Bandit Reborn

, I prepared four gifts, a piece of cloth, a jar of wine, a fish and ten catties of meat. Let’s buy some dried fruit at the fair early in the morning. I also prepared silver hairpins for our mother and sister-in-law. Do not worry. "

"Yeah, big brother, Xiu'er and I are a family now, don't worry, I understand all these things, you are afraid that I will not be willing to spend money because I have a heart for Xiu'er, right?

Brother, let me tell you, Dalong’s mother died early, and the root cause of the disease was when she gave birth to a tiger. She died when the tiger was not two years old. We have known each other for several years. The three of us have lived together these years. You know what day it is, but look now, our house is not clean inside and out. Xiu'er is a good woman, I know, I don't have any quarrel with her.

You take the money back. I, Li Er, have no other skills. It’s no problem to support the family. You will watch it the day after tomorrow and keep it so that you don’t make it difficult for you! " Li Chengkui patted his chest and promised.

"I don't worry about that. That's all right. Let's eat. What are you doing here? It's pretty good." His uncle took the money back, and smelled the fragrance on the dining table and moved forward.

"Huaixi taught me this. He said he read it from a book. His father said that there is this dish in Zuixianlou. Brother, I've warmed up the wine. Hurry up to the kang and have a drink with his father." Cup." His mother put a smaller dining table on the kang, and placed two sets of bowls and chopsticks separately.

"The food in Zuixianlou? Do you read books or cookbooks, kid? Let me tell you, it's not easy for your father to support you to study. You have to study hard." His uncle said while getting on the kang, although he had eaten It's time to eat, but the rice at home is really incomparable with the rice at the butcher's.

"I see, uncle, try it, it's delicious." Meng Guangqing took a chopstick of rabbit meat and put it in a bowl for his new uncle. He used to have only a father who was addicted to gambling. After that, it was really good, and even had an uncle, which made him very fresh.

"This little cleverness, I'm afraid I'll tell him, Uncle, try my nephew's food, eh, huh?! This is so delicious! This recipe is not in vain, and you can open a restaurant in the future."

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After dinner, the uncle went back. His mother sat under the lamp and sewed clothes. Meng Guangqing practiced calligraphy on the table with a brush dipped in water. He took the brush in one hand and the rag in the other, writing each word and erasing it, which made his mother laugh Le, "Huaixi, when you go to the examination room tomorrow, you have to carry a pen in one hand and a rag in the other, or you won't be used to it."

"I'm saving money for my father! Mom, don't sew the sleeves so big, it's inconvenient to write."

"It's just you who have a lot of things to do. Come on, don't write. When I get back to the door tomorrow, my mother will do some embroidery work. I can't make a lot of money. It's okay to earn some rice paper money for my son."

"Mom, you took me so hard by yourself, why didn't you go back to live with your mother's house?" Meng Guangqing used to watch costume dramas, and many widows who had no support from their husband's family returned to live with their mother's house.

"Go back to my natal family? We don't have anything, how can we go back to live? Those who can go back to their natal family either have money from their natal families or they have money themselves, and our mothers don't get involved in any of them. Your grandpa is gone, your grandma They are no longer in charge of the family. They say it is my natal family, but it doesn’t mean anything. After your father is gone, they are far away from our mother and mother, and no one wants to touch us.

Your eldest aunt is a miser, you can do it for her, and you eat her?no way!When you were more than two years old, I took your father to see a doctor. Before leaving, I handed you over to your grandma. When I came back, your eldest aunt pointed at me, saying that you eat too much, Drink too much, bullshit!How much can a two year old eat? !At that time, mother even led you a milk goat, and their children drank it, much more than you. If your grandma hadn't protected you, maybe she would have given you rice soup!Don't listen to what I said to your uncle, I was afraid of embarrassing your grandma, I have been coaxing her all these years, after all, they still have to support your grandma until the end of her life.

