Chapter 209

After walking for a while, Qiao Mu looked back. Boss Yang didn't follow, but his eyes seemed to be still looking this way.

After sending Susie home, Qiao Mu told her to fasten the locks, and then turned around to go to the grain drying ground.

Su Qian was reading in the room, and it didn't take long to see Chen Changqing coming back with the meat, and after a while, Zhao Tingting, Qiao Mu and the others came back.

Susie opened the door and went out, and saw that there was still a lot of meat.

"How many kilograms is this?"

Zhao Tingting said excitedly: "Three catties of meat per person, this is for the three of us, not a lot."

Ten catties of meat seemed like a lot, so Qiao Mu also took Yuan Gang's three catties of meat for him.

Su Qian followed into the kitchen. Zhao Tingting cut off a piece of meat and planned to save it for making dumplings, and kept another piece for cooking and eating in the next two days. The rest was salted so that it would not spoil.

The next day was New Year's Eve, Zhao Tingting got up in the morning, made some flour paste, and Zhu Zhicheng and Qiao Mu pasted the couplets on both sides of the gate of the collective household's yard.

After breakfast, Zhao Tingting started chopping meat, and Zhu Zhicheng kneaded the dough.

Susie was chopping cabbage beside her.

After the minced meat was chopped, several people gathered around the table to make dumplings.

Susie doesn't know how to wrap at all, she imitated Zhao Tingting's appearance, pinched for a long time, and wrapped it out like a four-faced one.

Qiao Mu didn't know either, he didn't rush to do it, he watched it for a while and then started wrapping.

The first one he made was a little crooked, but the second one was made in a pretty shape, and Susie looked at it in admiration.

The stove room was bustling with activity, when suddenly a young man walked in, Su Qian saw that it was Xu Jian, the youngest son of the second uncle's family.

Xu Jian said to Su Qian: "Sister Qian, grandma asked me to call you, it's time to go home for New Year's dinner."

Su Qian agreed, washed her hands, and followed Xu Jian to Xu's house.

Gui Province does not grow wheat or produce flour, and does not eat dumplings during Chinese New Year.

When Susie went, a large round table was set up in the main room. In the center of the table was a bowl of old hen, next to it was a bowl of braised pork, a pot of ham stewed with mushrooms, a fried golden fish, and several side dishes.

Xu Zhiqiang came out of the stove with a plate of cabbage moss, and counted the dishes on the table: "Mom, there are already ten dishes, and they are perfect, so there is no need to make any more."

The old lady agreed, and quickly took off her apron and came out.

Seeing the old lady Susie smiling, "Okay, everyone is here, everyone is at the table, Zhiqiang, you go set off firecrackers, let's have New Year's dinner!"

Xu Zhiqiang took out a hanging firecracker from the house and put it on the ground in the yard, then struck a match and lit the fuse.

Crackling firecrackers sounded, and a burst of smoke filled the air.

Everyone in the main room sat at the table, the old lady and the old man Xu sat at the head, Susie was dragged by the old lady to sit beside, there were eight people in total, and the round table was fully surrounded.

Old man Xu stretched out his chopsticks and said, "Let's eat." Everyone's chopsticks stretched towards the center of the table.

Today is grandma's chef, and the food tastes very good. Susie ate two bowls of white rice until her stomach was full.

The old lady knew that Susie was going back to the collective household to have New Year's dinner with the educated youths later, and seeing that the meal was almost done, she took out a few red paper packets from her body, "Come on, let's give out New Year's money, one red packet per person."

The old lady gave one to Su Qian, and another to Xu Hang and Xu Jian.

Susie smiled and said, "Thank you, grandpa and grandma."

Xu Hang and Xu Jian also said, "Thank you grandpa and grandma."

Xu Jian opened the red envelope on the spot, and was surprised to find that there was a dollar inside.

One dollar is already a huge sum of money for Xu Jian. Just as he was about to cheer, he stretched out a hand to take the one dollar. Chen Yun smiled at him and said, "Mom will keep it for you."

Xu Jian's face collapsed, and just as he was about to protest, Chen Yun looked at Xu Hang again, "Give yours to Mom, too, and Mom will keep it for you."

Xu Hang shook his head while eating, "No, I'll keep it myself."

Chen Yun said unhappily: "This child, such a big piece of money, don't lose it."

Xu Hang didn't give it anyway, picked up the vegetables with his right hand, and tightly covered his pocket with his left hand.

The old lady just sat on the top and watched without speaking.

Anyway, she gave the red envelope, and she didn't care who the money ended up in.

Seeing that only his own money had been confiscated and his brother's was still there, Xu Jian felt even more unbalanced. He turned to Chen Yun and said, "Mom, pay me back the money! Every year you said to keep the money for me, where is the money? Where did it go?"

Chen Yundao: "The money is saved, and I will marry you a wife in the future."

Xu Jian stretched out his hand to Chen Yun, "If I don't marry a wife, pay me back the money!"

Xu Zhiqiang couldn't hold back, and burst out laughing.

Xu Zhilin whispered: "Give it to him, since the Chinese New Year is over, the children have to go out to play, so they can't live without a penny."

Chen Yun plausibly said, "It's not that I don't give it. I will give them the New Year's money when they observe the New Year's Eve."

Xu Jian said unhappily: "You only pay one dime every year, so what's that enough for? The bus ticket to the county town costs [-] cents!"

Chen Yundao: "A dime is too little for you?"

"You don't look at other people's children, some don't even have a penny."

Xu Jian was in a hurry, and he couldn't talk to his mother, so he reached into his mother's pocket and took out the one dollar just now.

After taking the money, Xu Jian didn't even eat, and ran out clutching his pockets.

Chen Yun was so angry that he looked at Xu Hang in a blink of an eye. Xu Hang quickly stuffed a piece of braised pork into his mouth, got up and ran away.

"You two little bastards—"

Before she could finish speaking, the old lady coughed lightly on her head, "I'm not happy to scold the children during the Chinese New Year!"

Chen Yun had no choice but to shut up.

Susie stood up, "Grandpa and grandma, I've finished eating, I'm going back to the collective household first."

The old lady was still a little reluctant. She felt that during the New Year, Susie should stay at home. "Why don't you come home to watch the New Year?"

Susie smiled and said, "It's so cold, I won't come here."

At this time, Xu Zhiqiang glanced at Su Xi and hesitated to speak.

Su Qian came out of the house, and Xu Zhiqiang followed, he whispered: "I, I'll pick up some food, can you bring it to Yu Xuexing?"

Although the two had a quarrel the day before yesterday, when Xu Zhiqiang thought of Yu Xue spending the New Year alone, he couldn't bear it.

Susie whispered: "Uncle, I can't handle this matter, or you should go by yourself."

She smiled at Xu Zhiqiang and raised her foot to leave, but Xu Zhiqiang stopped her again, "Wait!"

Then Xu Zhiqiang also took out a red envelope from his pocket and stuffed it to Su Qian, "Take the lucky money."

Susie smiled and said, "Thank you, uncle."

Back at the collective household, Susie found that the dumplings were all wrapped and neatly placed on the table. There was a big fire in the stove, and everyone was sitting by the fire.

Chen Changqing, Zhang Weidong, and Niu Jianguo were also there, and Yu Xue was also sitting there with drooping eyelids.

Susie went in and Qiao Mu got up and moved the chair beside her, and the two sat down next to each other.

Yu Xue raised her eyelids to take a look, then curled her lips.

Everyone was chatting while warming up the fire, when Xu Zhiqiang's voice came from outside, "Yu Xue—"

(End of this chapter)

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