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As soon as the sound of firecrackers ended, the phone rang. Zhang Taiping didn't have a few people in his phone, and few people knew his number. If he could call at this time, he didn't have to guess who it was.After answering the phone, it was indeed Yang Wanli.

"Haha, Brother Zhang, happy new year. I called just after twelve o'clock. The first person to speak in the new year is not a big beauty. I'm disappointed, haha." Yang Wanli's cheerful smile came from over there. Sound, obviously in a good mood now.

"Hey, it's okay without beauties and handsome men, are you ready to be a small subject?" Zhang Taiping made a rare joke.

Yang Wanli, who was with his friends on the other end of the phone, heard this, thought of Zhang Taiping's rough and strong body, shivered, and said with a smile: "I have no luck with this, Brother Zhang or another Let's go find a little boy."

Zhang Taiping chatted with Yang Wanli again, said some words of blessing to each other, then hung up the phone, just after hanging up, the phone rang again, Zhang Taiping was a little surprised when he saw that it was Yang Ning's.

"Hello, Happy New Year!" Zhang Taiping firstly wished when he got on the phone.

"Hehe, happy new year. I called a few times just now, and I've been on the phone all the time. I just finished talking with the beauty, right?"

Zhang Taiping said: "A friend." He didn't explain much.

The two also said some words of blessing to each other, and Yang Ning simply hung up the phone, as if the purpose of calling was to say a few words of blessing.Looking at the phone, Zhang Taiping felt a little inexplicable, shook his head and was about to put the phone in his pocket, when the phone rang again, this time it was not a phone call, but a text message, one after another, until five or six messages stopped.

After the ringing stopped, Zhang Taiping began to browse one by one. Niu Junfeng, He Cheng, and Ye Qing each sent a text message.From these small things, one can see a person's personality. He Cheng's text message was obviously sent in a group, Niu Junfeng's text message was written by himself, and Ye Qing also wrote it by himself, just a few simple sentences.It can be seen a long time ago that Niu Junfeng is a character like Zhang Fei. He looks rough on the outside, but he has a slender heart and considerate things.Ye Qing is doing clerical work, so he must be impeccable in his work, and he will definitely write it himself.What made Zhang Taiping a little surprised was that the fat man Huang Jun who had met once also sent a text message of blessing.

Zhang Taiping stood at the door and followed the number one by one, and said a word of blessing.

After the firecrackers were let off, Fan Ming, who had been clamoring for the end of the year, couldn't hold on anymore and yawned uncontrollably.In the end, the fight between the upper and lower eyelids was so severe that he went back to his room to sleep impressively.Zhang Taiping asked Cai Yazhi and the sisters to go back to their room to rest. They have to get up early tomorrow to eat dumplings, and they have to prepare lunch during the day. It is impossible not to rest, they don't have Zhang Taiping's perverted physical fitness.After everyone else fell asleep, Zhang Taiping came to the back room alone to replace the old man to watch the night.

Before dawn the next day, the two parrots hanging on the garland in the sky began to shout "Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year" and woke up everyone in the yard.

Cai Yazhi got up early and started making dumplings, and it was ready at six o'clock.First, put a few sticks of incense on the table in front of the ancestral god card to make chopsticks, and then offer two to the kitchen master and kitchen woman who was invited back from the sky last night, and then everyone eats.

There are seven people in total, and there are seven dumplings with coins in them.As she was eating, Yaya yelled out loudly, but she ate a coin and stuck it on her teeth.

After a while, Yaya took out another coin, and Cai Yazhi also took out one. Fan Ming said enviously that the two of them were very lucky.

Zhang Taiping directly ate two pieces in a row, only the remaining two pieces did not show up.Fan Ming himself wanted to eat a coin, but after a long time today, he still didn't see a shadow. Looking at the last three dumplings in the bowl, he couldn't eat any more. He lay on his back on the kang and patted them. The bulging belly said: "Don't eat, don't eat, I'm so full, it seems that I am unlucky." The tone was quite regrettable.

The faces of the other people were a little strange. The dumplings were basically eaten, and there were still two coins that did not appear. There were only three dumplings left that Fan Ming couldn't eat, so the hiding place of the two coins was self-evident. Metaphor.It's just ridiculous that Fan Ming wanted to get a cup of coins so much that he stopped eating the last three.

Zhang Taiping held back a smile and asked: "Are you sure you don't want to eat?"

Seeing strange expressions on the faces of several people, Fan Ming sat up and looked at the bowls that should have been empty. Fan Ming suddenly came to his senses, got up and went to the bowl on the cabinet cover, and picked up the three remaining dumplings one by one with chopsticks. When it was opened, there were indeed two coins.

Fan Ming was overjoyed. He didn't care about hygiene anymore. He just pinched out two coins with his fingers and said proudly in front of everyone: "Look, there are still two coins. I am also a very lucky person."

Everyone looked at Fan Ming, who was as proud as a little swan, and felt amused. They didn't know who didn't move the three dumplings just now.

