It was almost the end of the year, and Carpenter Liu returned after not long after doing business, with half a bag of sunflower seeds and raw peanuts on his back.

"Dad, how about it?"

"It's okay, there are many people buying things, but the road is too cold. I can't stand it, so I come back first."

Carpenter Liu rubbed his hands, took the hot water handed over by Liu Xia, and greeted the three grandchildren of the Zhu family with a smile.

"It just so happened that our New Year's goods were not ready yet, so I didn't sell them anymore. I kept them for the New Year ourselves. Auntie, I'll ask Xiazi to bring you a pot and you put them in the pot and fry them..."

"No, no, how can you keep asking for yours?" The old lady refused without thinking.

"Aunt, don't be polite. Our family is just Xiazi and I, so it's better for everyone to be lively. I'm going to work again at the beginning of the year. Xiazi and Fengfeng's team will have more trouble."

"That's right, suck, don't be polite. At worst, we can help Uncle Liu get all the pasta for the New Year."

Zhu Fengfeng, who received Liu Xia's gesture of gaze, gritted his teeth and helped him.

"That's true." The old lady hesitated for a long time before agreeing. Zhu Fengfeng and Liu Xia exchanged glances, and they were both happy.

Although the conditions are limited, fortunately, the two grandsons are sensible and do not cry and ask for this or that. I don’t feel wronged about them too much.

There are now more than 70 rabbits of all sizes in the family. In summer, the first rabbit in the house has grown up and can give birth to a cub after turning over the New Year. The old lady made up her mind and knocked two rabbits and killed another chicken. This is considered a New Year’s goods.

The Liu family also raised a pig that was only half big, but they didn't know what was going on. They served them with delicious food and drink every day, but they didn't get any meat. Carpenter Liu simply killed them and even gave the Zhu family a few pounds.

Kill pigs, cook meat, elbows, buckle bowls, and steam all kinds of beautiful and beautiful buns. After cleaning, only dumplings are made and Spring Festival couplets are pasted.

Spring Festival couplets were written by people in the village who could write big characters. There was no fancy decoration, just a couplet written on a piece of red paper.

The old lady was chopping the meat filling. Zhu Fengfeng grabbed Zhu An and swept the yard, and sprinkled water so that the wind would not blow and dust would rise tomorrow. After everything was clean, the paste would be stirred. Zhu An and Zhu An moved the table to paste couplets.

There are some specialties in the village. If you post couplets on New Year’s Eve, others can no longer come to visit you until the first day of the Lunar New Year.

So, within a while, Liu Xia slapped on the wall and shouted.

Zhu Fengfeng originally wanted the two families to celebrate the New Year together, but Liu Xia said that her father was going to pay tribute to her mother tonight, and the old lady couldn't say that she could celebrate the New Year together.

At this time, the customs of the people were not so open, and both families were not well-off. If they celebrate the New Year together, they would be gossiped about tomorrow, which would make their reputation look dirty.

So, on the evening of New Year's Eve, Zhu Fengfeng brought a plate of dumplings to the wall, and Liu Xia brought a big elbow to the wall later. The wall was really useless.

In the end, Carpenter Liu, who came back from drinking outside, was worried and told Liu Xia to go to bed early, which liberated Zhu Fengfeng, who was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes.

Even though there is electricity at this time, people still can’t bear to use it. They usually only use it when they get up at night. They almost always go to bed when it’s dark. The electricity bill for a month is only one or two yuan.

Therefore, Zhu Fengfeng has become accustomed to such a healthy routine.

However, I was sleeping in a daze and was still awakened by the crackling sound of firecrackers.

"Zhutouan, are you itchy in your skin?!" She actually set off firecrackers at the base of the window, which scared her so much that she almost thought that the fight was really itchy in her skin.

"Milk, look, I just said my sister must be sleeping like a pig."

Zhu An carried a long pole, waved it proudly, and then shrank behind the old lady.

It’s impossible, his sister Yasha’s image is deeply rooted in people’s hearts.

The siblings didn't know if they forgot their surnames. The old lady was amused by the two of them.

"Ahhhhh, my socks? Damn kid, let's see if I won't twist your ears today!"

There was no fire in the room, and it was inconvenient in the main room. Zhu Fengfeng washed his socks and hung them on the entrance of the kang hole in the evening. Now it was blown down and dirty. Naturally, he took advantage of the situation and grabbed Zhu An and was beaten up by society.

"Sister, sister, I was wrong...Mi, help..."

At this time, there were no deafening fireworks, only five hundred crackling sounds of small firecrackers. Zhu An's exaggerated howling of ghosts and wolves was so ridiculous.

"Fengfeng, Fengfeng, today is the New Year. Let him go first. The three-day Chinese New Year is over, and you can do whatever you want."

"???" Zhu An looked at his breasts with a dull look on his face.

What about the promised lifeline? What about the promised eyeballs? Are you sure you are not joking?

"Okay, get up and clean your face quickly. I'll cook dumplings for you now."

"Uh... milk, isn't it? It's only time now?" It's still dark, so I'm cooking dumplings? Isn't it kidding?

"It's already six o'clock, today's day is cloudy... The chicken and the other dogs are not having a good time this year..."

"……"All right.

He accepted his fate and closed his cotton jacket on his body, Zhu Fengfeng cleaned up the room.

Because she just remembered that the New Year in the village really had to get up very early. It is said that there is a special point in not being able to move the cooking utensils when dawn is dawn, and I don’t know any allusions.

However, she listens the old lady to the old sayings about the head chicken and the second dog several times a year.

I don’t know when it was passed down, so there is such a saying. Everyone attaches great importance to it. Those who are in the New Year must worry about the weather.

I ate dumplings before dawn, and Zhu Fengfeng really burped.

Then after helping the old lady wash the dishes, Carpenter Liu came in to pay New Year's greetings with a snack wrapped in red paper.

"Sit quickly and sit quickly..." It was obvious that he had met last night, but the old lady was particularly polite today. She even made rock candy tea and put on candy seeds.

"Your family is really particular." Zhu Fengfeng really opened his eyes.

I was just thinking about taking An Zi over to pay New Year's greetings later, but now when the Liu family really came out, she couldn't go empty-handed.

"An, you said that snack? That was what my dad asked me to send it last night. I forgot. Don't be polite. It was bought by my dad when he went to sell melon seeds..."

He threw a soybean into his mouth, but almost broke his teeth. Liu Xia became a groundhog in an instant.

"That's my milk burned with kang ash. It's so hard that it can smash walnuts. Have you seen that I and Anzi don't eat it?"

Zhu Fengfeng was gloating, but he quickly mixed warm water to rinse her mouth and don’t let her get her teeth broken later.

"..." Liu Xia looked at the plastic sister with tears in her eyes and didn't speak, and her toothache.

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ps: There is a saying in rural areas that the sky is circulating in the year. The elderly judge whether the harvest is good or not based on the changes in the weather in the first month.

The first chicken and two dogs, three pigs and four sheep, five oxen and six horses, seven people and eight grains, nine fruits and ten vegetables, eleven radish and twelve onions, thirteen, thirteen... Okay, I don't know the following... (????????????) Lalala
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