Not to mention your second aunt and third aunt, since your father fell ill, we have no contact with our family, and now I see that I left the family again, and I think your father can earn money, so I posted it again.This is not yet the New Year's Eve, you wait until the root of the year, you will find it.

The relatives on your mother's side, just your uncle and your aunt are okay, but you have also seen your uncle, the master who smeared mud on both ends.Not to mention your aunt, her waist is not hard, and after marrying such a person, she will burn incense without being beaten every day. "

"Is my uncle bad?"

"Okay, what's wrong?! There are shops in the city, and land in the countryside, but when it rains, you must take an umbrella, and you can't wear a coir raincoat, or the rain will fall directly into your nostrils!"

"Haha..., mother, you are so funny!" Meng Guangqing laughed so hard that he fell back. His stepfather was lying behind him, like a big sofa. He leaned back twice, and it was quite comfortable if he couldn't fall down.

"Okay, stop messing with me, talk to mother 'you, you' all day long, when can you change it?! Go back to your room. Your father drank too much, listening to this snoring, shaking the sky Loud! Go to bed early too, don't mess around with your two brothers all the time."

"Understood, mother." Meng Guangqing packed up his things and put on his shoes and got off the ground. His father snored and pinched his face, but he didn't know if he was asleep or not.

Meng Guangqing went back to the Westinghouse and found that Li Long and Li Hu were still up. The two were playing with a deck of cards. Meng Guangqing looked at it and saw that there were various flowers, plants and animals printed on it. The printing was very rough, and it was black and white. But it looks like fun.

Taking off his shoes and socks, Meng Guangqing got into the bed. There was a white porcelain vase inside. It was warm. It must have been put in by his two elder brothers in advance.Lying on the pillow, Meng Guangqing watched his two elder brothers play cards with relish, while secretly slandering in his heart. Many time-travel novels are really nonsense. Some make money by selling tofu, some make money by making preserved eggs, and some make money by brewing soy sauce. It was created by modern people. In fact, apart from airplanes and cars, the ancients had nothing. Their neighbor is selling tofu. The sauce shop in the town has all kinds of sauces. If you want to get a deck of playing cards, it will be popular all over the country?Let's popularize Arabic numerals first!

6. Fusion

Since the cage was set outside the day before, the three brothers were thinking about the rabbits that might be inside, so they got up early in the morning before dawn. When their mother cooked the meal, the three of them had already returned with the cage.

"Mother, we caught another rabbit. San'er said it was a female rabbit with cubs. We had a litter of little rabbits a few years ago!" Li Hu was so excited that he took the cage to the kitchen for his stepmother to see. He almost raised the cage to the stepmother's eyes, the younger the child, the better he could see the good and bad of people at a glance. Now Li Long and Li Hu like this new mother and younger brother very much.

His mother wiped her hands on the apron, took a look at the cage, and handed it back to the second son, "It's really alive, you guys are really good! Let's put it there first, and let your father do it later." Make a bigger cage, wash your hands and eat." After finishing speaking, his mother picked up the rice bowl and left the kitchen, and then told the eldest son in the yard, "Dalong, remember to ask for a vacation with your husband before you come back today. Mother will take you guys back to the door, and go after eating."

"Understood, mother." Li Long promised to take his two younger brothers to wash their hands. Li Hu put the rabbit on the stone mill in the yard, and found that the caught hare was in good condition, and half of the radish was left. up.

The three brothers washed their hands and put on the kang to eat. As usual, they still had yellow rice noodles and millet porridge. There was still some braised pork from the night before. In the morning, half a Chinese cabbage was stewed in it, which became a new dish, and there was also a plate of mixed radish. , His mother is a quick learner, and her cooking is even more delicious than Meng Guangqing's.

After breakfast, the three brothers went to school. Meng Guangqing felt that his little arms and legs were getting stronger, so he walked half the distance by himself. He originally wanted to walk to the school by himself, but Li Long and Li Hu were afraid that he would be tired. Take him into school.

