chinese New Year approaches, each family has a bunch of things to do, to prepare New Year's goods, to prepare the hunting activities of the commune and wait for the meat to be shared.

Jian Lu divided the food prepared for them, several catties of dried seafood, all of which were hard vegetables, and explained in detail how to make them more delicious, and the three sisters were hungry again.

After a day of playing, their bodies were warm and they were all exercising, and who knew that their brothers and sisters were about to leave.

She reluctantly watched everyone leave, and looked at it with a blank eye.

"Is this reluctant?" Cheng Zheng found that his daughter was familiar with herself, and she could play with anyone.

"Ah~ Dad, it's fun to drive the train."

"Do you like to drive the train with your brothers and sisters here, or do you like to play with your brothers and sisters in our family yard?" Cheng Zheng threw a century of problems to his children.

Both tilted their little heads and thought, "Oh, "I'm all happy." ”

She has too many brothers and sisters now, and she can't even count them.

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The Cheng family, who returned to their hometown, lived in the production team for almost a week, and they have fully integrated into the life here.

Every day when she slept on the hot clay kang and woke up she could see the snow, and the snow she filled for Chenchen's brother was still in a glass jar and placed on the edge of the window of the house. Both of them have to stare and check every day.

Both of them put on thick cotton jackets today, and were armed by their mothers, ready to enter the county seat.

Tomorrow afternoon, Cheng Zheng's third brother Cheng Jun's family will arrive, and Cheng Zheng has decided to go into the city today to buy things and prepare New Year's goods first.

Aunt Wang locked the door, and the family got on the donkey cart and set off.

"Donkey~Donkey~" pointed to the hard-working donkey cart to show her mother.

"Yes, it's a donkey." Jian Lu is very accustomed to looking at everything, this little girl just can't stop.

Bumpy all the way, the family arrived at the county seat after dawn,

The county town near the Chinese New Year is very lively, and when the weather is cold and freezing, it is still crowded. Those who go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to rip cloth, buy melon seeds, peanuts, candy and pastries for the New Year, and queue up at the gate of the non-staple food station to buy meat and vegetables, and there is an endless stream.

Shuangshuang was lifted up by his father, sat on his shoulder, and screamed with excitement when he found himself the tallest of all the people on the street.

"Mom, I'm so tall!" The little girl's facial features flew excitedly, and her little hands fluttered even more.

"Yes, you're the tallest." Jian Lu looked at her daughter, shook her head happily, and couldn't help but admonish, "Sit tight, your father won't be able to support you for a while." ”

"Oh." Both obediently obedient.

The family went straight to the county department store, where everything was complete, and they hurriedly came back with a lot of luggage, but there was always something missing.

Jian Lu picked up a pair of suede shoes for Shuangshuang, which looked fashionable, and picked out an apricot wool knit sweater for the child in the children's ready-to-wear area, with cherry patterns on the cuffs.

Since she had a child, Jian Lu couldn't help but want to buy things for her daughter, beautiful clothes, pants, shoes, hair accessories, if it weren't for the fact that she was still in the period of big sports, she wanted to prepare the most fashionable and foreign things for her daughter.

But fortunately, it is now 74 years, and many restrictions are not as strict as before, and some have even begun to flatten. On the other hand, there are more girls wearing bragi on the south side of the street.

After buying the children, Cheng Zheng took his daughter-in-law and his own mother to the women's clothing area, so that they could also pick out new clothes for themselves.

"This year, let's follow the old rules and wear new clothes for the New Year." After Cheng Zheng finished speaking, he added, "I don't need it, the military uniform is enough to wear." ”

Aunt Wang also waved her hand, "I don't need this old woman, Lulu picks, you young girls wear more new clothes, they look good!" ”

Jian Lu didn't want to save money, now the family's property is quite rich, there is no need to live hard, she didn't persuade her mother-in-law, she just picked out a blue cotton jacket for her, and when she looked satisfied, she asked the salesperson in the department store to wrap it up.

Aunt Wang was shocked by her daughter-in-law's vigorous and resolute shopping style, and she really didn't delay at all.

"Lulu, let you choose, what do you do for me."

