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The firecrackers here use red rice paper wrapped with charcoal ash as a fuse. The content of old gunpowder is low and the core is long so it burns slowly.

If it is wrapped in white rice paper, it was burned in a grave. It must be dual-purpose to sell goods all year round, otherwise the firecracker workshop will lose money.

In fact, in some modern places that pay more attention to tradition, this kind of firecrackers are still used to visit graves.

The last time the Xu family went to Fucheng, they bought two thousand-ring bells for the New Year and the fifth day of the Lunar New Year to welcome the God of Wealth, and one three-thousand-ring bell for the shop. But today, during the Chinese New Year, I really didn’t use the ones I bought, so I asked them to resell them to Lao Wan’s family.

Because this was not Lu Yan bringing another cart full of firecrackers to Xu Tianxin.

The least they gave me was tens of thousands of rings. Is it true? Rich people really don’t pay attention to their money. It’s unnecessary to ask the truth. Or is it that our Xu family is not that rich and we can’t understand it? Anyway, the biggest one has tens of thousands of rings.

If it weren't for the thought that the New Year's gift was not good enough to sell it, Lao Xu's family would have almost cut it off by tens of thousands of yuan and continued to sell it.

In fact, if you want to tell the old lady, it's not bad if you can afford to spend thousands of dollars to buy it.

How could I be willing to do so before?

In the past, the countryside was really about firecrackers. Every household would go to the mountains to cut two bamboos and burn them with fire to crack them. The local bamboos were different from other places. They were a little thin and not so crispy when they split. A muffled sound was enough to celebrate the New Year. That’s where the word firecracker comes from.

So when the old lady first heard that she wanted to buy real firecrackers at home, she couldn't accept it. She felt that the money was gone. Wouldn't that be a waste of hard-earned money?

She relied on persuading herself to change her own ideas when the family was doing business. Then when her grandchildren excitedly held out firecrackers, she smiled and said, if you pop more firecrackers, you can make money every day and spend these two. .

Unexpectedly, before using it, he changed hands and lit the firecracker with tens of thousands of blasts, causing the old lady to go out to watch the firecrackers before dinner. After watching for a while, it was no longer surprising.

In the past few months, the old lady felt that her life was very fresh.

At this time, accompanied by firecrackers that only went off in a second or two, the lively voices in the Xu family's big house spread to the courtyard.

The whole table was looking at Xu Tianxin with joy and said: "Sister Emma, ​​just take a look, the eldest daughter of your family is destined to marry high in the future. No wonder she has the ability herself, guess what? With that rich look , other people can’t eat meat, so she eats potatoes. You said this child is so aristocratic. I heard from others that girls from wealthy families are not happy to eat meat.”

What Xu Tianxin ate was the potatoes from the stewed potatoes with chicken wings, mixed with rice, and a refreshing shredded cabbage cold dish with a chopstick. It was delicious. What does it have to do with wealth?

But everyone loves to hear this.

Yu Qiniang was so happy that she quickly put a piece of pot-roasted meat on the table: "Auntie, you eat too. Don't just talk." After saying that, she looked at Xu Tianxin with a rare smile.

Xu Tianxin: "..." What, have you already found someone to marry her? Alas, for a while, it can't change everyone's definition of women's wealth. People here always think that a woman is better off than anything else.

The old lady finally understood why her daughter-in-law was willing to woo her god-sister.

The background of the matchmaker is indeed different. Otherwise, she should go out and practice. As time goes by, her mouth will be sweet, and her daughter-in-law will be able to smile more when she is old.

Mrs. Xu and Xu Tianxin were sitting across from each other, and they couldn't live broadcast.

Sitting beside her were Xu Zhaozhao and the old lady.

Hearing this, he put a piece of meat into Zhaozhao's bowl and said happily: "Tian Xin'er has loved eating potatoes since he was a child. This year, because of the child, he didn't do much. The businessman ordered goose stewed in an iron pot, so we want it. With potatoes, and making some vermicelli for people to stew chickens, they were all sold to make money. The harvest of potatoes and sweet potatoes was not good last year, so I still have to save half of what I saved for spring breeding. Maybe it’s not enough, and I’ll buy more. A bit."

The old lady hurriedly expressed her position: "I think our leeks are dead, and the celery will have no sales after two crops. By then, I will just use these vegetable planting racks to plant sweet potato seedlings, and I will also get a few more on the Kang in each house. Pick some sand from a pond and bring it back to plant rice seedlings. I'm very familiar with this job." In the past, at my boss's house, I always worked for that person.

