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To be honest: I guess it was the general who was willing to give Jia Lai a few yuan, but he didn’t expect that he wouldn’t appreciate it.

"In the middle of the night, there is a cold wind and air-conditioning. What's the point of eating? You are no longer young. You should go to bed early and drink more water. If you are hungry, let Huotoujun make you some hot soup and rice."

After Huo Yunqian finished speaking, he turned and left.

Jia Lai froze on the spot, looking at his empty hands.

There's nothing to eat. Why did you take the cookie box away?

While walking down the tower, he picked up a piece and threw it into his mouth.

Jia Lai hurriedly chased after him, "Hey? General, it's not that you are stingy in your humble position. You can pick something to eat, pawns, or anything else. Just don't eat the chariots and handsome men below."

Xu Tianxin baked a set of chess cookies for Jia Lai.

The red words are for milk flavor, and the green words are for tea flavor.

What Huo Yunqian threw into his mouth was really not the "handsome" one in the biscuits, but a piece of "cannon".

Hearing this, the more he was not allowed to eat, the more eager he was to reach out for the cookies with handsome characters and asked Jia Lai, who was coming next to him: "Why?"

Under the city tower, two rows of garrisoned soldiers heard General Jia say: "The general doesn't know something. The reason why the snacks are made in the shape of chess is because the little girl said that this Grandpa Jia is the handsome one with a car in her mind." A man who is handsome and has a rook is the only one who plays chess, so he made such a set of snacks."

Here, it can be seen from the font of the word handsome itself that it really does not describe a man's flashy appearance, nor does it praise handsomeness.

Rather, the radical alludes to soil, and the soil should be filled with scarves, that is, it should be filled with flags of meritorious deeds.

So the word handsome here represents those who are worthy of the country at the top and worthy of the people at the bottom.

Only those who have outstanding achievements, such as generals and scientific researchers, can be praised as handsome.

Therefore, it had nothing to do with appearance and there was no ambiguity, so Xu Tianxin praised Jia Lai with confidence and boldness.

This provoked even the soldiers on duty who were listening to this conversation to wonder in their hearts: Who is this? Such a flattery.

It was a compliment that reached Jia Lai's heart.

"The general doesn't know what he is doing. At the end, the girl wished that she would be prosperous in her humble position, that she would be able to plan for thousands of miles, be confident in her moves, and enjoy playing chess with endless joy. Hahaha."

Huo Yunqian stuffed the snack box back into Jia Lai's arms. He really couldn't listen to it anymore.

I can’t eat anymore.

In Xu Tianxin's view, his New Year's gift is to pave the way with biscuits and wine, and he greets people with a smile and is sociable. He has done quite well in all aspects. After all, this is the most thoughtful gift we can give under the current economic situation.

But she didn't know that her impression in Huo Yunqian's mind was that she was very ignorant of the world. This is reflected in the fact that everything is responded to and everything is left unanswered.

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On the second day, New Year's Eve arrived as scheduled.

Xu family.

The old lady quietly opened the door for the third time and glanced at the kang. What should I do? My daughter-in-law hasn't gotten up yet. She didn't dare to push her awake, she seemed to be sleeping soundly.

But if you don’t wake up, when will you have breakfast? The family waited for everyone to gather together after the meal to post the couplets. After the couplets were posted, the three grandchildren had to drive to Xujiazhuang to worship their ancestors.

Besides, a big pig's head and a big fish will also be placed in Erdao River later to prepare sacrifices to the ancestors. Her family has an ancestral hall named Xu in Xujiazhuang, so there is no need to participate in offering incense. But the daughter-in-law is, after all, the leading talker in the village. She can't do anything without taking a look and summoning her.

In the yard, Xu Tianxin chatted with Yu Qiniang as soon as he entered the yard. The incense table in Liaocun had been placed, and he could smell the aroma of meat coming from Grandpa Zhai’s house. The Zhai family seemed to have two meals mixed into one, because Grandpa Zhai and him Cousin, today I have to pick up a hundred pounds of large intestines, the large intestines of four pigs.