"Mom, everyone in the family has to have it." Jian Lu approached her mother-in-law and whispered, "If you don't buy it, Brother Cheng won't buy it, and I can't let him wear new clothes." ”

When it comes to her son, Aunt Wang's heart is crossed, so let's buy them all, "Okay, they all wear new clothes, and they all wear stones." ”

After buying clothes on the second floor of the department store, Jian Lu saw the counter selling watches on the first floor. Watches are expensive these days, and the most important thing is that you have to have a special industrial coupon to buy them, so there are not many people hanging around in front of the watch counter, at most there are people who go to feast their eyes and see the excitement, and there are few people who really pay for it.

Jian Lu also wants to buy a watch, the money is enough, whether it is the family's savings or the money from pearl farming before, it is a pity that the industrial vouchers are not enough.

Cheng Zheng found that his daughter-in-law glanced at the watch counter twice and said, "Do you want to look at the watch?" ”

"Forget it, the industrial voucher is not enough." When the two got married, Cheng Zheng once prepared Zhang Luo to buy a watch for Jian Lu, and the three turns could be done in unison, but the industrial coupons were not enough at that time, and neither of them mentioned the watch again.

Nowadays, there are radios, sewing machines, bicycles, and indeed a watch.

Cheng Zheng doesn't need a watch, and his perennial training and past survival training experience in the wild make him very good at estimating time.

"Let's see if you like it first? I want to think of a way to deal with the industrial vouchers. ”

The watch counter door was full of people, and suddenly three adults and one child arrived, and the salesperson couldn't help but look at them a few times.

As soon as she wanted to say that she couldn't buy it without industrial vouchers, she didn't want to receive guests who wanted to come and take a look, but she saw the man in a military coat, wearing a military uniform.

Swallowing the words, the salesman took the initiative to speak, "Comrade, do you want to buy a watch?" ”

"Can you take out that plum watch?"

Jian Lu took a delicate women's watch at a glance, waited for the salesperson to take out the plum blossom brand watch, and looked at it, the small dial was exquisite, the watch hands were quenched with golden light, and it looked very textured, and the strap was brown leather, soft to the touch.

"Comrade, how much does this watch cost?" Cheng Zheng could see at a glance that his daughter-in-law liked this watch.

"One hundred and thirty-five, eight industrial coupons."

"Okay, then we'll buy it next time." After Jian Lu said this generously, the salesman was dumbfounded.

When the family is far away, the salesperson suddenly wakes up, which is also unaffordable? Still pretending to come back next time? She'd never seen it before, and she could afford it next time.

"Stone, are there not enough industrial vouchers in our family?" Aunt Wang knew that it was not easy to save industrial coupons, and she was already thinking about whether she could go to the family home to borrow a few from the military families after returning to the island.

"Yes, it seems that there are only two of them at home now." In fact, the main reason why the industrial vouchers at home are not so in short supply is that Cheng Zheng has lent out a lot. As soon as a comrade-in-arms got married, everyone would help to make up the industrial vouchers, not to mention the more, it would be good to be able to buy one of the objects in the three turns and one ring.

As a result, the family has been a little nervous about industrial vouchers.

"It's okay, go back and see." Jian Lu didn't need a watch so much, she had seen it in the county department store near the island before, but she didn't see a particular watch, so she put the matter on hold. Who knows, I actually saw one here today, and the appearance really won her heart.

Both of them were held by their father, and they listened to the adults talk about their mother's purchase of watches, but their mother looked at them and didn't buy them.

Shuangshuang puffed out his face and thought for a while, calling his mother, "Mom, buy a search watch~"

"I'll buy it next time." Jian Lu didn't expect her daughters to care about this.

"Just buy it." Shuangshuang had just heard what the salesman's aunt said, a watch costs a lot of money, and she didn't know what a hundred was, but she understood that the biggest piece of money in her precious piggy bank was Da Tuan, which was worth ten yuan.

"Sangsang bought it for you!" Shuangshuang knew that her mother had bought a lot of things for her, beautiful clothes to wear, and meat to eat, and she had to buy them for her too!

Listening to her daughter's arrogant words, Jian Lu smiled heartily, especially when she saw her daughter's serious face, as if she really wanted to pay money immediately, her heart couldn't help but warm, "Wow, you want to buy a watch for your mother?" ”

"Uh-huh!" Shuangshuang nodded, "Sangsang has money, Mom, Sangsang has a lot of money in the piggy bank." ”

"Are they all for mom?"

"Hmm." Although Shuangshuang was a little reluctant, it was only a little, because she found that when her mother looked at the watch, her mouth was going up, and her mother liked it. "I can still have money."