Here, these farm work will be done after the first lunar month.

In the south, sweet potato seedlings can be cultivated outside, but here in March and April there is still snow outside, and it even snows. And it’s not as good as modern plastic greenhouses.

In fact, you can also build an oilcloth shed. Those wealthy people can keep their fruit trees warm without delay, but you have to think about the cost. Let's grow potatoes, seeds and sweet potatoes.

There is no other way. If the weather is too cold, we can only use the heat of the hot pot to build a pond, then put soil and fertilizer on it, and use the temperature of the hot pot to ensure the temperature of the seedlings.

Mrs. Xu gave the old woman a piece of the fattest part of the fish's belly, and she found that the old woman was quite willing to eat greasy food.

Don't tell the elderly that they should eat more vegetables. They'll be tired for a lifetime. Just eat them. "Then it will be hard for the children and grandma to start spring."

One sentence made the old lady blush with excitement: "It's not hard, I can do it."

The three Xu family members looked at grandma and couldn't help laughing.

Speaking of farming in the spring, Mrs. Xu chatted with the whole table again and asked: "Zizi, I asked you to buy a few more acres of wasteland. Have you gone to Liu Laozhu to ask? I don't think the government has anything to do with it. As long as How many families in the village have added an acre or two of land by paying money for wasteland. If you buy it early, you can choose a good place, and it’s not like you don’t have money in your hands."

The whole table thought: This is true. I heard that not long ago, even Lao Zhaitou's house added an acre of wasteland, which was next to her elder sister's house. That old man was very sharp. He said he didn't have to worry about what he was going to do. He just glanced at the Xu family and looked like a cat and a tiger. Not to mention Lao Wan’s family and Lao Wang’s family who really made money this year. They both purchased five and ten acres. The Sun family connected with the Lao Bai family through her elder sister. The pine nuts sold well this year, and they even added 30 acres of wasteland.

The whole table said: "Three acres of wasteland is enough. My family only has a few people, so I won't add more." She didn't want to say it at first, but seeing her elder sister's disapproval, she could only tell the truth: "Next year, your family will I have to hire so many people to work, and I have to hire people only when I have time to farm. I have to build a house and open up wasteland. I have to cook. I wouldn’t worry if someone else cooks the big pot of rice."

Her family's focus next year will no longer be on land reclamation, but on cultivating land when her elder sister's family has to build a house and open up wasteland and is short of people? Not less than this year, let my sister’s family pass this critical moment, and I can buy seeds any year I can.

Yu Qiniang sat next to the full table. After hearing this, she once again gave the full table a piece of hot pot meat.

She had noticed it a long time ago. The whole table was full of people who even took a small bite and were reluctant to swallow it. She wanted to hold it in her mouth for a long time: "Auntie, you eat."

"Emma, ​​good boy, my aunt is not going to eat, she is full."

Where are you full? Mrs. Xu knew that the table was full, and she felt that when a family of five came to her house to celebrate the New Year, half the plate would be gone if each person had two pieces of pot-roasted pork, and she didn't want to eat more.

She personally picked up the dishes and said: "There is a table of dishes. Those in our family who are celebrating the New Year must eat more. Don't worry about the shop. Liu Laozhu and the others are there."

Liu Laozhu and his people were building Guan Gong tents for the guests.

It is not easy for guests to worship their ancestors during the Chinese New Year here, but they also have to worship something. Businessmen and merchants all worship Guan Gong. This is also a surprise that Erdaohe Village has prepared for the merchants.

Speaking of this matter, I really put my heart into it. I went to look for Guan Gong to be pinched by the craftsman who pinched the clay buttocks. During the Chinese New Year, I spent one or two silver coins without haggling. Because I stayed up all night, I brought it here specially this morning.

Mrs. Xu thought for a while and said to the full table: "We still have to buy our own land, and your family will have to work for it. Besides, after New Year's Eve tonight, I will announce to everyone that my family will hire people from the village in the spring." Men who marry girls outside.”

This was also the first time for the three members of the Xu family to hear about it. Xu Youyin was a little surprised: "Huh? That would really impress the aunts and grandmothers."

"It doesn't matter whether I'm touched or not, but since the brothers-in-law come here to work, our family will just give them two extra wages, and we won't care about food and accommodation. We'll let them live in the father-in-law's house.

It just so happens that my daughter can go back to her parents' house to stay for half a year. If I can't do any other work here, I'll hire them to do it.