The school was still the same, and it didn't quiet down until the teacher came.However, the gentleman seems to be getting up a little bit today, and first considered everyone's homework with a stern face. Meng Guangqing was called up alone and recited a paragraph. After the recitation, the gentleman nodded and let him sit down. The eyes spoke.

Meng Guangqing used to come into contact with several passages in "The Analects" and "Great Learning" when he was in school, and he could also memorize the "San Zi Jing" and "Disciple Regulations" for children's enlightenment, but after arriving here, Meng Guangqing felt that what he learned was a bit strange. Not the same.The books left by his dead scholar father had a musty smell. He didn't read the contents carefully, but he didn't read any of the titles, not even the "Analects" that was necessary for ancient literati. He was a little suspicious that he had traveled to a fictional dynasty, but it was too abrupt for a five-year-old child to ask these topics, and after asking, life would go on as usual, so Meng Guangqing put the matter aside after a little thought.

When school was over, Li Long went to ask his teacher for leave alone, and the teacher agreed, and asked them to study for another half an hour every day after they came back, until they made up the leftover homework.

After returning home at noon, his mother said while preparing meals for the three brothers, "After eating in a while, you guys take turns to take a bath, and tomorrow you will go to see people clean. Especially you, Huaixi, since the weather is cold, you I haven't taken a bath, and I'll give you a good rub in a while, or your grandma won't recognize you."

"I can rub it myself, I wash it myself!" Meng Guangqing withdrew his hand that was about to reach for the chopsticks and quickly replied, if he asked his mother to bathe him, then his soul in his twenties would be smashed to death with a piece of tofu.

"Wash by yourself? It's up to you. I'll check after I've finished washing. The armpits, neck, and heels must be cleaned. I think you should wash it last. After you finish washing, half a basin of mud will be poured out of the bathtub. If you wash first, I will have to scrub the bucket vigorously." His mother said while filling the rice.

Li Long and Li Hu made funny faces at Meng Guangqing and smiled wickedly. They had just washed a few days before the wedding, so they could laugh at fifty steps at this time.

After eating, the three brothers took turns to take a bath, and Meng Guangqing was indeed the last one in line.Although what his mother said was a little exaggerated, it was not far from the actual situation. Meng Guangqing soaked in the bathtub for a full hour, and finally collapsed from exhaustion before being carried back to the kang by the mother who came to heat the water.

Meng Guangqing, who had regained his breath, was wrapped in a large cloth and sat under the quilt. Since he had just taken a bath, the kang was very hot again, his little face exposed outside was flushed, and Li Long and Li Hu couldn't stop touching him with his hands. Poking, Meng Guangqing didn't even hide, he pouted his lips and pretended to be a statue. Just now his mother and two elder brothers saw all his clean and flawless body. He lost at least two catties, and all the weight he lost was in the bathtub!

Meng Guangqing is very reluctant to think about the actual age of his soul now, and he plans not to think about it in the future, because thinking about it is afraid that he will die of embarrassment!

After a while, his mother came over with a bottle of balm and wiped his face, and pulled his quilt after wiping his face. Before Meng Guangqin could react in a daze, he was pulled out of the quilt, and the second It's broad daylight.

Meng Guangqing lay on the quilt and pretended to be dead, and secretly comforted himself, since he had already read it anyway, it doesn't matter if he read it twice.It's a pity that his mother didn't just look at it. She poured the balm into her hands, and after warming it up, spread it on her son's body. It becomes delicious, like a stuffed duck waiting to be roasted.

His mother didn't want to roast him to eat, so she turned around and put away the balm, and nagged him while dressing him, "Look, you won't see the real color until after washing, you should wash your face carefully in the future, the piece behind the ear The place is your own, not someone else's. Those two who laughed, did you hear that?"

"Understood. Mother, our third son is really good-looking. You look like the golden boy in the painting." Li Long has been sitting next to Meng Guangqing, always wanting to touch it.

