One of the big boys

Eat ingots on the morning of the first day of the new year.Yuanbao is usually called glutinous rice balls, and it is called Yuanbao in the New Year.Zhang Bao didn't like that food, it was sticky and sweet.Regardless of whether it is normal or Chinese New Year, Zhang Bao does not eat this food.The glutinous rice balls here in Zhangjiazhuang are very small, only the size of two fingers.When Baisui got up together, Zhang Bao fed Baisui with a small bowl of glutinous rice balls.Baisui ate five at once, took a bite of the sixth, and Baisui refused to open his mouth.Da Zhuang didn't know what he was doing outside, Zhang Bao yelled twice and didn't see Da Zhuang coming in, so he closed his eyes and ate the glutinous rice balls.It was only when I ate it in my mouth that I realized that the glutinous rice balls were not sunken, and they were solid glutinous rice.

Seeing Xiaohua, Zhang Bao asked casually, "Why are the glutinous rice balls not wrapped in the past year?"

"What's the stuffing? The glutinous rice balls here are not stuck. Brother Bao, if you still want to eat, I'll get you another bowl."

"I don't eat."

After eating, Zhang Bao sat in the room and waited for New Year's greetings.A group of children giggled and pushed open the door and came in, and they came up with a New Year's greeting, "I wish uncle a happy new year, all the best, and a lot of money."

"I also wish you a happy new year. How long and healthy this year is." Zhang Bao stuffed a handful of melon seeds, a few dates, and a large piece of maltose into everyone's pockets.Da Zhuang took a bunch of copper plates and distributed one to each child.The children were very happy when they took the copper coins.The small mouth is as if honey has been smeared, so obedient and straight out.

Zhang Bao stuffed a handful of red dates into Wu Zhuang's pocket, and told him, "Xiao Wu, take Bai Sui well."

"I know." Wu Zhuang responded straightforwardly.

After the children came back from New Year's greetings, Da Zhuang led the whole family to pay New Year's greetings to his uncle's house.

The first day of the new year was spent visiting relatives and friends and chatting with the village master.

On the second day of junior high school, as soon as Dahua let go of the courtyard door, something was poured into the courtyard.Look again, yo, two people.This fall actually woke up the adult.The man got up, picked up the child on the ground again, and looked at Dahua yelling.

"Uncle, what do you want to say, why are you at our door on the second day of the Lunar New Year?"

"Um, ah, ah."

Dahua asked a few more questions, and the man was still humming. Only then did Dahua realize that this man might be dumb.

Seeing the man's lips turned white and peeling, Dahua let him into the room and poured him some hot water.

Da Zhuang came out of the house and saw two outsiders in the house, "Hey, where is Uncle?"

Da Hua pulled the clothes on his back and whispered in Da Zhuang's ear, "He may be dumb."

The child in the mute's arms opened his eyes and called out "Uncle Dumb."

The mute looked at the child in his arms and fed the child with saliva.While drinking water, the child blinked and looked at Da Zhuang and Da Hua.

After the child finished drinking the water, the mute gestured to Dahua for something to eat.

"Uncle, wait a minute, I haven't made breakfast yet, so I'll let my husband do it." Dahua hurried into the room to call Xiaohua.

"Uncle Dumb, I'm hungry." The child looked about six or seven years old, and Da Zhuang saw that his clothes were of good material, but a little dirty.

"Wait, I'll bring you something to eat." During the Chinese New Year, snacks are indispensable at home, so Da Zhuang took some mung bean cakes from the chest of drawers dedicated to snacks.Handed it to the child, but the child refused to pick it up. The mute took it and fed the child carefully.After feeding the child a piece of pastry, he yelled at Da Zhuang.In this way, Da Zhuang guessed that the mute probably wanted to express his gratitude, so he quickly waved his hand, "No thanks, no thanks."

Zhang Bao dressed Baisui and led him out of the house.Suddenly there are two more people in the family.Bai Sui was not afraid of strangers, so he broke away from Zhang Bao's hand and ran to the mute to look at the child in his arms.

Baisui pointed at the child, then turned to Zhang Bao and said, "Uncle."

This is uncle, I don't know where he came from.Zhang Bao went to bring Bai Sui back. "Go upstairs with Ah Mo, let's wake up the uncles." Zhang Bao pulled Da Zhuang, and Da Zhuang went upstairs with them.

"Where did the person come from? I don't know him. Why did he come to our house on the second day of the new year?"

"I heard from Dahua that he was at our door in the morning."

Wu Zhuang got up and saw that there was someone else in the house. He ran to the mute and said to the child, "Come on, let's play." The child could not come down from the mute's arms.Wu Zhuang yelled a few more times, seeing that the child ignored him, he went out to play by himself.

Zhang Bao tugged at him, "Go out to play after dinner."

Xiaohua added an extra spoonful of rice when cooking.Uncle Dumb had a big appetite, he ate a whole piece of big noodle cake and two bowls of rice soup.In fact, they didn't know that the mute and the child hadn't eaten for a day and a half.After dinner, Si Zhuang and Wu Zhuang didn't stay at home for a while, and slipped out to play by themselves.

After eating, Zhang Bao was free, so he asked the mute, "Uncle, where is your home? Why aren't you at home on the second day of the Lunar New Year?"

The mute shook his head, no more.He took out some broken silver from the bag he was carrying and gave it to Da Zhuang.

"One meal, no money."

The mute shook his head and made some gestures. Da Zhuang and the others were stunned because they didn't understand what the mute was going to do.

When it was time to eat at noon, the mute did not take the child away.Had another meal at Zhang Bao's house.

Er Zhuang went out for a walk after lunch and came back, but the dumb man and the child were still there, "Sister-in-law, why is this dumb uncle still not leaving?"

"I don't know."

As a result, the mute not only didn't leave, but stayed until night.Dahua also said the words of pushing people away, but the mute just smiled apologetically and said nothing.Really helpless, Zhang Bao asked Xiaohua to tidy up the house and arranged a room for him.

In the morning of the third day of junior high school, the mute got up early, first boiled a pot of hot water, and waited for Zhang Bao's family to get up.Seeing Da Zhuang, the mute pushed him aside and stuffed Da Zhuang with a silver ingot.Da Zhuang refused, but Mute refused to take back the money.

Da Zhuang handed over the money to Zhang Bao, "Oh, I don't want that dumb uncle any more."

Zhang Bao touched the silver ingot, thought for a while and probably understood what the mute meant.