Furthermore, even if there is not enough food, some men from other villages will be hired, that is, relatives like Xujiazhuang. There are more than thirty people in total. This meal is easy to cook. So don’t always worry about my side of the table. "

The whole table agreed, but they only planned to add another two acres to plant some corn: "Sister, just take a look, as soon as this news came out, your reputation as a good person became even more famous. Where are those girls who married outside? The village will also know that you helped those girls to be looked down upon in their husband’s family.”

Mrs. Xu thought to herself: She doesn't want to be known as a good person.

Isn’t there a saying like that? A good person must always be a good person to become a Buddha. Strangely enough, a bad person can become a Buddha immediately after putting down his butcher knife.

It’s hard to be a good person. It can only be said to be a win-win situation.

However, when it comes to great benevolent people, she is not the one. Mrs. Xu revealed another piece of news to everyone, which even Xu Tianxin didn’t know: “Dabaoer, guess how many people are eating in Grandpa Guan’s house right now?”

Xu Tianxin was picking up the meat around the gills of the fish. Hearing this, he asked doubtfully, "How much? I knew I asked him to come to our house to celebrate the New Year, but he didn't come."

No matter how many times I mentioned it, I didn’t even mention it this morning.

Later Grandpa Guan muttered:

"I'm a man. I don't have a mother-in-law, and you don't have breasts or anything like that. You kid, I usually go to your house to have something to do. I'm going to celebrate the Chinese New Year too? What's wrong with that?" He has to pay attention to the impact.

Xu Tianxin didn't force it, and mumbled back: "You still dislike it, please note, it's probably because I'm afraid of being influenced by you."

Well, the deep friendship between disciples who wished me New Year greetings and gave me a quilt this morning has just disappeared. The circles in Guan Ertuo’s eyes are no longer red, and there are no more tears of emotion. It seems that Master is far worse than Grandma.

But after patting several kilograms of quilts, including Yingzi and Huzhang, Guan Ertu took advantage of his daughter not seeing it and rubbed his old face against the soft quilt. Oh, he was so happy.

At this time, Mrs. Xu revealed the answer and said: "The three childless families in the village are the ones where Tian Xin rents a house and works, plus Gao Mantang and his wife, they are all invited to dinner by Guan Ertu. Haha. , this old boy, I guess even your fourth uncle and seventh uncle have gone to the Guan family in this time. These old people with old arms and legs have important matters to discuss. "

"What's the big deal?"

"If you want to raise pigs, you will catch pig lambs after the first month and fatten them up and sell them to our family. Since I haven't seen the pigs yet, please place an order with me first."

When Mrs. Xu mentioned this, she couldn't help but think of yesterday's pig killing. In the words of the women in the village, in order to catch the pigs, the pigs were driven so hard that they were thrown into pieces by the old men. Damn, it’s time to catch up with these old men’s Winter Games events.

What should you perform for guests during the Chinese New Year? We should perform a pig-catching performance to make the guests laugh to death, so they are all stupid and have to raise pigs.

Yesterday Shanli Hongdahongzi also said that it was thanks to her Tian Xin who killed the pigs, otherwise she would have been afraid that she would not be able to kill the pigs and would run away covered in blood.

Xu Laoer said with a smile:

"Mom, you don't know that even the fifth aunt of Xujiazhuang said today that she wants to raise chickens. She is also thinking about selling them to our family. Really, if they raise them, we will order them.

Especially my Uncle Guan, he is really kind.

How could those lonely old people have any capital? It was decided that I, Uncle Guan, would take the lead. He didn't do this to make money at all, otherwise why would he? He would be too busy tinkering with pills. "

Xu Tianxin suddenly laughed. She found that the friendship between master and apprentice had returned this morning, and she wanted to eat quickly and go to her master's house.

Xu Tianxin thought to himself: Grandpa Guan, you have been busy this year doing good deeds for "living people".

This year, Guan Ertu did not burn paper for the old brothers in the grave circle.

Wasn't that when Tian Xin'er "had an accident", he thought that he would also go to jail and be burned in advance? Life has to be slow and steady, so Guan Ertu plans to burn it again on the 15th. I'm on my way, so I'll be busy with "living people" first.

Isn't that right? At the same time, at the Guan family, there were six dishes on the dining table, and Guan Ertu was saying:

"I borrowed all the money I earned. As you all know, except for crossing the river, the rest should not be left as dead money. Let us old brothers do something together. If we earn it, we will divide it according to the amount of money we paid. Money. If you don’t earn anything, it’s just a living. The older you get, the less you can sit around, and you can’t eat well if you sit around, so you should feel that life is even more meaningless.”