"Hehe, isn't it pretty? When I was young, I looked better than now, but now I'm ugly." His mother smiled and put on the last piece of clothing for her little son. The son kissed him on the cheek, making Meng Guangqing's face even redder.He didn't remember much when his mother left in his previous life. He really didn't remember whether he had kissed him or not. He probably did, but unfortunately he didn't remember it at all. Now that his mother kissed him like this, Meng Guangqing was not only a little embarrassed, but also The big feeling is a little dizzy, leaning against his mother, feeling that it is really useless to keep the soul in his twenties.

The afternoon sun shone into the room, and it was much brighter than usual. The three brothers sat in a row on the bench after getting dressed. His mother took a pair of combs and combed the hair of the three brothers one by one. The children in the old paintings are shaved in various peach hairstyles. After the lanugo is shaved off, the hair is kept. Every boy on the street has long hair and a high ponytail.

When it was Meng Guangqing's turn, his mother had to spend a lot of effort to push the messy grass away, grinning his teeth in pain, and kept yelling for his mother to cut his hair.

"Cut it like a monk, how will you meet people tomorrow?! Don't shout, it will be combed in a while. You see, neither of your two brothers shouted, so what are you shouting about with your two yellow hairs? Stop shouting. Wait for your father to get rid of it." After the charcoal is brought back, the room is warmer, and my mother has to wash and wash your hair frequently, and it’s almost impossible to get through." His mother was talking, and while combing her youngest son’s hair carefully, she felt that her son’s The hair seems to be better, not as withered and yellow as before.

In the evening, Li Chengkui came back from the town after selling the pork. As soon as he entered the yard, he shouted, "My sons, let's see what Daddy brought back for you?"

Almost every day when Li Chengkui came back, he would bring something, such as a bag of jelly beans or a bag of peanuts, but today he brought back a bag of treasures besides snacks, and also a big rabbit cage, which was very strong and beautiful, together with The three children, including Meng Guangqing, are very satisfied with the cage.

"Where did you get it? Did you buy it with money?" His mother walked around the cage, feeling that it didn't look like Li Chengkui made it himself.

"It's a change. A pig's head is replaced by a cage. It's suitable. Damn, can you see if that piece of meat is enough? I kept the whole pig's hind leg, which weighs more than ten catties."

"More than ten catties?! It's too much. I'll cut some off later, just to eat at night."

"Don't cut it down, it won't look good when you cut it off. I saved what we ate, and it's right next to it. Hehe, hehe, it's good for these children to have mothers. Look at each one of them. Clean, okay, That's great." Li Chengkui happily looked at the children who had been tidied up and looked brand new, and then looked at his beautiful daughter-in-law, giggling for a long time, she was so beautiful that she could only say yes.

"Go! Let people hear the joke. You go and wash, I left water for you, and you will eat after washing. We have to go to bed early today, and we have to go early tomorrow morning, and we have to go to the market. Big brother is right, tomorrow a whole house will have a lot of food to feed, and my sister-in-law will definitely lose face if I don’t get enough.”

"I'll listen to you. Let San'er stay away from the rabbit. The thing will bite when it gets anxious. Hehe, we should have another daughter. It would be nice if she looks half like San'er."

"Who does San'er look like? Not like me?"

"Like you! Why don't you look like you, it's better to look like you..."

The couple entered the room together while talking, the three elder brothers calmly surrounded their rabbit cage, Li Hu blinked fiercely at Li Long, Meng Guangqing stepped on him, and Li Hu was so distressed that he patted his new shoes hard.

Li Chengkui's family didn't have chickens, and they didn't even have a chicken coop, but the big rooster in the neighbor's house began to crow before dawn. Meng Guangqing was holding back his urine and found that the light in the kitchen was on. It was his mother who was cooking breakfast by lighting an oil lamp.The kitchen door was open, and Meng Guangqing stared blankly at the fiery red fire in the stove reflecting on his mother's face, making his mother as beautiful as a delicate flower.

