Chapter 67

The pleasant warm sun ushered in the first day of the 11th anniversary of the great Huiguo Festival - the first day of the first month.

Lin siyao cooked a pot of assorted soup made of sesame, bean paste and jujube paste respectively in the kitchen. Seeing that it was still early, he got up and went to the South courtyard to pick all the mature vegetables in the garden.

After three days of good sun, the snow on the sunny side of the South courtyard has completely melted. Except for a few wet corners occasionally, the thin ice has not completely melted. But it doesn't hinder his next work.

Fold up the linoleum and put it in the corner of the small west room. Of course, the wooden shelf is still in place. Maybe there will be another spring snow storm over the vegetables.

Gather and dig out the cabbage, vegetables, sweet potato and radish that are already mature in the field, and put them in big bamboo baskets. As for rotten leaves, they were all left in the soil as natural fertilizer, and the yellow leaves that were torn off were thrown into the fences of henhouses and sheepfolds by him.

All the collected cabbages were left with about ten relatively tender ones, and they were piled in the corner of the kitchen with a few small vegetables, which were intended to be eaten fresh. He spread out the other cabbage on the scorch and put it on the Bank of the river for curing.

As for radish and sweet potato, they left a few to eat in the kitchen, and the rest were collected in the newly built storage room beside the chicken house. The small room was made of stone. The door and the top were nailed up with wooden boards. The top was paved with broken bricks and tiles, and covered with a layer of linoleum. Even if it rained or snowed, it would not get wet inside. Therefore, some foods that can be stored for a long time and will not be bad are stored here.

After finishing these jobs, it was not too early. Lin siyao went back to the kitchen to wash his hands and prepare to milk the sheep. As for the vegetable garden which has been emptied for the most part, it's better to plan after waiting for leisure. Now spring is coming soon, and the two acres of good farmland outside the house should all be put into use. Although a mu of winter wheat had been planted years ago, there was only a small amount of rapeseed scattered in this area, which was basically idle.

Lin Si Yao was thinking and busy with his work. Think of him as a killer, but now all day long for what kind of, what to receive, what to eat and distress, at first really let him a little uncomfortable. However, as the days go on, watching the home improve day by day, such distress for him, that is the synonym of sweet and satisfied. Sometimes even let him want to thank him for those who do not leave thousands of the miles of the soldiers to pursue his Fengqing cliff.

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"Village head's family, aunt Lao's family, aunt Tian's family..." Su Shuifu counted the gifts that had been packed separately on the dining table for new year's Eve.

Fanhua town has a small custom, that is: there are elders at home, do not go out on the first day of the first month.

Therefore, like Su Shuigui and Lin siyao, who have no elders, they can go out and worship their early years at will.

Today, they plan to go all over Fanhua town to pay homage to the villagers who once helped themselves, regardless of their size and importance, and congratulate them on their early years.

As for the companion gift, look, there are two big fruit baskets in Lin Sixiao's hands. They are not exactly right!

One by one from the red cotton into the cloth package, with a thin black hemp rope through the edge of the cotton package, a light draw, cotton package on the binding mouth. As for the food in each package, most of them are surplus food at home, such as wild eggs, dried salted fish, fruity flower cakes, pastry cakes As well as a string of dozens of new copper pieces, which are put into lovely shapes with fine hemp ropes.

Of course, the value of each gift is almost equal. At this point, Su Shuifu still thinks about it very carefully. Otherwise, if people start chatting and learn that the gift they sent to celebrate the new year is still valuable, wouldn't it lead to misunderstanding? He said that he was biased.

But then again, since they moved to Fanhua town and settled down, after half a year, there are also some farmers in the village who are very stingy and can't see her family well. For example, those who saw that Lin Sixiao had brought the wild things home and dared not enter the mountain, ran to the village head and said something, that is, whether the wild things in dashishan would be defeated by him. After learning that Su Shuifu's embroidery has overtaken Lin's, she has become the most powerful embroiderer in Fanhua Town, and even the chief embroiderer in yueyun embroidery building, some of her mother-in-law often breaks a few words in front of her. It's unclear whether they want to separate her from Su Shuifu. Fortunately, he's mother-in-law knows the whole thing, stabs her in the heart again, and laughs at her modesty. There is no real alienation from Su Shuifu. After all, in terms of embroidery, Su Shuifu won too much, which she had to admit.

So, sift out a few farmers who are too tight. Su Shuigui and Lin siyao go out to celebrate the new year with two baskets full of gifts. I'm pretty good myself, aren't I? It's also good to save a few hand gifts. Ha ha... Su Shuifu thought funny. However, this is the real life in Fanhua town. You give me a foot, I give you a foot. If you deceive me, I will not pay attention to you, even if I don't know how to call you back. Otherwise, don't you really be a bully?

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Until the end of the day, they came home with two big fruit baskets still full.