Both of them counted on their fingers, "Dad, Mom, and Grandma all have to give me money for sleeping, as well as the second uncle and second aunt, the eldest aunt, the second aunt, the second aunt, the third aunt, the third aunt, the old coconut and the old..."

Wow, I can't count them, both of them are happy, and their big eyes are about to shine, how much money do you have to charge for sleep!

"You're counting it?" Cheng Zheng listened to the daughter's count of the relatives who wanted to give her New Year's money, and felt that this girl was really clever, and she didn't usually see it, but now she remembers the relatives clearly.

"Ahh Give me flowers. ”

"Okay, then you can keep it first, don't worry about Mom's watch, and buy it later."

When Jian Lu heard that her daughter was going to buy a watch for herself with all the money in the piggy bank, she looked at Cheng Zheng proudly, "Did you hear it, my daughter is thinking about me." ”

The old mother has won over the old father, hehe!

Who knows, Cheng Zheng didn't take this stubble at all, "Don't I think about you?" ”

Jian Lu: "..."

I'm here to show off my daughter to you, not for you to compete with your daughter!

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After buying clothes, the family went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy five catties of melon seeds, five catties of peanuts, four catties of orange candy, and three catties of peach cakes. In addition, I bought two catties of chicken cakes and prepared them for the children, so that they could be eliminated before the Chinese New Year.

Lunch was settled in the state-run restaurant, and the family returned to the production team in a donkey cart.

In the afternoon, Cheng Zheng and Jian Lu were going to the production team next door to take advantage of the New Year to see Cheng Zheng's previously sacrificed comrades.

Aunt Wang was worried about the situation and was going to take two eggs to the matchmaker He Hongmei's house, and in any case, the marriage between the eldest son and the daughter-in-law also began there, and she had to give a thank you gift.

"Shuangshuang, Mom and Dad go out, you obediently follow Grandma."

Shuangshuang looked at his parents with some reluctance, and his mouth was anxious, "Can't you take the nest with you?" ”

"We're going to a long way, and we're going to have to walk for a while, can you walk? Your feet will hurt. ”

When he heard that his feet would hurt, he shook his head, "Goodbye Mom and Dad!" ”

"You're getting fast." Cheng Zheng snorted a handful of his daughter's hair, and the hair after wearing the hat was a little messy, and re-trimmed the girl, Cheng Zheng watched his daughter-in-law enter the house and get the money, and the two set off together.

A few years ago, Cheng Zheng had a comrade-in-arms, Hou Changde, who was in the production team next door, and this person had good ability and was very motivated, and because he was much younger than Cheng Zheng, Cheng Zheng always regarded him as a younger brother, and he also took care of him in the army.

That year, Hou Changde was only twenty years old.

That year, Hou Changde's daughter-in-law had just given birth to a baby boy, but Hou Changde didn't see the child.

Because he was a fellow villager, Cheng Zheng was uncomfortable when he saw his comrades-in-arms leaving behind orphans and widows, so he added 50 yuan to his martyr's allowance for people to bring back with him.

However, Cheng Zheng never came back from his busy time in the army, and he did not know what was going on in his family.

Jian Lu couldn't hear about this kind of soldier's sacrifice, and when she heard it, she panicked, because she used to feel uncomfortable when she saw such news on the Internet and television, not to mention that now, her own man is also a soldier, and she feels a little more empathy.

"I took a paper bag with some sugar and peach crisp, and I always had to give me some gifts."

Cheng Zheng nodded, but his daughter-in-law was thoughtful. Time will dispel sadness, and after eight years, Cheng Zheng thinks of Hou Changde again, and more of his hard work and the most simple smile when he trained.

"It's going to take an hour or two to walk, and there's no one here, so you can grab my clothes."

The two production teams are separated by a few miles, and the distance is good, mainly because the mountain road after the snow is not easy to walk, and it is not open to traffic, even if it can be ridden by bicycle, it is dangerous.

"Okay." Jian Lu grabbed Cheng Zheng's military coat, wrapped her thick cotton jacket tightly and followed her.

On the way, Cheng Zheng slowed down from time to time, rubbed his hands for his daughter-in-law, and walked outside for longer and longer, and the temperature on his hands gradually cooled.

The rough palms of the big hands covered Jian Lu's slender and delicate hands, and the wheat color and the white color were intertwined, constantly intertwined.