In fact, Meng Guangqing hates good-looking women very much. Whenever he sees a good-looking woman, he will think of his mother who eloped with others, but now he finds that he doesn't hate his mother at all, even though her mother is better than the one he had seen before. Many women are good-looking, but he really doesn't find it annoying at all, he just wants to rub against his mother from time to time, just like all happy children.

After a while, his mother came out to pick up things, and when she turned her head, she saw him standing on the floor of the main room wearing single clothes and shorts, so she came in and touched him angrily, she clicked her tongue after touching him, and quickly picked him up and stuffed him back Under the quilt, "what if it freezes again?! Sleep a little longer, and mother will call you when the meal is ready."

"Mother," Meng Guangqing stretched out a hand to grab his mother's skirt, "you are so pretty."

"You know what good-looking is, go to sleep, little hairy child." His mother stuffed his hands back under the bed, turned around and went out to continue cooking.

After dawn, the family of five had breakfast, put on clean clothes, and was ready to set off. His father borrowed a donkey for his mother to ride, and Meng Guangqing also took advantage of it to sit on it. pace.

They first went to the market to buy dried fruits. At this time, there were not many people in the market, and the mother and wife were still sitting on the donkey. Looking around, Meng Guangqing still felt that this market was very fresh. Although similar scenes were seen in costume dramas It's a lot, but it's still fun when I actually see it.

In front of a dried fruit stall, Li Chengkui picked up the two women. His mother went to pick things up. Meng Guangqing's feet didn't touch the ground. He was held by his father for a while, and his elder brother for a while. The second brother Li Hu followed his mother to the left. Taste the same thing, taste the same thing, and stuff it into his mouth if he thinks it's good. The brothers turned into squirrels, with bulging cheeks. If his mother didn't buy too much, the peddler's face would have turned into a bitter melon.

"It's just that you two eat a lot, I'm too embarrassed to haggle over the price, otherwise it will be much cheaper. Take care of the food yourself, and don't rob those children when you get there. It seems that we have never seen the world." Leaving the stall selling dried fruits, his mother said while stuffing food into the pockets of the three children.

"Mother, don't worry, I will be optimistic about them." Li Long hugged Meng Guangqing and said sensiblely.

"My eldest son is still obedient, mother will give you a little more, just now I saw the two of them eating." His mother said and gave Li Long more a hand.

"Mother, I am enough, thank you mother."

"Tell mother what to say to thank you?! You put San'er down and let him go by himself." His mother felt that Meng Guangqing was a bit too happy, and the new shoes didn't even get a little dirt on them.

"No, there are many people on the street, and they are stepping on him." Li Long didn't intend to let go of his brother. He refused to let Meng Guangqing want to ride a donkey by himself just now, for fear that the donkey would startle and hurt his precious brother.

Li Chengkui walked ahead with a burden on one shoulder, and all the things he brought back home were in the burden, but there was still one thing missing.At the beginning, I told my uncle that there was a fish on the gift list, but I didn’t buy it at that time. Fish is about eating, so I went to the market today because of this fish.

A corner of the market is dedicated to selling fish, and there are large wooden basins on the ground. In this era, there is no oxygen machine, and they are full of freshly harvested live fish, such as carp, grass carp, silver carp, crucian carp, black fish and catfish.Their family picked a big carp, weighing more than five catties, and it was thumping and hopping. The fish seller and Li Chengkui were acquaintances, so they offered a low price. Putting it in a pick with my own meat, everything on the return gift list is finally ready.

7. Return to the door

When the sun was high, the family of five finally arrived at his mother's natal home. Seeing the word "Cheng Zhai" on the door, Meng Guangqing finally figured out his mother's surname. The surname was Cheng. His mother should be called Cheng.

The layout here is similar to that of Li Chengkui's house, but the courtyard is a little smaller. The courtyard door is open, and there are a few children lighting firecrackers at the door to play. There are sporadic crackling sounds, which should be the leftover firecrackers from the wedding day.

