Chapter 176： new year

Chapter 176 New Year

After the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the year is getting closer and closer.

People who have worked hard for a year began to prepare all kinds of delicious and fun things.

Make new clothes for the children in the family, buy some New Year pictures, and buy some firecrackers.

Every time I go out and come back, the children surround me enthusiastically, chirping and asking what they bought.

Every household is also busy preparing for the New Year, killing pigs, making tofu, cleaning, unpacking and washing bedding, pasting walls, and steaming steamed buns.

The Xu family has almost the same process, but this year the family does not raise pigs, so it saves the link of killing pigs.

It was the second brigade, which killed twenty big fat pigs, and distributed some meat to each household.

The second brigade distributed the meat, and the Forestry Bureau distributed only flowers. In addition to rice, noodles, oil, peanuts, and sugar, each employee even distributed five catties of hairtail.

I don’t know which brother unit the Forestry Bureau bought with wood.

How about saying that many people have sharpened their heads and want to work as workers in the Forestry Bureau? It is true that the salary is very good.

With these, the Xu family doesn't have to buy anything.

Xu Shiyan took the time to go to Tonghua with Han Limin and the others to sell the bear bile and musk that he had hunted on the mountain before.

The musk is more expensive than bear bile, but it is light in weight, so it sold for more than three thousand.

Xu Shiyan said that he only needed one-third, but Han Limin disagreed, and finally gave Xu Shiyan two-fifths.

Having received 1,300 yuan, Xu Shiyan had to go to the Tonghua Department Store to buy something for his family to take home.

Clothes, shoes, fabrics, and some daily necessities, anyway, buy what looks right.

Some people need tickets, but it doesn’t matter, there are people selling tickets outside department stores.

As long as you are willing to pay, you can get any ticket.

Finally, I took a big bag of things home.

Xu Chenghou met, so he had to say something again, thinking that Xu Shiyan couldn't live a life, and spent money recklessly if he had money.

What did the old man say?

Just throw the fabric to Xu Shiqin and Su Anying, let them hurry up and make clothes.

It's not difficult, Xu Shiqin is in charge of cutting, and Su Anying is in charge of doing it.

Su Anying has learned a lot from her sister-in-law in the past six months. The sewing machine is very slippery, and it is easy to sew clothes.

The aunt and sister-in-law worked together, and they quickly made the whole family's new clothes.

It is said that those who have money but not have the money marry a daughter-in-law for the New Year, and when the New Year is approaching, many people get married here.

Not to mention other places, there are several in the second brigade. Xu Shiyan is called to help and drink wedding wine every day, and Su Anying is also called away to help cook at every turn.

Fortunately, Zhou Guilan is still at home, Xu Haiyuan can now eat chicken cakes and millet porridge.

Mom wasn't at home, and he didn't look for her, so Su Anying could help out with peace of mind.

On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhou Qingguo got married.

Speaking of which, it was a coincidence that Zhou Qingguo found his wife.

During the beginning of winter, Zhou Qingguo's mother, Mrs. Li, fell and broke her arm.

Zhou Qingguo accompanied his mother to the hospital, and for some reason, he met the doctor on duty in the hospital.

After Li's arm recovered and he was discharged from the hospital, Zhou Qingguo established a relationship with him.

Before, Zhou Changhe was worried that his son would talk about his daughter-in-law all day long, because he was afraid that his son would look down on this one and hit him as a bachelor.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Qingguo found a good partner, who has a job to earn wages, and looks good.

Zhou Changhe was afraid of having long nights and dreams, so he quickly found a matchmaker and went to the woman's house to propose marriage.

When the woman heard that Zhou Qingguo was demobilized from the army, he was working as a security assistant in the commune, and he liked it very much.

So the two families found an opportunity to meet, got engaged directly, and then got married before the end of the year.

When Zhou Qingguo got married, Xu's family members came over to attend the ceremony, help, drink wedding wine, and the excitement lasted until evening before returning home.

This year is the twenty-ninth New Year's Eve of the twelfth lunar month, and the days can't help but pass by. Before you know it, the year has come to an end.

After separation, the sons don’t have to come back to celebrate the New Year together.

So this year, only the old couple, Xu Shiyan, Xu Shixiang and Xu Shiqin will spend New Year's Eve together.

Although there are few people, the New Year’s program must not be left behind.

It is still hanging lanterns and posting couplets in the morning, having reunion dinner in the afternoon, making dumplings and keeping the year old in the evening.

After eating dumplings on New Year’s Eve, the bell of the new year is also ringing.

As the bell rang, Xu Shiyan and his wife held the child, Xu Shixiang and Xu Shiqin brothers and sisters, and everyone wished their parents New Year greetings together.

"Father, Mom, Happy Chinese New Year, I wish you both a long and healthy life and good luck."

Xu Chenghou and Zhou Guilan's old couple looked carefully and nodded repeatedly.

"Okay, okay, everything is fine, you are all fine too. Be healthy and safe, as long as you are healthy, your parents will be fine."

The old couple can't say any gorgeous words, only a heart that loves their children.

"Come, come, bring my good grandson here, grandpa has a red envelope."

Xu Chenghou took out a red paper bag from his arms and waved to Xu Haiyuan.

Xu Haiyuan, who is more than nine and a half months old, gets along very well with his grandfather these days.

Seeing grandpa beckoning, he twisted his body, trying to break free from his mother's arms and go to find grandpa.

Su Anying couldn't hold her son, so she could only put him on the kang and let the child crawl.

Xu Haiyuan changed into a red satin double-breasted padded jacket and black trousers today, and Xu Shiqin also specially made a melon cap made of the same material as the padded jacket.

Xu Haiyuan was originally white and chubby. Wearing this suit, he looked more festive and beautiful than the dolls in the New Year pictures.

Xu Chenghou was so rare that he hugged his grandson and kissed him several times.

"Come on, this is a red envelope from grandpa. It's a pocket money. Take it and don't lose it."

Xu Chenghou stuffed the red envelope into his grandson's hand, and kissed his grandson's fleshy little hand.

Xu Haiyuan is so young, so naturally he doesn't know what a red envelope is, but he just saw that the red color looks good, so he grabbed it in his hand and refused to let go, and no one would give it to him.

Zhou Guilan quickly took out a red envelope and handed it to her grandson.

The little witty ghost climbed up to grandma, raised his head, and kissed grandma. Zhou Guilan was so happy that the wrinkles on his face deepened a lot.

In previous years, the old couple gave lucky money to their grandchildren, not much, 20 cents each.

So Xu Shiyan didn't care, and let his son hold the red envelope in his hand, crawling all over the kang.

Before, all the mats in the house were made of kang mats.

The kang mat is made of reeds, with patterns on it, and it wears down clothes, and even if you are not careful, your hands will be pricked.

A few days ago, Xu Shiyan approached Guo Shouye and asked for a lot of fiberboard.

Paint the front side with paint, spread it on the kang, and paste the seam in the middle with cloth strips.

The kang made of this thing is slippery and slippery, much better than the mats on the kang. It is not afraid of damaging Xu Haiyuan's pants, and is not afraid of pricking his tender little hands.

Xu Haiyuan, on the other hand, is still a little uncomfortable, the kang is too slippery, it doesn't take much effort for him to get up, and he always slips, which is very interesting.

On New Year's Eve, the family has nothing to do, they can only eat melon seeds and drink tea and chat.

In the end, they were all sleepy, so Xu Shiyan and his wife simply carried their son back to Westinghouse to sleep.

(end of this chapter)