What Xu Tianxin didn't know was that the three lonely elderly people actually mentioned her:

"We don't have any descendants. In fact, if we make money, we will leave the money and the house to that girl in the end. She can use it, and she will think of us when she sees the house. Especially in the recent days, she has also used our house. I can remember it if I am designated. As for one-third of an acre, I will return it to the village committee. If there are people like us who are miserable again, we will then give them the land to cultivate."

Gao Mantang's old lady suddenly said: "We think so too."

Guan Ertuo raised his glass: "How about our brothers, let's decide after drinking the wine made by that girl? Raise pigs."

The Fourth Uncle and the Seventh Uncle raised their glasses: "And we are also involved. This is a separate matter for us old guys and has nothing to do with the children of our two families."

The New Year atmosphere in Lao Guan's family is even warmer than that in Xu's family.

Because the Xu family didn’t know what to talk about during the New Year, the topic took a different turn and turned into a funny line.

Because everyone always mentions sweet potato seedlings, the table full of grandson’s nickname is Little Sweet Potato, and he always looks up at everyone while taking care of his father’s meal.

Mrs. Xu realized it and then remembered: "Zi, I'm not telling you, what name did you give the child? If you gave birth to a granddaughter, what would you name it?"

"Hehe, let's have another one called Mother-in-law Ding."

Unexpectedly, Little Sweet Potato suddenly said: "Grandma, you really can't name me like that, I've been laughed at. I don't like to talk, no, I didn't talk because I wasn't familiar with them, and the kids here used my name to scold me. If you have a younger sister, let’s call it Guobaorou.” No one will laugh at this name.

Wait, "Who bullied you?" Mrs. Xu pulled the child forward, "That one who calls you a diaper bag makes fun of you?"

"It's okay, big tits. Ever since Uncle Jingdong told them, they will never bully me again."

Everyone is wondering what are you talking about?

Liu Jingdong happened to encounter children bullying a table full of grandchildren. Since they were using people's names to make matters worse, he explained the origin of sweet potatoes to the children:

"That was an old scholar who failed many times and later became a businessman, just like the businessmen who live in the shops in our village. In fact, businessmen are very powerful and can carry them far and wide on their shoulders and hands.

Moreover, there were all curly-haired people living there. When he saw that there were sweet potatoes and the people there had enough to eat, his blood awakened. I thought this was a good thing. He would bring it back from thousands of miles away so that the people here can have enough to eat.

So even after being beaten many times, I had to risk my life to steal a sweet potato seedling from someone else's home, so that we could have sweet potatoes here. What does knowing this mean? "

The children immediately said that they should respect the merchants more when they see them in the future. They are so powerful that they can go far away.

Well, we should also cherish the sweet potatoes, and then they hugged the sweet potatoes one after another. Those who didn't hug them also sniffed and looked at the sweet potatoes friendly. Hehe, let's get into the snow nest together in the morning.

However, Liu Jingdong also said: "It shows that you must not only respect businessmen and cherish sweet potatoes, but also be educated! If you are illiterate, you can't even write a letter if you steal sweet potato seedlings and send a letter to someone to save you."

Unlike Mrs. Xu and others, Xu Youyin laughed out loud. His New Year's wish was to work hard to learn to read.

Big Bird suddenly turned to look at Xu Tianxin and signaled with his eyes: "Sister, isn't this what you told Uncle Jingdong when we were selling goods at One Stop Shopping?"

Yes, but from now on, the story belongs to Uncle Jingdong. Xu Tianxin discovered that her Uncle Jingdong suddenly became much taller. A very handsome guy.

Before the Xu family was about to leave for the store, they all stood in the yard for a while, Emma, ​​the firecrackers weren't finished setting off yet.

Then you have to go, there are businessmen out there who are worthy of respect and have made their way through the world on their shoulders.

The businessmen were still wondering what Erdaohe was doing outside banging on New Year's Eve.

When Mrs. Xu said that she had prepared Mr. Guan for everyone.

Shopkeeper Lu, who sells jewelry, and shopkeeper Guo, who sells spices, had their mouths half-opened for a moment, not knowing what to say.

"Two great shopkeepers, please lead the brothers to worship. The incense table has been set up." Even the pig's head was prepared alone, and the pig's tail was inserted into the pig's mouth.