Ordinary clear day

Chapter 9 New Years
It turned out that it was midnight, and fireworks were lit to tell the time in the government office. When the whole city got the letter, they all set off fireworks and firecrackers.Mrs. Tong hurriedly woke up her children, put on clothes and tidied their hair in a hurry, and took them to the front yard to worship their ancestors.First Zhang Bao brought Duanning to worship, and then Tong brought Shuning to follow.After a set of rules was finished, people were asked to bring out a pot and put it on the table, where the dumplings were rolling on the water.It turned out that dumplings were eaten at this time.

Before waiting for the chopsticks, Mrs. Tong gave Zhang Bao a wink. Zhang Bao understood, sat upright, stroked the mustache on his chin, and asked in a loud voice, "Have you woke up?" Duan Ning Shuning laughed Mrs. Tong held back her laughter and replied, "Get up." The couple laughed together, and Zhang Bao smiled and said, "I'm going home today too." After finally laughing, Zhang Bao hugged him. Picking up Duanning, put him on the cabinet by the door, and said: "Son, jump a few times." Duanning has done it for the past two years, why don't you know?He jumped up and down three times with a smile on his face, refusing to ask his father to hug him, and slipped down to the ground by himself.The whole family gathered around the table and waited to eat dumplings.

The whole family ate hot dumplings, and even Shuning was infected by the harmonious atmosphere.

Since she traveled here, she always felt that she was separated from her new parents.Although her original parents divorced when she was two or three years old, and later each formed a new family to have children, she lived with her grandparents, and she did not eat less and wear less, and her relationship was more distant. Words of caring greeting.After her grandparents passed away a few years ago, she lived alone in the old house. She only saw her parents less and had less relationship with them, but they got along well.

But the current pair of cheap parents, Tong Shi is scheming and puts children above daughters, and Zhang Bao is mediocre, playful, and soft-hearted, she was a little uncomfortable with it.But sitting tonight, she found that Mrs. Tong has been tired a lot recently, and she thought that she was doing all she could to protect her family's happiness, and Zhang Bao, although he had various shortcomings, really loved her.The cute little brother also brought Shu Ning a lot of happy time, and she grew up with a strong heart. Shu Ning gradually accepted her new parents and family, and gradually integrated into this new identity.

A family of four was happily eating dumplings when suddenly, with a "knock", Zhang Bao froze and stopped his chopsticks.It turned out that he had eaten a small copper coin wrapped in a dumpling, so Tong hurriedly poured tea for him to rinse his mouth, and said, "Congratulations, husband, you will be blessed in the coming year." Zhang Baoyuan was startled, and was very happy when he saw that it was a copper coin. After saying this, he hurriedly replied: "My wife is happy." He asked which dumplings had "stuffing". Tong pointed out the ones that had been specially marked. Spit it out, hand it to Mrs. Tong to put his son in his pocket, and then hold another one to feed his daughter.

When he was [-]% full, Zhang Bao picked up his wine glass and said to Tong Shi: "Madam, you have worked hard this year." Tong Shi also picked up the wine glass to pay back: "My husband has also worked hard, this is what a concubine should do. "

Zhang Bao shook his head: "I respect you for my reasons. Since we got married, I know that you have suffered a lot of grievances at home. For my sake, you buried all the sad things in your heart and didn't say anything. I came to this day I am actually very grateful to you for persevering in following the cold place.”

When he suddenly mentioned the old matter, Tong's eyes turned red, and he replied with a sob: "It's a big festival, what are you talking about."

Zhang Bao continued: "Now that you have something to say, let me talk about it." After drinking, he also persuaded Mrs. Tong to drink, poured another glass for each of them, and held up the wine and said to Mrs. Tong : "I have soft ears and tend to listen to other people's words. I knew it too. That girl Cui Rui, I looked at her when I was young, and I have always been close to her. I didn't expect to know people, face but not heart. I didn't know that at that time." Why did you confiscate the house in a moment of confusion, and you still thought she was a good person, which caused you a lot of losses, but luckily it didn’t cause a big disaster. Now that the rain has finally passed, I know you must be very sad. It’s all my fault , this glass of wine is my accompaniment to my wife, and it will never be like that again."

Tong's face was a little pale when she heard the first sentence, but she couldn't help but shed tears after hearing the first sentence. She quickly took the glass, turned her face slightly, and took a sip of the wine.When she turned around, she had wiped away all the tears, and forced a smile on her face, saying to Zhang Bao: "It's all over, don't mention it in the future."

Zhang Bao nodded repeatedly, drank the wine in his glass, scooped two more dumplings from the bowl, added them to Tong's bowl, and advised her to eat more.Tong replied with a smile. Seeing that Duanning was listening in a daze, she scooped two from her own bowl and handed them to him. Duanning had something to eat, so she no longer thought about what her parents were talking about just now. Just keep your head down and eat.

After eating the dumplings, the family chatted again, and the sky began to turn pale.Zhang Bao picked up his sleeping son and sent him back to the room. Mrs. Tong told the family members who were walking crookedly to pack up their things, and he carried his daughter back to the room.Shu Ning drooped her eyelids, vaguely saw her holding her as she walked through the long corridor outside the east chamber door, and slowly stopped.

She felt Tong's head turned to the direction of the East Chamber and looked at it for a long time.When Shu Ning thought she was about to take root there, she heard her almost inaudible voice: "Bitch, do you think you can really steal his heart? Now he is mine again." After finishing speaking, she turned her head. Keep going.