When the children saw them coming, one of the older boys ran inside to report the news, and the rest stood against the corner. Two of them put their nails in their mouths and kept gnawing. Meng Guangqing frowned and thought It was as if his fingertips were bitten off.

His father carried him and his mother down, Meng Guangqing's feet finally touched the ground, Li Long and Li Hu held his little hands, and the two brothers protected him tightly, one by one.

There was a commotion in the yard, and then several men and women came out from the door. They should all know the original Meng Huaixi, but unfortunately he didn't know any of them in the present Meng Guangqing. He and his two brothers followed behind his mother, If his mother is the second brother, they are called the second uncle, and if his mother is the third sister-in-law, they are called the third aunt. The movements and voices of the three brothers are all in the same order. Meng Guangqing borrowed the light of the two brothers, so there is no need to worry about others seeing that he is actually the same. I don't know either.

However, these uncles and aunts are really as stingy as his mother said before. Each of the two stepson who met for the first time only received a small red envelope, and Meng Guangqing was even more pitiful, not even a red envelope. These people are just fake Just praise him a few words and it's over.

Meng Guangqing's aunt who was said to be nice also came out to welcome her, and stood there stroking Meng Guangqing's little head. She was the best dressed among these women, and she had a gold hairpin on her head, which looked a bit like his mother's. Similar, but there are already some wrinkles in the corners of the eyes, which can be seen even after applying powder.

After entering the yard, his father and mother went to kowtow to his grandma first. This grandma was a shriveled little old lady with few teeth left, but her body looked good. When his father changed his name to mother, the old lady Very happy, the newlyweds got up quickly, and gave each of the two new grandchildren a pair of small silver bells. Meng Guangqing looked very envious.

After the ceremony, the adults all went out, and then prepared for the noon banquet. Li Long and Li Hu were attracted by firecrackers to go out to play. Grandma secretly led Meng Guangqing to her room, and took out a small silver lock tied with a red string from her arms. Wear it around his neck.

Meng Guangqing had never worn this kind of thing before, and wanted to take it out to have a look. His grandma pressed down his little hand and said, "Don't let your aunts see, grandma just bought it for you. Come and tell grandma, your stepfather treats you Okay? Where are the brothers? Bullying you?"

"It's fine, they're all fine." Meng Guangqing stood next to his grandma, thinking a little of his grandma in his previous life. That old lady once held his hand like this when she was alive, but it's a pity that when his mother hadn't left His grandma suddenly disappeared, and he only experienced such warmth for a short period of time.

Grandma took out a bulging little purse from the sewing box next to her and handed it to him, "Grandma sewed you a little purse with money in it. If you see something you like in the future, you can buy it yourself. Without grandma I'll dress you up again."

Meng Guangqing pushed the small purse back, "Grandma, I don't want it. My stepfather is very kind to me and often gives me pocket money. You can keep it for yourself."

His grandma smiled, and tied a small purse around his waist, "Silly boy, what your father gave you is from your father, and what grandma gave to you is from grandma. Grandma is no longer in charge of the house, so she can't help you guys." The two mothers are in a hurry. Now that your mother has a home again, I can rest assured. I, an old woman, can live for a few more years. It is useless to keep the money. I will have to let your aunts go away. I might as well do it now Add more for you girls.

Huaixi, you know what those people outside say about your mother, right?Don't listen to that!A woman is widowed at a young age, who knows who suffers, what is the use of a hard chastity archway, only a man who can shelter from the wind and rain can live.You are your mother's son, you have to stand by your mother's side all the time, you know?You have been able to study since you were a child. This is like your short-lived scholar father. Then you should continue to study hard and make a name for yourself. When you become a prime minister, let's see who dares to talk about your mother behind your back! "

Meng Guangqing never thought that thugs could also be officials, he hesitated to make promises to his grandma, it wasn't that he didn't want to change his ways, but it just felt a little weird.At this time, the aunt came in and said that dinner was ready, and the grandma led him out by his little hand and handed him to his mother.The rest of the children opened a table alone, Meng Guangqing turned his head to look over, and found that his eldest brother and second brother were very gentle. Although the chopsticks were flipping around quickly, they all sat safely and did not tie them with chopsticks.