After the meal, the old man called several people together, and it was time to distribute lucky money.

Little Yaya wore brand new clothes, dressed like a little princess, but in Zhang Taiping's house, she was indeed a little princess.Chinese New Year is over, and parents, no matter how poor or poor, will think about making new clothes for their children.The old man gave Yaya a brand-new 50 yuan banknote as the lucky money. Children always like to get the lucky money from their elders during the New Year, and feel the joy of having big money that they can't usually enjoy.Yaya is the youngest in the family, and received the most New Year's money. Basically, everyone gave her a share. Only Cai Yazhi didn't give any more when she saw Zhang Taiping gave it. Husband and wife are one body, and one person represents two people. .

The girls also wore brand-new clothes for a few days, and even Zhang Taiping symbolically put on new custom-made clothes and newly bought shoes.The old man gave Cai Xiaomei and Fan Ming a piece of New Year's money each, the amount of money was not much the same as that of Yaya.Although the two are adults, they are still children in the eyes of the old man.There will be no other Zhang Taiping and Cai Yazhi who are like water.

Yaya is a sensible child. She stuffed most of the money into her mother’s hands and asked her to keep it. She only put five or six dollars in her pocket and went out to play with children. It's already a pretty big sum of money.

The custom here in Guanzhong is not to go out on the first day of the new year, but to celebrate the new year at home, and it is only on the second day of the new year that we start to greet the New Year and entertain guests.At the beginning of the new year, the Taiping family did not go out, and had the most sumptuous lunch at home at noon.The south is different from the north. In the south, the most sumptuous meal may be served at night, while in the north, the most sumptuous meal is often served at noon. In the evening, they only eat some easy-to-digest food that can fill the stomach.

The next day, from early in the morning, villagers began to come to Zhang Taiping's house with gifts to wish the old man a new year.When the old man practiced medicine in the village, he basically didn't charge medical fees, and he had real skills. He saved many people, and even pulled many people back from the gate of hell.Several nearby villages are well-known, so those who came to pay New Year's greetings today do not know the people in the village, and there are some people from other villages.

Zhang Taiping's family never expected that so many people would come to pay New Year's greetings, and they did not prepare meals for the guests in advance, and those who happened to come to give New Year's gifts just left after leaving the gifts, and had no intention of staying here for dinner. .

Zhang Taiping sees that everyone has this attitude, so he doesn't care about it, he doesn't care about it, he doesn't refuse anyone who comes, and accepts all gifts, if he is free, he can sit down and have a cup of tea with the old man, if he is not free, he can go directly.

And he himself didn't stay in the house, but went to the village head's house with the gift he had prepared a long time ago, and the village head's house was in the second grade of middle school.I wanted to put away the presents and leave like those people who went to pay their own New Year greetings, but the village chief refused to let him live or die, and he insisted on staying for a meal before he was allowed to leave.

In the third year of junior high school, old man Qian received guests at his home. Zhang Taiping had learned carpentry under the hands of old man Qian for a year and a half. Old man Qian could be regarded as half a master. Besides, he got along well with those who went to the mountains during this period of time. , I brought a gift and came to the house to pay New Year's greetings, and was also left for a meal before letting him go.

Zhang Taiping conveyed the greetings from Mr. Zhao from the east of the village to his old man, and the old man asked Zhang Taiping to make a backup of presents to pay New Year's greetings as a junior.Zhang Taiping only went there on the fourth day of the lunar new year. He did not expect that Mr. Zhao's yard, which is usually deserted, is indeed quite lively and popular these days.Zhang Taiping saw that the elderly people in their 60s and [-]s were somewhat similar to Mr. Zhao, and guessed that they might be some of Mr. Zhao's sons, and the people in the room might all be his branches and leaves.

Zhang Taiping could feel the extraordinary aura of these people, all of them were cultivated in high positions all the year round.Zhang Taiping stayed for dinner, just sat with Mr. Zhao and drank a few cups of tea, then got up and left, Mr. Zhao didn't stop him.

When going out, Zhang Taiping suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure, took a closer look, but it was the woman who had been observing Zhang Taiping at the flower and tree fair.Seeing Zhang Taiping looking over, he smiled and nodded to Zhang Taiping.Zhang Taiping also nodded in response.

After going out, a dusty memory suddenly appeared, and Zhang Taiping remembered who this woman was.Mr. Zhao's granddaughter, and his junior high school classmate, but at that time, this woman was a master who feared the world would not be chaotic. She followed Zhang Taiping all day doing evil, just like a young lady, but she left suddenly without knowing what happened. , and then disappeared.

For so many years, Zhang Taiping had almost forgotten her, even if he remembered it, the image of the domineering young lady who followed behind him for a year was completely incompatible with the current woman who is like a poem, no wonder she didn't know each other when they met.

Zhang Taiping couldn't help sighing: "Time is the best judge, it can change everything."