Early the next morning, Gu Beizhi and Guan Zhou's family got up early to work.

This year's life has been much easier, and there are two more people in the family. I ordered half a piece of pork from Wang Dazhi and it will be delivered today. Guan Zhou and Tian Geer have to divide up the meat first, and wait until the evening of the 28th.

The two had to prepare other materials for the New Year's Eve dinner, and they were busy in the kitchen.

Chongming also had no time to spare, and had to wear new clothes for the New Year. Although Gu Beizhi bought ready-made clothes a long time ago, the clothes for the two children still had to be made by family members.

Since we are going to do it, we simply did it all. Chongming cut out the fabrics of Dabao and Erbao early in the morning, and waited for Guan Zhou to sew a few stitches when he was free. The rest of the adults were Chongming's own. Do.

Gu Beizhi is also very busy. He has to post Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters during the Chinese New Year. He bought red paper and wrote all of them today.

On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, Tian Geer kneaded a pot of noodles and put them in the corner of the kitchen. On the 29th, he steamed steamed buns, all made of white flour, and each one was as big as two fists. Looking at the white and fat ones, he felt better many,

At [-] in the morning, Guan Zhou and Tian Geer began to steam meat, stew fish, stew chicken, and cook some vegetarian dishes.

Their New Year’s dishes here are very particular. They must have fish, chicken, and meat. It’s best to have all of them. Twelve and so on.

Not only must there be hot dishes, but also cold dishes. The combination of meat and vegetables and hot and cold dishes means that you have tasted all kinds of flavors throughout the year, and the coming year will be smooth and prosperous.

In the past, the Gu family was poor and had to observe filial piety. The New Year was always as simple as possible. The six dishes were made by hand. This year, when filial piety was released, Gu Beizhi made a lot of money. Guan Zhou put all his energy into cooking. , chicken, duck and fish are all available, and it can fill a table in the evening, which is really rich.

Gu Beizhi was directed by his two children to post couplets and blessing characters. This year he wrote a lot, and his home was renovated again. After cleaning, the brand new house was paired with festive red blessing characters. .

The children are not tall enough to post blessings by themselves, and they are also afraid of getting their new clothes dirty. Even Dabao, who loves to run and jump, is as obedient as a little girl, and he steps gently.

Er Bao was not as active as his elder brother at first, but now he is moving a small bench, sitting at the door, watching his father put up the couplets, asking him to point to the left for a while, and pointing to the right for a while.

Seeing that his father was obedient, he still thought he was secretly laughing, but he didn't know that his father saw clearly his teasing little thoughts, he just wanted to please him, spoiled him, and didn't point it out.

When Gu Beizhi hung the two red lanterns on the gate and jumped off the ladder, he had been eating and drinking for half a year, and he had grown taller again, more like before he came here, and now he is closed. Standing beside him, Zhou looked even smaller.

Gu Beizhi was quite satisfied, it was no longer difficult for him to hold Guan Zhou up, and if he slept on the same bed in the future, it would be a perfect fit.

After clapping their hands, Gu Beizhi picked up the two sons and kissed them, then put them down. Dabao and Erbao were accustomed to their father's outrageous behavior from time to time, and they were busy unraveling their clothes.

The clothes they are wearing today are ready-made clothes that Gu Beizhi bought from a cloth shop in the town. They are a little too big, and the trousers are still rolled up twice, but Dabao and Erbao cherish it. Nice new clothes to wear.

Gu Beizhi had never raised a child before, and before he came to wear it, he saw the spirit of wearing it, and the beautiful children were all small videos uploaded by others to the evening, and he just scanned them, so when he went to buy ready-made clothes by himself, it was Chose based on those fleeting impressions.

I chose two sets of light blue padded jackets, cotton trousers with dark stripes on the moon, and a pair of beautiful small-toed leather shoes. Wearing this outfit, I look fair and elegant.

The most wonderful thing is that there is a pocket on the chest of the two cotton-padded jackets. On the exposed part of the pocket is embroidered the head of a naive little tiger. The little old man's two paws are climbing on the edge of the pocket, as if he is going to crawl out, which is very interesting.

The appearance of the little tigers in the two sets of clothes is slightly different, and it is easy to distinguish them. Dabao's one is more like a fearless and curious little old man, with more exposed parts.