Thirty-five tables of noodles were booked at the shop in the afternoon, and one of the dishes was pork sausage.

The big shopkeepers of both caravans were very generous. They ordered four dishes for a table of fourteen people for ordinary traders, braised large carp with tofu and vermicelli, chicken stewed with mushrooms, pork sausage, and an unlimited supply of Grandpa Guan’s homemade food. Fish jelly and a jar of wine per table.

Another six tables ordered the Xu family's large banquet noodles, with ten dishes per table, and one of them was pork sausage.

So Grandpa Zhai and his two cousins ​​are specializing in large intestine cleaning today. Each of them gets double wages and 200 copper coins. The old Zhai family also has children who will go to the Xu family to help later, so they plan to eat the afternoon meal together in the morning. , and then it’s best to finish the dumplings even in the middle of the night. Making money is important.

And what Lao Zhai's family thinks like this is not just one family or two families.

Xu Tianxin followed Yu Qinniang and was helping to bag the cabbage in the cellar.

Today, the Xu family even uses a washing tub to put the shredded cabbage used in cold dishes, which shows how busy they are.

In order to avoid being tired, my family also wanted to have a quiet year. Like yesterday and this morning, including tomorrow's first day breakfast, other families took care of it. The Xu family didn't even sell a bowl of noodles, they just waited for a break to earn dozens of tables of noodles.

Xu Tianxin took off his gloves and blew on his slowly frozen hands while continuing with Yu Qinniang: "Auntie, there are also performers. I just met a lot of grandmas. In order to earn chickens, they also said that they have to go early at home. Let’s eat. When will our family eat?”

"Your grandma said that when your uncles come back from the old house, our family will have to eat. Otherwise, even if there are helpers to clean up the fish and meat, cut the vegetables and put them on the plate, it will be too busy. We must let the guests eat in time. meal."

After Yu Qiniang finished speaking, she urged Xu Tianxin:

"Hurry up and get in the house. If you can't see anyone clearly so early in the morning, you'll run out to watch the fun. Isn't it cold? Get on the kang and take off your shoes to warm yourself up. You're not needed here. I've finished melting the meat we're going to make. Wait. When you start breastfeeding, your uncle and the others will come back from the shop after delivering the goods, and we'll have breakfast."

Xu Tianxin did not explain that she got up early to help Liu Jingdong compile couplets.

Because she really couldn't bear to look at it, Liu Jingdong copied the couplets in his own house, and almost the whole village had to post the same couplets as in Grandpa Li Zheng's house, which was called: People are diligent in spring and early in spring, the land is fertile and grains are plentiful. There is also a Typos. Posting dozens of them is a bit unsightly.

Xu Tianxin's face turned red from the cold and asked, "My breasts haven't risen yet?"

She was so lazy that she got up.

Xu Tianxin was a little anxious. Could it be that he felt uncomfortable somewhere?

Fortunately, when Xu Tianxin pushed the door open and walked in, Mrs. Xu was already awake, sitting cross-legged on the bed in a daze, motionless.

"What's the matter, grandma?"

"I had a dream that was a bit nonsense, but I actually believed it."

Xu Tianxin was helpless. Ever since they traveled here and there was a magical live broadcast room, her breasts had become a bit weird. In the past, she only believed in the God of Wealth in modern times.

For example, I once dreamed of my original old lady. Xu Tianxin believed that it was a psychological reflection. During that time, he had just accepted three uncles as his sons, and he was under psychological pressure.

There was one more thing that she was embarrassed to say.

Not long ago, her mother had dreamed that something was really buried under the tree in the backyard.

The table full of grandma told me that she had a dream while sleeping in a shop that night, and she almost fell into a pot when she woke up. Then I hurried home to dig up the tree.

Didn’t we dig it out earlier to bury the money? Nothing. Xu Tianxin was puzzled, how could he believe in a dream.

But grandma insisted on saying that there was, and then she almost had to uproot the tree. The uncles were so anxious that they asked, first, their eldest brother planted this, what kind of tree could they dig up in the freezing cold weather, and it would still be alive after digging? ? Can't move. Secondly, haven’t you dug out the money a long time ago?