Meng Guangqing sat on the stool by himself, and he ate what others gave him, and passed on to his stepfather what he didn't want to eat. Next to him, his second aunt was holding a baby who was a few months old, and said while eating, "Look at this The father and son are closer than their own, and after a few days, they are like father and son, we Huaixi are loved by others."

"Isn't it? Among these children, I like Huaixi the most. I heard from your mother that she went to school, right? When you become an official, don't forget the third aunt. I hugged you when I was young." His third aunt While talking, he stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a ball for him. This is a woman with peach blossom eyes and a mole on her lip. She is used to touching her hands when she talks. There is a green light on the head.

The eldest aunt seemed to be a very capable woman, a lot stronger than his thin uncle, and she looked passable, wearing a silver hairpin that his mother had just bought, and wearing a dark sarong, while eating While staring at the chickens outside the door, Meng Guangqing thought that his eldest aunt would be able to spot the lack of hairs on those chickens immediately.

"Huaixi often came to play with my aunt in the future. Your cousins ​​miss you very much. Your grandma loves you the most. There are a few dates on the tree in autumn. Your grandma won't let anyone eat them, saying that she is waiting for you to come. I just ate it, and now there are quite a few of them, and I don’t care if you take them away later.” The aunt said while eating.

Meng Guangqing wanted to laugh when he heard that, the first half of his aunt's words were quite good, but the second half showed her truth, she is really a rare miser, his mother bought so many dried fruits and put them on the table, She still felt sorry for those dates, saying that there were a lot of them. In fact, when his grandma took them down from the beam just now, she found that there was not even half of them left.

But it’s really no wonder that this aunt is so calculating. The uncle’s family has so many children. There are seven children, big and small, four boys and three girls. The oldest cousin is 15 years old, and the youngest cousin is only three years old.

The second uncle's family also has quite a few children, five, three girls and two boys, the older one is the same age as Li Long, and the younger one is the one in his arms, just a few months after birth.

The third uncle's family had only two children, a boy and a girl, and the girl was 11 months older than the boy. Meng Guangqing calculated in his mind that his third aunt was pregnant with a second child just after confinement.Meng Guangqing looked at his third uncle with a somewhat sallow complexion, and thought that when the New Year came, he could remind his father to give his third uncle two sets of pork kidneys as a New Year's gift, which would win the hearts of the people.

His aunt only brought a gentle and quiet girl, 13 years old, and said that there was a [-]-year-old boy at home, who learned to read the account books from the shopkeeper at home, so she had no time to come.

A homecoming meal was noisy, either this child wanted to drink water or that child needed to pee, and the little Douding in the second aunt's arms broke down halfway through eating, Meng Guangqing was sitting next to the two women, his second aunt When my aunt got up, she accidentally bumped into him, and as a result, a piece of fish he had just brought to her mouth fell off.

His three uncles dragged his father to fight for wine, and the uncle with his nostrils in the air did not come. The uncle said that the shop in the city was busy and couldn't get away, but his grandmother said sharply, "You will No need to make excuses for him, no one here believes him, don't bother, Cheng Kui is also his own family from now on, and sooner or later he has to know."

When a man drinks, he likes to watch children make fools of himself. His second uncle wobbled his wine glass and insisted that Meng Guangqing also have a sip. Meng Guangqing took the wine glass and smelled it. The pure grain wine was still very fragrant, so he raised his head The head was killed, his mother stopped him for a while, and stared at the man on the table several times angrily.

"My son, good job! But boy, it's a bit early for you! Hiccup~ You grow up quickly, and drink with dad when you grow up!" His dad is also a little drunk, but it's better than his three uncles. He looks sober, at least he knows that children cannot drink alcohol.

