stonecrandall Chapter 187, Chinese New Year
Chapter 187, Chinese New Year
Layers of clouds and mists were pushed away, birds in the forest were singing, and the water in the river was flowing, flowing to an unknown distance.
The sky outside was slightly brighter, and the people of the small village opened the door of the house.
There are still people in the village who carried buckets to carry water early, but today there are many fewer people carrying water than in the past, and many people filled their buckets with water one day in advance.Only a few people who ran out of water at home still went out early in the morning with buckets to fetch water and went home.
"Happy New Year, let's fetch water early in the morning."
"Happy New Year, yes, the water at home ran out yesterday, come and get some."
This day seems to be no different from the past, but it seems to be a little different from the past.
People have smiles on their faces, and when they meet each other, they will say a happy new year.
The sleeping chickens in their chicken coop were all awake and chirping in their cages.
Everyone in the family was still sleeping, so Aunt Qiao got up and opened the door of the house.Hearing the crowing of the chickens in the cage, she knew that the chickens were hungry. She went to open the door of the cage, and the chickens inside jumped to the ground one by one.
"Fortunately, there are bean dregs at home for you to eat, otherwise I don't know what to feed your chickens, and I just eat and eat all day long." Mrs. Qiao went to pick up a bag and poured some into the chicken feeding bowl. The bean dregs go in. These bean dregs are the bean dregs that they usually filter out from making tofu.
There are so many chickens in the family, and they have to eat a lot of things every day.
But seeing that these chickens are so big that the children can kill two to eat every day when they come back, she thinks it is worth raising these chickens.Fortunately, their family now makes tofu, and most of them feed the chickens with bean dregs. If they use their own rice to feed them, I really don't know how much rice it will cost to feed such a group of chickens.
These chickens couldn't understand what the owner was saying. Hearing the sound of food falling into the basin, a group of chickens rushed to several large food bowls, took up a position, lowered their heads and pecked inside, eating happily one by one. .
Count the chickens that are eating, and except for the ones that were killed yesterday, there is no less than one of them here. Aunt Qiao will not care about these chickens, and take back the remaining bean dregs in the bag and put them away.
"Ma'am, I'm getting up too." Hearing the voice outside, the young woman sleeping in the house pushed her husband aside, got up, got dressed, and went outside.The man on the bed turned over and sat up.
The people in the family heard the sound and got up one by one.
Today is the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, and no one dares to lie in bed and sleep in. After the adults get up, they also wake up the sleeping children, and do not let the children sleep in on the bed.
"Abba, Aunt."
"Eh."
Grandpa Qiao was wearing the new clothes his grandsons bought for him today, with a stack of red envelopes in his arms, waiting for his grandsons to come and pay him New Year's greetings.The old lady followed the old man and prepared lucky money for the grandchildren.
"Grandpa and Grandma, Happy New Year."
"Grandpa, grandpa..."
People from several families came to Uncle Qiao's house early in the morning, and a group of children surrounded their grandpa and grandma to pay New Year's greetings, big and small.
There are also two great-grandchildren called great-grandpa and great-grandmother.
"Okay, come in line, come in line, you have everything." Grandpa Qiao took out a stack of prepared red envelopes from his arms. In the past, no matter how poor the life was, he would give it to his grandchildren every New Year's Eve. A new year's money, so that the children can drink happily.
Not to mention that life is getting better now, the New Year's money he pretended for these grandchildren today is bigger than in previous years.
But the old lady is not as generous as the old man, and the red envelope contains a small one.
"Thank you grandpa, grandpa is in good health and has a long life."
"Thank you grandma."
"..."
Seeing a group of people over there asking for lucky money around the elders, Uncle Qiao and Erniang Qiao took out the prepared lucky money and distributed the lucky money to the children in the family.
It is a custom in their village that those who are married should give lucky money to those who are not married, and those who are not married do not.But of course, you have to be rich to be willing to send it. If you don't have money, there is no way.
In previous years, they could not come up with spare money, so young people did not prepare this money.
But this year is different. They have all made some money, and everyone has some spare money. Not only the elders give out lucky money, but even the two daughters-in-law of Aunt Qiao’s family have prepared red envelopes. To the brothers and sisters below.
"Come on, Mingming, you have one too."
"I don't have to."
"Take it, take it, the aunt gave it to you, the aunt won't say anything good, study hard, and give our old Qiao family a good reputation." Aunt Qiao caught the nephew who was about to run away, and put a new year's money into the nephew's hand.
"Mingming still has yours."
"Yes, there is still someone who is clear about you. You are in good health and progressing in your studies."
The two sister-in-laws also caught the younger uncle to distribute lucky money.