She choked on the milk, so she let go of the big tree.

Unexpectedly, he had another dream on New Year's Eve. Xu Tianxin sat by the kang and said, "Nai, tell me about it, and I will help you analyze why you had this dream."

"I can't say it. Say it, what if a secret breaks through the sky?"

"Hey, why is it so evil?"

Unexpectedly, after Xu Tianxin finished teasing, Mrs. Xu actually nodded seriously.

She couldn't tell her granddaughter that she dreamed about her eldest son Xu Youtian last night. Yes, that outstanding eldest son she had never met before turned into the appearance of her own son, with his head wrapped in gauze and wearing a down jacket outside the gauze. Hat, seems to be short of money, who is staying in the hospital. Who wouldn't have dreamed about it? Anyway, it looks like this, waiting for urgent needs, writing couplets for people at the gate of the community to make money.

That community is her old house in modern times. After I finished writing, I walked again. It seemed like I was careless while walking. I went to the underground wholesale city to carry goods for others. After carrying the goods, I went home and was asked for wages by the noodle shop workers.

In the dream, she was very anxious. There were house books, bank cards and time deposit certificates stuffed under the mattress. Can't you use the card to withdraw some money? To wake her up.

After Mrs. Xu woke up, she recalled that she had dreamed of being too bright, and it even involved her live broadcast room. She also said that whether she can live well here will affect whether her eldest son can live well there.

Anyway, the scene in the dream was so clear that it made her very angry. She still looked so stupid when her eldest son pushed her against her face, and she couldn't find anything. It was so immersive.

After a while, I felt that it was too nonsense, and I was embarrassed to tell my granddaughter, because I could guess what her granddaughter would complain about.

My granddaughter will definitely say, "Hey, you burned paper last night. After burning it for this party, you were busy sending money to that party. You only dreamed blindly at night."

Maybe, it’s so unprepared.

But Mrs. Xu still didn't intend to say it.

Because whether true or false, at least in this dream, life is better than anything else. It was a relief, and I dreamed of my own son's face.

So Mrs. Xu smacked her dream, and got up happily to prepare: "I'm going to fry the meatballs and the rings in a while, and quickly finish the oil and then go to the shop. Baby, what else do you want to eat? The milk is prepared in advance.”

Xu Tianxin climbed onto the kang and folded the quilt, and said with a smile: "Miscellaneous, I don't want to eat anything. Our food is very hard today. I just want to beg you to dream about me in the future, and dream about my success."

"Okay, I dream of you becoming a princess tonight."

Xu Tianxin was disdainful: "When a princess wants to recognize the emperor and the prince as her father."

She doesn’t want to admit it:

"Don't bother with that matter and have to be controlled by others. Baby, just dream of me being the queen."

My sister is the queen, her confidence shines, she is great with money, and she can fly against the wind.

Mrs. Xu's laughter spread.

The three of them took the three birds with them. They happened to enter the yard and were happy to hear their mother's laughter.

The Xu family’s New Year’s Eve breakfast finally started.

I ate braised saury, cabbage, tofu, pork belly, and rice all morning.

This is what the old lady did when she got up early.

Breakfast on New Year’s Eve is also very particular.

Of course, there are conditions to pay attention to.

If not, my family would still eat pickled wild vegetables and tofu with big pancakes in the morning.

However, it stands to reason that no matter the conditions are good or bad, local people should cook rice soup, put tofu and pickled wild vegetables in it, grind the rice into pulp, and make a large bowl to eat in the morning. But the emperor's surname was Zhou, so the people were not allowed to have porridge that morning, so the tradition was changed.

And what does the Xu family’s breakfast represent?

Mrs. Xu specially turned on the live broadcast and asked her granddaughter to explain it to her family.