Twenty five hand gifts were sent out along with the new year's greetings, but also reluctantly accepted what other residents had to cram into the fruit basket. Among them, there are also domestic chicken and duck eggs, homemade shaodao, pickled cucumber with pickles, mung bean rice cake There are even several red plum trees in bud.

Su Shuifu happily inserted the red plum branch into the wide mouth round stomach bottle on the shelf of the bedroom flower. Add some spring breath to the room.

After clapping his hands, he came to the kitchen with a smile and picked up the food sent by the villagers together with Lin siyao.

"Shifu ~ ~ Shiniang ~" far away, I heard Tian Dabao's voice. It's obvious that people don't arrive first.

"Shifu, Shiniang, let's celebrate the new year." Tian Dabao grins and spins into the kitchen, followed by a string of tails. There are about six or seven children under the age of ten. Su knew only three of them, Fang Xiaohua, a six-year-old from Fang Dasheng's family, sun Qihe, a nine-year-old from sun Youmao's family, and Shuifu, a nine-year-old son of Shuigen's family. Because he had come to his home with his mother, Su Shuifu still remembered.

"Happy new year to master Lin and Mrs. Lin!" Six children bowed to Lin siyao and Su Shuigui, and said the new year's greetings taught by Dabao in advance.

In fact, they wanted to call sister Su Shuifu. How could they have such a young and beautiful teacher? But Tian Dabao didn't do it. In this way, I became the smallest. Therefore, insist that they follow themselves, or they will not follow. Of course, they were asked to add surnames in front of them so that people would know the difference with themselves. It has to be said that the blood stasis in the back of Tian Dabao's brain has really dissipated.

"Shiniang, they have to follow me to celebrate the new year. I can't help it." Tian Dabao saw Su Shuijin's expression of surprise. He shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands. It seemed that he was helpless to explain.

As soon as this word falls, Lin Si Yao immediately rewards a big chestnut. Immediately put on a good child.

"Happy New Year! Let's go and play in the hall. " Su Shuigui smiled back and beckoned to the children to go to the hall.

"I didn't lie to you, did I? There are a lot of snacks in the teacher's family. " Tian Dabao deliberately pressed his voice and said with several other children. The other children nodded in envy. His eyes were gliding on several cases which were full. There are seven or eight dishes of dried fruit snacks. There are many maltose and ice sugar gourd skewers that my family refuses to buy for them.

It is said that in the first month every family will open the gate of the courtyard so that they can chat with each other. No matter whether there is a neighborhood or not, Su Shuipeng still let Lin siyao buy these popular snacks in the last market of the year ago in case of the possibility that his mother-in-law and sister-in-law with children would come to chat with him.

"Don't breathe. Take whatever you want." Su Shuidan brought Lin Sixiao's sugar eggs from the kitchen. Seven children, each with a bowl, were given to eat. "Come on, be careful of the heat. Let's put it on the table." Su Shuifu carefully placed the sugar eggs on the tea table beside the chairs where the children sat, while the two children who were sitting on the Kang with Dabao all swallowed them around several cases.

"I didn't lie to you, did I? The sugar eggs made by the master are the best! " After eating the sugar eggs, Tian Dabao wiped the corners of his mouth, and had to show off to the children on his side.

"Well!" The other children nodded their heads firmly and unanimously. Then they all flashed their bright black eyes and stared at the candy on several cases, but they were embarrassed to reach for it.

"Dabao, hurry to share the sugar and fruit with them." Su Shuifu, who took six strings of ten copper coins from his bedroom, was so amused to hear Tian Dabao's words that he ordered him to share the candy and gave the copper as a new year's Eve to the children: "come on, take this back and buy some gadgets to play with."

The children looked at each other as if they were shy but reluctant to miss them. Their hands were behind them, and their eyes were shining on the copper in Su Shuifu's hands.

Su Shuizhen funnily shoved the copper into their hands one by one. As for Tian Dabao, he went to his home in the morning to pay a new year's visit and was left by Tian's aunt for lunch. He had already sent the ninety-nine copper bunnies of the Chinese Zodiac to him as a new year's gift.

"Thank you, Mrs. Lin." Fang Xiaohua, the youngest, has a sweet mouth, and the other five children thank him when they see it.

"You are welcome. What do you want to eat? Can I get it for you, Shiniang? " Su Shuifu touched Fang Xiaohua, who was only six years old, and asked with a smile.

"I want to eat ice sugar gourd, in fact, my brothers all want to..."

"Who said it!"

"Who told you!"

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After the new year's worship, eating, drinking and taking, Tian Dabao led six children younger than him and continued to march towards other villagers in the village.

In the first month, the happiest is the children. You can go where you want to go and take whatever you want. There are even coppers to do the return ceremony. I'm not happy! (to be continued. If you like this work, welcome to qidian.com to vote for recommendation ticket and monthly ticket. Your support is my biggest motivation.