There was no way to hide, so Qiao Minglang had no choice but to reach out and take the lucky money given by his aunt and sisters-in-law.Looking at the lucky money in his hand, the smile on his face was a bit helpless, but he felt a warmth in his heart. He could feel that this was the love from his relatives.
The adults in the family give lucky money, and the happiest ones belong to the children in the family.
A group of children took the New Year's money and opened the red envelopes in the courtyard to see how much money was inside.
The New Year's money given to children who were too young was taken away by the adults in the family.
Qiao Xiaohui coaxed out the lucky money from the two twins, leaving only an empty red envelope for them to play with.
"Wow, borrow, that's a lot of money." Qiao Sanmei secretly opened a few red envelopes, counted them, her eyes widened.Qiao Xiaohui didn't look at how much money she took, but it should be the same as her sisters. She was afraid that her sister would spend the money indiscriminately, so she said, "Don't spend it indiscriminately. Save it to buy homework and stationery when school starts."
"I know, I won't waste money." There is so much food at home, and my brother and cousins bought so much food back, they can eat enough for themselves, so there is no need to go outside to buy food.
In previous years, the brothers and sisters could not get so much lucky money together.
This year's New Year's Eve, they took so much lucky money alone. After counting the lucky money, Qiao Sanmei was very happy in her heart, with a bright smile on her face.
There are small shops selling things in the village, and the children like to go there to buy food after they get something.
Today is the first day of the new year, and the village is more lively than usual.
The children in the village like to go outside to play. After Sanmei Qiao returned home and hid the money, she ran out to play with the little friends she knew in the village.When a group of friends saw the clothes Qiao Sanmei was wearing, they all asked enviously, "Xiaofen, your clothes are so beautiful, where did you buy them?"
Not everyone can afford to wear new clothes these days. There are only a few decent families who are willing to spend money on clothes for their children. Most of them are still wearing old clothes from last year.
In the past, the clothes worn by the younger sister Qiao Sanmei were more torn than the clothes worn by all of them. Now seeing the beautiful clothes worn by Qiao Sanmei, some people can't help feeling jealous.
The little girl's vanity was causing trouble, so she said that her brother bought it for him outside.
Everyone knows that Qiao Sanmei's parents are dead, and her life was not as good as those of them.But now seeing Qiao Sanmei wearing new clothes and a new hair flower on her hair, children of this age love to compare, and the little friends who had played well at first, because of a little thing after playing for a while, lost their minds. Don't want Qiao Sanmei to play with her.
Seeing my sister go out to play happily, and come back from outside angrily, sitting on the bed in the house, with a small face full of anger.
Qiao Xiaohui asked puzzledly: "What's the matter? Who made you unhappy."
Third Sister Qiao was so angry that she shed tears, and while wiping her face, she told her elder sister what happened outside today, and asked, "Sister, do you think they are going too far, I will never play with them again in the future."
Qiao Xiaohui's face was silent for a while, and she said to her sister: "Don't cry, go out in the future, and be careful when you talk. Think about it, if you want others to wear new clothes to show off in front of you, the old clothes you wear Can you be happy?"
"We can wear new clothes and have enough to eat. It's all my brother worked hard to save for us outside. It didn't fall from the sky. Think about it, my brother studies outside and earns money for us." To raise us, we need to know the hard work of our elder brother, we can't take his hard work to go out and show off.
What other people can see is the clothes on our bodies, only we can know how our clothes came from, and what is hidden in them is the sweat and hard work of my brother..."
"So you don't have to run away when you have nothing to do. Now that it's Chinese New Year, there's so much work in the house of the aunts. You stay at home to help with some work. The aunts are always so kind to us. Brother finally came back. I'm leaving in a few days, you have to take care of your younger brothers and sisters, do more work, and let my brother rest..."
Hearing her sister's words, the unhappiness in Sanmei Qiao's heart disappeared. She just felt that she was really too ignorant. She lowered her head and said in a dull voice: "Sister, I understand."
"It's good that you know, be obedient, and let me worry less."
Seeing that her younger sister listened to what she said, Qiao Xiaohui actually sometimes didn't know how to educate this younger sister. She herself was not much older than this younger sister, and her younger sister was not very obedient. Also very helpless.
But she knows that this younger sister is a bit playful and not bad in nature. Now she can listen to her words, understand her brother's hard work and difficulty, and she thinks it is the most important thing to settle down in the future.
"Sister, I'm sorry." Third Sister Qiao looked up at her elder sister with teary eyes.
Qiao Xiaohui seldom saw her sister cry. When she saw the tears on her face, she couldn't bear to blame her. She just touched her sister's head with her hand, sighed, and said, "Just be more sensible from now on."
After sitting in the house for a while, the two sisters took the twins to the uncle's natal house.