Xiaobao's one is more shy, only revealing a pair of big round eyes, looking out cautiously.

When the two brothers saw this outfit, they couldn't help liking it. They were afraid of getting dirty when they put it on, and they quickly smoothed out any creases. Gu Beizhi felt uncomfortable after seeing it. Why does such a young child cherish a suit of clothes so much?It's not like I never got it in previous years.

Rubbed the children's hair twice, "Okay, let's go in, it's windy outside."

"Good~"

The two children entered the yard with Gu Beizhi, just as Guan Zhou's stewed meat was cooked, "Dabao, Erbao, come and taste the dishes—"

Smelling the aroma of stewed meat, Dabao and Erbao couldn't help speeding up a few steps, and Gu Beizhi also followed.

There were several heavy snowfalls in the twelfth lunar month. After each heavy snowfall, the village chief would organize the villagers to sweep the snow. Gu Beizhi also caught up with it once or twice after he quit his errand.

One time, he ran into Guan Nanhu, his cheap father-in-law. At first, Gu Beizhi thought his surname was Guan and his name was Nanhu, and he wondered why Guan Ershu and his father-in-law didn't have the same name.

I found out later that Guan Nanhu's real name is Guan Qiang, and his style name is Nanhu. Guan Qiang dislikes the name 'Qiang'. He has been calling himself Guan Nanhu since he was young. Until now, everyone has almost forgotten that his real name is Guan. strong.

It's just that although the name has become the king of beasts, the people live in a very miserable state. In the cold winter, other people's houses are full of young and strong young people who come out to sweep the snow, but his old man comes out to sweep the snow. It's not as much as others do half a day for a whole day.

The snow sweeping in the village also takes turns. It only needs to sweep the roads in the village. There are [-] households at a time, and only three or four times. After scanning the area, ask him to check and accept it. If you pass it, you can go home and rest.

Others finish their work early and then go home to rest steadily. Guan Nanhu insisted on dawdling all day. When he ran into Gu Beizhi, he wanted to ask Gu Beizhi to clean it for him. , he went home to rest.

Gu Beizhi didn't agree or refute. He just finished sweeping his own area and told the old village chief to help Guan Nanhu. The old village chief asked Guan Nanhu to call his son to sweep the snow. Don't harm others. Then he sent Gu Beizhi home.

Guan Nanhu was scolded by the old village head, and he was reluctant to let his son out to suffer from the cold, so he could only finish cleaning slowly by himself, muttering bad things about Gu Beizhi and going home.

After breakfast this morning, Gu Beizhi went to Uncle Wang’s house to pick up the ox cart, took two hundred catties of grain, two boxes of snacks, five catties of pork and a basket of eggs, while everyone was pasting couplets and hanging lanterns at the gate of the courtyard. In time, he swaggered through the village and sent the things to Guan Nanhu's family.

When others saw him and asked him what he was doing, he said to deliver things to Guan Nanhu's family, at least to give birth to Guan Zhou, and if there were too many, he would still give some food for the New Year.

But these things were much less thoughtful than Guan Nanhu's family. They searched for a long time, but they didn't see a copper coin, and the meat was only 20. They clamored for Gu Beizhi to send another [-] taels of silver.

Gu Beizhi pretended he didn't hear it, and he pulled the ox cart to Uncle Wang and returned the things he delivered.If it weren't for the fact that they were Guan Zhou's parents after all, he wouldn't even want to give this little thing away, asking for money?Go dreaming.

That's why his family posted the Spring Festival couplets a little late, but Gu Beizhi posted them very quickly, and he could do other things after posting them. Tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year, so he has to go and order the presents that will be given tomorrow. .

Their New Year’s Eve dinner here is always eaten on the [-]th night, the later the better, the chicken, duck and fish on the table must be put on the table first, and then when it’s almost Haishi, every household will set off firecrackers, which can be heard for half an hour. many.

From Haishi onwards, every household will open the courtyard door, waiting for the children in the village to come to beg for food.

The Gu family had closed their doors a few years ago, and Gu Bei knew it was noisy, so this year he followed the crowd and prepared a lot of fried peanuts, corn kernels, and candied Gada, waiting for the children to come and give them to each other. Bundle.