Xu Tianxin said while waiting for the rice: "Saury is also called hairtail, which means there is more than enough every year, which means surplus food. Rice is dry rice, and you can earn money if you make it dry. Pork belly stewed with cabbage, stewed with tofu, cabbage, hundred wealth, tofu, means pocketing wealth." , as for the pork belly...it doesn’t mean anything, my brother-in-law wants to eat it.”

Xu Youyin opened the door and came in: "What the hell, do I want something to eat?"

Xu Tianxin was caught: "It's nothing."

During breakfast, Mrs. Xu told her three sons:

"Wear warm clothes. Tian Xin'er and I won't accompany you. We burned paper last night and my weak body made me dream.

Without me following you, the three of you brothers would have to say New Year greetings to everyone in Xujiazhuang, especially you, the third child.

Look at your voice, but no one may praise you.

But if you don’t say hello, people in the village will say that whose family is younger is nothing, or they will say that they have eyes on the top of their heads and don’t know how to speak when they see people. "

Xu Youyin chatted with her mother and asked what else was similar.

Mrs. Xu was also in a good mood. She glanced at her granddaughter and then said with a smile:

“It’s nothing like that.

But for our Dabao, for example, everyone in the village knows everything about her, so they don’t pay attention to her.

Otherwise, if she gets up late and goes to bed early, even if she earns five hundred taels of silver a day at home, people in the village will say she is a lazy child.

He would only praise someone who gets up early and goes out early and works late at night. Those who earn ten coppers a day would also praise him and say he is capable.

At our age, if you don’t believe it, ask your grandma. When you are a matchmaker, you always praise the kind of young man and the big girl behind you. It doesn’t matter how much you earn or how little you earn, and how hard you work. It should be highlighted as your merits. "

"It's like this." The old lady testified, so she asked for dessert when meeting people. These are the key points for country people to look at people.

Xu Tianxin and Zhaodi looked at each other, rolled their eyes, and thought: She was obviously the first to get up this morning. I also ran to deliver new bedding and couplets to Grandpa Guan’s house.

If Grandpa Guan hadn't grabbed her and was so moved that she didn't say a word for a while, she would have done more work this morning.

Zhao Di couldn't help laughing when she saw Tian Xin secretly rolling her eyes.

Zhaodi can already sit by the kang to eat, pick vegetables, and help Da Yue take care of the children. She still needs acupuncture and medicine every day.

Yesterday, Wangdi carried a lot of firewood for the New Year's gift. She was so happy to see Zhaodi being so well-fed. However, Wang Di didn't dare to sit for any longer, and she just said a few words and rushed home. He also kowtowed to the old lady seriously and wished her a happy life.

"Uncle, lean a little further to the side and you have to match the first couplet." Xu Tianxin helped Zhaodi and stood at the door to read the couplets.

Xu Tianxin wrote the couplets of the Xu family first, and then forced the three uncles to copy the couplets.

When Xu Youcang was writing, his hands were shaking as if he had Parkinson's disease. He was afraid that if he stained the red paper, the paper and ink would be wasted. But the niece refused to let him go, and why the second brother could write horizontal batches, but he had a lot of words to write.

Xu Youyin also complained: "Our handwriting is so ugly that if we post it to make people laugh, why don't you come and make us lose face?"

Xu Tianxin didn't care, grabbed her brother-in-law's arm and asked her to write a couplet: plenty of food and clothing, family happiness.

First couplet: Celebrate the harvest and sweet harvest.

Her breasts are attached to the door god.

She, her aunt, Tai Nai, San Niao and Sister Da Yue put blessing characters on the water tank, barn and rice barn.

The couplet that Xu Tianxin sent to Grandpa Guan’s family is: Enjoy the harvest and benefit the common people.

Xujiazhuang.

More than 400 people from the Xu family are kneeling in front of the grave. Gods, three ghosts and four gods are worshiping the sky and kowtowing three heads and four ancestors.

The three Xu family members were promoted to stand in the middle, parallel to their uncle.

The three of them had to kowtow, so they asked their grandfather, father and ancestors to follow them home to celebrate the New Year. They kowtowed when they entered the ancestral hall. After a set of etiquette, they kowtowed dozens of times.