"Let me tell you, our San'er is very good. He has caught two rabbits in the past two days, and his homework is also good! The gentleman in the school is so good. The day before yesterday, he took the initiative to lend our San'er all the writing books... "His father drank too much alcohol, which did not affect his ability to move, but he talked too much. His mother secretly gave Meng Guangqing a wink. Meng Guangqing went to sit on his father's lap and listened to them chatting while taking the wine in his father's glass. Sneakily fell to the ground.

After dinner, his father and three uncles went to drink tea, his mother helped clean up in the kitchen, Meng Guangqing was led by Li Long and Li Hu to the outside of the yard, the children were playing the game just now and setting off firecrackers.

Meng Guangqing didn’t let go after releasing one. He sat on the stone pier at the door enjoying the smell of gunpowder smoke. He was most familiar with these things. When he was 11 years old and could really hold things with his hands, his master began to teach him how to make bombs. , The first thing he came into contact with was the soil bomb made of gunpowder. He also liked this kind the most. The material was easy to get and simple and convenient. He often used it in his later career, and it was very powerful.

"San'er, don't you want to play? It's okay, brother protects you." Li Hu thought he was frightened, so he came over and sat on the stone pier with him.

"I'm not afraid, second brother, I'm out of pine nuts, do you have any more?" Meng Guangqing stretched out his hand to his nine-year-old second brother for some food with peace of mind, without blushing at all.

"Yes, I'll give you all of them. Big brother also has them. Don't take them out for now. I'll eat them when I get home."

"Okay, I'll give you two dates, grandma gave them, they're pretty sweet."

"It's pretty sweet..."

The two brothers sat on the stone pier, watching the fun while eating. After a while, the adults walked out of the yard talking and laughing. They couldn’t stay at their mother’s house for a long time when they returned home. The five of them had to go home.

Grandma sent it a long way, and didn't stop until the entrance of the village. Before Meng Guangqing was picked up, he ran over and kissed the old lady. As a result, the old lady laughed until all five teeth were exposed.

There was nothing empty in the burden on the way home. His grandma packed them with red dates and peanuts. Although there were not many of them, they all tasted very good.On the way, Meng Guangqing showed his mother the little silver lock around his neck and the little pouch around his waist. His mother knocked his little head and said with a smile, "Grow up quickly, and honor your grandma as soon as you earn money. Auntie is right, these old ladies love you."

"Whether it grows fast or not is not up to me..." Meng Guangqing muttered.

Unlike going around the market like in the morning, the journey home is not too far away. Meng Guangqing entered the village when he woke up after taking a nap with his mother. A man came to meet him at the wedding ceremony. Yes, his uncle Li Chengxiao.

Li Chengxiao seemed to have just come from the direction of his house, with his hands in his sleeves, cursing the weather as he walked, "The weather is getting colder every day!" When he walked up to them, Li Chengxiao looked up at the family and smiled. Said, "You guys just came back home, right? Look at my memory, I forgot that you came back today, and it was almost a waste of time. How is it, the in-laws and the whole family are doing well, right?"

"It's all good, thank you brother for thinking about it." Meng Guangqing's mother said that he was about to get off the donkey, but Li Chengxiao quickly stopped him, "Don't come down, San'er looks confused like that, don't throw him, this weather It's cold, go home now."

"Brother, let's go, let's go back together, and have dinner at my house tonight. I came back early yesterday, and there is a lot of meat left." Li Chengkui said carrying the burden.

"What kind of food are you eating? I can hardly open my mouth due to the cold. The day after tomorrow I plan to go to the mountains to burn charcoal. Didn't you say that you will go too? Then you are ready to prepare and settle down at home. It will take four or five days anyway." , prepare the food and firewood for these mothers, don’t let them catch you blind. Later, I’ll go to Sun’s house on the street. Both of us have ox carts. You can go out and borrow one tomorrow. If you can’t borrow one, rent it