Shu Ning looked at the door in the East Wing that was getting further and further away, and shivered.

By the first day of the second day, the whole family got up early.

Xiaotao and Xiaomei had already changed Duanning Shuning into new clothes, combed their hair, put on gold auspicious necklaces for them, and led them to the main room.The tables, chairs and cushions had already been set up in the main room, and the two siblings kowtowed to their parents to pay New Year's greetings as instructed by others.

This is the first time for Shu Ning to kowtow to someone after crossing (before, being hugged and kneeling on the memorial tablet is not counted), and she found that those Qingzhuang dramas compiled by Qiong Yao in the past were all nonsense. Shake it, just squat down, it turns out it wasn't, but fortunately there is a special person to guide it, otherwise it would be embarrassing.But it's normal for such a young child not to know.

Although it made Shu Ning very uncomfortable to kneel to others, and it was even more depressing to think that she would have to kneel frequently in the future, but it was also a happy thing to get the New Year's money from her parents after the ceremony.It's a pity that the money was just received, so the girl Xiaotao took it.Shu Ning had a gloomy look on her face. She was happier when Mrs. Tong tied a shiny silver orange on her wrist.But when she turned around, she was startled in her heart, wondering if she had been pretending to be a child for a long time, had she even become like a child psychologically?
Zhang Bao hugged Shuning, held Duanning's hand, and brought them to the table for breakfast.There were four or five plates on the table, and several bowls of goat milk, which looked very rich.Shu Ning only recognized one of them as Sachima and the other as rice cakes, but she didn't recognize the others.Zhang Bao hugged her in the same way, and asked softly: "What is this?" Before Shuning could reply, he gave the answer, which made her know several dim sum.Tong Shi looked after her son and kept telling him to eat slowly.At the end, she sighed: "I know you have to go out to play today, and I won't stop you, but you should eat slowly anyway, so you don't choke." Duanning smirked for a while, and sure enough, she ate slowly.Zhang Bao laughed that Mrs. Tong was "busy with nothing": "Boys, why are you worrying about it?"

Sure enough, before Duanning finished eating, a child from another family came to ask him to go out.He couldn't sit still anymore, so he took two yuan of snacks and ran away, Tong Shi just told him to walk slowly.Shu Ning wanted to go out and have a look. After so long, she only went out once, and met a lunatic at the door of the house. She had never seen the ancient scenery.But how shrewd is Tong Shi?Seeing that the youngest daughter was eager to try, she immediately said: "Xiao Niuniu is too young to go!" Shu Ning was very disappointed.

Tong went back to her seat and continued to eat breakfast, but secretly wondered in her heart: "How come my daughter has become smarter in just a few months, and can already understand what adults say?" She couldn't help but look at her daughter After looking at it a few more times, Shuning was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat, thinking that she was exaggerating too much?It's better to keep a low profile.

Tong only stared at her daughter a few times before turning her attention back to her husband.Looking at the plates of dim sum on the table, she said with a guilty expression: "I am incompetent, so I only have these few plates of dim sum. It is too shabby." Zhang Bao put down his chopsticks and said with a smile: "How can you blame Madam?" The family is not rich, so I must have spent a lot of money for the annual ceremony, I know the difficulties of the family in my heart. Besides, this is already very good, how much can our family of four eat?" Tong still felt sorry: "That being said, there are only a few dim sums for Chinese New Year. After all, they don't look good. If the family finds out, I'm afraid they will blame me for not being able to manage the house." Zhang Bao smiled: "Who cares what they think."

He has always paid attention to the opinions of his family, and Tong Shi was very surprised when he said this today, but she observed his words and saw that he didn't seem to want to talk about this matter anymore, so she turned to talk about hiring a teacher for Duanning after the next year.

Duan Ning is 7 years old this year. He has followed his father to read and read since he was a child. Although it is not too bad, it is not good either.Zhang Bao was busy with his work, so he didn't have much time to guide him in his homework in the past two years, and Tong's son doted on his son, so he was indulged, so Zhang Bao asked about Duanning's studies a few months ago, only to find that his son had missed a lot of homework.Recently, Duanning has gone through several trials and tribulations, and has become more sensible and diligent again.Zhang Bao was worried that his son would return to laziness if no one supervised him after the next year, so he talked to his wife about hiring a formal teacher to teach him.

Tong was worried that the husband he invited would be too strict and would make his son suffer, so he wanted to find a good-tempered one.Zhang Bao disagreed and said: "The temper is too good, how can I suppress him? It's better to ask a strict teacher. I entrusted my colleagues in the yamen to help me find someone. A Zhou Fucheng introduced a Mr. Ding for me. He is a local Juren. He is over 40 years old. He lives in Fengtian for a long time. His knowledge is good and his character is upright. After the new year, I will come to visit him. If it is suitable, I will invite him to come."

Seeing that he had made up his mind, Mrs. Tong stopped arguing, and only wanted to ask him to treat his son better when he came to the door.She remembered another thing: "Although learning is important, but with our family background, we need to ask a master to teach Duan Geer riding and archery. Otherwise, when we return to Beijing in the future, Ah Ma will definitely say that we are Emphasizing literature over martial arts is a negative family tradition."

Zhang Bao sneered: "Going back to Beijing? Who knew it was a matter of the year of the monkey?" Tong's words surprised her.

(End of this chapter)