People in the village are superstitious, if there are many children who go to the house tonight, they will surely have children in the coming year, which also means more children and more blessings. In short, it is an auspicious sign.

Dabao and Erbao also took a small cloth bag and went to visit with their friends. This was the first time they participated in a Chinese New Year event.

However, they went to several stores and found that they all gave cooked corn kernels or peanuts. The better ones were boiled in sugar water, and the worse ones were plain water without even a little salt taste.

Thinking that Dad bought a lot of Tang Gada, Dabao, Erbao dragged Shangshanzi, Dahu, Xiaohu and the other children of the Niu family, "Go, go to my house, there is Tang Gada!"

As soon as Tang Gada came out, not only Shanzi and the others were drooling, but the other children who heard it were also greedy. They caught up with them and went to Gu's house to beg for Tang Gada together.

The so-called Tang Gada is a bit like the hard candy that I ate later, but the shape is not so regular, there are square and round, big and small, and it is just purely sweet, not like the hard candy later, which has all kinds of flavors.

But in Wangjiacun, this kind of candy gada is a good thing. Many children have only heard about it from their parents, and they haven't eaten it themselves. When they arrive at Gu's house, Chongming and Brother Tian are waiting at the door.

They also made meat buns, which are the size of ordinary dumplings, but they are also thin-skinned and filled with big fillings. They prepared a hundred of them, and each child was given a meat bun, three or four pieces of Tang Gada, and a handful of peanuts. Or corn, filling children's pockets half full.

When the first child took a bite of the steamed stuffed bun and found that it was filled with meat or pure meatballs, all the children flocked to Gu's house like crazy.

Although there is meat to eat at home tonight, this is a bun made of pure meatballs!

Shanzi divided the buns into two bites and ate them, and twitched his fingers when they were so fragrant, "Dabao, your house is really nice, you give it back to the meat!"

The other children who came with Dabao and Erbao also said that his family is good. Dabao and Erbao puffed up their chests and were very proud.

Speaking of the meatball buns, it has something to do with Dabao. Dabao was hungry last night and wanted to eat pure meatball buns. Brother Tian hurriedly made them. Dabao and Erbao happily ate them.

In the end, he didn't take two bites. Dabao held up the bun to find Brother Tian, ​​"Uncle Tian, ​​are these pure meatballs?"

Brother Tian laughed, and quickly admitted his mistake, "It's my uncle's fault, I shouldn't have mixed some vegetable leaves into it, can I make you pure meatballs tomorrow?"

Dabao is not an unreasonable brat, "Uncle Tian, ​​I know that eating only meat can make me angry. I usually eat vegetables, but I really want to eat steamed buns with pure meatballs. Next time, don't add some vegetable leaves to it." , I don't like to eat."

He is getting more and more difficult to deal with now, and he talks in the same way. Brother Tian patted his head and promised to make him pure meatball buns the next day. Dabao thanked him before going back to eat buns.

"Uncle Tian, ​​the buns you make are delicious. Dabao loves them all, but I really want to eat pure meatballs. Dabao is not picky." Dabao said seriously.

"Well, Dabao is the most obedient, let's eat quickly."

Gu Beizhi and Guan Zhou at the dinner table almost died of laughter when they watched their conversation. They looked at each other, and the two children are becoming more and more lively now, and their mouths are also sharp.

Gu Beizhi knocked on Dabao's bowl, "Your Uncle Tian is exhausted from cooking, what should you say?"

Dabao was so smart, he raised his face and grinned at Brother Tian, ​​"Thank you, Uncle Tian, ​​for your hard work, Uncle Tian~"

"It's not hard, it's not hard, let's eat the buns, it will be cold in a while." Tian Ge'er was puzzled by Dabao's small face, and he was willing to get up early in the morning to chop meat, so that the young master could eat it to his satisfaction!

Accidentally made too much, Gu Beizhi waved his hand, and made a face-to-face meeting again, saving it for the children who came over at night. Brother Tian counted the number of children in the village, and made more than 100 small Meat buns.

The odds were given to Dabao and Erbao for the tooth-making ceremony, and the rest were being distributed to the children one by one. Shanzi felt that his mouth was full of meat, and he praised a few more words.

Dabao raised his head, "Isn't it delicious? My uncle Tian made it. It's pure meat stuffing. It's delicious."

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